The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-24
CENTER INTEREST
IN GIGANTIC CAR
VANDERBILT 25o-HORSE POWER
MACHINE EXPECTED TO 90
TWO MILES A MINUTE.
HAS EIGHT CYLINDERS
In Endeavor to Beat Worlds
Record at Ormond-Daytonia
Beach Races.

Beach Races.
4 Ormond, Fla, January 23.--Mllion-
ares, professional auto racers and fol.
lowers of the auto game from all sides
and life are holding forth here this
week. All are drawn by the racing
tournament scheduled for six days
The racing began today, but the
initial programme was Of prelmin-
airy nature. The one event that will
surely attract the greatest attention
/ is the speed test in which contestants
must equal two miles a minute in or
der to qualify for prize money.
! This two-mile a-minute eevent will
/ bring out the new ana wonderful Van
derbilt 250-hores power machine, along
with many other great cars. These
viii be driven by the nerviest of all
men in the world, including Sartori
Lanca, Fletcher, Henry Hemmery and
Guinness in imported cars, and c. E.
Coey CT Chicago.
In addition to this event many rec.
ords are sure to fall. While the entry
list this year is hardly as large as
usual, the cars make up in horse
power and quality what they lack in
numbers.
As has been the case in the past
American makers are conspicuous by
their abs ence as out of one hundred
manufacturers of motor cars in this
country only four or five have had
the courage to pit their product
against the pick of the old world and
yet they say we are a sport-loving peo-
pie.
individual Entries Jwenty-Two.
The individual entries are twenty
two In number with total entry in
the races of 166. The touring car,
which figured in last Winters mrna-
ment has been eliminated, with the
exception of one event, in which the
regular stock car figures
In horse power the entries this year
show an increase of more than %
per cent, and for the first time In the /
history of automobile racing two cars,
one of 200 and the other of $50 horse |
power, will be seen in competition.
OF twenty-five entries only seven.
cen can be called racers, but at that |
they are easily he fastest cars in the |
world, and if the long-icoHed for two
mile a-minute car is not among them /
there will be sadly disappointed lot
Of motorists OF the racing cars
of foreign origin, while five were built
in the United States.
The mile record of the world is
}2 As seconds, so the driver who may
lower il will only have to wipe ont
less than three seconds in each mile
Of the two TO accomplish the desired
two miles minute performance,
which will interest the whole world
This speed will be the fastest accom-
Dlished by anything on the earth or
above the earth by machine. man or
beast or birds o fthe air The fastest
light Cf a bird recorded Is that of a
Buffalo, n. Y. homing pigeon. who
was credited five years ago with ny
ng 100 miles at the rate OF about
hirty-fve seconds per mile but it IS
Interesting to note that this speed Is
,ver COO yards in the mile faster than
seven other performances by various
birds in various parts of the country. |.
The best performance of any rail
Dad train is that credited to the En-
Iire State Express in 1898. when it
vas supposed TO cover a mile between
New York and Buffalo i'm thirty two
econds. which time is not generally
believed according to the editor OF a
'ailroad paper.
vsnderbiIt's Lightning Car
OF the American cars, the special
'ight-cylindered, 250 horsepower car ,
.ntered and built by Alfred G. Van
Ierbit from designs of REGARD and
iartori is easily the most powerful
# the lot II is said the car has at
asst been brought down TO the requir.
ID 2.204-pound limit. but the car is
n experiment. pure and simple, and
10 one can even guess what IL will
10. Paul Sartor will drive this car. {
he Stanley steamer. which in a prac-
ice spin Tuesday covered a mile in
o As seconds, ii is thought by many J
viii uphold Americas honor against l
he best that France and England
an produce. but unfortunately for l
his cars chances, It blew ont a cylin }
er on Wednesday anG nav not be I
eady in time to race. Marriott. an !
x-bicycle rider. will drive this car.