New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
Racing Baseball Auomomg Hockey Ice Yachting $Skatng Other Sports
DOLLAR CROWD OUT
EXTRA PRICE NO B4R.
auto ShO1c Still the Mecca for
Motor Car LOUcrs.

Motor Car LOUcrs.
Raising the price of admission at the
automobile show in the Grand Central
Palace yesterday to 81 did not limit the at
tendance to any marked extent. A good
sized crowd was in attendance in the after
noon and another record breaking one in
the evening.
Alfred Reeves, general manager of the
exhibition, announced that owing to the
fact that so many persons arrived at the
Palace before the usual time of opening. at
10 o'clock in the morning, he had decided
to open the doors an hour earlier. He said
that this was at the request of a number of
out-of-town visitors.
1t might have been termed students day
at the show yesterday. More attention than
usual was paid by the visitors to the me-
chanical construction of the cars. and the
statesmen were busy answering questions OF
a technical nature. 1t was a buying crowd,
too. and many orders were booked.
One of the novelties at the show which
seems TO have a promising future is re-
volving six-cylnder two-cycle aeronautic
motor. These cylinders are placed with
their heads together at the centre of the
motor, where a single admission port ans
spark plug is arranged to serve all of them
successively. The hollow admission port
carrying the spark plug forms the shaft or
pivot around which the motor revolves.
and each cylinder in turn passes the adj
mission port gets its new charge, and
somewhat later is ignited by the spark
plug to give the working stroke Near the
end of the working stroke the piston un-
covers an exhaust port, as in any two-cycle
engine. and the spent gases escape.
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ends with rollers. which follow curved
track eccentric with regard to the pivot
around which the cylinders revolve. Thus,
on the working stroke the rollers travel
down the track toward the point of greatest
eccentricity and force the cylinders to re-
volve. After passing the furthest point,
forming the end of stroke, the rollers fol-
low the track back to the point of least dis
tance which brings the piston to the origt-
nal position and congresses the new charge
before it. Following this the ignition takes
place and tn cycle is repeated.
The substitution of the curved crank for
the usual crank and connecting rod involves
nothing new, but the arrangement of the
cylinders. the single admission pipe, port
and spark plug is new and the method of
getting rid of the exhaust gases and bring
Ing In the new charge is also new. The re-
NOlNiAB pdtlS are PROVIDED with ran DlGOeS
which blow out the exhaust gases quickly
and form a vacuum in the cylinder while
the exhaust port is open so that the new
charge can come in through the open inlet
port fully and freely. A small blower is at
tached to the inlet port to feed the mixture
and assist the exhaust and recharginG ac-
ton. This motor has been run several hours
at a test and DEVELOPS twenty-eight brake
horsepower at 800 revolutions a minute, al
though the cylinders are only 21s-inch bore
and stroke. The weight can be reduced to
two pounds horsepower, it is believed
The left hand drive-that is to say the
steering wheel and control of the automo-
bile placed to the left of the body instead
OF the rights on trial at the show. The
Ford and the Brush cars include this inno-
walton. Safety in handling the car by rea-
son of the fact that road regulations re-
quire drivers to turn to the right, is
claimed for the left hand drive chauffeur
being able TO see more clearly the position
of the vehicle he has to pass.
In England horse drawn vehicles are al
most invariably driven from the left side
of the seat the whip socket being placed
to the left of the dashboard
Among the visitors yesterday was Ezra
E. Kirk. Western sales manager for the
Rainier Motor Company with HEADQUARTERS
al Toledo He said that the demand for
high class cars in the Middle Western
States is much greater now than it has
ever been. He said that this year would
be a banner one for good cars of all types
Among those present in the afternoon
were General Horace Porter Mr.. and Mrs
August Hecksher, jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Fl.
Potter Staples, of Boston; Judge and Mrs.
Elbert H. Gary. c. NJ. Gould. of Port
Chester: Mrs. George II. Richardson,
who purchased a 25-horsepower Panhard;
Harold Vanderbilt, DR.. Austin Flint, jr.
Mrs. Frank Freeman Miss Louise Free
man, George Bourne Miss Marjorie Bourne
Mrs. Edward r. Ladew, Miss I-adew ]. H.
Sears of Boston: Edward Shippen. H. K.
Vingut. Archibald Thompson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Leland Mr. and Mrs. G. V. Hollins.
E. La Montague, Lawrence Rider, Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Gilbert Thebaud, Richard Stew
ems, Theodore f. SteinWay, Cortlandt +.
Bishop, Mr.. and Mrs. Howland Pell.
Rhnelander Waldo, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
f. Morrell. Winthrop Scarrett and Dave