New-York tribune., 1902-05-25
THE AUTOMOBILE.
SPEED TRIALS NEXT SATURDAY,
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Automobile Club OF America has completed
all of the arrangements for the speed trials which
will be held on Staten Island next Saturday morn
ing The contestants will be started at IL a.
The methods Of reaching the course are as follows
Cross the ferry at the Battery to ST. George
thence via New-York-ave. to Vanderbt-ave. and
the Richmond Road 10 Berger-ave. Where Berger
turns to the left from the Richmond Road
one will sign which reads, Contestants turn
here" Turn sharp TO the left down Berger-ave.
and II will bring the starting point Boats
leave Whitehal-st for st. George at $50, $50 and
10 A. m.
Cross Forty-second-st. Ferry to Weehawken, and
thence by Hudson County Boulevard Bergen
Point: ferry to Port ilchmond and thence by
C9He a9ad into & Richmond Road TO Bergerayfe
Sdrp SSsthporss sn Ferry 70 Staten @ Island following The
Cove and d0f cb@ond Poads Ef to 'ees
Class will be for motor bicycles, and those A.!
entries have been received to date in the tricycle.
class; Among those who have entered machines IN
are L. s.: Thompson, Il. Ward Leonard and Lewis
chimes weighing from 100 to 1908 pounds are Ernest
Tuenod tosi JenersGn p S4egna9 Albert e RostTtck
La Roche and a. L, Riker. Among the entries re-
1000 pounds are Fl H. Rogers. jr. wi!llam CGsgen
heim w P Norton, Z; ( Brttonn, } E Ewing, Z.
2,. E Britton @ and 4 J. Levy and Ernest cuenod En-
machines and for the free-for-all.
Among some Of the additional entries received
for the loo-me endurance contest Of the Auto
mobile Club ~ America on next Friday. are the
following: Ernest Cuenod, I. W. England Z \
Riotti, William Morgan. 6 Jason Waters. George
Arents. tri David S. Brown j.. J. Henry YocSel,
Henry 9 cryder' Arthur p Smith A l. RiEer.
A. II; Tatum, Paul II. Deming. Windsor T. White
F. \. La Roche has received his new sixteen
horsepower French touring car. Yellow Dragon.
and has entered it in the oo-mile nonstop contest
of May 80. Mr.. La Roche predicts that his machine
will be heard from The American Darracq Auto
mobile Company. Of which he is general sales man.
ager, have doubled their importations in order TO
meet the demand for their French touring
They have just shipped handsome sixteen horse
power red tonneau 10 William Keyser, Jr, of Balti
manager s in the East looking after the interests
OF the company
A party Of automobile enthusiasts. which in
cludes Miss Eleanor y, Thomas and Mr. and Mrs
r Livingston Beeknan, making a 5OO-m mile
tour. The In which the tourists making
the trip is twelve horsepower gasoene machine
Of foreign ma make od The party X is espsed TO spend
get back to this city either tonight or early to-
morrow morning
The Automobile Club Of America does not intend
10 allow its members TO violate the speed ordi-
rances. AT meeting of the governors of the
club Friday three members who did not live
up to the rules IN the recent loo-mile endurance
test on Long Island were handled without gloves
DR.. j. Grant Lyman and Kenneth A. Skinner OF
Boston, were suspended for six months and f. b.
Gallagher, of PHILADELPHIA also a member of the
club. reprmanded.
The club run OF the Automobile Club OF America
yesterday TO Babylon weH attended. The
start was made from clubhouse in Fifty-eghth-
st. at 2 .. m. The enthusiasts visited the new
cubrooms IN the Garden City Hotel, where dinner
was served.
Fire Chief Croker has been enthusiastic auto
mobiIist for some time. He has received new
machine, which he in going 10 dres.