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Show URUI INTEREST IRJ1TI) SHOI 1 Railways Make Rales in Inter- m mountain States to Bring SI People Here. M COMMITTEES WORKING i ' ' HARD TO MAKE SUCCESS 1 JfcJIcctriea! Automobile Will Be ! t Kept Runimi on McCor- m f n'wk Building. When the automobile show was first !Jm proposed . our months ago by enthu- , JH siasls, little did the average Salt Laker M thiuk 'such an. exhibition would create Iffi enough interest to cause the railroads to (ffl give special rates throughout the Inter- ma mountain country. Many of the. skep- jn tical looked 'upon an autto show a3 a In jlace where motor " bugs would eon- joB grecate and talk oA'or the new features oi the "bur.r" wagons. The past week tho show has been discussed in nverv JO walk ol' life, and unless all signs fail, 'H Salt Lake will lie automobile -crazy bv JB the time the doors open next Saturday jH evening, rjecording to-the fans. And jK if advance information received by tho "H sluSw committer is worth anything, tho jfl crowds that pack the old skritin rink M will be greatly augmented by hundreds from Idaho, Wyoming. Colorado, Isc- ) vada and the outside districts. ! Big "Bill" Rishel said the average person knew little of the' work neers- i sary to- bring off puch an exhibition. For fully four months a committee consisting con-sisting of S. II. Sharman of-the Sharmau ' .Automobile company, L. II. Raymond of the b'aynioii(i-Hrackei) Automobile company, I-rimk Botterill nf the Hotter- : ill Antoinobile company and Manager ' ) "W. D. Rishel havo' been working like beavers. .Nearly every night this com- ' mittec meets and plans work for the i next day and it expresses the opinion that the show will be well handled, even ro tlie minutest detail. j iVircidv city people are well acquaint- j ed with the plans of the show through I a well-conducted system of. publicity. Before the coining week passes even J more of this? work will be. done.. A pcli- tiou to the city council gave the com- , luittec prilego to stretch an euornious canvas sign acres? First' South street. ' An electric automobile .sign, ten bv twenty feet, adorned with hundreds of 11 .small electric light globes will cap tho ' top of the seven-story Mc.C'ornick Bank 1 building. From the slrect to the top of thh sign a string of '""chaser" dec- ,j trie Jijhts will attract tho atteotiou l- of a'ny person who might overlook a M moving automobile on top of the bank. h .sfj;ing.yjf,.flatuing arcs, with purple- S colored globcswill point the way lo lischa.rils street, where more elect ricitv Jfl will light up the entrance to the show. .jH The inatii. streets of the cit- will be iH plncarded v;ith the automobile girl H pointing -to the show's slogan, 'ileet Me -at the Auto Show." Every lay while the show is in prog H ress Hold's band will parade tho streets -ffl iu the large Seeing Salt Lake City auto !D carrj'-all. Each dealer in the show will W have bannered cars on the streets lo let 'H the public know there is something go- jH ing on at the auditorium. :H The show coinniittee is now -working S on' amusements for the public, in addi- ,Q lion to the display of cars, and ex- H pect to have a few surprises. To make qM the show a success, it is necessary to fl have tevery person go away satisfied. ,B Several special features are now under H consideration, aud aunouuceuient will H be made as soon as they are scoured. H In speaking of the outlook yester- jfl day. one meinber of the coinmitt.ee said: Wj "'We will have but one trouble, and H that is lo find space enough in the show- jH 'room to accomniodato the crowds." -H |