The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-24
LONG ISLAND AH0NK
Motor Enthusiasts Estimated at 100000 Head for Race
 Course.
LIST OF DRIVERS AND CARS
Drivers In 25S.Mlle Race Bound In Tape from Head to Foot to
 Ease Muscles.

New York, Oct g3, Tonight, for all practical purposes, the universe means, to some 100000 enthusiasts, nothing more than the few square miles of country encompasscd within the Long Island county roads and the new motor parkway over which to-morrow's Van derbit Cup race Is to be run. | The impression that the race will begin at dawn ls as far removed from being correct as anything could pos sibly be. The real start was made to- I night, in Manhattan, where al as early i as 10 o'clock the procession formed in l Herald Square and the thousands and | tens of thousands turned their faces 1 towards the ferry, more on foot. others in street cars. still other in tho ton- neaus or at the wheel of finely ap- | pointed automobiles.
 '. Along the great white way" it was T night of reyelry; there was no slcsp. Every hotel was Nled to overnowing and kept It's lights increasingly bun-
 ing Here in the early hours of the evening the enthusiasts sat disauss'ng tho chances of their respective favor ltes Those who had paid $50 for six feet of roadside across which Go park their cars, fingered at the tatles, re- calling the glories of past Wander bilt races, when such drivers Ds LIncia, Nnzarro, Duray, JcnatEy, Wagner Heath, Tracy, Cagpo, S1is2, aud Hemcry, led the doath-defying con test, Of the drivers who will start at daybreak, only four Cheroylet, Lutt- gen, Lytle and Keene have ever steer- ed car in a Vanderbilt competition It will he q contest Of new drivers and old cars. but tho element of peril will be az great as ever, possibly greater and for that reason the crowd this year is larger. the excitement more intense
 Away. in camps at Amityvillc West bury. Jericho. lIiCksville, the driver, and their mcchanicians prepared for th' , struggle, the camp attendants serving them as masscurs and bandagiug then from head to foot with narrow tapc to prevent muscles aching from inf throb and vibrations of their cars la the Matheson camp Joe Tracy oncr famous himself as a driver, rehearsed with R-all and Chevrolet the system of private signals by which each Wa to pc kHDI informed OI ms epeeQ aUl position throughout the race In tn Thomas camp Salzman, unable 10 start tho Grand Prix racor owing to its cN cessiye weight. had stripped an ordin ary touring car and proposed to enter i Instead of the l20 horsepower monster , Tn the repair stations the tire people were carly astir preparing for th, work ot refitting cers with fully lnhat
 ed tires Tn two minutes time. Anon the actors was the sense of portentiot
 Impending events; among the specta'
 ors. alertness and expectation
 The hour when the race will star
 Is s3o; and 25S.06 miles arc to b covered in eleven times around the cir cult of 2S.46.
 Following arc the entries, with th
 names of the drivers cars nationalit
 and by whom the cars were entered rc | spectively
 |. James Florida locomobilc, American
 2. Alfred Dennison, Knox, American
 Facto1y
 3. Emile stricker, Mercedes, German
 Robert Groves.
 t William Haupt, Chadwick, American $ Factory.
 ,- 6 w. c. Luttgcn Mercedes German N ls K. Vanderbilt, ir, = G Herbert Lytls, lsotta. Italian, C. " Brokaw
 s r James E. Ryall, Matheson, America, if Factory.
 & Withdrawn
 'e 2. IF J Fitzpatrick Hotchkiss, Frencl IS IIotchlsiss Import v 10, Leon Pouget Brasier, French. .o Payne Whitney. " II. Cyrus Patschke Acme, America le Cordner and Flynn. r. 12. George Salzman Thomas America, Factory.
 R Not drawn
 s. 14, Withdrawn " 15,Louls Chevrolet, Mathcson, America al Factory
 16. George Robertson, locomobil es American, Factory. 'y IT. Lewis Strang, Renaur, Frenc
 Paul LacroiX.
 15 Foxall keene, Mercedes, CIerma 's Foxhall keene D. la Fl. W, Gill, Thomas, American "a, H. tory.
 of 20 William Bourque, Knox. America " Factory.