New-York tribune., 1908-02-13
GLOBE CIRCLERS OFF.
RIG THRONG At START.
Sir Automobiles Leare for Paris by
the Way of Alaska.


Six automobiles Of which one is American
built car started from the Times Building list
before noon yesterday. to follow the until
they reach Paris. $4,000 miles away From ths
upper Of the two natiron buildings 10 Yonksrs
thousands Of spectators lined the roads to watch
the six and the score and more OF followers
pass by, on tho first stretch OF their trip TO the
frozen north and then across Behrins Strait.
through Siberia and Russia until Paris 10
reached
Only a small part Of the way viii be travelled
under anything but their own power Rather than
face the snowclad trail north from San Francisco
ths party will take boat from that place 20 Seat
lie From there they will dodge the dangers and
hsrdships of land travel through British Colunn-
b!s. by taking boat to Valdez. in Alaska From
there they Will follow the government mall route
down the Yukon Kaltag and across country TO
Nome Those that survive by that time ars
neeted to follow the shore 10 Cape Prince of
Wales and cross the strait to East Cape. IN
Siberia Here will come the hardest and most
rugged stretch Of ali. IL any reach IT, for they
will have 10 cross a stretch Of LOO rough miles
before they can reach their first supply station.
at Nitn,koIensk Between East Cape and Paris
the supply stations and the route have been pre-
nared by lie Matin" of>Paris. while the plans for
the country between Longacre Square and Cape
prince of wales have been arranged by The New
York Times"
Bv 10 O'Clock Broadway up 70 the northsrnmose
reaches of Harlem looked as though everybody was
expecting the circus to come 70 town me mild
dav made IT possible to stand and wait for the
racers without especial discomfort, and apparently
eve-,rbody who could turned out 70 see them pasa
AT that time Broadway had the appearance OF ors
Of the Long Island roads leading TO Henpstead on
the day OF the big Vanderbilt Cup race Always
road popular with automobiiists. IL was filed yes
terday with machines bound toward the starting
point IL was not long after 10 o'clock when Long
Acre and Times squares and the adjacent 500
streets were alive with cars The sidewalks and
windows packed, and the three hundred po-
Iicernen under Inspector Schmttberser had thsss
uorl ct out in keeping clear space for the racers
to start and seeing that the other machines were
parked IN their allotted spaces. A big crowd con-
sisting chiefly OF women. gathered IN 'front.' o, tns
Hotel Cadillac and repeatedly broke into the re-
served space In the roadway until the mounted
noIice drove them back eastward into sd street.
Mayor Mcclellan had been advertised as the man
behind the starting pistol. but at II CLOCK ne nad
not appeared The committee. seeing that II was
the Mayor waited fifteen minutes for nir1 and
then Colgate Hoyt. president Of the Autornoois
Club of America fired the pistol which sent the
men of in their race across three continents me
band was playing when Herman VI harp. one OK
the official chauffeurs Of the Automoole eiHo
swung around the Times Building and north' u'
Broadway. to pilot the foreign racers
One after another the six machines fell IN oennd
him, laden down with supplies Of all kinds. un'h
they looked like moving vans tnan racing
machines Behind them tailed out the escort
Tarrytown and after them the private ma
chimes. which made the parade up Broadway one
of the most interesting of the sort ever seen IN he
city. Every car had either the French or American
flag or both displayed. and they presented gay
appearance All the way to Harlem the party was
cheered repeatedly by the thousands who had
real or fictitious interest in the testing OF tns
strength Of piece Of machinery opposed 70 an
other.
The cars which started yesterday and their Occu-
pants were as follows: De Dion French). G. Bou-
cier ST. Chaffray Captain Hans Hansen and "
Autran; Moto-Bloc (French). NM GODDARD. Hus
and Liver; Sizaire-Naudin (French). NM Pons.
Deschamps and Berthe: Zust Qtalianl. ANTONIO
Scarfoglio Emilio Sartori and Henri Haaga: Pro-
tos (German). Lieutenant koeppen. Hans hnape
and Ernest Mas. and Thomas (AMerican). Mon
tague Roberts and Howard Brinker.
Before the start the machines were parked in a
closed triangle north of the Times Building Com
missioner Bingham was among the guests On the
official platform From this stand and all about y
from the buildings tri-colored bunting and ATneri-
can flags futtered in the gasolene scented breeze
For hour before the start the contestants FUSED
about their machines. Tightening a nut. loosening
valve and giving the the final grooming befors
the their Ventytwo-thousand-n mile race
When ready and the starters pistol cracked
they looked businessike. but scarcely picturesque.
in spite OF their drapery OF flags. The order in
which the cars got of follows: De Dioa
NJ. ST. Chaffray driving MOto-Bloc. VI. Godard:
SizaireNaudin. NJ. Pons: Zust, Antonio Scarfoglio;
Protes, Lieutenant koeppen- ana then the AneIs'
can car, with Montasu Roberts at the wheel.
Most of the contestants appeared to fear tirs
trouble above everything else. but NJ ST. Chafray
and NJ Pons said that worried them the least. as
they had tested the tires they using across
ice and covered country as bad IL not worse
than anything they expect to meet in Siberia OF
Alaska All said that they expected to maks
Paris. but. outside OF the contestants themselves
few expect them to accomplish the American stass
of their journey. and some skeptics have openly
expressed their doubt that the six machines viii
reach San Francisco.
An elaborate system Of checking has been worked
out. providing only for the reporting OF me
cars but for the identification of the drivers ara
the machines The operator checking the con-
testants must himself and identify the uachins
before reporting it back to New York Once across
the frozen straits the checking will be reported ID
Paris The list of stations in the and Alaska
at which the contestants must report follows: