Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-03-03

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At PORTLAND
1t is expected quite a number OF
| Augusta auto admirers and enthusi-
| asts will go to Portland today to
! take in the auto show, regarding
which the Sunday Portland Press
says:
| Under the banner Of prosperous
! season for 1919, and with conditions
never so favorable, the Portland
Auto Show, Names Greatest and
one Of New England's finest will
open on Monday in the Exposition
! building. 1t deserves to be one Of the
most successful ever attempted by
the Portland Automobile Dealers as
! ISOLATION. which is behind the pro-
ject, and undoubtedly their efforts
10 make it such will not so unre-
! warded.
Everything is fast being placed in
readiness for the grand opening of
the 1919 event. and the finishing
tOuCQSS " lnC vast P4OyCSI lax w
! applied some time between now and
10 o'clock on Monday morning. Not
| the slightest detail is to be over
! looked in the arrangements and
neither time nor money has been
spared to carry into action the great
! and small details so essential on an
occasion Of this kind. Interest is being
manifested in the forthcoming event
| in all parts Of the State, while no
/ little throng Of eager motorists is
/ expected to visit the Forest City
! from various parts Of New Hamp-
! shire.
/ No one who visits the show can
! doubt this: The automobile is COM
! ing back into its own in 1919. In
spite of the shortage occasioned by
! the fact that the majority Of manu-
! facturers have been confined to gov
! eminent orders and have been al
I lowed but a brief period Of time
! to reconvert their plants from a wal
/ to a peace basis, dealers have urged
! upon the producers the necessity OF
( having cars for showing here with
(; the result that shipments have been
! prompt and are to be followed by
| even larger shipments in order &c
meet tie demand that is expected &
Come.
"H,rave~. ti4c individual exhibits
10 H. .tn at 1i,t Portland Au,'
) Stow vii! reveal much in that com.
h.neJ. the exhibition VIII constitute
,,ract.oa y complete repre- sentatot
IL al! :.e standard makes Of cars
l.o,h cf the pleasure ard trucs
types One new car on tie ma.tr!
will be on exhibition Toy tire hrS
! time il. Maine, While the close %
server VIII also de;ec, soma ~,
ard beautifying changes il. In. *
construction Of Il number / o.
makes There VIII be pleasure cars T.
ever variety and style from, WIZ:
the man OF moderate means as We!
as the wealthy, may make his se!ec
ton.
An OF the pleasure cars arc to -
exhibited on the main floor of the build
ing, while the motor trucks will be dis
PLAYED in the basement. In compan
with the pleasure Vel icles on the fiFs
four Will also be shown the >arioa
accessory exh,btS-anl they rLmoe
many While the ca1 display IS COZ
y.Gercl the principal attraction. tn
accessory cxhib:. vii. be equally d
attractive. for many visitors Will b
motorists w.:o are no, DESTROYS Of pur
chasing new cars but are IN the maj
let. so % SPEAK. for certain accessorie
or improvements in their present cars.
"Iiundreds of makes Of accessorit
manufactured by the country's leadin
PLANTS ard handled by representativ
agents Will lie offered That every cor
ceivable sort CT a device that goes Wit
motor car will be displayed goe
without saying The exhibits VII, forl
circle for the numerous pleasure ca
displays and IS regards the latter lin
the appearance OF the ihclosed car wi
make itself more prominent than eve
this season.
This wear is also to see a rapid &C
vance IN the use of the motor true
and in this line the show-goers will fin
much to interest. All Of the truck e.
hibits will be placed in the basemer
and they will include nearly every max
and type now on the American niarke
Throughout the war the motor true
came to be recognized as a most val,
able asset to the needs Of the govern
ment and it has won greater favor wit
industrial establishments or small bus
ness houses. not to speak OF its genera
: adoption by the nearb" farmer
Hence. briefly summed up. the Por'
land exhibition is to contain every OF
, ject from the field Q. autodom tina
, might in any way interest the motors
! "All of these exhibits will be Sc
off amid one Of the most tasty deco
rative schemes that the mind ca
imagine, and one that will do the ey
good to view. Each exhibitor wi
have his individual booth. represent
ing a Southern garden or cluster 9
pergolas with the neatly built lattic
. arrangement holding garlands 9
. smilax, varied colored flowers bein
| entwined with the snilax. This
, one feature Of the show which rep
: resents large expenditure of none!
: but such a setting was thought nee
essary and deemed wise to use i
order to convincingly present tn
! true value of the cars.
. THE best available in entertain
ment features was likewise consid
cred none too good for the show. an
E after extensive periods Of negotia
tons. attractions of merit were Sc
/ cured. Perhaps foremost among thes
is the Bostonia orchestra, a musica
rrpo nj % };no eorpocod ap<iroly n