The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-23
The SEA1TLE EAIR
How Pennsylvania Day
will be Observed.
READY FOR EXHIBITS NEXT week
A Daily Newspaper to be Printed on
the GrOunds--DOrflinger's Gut
Glass Ware to be Displayed.

SEATTLE, Wash, April 21.-In
the state of Washington are more
than 5000 former residents of
Pennsylvania who are going to
pull together to make Pennsylva-
mia Day at the Alaska-Yukon-Pa-
cific Exposition at Seattle this
summer an event at the fair long
to be remembered. 1t is true that
Pennsylvania is some distance from
Seattle, but the members of the
Pennsylvania society, an organiza-
tion with 1900 members, hope to
make a fine showing August 18th
and arrangements are now being
made to bring some man, promi-
nent in the home state, to Seattle
to deliver the address on Pennsyl-
vania Day.
While Pennsylvania will not be
represented at the Exposition by
a building and exhibits, the Penn
sylvania society will maintain
headquarters at the Exposition
where Pennsylvanians visiting the
fair will find register containing
the names of all former residents
of that state now residing in
Washington. This register will also
show the county in which they
lived in their native state.
With every prospect that the
Liberty Bell will be sent to the Pa
cific Coast for the Portland Rose
Festival in June, and the exposi-
tion, the members of the Pennsyl-
vania society hope to have this
historic relic take some part in the
exercises on Pennsylvania Day at
the Fair.
So near complete is the exposi-
tion at this time that the buildings
and grounds will be ready before
the opening date, June 1, 1909.
On March 1, exposition officials an
nounced that the exposition was more
than ninety-five per cent. complete
and right now there is great activ-
ity in every line of work on the
ground. All of the permanent
work was along ago finished and
every building planned for the ex-
position is either finished or we'll
The group of United States gov
ernment buildings, standing at the
head of the Cascades, will be ready
to receive exhibits by April 80.
The government has provided Ia
central exhibit palace to house. the
displays from the departments at
Washington and separate buildings
for A1oclxo Houyoii tho Dhilinniv,o
and the biograph and fisheries de-
partments. Uncle Sam is also
building a life-saving station on
the shores of Lake Union where
daily exhibition drills will be
given.
On the exposition grounds the
administration, auditorium, fine
arts, manufactures, agriculture,
mines, fisheries, Oriental. foreign,
forestry, transportation, dairy, good
roads, Woman's, Arctic Brother
hood, machinery and large num-
ber of patriotic, fraternal, religious
and special buildings are complete
and receiving exhibits and the
amusement street known as the
Pay Streak with building opera
tions. Some of the latest attrac-
tions will be seen at Seattle this
summer.
The natural surroundings of the
exposition could not be more beau
tiful and there is an abundance of
mountain, river, lake and wood
land scenery on every hand. The
exposition has been built on the
campus of the University of Wash
ington and in the very center of a
natural forest. The streets and
walks on the grounds have been
paved with asphalt and the land
scape artists are now engaged in
setting out millions of trees, shrubs
and flowers of every description
about the grounds.
1t is claimed for the Alaska-Yu-
kon-Pacific Exposition that it will
be the most beautiful exposition
ever held and it will further make
good the claim that it will be the
Fair that will be ready"
A daily newspaper, eight pages in
size, to contain all the latest tele-
Brapn news OF the WOrlQ as well as
local happenings and the latest
advices from Alaska concerning
mining operations and new gold
strikes, will be published on the
grounds of the Alaska-Yukon-Pa
cific Exposition at Seattle this sum-
mer. The first issue will be pub
lished June 1, the date the exposi-
tion will open its gates to the
world and will continue to come
out daily until october 16, when
the lights will be turned out for
the last time at this great exhibi-
tion of the Pacific.
The publication will be known as
the Exposition Daily Gold Digger
and will be the Fair edition of the
Nome, Alaska, Gold Digger. s. H.
Stevens, one of the best known
newspaper men in Alaska, and
proprietor of the Nome paper, will
personally attend to the manage
ment of the exposition daily, and
has gone to a big expense to pro-