Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-18
CARS WILL CLEAN
IN DAZZLING SHOW
Twenty Thousand Lights to IIIu-
inmate Licensed Machines
at Fiesta Park
NOVEL FEATURES PROMISED
Exhibit to Open Christmas Eve
Promises to Eclipse All
Preceding Efforts
NOVEL FEATURES PROMISED

Twenty thousand lights, illumining
a woodland scene of rare beauty, will
CLEAN a dazzling welcome to visitors
to the second annual show of licensed
motor cars which opens Christmas
eve in Fiesta park. An electrical dis
play of magnitude never before
ecualed in the west will reveal the
latest models of pleasure vehicles dis
played in rustic bowers beneath giant
redwoods.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
illumination of the great show tent
may be gained from the statement
that when the switch is thrown that
will set the myriad incandescent lamps
aglow, in no city in California, exclu-
sive of San Francisco and Los An
geles, will so many electric lamps be
alght at one time. The contract let
by the show committee for the install
1ation of the lights is the largest for
decorative purposes ever given IN
Southern California. Woodill & Hulse
are the contractors and T. G. Sumner,
superintendent of the company, is
personally looking after the installa-
tion.
In the overhead and feature display
of the redwood grove in which the cars
will be shown, more than $1,000 mean
descent bulbs will be employed. The
radiance of twenty-five arc lamps
over head will add to the effulgence.
one thousand shadow lamps will be
used in illuminating the wall painting
and giving the perspective of great
distance to the California scenes OF
mountain and orchard. The mann
moth Christmas tree which Will rise
f1fty-two feet high in the center OF
the woodland will glow with 800 min
iature colored incandescents, 1lluml-
mating it's load of glittering ornaments.
ELABORATE LIGHTING PLANS
Miles of wire and insulating material
will he used In stringing the lights and
wiring the feature displays. Current
will be supplied from high tension
lines reduced to the voltage of the
lamp circuits by huge transformers
located nthe park. This installation
and current will be supplied by the
Southern California Edison company.
In the commercial annex where
down-to-date auto trucks, licensed un-
der the Selden patent, will be SHOWN,
decorative scheme employing lOOO
lamps will be carried out. The annex,
which will be located on the Grand
avenue side of the park, will be
reached by a brilliantly illumipated
tunnel under the stadium track.
The show committee is working night
and dav on the details of the motor
car display. Everything possible Tor
the comfort, convenience and enter
tainment of the visitors is being pre-
pared. The committee has arranssu @
all the plans that all exhibits may be
I'm place and every detail of decora-
tion completed not later than Decem-
ber %.
SURPRISING in elegance of ornamen-
tation and scenic properties any ols-
nlay of it's kind ever before attempted,
fhe preparations for the second annual
show of licensed motor cars, to be held
Christmas week in Fiesta park, put
renoer 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 will possess distinctive scenic
features possible only in Southern Cal
ifornia. The reSourcefulneSs or Los
Angeles dealers in arranging such
display but indicates the leading place
the Pacific coast is taking in motoring
affairs. Although the Fiesta park
show will display not so many cars as
the Madison Square Garden event. the
floor space of the show is very nearly
the same.
WOODLAND SCENERY EFFECT
In decoration, Southern California's
inimitable scenery faithfully repro
III.
an enchanting canyon, six feet wide,
will plunge down a twelve-foot water
fall of natural rock and will wind its
wav through q redwood forest, where
the cars, unsurpassed by any of the
New York show exhibits, will be dis
played. The details of the decoration
will represent the triumph or the scenic
artists work.
The discernment of the show COM
mittee in selecting the show colors of
green, white and gold is manifest. Re-
fiecting Southern California sunshine,
with natures background Of white and
green, the decorations will harmonize
beautifully with the elegant gowns
of the fair visitors and the beautiful
cars More than 100 men are en-
ployed on the carpentry and electrical
installation in the great tent and they
viii be Joined by small army of dec
orators, painters and scenic artists as
the work progresses.
The floor space of the show Is 100,-
900 feet, and q force of forty carpen-
ters are employed in the single task
of laying the flooring. Ten carloads Of
lumber, more than 100000 feet, will be
used in the ground covering. A. J..
Crawford is the contractor
The C'5play of pleasure cars requires
80 900 feet of floor space and the COM
mercial annex, where the motor trucks
will be shown, an additional 10000
square feet. The floor will be the
largest ever built in Southern Cali
fornia in area.
This vast floor will be carpeted with
burlap and canvas. The exhibits will
be carpeted to represent greenswarf
and the aisles will be white. The floor
covering is being prepared in the fac
tory of the William II. Hoegee COM
pany.
when the first plans for the show
were announced, many were skeptical
at the ability of the committee to carry
through an exhibit on such an immense
scale. The dealers on the COMMITTEES,
however, have demonstrated their abil-