Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-26
AUTOS SELL FAST AT SHOW
Dealers Doing a Rushing Business in
Disposing of Cars.
VISITORS COME BY THOUSANDS
Show Has Double m of Cars
and Twice as Many Visitors
Compared with Last Years
Auto Exposition,

Sold.
That is the sign which is seen on all
sides at the automobile show at the Audi
forum and it indicates that the dealers are
all profiting by the show and selling their
cars. And why should they not? There were
twice as many people at the show on the
opening day as there were on the opening
day last year, and twice as many on the
second day as on the second day last year.
The attendance is far beyond the expecta-
ton of the managers of the show and the
people are still coming.
Everybody in business seems to be profit
ing by the automobile show. The hotels
are filled with visitors at the show and on
the opening night and last night rooms at
all the leading hotels were scarce. Prospec-
tive buyers have brought their wives
along and these are doing a large amount
of spring shopping.
9TH best local show OF the year, far
ahead Of the st. Louis show" That is the
way one representative of a large eastern
house expressed 1t and his sentiment was
seconded by a group of fasteners in at
tendance. The Auditorium is an ideal place
for holding such an exhibition, although in
another year the space will be too small,
AS it is every available inch of space
is occupied by either automobiles or by an
exhibit of some parts of machines in action.
Gasoline is not allowed in the building
and any dealer who wishes to show an en-
CINE in action must connect 1t with some
electric motor and thus propel 1t. The
management did not even permit the deal
ers to run machines into the Auditorium by
their own power.
Several dealers have portions of machines
in action to show the working parts. One
dealer has an oil feeding machine in action
behind a glass case and several pistons are
pulssting with the cylinders open that the
free action may be shown.
Automobile row, as Farnam street has
| come to be called, was the busiest spot in
Omaha Thursday morning. All the garages
and salesrooms were filled with prospective
buyers bright and early and the dealers
were unable to get away to go to the show
| until after lunch. Demonstrated were kept
on the move, showing cars and giving rides
TO those who wished to see how the cars
would run.
The street in front of the Auditorium
looks like an automobile show in itself, for
it is crowded from morning to night with
hundreds OF cars. Some of the dealers keep
demonstrators at the show and when a
prospective buyer appears are ready to give
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Cars, of course, are not permitted to leave
the show, but all the dealers keep dupli-
Gates on the outside for demonstration pur-
poses.
Last year the dealers thought they were
doing a large business in the sale OF cars,
but the business this year is swamping
them. The buyers are here and the problem
is to get them the cars. Passing down the
aisles one can see order books out on all
sides. being used to take down the orders
for cars for delivery as soon as possible.
Not only are individual buyers at the
show, but dealers from all smaller towns
are on hand to make arrangements with
the local men to sell cars on commission
and also to secure a line OF accessories.
These dealers of Nebraska and western
Iowa all seem TO prefer to deal with the
Omaha firms because of the advantages Of
quick delivery which the Omaha houses
can offer.