Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-02-20
Two Aerial Ships Will Be Special
Scenic Wonders.
CARS OF EVERY MAKE-AND COLOR
Between Two and Three Hundred
Samples to Feast Eyes Upon.
EXPOSITION OPEN ENTIRE WEEK
Special Nights Set Aside for Council
Bluffs, south Omaha and LtncOin
--sOciety TO Reign Thursday
Daily Hand Concerts.

When the buglers stationed in the top
most gallery Of the Auditorium blow their
calls at 1880 Monday evening to announce
the opening OF the fifth annual auto
mobile show the management promises
everything will be in readiness and that
the show will be the most beautiful ana
complete of any similar exposition ever
held in the west.
This year there are fifty-one exhibitors
and some of these have two or three
different makes of cars, and as each
booth will hold on an average-Sof five
cars, there will be about $50 cars at the
show. In the basement are ten con-
Germs showing motor trucks On the
arena floor viii be thirty-one dealers and
five miscellaneous concerns and on the
stage five accessory men will exhibit
their wares.
No money or time has been spared in
preparation for the show. Before the
opening Of the year Clarke G. Powell.
member of the executive committee of the
association, made round OF the factories
in the east to interest the manufacturers
in the show. The item of decorations
amounts to almost double that used last
year, and even then 1t was a most beauti-
full show.
Inc COilnllllt6 OH ueCOIdllOfu mas
changed the color scheme TO green and
white from the purple and white which
has been used for some years, as 1t was
found the green will show up better under
the glare of the electric lights AS usual
a great number of small lights will be
used and all exhibits will be in the full
light.
Airships' Sail Above Automobiles.
Two aeroplanes will be exhibited being
suspended from the ceiling, and a special
lighting effect will be used to show these
off to the best advantage. The lights will
be used to a large extent during the day
also.
J In the matter of floor decorations 1t is
the purpose OF the committee 20 follow the
general plan of the last few shows. This
| year there will be a center aisle, and this
will give better chance to decorate and
will give a better impression to the visitor
! entering for the first time. A liberal use
of palms will help to set off the scheme OF
| decoration.
After the opening day the Auditorium will
be open all day well as in the evening.
but on Monday the show will not open until
| 7:3O in the evening. Mayor Dahlman will
deliver an address for the opening OF the
show and band concert will follow from
each day has been given a special sig
nificance as follows:
Tuesday-Council Bluffs night band con-
! cert.
Wednesday-south Omaha night, band
concert.
Thursday Night-society night, band con
| cert.
Friday Night-Lincoln night. band con-
Saturday Night-Band concert; close of
show.
Reports from travelling men who have
been making the state are to the effect
| that there will be a great movement OF
country dealers to Omaha all week. Nearly
every town In the state has one or more
automobile dealers, and they will seize this
opportunity to secure their cars for the
| season.
Omaha Keeps Up Fast Pace.
! No industry of recent years has seen
such giants strides as that Of the automo-
bile industry and Omaha has kept pace
with the rest OF the country. From a start
! OF one little secondhand car twelve years
ago the number has increased until today
Omaha has about 700 self-propelling We
hicles Of different kinds with the number
! increasing every day.
| Automobiles have had a great influence
on the city life of the Gate City and many
improvements In streets are credited to
| the automobiles. Many people did not
realize the way the streets OF Omaha were
running down some years ago until they
began to ride around in the benzne bug
giles and then they became active. The
automobile owners a rule are an in
fluential class of citizens and when they
got busy they forced many Improvements
which might otherwise have waited many
years. Broken streets where paving had
been neglected were connected up ana
many streets were resurfaced.
While Omaha has been a little backward
In the matter of buying large numbers OF
motor trucks for commercial purposes, stil
some Of the experimental vehicles have
been bought. The manufacturers OF these
claim they are now past the experimental
stage and are ready to sell machines which
will stand the hard wear and tear OF city
life II such be the case Omaha whole
salers and. jobbers will soon be in line ana