The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-01-09
BIG SEATTLE
EXPOSITION
SOME MATTERS THAT WILL IN
TERESsT WENATCHEE SIGHT
SEERS AT TIL A..Y..P..E.

year.
News from vessels in the Alaska
trade will be published In daily
paper issued on the grounds OF the
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. The
publication will be known as the
Wireless, and will contain both local
and foreign news received In Seattle
by wireless.
Korea will be represented at Sc
attic this year by an exhibit OF
brass wares, carved woods, linens
and silks. An exporter in Seoul is
preparing a fine exhibit for the 1903
exhibition to show the progress of
the Pacific country.
Nearly every county in the state OF
California will be represented by sep
arate displays in the California
building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pa Pacific
exposition at Seattle next year.
Fish cooked in a hundred differ
ent ways will be served in the Alas.
ka building. This will be done tC
demonstrate the value of Alaska fish
as a food product.
Electroliers of French Renaissance
design will be used to illuminate the
grounds of the Alaska-Yukon-Paciit
exposition at Seattle this year. Hun
dreds of the beautiful standards
have been built On the top of each
will be large sphere of light con-
tanning sixty thirty-candle power
globes.
Of the appropriation of 100000
authorized by Congress for participa-
ton at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific ex-
position, $350,000 will be used in
the construction of buildings. The
big exhibit palaces will be ready to
receive the display from the depart
ment at Washington, Alaska, Hawaii
and the Philippines not later than
March /.
Every travelling man representing
a Seattle firm has been made an hon
orary member of the publicity bu-
reau of the Alaska Yukon-Pacific ex-
position. The Seattle "drummers
recently visited the grounds in a
body, and now when they are spend
ing an evening in a Pullman they
will have something to talk about.
President Taft is a staunch friend
of the west, and for that reason it is
believed that he will be present in
Seattle during the progress of the
Alaska-Yukon-P Pacific exposition. The
big exhibition Is to exploit the re-
sources of Alaska and the Yukon ter
ritory, as well as make known and
foster the vast Importance of the
trade of the Pacific ocean.
Mining men in the vicinity of In
dex, Washington, are arranging for a
big display of minerals at the 1909
exposition at Seattle. This will be
one of the many exhibits in the Mines
building
This will be the first international
exposition that has not asked aid
from the government to complete the
undertaking.
Many newspapers throughout the
Northwest are arranging popular
contests, and boys and girls num-
bered among the winners will be
taken in special cars to view the
exposition.
In the machinery hall at the Alas
ka-Yukon-Pacific exposition this
year will be plant for testing all
kinds of building stone, the first to
be displayed at an international ex-
hibition.
The United States government will
operate timber testing plant also
Samples Of every kind of timber will
be ties ed to show the strength to the
breaking point.
Guido Memo, an Italian news
paper man of New York, is going to
use his publication in the interest of
inducing immigration to Seattle this
year, when there will be low rates
as a result of the Alaska-Yukon-Pa-
cifc exposition. Memo believes that
thousands of his country men in
New York in the crowded tenements
could find their future homes in the
rural districts of the west.
Displays of minerals in the min
ing hall will accurately show
the ledge formation as we'll as
the formation of the surrounding ter
ritory. In order to make this COM
prehensive exhibit of the minerals of
Washington, exhibitors have been
instructed to show from so to 500
pounds of ledge rock with a good
average piece of pay shoot. With
this will be piece of hanging wall