Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-15
AUTO PROGRESS
MAKES 1871 SHOW
The BEST EVER
Sixty Exhibitors at Big Event
Which Opens in ArmOry
Saturday Evening.

An auto show, more representative
than New Jersey has seen before. more
brilliant and with more than sixty diff
ferent exhibitors to show how the in
dustry has progressed within the year,
will be opened by State Senator Wal
ter u. Edge, of Atlantic City, at the
First Regiment Armory Saturday night.
How nearly 1t measured UP to the
worlds greatest auto shows OF Madi-
son Square Garden may be judged by
the fact hat the New York exhibit
showed only eight more makes of cars
than will this. while the Newark show
viii add many features in the way of
motorcycles, a ladies' orchestra and
moving-pictures that will show every
thing from the winning of a cup race
10 an eirship's swiftest flight.
space All Taken.
Every available inch of the 20, 900
square feet OF space in the big armory
will he taken up by cars, Packards,
Stoddard Daytons and light models of
Maxwell and Columbia cars shown by
j.. w. Mason, will range opposite each
other in a really glittering display Of
tonneaus and wheels. The Peerless,
Chalmers and Cadillac have large
spaces along with the famous cup
winning Alec, and even a woman ex-
hibitor has joined the clan in the per-
son of Mrs. M. w. Hickey, of the
Hickey Machine Company of East Or
ange. With true feminine instinct she
has provided extra music for the visi-
tors who will inspect her Marmon car.
Big space allotments have been pre-
empted by the Autocar Co., with its
great delivery machines, the Crescent,
the Locomobile, Peerless, Mitchell and
Buick.
Senator Edge TO Open show.
The show will be formally opened at
s o'clock by Senator Walter z.
Edge. of Atlantic City, with an
opening address. The lights will
be dimned until that hour. and
when the South Jersey statesman
gives the signal for the full power to
be turned on the spectators will wit
ness one of the handsomest decorative
schemes that has ever marked an auto
mobile exhibition. The roof Orders and
trusses win be hidden under thousands
and thousands of yards of blue and
white AND gold bunting. Dependent
from the ceiling will be suspended a
trio of chandeliers unique in electrical
construction and resembling huge balls
of fire, while thousands Of brilliant
tungsten lamps will be hung in stream
ers over the entire exhibition spaces,
and will find their rays reflected from
the polished GLASSES n beautifully
colored cars on the floor. The OPEN
ing of the show will take on the nature
of a society event. Men prominent in
civic and public life will be there, in
Guiding the mayors of Newark. the Or
anges, Jersey City, Elizabeth, Paterson
m P%lainield; the president of the
Board of Trade, police and fire COM
m%issioners and hundreds of others
equally prominent, who by their pres
ence will indicate that they have taken
~cognizance of this industry which has
become so important a part Of New
Jerseys commercial life in the last
half a dozen years.
WOmen's Orchestra.
There will be something to appeal to
everyone at the coming show. The
Empire Women's Orchestra. of Boston,
composed of sixty pieces. will render