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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
PLAN FOR ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSITION 
PLAN OF GROUNDS, ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSITION, SEATTLE, 1909. 
Olmsted Brothers, Brookline, Mass., Landscape Archs. 
The Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition, 
to be held in Seattle from June 1 to 
October 15, 1909, is already well under 
way, and promises to show some unique 
features. The site comprises 255 acres 
of the campus of the Washington Uni- 
versity. Tn its vir- 
gin state it pre- 
sents everything to 
please the eye. 
There are tall, 
stately giants of 
the forest forming 
beautiful vistas, 
gentle slopes, com- 
manding terraces 
and unsurpassed 
stretches of water 
front. The grounds 
border for more 
than a mile and a 
half on Lake Union and Lake Washing- 
ton. The Olympic and Cascade moun- 
tains are in plain sight and an unob- 
structed view of the perpetual snow 
peaks of Mt. Rainier and Mt. Baker may 
he obtained. The main avenue of the 
fair is to point direct at Mt. Rainier, 
14,526 feet high, the tallest in the United 
States. Thus the mountain, by far the 
most salient thing in the landscape, 
forms the land-mark from which the ex- 
position is built. The other a'V’enues are 
parallel or at right 
angles, or connect 
in some well-de- 
fined and common- 
ly-accepted geom- 
etrical figure with 
the avenue along 
whose entire length 
the mountain may 
be seen. 
One of the inter- 
e s t i n g landscape 
features of the site 
consists in its being 
Continued on p. VI//.) 
MT. RAINIER AS SEEN FROM THE EXPOSITION GROUNDS. 
