The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21
NEWS OF CENTRAL CITY
PURPOSES OF THE FALL FES-
 TIvAL ASSOCIATION.
A Statement is Issued by the Management-Grand Jury In- vestigating Alleged Frauds
 in Martins Beat.


 Selma, Sept. 20. The management of the Fall Festival Association has issued the following:
 To the Citizens of Selma: The Fall Festival Association was form ed for the purpose of giving in Selma an annual entertainment of some kind that through better acquaintance with cus- toners Selma trade might be expanded. The first entertainment will be given during the week of November 1915. For this occasion applications for round trip rates has been made and assured from the following points and all intermediate stations, viz: Talladega, Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Meridian, Myrtewood, Jack son, Flomaton, Camden and Opelika. To advertise the event along within the circumference of the places named will take about $500 and this amount is asked from the merchants, hotels. saloons and restaurants who will be directly be- nefited by the crowds that will come to Selma during the week Last year the Elks spent $33s for advertising paper and something over $200 as the cost of posting. Using this as basis $500 should permit of generous advertising through out the territory covered by the round | trip rates. -.+ ,-..4.
 As a nucleus for the festival, which | Is to consist of exhibits of stock, cattle. | poultry and the like and for which pre- miums are to be offered as found below the Gaskill-Mundy Company have been | contracted for and will furnish a line of clean. moral midway shows and in ad- dition free attractions well worth travelling miles to see.
 Profiting by the experience of fndis- criminately booking attractions for such an affair. the unreliability of contracts made with showmen and the correspond ing disappointments the contract for the amusements have been made with a com pany widely known and which will pre- sent in Selma the same attractions that for two weeks in the coming month will be exhibited in St. Louis and other points and consists of the following:
 of Mt. Pelee. Old Vienna, The Johnstown Flood, Dog and Pony show, The Gypsy Camp. the Burmese Midgets. Wild Rose of Yucatan. Glass Blowers. House to Side Down. Statute Turning to Life. Red Dome. Streets of India, Mundy's Wild Animal Show. comprising fifteen cages of trained animals and others.
 Of the Stadium alone will attention he called at this time. 1t consists of all the features of a circus except the bare back | riding. Acrobats. tumblers. aerial artists and bicycle riders follow each other in bewildering succession. The high dive ends inside the Stadium inclosure. It be- gins more than hundred feet in the air Splash" turning a complete summer sault from his perilous position just after Spray" his wife has dived head fore most from fifty foot perch. In the Stadium is kilpatric's Cycle Dazzle. This consists of picket fence construct ed at an angle of 75 degrees making a con- tnuous track 20 feet in diameter and around this four riders rave on bicycles around this four riders race on bicycles bottom, passing and repassing each other while going at a terrific rate
 Free Attractions-Archile Phillion who ascends spiral tower upon a ball keep ing the ball in motion with his feet. At the top a mamoth fountain of sparks ana fire works burst forth completely envciop- ing him and dazzling the spectators Charles G. Fitzpatrick with only one leg who ascends to the top of a 15O foot stair way not exceeding one fot in width and without rails on either side and makes daring ride on a bicycle to the bottom going at a rate of speed which averages a mile in 90 4-5 seconds.
 The Moore Gilmore family of trapeze performers will give exhibitions of leap ing in mid air hard to believe possible And there are still other free attractions including the celebrated Indian band.
 These attractions free and paid are as stated above, but a nucleus for the re- mainder of the festival which will con- sist of parades, special days and features to be announced from time to time. An enclosure two hundred feet wide by SIX hundred long will be erected Just on or
 
 w Voltz house near the cemetery ana here will occur daily amusements and entertainments that men women and chil- dren can enjoy and among which VIII pc nothing that will in the slightest shock the most refined or offend the most sensi- tive. , It..
 re incomplete list of premiums that will be offered are as follows;
 For best Alabama raised stallion, $lO; for hest Ala abama rasied brood mare. $l0 for best Alabama raised colt. slO; for best Alabama raised Jersey cow, $lo; Tor hest Alabama raised hog. 70; Tor pest Alabama raised trio chickens. So TOT hest pair Alabama raised turkeys, S, for best pair Alabama raised sheep' s2, for best pair Alabama raised goats e9; for best Alabama raised breeding pull $5; for best Alabama raised kelier' So.
 This list is to be largely supplemented by second and third prizes consisting of such articles as umbrellas oletsoh hats. and other articles of merchandise that will be donated by the merchahts ol Selma. , ,, L
 If is believed that the Festival will be of great benefit to Selma and the co- operation of every citizen is respectfully asked to make 1t such success as that in the succeeding year much larger and more widely advertised affair may pc given with many months notice or tne ilst of premiums that are to be offered.
 During the coming week d committee will call on the citizens and 1t Is hoped they will cheerfully contribute 10 the fund necessary to make the FestlVal complete success. N,o,
 President Selma Festival Association