New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-30
LOCAL SPEEDWAY ASSURED
Company Formed to Build Circuit
on Jersey Meadows.
WILL BE READY IN A YEAR
A. R. Pardington to Superintend
Project, Which Is Planned
on Elaborate Scale.
WILL BE READY IN A YEAR

Formal announcement Of the plans for
the construction Of the Metropolitan Motor
Speedway were made yesterday at the
offices Of the company in this city. During
the last few days 1t became known that
an organization has been actually formed
TO build IT, the Metropolitan Motor Speed
way Association having been Incorporated
with an authorized capital Of N,5ooooo.
The association has just been formed to
take over 300 acres on the Jersey meadows
near Newark. for the purpose Of construct
ing a motordrome and stadium. Ground
will be broken next month and the speed
way is to be completed within year on
July 4, 1913. the inaugural contest will be
staged-an international 5O0-mile race. En-
gineering offices have been opened In the
Ordway Building, in Newark and corps
of experts engaged.
The fact that A. r. Pardington, who was
actively connected with the Long Island
Motor Parkway. is vice-presdent ana gen
eral manager Of the new corporation, ana
that Fred J. Wagner, the A. A. A. starter
and race promoter, is interested financially
and as a director is practically guarantee
N anv one familiar with the sport that the
proiect will be carried through success
fully. II. f. Hoyt vice-president OF the
American Potash Company, is PRESIDENT
Theodore f. Keer. vice-president OF the
Newark Trust Company, is treasurer ana
W. II. Osborne, secretary.
II IS not merely intended to make the
sneedwav a stage for automobile speed
contests. Long distance motorcycle races
and other races will be held on the prlcA
oval while the infield will be available for
aviation meets, baseball, football held ana
track athletics, circuses, etc. the on'''e
n,ant will be Enclosed by high fence Inc
track Is 10 he 80 feet wide. excepting on
tho turns. which are to be 70 feet in width
and scientifically banked with saucer
curves.
Crandstands with box and promenade
seats will be erected the entire length OF
the straightaway stretches, and me pro-
posed capacity Of these stands Is two nun
dred thousand. Parking space 10 accom-
MEDIATE ten thousand cars viii be proVdeu
IN the jnheld. which will be accessible by
means Of three double track tunnels, FORM
ing the entrance and exit for cars and
pedestrians.
Garages. repair and machine shops, pits
a hotel and clubhouse, restaurant ana
other buildings will be erected. For night
racos a number Of which are 10 be run
tho two miles OF speedway will be illumi-
mated IN such way as 10 provide plenty
of light
The races at the Indianapolis Speedway
drew crowds Of more than eighty thouSdnu
~ each Of the hundred mile races heid
there. indianapolis has to draw on poPu-
lation OF only about one million whereas
within radius Of twenty miles OF the
NetropoIitan Motor Speedway the total
incubation is seven million. Furthermore
the METROPOLITAN district during the sum-
mer months has a pleasure seeking hoat-
ing population Of az least one million. IN
view Of this number, experts say that the
proposed grandstand capacity OF two nun
dred thousand will be inadequate.
Tho speedway will be within twelve min
utes Of downtown New York by means OF
the Hudson tubes The Erie, pennsylvania
and Delaware, Lackawanna western
railroads will have stations on the prop
ertv permitting patrons to pass directly
from, the trains 10 the stands. The Public
service Corporation Of New Jersey lands
passengers on two sides Of the property,
With a five-cent fare from Newark ana
Jersey City From New York the fare IS
10 cents.
Boulevards from Jersey City, Hoboken'
Weehawken and interior New Jersey lead to
the property. Ferries from both street
l2d street. 23d street, Christopher, Des-
brosses. Cortland and Barclay streets nave
an automobile capacity OF three thousand
cars an hour. The speedway is convenient
~ all points I'm New Jersey by rail. trolley
and highway and by automobile and train
from Philadelphia, Trenton, the Oranges
ga oil noints within two hundred miles.