Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-16
He4NerY Finishing
cause a car to swerve and run into the
crowd. killing scores Unfortunately.

cause, car to swerve and run into the
crowd, killing scores Unfortunately.
Not Far From Mineola.
The start this year will be near Mineola,
but 1t will be farther east than it was in
1905, probably just beyond the crossing of
the Oyster Bay branch of the Long Island
railroad, which is seen in the accompanying
map Of the route.
From the time the start is left until East
Norwich is reached the cars fairly burn
the surface of the road. Their route is
along the Jericho turnpike. q. splendidy
macadamized road, which has but few
dulations in its surface and mostly traverses
region SO level that the pleasure seeker
passing along at less than a madman's
pace is able to see the gre-n-clad country
side for some miles wherever the shrubbery
Is low enough to permit an outlook over the
land.
At Jericho. which is a few miles along
the level plain. the road trends toward the
northeast, in the direction of Oyster Bay,
where President Roosevelt makes his sum-
mer home. In fact, when it arrives at East
Norwich 1t is not SO far from the President
that one could not drive to his comfortable
cottage in a little over an hour
This road like the Jericho turnpike is
splendidly macadamiZed. but 1t is a tri1e
more rolling, and there some bends and
turns which make 1t rather difficult for the
miles an hour to see more than one hundred
yards ahead of him.
First Bad Turn
At East Norwich there is the first real
''up-and-down mean turn of the course.
The car, with it's speed of sixty miles an
hour more. must be kept sufficiently
under control to round a sharp curve to the
left. If it should happen to get away from
the driver it would very likely land in the
front door of the village tavern, which faces
the road at just the right angle to receive
it invited guest. In fact, 1t is told no
one vouching for the accuracy Of the yarn,
however, that when the French drivers were
first practicing over the course a year ago
one of them did land his machine on the
veranda Of the hotel gave the landlord a
ahaust from the cylinders and backed down
and away before the curious villagers could
get to the scene to congratulate him upon
not battering the hotel down.
After the turn is made the cars have a
straightaway stretch over another SPLEEN
didly macadamized road to Bulls Head
Tavern. Western people will be interested
to learn that most of the roads over which
the race is run are as hard as If paved and
quite as smooth as If they were asphalted.
They are simply delightful to ride upon,
even in wet weather, and graciously COM
Portable all the year around
This run to Bulls Head Tavern Is over
country trifle more undulating than that
which was traversed on the southern side
of the course. but there is no danger at
any time in navigating the hills, and the
cars take the declines and the ascends at
full speed.
| At Bulls Head there is a particularly
vicious turn, almost at right angles to the
left The manner in which most of the pro-
fessional drivers take it is this: They come
up to the corner almost at full speed. There
they begin clap on the brakes Their
mechanic1ans swing far out over the left
side of the machine, somewhat like outrig-
gers to a sailing craft, and checking the
speed. and at the same time throwing the
steering gear around. the cars are 'skidded'
about the curve until their prows, so to
speak, are pointed directly down the course,
and then they are off again full tilt for the
next dangerous spot.
The point the Vanderbilt cup course of
this year which will command the most at
tention from. the sensationalists, who are
always looking for something hair-lifting to
happen. is near Old Westbury. 1t has been
christened the "hairpin turn" and the name
has not been badly applied.
1t is a sharp curve, in which the road
practically bends back upon ITSELF and will
have to be negotiated with some care il
driver does not want to smash into a tele-
graph pole or climb a fence into corn