New-York tribune., 1908-04-08
A CARNIVAL OF CARS
Continued from firsf page.

ri Broadway -oet3
to Fifth avenue. There 1t swept on uptown 10
37tb street once more, where 1T crossed 'o
broadway and went up to 10th street. 10 turn
and come down past the reviewing stand at s3th
street, and then onward to the Circle. where 1t
disbanded-
II was hard to find more enthusiastic Spot
along the line than the turn at 18th street II
could be compared. remotely. to the haiIPh
turn" on the Vanderbilt Cup course Al ti'is
place where Broadway and Fifth avenue Ioli'
a blunt fatiron, the crowd was thickest- Inc
trees In Madison Square were filed WIN
"benchers" who chung to the branfhes anu
cheered. Across the way the diners IN aar''h
stood on the galleries and In the windows TO see
the show while their entrees grew coid ana tne
champagne became fat waiting. From the
square balloons were gent up every i've MIN
utes and red fire all about the turn set OH 'iie
cars to their best advantage
VETERANS FOLLOW TROPHY CARS.
After the king and queen had been auly
cbeered as they swept the picturesque curve
there followed the racers The BriarchH UrophS'
cars. labelled with their mission. and looking
every inch as If they could do it, were folio"eo
bv veterans There was the long. lanky speed
eater with the pIacard "Renault, 1Oo-mile
worlds record ~ miles 5611 seconds There
was the Pullman. Philadelphia TO Savannah
Continental Tires" that bore the mud ana rust
and signs of wear as honorable scars Inen
came a Mercedes that was labelled as having
won the Paris Madrid race in 1903; and close
behind them in this first division were the HIS
torical cars. There was much interest ana some
cheering when the once dreaded Red DeSH
and the white Ghost that William K Wander
biIt fr brought over in 1898 went spinning
meekly on their way. These terrors OF decade
ago made fifteen miles an hour-and were still
making 1t.
The second division Of the parade looked as
~ the hig salesrooms had been emptied Of their
best for this division contained the 1908 mooeis-
The latest kinks and improvements were on
view and the gay parties Of young women on
board some of the cars were as much 1908 IN at
tire as If they also were models. These cars
uere the toy Of the expert But the masses
whose only chauffeur the man behind the
controller" stood on tiptoe when the third d.
vision. made up Of decorated cars, bore down
on them.
GLIMPSE OF PRETTY WOMEN
All along the crowded sidewalk there were
shouts as the Oldsmobile company's decorated
cars came into view One car, aglow with colored
lights among banks of flowers. bore Queen IL
tania in her bower with four handmaidens that
rivaIled her in beauty. Then the same company
had "C1eopatras Barge, with striking Dru-
nette reclining among the cushions OF SMELL
shaped boat Close behind came scores of other
cars reminiscent of the Mardi Gras or Cali
fornia flower festival
Scattered through the line were seekers after
the prize for grotesque fancy One that de-
lighted the crowd and the automobile enthusl-
asts was big car that looked as if 1t had been
bujIt of packing boxes 1t bore a sign. Paris
Do Anvil ~
reached New York April = 1905 The chauf
feur and the mechanism were swathed in rag
ged garments. the was covered with mud
and what passed for snow. Strapped 10 II were
pickaxes spades a jacksCrew, a heavy chain.
with a horses collar. and collection of extra
tires.
Or Julian P. Thomas. the aeronaut had a
wind wagon with a windmill. which was
among the trade displays that showed on floats
the various repair and construction work Then
there were tricycles and "tri-ears, that are tri-
cycles. with two wheels in front and one be-
hind as a rudder; and TO wind up the long
pa noply OF steel and rubber came the CONNER
cial vehicles" an imposing display. including
everything between brewery wagons and trucks
and dainty. dnky little florists delivery tri-
cycles
JUDGES AWARD PRIZES.
The Judges after the parade ended an
rounced the awards for the best two decorated
cars and the one most grotesque First prize
went TO the OldsmobiIe car No -. which was
covered with white Californian Grass, brought
here by General Cutting. shaped like sea
she'll The occupants in the car were dressed
in white muslin To car No. -, Maxwell
Briscoe beautifully decorated with roses and
flowers and carrying various colored electric
bulb lights the judges awarded second prize
The Oldsmobile car No. IA dressed somewhat
similar was highly commended
The grotesque prize went to car %. entered
by the De Witt Motor Company The occu-
pants in the machine posed as tramps. The
radiator of the machine made up as g
stove on top of which a stove pipe. Clothes
were hung out dry clothes lines on the
car. In back OF the machine attached
little go-cart carrying one Of the tramps
The passing of the horse was another inter
esting feature in this division. This showed an
automobile pulling truck while horse trailed
behind the wagon, attached by a rope. In
other machine the occupants posed as President
Roosevelt Secretary Taft. Governor Hughes and
William Jennings Bryan
The Judges viewed the parade in a large
automobile at S5th street and Broadway. They
were Colgate Hoyt. president of the Automobile
Club OF America; Robert Lee MorrelI Clinton
B. Parker Winthrop E. Scarritt and DR. Schuy-
Ter S. Wheeler.
HUDSON TERMINAL BUILDING STRIKE.
A general strike of the sheet metal workers en-
ployed at the Hudson Terminal Building took
place yesterday on the complaint that some OF the
metal work for the main entrance was constructed
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