New-York tribune., 1902-04-27
AUTO ENDURANCE TEST.
HUNDRED NILE RUN ON LONG
ISLAND ROADS.
MACHINE COVERS COURSE IN EXACT
TIME ALLOWANCE, SIN HOURS
FORTY MINUTES.


wagon. were represented and met on even
terms, for endurance and not speed the
prime requisite IN the hundred miles run over
the Long Island Automobile Club course. FIJI
teen miles hour. the legal rate of speed. was
all that was allowed the rebeious chauffeur,
and the "a horsepower racing wagon and ths
horsepower surrey were equal footing.
But careful as the judges were to provide
against excess OF speed, with penalties and dis
qualifications, they could not wholly curb the
racing propensities. When the level road
stretched far and straight. and the speed loving
chauffeur hear the "chug. chug. chug'' of rival
machine behind him. the impulse to 'Iet her
hum was irresistible, and many thrilling
and unrecorded contest was fought out along
the remote and unguarded portions of the trail
Many Also the drivers who raced their
machines the finish line, only be disquaH-
fed for neglectins the time regulations.
A FRENCH PRIzEwINNER
The sensational incident of the day the
run of French machine. driven by Emil
Voight. who drove the same machine in the
Pars-Toulouse road race last year. and took
second honors. This machine not entered
in the race. but ran over the course for a speed
trial. The trial was satisfactory. but the speed
something to make counsry constabIes gasp
and furnish village story tellers with material
voight made detour Of five miles. This and
the hundred miles of winding roads were
covered in two hours and twenty minutes.
Although the official start scheduled for
10 o'clock, the main street OF Jamaica
crowded 10 overfowing long before 2 o'clock
For nearly mile the procession OF automobiles
stretched in a single file along the sidewalk
There in all his glory was the automobile crank.
His face veiled behind tine racing goggles,
his body swathed in leather garments
white with driven dust Officials decorated with
ribbons Of various colors expostuiated. COM
rnanded. and demonstrated. owners fretted and
fumed, awaiting the start. and to all this dis
order was added the footing of the auto whistle
and the puff Of their egines.
THE CONTEST BEGINS
Horses in the streets plunged and reared at
the noise and strangeness of the cars and
motormen In the streetcars alternately swore
and trembIed their erept down the
crowded streets missing the careless sightseers
by hairbreadth.
At $40 there sudden stir, and an Of
fetal announced that the would commence
half hour ahead OF time account of the
large number of entries moment later the
crowd opened. and a car drew up TO the line.
There a short consultation of officials. the
occupants of the ear turned up their leather
chauffeur fingered his brake nervousIy 1t was
just 9:34 when Frank @. Webb. clerk OF the
course shouted Cor and the first contestant
whirled around the corner, and started on the
hundred mile few seconds later the
second machine was off also and for
hour the autos continued to depart. 1t was
nearly II o'clock when the last of the sixty
seven was dispatched
THE HILL CLIMBING CONTEST.
No sooner was the than the centre
OF interest shifted to RosIyn HILL the scene OF
the great hill climbing contest. Twenty and
one-efghth miles from the start the road. after
following the Sound fer some miles. turns sharp
~ and climbs up at a very sharp grade to the
top of wheatley Hills the highest elevation
Long Island. At the foot of the hill is red
rooted water tower. AS the contestants reached
this point they warned of the approach
ing hill Getting flying start. they rushed
on past the line and up the three-fourths of
mile stretch of grade. AS the road nears the
summit of the hill it sweeps around in s
shaped curve. the top OF which were gath
erad nearly hundred watchers.
1t was after II o'clock when the labored gasp
ing of an engine behind the hills warned the OBJ
servers of the approach of the irst Down
in the dusty road two puppies were gambolling
playfulIy. and a rooster was marshalling his
flock in the public highway. Suddenly there
was a low gurgng roar, whiri of flying dust.
and No. g. /. .700-pound racing wagon, driven
by George Cock charged up the road There
was rush for cover click Of the recording
watches ard the wagon had passed Down the
road two terrified puppies were crawling out Of
the cutters, and the panicstricken poultry had
vanished in the underbrush.
One by one in quick succession the other cor
testants followed. low cut racing machines OF
many horsepower rolling up the hill railroad
speed. lighter carriages and pleasure runabouts
wheezed and pured with asthnatic affection
they crept up the steep ascent Here and there
a machine gave out under the strain. and a
discounted owner Iaborious1y pushed his car
up the long hill. enduring the taunts of the
onlookers IN grim silence. Particular interest in
this climb arose from the fact that aside from
the cups offered BY tine club member Of the
board of directors had put up a special cup for
the driver making the best time without regard
to the rest OF rhe course
SWISS MAKES RECORD TIME
The record time Of the climb was made by 4,
Ernest Cuenod vice-president Of the Autonno-
bile Club of Switzerland After false start
and an enforced retracing of the course Cuenod
made the three-quarter mile climb in 1 min
ute 10 seconds. Second best time made
by No. {. driven by Harry s. Woodwork.
which covered the distance in l minute and
40 seconds. AS all these machines were dis
qualified later an unofficial statement was given
out last night that No. 53 was probably the
winner.
After passing Roslyn Hill the course wound
along Hampstead Bay and on to Oyster Bay.
Here it turned the south and went straight
across the island to Massapequa- and along the
ocean to F'reeport Turning again, the route
went north nearly to Hampstead Bay. and then
wound back through Hyde Park. Queens and
Hampstead to the starting point. Not merely