New-York tribune., 1912-01-09
AUTOS ATTRACT THRONGS
attendance Records Likely To
Be Broken During Week.
MATINEE DAY A SUCCESS
theatrical and Society Folk
View Wonders of Great
Display at Garden.

DESPITE the unfavorable weather the auto
,,obfe show in Madison Square Garden yes
,srday was thronged with visitors. From
,-osent indications this first week of the
how will break all records for attendance.
Many trains from the West and South as
eli as New England. brought in large
.,nbers of persons interested in automo-
h,les who did not arrive for the opening on
saturday. While a portion Of the shows
attendance is made up OF persons connected
nth the automobile industry, the great
,naiority of those who pass through the
retes are private owners or prospective
owners OF cars.
Around 4 o'clock in the afternoon the
Garden took on a tinge Of the Rialto, and
:, appeared as II half Of Broadway had
,esn transplanted there. the occasion being
,beatrical matinee day. Many prominent
,lsvers had been invited to attend as guests
:, the show management, tickets for the
,osmbers Of their respective companies be-
,,o inclosed with the invitations, and
,nree number of actors and actresses re-
sponded
A nuartet Of the visitors that attracted
considerable attention Nas composed of
william Collier George NJ. Cohan, Ray
roond hitchcock and John Junior. They re-
manned an hour, and Mr. Collier, who has
,,st purchased a new National machine,
so,s he was coming back another day, as ii
vas impossible to see everything in so short
time
Miss Kitty Gordon, encased in huge white
hsorskin furs walked about with her maid,
sna later was ioined by Miss Jane Cowl and
Miss Ethel Jennings, Of The Gamblers
oomnanv. Kathleen Clifford and Doris
cameron. from the Winter Garden, made a
most attractive couple. as did Gertrude
vanderbilt and Sophye Barnard, from The
ped Widow" Daniel Frohman came IN
alone. and Julian Eltinge was with sam
Harris.
others we'll known up and down Broad
xay who interested themselves In the eX-
h,b,ts included Eugene Walter the play
uright: Iaddie Cliff, Otto GoritZ. OF the
wetropolitan Grand opera Company; Byron
nsssly who is with Margaret Ellington ana
Edmond Beresford.
Although Tuesday and Thursday have
heen termed society nights" there were
r,esent any number of the smart set ooth
st,.rpoon and evening. The suffrage move
went does not take up all of Mrs Ava
-,.,,,o,,t,s time as was indicated by the
Oct that she thoroughly enjoyed an hour
or,onc the exhibits and stopped at several
booths where demonstrations were pel"s
,,,vsn n ask questions. With Mrs. Belmont
was Moncure Robinson. ~
Frederick W. vanderbilt was an inter-
ested spectator. Magistrate Frederlc hei
nocban came in with some frlehus' anu
yoyng oliver Iselin brought his hancee'
Miss Beatrice Flagg. Others present III
o1raad Harry Brevoort Kane, Generai
Charles F Roe. Mr.. and Mrs. Elisha Dyer
william H. Coombs. Mrs John X Drexei'
w,l,iam II, Hude Nelson, Mr. ana Mrs'
t,les Rache. Mrs. Edwin H Weatherpee'
nrrs " Coadby Loew, z. Victor Loew anu
Miss Mabel Gerry , l.. .na
o. ., the most striking exhibits In the
rSo,o show is at the Flanders booth. one
half n car is shown, the chassis O''
saved In two in a Longitudinal sec'i0N-
q the first time such an idea mas peeh
bih,ted at an automobile show. Even 'i'o
valves, transmission smart an
horsino differential and small screws
which happen to be in the plane III "'h'''
the chassis is cut, are all in section.
An unusual method of displaying cars oh
= sact,on Of the elevated platform In
,..,,,,. che use of a turntable. permitting
-, s,,oe ~ q car 10 be seen by crowd
without excessive moving about oy NlsiuoiS'
The IJberty-Brush runabout, which Is the
Ioyest nriced car in the Garden. is mounted
mon q slightly elevated turntable' coVereu
u,i,b nurnIe velvet, and revOlved by mo-
tor
A, the Hudson exhibit correction was
,oada of an unfounded story that new
type Of valve was to be shown. Ihe ruinor
grew out OF some experiments mace III
troit Of a rotary disk valve by several other
manufacturers. The Hudson eXmpit
sists of a touring car, roadster ana 'olpe0o
model, the features of the exhibit beins
spow-white chassis. which demonstrates the
simplicity of the car. This Is in addltoh u
skeleton" Of Hudson, with all housings
stripped off, which attracted mucn atleh-
ton yesterday.
MANY self-starting devices of electric ana
compressed air and spring types are SHOWN
in operation, and these draw big crowds'
There are numerous self-starters using
acetyIene gas, but these, Of course. cannot
be permitted TO operate with their ignltihs
process The self-starters interest the
women visitors particularly
A novel idea worked out by the Cadillac
company. It's cut-out chassis, instead OF
beiug run by current from an outside
source, is operated by the Juice" supplied
by its own electric self-starting device
which has sufficient capacity for running
the chassis for about six hours without re-