The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06

l mlnglam ulStrIcI VIII lake part ana Hlo- toreyele races. Christie will race the last day of the fair end hopes to set new records for southern tracks. He comes with his most powerful racing car and will spare no effort to make speed. The field and track day will be Friday, Oc- tober Il, when more than 100 athletes will take part. The Birmingham Athletic club, the Young Mems Christian asso- ciation, The Pratt City Athletic club, Bir- mingham college, and Bessemer Beavers will have representatives, and 32 school | boys of the Birmingham public schools will be entered in a special relay race.
 Motorcycle races In which 14 entries have been secured, will take place We'd nesday. Thursday Friday and Saturday. Motorcycle riders have gone over the ground the fastest that man has yet travelled, and the races will be the first big motorcar meet ever held in the gulf statets. Other special features may be ad- ded later
 Curve Already Famous.
 In addition to all these free attrac- tions there will be the Curve" the greatest collection of shows that ever came south. The Curve" has 17 big at fractions, Including many of the shows that have won fame on the pike, trail and warpath Several came direct from the Jamestown exposition and from Goney Island, where the season has just closed.
 A thousand feet of fun will be the Curve which extends from the car riage gate almost to the main entrance There'H be the Igorrote village with Fill pino natives that eat dog; "Creation, ,' the sensation of the St. Louis fair; Mundy's animal show direct from Dream land, Coney Island; the Turkish theatre, the Electric theatre, the Hindu mystery, Pharoah's daughter Old Plantation, Luna show, Soicety Circus Ferris wheel, and Buckskin Ben's wild west show. TherelI be something doing on the Curve every l minute. Performances will be continuous from morning until midnight, and therelI be five bands, scores of spielers and bankers and plenty of tom-toms and l gongs to make the place noisy and merry.
 special train of eight coaches will reach Birmingham from the north to- night, bringing the performers and the paraphernalia for the big Curve" shows. liminary work done Monday the tented city will rise like magic. and by Monday 1 night they'll all be ready for the throng.
 Buildings Filled With Exhibits.
 When the people get here there will be
 
 are filled with exhibits from every part of Alabama. Seven counties have entered in the contest for the 5000 prize, and the displays are the best ever gotten to- gether. Individual farmers have made wonderful exhibits, and everything grown raised in Alabama will be on parade. The biggest ears of corn and the most heavily fruited stalks of cotton will be there. unique display is of water melons, thirty-odd, with an average weight of 6S pounds.
 The poultry show Is attracting the at tention of fanciers from several surround ing states, and many are expected here to have look at the birds. The negro building is stocked with everything made by members of the race and is well worth visit from every person who goes to the fair.
 The main building is chock full of dis plays of everything manufactured mined or grown in Alabama and especially of the goods of merchants of the district. Manufacturers, too, have shown a lively interest.
 All fin all the fair offers the most at tractive and entertaining collection of ex- hibits and shows the state ever saw. The crowds are already coming in, and by Tuesday morning the city will be filled with strangers. Reports from every sec- ton of the state tell of immense in- terest in the fair at Birmingham, and low rates on all railroads have helped to attract attention to the metropolis. The fair season of eight days promises to be memorable in the history of the city, and this years exposition will be a notable one in the annals of southern fairs.