New-York tribune., 1907-01-12
AUTO TO BE ON SHOW
READY FOR THE OPENING.
THE Garden Has Been Transformed
for Big Exhibition.

With the opening of the seventh national au-
tomobile show in Madison Square Garden TO-
night viii come feeling of relief and thanks
giving TO the retail dealers in motor vehicles
everywhere. for the event will be as a CONNER
cial Easter following fasting season Of more
than forty days. Retailers generally and those
or New York in particular, have been complain
ing Tor several weeks that all buyers have been
holding back until after the big show The GEN
eral agreement Of the dealers is that never be-
1ore IN their experience has trade been so dull
pending the opening Of the show, which is con-
sidered as the real begin ming of the automobile
year. For this if for nc, other reason the ex-
position Of new models nc ~ at hand is an event
of national and not local Importance.
For several years the te ndency in automobile
coIlstruction-born of the mbitions OF both user
ana seller-has been iowa I'd more power. and
again, still higher power: toward larger
snd stu bigger ones; toward greater strength in
frames and greater luxury in bodies; toward
motor vehicles of higher Irade in every way
-feeter, finer, more roony more magnificent
and more expensive. This sndency never was
more noticeable than at the resent time
The Garden show is under the auspices Of the
Association of Licensed Aut pmobile Manufact-
orers organized in March, Il GS. which includes
IN its thirty-nine licensees practically all of
The old guard of makers. 1t las been by sort
or natural selection that those makers who
have been longest established are best known
ana most prosperous, have, enerally speaking.
followed the tendency toward making bigger
cars and who to-day tn makers of the
American cars that rival the Imported brands
This is so emphatically the case that every
IN the trade recognizes II, although the atten-
ton OF the general public Is not often called
TO It. The association incudes also many old
time and standard makers who produce cars
OF medium power. weight and price, and also a
number who turn out standard goods in small
end low priced vehicles. but without excep-
ton all Of the big cars. those that determine the
styles and preserve the high water mark of the
American industry are included in the licensed
group.
The Garden Will open flL7d in every nook
and Granny with motor vehicles and accessories.
There Will be o65 exhibitors In ALL which is
greater number than ever before crowded
into the Garden any 9th er show in New
York Yet the applicants for space who had 20
chow of accessories If they chose, for there
were more than fhreescore Of them This not
withstanding the, fact that through some in
genious calculation the show committee
available this year by building the elevated
platform over the arena boxes. so that 1t ex-
tends slightly over the main floor This plat
form has been in place for couple or weeks
and the special flooring for the exhibition was
laid at the same time.
Among the special features Will be the foreign
and racing cars built for the Vapderbilt Cup
race and in the same si'ace the cap itself will
be exhibition. The rathskeller n the base
ment viii be elaborate affair, ans no trip to
the show will be complete without visit to it.
In the basement there VIII be found many in
teresting developments in commercial vehicles
and late novelties OF the accessory dealers.
Forty-three different makes Of gasotene cars
VIII be represented, besides seven makes or cleo
trio carriages and nine Of commercial vehicles
The exhibit OF electrics Will be the most COM
plete ever seen, and there will be mstny new
features in every department. The foreign cars
exhibited will be the genuine 1907 models, most
of them sent from abroad at the close of the
Paris show.
The show will open at o'clock tonight and
be open day ard night until II o'clock Janu-
ary 10. On Tuesday and Thursday the admis
sion will be 81; other days. 80 cents.