The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-21
MOTOR PUFFs

A bulletin OF the Importers Automobile
Salon calls attention to the fact that i'm
ported cars are again winning on Amer
lean race tracks, as well as in the foreign
road competitions. The salon notes that
a Darracq car recently won the hfty-mile
Derby at the Pittsburg meet track and
the worlds record for stock cars by max
ing the fifty miles in 5Shn. 40 2-5s. Tn
same car also won the two-mi1e event al
the Pittsburg race. 1t was driven by
Ernest d. Nevins. The recent winning
of the Neutrality-suspicious. race at Morris
Park track. New York. by the Renault
car in charge of Paul La Croix and Maui
rice Bernin. Is another feather in the cap
of the importers. who, It is said, will go
largely into track and road races In the
near future. C. r Mabley, member OF
the salon. says that mar of the import
ers were much disappointed at the failure
to secure Nassau County (Long Islandl
roads for the international stock car race
this fall. A number of them had made
preparations to enter, and 1t. was pc
Ieved that the foreign cars stood an ex-
cellent nance of winning the event.
Additional improvements in the new car
b%ureter, designed by the Acme Motor
Company and placed On their cars, nave
1 DGcu ulHQC. = AtNCi ANCEAANAI
TO the carbureter enables the operator OF
an Acme car when opening the throttle TO
| open up the gasoline supply at the same
time. In this manner whenever more ar
Is admitted more gasoline VIII also De
| taken in. The little device had been tested
out thoroughly over the hills ana rol1ng
roads about Reading, Pa, and has proved
flexible and speedy in operation ana tnor-
| oughly satisfactory. Tt will be a feature
of the new carbureters, which are being
placed on all the new Acme 'Sextuplets,
| the name given to the six-cylinder car
which will be turned out In considerable
quantities by the company next year.
The Dragon Tra~nscontinental car, which
left San Francisco at 4 o'clock on Septem-
Der 4, has been making progress across the
continent In spite of a number OF vexlnS
| accidents which have tended TO delay IL.
| On September IL 1t was ahead of all trans
continental records except the one made
by q six-cylinder car some time ago. Inc
Dragon Is being driven by Charles A..
Darcy and Theodore Hartenstein, and In
the party 1t the start were Benjamin M.
Turner and Frank Sexton. The road fol-
lowed was as closely as possible parallel
to the tracks of the Central Pacific, Union
Pacific and Chicago and
railroads as far as Chicago and then by
the Northern route through New York
state to New York city. On September y
Mr.. Darcy wired the Dragon Company,
of Philadelphia, from Minnemucca, New,
as follows:
'Through with worse part of trip. Am
behind time, but can make up consider
able. Got stuck in quicksand, rode twenty
miles on railroad ties and was stalled In
desert. Differential just broke, but have
EXTRA one. Have lost two drivers, but will
see car through to finish regardless of
everything.
(Signed) "CHAS. A. DARCY"
Two days later on September ID Mr..
Darcy wired:
Reached Ogden, Utah, today after ex-
tremely severe trip in nine days twenty
hours. The only car that ever beat this
was the sdx-cyiinder Franklin. After fix
ing up car will make attempt on Ogden
New York record.
(Signed) "CHAS. A. DARCY"
An experiment that will be watched with
interest," is the holding of ''cross-country"
racing Mt the Morris Park track next Fri
dav and Saturday. The course will be
partly over the track proper and partly
over the ground within the track, so thai
II will be possible to simulate road racing
conditions. There will be a "hairpin
turn. an 'S'' turn and winding course over
hillocks.
The adoption Of a provision for a teen
| meal board to advise the A. A. A.. IN
| supervising all sorts of automobile compe-
| tition and to promote technical contests IS
a great advance. There is now some SOFT
| OF guarantee tina the big association VIII
take the pains with its work that may De
expected from an organization OF national
fame and power.
The automobile has reached another spot
| heretofore inaccessible to its kind. Goat
| Island. which is recalled by tourists as a
portion of the show ground known as
Niagara Falls, had its roadways pressed
by the wheels of a motor car last week
when a party of persistent motorists FOUND
a way to secure permission to run an Acme
car there. The party consisted OF f1ve en-
thusiastic Reading, Pa, newspaper men
and they nave been touring for two weeks
or more over the Glidden tour route ana
in other interesting fields and pastures
new. As a crowning achievement they
visited Niagara Falls, with the purpose IN
view of landing the car on the soil OF
Goat Island. During the trip the party
covered more than 5000 miles, and ex-
press themselves as much pleased with the
work Of the Acme. No engine troubles ana
little tire trouble was encountered.