Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-01
THE AUTOMOBILE SHOW
EXHIBIT SCHEDULED TO TAKE
PLACE AT CONVECTION HALL.
Intended to Serve a Double Purpose
Distinguished People Interested
Display. of Vehicles.

Instead Of the chatter and beat of horses
hoofs and champiDg of bits and rattle of
pole and harness chains. Of a horse show,
such as was held last year, Convention Hall
during the week beginning Monday, Decem-
Der 10. will be the scene of Washington s
first automobile show
Not only society, but the general public,
is evincing more than ordinary interest in
the coming show, which the management
promises will, in many respects, rival the
great automobile exposition held last
month in Madison Square Garden.
The exhibition Is intended to serve the
double purpose of showing the extraordin-
airy progress made In the industry during
the past year. and to convince the public
by demonstration through special exhibits
Of the utility of the automobile and KIM
dred motor vehicles for purposes of bust
ness and pleasure.
The display Of vehicles will include every
Known variety, and their exhibition, IN ad-
dition to parts and furnishings needed in
their construction and use, will be suffi-
cient.y comprehensive to prove to the I'M
itiated that this industry has entirely out
Initiated that this new industry has entirely
outgrown the experimental and fad period.
Enough makers and dealers throughout
the country have slgnified their intention or
sending samples of their workmanship to
an extent which will more than fill the
space reserved for purely exhibition pur-
poses. Each firm will have a representa-
tive here, who will explain all that inquir-
Ing visitors may wish to be enlightened
upon.
OF souvenirs, useful and ornamental, there
will be an abundant supply and variety.
Haley's band will add to the pleasure Of
the affair.
Series of Races.
Additional features and those which will
prove attractive to the greatest number of
W Sif will ho hn Of mr.
other contests provided by the manage
ment. These will include straightaway
dashes and middle-distances, obstacle
races, braking matches an gymkhana
races.
Expert chauffeurs will put through their
PAGES" SO to speak, some of the well-known
racing machines which have gained for
their wealthy owners national reputation.
In addition to the "mobes'' there will be
a special exhibition of motorcycles, which
for pleasure and racing as well as for
business are rapidly forging to the front.
Altogether the show promises, with it's
many features, at the same time unique
and attractive, to be one Of the mos; in
teresting entertainments ever offered here.
J.. will have the distinction Of being the
third held on this side of the big pond,
New York and Chicago having led the way
with firstly and secondly"
Leading Society Event.
AS society event 1t will be the feature
Of the season. OF the many members of
the diplomatic corps who have taken to
automobiling none is more enthusiastic
than the Chinese minister, Mr.. WI, who
by the way, uses a locomobile, which he
has learned to handle with grace and dex-
terity.
Countess Cassini, the niece Of the Rus
sian ambassador, is another very enthu-
siastic and expert tmohiler,' who grace
fully though firmly handles the lever of
her auto, and in thoroughfares as well as
in suburban roads spins along unmindful
of danger and evidently master of the mo-
tor vehicle she has chosen for her pleasure
And so with Miss Martha Hichborn,
daughter of the chief naval constructor,
who performs all her shopping and social
tours in the modern motor vehicle.
Those named and many others. among
whom are Secretary of the Navy Long,
Senators Wolcott and Pugh, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. L. Barbour Mr. William B. Hbbs, DIR.
Johnson, Mr.. Clarence Norment, Dr. Frye
and Mr.. Wilson, are highly interested in
the coming show at Convention Hall, and
their presence either as spectators or in
official capacity will lend much to the sue
cess of the affair.