The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-11
"DETAILS Of
AUTO RACE
New York to Paris CONTEST the
Most Extraordinary Ever
Conceived.

| Six teams are taking part in the New
| York-to~Paris automobile race, the
most extraordinary of all the many
motor contests that have been planned
since the vehicle first came into use.
Four nations are represented among
| the contestants, and this fact, and
that Of the territory to be traversed.
| give worldwide interest to the race.
To all except the American team the
journey outlined in the conditions
! means practically a trip around the
world, for the motorists who started
from Paris drove their machines from
the French capital to Havre. where
the steamer to America was boarded.
The order of start and the person
mel of the various teams follows
| No. /, French-G. Bourcier st. Chat
fray, Capt. Hans Hendrix Hansen and
NJ. Autran.
No. 2, French-M. GODDARD, NJ. Hue
and NJ. Liver.
No. 8. French-M. Pons, NJ. Des-
champs and NJ. Berthe.
No. 4, Italian-Antonio Scarfoglio,
Emilio Sirtori and Henri Haaga.
No. 5, German-Lieut. Koeppen, En-
gineer Hans Knape and Engineer
Ernest Mas.
No. S, Observation-Disclosures Roberts
and Harold Brinker,
Three of the drivers contested in
the famous Picking to-Paris race, the
success of which caused the present
unusual contest to be projected. A
part of the journey Is to be made over
the same route traversed by the win
ming car in the Picking -to~Paris race
from Irkutsk, on the line of the
Trans-S Siberian Railroad, to Paris All
of the contestants are confident of
their ability to get their machines
safely over the difficult route before
them The winter journey across the
Western plains and plateaus of the
United States, including the crossing
of the Rockies in Montana at an al
titude of more than 5000 feet, was re-
garded by the racing enthusiasts as
the easiest part of their task, and they
expected to be in San Francisco in
side of thirty days. AS 20 the remain
der of the journey. including as it does
the first experience with an automo-
bile in the polar regions, the estimates
OF the time FSQuIFGu 10 get
to Paris vary from six to nine months.
Each car is equipped with every con-
trivance the drivers believe the exigen-
cies of the journey will require. Spiked
tires for travel over the frozen rivers
of Alaska and Siberia are a part of the
equipment, and various devices for re-
tanning heat in the engines and radia-
tors have been made a part Of the ma
chimes. Camp utensils, repair outfits
and stores will make cumbersome bag
gage.
Reaching San Francisco by way of
Southern California, a detour from
Reno CARRYING them south to Mojave,
! Santa Barbara. the Automobiles will
take a steamer to Seattle, and there
take another steamer to Valdez, Alas
ka. A journey of hoo miles By snow
packed roads and frozen rivers viii
bring the racers to Nome. The ar
rangements for crossing Boring Strait
are not yet perfected. Unless there is
solid ice. a steamer will be taken to
East Cape Siberia, cater of some
sixty miles. Then the Automobiles
will skirt the frozen shores OF the Arc
tic Sea to the mouth of the Lena river.
Up this frozen stream they will make
their way to Irkutsk. from whence the
roads to Moscow. st. Petersburg, Ber-
lin and Paris are well defined.