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Hairpin Turn, Vanderbilt Cup Course

there, for il was well understood that In
the early morning the flyers would do
their tuning up But Croker did not hest
tate. He turned his machine so sharply
from its path that 1t turned turtle, rolled
over dragging the unfortunate driver
beneath, and did not stop until it had
rolled perhaps one hundred feet out into
the ocean and was a burning. shapeless
mass OF absolutely wrecked mechanism.
The body Of Croker was hardly recogniza-
bic when it was dragged out from the
wreckage
In nearly every big road race time
comes when some driver must turn his
car into the fence to protect onlookers,
and most of them have the nerve to DO IL
and never hesitate, no matter what the
consequences to themselves.
This need OF protecting Onlookers pro-
duces in road races a condition of con-
on circular inclosed tracks, where the
public can be limited to a certain space
and kept there by the barriers erected for
that purpose.
In every big road race it has been the
experience of the police that no matter
what elaborate precautions are taken to
protect the public there are always some
more reckless than others who will get
out into the course to see what car is
coming next.
Public Loves Destruction.
The public loves destruction. 1t may
not admit it, but the. statement is never
theless true. 1t will be found at any
big road race that 1t Is not the long level
speeding stretch leading to the grand
stand and the finish line that wins the
crowd. Instead the great point of as
sembly is the dangerous turn, where it
Is almost an even gamble that before the
day is over not less than one life will
have been taken.
The hairpin turn on the old Vanderbilt
cup course was always the favorite rally
ing point of thousands, and here always
assembled the biggest crowds that saw
the big contest. adding to the dangers of
a point already frightfully perilous.
The cry of Car coming" is not always
enough to drive back the crowd. Instead
it has often taken the actual physical
force Of the police to get people back out
of the paths of monster cars whirling
along at a rate in excess Of a mile a
minute.
In the race of 1906 one spectator rushed
out in the road to look after a disappear
ing car, forgetting, apparently. that there
were other machines in the race. In an
instant the flying car of Elliott Sheppard
had hit the unfortunate man and lifted him
fifty feet in the air. The car Sheppard
was driving had such burst Of speed
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that the impact never slowed up, and
Sheppard wasn't sure what he had hit
until at the end of the race they told
him he had killed a man.
The great test of a motor drivers Skill
Is to take his car around the turns with
out shutting off his power. The fewer
times it is necessary to shut off the pow
er or apply the brakes the greater the
speed
1t is an admitted fact that the success
sion of victories for foreign cars In the
Vanderbilt cup race at a time when the
event drew entries of the best machines
and drivers in Europe resulted as much
from the skill of the drivers as from the
power of the cars themselves.
New Game for Americans.
Automobile racing along open roadways
was a new game to Americans. They had
not yet learned the art of going along
at top speed and flying around a right
angle corner at highest speed. where, II
the car had skidded, old Father Death
would have jumped into the game and
grabbed off grist of victims.
Lancia. Hemery, Wagner, had been
trained to this kind of exploit on the
other side. 1t was no novelty to them.
Before every race they, committed sort
of moral suicide. The chances were no
better than even that they would come
out alive. But if they managed to sur
vive and to land a winner, the rewards
were big enough to make the risk worth
while. Therefore they went into the con-
tests with supreme Indifference to peril,
and ran the race without regard to the
safety of themselves, their cars or the
thousands who crowded up to the edge OF
the course.
This kind of driving brought victories.
This kind of driving also handicapped the
Americans. They were not fatalists. They
were good sportsmen with nerve enough
