The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-24
BIRMINGHAM WILL BE DECORATED FOR
 VISITORS ID FAIR
Fair Association Directors Meet Again This Morning to Perfect Plans and
 Award Contract

Preparing for thousands of visitors who will begin to arrive the latter part of the week, Birmingham will begin to don gala advantage through the fair, which opens Monday. This was decided yesterday at meeting of the directors of the fair asso- ciation held in the Chamber of Commerce office of the association.
 The board of directors will meet again this afternoon at o'clock in the fair of fees in the Chamber of Commerce build ing for the purpose of discussing the plan of decoration and of awarding the con tract. It is planned tentatively to decor ate about IS blocks of the business sec. tion of the city. The decorations, of course. will not be on so elaborate a scale as were those of fashion week, but bunt- ing doubtless will be used extensively and flags and banners will float to the breeze over every business house in the city.
 Street Commissioner Frank Gafford has been busy for more than week past pre- pairing roads leading to the fair grounds and yesterday he assured officials of the fair association that there were now three roads leading direct to the grounds over which automobiles can travel with out fear of bumps and jars. The First avenue road has been worked over to Lomb boulevard and is in excellent con dtion; the Third avenue road has been smoothed and is now in fine condition, and the Eighth avenue road to Owenton has been put in first class condition. This road turns into the Third avenue road at owenton, thence to the fair grounds.
 On the fair grounds everyone seems to be busy. Exhibits are arriving In larger numbers and by Sunday morning at 9:3o o'clock everything will be in readiness for the opening of the fair 24 hours later. A bonus of S150 is offered to every ex- hibitor who has his showing ready by 9:30 o'clock Sunday morning, and every one is trying for the money.
 Angus A. Acree, publicity agent of the association, returned yesterday from Tuscaloosa and reports that he has se- cured l2 race horses in addition to those brought here by Secretary FowllSes and President Brown from Louisville The horses contracted for by Mir. Acree are all owned by Alabamians and were raised on Alabama soil. There are no running Horses in the lot, trotters and pacers only being secured. Among the owners who have entrants are John Vincentelli of Montgomery, w. F. Webb of Nashville. w. M. Gallagher of Selma, and Finnell Brothers of Tuscaloosa.
 Girdle McGregor, a young horse. owned by the Finnell Brothers. will run at the Alabama fair. She ran her first race at Tuscaloosa Tuesday and made brilliant run until within 10 yards of the tape, when she broke and was disqualified. She finished several feet ahead of the nearest contender for honors, and but for the break would have been very easy win ner.
 Mir. Acree says that the people of Tus- caloosa are unaware of the fact that there is war abroad. as regards it's eff feet upon business conditions and the re- ceipts from attendance of the fair asso- citation there, he says people are attending the fair and are spending money freely. He predicts that the same thing will ob- tain when the Alabama fair opens in Br- mingham next Monday morning.
 Joe Spanier, race track secretary of