The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-25
FIESTA PARK
SHOW IS OPEN
Midwinter Automobile Show
Opens on Christmas Eve at
Los Angeles.
BEAUTIFUL DECORATIONS
FEATURE OF EXHIBIT
Great Army of Men Completes
Work on Magnificent Dis
play of Motor Cars.

Los ANGELES, Dec, G4.--Sufpass
ing in elegance of ornameptation and
scenic properties any d,spIoy oil us
kind ever before attempted, tho com-
pIeted preparations for the second an,
nual show of licensed motor cars. held
Christmas week in Fiesta park. bnl
render more evident the enterprise OF
the dealers in undertaking such task
Comparable only to the Madison
Square Garden show IN decoration, the
licensed car show possesses distinctive
scenic features possible only IN south,
ern California The resourcefnlness OF
Los Angeles dealers IN arranging such
a display but indicates the leading
place the Pacific coast is taking In mo-
ioring affairs.
Although the Fiesta park show dis
plays not SO many ears rs the Mad1son
square Garden event, the floor space
of the show is very nearly the same
In decoration, southern California S
inimitable scenery, faithfully repro
duced, comes to the fore. Through an
enchanting canyop, leading apparently
from the high Sierras, a sparkling noun
tain stream, six feet wide, plunges down
q twelve foot waterfall of natural rock
and winds its way through redwood
forest. where the cars, unsurpassed by
any of the New York show exhibits,
will be displayed. The details of the
decoration Will represent tuS tiluiHPo
of the SCENIC artist IS work.
Beautiful Decorations.
The diseernment of the show conl-
mittee in selecting the show colors OF
green. white and gold is manifest. Re
fecting southern California sunshine,
with nature IS background of white and
green, the decorations harmoplze beau
tifulIy with the elegant gowns of the
fair visitors and the beautiful ears.
More than Que hundred men we're
employed on the carpentry aud cleo
trical installation in the great tent, and
they were joined by small army OF
decorators, painters and scenic artlsts
as the work progressed.
The floor space of the show is 100,
900 feet, and force of forty carpeu-
ters was employed in the single task
of laying the flooring Ten carloads
of lumber, more than 10000 foet, was
used III the ground covering. A. j..
Crawford is the contractor.
The display of pleasure cars requires
10000 feet of floor space, aud the com
mercial annex, where the motor trucks
arc shown, an additional 10000 square
feet. The floor is the largest ever built
in southern California.
This vast floor is carpeted with bur,
lap and canvas The exhibits are car
peted to represent greensward and the
aisles are white. Tho floor covering
was prepared in the factory of the
William ii. Hoegee company.
When the first plans for the show
were announced, many were sceptical
at the ability of the committee to carry
through an exhibit on such an immense
scale. The dealers on the committee,
however, have demonstrated their abil-
ity by arranging details at first dis
carded as out of the question.
Opening Christmas eve, ut the very
height of the holiday season, the show
affords rare entertainment and instruc-
tioD to winter visitors from the cast
IN the city and nearby towns rs well.
In the giant sequoias which canopy tho
glistening motor cars, nature provides
a Yuletide atmosphere and setting that
cannot be exceIled.
Great Christmas Tree
marvellous Christmas tree. rising
fiftytwo feet from an island in the
mountain stream. furnishes fitting
cepterpiece for the holiday display of
the elite of motor vehicles.
The following well-knowu makes of
motor ears, each In a variety OF models
aggregating more than 200 cars, are
exhibited only at tho show of licensed
cars: Apperson, Autocar, Buick. Car.
ter car, Chalmers, Columbia, Detroit
Electric, Elmore. T. M. f., Everett
Flanders. Franklin, Garford. Glide
Hudson, Hupmobile, Jackson, Knox, Lo,
comobile, Lozier, Matheson, Maxwell
Mercer, Mitchell, Ohio Electric. Olds.
mobile, Overland, Packard, Palmer.
Singer, Peerless, Pierce Arrow, Pope
Hartford, Premier, Pullman, Regal, REQ
Simplex, Stearne, Stevens-Duryea, stu
debaker, Thomas, Winton, Woods Elcc
trio.
All of the leading stock cars whose
performances at road races, on the
track and IN economy and endurance
tests have manifested their superiority
are seen at the Fiesta park show.
An unequaled opportunity for study
aud comparison of the leading models
licensed under Selden patent. wbict
will grace southern CALIFORNIA; boulc
Yards in the coming season, is afforded
visitors to the show.