Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-25
How the Dealers
View the
1912 Automo-
bile Show.
ANNUAL auto SHOW CLOSES
Big Motor Car Exhibit is Declared
a Huge Success.
EXHIBITORS ARE WELL SATISFIED
Results Are Coming in from All
Points of the Territory About
omaha-Many Dealers to
Double Orders.
EXHIBITORS ARE WELL SATISFIED

Omaha's seventh annual automobile
show came to a close last eyening-the
biggest and most successful automobile
exhibition ever held in this city. Ex-
hibitors and visitors OF the show Of 1912
are equally satisfied with the auto event
Of the year. The record attendance Of
the show testifles to the popularity 90
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, north
ern Kansas. eastern Colorado and Wyo-
ming that many declare will almost dou-
bic the number of cars in use in this
territory before another year passes.
The number Of cars actually sold dur
Ing the progress OF the show, although II
speaks well for the Omaha dealers and
for the prosperity OF the country sur
rounding Omaha, Is but a small part of
the results that win be brought TO the
automobilists and the dealers. The auto
mobile show In educating the public mind
to the value Of owning a machine, in the
intrinsic value car owner can gain from
his machine in a saving OF time and in
adding to his business. has done a great
work. As one dealer remarked one day
In show week, The show is merely the
signboard 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 win sell a correspondingy greater
number OF automobiles.
Attendance Makes Record.
Attendance at the auto show this year
broke all records. The fine weather
Omaha experienced all OF the last week
brought the farmers into the city day
after day. And the farmer OF today is
buyer Of automobiles. both pleasure and
commercial cars The dealers took hold
Of the seventh annual show in 1872 and
made II an even bigger affair.
we held an Informal meeting OF the
officers today" said the president OF the
association on Saturday evening. IAN
OF them reported that they are receiving
from all sides congratulations upon the
show of 1912. / win freely admit that II
has much exceeded my personal expec-
tations, and they were not small"
Officials Are Pleased.
Clarke Powell, secretary OF the assocla-
ton and the manager Of the show. was
tired but happy man. Congratulations
from the dealers In the show from visiting
automobile men from the factories OF
many OF tho cars exhibited and from the
visitors who attended the show were his.
II think that the automobile dealers as
body are more than glad that they un-
dertook the show Of this year. Il Is not
only tho biggest show We have had. but
as measured by results 1t Is far beyond
any of the exhibitions held before"
Crowds Keep Coming.
During the closing day and night Of the
show the Interest was kept UP until the
last light was turned out. The crowds
were present as large as ever all the day
and they literally swarmed into the long
alsles Saturday evening. Both the CON-
mercial and pleasure cars were as en-
crossing as ever and at the closing hour
the crowds simply had to 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 ma
chimes to the public and the possible
buyer. And In both the departments Of
the sixth annual show there was some
thing 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 II 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 chas-ls
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 rapt fashion at the wheels working
and the plstons turning.
Note. of the Auto show.
Forty-seven out Of the n cars ex-
hiblted at the show are equipped with
Goodyear tires.
A. Holdregc Of Riverton. Neb.. pur-
chased an Abhott-Detroit car from the
W. L. Huffman company Thursday.
c. cowley Of the sales department Of
the Denver branch OF the Studebaker
corporation was at the show yesterday.
Frank Smith. assistant salesmanager
OF the studebaker factories in Detroit.
was the guest Of Manager Keller at the
show yesterday.
c. T.. Stewart. manager OF the Des
Moines branch of the Stndehaker corpora
ton, was the guest OF Manager Keller OF
the Omaha branch AT the show yester-
day.
Fred C.. Meyer. manager Of the Des
MONIES branch OF the Goodyear Tire and
Rubber company. visited Manager Graves
OF the local branch Thursday and Friday.
He said that he thought the Omaha show
the hest show that he had even attended