Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-05
HOW II FEELS TO
GO At TOP SPEED
Barney Oidneld Tells OF His Race
Against Time When He Broke
Worlds Record.

Il have realized my lifes ambition. 7
have Travelled faster than any other per-
son iu the whole world. ] have shot
along the rock-lke sands OF the psytoua
beach az a greater speed than many wise
men believed was possible TO attain with
out encountering disaster over $780,
90 has been spent by different factories
and individuals 20 build cars that would
beat the world at the speed game. You
have seen a hungry kid looking into a
cookle-ladeu bakery window with longing
and wistfulness written IN as face That's
just about the way 1 stood by and saw
other drivers many without previous rep
utation break speed records, and I made
up my mind that about the time the other
fellow thought the limit Of daring and
speed had been reached would go them
all one better and stean that speed king
crown for all my own. / was playing
a mere chance taking and hazardous
game, that circular track with fence
rails and posts blowing into my anatomy
every time made a faux pas. as they
tried 70 teach me 20 say when 7 was In
the show business
RESOLVED TO SMASH RECORDS.
But IL Inundated and nettl,d me every
time some well-mcaninE person would
ask me what speed had been attained
with an automobile. Maybe / had just
driven a circular track Ia 90 seconds. skid
ding an over the end OF soft turn. How
cheap my 80 seconds seemed to look be
side the straightaWay fellows . or -
seconds. Nearly every collar / possessed
was earned with blood, my own blood,
and attendant physical pain. but it did
not take me long 20 make up my mind
20 buy the car with which I used TO break
the worlds record for every mark / went
after I'm Florida. I want 20 go on record
as saying that there Is only one race
course IN the whole world that will per
NIT the speed I made. That Is tho Day
tona beach course My first trouble up0u
trying out the car was 90 get goggles
that would allow me TO use my eyes aft
er j reached the l3-mile-an- hour gait. Ny
ordinary racing goggles almost gouged
my eyes out, the pressure caused by the
wind being terrific. After a lot Of ex-
perimenting ] overcame this difficulty.
HAD TO BECOME USED TO SPEED.
Then came the work OF getting accus-
toned Co great speed I believe 1 arm cal-
loused 20 ordinary dangers OF automobile
racing but here WAS p new dread and
fear FOR me. The limit Of speed ] was
going was faster for mile after mile than
scientific automobile engineers figured
could be attained without tne tires being
thrown of the wheel by centrifugal force.
The loss OF Traction was startling Fully
third Of the distance the wheels were
shooting uu and down iu weird dance
that caused me 90 shut down my motor
until they would hold 20 the ground 4
knew the motor was capable OF So many
hundred revolutions per minute. I knew
the gearing would admit Of a speed of
80 miles an hour when the engine was
wide open. 10 was up 60 me 20 ind out
what the limit OF speed really is
/ would walt for a particularly good
stretch Of beach and then I would let the
great old car have les head. Down would
go the throttle and the spark would be
advanced well along. Then we would
shoot through space. I would begin 20
choke everything before me would be-
come cushroudcd Boo haze and / would
suddenly feel as though / were in the
middle Of nightmare about to jump
OF some mountainous precipice. Then i
would shut her down. ! had driven fast
er than humanity ever Travelled. Far fast-
er, for li2 miles an hour ls almost a mill
lion times ass fast as it looks in print.
That Is as near the limit OF speed as HUI
msnity ever win travel More powerful
automobiles may be huilt though a BIS
not necessary. for my Benz has never
been open, but not even on Daytona
beach Will that speed Dee beaten. j stuck
20 the wheel ans Kept the car as far uT,n
as / could until ] felt myself becoming
nconHcious-enother second or SO ana Id
would have been an on Others may taIl
Of such speed. but am the only man In
the world who over got near the limit
Of speed