Show WILL FILL YOU YOO WITH ST STATISTICS A T. T S. S Clarkson Is Loaded With Information About Alaskan Alaskan Alaskan Alas Alas- kan Exposition WILL BE HELD AT SEATTLE Is to Exploit R lu J Alaska's lins lin's Roand Ro- Ro nUll and Incidentally lieu Hel Help l t States If you see Bee a n large man with a keen keence eye OO and a fierce moustache and a general gen geru- eral air all of having about everything he lie wants and who ho sa says ys s Seattle thirty times every minute it Is your time to todo do dodge e. e unless you ou want to be filled to the tile brim with statistics bearing on the marvelous development of tho the Pug Puget t Sound Soun 1 countr country The rue large man is T. T S. S Clarkson commissioner of the tile Yukon Alaska Pacific exposition which is going to be ue held rain or shine it In Seattle In the year ear of or grace 1909 Mr Clarkson Is I trav traveling about stirring II up Interest Inthe in inthe inthe I the exposition an and 1 enlisting tho the aid fluId and support of th tilt the western VeStern states In Inthe Inthe inthe the movement When hen you ou get to know Mr MI Clarkson son once you ou will win no DO lon longer er wonder wh liIl why the hue Seattle spirit has carried everything e it In the tho Northwest t. t He lie Just drips enthusiasm nt at every pore porco ant and he cnn can tell you to toa toa a n. fraction of ot an ounce just llo how man many shiploads s of ot merchandise are going to Asia every twelve-month twelve through the tile strait of Juan de do Fuca tin an amount however howe which is a mere featherweight featherweight feather feather- wel weight ht to what It will be when Seattle really gets into action c e of or th the K 12 The purpose of the Yukon Alaska Pacific exposition saul said Mr Clarkson yesterday Is to exploit the wonderful resources of Alaska an and the tile Yukon countr country a region which tho the average American citizen knows almost nothIng noth- noth Ing nc about When the tIle United States Slates I brought Hought that t territory for fou seven million milIon mil mil- lion Ion dollars there were a lot of people who vho said William II 11 Seward Sevard had hat been most gold e But Al Alaska Alaska Alaska Al- Al aska has already a added to the tile wealth of or the tite country about an and andIs 1 Its Is resources In tn n gold silver an and copier cop cot POI per ier are arc practically limitless Another object of the exposition Is s of course an and we are arc quite frank about this tills to boost for fou the tIle western states tates particularly the Northwest Tho Tue Lewis Clark exposition at nt Portland did Id wor for ever every western state slate It H t gave a lot of eastern people a new nev Idea dea of the Pacific coast rc region lon an and the lie beneficial effects are arc still being elt felt Now we ve want to continue this campaign of n advertising an and 1 we think the le exposition we are planning Is a agoo I goo good 1 way to do 10 It ft The site selected for the fair fall Is the tile tract of acres Just outside of Seattie Senttie Seat Seat- tie e occupied 1 by the University of Washington It Is beautifully located 1 on n the tho heights overlooking the city and nd Is easily accessible There are two wo lakes lales Immediately adjacent makIng making mak- mak Ing ng the site a n natural nn and 1 ver er very attractive live Ive place for tor hol holding a national fall fair To Erect Permanent Building We Ye Ve expect to ask the thc government of f the United States to put up a goo good 1 building which will wili remain as the tile permanent per per- manent property of oC the university The Tile different states Mates will also be ue asked 1 to o put up Ul buildings rather better than thanie tile the ie average exposition structure so that hat they mn may be left leCt as a permanent advertisement ad of the tile particular state All of or tile the states In the union will be Invited 1 to participate either with exhibits ex- ex hibits of their resources or by putting up p buildings where here their citizens may maya a astern emble bleA ble A strong effort Is being ma made an and 1 v th much su success cess to secure a fine display front from China Japan and other Oriental countries b by which our ur tra trade with the Orient ma may be encouraged encourage 1 and nd enlarged F Few Fow w people r realize to what an extent our with the Asiatic countries has hns grown In the last fe ew years ears Thero There is no reason wIt wh why it should hould 1 not Increase still more in the future The citizens of Seattle are heart nn and 1 soul in this matter an and 1 have subscribed subscribed sub sub- scribed to make it a success The Great Northern an and Northern Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- chic railroads each contributed 1 an and 1 it Is confidently expected 1 that other othor oth oth- er or railroads will subscribe liberally when hen their attention Is called calle 1 to the advantages o of such an exposition |