The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
AUTO EXHIBIT
AN ASSURED
SUCCESS
Governors Night" One of
Features Planned for
the Local Show.

RAND strides are being made by New
ark automobile dealers and the officials OF
the New Jersey Automobile and Motor
Club in arranging for the automobile ex-
hibit, which will be held at Electric Park
in February. beginning with the week Oh
Washington's Birthday. Not only are the
main lines along which the show Will De
run mapped out, but the committee at a
meeting this week got down to the essen
tiaI details which will go to make the
affair one of interest, not merely locally
but all over New Jersey.
To his eud the show committee VIII
inaugurate here the custom of dedieatlnS
different nights during the show week TO
special interests. or perhaps the greatest
general interest will be Governors
Night" when several of New Jerseys for
mer chief executives, as well as Gov
ernor Fort, are expected to be present.
Invitations will be sent out in the near
future to Governor-elect Fort, VINO VIII
then be in office: Governor Stokes, FORMER
Governor Murphy and former Governor
Griggs. The committee has definitely de-
cided upon Monday or Tuesday night OF
the show week for Governors Night, and
will on that occasion offer some fitting
novelties in addition to the attraction Oh
the cars. the chief executives and their
political following.
cllb Night will be another feature OIL
unusual interest. This evening Will De
dedicated to the automobile clubs or Ne"
Jersey affiliated with the Associated Auto
mobile Clubs of New Jersey. of which the
local organization is a member. Wednes-
day night has been set apart Tor TINS
function. Letters Of invitation VIII pc sent
out to motorists well known in the auto
mobile world, and informal assurances nave
already been received by tho club officials
here that parties from New Brunswick.
Paterson. Trenton, Jersey CITY, Plainfield
and Hackensack will attend. 1t is quite
possible that the subject of the automobile
law may be brought before the
automobilists at that time, in order to get
from the large gathering an expression
OF cpinicn more general than that recelVeo
at the time of the meeting called by the
local club some weeks ago to consider the
same subject.
To make Club Night still more represen-
tative Of the fraternal feeling of helpful-
ness existing between the motor ofganl-
cations. invitations will be sent out TO
we'll known and influential motorists from
New York and possibly still other States.
Since the fact that the show would be
surely held has become known the exhibi-
ton company officials a received in
almost every mail requests for space, not
only from the dealers who are animated
with the New Jersey Automobile Trade
Association. but from agents for complete
cars or accessories in other parts OF the
State and even a few from manufacturers
or distributors who maintain no Jersey
branch. Every indication now points to
~ .-s- . QoAA Tho ~
ton of not enough room rather than any
lack Of entries.
The New Jersey Automobile and Motor
Club will nave a booth at the show, and
other jersey motor organizations will likely
follow suit. F. A.. Croselmire, whose good
work at the Neutrality-suspicious. race last
fall was highly commended, will be in
charge of the clubs exhibit.
Mr.. Cfoselmire and other officials made a
careful inspection of the buildings and
grounds at Electric Park on Friday and
mapped out the general plan of the show,
arranging also for the decorations, which
will be particularly elaborate. The whole
arrangement of the park will be altered, it
is announced. in order to make the place
more suitable for a display Of motor cars.
A problem that the officials in charge of
the show did not at first consider, that OF
ADEQUATE trolley service, came up for dis
cussion this week, and special arrange
ments will be made with the Public Serv-
ice Corporation to handle the traffic during
the time of the show. and especially In the
rush hours. It Is not unlikely that special
cars will be run for the benefit of show
patrons in the most crowded hours Of the
show.
Announcement was made yesterday that
the show is to be known as the Newark
Automobile Show" not the New Jersey
Automobile Show as first considered.
Part of the reason for holding the exhibit
tion is to bring people of this and other
States to realize the Importance of this
CITY from an automobile standpoint, and
so the name of the show will be character
istic and follow this idea.
It was the general expression of opinion
among those who visited the Importers
Automobile Show in New York at Madison
Square Garden this week that the exhibit
tion. however well planned, was a failure,
not through any fault of the promoters,
except possibly the lack of advertising,
but simply because the desire of the public
to see and buy foreign machines is largely
a thing of the past. The Garden was
beautifully decorated and other conditions
favorable for the show. but the interest
shown in the exhibit, even by motorists.
was lukewarm, to say the least, while the
man not the owner of a car was the ex-
ception If he knew that such an event
was in progress.