The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-17
STATE FAIR ONLY
THREE WEEKS OFF
Finishing Touches Are Being Put
on the Building.
CROWDS VISIT GROUNDS
Secretary Rountree Continues to Re-
ceive Encouraging Letters from All
Parts of the Stat-Press Depart
ment Headquarters Selected

just tweDty-one days from today the gates
of the greatest State Fair in the history of
Alabama will be thrown open to the public.
Interest in the fair continues to increase
as was evidenced by the large crowds who
visited the grounds Sunday afternoon.
The finishing touches are being put on the
buildings and everything will soon be In
readiness for the great event. Work on the
paddock and the surrounding fence will be
pushed and by the first of November moth
ing will have been left undone. The two
entrances will face Fifth avenue and Wal
ker streets. Handsome gates are in course
of erection at both places.
Information reached headquarters yester-
day that over one hundred horses will
reach here in few days from Detroit.
Among the lot some of the finest horses in
the country will be included. The manage
ment finds it necessary that more stalls
must be built to accommodate all the
horses that will be here.
Encouraging Letters
President Caffee writes from Marion that
the ladies of that place are making elabo-
rate preparations to have fine exhibit of
art and fancy work at the fair. r. B. Col
Inns, of Diana, Tenn, one of the most noted
saddle horse breeders in America, writes
that he will have his $500 saddle stallion
and other fine stations on exhibition. w.
D. Osborne, of Tallapoosa county, writes
that he will have a good exhibit of fine
tobacco here.
George Weston, manager of the cele-
brated Vanderbilt farm at Biltmore, N. c.,
writes that he desires to make a fine ex-
hibt of agricultural products and live
stock. He has a fine exhibit al the Atlanta
fair and he desires to bring that exhibit
here He will not compete for prizes, but
only desires to make an exhibit. Secretary
Rountree has written him that space and
stalls will be reserved for him.
The prospects are that the cattle depart
ment will excel anything of its kind ever
seen in Alabama. Frank Bates, noted
cattle raiser, of South Alabama, and also
the Monte Sane dairy of Huntsville, will
have good exhibits here, as we'll as many
others.
Bureau of Information
Persons having rooms to rent will please
address bureau of information, Alabama
state fair giving the number of rooms and
location of the same, and also how many
boarders they will accommodate. The
management of the fair appeals to the peo-
pie of Birmingha to use every effort to
help take care of the people who come to
the fair, as information comes to the head
quarters from every part of the state and
entire south hat thousands will be in at
tendance.
The Press club committee in charge of
the press department visited the grounds
yesterday afternoon and selected space for
the department in the main building.
Secretary Rountree was unable to ac-
company the committee but placed at the
disposal of Leon w. Friedman and NJ. B.
Mayer, of the committee, the magnificent
pair of 81 500 horses, which together with
handsome victoria will be presented to the
most popular woman In Alabama.
The committee was driven to the park at
a three-minute gait and selected the first
space to the main entrance to the main
building where the department will be es-
tablished.