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The City of Seattle was urged to provide fire protection for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition site in 1908, at a time it was not paying for much else having to do with it. The Seattle Times pointed the city council's reluctance to spend money for the AYPE before 09/1908: "The fire and water committee of the city council went on record last night in favor of the city equipping and maintaining the fire engine house on the exposition grounds during the fair and as a precautionary measure Fire Chief Bringhurst will be ordered to send a third size engine to the new house on the grounds, together with a hose wagon and necessary ladders. The city will furnish and pay the men both before and during the exposition. J.E. Chilberg, C.J. Smith and J.H. McGraw appeared before the committee and urged immediate action on the part of the council to furnish some protection to the fair buildings. It was pointed out that in reality the city council has done very little toward advancing the fair as a body. Water and sewers were promised, but nothing delivered, and the management has found it necessary to provide its own water and sewer system at a large expense." (See "Exposition Engine House To Be Built," Seattle Times, 09/10/1908, p. 7.)

Demolished.

PCAD id: 7087