| Show j I c 12 es of O J tE i 1 Clark 1 1 K Exposition Etl t sit 10 S on 1 1 1 Are lYe Unique Ltd By Prof of J E McKnight J o f l I f r c h J J f l t i w i j v x i c Joi w r y 79 3 I h r s s tR s t z tt egr bs r r S Si Sr Sa i r i a f it trl r ro ai o dC lW h i W 1 jA M r rw w Expositions P are BO so common now nowadays no days that it in is hard herd to understand TV why by so 80 many people still un wear out their feet Impair their Christianity scatter flatter Itter their neural forces forcer fore and squander squander der their double eagles eagle in attending i them When you have seen one you OU i Lave have 11 ve seen GMt allor all or nearly rear earl to ro rot for fortu fortunate fortunate fortunate nate IB is the great peat fair any more mo that ran can an boast of eves eVeR one oue or 01 two unique Yet having seen one you ct vish ish to s see goo another and the next and H Mill rill the next so o you get the habit and must go whether you enjoy it br not noti i But why Of Ot course man Is la gregarious and likes like to hunt lite pleasures some of ot them In packs but that does doe not oot TV wholly holly account for tor it I Is Ia it because n r t are still so gullible Perhaps Cel aln ft is that a great fair tall is 18 the para imra 4 fl 1 ot of fakirs and grafters who thrive oh on e ae me ruling passions pul lon of hot hoi polloi Ik and andt iv t n c are all aU to some HOme extent victims I suppose uP OB too that the old ola cry cr et N bread broad and the games as WI voiced by lIY fy was nag a an au instinctive hUne ne nt And ulnae since In Wa t Q a are ate so well rid 1 1 in Y bis land o oI 01 tarots tariffs and low art att is III the t he b cry ClY for tor the Ule circus the garnet games in lil ur our time all milt the mote more imperative all the lC No doubt We Yo can lose lore our I senses one by one but we cant lose logy he desires desire and planted in the substructure of ot our very ver being Bread Dread or ot no bread we must be amused ed And then of course the tha th t wan wander wander wander der fever burns in lit our veins eins vein as u it did didin Jn in those Norse ance tor of ot ours our away back in the days of or the Vikings and we feel like i paroled soldier when h b said sal For lor to admire an for to see I For to old this world so ao wide It never n er done dOlle no good to me Y Hut I cant drop it if I tried Ail All Except Russell Sage Besides Be every American t Rna Rua Ru Ruu I U it Sage I wonder if it Uncle Russell I but he h a II myth lOth anyhow every r real al American must have an annual vacation and go somewhere Sto S leav eav ng our om Lares Laren and Pontes behind to look after the cat we hie lile ourselves away to Europe if It we can or Bar liar Hal Harbor bor or 01 Chautauqua or 01 the Ute mountains lm Oi Or beat best of all this year yearA wa A X a e come to Portland to hit the Trail View of Government Building to see Ste the bronze statue of Sacajawea the young oung squaw who helped Lewis and Clark to discover something the ocean I believe or maybe it was Tacoma to I see the th gewgaws and bipeds bi bipeds i edH of or all ail nations to hear hoor Susan B Anthony the dear deal old girl toll what i woman has accomplished in her long I struggle with the brute creation man manto manto to hear in song and and nd story stor I in screaming banners in i squibs and ragtime limericks ka in dou i bra editorials in i monographs brochures bro leaflets leaflet and that strew the earth us as do the tho leaves in in hr electric signs from pulpits and aud housetops on the stage on 0 river and lake everywhere and all the time timeto to Ilea hear of or the unrivalled unrivalled unrivalled glories of ot the marvelous North Northwest Northwest west Glories of the Northwest No No other othar region has so S many man scenic wonders No other is blessed with such s ch inexhaustible L forests No other can call produce such grains and fruits amid ant vegetables No Ko other othol can rival this tIlls in grandeur of or river scenery No other can boast such mountain peaks and upland tarns and shimmering water waterfalls waterfalls waterfalls falls No other has such peerless weather when It ruin rain n No other haul has such fecund hope weather when h n it does rain In Inho ho bo Other can a 8 city etty ever ver grow row up that shall situ rival London and Paris and und New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and Pekin aye that shall ahall surpass sur surpass pass all an these rolled into one with added features attractions and opportunities never yet dreamed of oven ven tn by Northwestern tern editors Did I say Portland or 01 inadvertently Seattle no Or Tacoma iacoma the city of ot destiny Non Nonina ma ina cherie clerie I am not a t clairvoyant I Ibale have bale no access to the leaves of the Sibyl If I I could foretell and should Im afraid that Ml Mt It Hood and Mt Ra Ro Ranier Ranier nier uler might take turns in falling on me Astoria the Emporium m But noue andi also sub aub rose rosa suppose after ail adl it should be Astoria Gott in himmel himmell But why not Harvey Harve W Scotts main stunt for I years ears been to prove on the editorial i page of ot the Oregonian great