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Show (Great Anto Show Opens On February 2 - - -1 The managing committee of the big automobile show scheduled for four days next week, beginning l?eb. 2, has been busy the past week making arrangements for the big event and everything will be in readiness at the opening in the Dee-Eccles building, on the evening of February 2. when Mayor A. R. Hcywood will open the show in a speech of congratulation and welcome. The Mayor will lend his best word, of encouragement to the undertaking under-taking and will urge the automobile dealers of the city to perpetuate the function, and make it the most interesting show event of the city, in the future. The address will be given in the larger room of the show building immediately after an automobile parade A band will head the parade. Detailed plans of the parade ha-ve not yet been figured out, but the directors of the organization state that perfect arrangements will be made before "Wednesday afternoon, the first day of the show. The dealers have a large number of machines in stock and it is expected expect-ed that most of them -will be in the parade. It is also anticipated that businessmen and others of the cty will join in the parade, the probability prob-ability being that more than a hundred autos will be scon. The show will occupy the entire ground floor of the Dee-Ecclcs building on Twenty-fourth street, between Hudson and Grant aveune, and there will be 40 machines on exhibition. The show space covers three large rooms, the west room of which will be used exclusively by the accessory dealers. The accessory men will also have the show window space in the display of the numerous independent parts of an automobile. Many unique and up-to-date devices will be shown and the auto fancier will be enabled to see about all that is the latest in auto accompaniments. The gasoline and oil man will have something to show the people who use machines, and explanations will be given by experts in each particular department. de-partment. An interesting feature will be the oppration of the entire mechanism of machines exposed to the view of the spectators. The inner parts of the machines will be run by means of electric motors. It may be expected that every kind of wheel, tire, gearing, machine bed, seats, upholstering, light and power apparatus known to the modern automobile au-tomobile will be shown exhibited. One of the dealers said the other day: "We 'expect everybody to have come from Missouri and we are going to be there to show them. The Ogden show will be among the best auto shows given in the state and there will be no disappointments." The commiuefe on decorations is busy devising plans and specifications and no pains will be spared in covering cov-ering the main business streets -with flags and bunting and other decora-tives decora-tives material. It is to be an automoj L.-le carnival and all business men are expected to become imbued with the gala day spirit and get busy in the preparation of window display schomes that -will be catchy to the autoist. The auto people are going to try hard to please the business men. The slogan is "All Get Together and Stick Together for a Good and Profitable Time." This will apply not onlv to the first day of the show, but to "the entire four days. There will be plenty doing to interest the crowd and, when it is all over, it will be recognized as an event of great magnitude and importance. There is no question but that next year will be a busy season in auto-mobiling auto-mobiling and every person able to support an auto tvM be anxious to get the best machine for the least money. There ai'e so many new devices that the average purchaser can know but little about them unless he has the opportunity of seeing and having them explained to him. To merely listen to a salesman as he tells of the many advantages of a machine, does not always fill the bill, as it Is necessary nec-essary to seo the machine exposed and its parts moving to form a correct cor-rect idea of effectiveness. All the kinds of machines known to the trade will be shown and fuh instructions given respecting their mechanism and big features. The man who does not avail himself of the opportunity op-portunity of seeing the machines will regret it when he gets ready to pur- Weather conditions now Indicate that the streets of the city will be In splendid shape for the parade Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon, and it is also like-lv like-lv that railroad blockades will be removed re-moved in time to run trains through from the northern section, which will enable business men from Logan and , other Cache valley, and southern Idaho Ida-ho towns to reach the city for the show. A largo delegation is promised from Logan. Special rates are being offered on all railroads. |
