The sun., 1909-05-16
AMONG THE AuTOMOBILISTS
ELABORATE PLANS FOR CATS
EygLS-sERKSHIRE RUN,
eAmn,ittee Arranging Entertainments
fer Participants tn Three Day Teur Of
Ncu Ys-k AutoTsebile Trade Assseia.
t,as-G,!aten Entries Close Later,


Tho com mlttee In charge Of the three day
,orr ot the New York Automobile Trade
Iss,cl.:ien On June IL Is and IA 10 planning
"a make tAs affair an interestins one for
n,-idr.ats hy arranging entertainments
for the Contestants This catering to the
entertainment OF the men who participate
{, runs of this kind has heretofore ossn
oreroosed, and what has usually turned
ou, to be hardship on the participants 10 In
this instance going to be remedied a. much
IA the schedule will permit.
Tn, com nittee members ngure u In little
o,rnensation enough to mako the outing
ot,be men who accompany the cars a. pleas
an, and ENJOYABLE as possible when the " ear
and fear Of the run Is taken into consider
o,,o, IL is with this object In view that
m. committee has decided to introduce a
number Of festivities, to be held At the dif-
feyeut sht controls and to which all par
ticipotins In the run will be cordially In
vited.
As the route Is now planned the cars will
leave the Automobile Club OF America early
on the morning OF June IL and proceed to
Forty-second street ferry, whore they will
embark for Weehawken. from which point
the run will follow the environs Of the Hud-
son to Syeck. where the osTs vi! pass the
monument OF Aaron Burr. Leaving Nysck,
sufern and Tuxedo will be traversed, after
which Arden. will be reached in short order
The cars thereafter will pass through Gem
tral Valley.
From Central Valley the run will be made
TO Newburgh, where may be seen the head
quarters OF Gen. Washington, which stands
on an eminence overlooking tae Hudson.
Esopus the home OF Alton Il. Parker Presi-
dental candidate of the Democratic party,
will be the next village to be visited by the
motor car caravan, after which Kingston.
Saugert les, then catskill in the heart of the,
CatskilI Mountains. will be made In good
season. At Catskill programme of un-
usual merit is to be given for the entert ain
ment of the tourists. From Catskill the run
will traverse Cairo, and thence to Rensse-
laerville, from which point the tourists will
be piloted over the new Rensselaerville
road 10 albany. where an effort Is to be made
to have the Governor review he cars as they
pass through the city.
Leaving the capital city, the tourists will
head for Pitsfeld by way OF Nassau and
Lebanon. Pittsfeld will be the night stop.
and an attractive number OF amusements
will be provided. The next morning bright
and early the cars will make such cele-
brated towns in tho Berkshires as Lenox,
where George Washington had a beautiful
estate Stockbridge and Great Darlington.
'
mttee to make the visit OF he participants
as hospit able as possible. and the merchants
OF the various municipalities are to be
asked to decorate their buildings in honor
BerSshires, the cars will fol low the route
already published. reaching the Aut ON bile
Club OF America on Fifty-fourth street
al in the evening.
One OF the most enthusiastic supporters
OF the ocean to ocea0 endurance contest
frAT N@NE IN In Arft
June % i, is H. 81. sternbersh. presiden, Of Of
the Acme Motor Car Company OF Reading
Pa MIR. SternberGb,. who was in New
Motor Car Company respecting the entry
% OF an A Acne car in in the contest: expressed
i honestly believe. said Mr.; sternbers Oh
y sha bh the SeE m ors to Seattle tile
ever promoted In this or any other country
n not ,6 only Wii it Sttraet d dwddsspread ,nteTes,
but It Vill call very general atteni lon to the
s,Secrable road conditions throughout the
1t is a source OF everlasting disgrace
that ip an enlishtened and civil,zed country
,ranscontinental highway connecting the
he . roads ,s selected which ! believe to be
roads to be followed are no better than
tra Is. and in some cases they are not even
trails, These conditions will be called more
and American legislators by the ocean TO
ocean contest than by any other means
conceivable, An almost immediate result
worst stretches Of the alleged highways
over which the cars will travel. Also II
Tili help along The agitation for national
highway IRON coast 10 coast more than
ANYTHING else has ever done.
AS means OF calling attention to the
fa9irlhe Qualities OF the present day auto
promot cd. The fact that every conceiv able
condition Of road will he encoun. cred will
assure the public that the contest cannot
makes the difficult Journey, whether II ar
fves first or last at the goal. will have
made demonstration OF fitness such az
Every part Of a competing car will be thor
oughIy tried out and only machines that
are giants in strength and power can be
expected TO accomplish the feat.
The route 10 he followed will take the
contestants through many parts of the
country where a'l' 'omobiles are not yet "a
his Is cslcn nlated 10 create great enthusiasm
en- route and open up new fields for the sale
o. ,machiIes The fact that the contest
VII be started simultaneously with the
opening OF the ALASKA Yukon Pacific Expo
eui0n az Seattle will attract Interest both
70 that fair and 10 the race itself. while the
twenty days later is certain to arouse the
WIDEST enthusias asm at that place and Keen
interest throughout the country"
:, chairman F. B. Hover has announced an
Important change regarding the date and
terms ior receiving entries for the Glidden. |
mower and Detroit contests of the 1909 |
\. a., 4, tour. Owing to the fact that the |
iuI'nan company. insisted upon terms be- |
my reached by May Is for the use OF its |
dining and sleeping cars along a part Of the
route IL was at first announced that entries |
81 500 each would he received until MAY IS
and thereafter at $500. each until June IS |
Last week, however. >the number of paid |
entries In hand were sufficient to warrant |
me contract with the Pullman company
cars 1t would agree to furnish, and arrange
nents made for increasing the number of |
cars 70 the maximum later on.
=, hder these circumstances Chairman |
flower decided promptly to act upon the
tlggestlon of the Manufacturers Contest |
Associa.icn as expressed in a letter signed |
~ Chairman n. r. Comm, addressed 10 Mr. |
hower. Mr.. Coffin wrote that considerable
comment had been made on the entry closing
os'e of the Glidden tour. He suggested |
Until ,t June Is. entries to be received until
ths date at the regular fee. Entries at 5000
each viii accordingly be received unit!
June Is and from. then until July at $500
zach The pathfnding trip Of Dai, H.
i.is heNis VII be completed this week. he hav.
Cny.
:, since the. recent hearing before Gov.
huShes Oh the new motor vehicle bill I here |
nss been clearer understanding Of its
principles and direct result has been that |
many persons who at first were inclined TO !
oppose certain features OF the measure |