New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-08
Turning Brighton Beach Track
Into a Cement Course.

| c.,-a-.I small fortunes have been expend-
/ ed at various times in the last Two years
toward making the one-rnle TacetTack At
/ the Brighton Beach Motordrome as safe
and fast as nossible Work has just been
started on what it is hoped will he maj
/ reconstruction Of the famous course, ana
when completed competitors IN twenty
! fc11r-hour races by the sea will have prac-
ticalfy an entire cement path on which to
/ grind out their records
In +he second reconstruction last year
patch Of cement was laid around the Coney
/ island turn. and this has held so well and
given such good service that similar patch
/ is now being made at the clubhouse turn
/ These Will be connected down the back
stretch with new preparation of top dress
/ ing which when thoroughly rolled VIII De
! ike cement in appearance
A B Cordner has consulted expert dr1F-
/ ers. and they all declare that for speed and
safety the stretch cannot be improved Con-
seouentlv. it will be left as 1t is, but it will
I he made dustless and rolled until II be
comes as hard as the other parts Of the
track.
with these improvements It is believed
that the course will be several seconds fast
or 10 the mile than ever before, and that
the safety Of contestants will be assured
AS il has been on the clubhouse turn Where
practically all the recent accidents nave
occurred II is expected that the cernenting
OF that turn will eliminate the trouble as
completely as il has been eliminated on
the Coney Island turn, which previous 10
its present change had gained notoriety as
death curve
I It was to effect these important changes
/ that the date of the next International
txerty-four-h race was put of until Au-
gust 19 and %.
! The great increase IN automobile touring
during the last few years has developed an
entirely new profession, that Of route find
ing. Seven years ago when the official au-
tomobile Blue Book was established. all
the information obtainabIe was. contained
! in one small condensed book. describing
few hundred miles around New York and
! Boston.
This publication has developed year by
year. until recently. when the 1910 edition
was published. il appeared in four leather
/ bound volumes of more than eight hundred
pages each describing approximately one
hundred and fifty thousand miles Of routes
! from the main coast TO Nebraska, taking
in practically every part of the country
which an automobiles can travel.
Inc lDaI6Gia1 COnIdlItG III LilSct tT,'hS
was obtained by men who have been trained
in the work OF route description. Four
high powered cars were used. each manned
I by two route DISORDERS. who, owing to
their experience. have developed wonderful
capacity for rapidly reporting local condi-
tons as they pass over the country roads
The new books have been entirely re-
printed. and in addition TO several new
routes they give this year road conditions
and local points of interest, such his
torical spots. public buildings and other
facts which would interest the tourist who
is out for pleasure rather than speed
| Volume I covers New York State com
pletely, and includes several new routes
in the Adirondack section, with interesting
routes into Canada.
| Volume II covers the entire country east
Of the Hudson River a number of new
routes 20 Maine have been added to this
volume which now practically covers every
tourable road in this territory.
Volume III covers New Jersey. Pennsyl-
vania and the South. giving for the first
time a through route 70 the Florida coast
resorts. for which there is an increasing
demand during the fall months Of every
year
Volume " covers the Middle West con-
Meeting with the New York book at Erie
and the New Jersey book at P1tt5burg. and
takes the tourist the entire Middle
West as far as Omaha, Nsb.