The sun., 1908-12-27
AMONG THE AUTOMOBILISTS
ANNUAL SHOW. SEASON OPENS
on THURSDAY.
American Motor Car Manufacturers As
sociati0n Exhibition I'm Grand Central
Palace and Licensed Makers Event In
Garden to Have Many Competitors.

sOciation Exhibition I'm Grand Central
Palace and Lice nsed Makers Event ID
Garden to Have Many Competitors
New Yorks annual automobile show
season this winter will have Its official
beginning next Thursday night. when
Acting Mayor MCGOWAN will make the
address OF welcome which will start the
Grand Central Palace show Of the American
Motor Car Manufacturers Association on
Its week long career. The show will be
opened to the public at o'clock in the
evening, but there is 70 be an elaborate
private view in the afternoon for which
1000 Invitations have been issued to nota-
bles In the automobile world and other
celebrities.
Several hundred workmen. artists. elec-
tncians. painters and carpenters began
work at the Palace yesterday preparing
the building for the influx Of the motor
vehicles and accessories that will begin
pouring into the show place as soon as the
building is ready. The decorators will
begin work as quickly as the carpenters
and painters have done enough so they
can start and from now on the big structure
at Lexington avenue and Forty-third
street will be q very busy place. The
present estimate OF the number OF ex-
hbitors totals soi. OF these II will display
complete cars. There will be twelve i'm
ported machines shown and dozen differ
ent makes of commercial vehicles.
One OF the interesting features OF the
Palace show will be the display of Ameri-
can and imported racing cars The most
famous one will be the Fiat racer with
which Wagner won the Grand Prize gold
cup of the Automobile Club OF America at
Savannah on Thanksgiving Day. Hemery's
Benz, which finished second, Is to be shown.
Another famous machine will be the Lanoia
that w. NJ. Hilliard drove to victory at
Savannah in the international light car
race the day before the Grand Prize event
was run.
The Isotta car that Lewis Strsng drove
to victory in the Savannah. Biarclin and
Lowell stock car races will be shown, as
we'll as the Sharp Arrow that won In one OF
the classes OF the Motor Parkway Sweep
stakes on the Vanderbilt cup circuit on
Long Island. The six cylinder National.
Acme and Chadwick racers that competed
In the Grand Prize raoe at Savannah and
the Maxwell and Cameron racers that COM
shown. while racing types OF the follow
ing imported cars will be on exhtbttion:
Renault Itala Panherd and Hotchkiss
trail Palace and. the later one Of the licensed
makers In Madison Square Garden there
are to be q number Of private elbows con-
Quoted by indivi lual concerns. The Amer
lean Locomotive Company has again made
Arrangements to hold show or It's own IN
the Waldorf Astoria, where the products
Ing the period the other shows run, as well
as for the week that interyenes between the
two big affairs. The Buick firm has decided
VIII hold Its exhibit In the New York branch,
where A. @. .Southworth, and his corps OF
assistants will have ell the new models to
Gen. John T. Cutting has definitely de-
mode models Ss eithsr the Grand Central Palace
a full line Of the Lansing firms products at
Company Of New York. This viii, be, the
I1l n shis is city that s tbe 3ldsmoSie viii not Be
displayed in the Garden show, One ad-
vantage OF holding the shog In the Bread
OF cars can be shown, which, would be inn
possible In either Of the big shows owing to
the scarcity OF space.
hold show In It's own salesroom on Broad
way, which will continue from January 2
TO Is, though the frm will also have an ex-
The The entire nj ground hoor OF the biz stude-
baker Building at Broadway. orty,eighth
street and Seventh avenue Is TO be devoted
uasa a'Rah lhs O. hs Se ee' hsrs viii ri
be Rasolene cars with all kinds Of bodies,
ranging from runabouts TO landaulets and
limo ousines. electric commercial vehicles.
from light delivery wagons 70 heavy trucks.
cars. A big Studebaker electric omnibus
n 10 make hourly trips between the Palace
and Garden while the shows are running In
those buildings.
Members OF the New Jersey Automobile
and Motor Club are making. preparations
10 entertain the Woman's Motoring Club
OF New York when the latter organization
arrives In Newark on its two days run from
this city To Philadelphia and return. Deoem-
ber 20. The women will arrive In Newark
at 0 A. NJ, and will be rendered q reception
by the house committee OF the Newark
organization. which has prepared celluloid
souvenirs for the occasion In the shape OF
miniature New Jersey Automobiis and
Motor Club nags.
Salt Lake City. Utah. motorists will
soon have an automobile speedway which
Will be over twelve miles long and will
terminate at BaiCair. The motorway. will be
built by. stock company and backed by
boulevard. which viii be rs feet wide, will
COST according TO the promoters. no less
than $4,000, Tho sources Of revenue will
be . email fee charged for the use Of the
fsss meets. ' "t SRieh Il e proposal prop 70 hOid