New-York tribune., 1912-01-16
Part ii of National Show
Opens with Big
Attendance.

Utterly transformed in appearance from
the exhibition of last week, Madison
Square Garden opened at o'clock last
evening. it's floors filled with an amazing
variety Of utility vehicles. The current
display Is officially known as Part II OF
the Twelfth National Automobile Show
and stands as one OF the finest collections
if not the most superb collection Of power
driven vehicles ever seen in New York
The Garden. while not crowded, as was the
case on the opening night Of the passenger
car show. was comfortably filled, ma
iority OF the visitors being men.
The show is not only interesting TO users
and prospective users Of motor trucks, but
10 the general public as well. for some OF
the industrial inventions displayed are in
deed novel Such features as q water puri.
flying army wagon; tractors and trailers
ffty feet long for carrying lumber, etc;
large brewery trucks; FIRE apparatus thst
can be driven at fifty mile an hour clip
oil tank wagons, self-dumping coal car
riers and dozens Of other kinds Of wagons
form a display that is convincing as 20
the widespread uses Of this newest form
OF transportation in America.
Vehicles Of every type except the antique
horse type can be seen in the Garden
gasolene, electric and steam styles. The
largest models shown are capable OF car
rying loads Of several tons, while the
/ smallest car 10 be found is the little one
| cylinder $40 pound Brush runabout The
prices range from $50 up. Some OF the
vans and trucks shown take up about as
much room as would a freight car. The
display spaces are roomy and quite DIFF
| ferent from the pleasure car display last
week, when there were so many exhibitors
Of touring cars and other passenger auto
mobiles.
Much interest is taken in the Martin
tractor, which is a three-wheeled mechan-
ism invented by Charles II. Martin. II Is
a device that may be attached TO the front
| axle OF any horse drawn truck. the com
! binatlon thus formed making a hve-
wheeled vehicle 1t is propelled by power
delivered TO the single front wheel by a
! nifty horse power motor. Rusty Roach
| ford, one OF the skilled drivers Of the Knox
1 Automobile Company. arrived in New YORK
last night with one of these tractors, which
will be used as a demonstrator during the
truck show. He drew a seven-ton wagon
over the road 155 miles in sixteen hours
running time. II was freely preulcted Dy
| many experienced drivers that the tractor
! could not possibly come through under ek-
! listing road conditions The driver reports
| that snow drifts were three feet deep IN
! some places and other spots in the roah
were covered with glare ice. lie expert
! enccd no difficulty, but suffered severely
/ from the cold. IL being ten degrees below
/ zero part OF the time. ,
The water purifying wagon. designed
! chiefly for use In war time or for e&plora-
/ tion work in the tropics and elsewhere, is
orc of the most ingenious inventions ever
mounted on q motor driven chassis. IL
| was designed by Osborn Gongelton' an eN-
| pert sanitary engineer, the water mechan-
! ism being mounted On a Mack truck IL
] can be driven 10 any stream, and no matter
! what the original condition OF the water
from five hundred to fifteen hundred gal
! ions OF pure water can be delivered within
! an hour Tho filter is simplicity Itself IN
| operation. although the higher knowledge
! OF momentum, motion, gravity sucuon,
| phygical attraction. chemical affinity and