The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-18
VANDERBILT RAGE.
SOME BIG MACHINES ARE BEING
 BUILT.

American Trials to be Held Next Month
 -InternationaI Automobile Contest
 for Cup to be Held October 14-FOr-
 eigners Engaging auarters-The
 Long Island Course.
 Ten American manufacturers have entered twelve cars for the trial auto mobile races to be held on Long Island September 23 to select team to repre- sent the United States in the interna- tional race for the Vanderbilt cup Oc- tober 14. Both the trial at two hun dred miles and the cup race at three miles will take place owed a twenty five mile circuit in Nassau county, Long Island. That circuit, though less haz- ardous than the famous Auvergne course, over which the International cup race took place, will give drivers and machines the hardest test of stam- ina and endurance yet called for in public competition on this side of the Atlantic.
 Active preparations for the rave have already begun. The builders of the White steam racer have engaged all the accommodations at the Bulls Head Tavern, in, the northerly line of the route for period from three weeks before the eliminatory trial until after the conclusion of the cup race.
 The constructors of the Pope-Toledo O for forty persons at Krug's Hotel, on the Jericho turnpike, for the same peri cd of time. The builders of the Frank lin and Locomobile racers have en- gagged expensive quarters in the same locality.
 | The foreigners already have begun to reserve accommodations for their teams. Poirrer's garage and hotel at Garden City has been leased for the been spoken for the Richard -Brasier and De Dietrich representatives. As to the probable makeup of the American team the greatest uncertain ty prevails. The Pope-Toledo people, dissatisfied with the showing of their cars in the Auvergne race, are hurrying | the work on two newer ones of a great deal more power The understanding l is that both will be "nineties.' The big one hundred and twenty horsepower locomotives will undergo some im- provement after it's arrival from Eu- rope, and Tracy hopes to have it on the \ course by September 1. In Cleveland a huge steam machine is nearing completion, and with it Webt Jay expects to carry the White pen nant over the course in advance of its | American rivals. An expert interested in bringing over one of the foreign
 teams, after private view of the 1 White racer, made the statement that | he feared it more than any other car in l the race. .,,. l At Syracuse another surprise is being prepared. The eight cylinder Franklin
 racing machine in course of construc-
 tion there for D. H. R. Green is de- clared to be a modern wonder because of great power with little weight. w F. Winchester, who will drive it, says il 1 is the fastest car ever turned out 1T this country. An almost similar story
 is told of the six cylinder Premier
 which Carl Fisher will handle in the Trace.
 Less is known of. the two Mathisor
 cars of fifty horse power, of the eighty
 horse- power Thomas flyer, to be driver
 by M. Roberts; of the sixty horse-pow
 CT Haynes, to be piloted by Frank Mutt
 and of the forty horsepower Royal | wa ltar Christie with his t'f1oubla sixty
 is likely to be a formidable competitor particularly after his reported privat trial over the twenty-nine mile route il thirty-seven minutes.