The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-24
READY
FOR AUTO
DISPLAY
Of Grand Central
Palace Open TOnight.-Cars
Better Than Ever.

NEW YORK Oct. 24-The automobile
show will be launched tonight when the
American Motor Car Manufacturers As
ISOLATION and the Automobile Club Of
America unlock the doors of the Grand
Central Palace and admit the motoring
enthusiasts who have been awaiting this
event for weeks. Great preparations have
been made in fitting out the palace to ac-
commodate not only the exhibits them
selves but also the multitudes that will
demand entrance.
For the first time the makers have as
a rule kept their advance notices well IN
hand and have not allowed their new fea-
lures to be published until they might
give them to every one as public prop
erty. There will be many surprises when
the white sheets are removed from the
glistening GLASSES and fully equipped cars.
caused for the most part by small re-
hnements or the adoption of new features
by makers who have adhered formerly to
certain principles rather than by radical
changes in construction. These altera
tons will be carefully noted. and after
the cars have been thoroughly Inspected
1t will be time to look for sales.
The wide importance that the CONNER
cial vehicles have attained has led to the
setting aside of a department In tho show
for TRUCKS and delivery wagons, and there
will be also places for tires and aces
sorles, balloons and motorcycles. The
result will be a very comprehensive and
interesting exhibit.
The vanguard began to arrive yesterday
Among some of the out-of-town trade rel
resentatives who arrived were II. o. Smith
(Premier), n. s. Layton De Luxe, II, c.
Lazalare (Chadwick), A. C. Luby (Na-
tionaD, Jesse Draper CWayne), l.. p
Mooers (Moon). c. j. Johns Pennsyi-
vania), G. ID. Wilcox (Gearless). Benjamin
Briscoe (MaxwelD. Frank Briscoe (Brush).
&c. Il. Jameson (Stoddard-Dayton) A. L.
Kull Dragon), and w. G.. Morse (Atlas).
Henry Ford. with the heads of his Detroit
factory arrived this morning. The Gus
tomary private view for the benefit Of the
Automobile Club OF America and its friends
will be held this afternoon from 4 to 6
O'Clock.
More attention will undoubtedly be paid
to the accessory part of the show this
season than formerly. The cars havc
reached a type so generally fixed with inn
p~rovements in the lines of simplicity md
rehnements that striking novelties must
be sought rather in the small conveniences
that add to the comfort and pleasure OF
i ~ AAak1H - faAAhEN Va IA IA .
will be seen in tires. Easy methods OF
carrying baggage, comfortable receptacles
for the slowing away of personal effects.
extra appliances for luxurious travel II
the closed Limousine cars, these with many
others. will be attractively displayed in ths
gallery booths.
The main floor will be entirely occupied
by the latest models of the best American
cars. There will be about sixty-hve ex-
hibitors of complete motor vehicles, and
nearly fifty of these are the independent
manufacturers forming the American Mo
tor Car Manufacturers Association.
More than twenty makes of six-cylinder
cars will be seen, the largest number ever
gathered together in a single show, and
they will range in price from $1,750 to
$1,000. While the demand for the small
runabout. costing from 500 to 1880. Is
still great, the tendency is increasing for
comfortable moderate-powdered touring
cars of the open or closed type, costing
from $500 to $i,5OO, and the variety Of
machines within this class viii be large
enough to satisfy the most fastidious.
The show committee representative of
the Automobile Club of America and the
American Motor Car Manufacturers As
ISOLATION, which will have charge Of the
opening features this afternoon and even
ing consists of General George Moore
Smith. chairman; Alan r. Hawley, George
+. Chambeiiin, Winthrop Is. S~carritt, Ben
jamin Briscoe and $. M. Butler.