Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-18
NILE A Minute AUTO
Remarkable Time Made at a
Test on Coney Island
Boulevard.
Bicycle Record OF Charley MUIR
ply. the Famous Rider. is
Broken.
A Mile Made in 81 As by Fast.
est Machine -.- Is Nearly
Equalled by Others.

New York, Nov. 1S-A mile a minut
mera, an attainment simply hoped for
| Much better has been done and done b,
more than one. Several drivers of au
4 tos scudded over the Coney Island bou
levard in the race of the Long Islant
Auto Club faster than any person eve
before has travelled over land on an opel
| road, or q track, or, in fact IN any wa.
| except on steel rails.
| The special locomotive on steel rail-
| is the only thing that ever went faster
| ana even its record was endangered b.
| the times made Saturday by Foxhal
| keene, Albert c. Bostwick and Henri
| Fournier. Each OF these three chauf
| feurs went mile in less than minute
and each went under all existing record!
| for track or road for any sort of We
/ hicle.
Even the record of Charley Murphy
who OIL June 80, 1898, rode a bicycle on ;
| board floor between the tracks behind {
| locomotive in :57 AS, was smashed, ant
| Murphy, now a policeman, was on tn.
spot to see his record which until Sat
| urday was the greatest in the world
broken.
The best time made was that of Herr
Fourier the French professional
chauffeur, who Won the Paris Berlin
race He rode the mile in :51 As. Fox
hall Keene did next best by making the
distance in :54 4-5. Albert c. Bostwick
was third, and his time was so rs
After these three in order of fast time
were A. l.. Riker. in 1903. and L. Charles
driving Henry Payne Whitney's car, in
los.
Fournier and Keene both had French
gasoline machines. They were of the
same make and exactly the same horse
power. Bostwick had an American gas
oline machine of the same horsepower
as those of Keene and Fournier. Riker
had an American-made electric racing
frame of special construction. Whitney
carriage has Germon motor.
All the worlds records for all kinds of
machines were made under sensational
and picturesque circumstances. A crowd
of from 10000 to $4,000 persons as
sembled along the two and q half mile
stretch of road over which the races
a mile allowed to the cheuffeurs to gath
err Roadway and nearly quarter of
mile allowed for slowing and stopping.
Between two dense files OF eager ex-
cited and struggling humanity that the
$50 policemen could not entirely control
the speeding self-driven vehicles came
whirling along in cloud of dust. With
O. sputter that sounded more Hike the
crash of single explosion than the sue
cessive motion of an engine.
Each machine started and finished
separately from the others. and each
carried only the operator. There was
shout from the crowd to announce each
coming vehicle a craning OF necks 70
see the black speck in the heart of the
dust cloud approaching. and within a
few seconds the dust filled the eyes OF
the spectators and the thing In the heart
of the dust cloud had gone past like
some huge proiectile.
Considering the crowds and the speed
Of the vehicles the absence of serie'ls
accidents was one OF the notable 1ea-
lures of the afternoon.
About noon two automobiles crashed
into each other in front of Bishops Ho-
tel Two men were in one of the ma
chimes. which was being steered on TO
the parkway. and neither was injured.
The driver Of the machine which was
being speeded was alone in his vehicle
and was thrown fully fifty feet thru the
air. He was not injured either, but both
autos were banged up so badly that
they were of no further use during the
day