New-York tribune., 1909-01-19
AUTO SHOW IN BLOOM
pIG CROWD TURNS OUT.
-Four Cylinder, Shaft DrlOen Cars
Popular 7cith Makers.

.,z{sor SQUARE Garden was the Mecca for motor
= .,or7 the time the doors opened yesterday
-,nr until late in the evening Brilliant as was
- formal introduction of the ninth national au-
oo,iIe show on Saturday night, # seemed to be
., more al1uring last evening, when the lights
- .,,rned on as it then complete IN every
..,i1 and nothing lacking to carry out the
- ~ the show committee that It was the great
- exhibition of It's kind held in this country.
-,s crowd that turned out Saturday night had
u..,. thought for buying, but yesterday those who
s.ed the show went with the idea Of combining
busness with pleasure, or, at least. such was the
Zee with many. judging from the number Of sales
..,or+ad The aises were well filed in the after
ION and crowded the point OF discomfort in the
,enins While the exhibition has week to run.
.bsre were many who did not to be met with
+s-erDent later in the week that delivery on cars
oould not be made until April, May June
charles I.anier, who has not missed an aUtomo-
IL str,v since the first was held in New
york. vas one OF the early visitors yesterday af-
,.-ncen 1T is astonishing how the automobile
ss,ness continues 10 expand" said Mr.. I.anier
yearly every inch OF space in this great audito-
.,,, from cellar roof, is in in way
z-v snelv the American made cars are showing
mn They get better and better and compare
ta-,-abIv with the foreign made I found
90 thing that demonstrated more clearly than
arv-binC else how the American maker is abreast
. ,,s times and that the great suto-truck in
-. basement designed for by the Fire Depart
nsn+ in the new high pressure service No sooner
1,z the high pressure service been firmly estab-
,,taa under the supervision Of Chief Croker than
= emo an auto high pressure engine ready for
mediate use. II is q wonderful machine, and
- ;-fo--re5 II could go tearing through the city
--se-s At the rate Of twenty-five miles an hour
This high pressure engine shows American push
snd ingenuity
rl;shs DYER II. confessed that he wanted
,o,,-inc car. and spent the afternoon looking
dolls RI nT
= e--5ved early were George r Sheldon. Gisp--
81 Stewart and Franklin Plummer. They did
,- miss 4 exhibit the main floor OF the Gar
-, Former Ambassador Choate was another
visitor. and Joseph H Choate' jrr was also seen
CT the show
orr afternoon -isitors John Ellis Roose-
-. chief Croker Commodore Frederick G. Bourne,
~ zn6 Mrs Philip NJ. Lydig, James A Burden.
: Townsend Burden. jr-, Preston Gibson, Ed~arA
Eer,n Felix warburg, Cortlandt Schuyler van
-arese,ae- Erskine Hewitt, Peter Cooper Hewitt
A. -r5 Mrs ] Stevens Ulnnau, I N Seligman Ed
.rs zyssse--nsr George c. Boldt, Albert Shat
-ro. Nr and Mrs. Alfred wagstaff, Prescott Slade.
pote-- Lee EforreI James A Stillnan- Charles E
T.v5eoler Edward Van Ingen. E. H Weatherbee'
clark Potter Read L. .. Hildretn- C 6. Freing-
tuvsen Theodore A. Haverneyer, Jacob RUPERT.
II F D. Lanier and Dr. Calvin Thayer Adams
Tob, Hsvs Hammond, who came up from Lake
--oo5 vesrerdav was an interested spectator. and
Fs-on F HaymerIe. secretary Of the Austro-Hun-
ga-fsn Embassy at Washington. made several tours
f The Garden and expressed himself in enthusiastic
terms Of the energy OF American automobile
makers
ore Of the main ideas Of the Association OF Ii
censed Automobile Manufacturers is standardiza-
tion and the average visitor this seems peculiar,
because externally AL of the cars look alike Stand
ardizatioa refers the Of standard parts SUN
as spark plugs. and a uniform system Of
power rating so that the small and minor parts
mat yCra
ear they are used upon There is certainly diver
sencv among the makers regarding the general
output, however, and g lCok reveals the fact that
each concern has allowed It's designers and con-
slctors the widest latitude in originality Of design
The cars not only Of all sizes and descrip-
tons but also of every degree Of power. Two
manufacturers are showing one-cylinder cars, but
.he majority run four cylinders, although there
are two or three with eight Twenty-seven differ
ent makers are building four-cylnder motors, while
seven are exhibiting six-cylinder models as well as
four. The Winton company is the only one show
ing dve-cylinder motor.
If there is wide divergence among the makers
as 70 the number Of cylinders, there is also the
same divergence IN the method Of casting them.
Esven manufacturers, including those who build
Matheson and Pierce-Arrow cars. cast their cylin
dsrs separately; nineteen cast their cylinders in
pairs, the Thomas cars cast in sets Of three.
while three concerns cast all four cylinders en-
hoc-thst is in one piece.
The four-cycle type Of engine is practically
preEne, only one concern is showing the two
cycls type. The highest power motor in the show
Il 4 six-cyiinder Thomas, and the lowest single
cylinder horsepower machine
All The cars, with two exceptions, water
cooled, and while six different makers The
dcuble chain drive and one maker a single
chain, shaft driven machines are IN a big majority
lE transmission systems, rather, speed chang
ing devices. the selectIve system leads, the pro-
gressiVe being second and the planetary third The
number of speeds seems 10 be about equally di-
Tided among three and four, although has
hve-speed transmission.
IN clutches the still slightly leads the null
rpe disk, although if all the other types
ADDED together the plurality leads, for there
expanding band clutches contracting band clutches.
erpan3ing rings, three-disk and three-plate-