New-York tribune., 1910-12-23
AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY
Plan for Moving Trucks Into
Garden for the Show.
TO USE SPECIAL ELEVATORS
Tourists Have Dangerous Noun
tain Ride in Cartercar
in the Sierras.

There has been q great deal of interest
taken In the method of clearing Madison
Square Garden OF pleasure vehicles In the
coming automobile show in time to allow
the installation of the truck exhibits
which will make the show On the second
week, beginning on January Is.
The exhibitors of passenger cars will
begin moving their machines out of the
Garden at II o'clock on Saturday night,
will be thrown open TO the public at s
o'clock on the Monday evening following.
Two great elevators, each large enough
to hold two cars, have been installed, one
on each side of the building, to facilitate
the work of making this change. These
will take down two cars from a certain
space and Immediately the commercial
vehicles to 90 in that space will be
wheeled on and substituted While the
shows are on the platforms of these ele-
vators will be hidden by stairways-
1t is planned to have sufficient men
working in shifts to make the change. and
the handling of the passenger cars and the
installation of. the trucks will be one of
the most interesting incidents Of the two
weeks.
The gasoIene trucks 10 be shown on the
main floor will include the White. Morgan,
Peerless, Pierce-Arrow. Packard, Knox,
Stearns, Hewitt, Autocar. Reliance, Rapid
Aiden-Sampson. Grabowsky, Mack and
Alec The electric pleasure and business
machines will include the Waverly, Hupp-
y-ol,:o ol- INe
troit and Lansden.
The freight carrying vehicles TO be
shown on the elevated platform are all
gasolene machines and include the Buick,
Franklin, Cartercar. Rec, Hartford.
Brush. Overland. Randolph. kissel-kar,
Atlas. Ward, Mcintyre, Garford and Mer-
cedes. With the exception of the Mercedes,
which Is made in Germany, all these ma
chimes are American made
Automobile mountain climbing during the
winter is not the most comfortable sport
imaginable as is attested by Charles
Mitchell, of the Cartercar branch at San
Francisco. 4 car was recently sold to c.
G. Young hotel man at Sparks, New.
Mitchell agreed to drive the car across
country. and started out on the journey
with one companion.
He reports 1t the hardest automobile
drive he has ever taken. Every thing
went we'll until the car arrived at Em1-
grant GAP among the snow-clad- Sierra
peaks Here the party was directed to
the wrong road. They went thirty miles
through the mountains out of their course
and were lost in wilderness Of snow. 1t
was very cold. with nothing in sight but
mountains rocks and snow. After holding
a consultation. as the sun was going down,
il was decided to turn back The gasolene
did not give out until just as they were
pulling into the gap.
Walter Brookins, the aviator, drove a
yyarrer-Detroit ''30'' in the last days run
ef this cars nonstop test at the Los An
eeIer automobile show last week.
The Warren made a record of 2,401 miles
during the run of six days and six nights.
with ''Scoot'' Miller, the Warren -driver,
at the WlIeSf. sr-tsa- --
RrooI<ins and Miller left the Coast two
wears ago. both under twenty-one years
one going into the automobile business and
the other into the aviation field Now
both are back at home, Miller is one of
the most successful drivers on the Coast
and Rroolzins's name IS known from coast
10 coest.
j 3. Hulett. known to the automobile
trade through his connection with the
owen company. of Detroit. and formerly
with the Fope-To!edo works, has Joined
the Lozier forces and is making a. West
ern trip in the interests of Lozier cars.
c. L. Simmons is now covering the South
ern States.