The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-24
! COUNTY EXHIBIT
MONTGOMERY FARM PRODUCTS AT
 THE FAIR.
". S' Naftei Win Have Charge of the Colleetfpn--Work at the Grounds is Now Pro-
 gresNjuu.

ohtsomery County Is to enter the
 race Tor the s1,000 prize offered by the Alabama Agricultural Association TOT the county having the best exhibit
 or agricultural products at the State
 Far to be held in this city October zz 10 2I. This statement was given out from the association headquarters yesterday afternoon, when it was an-
 nounced that application made by a citizen of the county for permission to take charge of the exhibit had been granted
 W. c. Mattel of Naftel. is the man who has been given the work of pre- pairing the exhibit, and plans have al- ready been made by the director for
 Montgomery County to prepare q com
 plete exhibit of everything which can | be grown in the county.
 | The county exhibits at the fair this l fall will furnish one of the attrac- | tive features of the exposition. In | them 1t will be found. gathered togeth- CT. the products of the different parts of the state by counties. Everything | that can be grown In Alabama will be | presented in these exhibits.
 | Drawn by the prize offered of s1,000, | a number of persons from different counties hava already made application for permission to take charge of the l exhibits from their sections. and some | of these applications have been acted l upon favorably.
 Exhibit Director Naftel of Mont gomery County has announced his in- tention of making as thorough can vass of the county as will be practi- cable. Arrangements have been made
 whereby those farmers having prod ucts for exhibition later in the sum
 mer. when the time set for the fair draws near, may leave them at the Harvey Seed Company, corner of Per ry and Monroe Streets. to be forwarded to the Fair Grounds
 The work in the vicinity of Vandiver Park in preparation for the Fair is now moving along nicely. For the pur- pose of furnishing transportation for materials to be used in the ,construe- tion of buildings and gravel to ;he Park during the next few months, and passenger traffic at the time of the Fair. the Western Railroad of Ala barna, has begun laying a branch track Into the grounds. which will be com pleted probably within a week or ten days. This branch enters the Fair Ground property from the north side. Adequate station arrangements will be provided. and during Fair week, spe- cial trains will be run from the city to Vandiyer Park to accommodate the crowds of visitors attending the ex- position.
 The work of constructing the Fair buildings. 1t is expected. will begin within a few weeks. shortly after the opening of the contractors bids at the meeting of the executive committee of the association. which has been called for next Tuesday morning. At that time, President W. F. Vandiver. who has been out of the city for the past month, will have returned to Montgomery. A number of bids have already been re- ceived and 1t Is expected that before Tuesday, a large proportion of the building contractors of the state, as we'll as a number of foreign concerns will have handed in their bids
 A report which had gained some ground to the eeffct that Architect D. H. Long, the Chicago contractor who at the Fair Grounds, would bid upon his own plans and specifications. was emphatically denied by Secretary J. c. Adams yesterday. The designer of the Fair structures, he said. had not made a single bid for the buildings he has planned. and will not make any bid. There will be an equal chance and no favor shown to the contractors, he said.
 It was reported to tie headquarters of the Foir Association yesterday that a man representing himself as au- thorized by Architect Long to solicit advertisements for the printed speci- fication lists of the building designer had succeeded in securing a large amount of advertising contracts from different Montgomery merchants. On the authority of Secretary Adams, 1t was given out that no one has author. ity to solicit advertisements for any specification list or cover for such a list. and merchants were warned that such soliciting was not sanctioned by the association.
 The work of clearing Vandiver Park of the trees inside Of the proposed race track has been progressing rapidly during the last week, and it is expected that the work of constructing the mile oval will b sgin at the end of the pres ent week. Contractor J. M. Sullivan. who will have control of this work, has established his plant upon the ground and is in readiness to proceed with the construction of the track.