The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-23
BIG AUTO CONTEST
Course of Four Hundred Miles Lies Through Six Town
 ships.
PLAN FOR PROTECTION
Eleven Hundred Officers and Men to Protect Public and Drivers
 of Cars.

What year ago was considered inn- possible was completed last week in New York when the secretary of the automobile manufacturers committee secured the final grants from seven of the town boards of Westchester coun- ty for the purpose of holding and con- ducting an automobile contest over the state roads of Westchester county. New York is, undoubtedly, the most important automobile center in the United States and events and contests held in that immediate vicinity will, undoubtedly, attract vast crowds to witness such an interesting spectacle. The course lies through six townships and one incorporated village; Green burg, Mt. Pleasant, Ossining, Newcas- tie, Yorktown, Northcastle and the in corporated village of Briarcliff Manor. The circuit as given out by the county engineer is a distance of some S5 miles,
 A number of those who are familiar with this territory express themselves as satisfied with the road conditions, but recognize that 1t Is going to be a very severe test of the motor car and will call for great skill on the part of the driver, all of which will add in- tense interest to the contest from spectacular point of view and will un- doubtedly serve as a strong reeom- meadation for the machines that can negotiate the distance given. MT. Rob- ert Lee Morrell, who is heading this movement, has not given out as yet the exact distance that the cars will have to cover in the time given. The grants from the several authorities per- mits the race to start at dawn and continue until S:S0 p. m. and it is not unlikely that the racing board and the technical board, who are composed of men of high standing in the automo- bile world, will possibly fix the length of the race at somewheres near 400 miles.
 The donor of the trophy, Walter w.. Law, Is probably the heaviest taxpay- CT in the county of Westchester, own ing, as he does, in the neighborhood of 15,000 acres and to his influence and support, the committee owes the success it has thus far met with. lm- mediately upon the signing of the res olution, MT. Law notified the jewellers to develop the design submitted to his for the trophy which is to be complet- ed before the 18th of January. MT. Morrell in an interview given out last week, disclosed some of the plans that he has in view for policing the course and they cannot help but convince everyone that this difficult problem will be wisely cared for. There will be on the course on the day of the contest over HOO officers and men to protect the public as well as the driv- CTS of the cars. Nine hundred of these men will be from the city of New York, the balance to be selected from the various townships under the com mand of the sheriff of the county.
 The New York contingent will leave that city on special trains and will be carried to the various points around the circuit. not later than 1 o'clock in the morning and by a. m. the entire course will be under control and guard Mr. Morrelrs headquarters will be established at the golf club of Briarcliff Manor, which organization has turned over the entire building to his services. The county engineer has already started on some of the roads to prepare them for the contest.