New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-20
PARK WAY RACES SOON
SWEEPSTAKES ON OCT. 10.
Vanderbilt Cap Commission An-
nou7lces Fire Glasses.


Posters were issued yesterday by the Vanderbilt
Cup Commission announcing the opening or the ne"
Long Island Motor Parkway on October 10 with
mammoth sweepstakes for all classes of cars Inc
entry blanks describe the event as the Motor
Parkway Sweepstakes" divided into five classes as
follows:
Motor Park Sweepstakes Meadow Brook Sweep
stakes. Garden City Sweepstakes. Jericho Sweep
stakes and Nassau Sweepstakes. Each class pears
a name well known on historic Long Island Inc
event. which is over the William X Vanderpllt IT,
1903 cup circuit, takes the place of the Nanderolt
Gun elimination race which was made impractcaule
because the limited number of American cars reauS
by October TO-
Mr.. vanderbilt returned home from Europe few
DAYS ago, and when he heard that the parkway
was in shape for big race on the 1Oth. whlie ie"
racing cars of the special Vanderbilt type mad oeen
CONNECTED or could be completed by that time, he
suggested that the Vanderbilt Cup Commission
start sweepstakes and offer 5000 in cash or plate
prizes. This idea has been carried out
Since the entry blanks and formal announcements
have been issued the engineers on the PARKWAY
have reported that the work of construction Is prac
tcaIlv completed The largest bridge on the paIh-
way which is at Central Park. was turned over 70
the cement workers Tuesday and it is peheVeo thh'
it will be thrown open for use early TINS "eeN'
This bridge connects two long sections OF the &C.
rnent highway between Central Park and BETH
page and Central Park and the grandstand-
Air the grandstand stretch is completed anu
cars have been running over it for some Gay .
There is little more work to be done between the
srandstand and the western end OF the pdrh"a!'
but tbe bridges over ntersecting highways IN TINS
section are open, and the finishing touches can p0
mt on in two or three days. This practcaEY coiii
nletes the eleven miles of parkway which FORM d
eortbarn boundary of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Gil
cult The grandstand is about half compleseu' lne
telenhone service has been installed around the en-
tire circuit and racing drivers VINO nave peen
Iected by the various entrants are preparing u
their Headquarters on the parkway ABOUT OC cs
IN oct in a weeks practice prior to the running u
the sweepstakes. -. =, ell.
In MANY WAYS this sweepstakes event Will be luy
as interesting and spectacular as the NaIueI D-lt
Gun race on the 24th. 1t is novel race III
cars IF all classes are started together OF within
thirty seconds of one another, just as tiie '0i'1
bilt Cup cars are started and they wlh an 20 0'e1
tho Vanderbilt Cup circuit of twenty-five mics
The smaller cars selling for Sooo or less VIII
go 100 miles in four laps; those selilng lor SlV'A
to 5000 will go six laps, about l9o nlles' ',iO
SELLING for s2001 to $500 will go eight laps about
aoo miles. those selling for S3001 to $4,000 VIII go
nine laps about 225 miles. and those seling IoI
more than $4,000 will go ten laps or z0o mines
which will be the distance Of the Nanoerolll up
race fourteen days later 4,,a
The entry fees are small that the s"eePS'ofNo0
will probably attract many private owl
snail cars will be entered for $50, 5000 cas- 1or
SIS g coo cars for 800. $4,000 cars for $40 anu
selling for more than $4,000 for Sl'o- Inc sillae
jS that the man Will al liiO"0-N
nrce5 car has the opportunity of winning III TINS
race more than he paid for his car IL Is pIoU-
able that other prizes will be offered for drivers
The entries will close on october g. and the VIII
lam K Vanderbilt. ir., Cup Commission uluel ~
,,s,icas of which the sweepstakes are to be run
reserves the right to refuse entries wneh IL oeei
. class filed 1t is probable that 1t VIII anu"
ten +o fifteen cars In class. AS the silaAet "a
con,nIete their laps they will be run Gown eiu'o
and off the track. special score boards are D9
inc constructed by the Parkway engineers ana ps
+bese the SPECTATORS will have the opportunity -
Eeering close tabs on the winning cars III ea0i
event - 60 oor,
All the public highways to De useu !" 80
,1e+a the Vanderbilt Cup circuit will be ciosed oH
The 10Th lust as they would have been hao the
a1i,,ipa +ion race been held that date SpecldI
den,,+iae will guard the course. and as theIe -
crI;, one railway crossing at grade htue udiis7i
6 exrac+ed from this source. A black slghal ildS
baen installed at this one grade CROSSING so ta'
racing cars approaching will receive timely iiie
g danger There is only one railway crossing Oh
the cement part of the circuit and TINS OF co'
: orossed nv a cement and steel bridge just 'S
-, a+Iic highways along the parkway are crossed
Annlications for entries may be lhaue ~ 'Sl
or ne Mont Thompson, chairman or the NdIUe1
,r+ ON commission No. 437 Fifth avenue IhoSe
asfrirg reservation of seats and boxes In the
erandstand and parking spaces IN the sr&lioS''iiu
e+ra+ct can also apply to Mr.. Thompson