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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
.GL|DDEN TOUR
PLANS UNF FORMED
Committee CANNOT AGREE ON
ELIGIBLE CARS
Much Interest ls Also Centered in
Vanderbilt Cup Race-En-
gsh Machine Is
Entered

Plans for the Glidden are still far
from completion. The subcommittee
appointed to draft the rules is not
having any too easy a time of 1t, run
ming into a snag on one clause that
involved the entire country. That was
over a question of cars eligible to COM
pete for the main trophy. The COM
mittee at first said nothing under 1000
pounds was eligible, but this would
shut out twenty different models, so
naturally there was an outcry which
has caused the committee to recon-
slider.
It was given out that change would
be made and the weight limit reduced
to 100 pounds. Still this was not sat
isfactory and the A. A. A. people de-
cidtd to thrash over the problem.
So serious did it become that Sidney
S. Gorham, secretary of the national
organization and member of the rules
committee, was hastily summoned to
New York last week to confer with
Paul Deming, chairman Of the touring
committee of the A. A. A. The talk
resulted in a decision to wipe out the
weight proposition altogether.
Vanderbilt Race
The other American classic-the Van
derbilt-is also keeping the powers that
be busy. During the week a meeting
of the commission was held in New
York to consider the withdrawal of the
Automobile club Of France from Off
ciaI representation in the race. This
left the American Automobile aSSo-
citation without any one in Paris to re-
ceive the French entries.
The commission, however, got out or
Il Il linn hot fI1in AT~1f
five French cars to finish in the grand
prix over the Sarthe course shall con-
stitute the French team in the Wander
bilt race.
Chairman Thompson of the A. A. A.
"a cling board soon sails for France to
see the running of the grand pr1x,
which takes place June 26-H over a
course TIA miles in length and which
will take up two days. While abroad
Mr Thompson personally will see to
getting the French entries for the
American event.
At the same time he will visit Eng
land and endeaVor to interest the
Automobile club of Great Britain and
ireland in the race. The entry or an
English car has been promised, but 1t
comes from an American. Mr.. Thomp-
son wants the British club itself to
take an interest in race which he be-
lieves to be rghtfully the successor OF
the Gordon Bennett, abandoned be-
cause France thought it was not given
the representation its manufacturing
strength deserved.
At the meeting of the commission 1t
was announced that five American en-
tries were in hand and that enough
more were in sight to bring together
a big field in the trial.
The commission also discussed the
Nassau county course and decided 1t
could be improved some by building a
short cut road at the IS" turns at
Albertson's This will make the course
far safer and remove one of the danger
points.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
ENTRY FEE WILL BE $1,000
Those Participating in Vanderbilt
Race Must Possess Sur
plus Coin

While chances favor the selection Of
the 1905 Vanderbilt cup course for this
years race, there is just a possibility
that it may be changed. Chairman
Thompson OF the A. A. A. racing board
is quoted as saying that the 1904 course,
which passed through Jericho and
Hampstead, may be selected.
This course has fewer and less vio-
lent turns than last years, and If the
opposition of some officials can be
overcome there is strong probability
of its being eventually selected. At
the same time. the racing board has
cast an anchor to windward in stipu-
lating In the rules that the contest may
be held on an automobile speedway
According to the conditions. the entry
fee has been fixed at $10OO and an elimi-
natio ntrial race of at least ESQ miles
Is provided for in case more than Ave
entries are made from the United
States.
This trial race is limited to 25 cars,
they to comprise the first 25 entered
The date of the race is fixed for October
6. and OF the trial race September %.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
MAY SUTTON RANKS
WITH MEN PLAYERS
Hrltons Are Nettled at Defeat of Their
Favorites by Little Californian.
She Played Sixteen Matches, VIM
ming All

