Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-08-23
Weekly Letter From
Oregon Building

. Ore5on building, +. L. |. E.-lt is
certainly demonstrated here that the
two magic words in the English Ian
guage are New" and Free" with
special emphasis on the latter. If a
crowd is wanted at any building or
exhibit, offer something new; If a
larger crowd is desired, offer some
! thing new and make it free. When
the Oregon building advertised that
it would give away Oregon roses the
structure was crowded and jammed to
the limit. There are roses and roses
in California, but none with the fame
of the Oregon rose, so they came to
see and to carry away. When it was
made known that on a certain day
loganberry juice would be served to
all comers, the crowds came. Logan
berry Juice sounded new and it was
free to all. The crowds literally
swamped the building and in turn
were swamped with loganberry juice
and liked the experience. During
Oregon week the coast counties, Til
lamook Coos and Curry, told the
hungry populace Everybody is per-
sistently hungry on the exposition
grounds that they would give away
. cheese made in this Incompatible
dairy region. Did the people come?
They came at such a rate that the
hands thrust forward for a sandwich
seemed as numberless as the sands
of the seashore. And after they had
eaten one generous morsel they went
out the door and got into line for
another. They even went into the
! moving picture theatre and listened
. for half hour to j. A. Weed and
George NJ. Hyland boosting the glor-
les OF the coast region-all because
they were told they might get an
other morsel. During the afternoon
Mrs. D. L. Rood, Miss Palmer, Mrs.
Carl Albrecht, Miss Frances France
and Mr.. Ward had all they could do to
hand out little squares Of cheese and
! crackers and tell them they could get
plenty of such cheese in Tillamook,
Coos and Curry.
On Saturday the representatives of
eastern Oregon, Lackey and McCully,
rendered sacks of popcorn. The city
papers had heralded the fact that
popcorn would be free at the Oregon
| building on this date-and the entire
force is still recovering from the ex-
perience of handling that crowd.
During the entire afternoon the num-
bers were such that it was almost
impossible to move in or out. No less
than $1,000 of the half-pound sacks
were handed out after o'clock. The
patent pepper was worked overtime
and then broke down or the number
of sacks given away might have
reached 10000 The people enjoyed
the corn and they enjoyed the crowd
ing; they also took time to enjoy the
exhibits on both floors, for the entire
building was filled to overflowing.
Thus the effort served its purpose;
it brought extraordinary numbers to
the building for glimpse, and many
will return to see the exhibits at their
leisure and when the crowds are not
so great. The people are out to see
all there is to see; they are in holi-
day spirit, and they like the little ex-
ira efforts. They feel that since they
expect to go to a certain building
they might as we'll go when there is
something special doing. The Oregon
building people feel that If they will
but come and get one glimpse they
will come again, and they invariably
} do so.
On Monday the big exposition band
played for us in honor of "All Oregon
Day." and Commissioner John F.
) Logan and Senator Arthur Langguth
of Portland, DR.. w. j. Kerr and
George M. Hyland boosted for Ore
) gon in way that brought enthusias-
tic applause from the multitudes. On
Tuesday Ben Sheldon of Medford and
Judge William Colvig talked Rogue
River valley and Oregon to a theatre
full, and throughout the day the
Rogue River valley pictures were
viewed by many hundreds. Wednes-
day was cheese day, Thursday Ore
gon school day, Friday Willamette
valley day, with stewed prunes on
tap and DR.. Dunsmore of lndepen-
dence, E. S. Evendon of Monmouth,
F. w. Sullivan Of oregon CITY, Ut.
L. NJ. Davis of Portland and M. Mo
sessohn as speakers Saturday was
the memorable popcorn day-a great
week and with the Oregon building
more popular than ever.
Any booster, or any county in Ore
gon, or any other force that want
to do a great service for this build
ing, can do so by furnishing from