The Billboard 1909-06-12: Vol 21 Iss 24 (1909-06-12)

' The Billboard JUNE 12, 1909, ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSITION Throws Its Flag to the Breeze as the Key is Tenth in Washington and all the Steamers and Locomotives in the Vicinity Set Their Whistles Ablast Motto, “The Fair That Will Be Ready,” is Justified ROM across the American continent flashed | be installed at night. The only serious deficit is | hatred, greed or envy, iustead of justice, ever To the right, and across Puget plaza, in the a uy electric spark at 3:15 o'clock, _Tuésin the Hawaiian and Philippine displays, but | becomes a formative power in public affairs, Fine Arts Palace To the right Is a view down : day, June 1, and the great Alaska-Yukonthe transport Dix is speeding hither with them then. no matter who may be the victim, the act| the “Pay Streak,”’ the exposition amusement Pacific Exposition was on in all its glory. I l its and should arrive next Thursday. is treason way, and to the left, a front view of the When the flash from the nation’s capital com“The greater service to the nation, to every “The greatest service to the pation, to every Auditorium and the University of Washington pleted its journey there was an outburst there, ; the Hke of which never had t . ~y — and —_ to-day, would be the substitution | state and city to-day, would be the substitu. | 1m the distance e » oO € ever Had been known. it is for a term of years of law enforcement for law ion fo te of years of law-enforcement for Crossing over Olympic place and walkin bellev: d, in the history of American expositions. making.’’ declared James J. Hill. in beginaing i na a *y the as fairly tried, weed a point of vantage in onted of the — &. That flash set all the Steamers in the harbor his out those improper or impracticable curtail ernment structure the beautiful picture of the and ail the locomotives in the railroad yards “There are four great words that should be | the contempt of law that now flourishes under fair is unfolded bellowing anu shrieking and brought rejoicing Written on the four corner-stone of every public! the American system of non-enforcement, and To the right the Alaska Building, to the from all Seattle, which had toiled for years to building in this land, with the sacredness of a| make the people understand that bring about this day. to address. id. government: left the Hawaiian Building, and on ¢ither side religious rite. These watchwords of the repubmeans exact and unsparing justice ustead of 8 of the Cascades the Oriental, Foreign, Manu It loosed the waters of the great exposition’s lic are, Equality, Simplicity, Economy, and complex game. This is the only safeguard if facturers and Agricultural Palaces In the fountains, unfurled its banners and called upon Justice. They were interwoven with every respect for and confidence in the governing distance are the Music Pavillon, the bulldings SCENES AT THE ALASKA-YUKON -PACIFIC EXPOSITION. Pen, Vi! STA, LAKE WASHINGTON 22 Mt, AND DISTANT Mitty, . CASCADE MTS. l OFFICIA EXPOSIT! ene NE nese INS S <= = yd —— _ ~ 5 errr YL AGRICULTURE, ut FISHERIES B AUDITORIUM BUILDINGS The Gates were Formally Opened to the Public, June First, with Fitt ng OF FLCIA NC EXPOSITION FLAG ci U.S. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS (a erel the saluting guns of the American and Japanese fiber of the national fabric. To forget or deny system itself are not to be gradually underof Canada and Japan, and, completing this fleets. The exercises at the World's Fair grounds them will lead .o every misfortune and every mincd picture, Mt. Rainier, the highest mountain peak preceding the President's signal. were carried possibility of destruction that rises now threat“This great occasion to-day marks a change In the United States out with military precision. The exposition eningly in the path of our country’s greatness. in the conscious attitude of the Pacific Coast gates were opened at 8:30 a. m. At 9:30 “Equality before the law is an embodied toward the rest of the country It would be THE SCENE AT THE WHITE HOUSE. troops from the United States Army and Navy, promise of the United States It is the first Unjust to say that this section ever falied to In the East Room of the White House, in the the Japanese cruisers Aso and Soya and the principle sought to be established by the Fedrealize the national integrity. The Pacific States Presence of a distinguished gathering of diplo state militia paraded through the grounds under eral Constitution In so far as we have been have not been appealed to in vain on the chief mats, Congressmen and others, President o* the command of Colonel T. C. Woodbury, U. 8S. faithful to it we not only have grown great ‘issues of the time But there was once a cer at 3:15 o'clock this afternoon, opened the : , ty loof t f Alaska Yukon-acific E itt t Seattle by A., and the column was reviewed from a stand and prosperous, but have commanded the respect in aleotherss, a certain supremacy separate Soman . am « -Xposition at = 3 at the head of the court of honor by exposition of others because we respected ourselves In 80d independent interest £ "hes ~ & oh ke f th bled quests officials, visiting Governors and Admiral Ijicai so far as we have denied it: in so far as there ‘ There long persisted here a kind of indif fol oat an = ye dl ase m ee . ~ and Uriel Sebree. is anywhere a special privilege or an unequal eae > ab ut what might be happening beyond a OW oF : Pg 1 of the electric = i) ; o : ; ‘ ‘ . on rin P j to ‘ “ eons we 0 tide o eo of 2 ° The ceremonial exercises were held in a vast