Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-20
BIG AUTO TRUCKS
DEFY SNOWDR|FT
NEAR THE ARMORY
One Slides Out and Pulls Stalled
Horse and Wagon
Away.
ANOTHER POWERFUL
CAR CLEARS WALKS
Tonight, Club Night, Is Expected
to Draw Out Large
Attendance.

Up at the Million Dollar Auto Show
In the First Regiment Armorv TODAY
they laughed the blizzard In the face.
and then made it look so ridiculous
That the poor thing ought to stop try
i9g to bliz out of sheerest shame.
In front of the armory, where some
22o OF the finest autos in America
brought 1000 of the finest people in this
part or America to see them Saturday
night-with electric lights in thousa nds
haring down from blue silken dome
to show off their swell points-in front
or the armory a snow drift dared TO
hit its hoary head and a grocery
wagon that had horse at the front
end got caught in the drift and couldn't
get out OF 1t, forwards or back.
so a mai named Pearce, who ia man
aging the automobile show. heard NJ
the plight of tho grocery wagon. and
ne slipped his information TO the man
ager OF the big Mack auto-truck ex-
hlpit that had been serenely reposin1
Tor three days with not a thing TO do
put lie upon the iron floor of the armory.
Big Trucks at Work
Inc automobile truck had f3ve .tons
or coal aboard 1t. but when the man
ager poured some gasoline into its tank
ana started II up 1t slid out OF The
automobile show-house, pIoughed It's
way up to the grocery wagon sllnnad
q line past the helpless horse 10 the
crossbar and dragged the groceries and
the -h0rgA and ha
OF the snowbank in something less than
half a minute
That was where the auto show had
tne laugh on the blizzard. It's
righteousness was brought to view a
rev minutes later when another truck
with snow plough on the end OF it
went out and ploughed off the neigh
boring streets and ploughed them off
SO thoroughly. that even the street car
company sent in word that It was
much obliged for help.
A good many things like that are
making the show the biggest thing In
Its line that ever hit New Jersey. or
that ever hit New York.
It's preeminence came out striJ,ino,v
today when count of the number of
exhibitors showed sc against the AZ
best that Madison Square Garden could
produce.
Moreover the 10000 who went to see
the show Saturday night found the
aisles lined on either side with the
greatest variety of machines they had
ever seen. and they were not in the
least surprised when the computation
of wholesale prices of the exhibits
came to a sum considerably above the
million mark.
But there's more than that, for the
show has already declared a dividend.
Thirty thousand dollars worth of
American cars We're sold between Sat,
urday night and 10 o'clock tins morn
ing, and provisional contracts-mean-
ing nothing but a tryout and then a
buy-were in hand.
Tonight Is Club Night.
Tonight, of course, is to be the star
night for it's club night, and every
auto club In New Jersey will be rep
resented at the soiree. The Ladies'
Orchestra of Boston, which made such
a hit that they nearly stopped the
show last Saturday, will be on hand
again. So will the moving pictures of
auto races that held the audience even
after the orchestra stopped.
Among the clubs to be represented
tonight are the North Jersey Auto
mobile Club, of Paterson; the Newark
Automobile Club, the Hudson County
Automobile Club, of Jersey City; the
Physicians Automobile Club of the Or
anges, the Englewopd Automobile Club.
the Middlesex Automobile Club and the
Plainfield Automobile Club.
These are some of the ten thousand
who welcomed the opening of the
show: Mr.. and Mrs. James r. Nugent.
James H. Donnelly, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph H. Wood, Henry Stevenson,
f. H Carberry, L. : and Mrs Philip
Dane, DR.. Paul H. Fitzgerald, Benjamin
Feist, Benjamin Lissner, DR.. Harry
NTaeler Melville w Carnenter and