The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-19
VISITORS ARE So
INTERESTING, TOO
More So, in Fact, Than Are the
Freaks of the Seattle
Exposition.
COLLEGE MEN EMPLOYED
UNIQUE TYPES FOUND ALONG FA-
NOUS "PAY STREAK"

! Seattle. Sept 1S.-Many and varied
! as are the exhibits Of all kinds at the
! Alaska Yukon-Pacifc exposition the
/ most fascinating single exhibit of ali is
/ the people. New York City and San
! Francisco have vigorously disputed
Seattle's claim to the distinction Of be-
I ing the most cosmopolitan city In the
/ New World. The skeptiC from Gotham
! or the Golden Gate, should he but visit
/ Seattle this summer and should he pos
sess at least the modicum of candor
/ that all good Americans boast. would
/ at least have TO gTudgiugly admit that
| the exposition city is more nearly the
/ American cosmos than any other me
tropois. First avenue on Saturday
evening, or the famous PAY Streak"
| in the fair grounds on Sunday after
noon would readily lead one to believe
/ that a congress OF nations had Just adj
! jOUrued. Black and white yellow and
red, the observer will see every race,
every cline under the sun represented.
| The prosperous side-Whiskered banker
/ VIII alight from his auto; and IN the
uondescript crowd. grouped negligently
about ON the sidewalk. and watching
| him with a IangUid curiosity, viii be
seen the bronze face and heavy SOM
brerO of the Mexican; the WaXed mus
tache pateut-leather boots and black
/ chapeau of the FrenChman. the silkeu
robe and glossy queue of the Chinaman
and the Crinkly hair. multi-cOlOred sash
and giant turban of the Hindoo. And
I yet no race, no class VIII predominant
sufficiently to disturb the general i'm
preston of Americ3nism I'M the crowds
A band which holds forth at one Of
/ the amusement parks i'm the exposition
I
/ It has bat twenty-nine pieces. n police
man on the corner will tell YOU that
/ good politics demands that 40 less than
/ seven nationalities be recognized on the
I force OF sunday, 40 visitor in Seat
/ tie can excuse uOu-attendanco at
/ church for there are churches of every
/ denomination that has ever been heard
/ Of and even two or three iH the foreign
! quarter that have not. outside the
/ PACING northwest. Newspapers and
/ MAGAZINES are published I'm two more
/ foreign languages in Seattle than in
New York City. If there are palaces
J on Terry avenue and Boren avenue
/ that would not disgrace Spruce or Wal
/ nut Streets-and there are-there can
| also be found in the tide-hats of south
/ Seattle wretched dwellings, that remind
/ one Doiguanty OF New Ycrk'S Bowerv
/ or Five Points. or of Chicaeo's Pack
/ ingtown as depicted i'm Upton Sin
| Clalrs Jungle
Endless Moving Picture.
But if Seattle under ordinary cir
I cUmstauce is Vafiegated and interest
{ ing. at exposition time it is doublv So
/ Viewed from an angle of the tourist
/ or of the exhibitor. the humanity on
/ display is one perpetual SHOW jim it
/ self-as changing as a kaleidoscope, as
] broad i'm its horizon as a panorama as
/ gripping i'm the way it commands the
/ interest as q mOviug-picture show. In
! fact, the fair might be regarded as a
mammoth. never-ending moving picture
/ film. with pictures changing mOmen-
! tdTily and with each as absorbing as
/ the last
The exhibitors themselves form an in
/ teTesting 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 10 see that the term
! Fastener is too loose to mean any
thing Dapper young clerks from New
/ York or Philadelphia occupy booths
next door perhaps to- dark-eyed south
I ern beauties representing q Savannah
| or a. New Orleans firm. on one side
! of the corridor may be seen q raw
! bOued Tangy Canadian, earnestly dem
! OnstTating the superiority of Canadian
| made machinery; across the aisle. one
/ will see q trim Chicago girl, in immaci1-
! late shirUWaist and blue serge skirt
| showing how easy it is TO darn stock
| ings and do fancy work on sewing
I machine.
College Men Predominant.
It is estimated that 40 per cent of
the male employees of the A.-Y.-P. cor
| DoratiOn are college men. Certainly the
/ great bulk of the positions requiring
/ endurance, lUstiness of throat and un-
! limited nerve have gone to the univer-
! sity crowd as they are called. Penn
/ sylvania, Princeton, Cornell Michigan
/ Yale. Columbia, Chicago. Wisconsin
/ Minnesota, Illinois. Syracuse. Stanford
/ California, Georgetown and the Univer-
| sity of Washington all have substantial
/ delegations. The men hold every man
/ ner of positions, responsible and rOu-
! tine, 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, ire
! sDOnsible crew, with practical jokes and
/ fraternity reunions and little Bohemian
| dinners to while away their leisure
I But they are an aggressive and efficient
] crowd, too; no class of employees, taken
/ at large, has furnished greater salts
/ faction.
! The big industrial firms that are ex-
I hiDiting have almost invariably sent to
Seattle their most experienced and sue
! cessful statesmen or wOrkmeu as dem
constructors The result soon makes itself
/ felt, Tor the competition - attract and
| hold the attention of the crowds, as
/ they pass through the buildings, is so
I keen that the visitors interest never
/ has d chance 10 flag. The proportion
/ of women demonstrators is much
/ greater than at any previous EXPOSE
/ ton, many exhibitors of all kinds evinc-
/ ing a desire 70 reap the advantages
/ that go with an attractive. tastefully-
attHed young woman to explain things
Out of doors many divergent types
+ are to be found. The A.-Y.-P special
police if one were To- prosecute AN in
vestigatiou would be found Co have
I served an apprenticeship, OF greater or
I less dUra ton. In every part uf the new
! world, and many parts of the old. The
gatemen are. in many instances, eX-
I pUsitiOn-haTdeued. too, one old veteran
ID native of PittsbuTg, having never
/ missed % job of that kind since the
| Centennial in 1876. There are land
/ sCape gardeners who helped make Chi