Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
SOCIETY WORLD
APPROVES SHOW
AUTOS INSPECTED BY 5000
PERSONS
FINANCIAL SUCCESS is NOW
ASSURED
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Many Object Lessons of Real Value
Are Learned from Lips of
Some Expert Demon
strators

The "kings and queens" of motor
dom from their royal thrones in the
giant redwood forest witnessed a grand
pageant last night as fully 5000 cour-
tiers and their ladies from the local
social world passed in review down
the broad carpeted aisles in all their
splendor of apparel. The approval of
the social set of the Licensed Auto
show was proved by the generous at
tendance The show management and
the exhibitors put forward their best
efforts to bring out the good points
of the machines on display, and to
impress upon the visitors that they
were viewing the best automobile show
ever given under similar conditions and
amid such surroundings.
The huge amphitheater was redolent
with the rich fragrance of thousands
of flowers, and the music might. have
been cadences from fairyland.
Automobiles are the great Jewelers. of
caste, for society is as much interested
in the mechanism of motor cars as Is
the man or woman who admires them
but never expects to own one. Con-
versation overheard with statesmen and
demonstrators was not of the stilted
variety so common in other commercial
lines. They were good heart to heart
talks of one auto enthusiast with an
other.
Are Center of interest
The chasses in the different exhibits
that showed their mechanism in opera
ton were the center of interest. Many
sentences of these object lessons were
memorized for ready reference when
necessity requires.
The audience last night was not a
stiff array of humans in evening
clothes, but concourse of intelligent
persons who as spokes in the pro-
fessional and business world have
gravitated to their rightful place in the
social hub.
The committee having in charge the
Licensed Auto show have much to feel
proud of in the success that has
crowned their efforts. Because of their
modesty and the great strain it would
be upon their vocal chords to crow
continuously upon the many beauties
and advantages of the show the COM
mittee has gone back to first principles
and selected two fine barnyard speci-
mems which have been placed on op-
posite sides of the canvas near the
managers desk, so that their clarion
music may reverberate throughout
the big tent the entire day.
Is Financial Success
The attendance at the show now as
sures it a financial success. The nearly
fifty thousand persons who have al
ready seen the big show are the best
boosters, so it is reasonable to suppose
that the two remaining days will be
the banner ones in point of attendance
Fifty times the price of admission spent
in visiting the different makes of ma
chimes in their garages would not re-
suit in as much information of prac-
tical nature as can be acquired in a
few hours for a four-bit piece at the
show.
SHOW sIDELlGHTs
f. c. Paulin the Los Angeles capital
list purchased the new six-cylinder,
sixty-horsepower Oldsmobile as soon
as it was placed among the exhibits Of
the Woolwine Motor Car company yes
terday. 1t is a big car with 42-inch
wheels ,and the price complete was
s4SO0.
Mr.. Greer of the Greer-Robbins COM
pany will leave Sunday for Racine,
Wis, to make a personal appeal for
more Mitchell cars, as his company is
now forced to sell for April delivery.
An Americans Simplex of the run
about type will be seen in the city in a
necessary to complete the line of these
classy cars.
The 3O-horsepower Pullman is possibly
the stockiest car in the show, for it
exceeds in weight many of the larger
cars 1t has been built to stand the
hardest usage to which any car can
be put.
Such a hold has the Flanders 20 taken
upon the public fancy that the Lord
Motor Car company reports that they
are sold up to April Is delivery.
Visiting auto enthusiasts are much
taken with the Thorpe illustrated road
maps which makes it possible for the
stranger to go anywhere in Southern
California at will without danger of
being lost.
Among the automobile accessories ex-
hibited the Barnard specialties fill long
felt wants to add to the comfort of
motor travel. With these little neces-
saries one may enjoy all the advan-
tages of ones on dressing room or den
while on the road.