New-York tribune., 1901-11-05
QUARREL OVER RECORDS.
FOURNIER AND A. C. BOSTWICK WRAN-
GrEAT THE AUTOMOBILE SHOW.

Thar. yas the usuaI tbrong at Madison Square
Garden last night in attendance at the hutoiiohie
show while the aisles were well peopied Win @ sts
itors in the afternoon. The manufacturers III niiS
new industry are more than satisfied with the pun
lie interest aroused in the exhibit, ana Say tih' .
business done at the show so far mas oeeii siea'
than the most enthusiastic had anticipated. oiie
booth owner who has prominent posltioii I'll o.t -,
floor threw I'D his hands last night and said nat
alI!' He had just succeeded in selling the last VI
his exhibits, a gasoene machine Among 'iie pun
chasers during the day were w. L. o'o''
Waterbury, Conn. who bought four cyiinoei sa9
olene machine for 5000 Mayor Fleischmann Oh
Cincinnati purchased gasolene carnage ioi S-''-
There has been considerably more feehhs over
the recent record trials track and road thaii mas
apneared on the surface far. The recent mile Ii
.os 2-5 made in Detroit was the indirect cause Oh
son,e unpleas santness in front of one OF the "aln
booths in the garden yesterday afternoon a. =.
Bostwick, who owns a stable OF automooIleS, me-
Henri Fournier in the booth. Mr.. bost"lch
charged Mr. Fournier in no sentie iaiiiiei WV" ~
ports which were untrue .
I'VE don't exchange cards in this country saio
Mr. Bostwick, warmly. but when men talk as you
are reported to have talkel we biff them
Mr. Fournier replied that the alleged interview. IN
which he was rerorted to have thrown Suspicion
upon the record made in the West and upon 'he
mower of the machine to make any such a recotu'
was exaggerated. Both men were husheo "n'
Mr. Bostwick is small in stature. MI fourhiei IL
very large Fournier still limping from 'ne
received A@'''o
last week Fournier is the Frenchmah WIN VI
the Paris-Berlin race and has made severa recorus
at the Empire City track. He was the oriNei VI
the machine which run down ny iocohio'i'o
at Westbury, Long Island, in which three u III,
passengers in the automobile were so severely IN
iured they still IN the Nassau ffospi'ai' "
Mineola
Among the visitors at the exhibit yesterday ".io
Senator Depew, w. K. Vanderbilt, Jr' AieAahueI
Winton r. Lindsay Coleman, president OIL 'ne
T1Y
Connecticut and Charles E Duryea. winner Oh the
automobile race in the snow In Chicago IN 1880 anu
who later the race In England from ,1onuo,s
to Brighton. Miss Barnes and MISS 'ha"o'' "
Bristol Conn., arrived at the show In the tt
Than h,ad come ali the way in automobile. lt
said that they contemplated liah4'ie
Wost Of the prominent manufacturers who are In
terested in the industry In tni Tention of the AS
socaton OF Automobile Manufacturers VII oe er net ~
at @ tae esocniion win be held at the Hoffman House
on Thursday evening
A POWERFUL MOTOR BiC1NLh
One new feature added to the exhibit YESTERDAY
l. a motor bicycle said to be the most powerful
a.t.. -, tho sort ever seen either side or
the Atlantic. The bicycle carries six horsepo"e
motor weighs 175 pounds and VIII cqst & me me Po1 a
chaser $40 The na maktr ieTe bit Of
road the rate Of mile h Ihinu1e yesterday which
we're not ready critical inspection on IN i
night There now 10 iWlsheu d q IN the loan
exhibit conducted by the Automobile Gun rSar St
ica Ir the restaurant of the Garden lheFe a. .
Two machines. with chainess beveI gears III - cILo
exhibit The experts have also found OUT & .Ia ,hnT
Of the American manufacturers are nahlhs IT, ~.
own ,'' motors than was the case year ago "nen e
~ "n,oritv Of The motors to be found on the
American machines --ere OF foreign make -,
+rba finish of the machines shows decldeu I'M
movement over those exhibited last Eear 1le car
riage makers have evidently been called 10 tns as
sistance of the automobile manulactuFets h, h , re
finish Of most Of the machines SHOWS the oes' IL
suit OF the carriage makers art - ,o,,
co,ne cf the machines exhibited last year looked
not unlike soap boxes covered with paint ana WIN
a motor attached. II they would nave survived a
rainstorn their looks beed II. The present Inoqeis
with their handsome furnishings iooh as II theS
had been made TO stand all sorts of weather Tor an
indefinite period. x..a +h
Practically all OF the makers have abandoned tne
sr,sii nDefratIc tires so generally shown on the
models n wear ago Then the average tire was TWO
and one half inches diameter. Now machines OF
the same weight and horsepower are ntted "lth
four-inch tires The experts seem 10 believe in the
rS,i,IrJe cylinder idea but say that the improve
rnent in the motors has not been so conspicuous.