The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-13
sion of Americanism in the crowds.
Of Cosmopolitan Character.

A band which holds forth at one
of the amusement parks in the expo
sition boasts IA nationalities, although
it has but 20 pieces. A policeman on
the corner will tell YOU that good pol
tiles demands that no less than seven
nationalitieS be recognized on the
attic can excuse non attendance at
church. for there are churches Of every
denomination that has ever been heard
of. and even two or three in the for
e;gn quarter that have not, outside the
Pacific Northwest Newspapers and
magazines are published in two more
foreign languages in Seattle than in
New York City. Ii there are palaces
on Terry avenue and Boren avenue
that would not disgrace Spruce or
Walnut streets-and there are-there
can also be found in the tide flats
of South Seattle wretched dwellings
that remind one poignantly of New
York's Bowery or Five points, or of
Chicago's Packingtown as depicted in
Upton Sinclair's Jungle"
Endless Moving Picture Finn.
But if Seattle under ordinary cir
cumstances is variegated and interest
ing. at exposition time it is doubly So
ON Of no fDr1 iS.f
or Of the exhibitor, the humanity on
display is one perpetual ''show' In
as broad in it's horizon as a panorama
as gripping in the way it commands
the interest as a moving picture show
In fact, the fair might be regarded as
a mammoth, never ending moving pic
ture film, with pictures changing mo-
mentarily, and with each as absorbing
as the last.
The exhibitors themselves form an
interesting community. Eighty per
cent of them are from back East and
as back East means anywhere from
Montana to Florida. or from Texas to
Maine. it is plain to see that the term
Fastener is too loose to mean any
thing. Dapper young chorus clerks
from New York or Philadelphia oc-
cupy booths next door, perhaps to
rk-eyed southern beauties repre-
senting a Savannah or New Orleans
firm On one side of the corridor may
be seen a raw boned rangy Canadian.
earnestly demonstrating the super
iorty of Canadian made machinery;
across the aisle. one will see a trim
Chicago girl. in immaculate shirtwaist
and b,ue-serge skirt showing how easy
it is to darn stockings and do fancy
work on a sewing machine.
College Men Precorn-na-e.
1t is estimated that 40 per cent of
the male employees of the A-Y.-P.
corporation are college men. Certain
~ the great bulk of the positions re-
q-iring endurance, lustiness Of throat
and unlimited nerve have gone to the
university crowd as they arc called.
Pennsylvania. Princeton, Cornell,
Michigan, Yale. Columbia. Chicago.
Wisconsin. Minnesota. IlinOis. SYRIA
cuse, Stanford, California. Georgetown
and the University of Washington, all
have substantial delegations. The
responsible and routine, hard and
easy, from boosters for cafes and
chauffeurs and demonstrators, to star
reporters on the newspapers and
building superintendent and guards
men captains. They are a happy. ir
responsible crew, with practical jokes
and fraternity reunions and little Bo-
hemiln dinners to While. away their
leisure. But they are an aggressive
and efficient crowd. too; no class of
employees. taken by and large, has
fIrnished greater satisfaction.
The big industrial firms that are
exhibiting have almost inv lriably sent
to Seattle their most experienced and
successful sa.esmen or wOrkmen as
demonstrators. The result soon makes
itse,f felt for the competition to at
tract and hold the attention of the
crowds, as they pass through the
buildings. is so keen that the visitors
interest never has a chance to flag.
The proportion of women demOnstra-
tors is much greater than at any pre-
vious exposition. many exhibitors of
all kinds evincing q desire to reap the
that go with an attrl ctive,
t. teful y-attired young woman to eX
plain things
out of doors many divergent types
are to be found The A.-Y.-P. special !
Pc ice. if one were to prosecute on
investigation, would be found to have
served an apprenticeship, Of greater
or less duration. in every part of &le