Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-10
SEASON FULL
OF WILD HOPES
RACING FEVER is EXCEEDING
ALL BOUNDS
NEW TRACKS, UNUSUAL SALES
AND GREAT SHOWS
Factories Are oversold, and Pessi-
mists Go Back and Sit Down,
While optimists Smile
and Saw Wood

With automobile races on the track,
the beach and the road, touring car
contests of national and local interest,
and hill climbs in all parts of the coun-
try, and with automobile carnivals pc
ing scheduled for cities throughout the
country to celebrate the return TO pros
porous times, the coming season prom
Uses a lot in the way of sport. Tue pros
poets for touring in general were never
brighter, and throughout the country
the hotel keepers are preparing Tor the
rush which will this year be double ana
even treble that of last year.
Entries will be plenty for the con-
tests, for the makers are turning out
cars and cannot turn them out Iast
enough. Factories are oversold, and
pessiinists have long ago started away
back to sit down while optimists smile
and say little, while energetically saw
ing wood. Some of the pessimists have
changed their clothes and now appear
in new garb.
Forget to Complain
The automobile shows have all-bee
successful and will continue to be SO
to the finish of the show season. Therc
has been less complaining THIS year
among show men, and in former years
this was not the case. Inc business
has been so good that there was no
room for complaint.
With the prospects of a great season
ahead and with the airship business
looming up to one day hold the eye OF
the public, as did the bicycle business
and as is the automobile business doing
today, the men who will go through all
three generations are looking FORWARD
to the new Klondike and one day Will
he found gathered together under
new industrial flag and again all work
ing for the common cause, the making
of money by providing new sensations
for the people, the new forms or amuse-
ment as we'll as providing new forms OF
commercial vehicles.
EIwood Haynes Cheerful
Among those looking forward to the
present year and many years TO follow
of great progress and grand line Oh
automobile business Is Elwood Haynes.
the builder of Americas first automo-
bile for the regular market.
Things never looked brigster' saio
Mr.. Haynes in speaking of affairs IN
general and the future Of the automo-
bile industry in particular.
years ago cycle racing fiourished.
and as that died down and cycle tracks
were abandoned, the old-timers who en-
tered the automobile field pondered
upon the future. The prospect of 9 cir
cult of automobile race courses IN
closed. seemed beyond the realms OF
possibilities. Racing on horse tracks
seemed too dangerous, and the wise
men felt that road and beach racing
would alone serve to develop the quail
tiles of the cars. Carl G. Fisher and
his associates in Indianapolis foresaw
the possibilities of a course OF sufficient
length, highly banked and inclosed
The announcement of the Indianapolis
course came as a surprise, but the in
itiative of the Indianapolitans served
as an incentive until now announce
nnents are made of several courses. one
at Atlantic City and another at Provi-
follow formino a circuit. Work on the
indianapolis course is to. be started
very shortly. Many prominent events
will be held there, both for automobiles
and for airships, the greatest aero con-
test of the year having been secured
for this course"