The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-24
Citizens Unite to Make State
air The Greatest of
Its Kind
BANDS AND BUNTING WILL
AI0 IN STARTING THINGS
Bahb Says Plans Are on the Most Ela5-
crate Scale Ever and Predicts
Will Come In WhirlWind
of Enthusiasm.

The carnival spirit has at last hit Biz
time, lots of fun. bushels of laughter, and
the best time of their lives are few
of the thing3 everybody is going after at
the coming State Fair.
The people are enthusiastic. Birming-
ham people, for the first time, are
,,watching eagerly the coming of their
ship has just arrived, and now every
citizen says my" State Fair. On every
side 1t is the talk Of the town. The ladies
are busy on handiwork, painting china,
crocheting, making preserves and pickles.
They are almost fighting to get space in
the exhibit building, and as a result the
entries are already nearly double the num-
Der in previous years
And the ladies have sent out invitations
all over the state. Every home will have
its friends or relatives from the country
round about. They know what the
greatest fair in the south means, AMI
they are working for it with might and
main.
Training for Athletics.
The young men have caught the spirit.
They are training in athletic parks night
and morning for the athletic events.
Basket ball teams are practicing regular
ly They are determined to make the
field day the pride of Alabama.
The children are restlessly porting over
their books and waiting for October 8. the
opening day. Never before have such
rare treats been prepared for them, and
with yell and whoop they are prepared to
jump in for the whole thing.
The railroads are the registers of the
carnival spirit. Seeing the enormous dis
play of enthusiasm, they have granted
the lowest fare to a point ever graT/ed
for an affair of this kind before. For
one fare, plus % cents, any man in the
state can come to the fair and return
home. This is the most liberal conces-
sion within the memory of the manage
ment.
And so the fever is spreading every
where The business men of Birmingham
intelligently recommend it to their ctis-
toners. They are going to decorate their
buildings and give the week a gala ap-
pearance. The Salvation army people
rush in and ask to be allowed the privi
lege of running an emergency hospital.
Everywhere the spirit of cooperation
abounds.
The advertising committee of the Com
mercial club has been called together
10 Of fba
state, requesting them to attend and
guaranteeing them the time of their lives.
Rabb Urges Carnival Spirit.
Secretary Joseph B. Babb of the club
said yesterday:
1.-THE Alabama State Fair management
this year has surpassed all previous eff
forts, and a fair that will be interesting,
instructive and entertaining is assured.
"A great impetus toward a glorious
success can be given by the citizens of
Birmingham by making the occasion
gala one. Frederick Thompson in
recent article in Everybodys Magazine
hits the keynote of entertaining when he
says that the carnival spirit is neces-
sary for success The citizens of Bir-
mingham should promote that spirit in
regard to the fair. They should not only
attend themselves, but see that their
friends 60 The town should be gaily dec
Grated, and the week given over to the
promotion of the fairs success
! IF the bunting is flying, the band play
ing and the city as a whole wearing d
holiday air the fair will be conducted in
a whirlwind of enthusiasm