New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
END OF AUTO SHOW
BIG CROWD OUT FOR
List LOOK.
Manufacturers Vel Pleased
srith Remarkable Success
of Exhibition.


Manufacturers was on hand for the closing
scenes last night. Although the show had
been in progress fer eight business days. the
last DAY in point OF attendance and surely
in the amount of business transacted. was
fully as great as if not greater than any
throughout fhe week. Just before the
lights went out one manufacturer said:
Taken a whole the shcw has been a
prodigious success; one unequaled 10y any
previous industrial exposition IN the annals
o: the industry. Sales without number
were transacted. and all the makers and
dealers feel that the week has left its
mark on the business of the year. The
full value of the show has not yet been
appreciated. Its influences will be felt for
weeks and months 10 come. II revived
general interest and gave added impetus
10 not only local but likewise national
trade, creating IL did many prospective
purchasers OF the motor vehicle.
There was not a city of any conse-
oUence east of the Rocky Mountains that
did not have one more representatives
at the show. and these mon will return
70 their home cities full of the gospel of
the motor. thoroughly enthusiastic and
flowing over with information relative TO
the great strides and advancement that
have been made in the industry since the
saw tts first motor show In this way, at
least, the exposition has been one of great
value in an educational manner"
The show displayed no indications of an
overproduction I'm motor vehicles The
consensus Of opinion last night was that
instead Of an overproduction the country
VIII within the next two months wake up
70 the stern facts that deliveries are slow.
and there will be 2 dearth of the cars
which have been on exhibition in the
Garden during the last eight days The
machines shown were of the so-caIled
high grade class, constructed with intent
of producing the highest and best such
as none but selected material and, work
manship can produce
While II is q fact that the motor cars
displayed in the Garden were as perfect as
human ingenuity has as yet made possible
they have not yet reached the stage of
perfection. No matter how thoroughly re-
liable, efficient, lasting capable a motor
car may become. the fact remains that the
human desire to excel will ever force for
"afd enorts TO improve and create new
products But, as the show displayed the
EFFORTS and plans OF the future will not be
permitted to run riot with experience of
me past or present, but instead will be
confined to well defined and well regulated
lines
In speaking of the show Colonel George
Pope, chairman of the show committee
said:
The committee feels deeply grateful To
every member OF the association for SUM-
port given il TO make this the one show
above all others We fully realize that
without that active assistance such results
as have been recorded would be absolutely
impossible. It was one monster and abso-
lutely complete industrial exhibit The sue
! cess Of the same is abundantly proven bv
81 the keen interest shown therein by the peo-
pie. not only of New York, but from all
over the country
AS 10 the mana cement I care not to
speak. There is one thing, however. which
/ cannot too strongly emphasize, and that
Us the manner and scheme of this wears
decorations, over which w w Knowles
labored so long and diligently. To him is
due no small amount of the credit OF the
week. ] honestly believe that this has
without exception been the most success
ful and complete motor car show ever held
in this or any other country. ranking on
a par with the Paris Salon and the Olympic
show Of England
The show held the attention of the FASH
fonable set until the end. and there ap-
reared 10 be no dininution in the general
attendance up TO the closing hour last
night.
Robert Walton Goelet, who was present
in the afternoon, said if was his opinion
that Colonel George Pope's suggestion to
have & show lasting two weeks next year
was good one. He said there were many
Ike himself who found it difficult to give
up the time necessary to properly see the
many interesting exhibits in one week
FOR instance" added Mr.. Goelet, 'I came
here to-day expecting to spend but half an
hour, and I have already been here two
hours. Now / must go and telephone my
/, inability 10 keep one Of my engagements"
I Mr.. Goelet. who recently became the owner
sof one Of the largest and most famous of
the old shooting preserves in France, will
shortly sail with a party of friends to
enend the remainder Of the season abroad
He said he had seen all the big foreign
shows, but that the tenth national wa.
superior OF all.
rather amusing feature was furnished
by NJ Trtmble Wyatt, who is able to boast
Of feet inches. His father Judge
william z. Wyatt. gave him money for a
motor car as a present upon his coming
OF age last week, and young Wyatt has
been spending the greater part Of the week
at the Garden in an unsuccessful effort to
make a selection. The cause OF this re-
marlzble indecision, according TO Mr.
Wyatt, is that in no car in which he has
seated himself back Of the steering wheel
has there been sufficient room TO place his
/ knees. However, in almost every case the
obligtng manufacturers have offered to
overcome that slight objection by building
q car to order.
Judge William II. Moore, of horse show
fame, was one OF the visitors. Others pres
ent were Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Frederick
Holman. Harry s. Black, Robert Wrenn,
Bredish Johnson. Miss Alice Richard, Mr..
and Mrs. g. Stanley Menken, Alfonso de
Navarro, Miss Catherine Hamersley, Mr.
snd Mrs. Philip Boyer. William n. Wright,
G. Hermann Kinnicutt, Mr.. and Mrs. Ches-
Ter Griswold, Mrs. Samuel Adams Clark
Viccrnte do Per1gny, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Schie1elin. Miss Frances Diclzey, Miss
Dorothy Tucker1nan, Miss Civilise Alex
andre, Whitney Kernochan. ]. Norman
whitehouse, Sidney Fish. Kiliaen Van
Rensselaer,, William E. d. Stokes, Gros-
venor Atterbury. Mr.. and Mrs. Courtlandt
Dixon Barnes. Miss Dorothy Hayden, De
Lancey Kane Jay, Franklin Plummer, Miss
Anita Peabody, Mr.. and Mrs. Rossiter
: Bctts Mr.. and Mrs. William Earl Dodge
and Edward Z. Potter, jr.
NOTES OF THE SHOW.