When May Sutton first invaded Eng
land she was hailed with British good
fellowship. A few weeks later when
her prowesS was sweeping down the
best racquet wielders of the isle, a
decided coolness was manifested toward
the little champion. England is In a
way the home of tennis and it grated
on British nerves to witness success
sive defeats of their strongest repre-
sentativeS.
Owing to a claim that the English
champion was unable to play her usual
game owing to a sprained wrist Miss
Sutton is again battling on foreign
fields with hope of demonstrating to
the satisfaction of all that America
possesses the woman champion of the
world.
In an analysis of players showing
which was made last season by one Of
the English officials Miss Sutton at
tained the highet percentage and the
list included the members of the Eng
lish and American International cup
teams
She played sixteen matches, winning
ALL These comprised thirty-tw sets
and 204 games. She lost only seventy
five minor games in sets, her average
showing 81 per cent.
Upon the same basis II. l.. Doherty,
the famous English champion, attained
only 1874 per cent.
He won ten matches, twenty-seven
sets and 1856 games. He lost one match,
six sets and III games. Beals @.
Wright, the United States national
champion, who is the leader of the
American challenging team for the
Davis cup. has an average OF 1865 per
cent
He won eight matches, twenty-four
sets, and 174 games Such a comparl-
son as this indicates the marvellous
skill and ability of the American girl
abroad, even If men who are on their
way TO regain the Davis international
cup return empty handed
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
PECULIAR AUTO LAWS
GOVERN MISS0URlANS
CARS MAY NOT TRAVEL MORE
THAN THREE MILES AN HOUR
Motoring Is Not Allowed on Sunday
or Holidays and Driver Must Dis
mount Upon Observing a Horse,
and Talk In Soothing Tone

New Jersey, long held up to the scorn
of humorists because of it's Jay ordt-
nances and laws against motor cars,
must now be forgotten. The legislative
emanations from that state are evil
dences of the highest acumen COM
pared with an ordinance that is now
resolving the serious attention of the
councilmen in Carrollton, Mo.
Carrollton proposes to regulate and
tax motor cars this way: A one-seated
vehicle suitable for two persons, 500 a
year license fee; vehicle for four pas
sengers, $3.50 year; motor cars for
hire, $20e a year. Any person failing
or refusing to pay the foregoing fees
shall be deemed guilty of misdemean-
or and upon conviction be fined not
less than $25 nor more than $780, or be
imprisoned for not less than thirty days
or more than six months, or be both
fined and imprisoned.
A fine of $50 to 5000 is provided for
failure to display license tag on motor
cars.
No person shall be allowed to stand
or run a motor car in the public square
of Carrollton or in certain other al
legged busy streets.
No motor car may be used at all in
Carrollton on circus day or when any
amusement is advertised to be held"
there; or when there is a baseball game
in town, or a. political convention, or
when there is public speaking "of any
kind" or when religious meeting is
being conducted, cor when people are
assembling In any building within the
corporate limits of Carrollton." If you
sdo, you may be fined and imprisoned.
But this isn't all; in Carrollton no one
may run motor on Saturday Sun
day, July 4. Christmas, New Years,
Washingtons birthday, Decoration day.
St Valentines day or wash day. 1t is
said an amendment is to be offered pro-
viding that when a motorist sees a
horse he Is to get out of his car and
lead it by the animal. talking continu-
ally in soothing tone so that neither
horse nor driver viii shy.
And finally no motor car shall ex-
ceed three miles an hour in Carrollton.
The ordinance is said to be very popu-
lar and doubtless viii be adopted.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
FEARING THIEVES, FINDS THEM
Woman Places Gems Worth $500 in
Baby Carriage and They Are
Stolen In the Street
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, June 9.-Fear that
thieves would get into her home in her
absence prompted Mrs. Peter Schneider
of No $50 Melrose avenue to carry her
gems when she went walking with her
baby yesterday afternoon. She placed
a hand satchel containing fifty dollars
and chamois bag in which were her
jewels under a pillow of the baby car
riage and after stroll in Third ave-
nue. entered store near One Hundred
and Forty eighth street, leaving the
baby outside.
Mrs Schneider was buying a shirt
waist when she heard the child cry and
rushed out to 1t. After quieting 1t she
felt under the pillow. The bag was gone.
In the Alexander avenue police station
she said she had lost two diamond
rings, a pearl necklace and a pair of
diamond earrings, all valued at $500.
Two detectives were sent out to search
for a man who looked as If he would
rob a baby.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
Wins Match Race With Jack Lacy
by Marrow Margin After the
Arrival of His Girl
Talisman

