The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-04
FALL FESTIVAL IN OCTOBER Another Great Autumn Show in Montgomery. MANY NEW ATTRACTIONS MT. L. L. Gilbert Elected Gen.
 eral Manager. Continuous Vaudeville Performances will Be a Feature-Committees
 Already at Work on
 Plans for Show.

will have another grand Fall entertain meht in October, and the enthusiasm already mamie sted indicates that 1t will eclipse all previous efforts. The entertainment will be styled Fall Festival. It will cover four days, rom October 20 to October 25, and will be widely advertisedEI
 At full meeting of the Board Of Directors of the Street Fair Associa- tion Friday evening, there was free discussion as to holding Fall enter tainment. It was unanimously decided to hold the Fall Festival during four days-October P, 23, A. 25-and upon a scale that will eclipse everything that has been held in the past.
 A new feature that will be added IS continuous vaudeville performance, which will daily occur at the Audito- rum. This snow, the management promises, wifi be first-class in every re- spect and include not oniy the finest song, dance and musical features, but high grade performers upon the tra- peze, horizontal bar, contortionists, tumblars and acrobats, besides yen triloquists, necromancers, punch and judy, and other attractions for the chill dren. This continuous vaudeville per formance promises to be the great fea- ture of the Fall Festival and is sure to become the centre of attraction. The other leading attractions are not vet decided upon, but will include sev eral of the most interesting features of last year, similar to the high diver, animal show, electric fountain, and kindred attractions. There will, no doubt be added balloon ascensions, fire works and automobile races, though the Amusement Committee should not be anticipated in what they may un- dertake to provide in this direction. Suffice to say, they will not be nam pered in securing any of the leadlng novelties and attractions that may be available. In fact, it is fully decided and determined that the coming festi- val shall be. in every respect, the great est and most chaste public entertain ment ever held in Montgomery.
 The stimulus to this action of the Board of Directors has been the un- qualified support that mas been volun- tarily rendered by many of the leading
 citizens of Montgomery who believe | that the festival will richly rebound to
 the practical good of the city.
 | There is- but one thing that will con tribute to disappoint the promoters Of | the enterprise, and that would be
 failure of the general public to respond as Is now expected. There will be no
 quarrel with the general public, or any | particular individual, as to what they should subscribe. That is left to the
 local patriotism of every citizen or
 firm, while the hope of the promoters
 will be that this response\ will be as
 generous as the past year. If this
 is done, the Association will guarantee
 a superb and unsurpassed Fall Festl-
 val, of which every citizen will feel
 proud.
 It Is falso the aim and purpose of the | Board to overcome some of the lncon-
 veniences of the+last Street Fair, and
 more particularly the eongested condi- | tion of the streets on leading days. | in the first place, the festival will last only four days, while the free shows | will be deployed over wider area. | The Auditorium performances Will ab- | sorb the paid shows and being re- | moved from the business center, will prove an advantage to retail merchAnrs.
 whose business fronts and doorWaSs might otherwise be packed by the slRht- seers. It is furthermore the purpose of the management to have the booths | and stands built six or eight feet away
 from the sidewalk, if this is feasible,
 as it would make room for pedestrians, when the sidewalks are temporarily overcrowded.
 There are many other minor features which the experience of the past two | years has demonstrated could be great | ly improved and these will receive the attention of ,cthe different committees
 when appointed. The active work will | be comme need this week.
 At the last meeting of the Board, 1t
 was also decided to relieve the Presi-
 dent of the unusual amount of work,
 which he has had to perform. At his
 suggestion a General Manager was elected, and this selection fell to the
 lot of MT. 541 l.. Gilbert, who will have general supervision of the entire fes-
 tiyaI. To aid and facilitate the move
 ment of the enterprises an Executive
 Committee was appointed, to relieve | the general Board of So many sessions
 and to settle the mutifarious ques | tions that arise. This Executive Com
 mittee will consist of Messrs. Emanuel
 Meertief, Jno. w. Tulls, Jr.. and A.
 J. Miller. With these changes in the
 governing of the festival, 1t is expect
 ed that everything will move along
 more smoothly and hold out a better augury of success.
 President Rice yesterday announced
 the personnel of the Finance Commit
 
 on the work of this committee and the
 spirit in-which it smet by the mer-
 chaAts and, business men will largely
 depFnd tie size and scope of the en-
 tertainment. The committee is as fol-
 lows:
 N. Lobman, Chairman; J. c. Parker,
 Selig Gassenheimer. c. M. Oliver. Ar
 thur c. Stern. George Stuart. Sam
 Kaufman. Duncan May. M. Loeb, J. | H. Harrison. Benjamin Greil. Duncan
 Ross. l.. l.. Lassiter. J. H. Higgins. l Hugh Gallagher. Henry Knabe. I. Le- 1 vystein, Mare Vlncentelli F. V. Hunt
 CT, Ed Mayer, Charles Wehage and T. M Westcott.
 Chairman Lobman has called a
 meeting for S:15 o'clock Monday night
 at the rooms of the Commercial and | Industrial Association, when the plans | will be outlined and adopted and the ball will be set in motion for the big gest festival ever held in the South. Anniversary of Julius Caesar.