The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-06
AUTO SHOW RUNS SMOOTHLY.
EXPERIENCED MEN NOW ATTEND
ING TO SALES
More Comfort for Spectators Than At Pre-
NIous Exhibitions Women show Their
knowledge OF Mechanism Harry
Payne Mhitneys Racer Arrives.

knowledge OF Mechanism Harry
Payne Whitneys Racer Arrives.
Everything in connection with the seventh
annual exhibition Of the Automobile Club
of America at the Grand Central Palace was
running az smoothly last night as though
| the show had been under way for three
weeks instead OF three days. Barring a
few Of the inexperienced and youthful en-
thusiasts among the stand attendants
whose voices were scarcely audible. every
one seemed to be happy. II is a noticeable
fact that at the annual automobile shows in
this city, it is the younger ones OF the sales
men who do the most talking about their
cars during the first two or three days OF the
show, while the older men do not appear
TO take much interest in affairs until Wednes-
day Of each week.
The older men have found that a great
majority OF those who visit the show on the
opening night and the first couple OF days
are shoppers, pure and simple, or IL intend
ing purchasers, that they will come back
again in a day or W They accordingly
save their voices and strength for the latter
part OF the shows and thus are able to actu-
ally land more customers than their harder
working juniors.
The a~eronauticsl exhibit Of the Aero
Club of America on the seventh floor is
growing more popular every day and is
visited by an increasing numbe Of curious
ones each day. For the first day or so there
seemed to be a sort of inclination on the
part OF visitors to neglect the balloons, and
90 the show committee had a balloo basket
suspended over the middle of the centre
aisle on the main floor. The basket has an
anchor hanging at one side and a big coil
of rope on the other and a sign is hung from
it which reads: Aero Club xhibit 7th
Floor"
There are more seats scattered among
the exhibitors spaces this year than there
we're at the clubs show last winter in the
S~ixty-ninth Regiment Arnory. These seats
are popular, too, especially during the late
afternoon and along toward closing time at
night. In the afternoon there ia many a
family party which starts upon the rounds
of the exhibits which is depleted through
the desertion OF the matron OF the party
before the others have had their Ali OF sight
seeing. The tired mothers OF families,
whose energies halt before the demands OF
their grown up daughters or sons gratefully
accept seats at some booth where they are
KNOW
Joe Tracy, who won the elimination
trials 10 select the American team in the
Vanderbilt cup ace last September with
his Locomobile racer, was at TN SHOW
Yesterday afternoon an had a few OBJ
carnations to record on the fair visitors
10 the building. He said that he had noticed
a number Of instances where some girl
in her early twenties actually knew more
about the mechanism OF some big high
powered machine than did the voluble
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interested in. Tracy said he had always
been rather sceptical regarding the asser-
ton that there were many girls who really
knew something about the way the mod
ern power driven vehicles were constructed,
but said he had been converted by some
Of the many conversations he had over
heard. "
When he is not driving a racing machine
Tracy puts in part OF his time as a con-
sulting engineer for concerns,
and is of course very much interested IN
everything new in design and construc-
ton. While Tracy Ia known to most OF the
New Workers who are stationed at the
various stands, there are many OF them
who do not know him by sight, and the re
are very few Of the out of % men that
know the Locomobile pilot personally.
So on his rounds OF the building Tracy
has been hugely amused by some OF the
things these enthusiastic young men have
told him about motors, transmisslons and
other mechanical details Of G1 automobile.
Tracy said that he though the star OF
this Aggregation was a young man at one
OF the 70 reign car exhibits. He could tell
a fine story about his car, unless his auditor
was thoughtless enough to interrupt hlm'
when he would have TO start all over again.
As an example Of a living photograph,
Tracy is willing to back this youth against
all corners.
One of the notable things in connection
with this show has been the comparative
absence of reports OF demonstrators beng
arrested for exceeding the speed limits.
At most Of the former shows 1t was the
practice of the factory men TO bring along
with them as demonstrators, the men who
made up the testing forces of their various
factories. These testers are in the habit
OF driving as fast as they dare, and as many
factories are located in mall towns where
they are allowed to speed almost at will.
they found great difficulty in driving at
the deoorous rate prescribed for the streets
and avenues OF this city, and we're arrested
in punches.
The first reported instance OF a demon
strator who was connected with this show
being arrested was heard yesterday when
the news began to spread that George
Jones had g stopped as he was leaving
Central Park in his Compound on Tuesday
afternoon. Three prospective purchasers,
two from Utica M one from Cleveland,
were with Jones at the time and as he turned
into Fifth avenue a mounted policeman
rode up to Jones and arrested him. He
was charged with driving without a State
license, using a fictitious humble and ex-
ceeding the speed limit. Magistrate Moss
threw put the first two charges which were
proved false, but held Jones in 500 bail for
speeding. His case will be heard in the
Court OF Special Sessions.
Percy Payne Lewis has purchased the
Argus show chassis and intends TO have
a racing body fitted to il as soon as he can
obtain possession OF it, which will be next
week. 1t is reported that he will enter his
car in several Of the events in the 0rmond
Beach carnival in Florida next January,
but has not yet decided whether to drive
IL himself OF secure the services OF a pro-
fessional race driver.
Harry Payne Whitney's Brasier racer
arrived at the building late last night and
aroused a great deal Of comment, as it is
the only foreign racing machine on exhi-
bition. In a way this car is a sort OF mys-
terry, as the owner and the men in charge
of the booth where il is shown do not seem to
agree as to its exact identity. When Mr..
Whitney had the trim looking little ma
chine down on the Vanderbilt cup course
on Long Island a few weeks ago he said hat
il was the los horsepower racer tina Baras
has driven in the Grand Prix OF the Auto
mobile Club of rance and with which the
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