The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-03
AUTO RACES FOR
NEXT SEASON.
Vanderbilt Cup Course viii Be
Completed for Big Event
by Fall.

With the great Ormond meet in March.
the stripped stock touring car race i'm
April the great Atlantic City meet in
MAY, and other events following closely
all over the country, the makers of auto
mobiles will next year find ample oppor-
tunity TO try out their cars in every sort
of a contest. Racing teams may be
feature Of the automobile world as was
the case back in the old days of the bicy-
Gle. The makers want contests and are
anxious to enter them. They want rae
ing, touring, hill climbing and events in
which the relative value of the cars will
be brought forth All of these contests
make news, and news brings trade, of
that there can be small doubt.
There seems 10 be not the slightest
doubt now that the Long Island parkway
will be completed in time for the great
Vanderbilt race and other contests next
fall. Surveying parties were seen some
days ago on Long Island and were hard
at work. Mr. A. r. Pardington is au-
thority for the statement that the park
way will be completed, and that being
the case the great races planned for next
year will be held without doubt.
Thomas Francis Moore. ringIeader in
promoting. the stripped stock touring car
race. has every assurance now of com
Dlete success next April. The American
makers have come forward generously
ers are more than anxious to see the race
promoted. The course has been approved
by big men in the trade. and many MAX
eTS have commended il. The route pro-
vides long straight stretches some bad
turns of course. some hills. few towns.
some railroad crossings, and so on. In
fact the forty-twO-mile route IS perfect
for great road race of SO miles Inc
course will be better in the spring. as
many miles of roads are now being con
ssructed. These will be completed by fall
The demand comes from all over the
country for a race at Ormond and the
promotion of the great event is now GER
tain That the entry list will break all
records is a certainty, as it is proposed
to shape matters in such a way that
the freaks" which blotted out POSSIBLE
ties of success last year, Will be el1ml-
mated The races will be open 10 cars
that will have to show great speed Tor
twenty miles or more, and when that
sneed has been met no car VIII ever De
placed in the category OF freaks Inc
races will show great variety, all classes
of cars being favored with number OF
contests Both amateur and professional
drivers will be catered to. Definlte an
nouncement of the complete plans LOT tile
automobile and motor boat races IN r i o1
ida during the coming winter may pe ca
pected within few days.
The decorative idea for the New York
Madison Square Garden show. November
. M Q Will be that of terraced garden
with color scheme OF gray, crimson
and white. Entering from the FOYER tne
visitor will be confronted with a tower
ing gateway. a replica OF that OF the
Fiorio Teresa villa in Florence.
The output of automobiles from Amer,
can factories for the season or 1908 VIII
he about 5000, for which the manurac-
turers will receive $1S9. 3l5,0o0. an average
IF 81 ESQ according to careful! estimates
collected by the American Motor Gar
Manufacturers associations. when IN
cludes about two-thirds of the American
4 wonderful escape from death was that
Of Fire Chief Croker of New York. whose
car. while going at JO-mlle chp 10
fire lost a wheel. Without upsettlne
The car tore up the pavement for 100 feel
before il stopped. while the wheel ran
ahead for a block, then smashed through
an IRON fence as though it were paper
relieving the example of the United
states. almost all the European shows
viii he held early London's big Olym-
MIA show will be held November IL tc
- and it's rival. the Stanley affair. No
yember % to 3d. The big Paris show
in the Grand Palais and the Place de:
Invalides will run from November Il Il
December /: the German show at Berlin
from December to % and the one a
Turin. Italy from January IS to Febru
arv 2 There also will be a voituretft
contest near Paris from November l to Is