Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-01-07
SHOW MAKES ONE
Want TONORTCACE
HOME FOR AUTO
Gorgeous Array Of Cars at
the 1917 Exhibit Opened
in Grand Central Palace
at New York.

New York, Jan. 6.-The 1917 auto
mobile show, four thick layers Of it,
started in on the high among the five
stories of Grand Central palace today.
One hour OF it makes you want to
mortgage the old home and move into
a limousine.
Four hundred luxurious limousines,
landaulets, long grey roadsters and
short lickety -splitters trimmed in loud
paint and garnished with soft pedal
statesmen.
Here, among the mild decorations and
the wild orehestras. nestled away
where prying eyes can't see, you can
come in on the subway, pay a dollar
down and ride out on four cylinders.
Going from the show proper to the
accessories Is like walking through the
dining room into the kitchen. For ac-
eessories are to automobiles what
kitchens are to dining rooms-ugly aud
odoriferous. but necessary.
PLACE TO GET THE LOW DOWN.
But up there's where you get the
low-down on your car. You see what
looks to be a complete car downstairs
but when you get up among the az
eessories YOU find that the darned
things are only half dressed.
You pity the poor abandoned things.
standing brazenly around down there.
with hardly anything on. Flunkeys in
uniform go around patting them on the
back with oiled rags and telling them
its all right and not TO mind. It's an
awful big show and it covers a lot Of
ground. IL you can spark properly
and run without rafting after three
hours on high at the automobile show,
pat yourself on the hood and be happy.
Very few OF us two-cylinder folks can
do ii.
One gorgeous girl with a 1o-passen
ger husband, upholstered in affluence,
| was leaning UP against an aristoeratic
slab of limousine varnish as though she
were as full of automobile show as
her husband was of whiskers.
| Well" he was saying, (which will
you have, a hackkard or fierce
narrow" to which she replied: I'll
take ham sandwich and mattress,
! If you don't mind"
DOLLAR DOWN PLAN.
It's the installment plan for automo-
biles one company is advertising. One
dollar down and a dollar to the day
YOU die The real nifty cars are very
| long this year. One encountered was
so long il took an expert salesman IN
hour and fifteen minutes to talk from
the windshield to the tail light A III
of the spectators were too fast for him
at that. They got to the next boosh
before he reached the running board
The runabouts have taken on a lot oi
weight since last year.. They are SC
chubby and flat. And their voices have
changed. One of them, blue one. with
a snubnose, sang baritone over by the
grape Juice booth all afternoon.
Prize ring colors predominated
black and blue that Is. For trimmings
only, however. that being what blaci
and blue mostly are used for. Mauve
salad pink. suffrage yellow. and white
and gold are favored for bodies.
THE GOLD CAR.
Next YOU go over and see the golt
car. They've shipped so many mil
lions of the stuff into the countr,
lately that they're making AUTOMOBILES
of 1t now. This particular car is gois
filled throughout its metal parts ant
upholstered in pure white leather an
everything. The booklets admit tina
400 ounces of e4-karat gold were uset
TO finish the car. And heaven know
400 ounces ought to he enough to fin
ish anything. even a fast career
After that. you wander up coupl
| of flights to the accessories division.
. Why buy half monograph; get
/ Pathephone.