While half of the people of Los Ange-
les realize that the art of skating en-
bodies the poetry of notion, few in
deed are cognizant of the many little
romances that find their inception on
the CLASSY floors of the many Kinks, yet
there are many such and in several
instances are bright themes for the
romancer'S pen.
During the progress of the race at
the Panorama rink last week, very
few people knew that the bright light
from a pair of soulful eyes was the
one thing needful to cause Charley
Downs to make his sensational finish
and win over the invincible champion,
Jack Lacey, by sixty inches. Yet it
was SO and at the conclusion of the
thrilling event two happy hearts beat
with exaltation over the hard won
victory.
When Downs left "Dreamland' to go
to the Panorama to do battle for cham
pionship honors he asked Manager
VIM Treat to see to 1t that certain
little girl be present to witness the
race. In making this request he said:
you see, Billy, won't be in it unless
she is there, for I have always lost
when she was not near by to encour-
age me. She is my mascot"
Mr.. Treat promised he would see to
it that the young woman was present
at the race and then in his round of
official cares forgot all about his prom
ise. Even when Downs telephoned
him the race was on and to hurry to
the rink, Treat did not remember about
the girl.
Treat Arrives Alone
Arriving at the rink he met Downs,
who was amazed to see Treat alone.
At once Downs took his friend to task.
Treat tried to explain that he had for
any difference about the girls not
being there. Downs differed from this
opinion and expressed himself as un-
able to win the race unless the girls
mascot were present.
The race was on in a few minutes
and as the skaters rushed round lap
after lap, the spectators remarked that
Downs was not up to his usual form,
and that he was skating in a mechan-
ical manner.
When the last three laps Of the race
were all that remained to be run,
Colonel Kerwen, who made the match
between Downs and Lacey. learned Of
the predicament Downs was in.
Hastily he called carriage and had
the young woman mascot brought to
the rink and given front seat.
In going around for the last lap,
Downs saw his smiling, encouraging
mascot sitting among the spectators.
In an instant he knew he must win,
and with a herculean effort he forged
ahead of his adversary, winning by
the narrow margin Of sixty inches.
What happened after the race, and
just how the mascot praised her idol,
has not been told by Downs, but there
is a belief that there will be sequel
to the race at Hymen's altar.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
Mules Go to FIJI islands
By AssOciated Press.

by A6SUNIulVU ITV5a,
SAN FRANCISCO, June 9.-The British
600 mules which, in addition to a larqs
quantity of lumber obtained on Puget
sound, she will convey to Suva for use
on the Fiji sugar plantations.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
Auto-Graphs

A notable victory was achieved by
n sixteen-horse power REQ car in the
Memorial day hill-climbing contest at
Gates hill, In Cleveland. The incline
was one mile in length, with a grade
of from IL to IS per cent. In the event
for cars costing $500 the REQ made
the ascent in 1859, beating it's nearest
competitor by over twenty seconds.
In another event a REQ defeated two
cars in the $4,000 class. In all the REQ
won three events.
Lancla and Nazzaro, the two Ita1-
ian chauffeurS who competed in the
Vanderbilt race last season and will
drive new Flat racing cars in the event
next October, won first and second
respectively in the recent big Italian
endurance contest lasting nine days.
The distance travelled was 2687 miles,
and the average speed was about 300
miles day. Boschif, who drove a
Flat car was fifth. Instead of using
racing machines in this event the Ital-
ian drivers drove thirty-five-horse
power Flat cars. There were thirty
eight starters, and only sixteen fin
ished.
Charles J. Glidden is now on his way
home from his far eastern tour, hav-
in foreign lands for this season with a
trip through Japan. He does not think
much of the roads in the mikado's 8
land, for he writes that Japan is not
a desirable country to motor in, the
average speed being about ten miles
an hour. BY May z he had completed
tour Of 577 miles in Japan, and had
previously travelled over 400 miles in
China. On the present trip since De-
Mr. Iox
Travelled 1866 miles by automobile. Mr..
Glidden expects to arrive in this city
toward the end of this month.
In its official route and touring
guide, the Blue Book for 1906, the
American Automobile association has
surpassed all promises and all the ex-
pectations of it's friends. The guide is
easily the best road index for automo-
bilists ever published. 1t Is a volume
of 800 pages. but a convenient size, not
withstanding, to be thumbed by a man
while in his car. One of its greatest
merits is that of having, among it's
hundreds Of marginal maps, one chart
of every city on the route in point,
showing how the tourist should twist
his way through the town. The book
will be boon to the A. A. A. members,
who can get it for So, while it's regular
price is from So to 81, according to
binding.
After two years the record of the
Empire City track, New York, has
been lowered by As of a second.
Barney Oldfield scored a mile there in
SO AS seconds with his Peerless
Green Dragon in 1904, and last week
Walter Christie. with his front driv-
ing racer, did the mile in SO seconds.
These facts are their own commentary
on the present status of track racing.
A leading topic of discussion among
automobilists is the comparative merits
of two and four-cylinder construction.
while as late as 1904 a considerable
number of cars were equipped with
single engines, this type is now practi-
cally obsolete, except In the case of a
few of the lighter runabouts, and even
in this class the double opposed motor
predominates. The trend toward null
tiplicity of cylinders was the natural
consequence of the demand for high
power.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
NEW BURDEN FOR BACHELORS
Woman Leader Advocates Law COM
pelIIng Each to Support at
Least Ono Orphan
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
CHICAGO, June 9,-That bachelors
should be compelled to support depend
ent children in public institutions was
the position taken last night by Mrs.
Abbie S. Sheen, a we'll known leader
in women's clubs, In an address to the
Dickens club. Said Mrs. Shoen:
IF / had the framing of a law for
the taxation OF bachelors / would have
each taxed for the maintenance Of a
child now being cared for by an in
stitution or by the state. Not only
would 1 have that child educated,
clothed and fed at his expense, but
under pain of divers penalties / would
have him brought into direct personal
contact with the child"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
Skating Enthusiasts Who Frequent
Popular Downtown Rink Enjoy
Friendship Of Genial
Manager

