Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-18

On the Ilrst day between l4,OOO and
$4,000 people entered, but they came
chiefly to see.
Yesterday the buying had started.
Monday the crowd kept to the
sisles. Yesterday they we're in every
booth and in the evening statesmen
sometimes had to talk to several
prospective buyers at once.
Fathers with anxiously expectant
families about them listened to iex-
plantations of points of various cars.
And there we're many sales. One
car, and it's a high-priced one, too,
reported three sales before p. m.
This is the greatest Auto show held
this year in point Of enthusiasm. and I've
been to all Of them" said one man OF big
affairs. There is the real pep in this
show and that is something that was
largely lacking in the New York and Chi
cago shows. The people out here in the
west have the money and they're going
TO buy more cars this year than in past
years"
Clark Powell, manager of the show, was
here, there and everywhere at once. He
dubbed with enthusiasm at the success
OF the enterprise.
There's the biggest crowd OF dealers
here that we've ever had" he said. In
qure of the hotels. Every one of them
is crowded to capacity,
Factory Men Como.
"And now the factory men from the
east are flocking in TO an unprecedented
number II is really astonishing to see
so many of them. And still 1t is not so
astonishing after all, because we know
the reason, which is that the manufac-
turers look to the west as the buyer of
many more cars this year than ever be-
fore.
ut is the truth that the farther west
you go this year the more automobile
life you find, at least as far west as
Omaha. We are doing the business here.
Another straw showing which way the
wind is blowing is the big crowds of
dealers that flockcd into the stores on
automobile row yesterday and today l
never before saw anything like 1t.
Even the weather is ideal for us this
year. Observe, II you please, that the
streets we're frozen up until all the cars
were safely in the Auditorium. For this
reason there's not speck of mud on one
of them. Directly the cars were In, the
weather moderated to an ideal tempera-
ture."
Last Evening Musical Night.
Last night was musical night and
there was music nearly all the time
Olesen's orchestra dispensed melody OF
lively nature. This was supplemented
nv THE Quartet led by Jerome Z.
Iatsch, and Hal Greer sang many solos,
a. nf
great room by the aid OF megaphone.
Down in the basement among the big
auto trucks was an exhibit about which
an awe-stricken crowd gathered all day
long. This was the heralded Packard
armored war car. Beligerent youths
explained to admiring maidens just how
the thing is Unanswered in time of war.
Some older folks looked at it disapprov-
ingly. One small boy climbed up on
wheel and then proclaimed to his mother
that he would like to sit inside 1t and
.shoot Rooshians." He was promptly
ordered off of the war car and reproved
for his boodthirsty ambition
The car is so built that it holds only
a driver and a marksman, both, OF
course. fully protected by the armor
Mate. which is about one-fourth OF an
inch thick. The marksman sits on a
bicvcle seat with his head up in tur-
ret in which Colt automatic machine
gun firing 900 shots a minute is mounted'
The turret can be swung around so as
10 shoot I'm any direction desired. the
armor on the car is proof against rifle
fire from distance OF 300 yards
Jitncy Cars ON View
The swiftncss with which the auto
mobile trade adapts itself 10 new condl-
tons is Illustrated by the presence III
the basement exhibit IL several jitney
buses. Here is a thing that isn't named
in the dictionary; that wasn't even
known in the language and hadnt oeen
seen or heard of six months ago ana
now jitney buses are exhibited ana sou
in an automobile show!
There we're people interested in every
thing yesterday from the fVe-ton
trucks and jtney buses to the high
poyered, seven-passenger touring cars
and magnficently appointed coupes and
cabrolets.
And everywhere the note of serious
buying interest was apparent Ihere
we're many family groups with minds
evidently made up to buy and bent on
solving the problem which to buy Ihe
many beautiful chassis in working or
der were constantly surrounded oy
crowds In the evening, especially the
beauty Of the exhibits was further en-
HANGED by the presence Of many Ia'r
and handsomely gowned women. Ana
here let It be recorded that certain
elderly gentleman did make bon mot
A salesman expounded to him the merits
of a certain car which sells GROUND
5000 In the care were seated three
women and they were fair to look upon.
And the elderly gentlemen said to the
salesman: THE car Is probably worth
5000, but with the ladies that are In
il l think II is worth two million.
Whereupon he bowed and departed. And
the ladies didn't seem displeased.
Tonight will be Dealers night" SO
called, though, OF course, It is Just as
much open to the public as any Other
night