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Show POSTOFFICE IS TO HAVE AUTOS It is claimed for the Paris show, held last we,k at the Grand Palais, that it was the largest exhibition of motor vehicles ever assembled under un-der a single roof, the totui number of stands being 5Gj, compared with 353 at the London show, and the to tal area of floor space occupied by Uiese stands 2GO,000 square feet. ThiH constitutes a record in the history of motor shows all over the world. According lo a receni official report re-port the total number of cars registered reg-istered in Spain at the beginning off 1012 was 5,810. while in New York City there arc 65,000 motor chicles now In use. The automobile show circuit opens in Cleveland this jcar. The White company was the first to forward check for space and the amount of check being the largest ever piid for space In any automobile 3how held in Ohio. Auto concerns will benefit In another an-other direction than by the improvement improve-ment of the roads, through the parcels, par-cels, post bill. Postmaster General Hitchcock has set aside $S00,00Q of the parcels post appropriation lo be used for the rental of automobiles on account of the new system of mail delivery. The latest eidence of the steadily increasing dominance of tho automobile automo-bile is the purchase of six seven-passenger "Sixes" by W. A. Bre,wster of Midvalc, Montana, These cars are to be used (In place of the stage coach) in connection -with the Great Northern railway tourist service In th0 Glacier National park. Tho passenger service in which they will bo used is from Midvalo to St. Marie's Lake, a distance dis-tance of thirty-six miles, over sonic of the heaviest mountain, grades in Montana. The work of reconstructing the interior in-terior of Madison Square Garden for the thirteenth national automobile show Is now under way. More than 200 tons of metal and a million feet of lumber enter into the construction. construc-tion. Indiana automobile manufacturers are going in a body to the New York show, and have arranged for a special train over the Pennsylvania lines, which duplicates the equipment of the Pennsylvania Limited and other famous fa-mous trains. Nine steel cars will carry car-ry them from the Hoosier capital. Composite muffet car, two of the largest diners, five drawing room sleeping cars and one compartment observation car will form (he equipment. equip-ment. "It is my opinion,' says Mr Radford, Rad-ford, "that the auto shows are largely responsible for the great advance which the industry has made in the last few years. The shows have made it possible for the manufacturers to secure a much greater distribution and a much more valuable co-operation with their agents than would otherwise have been possible. An amusing incident in connection with an arrest for alleged "smoking" occurred In a Manhattan magistrate's court recently A policeman arrested a chaffeur charged with driving a car which emitted -volumes of smoke and he dramatically told of the offensive manner in which the car had iolat-cd iolat-cd the law. The chauffeur "protested, "protest-ed, and explained that he was driving an electric vehicle, which could not smoke, but the only satisfaction he got from the magistrate was "three dollars fine" The motorist failed to see the humor of the court's decision. |