The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-25
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AUTOMOBILES vs.
THE AEROPLANES
First Big Show Of the Season
Will Be Held at st. Louis
October i to 8

st. Louis, Sept. 25.-Automobiles
and aeroplanes will vie for popular
favor during the st. Louis festivities,
October l to 8 inclusive. The auto
mobiles will show outdoors al Forest
Park Highlands. one of the largest
summer gardens in the city, and the
aeroplanes will fly from Playground, a
municipal park.
At the start the aeroplanes will
have several advantages over the au-
tomobiles. In the first place, they are
scheduled to begin to fly on the open
ing day of the festivities, and the au-
tomobiles will not begin to shine in
public until the second day, October
=. In the second place, admission to
Playground to see the flying aero
planes will be free to all, while admis-
sion to Forest Park Highlands to look
at the automobiles will be rs cents. =.
But '25 cents is easily parted with
by anyone seriously considering the
purchase of a motor car and, accord
ing to Captain Robert E. Lee, editor
of the Auto Review. who has charge
OF the automobile show, it will be the
first show in the United States to dis
play the 1912 models. Furthermore,
1t will be the largest motor car EXPOSE
ton ever held west of New York, Cap
tain Lee asserts. He broadens this as
sertion by adding that this show, held
outdoors because too large for any
building. will cover more area and in
clude more autlnobiles. both pleasure
and commercial, than any previous
show this side of Gotham. The act
ual figures given out by Captain Lee
are 10000 square feet Of display area.
25O pleasure cars, and "a makes Of
trucks and light and heavy delivery
wagons, all 1912 models.
The average man likes to see an
aeroplane fly but likes to ride in an au-
tomobile, Captain Lee. maintains. AL
though cOnceding that the pay-as-you-
enter automobile show, even if the
greatest in the history of the west, will
draw fewer people than the free flying,
he believes it will prove a greater fac
tor than the flying in bringing people
from outside the radius of special rail-
road rates.
Flying has become so common
place now that people no longer have
to cross the continent to see it." said
Captain Lee to your correspondent.
"For instance, out at Kinloch park, the
regular aviation grounds of the Aero
club of st. Louis, or more aero
planes can be seen in the air almost
any pleasant afternoon and sometimes
at night. But the average man would
rather dance than watch others dance,
rather play tennis than watch others
play tennis, and rather ride in an au-
tomobile than watch others-fy. Aero
planning is" still the pastime of a few
men. of the daredevil type, while au-
tOmobiling Is within reach of persons
of moderate means as we'll as those
of the wealthy set and requires no es-
pecial skill or daring. The people are
impatient for an opportunity to COM
pare the 1912 models of the different
manufacturers, and simply cannot wait
until January, when, in the usual
course of events, the 1912 models
would make their debut at the national
automobile show in New York. So the
1912 models will make their initial
bow at st. Louis. Never before have
new models been first shown elsewhere
than in New York"
All the enclosed space at Forest
Park Highlands will be transformed
into an autumn forest scene. Every
inch of ceiling and wall Is to be cover
ed with foliage taken from the woods
and with southern MOSES. The posts
will be disguised with birch and oak
bark and twined around them will be
green grape vines and leaves. Even
the signs used will be of rustic char
acter. Never before. according to Mr.
Lee, has so unique a scheme of decor
atoms been attempted in the United
States at any kind of an automobile
show.
Runs to St. Louis on account of the
automobile show from various cities
and towns within a radius of 200 miles
are being organized. Parties in cars
will start together for St. Louis and
Ell route will pick up other motorists
bound for the show, SO that when St
Louis is reached the visiting machines
will constitute a long line. Commit
tees of st. Louis dealers will meet
the visitors and look after their conf
fort during their stay in this city.
The automobile show and the free
flying are two of the most important
of a number of events constituting the
St. Louis festivities. Among the 9th
err events of national interest are the
Yelled Prophets pageant and ball. a
$50, 900 annual frolic Of wealthy citi-
zens, which this year will occur the
night Of October 8; and a fifteen-mile
handicap Marathon race. the afternoon
of October {. led by an aeroplane and
ending on the aviation field at Fair
ground. Thirty-four prizes will be
awarded to runners in this race. which
is open to residents of all sections OF
the United States, whether or not MEM
beers of the Y. NJ. G. A., under whose
AUSPICES the race will be run.
FARGO HIGH
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