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motors from touring cars.

motors from tOuIihs 'oiS'
The SNOWY cars with their bright colors
and lively groups OF passengers we're III
rsy contrast with the whizZing projectiles
of the race. Among the motorists stationed
near the East Williston hill, which com
manded long stretch OF the speeding
road in both directions, each with party
of women and men in his car, were W. D.
Guthrie. Henry l.. Maxwell, Charles u
Gates. Howard W. Maxwell w; 2. Kim
ball, +. S. Snithers and Howard F, Whit
ney.
The equipages and cars approached the
course bv the side reads and drew up well
back of the telegraph poles. Some brought
along snack luncheons; but the automo-
the Nassau Country Club for luncheon ana
to see the final golf tournament.
The waits between the whiz2ing by OF
the motors passed quickly. A break her
aided by the waving of white flag in the
distance set the line of flags waving IKE
the wigwags of an army signal corIs.
Sound outspeeds even the motors and the
throbbing and humping would precede
the advent Of each machine. First blur
on the horizon, then taking defined shape,
were most perceptible far away and they
filed the onlookers, at least those new TO
the game, with fear and Apprehension. The
sidewalk ISLANDERS climbed to the fence
rails and the people in the traps ana TOUR
ing cars did not look happy.
At 200 feet the number could be made
out and then, as in fash, every detail OF
machine and it's chauffeur would be pic
tured to the eye, to vanish in another blur
in the distance. Then the groups in the
traps and cars would burst into talk.
The amateurs. Wormser and Croker, had
many friends along this part of the course.
Many Of the golfng set waved their hats
and cheered for Croker. but it was wasted
enthusiasm. Some friends Of Croker near
Mineola, who fired oil pistols when he
passed. had better luck.
w. X. Vanderbilt Jr., with DR.. Ianehart
as passenger. dashed by the reverse way
and this warned the onlookers that an acct
dent must have occurred below Mineola.
The knowledge OF the Jericho accident
had been common for a long time before.
Or. Lanehnrt fears the motors and he looked
i'll at ease. Later the white car returned
to the Mineola corner and cleared a way
for the ambulance bearing George Arents,
Jr., to the Nassau Hospital. Many OF the
society groups knew Arents, and when
the details were known of the accident
they left the roadside
1t was noted by all that at the time of
the Arcnts accident only thirteen cars were
in the race
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THE COURSE OF YESTERDAYS AUTO RACE.

the ninth lap, but Heath was told Of the
situation at a control and let out.
Heath's time for the tenth lap was 27
minutes S seconds. Clements was 80
minutes 81 seconds. Hcaths total time
was hours 20 minutes IS seconds. Glenn
ent 9 time was hours % minutes IS seconds
HEATH A NATIVE OF AMERICA.
Heath is ~ years old He was born at
Astoria. l.. l. He is a man OF means and
has lived abroad for fifteen years, he is
ashamed to say" He won the Circuit
Ardennes this year, young Clement finish
ipE third
These were the officials Of the course
Referee w. X. Vanderbilt. Jr.
Judges OF Start and Finsh-lIarlan Whipplc
president A. A. A.; Frank q. Webb, president
l.. |. 4. G.: winthrop j., Starrit. president
A. &. of A.: W. 4. Temple, president =. A. G.
Judges Of Control llicksvie control. e..
Von Wagner Jr., and Peter Grippe Hemp
stond control, II, C.. Hackstafr and John d.
HlCkstaT, Jr
Judges OF Turns Jericho. william Milne:
plainedGe. Theodore Hebron: Queens Hemp
stead. r. Hcaly: oufens-Jercho Frank l..
Judges of Weighing ln-E, T. Blrdsall. A.
j.. Riker.
Starter c, II. Gillette. secretary A. A. 4.
Assistants TO StRrter-George T.. Earring
ton, 4. e.. v. }. Emerson Brooks. 4. &, A;
u n. Belding. Jr; A. {. A.; Robert Lee Mar
shall. A. Z. A.
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The first report to come was: NO. 5 is re-
ported to have tire trouble at Queens.
Next came: NO. is reported 80 have
passed Queens
In this way the spectators knew what
car TO expect when all the officials joined
the announce il :. general warning c. Of
Car coming"
This warning became one OF the features
Of the day, hut in spite of it the crowd,
lined up on the roadway at either end Of
the stands, would crowd forward. The
deputy shcrirs had little control, though
the race officials managed to keen tho reed
way between the stands clear.
Through the telephones, also, the watch
ers at the grand stand were enabled to keep
track Of the changing phases Of the race.
Thus tho first in pDrtart shift of rlac" was
announced when Peter Pru nty cried, NO. 7
ia report cd in fourth place nj Quee1s,'
The first report Of an accident Of moment
came shortly after, when it was al bounced
that No. 10, Wallace, was in trouble at
Jericho. Referee Vanderbilt took doct or
in his car and started for that place. On
his return he instructed Prunty TO an
nounce that Mr.. Wallace had run over his
mechanic at Jericho, that the man was not
seriously hurt and thrt Wallace was con-
inning. Soon after this il was announced
that Wallace had retired from the race
because Of a broken car just beyond Hicks
vile.
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opposite or westerly side, which accom- no
dated the judges, timers, newspaper men
and photographers. To the south Of the
tape at the end Of the grand stand we're
several temporary stand" end platforms
erected by individuals.
START on HALF-MILE sTRAIGHrAwAY.
Toward the northeast from the starting
point was straightaway of less than half
a mile, in the centre OF which was a well
defined path where sprinkling carts hcd
scattered part OF the 10000 gallons of crude
oil provided for the course. The oil treat-
ment proved success. The cars whizzcd
away without raising particle OF dr"t.
HOW THE RACERS LOOKED.
The motor cars and the men az they
lined up at the tape presented strange
sight to the uniritiatcd. Every car was
stripped of all carriage resemblances
The majority We're special machines de-
signed for racing, with low, long, rakish
fronts OF metai pointed Hike an overturned
boat. or rounded. In few cases. such
az the Panhard car OF Heath the winner,
the fronts were square, On the rear Of
every car were from one to four spare
tires.
The cars had to weigh less than 2,2o4
pounds to I've eligible for the race, and
therefore not an unnecessary pound was
carried on the ma jority, In fact, the light
ening was responsible for the collapse OF
at least ono car. that Of Frank Croker.
NARMoB FOR THE DRIVERS.
a. Each car was obliged by the rules to carry
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LBERT CLEMENT IN HIS cLEMENT-BAYARD.

