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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
\ S the visitor passes through the Colonnade of the Peristyle into
-*• *• Pacific Court and looks across Lewis and Clark Boulevard,
lie will see before him such a profusion of tropical plants in the
Sunken Gardens as will make him imagine that he is in the West
Indies instead of the northwest. The garden occupies the central
part of the Columbia Court, with the European Building on the left
and the Agricultural Building on the right, and gives the due per-
spective to these two grandest of the exposition palaces.
Guarded by an iron railing painted white, which joins the broad
pedestals of large vases filled with tropical plants, the Sunken Gar-
den is divided midway of its length by a broad plaza, in the center
of which is the great Sacajawea Fountain. This fountain will rise
high in the air to fall in sparkling spray into a broad basin, from
which it will flow beneath the surface into a cascade in each section
of the garden. A broad, low flight of steps leads down into the
garden from each side and from the outer end of each section. Here
will be shown how plants and flowers, which are supposed to be
peculiar to a far more southern clime, grow and thrive in the rich
soil and under the sunny skies of Oregon.
the bulkhead to the junction of the trail with the Bridge of Nations
and beyond to the west shore of the lake.
Lakeview Terrace commands an unrivaled view across the lake
of the Government buildings, which spread along the highest ground
of the peninsula fronting on the lake with a garden half inclosed.
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F the artificial features of the fair, the most noteworthy and
wonderful is the Forestry Building, an immense structure of
rough hewn forest giants, which covers half a city block, and is in
itself an eloquent exponent of one of the chief wealth sources of the
land which Lewis and Clark made part of Uncle Sam's domain.
The building combines crude materials and architectural skill into
H finished structure, which is strong, rugged, massive, and appro-
priate to the purpose for which it was built. Within the building
are finished products of the forest, from the Oregon lumber mills,
and in one end an extensive fisheries display, where the methods
of hatching the famous chinook salmon are shown.
Within the spacious exhibits buildings the displays are in gen-
eral such as have been seen at earlier fairs, but arc more attractive,
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IVT ORTH of the sunken garden is the wide, level stretch of Lake-
•*- ^ view terrace, the steep descent at the north end guarded with
white railing. Directly opposite the sunken garden is the grand stair-
way, a broad flight of cement steps with white railing leading down
from one another of the four terraces. The winding road at the
foot of each flight is bordered with roses which bloomed in December
and will bloom all the year around, while the lower slopes are great
beds redolent with the perfume of the queen of flowers.
At the foot of the third flight is Tonquin road, which slopes
up to the right to join Benton court, east of the Agriculture Build-
ing and down to join Gray Boulevard, which is the main thor-
oughfare along the foot of the terraces to the Trail, Centennial
Park, the American Inn, and the Experimental Gardens, beyond
which it joins the St. Helens Road. This boulevard is at the foot
of the last flight of stairs, and on its right is the music shell on the
lake shore, where band concerts will be given. On the farther side
of the shell is the boat landing; whence steamers, rowboats, Indian
canoes and all manner of watercraft will take the visitors across the
lake to the Government buildings and the livestock exhibit on the
peninsula.
From the boat landing the Lake Shore Esplanade leads along
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being more tastefully arranged. A policy of segregation adopted
some time ago provides that all exhibits from Oriental nations shall
be housed in one building and all European exhibits in another.
Japan has more than half of the space in the Oriental Building.
A continuation of the segregation policy gives States the privilege
of showing their displays in their own buildings instead of scattering
them among the different exhibits palaces, and in every case where
a State has erected a building this has been done. Every western
State is represented generously, and the displays enable one to gain
a clear idea of different sections of the Pacific Northwest without
the expense of a visit to them. Nearly every county in Oregon,
and many in Washington, California and Idaho, likewise have dis-
plays, and one enterprising Oregon county, Coos, has built a large
building, the materials for which are all from that county, which is
especially rich in fine woods.
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I A HE new things to be seen here are for the most part western
-*- things, and are especially interesting to easterners, who will
come to Oregon to see the staff city that is called an exposition, and
the great Oregon country outdoors, which is in itself an exposition
more glorious than any that man could build.