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Show - 1 ' - ' n. i -., : izzrr -sj King Motor hinds Bonneville Reign I onighl MAIIY SALES IV1ADE AT AUTOMOBILE EXHIBIT Record-breaking Crowds Continue to Throng the Big Pavilion. DISPLAY IS SUCCESS Out of Town Visitors Play Important Part in Swell-y Swell-y ing the Attendance. Record-breaking crowds continued to throus the automobile show yesterday afternoon and last night. The last of the outside delegations arrived in the morning and brought the out-of-town attendance above the 500 mark, it was announced. This is the greatest record ever made by an automobile display in Salt Lake, and more than ever demonstrates dem-onstrates the fact that Salt Lake is considered the center of the industry of the Rocky mountain country. Yesterday could easily have been tailed "Shopping dav, ' for many sales were reported by the dealers. Early in the afternoon the visitors poured ir.tn the building, and last night the attendance at-tendance had passed the record mark of the previous days. The classifying and inspection days of many of the visitors 'has passed, and little time was lost yesterday in closing the large sales. Car Service Bad. Fatty Arbuckle failed to make his appearance at the show yesterday, as. his delay on the railroad west of the city made it necessary for him to go through the city to make up his schedule in the east. "The only disappointment of the show," said Manager W. D. Rishel last bight, "is the poor street car service to the pavilion. Endeavor has been made all through the week to have special spe-cial service to handle the immense crowds, but all efforts of the show officials offi-cials have failed in this respect. "Many of the exhibitors have, in the face of these conditions, used their own jrfiachines to send for and take home jr many persons who have telephoned to the pavilion saying they could not get cars, as they were crowded." Salesmen Kept Busy. Yesterday a journey was taken along the south aisle of the big pavilion, where each exhibit was visited briefly. Now the balance of the displays will be described, starting at the soda fountain foun-tain and walking east toward the dance space. In the corner the booth -of the Mountain States Motor company is found, featuring a chummy Interstate model. The salesmen are busy explaining explain-ing the merits of this car and others at nearly all hours of the day and evening. In the display of the Ford Motor company are found models of every design de-sign the company manufactures. There are four of them sedan, coupelet. touring tour-ing car and roadster. The small cars attract hundreds of persons to the booth. The onlv steamer exhibited is shown next, in the Stanley booth. This is the car that can be seen speeding along the citv streets and climbing hills with no noise or apparent effort. Fred Alkire will explain the workings of the steam car. Starting Systems. On a partly assembled motor is found the AYilmo manifold, a product manufactured manu-factured in Chicago and with such men us King L. Gillett, the safety razor king, behind it. The salesmen guarantee a large saving of gasoline by its attachment at-tachment to a car. Starting svstems for Ford cars are demonstrated" by the Binford-Kimball motor company". The systems are attached at-tached to motors in the booth and turn over the engines rapidly. Miller carburetors, Oilznm oils and Mansfield tires, all exclusive lines of the Salt. Lake Accessories company, are included in the next display. These products are famous in connection with the racing game. A. H. Berg, manager Nof the company, will 6how the visitor the Triple operation of the famous Miller carburetor and explain its records. Next the sub-booth of the Tom Bot- teril company is found, featuring a cream-colored Pieree-Arrow car of the latest design. The booth is artistically arranged and the beautiful model ia set off well. Accessories, lights, oils and other things interesting to the autoists are neatly arranged in the Salt Lake Hardware Hard-ware company's booth. Here is where the cigar lighters were given away to thousands of persons during the-"first i days of the show. (Julco oils, including the whole pop- ular Cnlco family, are displayed in the Culmer company booth. Grades of the different oils are explained bv the salesmen. The beautiful electric lighted light-ed setting in the rear of the booth attracts at-tracts much attention. Note books, court plaster and reading read-ing matter is given out in large quantities quanti-ties at the Ed D. Smith & Sons booth. Fire, theft and auto liability insurance is being explained. The only motorcycle shown is the feature at the Hopper display, A Har-ley-Davidson, with the side car attachment, at-tachment, and accessories for the motorcycle motor-cycle owner, are shown. Diamond tires of all sizes and treads can be found in the display of the Kai-bab Kai-bab company. Cylinders Rebored. Cylinders are rebored at all hours of the day in the Harry L. Braken company com-pany booth. A large machine which does the actual work draws many persons per-sons to the display. The famous Apperson roadplane, long, low and extremely racy looking, is shown at the Apperson Motor Car company's booth. A larger model is also included. The big Packard models are the attraction at-traction in the Utah Motor company booth. Then there ia a Packard finished fin-ished in a beautiful blue shade. Jeff cry Quad trucks, driving from all four wheels, and the models that the salesmen say can pull out of any kind of mud, are the chief drawing cards of the Tracy Motor company display. In the main booth of the Tom Bot-terill Bot-terill booth is featured a big, gray Hudson Super-Six, in addition to the Dodge and Pierce cars. That popular little Overland country club chummy, finished in battleship gray, with wire wheels and upholstered m dark green leather, is drawing attention at-tention in the Browning Auto & Supply company booth. Other Overland models are included in the big booth. |