The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-14
AUTOS WILL SWARM TONIGHT
FIFTH NATIONAL SHOW OPEN
ING IN THE GARDEN.
HIg and Little Cars. nj Large and Small
Prices. VIII Testify That the Game is
No Longer Exclusi,e-Fxhbit Greater
Than Eyer-Some OF the Tendencies,

Tonight at clock the doors OF Madiso On
Square Garden VIII open to admit the public
to the Afth annual national automobile show
under tho Joint auspices OF the Automobile
Club OF America. the National Association OF
Automobile Manufacturers and the Madison
Square Garden Company.
In every way the show this year Will be
greater and grandsr and better in every way.
There will be more exhibits. and the quality
Of them rs a whole will be higher. there will
be more new features. and the finish OF the
motor cars viii be finer. the general setting
of them will be more elegant
An army OF carpenters. decorators. cleo.
tricians. upholsterers and sign painters
were busy IN the Garden yesterday making
ready the big umphitheatre for the show. and
from the character OF the work It was mani
fest that the decorations are to be OF higher
class this year than before. Machines for
tho stands began to arrive Yesterday also.
and to-dGy there will be Il steady stream
OF them pouring into the place. One i'm
provement in the arran gements noticeable
Is that the Garden management this year
has Aborers in livery to haul the machines
into the building and put them into place
instead OF leaving this work to be done by
the individual exhibitors. as in the past
with the result that lot of rough and readcs
were hired and lot Of things smashed ar
stolen.
There VIII DE more tnah lJO eNtuDHOIS ~
the show this year. nearly 100 OF whom VIII
show complete machines aggregating about
300 vehicles III all, while the remainder VIII
show the thousand and one accessories and
sundries that 20 10 complete the outfit OF the
UP TO dute automobilist.
Surprises are indicated by the fact that a
number of manufacturers have withheld
their new models from their agents in order
10 introduce them 10 the public at the show
Three hundred cars In procession. running In
close order would make "A string nearly three
miles in length. and the value Of these cars.
at nm average Of s.. 900 each, would amount TO
more than $500 900,
During the show each exhibitor who man
nfactures cars viii have. as usual. demonstra-
ton cars outside the building in which pros
Dective buyers VIII be given spins to show
the running and riding qualities Of them.
There viii be cars for every one at the
$3.50 and runabouts at $3.50. TO mammoth
Pullman cars az $1,000. Prices are no lower
than before. but there IS more to be had in
efficiency Of service in reliability and dura-
bility Than ever before. and those who visit
the show will come TO the realization that
automobiling is TO longer luxury nor an
exclusive sport for the very wealthy, but
that IL - a new method of transportation,
which similarly to the horse VIII nave lts
common and unitarian phase, az Well MS a
snorting end The show viii reveal itself TO
many as O Conlrma ton Of the recent utter
ance Of W. /. Scaritt when ne sala mat the
automobile was yesterday the toy OF u lew,
to-day H. ia the servant OF many and to-
morrow II will be tine ecessity OF mank ind.
Immense strides have been made by the
automobile makers IN America during the last
few years but In no year was the advance
more noticeable than Il is in the comparison
of tho 1905 models with those OF 1901 From
what Is already known OF the machines 10 be
exhibited II seems assured that the year Will
stand in the annals OF history as marking that
sta &c OF the contest for commercial supremacy
when the American makers. who, started In
the race with handicap of FIVE years IN e.
perience being given 10 the foreign makers,
have overtaken those who were IN the lead
and have come abreast of them and are seen
10 be moving faster and certain soon 70 pres
those who were their mentors and pDce
makers u other words, the neck and neck
period Of the race plainly has arrived and the
American manufacturers VIII lace the pubic
on the merit Of their goods with apologies 10
none and their castor SHE'D into the ring of
all the WorMs producers.
The tendency in development most notable
is continual ion OF the move toward the
abortion of four cylinder engines and the
production OF larger cars of higher horse
simpler IN tho methods Of control The
four cvlndered touring car with side
door entrance TO the body viii be the
new type Of 1905. broadly speaking, but
that typical American production. the
horizontal engine, Of either one cylinder
or two in opposit lon. has by no means
been Abandoned The biggest producers
eral newcomers In the field have adopted
IL ia with this style OF engine that cars OF
from six to twelve horse power can be mate
and sold cheaply The old formula that
automobiles cost ~ pound has been widely
departed from In the MEt few years since the
.levclopmen. Of the TOURING car. but with the
cars are now being made 70 sell AZ consider
obtv less fhnu pound.