Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-05
GEN. MILES TO OPEN SHOW
Will Deliver Address at Automobile
Exhibition Monday Night.

The second annual automobile show to he
held under the auspices of the Washington
Automobile Dealers Association at Light
Infantry armory next week will he formally
opened on Monday night at o'clock by
Lieutenant General Nelson A Miles. with
an address appropriate to the occasion
General Miles is the president of the Ma
tional Capital Automobile Club and one of
the most expert of local ''mobilers" and
thoroughly knows the subject he will talk
upon, and the opening will be one of the
distinctive features OF what promises to be
social and trade success
The armory has been in the hands OF the
electricians and decorators the last few
days, and when the doors are thrown open
to the public and invited guests a scene will
be presented which will be brilliant in the
extreme. From ceiling and walls and from
many of the exhibits themselves will glisten
thousands of electric lights while the bunt-
ing and streamers will cover all bare places
and present at the same time a color
scheme which will be at once striking and
pretty.
The armory on 18th street under Chase's
Theater, is admirably adapted for the
holding of a show of this kind. 1t is Just
large enough to show off the array of motor
vehicles and leave ample space for sight
seers. To enliven the occasion Haley's
Band will be on hand the opening night
and all the week
hicleS are already here, ready TO be taken
to the show room, and others are arriving
by each train. In this particular the show
will compare favorably with the big exbi-
billions held in Madison Square Garden and
in the Coliseum at Chicago. where only
something over hundred carriages each
We're shown
One of the features will be the large num-
Der of vehicles that have never been ex-
hibited before. Among these will be an
electric Waverly' tonneau. which carries
two or six persons as the owner elects to
arrange his carriage; a Toledo touring
car, another novelty, whose construction
is so entirely different from any other in
use that it will at once attract the visitor
Among the loan features will be the
$4,000 steam carriage built fer Senator
Clark in Paris. 1t has the speed of a mile
a minute. and its construction and speed
qualities will be- explained by the senator's
expert chauffeur. o. II. p. Belmont's Red
Devil'' will also be seen in the loan depart
ment and will be distinctive feature not
only because of its remarkable construc-
ton, but because of the novel manner i'm
which the power is stored Later In the
week the two may be seen in a speed COM
petition on the White Lot ellipse.
The members of the automobile club OF
which General Miles. the speaker of Mon
day night, is president will be present al
most in a body, and as its membership in
cludeS many of the leading personages OF
the army and navy and diplomatic and pro-
fesSional circles the gala evening may be
counte3 on to present a social gathering OF
notabes such no other city but this can
do.
Special features Of the entertainment
have been mapped out for each evening -
the week by Manager Washington and the
opportunities Of securing free an automo-
bile by the guessing process or the secur-
ing of the lucky number ticket will not be
overlooked by the crowds at the show
nightly.
"Wednesday a parade of all the automo-
biles of every style and kind In the city
will No held 10 nripcfpaI Str M
the decorated ones entered for the purpose
of competing for prizes will be judged by q
committee from the automobile club as they
pass In review on the White Lot elipse.