The Alaska citizen., 1914-03-16
LITTLE MONEY f0R ALASKA'S
 FAIR EXHIBIT
EXPLAINS SITUATION TO GOVERNOR STRONG.

| Unless some special appropriation can be secured, Alaska will have bu, little in the matter of exhibits at the San Francisco Exposition next year This is explained in the following letter, received recently by Gov ernor Strong from Adolph C. Miller chairman of the Government Ex- hibit Board, at Washington. D. C.; My dear Governor Strong:
 The content of the government exhibit at the Panama Pacific In ternational Exposition has been un- der constant consideration during, the past three months.
 The character and extent of Alaskas participation has been free ly discussed and your letter of No vember 1st has been carefully con sidered.
 Tt seems to be wholly impossi- ble to represent Alaska upon a scale commensurate with the Seattle exhibit, for which s100,0O0 was ap- propriated As you know the funds at our disposal amount to only $500,- 00O With that we must prepare, l maintain and return exhibits of the entire United States govern ment, and in addition, of Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the District f Columbia, and several semi-official commissions We must provide for total of 49 different bureaus and government agencies. You can well understand that only few thous- and dollars can be allowed to any one bureau or agency.
 Tt seems to be impossible, therefore, to make a new collection of Alaskan material with the funds available The best that seems pos sible is to collect CD all that is in the several departments relating to Alaska, or as much of it as prac- ticable, CD all that remains of the Seattle exhibit, in the museum of the University of Washington and else where, and (3) all that can be col lected from other scurces with little or no expense.
 "It is not possible to maintain a 1 separate organization for the ex- hibit by the employment of special agents and the like, but We can pro cure the cooperation of govern ment officers whose work relates to Alaska Their work will be CO ordinated and unified through the officers of the Board.
 The lines which can, in all proba- bility, be fairly well shown in this way are:
 q. Minerals, through the Geolo- gical Survey;
 "Education, through the Bureau of Education;
 | AIdI lHe pl ouutlo, lhlou6A eAi- Bureau of Fisheries;
 A. Agriculture, through the o. fee of Experimental Stations;
 "5. Forestry, through the Forest Service;
 Zoology, through the Bureau of Biological Survey;
 "7. Ethnology, through the Ma tional Museum.
 "The exhibition cases used at the Alaska Yukon-P Pacific Exposition were loaned to the museum of the Uni versity of Washington and are still available Many of the exhibits which were donated or purchased from exhibit funds We're also loaned to that museum and may be recalled. but it is not likely that much of the material would be useful now.
 This is tie situation as it now stands. If you can devise any plans or make any suggestions which can be carried out with the means at our disposal, we shall be glad to consid- er them.
 'inc; recai, rg the foregoing letter G ,verncr Strong has ask ,d Delegate W.tkersham to apply ;c the gov ernment for special approrriajoH 1 for giving Alaska decent exhibit g, the big exposition.
 Doctor (feeling Sandys pulse in | bed)-What do you drink? Sandy