The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-11
GREAT SPEEDWAY FOR AUTOS
PLANS or ONE ~ NFW JERSEY
ARE ON HANDSOME SCAR.
Iour OF nNestIgatlOn Yesterday seems
10 Assure ENecution-A Twenly Nile
frNate Club Course Between New
YORK and Philadelphia Outlined.


Immediate Interest among the oniciuls o
representative automobile organizations nm,
wealthy individual sportsmrn has b..
aroused by the project OF building in Ne,
Jersey u twenty mile speedway for motto
! ,"'H' "Hch Will furnish normal road cOudi
ti0ns for big competitions md combine
I Two mile oval track aud u four mile straight
away. The scheme has Interested all classe
OF automobile users. Tor II has been presente,
IN form that would make it available as
permanent, all the year round testln,
ground for the new models OF Inanuiactur
| ers. place for the tuning up" OF cars en-
I ltfeu Tor big races. Il course for the hodini
| vi international cup contests from which
! De'hg private property. the public coult
/ DeeHcluded absolutely aud a track for matin6,
meets OF short races II would in short b,
! operated on basis similar to that of a privat,
: uIlNihg club, except that II would bee ON
scale large enough to satisfy the broad need,
/ Of Automobiles
IL requires only 500 O0 to purchase the
lahd and carry out the project and the interest
being taken in IL by wealthy sportsmen alone
seems TO insure its execution. The man who
originally conceived the idea is j A. Kunkcl
OF Pennington. Mercer county, Y j.. who is
not an automobiles. but is the wealthy citizen
OF the place and fsther-in-law OF Emerson
Brooks Of the Automobile Club Of America
Knowing that such private speeding rond
was desirable 10 Automobiles. MIR kunkel.
with W. ID. Hunt cashier Of the First National
Bank Of Pennington, his agent secured
options OF purchase ON all the land necessary
~ Mercer county. total OF 400 acres from
about sixty different owners and obtained
a charter for the enterprise under the name
OF the Automobile lntercIty Speedway club
This charter MIR kunke stands ready to turn
over with the purchasing options 20 those
who subscribe tl,. n,.c,s.,r,, f,,,,ds aud ,,ith-
w., a 80. '""uS' anu VIM
out proht "a MIR hunkels interest Is in the
ben"ht that VIII be derived by Pennington
from the execution " the project
OF interested persons was run out TO Penn
In the party were Elliott e. Lee. banker
ar r., a,.d ,,,,1t,i',,,. - -,
~ "O''oit "'" "'S'lenV oi Tue American
Automobile Association. Secretary c. II
Gillette OF the same association. Secretary
s NJ Bitler of tho ,u,o,,oh,ls Cl,,I, of A,ner
~ p"''e' W ,ne Nu'oino','ie t'up OF amer
va "rorse u 'hN' general manager OF the
Association Of Licensed Automobile Manu-
facturers: Augustus A Post. the New York
u.ii hnrtSon hrooks' W. - hurlpu'
ana George VI. Weiss representing various
and several others besides
newspHuer men
Tha nroDoe.d trncl; rtna ,hrouob Pam
iugton. within 200 wards OF The railroad stn-
ION then awnv ,n ~ ~, aho,, ~, 80 ~ H.
south again three niles east t1ro and q hair
miles and north four miles in shane he
outline consists of two large lonns ono nn
rreRl lar SQUARE and the Other a more irregular
rilnrie with a narrow nerE he's ,ynnn r.
he north end OF The nlgn NV, 60 D."
ngton. the blue prints plottea nv Gea Goodnrd
no rood evnert ,aii d. n 49,, ~ H. 1oodnt W.
way and two 'I rni oi oval ,pGT ra me SiEaiEht
nearby who're il Ia nro,ns iUih =
,uild a hotel no rarora,ro X 1857 10
ountry lies spread out so tbat from one Mini
he big loop Of twelve miles of the course e.
~ spep and iron, arn,b ar -. 80 ~ zen
istan, the other loon ~ algp, NJ H. iHrus
lew The site Of the four mile atraigSt a,ra an
nd two mile trock aud yrandsta "a ~ ~ ~ s
nd finish Of the twenty mile course is st
'enuinRtOn. nftv-tbree miles from NJ ~
1iies from Trst,nr V'i' "''"N'ip"'"' ana eIght
Tie westerly I side Of the neIe loon r,r.
early parallel with tho Deiaware riy ut'
rhile tho south westerly polnt Of ,Ia hts -,
; only quarter of a mile from Wash ncton's
rossing The hotel on the ,pnnntsin To-
III be three miles from Pennington and viii
&c connected by trolley Charles A Reach
upe rintcndent OF the New York hi vision oi
he Philadelphia and Reading Railroad who
'as one Of the party yesterday said that n
pur Of the road would be run 10 the grand
iand
The option on all the land necessary was
btai ned az m average price Of $50 as an acre
. some cases the option on the desired right
way, 100 feet vide was obtainnble and In |
DO taken Thus tho land will cost s9.o 600
Is planned to az first build the road-
ny With a twenty foot width OF nncadam
nd five foot Of gravel road on aach sidc
his can be done for ~ 600 a mile or sleO 200
he rest Of the money will be expended in
ubhouses. garages and the small track
he twenty mile roadway will have several
-adcs on it, one OF o per cent nearly four
lies long 30 that natural road conditions
III prevail
4. Il Thomas. II r Green nd number