The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-18
AMONG THE AUTOMOBILTTS.
ATTEMPT TO PUT AN END TO
RECKLESS DRIVING.
View York Motor CIub Oners Reward for
. Conviction Of AutOists VINO Inyure
Persons and Try 9 Escape VIII Expei
aMember Found Guilty or the DIT ence.

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The board Of directors Of the New York
Motor Club has determined to do all in its
power TO put an end to reckless driving and It's
attendant evil. the practice OF putting on
still more speed In order to escape arrest after
last week the board passed the following
resolution:
Whereas the public press has recently
called attention to the reckless driving of a
few ~automobilists who have run into and in
jured pedestrians and drivers Of other We
hicles and escaped arrest by speeding away:
therefore be it
"ResoIccd. Blythe New York Motor Gu
that the board of directors do hereby authorize
q reward of fifty dollars (sJO) for the arrest
and conviction Of any driver Of any automo-
bile within the limits of Greater New York
who shall run into and injure any person or
persons and attempt to get away without
Offering aid or submitting to arrest: and,
furthermore be ID
"RcsolUCf, That the New York Motor Club
shall eNpel any member who shall be found
guilty of the above offence after a hearing
before the board. and that the New York
Motor Club asks other clubs to adopt the same
course in regard to any OF their members who
shall be found guilty as above"
In discussing the resolution President
W. j. p. Moore of the club said: The directors
felt that it was time some automobile organiza-
tion took Official action with regard to this new
phase Of lille gal speeding. We were of the
opinion that any driver who would either acct
d~entally or unknowiuply inJure any one and
then try to get away and thus escape arrest.
leaving his victims to the results of his act
without attemp ting to aid them. is unworthy
of reconsideration We have accordingly offered
this reward"
Three more Of the cars that started out
so bravery on tuesday morning on the New
York Motor Clue economy test arrived
Grsha hSTs EEe om 5Sagii. hnf most nc. o oee IN 4 &c com F..
petitor, Gul the two others were. Graham
arrived in New York at 2:iO o'clock yester-
after with the Premier. ha ving left Spring
field st $50 o'clock on Friday afternoon.
late yesterday afternoon. All OF those who
returned yesterday had undergone great
hardships and mad oeen forced to push through
Immens snowdrIfts.
What is a freak" in racing, is not as easy
Q question 10 snswer as would first appear,
says the Automobile. The present rules. both
in this country and abroad, conclude practi-
cally after requiring a few essentials. such as
four wheels, W brakes, and a motor-driven
reverse, aud limiting the. weight to 2.2O4
pounds. Originally 10 was held that a racing
any mat. rial chan ges II could be converted
into a vehicle that would be available for
cars ever built might be utilized in a limited
way. but only by skilful drivers, and then
on roads where trartlc was not ConReSted,
In great de gree this explanation Is far fetched,
and will find little consideration. .T~hereupon
the exponent of these powerful monster
will reply that all parts of a car are subjected
20 an enormous strain. thereby betraying
weak points and thus helping in the building
of a stanch vehicle for the general public,
IL was <, 4. Dir isall's recommendation-snd
Others argued in a similar strain-stated
several years ago. that the classification of
racing cars should be by total piston displace-
ment, toge Their with a fixed minimum weight,
and Mr.. Birdsall holds that there certainly
would not be any worse types than we have
now. Whether this cominonsense PROPOSE
ton will ever be brought about before racing
has lost its worth from the standpoint of the
manufacturer-and when IL does there will be
no more racinR-is extremely doubtful, and
it would seem that the the racing authorities
will have to meet the emergency with an
effort to equaIize matters as far as lies within
the r power.
To meet the issue Of the present moment
eQuarely and without any evasion. the whole
subject concerns the Florida meet OF January
next. There Ia a solitary steam car which
unQuestionably more completely belongs in
the freak class than does any one OF the Raso-
lene cars, several OF which. however, might
he somewhat arnenable under a strict in
depreciation Of rule IS of the A., A.. A. racing
rules, which reads as follows: The, referee
shall have absolute power TO prohibit any
car which ne considers unsafe. unsuitable.
or Of Improper construction to start In any
event The Florida programme, as at
present outlined. provides stock car events
from which any so-called freaks are positively