Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
REDWOOD GROVE
TO BE DEPICTED
LICENSED DEALERS TO GIVE A
MONSTER EXHIBITION
MORE THAN 16o AMERICAN CARS
TO BE DISPLAYED
Machines VIII Be Placed Among Trees
Which VIII Be Surrounded by
Canvas Made to Resemble
Mountain Scenery

The greatest automobile show the
west has ever seen and the most pic
turesque the motor car industry has
known will open at Fiesta park next
Saturday night and continue one week.
The show will not be opened Sunday.
Nesting in grove Of giant redwoods
and under a ceiling of thousands of
brightly glittering lights will be more
than $50 of Americas leading cars.
To describe the scene when spec
tator first walks into the immense en-
closure is beyond the descriptive pen.
Overhead like the blue sky will be the
canvas roof, while on all sides will be
the redwoods. Apparently as far as
the eye can see will be the forest and
the mountains. Were 1t not for. the
late motor cars on display the show
would prove q tremendous attraction
from a spectacular standpoint alone.
The whole effect will be one of gigantic
beauty and grandeur.
To add to the effect of one monster
forest a scene 1908 feet long and twelve
feet high is being painted by a score
of scenic artists. This scene will con-
stitute the four walls and will be in the
nature of a shadow box. The scene will
come within q few feet of the top. Di-
rectly above 1t will be a string of
lights and in front of the lights a strip
of white canvas. hanging to the scene.
Part Of Scenery Placed
section of this scene was hung last
week and the committee was greatly
pleased with the sample. Hundreds of
people have visited the park this week
to watch the work. III order that the
public may have some idea of the i'm
mensity of the project the Pico street
door will be open today and the public
is invited to see what has been done.
The reproduction of a redwood grove
is nearly perfect. A dozen trees already
have been completed and it was APP
parent in viewing these that when the
whole is completed the canvas will
stand above with the effect of no posts
in the enclosure. The trees provide tho
decorative and entirely eliminate the
appearance of supports.
Practically every foot of space has
been sold, and Manager J. S. Conwell
stated yesterday that he did not think
there would be one foot left by to-
morrow morning. When the first space
was sold the dealers took $4,000 square
feet. Several more thousand feet were
sold to other dealers, and then the
books were opened to the accessory
men.
Demand for Space Brisk
The demand was brisk, and by Sat
urday evening almost all the space set
aside for the supply men had been
taken. Among the exhibitors will be
the Chanslor & Lyon company, the
Jackson-Eno Rubber company and
many others. There will also be an
exhibit of motorcycles.
The largest exhibit will be that of
the Stoddard-Dayton company. Seven
teen Stoddard- -Daytons and Baker cleo
tries will be exhibited. The Western
Motor Car company is the second
largest exhibitor. This firm will have
Packards, Chalmers and Hudsons. 1t
will have also a stripped chassis of the
Chalmers.
H. o. Harrison will come down from
San Francisco for the show He will
show the Peerless four and six-cylinder
touring cars and a Peerless limousine
There also will be a Peerless close
coupled type, and probably a roadster.
One of the newcomers in the Harrison
exhibit will be the new Everitt thirty
which will make its debut at this show
r. c. Hamlin is planning an extensive
exhibit of Franklins. His star will be
the Torpedo which will leave Chicago
tomorrow morning on an express car
Hamlin will also show all the six and
four-cylinder models. The new air