New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-17
OFF ON A LONG ]AUN1
Miss Scott to Drive Auto from
Coast to Coast.
PERFECT SCORES IN RUN
Few Cars Penalized in Two-Day
Reliability Contest Last
Week.

Miss Blanche Stuart Scott. of Rochester,
left this city yesterday for an auto
mobile run from coast TO coast in an over
land car. She will bear message from
Mayor Gaynor to Mayor Mccarthy OF san
Francisco.
AS Miss Scott expressed 1T, she was
fused for the first time since sue
planned TO drive from New York 10 san
Francisco, overland in an Overland. IN
the way out of the city luncheon was
served at the Claremont, on Riversiae
Drive. at which sixty covers were iald-
This luncheon was given by Mrs Gertrude
Hoffman. a personal friend of Miss Scott,
who prompted by enthusiasm came 10 Ne"
York fer the purpose. Her guests in
cluded sixteen women motor enthusiasts
of New York. several men who admired
Miss SCOTS fight for recognition in trans
continental touring, and members of the
press.
Miss SCOTS escort from Times Square, up
Fifth avenue. across 9TH street and up
BROADWAY to Riverside Drive was big
enough to take on the appearance OF
parade. The car bearing the membership
flags of the Automobile Club of America,
the American Automobile Association and
the newly organized Touring Club OF Amer
lea led the way.
At the luncheon thoroughly informal but
abnormally sincere remarks and gooo
wishes were extended by some of the Oldest
motoring enthusiasts of this country. II
was exactly 2:S7 o'clock when amid cheers
Miss Scott started across the viaduct, with
Poughkeepsie her first nights goal
tvo-day reliability run around New Jersey
last week with perfect scores was long
one. and the contest demonstrated the value
of such events 10 the maker. Fully one
million persons saw the cars in the various
towns and along the road.
The general public, watching the per-
Torrance of cars on the track under strictly
racing conditions and on the road under
usual touring conditions, is perhaps more
impressed with their perfect performance
on tour than in racing events.
Few cars were penaIized at all, and these
only for minor defects. Two cars. tbs
Kehler and the Cole, were put cut of the
contest by accident, and one of the Gusts
was penaIized for taking gasolene on the
road.
The ears finishing with perfect scores
were two Franklins. a Franklin truck,
Marion, an Overland. two Bucks, q Weicn-
Detroit. an Auburn two Cadtllacs. Mora,
two MaxwelIs Pierce-Racine, stoddafd-
DAYTON. two Nationals, Croxton, Nit
chell. a Thomas Q, Mercer and MsthesoH
Silent Six.
The twenty-four hour race was the sole
tonic of talk along Automobile Row" yes
,erday. Those dealers who had machines in
the race displayed the racing machines IN
their respective windows, and all day long
the various stores were full of racing en-
thusiasts inspecting tine begrimed cars. qa
The condition of the track was much dis
cussed One OF the men who drove HAD
this to say:
Unless the track is fixed there should
Fever be another Neutrality-suspicious. race al
Brighton Beach. One of the most remark
q BILE features OF the struggle was the way II
used III, the drivers. That is due entirely 10
the track. At the turns there were ruts so
deep that when the car hit them it seemed
as if the wheels would be wrenched off,
"Mv car came off the track fully a foot
time and time again, and when the forward
wheels struck they wsbbled and slid Tor
seconds, and when you are going mile
a minute you are going lightweight feet
every second. On the backstretch the track
was deep in dust. One of the cars went
into a soft spot and buried her nose, with
the result that she broke her steering
knuckle. 7 don't believe you could get that
field of drivers to get up again with that
track.
Another result of the condition is that
the wrists and forearms of the men act as
shock absorbers. The chassis can't take I'D
the shock, neither can the springs. The