Show PRODUCED THE FIRST I GREAT FAIR IN TURKEY I Seattle July these exposi lion days when one sees thInks and hears little else save exposition this short stOl story of an Old World Exposi Exposition Exposition tion and the remarkable man that made It will not be uninteresting R Re Returning turning to his native land after aCler an ab absence sence of years Namy Salih Oriental commIssioner for Cor the Pacific exposition and manager of the Streets of Cairo and also the tho Spanish Theater on the Pay Streak gained the distinction o of fostering and pro producing producing the first worlds fair heM held In Inthe inthe the eventful history of Asiatic Saith was the tho head man In the Orl On Exhibits section of the tho Columbi Columbian an exposition at Chicago an and when he returned to hIs native land he select selected ed d the city of his birth In Syria as the site of the Turkish Fair which attracted the attention or of the whole world It was called the tho Babylonian exposi exposition exposition tion and so successful was It that every eory year ear since It has been repeat repeated ed cd each time on a larger and more scale until now It has come to be a governmental Institution institution tion and at the close of oC the Alaska exposition Mr lr Smith will go there to take permanent charge chargo of It It was such an exposition as the Occident novel never has seen an and never can see sec Persia sent her rugs India he ivories orles and precious stones Ept Epta a collection of oC antiques never before seen outside the royal roal museum Greece her he art works und and Turkey and north orn on Africa Arica sent sont their many wonders There Thore was no Pay Streak says Mr e except that from the tho Am standpoint the tho whole exposi exposition tion would have bae boon been a Pay Par Streak for Cor queer peoples of the levant leant In their Queer dresses and with their queer customs were vere everywhere and It was the Occidental who was the thc freak When Mr wu was collecting his people for the Oriental concessions at the Ala tion he went to his old home honie first and thence throughout Turkey Grer Morocco and India taking In Ceylon and Borneo en route As a result there are arc distinct races represented I un an the Street Streets of Cairo alone |