Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-22
CROWDS BREAK
ALL RECORDS At
BIG AUTO SHOW
Mix Business with Sightseeing
and Purchase New
: Cars.
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MACHINES AND HALL
DRAPED WITH FLAGS
Many New Exhibits Have Been
Placed in Position Dur
ing Day.

ALI records concerning crowds at
automobile shows In New Jersey went
to smash at the big exhibit in the
First Regiment Armory today. APP
parently North Jersey society took
! Washington's Birthday off to visit the
, motor outlay, in the first place. and to
buy cars for next summer In the sec
ond place, for when the total sales
since Monday were footed up this
afternoon they had run considerably
over 1880
The festive end Of the show in honor
OF the Fathers" natal day was kept
Us so well that it fairly scintiiiated.
Every exh%ibitor-and there arc nearly
seventy Of them-came out with Amer
lean flags until you could hardly gee
the good points of the cars Oh account
Of all the national draperles about them.
The management was also present with
the country's symbols in u brand-new
scheme of decoration. Several thou
sand of the fifteen thousand visitors
wore Uncle Sans colors in corsago or
lapel, and nobody much blamed the
~ianitor's helper when he exclaimed
that he'd never seen so many Amer
lean flags of all nations in a single
place before.
But 1t was prominently society's
day at the big show. Colonel Frank
lin Murphy, Jr., led what might very
well have been a grand march OF the
elite down the aisles between the flag
draped autos. 1t bore the semblance
OF a grand march because the Boston
Women's Orchestra, led by Miss Rita
Mario, played everything hat patriotic
Americans have ever marched to from
yankee Doodle" 10 Hot Time In the
Old Town Tonight" The orchestra, by
the way, was forced to blow Itself
hoarse in the throat all day long.
The management was glad Of that. Of
course, but it was also glad that the
exposition, already a success as a show,
has developed a tremendous success
also as a selling agent.
Woman Buys Two Cars.
The handsomely gowned women who
Hooked about the armory today evil
IDENTIFY had In mind the latest fashions
in next summers machines as well as
the styles in dress. One of them,
whose name spells acme In New Jer-
sey ~aristocracy, ave her personal
check for two motor cars of two diff
ferent designs that she saw on exhibl-
ton today, and made the stipulation
that those self same cars should be de-
livered to her garage within the week.
The check she drew was for more than
So, 900. The sales agents of the com
panies announced that they would sup
ply the deficit In their exhibit without
delay.
A half-dozen new exhibits came In
with Mr.. Washington's anniversary.
Among them was the famous Buick
racer, Model 16, which won so many
championships that nobody thinks 1t
win ever be beaten, and other new
ones were from the Stoddard- Dayton
plant. which has made six sales ala
ready and had to ship its duplicates
in by fastest freight so that no hole
would appear ON It's side of the fence
/ Paddock Says show II "Best Hver.7
h George Paddock, chairman Of the
General dealers committee. said to-
day that they can talk as they like
about the New York show and the
Chicago show and the other shows,
wherever they have them, but for
himself he has never seen q show that
beats the Newark show for sales made
on the spot-and all the rest Of the
business end agreed with him.
'ollticians' day will be celebrated to,
morrow. Governor Woodrow Wilson
and his STAFF have been invited TO be
present and the members OF the Legis-
ire win be welcomed by the sho"
management. Among others who arc
expected to be present are: Senators
Harry V. Osborne. Of this city; Johns
ton Cornish. of Warren; Walter e,
Edge, of Atlantic City; G. w. Lewis, OF
Bergen; Robert e. Hand. OF Cape May;
George s. Silzer, OF Middlesex; Harry
D. Leavitt. OF Mercer; e. r. Acker-
man, of Union; John H.. Prince, OF
Passaic; Richard Fitzherbert, of Mer-
GER, and practically every one OF the
prominent Senators and Assemblymen
in the present Legislature.