New-York tribune., 1912-01-13
SNOW NOT AN OBSTACLE
Crowds Continue to Throng the
AisIeS at Garden Auto Show
PART ONE ENDS TONIGHT
Pleasure Cars to Give Way to
Commercial Vehicles

The snowetorm yesterday had no effect
on the attendance a. the Automobile Show
I'm Madison Square Garden. The morning
session was an active one, and in the after
noon and evening the aisles in all parts oi
the big amphitheatrc were thoroughl
6ncd II matters little how great IS the
crowd-thcrc Is plenty Of room for every
body because Of the ingenious arrangement
Of the spaces. The galleries and loses were
filed with interested spectators looking
down upon the beautiful scene. The attend
anco at the show has been remarkable.
While there are hundreds of dealers 10 o'
found al the Garden in various booths oi
the cars they represent, they are mercy
looking after local interests.
The show is a makers affair. and the
business with the buying public is through
manufacturers branch houses and agencies.
The exhibitors declare that the present
show is the best one from every point ot
view, especially from the selling point that
they have ever participated in. Carriage
makers who have visited the exhibition are
of the opinion that the body lines, general
designs. painting finish, upholstery and ma
teriaIs used in the bodies at the show can
not be equalled anywhere and that they
embodv the wisdom Of centuries Of the car
riage makers art
The Garden show will ring down its cur
tain on the part one period tonight and
reopen with a more severe setting OF cars
on Monday night at o'clock, when com
mercial vehicles will supplant the pleasure
machines. All the cars now on view VIII oe
removed, but the accessory exhibits VIII
practically remain unchanged.
The snowstorm furnished a strong argu-
ment for the motor truck for all phases OF
business. Everywhere about the CITY
streets horses were seen struggling and
sliding on the slippery highways, and the
scenes were piuable. The motor trucks
passed the beasts Of burden with tn
umphant and businesslike aspect. and could
they have spoken they would have said
Get a motor truck" reversing the old.
skeptical CRY Of Get a horse" There were
no belated deliveries from merchants who
have motor trucks in their delivery depart
ments The line of trucks to be seen in the
Garden next week will be complete in every
way and no business man can afford not to
see the display. The present show, as one
visitor termed it, Is mechanical kinder
garten because Of the fact that there are
many chassis, motors and separate parts on
exhibition. Show experience has taught the
exhibitors how best to display the mecha-
nism of their motors and parts and the
novelties shown in this respect are many
and noteworthy.
Several hundred special invitations and
general invitation extended to all officers
at division headquarters. Governors Island,
and the New York Navy Yard by the man
agement Of the show net with hearty
response and assured the success OF the
first Army and Navy Day" Cnfortu-
nately. not a single batteship Is in port
else the array of gold braid and brass
buttons might have been even greater.
Although General Grant was unable to
be present he was represented by several
members ofJhis staff, including Colonel
Frederick Z. Hodgson, quartermaster; Col
onel James y. Allison, chief commissary;
Colonel George Andrews, adjutant general,
. and Colonel John Van Rensselaer, Hof,
chief surgeon.
o Paymaster WatrOus, of the navy yard,
. had been to the show earlier in the week,
and returned to Brooklyn with such enthu-
siastic reports Of the exhibition that almost
the entire staff came over yesterday.
Among them were Paymaster Karker,
Commander NJ, VI. Taylor, aid to the COM
mandant; Commandant D. B. Mccormick
aptain L. s Van Duzer and Lieutenants
Abbott, Kimberley, Baldwin and Taylor.
From Fort Jay came Colonel George r.
Cecil, the commanding officer; his adju-
tant Captain John +. Madden; Captain
Frank H. Borden, quaTtermaster; Captain
Charles Payne, commissary, and Captain
John Z. Woodward, commanding the Sd
Battalion of the 29th Infantry. Also pres
ent was Edward J. Berwind who, with
Colonel Robert VI. Thompson is known
everywhere as a particular patron saint
Of the Naval Academy, and Ike Colonel
Thompson. a graduate of Annapolis.
There was another heavy attendance Of
society. Monty" Waterbury, the polo
player and one Of the American polo four.
bought an S. G. V. car, as did Frank Jay
Gould. Mrs. Craig Bidde. of Philadelphia.
was with her brother-in-law. Robert Goe-
let. There was an unusual number Of
young people present, among them being
Miss Alice Kortright. Mr. and Mrs. NJ
Orne Wilson, Courtlandt Nicoll. Bernon S.
Prentice, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L.
Greenough. Griswod Lorillard, Reginald
Lanier. Mr. and Mrs Austen Gray, Mr.
and Mrs. Maurice Heckscher, Worthingtcn
whitehouse Norman Whitehouse and Mr..
and Mrs. ]. Philip Bernhard. Others included
Ir. James hdTkOef ROBERT bTeeSes MT. ana
Mrs. George r d. Schieffelin, Seymour
johnson, Buell. Hollister. Harry B. Kane.
Mrs. Lyman Short, Mr.. and Mrs. James
A Burden, William Woodward, Miss Dag
mar Wetmore, Miss Laura Livingston,
Crawford Burton and Mr. and Mrs Clifford
Cochran.
On the third floor OF the Garden there
are several cars which were prominent in
the contests in the last season. The Lo-
zer that won the Vanderbilt the Ma
tionsl that took the stock car champion
ship, Governor Hoke Smiths Maxwell on
the same Ajax tires It wore when It won
the Anderson trophy in the Gidden tour.
and the Marmon Wasp, that won the 800
mile race at Indianapolis. are among these.
II. B. Warner. who has won fame dur
ing the last two seasons as the heroic
safe cracker in alias Jimmy Balentine,"
Is the most recent purchaser OF a Chal-
mers "Six." Mr.. Warner already owns a
Chalmers Forty" which he has driven
5000 miles.
AUTOMOBILES.