The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 28, 1905, Page 17

Pages 17t0 28 CALL Pages I7t028‘ SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1903. PORTLAND READY TO WELCOME VISITORS TO GREAT WESTERN EXPOSITION. On //jvv First day of next month the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition will be formally opened in Portland. The fair will be western in L FAIR RECALLS HEROIC DEEDS OF CENTURY AGO Commemorates Lewis and Clark Expedition to Pacific Coast. | UNDERTAKING OF VAST SIZE Specia] Dispatch to The Call and zation sounds and make the now sweep over p the continu- , twenty | Napoleon's behalf, offered J | Hawaii and the Philippines have given echoes of the wooded slopes to the snow- | s grown center of region, to of Amer- commemoration of The education of ited States and the the progress, the great er and the ntennial Ex- n alone. It is position is not f Oregor co exposition ther considered from the patriotic or the r 1 viewpoint. It is as much the e Washington, Mon- tana, oming as- it is of Orego ‘he interest of all is identical, for a1l in whole or part comprised the geographical division, the acquisition of which established the United States on the Pacific Ocean and made it a world power. In e still broader sense, it is the West's exposition, for Jefferson was looking to the northwest coast for nearly P tdon in 1778. | say | “Thanatopsis” was written; but it was | in years before Barbe Marbois, voys all of Louisiana for 60,000 In the largest sense of all, American people's exposition, out the Louisiana, for with- expanse of territory Oregon, Texas, California, Alaska, the United States would not now rank among the great world nations. The name Oregon first appeared print in Jonathan Carver'’s ‘“Travels | Through the Interior Parts of - North America,” which was published ni ,Lon- | The origin of the name is | one of the enigmas of history. Carver professed to have received it from the Indians in the country of the Upper Mis- sippi, where he had pushed his e orations. The Indians, he says, told him of the river Oregon, flowing to the western ocean, but how much of the tale | wes his own invention it is impossible to Jefferson used the word in his in- structions to Lewis and Clark, showing | it was beginning to have a vogue before | | | \ i | i | | in | Bryant’s solemn poem, with its sonorous verse, which appeared in the year 1817, that familiarized the word “Oregon™ and scon put it on every tongue. Various ac- counts of the Lewis and Clark expedition had eppeared, both in the United States and Europe, before the appearance of “Thanatopsis,” but undoubtedly it was Bryant's expression, “Where rolls the Oregon,” that did most to spread the name before the world. The Oregon country, which passed to the sovereignty of the United States hy the treaty of June 15, 1846, with Great Britain, comprised 307,000 square miles of territory, bounded by -the forty-second and forty-ninth parallels, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, It In- cluded the present States of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, the western and southwestern parts aof Montana and the northwestern corner of Wyoming. The eastern boundary of this region, though' conspicuously marked by a great moun- tain chain, is little understood, as no of- ficlal continuous tracing of it has ever been made. The Oregon country's story of a half-| Continued on Page 20, Column 7, THE 5 CALIFORNZA. BUILPINC- . =) % Y 1',’-.,\:.,. i l,/'n,‘\\ 3 3 | { | { | | . United PROGRAMME FOR OPENING OF THEFAIR et Special Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, May 27.—The main features of the opening exercises of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition on June 1 will be as follows: Overture, “Festival” (Weber), Innes’ Band. Assemblage called to order by President H. W. Goode of the exposition at 12 o’clock noom. Divine invocation by the Rt. Rev. David H. Moore, D. D,, S. §. D., Bishop of the Methodist Ep! copal Church, residing in Port- land, Oregon. March, “Imperial Oregon,” In- nes. (Dedicated to the memory of Captains Lewis and Clark and inscribed to the people of Ore- Zon.) Address by H. W. Goode, pres- ident of the Lewis and Clark Centennizl Exposition. Address by George E. Cham- beriain, Governor of Oregon. Address by Jefferson Myers, president of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition for the State of Oregom. Address by George H. Wil- Hams, Mayor of Portland. Address by Semator Clarence D. Clark. Address by James A. Tawney, representing the United States House of Representatives. Address by H. A. Taylor, First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and chairman of the States Government Board. Address by Joseph G. Camnon, Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives of the United States. Address by Charles Warren Fairbanks, Vice President of the RARE PICTURE PRESENTED BY THE BUILDINGS StructuresReveal Novel and Unique Form of . Construction. . Beautiful LakeSpanned by the Bridge of Nations, - Epecial ‘Dispatch to The Call PORTLAND, May 28.