New-York tribune., 1909-01-30

PLANS FOR ONE IN WEST.
Tt0o Courses for Road and Track
Racing VIII Be Built.

Announcement is made that automobile speed
way will be built in Indianapolis that will be SINH
lar to that at Brooklands, England. plot Of
ground comprising 800 has been purchased
for the purpose. a company formed, and work on
the course is TO begin at once. 60 that 1t be
ready for racing by spring.
The speedway will have tvTo-nlile circular out
side track. fifty feet wide, with sixty feet the
curves. banked suitably for speed of 100 miles
hour. There also will be three-rnile inside
for road racing IN connection with the out
side track, Whieh be used when wanted for e
combination of track and road racing.
The inside IS twenty-five feet wide IN the
straights and thirty-fvs feet wide the turns.
which will be well banked It is figured that an
average speed of sixty to sixty-fve miles an hour
be made on these turns. The complete outside
and inner track measures five miles, three feet
from the pole
Three grandstands to be erected. with e
seating capacity for thirty-fve thousand persons.
convenient locations about the track each Of which
will be raised ten feet from the ground and have
accommodations for fifty persons This will make
II convenient for the clubs to attend in body and
have q grandstand for their members. The
ground is entirely level There Will be fences
buildings closer than fifty feet to either the
outer track inside roadway. The track will be
constructed that 1t will graduate of TO the level
ground. to insure every possible precaution
for the safety of drivers and spectators.
The parking spaces and grsndstands will be sub
divided from the main grounds by eight-foot wire
fences. making II impossible for the spectators TO
get the track It IS planned to have some OF
the big stock car races held on the course.
The next meeting OF the executive committee Of
the American Automobile Association will be held
in Chicago on February Il. during the Chicago au-
tonlobiIe show. President Hotchkss has sent out
invitations the I65 directors OF the organiza-
ton to be present
II learned yesterday that entry blanks for
the seventh annual automobile speed tournament to
be issued next week.
The popularity Of the sIx-cyIinder In France
is shown by the increasing number Of these models
exhibited at the Paris Salon. In 1905 only three
"sixes' displayed. In the following year the
number grew to q in 1907 TO 81 and last December
to 96 Practically every well known maker In France
is producing more six-cytnder models
Harry s. Houpt has leased quarters in the Rhine
lander Building at 6Sth street and Broadway, which
he will occupy as headquarters and saIesroom for
the HerreshoT car and Iater-when they are put on
the market-for the new Houpt cars The building
IS now being renovated preparatory TO occupancy
and is expected to be finished by February 1G The
first of the Herreshor Is expected TO arrive in
New York on February l.
New Orleans Jan. 29.-The New Orleans Automo-
bile Club has contracted for the installation of a
lighting system at the Fair Grounds track in New
Orleans for purpose OF carrying on the twenty
four hour race during the big auto carnival meet
ing which is to begin here February Y and con-
tinue for three days.