The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-10-15
LEAVENWORTH CITIZEN
AT SAN FRANCISCO FAIR
And is FavOrabIy Impressed With Show
ing Made by the State of
Washington

The sea was like a sheet Of glass and
the sun was shining bright and warm.
Soon there loomed up on the right Of
US the massive domes and towers of
the exposition. AS we passed close to
the sea wall the view was magnificent,
and will long be remembered as
mental keepsake OF this fair.
To try to describe minutely all that
is to be seen is we'll nigh impossible;
even to describe it in a general way
would take an entire issue of your pa
per. The best for one 10 do is to con
centrate the mind on that which ap.
peals most to the fancy, and devote
the most time to that particular object
or objects.
Firstly, we must all take off our hats
to Canada. Its building and display
are in class by themselves. From an
artistic and advertising standpoint it
has no competitor. In the ground
of one of its enormous pictures are real
live beavers building a dam in a run
ming stream whose banks are covered
with brush and growing trees, while
the farmer is seen in the near back
ground turning up the first sod of the
virgin soil, and away still farther can
be seen the harvester at work, and on
the horizen the steeple of little
church which marks the growth of
new town. In these pictures the real
and the painted scenes are so blended
as to make it almost impossible to tell
where one ends and the other begins.
The California exhibit, while as a
varied and general exhibit of all the
products of the state is indisputablY
the best, it is, however, too crowded,
not enough space being left between
the exhibits to give them prominence.
My attention was naturally drawn to
the Washington division. The Wash
ington State building is in a good con-
spicuous place and in size and attrac-
tiveness surpasses many of the build
ings OF the older states.
The purpose Of all the state build
ings is merely as resting place for
visitors and their friends from that
state. In the center Of the Washing
ton building is display Of Wenatchee
apples that have been so long on ex
hibition that their proper place today
is the dump heap. A motion picture
show combined with a lecture is given
in the building every afternoon, ex-
planning the resource, the beauties and
the many opportunities in this state for
the homeseeker.
The Washington exhibit in the Pal
ace OF Horticulture is unique. As you
enter the building there faces you
bank of Wenatchee Valley and Okla
hogan apples. There are in all 48
boxes, held in a space II feet long by
7 feet high with railing in front six
feet from the exhibit. By an in
genious arrangement of mirrors an oc-
ular illusion is formed which makes it
appear as if one is looking at baak
Of endless miles Of apples. Mr.. Ec-
cles, superintendent OF this division, is
roundly scoring the Wenatchee people
for not supplying him with the apples
necessary to make the exhibit attrac-
tive.
In the Palace OF Agriculture the
Washington exhibit is the largest and
best outside Of that OF California. 1t
is enclosed in large and roomy build
ing composed entirely Of the bark OF
Washington pine trees. Here are seen
monster potatoes, onions, melons, corn,
etc., while hundreds OF bales Of hay,
alfalfa and oats are everywhere in evil
dence, with every variety Of cereal
found in the state.
In the Washington good roads sec
tion Of the Transportation building we
found Ezra Meeker retailing his ac-
count Of his trip to Oregon across the
continent in 1852, with the OK team
and wagon as evidence to prove the
correctness Of his contention.
No one coming from the state OF