Evening star., 1909-06-03
|D|SPLAY AT SEATTLE
lWonderS of the AIaSka-Yukon-
Pacific Exposition.
BUILT UP IN TWO YEARS
Placed in Great Forest of Towering
Fir Trees.
UNDERTAKING COST $4,000, 900
Buildings Compactly Placed-Elab-
crate Plan of Electric Illumina-
tion-Beautiful Scenery.
UNDERTAKING COST $4,000, 900

The Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition at
| Seattle Wash, cost $1O,OOO,COO and was
bull. in two years.
The grouping of buildings is much diff
ferent than at other expositions. The
structures are compactly placed; there Is
no long, tiresome walk from one exhibit
to another.
| After entering the main gates two
buildings. standing in a cluster Of trees
to the left, first meet the eye. One Is
where the administration of the exposi-
tion is centered and the other is the Audi
| torium, brick and steel building or I'M
posing architecture.
| To the right, and across Puget Plaza Is
| the Fine Arts Palace This building con-
| tains valuable art display loaned from
| famous collections all over the new world.
A few steps lead to the intersection OF
| Olympic place and Alaska avenue. To the
right is view down the Pay Streak. y
the exposition amusement way, and to
the left is front view of the Auditorium
and the University Of Washington in the
| distance.
Another Way to Pay Streak.
The PAY Streak Is also reached by
following a thoroughfare to the right.
just inside the main entrance gates. and
on past the rest headquarters of the
Women's League and the Masonic,
Swedish and other buildings.
Crossing over Olympic place and walk
ing to point of vantage in front OF
| the main government structure. the beau
tiful picture of the fair is unfolded. To
the right is the Alaska building, to the
left the Hawaiian building. and on either
! side of the Cascades the Oriental, Foreign
Manufactures and Agriculture Palaces.
| In the distance are the Music Pavilion.
the buildings of Canada and Japan, and.
completing this picture. Mount Rainier,
the highest mountain peak in the United
| States.
|. Various avenues and streets branch off
/ in every direction. On every thorough
| fare is something of interest.
Buildings stand out everywhere in this
forest Of frs Natural beauties are on
every hand.
The Fine Arts building is not far from
the entrance to the grounds 1t is per-
manent structure of concrete and brick.
| Next I'm line comes the main Govern
ment building with it's massive dome. the
| architectural climax of the fair. In this
structure the exhibits of the various
| departments at Washington.
| In separate building is the wonderful
| display OF live fish, and in another wing
the biograph room. wnere moving pic
| lures illustrate how the United States
| mails are handled. the rural free delivery
| and many other things of interest.
Big Colonial Exhibit.
| The Philippines. for the first time, are
represented. and Hawaii, too. occupies a
building directly in front of the main
| building Across the street is the Alaska
building.
| The Alaska building. with exhibits of
the varied resources of the northland, is
| a feature of the fair. Alaska, Hawaii
| and the Philippines are represented at
/ Seattle scale contaminated when
| the exposition was suggested.
| The general scheme of architecture of
| the fair is in the French renaissance.
This is noticeable in all the larger build
| ings.
| The first county exhibit building on
| Dome circle is the handsome structure
| built by Spokane county. and directly ad-
| joining it is the Chenalis county structure.
| Nearby are the Utah and Idaho state
buildings and in the distance the log
cabin of the Arctic Brotherhood. an Alas
kan fraternal organization
/ From this point, looking across the
natural amphitheater where all open eX-
ercises are held, is the first vista of Lake
| Washington. Directly across the Spokane
| building is California's home in Spanish
| mission architecture. This building con-
| tans exhibits from every county and is
the most complete display of the wonder
| full resources of the Golden state ever as
| seInbled away from home.
| In the rear of the California building,
| and facing on Seward aVenue,'lS the New
! York state structure, replica of Sew
| ards old home near Auburn, New York
| state In the New York building is a
| banquet hall. The structure is one of the
most imposing at the fair.
Biggest Log House in World.
Continuing the journey down Pacific
avenue the forestry building. with it's
colonnade of fir logs from Washington
forests, next comes into view. facing on
the opposite side of Nome circle from the
Oregon and Washington state buildings.
The forestry building is the largest log
house in the world and after the expo
sition will be used the School of Fores-
try of the University of Washington.
| All social functions take place in the
Washington building.
The Oregon building was ready six
months before the fair opened The
various counties of Oregon have provided
a fine line of exhibits of fruits, grains
and woods raised in that state Interior
decorations of the building show many
farm and woodland scenes done in grains
and grasses.
In the rear of the forestry building. and
on hill overlooking Lake Washington
Is the Hoo Hoo house. the home of visit
ing iumbermen. Large black cats with
sparkling eyes guard the entrance gates.
| Pacific avenue eventually leads to Raj
ner vista and nearly encrcles the ex-
position grounds. Leaving. the forestry
and Oregon buildings and proceeding