Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-08-05
ASTORIANS FAST COMPLETING
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THEIR
CENTENNIAL.
Celebration Extends Over 80 Days, Be
ginning August 10-Harbor IL Miles
Long to Be Used for Aquatic Dis
plays-Many Distinguished Speakers
and Business Men to Take Part.

Interested in the Centennial pageant,
which opens August 10 and continues
thirty days, are asking.
So far, the plans of the Centennial
committee have been carried out to
a successful issue without a hitch.
There is to be plenty of amusement
and some educational features for
those who attend the pageant which
has been planned to commemorate the
first settlement of the Pacific north
by the white race.
The big features are to be scat
tered about Astoria in such a manner
as to take advantage of all the natural
resources. The twelve mile long harbor
is to be used for aquatic displays, the
city streets for the pageantry parades
and the city park for some of the fixed
features.
Just a few minutes walk from the
center of the city, a thousand feet
above the sea level, is City park. Here,
with a view of the harbor, the rivers,
ocean and mountains, the big spec
tacular features are to be staged. A
stadium has been built into the hill
been adilt down the side of the slope
to care for about 5000 persons. There
is not a post to obstruct the view and
the stage, an open air one, has a clump
of tall cedar trees for a background.
This is where "The Bridge of the
Gods" is to be produced by Miss Mabel
Ferris, the Los Angeles girl who is now
living in Portland Local talent is be-
ing trained to produce the spectacle,
which is founded upon the story of Mt.
Hood being changed from a volcano
into an ice and snow-covered mountain.
1t is an Indian legend, and has a great
historical story to tell.
The state will maintain a salmon
hatchery during the whole thirty days
of the Centennial celebration is open.
Master Fish Warden Clanton has
delegated C. E. Greenman to take
charge of the exhibit and he has been
IN Astoria making preparations to
carry through the work.
This fish display is an intensely in.
teresting one to everyone from all over
the country.
Another strong feature is the ex-
hibit of the resources of Clatsop county
The timber and dairy industries will
be treated thoroughly too in the county
exhibit.
Manufacturers of national reputation
have engaged practically all the space
in the building which has been erected
for this purpose and by the time the
Centennial opens-August 10-this big
structure will be crowded with exhibits
Of the best nationally advertised wares
IN the country. The whole nation hal
been secured to make this a representa-
tive exhibit and success has come from
the efforts of the committee in charge
aided by the Astoria merchants.
Within the Astor Stockade ther,
will be the great $4,000 Indian reli'
display loaned by Maj Lee Moore
house of Pendleton. This is a price
less collection which can never be dupli
Gated again. The major, who was al
Indian agent at the Umatilla reserva
ton for years, secured these relics from
the Indians who never realized thei
value.
Dead and departed chiefs who showe
great head dresses with pride did no
make any attempt to preserve thei
equipment after their death. AS a con
sequence the braves who followed ther
sold the only mementoes of the dyin
race worth while for small sums. Majo
Moorehouse, knowing the value of tn
head dresses and implements of wa
and peaceful Indian life, picked out tn
best of them and today this collectio
is without an equal in the world.
The whole collection is to be place
in the "Living Quarters within tn
Aston Stockade. 1t will completely fl
this big building and is bound to be
great source of interest to the thol
sands who are to visit the Centenni,
pageant.
Across the courtyard from this India
display is the structure reproducing I'll
barn used by the Aston trading part
when they had finished the fort.
this the Indians will have their dinin
room and storehouse for the curis
they are to bring with them. 1t wi
be an interesting sight and well wort
your while to see them.
Out on the side of the hill the i
dams will pitch their tented city al
live the life old Chief Concomly ar
his followers lived.
All the tribal traditions will be pr
served here as they were a centui
ago. They will take the priced Moor
house collection of Indian head-dress
and go through all the old war dance
the marriage dances, the funeral dane
and the peace pact ceremonies that the
forefathers did back in 1911. Also W
they participate in the historic pagan
which will be given to paint anew {
founding of Astoria, the treaty wi
the whites, the marriage of old Chi
Concomly's daughter to McDougall a
such events as went along with t
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