New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
TIMELY AUTO TOPICS
.SHOW DRAWS CROWDS
Record Breaking attendance
for First T1Co Days.

Ne automobile show in the Grand Cen
trail Palace was closed TO the public yester-
day. but the sabbath did not pass on WITH
in the big building without much activity
Many of the exhibitors spent some tune
there arranging little details about their
booths which could not be attended TO be
fore the show opened on Friday night AS
a result Of these efforts everything will look
spick and span when the doors are thrown
open to visitors at 70 o'clock this morning.
Despite the cries of calamity howlers that
holiday week was no time to hold an auto
mobile show, the judgment OF Afreo
Reeves, the manager, and the show COM
mittee has been fully justified by results
Not only have all cash attendance records
been surpassed, but the sale of trade tick
cts for the first two days of the show near
Iy equals the total sales for seven days last
year.
Even the foreigners who sell the highest
priced cars marketed in this country are
reporting a good business.
a thing that has pleased both the manu-
facturers and dealers has been the doi IS
away with tawdry draperies which in for
mer years detracted from proper display
of cars The substitution of clean cut
and comprehensive scheme of decoration
has not only broadened out the whole per-
spective of the exhibition hall. but has set
off the cars themselves in a manner never
thought possible before.
A representative Of Paul Hoeckei, jr..
president of the Imperial Russian Automo-
bile Club, ST. Petersburg, and chairman Of
the last automobile show held in that city.
was a visitor at the Palace yesterday. and
expressed himself as surprised and delight
ed at the wonderful progress of the Amer
lean automobile industry.
He said that at the coming st. Petersburg
show, which will be held in April. special
section would be set aside for the exhibit
ton Of American cars, and that he was
over here for the purpose of interesting our
manufacturers in the Russian show.
Some two hundred more men will be put
TO work in Madison Square Garden to-day
for the tenth national automobile show
of the Association of Licensed Automobile
Manufacturers. which opens next Satur-
day night.
W. w. Knowles, the decorator general.
will have gangs of men at work In all parts
of the Garden, and they are to work day
and night until the opening hour of the
show. The show committee has reputa-
tion for always having everything in readi-
ness on the opening night of the show, and
it intends always to maintain this reputa-
ton. Mr.. Knowles has contracted with the
show committee to have the decorating OF
the big structure complete by Friday night
The Garden will be open from noon Friday
to o'clock on Saturday evening for the
installation of exhibits. No exhibits will be
allowed to enter the building after o'clock
on Saturday night.
Last week while the roosters we're crow
ing on the main floor men were at work in
the basement cleaning and painting and
covering the walls and pillars with old gold
cartridge paper, which will add lustre to
the commercial vehicles, motorcycles and
accessories that are to be exhibited there
The work on the Dutch Colonial raths-
keller, or inn, in the basement, which is TO
be one Of the features of the show, was
begun in the early part OF last week, and is
now about completed. IT is painted in cream
white and is magnihcently adorned with
autunlnal foliage. which trails all about the
inn and overhangs two Doric columns at
the entranceway. The interior realistically
represents a genuine old tavern, with a real
Dutch atmosphere.
The main floor is now receiving the atten-
tion of the different kinds OF workmen that
are employed to make the interior resemble
a Roman amphitheatre-