The New York herald., 1921-01-11
Big CROWDS VISIT
AUTOMOBILE SHOW
Dealers Happy as Many Place
Orders for Smart 1921
Models.
N.A.C.C. BANQUET TONIGHT
Many Important Meetings
Scheduled for Morning,
Afternoon and Night.

The second days session Of the
twenty-first National Automobile Snow
in Grand Central Palace yesterday broke
all attendance records. The doors
opened at 10 A. NJ. for the first twelve
hour session Of this years display. and
the four floors Of the exposition were
shronged throughout the afternoon and
evening. Despite the enormous crowd
however. the show has been 80 well
planned that everyone had d good view
OF the cars
What impressed the exhibitors most
favorably was that the crowd was really
Interested In the cars This. according
10 the dealers, means that the buying
public has again entered the market.
As an advance agent of prosperity to
the motor car industry the show Is fully
proving its worth. Already the number
of prospects listed with dealers means
that there will be few Idle moments
along Automobile Row between now and
next spring. Now sales are being made
at the show with a regularity that is
causing some of the old time statesmen
to gasp at the absolute turn about in
conditions.
Dealers and statesmen continue to pour
into New York from all sections Of the
country. T. S. Albertson, Dodge dealer
from Los Angeles and president of the
Los Angeles Dealers Association, was an
arrival. leading in q party of Dodge
dealers from Lower California. II took
two special cars to convey the delega-
ton TO New York. Vice-President Gartz-
mann of the California Oakland COM
pany was also a Los Angeles arrival,
while others from the California city
who made their appearance We're Ralph
Hamlin. Franklin distributor; Fred
~ 7 1,a
cypress: Walter L.. Elbe, Cunningham
distributor Harry L. Herdon, II. $. G.
distributor, and Lynn c. Buxton.
Stearns and Stevens-Duryea distributor.
The average person now Is considered
motorwise. but Judging by the interested
crowds that constantly surround the
lecturers at the various spaces New
Workers. are still keen for broader
knowledge Of automobile construction.
On the first floor of the Palace lecturers
are an important feature of the Buick,
Pierce-Arrow and Cadillac displays
They never lack for an attendance. Cut
chassis in which the respective functions
OF the various pieces of mechanism are
clearly demonstrated to the spectators
are also to be found at number of
exhibits. including the bort, Oldsmobile
.tsxwell and Buick. These chassis are
ssrated by electric motors.
Many important meetings of show
week start to-day. The National Auto
mobile Chamber of Commerce. which
sponsors the show, will begin its sessions
with a meeting of its Foreign Trade Com
Inittee at headquarters. 366 Madison ave
nue., at 10 A. NJ. while the Patents Com
mittee will meet at the same hour. At
10 80 \. NJ. the n. A. G. {. will hold a
session and at 2 80 p. NJ. the y. A. G, c.
Truck Committee will meet. In the eve
ming the annual banquet of the n. A. c. G.
viii take place at the Commodore. The
speakers will be Francis II. Sisson, vice.
president OF the Guaranty Trust Com
pany. and James Schermerhorn, publish
er of the Detroit Times.
The Society of Automotive Engineers
will also begin their meetings to-day.
The Standards Committee will get to-
gether first and their session will occupy
the entire morning and afternoon. At
this there will be a discussion of the
revisions Of and additions to prevailing
S. A. z. standards and recommended
practices which will be reported by the
divisions Of the Standards Committee.
In the evening there will be an aero
nautic session.