The Washington herald., 1907-01-15
Big CROWDS AT SHOW
Thousands Visit Exhibit in
Madison Square Garden.
SOUTHERN GIRLS INTERESTED
Twelve Fair Lasses from Raleigh
VIII Write Their Impressions Of
the ExhibitiOn-Scarcity of Six CYL
inder Cars Causes Surprise-Inter-
est In Darracq Machine.

New York. Jan 14-Judging from the
number of visitors who thronged the
building to-day, the seventh annual Madi-
son Square Garden Automobile Show will
surpass all former attendance figures in
as great a degree as the spledor Of the
decorations and the luxury of the cars
are superior TO what could lie seen at
any former exhibition Of automobiles and
accessories.
The rain made things rather unpleas-
ant for demonstrations whose cars were
not provided with some sort Of covering.
and there was quite bit Of hurrying
by some Of them to secure cape tops
and fit them to their cars, so they could
fulfill demonstration engagements with
comfort in spite Of the Grizzle
The show had at least one party OF visi-
tors to-day that had nothing but good
words for almost everything they saw.
This was dozen girls from Raleigh. y.
C.. who had been brought 10 the show by
George s. Carter, a Southern publisher
They We're very busy lot, for one Of tho
conditions OF their visit was that each
write a story about the show, the liter
airy efforts Of the twelve 10 be published.
They did not appear to be very much con
cerned about what was hidden by the
bonnets Of the various cars.
Vanderbilt Cup Winner.
The Vanderbilt Cup. which is shown at
the DaTracq booth. on account Of Wag-
ner's victory with one Of those machines
last October. was always surrounded by
an interesting crowd of visitors.
Tho two exhibits Of racing cars-Euro-
pean and American-have a great fascina-
ton for show visitors of both sexes. The
foreign exhibit is the largest Humeri-
caily, consisting as it does Of the Oar
racq with which Wagner won the race;
the bUsiness-like looking Fiat which the
great Lancia drove into second place.
the long, red LorraIn-Dietrich, in which
Durray was third. and Elliot +. Shepard's s
duplicate Hotchkiss racer, which is now
the property Of Z. Russell Thomas, the
New York banker, who uses it as a run
about and loaned it TO the show commit
tee for the week.
The American cars shown are the
Laynes, that Harding drove into third
place in the American elimination trial;
the Thomas. with which Leblon made the
best showing for this country in the cup
race. and Joe Tracy's LocomobHe, that
won the elimination trials and scored
the fastest round Of the course IN the
struggle for the cup on October last.
4 veteran aUtOm0b-list who attended
the show this afternoon expressed sur
prise at the scarcity Of six-cyiinder cars.
After reading the reports of the Olympia
show in London. and the Salon in Paris.
he had expected that the Garden show
would disclose quite a number 5f cars of
this type. The only skies" he had no.
ticed were those of the Pierce, Franklin,
and Stevens -Duryea concerns, while, ex-
cept for a British Rolls-ROyee, the. only
imported six-cylinder engine was that ia
a Hotchkiss Demi-Lim0usine, which a
known New Yorker was persuaded 10
allow TO remain in the show until the end
OF the week il is expected that both
Fiat and DarTacq six-cyliBder machines
viii be shown before the end Of the exhi-
bition.