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 situated and slope gracefully. The grand forest-clad heights for which Portland is noted rise immediately back of them, and the Willamette river glistens in the near distance. The grounds lie only two miles away from the business center of the city and the electric cars reach them in eighteen minutes’ run. The water expanse is four times that of the World’s Fair grounds at Chicago, and, under the landscape architectural direction of the Olmstead Brothers of Brookline, Mass., sons of the late, this feature of the fair will be one of most original beauty and design.



The buildings are grouped within convenient distances of each other and of the cars, so that long tramps from one to another are avoided.

A short walk by easy trail leads from the grounds into an adjoining Oregon forest, cool and restful, where are found a wild mountain stream and cañon, rich foliage, Madrona berries, and the Oregon grape.

On the summit of a hill, near at hand and reached by