New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-06

was needed in the first show Of this sort In this
city. Victorias, runabouts. Surveys buses, drags.
golf trlcycles. motor cycles and vehicles OF
every description whirled around the track yes
terday afternoon In the evening. when the at
tendance at highwater mark several speed
contests took place the track. The interest in
the horseless vehicles among the women visitors
is pronounced
The manufacturers and the owners OF automo-
biles have known for a long time that the ferry
companies determined to enforce the ordinance
against the carrying Of gasoene on the boats The
members of the Automobile Club have taken the
subject in hand. and committee has been ap-
pointed to devise some means by which the law can
modified A bill will be prepared and presented
Congress at its next session. One of the officers
of the Automobile Club, when at the Garden
last night, said:
All this talk about dumping gasoene into the
boats by hand power is rot but We have simply got
much more dangerous to the general community to
is TO have II confined in the automobile proper,
In the street lighted match might consid
automobiIe there is ABSOLUTELY no danger at all We
will win all right in the end.
One little automobile at the show has attracted
considerable attention. All of the mechanism Is
confined in a rather small space directly under
the body of the runabout This leaves the usual
space vacant in the rear of the machine for the
carrying of packages. The machine weighs go
pounds and carries electric cells which weigh
160 pounds making the total weight of the machine
about 720 pounds. The vehicle is capable Of making
from twenty thirty miles hour over ordinary
city and country roads. The attachment might be
made to any vehicle.
The Winton machine. which is said TO have made
the trip from Cleveland to this city. $50 miles IN
less than thirty hours was PLACED on exhibit
the only real damage from the trip was 10 the rims
A man from the West showed for the first time
in this his idea of what the tricycle. bicycle
and automobile tire should be; He seems sure that
the days of the pneumatic tire have passed; de
CONTENDS for his tire that there is no vibration;
lack Of resiliency' 1t is cushion TIRE and OF
inside the one to which the tire is attached. The
spokes go through the inner rim and attach to the
or middle rim Is fastened to the one which holds
automobile tire that he says will prevent tne tires
from sPP4g on wet ana ha when So
the tire is practically punSure proof hrc is st SIMPLY
with rivets. The heads of the rvets are inside
The demand for vehicle of greater mileage
has been met by one company With special de-
sign The vehicle carries sixty-four cells instead
is eghty-ive miles. The controller speeds ARE Are
an hour, BY operating foot press a fourth speed
234 miles hOur-may be obtained ,,,,
A dinner will be given to the exhibitors on friday
AMONG those presen, at the Garden last night i
John Jacob Aston, William Rockefeller E D. Nor
D2yd Vote w Hsh0p sS Sfn Sd p Van Rens
selaer. Count de Vilaine. of Paris; Morris Groves
4 {, Bostwck. Nathaniel Campbell Mr. and ss MTf
barclay and George F, Chapiberain ..,..,,a
The obstacle race last night furnished splendld
example of the wonderful possibilities Of the new
machine Barrels and fences were arranged al
were four entries and the prize went TO the driver
Of the machine making the trip In the quickest
time without disturbing the obstacles Tbs, The CON
won by Walter g faFs G IN da gnt T Was
structure and out again with lightning rapidity.