Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-14
WITH THE AUTOS.
Waterbury To Be Included in a Long
 Distance Route.

Hartford, Feb. 14.-The enduranc,
 test for automobiles, which has beer
 talked of at considerable lengtl
 among automobilists in this distric
 during the past few weeks, has now
 become reality, the board of gov
 ernors of the Hartford Automobile
 club, at meeting held at the Heub
 lein Wednesday, voting to taks up the matter and to hold the run on Saturday, May 16. The governors l then appointed racing committed | consisting of H. P. Maxim, c. H. Gil. | lett, c. D. Rice, F. w. Dart and w T. Plimpton. The committee appoint ed Leland N Dustin its secretary The first action of the newly formed body was to establish the fact that the element of racing is to be entire l ly left out of the event. Its character as defined by the committee is to be l that of test over an approved course, typical of the worst and best of Connecticut roads and made solely for the purpose of ascertaining what cars could go over the approved dis tance within the approved time with the minimum amount of repairs. The speed will be limited to about twenty miles an hour.
 In discussing the route the con- mittee decided on the following: From Hartford (probably city hall) to Middletown, to Meriden, to South ington, to Waterbury, to Thomaston, to Bristol, to New Britain and back to Hartford, this will make distance of about 95 miles and would be cov- cred twice. The advantages of this route are that 1t includes Southing- ton mountain, the worst hill in the state, and also the famous Plymouth hill. It includes the good roads near the larger cities and plenty of tough going in other places. It makes a circuit of the largest cities In this part of the state and, as the contestants would pass through these cities twice in the course of a day, the ur- ban interest, which is synonymous with the greatest automobile interest would be aroused to best advantage. The clubs of the other cities-Mid- dletown, Meriden, Waterbury and New Britain-are to be asked to CO., operate.
 The race is to be run on the basis of a perfect score. That is to say, any car which shall make two complete circuits of the course within the giv- en time and without a repair of any sort will be accounted as making a perfect score. Repairs as we'll as minutes of delay will be counted of from. the perfect score. A cup is tc be offered for the winner and must be won three years in succession to become the permanent property of any one entrant. The winner for each year is to have his name en- graved on the cup and is to receive a certificate. If two or more cars make perfect scores or equally high scores. they are both or all to receive certi- fiCates and to have their names en- graved on the cup. If two or more cars shall by winning the cup three times, have equal right to its perman- ent possession. the contest shall be continued for more years until the cup shall have been won by only one of these entrants. The course is out lined at present, with distances. as follows: Hartford to Middletown.Is miles: to Meriden. 10 miles: to South ingtOn. 10 miles to Waterbury. ITIi miles: 10 ThomastOn. stz miles: tc Bristol. s miles: to New Britain. 10 miles. to Hartford II miles; total 92 rufTea