The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04

America will nave a stock touring car
circuit for 1908 and the makers of auto
mobiles in this country and importers of
cars are preparing generally to take part.
The opening contest in this class is to be
a race on the Ormond-Daytona Beach at
a distance of 100 miles or more! Chairman
Morrell, of the contest committee of the
Automobile Club of America, has decided
to add the stripped stock touring car con-
test to the program. The Ormond meet
Will be ollowed by the week Of racing at
savannah with a course of nineteen miles
or more and this program will include
one contest at a road race distance of 200
TO o0 miles. Tit Savannah race will be
followed by the great international road
race In Westchester County in April and
contestants in the Ormond race will be
able to go the circuit and after the two
trials in the South enter for Westchestar
and have their cars right. Chairman Nor
reH denies emphatically the imputation
that ne desires to keep out of the South
ern program any event which will con-
fict with the contest in Westchester
County, for the chairman says: 1.-THE
Southern contests will enable the drivers
TO properly tune their cars for the great
race TO take place in April, and l hope
to see all of them in the Southern con-
tests"
One of the most interesting tables from
the standpoint of a user of automobiles
has been compiled by Motor Age, of Chi
eago. This table shows the record of
slxty-seven makes of cars, sixty-five of
THESE being of American manufacture,
which competed in the reliability contests
OF the season. The table shows a record
OF ga cars which started in seventeen
events. and of this number no less than
2S came through with a clean score. The
distance travelled in competitive events of
the year was 1884 miles, or an average OF
nearly 367 miles for each event. In the
seventeen events of the year the Pierce
Great Arrow entered IN thirteen and the
record of the year places the Pierce car
IN the lead with thirteen perfect scores
as opposed to twelve for its nearest COM
petitor. No cleaner record of victories was
ever scored. for the Great Arrow was
entered in every instance right from stock
and without special preparation. This car
mas scored perfectly for a great many
years, but its average for the last year
has been the best of all, owing to the
number of events which were entered. The
number of competitors, also, has been
larger than ever before, as is shown in a
record of sixty-seven make of ears COM
peting In the various events. The George
oHN VI AAC 1ICdl
Arrow. have long held the opinion that re-
liability and economy on the road was most
to be desired. and the Great Arrow cars
have been put forth to demonstrate this
fact. Their success has been universal and
the reputation of the car has come natural
~ from Its long list of successes. The last
year has been productive of contests more
severe than were ever known before and
the complete record of the year, as COM
piled by Motor Age. has proved most Inter
esting as showing the real standing of the
cars. During the coming year the contests
Will be more numerous and the conditions
more arduous than in previous years. The
season will develop contests Of strenuous
nature and will bring forth victors with an
even better record than during the past
year, perhaps But the present time Is
sufficient and the Pierce Great Arrow is
shown to have maintained its position as
Americas premier motor car.
At the present state OF the financial
market there are a great many people who
would like to be in the position of the
Irishman in the Crucible Steel Works. at
Harrison, who squared his account up at
the corner saloon. This Irishman had run
up quite a bill, and the superintendent,
Frank Wilson, was called upon to call the
attention of the man from the Emerald
Isle to the fact that he was a debtor at
the corner saloon for q considerable
amount. Pat, for that was his name, called
upon the s~aloon-keeper, and the saloon
keeper, being in a generous mood, said:
I'll tell you what I'll do, Pat. I'll throw
off one-half of this bill II you will pay the
other half" Pat looked the saloon keeper
over and said: "Well, say, since you're so
very %ginrous, I'll be ginrous, too, and throw
off the other half, and We'll call it square,
Some people who have bought automo-
hfes in the past and are being hard pressed
for payments would like to be as generous
aS Pat.
Now is the time, at the close of the
shows, and with hard winter right at
hand. when men get the Florida fever and
start watching the departure of the trains
for the South, and the boats also, with
eyes. The records have it that
many finished the early automobile shows
and that future shows will be
held later, but the men who have spent
their winters in Florida in following tie
automobile and motorboat circuit feel
the shows cannot be held too early.