course and this fact brought bitter ccn-
ment from the Judges.
Along the Hampstead Plank road. where
touring cars gathered in the morning,
there was real interference with the racers.
Big machines whose owners tired of watch
ing the rush past of the contestants, wanted
to get home, rolled along the westerly part
of the course at increasing intervals as
the race grew tiresome, and some of the
racing motor cars got small room from
them
EARLY CROWD LACKED ACCOMMODATIONS.
Before dawn broke the exodus from Gar
den CITY, Hempste cad and Westbury began
These were the places where the principals
and the real enthusiasts spent the night,
and the hotels and boarding houses had
been unequal to accommodating all the
crowd
At the big hotel at Garden City. where
the headquarters of the officials were, all
the chairs and lounges were occupied and
many remained awake and talked till the
drivers slept out" huddled in the ton
neaus Of their employers cars. A few
who could not get other accommodations
found refuge in sleeping car that had
brought delegation of the Cleveland
Automobile Club to Long Island, which
stood on the siding at Garden City.
HIGH PRICES PAID FOR ROOMS
Many people, when they found that even
the BARRIERS chairs were taken for the night
in Garden City and that a bed couldn't be
had there at any price. went to Hampstead
expecting to find plenty of accommoda-
lions. but there wasn't much room to be
had in Hampstead and what there was
came high.
number of persons who arrived after
midnight found that they could get a room
for the night by paying $40 for 1t. IF the
prospective tenant baked at the price he
could 20 elsewhere said the thrifty Long
Island landlords. The rooms that brought
St Regis rates made some of the New York
ers who took them smile. and then grin
and make the best of it. Late at night the
only ones available were over the bar
rooms in little frame hotels, but they we're
snapped up by persons who had to find some
resting place.
In contrast to this were house parties
which members OF the Meadow Brook set
gave. o. H. P. and August Belmont, II. B.
Duryea, Harry Payne Whitney, o. W. Bird
and Mrs. James Kernochan all have country
places near the automobile course, and
most of them had number of guests who
csIne down for the race.
SOCIETY FOLKS IN THE STAND.
When tho race was we'll under way the
grand stand and thu men mostly took places
en- the track.
Mrs. W. X. Vanderbilt, Jr., was the centre
of attention. She sat with two women
friends near the centre of the stand A. g.
Vanderbilt and a group of men friends
sat in an end box, but his wife was not
present. Next him were Fred Geb-
hard and Mr.. and Mrs; arthur Bostwick.
Others present we're f. r. Thomas Clarence
Dinsmore and ". Gould Brokaw. Most of
the occupants OF the stand were directly
Interested in the racers.
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Gabriel started with big Jump. Webb
and Arents also set forth with a jump,
while Lyttle moved away at a moderate,
even pace. Heath made a good start not
sensational. but steady. Clement, in his
long blue car that looked for all the world
like the slipper Of giantess, made poor
start getting away slowly. Tast made a
swift breakaway and Teste did best of ali.
hitting a pace that he maintained as far as
he could be seen down the road.
&C. VANDERBILT DELAYED.
When it came the turn of No. 10, A. G.
Nanderbilt's car, to start, it was not on
hand Its owner stood in the grand stand
looking anXiously down the road, as No.
II was ordered into place by the referee,
his cousin. Frank Croker's car came to
the tape flashing fire from the exhaust in
n noisy fashion. Wormser's German car
machine to start. William Wallace's Italian
auto, came to the tape belching smoke from
two wicked looking exhaust pipes on its
left side
When the last of the seventeen machines
had started No. 10, the A. G.. Vanderbilt car
was still missing. 1t was reported 20 have
been seen at Mineoa with the driver and
mechanic at work on the motor.
GABRIEL LEADS ON FIRST LAP
1t was nearly four minutes after Wallace's
car started before the first one reapreared
at the grand stand. This was Gabriel. who
had started sec ond and had passed Stevens's
car on the thirty mile lap. The famous
Frenchman who won the Paris Madrid
race Of last year got cheer.
An admirable telephone system enabled
the judges and timers at the starting point
to keep track OF what was going on around
the course. There was a telephone at each
turn and at each of the two controls.
The timers were at Jericho, Plain Edge
and Queens. The Controls through
which the cars had to pass at less than
ten miles an hour: were in the villages of
Hicksvile and Hampstead. The racers
were required to take three minutes to
pass through Hicksyille and six minutes
to run through Hampstead. The tire
spent in controls ~as deducted from he
total time.
LITTLE FOR THE CROWD TO SEE.
The reports from tie telephones helped
to keep the race from being down right
tedious TO the spectators. All there was
to see was now and then big automobile
rushing by at railroad speed and disap-
pearing in the distance,
As the reports came by telephone the
official announcer communicated them to
the watchers through his megaphone.
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two men, and their garb was as odd as the
build Of the machines they,rode in. Goggles
with felt, leather or aluminium sides were
worn invariably and a number had
padded helmets such as football players
use Some we're clad from head to foot
In leather, while others wore khaki coats
and leggings. Heath. the winner wore
long dark gray ulster, while Webb and
his mechanic, Andy Anderson, were clad
In black leather throughout.
oABRTEL's FINE GETAWAY.
The first car got away fairly well, but
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DIED..