for any reasonable combat. but they did
not go into the races with the cheerful
thought that they were willing to die
rather than lose, or. that the lives Of
spectators on the way meant nothing.
But, stern though it seemed. that code is
the only way to win auto races, and
American drivers are now progressing to
the point that they. too. will soon be with
out nerves. and will be able to down the
foreign drivers at their game.
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wheels Of the cars in the recent contest
for the Vanderbilt cup, and the drivers
who are now training for the Grand Prix
contest in Savannah in the last week OF
this month. must have above all other
qualifications the mental serenity to with
stand five hours of never ceasing and ter
rife danger without whimperng.
During that period of time they must
be able to whirl around corners, often so
sharp as to be nearly right angles. Many
of these turns will see the flying, swaying
car going around on two wheels The
least lapse of courage on the part of the
driver will mean q somersault of the car
that means taking of not less than two
lives under horrible conditions of macera-
tion and perhaps Of a half dozen specta-
tors.
Not only is the driver at the mercy of
his nerve. He also is the puppet of his
mechanism. Let the steering gear be all
right and his nerve good and no other
cars so near as to make the turn i'm
passable at top speed and he may get
around all right: but If the knucAie Of
the steering gear should break or get out
of order 1t is a certain goodbye TO earth
for Mr. Driver and all who happen to be
in the eath-bound path of his monster
machine.
It used to be thought that racing on cir
cular tracks represented the most dan
gerous form of automobile speed contest.
but there are many drivers who do not
hesitate to say that they much prefer to
make their flights on tracks where prop
erly arranged barriers keep back the
public than to go on the open roads. no
matter how we'll policed they may be, and
there free the enormous power contained
i'm a sx-cylinder. l2u-horsepower racing
automobile.
The Accident Roll.
Nobody will ever be able to compute
what percentage of accidents fatal to
automobile drivers have been caused
In attempts to save spectators from In
jury. p
Frank Croker, son Of the Tammany po-
litical chieftain. came to his death in this
way He was practicing on the beach at
Ormond for one of the big races there,
and was coming along at top speed when
suddenly right in front of him he saw
three pedestrians They had no right
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were often thought to have done SO. The
two men belonged to a familiar type;
bluff. blue-eyed. beefy. bull-necked. they
were of the stuff which conquers in the
without trouble. Unhampered by too great
mental or spiritual complexity. hard
headed in business and warm-hearted
in family and social circles. they adored
and were adored by their wives. and had
shared. once their pride. and now their
grief. in the bright life whose light had
been SO untimely dashed out.
1--WE dreaded this so much for dear
Miriam" whispered Lucy, Importantly.
Lucy was one of those persons who keep
you reminding yourself how good they
really are and how they would do any
thing for you. She was a tall, massive
young woman, with high cheek bones, a
deep pink color, admantine blue eyes,
aud intensely practical mind.
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Her husband, to whom she had spoken,
glanced across the lights and flowers at
Miriam Her eyes burned brighter even
THAI usual. and she steadily held her own
in the talk that flowed round the table.
Only her voice was different; at ordinary
times rather crisp and decided, it had
fallen to a curious. breathless softness.
as of one deeply moved. 1t was almost as
If she were talking to little children.
"She seems all right" commented Phil
ip, In his direct man-fashion.
"Ah. but that's just her courage! Mir
Jams full Of it. If dear mother, now.
would speak of something else besides
Rod"-she addressed the judge across her
husband.
You are quite right" he agreed, brus-
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England's Gunners.
rom the Penny Magazine.

