The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-23
TAPS SOUNDED ON
|. AUTOMOBILE SHOW
General Merrymaking Ends
Week of Profit to Public
and Dealers.
SURE TO BE PERMANENT
Success of First Effort Insurcs
Exhibition as an Annual
Feature.


Richmonds first automobile show
passed into sainted memory at IL
o'clock last night, to the honll honks
of a hundred motor horns and the bur-
lesquc tears of the cabaret perform
ers. There was no sadness of fare
we'll. The end was happy as mar
riage bell, which, despite touch of
triteness, still stands as the beyond
which there-is-none figure of should
worry.
The beginning OF the end came at
1890 o'clock, when Rue Brown and
entire company. also Ness Ossman.
broke into 'Good-by Everybody"
dance round and round the parked ma
chimes. Vess sobbed stage sobs be-
| meath snow white handkerchief, and
the girls shook hands with everybody
within reaching distance of the line.
When the line broke ranks and the
orchestra broke into tho exit march,
the motor horns broke loose. and for
fifteen minutes the Horse Show Build
ing rocked to it's topmost rafters. Then
the dancers and singers wrapped their
| flmy draperies about them and sailed
forth into the night, the cops cleared
the building of the stick -around squad,
| and the show was over.
a Financial Success.
The show has been financial sue
cess" said Manager r. b. Hutchison
I'VE had pioneer work to do, and pio-
| neer work is expensive. Automobile
shows that will follow this one Will
| have an easier road to travel. They
Will profit by our mistakes-for, OF
course, we made some. Everything
considered, however, Richmond's. first
! automobile show has been an all
| around success. Our receipts have
paid all expenses of the exhibition
and VIII provide modest surplus,
after wiping out the deficit caused by
| the automobile races"
| That from tho manager. officers of
the Automobile Dealers Show Associa-
| ton repeated the story. Every one
| OF these that could be seen last night
| said that he was perfectly, complete.
| " absolutely satisfied with the SHOW
the money it took In. the crowds i,
brought. the advertising it carried In
| It's wake, and the sales which it made
possible.
| will We have another show next
| year? Or course we will. and one every
year thereafter. God bless the Com
| monwcalth. Without exception every
one connected with the auto show in
an official capacity expressed the be-
lief that the annual Richmond auto
mobile show will be one of the city S
fixed exhibitions. Let us hope so.
Good Crowd Turns Out.
| For Saturday night crowd. the one
that turned out last night was re-
markablc. It filed the immense struc-
ture comfortably stacked them in
| groups OF four and seven in the show
cars. and jammed them in a solid
mass in front of txa band stand. BE
it remembered, in passing. that. sat
urday night crowd dearly loves the
movies and the lighted ways.
Early In the evening, Miss Mildred
Grubbs. OF this city, started a popu-
lar movement for fund with which
to buy a goodby gift for Miss Rue
Brown, leading woman of the cabaret
! company. She enlisted tho aid of sew
cral other enthusiasts. who began
| making the rounds OF the exhibitors
Within an hour after the movement
began. the committee had all tho money
| it needed. A flying trip down town
and the thing was done. The money
was Invested in gold bracelet. Miss
Brown kissed her thanks to the crowd
/ SheltcrinS Arms Hospital carried of
the 5000 prize in the voting competi-
| ton. The Baptist Home for Aged
Women was second in tho race. and
! the Virginia Homo for Incurablcs was
! third.