The age-herald., 1900-10-28
ITS ONLY 4 DAYS
 TILL STATE FAIR Opening of the Great Show Next
 Thursday GREATEST OF ALL FAIRS The Racing Will be Exceedingly Fine A Horse Show for Jefferson County Horses-Placing Ex-
 hibits in Position
GREATEST OF ALL FAIRS

Alabama State Fair, November 1-10.
 Next Thursday the gates to the State Fair will be thrown open to the public, and the people of Alabama will be given an opportunity to see the greatest collection of the States resources ever before gotten together. They will find there products of the field, the forest, the mine and the mill, as well as live stock and machinery. There will also be amusement for all who seek it. The Midway will have all the attrac- tons usually found in a place of that kind, from the snake-eater and the fat boy to the high diver and the Streets of Cairo with their Egyptian dancers, and the German Village.
 Another feature was secured for the taiY yesterday, and It will undoubtedly prove one ot the most interesting there. 1t will be horse show, and already those ill charge of it have the assurance of nearly one hundred fine animals for that depart ment. The exhibit will consist of saddle and harness horses, and will be restricted to anlmaIs owned in Jefferson County. special purse was raised yesterday and turned over to the fair association with which to pay premiums The purse amounts to about SoO0. There will be no speed con test in this department, but the horses will be judged for their appearances, their train- ing and other qualities. Any person in Jefferson County desiring to enter a horse 1n this show can do so by calling at the fair association headquarters, room 1, Pot ter building.
 number of race horses came in yester- day and others will come In today They VIII continue to come in on every train from the east and north until the fair opens. Superintendent McCurdy of the live stock department returned from Atlanta yeStRfOaV and will al In the fair closes There will be no pool sell ing at the fair, but the racing programme is one of the most complete ever arranged for meeting in this city Purses aggregat- ing S600 day have been offered. The races will consist of running and trotting, and some of the fastest horses in the country will be entered in them.
 A carload of Jersey cattle arrived yes- terday from Mississippi and were taken to the fair grounds. A number of fine hogs have also arrived. Extra premiums have been provided for the different breeds of swine.
 The poultry and pet stock exhibit will oc cupy tent 100x135 feet. The first chick ems for this department were received yes terday and others will come tomorrow. Sev- eral hundred fine chickens will be in the tent before the fair opens.
 The women in charge of the womans de- partment will be at the woman's building tomorrow to receive the exhibits of any person who may wish to deliver them there.
 Commissioner of Agriculture Poole ar- rived in the city yesterday to take person. al charge of the states exhibit. This ex- hibit will be one of the most complete ever made by the state. Commissioner Poole has two assistants and ten or twelve men at work placing the exhibits, and he wli have 1t ready by the middle of the week.
 The immense marble shaft, about which so much has been written, was unloaded yesterday and will be in place before the fair opens.
 Professor Peterson of the Girls Indus- trial School at Montevallo, writes that he will make display and that it will be here in a day or two.
 Prof. w. H. Councill of the negro Normal School at Huntsville wired yesterday that a car load of exhibits had been shipped from his school They will arrive tomorrow and be placed in the negro muilding