The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-19
MAKING READY
FOR "a HOUR
CONTEST
Students TO Act as Obsery-
ers in Local Clubs Test
Next Month.

In its conduct Of the Neutrality-suspicious.
endurance contest, which it opposes to
run November is and 16. the New Jersey
Automobile and Motor Club is considering
q .aovelty IN THE way of choosing OBJ
servers. Tnstend Of having the entrants
OF cars dominate observers, the club in
tends to have fifteen to twenty students
in the mechanical engineering course at
Stevens Institute net. Originally it was
planned tina each entrant Of a machine
should nominate two or three observers
for each machine entered. These obsery-
ere were then to be placed on machines
OF a different make. following the system
used in the. three-day endurance run, held
BY the club in THE spring.
Much opposition to this plan arose. both
from the entrants of ears In the previous
contest, and from officials of the club.
The club then cast about for a different
scheme. Louis t. Wiss. vice-presldent CT
the stub, suggested that a compromise
might be effected by which one observer
be nominated for each car by the club,
and another be named by the entrant
Of the machine. This was favorably con-
sidered whelf the plan of importing Stew
ems College students was thought of.
The Stevens plan has many advantages
that the others lacked. In the first place,
all those selected from the Castle Point
college will be upper classmen, who have
passed through a thorough course in the
machine shops of the institute and who
are qualified to act as observers. Many
OF these men either own or run automo-
biles themselves, but win be free from
prejudice for or against local agents, as
many Of those to be selected live in Sec
tons of the country remote from Newark.
Alleged fayoritism created some hard feel
ing in the three-day contest held by the
club in the spring.
While they are off duty these observers
will be considered the guests of the club.
Sleeping quarters win be fixed up in the
clubroonis at Broad and Chestnut streets
md a buffet lunch, including fruit, sand
witches and hot coffee, will be served
throughout the twenty-four hours of the
run.
a meeting of the race committee of
the club will be held early next week to
decide definitely upon a few particulars
of the conditions. AS soon as this can be
done. and the matter of observers closed
up. Horace A. Bohnell, secretary Of the
club. will serd out entry blanks. From
q canvass of local dealers made yesterday,
ii was apparent that the club would re-
ceive from fifteen to twenty entries il the
agents keep to their decision to enter cars.
Some slight apathy that was shown to-
ward the contest n few weeks ago has
practically disappeared. The only request
that many of the dealers made when In
terviewed was that they wished the rules
to be as strict as, possible, since they all
place the utmost confidence In their cars.
The decision Of the club to give cups to
all finishing with perfect scores, or 70
those tying for first place, has proved
popular with them.
The race committee mas written to the
Chicago Automobile Club for a copy of
the rules governing its sealed-bonnet con-
test. As soon as this is received and the
local officials can have the benefit of the
clubs experience. the rules win be print
I'd ana distributed.