New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-07
SOON THE AUTO" SHOW
This Years Exhibition at Garden to
Haze Mann Ne5o Features.

With a record breaking list Of exhibitors. show
ing the motor cars of two continents. and with
the building decorated in a manner never before
attempted. Madison Square Garden will open next
Saturday night with the greatest automobile sno"
ever held in America. The exhibitors. the motor
cars and accessories and the fairyland In which
the vehicles are to be exhibited will make 1t an
industrial exhibition greater than even the most
optimstio admirer of power driven vehicles mas
deemed possible.
About two hundred and twenty-five concerns
have taken every available inch OF space in the
building to show the latest types Of motor vehicles
propelled by steam, gasolene and electricity Ihls
year gasolene vehicles will occupy the entire main
floor electric vehicles will fill the exhibition hall
on the Madison-ave. end, while the basement Will
be used for commercial vehicles. The tire, parts
and accessory firms have been allotted space on
the elevated platform, in the concert hall and on
the balconies.
Ten gangs Of decorators started work yesterday.
md each gang is expected to finish three hundred
feet of decoration before the opening next satur-
dav night visitors will see the same old firms.
many Of them pioneers In motor car construction
in the same building where they have shown the
progress OF motor cars for the last SIX years ana
weathered the storm of competition and improve
ment
James c. Young manager Of the show. and the
members of the show committee declare that no
expense has been spared to make the eXhioiuon
the equal of anything abroad Mr. Young says IL
ported and American ever shown together
with a complete list of accessory concerns
The color scheme will be white and gold. Thous-
ards Of electric lights will illuminate the amph-
theatre At the entrance will be the Poster
Girl 'S the Automobile Girl and The Chauffeur
IN staff work made larger than life size Under
the first named will a fountain of running wa
ter on which will be played different colored
lights.
Sculptors and modellers have been at work for
he
which are now being placed in the big Garden
Men who prepared the staff work for Luna Park
and the St Louis Fair have made the figures for
the automobile show. On the floor will be laid
five thousand yards of thickly padded carpet OF
bronze color The roof will be draped with blue
hunting and the rear Of the Garden will be covered
with a scenic painting representing an italian
garden All the signs will be of gold and white.
No gasolene will be allowed in the building and
all the decorations, to the evergreens. will be
trea ted with a freproof compound. The annoying
horn blowing in evidence at previous shows will be
missing for horns must have the reeds removed.
No price" or sold" cards can be displayed on
anv automobile, and the distribution of souvenirs
is absolutely prohibited. Every attendant at the
show and the watchmen and messengers will be
There will be no dinners meetings OF the ex-
hihitors during show week. IT having been de-
cided that the manufacturers too busy at that
time to attend any gatherings