The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-10

the largest annual output receive the
preferred space. The Motor & Ac-
cessories Asso citation members draw
for their space and of course each ex-
hibitor has to consider his location
and see just what he can put into 1t
conveniently and come within the
show regulations, which are most
rigid1y enforced. For instance, signs
displayed with the names of con
Germs or their cars have to be abso-
IuteIy uniform SO that htere viii be
no clash of color or irregularity of
lettering which would spoil the toe1te
ensemble. In the booths signs are
not permitted to be erected which will
in any way obstruct other exhibitors
booths, and articles for display in the
accessory division are not permitted
to stand above a certain height.
Where the manageme chief ag-
ony is experienced is during the few
days before the show opens. Any
sane man viewing the interior of the
Garden the morning of the day the
show is scheduled to open will swear
up and down and bet almost any
gotten ready for the show that even
ing. Nevertheless the show always
has opened OF schedule time When
the show manager has to worry par
ticuIarly is at the time the automo-
bf1es commence to stream into the
IL
of the opening day.
If he goes to the door he sees lines
of cars with tires wrapped in canvas
strips and bodies done up in slip
covers. mounted on trucks waiting
for an opportunity to back up and
deposit their load at the entrance.
There is congestion of traffic in the
streets; there has to be. Several
hundred cars forming lines which
converge to one small city block
means that there is no way out of
it. The traffic squad policemen CO.
operate with the show management,
which management has enough ex-
perienced men at their command to
rush the cars in without wasting more
time than is absolutely necessary but
the whole procedure takes time any
way. In the Garden the huge ele-
Yators carry the cars to the balconies
and then after the last car has been
installed in Its place in these, the ell
evator openings are boarded over
with huge trap doors and right on
these trap doors will be found exhib-
its of machines when the show opens.
There is one rule that is absolute
and una1terab1e in connection with
this feature of the work, 6 o. m. is the
dead line after which no car can come
into the building. If a manufactures
is belated in getting his cars to the
Garden in time he has our sympathy
but the rule is unalterabIe and he
will have to wait until the following
day to get his exhibit into the build
ing. Each season a few manufacture
ers arrive just few moments too late
and this is what happens to them.
doubt if there is a buster spot any
where on earth than is to be noted in
the show buildings between the hours
Of and p. m. on the opening night.
Finishing touches are being put On
AUPTVthjnS all the
pings, ETC., have to be disposed of,
workmen's tools have to be cleared
away and last of all, the corps of ex-
pert carpet -stretchers make a round
Of the building and patch up any
spots in the carpet which may have
been permanently fastened to the
floor
At 7:45 the Show Committee in a
body makes a round of the entire
building to see that everything is
ready. Outside the building a huge
crowd is cIamoring, waiting for the
doors to swing open. The police re-
serves have been called out to handle
the crowd, which although orderly
and made up of respectable people, is
so large massing solid across the
street that extra. police are necessary
exaggeration, but is not. The show
committee has its corps of detectives
in that crowd and around the doors
to chase away any of our better
known dips and pickpockets. Then
the band strikes up the opening blast
the doors swing on their hinges the
people stream in, and the show is on
The show manager would heave a,
sigh of relief at this instant only he
has no time to think of it. There
are too many people at him wanting
to do this, that, and the other. Some