New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-15

headlight is an electric one, and extends
right through 10 the back Of the radiator,
and gives 10 the car a decidedly different
appearance The show chassis is placed
inside Of a steel tubing fence which saves
a certain amount Of conversation foI
the statesmen. as it can be seen at once
how far through the radiator the head
light extends.
Surely some son Of Princeton will take
AWAY the star car i'm the Peerless exhibit
Al the Garden. II is a colonial brous-
ham. mounted on the 66-horsepower six
cylinder chassis. the body work being
PAINTED in the orange and black SO be
loved 10 the young men who have spent
their time at Old Nassau.
The ladies restaurant at the Garden
as the regular good old cafe out in iroh'
tbut with the bar removed Is now styled
is very different looking place from
what il was a few weeks ago during the
progress of the six-day bicycle race. The
nearly marble pillars are shrOuded with
branches and autumn leaves and the
room looks quite cosey. Harry Stevens. or
his son Frank NJ, recently elected a di-
rector Of the New York National League
baseball club, presides over the refresh
Weut station.
s lot of oldumers Of the bicycle bust
ress. who have since become big men IN
tic motor vehicle industry held poe
unlou yesterday al the Rambler exhibit
'r '.e Palace In honor Of Louis IT. Bin.
Mr. BIZ. who has recently been appointed
head Of the sales and manufacturing
forces of the Thomas i. Jenerv Company,
arrived here yesterday from san Fran
cisco. George W. Bennett, vice-prcsideni
o.. the Overland company, led The recep-
lion committee that welcomed Mr. Bill
Who was sales manager here for the
Cleveland bicycle from 1915 10 1900
6 ". Garland. ir., who sells Neles in
Ncu York, said Yesterday afternoon that
he felt like a sort Of unofficial chairman
OF n reception committee. The Ncie
space in the Palace is at the night OF the
short fight Of steps nj the entrance. Mr..
Garland spends nearly as much time
greeting friends in the business as he
does talking about his cars 20 possible
buyers.
Tie big red painted Fiat at the Garden
is such a huge AFFAIR that most people
want 10 know if IT is the car with which
Caleb Bragg won the Grand Prize race
last summer. II has a big gssoiene tank
bohind the seat. tire carrier at the rear,
The steering post is tilted very low, ana
with the wire wheels the car looks very
much like a racing machine. II is, now
ever. one Of the standard four-cyinder 90
horsepower models. rugged as a runaboul
The Thomas e JefYcry Company has
NE same lecturer who delivered regular
discourses on the Rambler chassis al last
winters Grand Central Palace show TINS
time he has quite bit more 10 talk about
for the Rambler people have adopted one
- enc electrical combined starting ana
Lighting systems IN which the fywheei
plays a most important part They are
also showing a Sedan, which created quite
sensation when this type Of body was
introduced to the public by the Rambler
makers at last winters Palace exhibit
ton
Joe Matson. who used to drive Chalmers
ana Frat racing cars for "A living is one
II the polite young men who tell visitors
al about the show cars that the big
studebaker Corporation Is displaying on
the main floor at Grand Central Palace.
Cliriously enough the last car Matson drove
in a biz road race was Fiat, and every
little while he has 10 explain that he no
longer drives racing cars for the Turin
and Poughkeepsie concern whose space
sdjoins that where Joe holds forth-but
is now selling Studebakers In New York
STATE.
The two latest subjects for the activ-
ties Of W c. Durant-the Little and
Chevrolet cars-are displayed at adjoining
spaces on the mezzanine floor OF the
Palace Both four and six cylinder mod
els Of the Little car are shown, and there
arc two complete cars and "A chassis OF The
chevrolet Six Louis Chevrolet, the for
ner racing driver who designed the car
named for him. is az the exhibit most Of
me time, and Mr. Durant spends his
evenings there.
'' NJ. JeWett, Of Detroit a famous
amateur Splinter twenty years or 50 ago.
% one OF the busiest men here for The
sho" lie is president Of both tho paige
Detroit Motor Car Company and the 10.
~''' Molor company. The IOzier exhibl,
ls al Madison Square Garden and tho
rage cars are being shown AT the Grand
,'N't'u Faiacc, and as Mr.. Jewctt has TO
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