The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-10
SIX TEAMS WILL
START IN RACE
Automobile Contest in Which
the Men Will Go From New
York to Gay Paris.
WILL CROSS BERlNG STRAIT
TRIP WILL CONSUME SIX TO
NINE MONTHS.

New York, Feb. 9.-The last details of
the start of the New YOrk-to-Paris au-
tomohile race next Wednesday morning
We're arranged today. Six teams are to be
sent away in this extraordinary motor
contest. Four nations viii be represented
among the contestants and this fact in
addition to the territory to be traVersed,
Will give a worldwide interest to the
race.
Three French crews. one German. one
Italian and one American will make the
start next Wednesday when word to go is
given by Mayor George B. Mcclellan of
New York The. place of the start is at
Times Square, in the heart of the city
and the first stage of the long journey
leads up Broadway and Riverside drive to
the city limits. Two hundred or more au-
tomobiles arc expected to accompany the
racing cars as far as YOnkers.
Names of the Starters.
The order of start and the personnel
of the various teams follows:
No. l, French-G. Bourcier St. Chaffray,
Captain Hans Hendrix Hansen and NJ.
No, ?. French-M. GODDARD, NJ. Hue and
Nj. Liver
No. 3. French-M. Pons. NJ. Deschamps
and NJ. Berthe
No. 4. Italian-Antonio Scarfuglio, Emil
lilo SirtOri and Henri Basga.
i No. s. Ge-man-Lieutenant KOOppen,
4 Engineer Hans Krape and Engineer Err
nest Mas.
No. 6. Observation-Disclosures Roberts and
Howard Brinker.
Three of the drivers contested in the
famous Pekin-tO-Paris race. the success
of which caused the present unusual con-
test to be projected. A part of the jour
ney is to be made over the same route
traversed by the winning car in the Pekin-
tO-Paris race. from Irkutsk. on the line of
the Trans-Siberian railroad TO Paris.
All Are Confident.
All of the men are confident of their
ability 10 take their machines safely
through the difficult tasks before them.
The winter journey across the western
plains and plateaus of the United States
including the crossing of the Rocky noun
tains in Wyoming at an altitude of more
than 5000 feet. is regarded by the racing
enthusiasts as the easiest part of their
work, and they expect to be in San Fran
cisco inside of thirty days. AS to the
remainder of the journey. including. as it
does. the first experience with an auto
mobile in the Polar regions the estimates
of the time required TO get through TO
Paris vary from six to nine months.
Every Modern Appliance.
Each car will be equipped with every
continuance the drivers believe the exigen-
cies of the journey will require, Spiked
tires for travel over the frozen rivers of
Alaska and Siberia are a part of the
equipment. and various devices for re-
tanning heat in the engines and radiators
have been made. Camp utensils. repair
loutfits and stores viii make cumbersome
SDaggage- The route leads through many
miles of heretofore untraveled wastes
but so far as 1t has been possible the
committee in charge of the contest have
made arrangements for supply stations
The drivers. it is believed, will elect to
keep together through the more difficult
stages of the trip, leaving the speed fea-
ture 10 the last.
Reaching San Francisco by way of
southern California. detOur from Reno
carrying them south to AOjaVe and Santa
Barbara, the automobiles will take
steamer to Seattle. and there transfer to
another steamer to Valdez. Alaska. a
journey of LOO miles BY snow packed
roads and frozen rivers will bring the
racers To Nome.
In the Polar Regions.
The arrangements for crossing Bering
strait are not yet perfected. Unless there
is solid ice a steamer will be taken to
East cape. Siberia, sixty miles. Then the
automobiles will skirt the frozen shore of
the Arctic sea TO the mouth of the Lena
river. Up this frozen stream they will
make their way to Irkutsk, from which
point the roads to Moscow st. Petersburg
Berlin and Paris are we'll defined.