The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-13
DETAILS OF FESTIVAL
MANY NEW ATTRACTIONS FOR MONTGOMERY SHOW.
Bill Posters are at Work, the Com mittees are Active and Many Thousands of Visitors are
 fs Expected.

It will be just fifteen days more before Montgomery again throws wide its gates and invites the people Of Alabama anu the adjacent States to join its citizens Tn another week of relaxation from the cares of life and indulge in Q period or genuine and healthy pleasure.
 The Montgomery Free Street Fairs Of the last two years were such successes In every detail that the managers of the Street Fair Association feel that 1t Is hardly necessary to dwell on the thorough and complete manner in which they carry out their schemes of entertalnmenL ,,
 Practically the same gentlemen VIII manage the coming festival, that man aged those of the last two years. Inis. in itself should be a sufncient guarantee that the festival this year will be 1uily up to the high standard of those Wnlch
 The amount of detail incident to pre- pairing such an entertainment IS mncn greater than one would imagine. For several months, every member or the Board of Directors and the various com xnittees has been hard at work deVlslng ways to make the coming entertainment the complete success it Is sure to be-
 The Illuminating and DecZating Com rnittees have completed plans for one oi the most artistic and complete schemes of electric decoration and there will be nc lack of framing or lighting of the beau tiful effects and pictures presented pS the fair.
 of the best bands in the South, and. while the music furnished last year was SUI perb, the Committee has really surpassed itself this year, and its work will cer- tainly be appreciated by all who attend the festival.
 The Bostock-Ferari Aggregation of shows will present some of the finest shows and spectacular novelties ever seen at a public entertainment. There will be the Streets of Cairo, with donkeys and camels, men and women performing in dens of wild animals, trained ponies, dogs and monkeys, merry-go-rounds, Ferris wheels and all that goes to make up fair of the highest order.
 The free street shows have not been overlooked and fine aerial acts high-wire walking balloon ascensions parachute drops, etc., will thrill as well as amuse visitors.
 Military Day has been arranged and it is expected that a large number of the companies from all over the State will participate in this feature of the enter tainment. Tho parade by the soldiers will be one of the largest military displays ever made in this section.
 Probably one of the most Gnique and certainly one of the most attractive fea- lures of the festival will he tho continu- torium. The Committee in charge of this feature is composed of MeSsrs. F. P. Ehaffee, H. c. Davidson, J. P. Bullock, L. L. Gilbert and N. Lohman. These
 
 Ince in fair arrangements and will pre- sent one of the finest vaudeville aggre- gations ever seen in the South. They have drawn on the very best talent ob- tainable in Now York, Chicago and St. Louis and expect to show some novelties in vaudeville just imported from Paris and Berlin. The program as already out lined covers some of the best comedy, acrobatic acts. juggiers. trapeze perform CTS. song and dance artists. monologuists, knock about teams magicians. Japanese performers. and musical clowns; also some beautiful electric novelties Last, but far from being the least. is a troupe of midgets, five of them. the smallest performing persons in the world. While the Committee has not completed the booking of this attraction (the midgets) they have hopes of securing it. If they do. it will be the most attractive act ever seen here, one which will tickle the chill dren and will not fall to amuse adults.
 Altogether the festival is going to be on such an elaborate scale that no one within a radius of 150 miles can afford to miss if and 1t Is expected that the att tendance will even exceed that of last wear. as all the railroads running into Montgomery will make most liberal ticket rates. All of the railroads are at work vigorously advertising the festival along their respective lines of road, by stream