The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-02
FREE ATTRACTIONS
FOR THE STATE FAIR
First Cavalry Band Heads
the List
is A GREAT VARIETY
Trained Mules, High School Horses,
Acrobats, Trotting Ostrich and
Horse Loop the Loop Act
Among the Features

| President B. B. Burton OF the Alabama
State Fair and Exhibit association yes
| terday gave out list of the free attrac-
| tions for the 1913 fair this fall. It is one
of the most imposing groups of fair al
fractions ever secured by any fair in the
south, it is said. and is expected to be
one of the main factors in making tha
1913 fair the best ever held in Alabama.
one of the principal strong features II
the list is its variety, almost every kind
of attraction and entertainment being rep
resented.
| OF course. a the head of the list il
placed the First Cavalry band, which
alone Is expected to be one of the largest
| single attractions ever presented in the
south. This is a complete trained United
States military band, every musician
mounted on white horse and a large
part of its musical programme will con-
| sist of performances while mounted on
| these horses In addition the horses and
musicians will be put through the regli-
lar cavalry drills twice every day. after
which they will dismount and will appear
| in the grandstand band stand in full dress
uniform and complete their programme
| Their leader, Rudolph Berliner, for many
| years was band instructor in the United
| States cavalry. and is recognized mu-
| scian of high talent. The list of attrac-
tions in fun is as follows:
Entire Attractions
| The Five Ferris Wheel Girls. introduce
| ing vaudeville's newest sensation, ladies
beautiful, on revolving Ferris wheel
| Fnk's Comedy Mules, introducing for
the first time perfectly trained mules in
matchless equestrian number.
Yamato Troupe. introducing marvellous
wire walking.
| Nine. Marantette and Colonel Harris,
America $ society king and queen of the
horse introducing superb high school
equestrian display.
The Dellamead Troupe. introducing
poses plastlque: direct from the Winter
| garden, Germany.
! -Four Marvellous Mells, introducing their
hazardous ring and trapeze attraction,
Greet from the lIippodrome, New York
Humberto's Chimpanzees. doing all the
tricks done by human riders and then
some. Imported direct from the Hagen
back gardens, France.
"st Patrick" Arabian aristocrat.
worlds highest jumping horse.
Omura & Son, Japan's premier perch
pole feature.
| Pete" the unrdable mule
-Four Cevene Troupe, comedy acrobatc
| numbers.
| "Gaucho," trotting ostrich, and Bonnie
Ann" running horse, Introducing the
only bird ever driven double with horse,
| to so half mile in the world.
Nine. Galarmo, Introducing her aerial
ladder act.
| The Six Castrllions, the worlds great
est aorobatc attraction, direct from the
! Circo Belle, Mexico.
japanese Troupe, with their wonderful
| ridley work.
| Nicholas Chefalo, the worlds most sem
| satonal feature attraction. Loon the
! Loop" an act that requires the skill and
| ease of a master and the nerve of a hero
| TO perform twice daily.
| Attraction Extraordinary,-F Caval-
ry band, direction Rudolph Berliner, in
ttrooucing United States cavalry maneti-
yers programme and musical programme
| supreme
Con Kennedy Midway shows, of ths
| largest and highest classed group OF
| shows travelling the fair circuits in the
| country.