restriction, any degree of legal governmental. fa ' “ oa = 1 Aggy ee ; the East ~ ple born — : me contine ™. ~~ oe _s —* ~ natural amphitheatre on Lake Washington. The voritism whateve we have changed the gov™ are cr ae veomet : nachinery Was beard Db} me ex ; ; ~ . . A soon found th id point of ew lost in the Officials at Seattle there arrived for them a mes stage of this theatre seats 1,500 persons and is ernment of the fathers and turned backwara " : “hief t -es] 1 rs y tral new local interest The coming of the trans sage of greeting and cheer from the Chie located on the lakeside toward the old, evil traditions, whose trall of , . The program consisted of music invocation blood and ression runs through all history continental railroad first shattered this isola Executive of the United tates The message eri ~onsisted of music, invocatic ood and oppress ins rough 2 atc a by Catholic ‘Bisho kdw ard J . O'Dea “ brief 3 ee 24 a : = “ . tin tion. The nequisition and development of Alaska, Which followed quickly after the current that be ring, ~ tote MB ines > » ie Mes, aint ame “Simplicity in governing methods, in character the tnflow of restless ente rprise the develop put everything in motion, was asa follows address by Director General Nadau and Presideat onq in conduct must be a fixed quality of the ment of your country and the upbullding of “The White House J. F. Chilberg, the long address by James J. grote that surv ives those changes of the cen-| your cities by the men and capital of the outer Washington, June 1. 1900 Hill, chairman of the Great Northern Board, and turies in which all others have vanished world strengthened old bonds and created new “Mr. J. LL. Chilberg, President Alaska. Yukon benediction by Episcopal Bishop Frederick W. “ry parably connected with equality and a ones Pacifis Exposition, Seattle, Wash 1 congratu Keator. 1 separably onnected h equal) and «im opt late you and your aaneinte m this auspicious Tv . acific . . icity s economy Nationally considered, it ie exposition tay be regarded as the lay . ’ o associates on a ‘ | Then, just before noon (Pacific time) word : wl eee * is ideeee a Bey ing of the last rail, the driving of the last Opening of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacifie Exposition was wired to the White House that all was 445 become almost a forgotten re spike, in unity of mind and purpose between the ®"d 1 congratulate the people of the great ready, 2nd President Taft's response set loose Mr. Hill declared this to be the most wasteful Pacific Const and the country east of the moun. Northwest on the courage and enterprise they the flags, bells, machinery, curious Japanese country on earth in its ministrative features tains It is the witness of that constantly ave shown in bringing it forth fireworks and the general noise. as well as in its treatment of natural resources, broadening tie which is both th price we pay “The exposition, designed, as It is, to ex When ‘the message was announced a huge and said that the discarded standard of econ. for civilization and the boon that it confers Ploit the natural resources and marvelous wealth gong struck five strokes, an enormous American omy its affairs must be restored upon wus ever again can the Vacific Const Of Alaska and the developments of trade and flag was unfurled, and thousands of small flags “ ¢ —_ ' ' P ‘ , withdraw iteelf; never again can it know at commerce on the VPacifie Slope, should appea & Last and noblest conception of all born from “ ‘ pe, ; were set fluttering in the breeze the associated life of mankind is justice The “lackening of the tide of life that sweeps through 80t only to the people of the West, but to the A mountain battery fired a salute of 21 guns, nation must be true to that abstract and impar®!! the nation’s veins when it crosses the great people of the country at large i , ctations the Japanese and American fleets in the harbor 4;,) justice which is the fountain of nobility, “vide J trust it will fully meet the expecta ite several miles away crashed out their tribute. 4), patent of heroes and the final test of any The Alaska-Yukon-I’acifie Exposition cost of those to whose untiring energies it owes Luncheon was served to invited guests at the stat Upon occasion the law-making power has %10.000,000 and was built n two yenurs The ~ a ase co at : thoues nds if . . a § i ! ' ; a ’ : atre ” ‘ youURATH ( . Speakers platform. been Invoked to punish guilt, but » give one Krouping of buildings ia much different than at nt pen = om education watt ts iH. Taft.” During the afternoon there were receptions at man an unfair advantage at the coat of anothe other expositions. The atructures are compactly an am tale all of the state buildings. The day was warm et sell yy ° : *1 laced : There was lostant reply from the officts pS t 8. 3 to confiscate wholly or in part property honestly p!* of the exposition, thanking the President for and part y cloudy. earned and fairly used; to dist nguish between Two building standing in a cluster of trees, | hia service and his congratulations A more The Fair, as thrown open on June 1, was activities by discriminating laws ; The tendency firet mee the ove im one enter th gates formal and extended response frem the hes TY finished, and carpenters and painters were no is by no means universal, but its presence is (ne ix where the administration of the expont tion wae made the President by Senator Piles where to be seen. The few delayed exhibits will palpable and too dangerous to be ignored If tien is centered and the other the Auditeriom as he stood In the Bast Room