Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-13
CROWDS THRONG
AUTOMOBILE SHOW
Enthusiastic Crowds Pack Mo-
tor Exhibit in Spite of Zero
Temperature Outside

general interest that the vast throng
in attendance at yesterday afternoons
and evenings Automobile Show in the
Emerson Brantingham Building,
Tenth and Market streets, was not at
all surprisining to anybody, not even
the exhibitors themselves.
From early morning until late last
night hundreds of men and women
crowded the exhibition floors, evincing
keen interest in the models of modern
construction and commenting on the
wonderful advance in the automobile
industry as a whole, and this seasons
models in particular. The opinion
was unanimous among the exhibitors
that this, the Eighth Annual Show is
the greatest ever held in Harrisburg.
Unquestionably the predominating
features which first catch the eye of
the visitor upon entering the exhibit
ton halls are the unusual brilliance
and variety of colors in which the
cars are finished. Beautiful combin
ations are noticed on all sides, the tints
being exceptionally pleasing, and this
has been explained by one exhibitor as
being due to the fact that car enamels
have been improved to the point where
delicate colors can be made more dur
able. The darker colorings, however,
do not seem to be losing favor and the
darker browns, greens and black are
as much in evidence as ever.
The accessories men, too, have pro-
vided unusually attractive exhibits
and at practically every accessory
booth one finds practical demonstra-
uons that cannot fail to convince the
most skeptical among the hundreds of
visitors. In the booth of Il. Mather &
co, for instance, we find an athletic
young chap who proceeds to fill his
q 4, 1. lt..,, ,V,x~
Kind that is used for packing break
ables"-and sets fire to the contents.
When the blaze gets going good and
the crowd is expecting to see the
sweatband shrivel up and catch fire he
turns a Pyrene fire extinguisher into
the blaze and presto! the fire is smoth-
cred quicker than you could say Jack
Robinson.
In the space occupied by the Excel
sior Auto Co., of which Harry l.. Myers
is proprietor. is n practical demon
stration of the Giant in n BoX-EXide
Battery An EXide Battery, after
four years of constant service has been
rugged up to demonstrate the intense
resistance it is possible to produce.
Tenpenny nails are melted in the
twinkling of an eye, and, if you pre-
fer, they're rewelded with the current
generated by the storage battery.
over ten horsepower is developed and
after repeated tests, the battery proves
as strong as ever. Another -EXide is
hitched to q motor driven pulley and
lifts n six hundred and fifty pound
weight as though it were feather
pillow
At the booth of the Zimmerman
Auto Company, one finds cut-away
Webber Carburetors, Magnetos, etc,
that show the innermost workings of
these mysterious automobile necessi-
OF fra ic nf
best versed men on magnetos and car
buretors in this part of the State. The
exhibit, as whole is an unusually at
tractive one.
The space occupied by the Aetna In
surance Company, of which William
EsSick is general agent, is piled high
with automobile insurance literature
and is in charge of experienced insur-
ance men, well Versed in that partic-
ular line of automobile protection.
The booth of A. l.. Hall, of the Penn
sylvania Indemnity Exchange is also
we'll supplied with literature covering
the automobile phase of the insur-
ance business.
The exhibit of the Front Market
Motor Supply Co is we'll supplied with
demonstrations, among them being
Keystone Grease, Atwater-Kent Sys-
tenn, and several other equally well
known accessory lines.
o.,
with u face familiar to local motor
dom, that of Frank b. Bosch, in
charge is among the busiest exhibits
of the show. Practical demonstrations
of the resiliency of the material used
in Miller tires, are always under way
at this booth and an interested crowd
of auto enthusiasts are always to be
found around the exhibit.
The booth of George II. Myers, "The
Tire man" is also one of the centers of
attraction at the show. Spark plug
demonstrations, tire demonstrations,
lighting system demonstrations-de
onstrations of all manner of acces-
sories are the order of the day in this
exhibit.
The musical program for tonight
has been specially arranged for the
Rotarians as follows: March, "All
America; overture, Poet and Peas
ant; concert waltzes, THE Girl Who
Smiles; violin solo. Scotch Fan
tasie.P with bagpipe effect; trot
"O'Brien rs Tryin' to Learn
Hawaiian; Melody in T." Ruben
stein; overture, "Caliph of Bagdad"; +;
one-step. Since Maggie Dooley Is
DOOM the Hooley Hooley"; grand Sc
lection, American Airs"
Tonight is Rotary Night at the
Auto Show and record crowds are an
ticipated by the show committee and
exhibitors alike.