Angeeno skaters are loud in their
praise of Roy Stephenson, manager of
the Panorama rink. He is rated both
genial and strict in questions Of disci-
pline. AS yet not q hint has been made
that he is in the least tyrannical with
the pleasure lovers who frequent the
rink over which he has control.
Mr.. Stephenson was at one time con-
nected with The Herald and at another
time stage manager of the Belasco
theater.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
Iona Beach Boulevard Tract

Twenty-four fine lots ON the Pacific
Boulevard between Los Angeles and
Long Beach. within 2 miles OF auditor
ium and ocean. Principal residence
streets OF Long Beach run through this
tract. Prices $500 up; a cash, balance
and years, SIsACK-WALL CO., III
Locust ave, Long Beach.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
Repair Damage Quickly
BY Associated Press.

BUTTE, Mont, June 9.-Railroad Of
ficials report that the washout between
A Assinnibolne and Box Elder on the
Great Northern will soon be repaired.
No word has been received from the
main line Of the Great Northern. The
washouts on the Northern Pacific in
the vicinity of Glendive have also been
repaired. Practically all Of today's
trains are now running on time.
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peror's nephew and heir presumptive. 1t
was not nice or creditable tale. relating
as 1t did how this young archduke, riding
one day in a country district. had COM
PEELED funeral procession to halt and re-
main standing while he jumped his horse
backward and forward over the coffin con-
tanning the body Of a poor peasant woman.
And Pernerstorfers next story of the
Archduke Otto, Franz Ferdlnand's brother
and next heir to the crown. was infinitely
more discreditabie. Amid intense excite
ment the socialist leader told Of an incl
dent in the archduke's life when he was
stationed in the garrison at Klagenfurt and
had been married only four months. The
archduke gave supper party. when every
body got drunk, and then In his hilarious
condition Otto offered to show his brother
officers his wife. Archduchess Maria
Josepha, in bed. remarking that he sup
posed they had never seen princess in
her night dress before. The archduke's
aid-tie-camp. less drunk than the rest Of
the party. interposed in q vigorous man
ner, and. drawing his sword, stood before
the door leading to the archduchess apart
ments and defied the archduke or any of
the others to enter. And they didn't at
tempt 1t.
Next day the arohdachess heard soma
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gossip as to what had happened. and
naturally was furious. She even tele-
graphed her father, the King of Saxony,
demanding to be brought home to Dresden,
and vowing she would live no longer with
Otto. Matters became serious and the
emperor interviewed telling Maria Josepha
that princesses must sometimes submit to
things which women of a lower rank need
not do. and that she must not think of
leaving her husband. At the next court
ball 1t was noticed that the young arch
duchess diamonds outshone those OF all
the other archduchesses. Processes and
noble danes. 1t was her reward from the
emperor for remaining with her boorish
husband.
These two stories were the one topic of
conversation in the country, and as they
were uttered in parliament the press could
publish them without interference. and
they were circulated everywhere.
And Pernerstorfer heard more OF them,
too. It was two days after his memorable
speech and the deputy was finishing his
supper at home when two strangers came
to the door and asked to see Herr Perner-
storfer. Forcing their way into the apart
ment. they proceeded without word of
explanation to beat the deputy with heavy
canes. But for the prompt assistance Of
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ferent from the insignificant meteors which
may be witnessed on any fine night and are
scarcely noticed by any one except as
tronomers and very superstitious people
But I noticed that gradually the whole as
pect of the heavens seemed to change, the
