The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-06-07
IT CANNOT
Do OTHER
THAN WIN
MIR. E. w. MCCONNELL,
SNOWMAN, EN-
THUSES.
This viii Be the Most Re-
markable Fair in
Many Ways.

Ihe Alatka-Yukon' Pacific
exposition will be the most sue
eessful worlds fair In the his
tory Of such organizations. En-
eept In the matter Of size, Il Is
the most remarkable.
II Ia as wide IN scope az was the
Columbian exposition in Chicago. or
the Louisiana Purchase exposition
In ST. Louis. II f. more beautiful
than either Of these. Il IL more
beautiful than the exposition in
Paris II is far more beautiful than
any that has ever been held.
Financially a Success
"on the financial side Il will
break all records. I dare TO predict
that Il will show a larger balance
on the right side when the gates
have closed than any exposition
ever held will also say that any
man who has come TO this exposi-
ton, purely as commercial propo-
sltion. will make more money, II he
has a worthy means. than he has
ever made at any exposition"
10 Capable Judge.
Z ". Mcconnell, the best known.
probably the most ooldly-ealcuiatlng
producer o. amusement attractions
IN the United States. left last night
for Chicago. where he Il the prin-
cipal owner Of Riverview park. Chi
Cages perennial exposition. Before
taking his leave he reduced his
opinion Of the northvests exIsosi-
ton TO writing He would not trust
the reporter 10 do H. Nj. Mcconnell
does not trust anyone to do any
thing without first drawing him q
diagram TO work from.
Seldom Enthusiastic.
Just as an iceberg has been
known to melt. Mcconnell has been
known. at rare intervals. to enthuse.
The Alaska. Yukon-Pacific exposi-
ton did the business. and McCon-
nell went hack to Chicago only be-
cause he had 10. He would have
remained solely to enjoy the expo
siuon and the country around II,
but with him II is business first and
second and anything else third. He
Ia not given TO 'gush," particularly
II he is losing.
He did not leave. however, until
he was absolutely certain that the
$4,000 be and his Seattle asso-
ciaies have invested In the Monitor
and Merrimac, the big wartime
spectacle. on the PAY Streak. was
not only safe. but assured OF some
thing huge In the way Of profits.
The sane is to be said Of the Battle
Of Gettysburg, his other huge at
traction.
Was AstonlshSd.
That was all Of this, he admitted.
Il was convinced when you sent
90 600 people through the gates on
the first day that your exposition
was to be notable success II was
100 per cent bigger business than
we had based all our financial cal
culations upon. When YOU brought
10000 people into the grounds on
the second day, instead Of the five
Of six thousand | had counted up.
on. ! congratulated my associates.
when you turned In a Saturday
crowd Of 10000 you made II evil
dent that your first day showing
was not due TO an abnormal local
interest but TO a genuine, wide
spread interest created outside your
ordinary local limitations. Know
ing as well as ! do the tremendous
crowd that will come on from the
cast from July l on. do not hest.
tate to stake my professional judg.
ment upon the prediction that you
have created an exposition that will
break all records.
Have Set High Standards,
you have done another thing.
You have made It exceedingly diff
cult for any other American city
successfully to bring off an oxposi-
ton OF world scope The standard
set by Seattle Is immeasurgbly
higher than any standard estab-
lished previously In this, nature
has assisted you wonderfully. With
out an exhibit, without a building.
your country here is one Of the most
eNpositions the world
can offer know OF no city on the
know OF none in Eu-
rope, large enough to promote an
exposition, which has anything like
such natural endowment with
which to begin business,
Not Natural Beauty Alone.
"But natural beauty is not the
secret OF your success. 1t is in your
organization and in the men to
whom you have entrusted your fair
Your business men out here are
bred to big transactions It's the
biggest section loft In America, and
hig things come naturally to you.
Possibly building a worlds fair
came easily to them ! do not know,
hut Il looks that way, ! cannot
find a loose end anywhere, Your
treasury department Is organised
like a bank, and since meeting the
men at the head OF Il. am not Won
derlng at It. You have advertised
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