New-York tribune., 1902-07-17
GOOD AUTOMOBILE TESTS
SLOW AND FAST TRIP THROUGH CITY
AND COUNTRY YESTERDAY
DoDGING TRUCKS AND TROLLEY CARS
BRAKE TEST AT MINEOLA-A WILD
RIDE THROUGH THE NIGHT.

BRAKE TEST AT MINEOLA-A WILD
RIDE THROUGH THE NIGHT.
One Of the most remarkable automobile tests yet
held in this country took place yesterday. Three
H1ach!Hes and party OF over score OF enthusl-
asts started from Thirty -eightA-st. and Seventh
ave. yesterday afternoon for a trip through the
city streets. 10 be followed by over the good
and bad roads Of Long Island, with bTaking tests
OUT al Mineoia. -Four of the party found it neces-
sary to return TO this borough quickly. and Of
The machines, in the hands expert driver,
MADE the trip from AGeeIa the ferry slip in
Long Island City, a distance of something over
twenty miles in exactly ffty-eght minutes. This
trip included four stops and d slowing down when
passing through the different Long Island
win clear road ahead which did happen
oi'en the automobile must have travelled at times
az Jhe rate OF over thirty miles hour
me start was made shortly after D. m. the
Hiach'nes oelng twelve horsepower bus, carrying
eleven passengers; H. +. Harris's eight horsepower
sasolene machine and L. A. Ripey's twelve horse
power machine, carrying five passengers. The
was made from the Hotel Navarro, and the route
was down Seventh-ave. TO Thirty-fourth-st. to
Fifth-ave. and through Twenty -third-st.. where
! the traffic is heavy that time of the day. The
Hlachlhes we're taken around trolley cars. trucks,
wagons and carriages and past pedestrians at a
Eood speed, yet nothing approaching collision
took place. The route extended down Fifth-ave.
Waverley Place to Broadway. TO Cham bers-st- to
Park Row. where the first stop was made in front
/ OF The Tribune Building. where a great throng
/ quickly gathered.
THROUGH THE MONEY MART.
The machines were then sent through Park Row
! 10 Broadway, and then down that crowded thor
oughfare to Wall-st. The main artery OF the money
mart had been flooded br the supposed street
sprtnklers vet the machines went over the slip
perry asphalt without a hitch. Several detours
were made through the adjoining streets including
Rroad-st.. just below Wall. where is about the
worst roadbed be found downtown. The holes
, re inc vet he
went through the gullies without halting
The party. wrich included Aldermen Joseph Oat-
man and Armitage Matthews. then went to Del
monico's in Beaver-st.. where light luncheon was
huTriedly ed. the enthusiasts were anxious
TO continue the experiment. The trip was con-
tinued back up Broadway through q maze Of
streetcars. trIcks. wagons and hurrying pedes
trians, the three machines keeping well together
all the way 20 the Thirty-fourth-st. ferry. The
speed all the way 10 Mireoa was moderate with
one exception. An automobile driven BY Miss
ENnor y. Thomas the same ferryboat with
the othe" automobiles After leaving the ferry
house there a little manHuvring for positions
by the drivers. with the result that the machines
started for I. Hoffman Boulevard in single line
After the nacadamized boulevard reached
Mss th9thss seit neT automobIis to the front and
Miss Thomas handled the automobile IKE an ex-
the imPTomptU brush rather handiiy.
BRAKE TEST AT MINEoLA
Arriving at Mineola, the enthusiasts were with
out the confines OF an Incorporated village and a
smooth but sandy piece OF road found in Willis
ave. running between Nnneola and Roslyn Sec
retary Butler. or the Automobile Club OF America,
, and Aldermen Matthews and Oatman acted as the
Judges in the brakng tests. which were unique IN
that the drivers were compelled TO bring the ma
chimes to a full stop without premonItion, where
they were to receive the signal stop. No similar
tests have ever before been made IN this country.
II n, X WinthroP M IN his hi'een horsepower ma ma
and managed to stop the automobile In hftyseven
miles an hour. Mr. winthrop however. applied the
A afth OF mile strstch was then measured on
and George J De Whiting went up the road and
surface al some speed When travelling at about
lin az e heS1ee5 an nonE opd ne IN PPea one s 9
-, i,c5, r. sii - - - .. -
the road BY one ol the score more oI people who
officials who dropped his hsndkerchle{ as the ma
chine passed him
III H Asmogr smith then ttsa and WIN the
! stopped the automobile ir nnstv-hve feet three
going al the rate OF forty niles an hour one Of The
aatomTo6iles. was stopped n los feet Later. when
the machines came 70 Z sul stop in exactly four
After light refreshments at Krerge's Hotel some
o. me epth1siasts en-, found thar they must hasten
were not in hurry. ano II VAS arranged that
| men who wished to return
! A WILD RIDE THROUGH THE NIGHT.
| George J. De Whiting had charge OF .he machine
and the start made from Miaeola at 45 p m.
! The sun had already disappeared and darkness
! away The run TO Floral Park was
made in less than ten minutes. many carriages.
bicycles and farmers wagons being passed as If
they were standing still. The ride was continued
| through Queens. Hollis 10 Jamaica, where the
machine was slowed down on account Of the traf-
| fc. The run from Jamaica Long Island City
the enthusiasts VIII remember for many a
| day. and MAS oEe OF the fastest probably
made under similar circumstances
The driver was an expert and the way he lodged
around trolley and the big covered farmers
ma . leaS r-=rs
the machine stand or end. Vicious ours rushed
and barked at the hying machine. but the end
the canine notes OF disapproval lost TO the
enthusiasts, who had dsa ppeared IN a cloud of
dust in the distance. The dogs would have had as
much satisfaction ont OF barking at the moon. At
several points In Hoffman Boulevard repairs are
being made. Besides there two railroad cross
ings which drivers of automobiles approach tim
dlv In spite of these draw backs the trip from
Mineola and the ferryboat Long Island
CITY was made in less than hour.
] The motor bus which made the trip so success
fully weighed about SIX thousand pounds II was
! driven by Leon Leurer.