New-York tribune., 1900-11-04
GARDENS HoRsELEss SHOW
AUTOMOBILES OF ALL DEGREES SPEED
AROUND THE TRACK-MANY NOVEL
TIES TO BE SEEN

| night was successful In the face Of rather dis
| agreeable weather the turn out of fashionable
| people was much larger than was expected. The
average citizen might look at this show pure
| ly mechanical. One visit is needed to convince
| the scepticaI that while largely mechanical the
show promises to be one OF the most interesting
of any of the exhibits held at the Garden this
winter The crush of humanity last night re-
| minded one OF the bicycle shows Of several years
| ago, when the bicycle first became universally
| popular. Everything was new to the average
| spectator, and he wanted see it ALL
| The bright enamel and nickel the first
| thing to attract the eye of the casual visitor
who has paid only passing attention to the We
hice which is now popular throughout the civil
! lied world. To the experts the motors were the
real attraction. Each one OF the seventy-five or
! more individual manufacturers wanted to all
| the new wrinkles in the machines of his neigh
| bors. Each manufacturer was convinced that
| his own machine possessed advantages which
none OF the other could by any chance have dis
covered. There were machines. Of course. OF
| foreign make, but they were generally OF the
| racing type.
The Garden is arranged in different manner
from any seen heretofore at previous exhibitions.
The restaurant has been given over to the MEM
bers OF the Automobile Club OF America, where
many of the machines belonging to the MEM
bers are exhibition. The centre of the arena
where the regular vehicles are shown. The outer
edges of the arena where the Horse Show
promenade is found when society and the
equines exhibition, has been laid out as
an auto track. where the machines speeded
during the afternoon and evening There is a
balcony extending around over the arena boxes
the Twenty -seventh-st. side. where acces-
sories and parts generally shown. There is
no promenade on the Twenty -sixth-st. side OF
he hu iS pi tn q
members of the Automobile Club and their
friends. Visitors will be kept off the track as
far possible The arrangements have been
so perfected that visitors can travel from one
section 10 another without the necessity Of
crossing the track A large bridge has been
erected the Madison Square entrance of
the Garden extending from the tier of boxes
into the arena below.
VEHICLES ON THE TRACK.
The scene at the Garden last night was pictur-
esque in the extreme. People walked around
viewing the machines with critical eye. The
perts generally drew off into one corner and
compared notes regarding some of the many
new inventions they had seen. Each maker
guarded his secrets carefully or thought he did
About p. m. the machines Of various sorts
everything from light and graceful runabout
TO heavy omnibus. were speeding around the
track. Most of them carried friends of the oper-
ators while the big machines contained many
as half dozen passengers. The women seemed
to enjoy this part of the entertainment i'm
menseiy, and it is sure to be attractive feature
during the week. There We're contests last
night. They will be held afternoons and even
ings during the week.
Instead of the black and yellow OF the Horse
Show, the Garden decorated in automobile
red. and from floor to rafters flags were draped
everywhere, hiding the iron fronts of the bal
comics and making the whole interior mass of
gorgeous color The decorations pinned at
intervals with large fac SMILES of the club
blem--an automobile wheel rubber tired, done
| in red and gold, with the name Of the organiza-
ton the rim. Many signs which became
familiar to those who attended the bicycle shows
in their palmy days will be seen the balcony.
They those of the lamp, lubricants parts,
tires and other wheels. Also the main floor
were some signs of automobile manufacturers
! names, who are also prominent In the bicycle
world
OF special interest TO the average individual
who is not mechanical is the fact that the
makers never before endeavoring to show
and explain the inner mechanism of their ve-
hiCles. Sectional parts of carriages, motors
working separately on stands. and the truck of
a carriage stripped OF its body, but having the
| motor with all connections and operating levers
! remaining, among the objects affording
|
automobile goes.
There hundreds of vehicles and dozens of
varieties, and the total value of them would
run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
| The largest thing in the exhibit is a steam
propelled omnibus that carries eighteen persons
| 1t weighs 6O,0OO pounds. and sells for $4,000
There is to be a line of these vehicles oper ltng
| soon in this city. The smallest and
| cheapest machine is a 12J-pound bicycle with q
"a horse power gas motor, that is listed at $3.50
! Those going to the show from motives of
| curiosity, and not to study the mechanical
! propositions presented, will find plenty to en-
| tertain them in the way of racing machines and
or less successful attempts to express the auto
mobile idea. Among the curios Is steam
wagon, made for pleasure purposes in 1860, and
| it is said to be still in good running order. 1t
was taken to the show under it's own power
! 1t was made by Richard Dudgeon, in this city
| and ii is now in the possession of his son. Frank
| p. Dudgeon, of Locust Valley, Long Island
who uses it at frequent intervals for the enter
| tainment Of his friends 1t is practically loco
| motive. with coal fed furnace, a boiler capable
! of withstanding 200 pounds pressure and gener-
ating eight horse power
ODD INVENTIONS SHOWN
There is also in the restaurant an old bone
shaker Of the bent back order and wooden wheel
! type that fitted with a steam motor in 1865.
another relic is safety of the 1895 pattern
| that was equipped with a steam motor in 1896
Both Of these are products OF Massachusetts
men. As striking novelty anything in the
show Is an automaton man. who is actuated
| by an electric motor and pushes invalid chair
! in front OF him. He is dressed in full walking
costume, with rouge his cheeks and a wig
! on his head. In the restaurant are several
racing machines-the tricycle. which won the
| Toulouse race in France; the Davis racer ths
electric wagon which won the fifty mile race
| ON Long Island last summer, and Dr. Lymanis
racing machine which is propelled by gasolene;
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