mouth of the Columbia river, loaded with supplies and implements, and Wyeth with sixty experienced men started overland in 1834.

Arriving at the head waters of the Snake river, the persistent New Englander built Fort Hall, upon which he bestowed the name of one of his partners. Leaving twelve men and a stock of goods at this point, he pushed on to an island at the junction of the Columbia and Williamette rivers and there established Fort Williams, so named in honor of another partner in the enterprise. However, Wyeth speedily discovered that the Indians were so completely under the control of the Hudson's Bay Company that he could establish no business relations whatever with them, and within two years he was compelled to sell all his possessions, including Fort Hall, to the Hudson's Bay Company and abandon this second effort at occupation, in which he had sunk a fortune.

From the time that Wyeth entered Oregon and for a considerable interval thereafter the title "Bostons" was bestowed upon all Americans by the Indians to distinguish them from the English. There is no doubt that Wyeth had formed a most laudable ambition from his belief that American occupation would strengthen American title to the Oregon country, then strongly disputed by Great Britain, and his efforts were not without lasting results for some of the settlers, and the missionaries who accompanied him gained a permanent foothold in the land for which Wyeth with prophetic vision foresaw so bright a future.

The "Oregon country" of twothirds of a century ago has become to-day the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and, in part, the states of Montana and Wyoming, and the people of all these commonwealths have coöperated most actively in rearing the the beautiful exposition

which commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the exploration of the Pacific Northwest by the expedition commanded by Captains Lewis and Clark. As originally planned, the Centennial contemplated merely an exhibition local to the northwest, but as the interest of the whole country became manifest the scope of the undertaking was rapidly broadened until there is presented to-day an international fair which takes rank with the larger expositions held in America during the past two decades, and which enjoys the prestige of being the first international exposition under the patronage of the United States government ever held west of the Rocky Mountains.

In one notable respect, namely in the natural beauty of its setting, the Lewis and Clark Exposition and Oriental Fair is immeasurably superior to any other fair ever held anywhere in the world. The site of four hundred acres is situated in the foothills of the Cascade range of mountains and fully two hundred and twenty acres of the aggregate area is occupied by an attractive natural lake, the largest body of water ever enclosed within an expo

sition fence. The majority of the exhibition palaces are grouped at one side of the lake, crowning a slope which descends by graceful terraces to the water's edge, and the visitor standing upon this eminence gazes through purple-tinted vistas of hill and dale with an unobstructed view to Mount Hood and Mount St. Helena, the famous snow-capped peaks of the Cascades, fully sixtyfive miles away.

The visitor, journeying to the exposition through the streets of Portland, where roses bloom in every dooryard during twelve months of the year, and where roses eleven inches in diameter and hundreds to the bush are an every-day luxury, is but prepared in a measure for the floral glories of the exposition. It might appropriately be called the "rose fair" as Portland is termed the Rose City. Thousands of bushes that a few months ago did not average a foot in height, but now extend above the waist of the tallest visitor, overflow the terraces, forming great pillows of multi-colored bloom.

On the brow of the hill overlooking the lake stand the principal exhibit palaces, each with one end occupying frontage on Lakeview

Terrace, a broad thoroughfare from which descend the steps of the terraces previously mentioned. The principal buildings are divided into groups by Columbia Court, a central landscape architectural feature consisting of two avenues, between which are sunken gardens elaborately embellished with flowers and statuary and fountains. From the point where Columbia Court merges into Lakeview Terrace a grand staircase, flanked on either side by massive balustrades, leads down to a boat-landing on the shore of the lake.

Extending broadside almost the entire length of Columbia Court on one side, is the building devoted to Foreign Exhibits, and in the rear of this are the Oriental and Forestry buildings. Opposite the Foreign Exhibits building on Columbia Court is the Agriculture Palace, the largest structure on the exposition grounds, and beyond this are the Manufactures and Liberal Arts, the Mining and the Machinery, Electricity and Transportation buildings. The United States government building, surmounted by two towers each two hundred and sixty feet in height, and with two large wings connected with the main structure by artistic peristyles, occupies a commanding site on a peninsula of sixty acres,

which juts out into the lake and which affords just the proper perspective to bring the two symmetrical towers into relief against the background of woods and waters. The national government, by the way, is the most extensive participant in this exposition, having appropriated $475,000, in addition to contributing an exhibit ready prepared at a cost of more than $300,000.

The main exhibit palaces are all, with the exception of the Forestry building, in the Spanish renaissance style of architecture, and their ivorytinted walls, relieved by green cornices and roofs of red tile, are in restful contrast to the glaring white of many a former exposition. The Forestry building may be classified as distinctively American in design, since it is, in effect, naught else than an immense log cabin constructed from the giant trees of the Pacific Northwest, and affording the most convincing exemplification imaginable of the wonderful timber resources of a territory which ere long must become the main source of supply for the entire republic.

One of the notably artistic features of the exposition is found in the Bridge of Nations, a massive structure, half a mile in length, connecting the mainland with the peninsula

upon which is situated the government building and exhibits. At its terminus on the mainland this bridge, broadened to a width of one. hundred and seventy feet, becomes the Trail, the amusement street of the exposition, and a gaiety boulevard which in character corresponds to the Midway at the Chicago exposition and the Pike at St. Louis. Skirting the shore of the lake for more than half a mile, and crossing the Trail just at the point where it merges into the Bridge of Nations, is the Grand Esplanade, a marine boulevard erected on piles over the water and constituting a unique and popular promenade.

The Portland exposition has been fortunate enough to have the services, in the capacity of president and director-general, of Mr. Henry W. Goode, a representative business man of the new Northwest whose name has long stood for progress in all things electrical; and this enthusiast on the possibilities of the magic

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current has devised for the west coast exhibition what is, perhaps, the most effective scheme of electrical illumination which has been presented at any international show. More than one hundred thousand frosted lamps have been employed to trace the buildings in lines of light, and an immense number of fiftycandle power lamps have been utilized in a submarine illumination of the lake, which is a distinct novelty. The lake is, in many places, only about six feet in depth, and the illumination by means of the myriad lamps distributed on the bottom makes it possible for spectators on the Bridge of Nations and the Esplanade to watch the antics of the black bass, golden carp, salmon and trout, with which the body of water has been stocked from the government fish hatcheries. Another unique electrical effect is afforded by the distribution of glowing lamps, like fire-flies, amid the foliage of the partially wooded park, which occupies space in the very heart of the exposition grounds, and which, by the way, constitutes an ideal refuge such as no other world's fair has provided for the weary sight-seer.

The west in sculpture has most fittingly a place at this exposition in the metropolis of the Oregon country. There is not, to be sure, the vast number of chiselled or moulded masterpieces which have been found at some previous expositions, but seemingly the careful selection which has been made has but enhanced the popular appreciation of the subjects chosen and each of which, portraying the personality of Indian, explorer or frontiersman, breathes the atmosphere of that spirit of achievement which enabled the northwestern pioneers to hew a great domain