Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-07-02
SEEM Til FAIR
Is Not So Very Difficult Provid-
ing One Knows How to do
The Job Scientifically
SHOSHONE MAN TELLS HOW
To Safely Navigate "Pay Streak" Jew
Down the Landlord, Find the Fair
Grounds, and Other Pointers

F. W. Wilmington returned Wednes-
day from a trip through the Northwest
territory in the interest of the Sage
Brush Tonic company. While out he
managed to have important business in
Seattle and while there played hockey
long enough to have a glimpse of the
Fair. The Sage Brush people have
forty big display windows in Seattle
filed with their goods.
Frank is too modest to give out any
thing fer publication, but the wiley
journal reporter slipped up when he
was telling some friends how to nego-
tate the Exposition, and heard substan-
TALLY as follows:
Il thought that few words on the
beauties of Seattle and the Fair would
be of interest to those who expect to
so and of more interest to those who
expect to stay at home. "
Now on entering the city you will
find one of the most up-to-date and
hustling cities on the coast. A town of
about $780, ono people built close up to
the sound with one of the finest eli
mates that you will find any place.
You will find some of the best hotels
along first second and third streets
right in the center of the city Now
it would be my advice that when you
register for a room that you be sure
and ask the price as they have the
habit of thinking that every body is
from the gold mines of the north and
should give them liberal donation of
saw five or six dollars day for small
room, but if you put up good talk
and tell them you are from Missouri
and have only few dollars they will
cut the price so as you can afford to
stay for few days. After you have
settled then of course the first thing is
TO get to the fair grounds, and every
body starts from the post office which
is located on third and union streets.
of course there are lots of other places
10 start from but when you ask any
body in Seattle how to get to the fair
grounds they will tell you to go to the
post office and take an East Lake car
as every one is supposed to know where
the post Office is.
after you find the post Office it is
then only.a short ride to the fair ground.
You will find some eight or ten men
dressed in gray uniforms waving their
hands and yelling get your money
changed here so you will have a fifty
cent piece to give the man at the gate.
after you have given up your fifty
cent piece and get into the ground you
will be met with another regiment of
men dressed in dark suits making even
more noise than the first telling you to
get your program and plat of the
ground for only ten cents. You give up
that dime then looking at your little
book find out that you do not know any
more than before you started in to see
the fair.
''Of course you will stop and wonder
which way to go as there are three
beautiful streets leading from the en-
tance. one straight ahead and the others
branching, one to the right and the
other to the left, and not knowing
where any of them lead to stranger
will usually travel the straight road
which you will find will take you up
past the government buildings and
Filipino exhibits which you will find on
entering are very similar to all govern
noent exhibits. You will then see
large building lying to your right that
covers something over block of ground
and when you get closer will find that
1t is California building by far the
largest of any except the government
building. You will find every thing in
and around the building and grounds
that is raised and dug out of the ground
III the state, orange trees, lemons and !
all other kinds of fruit growing on the |
trees and vines Just as you find them |
growing in travelling through the state |
In order to see every thing in the |
building and on the ground you should |
have at least one day and then you
could come out and say that you had |
made trip Through the whole state of
California and seen the resources of
that wonderful state.
.'The next exhibit close is the Spokane
building, a very large structure stand
ing out very prominent at the end
of the drive or street. The display in