Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1911 — LAFAYETTE TO GIVE AUTO SHOW [ARTICLE]

LAFAYETTE TO GIVE AUTO SHOW

Planning a Big Exhibition to be Held Early In April TO FEATURE HILL CLIMBING On a Course Three-Quarters of a Mile Long—Will Have Big Parade Numerous. Racing Cars Entered. Will Have Motor Cycle Event.

Lafayette is to have its first automobile show on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 6, 7 and 8, at the Pavilion of the Lafayette Sales company on the Main street levee. Lafayette has fourteen individual agencies devoted exclusively to the sale of automobiles, these agencies landling twenty-five different makes of gasoline propelled cars, and the management of the show anticipates a display of seventyfive machines. Nowhere between Chicago and Indianapolis could such a variety of automobiles be placed on exhibition. The cars wll vary in horse-power from 16 to 70, and in price, style and equipment to satisfy anyone’s requirements. Prospective purchasers interested in automobiles will get the benefit of seeing all the makes of cars together where they can make comparisons. The building, which! is ideally located for such an exhibit, is to be decorated very extensively, by an Indianapolis decorating firm, music will be furnished by a Purdue military band. A special feature of the show will be a hill climbing contest in West Lafayette on Friday, April 7, starting at 12:3( p. m. There will be five events for automobiles classed according to piston displacement, and one event for motor cycles. The free , for all event, for a $50.00 silver cup, is attracting a large number of high powered cars

from other cities. Entries have been received from several cars in Indianapolis and Chicago. Bob Kramer of Attica has entered his 90 H. P. six cylinder roadster that has been winning the hill climbs in Indiana for the past course for the hill climb is about three-quarters of a mile in length and has several sharp turns which will not only test the horsepower of the engines, but the skill Of the driver as well. Another feature of the show which will prove very popular will be a parade of automobiles, in which the residents of Lafayette and Tippecanoe county will participate. —Adv.