Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27
BIG AUTO SHOW
IS BROUGHT TO
FITTING CLOSE
MANAGEMENT C0MPLlMENTED
FOR ENTERPRISE
MANY CARS SOLD AS RESULT OF
EXHIBIT
lncalculabIe Benefits Derived from
Display of Machines, as Many
Lines of Business VIII
Partake of Profits

The great automobile show of the Lii
censed Dealers association has ended,
and every actor played finished part
at every performance throughout the
gala week. The show management
kept faith with the public and exhib=
itors from the inception to the finish
of the greatest automobile exhibit ever
pulled off west of Chicago, and if the
verdict of the many thousands of vis-
itors from the east who are sojourn-
ing in Los Angeles is taken as final,
no American city was ever graced by
a similar show so complete in all de-
tails while the semi-tropic staging of
the big show has had no parallel any,
where.
Summing up the exhibitors side, the
show has been a big business getter.
and a great many more motor cars
have been sold than were hoped for
under the most favorable conditions.
The total amount of business done will
reach close to the half million mark in
big round dollars, and many of the
dealers were diffident about reporting
their sales The amount of business
that will be done as the results of the
prospects all of the dealers have in
their pockets will mean a big freight
business for the railroads, as practi-
cally the stock of cars on hand In the
various salesrooms have been sold for
immediate delivery, or else contracted
for 1t is easy to believe that the en-
thusiasm created by this licensed mo-
tor car show will so spread over
Southern California that 10000 new
machines will be seen on the public
roads before the current year draws to
a close. Every business interest VIII
be directly or Indirectly benefited by
the success of this show, for its fame
is nationwide and the people of the
east who are used to things on large
scale will not hesitate to come to or
to invest in the commercial enter
prises Of a city that can make such a
phenomenal showing as has Los An
geles.
Forest Must Go
1t is a pity that the giant redwood
forest cannot be preserved, for visitors
and townspeople alike will have TO
travel many mines to see its duplicate
in the original. And the glorious noun
tains, mesa and canyons SO accurately
portrayed on canvas used as a setting
for this forest will be retained in menu
orv of nearly 100000 visitors to the
show. as one of the most pretentious
pictures of the Golden West
The great good that the show has
done in educating the public to the
benefits that can be conferred on the
country at large by the rapidly In
creasing use of motor cars cannot be
estimated. 1t is the automobile that
Is building up our suburbs; for the
man of business can now live far out
and enjoy all the pleasures of coun-
try home, and yet be within few
minutes of his business in so far as
transportation is concerned. And this
gradual expansion of built-up territory
has greatly enhanced the value of
large tracts of real estate that would
have laid dormant for many years to
come.
In fact, the use of automobiles is rev.
olutionizing our mode Of living and OF
doing business. The matter can be
looked at in two ways. The pleasure
of motoring. the comfort afforded IN
this method Of travel, and the exhila-
rating effects on the human system