Automobile Trade Association and the New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club, and is held in the armory of the First Troop-better known as Essex Troop-of the State National Guard, on Roseville avenue.

Profiting by experience, the management left no stone unturned in its effort to make this year's show successful from every standpoint. They were rewarded with unusual interest on the part of the prospective exhibitors and the spaces were soon leased. Later, indeed, it was found necessary to utilize corners, which in the original plan were to have been left open.

Twenty-two of the exhibits are of automobiles exclusively; 23 are devoted to accessories and there is a motorcycle adjunct to the main exhibition. There is a separate section for commercial vehicles and also an aviation department. Fifteen types of cars are shown for the first time in Newark. Additions to the show are expected to-day and tomorrow, so that the total before the coming Saturday, the last day of the show, will reach considerably above 100.

Clothed in orange and blue hunting with palms and other potted plants banked here and there in cases of green, the erstwhile barn-like armory presents a brilliant spectacle. Between each festoon of bunting that covers the girders and brace rods of the structure, is a string of incandescent lights, and shields, painted wheels and groupings of flags. lend added attractiveness to the decorative scheme. The tan bark of the floor has, of course, been covered with planking and over all is green carpet. On the opening night the show was crowded.

Finding the demand from auto exhibitors too large to admit of quartering them all on the main floor, the management devoted one side of the gallery to the overflow. Opposite, across the building, is stationed the band, which gives concerts daily, assisted by vocalists. The balance of the gallery is occupied by the accessory exhibits.

In the number of cars displayed, the Maxwell, Pierce-Arrow, Peerless, Locomobile, Buick, Rambler and Packard lead. The majority shown throughout the entire exhibition are stock cars, but there are, of course, exceptions. Only one foreign make is included in the list -the Isotta.

Upon H. A. Bonnell, general manager of the show, and G. H. Raddin, his assistant, fell the chief burden of working out the plans, with the advice of George Paddock, president of the Exhibition Company, and Dr. James R English, its vice-president. Mr. Bonnell is also secretary-treasurer of the company. In their work the officers were aided by the following committees: Space, Mr. Paddock, J. W. Mason, W. H. Ellis, F. L. C. Martin and G. H.

Smith; finance, R. A. Greene, I. M.
Uppercu and Mr. Ellis; press, pro-
gram and advertising, Mr. Bonnell, Mr.
Mason, L. B. Zusi and Norris W.
Brown; decorations, Messrs. Greene.
Zusi and Uppercu; entertainment, J. H.
Wood, F. A. Croselmire, D. C. Reynolds
and Dr. English; aviation, C. E. Fisher.
A. B. Le Massena, F. E. Boland and
J. F. Lanier.

Not all of the exhibitors are Newarkers. There is a smattering from New York, Jersey City and towns in this section of the State.

Of the manufacturers whose cars are exhibited for the first time in Newark not all are represented locally. Those of the exhibitors who are not Newarkers, however, came from near-by towns. The list of them follows:

Alexander Bruner, Newark, model 4-24 Kline Kar; the Gray Motor Car Company, Summit, N. J., Schacht delivery wagon and runabout; R. D. Norton, Hightstown, N. J., De Tamble runabout and Pickard touring car; Crescent Automobile Company, Newark, Mack (Manhattan) five-ton truck; Terry Automobile Company, Newark, PalmerSinger 6-60, with gunboat body; H. J. Koehler & Company, Newark, Koehler 40, with torpedo body, and Rider-Lewis type X tonneauette; Woolston Company Newark, Oakland. in three models; Union Motor Car Company, East Orange, Krit runabout; A. Elliott Ranney Company, Newark, Hudson roadster and touring car, and roadster chassis; Green Motor Car Company, Newark, Mercer touring car and baby tonneau; O'Neill Motor Car Company, Newark Paterson touring car and tourabout; J. J. Meyer, Orange, N. J., Auburn model X touring car, and G. F. Little, West Hoboken, N. J., G. J. G. touring car with gunboat body.