BfNSSE.-M the Convent Pay Ridge on Friday
the 7th inst. Helen r.. daughter OF the late Louis
r. Binssc and Mary Della BinSSe, In religion
sister Louise Marie OF the Order OF The Vista
tlon,
DAVENPORT. At Bath, y. Y. Oct. 8. 1905. Ira
Davenport, In his cath year
Funeral service at his home In Bath. on Monday.
Oct. 10. at 3 o clock.
Department OF State.
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HUMES-Information has been received al
this Department from ". a. Rublee. the Consul
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OF the death the 10th Of September 1904 9,
Vienna. OF Rosalie Sarah Humes OF New York
The legal representatives OF the deceased can
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Per despatch No. ..,...
Dated Sept. 90 1904.
KEELKR.-on Thursday, Oct. q. 1904 at Liher'v
N. Y, william A. Eeeler, son OF the late WI
liam A. Keller. and brother OF Mrs. John George
cambridge.
Funeral Monday morning at 10 O'Clock from
ST. Matthew'S Church. ath ST, near Central
Park West.
LARKIN. Friday. at Kingston. y. " Julia N
LArkin. daughter OF Michael H. and sister Of
Rev. Michael j. Lartdn.
Funeral Monday. 10 O'Clock a. NJ.
MOoRE.-Adclaidc Lavtns. widow OF George
Gibbs Moore. Friday. Oct. 7. 1904. at her resi-.
dencc. 200 West p2d 81,
Funeral from 81. Agnes's Chapel, West e2d ST.
sunday at Io:i5 p. NJ. 1nterment In st, Georges
churchyard, Hampstead, L. l.. on arrival of
midday train.
RAY.-On Friday. Oct. Z, 1904. James r.. beloved
husband Of Minnie and son OF the late Thomas
and Roseanna Ray after a short illness Of
pneumonia. at his home. +23 East toth st.
Interment on Monday. Oct TO- al calvary Gem.
etey.
SHEPAR D.-DEAR BROTHER You are hereby sum.
moned TO attend an cmergent communication
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y. Y. Masonic funeral services over our late
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HENRY ". PESorAR, Secretary.
SPENCER.-N his residence In this city. suddenly
Harvey Spencer son OF the late Harvey Spencer
OF New York,
Notice OF funeral hereafter.
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CROWDS CLOSED In ON RACERS
WATCHERS or THE AUTO RUN
WORRIED THE JUDGES.
Fewer Folks Out Than We're Expected. but
They Made Trouble Near the stand
Overnight Enthusiasts Hard Put to
Find ROOms--Many Slept on Chairs.

