Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 38 | Seven Firms Acquire Auto Show Space

SEVEN FIRMS ACQUIRE AUTO SHOW SPACE Decorators Are Busy With Preliminary Work and Big Pavilion Will Soon Be Keady. Seven more firms have selected their space for the Auto show which will be held at Bonneville pavilion during the week of February 25 to March 2. The firms who signed contracts during the week just past are Lon Claflin More Electric company. International Harvester Har-vester company, II. O. Shepard, Harry R. Collins company, United Motor company com-pany and E. D. Smith & Co. All will have exhibits in the show. With the big show three weelt away, Manager Eishel is busy with tire decorators. deco-rators. He said yesterday: "Practically all the preliminary-work preliminary-work toward the show has been done and- from now on we will be busy putting put-ting the big exhibition together. Salt Lake has always maintained the reputation repu-tation of opening tho snow on the clot, w'Hh every exhibition in place. This reputation will be maintained again this year, and when tho lights are turned on Monday evening for the opening the crowd will see a modern automobile show in full working order." or-der." Everything this year points to a big success for the snow. The one big drawback to ' tho exhibition last season was the mud on Ninth South. Although every effort was made to overcome this trouble at the time, it was practically impossible to do so. Ninth South has been paved the past summer, and now one can drive from any section of the business section of the city to Bonneville park on pavement. pave-ment. No matter what the weather conditions, there will be no mud. Mauy people have asked how- it will be possible to hold tho anto show with the bicycle track in the pavilion. This is easy. The bicycle track has been removed and the entire building will be used for the show. The bicvcle track was merely a temporary affair, used foe a month and then torn down.