The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-30
FORDSON SHOW
 TO BE BETTER
Tractor Exhibit In Atlanta Will Be The Largest
 Ever Staged

Those of you who have visited the Southeastern Fair which Is held every fall at Atlanta, are going to receive the surprise of their lives this year when they enter the fair grounds. You will rmember that in going out Pyror street just before you enter the fair that your first glimpse of the grounds is a large tract of waste land upon which were the old floats used in the great parade held during Atlanta Progress and Prosperity Weed. These floats had been al- lowed to go to decay and admirably fitted into the picture of the canal, the tall willows along the bank and bits of refuse strewn at odd places. This year be prepared for the big surprise, for in place of this you will behold one of the largest industrial tractor exhibitions ever staged in this country,
 Lagoon In Center or ExpOsitiOn.
 The canal which feeds the lake in the center of the race track has been damned up and a huge lagoon formed around this lagoon is a cinder path. A substantial railing has been erected to prevent children falling in the water. An enormous foot bridge
 
 five ton trucks has been erected across this body of water in order that visitors might easily pass from one side to the other. In the center of the lagoon is a fountain sur rounded by moss covered rocks. Dur. ing the day four-inch stream of water will be thrown many feet in the air, of course. propelled by pump operated by a Fordson tractor. At night spray nozzle is to be at tached and the mist will be allowed to fall back in the water over the festoon of colored lines.
 A miniature Detroit Toledo and Ironaton railroad is being erected, running completely around the grounds and Fordson tractors with locomotive attachments will contin- ually haul passenger and work trains. A large crew of men are busy at work from dawn until late in the night making the necessary prepara- tions which involves grading the en- tire piece of property preparation of the bridges, the dam necessary to form the lagoon, and the two trestles for the railroad. Incidentally it was necessary to curve one of these trestles and after 1t was completed the foreman in charge discovered that this was quite an engineering feat.
 WOrkMen Busy From Dawn.
 Last year on Ponce de Leon avenue the Ford Motor company and the city dealers of Atlanta held an indus trial tractor show. which was visited by some forty thousand people This year 1t was decided to combine with the fair and this special plot of ground has been allotted for per manent industrial tractor exposition. The first thing erected was saw mill operated by Fordson tractor and as fast as the carloads of logs were received they were cut into timber and billings to be used in connection with the show.
 MT. w. B. Fitzgerald. MT. c. E. Stewart and Mir, W. V. Wood of the Ford Motor company are in complete charge. These gentlemen are spe- cialists in industrial tractor exposi- tions and they are all consistent in their claims that this will be the greatest of all tractor shows. Over fifty different exhibitors are sending Specialists with their equipment to be used in connection with this ex- hibition and from now until the fair opens these grounds should fairly swarm with various activities.