paper I great editor too that Portland J is the I natural and anti only converging point for I a a 1 I Sacajawea the Bird Woman all aU the ry lying west w St of the and north of the tho he coaxed and nd wooed and whee dIed the law of gravitation till tm it has h been willing to sIt ait enchanted on the banks ij of the Willamette and say to the Rose Roae Queen of ot the northwest I too am glad to be a 3 slave sla V of thine he appealed to physics and agronomy and me meteorology meteorology to legos lego and leges non to make out his case he lie even dallied amed with the bi binomial bInomial binomial theorem for lor the same purpose And he h even suborn the nebular nebular I lar hypothesis Is itself in this cause cele celebie celebre celebre bre bie of his hie He II closes an editorial rhapsody with a q Cl e d click as if he thought it a piece of irresistible logic Now ow if all he says of Portland is true and I must confess I believe much of it itis I is then why not even more mOlO so of As Astoria Astoria Astoria toria whose center of gravity is still sUlI lower loner All the Goods in Creation As I 1 was saying no other oHler region but hats the us u use I should have to catalogue all the goods ever enumerated enumerated enumerated from Plato to Kant ansI and thence down to Elbert Hubbard and then minus or even een had I 1 the kaleidoscopic pyrotechnic vocabulary of ot the late Colonel Pat Donan I 1 should have to overwork all aU my choicest superlatives without being b able to do more than list these same goods without com corn comment comment ment Yes California can brag bragin in Utah w we ve cell call c ll it legitimate advertising for with ith native Californians it is a primal instinct a fine art an inspiration inspiration inspiration tion but belt for large lal e wholesale epic copious superabundant flamboyant amorphous boasting boasting such as used to be produced only in Gascony Gascon boasting of the type t pe for which has 1109 stood through the centurIes les except that here hereit it is almost impersonal the publicists of this regi n could say SR wIth ith one of the choruses of ho which bleh by interpretation is We take the cake And strange to tosa say sa the visitor here believes beHe cs every everything everything everything thing he lle hears swallows it all nIl without a n grain of ot salt Dr Hillis stop atop in the midst of a passionate sermon just the other Oar dart to declare dramatic dramatically ally that here on the Pacific coast const is destined to blossom the greatest civil civilization the world has ever overseen seen and that soon and from the way he said It ItI ItI ItI I thought they the might spring up like gourd right under my eye that soon this region is to have three or four cities of at least le st a million In Inhabitants inhabitants habitants And I along with frith all the and El EI Do clap my hands hande like a tL paid For said I L II that Includes s sUtah Utah and though the lord mayor of Ogden in state and with his retinue was nearIng Hearing the city limits at that very e o I moment I poked my neighbor a lady lad 1 and a total stranger in the ribs and 1 I sang Bang aloud i Just watch old Salt Lake grow gro growl I Fair Has Unique Features But to return to our mutton The Lewis and Clark exposition has the two or three unique features that save it from being like all the rest lest One of these is its unrivalled location In va variety a and charm of topography general natural environment and local setting getting it outdoes all aU other fairs great or I small Approaching the site Bite from the steamboat landing handing on the bank banI of the Willamette Guilds lake with its gay bay g gondolas and its gayer gondoliers its launches and rowboats lies in the foreground Across Acro the lake stretches the Bridge of ot Nations leading from the peninsula on which the govern government government ment menu buildings stand stan Isolated from all aI I others right into the mouth of the I Trail Itself Time The Trail here is what the Pike was in i St Louis the Midway Mid way 1 in Chicago From the band stand at I the waters naters edge the grand stairway terrace after terrace up to the main esplanade on which are situated situ ted most of ot the great exhibit build buildings buildingS ings lags The slopes and squares and dells and hillocks are covered co ered with emerald merald lawns dotted abundantly with shrubs and flowers especially roses The statue of Sacajawea stands at aft l the top of ot the grand stairway and here and there on n the grounds are statues of staff sUit so well made that they deserve something better than an mm 1 t ephemeral existence Yonder Fender Y n er on a hilltop is a n small forest of tall taU firs not transplant transplanted ed but found in situ here hero and left to glorify time the fair rail Beyond but in the near distance are the Willamette heights covered with great evergreens the sombreness of which is 18 relieved by from the underbrush in every other shade and tint in the v whOle hole scale of ot greens and by b time the patches of color colorin lor in which here and there are dotted the beautiful homes of some of the fortun fortunate fortunate ate