The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-17
NAVASSAR BAND
To GIVE SACRED
CONCERT TODAY
Fully 10000 People Visited
Grounds Yesterday to See
Big Football Game
LADIES BAND Is GROWING
MORE POPULAR EVERY DAY
Age-HeraId Newsboys and Carriers
Visited Fair in Bunch Yes
terday and Took in
Everything.

The NaVassar band will entertain the
public this afternoon beginning at 8
o'clock with a musical programme. The
thousands who have heard these young
ladies play will be glad for the OPP
portunity of hearing them in their best
role-the sacred concert.
After thrilling enormous crowds with
national music and proving beyond a
doubt that their range is as powerful
and music as perfect as that of any
band which has ever played at the fair
grounds, they will have two hours of
their own pleasure in the music which
best delights them.
These 90 beautiful young ladies are all
trained musicians. They have toured the
whole country, but are playing for the
Birmingham fair alone in the south.
Since their work began at the fair
grounds they have gotten very close to
the public heart, always listening to and
needing encores, and entering into the
spirit of the crowd. They are always
daintily dressed, and yesterday made
new friends by wearing Alabama colors.
They will be on their metal this after
noon and will undertake a number OF
very difficult compositions. The vocal So
loist is proving especially popular.
The exhibit halls will be left open for
the public. giving ample time for more
thorough study of the exhibits than the
rush of other fair days has allowed.
The fair continues three more days
and If it becomes more popular every
day the attendance is sure to run far
above that Of any other fair.
See Football Game.
Fully 1900 people visited the fair
grounds and witnessed the football game
during yesterday. It was a model day
for everything. The airships made SEN
sational flights. rising with ease and sail
ing all around the field, maneuvering up
and down, and making speed in every
direction. Between the halves Of the
game Miss Mamie Francis and her Arab
ian ponies made their sensational dive
and last night the people on the grounds
enjoyed themselves more than they evel
have before.
The Pleasure Way was one scream UNI
til midnight, whirl of funmakers Peo
pie were rushing hither and thither, thu
college boys celebrated their victory
down the line while the rube band
played Hail, Hail, the Gangs All Here,
and everyone enjoyed the day immensely
The North Birmingham fire depart
ment's automobile engine appeared afteI
the game and made few try-out runs
this being the most modern apparatus
in the district.
The children who had enjoyed the fair
SO immensely the day before spread the
news all over the city and it is now
believed that the grounds will be just
as crowded as ever until wednesday
night. 1t has been impossible yet to
figure the total number in attendance
Friday, but the fair authorities state
that it far outstripped any other record
and was a good example of the fine feel
ing OF the people In the district.
Newsboys See Sights.
The Age-Herald newsboys and car
riers tore a hole In the fair yester-
day, took charge Of the grandstand, the
grounds and the midway. Frank SPELL
man showed them through the midway,
which they pronounced great
About hundred boys left the Age
Herald building at 1880 o'clock, caught
cars at Third avenue and Eighteenth
street and shortly afterward dived
through the gates. Everywhere they
went In a bunch, led by their manager,
Fred Fletcher, and were honored as the
associations guests. 1t takes a boy to
enjoy the fair and 1t is declared that
no one had really gotten the good out
of the fair until the Age-Herald boys
appeared on the ground.