Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-09
Good OUTLOOK.
Prospects Bright For Auto
Races at 0rmOnd.
Inconvenience Of Poor Trans
pOriaiiOn Overcome.
New York's Exhibition OF Motor
Boats Is Opened.

one Of the greatest stumbling blocks
in taking y motor ear to Florida IN past
years has been the Inconvenience
caused by the railroad from Jackson-
vile To OrInond and Palm Beach
Many of the automobilistS who have
taken their machines TO Ormond will
tell stories how The motors were long
delayed in transportation Also the
high Rites charecd on the Flprida east
coast.
y" one ever thought it possible 10
driv, car from Jacksonville to Or
mond until X. X. owens succeeded in
DOING the trick with his Oldsmobile
last winter when he made The record
tr!D from NcW York there
During Tie tournament over He
! sand streWn beach at Dnytnna another
| hardy IutoSt drnV" Il car back to
JHcksoaVillc from OImDnd in less than
| 1--WE nOurS.
.iow il is proposed to hold an endn-
rance run from Jarksonville south il
connection with Tie motoring carnival Is
| III March.
W. j. Morgan Of New York has r.
whites that he found tremendous inter-
est in Ilc meets from Jacksonville to
Miami, through trackless waste for
the most part, ana has set automobiliSts
| talking al over the North ana South
The run Will be for stock cars. ard the
best drivers Of the country will particl-
pate and viii be accompanied by II
corps Of Photographers and newspaper
Re nortcrs, as II viii undoubtedly pro-
vide some sensational incidents. Ar
fragments Will bc made 10 check the
daring drivers at tie principal points
of the 4V0-mile drive and all Of them
VIII De equipped with bridge and road
making implements, as ii is expected
that i'll som" places they Will nave 10
practically build a road in order 10 pro
coed, and At other points Will probably
hav" 20 build some bridge in order ia
cross streams
The purpose of the ron is chiefly Ia
draw the attention Of the pconle %
Florida TO the want of good road
through tn" peninsula, Whlch would
mean much for The state. In fact, il
is now the aim 81 the good roads adv"-
Gates Of the state To have road built
around the peninsula and across Ia
Jacksonville from Il point on the YVES;
coast. This would give nearly Il l""'-
,mile drive.
The motor boat carnival At Palm RcIc!
will be Ill" great sporting event Of ~
southern end of Tie state in March, and
the long motor boa1 run for the Comlno-
dore Allen trophy, presented by Tie Hall
fax Yacht Club of Daytona. from ST. Au'
gust inc to Miami. Will provide Il %-h-nni'
race over The famous Indian river dnd
| through TIC new canal which mss JuSl
been opened between st. Augustine anu
| OrmOnd \ fleet of light drau2ht ho2t
will enter the contest, which VIII he II
| sections or relays, as motor boat tour
lnamonts for handsome prizes Will he CIV
en- at Daytona and Rockledge. as we'll as
the state at ST Augustine, where the ci'-
liens OF the ancient city will provide .
good program of events Large motor
boats VIII be chartered 10 accompany the
race. and one boat now being built al
Daytona VIII accommodate 200 people. II
l. is expected that fully 500 persons Will be
with the motor boat armada, and u VII
lremind many Of the great Spanish fleets
that once ruled the world.
The Indian river provides the most en-
lcnaHtlnS scenery ana tilui pi'''N7 i''
visiting and it is quite likely that man>
, of the pleasure seekers will more or les:
: ignore the big race in order to stop OF a
some Of the popular points. The arriNa
I | at Palm Beach of the race VIII be IN
I signal for the start of the fourth annha
Palm Beach Power Boat Association
, carnival and the fastest boats In me
world will be in action there during 1h'
, week of March l6.
| The long motor boat run from =. Au
CUISINE to Miami will also serve 10 draw
attention to tile necessity Of deeper
channel between the two points. and th'
governments naval representatives re
Gently inspected the waters win "a view
of deepening them sufficiently To Una
small war craft can find shelter there II
times Of war or from storms. as seFcra
inlets enable craft to seek me nlne''
IWat,rs from the Atlantic.