They have the tools. they know how to
use them, and, in spite of croakers. the
gunners and guns of the British navy
never stood SO high in skill, experience
and undoubted courage as they do today.
smarter man than Gunnery Jack Is not
to be found in the services.
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meath his dead sons portrait. He had or
dered 1t hung there, where he could not
see It, Too much dwelling on the lost he
declared uselessand in his own teart did
nothing else.
The eldest son, Philip. father of the
two-year-old sleeping upstairs In his
cradle, was placed at his right hand; and
at his left, Anna, his darling youngest
Next her, Miriam: and at her side. the
vacant chair to which their wistfu. eyes
so often turned. Lora, the eldest sister,
sat next. with her husband by her side.
Lucy, Philips wife. occupied the sent
next him, and Sylvester, the husband Of
Kate the other married sister. with Kate
herself, filled the remaining places. Kate
and Lora had not married brothers, but
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IRIAM, all In
white. a sprig of
holly jeweling her
dark hair, and
rings of holly
hanging on her
a r m g, SHOOK
h a n d S with
O'Neill as he
opened the door
to her. In the
act the rings OF
n n IL slipped
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Barney" o1dheid.

ECKLESS his calling beyond any
form of sport yet devised, the
driver of the racing automobile
must be a man without nerves.
Those men who held the
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Rod. Rod. of all others! Never before
such was the completeness Of their little
circle-had one link appeared more than
its fellows. But now, this one, whom
they had simply taken for granted. very
much as they took themselves-why, Rod
seemed the very flower Of them all! Fine,
frank faced. tall, manly men were all the
sons-but Rod the strongest and hand
soonest: Rod the most brilliant intellectu-
ally. though all had won their college
honors easily; Rod the best in every way.
they lovingly mourned. the hardest to be
spared. They met 1t as gallant
and patient natures do. But his name
was rarely off their lips, where two or
three Of them were gathered ogather, and
hearts for his sake, now became to them
a thing almost for reverence. A neigh
boris daughter. favorte playmate. she
had always seemed like one Of themselves.
and early-too early. prudent seniors had
been tempted to feel-became so by her
betrothal to Rod. There had been little
kindly head-shaking over the long delay
involved when a girl OF sixteen plights
her troth to a boy not yet out of college
That was. of course, now a thing Of the
past:
20 too industrious folly!
. vain and cauSeleSS melancholyn'
1t was the mother who most loved her.
that their speech together. above all their
speech of Rod, took on an almost cryptic
character. Into thoughts, even hopes.
which the dead boys mother could not
share with his father, Miriam entered with
ardor; together the two women stole, in
the gray OF the early morning or the late
evening. into cool. dim church aisles for
quiet little services, which left their
hearts trimming over with peace, but
which to the man were utterly empty of
meaning.
Tonight the mother caught Miriam by
the arm as they all went in to the din
ner-table together.
I've had to put you opposite Lucy.
she whispered. penitently. DO you mina
much? 1t was either that or putting
her next myself, and somehow. dear
Lucy. sometimes-I ought not to feel it.
but she is $3.50 sensible. and 1 do not
seem able to bear sensible people as
ought
She herself took her accustomed seat at
the end Of the table. with a son on either
hand-the two younger brothers. George
and Morris. with their wives. The Judge
sat at the head Of the board. directly be.
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Miriam pressed her hand and dropped
H. then abruptly directed her attention to
the commonplace responsibilities of a
hostess Anna was little dear. she volu-
bly, declared, but did not know how 20
make dollhouse roses hold up their heads
in a vase About the table and around
the room, in and out between their sad
CARRIED figures, she fitted 3ke a little
white moth.
The dining room was like all the house
massive handsome. tagging behind
fashion in the matter of furniture.
Every cubic inch of the atmosphere ex-
hailed simple and substantial comfort
The somberness of the gloWering black
oak panels and the barbaric white mar
BILE manteIpiece was counteracted by the
cheer flung from an ornate prism-hung
chandelier and by the softer blaze OF
the candelabra OH the table. The board
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08
By Louise Belts Edwards.

copyrighted. 1905, Bobbs Merrill Coz
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08

