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Identifier: reviewofreviewsw31newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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will be inter-esting to know that the facilities afforded forside trips from Portland during the exposi-tion will be numerous. The scenery of tlieupper Columbia River is most impressive. Atiip down the Columbia to Astoria and thePacific Ocean is a days delight. Trolley carsconnect the city with Vancouver and OregonCity, and a ride by rail up the Willamette valleywill charm all who may be interested in thechanging beauties of farmland and forest.There is an excellent street-railway system car-rying travelers to adjacent foothills, to parks,and to points of interest along the river. Hotelaccommodations will be found to be ample.The site of Portland itself, on the banks of thebroad Willamette, with the verdant hillsin the background and with a fine panoramaof snow-capped mountains in the distance, isone of its chief charms. Civic improvement,in view of the approaching exposition, has be-come a local watchword. Portland has muchto show, and a hospitable purpose to sliow it toall visitors.
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Sir Francis Drake, the Englishsailor-discoverer and freebooter.(From a painting in the Marquisof Lothians collection.) Peter the Great, Czar of Russia,who aimed to dominate all thenorthern seas. (From the paint-ing by Kneller.) Captain Cook, the English globe-circumnavigator and discoverer.(From the painting by Dance.) THREE OF THE EAHI.IEU FIGURES IN THE OPENING UP OF OUR GREAT NORTHWEST. WHAT THE PORTLAND EXPOSITION CELEBRATES. REALLY BY AGNES C. LAUT.(Aiithor of Lords of the North, Heralds of Empire, Story of the Trapper, Pathfinders of the West.) IT is a mistake to regard the Portland Expo-sition as a celebration solely of the Lewis.and Clark centennial. It celebrates very muchmore than the feat of the two great American ex-plorers finding the way from the Missouri to thePacific. The real significance of the exposition is.a public and national observance of the heroic pe-riod in the history of the American West. Andhowever unheroic our pi-actical commercialismhas become, the expos

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