Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-22


.tomobile race q possibility are
at this moment. organizing y@t
more gigantic contest from N "
York to Parsley land.
say ''by land" because the Amer" an
and European sports who risk it will not
cross an ocean, racing from New York
to Paris. The route is around the other
way-wes. across the United States. UP
through Alaska and then down Siber to
Europe But. how wiz they cross Bering
strait? They will cross Bering strait upon
the. winter ice.
This most audacious of automobile COW
tests-around the dry lard of the terres-
trial GIobe-will take place in the WIN er
Of 1905 while the. hard snow and ic =
bound rivnrs of s Der a ard A aska offer a
vast automobile race track.
These who. at first ance. FAY that t e
protect Is Impossible have no 'dea Of he
financial and engineering force a'rendy
committed 20 1t. Hear what Prince Sci
phone BorgheSe winner of the PeFine-
Paris, has to say about 1t. Read about
the preparations the vast factory of the
Marquis de Dion Is Already beginning.
or course. there remain the hazards of
a route without roads in the cold OF A'ae-
kan and Siberian winters. On this sub
ject Lelouvier-the romantic and unkil'-
able Lelouvier-left for dead In PEEK ng-
Paris. where he really found a rich and
blooming bride. is optimistic. He says: Il
am certain of success
Lelouvier was the first sport TO enter
for New York-Parss. as he had been the
drst to enter for Peking-PaEs. He is nure
French, born in 1873, of scientific educa-
tion. from the Anglers School of Arts and
Trades.
Incapable OF standing civil service dis
cipline he entered the French merchant
marine, a regularly peaceful life. but in 1t
Leiouvier found nothing but adventures
when the Aziadee sunk in the channel on
q winter night. he chung to spfr and
was picked up for drowned by Eng tsh
sailors Next year. OFF the Anti les. he
swan from the wreck Emma. So dier ng
IN the Tonkin campaign. he was thrice
cited for bravery in aiding wounded COM
rades under fire. plantation manager in
Indo-China, he saved the pay chest with
four bullets in his body.
Returning to Paris. he went in for autos
In his first iong-distance race he got a
? brain Conclusion THAT would have killed
Whick oyings UP to Pek'ng-Paris in
which Mid not finish. Somewhere on
the edge q the Cobb Desert, he and God
dard werS attacked by escaped convicts.
Goddard ms never been seen since. and
LelovsierRas left for dead. This time it
l was the end.
Well. along came a postal-relay, twenty
hours behind its schedule. 1. transpor ed
Nm. inert. to Omsk. where Mile. Kreiss.
godda tighter Of the governor of Irkutsk
he&ped nHxSe him back to life, and Mile
X rSAss became so interested in her patient
thatsthe governor had her removed to far
of Yaku.sk. Lelouvier, following her,
got dSliked by authority and was hailed
"by mistake northward to Verkhoiansk.
the AMBIENT exile pr1son-p 'ace-from which
he nnafly escaped and eoped to Paris with
the governors goddaughter only this No
vember.
An Ice Elopment.
The happy coupe is in Paris. but the
interesting thing Is Le,ouvier's escane
from che coolest town of the old world"
down 70 Tekutsk and beyond in a spe-
cially equ1pped automobile-over the hard
snow of equivalently the worst section Of
the proposed race from Boring strait.
I'm a winter climate that goes to be-
tween 60 and So degrees below zero Fab
renheit, II Is heath and sporting snap to
automobile over the hard snow and Ice
bound rivers" says Lelouvier. ''Infu te
silence weighs over all. Nature sleeps.