Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-26
ANNUAL AUTO SHOW CLOSES
Big Motor Car Exhibit is Declared
Success.
EXHIBITORS ARE SATISFIED
Results Are Coming In from All
Points of the Territory About
Omahn-Many Dealers TO
Double Orders.

Double Orders.
Omahas Sixth Annual Automobile show
came to a close Saturday evening.-the
biggest and most successful automobile
exhibition ever held in this city. Exhibitors
and visitors OF the show OF 1911 are
equally satisfied with the auto event OF
the year, The record attendance Of the
show testifies to the popularity Of the
attraction to Omaha people.
The results OF the weeks work Of the
show was to give the industry a boost In
Iowa, Nebraska. South Dakota. northern
Kansas, eastern Colorado and Wyoming
that many declare will almost double the
number Of cars in use in this territory
before another year passes. In addition
to this e State Automobile association was
formed in Omaha and Nebraska that viii
take place in the American Automobile
association.
The number OF cars actually sold during
the progress Of the show, although It
speaks well for the Omaha dealers and for
the prosperity Of the country surrounding
Omaha, is but a small part OF the results
that will be brought to the automobillsts
and the dealers. The automobile show in
educating the public mind to the value
car owner can gain from his machine in
saving Of time and in adding to his
business. has done great work As one
dealer remarked one day in show week,
The show Is merely the signbosrd Of the
real boost"
! Practically every one Of the dealers in
terested has declared that his order sent
in to the factory for the spring would have
to be doubled. AS Omaha is the center of
automobile agencies all over Nebraska and
the surrounding country, the dealers from
this territory were all in attendance at
the Omaha show and they will sell a cor
respondingly greater number OF auto
mobiles.
Attendance Makes Record.
Attendance at the Auto show this year
broke all records, totalling 5000 more peo-
pie than in 1910. The paid attendance OF
the show was between 10000 and $1,000
people. Out-of-town dealers all received
complimentary passes and the big frater-
nifty Of the automobile industry In Omaha
and others who were connected with the
show The total attendance of 1910 was
only $1,000 and the Omaha Automobile Deal
ers' association considered then that the
show had reached the climax Of success.
The fine weather Omaha experienced all
Of the last week brought the farmer into
the city day after day. And the farmer
Of today is a buyer OF automobiles, both
pleasure and commercial cars. The dealers
will take hold Of the seventh annual show
in 1919 and make it an even bigger affair.
I'VE held an informal meeting of the
officers today" said ]. ]. Deright, presi-
dent Of the association, on Saturday even
ing. "All Of them reported that they are
receiving from all sides congratulations
upon the show Of 1911 will freely admit
that It has much exceeded my personal ex-
peetations, and they were not small"
Officials Are Pleased.
Clarke Powell, secretary OF the assocIa-
ton nd the manager OF the show, was a
tired but happy man. Congratulations
from the dealers in the show from visiting
automobile men from the factories of many
of the cars exhibited and from the visitors
who attended the show were his.
Il think that the automobile dealers as
body are more than glad that they un-
dertook the show Of this year. It is not
only the biggest show we have had, but
as measured by results it is far beyond any
Of the exhibitions held before"
Crowds Keep Coming.
During the closing day and night Of the
last light was turned out The crowds
were present as large as ever all the day
and they literally swarmed into the long
ailses Saturday evening. Botn the com
mercial and pleasure cars were as engross-
ing as ever and at the closing hour the
crowds simply had 10 be showed from the
building that the exhibition MIGHT not run
into the next week.
Each year as the Omaha Automobile
show closes the exhibitors have learned
! something new In displaying their machines
to the public, and the possible buyer And
in both the departments Of the sixth annual
show there was something learned this
year.
One OF the things that has shown up
even to the careless observer Is the value
of showing the public the working parts,
the chassis running If possible, and with
the coverings cut out so that the vital
parts Of the mechanical parts can be seen
In action.
Around each Of the five or six chassis
shown that were running by means Of an
electric motor there was not a minute that
the Auditorium was open. that there was
not some interested spectator gazing in a
rapt fashion at the wheels working and the
Distons turning.
! Another thing learned Is that although the
casual visitor will look at a rather curiously
built pleasure car in an interested way aud
the prospective buyer will look it over care
fully he will seldom buy It. II Is not built
for general service. The medium sized car
that viii carry four five persons is the
popular car In the west. OF course for spe-
eiai use, the specially built such as the
runabout or the roadster or the women's
electries sold well, but they sold to a man
who knew what kind OF car he wanted
when he came 70 the show and merely
wished TO see the different styles put out
by the different companies.
In the commercial department the exact
opposite was true. The man buying a com
mercial car knew just what use he could
put that car 70 and just what demands
his business would make upon Il. He
wanted a special car and ne bought the
car that would do the work However