New-York tribune., 1910-12-25
NEW MAKERS TO SHOW
The Independent Exhibit Will
Open on December 81.
AERnPLANES ALSO ON VIEW
Major General Frederick D..
Grant Will Speak at the
Shows Inauguration.

About forty Western makers OF auto
mobiles who are not well known in New
York vii exhibit their models in the Inter
national Automobile Show at the Grand
Central Palace. Lexington avenue and 4Sd
street. which begins on the evening OF De-
reuher 81 and lasts a week. There will be
abolt seventy-five exhibitors in ali.
The Western makers who are strangers
70 the Eastern trade say they are not
bringing any models to the show that are
,snfried freaks of construction, durability
or record. All of these manufacturers are
doing 2. big Middle West business. There
will be many high priced pleasure cars IN
the show but the Westerners Will show
machines which viii bear prices that will
be a revelation 10 New York dealers and
owners
The managers Of the snow say that, aside
from a record breaking attendance of Wis
.tors at the exposition. in connection with
which is TO be held the First international
Aviation Show. that it viii be irnpressing as
a dealers show" The entire automobile
and vehicle trade of the United States has
been invited TO attend and hundreds of
ecceotances have already been received 1t
IS thought that on the opening night, New
Years Eve. at least twenty-five thousand
persons will pass through the Lexington
avenue entrance. The doors will be opened
at 7:3a o'clock and the opening ceremonies
VIII begin at SIS.
Major General Frederick Dent Grant will
open the automobile and aviation shows in
2 speech in which he Will comment upon
the parts that the automobile and aero
plane take in modern military affairs, and
what they may be expected to accomplish
IN warfare of the future. Following his ad-
dress. General Grant, who viii be accom-
7,aried by aids in uniform will he rendered
q short reception on the main floor of the
principal exhibition hall, when he will meet
well known automobile manufacturers and
sviators. General Grant will be accom-
panied by Colonel Stephen c. Mills. Cen
eral staff, u s. A; Captain C. w F'enton.
ID Cavalry, aide-6e-camp. and First Lieu
tenant Marion ". Howe, 1st Field Arti-
lery. aide-de-camp.
More than one hundred army officers and
their families will be the guests of the
management of the shows on the same
evening as we'll as many naval officers.
Requisitions have been made in addition
for $50 tickets by the Army and Navy Club,
members of which are particularly inter
estsd in the aeroplane division and some of
the new types of automobiles for field mill
tary use.
On the opening night, there will be a spe-
cial musical programme by the orchestra,
conducted by w Z. Blaufuss. OF Chicago,
which is to furnish two concerts daily
throughout the week.
John b. Moisants all steel racing mono
plane. which arrived from France last week
and was forwarded to New Orleans, where
the aviator is TO try for the worlds speed
and altitude records, is TO be returned here
.n time for exhibition at the aviation show
The Aero Club of America sent a special
f,arograph to measure Moisant's high
flights. and also dispatched an official of
the club as an inspector of the flights, SO
that there may be question as to Of
ficial measurements, was the case in
DrexeI's altitude flight
Glenn H Curtisss Hudson Flyer, in
which he made his famous trip from Al
lzany 10 New York. winning the prize OF
y76ael offered by The New York World
lras been groomed for the aeroplane
position. It is the same machine in which
Mr.. Curtiss made fifty-mile flight over
the sea at Atlantic City, and the first ma
chine in which aviator ever made
social call. Curtiss flew from Atlantic City
TO NentOr one afternoon and called upon
Captain Hugh i. Willoughby. returning IN
one hour and twenty minutes.
The Wrights. Noisant. Lovelace. Curtiss,
Ely and many other prominent birdmen
have accepted invitations TO attend the
show, and more than a score OF prize win
ming and record breaking aeroplanes are
10 be displayed in the aviation division.