New-York tribune., 1922-01-10
1922 Show IS
Greatest of ALL
Auto Mem Sav
Reports OF Sales and Pros
poets Indicate Growing.
lntercs, in Exhibitiof;.
342 Firms Represented
Attendance Grows Daily
Women More Interested in
Selecting Cars This
Year Than Ever Before

An attendance nearly double that Of
saturday was registered at the twenty
second annual National Automobile
Show in Grand Central Palace yester-
day
No better recommendation for the
caliher OF tfte remarkable display can
he offered, in. the opinion of the show
management. than reports Of sales and
prospects by the individual exhibitors.
o. whom there arc nincty-two showing
different makes OF automobiles and ESQ
displaying car access ories and parts.
These sales and prospects were said
Yesterday to point to a healthy busi-
ness this year
The consensus of opinion among au-
tcmoblc mon interviewed in various
hotels about town is that the present
show is head and shoulders above any
other similar exhibition ever held in
hotels in Pcrshinr Square. and the Astor,
McAlpin and Pennsylvania are crowded
with executives and presentatves of
the manufacturing companies who are
here for show week. The lobbies of
me Commodore and Astor were more
shan typical Of the crowded condition
of other hotels, with the Bitmore an
equally busy place for show visitors.
Both the Commodore and Astor have
exhibits apart frop those at the Grand
Central Palace.
New Cars Are Shown
At the Commodore are being shown
the Gearless Steamer, the Gray car,
which s in the Ford class as prices go;
the Fox aircooled SIX, Louis Chevro-
let's new four. the Frontcnac, which is
being backed bS Allan A. Ryan, of
Stutz motors; the Ace, Bay State Six,
the briggs Four and the Ogren Six. At
the Astor are the Ferris Six and the
Sun, a new air-coolcd four selling for
s475.
Prospects in many cases appear to be
as enthusiastic over buying a car as
the statesmen arc to sell. Many of these
prospects arc women, who seem gen
orally more interested in automobiles
this year than at previous shows
Although the public has been warned
against ticket sea lpers there were sew
cral score of show patrons yesterday
vino, found that tker admisso ion ear $
were worthless when they presented
tnem at tho door of the Palace. This
situation demonstrated that the fake
ticket sellers are about as hume rous
this year aS they were last yS0H,. in
spite of the precautions taken by the
shop management. Most of these scalp
crs take up their stand on the side
walks near the Palace entrance.
G. 3. Duryea Visitor
Among the automobile men seen at
tho show yesterday WAS Charles u.
Duryca, sometimes referred to the
father of this countrys motor car in.
dustry. Mr. Duryea built gasoline
propelled automobile in 1894 and oper.
ated it on the road in 1892, almost
Simultaneously with the advent of the
successful Haynes. Mr.. Duryea's third
car was completed in 1899 and won the
first automobile speed contest and a
prize Of $1,000 at Chicago on Thanks
giving Day in 1895. This was said to
be the first automobile to use pncu-
matte tires
Tonight the big social event of auto
mobile show week will be the annual
dinner of the National Automobile
Chamber Of Commerce., under whose
auspices the show is being held This
affair viii be at tho Commodore Hotel
with a thousand estimated attendance.
Charles Clifton, president Of the N. A.
{. G., Of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car
tompany, Will be toastmastcr. Other
sneakers Will pc Irwin S, Cobb and
Edwin DENLY, Sceretary of the Navy
cobb oncc covered" the annual auto
monlfc' shows Tor one Of the New YORK
papers.