New-York tribune., 1912-01-14
TRUCKS HOLD SWAY
At GARDEN AUTO SHOW
Quickly Replace Pleasure Cars,
and Will Be Displayed
for a Week.
BUSINESS MEN FILL CITY
Indications Are That Part II of
Great Exhibition Will Make
New Record in Sales
Volume.

NOlulIG'
Like Arabs in the night who fold their
tents and silently steal away, the pleasure
cars which have been on exhibition in
Madison Square Garden during the last
week, were rushed out Of the big amphi-
theatre late last night. and commercial
vehicles. hundreds of them, were rushed in
10 fill the spaces vacated by the superb ma
chimes which attracted thousands of per-
sons and filled the Gorden to overaowing
during the last week. The serious broth
ers" of the automobile will he on exhibl-
tion for one week, beginning tomorrow
night at S o'clock
Practically all of the exhibits of acces-
sories and parts will remain for the com
mercial vehicle exhibition, and there will
be number of new displays which are
bound 10 create interest The exhibition of
commercial vehicles will be one of the
largest and most comprehensive ever held
In this country. There will be on view fire
and police wagons. ambulances and bust
ness vehicles Of all sorts, fitted for all
branches OF business utility. The vehicles
will be shown on the main floor and ele-
waited platform.
The splendid decorations which caused
continuous comment last week will be aug
mented by the addition of new effects
which will add more beauty TO the scene.
The Garden will be renovated from top 10
bottom, the carpet which covered the exh-
bition spaces will be torn up and fresh
material laid In fact, a new aspect will
be given the show next week in keeping
with the class Of vehicles TO be shown.
With all records broken for paid attend
snce and actual sales Of cars, the Part /
period of pleasure cars wound up at II
o'clock last night, with as great a crowd
present as that which witnessed the open
ing. The work of removing the exhibits
began long before the crowd left the Gar
den, and 1t proceeded throughout the night
Thousands Of merchants. representatives
OF large corporations and men identified
with the industry arrived in New York late
yesterday afternoon, many from the Mid
die West and South. to investigate and
purchase motor trucks for use in distant
cities. Nearly all of these visitors took
advantage of the plesure car exhibit to
see this as well as the Part II period. The
makers and dealers at the show all agree
that the exhibition was the best business
show at which they ever exhibited
That part of society which had not seen
the show made the most yesterday Of its
final opportunity to do so, and the result
was a surprisingly large attendance So
far as is known Montagu La. Montague es-
tablished the weeks purchasing record by
negotiating for three cars within a period
OF less than fifteen minutes. Mr. La Mon
tagne is one of the Junior polo players, who
is conspicuous in the doings of the Rocka-
way hunting contingent about Cedarhurst.
Another buyer was Jules Nelson who is a
brother Of Mrs. Reginald c. Vanderbilt
Brinton Buckwalter, who has invented
new detachable rim on which he is taking
out patent rights. was with Frederick
Townsend Martin. Others present yester-
day included Franklin PIummer, Ralph
Thomas, Roger Poor Scott McLanahan,
Mr.. and Mrs Clark Potter Read, Chalmers
Wood, Alexander Hadden, Mr.. and Mrs
Richard Lewis Norris Mr. and Mrs Gus
tav Vanderhoef. Harry Peters, j. Harry
Alexandra, Madison Grant Mr.. and Mrs
John MacCracken, Cecil ST. George Nc
Alpin Pyle, Dunlevy Milbank, Averell Har-
riman. Grafton Pyne. Robert Sedgwick,
Nr, and Mrs. Henry NJ. Alexander, Sam
uel Babcock, Mr.. and Mrs. Snowden Fahne-
stock, Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Mr.. and
Mrs. Birdseye Brakeman Lewis, Marshall
Kernochan. Harry Hooker. John Suydam,
Colgate Hoyt, Miss Hilda Holmes, Miss
Adelia Pyle and Bayard Hoppn.
Harry Houpt, Of the Aico Company, was
impressed by the great number OF men of
wealth and affairs who took a serious in
terest in the weeks display. The idle and
curious classes who thronged the Garden
In earlier years seem to have for the most
part disappeared in favor of those who,
IL they are not already owners, contem-
plate becoming such. r. II. Johnston. OF
the White Company, is not given to the use
Of superlatives. but he indicated that 1t
would be difficult to express the success
OF the show without indulging in some
thing Of the sort. AS a business proposi-
ton II was unequalled by anything that
has gone before.
Charles c. Hildebrand, sales manager
OF the Chalmers, said that he had covered
every display OF machines in this coun-
try since the days OF the last bicycle show,
when 10 cents admission was charged to
ride about Madison Square Garden In a
''horseless carriage and that this show
outpointed all the others. Warren z. Du-
senbury, OF the REQ and Premier, said that
he noticed as soon as he came into the
Garden tho absence OF the erstwhile lavish
display in decorations while more pre-
cision, detail and elaboration were put into
the exhibits themselves, which he observed
was as it should be, inasmuch as the
throng OF visitors was Of a class that was
not attracted by mere decorations.
Frank NJ. Rider. OF the Pope Hartford
Company, said It was not 1eeting crowd
of visitors as IN some previous years, ana
he was impressed both by its quality and
quantity; also that the prospective busi-
ness directly brought about by the show
was the greatest In the history Of the
motor car industry Charles F.. Redden,
OF the studebaker Company, was impressed
mostly by the army of agents who came
from Mexico. the Philippines and other
countries looking for territory. They were
literally swamped. he saids and never be-
fore did such business. j. ]. Hickey, OF
the Packard, deplored the lack OF space
which prevented the manufacturers from
exhibiting all Of their models, and agreed
with others that the crowds contained more
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