ones of Portland The Majestic Mt Hood Standing beside the graceful Sacajawea wea and looking in the other direction by her outstretched arm ann you rou youcan youcan can see sec away beyond the Columbia the time majestic mil jestic Mt tIt Hood the graceful white I St Helens and even the snowy top of faraway old Ranier And over overall overall all aU bends in fair fall weather a Riviera I sky in which hang in billowy sun Bun J kissed kl sed masses the whit whitest whitest est clouds you ever eyel saw It is indeed I a panorama never seen elsewhere and never before swept by the eye ee of man I lac oriente lux lug Yes But ex es occidente what Pulchritude et spes apes et t gloria In hi I i i The Forestry Building j But the feature distingue ue of the fair tail itself is for f r me the magnificent for forestry i estry building It Is 15 an exhibit e palace J forestry for Building OG feet teet long 10 feet wide and anti 72 7 feet teet high made of immense fir logs the Douglas Dougl fir with the bark on The outer walls waIls aro are put together as were those of the primitive log cabin and Some of these logs Jogs are seven feet In diameter and ind one of them weighs tons The de designer designer designer signer and builder of this wonderful structure tells me mY that from one of these logs he ho could build me a comfort comfortable comfortable comfortable able home And yet in hi constructing this pride of his heart he required two miles of f five fie and amid fir logs eight miles of poles fir shakes and fir bark shingles at a total cost to the state of Oregon of Splendid porticos and picturesque pic plc picturesque balconies overlook the grounds In all directions But the most striking in m this ponderous crea ema creation tion is the spacious central corridor In Inthe inthe inthe the form fonn of ot a colonnade The great gleat fir columns that cut it off from exhibit rooms on on all nIl sides rise to a 3 height of feet ft rustic gal gel galleries lerieL loses loges and amid u alcoves and support supporting ing too at the top too on rough Doric capitals immense nse rafters miters beyond be ond which other timbers limbers spring up to the roof loof itself No Shoddy About It ItIn ItIn ItIn In contemplating the grandeur of this unique exposition building I thought how insubstantial cheap and meretricious meretricious cious clous are all these th se other oth l temples temple and palaces of art and Industry r rand and education made as they are arc of staff stare and doomed to immediate annihilation But the Forestry building is to remain as a monument to the enterprise and find spirit of ot the th e Northwest and a hundred years from fron now if It should escape QS roa its only enemy fire some Jehu making maJ the rounds with visitors should be able to point to it and say S Here it is the only memorial memorIa left of the time first Lewis and und Clark centennial exposition Joaquin Miller Causes a Flutter The other day dat I had the pleasure and the distinguished honor of discovering Joaquin Miller here in the Utah build building ing and of introducing to him some charming young Utah ladies ladles As the tall taU stately quaintly attired eccentric brilliant poet of the Sierras lifted their dainty lingers fingers to his lips Ups saying baying some r thing pretty to etch each In turn and aAd praising lag ing the other Utah exhibits it cause caused such a n flutter of excitement such aut an en IS ecstasy of delight dalight among those same alms maidens as I have not seen in hi many a aday aday day da if ever Then and there I to 10 myself I will let my hair grow grof gro lone Ions I J too will write poetry im jot immortal a mortal verse So straightway without waiting for my hair to grow I sat me down and fell tell to on this lefty Perhaps you come from i far ar away Connecticut Conne or us Maine Or France or 01 Greece or Ital It i Or Germany or Spain 7 Or India or Turkestan Or fat farther still from old Cau i 4 le leOr t tOr Or fair Japan 7 f Or from the islands ot of the he tl theTo e ses 89 x To view the fairAnd fair fairAnd And hear the Northwest toot taati Como you by land come you y seat I ISo Xo So matter maiter what the land may b bNo No N o matter what ht the route You must not taU fall When you get there I 1 have haye nineteen other othar stanzas an ea the same subject just as good as that tb and amid built on the same plan plait of i ma maternal structure But Isn t that sample enough Cant you imagine im the beauty b utY and the charm chann of or the there rest t Come t to th think of it I believe belleve after att r all aU I shall ahaU not ask for any revers oft ora the merits of this little lyric though I assure you it is just as p perfect a gem gemnas gemas as any I have heard in la these parts But my hair is not long enough Some other day des I will Mt Hell Hail HelIcon con Some other day I will wul my JB biscuit with hone from frown Mi Mt Hybla J IWa Then rhen will Mill I sing a sang seng sen bad and td beautiful young ladies lO king about Hut 8 me shall purr PUIT softly He is Pr IT p S The third unique of t the fair Is isa a monumental lack of ot graft ft ftP P S again later an not ao so o sure re about that |
