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Show Salt 'Lake Will Have ml An Automobile Show !Salt lakc City will have an automobile liow. The (lutes are March ! to S, Illusive, Ill-usive, nnd t)ie plnce whore the show III be held Is- the Auditorium on Ttlch-rda Ttlch-rda street. This announcement was ado public for the first time last even-S. even-S. Nearly nil tho leading automobile ;alers, motorcycle dealers, accessory ?ulers, lire denlcra. truck dealers and I'draliirs In tho city havo nlrcady only on-ly cd space In the nhow and will have iclr goods on exhibit, ood for Prospects. Every prospective buyer of a new jno-r jno-r car. motorcycle or truck will bo ijlad learn that Salt Ialto 'has fallen Into to with tho leading cllioo of America lib an automobile bIiow thlo sprinc io auio show habit has been growing ch year all over the country, until w any city that does not bavo the big nual exhibition Is looked upon as be-In be-In tho Vjay" class. Realizing tills, a .. 1 1 tfflhumbor of Salt Lake's leading automobile Jj;wjIealorB got together last fall and de-ji&jigil-lded to hold a big show this spring. Tho iH'islll'ret wnek In March was decided upon mLiBur5 Dcst l,me because It Is the open-rty'wfaue open-rty'wfaue of tho selling sunson and would give Jfr'Jwvery dealer in tho city a cluinco to get ft i'Tin Ills full lino of J913 models. Tho mo-fi mo-fi .t'jKorcyclo and motor truck dealers were It; 'i-Xpol- Blow to grab the opportunity to show , j'jhelr cars and quickly fell In line with X!rWho automobile dealers. ;Hj5aIt Lake's Biggest Show. 'Ijwy The show, as plannod, will far eclipse ;,jiLi)iG show held In Salt Lake three years Jl l?' Inasmuch as It takes In the entire ntormounlaln country. For this reason v-Mjg.t will bo known as tho Intormounlaln 57?lJVutomobJlo Bhow. Dealers and agents '' U'irom Idaho, "Wyoming, Nevada, western 'Ttk 'Colorado and Utah, besides Salt Lake, .-' 'fftfvJIl bo on hand, many of them bringing .ViJiViielr prospects to show them a full line 'twK')f C0TS wnic'1 18 Impossibly to i J liandle In tho smaller towns. Other deal-Us-iBr8 and sub-agents will bo In Salt Lake A t 4 his week to close their 1013 contracts. rJr'' $n on'or to make It possible for many tfy putsldera to be present, tho railroads ifaave offored a reduced rato to Salt Lake ','"4 jluring the week of March 3 to S. fcommittees in Charge. ,v'jB The direct management of the show JJi lliifi year will be under W. D. RIshel, v-JCtL-Who acted In the same capacity at tho iOj fnow held here three years ago. L. J. ,', ij ''illmer of tho Utah Motor Car companv, rf' i'fl Jr. R. Hall of the Campbell Auto company (V,Jfond r. H. Bertram of the Bertram Motor '-Supply company comprise tho committee j;n charge, representing the dealers. Tho Vt-v j'Oiow Ik held under the sanction of tho V;4jByUitomoblIo Club of Utah and the Utah 'Automobile Trades association. The ptbove-named men have been quietly j.f" i.vorking on tho show for tho past three bionths, and It was through their efforts 'S'yfhat the Auditorium on Richards street ,-rw vas rebuilt. It will bo remembered that ,: yfljl his building was destroyed by fire about .-jj i a year ago and the owner, .1. Melon, was induced to rebuild It. especially for tho automobile show. For the past two months tho doalors who will exhibit in tho show have been working on their exhibits, each trying to make his booth as attractive as possible. pos-sible. Special cars have been ordered from the factory, with special tlnlsh and equipment, to be shown for the ilrst, time on this occasion. The working parts of tho different makes of ears will bo I shown. Klectric motors showing cut-out chassis Iti working order will bo Installed so the general public can see the "In-sldes" "In-sldes" of the cars and tho "wheels" that make thorn go around. A number of the factories will have special repro-sentatlves repro-sentatlves on hand to explain the Intricate Intri-cate parts of tho cars. Specialists on carburetors, nmgnctoes, electric, air and gns Hell'-startors and electric lighting systems will .be on hand to explain the working parts of these features In automobiles. auto-mobiles. Present owners of cars who wish to install now parts, such aa self-starter, self-starter, oloctrlc lighting systems and the like, can got the best of expert advice frco of charge. Surprise in Decoration. An automobile show without decorations decora-tions would be a Hat failure. Those who saw tho hat show hold In Salt Lake declare de-clare it was tho best decorated show of any over seen in this part of the country. coun-try. Manager RIshel said last evening tho coining show would far excel the former for-mer effort in the cost nnd decorating effect. He Intimates there will bo a surprise sur-prise sprung on tho public this time in original decorations that will provo as popular as the show Itsolf. The entire electric lighting system will be changed by an expert and tho showroom will be as light as day. Shows Are Popular. Reports that have reached ihe city this spring are to tho effect, ihat the shows already held in the cast, have been fat1 more popular than In auy previous years. The attendance has been record breaking and dealers report large sales of cars. Many prospects wait for these shows annually, for they arc sure to see tho best thoro is in cars, see them exhibited alongside of oach other, and are therefore hotter ablo to decide upon the car they want. Many of the local dealers deal-ers doclaro that they had the best season's sea-son's business in their history after t.hn last show and wish to make It an annual an-nual event. They claim u solid week of motor talk by everybody Is good for the game. It brings the motoring public together to-gether and results In forming a closer alliance al-liance between motorists for tho bettering bet-tering of automobile conditions. With weather conditions opening up as they havo been the "past week the dealers' believe the first week in March is just right for the holding of the show. They already have banked upon, a record-breaking season and think the show will have the effect of starting the buv-ir.g buv-ir.g season going at full blast. Last vcar about SOO cars were sold in Utah and a conservative estlmato places the number num-ber around 1200 for the coming year, It Is believed that 05 per cent of these prospects will visit tho show and at least "get a line" on the cars they want, even if they do not buy until later on In the season. |