Vhey MADE TrOuDle wear thc sta"u
Overnight Enthusiasts Hard Put to
Find ROOms-Many Slept on Chairs.
Even an international motor race with
records to be broken and accidents to be
expected was not sufficient to induce many
to brave the frosty dawn of an October
morning and journey out to the start at
Westbury. When the first machine crossed
the tape at q o'clock the grand stand was
not more than two-thirds full, and OF the
eight hundred or 80 In the crowd not two
score were women.
Along the Jericho turnpike stretching
away from the starting line, save at the
crossing Of the road from Westbury, where
were gathered perhaps hundred auto
mobiles. whose owners and their friends
crowded to the road edge, the men i'll the
racing machines faced an almost deserted
highway until they reached Jericho post
office Here small crowd waited blowing
fingers and dancing to keep warm
DANGER NEAR THE GRAND STAND.
The crowd increased later in the day.
and at the finish OF the race reached dam
gerous proportions near the grand stand.
Not that it ever became a really big crowd
was finishing would have been 5000, but
it was a hard crowd to handle. The depu-
ties responsible for keeping the course
clear had no real authority and the spec
tators seemed to know it.
They did about what they pleased crowd
ing out on the course 70 catch first glimpse
of an oncoming machine and stepping back
only in time to avoid the rush past. 1t
was a crowd not easily frightened and
that spread out near the contestants,
1t was this that the judges and officials
feared would lead to disaster and caused
the calling of of the race as soon as the
winner and second man had crossed the
tape. 49,
AUTO OWNERS THE OFFENDERS.
Some OF the worst offenders were the
owners OF the automobiles that lined the
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ARREST AFTER THE RACE.
Teddy Goodman Was Running Car which
We Said Had Figured on the Course.

Frederick A. Goodman, more Familiarity
known as Teddy Goodman, former pro-
fessional bicycle rider OF Connecticut, but
now an automobile driver, was arrested last
evening for violating the s peed law on
Broadway with an automobile stripped for
racing, which he said had participated in
the contest on Long Island Bicycle Police
mon kerrigan and Donohue, who patrol
Broadway in plain clothes, were standing
AT Forty-second street when the racer with
Goodman on the skeleton seat and two
Others standing on the trucks behind, shot
up Broadway and across Forty-second
street without slackening speed. The two
policemen mounted and began n pursuit
which would have been futile, but Kerrigan
recognized the chauffeur and called to him:
You might as well pull up, Goodman;
know who you are"
This brought the auto to stand at Forty
ninth street. The policemen estimated that
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About this time rumors OF serious acct
dents reached the grand stand. It was
said that Wallaces mechanic had two
broken legs, that Wallaoe's legs had been
broken, that Gabriel had killed an Italian,
that Clement had killed u negro, that other
competitors had been ditched, The worry
increased when several cars failed to reach
the stand long after they were due. The
second car definitely declared out OF the
race was No. 3, Tracey's Royal, which
broke its shaft and cracked cylinder
at Queens in the second lap.
FINISH AT THE FIRST ROUND.
The first round OF % A miles, net distance,
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the machine had been going 20 miles az
hour over the seven blocks they followed
it.
At the Fcrty-seventh street police s:pti>n
Goodman gave his ado ross as ?U3 West
102d street. When he took his MASK a.,
his face showed black with e., 1t ami =
said he had brought the machine FRI IN
Long Island, where it had been raced Ly
its owner, whose name was Bet. No sen
name appears on the list.
The al tomobile was 6(-'lc rse-rt or
machine. stripped OF all trappings, with II.
four cylinders bare. Goodman was bale .
out later.
kerrigan and Donohre later arrested a.
about the same place a man who said he
was Charles A. Maurice, a merchant. %
years old. who lives at IS West Iigity-
fifth street. They timed his touring "a
from Forty-fifth TO Fifty-fo, nth street IN
Broadway and decided il nas going 20
miles an hour.
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Lyttle, by the way ia the driver from
whose car Harold Rigby. a mechanic, was
thrown and fatally hurt on the course last
Monday. On Friday night the shaft on
Lyttle's car broke and he worked all night
the touring car of Col Albert A. Pope
He started in the race without having hal
a winute's rest.
The ninth lap ended this way;
Heath. 81
Clement 20 u
tyttlc.. Juno fi1caD So 20
The officials declared the race off before
Lvttlc reached the stand. and his time was
taken by others.
HEATH's Squirt FOR VICTORY.
Clement led by minute 4S seconds on
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yANpERBILr REAL RULER OF THE RACE.

