The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-21
AMONG THE AUTOMOBiLTTS.
ELLIOTT r.. SHEPARD WILL RACE
HERE AGAIN.
Noted Auto Driver Sails for rance and
Announces His Intention TO Return In
the FaIl-Sartori ID Not Engaged 10
Pilot the n. L. NJ. Racer nj OrmOnd.

khbo T4CeT N INC NduutTUuE cup race ldbt
month, sailed for France yesterday on the
Kaiser Wilhelm ii. Mr.. Shepard said that at
present he was unable to cell Just when he
would return to this country. but that what
ever idea he had entertained Of driving his
big Vanderbilt cup racer at Ormond Beach
next January had been given up. He has
been engaged In looking after some business
affairs since the Vanderbilt cup race was run
on October Q, but found time to take q brief
vacation trip In the Adirondacks. e.
Il shall probably be back In this country
next fall" said Mr.. Shepard. with a new
racing car for the Vanderbilt cup contest or
whatever big road race succeeds 1t II the 1907
race ls run abroad. / had made up my mind
positively that l should never again attempt
to compete in q road race In the United States
il the contest were held upon a public high
way. even though some more sparsely settled
district than Nassau county were picked out
as the location Of a course. Now that the
prlvaCe highway projected for Long Island
seems to be q certainty l am OF course per-
fectly willing to come back here to race over
such q course. l am almost sure that l shall
have the pleasure Of again driving q car in an
American road race under the newer and safer
conditions
During the winter Mr.. Shepard expects to
undertake q number Of long automobile tours
In Continental Europe. having already planned
TO visit Italy and Germany. In addition to a
number Of short trips in France.
Paul sartori, who was formerly racing
chauffeur for Alfred @. Vanderbilt. will not
drive the b. l.. NJ. racing car in the 0rmond
races In Florida next January. as has been
reported 50 persistently OF late, This was
positively affirmed yesterday, afternoon by
concern. who said that neither he nor his
partners had ever considered Sartori, as a
driver for their racing machine. The car
In nnRarinn ia the Nj hnFaA-nnWQT mAChlnA
which was built last summer "a a candidate
for a place on the American team In the Van
derblt cup race, but which did not start
in the elimination trials, as one Of Its cylinders
cracked the morning before the race. when
the car was being prepared Tor Teishlng n;
since September. and that II IL were sent
10 Florida for the Ormond races there would
be a sort of elimination trial among the mem
hers of the Is. l.. NJ. flrm-Charles l.. Lawrence,
| A. J. Moulton and himself to see who was
the best racing driver. or that each one OF
Mr.. Breese was not at all sure that the car
would compete at Ormond az he does nor
intend to enter IL in. the Florida tournament
II there are to be "A lot OF freak machines
among the contestinG cars.
At n recent meeting Of the executive COM
mittee Of the Association Of Licensed Automo-
bile Manufactur ers the plans OF the show
COMMITTEES for the automobile show in Madi-
son Square Garden, January IL to 10 next.
were approved. The decorations are 20 be
very elaborate and about $4,000 VIII he spent
| III DtuutllN Ahk u Aib ~ ~
The annou RCement il made that the engineer
has managed to introduce 10000 square feet
s atdpm ov T%oi tba Dy arena maN' boxe she elebt f -
wider. Another innovation for visitors VIII
be found in a rathskeller, which wri De
toward the Fourth avenue end OF the BASE
ment.
Word comes from abroad Of a new tyne Of
automobile tire. 1t il said to be of single
tube construction. each tire containing a
number Of hollow rubber spheres which con
! NnIs, m avail al anfif ~ Of gnmn RQA nrndnpInR
material. such as bicarbonatc Of soda. When
the tire is v~ulcsnized the spheres are eX.
the tire. When a puncture occurs the gas
from one sphere only Ia lost and the genera
resiliency Of the tire is scarcely affected.
ohio's new road law, which goes into effect
onthe first Of next month, does av ay with the
election Of road supervisors. and officials e.
do the work formerly assigned to them VIII
thereafter be. appointed by the townsh!p
not more than four sections, a road superln-
tendent being appointed for each OF these
sections. The roads are 10 be improved u1aeI
labor done and the township road taxes
worked out. The superintendent must work
under the direction of the trustees, who are TO
have the power TO discharge 9, superintendent
II they deem IL advisable. The superintend-
ents may employ laborers, but WI nor he
hour. Every male citizen between the axes
of Fl and 81, except soldiers, members OF the
National Guard, &c, must work, out his two
DAYS or pay 81 in cash, the work TO be done
between April Is and July /. The township
trustees can collect 81 from any citIzen VINO
refuses to work. there beng no one exempt
with the above exceptions
Writer'S on automobiling in the French
newspapers and trade publications are be-
/ ginning to make their forecasts regarding the
types Of cars TO be exhibited at the PARIS salon
next month One OF the best known oil them.
NJ. Paul Meyan. writing in the France Ariono-
bile. gives il as his opinion that the six cylinder
vii be very strongly in evidence. and this
fact he attributes to the influence OF English
makers on French houses The small rnna-
likely TO be met with on many stands, while
a large amount OF space il TO be devoted TO- the
improvements in commercial vehicles WIN
regard TO large touring machines VI. Meyan
thinks that few changes outside the clutch
and ransmisSloh are nke,y TO ns 3m nie W J. mft
is to-day understood as the motor car VIII
have undergone any appreciable alteration;
Seeing that general attention. ls. nov devoted
TO the six cylinder design, II is interesting 20
take notice OF 3. +. Edges statement that no
fewer than seventy different motor car firms
thronehout the world are copying the Napier
principle of constructs ion. Two years ago "
was difficult to find a single Continent al maker
even now the idea ia strongly opposed IN GER
tain quarters. In Italy. for example, It IL not
unlikely Tx .sss n ~ oSSe esT sf SSch a form of S conl
struction will be found to have adopted II Tor
their higher powered vehicles,
Club Of Newark ia planning to hold an endur-
ance contest next spring on much. the same
plan as the Glidden tour for 1909. though not
TO cover as much territory. One OF the first
plans preached provided for a 500 mile tour
through New Jersey and Pennsylvanle IN
GLIDING visits to Gettysburg and valley
Forge. Another plan is to hold a run of 300
miles, all within the boundaries Of New der
sew. The route proposed for the all-New
Jersey tour is from Newark to Camden, to
Atlantic City and return to Newark along the
club will probably hold the five mile handicap
race for the club cup, on thanksgiving ,Day
AT Waverly Park. This contest has been
Twice scheduled for decision lately-once on
election day and again on Saturday, Noyem-
Der 10, but darkness and accidents mterfered
each time.
Generally speaking. when the advice il
given to food out the cylinders OF a motor
al FREQUENT intervals with kerosene, the
reason assigned IL that II dissolves the lubrN
cant which h apt 10 be hardened on the
walls and thus gives the piston q chance 20
do its work without undue friCtiOnal resist
ance. As a matter of fact, however, its
effect upon the piston rings ia OF far greater
Importance. The rings. II IL TO, be renem-
bered, are fitted into slDts in the piston, 2
clearance Of only two or three hundredths Of
an inch being left for the working which IL
bound 10 take place. II the slightest particle
of oil is allowed 10 harden ia this delicate
hearing, the efficiency Of which is indispeus-
able TO the retension Of compression IN the
cylinder, the immediate result will BE- n
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