The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-24
DAY WAS MOST
 SUCCESSFUL Fair Had Largest Crowd
 of Week. IT WAS cHnDREUS DAY Hut Grown People Went Just the
 Same. Automobile Races and Athletic Meet Comprise Biggest Attractions of the Day-Talk of Fair
 Next Fall Circulating.
IT WAS cHnDREN,s DAY

By far the biggest crowd of the week throneed the grounds at Vandi- yer Park to see the sights of the Ala bama Agricultural Fair. At o'clock in the afternoon the grandstand was packed and damned with humanity. hundreds of people were passing to and fro in the open space between 1t and the race track; the Curve was so packed and damned that walking was almost impossible; and only by the greatest dificulty could progress be made through the Main building.
 And every car that came to the gates of the fair was packed while the shuttle train did a rushing business. Esti- mates of the crowd ran all the way from 12.0O0 to 10000 people. It was one of the largest crowds that ever at- tended a State Fair in Alabama.
 Friday was originally set apart as Children's Day. All the city schools gave holiday for the occasion. but the grown people refused to let the child ren monopolize the day. In fact so many grown people went to the grounds that they crowded the children. Still it was a great day for the man with the squawkers.
 The attendance from out of-town was the best of the week. Not a train pulled into the station during the morning but was filled to the doors. The city's streets through the morn ing hours looked as though a circus parade was about to pass and every body had turned out to see 1t.
 There were busy times at the Fair Grounds when all that crowd had gathered. The faikrs. the showmen and the fair attendants had their hands full. The jLAges were going about making awards and this was no little job, especially when they could hard ly get about for the crowds.
 From the grand stand Hon. J. Thomas Heflin. Congressman from the Fifth District spoke on Cotton" A good crowd stopped to hear him.
 The grand stand was packed and damned throughout the day. As a matter of fact the fair management offered a splendid and diverse enter tainment for the assembled crowd. The various athletic contests were pulled off and with great success. In addition to all this the regular racing card was unusually good. The wealth CT was bit threatening.
 It was easily the most successful day of the fair The fair management was in high good humor throughout the day.
 Accidents to the mechanis of the cars were responsible for the motor ears not being able to finish as had been expected. but all the same the events created much interest in those who were not familiar with the big cars. The excitement being lacking, the cars seemed to catch the spirit of the thing and made up in fun for what they lacked in close racing.
 Round and round. yeowliag like fIea-beset hound chasing It's tail. went the famed steam car, the piece de re- ntg of 10 TneT6 wasn't another car in 1t with the steamer, 1t had the track all to It's lonesome, and revelling in comet like trail of dust 1t lavishly fired at the grand stand as 1t flounced around the curves. It whinneyed and whooped, complained and moaned round ana round, the determination of despair written on the drivers face. It was racing against time or parsely or aounething, ana it was trying nara 10 win. but a fire of auto-fever oeset H. and on the seventh lap of the fitteen mile, something petered out "ith .vheezy squeak, and the race was lose What a shame, what pity!
 Before the great spectacular flight ar half way flight of the white "screamer'' a Cadillac and Mitchell buxzed off for a fifteen mile jaunt. but the Cadillac had the better wind and bounced gaily around to victory beat
  half.
 The second event of the auto races started off very interestingly. R. Chambers Oldsmobile and another white steamer, but 1t wasn't white at all, but baleful black that looked like drab after the night before, were entered. These cars sprang at the start line as If the future of Paradise hung on the result. and the little olds- mobile whisked into the lead hand somely. the big black car being unable to make much speed on the curves and lost at each turn. only to come creep ing up on the straightway and lose the lead again at a turn.
 When the fourth lap had become history the Oldsmobile also was struck with abdominal cramps. and coughing and snapping internally. slowed down huskily cleared its throat and left the track. But not one bit disheartened the big black car frIsked away whoop ing and screaming. nagged by Its flea' into an extacy of horror and finished the race in several minutes and som seconds thrown in for bredduss.
 One of the most amusing incident