Tbe Story of the
Lewis & Clark
Exposition to Date
By Henry E. Reed
Secretary of the Board of Directors
IN writing of "The Lewis and
Clark Exposition to Date" it
is perhaps most satisfactory to
the reader, in the absence of
arrangements that would give
scope and form to the undertaking,
to begin at the beginning and
treat events sequentially. This
course leaves open numerous avenues leading to the prosaic, but
this cannot very well be avoided
in dealing with an Exposition
which is international in character, but
only in its preliminary stages. The
work that will determine what the
Exposition of 1905 will be is now under way and will be rounding into shape while the readers of the Pacific Monthly are engrossed in this issue.
For several years prior to 1900, Mr. Daniel McAllen, one of our leading business men, proposed and enthusiastically advocated the holding of an industrial fair in Portland. He maintained that if the enterprise were undertaken and if the people should keep within their means in financing it, a fair could be held which would greatly benefit the State and the city by advertising their resources to people in other
H. W. CORBETT, President of the Board of Directors
H. W. Scott, First Vice-President