In the aromatic dusk of the great ever
preen-decked front room, the sacred par
Tor of their childhood days, whittier the
rest of the family had withdrawn them
selves. Philip came up and spoke to Mir
lam. She had taken his sleeping boy from
Lucy and held him in her arms. his I'M
conscious cheek brushed by the branches
Of his Christmas tree. which doomed.
black. mysterious, fragrant cone of con-
cealed delights. like pyramid of shadow
behind her The bells were still rocking
with the raptured summons OF the
"Adeste."
"Pve sometimes doubted" Philip said
to her, haltingly. I'm glad 1 didn't
doubt enough toto miss seeing him..
For her only answer Miriam raised the
small soft body In her arms and impul-
sively buried her face against that OF the
little, blessed child, who alone Of them ali
had seen him without doubt and pro-
claimed him without fear
And to mother" he went on. 1t was
but where is mother?
He checked himself and turned with
the others to look at the black sky, with
its brilliant stars. count the strokes Of the
happy bells They all knew she had
stolen back to where, with grief and Joy
bowed down. still trembling with the tre-
mendous impact of hope upon despair an
old man sat and wrestled with the vision
which had been youchsafed him, while
outside the still pealng bells solemnly
urged the invitation majeStical:
Come. all We faithful.
Joyful and triumphantI'
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What is the matter with you alp" he
cried.
why father!' exclaimed Anna, i'm
pulsively. It was actually Lucy who made
an instructive gesture to stop her. With
lines of pain tightening around his mouth.
her father read In all their eloquent faces
the question which his wife's had asked in
vain
"Oh, do you not see, understand? You
alone, of us all? You only-his father?
1t was moment almost too intense. 1t
broke with a sound from overhead dis
tinctively heard in the hush. 1t was the
scudding of little feet. Sounding louder
it mingled at the head OF the back stairs
with a child's delighted chirrup. Then
the quick pad, pad down the stairs of the
fat, cushiony little feet. Splinters lurked
in the steps. and it was December. but
Lucy made no move to stop him. He ap-
peared twinkling all over with propitia-
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In the Red Mans Country
prompt
Confined iyo1l page s

c.,,-,..ir, and her voice was strained" SOME
thing about your accident hat DAY you
were shot" She hesltated. and he cried
bon 90 on, Why should YOU tell me
,-},..- 7 know. what ! have always known /
hoped YOU would never hear. Did Pete tell
vour Come here
Trv as she would, She could not disobey the
low command and when She stood beside INN
ne SAID Don't blame your father IL was
mr., TINT He was true to the customs oi ms
people ! had no business TO NEEDLE IN what
| didn't understand Promise me never t"
think OF il again. II.
She looked Al him piteously- Ihen-then
,,,,,, srt.,,'t Going 10 tell the Captain
H. frov,ucd darklv. The Captain! " hat
,,,s;neSs is il Of his This IS between You and
me. So that is why Pete told you! has 9"i'-
wind gone away ,.
She nodded and he looked at her strangely
before he SAID slowly
You must hate Tne-to thhih IiiI "''''o
IA Ike steps against your father!
She did not look at HIM Is she sand haltHSlE'
II don't hate vou-not rs dld'
TT was = week later. when he was strong
L enough to be rropped up IN the blg CHAIR
II tn. window, where he could watch the lake
nj he SPOKE, Of leaving him. You don
need me. Pete can look after YOU, and /
must 90 back 70 nv school room.
He stared II her dumbly. He had not
Thought that she would go away Need
,ll,, = n. and At last. j shall always need
YOU. Whv. YOU belong 10 me- You know
YOU do Oh dear girl, not III that way a.
She flushed and turned away. we nave loI-
oottrn tbat. You belong TO me as the one
woman In the world does TO her man. You
know II. You know you VIII be my VIE
But tell me- Fl,
Ills voice woocd her, did his masteriul
manner. and when he held out hanG' Wlhte
a"J weak though il was, it was still strong
enough 10 hold her
FL believe ! do" she faltered wonder
inglv, as she Let him draw her nearer
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-,o,, en-, eDeal. 10 the Captain about.
u should say not"' interrupted Norris
emphaticslly. ..-...--...-,,,. 1,.,l,
home Ii risky sport hunting II the lildla''
country sometime, significantly
DIT Norris was not TO be intimldated' and
u one dav Pete brought hlm nome SiloC
through the che~t 49,, IN,
ca1,ne touched the shore, and before ne hitcd
ont the unconscious man Pete muttefed "oIuS
that made the glrl lace gray ana u"
Then sh. followed him as ne staggered |" tii'
house with hl- burden
real world where nothing Is tangible ana Wlieh
he woke he found Ann at his SIDE
..Ynl,,' he 7nur1nured, and would nave
made an effort 10 rise II she had not placed
her hand MS arm r-1.
this and 60 10 sleep AGAIN - ~, -
You won't 60 away, he mao l9'-iio 81.
6,,o,-s and clung TO them chidlshly one
1,rernised. and he took the nourlshiileiiI anu
w. soon asleep still holding her hand
Vo,, ovye more to your nuTse than you 90
70 me" qrurnbled the doctor, When ne CaIne
IN and found his patient tree from leVeI DIX
= one If those almost extinct CIod'ui - "
born ulrse ] tell you. Young man II "i'
"a, 90 owe nv life To- her" he sand
Il nd rather be IN her debt than III yours
Do YOU lzaoy. why" he asked when the DOCTOR
She walked 10 the window and looked over yer
,l,. -r,ov, crustcd ground TO the iake' 50 S"ioIy
nm. M 5av. 30" She said al last
IL, watched her Tor "a moment emo u IHel
-, ,-..-.1,- comfortable" And as She re
placed II he looked at her downcast lace and
lnur1nured gently, q, never saw you that You
5;Jr,', remind me Of a frecracker, until was
shot You always looked At me as though !
was the match that would make you g I''a,.
H. -,,ci ,l,..s..,,,,7 Il, be friends. You never
were g,,ite iust to me: but you will be now.
You can't hate me as YOU did, not after taking
IRE If rn, like an angel What did you keep
me alive FOR. II not 10 forgive me You don
hate me a. YOU did, do you,
cb. r.,IIe5 her hand away and went back 20
-b. window. There is something must tel
YOU" her fingers pulled nerVousiy ut the
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The House Raising Party

