The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-23
BOOKING TIE B|G FAIR ATTRACTIONS Lincoln Beachy May Be
 Brought South
CURTISS MAN IS HERE
Hopes to Complete Arrangements for Cross Country Flight Between Birmingham and Macon.
 Chaffee in Columbus

Contracts for all of the free amuse- ments of the Alabama State Fair. which is to be held October 5-14, are rapidly being closed and the long list of attrac- tions which have already been made pub lie will shortly be augmented by numerous other stellar shows, among them being the crop of aviators which is to make daily flights during the ten days of the exposition.
 Frank P. Chaffee, secretary of the Ala bama State Fair will visit the Ohio State Fair at Columbus, O.. on Thursday and the most novel shows given there, such | as meet his approval to be selected for the Alabama State Fair in Birmingham.
 MT. Chaffee has been enjoying a well earned vacation for the past week with Mrs Chaffee and daughters at Ashe- vile N C, but he leaves Asheville this morning for Columbus. where he will arrive in time to attend the opening of the Ohio State Fair.
 The Ohio State Fair at Columbus is the first fair in the great southern cir cult, in regards to dates. and 1t has be- come an established custom for almost all the best free acts and the most en- terprising concessionaires to first show at Columbus, that point being the start ing place, as it were. for the season.
 When the Columbus fair closes the amusements and concessionaires start southward, working towards Birmingham via Nashville and Memphis. while others start westward.
 eft fa Calt faI1a is for the purpose of selecting the best for the Alabama State Fair in this city and making contracts with them early enough to insure their showing here. With 20 leading attractions of the United Fairs Booking association already engaged for the Plaza and the Midway and with the two great features, Innes band and Pains pyrotechnlc spectacle. '*The Battle of the Clouds" as the headliners of the coming show, there is little doubt but that the Alabama State Fair this season will be one constant whir of fun. frolic and amusement, from the children to the grown-ups. for the whole ten days.
 The aviation stunts will also be ar ranged in the next few days. in defi- nite way. and 1t Is not improbable that Lincoln Beachey. whose name has almost become a household word through his daring and intelligence in aerial naviga- tion. will come to this city for the fair, justly regarded as "the states greatest annual event"
 Roehefort Calhoun, a representative of the Curtiss Aviation company. is in Bir- mfngham today, having arrived yester- day afternoon, and is in close consulta- ton with the president, B. B. Burton, and the executive committee. of which John L. Parker is chairman. while tele- graphic communication with Chaffee has been established to effect some arrange ment for the cross-country flight between Macon and Birmingham.
 In fact, while the chances for this stunt the first long-distance cross-country flight ever attempted in the south, appear to be very slim locally, yet Mir. Calhoun Is enthusiastically urging the matter upon the Alabama State Fair officials and is preparing to make a proposition which may make the feat fasible.
 In the other departments of the fair every preparation Is being made to as- sure completion and readiness and the agricultural displays to be made by the state department of agriculture. of which Capt. R. F Kolb is commissioner, and the three railways. the Southern. Mobile and Ohio, and Queen and Crescent, are practically ready for installation even at this early date. These displays, with the special exhibit of live stock, swine and poultry, and the horse and motor cycle races, will make the Alabama State Fair for 1911 one long to be remembered from an instructive and educational stand nOint