Show Little Stories of Travel 1IY JOSKIll IIUGHKH I 1 arrived at Seattle on Wednesday Sept IB th and registered lit the New Butler Annex one of the finest hotels in the city The city was croudcd with people in quest of the nugets of learning learn-ing gained in no place in the world but i at H worlds Fair Thousands at n lute I hour were seeking a place to lay their I weary bodies in order to begin a pleasurable I pleas-urable and strenuous task on the morrow morr-ow What did the morning sun the I lofty peaks the quiet waters of Pudget Sound and the forests of fir reveal to I them The handiwork of God The I most beautiful of sites for the building of an exposition where the people of the world could come and behold the beauties of nature retouched by the artist and the wealth of the world What memories of history does the AlaskaYukonPacificExposition world wor-ld wide in its scope but restricted by its titlcLto a certain locality recall The eighth grade students are now enjoying en-joying the golden opportunities of acquainting ac-quainting themselves with such events The momories of youth are the sweetest tokens of aftet life Balboa and the Pacific ocean the Lewis and Clark Expedition the purchase pur-chase of Alaska from Russia the early Pioneers and their conquest of the desert and the forest are some of the great events that in visiting this exposition ex-position What did the months from June 1st until October 16th 1909 show Where Balboas oceiiti ends its long wash from Australia and Oriental shores shor-es the nations are holding parliament and the World is at play A mighty convention of people are in progress and a great manyringed circus is amusing am-using educating stimulating and refin Jpg Great I gationsare being l taught tIll lessons geography of history of industrial development and thu allim portant one of extracting the gold of i innocent merriment from the grosser metal of every day life The Old World has sent its art and culture to balance the newer halfs inventive in-ventive progress and the far corners of the earth hive here been crouded together to-gether the Orient and the Occident the poles and the equator The ingenuity of mini is past uhder standing What was once a forest six months ago is now a beautiful park with flowers JLWMK and Jtoimtajn iJiQ cheer the heart and glades the eye I Besides this the 250 acres of the Exposition I Ex-position ground are dotted with buildings i build-ings blowing the very best that is I Greek and Roman and French Renaissance Renaiss-ance in architecture and art I I To the east of the grounds the Cas I cadu Mountains through whose beauties 1 I j thousands must travel to reach their I destination are just far enough away I rto display their snow clad beauty in soft outlines and picturesque contour To the west the jagged Olympics rock hutlieis against the sea thrust inaccessible inacc-essible peaks abruptly into a sky that at sunset is as truely glorious as any in the world Rainier a sublime mountain mount-ain because of its 15000 feet ill i heighth is a by word wherever geography is a study and Mounts Baker and St Helens Hel-ens two other stately peaks seem almost al-most within walking distance when as a matter of fact they are many milesaWay Lakes Washington and Union are beautiful bound ifs for the grouds and Puget Sound for filWd iJ as one of the worlds most impoehipt iiighways commerce and 1 most beuut iful bodies of water intervened i to make the distant Olympics more magriificienl Stretching for miles from tfio Exposition a Exposit-ion gates is the great city of Seattle with a population of JJOUOQO nhd Yi throbbing pulse of almost feverish activity ac-tivity It was in this haven of beauty that I spent Thursday Friday and part of Saturday making my head quarters at the Utah building with my friend Henry Gardner I took my time visiting the various buildings especially the Government Forestry Fine Arts Alaskan Japanese and the various state buildings From storehouses of knowledge I gained many interesting facts concerning the progress progr-ess and advancement qf our great country coun-try Space will not permit my writing them at this time 1 will take the opportunity opp-ortunity of telling them when 1 reach home next Spring HoweverI would liketo tell the school children about the Igorrote Village and contract it from the Eskimo Colony just across Pay Streak |