The age-herald., 1900-11-01
most complete machinery exhibits at the
Stock Exhibits

fair.
 Stock Exhibits
 Col. J. M. Falkner, president of the Ala bama Fair Association, shipped fifteen Shetland ponies from his Montgomery County farm. The ponies were driven out to the fair grounds yesterday afternoon and attracted considerable attention. The live stock exhibit will contain a num- Der of the finest Jersey and Holstein cattle l in the south. Among the exhibitors in this department are Tom May, T. w. Riddle and W. H. Jones of Jefferson County. who will exhibit Jerseys, and John c. Drake of Jefferson County, who will have herd of Holstein cattle on exhibition. Dr. French of Aberdeen has fine lot of Jerseys in the live stock department which were shipped here several days ago.
 Labor Day Games
 Robert Gibson of Warner, Jefferson Coun- ty Is in the aty representing the coal miners of that place. He will go out to the fair grounds today, and make necessary preparations for the games to be played on Labor Day, Saturday. The games will consist of football and quoits, mile bicycle race, and a quarter mile foot race. The Fair Association has offered money prizes for the winners In these contests. The Moor & Handley Hardware Company has placed a number of pumps in the ma- chinery department, and also Davis pat ent boiler cleaner. These have been con- nected up and will be operated during the fair
 The Midway
 The midway will be in full blast by the time the gates open this morning. All of the attractions usually found in place of this kind have been secured for the entertain ment of the thousands of visitors expected at the fair.
 Uno, the Australian snake eater, will demonstrate to the onlookers that human being can eat the reptiles that have been despised and condemned to death by man from the earliest date history tells of The high divers, the Oriental dancers, the cam els, the flying woman, the Japanese vil- lage, the German village-in fact, every amusement one is accustomed to seeing in a frst-cass Midway.
 The Races
 The races will be the best ever run in this city. Several strings of fine horses have been received, and others will come in be- fore the fair closes. Cash premiums will pe pau every udy, anu tHeSe VIII pe III Sucn sums as to prove attractive to the owners of fast animals. There will be no pool sell ing and consequently no violation of the law. The races will be called promptly ev- cry day, and will end in time for visitors to the fair to return to the city before dark.
 Military Day
 Military Day will perhaps be the greatest day during the whole fair. About a dozen companies of the Alabama National Guard will be on hand to participate in the com petitive drills, and this means that thou sands of their friends all over the State will also be here to see them drill. It Is stated that every company that contem- plates entering this contest Is drilling dai- ly, and that the men have brought them selves up to fine standard of excellence in this respect. The Montgomery Greys, the winners at the recent street fair in Mont gomery, where dozen other companies were entered, will be here. The local com panies have drilled every night for the past two or three nights, and they will put up fine exhibition of drilling at the fair.
 The cadets from Auburn, Tuscaloosa, Marion, Dahlonega. Ga, and other colleges in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and MissIs- sippi have been invited to come to the fair and enter a competitive drill. The invita- tion sent them is as follows
 Birmingham, Ala, October 29. Commandant of Cadets: Dear Sir:-The Alabama State Fair Asso- citation, in response to the widespread ex- pression of a desire on the part of various cadet corps to compete for the prizes of- fered at the competitive drill to be held at the fair grounds at Birmingham, Ala,