Arizona republican., 1913-08-31
AUTO
 SHOW AT FAIR
Republican Calls Attention to Opportunity for Classy Exhibition of Improved Cars Before Big Crowds Here in November

| The Republican arises to state Whats the matter with an auto show i in connection with the one nine thir- | teen edition of the Arizona State Fair? And all the answer that has yet been made to that query is
 Nothing a-tall.
 We'll within the memory of the memory of the youngest inhabitant of Gasoline row is the charming recollec- tiOn of a motor show. The show was held along in February last with the Aztec Sun F'ete to give it reason and excuse It was also held in the new
 garage of the Buick agency on North Central avenue, and moreover the said show was a complete hurrahing sue cess.
 An automobile show of the new 1914 models exhibiting for the first time all the new achievements in the construc- ton of motor pleasure cars and motor commercial vehicles would take like house afire-according to the one or two motor men whom The Republican has seen about this matter. There is a secret in this new proposal that will make for it's popularity. Ad- mission free
 There will be no elaborate booths decorated with tapestry and fine stuffs. It will be an automobile show, not a dry goods show display. and it's purpose will be to set forth machinery, and machinery alone. The hall is to be secured, as cheaply as possible, and
 sign put out and the cars put in. Then all that remains is to show the cars
 as the public drifts in and out of the emporium. The dealers will share the
 expense of the hall, the signs, tighten ing the load to an almost negligible
 qauntity. Thus the exhibition will be cheap for the agencies and free to the public, both things to be desired in this sort of show.
 By Fair time the new models of a majority of Phoenixs leading agencies will have arrived. Indeed some of the latest improved are already on the ground. But with all the 1914 beau ties together, it will be sight worth seeing, for the new cars are a hand some lot With little to be added in the way of equipment, the makers have this summer turned their attention strictly to tightening beautifying and making more comfortable their latest models, and how far they have sue ceeded will be plainly evident at the show. Streamlines will show in prac- tically all the bodies, though not every maker has adopted the complete set Some have a few stream lines and some have a few more, but the fall output marks a great stride in blaming off the air traps on the hoods, radia- tors, sides and backs of automobiles.
 Nearly every maker has put a cer- tain amount of effort into the solution of the weight problem. Perhaps the best thing in the late fall cars is the lessening heft of them. This comes easily with the chea pening of the light tough steels, and the recognition of the value of springy rather than rigid strength in frames and bodies.
 Comfort will be supplied this fall by better and bigger springs and new sorts of upholstery. The annual creep ing advance in weight wisdom among motor makers will also tend to make better balanced cars and these always ride more easily.
 Engine improvements will be an in teresting item in the new cars It is not always apparent on the face of a motor what it's betterments are but there is not a model but has some new l1ink to it's power plant.
 Electric and pneumatic gear shifts will probably be in evidence at the show. and the new two-speed differen- tiaI also.