Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-28
MOTORDROME
IS A CERTAINTY
HUNDREDS OF ARTISANS ARE
EMPLOYED AT SITE
PACIFIC ELECTRIC BUILDS LOOP
TO TRACK
Workingmen Ready to Begin Today
to Lay the Timber of Which
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Be Constructed

For some time there has been eonsid-
cradle interest taken in the new motor
drome, which has been described at
considerable length in the press of this
city, and a trip was made by The Her
aid yesterday to the site selected so
that a better and more general knowl-
edge of the enterprise might be given
to the public.
If there is the slightest doubt about
the motordrome being an assured thing
all that is necessary to dispel it is to
go and see the army of men at work on
the proposition. The Pacific Electric
Railway company has hundreds of men,
comprising pole raisers, electricians,
graders and track layers, at work on
the new loop, showing it is confident
enormous crowds will be carried to
witness the greatest automobile racing
track on the face of the EARTH
The mile track has been surveyed and
proved three times, and Jack Prince,
the designer and constructor of the mo-
tordrome, has a force of men preparing
to lay the timber of which the track
will be built.
The stakes are all driven, and flag
poles with their little emblems floating
in the wind mark the pole line of the
track. Today wagons will begin haul
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the ground, the first ship load having
arrived at Port Los Angeles.
Tons of spikes are already on the
ground for the construction of the
track, and at the end of thirty days the
track will be ready for the practice
work of racing drivers. Another thirty
days will see the grand stand ready for
the thousands who will go there to view
the fastest cars, the fastest and most
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made on any track in the world.
Los Angeles Again First
Think of the proposition! Los Ange-
les, first with the aviation meet and
again with the first motorcycle saucer
track, and now with the first motor
drome ever built in the world, upon
whose boards will be made the fastest
time ever made in the history Of auto
mobiles.
When the track has been laid there
will be another track of earth connect
ed with the board oval, all banked, and
inside of this will be a. continuous row
of small palms, which, surrounded by
a, small picket fence, will make this
resort the most ideal of the kind ever
conceived.
Automobiles will have parking space
within the mile enclosure which will be
sown in clover and kept green and
beautiful. Machines will be admitted
to this enclosure by an arch under the
track itself. The Pacific Electric rail-
way lines will run directly to the en-
trance, and twenty minutes from the
corner of Third and Hill motor enthusi-
asts will be landed at the gates, with
cars on a schedule OF two minutes.
When there are races these cars will be
rim direct and switched to the loop, the
regular schedule for Long Beach be-
ing maintained.
IF there was nothing else to commend
the enterprise there is one thing which
will be appreciated, especially by the
women-there will be no dust. A Wom-
an may attend these races at the mo-
tordrome clad in the most Immaculate
of white linen and come from the events
precisely as she left her home. Dust Is
impossible from the racing machines,
a great objection in the ordinary earth
tracks of the country
General Manager Moscovics is attend
ing to the details of the opening event,
at which the greatest drivers OF the
world will be present with the biggest
and most powerful racing cars on earth,
to try to obtain the attractive purses
which will be offered for the events,
and there is today scarcely doubt that
the time for a mile on this circular
track will be made in thirty seconds,
while stock cars will turn the mile IN
forty seconds.
IT will be a big thing for Los Angeles
to have the first racing track of the
kind in the world, and the annoyances
and dangers of the earth track entirely
eliminated; for there can be no ruts,
no digging up big burrows in the track
for wheels to be torn off, tires on this
track always being on their centers,
hence no strain other than the friction
of fast shedding.