The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-30
AMONG THE AUTOMODLISTS
GLIDDEN TOUR ROUTE HARD ONE
THROUGH FINE SCENERY.
Local MOtortst Room 10 OneF Trophy for
Big Touring Event e Year Through
Many states -SchOoIeys Mountain
Hill Climbing CSntests Postponed.

Big Touring Event Next Year Through
Many states -SchO0Iey's Mountain
Hill Climbing contests Postponed.
Judging from the reports OF a couple Of
motorists who have travelled over part or
ali Of the route TO be used for this years
annual tour Of the American Automobile
Association for the Glidden and Hover
trophies. those who 20 on the journey will
have plenty OF hily country and beautiful
scenery TO travel through. George NJ, Davis
Of the Automobile Club' Of Buffalo. who has
entered the tour as a non-contestant and
received number -. drove over the entire
route from Cleveland to Chicago and then
eastward to this city in his 90 horsepower
Thomas, and Charles Schmidt Of the Cleye-
land Automobile Club was content to cover
that part OF the route from Canton, Ohio.
eastward to the finishing place in this city
N his As horsepower Peerless.
Both Of them unite in saying that springs
and brakes had better be carefully looked
over by intending contestants, particularly
as there are great numbers of water breaks
on the roads through Pennsylvania Mr..
Davis suggests that II will be well for those
who intend making the tourney to brush
up on their civil war history so that they
will know all about the many battlehelds
they will pass near or over. He says that
there will be very little level country after
lH6 IOull ltdNb Nplhiipubt inv .DHN hhNN
many cordial receptions are being planned
mt most Of the cities where night stops are
10 be made and that the people Of Mary
land, particularly the farmers. are very
friendly to automobilists. He was on last
years tour, and is Of the opinion that this
years event will not be any easier than last
years vac.
According to an official announcement
made yesterday a total Of thirty-eight entries
had been received up to Thursday last for
this years annual tour Of the American Auto
mobile Association. which starts from Cleve-
land on July 10 and ends in this city on July "a.
The hitherto unpublished entries are twelve
in number and are those Of II. II. Perkins,
Pttsburg Automobile Club. 80 horsepower
Packard; H. C. Shoemaker, Chicago Motor
club, $3.50 horsepower Shoemaker; William
Mitchell Lewis. Chicago Automobile Club,
80 horsepower MITCHELL; A. Cuneo, New York
Motor Club. 3o-35 horsepower Rainier; A..
Kumpf, Automobile Club of Buffalo, 4o-45
Pierce; P. Gaeth, Cleveland Automobile
Club, IS horsepower Gaeth; G. p. Moore.
Pittsburg Automobile Club. so horse power
Welch; II, NJ. Coale. Quaker City Motor Club,
10 horsepower AutOcar; L. S. Lea. Mercer
County Automobile Club. 40 horsepower
Walter; ]. c. Rirkham. Westminster Motor
club. 1920 horsepower Maxwell G. S. Smith
Quaker City Motor Club. 35 horsepower
bbI LAY NOH ihAIhc''N' - ~ '"
mann. Chicago Motor Club. IS horsepower
Locomobile %runabout.
Another change was made in the rules
last Thursday at a meeting Of the touring
board held in Buffalo. In response TO the
petition Of a number of clubs who thouPht
that the original rules were too fayJiaple
In clubs having teams Of large size, the Pre-
gTessive scale used IN the awarding the total
start has been abolished. Instead Of a team
with three cars having 900 points al the outset
az d ts a Iesm Mil II s sen ha Mitb lS isso p pSintS TO 20 t Ibef.
credit. The system Of penalization remains
unchanged, so that a team OF three cars loses
controls: a team OF 81 cars loses one-sixth
of a point; a team Of ten cars one,tenth OF a
point; and Hn5 50 81 The rough roads SsSh between bet e1f
by a change of route and there will be no
need Of taking the train ferry at 'Havre de
in the trip from Baltimore TO Philadelphia;
There will be a detouI by way OF York and
antaster over new toll roads that will make
the Increased distance seem trivial.
A. W. Church OF the Automobile, Gu OF
America has announced that he will give a
1905 and that the rules Ind route Of the con
test will be made public some time In August OF
this year in order 10 give plenty OF time to in
a number Of his friends and associates work
ing on tentative rules for the contest. which
VIM be submitted to competent, automobile
engineers and CONSTRUCTORS before being finally
adopted and issued. The route TO be covere
posed to start from this city. then to travel to
Hartford, to Boston. to Concord, \. H.: then
70 Albany, from there to Columbus Ohio;
Richmond. Va, to Washington TO Harrisburg,
PA and nf F back to this city making SbhnGb 9 STOP dIo en- IN
having the tourists visit the various State
ca 'itals mentioned, is to have them meet the
"" ",o stsV to them 2r me eo 1,agrdn, i the ecn SPn msS Of
the roads traversed in their States. While
he does not think that the tour will be an easy
time for rest at The different stopping places
so that the drivers and passengers Of the com
petipg cars viii not hnd the trip TOO hard; i
is likely that the tour will be held as early in
the year as the road conditions will warrant.
hill climbing events which had been scheduled
for July 4 up Schooley'S Mountain near Hack
cttRtown, y. j., have been indefinitely most
poned, The local authorities agreed TO AZ up
the road leading up. the mountain. bur have
not done so, Mr.. Morgan hopes TO run the
affair on some future date, possibly July II
Eddie Bald won the twenty-five mile ia;a
on the State Fair Grounds track a; Mime
mobile. Pald's time for the distance. n
minutes rs seconds; established n new record
been e. minutes 10 secpl1s. one Of Bald's
opponents. NcrdleS drove his - horse-power
Mitchell through the fence and both he and
his car escaped injury. though he had been
travelling at n fast rate # speed.
San Franci-co uut1mnbilista have been
greatly bothered during the last foW weeks
by the operations of a band Of automobile
thieves. The party Vas made IN nf Chauheurs
who had been discharged Tor misconduct by
various automobile livery concerns. Their
usual procedure was to meet in the early even
ins. walk around looking for cars and having
found one to drive II around Tor n time, earn
inF whatever money they could by carrying
passengers. after which they would drive the
car until the fuel supply was exhausted and
then abandon 1t. This heCam" 80 frequent
that the Automobile club of talitorniH. the
Automobile Dealers Ass1ciaticn and an in
suranoe company joined forces and offered
a reward for the conviction Of the guilty ones.
-Four men were arrested and charged with
having been the cause Of the trouble, They
were convicted, but reGHined their freedom
upon the payment Of very small fines
Gasolene is thinner" than water and Will
BASS through a crevice so small that water
viii not leak through II. Advantage cAn he
taken OF this in testing valves for leaks.
Take the valve, in place in its cage. turn IT
upsioe down and pour Gasolene into the little
CUP formed by the valve and the care. II
the valve will hold Rasolene it will not leak