New-York tribune., 1905-07-11
MAY HOLD AUTO RACE.
SUPERVISORS VOTE "YES." "
Vanderbilt Cup Race viii Be Held
ON Long Island Roads.

Mineola, Long Island, July IO--4he NASSAU
County Board Of Supervisors. at meeting IN
the Court House here to-day, at which william
Jones, of Oyster Bay. presided. granted perrnis-
sion to the Automobile Club of America 20 hold
races on highways in the town OF North Hemp
stead on September % next, from 0 a m until
noon, and on October IA. from a. m until
p. m. The race on the first day is an elimination
trial for prizes for the five best cars OF Amer
lean construction which are entered for the IN
ternational cup offered by william K Wander
bIt IT. On October IA the race for the Wander
bilt Cup Will be run
Before granting permission for the races, the
board heard James Long. the clerk read petit
ton signed by thirty-hve residents of Hemp
stead Glen Cove. Westbury and Westbury Sta
ton who are opposed TO automobile racing on
the highways. The petition set forth that the
roads are used daily by the farmers to carry
their produce to market, and that the races
seriously interfere with their business. Having
in mind the record Of killed and MANNED and
the loss OF business occasioned by similar race.
held last year. petition that the use OF the
roads be not granted
The petitioners further said that the pulpit
and press had denounced such use Of the high
ways. and that by such the rights Of 100000
persons shamefulfy disregarded- 1t was
pointed out that for at least two weeks before
contestants for speeding their machines, and
that the farmers are either driven altogether
from the roads are forced to take to the
bitches by the flying cars
Robert Lee Morrell. chairman OF the racing
board OF the Automobile Club Of America. gave
his word of honor that there would be no speed
ing on the highways prior to the actual racing
He said
When man has spent some $4,000 upon a
racing machine for the sole purpose OF entering
one race of the Importance of this Vanderbilt
Cup race he is not going to risk all by speeding
when 1t is positively forbidden. / shall have
men. whom I shall personally employ. looking
out for speeders all the time, and shall deal
verely with all who break the rules. matter
who they AS further safeguard, shall
the day, the use Of racing machines upon the
course under any pretext. Racers who desire to
familiarize themselves with the will have
TO travel over il In ordinary automobiles save
during the hours that and my fellow members
Of the racing board shall find will be safe. But,
understand. even during those hours when the
racing machines are allowed the course
there will be no speeding, save on September %
and October IA. Entrants who wish to try out
their machines will have to go elsewhere on or
off Of Long Island They Will be penalized if
they use the course.
He said further that in his opinion the race
would benefit the county and would bring money
to 1t and would not interfere with the enjoy
ment or safety of the people.
When the question as to whether the races
should be allowed was put to the board. Chair
man Jones and William WIllets OF North Hemp
stead. who had listened to the reading of the
petition with smiling faces, both voted AYE
but former Judge Robert Seabury the third
member, voted NO
Mr. Seabury said: IT wish to saw thar a
statute of the State gives US the power to grant
a privilege. This board possesses no authority
to restrain other people than the racers from
using the roads for other purposes than racing
upon the date Of the race. All that can be done
is to sound warnings. No one can be ordered
of the roads which are public I cannot see
any benefits that will accrue to balance the
dangers entailed in holding the race, and under
the circumstances feel 1t to be my duty to vote
In the negative"
The races are to be held on the Jericho turn
pike In the conditions set forth in the resolu-
tions adopted by the Board OF Supervisors 1t is
provided that in the racing the contestants must
slow down to not more than ten miles an hour
within two hundred yards OF the Jericho Road
and Isaac U. Willet's crossings of the Oyster
Bay branch Of the Long Island Railroad The
board also reserves the right to station hagmen
at all points along the road where their services
may be needed and signals to stop or slow
down must be obeyed by the drivers OF the ma
chimes
The highways over which permission is
granted to conduct speed tests and races Of
motor vehicles are known and DESIGNATED in the
county road system as follows: Jericho Road.
peglnnlng at NeW-Hyde Park, where the Lake
SuccesS-N -New-Hyde Park enters the same from
the west, running thence easterly along said
Jericho Road TO Jericho; thence northerIy along
the Jericho-East Norwich Road to East Nor
wich, at McQueens Corner; thence westerly
along the North Hampstead Turnpike Road
from East Norwich TO Bulls Head Corner at
Greenvale; thence southerly along the '9Back
Road" so called, from Bulls Head Corner to the
Guinea Road. so called; thence beginning at
the point where the Isaac q. WiIIet's Road
crosses the AIineola-Roslyn Road ar a point
easterly Of Albertson's station on the Long ISL
and Railroad. westerly along said Isaac c. will
cts Road TO Willis-ave.: thence northerly along
Willis-ave- to the Isaac U. Willet's Road con-
tlnued westerly through Searingtown to Poole's
corner, along the Success Lake; thence south
erly from Pooles Corner along the Success Lake
New-Hyde Park Road to the point or place OF
beginning