New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
SILENT CAR TO- HAVE
ITS OWN EXHIBITION
Electric Vehicle Show Will
Open at the Grand Central
Palace on October IS.
TO SHOW NEWEST MODELS
Display Will Be Complete Both
in Passenger and Com
mercial Types, with
Accessories.

The advancing price of gasolene. with
resultant advance in the cost OF motor
car operation. the perfection OF electric
vehicle battery equipment, and the i'm
proved service offered by power CON-
panies for recharglng have resulted in a
marked increase in the sale and manu-
facture of electric machines during the
past year.
The vehicle display at the Electrical
Show, TO open at Grand Central Palace
on October Is, will include the newest
models Of both commercial and pleasure
automobiles This Is the second time In
the history OF the trade that the silent
car" is to have an exhibition OF It's own.
In addition to a model garage and speed
way various electrical machinery for
cleaning and repairing cars will be shown.
When a car leaves the garage the time II
remains on the demonstrating track will
be recorded: all power consumed will be
likewise accounted for In this way the
garage operators will know just what the
establishment is making or losing. just as
if the garage were operated on a strictly
business basis.
There will be vacuum cleaners, electric
tire pumps, an electric polishing machine,
tire vulcanizer. mercury arc rectihers
and direct charging boards with the nee
essary equipment. In the wash room
there will be the latest model washer sus-
pended from the ceiling, demonstrating
the ease with which a car can be washed
by using this device.
There is no longer any doubt as to the
economy OF electrically driven vehicles,
both in commercial and social uses. on
the farm, for example, there are now 22-
667 al horses and 4,257.43 mules In SER
vice in this country. The bulk OF these
are in rural and outlying districts. When
the work now performed by horses ana
mules is done by electricity there Will ne
many more millions Of bushels OF corn
oats and other grains left to feed human
beings. This change will undoubtedly re-
, suit in the cheapening of food for the city
consumer.
Gasolene truck manufacturers. who
read the handwriting on the wall. are
adding electric cars to their output. Grad
ually fire horses are being replaced by
| electric uTe apparatus by iciilN'ihp 49,
front wheels OF horse drawn fire engines
and substituting storage battery tractors
A speedy motor vehicle is obtained, saw
! ing the dollars that would necessarily be
spent In dscarding the old equipment and
providing new automobile engines.
II Is estimated that in the year 1918
there should be in operation throughout
the United States three hundred thousand
commercial motor vehicles. BY reason OF
their adaptability for city usage. electric
vehicles are expected to constitute % per
cent OF this total, or $4,000 machines.
Among the electric vehicle exhibitors at
the Grand Central Palace will be the Edi-
son Storage Battery Company, General
Vehicle Company. Electric Storage Battery
Company. Ward Motor Vehicle Company
Philadelphia Storage Battery Company
Gould Storage Battery Company, General
Motors Truck Company. Henry Tobin
Company Champion and Standard Elec-
trio Car Company.