The starting was done with out hitch.
William X. Vanderbilt, Jr,, was referee
in fact as well as name His tact was first
displayed when a man driving big steam
automobile ran along the course to the
starting point while Gabriel was at the tape
ready to start.
Other officials tried to check the intruder,
but he forced his car ahead slowly, crowd
ing several of them into the fence at the
grand stand. Young Vanderbilt stepped
up and reasoned with bin politely, and
the man turned back. Gabriel was not
delayed.
The tape for the starting was stretched
across the road between temporary grand
stand seating 1000 and stand on the
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WATCHERS FROM North SHORE.
Large Parties From the Fine Houses Line
the Road In Drags and Touring Cars.

Dwelers in Glen Cove and the colonies
along the north shore, with many people
from the country houses at Westbury
and Garden City, were among the onlookers
between Mineola, East Wiliston and at
Quaker Hill They made up parties and
drove to the chosen point of vantage in
big outing traps of various sorts, and there
were also many to watch the speeding
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was finished in the following order anc
in the following net t.mrS.

The fastest time Of the day was that
made by Teste in this first round, his trip
Of thirty miles in ?404 being at the rate of
nearly seventy miles an hour Mr. Wallace
declared that he dr. owe as fast as ninety
five miles an hour. Tart loGt an hour
through tire troubles in this round.
The second round was finished az follows:
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Bernin broke the shaft of his car in this
round. The first excitement occurred
when Croker and Clement came racing
by within ten yards of ono another. 1t
WAC on this lap a'so that Heath was first
seen to bn an important factor in the race.
It WAS in the third lap that A. q. Naac srbilt's
car flew across the tape ? hours, : mirates
ard Il GeconCs after it's tin @
WEDDING OUT PROCESS BEGUN.
The fourth lap brought Heath to the
lead, Gabriel passed the stand slowly.
and his N otor WIS skipping" or missing
explosions. The finish Of the lap was:
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necessary for American auto owners to go
tolerance to recover it, for the conditions
of the deed OF gift require that the first
two races for the cup shall be held in
AmcriCa
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During the fourth round word was tele-
phoned to the Vanderbilt driver. Sartori,
to return and make a standing start, the
same az the others had done. He did not
obey and as he had no chance to win was
allowed to 20 on. He quit after making
lap and half
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now THE RACE WAS WON.

Heath, the winner. Made the 400 Miles In
Less Than III Hours.
The crowd began to arrive at the starting
point OF the race, a quarter Of n mile from
the famous pump on tho Jericho pike, as
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The fifth lap finished as follows.

In this lap the news Of the accidents that
DELAYED the cars in the previous round
reached the officials by telephone. Az It's
end Heath had a good lead In net time,
by which the race was to be decided. ne
finished the lap at 813O5 O'Clock, and the
race was half over, a trile more than three
hours from the time Heath started.
The sixth lap finish was.
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On this lap Clement took the lead by
two minutes over Heath, and it was seen
that it would be very close race. The
travelling OF the smallest car in the race,
Lyttle's "a horsepower machine, wac the
feature most remarked upon.
GREAT WORK OF SMALLEST CAR.
1t was a revelation Of what may be done
with light car OF the regular touring class.
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On this lap Heath had tire troubles and
Clement began to threaten his lead, being
only ten minutes behind him In actual
time. 1t was in this lap that Cookers car
began to go to pieces.
FIVE LEFT AFTER SEVEN LAPS.
Tho 6piah of m a oeyep IN Ian WAS n fOllOws.
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CEMETERIES.

Great Pineiawn Cemetery. 2siS acres Round
Trip ticket SOC, ~ 10 W, Ath ST. MY.