Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05
1900 LIKELY To
/. ENTER CARS IN
AUTO PARADE
Promoters Declare Pageant Mark
ing Opening of 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-weil 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.
*. Gewinner, secretary of the parade
business, has sent out Invitations to
all the motor car owners of Atlanta,
and il 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 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
SroWn 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
will need it, too"
Then he added that anybody could
call him by telephone at the Johnson
&, Gewinner 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
the winners In the decorative con-
est at the night concert Tuesday in
he Auditorium.
a fine list of judges has been Sc
ected for the arduous and not alto
gether enviable duty of awarding the
)rizes. They are Wilmer L. Moore,
Fred PaXon, Colonel r. j. Lowry,
Colonel w. l.. Peel, Robert F. Mad
doX, Walter Rich and Forrest Adair,
and they are not taking. out any addi-
ional life insurance-yet. Their
names are a sufficient guarantee that
he contest in mural decorations will
be conducted in highly sportsman
like manner and that the awards will
oe ds just as is humanity possible.
Down at the Auditorium the work
is going forward in great shape.
Gorgeous festoons and streamers of
blue and white-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, so that
all may be set for the grand opening
Saturday night.