The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-30

When the myriads or Varl-coioleu ih- candescent lights in the Festival district blinked and went out at F o'clock last night the second day of the Montgomery Fall Festival went into history ana thousands of tired persons rested their heads upon pillows and dreamed of de- lightful day delightfully."- spent
 Yesterday dawned bright and beaut- ful. F. P. Chaffee, Government Weather Observer in Montgomery, is prominent in the directory of the Street Fair Assocla- tion and 1t comes about that he has pro- vided an article of weather for the great occasion that could not be surpassed.
 Tuesday had been designated as Flag Day by the Festival management. and the program was to raise the historic spars taken from the sunken Spanish bat tleships Oquendo and Donna Juan de Austria on the Capitol grounds. together with several flags captured from the Spaniards. These interesting relics of the war of 1898 were presented to Alabama by Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson. An interesting program had been arrang- ed for the occasion, but it was learned late Monday night that the spars which were to be shipped from the Brooklyn navy yard would not reach here today.
 Then Flag Day was postponed until
 
 that the railroads cannot transport these spars to Montgomery this week and the Board of Directors of the Street Fair Association, at a meeting held yesterday afternoon, reluctantly decided to abandon the Flag Day exercises altogether. It was determined, however. that the spars which gro expected here ns2st week De; raised with appropriate ceremonies during the meeting of the Good Roads Conven- tion in December. It was also announced that there is a probability that Captain Hobson will be here at that time to par ticipate in the exercises.
 As a result of the abandonment of Flag Day, there was no special feature of the Fall Festival yesterday. The crowd was perhaps not so dense yesterday as on the opening day, but the flaws were strengthened out yesterday, the shows were better prepared to receive patrons, additional features arrived and it was really the first day of the Festival in that everything worked smoothly yes- terdav and the big crowds that surged through the Festival district appeared to enjoy themselves in the highest degree.
 The morning hours in the district drag ged wearily away. Not great humper of persons were down town. It seemed as though citizens and visitors had worn themselves out with the merriment of the first day. The street railway com pany, which had put on ten extra cars Monday found yesterday morning that only three extra cars were necessary ana only this number of extra cars were operated throughout the day. R. F. Scott. General Manager of the company, sald that the travel of suburbanites was not nearly so great yesterday as on the pre- ceding day He expected, however. that travel today would reach it's height and had made special arrangements to care for the human freight.
 1-Lo of a of course attract more persons than the morning hours. because the free shows do not begin until after the dinner hour. Again. the schools open in the morn- ing while they are closed in the after noon and the children are liberated on the streets.
 When the free shows began yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. there was an in- describa be scene in the Festival district which extends from Lawrence Street to Court Square on Dexter Avenue, from Ribb Street to Court Square on Com merce Street, and on Monroe Street and the streets leading thereto from the ave nue. The district has been extended this year on North Perry Street as far north as Madison Avenue on account of the vaudeville performances which are be- ing conducted at the Auditorium this sea- son hy the Fall Festival management.
 A high diver is an essential feature of Street Fair and Matt Gay is doing the diving act this season. His tower is located on North Perry Street near the entrance to the Auditorium. Gay makes a backward somersault dive that is ex- tremeIv startling. Hundreds of persons watched tho act yesterday and it ap- peared to interest the graybeards as well as the small boys.
 The Georgia State Band. which arrived from Atlanta at Il o'clock made it's first annearance on the streets at ? o'clock and niaved it's first music for the Stilton's in their barrel jumping act in front of Clancey's Hotel This was the begin ming of the free shows and the crowd sUaved through the streets from stand to stand The streets were packed with peaple and they, as one man, were bent on following the band. It was a game of follow your leader and the free shows had immense audiences.
 The triple bar act on Court Square was excellent and the stop there by the band and the performance of the acrobats seemed to afford great pleasure to the spectators.
 The "spielers' for the pay shows screamed until 1t seemed as though their Iunes would burst and the steam Calliope and hand organs added to the din, but the free shows were doing business and +be crowd had no mind for anything that cost money. The band was follow cd to Hunters corner wher" the Iedares. acrobats, gave a clever per fornance. The crowd witnessed Grant tbe high wire walker on Monroe Street and the climax came when Matt Gay pade his marvellous backward leap from the tower on North Perry Street, which Is leap of fully fifty feet.
 One of the poles supporting the wire on which Grant has been walking on