The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11
Many New Features Are
 Added.
 -Z FAIR GROUNDS BEING
 MADE READY FOR OPENING
  Bank Tellers Will Handle the Ticket Gates. Almost All the Exhibit Space Has Been Taken Up in the Mais Buildins-Many New Entries q e Horse show. 

The big. Fair opens tomorrow week.
 Secretary Chaffee closed the contract Friday for another new attraction al the big State fair, which is to be held at Vandiver Park October 1924. The fair management has already con- tracted for the biggest and highest class attractions ever before seen al a fair in Alabama, but Secretary Chaffe is always on the alert for something new and something that he thinks will please the fair visitors A full list of these attractions will be announced during the coming week
 fhe buildings at the grounds are being rapidly put into first class shape and the walks are being beau- tided. The poles. for the lights have been put up and all will be ready when the current is turned on the day before the fair opens. new plan for the illumination of the grounds at nights has been carried out and ev- erything will be made as bright as day.
 Necessary repairs to the large grand stand have been made and the private boxes erected in front of the grand stand, which are to be used for the Horse Show, have been completed.
 One of the interesting exhibits at the fair this year will be the exhibit of Booker T. Washington's school in the negro building. Washington has personal representative on the grounds now attending to the placing of the various 1exhibits and arrange ment of the building.
 A letter has been received from John l.. Sullivan in which he asked that suite of the best rooms in the Exchange Hotel be reserved for himself and Killrain when. they come to the fair to give their exhibitions. The old boxers are now at Hot Springs demonstrating the manly art there and will be on hand in fine shape for good work here.
 one thing that will interest the little people at the fair wilt be the pyrotechnieal display. in poor peoples lanGuage--flreworks. Fireworks to burn, 5000 pounds of the whizzfest sparkiest. scootuppiest fireworks that are made. The big shipment of sky rockets and other things will reach the city in few days with repre- sentat1ves of the company and will be arranged for different nights dur ing fair week. JF s@.
 From Bullock County one of the an- est poultry exhibits in the county VII be Ssent including the roosters wttlt K00tball hair. bearded hens, hens that scorn setting, geese that trail sffE@A AASSAg bNOAAdNuS Dn the ktOund. urassy looking turkeys, denatured wyandotts. and incubators with eggs in that will hatch while the fair ts going on. and you can see the eggs brekk open and the chickens come out. Ths exhibit from this chicken farm ia considered one of the finest in the South. t@
 Merchants fin Nashville have set A good example in decorating the store fonts on the principal streets during fhir week there and the same Is ex pected to be done in Montgomery es- pecially on Commerce street. at Court square, and up Dexter avenue.
 There will not be any mix-up about the gates, for the local banks have decided to take charge of that work for the fair association and several of the banks will have their tellers there to handle the tickets. This proposi- tion came voluntarily from the clear ing house association and was most