I DO not doubt that there are several elderly
men vet living Il Il LOUIS - on me
C,-ayaIse as the utlChD.Thool wncrt We lived
VS. called. th1- renem @cr the wiling AanGa
they lent % the Grant house ing parry
for = was SISTER IJ.l1a 5 wish that lSTIlura -
f7,- home VS. - ~. # the old fashioned KIND,
= mus, and should be built II the old iasnipned
vav.-ro wit log laid upon log 10y iTena-l
hands. So. after several busy DAYS igT cHl"Ted
Kitty and Nary N the kitchen, aHl- aiit1 a
quantity Il tres had been tellcd. the log -N.t
liey-r rlorched "a the ends. and then dragged
- the proper ste. the ueIghboTs from the
J1-avoi-e were invited IN 10 the raising ana
sooner than one would expect for al the least
no and rlerrvruakIng, the house was done.
Later carpenter from the CITY put on inc
finishing touches. .--....
or,crle5 outward from the middle, aIlc II taNn
frame there were TWO panes % glass - I'afile-
f,I Z strip 81 wood - broad a. man t---ilh-
This gave. = pleasing and harmonious effect,
and vxas IL perfect keeping with the Grant
log - BIN.
ON II our favorite a1nuzernents was horse
hack riding and. - each II u had eadcie
horse and the many roads and pTl44e paths
about the e1--rpuudlng country were tAeelittlI
-,- -l7..- 1)t--rJs-c we were often II IIt =arr.-
CAPTAIN Grant was IN expert hoTseIiiaii- anu
as sister lula was AT enthusiast a. WI nc
passed many a morning and evening . most
back during the dav- 81 1hclT court mp. t~P,
tain Grant rod, a blooded animal Wncf ht il1u
brought from his home III ONO ana n !, 'T =,
F-,l,. = Kentucky mare named missouri i,tt.
Inc name Of SISTER Nellie horse Wa \ei
and mine We sub Ny hrothers were always
and forever changing their mounts, l''-s M
nov ones and -elilug the old.-~o they ui4 no!
become so attached 10 them that me w, 49,
o.. them names OF learn their "hiIns ana
follies a. did We gIrls, ours-
Beside the Grants there WAS yet a'lotIel
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Man &
Every Woman

Eho seeks the perfect care and
cleanliness Of the teeth, or the
rehnement of the body in
iaily toilet use, find in the
snlendid assortment Of Sanitol
Tooth and / oilet Preparations
lust those articles that meet
The requirements. They all
give satisfactory service.
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CUpID'S MISSES

Dan Cupid. 'spIte his fame.
Has now been brought to shame.
We have discovered, md ms KISSES
His tiny arrows OFT make MTs-
- James Schrsibcr, IT.