New-York tribune., 1910-12-25
RUSH AUTO SHOW PLANS
Task of Preparing Madison
SQUARE Garden a Big One.
TO LOOK LIKE OUTDOORS
More Space Arranged for the
Crowds, Even with More
Cars than Ever Before.

The task of getting the Madison Square
o-.rde, readv for the annual exhibition OF
licensed automobile makers has been more
difficult this year than ever before.
While the task OF accomplishing this In
a new way becomes more difficult eacn
wear. the genius OF the show managers
seemz 10 rise to the occasion. For the
forthcoming show, which for the first time
in the history Of the Garden shows IS TO De
an exhibition lasting two weeks. from
January to q. a new precedent for deco
rative schemes has been worked out
When ii is said that more than $500
are being expended In preparing the setting
for the exhibits, only vague idea Is con-
veyed Of what is to be presented The
motor cars of Americas representative
makers will attract their usual following
OF the public but apart from them the
scenic surrounding Will be worth a long
trip to see.
Big gardens and little gardens, aerial
gardens and underground gardens VIII
make up the setting for the exhibits for
the forthcoming show. A Roman terraced
garden of dignifed architectural design
will constitute the decorative theme and
serve as background for the exhibits.
There will be nothing tawdry or cheap In
the decorations, and there will be much
less ornamentation than heretofore. with
a consequent gain OF spacious effect and
out -of-door atmosphere. White and gold
will be the dominant colors in the scheme.
although green and crimson will be strong
Iy in evidence The girders of the big
dome will be screened by a canopy OF
soft material, rich azure blue In tone,
biDI, ;p~o ovIo Ioyy
will twinkle Several massive lamps of
rustic construction will be pendant from
the roof.
The exhibition spaces of the main floor
and elevated platform will be covered with
a carpet of light green, which will add to
the outdoor effect. At brief intervals along
the aisles of the exhibits of the arena and
elevated platforms will be ornamental
lamp posts, finished in verd bronze. which
will inform the visitors of the names OF
the exhibitors and direct them to various
departments of the show. Entering the
arena from the foyer is low abutnent of
gray stone. in front of which is carved a
troughlike basin. in which goldfish will
play amid natural and artificial water
plants. The pergola is supported by eight
cross beams strewn with trailing wistaria.
Four bay trees adorn the front of the
fountain.
Along both sides OF the arena will be
decorated boxes, which will seat about
twelve hundred people. Extending around
all the outer edge of the exhibiting space,
under the elevated platforms and towering
upward to the dome a series of classic
columns will lend much TO the stateliness
of the effect. These are OF structural
steel, but are to be so cleverly disguised
by lattice work that they will appear as If
made of ornate wood BY the use of these
columns and by extending the platforms
and balconies 26,oO0 square feet of exhibit
ton space was gained for the Forthcoming
show
Over two hundred tons Of steel and one
million feet of lumber Will be used in re-
constructing the Garden interior. Two
monster freight elevators will be installed
to hoist the cars to the galleries. These
too, will escape the notice of the visitor to
the show by their ingenious concealment
behind latticed effects Atop of each alter
mating column will be an arbor. in the GEN.
tire of which will be the emblem of the
show-a wheel surmounted by an Ameri-
can eagle.
There will be six staircases leading to the
elevated platform. Two of these in the
rear of the interior can be moved aside
to allow exhibits TO be carried to the ele-
vators.
In the general view there will be three
balconies in the rear and in the front of the
interior, and but two on either side. The
foyer of the Garden will be decorated as
never before. The visitor will pass under
a big Italian pergola- The walls are TO be
harmoniously decorated with posters SIM
liar to those used to advertise various au-
tomobile sporting events held during the
last year.
Nothing more novel has been introduced
In decorations than the rustic arbor that
will hood the concert hall. The woodwork
of the arbor will be Adirondack silver
birch. The counters. pillars, rafters and
lamps Will all be of rustic construction. An
other novel feature will be found in the
exhibition hail. which is to be trans
formed into Roman garden Here the
exhibits will appear under a big pergola,
twenty feet wide, extending all about the
room. The pergola is supported by twenty
five Doric columns and decorated with
foliage. From behind a balus-
trade the visitor can feast his eyes on a
gigantic painting of the Riviera, which runs
about the walls of the room. In the base
ment the rathskeller, which has been
feature for years. will be more interesting
than ever The room will be made to rep
resent an English inn, with a big yard,
filed with trees and surrounded by brick