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THE OUTDOOR AUTOMOBILE SHOW. 



TH E^ autonidljile shows lU'xt winter, wc uiiderstaiul. 

 are to be held some weeks earlier th;in usual. 

 The reasons for this change of program have not 

 interested lis ])articiilarly, because the automobile 

 show, for all practical purposes, soon will be a thing 

 of the past. Who would go now to see a bicycle 

 show? ^^'ho would tlock to an exhibition of watches, 

 or sewing machines, or the working of the electric 

 telegra])h? 



N\'e do not iin])ly that the ]5<Ji)ular interest in auto- 

 nobiles is subsiding or that the limit of novelty in 

 •heir production has been reached. But there is to be 

 leen daily on the streets f)f Xew York — and, in pro- 

 ■jortion to their size, in other cities — sucli an auto- 

 mobile show as was ne\er witnessed in any of the 

 great halls rigged up for exhiliition purposes, for a 

 week or two, in anj- city. One who can stand on the 

 •treets and witness the constant procession of motor 

 ■ars of all sorts without being convinced that the new 

 style of transportation is thoroughly practical — and 

 unapproached bv any other — could not be further 

 convinced by walking past interminable rows of in- 

 active automobiles crowded into the conventional 

 show halls, however brilliantly lighted with electricity 

 or decorated with flags and banners. One who walks 

 through the streets can see within an hour more styles 

 of motor vehicles than were ever brought together in 



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an exhibition hall. .\nd what is more, one need not 

 wait to be assured by an exhibitor as to what a car 

 can do ; on the street it is active. Outdoors is a con- 

 linuous demonstratinn grmmil. In the exhibition hall 

 I he visitor must depend upon his imagination to tell 

 him the possibilities of an automobile in acton; on 

 the streets every beholder is confronted with practical 

 examples of motor car capacity lieyond the limits of 

 ordinary imaginative powers. 



A recent iuiropean visitor to the offices of our **<>Tanic. 

 Journal incidentally spoke of the ordinary exhibition OAKOE^ 

 of automobiles upon the streets of the cities as having 

 impressed him more than anything else he had seen in 

 America. The same thing has imjjressed us. And 

 we feel that any one who will s|)end half an hour in 

 watching the thousands of patrons of the turf in auto- 

 mobiles returning from the suburban race courses of 

 Xew York cjii a summer afternoon — not to speak of 

 other occasions — need not go to a "show" inside an 

 exhibition building to look for variety in automobile 

 construction or to see what the self projjelled vehicles 

 are capable of in crowded thoroughfares. 



The automobile, of course, has been made possible 

 only through the develojjment of the pneumatic tire. 

 For that the rubber trade is entitled to credit, and 

 hence our interest in automobiles. The demonstration 

 of the pneumatic tire in action on the street any day 

 is wiirth mure than the exhibition of tires on motion- 

 less motor cars in an exhibition hall for a whole win- 

 ter. What does the assertion of an exhibitor as to 

 what a rubber tire will stand amount to as compared 

 with the constant exhibition of actual tire achieve- 

 ment on the streets? 



W'hat wi- ha\e written in regard to street demon- 

 strations as compared to conventional automobile 

 shows is meant to apply to all the great capitals alike. 

 But as for the prevalence of the new vehicles in 

 American cities, it is so far beyond comparison with 

 anything to he seen elsewhere that it is only natural 

 that the leading tire manufacturers abroad should be 

 seeking a footing in the American market. And when 

 New York as a great city — and when the highways in 

 the couutiT at large — ceases to be new in the minds 

 of middle aged men, we predict that the paradise of 

 rubber tire makers will be found between the Atlantic 

 and the Pacific oceans. We are bound to see motor 

 car touring 3000 miles across the continent with the 

 best roads men are capable of building and then will 

 be found here the ideal field for automobiles and the 

 greatest of all markets for tires. 



THE INVENTOR IN BUSINESS. 



IT might seem natural that the inventor of an impor- 

 tant article or process should be chosen as the 

 head of a company formed for its exploitation. There 

 are not wanting instances of large and successful 



