Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-08-12
BARNE5ON'S AUTO
Rolls into (UL(H
Deplorable Accident Mars
Otherwise Fine
Race


Only one car out of the ten con.
testants who started in the auto en-
durance race yesterday, namely S. X.
Jordan's Maxwell, made the trip
around the island with perfect
score. He Is therefore the only ono
who has a leg on the trophy, the Won
Hamm- Young cup, which has to be
won three times. Jim Quinn with his
brand new Buick had made perfect
ecore until he made stop at Moana.
iua to assist the occupants of CAPTAIN
Barneson's car, who had come to
grief 1t is quite possible that this
will not be considered as a count
against him by the committee
The standing of the contestants
after the race was as follows:
j. d. Kennedy, Winton, disqualified
Bruce Kennedy, Ford, disqualified
Lowrey, Ford, disqualified.
Fred Damon, Ford, disqualified.
Captain Barneson, Peerless, acct
dent.
E. Henriques, Winton, penalized.
S. R. Jordan, Maxwell perfect
score.
James Quinn, Buick, perfect score
unless penalized for stopping at the
time of the Barneson accident.
w. N. Patten, Orient, penalized.
A. Along. Pope-Hartford, penalized.
The weather was excellent through
out the trip, and the roads were in
fne condition, with the exception of
n short stretch at the foot of the pail
road near Kaneohe, and a hill at Ka.
hama. 1t was found that the time
limit for the two stretches between
town and Kahuku and from that point
to Haleiwa was far too long and all
the cars had to kill time between
these points, In order to escape being
penalized for arriving ahead of time. |
When Kahuku was reached only |
three cars had perfect scores, namely, |
those of Henriques, Quinn and Jor-
Gan. At Haleiwa the result was the
same, but on the home stretch Hen.
1iques' car, which had behaved splen.
didly all the way, developed q bad
tire, which spoiled what would other.
wise have been a perfect score. Jor,
dan had very bad tire when he left
Haleiwa, but he reached town without
having to repair it, Henriques' car
distinguished itself by making the en-
tire trip without sk'dding chains.
Unfortunately the race was marred
by an unfortunate accident to Captain
Rarneson and his party. His car
went over the precipice and fell into
the Moanalua creek, and the occu
pants escaped with their lives by a
miracle. David Kamauoha, chauf
feur of the Young garage, who sat IN
the front seat of the car with Cap
tain Barneson, who was driving, gave
the following version of the accident.
Captain Barneson is an excellent
driver, and | have seen him do things
with his car which have never seen
any Honolulu chauffeur do. He
drives fast but he exercises care al
the same time, and is certainly not
reckless. We were coming up behind
Quinn's auto footing our horn. One
of the men in the back of Quinn's car
signaled to us that they would turn 4
to the left so that we could pass them, I
ind Barneson consequently turned to
The right. When we were within al
few feet of the Quinn car it turned
little to the right so much that we
could not pass it and would have run
INTO it had we attempted to do so.
Captain Barneson with great presence
If mind threw on his brakes and his )
everse, but we had two wheels over &
he side of the precipice then and
nothing could save us. We went )
to the bottom Those in the &
onneau got out on the way down, but ,
he Captain and | went all the way. s
The car turned over us several times, &
tut | pulled the Captain away fron ;
he steering gear, and we both es- g
aped without being very badly hurt .
The car was very badly damaged" (
Quinn stopped his car as soon as he z
'as told of the accident by those who
we're in his tonneau. He gave up 6
bought of the race and took Barne Z
on and his party to the military hos.
ital at Camp Shafter, where DR.. Me =
,alum attended to their injuries The
aptain had broken rib and the 9th.
rs few bruises. They were all able