The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-04-26
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1880 JUNE 1ST
TAFT WILL PRESS
THE TELEGRAPH KEY AND
GIVE THE FORMAL SIGNAL
FOR SEATTLE EXPOSITION.

Seattle, April Io.-FTeSIuenC VIII
liam Howard Taft will press the key
that will open the Alaska ukon-Pa-
cific exposition at 1890 p. M, Seat
tie time, on Tuesday, June L. At
the same moment Mayor George B.
Mcclellan, of New York, will fire the
shot that will start the New York-to-
Seattle automobile race from New
York; flags will be broken out on the
exposition grounds and every whistle
or noise making contrivance in Seat
tie is expected to extend a greeting
to the new worlds fair. The special
events committee will also ask that
street cars stop for a period of two
minutes and that business generally
be suspended for that space of time
The official hour for opening the
fair was fixed a few days ago when
final arrangements were completed
for the presidents part in the cere-
mony. He will signal for the official
Opening of the gates by pressing the
souvenir key presented by George
Mccormack, discoverer of gold in the
Klondike.
All the ceremonies on the EXPOSE
ton grounds that will mark the for
NAL local observance will have taken
place before the signal comes from
Washington. The military display
and the oratorical program will all
be arranged for the morning hours
and thousands of spectators will have
been admitted to the grounds before
the flags are broken out and the for
NAL action of the president ushers in
a new worlds fair.
Guests of the exposition manage
ment, officers of the fair, those who
are to take part in the ceremonies
and invited spectators will be taken
to the grounds early on June 1. They
will assemble at the New Washing
ton and make the trip to the grounds
in automobiles. A detail lof cavalry
will form an escort for the official
party.
The military display will all be
made inside the exposition grounds.
One thousand regulars and about 500
marines and sailors from the first
squadron of the Pacific fleet, togeth-
er with Japanese marines and sailors,
national guardsmen of this state and
other military organizations, will be
drawn up at the south gate to await
the coming of the automobile party
and it's cavalry escort. 1t is planned
that the entire party shall reach the
ed for commencing the ceremonies by
II a. M This will give an hour and
half's time to complete the formal
program before the signal comes
from Washington.
Arrangements are being made by
the exposition management to place
w. F. Thomas, of Washington, D. c.,
in charge of the arrangements for the
social functions at the exposition.
He will be under direction of Josiah
Collins, chairman of the committee
on ceremonies and amusements.
The position to be created by Mr..
Thomas is similar to that held by
Colonel Hardee at the Lewis and
Clarke exposition in Portland. All the
ceremonial events at the exposition
will be state affairs and the exposi-
ton management is cognizant of the
fact that in arranging state functions
extreme caution has to be exercised
to recognize all participants in ac-
cordance with their rank.
The war department has already
assigned to the exposition an official
representative and he, too, will CO.
operate with Chairman Collins in
handling the social side of the expo
sition. 1t is possible that a naval and
some foreign attaches will be added.
This bureau in the department of
ceremonies and amusements is dis
tinct from that over which Louis w.
Buckley is director. The detail of all
amusement features and the decision
on special days and the outlining of
general programs is in his hands.
Major w. NJ Inglis has already been
given charge of the sporting features
of the exposition in the same depart
ment.