Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20

son-there are big shows and
little shows all over the word.
and the people flock to them in
droves. The public IS not learn
ing sbout motor cars-it has learned Pl-
ready. and it is in buying mood-it mas
the money and wants to part with IL II
not only wants the latest thing out out
IL wants something that will be OF ma
terial benefit to the pleasure, the heaHh
and possibly the pocketbook of the user
New York has had two tastes TINS sea
son. while Philadelphia has also oeeh
through the throes of show. The WASH
ington show will be opened in the dupont
garage the evening of January -.
Tn. show committee of the Washington
Automobile Dealers Association. which Is
promoting the event. as it has the past
six exhibitions. is working hard TO get up
a show that will be credit to tne cry
and visitors the opening night VIII ma
that their labors have not been IN VAIN
Caorge \de has accepted the fate that
Ia said to overtake every man VINO once
starts motoring: has discarded what ne
terms his little peanut roaster, ana mas
hacomr 'aristocratic' by the purchase oi
a larger car. The purchase was recently
made. in Chicago, and at the time MI Aoe
remarked that he supposed he hao 'huS
settled the four-six question.
81 believe in buying cylinders according
to the number of friends you wish 10 carry
n vour cara cylinder a friend he ex-
,I.ined IF had nine friends would get
a t.n-cyIiuder car and then, presume
after | had ridden them arouLd the couiI
try. making each responsible TOT Cyl
inder I would soon be able 10 go pach W
the one-Cvlinder days.
MIR AIDE further comments that ne mas
become so sick of vending an lnuus' , .oua
and dignified course along sheridan ,oio
i'm his first little purchase, oniS 10 he<ii
a yvhirr behind him. a honk alongside OF MIN
q roar sweeping by him and cloud OF
dust all around him, ,ltat he expects ms
fnes will be heavy during the nrst wv
or three months of his new ownership
while with malice afOrethought. he ileS
in waiting along the same highway lot
the same fellows to come along ana get
theirs.
For the seventh annual automobile show.
II is declared Madison Square Garden IN
It's decorations excelled anything ever seen
,bara before Thousands of yards of yellow
cloth studded with thirty-tive thousand Sill
yer stars covered every inch of the ceiling
Statues met the eye on every side and IN
every possible place were found oil paint
ingS
Rustic arbors down the center of the am
nhifLe.t.r and green Carpeting in every
exhibit. together with the paintings, gave an
ideal Swiss view. More than S5OoHh was
spent for decorating the puli9ins anu ,i nne
hundreds of beautifully finished automobiles
took second place in the minds of the people
when they-first entered the building.
The transformation of the garden into
such a bower of beauty was the work or
months of preparation in several places in
New York.
Entering the front door the spectator
found wide aisles extending to the right
and to the left. with none but gasoline au-
tomohiles exhibited on the main floor and in
the first gallery. Upon the first gallery
were two narrower galleries in which were
exhibited the sundries. The basement was
filled as was also the concert hall and the
restaurant. to the right of the main en-
trance. and many OF the boxes had exhibits
in them.
in preparing their cars for the exhibit.
There was very little crowding, in spite of
the fact that more than forty different
lines ~ cars were shown.
An automobilist who has recently re-
turned from trip to France says that he
was surprised that he so few machines
that looked like old ones during his visit to
Paris. and that he inquired what became
Of the old cars. He had expected that Paris
would be- the center of most fourishing
business in second hand automobiles, and
he naturally thought he would see a lot of
more or less ancient machines there and on
the country roads He thought very often
that some old car was coming up behind
him on one of the streets. judging by the
noise made by the approaching vehicle, but
when it would come abreast of him it would
have all the appearance of machine not
more than year old
When he asked an automobile dealer
about the matter he was told that Euro
peans were not so ready to entirely dls-
card automobiles after a year or two or
service as We're Americans, and that doubt
less many old machines could be found out
I'm the provincial towns still giving good
service 10 their present owners. The WIS.,
itor said that there must be great num-
Der of old cars in Paris, and expressed
his wonder that he had seen comparatively
so few. adding that from the racket made
by a number of machines he had noticed
they sounded like old cars, but certainly
did not look the part.
The Frenchman then told him that it
was the custom in his country to rebuild
machines when the engine and other work
ing parts were in good condition. This
could be done most advantaseously by
scores Of small automobile makers in the
vicinity of Paris the price of skilled labor
being the factor that makes such pract.ce
both possible and profitable.
Workmen capable of doing his work
and doing it very we'll receive about $3.50
a week. and foremen of shops not very
much more. The old cars are taken in
charge at one OF the small plants and
fixed over almost like new for much less
than new machine could he purchased.
The GLASSES are heightened. larger wheels
are fitted and with the addition of new
body and many coats of paint there is
what appears 10 be a new machine and
onS that will last for years with careful
usage.