—The Lewis and Ciark Exposition, now about to open fts gates, will present more novel features than any previous World’s Fair. Origin- ality will be the salient characteristic of the exposition, which will commemorate the centennial of .the Lewis and Clark expedition. It is inevitable that the ‘Western World's Fair should be in sofhe ways like previous world fairs. There will be exhibits frog States and from | feet in diameter. foreign governments, housed in buildings thery from the palaces of previous fairs. The exposition offers many attractions not possible at earlier ones. These at- tractions are so different as to place this exposition in a class distinctly by ftself. They will make the Western World's Fair, which cannot compare in size with the world's fairs held at Chicago or St. Louis, more attractive to most people in many Ways than were these eariier gi- gantic enterprises. FORESTRY BUILDING. Jn constructing the Forestry building the managers of the Western World's Fair have erected a building which is an architectural wonder, and which is in it- self a convinecing exhibit of the forestry ‘wealth of the Pacific Northwest. It is an { immense log palace, covering half a city block and built of fir logs five and six _The European and Oriental Exhibit of wood, and there will be displays of | buildings comprise a second distinctive manufactures and other things which eve.y one knows about, including a very noisy, very popular amusement street, which in thjs instance is called the “Trail.” But the exhibits will be live ex- hibits, “intended to show processes of manufacture rather than mere collections of finished products, and the buildings, while still for the most part of wood and staff, have an individu- ality of architecture that : feature. While at all other expositions ‘the European and Orlental exhibits have | been distributed througnout a number of 1d ~ according - to grouping - and ehn::&lnn. at Portland all Europe will be under one roof and all the Orient un- der another. The advantages of the new _ No other fair has had so expansive a water feature as the Lewis and Clark ‘Exposition in its 220 acres of Guilds Lake. BIRDSEYE _VIEW OF THE BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS THE FIRST OF JUNE AT PORTLAND, SHOWING THE ND REVBALING THE NATURE OF THE SITE. SN N —— S THE cvery essential. It will not be on as extensive a scale as that of St. Louts, but it will confine into a smaller space the handiwork of all nations. S e e 1 SSRSELSCRSAEE N CHERELIR e d S TR SR LEWIS AND CLA BXPOS! PENED ARRANGEMENT AND GROUPING OF THE STRUCTURES RK ITION. TO BE O Here for the first time people may ride in a gondola, a picturesque Indian canoe, or a.comfortable electric launch, on a real lake. The tour of the shore will em- brace two miles of voyaging. The location of the Government build- ings and exhibits upon a peninsula in the middle of Guilds Lake imparts to the par- ticipation of the United States an in- dividuality amounting aimost to the hold- ing of an exposition within an exposi- tion. . The Government buildings. five in all, stand out boldly in their unique set- ting, wonderful trioutes to the skill of the architect. Two towers on the main bullding, each 26) feet high, containing sets of chimes, add to the beauty of the effect a8 viewed from the mainland. BRIDGE. OVER THE LAKE. Another unique feature of the West- ern World's Fair is the Lake Shore Esplanade,.a board walk more than half a mile -long, which differs from other board walks in that it is built over the water on piles, like a bridge. The Lake Shore Esplanade follows the shore of ' Guilds Lake from the boat landing at the foot of the grand stair- way to the American Inn, in the ex- treme western portion of the grounds. It will be the most popular promenade, ‘both day and night. Guilds Lake is spanned by the Bridge of Nations, an ornate structure of wood and staff, built in imitation of solid masonry. It is more than 2000 feet long, the longest bridge of its kind ever constructed. Naturs has been unusually kind te the people of the Pacific Northwest in their enterprise. She has laid out as & site for the Lewis and Clark Exposi- tion a tract of land and water which for natural beauty far excels any ever | betore utilized for such a purpose. The exposition grounds are composed of hill and dale, and for the most part covered with a beautiful woodland. This natural park has been but very little altered and composes one of the most delightful features of the fair. In the extreme western portion of the grounds are situated the experi- mental gardens, which compose another unique feature of the exposition. There all manner of Western farm and gar- den products will be shown as they actually grow, giving an eloguent tribute to the already recogmized su- periority of the Pacific Northwest as an agricultural section. Looking across Guilds Lake from Lakeview Terrace, which crowns the Grand Stairway, one sees the Govern- ment peninsula, with its magnificent exposition structures. A narrow strip of land separates’ the lake from the beautiful Willamette River, and be- —_— Continued on Page 18, Columa T, _