The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-18

Charles J. Glidden will sail from New
York on the Cunardcr Carmania on Jam
uary is at noon for Egypt and Syria,
where he will continue his worlds tour.
lie will visit Paris and will qualify as a
balloon pilot by making eight more ascen-
sions. Mr.. Glidden will return to America
in time-for the tour of next year to be
promoted for the fifth time by the A. A.
A., and will then attempt to navigate an
airship against record from Fort Omaha
to Boston. On last years tour Mr.. Gid
den rode with Chairman Frank B. Hover
in his Pierce Small Six. and throughout
the tour protested against the speed of
the Small Six. His nerve was apparently
not broken. for he intends to again ac-
company the chairman on the coming
tour, the chairman having purchased an
other Pierce for his private use.
Many a kind word has been said OF
Ormond in the past, but the kindest word
that may be said at present will he one
which will induce those who intend taking
part either as competitors or spectators
to engage their quarters at once for their
Intended stay In the land OF sunshine and
flowers contiguous to the tide-rolled sand
of Ormond Beach or at the Royal
Poinciana, providing they are interested In
the boat races at Lake Worth. The tour
lists for the many events of the Southern
circuit will reach these points at a time
when visitors are plentiful and accom-
modations, unless engaged in advance, Will
be scarce indeed. From the point of at
tendance the meets in Florida this year
will be one grand success and this very
fact will make them successful from the
point of race entries, for those who nave
cars will not care to lose the opportunity
for advertising, in all of which the A..
c. A. arranged with a level head and
planned well In advance.
Sir Thomas Dewar, who was recently a
New York visitor, leaving for Jamaica to
undertake an automobile tour before re-
turning via Ormond for the meet on the
beach, objected to the sixty-mile-an-hour
limit required of cars to enter the two
mile-a-miaute trophy race, and it is now
not at all improbable that this event will
be incorporated in the proposed week OF
races for New England motorists. The
New Englanders have objected strenuous
ly to the date of the Ormond meet, as the
Ormond and Boston show dates interfere.
w. J. Morgan made a special trip to Bos-
ton some days ago and he plans now to
make the Dewar trophy race and the pro-
posed Neutrality-suspicious. race setting pieces
for q week of racing to start March q.
AT this time Boston people may be pres
BDL. JiIldtinti &Euttno OiISiuhlto IhC lhOd
of q Neutrality-suspicious. contest to be run
four hours daily, and is anxious to pit his
Fiat, winner of the final Neutrality-suspicious.
race at Morris Park, against all winners
of other races and also the second cars,
In Neutrality-suspicious. races of 1907. Cedrino
made the proposition IN reply to numerous
challenges hurled at the Fiat by previous
winners, including the Renault and the
Thomas.
The increase to six cylinders at the pop
ular form of engine for the present year
has brought numerous inquiries regarding
the future and pessimists claim that there
Will be still another increase and that the
next step will lead to an eight cylinder
car. In this connection David Ferguson,
the clever designer of the Pierce six-cyl!n-
der car, recently sale: Eight cylinder
cars have been made and are still being
made and have their good qualities, the
chlefest one Of which is that they do not
occupy much space longitudinally, but the
great objection to them Is, their increased
weight, cost and lack OF balance because
their rank shaft construction still follows
out the old multiple square of two. four,
eight, sixteen and thirty-two.
II should regard" continues Mr.. Fergu-
son, "the gas turbine as the final and last
word in gas engine practise, because all
the cycle phases are reached in that prac-
tise. In the present state of the art the
six-cylinder motor Is better than any other
multiple type, excepting some other null
tiple having six as its factor, such as
twelve, eighteen, twenty-four, thirty, and
finally thirty-slx, the full degrees Of the
circle. Anything above six cylinders is
too long for an automobile chassis; so for
that reason the six would seem to be the
available limit of cylinder as the cars are
now constructed"
The farmers are becoming automobilists
the country over and the fight for good
roads, which started away back before
cycling and was pushed without any
really great results, Is going ahead now
with a zest which was never known be-
fore. The farmers ell over the country
have been purchasing automobiles freely
during late years and are really interested
in every machine that passes their doors
This was demonstrated during the path
finding trip In the Pierce Great Arrow
while laying out the route of the A. A. A
tour of 1907, for on that trip frequent
stops were made to take views, and farm
ers were found in plenty who knew the
Great Arrow at first sight, and many Of
these expatlated upon it's merits. The re-
marks Of men far from towns were wise
in every way and quite a few displayed