The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1903-01-10
Awakening New
Interest ia Autos

A representative OF the Gazette News
was accorded a brief interview with J.
Fl. Hathaway, of Boston, Wednesday on
the subject of automobiles. automobil
ing and the likelihood Of our city's be-
coming n center of attraction for auto
mobile enthusiasts who at this season in
the north are snowbound.
Mr. Hathaway has an automobile
much admired by Daytonians for its
many points of excellence; it is very
graceful, easy going, practically noise
less, enits little vapor and withal is n
greyhound for speed tho not designed
for racer.
As illustrative of the interest Mr. Hath
away has taken in Daytona and OF the
faith he has in the city as the coming
southern Mecca OF automobiists he has
employed engineer Rogers to survey n
Ave mile course on the beach, going
southwark from n point opposite the
south bridge Mile posts have been
made and marked /, 2, ), 4, > miles, RS
pectively. This will enable Mr. IIatha-
way and Others to tim, their autos and
arrive at some tangible data which they
will communicate to the automobile
clubs in Boston, New York, Chicago and
elsewh here, OF which they are members.
I'd % Ill. ,,fn ~, nd q,
other centers OF interest.
Mr.. Hathaway has travelled pretty
widely and is very enthusiastic over
Daytona as one of Natures hauty spots
and is even more enthusiastic over the
incompatible beach, the like of which we
80 often hear is not To be found elsewhere
in all the world
The climatic conditions taken with our
other advantages mark Us as the point
toward which enthusiasts will turn.
Mr.. Hathaway has been here % days
and SO far there has not been n day
when he could not have been out speed
ind on the beach or driveways. No
" here else in all the country do the roads
and other conditions conspip TO render
such thing possible
In conversation with Mr. Thorpe of
the peninsula side few days ago, Mr..
Hathaway remarked that in five years
there would be 100 automobiles in Day
tona Mr. Thorp said be was ofopinion
that that number would he used herr
within three years. The reporter knows
of Others to come this season and of sev
erai ordered for next seasons use
MIR. Thorpe introduced the automo-
bile in Daytona three years ago. There
ARE now about u dozen i'll town and the
number will probably I've increased to
twenty this season. 1t liz thought the
number will easily be doubled every sea
son for few years To come.
Mr.. Hathaway predicts that within
few years there will be hourishing au-
tomobile club formed here and that IA
club house will he bdiIt which will do
credit to beautiful Daytona and he the
pride OF her progressive citizens.
With our miles of shelled and married
roadways leading to Ormond on the
north and Port Orange on the south and
only a few gaps u DeI.and on the west
and with our magnificent beach rs
smooth rs an asphaltum boulevard In
Chicag0's suburbs and rs solid as the
limestone driyeways Of bluegrass Ken
tucky and IA broad as the gates to Sheol,
We offer drawing card that ought to
make us the automobile center Of the
South
An Illustration of the growing interest
in automobiling the Boston Club House
OF which Mr.. Hathaway is a member.
while yet in it's infancy, il to be- greatly
enlarged to meet the increased demands
Five years ago there Were only fifty
automobiles in the United States; today
there are over 80 900 and the factories
are rushed with orders from every quar-
ter of the globe
Dnytona in TO be congratulated on
/ having so enthusiastic and liberal u
visitor within her gates Mr. Hathaway
has established the mit posts, and an
extra post Tor the first half mile, at his
own expense and proposes To make u
series 81 tests, and while h. will not 80
1 tablish "a heacli-r,,cing record, not hay
ing q machine built especially for racing,
( he hopes to gain some important points
and data which he viii lay before the
automobile world and which can but
result i'll untold benefit to our city. The
machine he uses is built by Stanley Bros.
New ton, Mass, the inventors of the first
steam carriage ever put on the market.
/ Daytonians can but bc deeply interest
ed in this matter and it is in the hope OF
/ furthering our city's interest that this is
written; We hop- to follow it up soon
with statements that will liz highly
gratifying 10 everybody Interested in the
onward march of our matchlrss city 10y
the sea.
The Rev. J \. Adams, ''Grapno Of the
Chicago Advance, will lecture in the