The Washington herald., 1912-11-24

voted to the sunny South and paintings
Of the famous beach at Ormond. Fla,
where numerous worlds speed records
were made; Savannah and other Dixie
points Of interest win be depicted.
These paintings will adorn the walls
about the picturesque persola setting in
which the cars are to be shown. There
viii be much trellls work, flowers in
profusion. and a general outdoor atmos-
phere in which the cars will show "a
advantage. It is freely predicted by the
show management that the palace will
present a prettier interior than has
graned any previous show held In the
great marble tructure.
Details Of the Madison Square Gar
den decorations have not been made
public, but the color scheme Is to be
worked out in gold and white. It is In
teresting to note that the two buildings
will vie with each other, not only in the
exhibit Of cars, but also from a decora-
tive standpoint, as rival artists and arch
fleets have been retained 10 prepare each
building. Which Of the two will prove
the prettier win be left 70 the public to
decide, and naturally each group Of arti-
sans viii make an especial effort to pro-
duce their best
In the Olympic show held recently in
London. continental Europe as well as
the British Isles paid high tribute to
the invention OF an American, Charles
Y. Knight, by exhibiting chassis equipped
with the Knight sieeve-valve motor.
Seven companies making Knight engined
machines displayed cars without bodies,
three OF them making exhibits in the
big show of Great Britain for the FIRST
time. The latter were the Martini, of
Switzerland; Mathis, OF Germany, and
GERMAN, Of Belgium. Each had one
chassis at the London show that attract
ed more than ordinary attention from
the throngs of critics.
Other knight engined chassis shown
were those of the Panhard Company, OF
France; Minerva, of Belgium; Mercedes.
of Germany. and Bayard. of France. The
Panhard and Mercedes people displayed
one chassis each, the Minerva four. and
the Bayard two. Another new Knight
engined car that has created a sensation
in Europe is the Raf-Knlght. made at
Reichenberg, Austria. 1t is a sos horse
power automobile and will make its show
debut at the Paris salon December 7-21
The company making this machine has
the rights OF the knight invention for
Russia and Austria and will have agen-
cies in st. Petersburg, Moscow, Prague,
Vienna, Carlsbad. Hohenelbe. Berlin,
Leipsig. Klagenfurt. and Budapest.
Data received by American manufactur-
ers of cars on the London show indi-
Gates that the same difficulties that con-
front the National Association of Auto
mobile Manufacturers in housing the an
nual national show at Chicago were met
and only partially surnounted in the
worlds metropolis Because Of the rec
ord competition for space at the great
Western Hall and the inadequacy Of the
floor area to accommodate all who wish
ed to exhibit the authorities were COM
PEELED to restrict some Of the large
manufacturers to the ''irreducible mini
mum and request that only two or
three OF the many models they market
be placed on view.
Forty minutes were clipped from the
Los Angeles-San Francisco record over
the inland or valley route last week
by 1913 Cadillac car driven by Charles
Soules, a well known racing driver. The
Cadillac, which left Los Angeles at .
o'clock Thursday morning, arrived in San
Francisco at exactly 10:05 o'clock in the
evening, setting a new mark or seventeen
hours and five minutes for a distance Of
almost 500 miles.
The car driven by Soules was the one
that covered 81 miles Of the toughest
mountain and desert roads in the Los
Angeles-to-Phoenix road race a few days
before and finished in perfect mechan-
ical condition. During the Los Angeles
San Francisco run no repairs were nee