Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26
new ENGLAND DAY
At AIaska-Yukon-.Pacifi
Exposition Sept. 7
Special Program Has Been
Arranged for That Day
Construction Work for Worlds Fair
Being Rapidly Pushed.

New England Day at the Alaska
| Yokon- Pacific Exposition has been
set for September 18th, and the New
England Society of Seattle with their
| guests from the East have full sway
of the great fair and grounds on that
| day. Separate state societies have
| merged into one organization for the
exposition period, and the New Eng
land Society will represent the states
comprising New England
| The program to be arranged for New
England Day will be specially appro-
pirate and interesting for the eastern
| visitors. and the musical features will
be particularly pleasing and extensive.
| The construction work of the
Alaska Youkon-Pacifc Exposition is
now so far advanced, that any posi-
| bility of a delay in the opening of the
fair is not to be considered. The large
| exhibition palaces are completed, a
number of the state buildings are re-
ceiving their exhibits, the work on
! four of the six huge government struc-
| lures is about done, and all will be
| turned over to the exposition manage
| ment before the end of April.
The federal government exhibit is
| to be of greater extent than has been
| attempted by the government at any
previous exhibition, and the floor space
provided is vastly in excess Of that
| occurred at Chicago, st. Louis or Port
land. The exhibit brought from
| Washington, D. c., will require 100
| cars for transportation, and will ar
rive in Seattle during the latter part
| of April and the first of May.
| The Alaska and Yukon Territories
are assembling the most wonderful
and interesting collection of. exhibits
| ever placed before the world. From
| the far North will come a collection of
products. mineral and agricultural al
| most inconceivable. pile of virgin
gold Of value of $5.000,000, represent
| ing nearly the original cost of Alaska;
| wheat, corn, barley and food grasses
grown within the confines of the Arctic
| Circle. a display of school work show
| ing the vast work being accomplished
| bv the educational board and other
| equally valuable features. Indian life
| under conditions of our most northern
| confines; their peculiar customs, Their
strange and novel ways of living, the
arts and crafts practiced by them and
| the various methods by which th"N
| wrcst their simple necessities from the
sea, all will be shown with faithful
| fidelity The country will be exploited
| by lecturers who have devoted years
| of their life to research and study of
| the great north, and every known part
| of the land will be shown by moving
pictures and various illustrations.
The countries of the Orient are ex-
pending more money and energy in re-
presentation at the Alaska Yukon
| Pacific Exposition than has been done
| before The appropriations made by
China and Japan are sufficient to place
these countries in the most complete
| light before the world. Both nations
| will have special buildings constructed
on IDEAS characteristic of their
architecture. and the interiors and
| surroundings will be purely oriental in
| detail. The display of far eastern art
being assembled by the Japanese
! Government is the most valuable and
extensive ever cotton together and the
most exclusive private collectors have
| contributed specimens OF early Jap
| anese art which have never been per-
! mitted public examination before.
Modern Japan will be shown by manu-
! featured articles which for workman
| ship and worth challenge the world.
China's exhibit will equal Japan.
All transcontinental lines have ar
| ranged for an unusually low passenger
| tariff for the retarn trip to the fair,
and aNliberal stopovcr privilege will be
| allowed. 4 combination of the hotel
| and restaurant men of Seattle has
provided that no increase IN charges
will be made during the exposition
| and hotel accommodations are ample.
| When the Alaska Pacific
Exposition opens it's gates on June /,
il will disclose the first worlds fair iii
history to present a finished exposition
| on IFS Opening daN