The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-20
FIVE MACHINES REACH OUR CITY
 RECORD PERFECT Two Bridgeport Drivert Appear
 in List of Leaders ALL CONNECTICUT CONTEST F. "A. Rantz With Speedwell and H. B. Gates With Overland
 Score Perfect
ALL CONNECTICUT CONTEST

Twenty cars which started in the An-Connecticut Reliability contest reached checked in on time at the plant of the. Bridgeport Vehicle Co.,, at Fairfield and Holland avenues, at 11:4o this morning. Many cars were on hand two hours earlier, but under the rules of the contest were not per- mitted to cross into the checking space.
 Two Bridgeporters are driving in the contest. They are F. A. Rantz, in a SpeedWell, and H. B. Gates in an Overland. There were five contestants who had perfect scores up to the time of reaching this city and among them were the Bridgeport drivers.
 After a half hour stop for lunch, gasoline and water the contestants left the city passing through Nichols on their way to Ansonia, Derby and Shelton to Hartford. Tomorrow the same cars leave Hartford and make a trip through the Eastern part of the state, returning to Hartford at night. Route A, which was gone over on Thursday, took the party from Hart ford through towns in the northwes- tern part of the state.
 Each car in the contest carried one or more passengers besides an off cial observer who kept the score of the car. The motorists were served with a lunch at the plant of the Bridgeport Vehicle company and were received by a staff of officials from the Automobile Club of Bridgeport. Gregory Bryan acted as checker and Arthur K.- L. Watson as timer. They were assisted by Herbert Lyon, Henry Stoddard, Frank F. Staples, F.. w. Bolande, W.. B. Lashar and Ralph Sperry.
 The machines scoring perfect rec ords are National, driven by F. T. Reid; Speedwell, driven by F. A. Rantz; Lexington, driven by B. l.. Mock; Columbia, driven by c. A. Wag- ner; Overland, driven by H. B. Gates.
 The automobiles in the Al1-Connec- ticut Reliability run started on their nectlcut this morning from the Hart ford club in the same order as yes- terday. The weather was splendid and the drivers expected to make rapid time. The route included Ber- lin, Meriden, Cheshire, Waterbury Middlebury, southbury, Newtown Bethel, Danbury, Ridgefeld, New Ca naan, Stanford Norwalk, Westport Fairfield, and Bridgeport, during the morning run. The stop for lunch was made at Bridgeport where gasoline tanks were replenished, the after EOOn run Ddck CO ddEIlOTu VIII De made via Shelton, Derby, New Ha- ven, Guilford, Madison, Saybrook Jewett City, Middletown, Cromwell Wethersield and other smaller towns
 The first car reached Danbury al S:35 o'clock and the last one was checked at 9:53. All seemed to be in the best possible shape though much covered with dust. The Rec was in the lead with the other cars following in this order:
 Nos. 22, 5, IS, 2, 1, 8, 4, II, s16, 14 ', 6, g, 20, 23, IT, 10, 8 and 2. The cars passed through Westport at in tervals between 9:45 o'clock and 10:4 o'clock and reached Bridgeport for the noon stop a, few minutes later After eating lunch and filling thei1 gasoline tanks the drivers started or the stretch to Derby, the pilot pass ing through that town at exactly 1924 s o'clock, according to schedule. Hali an hour was allowed the cars to GOV CT the distance between Derby and New Haven. The cars reached New Haven on schedule time and after checking up at a garage on CroWr street proceeded on their way toward Branford and Saybrook, where they will turn northward on the home stretch to Hartford.