permanent stars disappeared. or to my
thinking were falling from heaven as iig
tree casteth her untimely figs. I had no
more capacity for terror and my brain hay
ing refused to become incapable of receiv-
ing impressions / began to take detached
kind of interest in the heavenly display.
Apart altogether from the wonder and
strangeness of the celestial show 1t must be
admitted that the accessories of the scene
were calculated to raise interest to the
point of absolute fear. There was no breath
of wind, the surface OF the sea being like
pool of ink; the very phosphoreScence had
disappeared. Any swell there might have
been was trivial that the ship seemed
motionless, at any rate not a rope creaked
nor sail tapped ever so softly. All hands
were on deck that motley crew, some pros
trate, mortbund with terror, some mutter-
ing prayers with palsied lips others rigid
with expectation awaiting developments
The luminaries above began slowly to in
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his valiant wife, Herr Pernerstorfer posi-
ton would have been extremely perilous.
She threw herself between her husband
and his assailants, who were finally dis
armed. They fed. leaving behind them the
canes, which were found to be loaded, and
a silk hat The socialist leader still pos
sesses these trophies. The police took up
the case, but their Investigations came to
nothing 1t was generally believed that
the visitors were army officers sent by
friends of the two maligned archdukes to
punish Pernerstorfer for his temerity.
The socialist leader has made many
speeches SINCE and they are always worth
listening to. He has a sharp tongue In
repartee and nobody can inject more biting
epithets into debate than the member
who told the memorable stories of the
brother Archdukes Franz Ferdinand and
Otto RAYMOND RAVENS.
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crease in number and IN brightness and
gradually the gloom departed from the
scene At first it appeared If there was
a point in the heavens from which all these
splendors radiated. and their general trend
was downward in a diagonal direction. But
as they increased in number 1t was impos-
or to say that they pursued any general
course. The whole heavens from horizon
to zenith were literally full of these blaz
Ing messengers dartng upward, down
ward athwart, so that the air seemed
thick with them. So have | seen, on an
infinitely smaller scale, the evening air IL
Illuminated for a few feet above the grass of
a savannah in Central America by myriads
of 1re-1ies. giving a quaint charm to the
quiet scene that nothing could improve
upon for beauty and simplicity. No one of
the suffering men made a sound; so utterly
silent were all sublunary things that heart
beats could be heard and we could swear
that we heard also the soft swish of the
flying stars through the sky. Occasionally
one brighter than usual would burst APP
parently quite close to US and dazzle our
aching eyeballs with its radiance of many
colored fires. l tried to shut my eyes 10
rest them. but it appeared as If l saw just
as plainly through my lowered lids, so L
gave that up and stared upward as before.
How long this went on before l gained
composure do not know, but 1 do know
that presently l found comfort in very
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teen seconds, perhaps five minutes to do so,
cannot tell, for those seconds seemed like
hours and then with one perfectly binding
blaze of glory, definite report and a smell
as of burning sulphur, 1t burst into thou
sands of dazzling. fragments and disap-
peared. leaving the mighty concave for the
moment quite black by comparison with its
previously intense light, and the stars,
though plainly visible. quite dull and lus-
terless. What l thought what l felt L
cannot tell: as far as mortal fear permitted
me to think at all my mind was filled with
fragments of the apocalypse and interjec-
tional prayers while | shivered as if with
severe ague. And somehow felt sure that
this amazing appearance was only the pre-