Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-01-20
X. C. MOTOR SHOW
FEBRUARY ll-l6
Greater Interest Taken in Big
Southwestern Event Than
Ever Before.
TO BE IN CONVENTION HALL
Special Attention Given to the
Practical Use of Passenger
and Commercial Cars.

The annual motor show will bo
given under the auspices OF the Kan
sas tity ilotor Car Dealers association
IN convention hall. February 1l-l6.
Architects have been working for
sometime providing extra balconies so
That now II Is announced that prnc-
ucallv the sanft amount OF space can
be had there which the show has oc-
cupied for the last two years In the
Case building
Greater interest is being shown at
his time than ever before, said r.. Il.
Peake. who will again manage the
show, because never before has the
country In general been so much in
terested in the automobile. for In that
lhey see that only practical solution
FOR the transportation and traffic
problems which are confronting the
country at this time"
Special attention In the KANSAS city
shoy VIII he given TO the practical use
ot both passenger cars and CONNER
oial vehicles. Proof OF the continued
popularity ofothe motor cNr IL shown
IN the figures accumulated by the
kansns city Motor Dealers aasocia-
lion for the business has just ended
Its fiscal year. showing that in this
territory. In spite OF war conditions,
the automobile business has absolutely
held It's own and a splendid increase
over that d! last year. Dealers every
where have had no trouble In selling
the cars which they could get from
factories.
Tho transportation problem has
been n source OF trouble, but with the
government having taken over the
railroads II Is believed that the gov
ernmcnt will see to II that the motor
car industry is taken care OF In the
matter OF getting cars transported TO
the dealers because each community
Is solving its own transportation prob
lem with tho motor car and this Is
what must happen II the country is
going to keep up it's speed OF war pro
duction in the necessities OF life
The decorating contract for the
Kansas city show has been let to the
Atlantic Decorating company Of Bos-
ton. The company Is decorating ten
Of the largest shows being held in the
United states this year and IL the off
cial decorators for the National Auto
and the managers OF the Kansas city
show believe that Convention hall will
Present a more pleasant appearance
than ever before.
The officers OF the Kansas City Mo-
tor Car Dealers association under
whose auspices the show Is being
given, are A. T. Clark. president. II.
{, Greenlease, vice president. r. h
peake, secretary and treasurer. RIP.
Rice Il. X. Bush. J +. Martin. T. J.
Wtwer, H. g. Kirkland H. NJ Cen
ung, Jno. a. Butler. directors.
MIR A. +. Clark. in an interview
with one of the Kansas city papers,
recently said THE kansas city Motor
show has become more than an event
20 the southwest 1T has become nm
People each year look
forward to visit 10 Kansas city 60
the big show, and we are making
every effort possible this year to give
them better more instructive and /
education show than ever before, and
we ask them to come and see whether
or not we have kept this promise.
Regarding the show, the Kansas |
city star says.
An array Of more than two hundred
cars. the latest models OF 7S OF Amer 4
ica's leading manufacturers ranging 4
from rOndsters and limousines tn
heavy commercial trucks, viii be ex- /
hihited on three floors or Convention /.
han the week OF February u II rs .
the occasion Of the animal motor. car f.
show Of Kansas city. The two extra I
floors uf the big han viii be built by ,
the Kansas city Motor Car Dealers as /
sociation TO take care OF the Increase .
oT cNhihtors over last year.
EyeP, conceivable accessory for the .
motor car will be shown This branch 4
" the exhibition viii be much larger .
than last year according TO p. T..
l,eake show manager Among the
passenger ear exhibits will be gasoline.
electric and steam cars Trucks, from
he Ucht delivery to the h-tOn va
riety will he shown
MANY OF the exhibits at the New
Y ork show. which Will be at the Chit ,
rngo show. will come here. Several
ranch concerns here have already
received MODELS for the show. .
'Indications are We will have a
larger show than last year, when all
records Tor exhibits and attendance
here we're broken" Mr.. Pcake said
Yesterday We will have nearly
ioublc the number Of exhibitors we
,rs three years ago The war isn't
solng to afrfY o. Motor shows will
,ttract The thsincss man this year
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