The Seward gateway., 1915-10-12
ALASKA AT
 THE EXPOSITION
Continued from Yesterday
(From The All-Alaska Review.)


 aska, showing the telegraph lines railroad lines, wireless stations, steamship lines and also Alaska's position on the globe and with respect to other countries. The other repre- sents the Mining of Alaska and H. lustrates the various methods of min ing, dredging, hydraulic and under ground ore mining where concentra- tion is necessary. This model also gives good idea of the topography and character of the country, giving heart to the prospectOr, settler and adventurer who labor under the CT roncous impression that Alaska is dreary winter waste. Powered fields, tree-clad mountains, exquisite mead ow-bordered tarns and trout-flled rivers are some of the summer de- lights of this far northern land.
 K. V. Sewell, Alaska's noted artist, has sent a number of excellent can vases to the exhibit. They all DOT tray some charm of the Alaska land, either a bit of beautiful scenery, fine industrial landscape or a painting of genre portraying types of Alaskan people and glimpses of their daily life
 In the Palace of Transportation, the Pacific Coast Steamship Company features Alaska and also provides at tractive quarters for the Alaska cruise Club. This exhibit is under the direction of Mrs Mary E. Hart of San Francisco and Alaska, a woman of great energy and ability who spent fifteen years in Alaska as a miner and newspaper correspondent and now owns a ranch at Dyea to which she will return at the close of the Exposition. Her husband was Judge Frank Hart of Cordova, Alaska.
 Here in this booth cordial welcome is extended not only to visiting AL aSkans, but to all those interested in Alaska and desirous of gaining infor- nation about this Croesus country. The booth contains an interesting ana valuable collection of Alaskan treas ure and curioS as we'll as a display of what Alaska has to offer tourist and traveller. The walls of the booth are hung with a splendid oil painting, a panorama 9 by Fl feet, depicting a section of the ice front of Muir Glacier. Sailing close to shore is shown the s. s. Spokane, painted to scale. AS seven-eights of the bulk of floating ice is below the water line, some idea of the tremendous ice field is gained. The driftwood, sand, shells and moss in the foreground were col lected at Sitka and especially brought down to complete the panorama. Pcturesquly placed on the shore line are two Alaskan Indians; the man is an expert carver of wooden totem poles, and his wife is weaver of baskets and maker of moccasins.
 A large tc.em pole divides the ex- hibit canvases and is an exact copy of the famous Wrangell totem pole. It is the same size and coloring as the original and is carved from a single piece of wood to represent the leg endary history of the Indians.
 The forty-fve feet of show cases contain a $1O,OOO,O0O collection of curios exhibited by members of the Alaska Cruise Club. There are rare carved worries owned by Mrs. c. D. Lane, ceremonial Chilkat blankets exhibited by Mrs. Walker c. Graves, and wonderful Attu baskets loaned by Mrs. c. Cross.
 In the Palace of Food Products there is an exhibit which might also be said to be distinctively Alaskan. It is the representation of the Alaska Packers Association. This is thorough exploitation of the salmon industry in Alaska. The Fortmann hatchery, named after the president of the company, Henry Fortmann, IS the largest fish hatchery in the world. The entire process, by picture and model, is shown, the capture of the female salmon when the spawn is taker from her, its fertilization with the milt of the male, the turning of the spawn into the fine steel mesh baskets in bins filled with water, the feeding and caring for the spawn dur