Evening star., 1923-12-30

All the preliminaries to the great
est National Automobile Show Of all
time are nearly complete. : The i'm
mense task of preparing for the lat
est models and the newest accessories
of the third most important industry
in the world. always "a labor of mag
nitude and tremendously complicat-
ed this year because of new loca-
tion being chosen. will end about
Thursday night of this week. II is
expected that most of Friday and
Saturday morning can be given over
10 bringing in and placing the eX-
hibits, so that the twenty-fourth eA-
position will be completely ready at
the official opening hour. , pm. on
Saturday next. -r'- -
The annual motor car display. here
tcfore a DOWNTOWN fixture, VIII pc
renewed for 1924 in the 2Ssth Field
road at Jerome avenue. the BronN.
II is away from the scene OF all the
former national shows. but not at an
unfamiliar to New Workers. since II
the Yankee Stadium, which has been
visited by hundreds of thousands OF
base ball fans and enthusiasts IN
other lines of sport.
The new location Of the SHOW IN
several respects is likely to prove
more popular with motor car users
than the Garden or Palace. once III
a subway station in any part OF the
city, the visitor can reach II difect
without once setting from unaer
cover, the kingshridge road station
on the Lexington avenue line being
almost a part of the armorS. Ihe
same is true of tire 6th and 9th
avenue IL" lines. which connect with
the subway on common pia torn l.l- at
167th street. thus landing passengers
at the same point. The trip from the
downtown section OF great hoteIs $
takes only q few minutes over halt
an hour, and as there is no walk ~
the end of the Journey visitors VIII
find the trip d. comfortable one ana
not the least confusing.
For motorists the new location VIII
be a big Improvement The afmory
is only one block from the Concourse,
the greatest line o: motor travel into
Westcht ster- county and. Connecticut.
Using any of the other fine motor
ways running northward involves
turning across town onlE q rev
blocks. All the Inconvenience of con-
sested traffic is eliminated. an ad-
Vantage that can hardly he everesti-
mated. Very many suburban mo-
torists have refTained from visiting
previous national shows through dis
Inclination to getting into the dense
OF lower New
To BE One-Fioor show
The coming exposition, for the first
time in many years. .--Will be a one
floor show. The drill hail of, the big
armory affords the most enormous
sweep of space of any building in the
world-600 feet in one direction and
500 feet in the other At the highest
point the roof is l2e feet from the
floor In this vast eXpanse of display
space there is not pillar or other
obstruction.
Between AGA. and 500 complete ears
designed for the coming year will be
OH display. and all these viii have
plenty OF. free space: IN addition to
the products of "a great number of
accessory manufacturers. while leav-
ing ample promenades! for the thou
sands OF visitors The constant
growth of the industry from the be-
ginning Of the century has always
brought the perpleXing problem of
accommodating both the exhibits and
the rhrongs. and for 1924 Manager
S. A. Miles has, at last. achieved his
ambition of giving an abundance of
some of the late corners in the ac-
ccssory end of the industry have
been allotted space in the west bal
cony &c. obviate any risk of crowdfng.
To he Imposing Spectacle.
Thus the exhibition of the cars and
accessories for 1924 promises to be
the most imposing spectacle of the
kind ever presented in the twenty
four years that national automobile
shows have been fixtures. In many
other ways il, will make an appeal to
the enthusiast and the casual visitor.
The east balcony, for instance, has
more than .. 600 chairs en- either side
of the section In which the twenty
five-pieoe orchestra of the, 25Sth Field
Artillery will play during the show.
In these chairs visitors can rest while
enjoying the panorama of the expo
sition, with nearly 81 100000 worth of
cars spread over 100000 square feet
of space.
Everything in the, huge armony is
in keeping with the size of the mag
hificent drill hall, in which the auto
mobile show will be held. There is
a restaurant in which 500 diners can
be accommodated at one time. This
will be in charge of Harry F. SevenS,
the caterer.
The preparation of the drill hall for
the national automobile show has
been the greatest job of interior dec
Grating for one-week display ever
undertaken. 1t involves the use of
enough electric current to illuminate
the houses and streets of a fair-sized
city. the use of half a million feet of
lumber and plaster board, 100000
square feet of bunting, 10000 pounds
OF linoleum and 100 kegs of nails
and screws and vast amount of
statuary and paintings that cannot be
expressed in figures.
Blue and gold are the prevailing
colors in the decorative scheme. which
is the most elaborate ever adopted for
4 national automobile show. There
will be plenty of other colors, of
course, presented by the motor cars
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