The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-27
E. R. Carter Only One
Severely Hurt During
Endurance Run.
SCOTT'S MACHINE MOWS
DOWN TELEPHONE POLE
Mayor Fires Gun Which Starts
Twenty-One on zOO-Mile
Grind. -

Slddding on the slippery side Of Z
hill near Allamuchy car No. 10 In the
200-miIe endurance contest TO Hacketts-
town and return, became unmanaze-
able today, cut down telephone pole
and threw its three occupants to the
ground. One of them, Edgar r. Car
ter, of New Rochelle, N. Y, was rem
dered unconscious by the fall. The
other two men escaped injury. The
two wheels on the left side of the car
We're torn off,
With d. J. Scott, of Newark, driving
the car. which is Mitchell Roadster,
and F. L. Martin. of Plainfield and
Carter as passengers. the steep journey
down the hill was begun The rear
! right wheel sl1idded near the top Of the
hill and the machine bounded to the
other side of the road. 1t struck a
telephone pole and cut it or squarely
two feet from the ground. The car
was whirled about by the shock and
the three men were thrown out Car
ter, an official of the club. was present
as an observer He struck on his
head. A physician was summoned
from Hackettstown and aid for the car
from Newark
! When the physician reached the
scene of the accident he found Carter
had sustained fracture of the collar
bone. He ordered the removal Of the
| injured man to Hackettstown. several
miles away. Carter is a member Of the
graduating class at Stevens Institute
of Technology at Hoboken, as are mo- Z
fof the observers The other cars
past the bad spot in the road WITT
accident.
At the end of the first circuit al
five of the cars arrived within the
minutes grace allowed. n. B. Gil
with his Fiat; J. j. c. Humbert, il
Buick, and M. A. Carpenter. with
Autocar. did not report, although,
| far as was known. they had met wi.
no accidents. R. G. P. Dieffetbach.
driving Craig Toledo. dropped out on
account of a blowout, resulting from
bad skid near Hackettstown.
r. S. Wards De Dietrich and Frank
Kramer's Jackson were nearly burnt
+. up by a fire caused by cigarette butt
thrown in a puddle of gasoline while
/ Ward was filing in front of the club
house. Kramers engine was going and
the car was run out OF harms way.
Wards car was pulled out by hand.
| A. B. Ward withdrew his Cadillac
shortly after beginning the second
round.
Twenty-one autos. at two-minute In
tervals. made the start from the New
Jersey Automobile and Motor Club in
Park place at a. m The contest win
last until o clock tonight.
The start was made without acci-
dent At the last minute two of the
entries failed to appear. They were
E. H. Good, whose 40-horsepower Fiat
baby tonneau lost a wheel at the Turn
pike bridge on the Hackensask, on the
way to Newark. and Emil Maurner.
who was to have driven a 20-hcrBe-
power Ford runabout.
Mayor Jacob Haussling fired the
starting gun at o'clock sharp by the
big clock that has been set up opposite
| the clubhouse in Park place, and H A.
Bonnell. in a 2s-horsepower Maxwell
touring car crossed the line. The
others followed on two-minute head
way, H D. Bowman, Of the arrange
rnent committee, giving the word that
released them.
The pilot car. Cadillac. with c. z.
Fisher at the wheel. set or at $50 this
morning to run over the course. Con-
fetti viii be thrown AID arrows were
set up wherever a turn n the rocd Il
likely to confuse the drivers
The contest is in two periods OF i've
hours each, the second 20 end at
o'clock Each car carried its full ca
pacity of passengers, includingsan OBJ
server.
Those Who started.
The following is list OF those who
started:
Glass Al. ]. C. Humbert. 1s-horse-
power Buick runabout; w. F. Hop
ping, 1S-horsepower Buick rlnabout:
d. ]. Scott, 2o-horsepower Mitchell
roadster; d. G. Holmes. 20-horsepower
REQ touring car.
| Class B-H A Bonnell, 2S-horsepcw-
er Maxwell touring car: n. r. Sher-
rerd, 2s-horsepower Maxwell roadster:
Arthur B. Ward. 30-horsepower CadiI-
/ lac touring car; Andrew Heuschkel, IS
horsepower Maxwell roadster: w. l.
Ferguson. 30-horsepower Chalmers De-
troit roadster; Francis @. Goeken. Is
horsepower Crawford roadster.
4 Glass C-Fred A. Croselmire, 90
4 horsepower Locomobile baby tonneau:
w. H. Cornweil. S5-horsepower Olds-
! mobile runaboutt c. E Collard, a.
( horsepower Marnon touring car; r. q.
p. Dleffenhach, <0-horsepower Craig
4 Toledo roadster, Robertson S. Ward,
S5-horsepower DIETRICH runabout:
Frank L. Kramer. 45-horsepower Jack
/ son touring car; w. Give Crosby. 45-
horsepower Marmon touring car; W. 3.
i Shuttleworth. 5o-horsepower Haynes
| horsepower Autocar roadster: A. y.
Eisels, s5-horsepower Fiat touring car:
W. B. Gibson, a6-horsepowes Fiat delnt-
'fonneasA 5,