Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-22
10000 VISITORS
AT BIG EXHIBIT
LICENSED DEALERS SHOW Is
POPULAR RESORT
Thousands of School Children Expect
ed to Take Advantage of Spe-
cial Rates and View Ma
chimes Today

The big licensed dealers automo
bile show has caught the popular
fancy. Fully 10000 persons passed
through the turnstiles yesterday aft
ernoon and evening. At 4 o'clock
more than 200 autos belonging to pa
irons were ranged on either side of the
street for two blocks on Pico, and
every street car on nearby lines was
packed to the guards. Ticket sellers
and takers were handling sixty pieces
of pasteboard a minute. But so ad-
mirable are all the arrangements there
was no confusion, and the great
crowds were handled speedily and
comfortably.
Today the glad voices of thousands
of school children will ring through
the great redwood forest, and the
youngsters will have every courtesy
of the big show extended to them, for
wise exhibitors know that hundreds
of children in homes that own autos
are just as familiar with the mechan-
ism of the machines as their elders.
Children are natural boosters, and the
Impressions of this or that automo-
bile created now will bear fruit in
year or so, when they are old enough
to own or be running an auto.
While it is and must be admitted
that this automobile show never had
counterpart in magnitude or magnift-
cence, the great educational force
open to serious study for one week is
not realized. While it would require
DAYS and the expenditure of much car
fare to visit all the automobile agen-
cies in the city where the cars must
be studied singly, here in this great
exposition building every make of car
licensed under the Selden patent will
be found placed side by side, and COM
parisons so easily made that even the
most careless observer will be forctbly
impressed with the amount of auto
mobile knowledge that can be acquired
in few hours. The exhibitors them
selves have gone to a great deal OF
trouble and expense to make these
object lessons comprehensive-some
even to the extent of spelling valuable
machine parts to make the teaching
thoroughly ineligible. In a number
of stalls are machines showing the
sectional views of working parts all
in operation by electricity. The man
who owns an auto, the man who is
going to purchase an auto, the ex-
pert machinist, the disinterested on
locker, the bright-eyed boys and girls
all can study and benefit by the
lesson.
Summing up the great work that has.
been done by the licensed motor car
dealers of Los Angeles, the benef1clal
results are already apparent, for with
such a brilliant start the show Is
hound to be a financial success to the
association and reap a big harvest IN
sales for the exhibitors. William A.
Reuss reports the sale of four five
passenger touring cars Tor the nrst
two days, which speaks Wen Tor tne
pulling power of his fine exhibit VIII
son e, burlington have sold the beau
tif,,l "I1homas Flyer now on exhibit
tion to A. H. Kornblum of the Berlin
i've works. This car is a six-cylinder,
seventy horse power passenger
machine. and is the largest and most
noWerful car on the floor. The price
was $4,000. A seven-passenger fully
enu,inned I,ocornobile 40" touring car
was sold to S. L. Briggs OF Los An
Among the out of town visitors to-
dav a lucky 49, contingent of the
san Diego Motorcycle club made the
run or came by train to spend Two
days the show Ihose VIC VINO ioug I'D
V4heir machines are W. A. Rowe anu
w H. Scott. Oceanside; Dallas Kee-
ver. Frank Copley and Roy Cook, san
Dieeo Roads are reported in eXcep-
tionally good condition. other inter
ested visitors were A. S. Holden, Pa
cifc coast manager OF tne %, ID.
Staarns Motor Car company; Roy
Iarroln. the crack eastern driver or
!.NIarmon" fame; Mr.. Cochran of the
tJavnes San Francisco agency, VINO Is
also putting in big agency mere tor
Not a discrediting remark can truth
f,,iIv he made concerning any part OF
the hey show, and the thousands who have rave
snen sne if will be consistent advertisers
SD aod boosters for 1t. The great amphio
theater fn,s will accommodate over 10000
persons, so with the 10000 or more n,7
Who are in daily attendance there can
wio no crowding. and exhibits are SO
oonyeniently o0 arranged that every pa
ION can view every machine, Neither
ore aron the exhibits of automobile aeces-
aar;os are g." 70 he overlooked. for everything
That makes for comfort in the use Oh
an auto is shown IN tne @ Llioie &c - of
fifty booths given over TO 'his p'i' -
thn great show.