The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-14
FAST RUN TO OGDEN.
Car Hits Chicken and Impact Breaks
Headlight.

Ogden. March l3.-1he rural residents
of Salt Lake, Davis and Weber cbunties
saw a streak Of dust OF witnessed a pow
erful automobile slowly ehugging through
the mud. according to the condition of the
roads yesterday afternoon on the main
highway between Salt Lake and this city.
1t was The Herald Pierce Arrow pilot car
in the great New York-to-Paris automo-
bile race, on its way to greet the Ameri-
can racer as it entered the state of Utah
and The Herald car arrived here in Ogden
after making a fast run on the first 'eg
of its Journey
With w. NJ Bransford at the wheel, L..
S. Moore of the Botterill automobile COM
pany, II. Howard of the Motor club. one
of the leading automobile clubs of Lon
don and the writer as occupants. the car
covered the distance from Salt Lake 10
Ogden, mud, water. dust and all in two
hours and four minutes.
The people of Ogden have been on edge
for several days in anticipation of the
great race, and The Herald Pierce Arrow
pilot car coming down Washington ave-
nue. at a speed that taxed the ordinance
framed by the city fathers for the proteC-
ton of the citizens. was the first intima-
tion that the big race was about due.
Crowds of Ogden citizens gathered around
the car and asked questions about the
race.
When would they get here? Are there
any other newspapers sending out cars?
Did you have any accidents? Are, YOU
were a sample of the questions hurled at
different members of the party.
Working Parts Under Seal.
AS stated the car came through in good
time There We're stretches in the road
where the speedomoter registered sixty
miles an hour and then there were places
where the car sunk to the axles in the
mud. 1t was what is known as a seaied
bonnet run by Automobiles That is
n he m oh n
put under a seal byaa representative or
The Herald in Salt Lake. The car came
through with the seals intact which
means that the big Pierce Arrow defied
all conditions of road and came through
without trouble.
There was one mishap and the car will
return to Salt Lake with a broken glass
in one Of the big headlights as a result
Bransford had the speed lever showed
back to the last notch on the level stretch
of road coming into Bountiful. A flock
of barnyard fowls were enjoying them
selves as the car sped along and one hen
took itinto her head to give the auto n
little race. The car hit the hen. a crasn
of glass showed that the point of contact
was one of the big headlights. The sROcK
was so great that the hen was knocked
ten feet in the air and for distance of
forty feet the hen flew in a direct line
over the heads of the party She lit and
started for the barnyard.
Meet Brinker in Ogden.
On arriving at Ogden the party met
Howard Brinker, who is to take the rae
ing car out of Ogden. With him was
Captain Hans Henry Hansen, one of the
noted characters of the race. Hansen left
the American car at Granger this morn
| ing and came into Ogden by rail- He will
join the party here on its way west
Hansen is a Norwegian and has spent
the greater part OF his life in Siberia and
among the icebergs of the north He was
secured by the promoters of the race 10
manage one of the French cars and did
start with the crew. During the drive
| through the snowdrfts in Indiana Hansen
and the driver of the French car couldn't
agree upon the way to buck snowdrifts
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