The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22
KING AUTO
TO REIGN
THIS WEEK
All Ready for Grand Gen.
trail Palace Show, Which
Opens Thursday.

NEW YORK, Oct. 22.-All automobiles
DOM will turn its eyes and steps toward
Grand Central Palace this week, where,
beginning on Thursday, the great auto
mobile exposition win take place. Months,
in fact. almost a year, nave been spent in
perfeeting plans and making ready. The
coming show will be notable for the large
humble of cars which are comparatively
new and have not heretofore been ex-
hibited.
One of the remarkable developments Of
the year has been the h~igh-powered run
about. which was seen In small numbers
at the last show, but which will rank
second in Importance only TO the touring
ear ut fle show this year. The prices
range from $500 to $1,000. As usual, d.
number of Newark dealers will be repre-
scented.
The change in the show dates, putting
them forward from January and Feb
ruary to october and November, was done
at the urgent request of the agents and
the press, as It was thought that having
the show so late did not Bive the manu-
factnrers proper time to get out their
product, so that the agents In the past
have had to wait a long time for their
cars. Some of them had to cancel or
deAs, much to their loss, and others did
not get deliveries promised In February
and March until June and July, when the
rush of the selling season was over.
The early dates, will also give tps
agents an opportunity to do considerable
business before the so-called selling sea-
! son, which about March, and
as there Is no particular change In con-
struction there was no good reason for
holding late shows. 1t was all well
enough TO have late shows when rapid
Improvement vas going on in construc-
a.. T-4 .t-4 -..s-l - 5000 AAl 1l.Ai
automobile should now be a selling prod
uct without any particular selling season.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars have
been lost to automobile manufacturers
and dealers through their failure to de-
liver cars when wanted. There will be
no excuse now for not making deliveries,
as most agents will have their sample cars
on their floors by December !, aud a large
number OF them have already received
them.
The public takes a great interest in
automobile shows, and many buyers make
a practise of getting a new tar each year.
There is something about an automobile
that appeals, and once a man becomes in
terested in a motor car 1t holds his interest
very closely.
Tho management of automobile shows
has kept pace with the improvement aud
rapid progress of automobile construction,
and the annual exhibitions have been very
useful, because they have taught the public
in an elementary way ABOUT automobiles
and automobile engineering. Therefore
when the door is opened at the Grand Cen
tra1 Palace next Thursday and at the
Madison Square Garden or November Z
practically the same crowd Of visitors will
attend, as those who come from distant
points, after thoroughly examining the
show of the independent makers at the
Grand Central Palace. will remain to see
the exhibition of the cars. 1t is only a
matter of choice of cars these days.
In one way or another fully a billion dol
lars Is invested in the manufacture OF
motor ears, and nearly a million men en-
ployed in various capacities as mechanics,
] statesmen and drivers, which make the
automobile business one OF the leading I'M
dustries.