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Show MOTOR MOTIONS Salt Lake's first automobile show closes tonight to-night at the Auditorium, where for a week the majority of the different makes of cars handled locally have been on display. The show has been fairly successful, and fully up to the expectations of those in charge of it. The inter-mountain west, and this includes Salt Lake, is being educated to the automobile and this takes time. The attendance at the show has been excellent and the public's interest in the different exhibits pretty evenly divided. The dissensions that arose early in the week among some of the dealers were not serious enough to cause any serious trouble and taken as a whole the exhibition has proven a success and well worth the money expended. The decorators worked wonders with the Auditorium and tho hall was splendidly arranged. The press and public pub-lic have supported the show loyally for a town whose motor car business in as young as is Salt Lake's and a good record of sales, with as many satisfied owners should result from the week's exhibition. ex-hibition. The Salt Lake Automobile show is to be an annual event beyond question and it will just as surely grow in size and importance, providing the exhibitions are kept free from petty squabbles and are managed each year by practical automobile automo-bile men who can afford time and money to visit the big eastern shows, gather ideas and execute them locally. The L. J. Gilmer company played in hard luck the iirst half week of the show, their American cars failing to arrive until several days after the opening. A good portion of the public was as disappointed dis-appointed as Mr. Gilmer and his associates, as the Americans are among the most powerful and popular cars in Utah and possess so many unusual un-usual points of construction and operation that they attract a great deal of attention. The company showed a stripped car in its booth of the Traveler model and later the completely com-pletely equipped touring car and two Travelers and a Bull Dog roadster. The company's glider, a biplane kite, built to carry a man when at tached to an automobile below, formed one of the unique exhibits of the show. The company is opening up and putting on display Its first consignment con-signment of automobile supplies, received a week or two ago. Tho exhibit of Studebaker Bros, included all the popular models of that company's fine line of M cars, both gas and electric. The handsome mo- M del G-7's and the electrics in the booth formed a H strong drawing card during the week. B The beautiful finish of the Studebaker cars B sets them off beautifully under all conditions and B particularly so at an automobile show. Manager B Reed of the automobile department of the ( ii- M l)any nad a Dsy week of it and at the company's B Bales room on State street the machines not at H the show were in use most of the time demon- B strating for the benefit of those who had inspect- B ed the cars at the Auditorium and wanted to H know more about them. B" The Studebaker company has probably scored B as great a selling success as any of the exhibitors B at the show, Manager Heed reporting sales total- B ing over $30,000 since the opening of the exhl- H H, B The Velie, Overland and Franklin cars on ex- B hibition by the Consolidated Wagon and Machine B company, furnished Sales Manager Young of the B company and special representative Hatter of the B ' " lle factory some strong talking points. Mr. HT Young is just back from a meeting of the Over- Hl land agents at Chicago and the story he tells of B that meeting reads like fiction. Up to the time of B the Chicago meeting the Overland factory had B sold to its agents $24,000,000 worth of cars this B year and when it was found that agents still B needed machines for the 1910 trade a b'? black- B board was hung up and in a whirlwind record Bj 3900 more cars were sold in four hours' time, the Bi New York agent taking 400 cars alone and within Bl a few hours after the meeting, putting up a Bi check to cover the deposit required on them. "It Bj takes more than advertising and talking to sell B'i cars like that," declared Mr. Young on his re- Bl turn. "Those cars simply sell themselves and I Bjj believe their record elsewhere in the matter of Bi popularity will be duplicated here." Br The Velie cars are on the market through the B'1 selling organization of the Deere Harvesting com- m pany, of which the Consolidated Wagon and Ma- B chine company is local agent. 1 Besides guaranteeing the cars free of repairs H for a year arising from defects in parts, the Con- B solidated Wagon & Machine company carry a com- H plete line of extra parts for the Velies. Speaking of B the cars, Mr. Hstter says: "We are the only com- m pany making automobiles at present who supply B each car with three separate ignition systems B and when you understand that ninety per cent H of the autoist's trouble is with ignition systems B you can appreciate the significance of our ar- H rangement. The Velie has been the only car on H j exhibition at the show under $2,750 with a Aysx H f 5 motor. The list price of the car is $1,800." B $ H I With the completion of the new building being H ' erected just south of the Utah Independent Tele- H ( phone company's plant on State street within the H' next few weeks, Salt Lake will have one of the H most completely equipped, most modern and ex- 1 j elusive garage establishments to be found west H of Chicago. !B F. B. Smith and A. T. Williams, who some time ago purchased the Automobile Exchange, now located on Postofflce Place, will move into the new State street building, which is being H P l( erected especially for them, about April first and H ) with' a garage seventy-three and a half feet by H, ono hundred and forty-seven feet they will im- H ' mediately open an establishment where motor H cars of any sort will be cared for, stored and re- Hf paired. The company being absolutely disinter- Hl ested in any particular line of automobiles will H be able to care for the garage and repair shop H needs of the motoring public thoroughly. The Bj building they will occupy is absolutely fire proof H so that the risks on cars will be reduced to a H minimum and among the other metropolitan fea- H tures of the garage will be private stalls for cars, H where owners may lock them up and secure all the privacy for their machines they desire. Messrs. Smith and Williams have sub-let portions of their new building to two motor car companies who will move into their new quarters some time during the early spring. Meanwhile the Automobile Auto-mobile Exchange is handling its business on Post-office Post-office Place. Frank Judge's new Packard, a Detroit Electric and two Cadillac Thirties formed the exhibit of tho Utah Motor car company and all four cars attracted at-tracted a grrat deal of attention. The Packard is, of course, rated away at the top among high class motor cars and Mr. Judge's new machine Is a beautiful specimen of the 1910 output. The Packard name has come to stand for so much in itself and is so familiar to the motoring public pub-lic that an extended comment on any one model of the line is superfluous. It is one of the ilnest cars manufactured here or abroad. Manager Le-Roy Le-Roy Bartlett of the company was in charge of the exhibit and his selling methods are proving effective. A Pierce Arrow, a Pope Hartford, two Hud-sons, Hud-sons, a Chalmers-Detroit and Stevens Duryea were on exhibition in the Botterill company's space, and while Salt Lakers are already very familiar fa-miliar with the machines the Botterill concern handle, han-dle, so many has it placed locally, both the town and out-of-town crowds gave tho company's display dis-play more than its share of attention. All of tho cars in the exhibit were the 1910 models and handsomely fixed up for the show. As interesting a sight as has been seen about " town since the show opened is the great, powerful, power-ful, Couple-Gear Electric flower trucks, for which P. S. Dykes has the Utah agency. Mr. Dykes is the pioneer here in the auto power vehicle field, and that the latter exists locally cannot be questioned. ques-tioned. With the extension of the paving district and the betterment of traffic conditions generally throughout the city, power trucks must necessarily necessar-ily come into just as great favor with Salt Laice concerns as they have elsewhere. Economy in up-keep, quicker service, their safety, cheapness and durability have won over to them the more important concerns throughout the country who have occasion for any great amount of heavy drayage. The display of the Bertram Motor Supply com-ppny, com-ppny, the new concern which has opened an extensive ex-tensive establishment on South State street, where they will carry a complete line of motoring motor-ing accessories and supplies, was unusually complete. com-plete. Many novelties were shown by the company com-pany and the accessories and motoring comforts in their booth numbered somo novelties new to Salt Lakers. Ellis Freed's beautiful new G-70 Thomas fly-about, fly-about, finished in grey with red trimmings, pro-vlded pro-vlded with a special top, mechanician's seat, much special equipment and practically every accessory known to motoring, formed tho feature of the Randall-Dodd exhibit. |