Other exhibitors, more familiar to the Newark show-goers, together with their lines, are as follows: Essex Automobile Company, Newark, Ford model T touring car and roadster, Jackson 40 and 50, and Brush Runabout; Detroit-Cadillac Motor Company, Newark, Cadillac demi-tonneau, limousine and touring car; Essex County Overland Company, Overland models 38, 40 and 41, and Marion touring car, roadster and chassis: F. L. C. Martin, Newark and Plainfeld, Mitchell models R, S and T, and Hupmobile; Autocar Company, Ardmore, Pa., Autocar touring car; Newark Auto & Engineering Company, Newark, Rambler models 53 and 55, and 55 chassis; Rickey Machine Company, East Orange, Pullman and Marmon; A. G. Spalding & Brothers, Newark, StevensDuryea and E-M-F 30; Union Motor Car Company, East Orange, Reo models R and S, touring car and roadster. and Premier, models "Four-Forty" and "Six-Sixty"; Peerless Motor Car Com

Top-Oakland's Premier Newark Appearance, Staged by Woolston Middle-More Comprehensive View of the Hall; Cadillac, in Several Models, Occupies

the Foreground

Bottom-Buick Had a Good Exhibit of Medium-Priced Cars

pany, of New York, Peerless limousine model 27, landaulette 27, toy tonneau 27, touring car 28 and chassis of 27; Greene Motor Car Company, Newark, Locomobile, type "L" touring car, baby tonneau, limousine, landaulette, type "I" touring car, baby tonneau and roadster, and type L chassis; J. W. Mason, Newark, Columbia roadster and Maxwell models E, G, Q, Q1, Q2, Q3 and A, with limousine body after design by Mr. Mason; Paddock-Zusi Motor Car Company, Newark, Chalmers models Forty-J touring car, Forty-J pony tonneau, Thirty-K touring car, Thirty limousine and Thirty chassis; Ellis Motor Car Company, Newark, PierceArrow models "48" suburban limousine, "big-six" touring car, "36" landau, "36" miniature tonneau and "48" stock chassis; J. M. Quimby & Company, Isotta voiturette and Isotta 30 chassis and Pennsylvania model B; Packard Motor Car Company, New York, Packard "Thirty" limousine and "Thirty" touring car and "Eighteen" touring car and chassis; Welden & Bauer, Newark, National touring car, limousine and "Speedway"; Sultan Motor Company, New York, limousine model; New Jersey Automobile Company, Newark, Moline touring car and model M; Buick Motor Car Company, Newark, Buick models 17 and 19 touring car, model 10 toy tonneau and model 10 runabout; Linkroum Automobile Company, Newark, Lozier model H (Briarcliff) and model H limousine and Oldsmobile close-coupled "Forty" and "Limited" touring car; Midland New York Company, models L toy tonneau and roadster.

Eleven types, including two chassis, representing six manufacturers, are shown in the commercial vehicle division of the show, which has a separate part of the building. Of these four and one chassis are the products of the Rapid Motor Vehicle

Company, of which F. L. C. Martin is the local and Plainfield agent. Newark is primarily an industrial community and the exhibit of these vehicles attracted a large share of attention Saturday. The commercial list follows:

Detroit-Cadillac Motor Company, Cadillac chassis with commercial body by Schildwachter, of New York, after design of C. E. Fisher, manager of the Newark branch; F. L. C. Martin, Rapid 5-7 ton truck; 3-ton chassis, I 1-2 ton express, 12-passenger sightseeing and ambulance models; Gray Motor Car Company, model D Schacht delivery wagon: Autocar Company, type 21 truck and stock chassis of same; Crescent Automobile Company, Mack Brothers Motor Car Company 5-ton truck; Buick Motor Car Company, one-ton truck.

The accessory exhibits which occupy the entire gallery save for the space reserved for the band at the far end of the armory and that over the main entrance, where the automobile overflow and three motorcycle spaces are quartered, is complete in almost every essential. One can purchase anything from a gilt hood ornament to a fur coat, from a swinging flower vase for a limousine to an inordinately luxurious pair of goggles. Practically all of the exhibitors are Newarkers, many of them manufacturers of the goods they display.

