The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-17
Roebling's Machine Could Go
Faster if Centrifugal Force
: Wouldn't Rip Tires.
is BUILT FOR TOURING.
Builder Didn't Want a Racing
Car, but One for Every
Day Use.

stored away in your clothes. you can
space at the rate of mile in thirty
seconds You can always be on time
at your job.
Washington A. Roebling, the young
millionaire sportsman of Trenton has
just solved the problem. With the as
sstance of NJ. Etenne blanche, a noted
French expert on automobiles, lie has
bull a machine that can skip along
the public highways at the rate of 100
miles an hour anu if it comes to
pinch he might make it 100.
"One hundrer' and fort miles, Nev-ah!
Impossible"
That is substantially what NJ. blanche
said when asked if it was true the new
automobile about which the sporting
world is now agog could negotiate that
speed.
The great engineers of the world"
addel Mr.. Roe bling, who was standing
near, raincoated and begoggled, have
long since decided that it is impossible
Tor any vehicle to travel more than 1870
miles in an hour. AT that speed the
tires would burst and be torn to shreds
from centrifugal force. No tire can be
built that can stand that pace. Cen
trfugal force is one law we can't get
orc md
II There Weren't Speed Laws.
That being the case, Mr.. Roeoling and
NJ. blanche are going to satisfy them
selves with spinning along at moder-
etc gait of 100 miles an hour. They are
doing so and 100 every afternoon just to
try out the machine.
Were it not for speed laws, vehicles
and other people, Mr. Roebling's space
killer would make a hit with those
having $4,000 in New York. He'll fix
one up for that
y speed of 100 miles an hour means
a mile in thirty seconds. Some years
ago that meant the highest speed that
could be attained upon race-track
In a freak, fragile racing machine. Mr.
Roebilng's machine can do 1t on the
pubic road for an hour at a time. or
longer if necessary.
Imagine what that would mean to the
busy New Yorker!
After a breakfast in Kingsbridge the
busy man could light cigarette, jump
lyn Bridge or the Battery before the
weed had burned down TO a stump.
The man in Yonkers could have his
dinner ct 100. hustle his wife into the
space annihilator, and arrive at the
metropolitan Opera House at i.i5
Our friends in Philadelphia wishing TO
have a merry night could have dinner
OF home at o'clock, jump into
machine, and he at theatre in New
! ork before o'clock.
A reporter-and they all have 10000
could hear Oh Il fire in Harlem, grab
las waitin. machine. and be on the
.cene in o little less than three min
ltcs
But Laws Interfere.
Mllady could miss her fan or wrap
ct the grand opera. and while Caruso
Mas singing the Toreador song from
"Carmen" the obliging husband could
span up to \ onlIers and be back in time
u soln In the encore
The wife could telephone to the office
tI.at the gas man in Harlem was about
u turn off the supply, and the husband
ouu.u vault into his waiting machine
tud be at nome before the villain could
get lis pipe wrenches out of the bag.
But the laws-those inexorable laws.-
arc always IN the way. That is the
only Thing to prevent all families being
equipped with these space defying
machines,
While New York IS generally re-
garded as a speedy town, the mounted
police won't stand for more than TWEEN
~ miles per hour. and we have got TO
+ DO without MIR. Roeblings receipt until
definite arrangements can he made.
For Six months Mr.. Roebling and NJ,
Pla-che have been working away on
this auto in quiet country place two
miles from Trenton. Mr. ROeblirg fur
nished the $4,000, and NJ. blanche fur
nisned The experience and the design.
Weighs 1850 Pounds.
As far "a the proletarIat can see, the
RoeoEng- Planche machine looks like all
ether automobiles. II is painted pure
white and richly upholstered The
body, or tonneau TO be autoey sits
close To the ground and weighs a little
more than 1000 pounds, The entire ar
lair. including the mud guards tips
the beam at 2,151 pounds. This weight
IS necessary 10 keep the flyer on the
ground.
Where do you try this thing out|
was asked of the two autoists.
oh, we have a private road" wal
the reply. Come along ana see Il
worn" They were then in the factory
ana young Mr.. Roebling walked oveI
ana touched some hidden button Of
spring. The reports which followed
were deafenlng, The cannonading a
Fort hamilton was ike a zephyr tt
what the millionaire autolst starte,
tight there IN the shop. Bang Bling
Bang came the reports. and then Iher'
was a deafening spluuer,
Jump IN" he yelled through tn
noise and one vault landed the ex
ploner on the running board, Anothe
Jump and he Was In the seat, Like
white streak the space Killing mauhin,