New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-06
PLEASED WITH COURSE
Says Motor Parkway Vii Permit
Cars to Break Records.

work on The new Iong Island Motor Parkway.
where the Vanderh9t Cup Is TO be run
October "a. is rapidly nearing completion. About
eight miles OF the cement highway is laid. and
nearly all Of the bridges al interesting county
roads and railroads ready for the cement
workers TO take hold Of.
These bridges formed by solid cement abut-
-nent. high enough 70 permit steam train or
load Of loose hay 10 pass under the new cement
-s-kvay The tops OF the abutrnents are connect
ss BIZ heavy steel Orders such used TO sup
nor the roof Of the Manhattan subway, and around
chase orders q wooden mould Is built and the ce-
-1sut and crushed stone poured IN until the de-
cred level Is reached thus making the bridges at
s ute-<ecting roads practically solid cement steel
.,d stone The longest bridge IS ninety feet This
=. =. ,-iar- 81 Central Park where the highway
hsr47s 70 rise about six hundred feet before IL
-se~hes the Long Island Railroad tracks The
,bu--nen.s are about thirty-hTe feet high st this
-o,,+ and the racing cars viii pass over railway
-. snd vehicles which travel along the public
,,L-.,- - that II viii be possible while the race
a. a nroz-ess 70 run trains on this branch on reg
IT, schedule end none OF the country rsnc VIII
:. trtsr-upted IN the least
~. ,..+,71. OF the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup race lis
- - ~ the most novel and exciting Never
- rs y reen possible any great road rae
d. Course TO see steam engine and Tram o, cars
-e-,nr slcng for great distance paraiel WIN Ie
-. and then suddenl- shooting unoer nc
-. sc the racing machines pass overhead me
81
~ - ,----~essarv for the racing drivers 10
,.ck.n speed when reaching one OF lhese So
-. Practically the only hills ~flch eFe 1es
zsu have to climb this year VIII De inc en-.
Inns which are formed by the ne" PaFA"0'
intersections ,.-..,onx
= ~ tracks rom the Hampstead branch INTO
+bs hack OF the Erandstand. snd the M0Iot N
~ engineers are planning 70 arrange ll -.
-; so g-out of the stand this Will be me pes es
oil NJ
Of the race H.. ~
r. z-s,szts,d stretch is about three niles IN
length and the surrounding country Is so eve
-,ar-a.srs will have fine view OF me Iac--e
ss they approach fully G nile anu M. -
- +hsv u5u be IN plain view 10 the naAeu ey
-, -, hev. travelled fully two miles oeyono ZIG
s.a~-s1d where they so over bridge ana ee
5os-so on their way toward Central Park ana 0e'H-
page - ., .h.
A. this latter point the cement parkway joins the
country road which continues for fourteen tIliIes
+o-,,t,r g circuit and connecting sgain WIKI tle
.s-,snr AZ the western end OF the PARKWAY Which,
Is quite near Garden City
a change has been made since the first announce
-,a77 Of the course At the western end me cars
viii -,,-n OF the Jericho Road on 10 the Ola west
49, Road and travel south toward the cement unuI
they reach the old country road. From me 0'c
country road the parkway engineers are oulloIns q
new highway Of over q mile in length when wiz
connect the western end Of the cement with me
- - ~ the old Westbury Road, thus doing
go WITH TWO sharp turns and eliminating Whale
neck avenue which was TO have been used according
20 the original plans
80 ss -he request OF the engineers made speed
raj over the grzndsand section OF the new cement
-,-,-ss m Friday afternoon He drove the same
"a which he piloted through the Vanderbilt race OF
1908 and Re said that Il would be possible for the
a-4,r cars this year travel al the rate OF more
than one hundred miles an hour over the entire
--Fas Of the
.---h. ce-ueu. highway makes excellent racing
mad said Mr.. Tracy. after completing his speed
.-sos because Il Is absolutely justices and on &C
count OF the grzyi-h color II does not blind the
driver even in the glazing and is very easy 70
soI,-v even az terrific speed. There new
sensations also II driving over the cement highway
which one does meet the ordinary state OF
country road. There is quite as much bouncing
and swayins Of the car as you IND On the dirt
road-possfbly little r1ore-but there Is not the
slightest tendency 20 skid even the tu-ns, which
are only banked, the engineers tell me, for speed
Of forty miles hour Chat is. Theoretically
took several q those turns which have been com
Melted e. the rate of sixty miles an hour, and
found The banking ample. Over the straight
stretches think broke my best record IN the last
Vanderbilt race. that was about one hundred ana
six miles an hour for g quarter Of mile stretch.
which We measured OF near our racing headQuar-
tiers Lakevtlle.
y d not think that the cement highway Is
going 70 bother tire racing drivers at sill, because
most q them have driven II Florida the hard
sand, and the appearance Of the bridges where
the parkway goes under tntersecting highway
IS very much the same approaching them at
high speed the pile bridges over the sand
course in Florida As the car comes TO OF
these bridges OF oourse the abutments seem to be
about TWO feet apart, and Of course the posi-
b,ity Of getting through such a narrow space
does not appeal a novice who is travelling at
the Of ninety a hundred miles hour
These abutuents widen out, however, the
nea7s them. but the reverberatory shock is very
desfening at the second the passes under this
solid cement viaduct"