New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
AUTO SALON PLEASED.
RIG CROWD At THE CLOSE.
Exhibitors Express Satisfactiom at
Amount of Business Done. y

.,-ed crowd was in attendance both afternoon
and evening The business done excesoso 'hs
expectations OF the exhibitors, ana an sp"he %
the success they had met with during the week
ard favored the plan Of holding sho" toF Eos-
eign cars exclusively eaen year K T. HUI
lander of the show committee ana Ihe treasurer
and general manager Of the Fiat company SAID
From the Fiat point of view this salon nas
beeu the most successful automobile show L
have known. Up to Thursday, for instance. We
sold more cars than We did the whole week OF
Iast wear Our record up TO this evening has
heen even larger The attendance in general
has been mainly made up OF persons VINO ars
seriously interested In automooies Ine mercy
curious public has been eliminated to a notice
able degree. This has been a good tniaS Tor al
concerned
"I have been surprised at the knowledge many
visitors have of the detail work OF an auto
mobile They all talked intellsently about tina
mechanism of the cars This demonstrated that
the general public Is becoming more intimately
ACQUAINTED with the automobile The visitors
have been in the main, Of the class OF men and
women who can indulge their fancies IN auto
mobiles IL they care to- They came eilHel lOF
the purpose of buying a car or 10 get points NoF
a contemplated purchase
"This salon has done an immense amount OK
good for the foreign made car The pubic han
hoard a great deal about the ability or european
exnerts in the business of manufacturing auto
mobiles. and the public came this week 10 see
for itself. The imported automobile has made q
graat stride in America by reason OF this salon
r GalIaher the manager Of the American
branch of the Maja car. spoke IN the Eshese
terms of everything connected with the salon.
He said
"T am glad to be able to say that the snow
from our point of view has been most success
full In the first place, we have done sone
actual business, which in itself Is pleasing our
even if we had not sold any cars we would feel
that the show was worth more than IL has
cost u.s.
.aThe one important thing this salon has de-
monstrated TO nv mind said Percy Owen, man
aser of the Bianchi agency, lis the necessity or
a permanent exhibit in New York OF imported
cars I have noticed that great many OF the
visitors this week have been persons living OUT
of New York Many of them were here on an
nuaI business trips and had not the time 10
make tour of the headquarters OF the various
importers They could. however, ind time 10
spend couple of hours at the Garden NoW'
the point is this: If the dealers in imported
cars established permanent exhibition say on
the floor of some centrally located loft building,
business men visiting this city from distant
cities could satisfy their inclination TO find cut
for themselves what is being said about the
European cars without taking whole day or
for the purpose of making a round OF all the
various offices of the importers There Is a
gradually increasing demand for foreign made
cars / believe that if this show were extended
another week the Garden would be crowded
every afternoon and evening 1t took the public
four days TO get accustomed to-this salon. and
then the public began to come. as was demon
strated by the increased attendance yesterday
Tkri1
seriously over the proposition of establishing a
permanent general show room in this city!
Joseph NJ Gilbert, of the Continental Tire
forces was another pleased exhibitor He said
II have had twelve years experience in auto
mobiledom but 1 have seen show which
could bear comparison with this years salon IN
quality of attendance OF in profit TO exhibitors
This season I brought out the new Continental
ready fitted tires, and have sold over forty sets
at the show. Our tire, of course. is closely as
sociated with imported cars. but that does not
explain the fact that there is not single ex-
hibitor who has not done at least twice much
business was expected
Andre Massenat, chairman of the show COM
mittee and head of the Panhard- -Levassor
branch said that he felt there was every reason
to be satisfied with the results of the show. He
added: 1T has been a successful show from ths
standpoint of the management. the exhibitors
and the public I have heard nothing but ex-
pressions of satisfaction 1t seems to me that
the yearly salon a fixture should be the ban
ner event of the year fer many years to como
in automobile circles"
j. j. Mann of Paris. the designer OF thu
Hotchkiss car who came this country for .
week to see the show. sailed yesterday morning
on the Campania MIR Mann became i'll tmme-
diately after his arrival and had been confined
at the waldorf-Astoria in the charge of doctors
and trained nurses
Two of the recent graduates from the auto
mobile to the airship met in the promenade OF
the salon yesterday afternoon They were Alan
r. Hawley and Cortlandt Field Bishop. Thet-
meeting did not bode anything good for the
automobile For twenty minutes they discussed
ballooning in all it's varied phases includins,
something that is to be of great Importance to
the men of this city who are no longer satisfied
with loeomotion the surface of Mother Earth.
and that the annual dinner at the Aero
Club Tuesday.
MIR. Bishop declared that he intended TO COM
nit treason at that dinner and deliver an Illus
tratins lecture on Good Roads I Have Found
What do We care about good roads, exclaimed
Mr.. Hawiey when Mr. Bishop made this confes-
sion We have no use for roads. good OF bad
We want instruction in aerotims law or what
would happen IL every farmer sued every bal
ioonist for sailing over his property Nevsrtne-
less Mr. Bishop will insist on delivering that
lecture. the Aero Club to the contrary
III Joseph H. Choate. ir.. does not contemplate
investing in an automobile il cannot be that
ne Is not interested in. such things His visit
yesterday was his fourth Worrhirsfon yVbirA-