The evening world., 1908-03-09
AUTO CARNIVAL. VOTES
FOR KING AND QUEEN
PROMISE HOT CONTEST
New Candidates Appear as Ballots
Increase in Competition for Honors
of Great Festival Racing
Experts Are Named.

lTdOe AssoCltilO0 from AplII u 10 IL
being nov assured interest Is cen
tring on the selection OF King and q
Queen TO rule over the festivities an,
ride in their royal auto carriages at the
head OF the great night parade OF Apri.
Z.
1t is realized that there is a doubi.
honor to be competed for-that Of beiu.
chosen as the most popular man
woman in the world If the motor car
and the honor which will be lestowcA
upon the makers of the machines in
which the royal pair will ride. AS
result admirers Of this or that car are
casting their votes for candidates who
are known to favor the special car
which the voter prefers.
Several racing drivers, each idenn-
fed with a certain car. have been put
In nomination, and 1t is predicted that
there will he a sharp contest among
these intrepid cnauffeurs FOR the honor.
both for themselves and for their re-
speCtive racers. With one vote for
Joe Tracy came this note to the
Carnival Editor OF the Evening World;
why not King joe the daredevil
who raade the record OF 26 minutes
for one thirty-mile lap on the Wander
bilt Cup course out of Mineola and
back? I start Joe Tracy with one
vote, and he ought to get n million.
"A LOYAL SUBJECT"
Three votes came in for Lewis
strang, one for Auguste Hemery. and
two for Frank Leland. one Leland
ballot was accompanied by a note, in
which the writer said
Frank Leland is one of the most
daring motor drivers Last year he
esta blished a new worlds record at
Eentnor Beach, driving runabout
mile straightaway in Al % seconds;
and 1t was he who made the ascent of
Pixies Peak last September, carrying
seven passengers from the foot of the
mountain to the top"
New Candidates for Royal Honors.
Where are the friends and admirers
OF Paul LacroiN, Heath, Elliott +.
Shepard. Guy Vaughn Hayes. Cedrino?
And OF James Laughln. the young
Pittsburg steel millionaire. whose
achievement Of an eighty-mie path
finding trip from Jacksonville to
Miami, Fla, through swamps, quag-
mlres and bogs, during which he
noted every danger spot, landmark
and other feature desirable Tor
complete road book. has made him
famous? And where are the ar
dent admirers of Charles j. Glldden and
his wife. who founded the "G!iGden
Tour" and have travelled 1900 miles
since 1901. and visited thirty-five coun-
s,iN to-,
enthusiastic admirer of this couple ad-
vanced the proposition that they ought
<p be elected King and Queen respec-
tive.y.
Naturally, there was Tight vote"
over Sunday. though each candidate
was advanced a point or two. Mrs. S.
Osgood Pell still leads, as a reference
to the tabulated statement of the vote
10 date shows, but Miss Elsie Janis, the
heroine Of The Vanderbilt Cup" crept
up few points on Mrs. Pell for first
place, her vote reaching 81. Some new
can iidates for the Queens diadem were
put in the field by their admirers.
Among the new candidates for King
was Robert j. Kennedy, Of No. Il West
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street.
'Nfr. Kennedy is Harlem's favorite au
tom obilist. Harlemites should get busy
and elect our well-known automobile
enthusiast King OF the carnival. Here
are five votes to start him. read a note
signed "A Friend"
Other new candidates are G. C. Meyer.
John C. Bertrand. Arthur Present. Au-
gustus Phillips, DR.. Adolph Stein and
Emanuel p. Rogers, who is declared to
he is the originator of the now famous
Motor Touring Society of New York
Every lover OF the automobile, and
every one who wishes to have the COM
ing auto carnival stupendous success.
with a King and Queen worthy of the
occasion. should cast a vote in the Of
fcial election by cutting the coupon
ballot from the second page OF the
Evening World, writing Ia the name OF
his or her candidate, and sending it TO
the Carnival Editor. Vote for only one
candidate on the ballot. There Is moth
ing TO hiudc! reader from cutting out
the coupons from his Evening World
every day as long as the contest lasts
and voting them. The polls close April
z. II ,ne voter desires 10 name tho
motor used by his candidate ne may do
so under tHe name.
HIIl Climb VIII Be Splendid Contest.
Arrangements are complete for the
hin climb. wH.Cu il 10 a, iaa 'cu IN. or
The fourth Gav OF the carnival. except
the secur.gg OF consent from the city
authorities tor tho u4e of certain
tough" hi. wlhcA VIII ,ax the powers
OF the nine classes OF entries for there
vii! De u effect nine contests THE first
Six c.assiAcat.pus are of stock .ars"
rs distinguished from spec!alIy con
strurtcj machines for the work Iald
out, and the classes are governed 5y
the prices of tie machines the nrst
being !or cars selling at not more than
a-OCu, and The sixth for cars costing over
S.
The seventh contest will p- free TO Il!
cars racers roadsters or H.ll climber
and was devised TO give certain manu-
iaeiGTers u gugs an opportunity to.
prove the truth OF tgr,r boast that their
racing car could Climb e mountain