Three makes of motorcycles are exhibited at the show. They are the Yale machine, shown by Frank C. Cornish, of Newark;

Excelsior, exhibited by Carl Bush, of Newark, and the Indian models, of which the H. J. Koehler Company is the local agent. The aviation section of the show, which opens to-night, will be in the guard room of the armory. Among the exhibits is a monoplane model designed and constructed by Arthur Holland, an East Orange youth. It is II x 6 feet in dimensions and its distinguishing feature is a 6-foot spiral spring, with a center shaft of about 5 to 1 gear, which supplies the motive power.

A Witteman glider will also be shown, together with an 8-cylinder monoplane from F. E. Boland, of Rahway, N. J. The former is 20 x 4 1-2 feet. A 44-foot Wright type will also be included in the exhibit, with more than a dozen models furnished by the West Side Y. M. C. A., of New York. Accessory exhibits will include a display by the Hartford Rubber Company and a propeller by the Requa-Gibson Company, of New York.

The section will be officially opened by Wilbur R. Kimball, secretary of the Aeronautic Society, of New York, who will give an illustrated lecture. C. E. Fisher planned and has charge of the exhibit.

Members of the New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club have appointed a committee to organize an aviation section to be known as the Aeronautic Society of New Jersey. It is proposed that the affiliated organization shall be a regularly incorporated body, with complete management of its own affairs, funds and property and elect its own officers and directors from its membership. The objects of the proposed society are the promotion of aviation in general and the fostering of aeronautic meets and other matters connected with the sport.

Membership will not be limited to persons belonging to the Motor Club, but the dues will be larger. The committee consists of W. Clive Crosby, president of the automobile club, chairman; C. E. Fisher, F. E. Boland, W. R. Kimball, A. B. LeMassena and J. F. Lanier.

To be specific there are nearly sixty completed cars shown on the floor, 59 exactly, with about eight or ten demonstrators in attendance at the front door. Then there are seven ancient monarchs illustrative of the progress of the industry since 1899, and an aeroplane in the riding hall of the basement.

The first surprise is occasioned by the electric sign stretched across the street in front of the armory. This is a gorgeous changeable electric device that puts to shame many of the famed Broadway signs. Inside the decorations are military in design in keeping with the surroundings. The profusion of bunting and flags is well arranged without being overdone and the lighting is great. On the main drill floor, nothing but completed cars are to be found, except that the official headquarters of the club are located right at the entrance. There are 32 makes of cars, one of the newcomers of which is the Imperial, made in Jackson, Mich. This is shown by F. E. Spawn Co. for the first time at any of the local New York shows. The Binghamton Cadillac Co., unable to get a stripped sectional chassis from Detroit cut away one of their own stock cars and mounted it.

A. E. Wheeler, Syracuse district manager of the Franklin Co., has sprung the real novelty of the show in the demonstra

National Fours Were Featured by Weldon & Bauer Company

tion line. He is driving about the streets, the glass hood electric-lighted Franklin six the same as furnished to each district manager, but in addition to that phase evolved about the cleverest scheme to show the air circulation that could well be imagined. Standing at the front end of the hood is a boy with a bee snudge bellows in which is burning punk, such as is used in handling honey bees. The boy works this smudge so that it flows constantly into the hood of the car, where its movement can be easily traced as the suction fan in the rear of the cooling case draws the air currents by the cylinders and expels them underneath the car. All during the show this car stands directly in front of the armory. The basement houses a varied and interesting line of accessories, motorcycles and bicycles. Here, indeed, is a novelty. Frank T. Abbott and the Waldron Drug Co. have large exhibits composed entirely of bicycles and they attracted lots of attention by their sheer novelty.

The Riding Academy, just to one side of the basement proper, proved a live magnet with its most interesting exhibits. First is shown a string of old cars starting with the motor from the first car ever seen in Binghamton. This was an old two-cylinder, two and a half horsepower car with gears directly attached to the connecting rods, which were concentrically attached to a shaft that held a big solid iron wheel upon which ran a rope belt. The affair without a name was owned by Joseph P. Noyes in 1898. Then, in succession, indicative of the years in which they were seen, are a steam locomobile roadster, Oldsmobile runabouts, three-wheel Knox, Pierce runabout, chain-driven Searchmont, Jones, Corbin, Packard, and a later Pierce. In the center of the Academy is the first aeroplane ever seen in Binghamton. It is a Curtiss, with an American-British four-cylinder engine.