The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-12

States flags and bunting and from one end to the other the merchants have crowded interesting exhibits, while around the sides the agricultural exhibits begin to tell the story of Alabamas agricultural wealth.
 Eight Counties Represented. Eight counties are represented, and each Is continually piling in more of it's prod ucts. The woman's department is double in/volume and beauty what it was last year The swine and cattle displays are especially fine. The Tennessee company 5 new exhibit, erected at some cost, is the feature of the manufacturers building In fact there seems nothing missing of all the requisites needed to make up a good fair, and together with good weather ana line racing, the whole state is ex- pected to-swarm over the grounds.
 SpeIlman's Great Attractions.
 Frank Spellman put the finishing touches on his Pleasure Way shortly after mid night, and will be ready to receive the fun-seekers early this morning He has a line Of clean shows, and his system of handling the line is peculiarly attractive A uniform front stretches the full length and gives the midway a stronger re- semblance to the streets of India
 Dakota Eds Wild West show is his big feature. having collected a band of genu- Inc Indians, COW boys. COW girls, ropers and everything else that goes with a wild west show. Ed Carr nicknamed Dakota Ed, Is a wealthy and well known Dakota Tanehinan who Is out for lark and incl dentally making money for his company. He has the only trained buffalo in the world
 The Congress of Novelties is another striker. It includes four startlers-Major Rineback, the Liliputian magician; Pro lessor Coffee, the living skeleton: the Bearded Lady and Hop the Frog boy
 Spellman is also lucky in having ob- tained The Panama Canal" a pictorial study of the big ditch, as it is today, replica of the marvellous undertaking showing the topography of the isthmus, the work in progress at the cut, the street cars, the people, the ships and the wireless station.
 Then Mrs Spellman's own '"Tinymite." the smallest pony in the world, is on hand again, while Baron Nicu, claimed to be the smallest man in the world. and Chi quita, the doll lady, the smallest woman in the world, who has been IA years before the public, was born in Cuba, weighs 20 pounds and is 26 inches tall, but perfectly formed and very hand some, are among the other small things for the sightseer.
 Mazeppa, the horse with the human brain. wonderfully educated trick horse whose actions are perfectly human, Is perhaps the most genuinely interesting act on the Pleasure Way" If one wishes corpulence, Victoria, weight 6S5 pounds, will furnish a vision of fat
 Determination the most popular show down the line last year. has been re- turned, and A. J. Murphy, the plucky young man without hands or legs. will demonstrate the plan of living which he has worked out. The Jolly Grass Widows, series of illusions, and the Devil in Art being the reproduction of celebrated masterpieces, are two other good fea- lures.
 The Miniature City, is a mechanical model, showing peculiar genius in work manship and containing everything now allotted to the modern city, in actual mo- tion, and Colonel Munns Winebago vil- lage, containing 70 Indians and squaws. with their needlework, are but two more of the "A shows which make the Pleas ure Way the wonder of the curious and the joy of the bubbling spirits which seek fun and relaxation at the fair.
 Interest In Odum BipIane.
 Interest in H. T. Odom's biplane which is being built in the building next the main exhibit hall, is attracting crowds of the curious Several hundred viewed it yesterday and watched him putting on the finishing touches and all were posi- lively impressed with the certainty of his success. He hopes to make a trial flight some time today and proposes to fill his contract with the fair association to fly tomorrow and every day this week. The public flight tomorrow will be made in front of the grand stand shortly after 8 o'clock.
 Knabenshue and Beachy, the pilots of the two dirigibe airships, arrived in Br- mingham yesterday afternoon and decid- ed to make flights today They will get their material in shape this morning.
 Result of Races.
 Following are the results in yesterdays races.
 First race, 2:3O trotting. stake $500: Bessie Hughes, ch. m., by Stam-
 mont U1ukil) ......................... 1 l Ed Allen. b. g., by Caneland Wilkes
 (HooD ........-......,.........,. Sidney Thistle b. g., by Sidney Gar
 ter) ..............., .....,................ The Operator, b. g., by Adbel (Pol-
 lard) .............-........-..
 Time 2:19A, 219A
 Second race, 2-year-olds, trot, purse S200: Celestine, br. m., by The Clans
 man (RenclO ....................... 3 1 Framing Girl. gr m, by The
 Tramp CWishart) ................ 2 2 Fred s. Me, b. h., by Fred s.
 Wilkes (Whitehead) ............ 2 3 8
 Time 2:29A, 2:241s, 2;24A.
 Here is the race programme for Tues day.
 2:10 class. pacing, stake $6oO-Starters,