THE AUTOMOBILE EXHIBIT AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



LOUIS WAINWRIGHT. 



The automobile exhibit at the World's 

 Fair is one of the most popular features 

 in the immense transportation building. 

 At the Chicago exposition u years ago 

 there was no such department as the horse- 

 less carriage section, yet here are over 75,- 

 000 square feet of floor space devoted to 

 American and foreign motor cars of every 

 size and price, from heavy auto trucks to 

 the lightest of runabouts. In some booths, 

 early inventions stand beside the newest 

 models. 



The luxurious railway passenger coaches 



building is divided into 2 parts, the Ameri- 

 can and the foreign. The former has a 

 distinctively American decorative scheme 

 which thousands of visitors admire. The 

 walls of this part of the building are cov- 

 ered with red and green burlap to the 

 height of 12 feet, and above that white and 

 yellow bunting hangs on the walls and is 

 draped gracefully from the ceiling. Thus 

 the unsightly rafters and framework are 

 hid by a jaunty covering, and gilt panels 

 on the green and red burlap produce a dig- 

 nified setting for the handsome aiftomo- 



RAMBLERS AT THE ST. LOUIS 



in a neighboring section do not show more 

 radical changes from the lumbering stage 

 coaches of 1831, clumsily put on rails and 

 propelled by a locomotive, than do the 

 superb tonneaus exhibited with the auto- 

 mobiles of early design. The automobile 

 of a few years ago was a horseless car- 

 riage and nothing more ; what it has been 

 evolved into is seen in the Louisiana Pur- 

 chase Exposition's display. The motor car 

 of to-day is a miniature palace car where 

 occupants ride as princes. In one foreign 

 touring machine, among a score of new 

 accessories is a writing table which may be 

 unfolded and the tourist may write while 

 he scorches ! 



In all there are 39 booths and over 200 

 automobiles exhibited at the Fair. The 

 automobile section in the transportation 



biles. Down the 2 main aisles, 20 feet 

 broad and 650 feet long, are white and 

 gold standards which carry brass signs 

 done in fretwork, giving the names and 

 makes of motor cars. 



The exhibit of automobiles which is made 

 by the National Association of Automobile 

 Manufacturers is arranged differently from 

 former shows. Heretofore each maker pre- 

 pared his individual exhibit, and the result 

 was a conglomeration of decoration ; the 

 space allotted was not equal, nor the loca- 

 tions alike to all makers. A number of 

 manufacturers in former exhibits had to 

 take spaces comparatively small and in poor 

 locations, in which case the showing was not 

 satisfactory to the maker or typical of the 

 magnitude of his business. 



At the World's Fair a new plan is in 



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