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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1909
Page
3
Yukon Avenue provides access to the Court of Honor at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The photo shows European Exhibits Building facade on the left, Palace of Agriculture corner on the right, and the Oriental Building in the distance. All structures were finished before December 1, 1908, built in plaster Staff over heavy wooden framework.
Western Washington timber men farmers and citizens urge May slash burning to prevent summer forest fires and clear smoke before the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. State college warns burning in dry season harms soil while May burning preserves nitrates. Fire Warden Welty supports May completion. Exposition opens June 1 and ends October 16. Seattle caterers pledge flat prices and stable wages during the fair. E D Cowen of the Post-Intelligencer praised for the Hamilton embezzlement coverage.
The Washington railroad commission members stopped in Leavenworth for hearings on depot improvements. Mayor Nelson Deed H. Mayor and others testified about needed waiting rooms running water electric lights sanitary closets and a larger freight shed. The group travels in a private car with a stenographer and attorney general staff for about seven weeks and will recommend new facilities at the depot.
A sequence of real estate transfers shows multiple buyers paying amounts from $1 to $7500 for lots and tracts in Wenatchee Cashmere Leavenworth and related subdivisions. Parties include Wade Smith Kuelbs Hoxie Nelson Thornhill Taylor McGahan Walker Sunitsche Bethel Brender Prowell Gunn and others with parcel descriptions and prices.
Peshastin Commercial Club meeting results in plan to build a house on donated townsite lot. Projections cite population growth to 200 and diverse business lines. Railroad depot, bank, hotel and mercantile openings forecast as boosters promote locating in Peshastin. Local optimism includes new families and enhanced ties to advertising efforts.
A railroad survey party of 16 men were caught in a massive snow slide in the Cascade range near Rockport in Skagit county. All were buried except chainman John Watkins who escaped, with 75 men reportedly involved as the avalanche moved rapidly down the mountain and swept through the camp.
A premier exhibition at the Palace of Fine Arts features loaned works from Great Britain France Italy Germany and the eastern U S plus Japanese and Chinese pieces. Lloyds has placed 1 225 000 in insurance. the fireproof reinforced concrete brick building will revert to the University of Washington for use as a School of Chemistry after the Exposition.
In the foreground a bank sloping up from Geyser Basin at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Seattle shows 300000 tufted pansies along the balustrades with tall flowering plants. Beyond are the Cascades banks with 100000 rose bushes chosen for a continuous bloom rotation during the Exposition.
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