Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
1000 LIKELY To
ENTER CARS IN
AUTO PARADE
Promoters Declare Pageant Mark
ing Opening If Big Show
Will Be a Wonder.

Peering around the Auditorium. and
lodging decorations, and side-step-
ping piles of lumber and squads of
workmen, you wouldn't think, there
was anything much doing, in Atlanta
except getting ready for the automo-
bile show.
But uptown-well, you would pref
ty nearly get the idea that the pa
radcliffe flower parade was the
main event
1t is going to be huge and highly
ornate affair. No doubt of that. j.
K. Gewinner, secretary Of the parade
business, has sent out invitations to
all the motor car owners of Atlanta,
and it is an impressive list
There ought to be 1000 cars in
the parade" Mr.. Gewinner said We'd
nesday, Maybe 5000. The idea is
for everybody to get in, and if some
of the owners can't get their cars
deliberately. decorated because of the
rush on the decorators, why, just get
in the parade with the simplest kind
of a layout. The thing is to get At
lanta's vast throng of cars on pa
rade before the eyes of the $4,000 Wis
itors who will be here for the show"
Sees Great Boost for City.
Which, Mr.. Geinner fancies, would
be one grand little boost of Atlanta
as a center of industry for the auto
mobile business of the South and of
America.
Following the sending out of the
invitations, which come mighty near
being requests, Mr. Gewinner an
nounced that the decorators are being
deluged with orders by the thoughtful
owners who planned not to be left
at the post with a shift of home
grown posies.
The firms are anticipating such a
demand for decorating material" he
SAID, that wire orders are going out
to-day to the Eastern markets for
additional stock. And they certainly
viii need it, too"
Then lie added that anybody could
call him by telephone at the johnson
& Ge%inner Company and learn the
names of the decorating establish
ments which were undertaking the
work of dressing up Atlanta's cars for
the grand entry"
Seven Judges Are Chosen.
The advent of John Philip Sousa
and his big and lively band will be
coincident with the parade Tuesday
November II, and the famous band
master himself will present the prizes
to the winners in the decorative con-
test at the night concert Tuesday in
the Auditorium.
A fine list of judges has been Sc
lected for the arduous and not alto
gether enviable duty Of awarding the
prizes. They are Wilmer l.. Moore,
Fred PaXon, Colonel r. ]. Lowry
Colonel W. L. Peel, Robert F. Mad
COX, Walter Rich and Forrest Adair,
and they are not taking out any addi
tional life insurance-yet. Their
names are a sufficient guarantee that
the contest in mural decorations will
be conducted in highly sportsman
like manner, and that the awards will
be us just as is humanity possible.
Down at the Auditorium the work
is going forward in great shape.
Gorgeous festoons and streamers of
blue and wIiite-the colors of the
show-are being draped from the tow
ering vault of the ceiling and down
the walls, while pergolas of rose vines
flank the walls and fill up the space
not to be used by exhibitors.
The work of moving in the exhibits
will begin Friday afternoon, 50 that
all may be set for the grand opening
Saturday night