The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-14
CAPITAL CITY PEOPLE SEE AUTOS MAKE 100 MILES AN HOUR ON
 A CITY STREET.
THOUSANDS WITNESS RUNS
Dsbrow, Hearne, Raimey and Heine- man Give Exhibition Before Thous- ands of Admring People and Off, cials Yesterday Afternoon.

The good people of Little Rock had their first glimpse of modern speed autos travelling at a rate of 100 miles an hour on the paved streets of a city yesterday aftereaoon, and thous. ands saw and marveled at the pluck and daring of the drivers who dared to push their high powered speed ere ations along at the dizzy rate of more than loo miles an hour
 J. G. Blaechke of the Royal theater who filmed the event for the Pathe Weekly, the Hearst-Selig Weekly and for the Hot Springs Weekly. returned last evening from Little Rock, with a glowing account of the exhibition which he, like everyone else who saw it, says was something so far out of the ordinary. so novel and so daring, that it seemed the entire population of Little Rock and the surrounding towns had congregated to witness the speed trials.
 Gov. Hays, Mayor Taylor and other 
 speed event from the beautiful home of Mir and Mrs. w. C. Foster, which had been reserved especially for them while thousands upon thousands lined the streets, the yards and alleys ad- jacent, as we'll as the porches. win dows, balconies and roofs of houses, not to overlook hundreds of points of vantage Tn trees and telephone poles.
 The Arkansas national guard, city police and boy scouts were called upon to police the twenty blocks of Gaines street, where the runs were made.
 First, the big racing machines were driven to the city hall, where Mayor Taylor and other officials greeted the drivers, thence down Main street to Fifteenth street, with the motion pie ture machine ahead filming the run down the street.
 At Fifteenth and Gaines streets the start was made for the exhibition in 1 which the four drivers above named showed the people of Little Rock their monster speed machines in action at 100 miles an hour
 "I certainly never saw anything | like those machines coming directly down Gaines street, gaining momen tum with every revolution, until when Twenty-third street was reac1vd they had gained a speed of 100 miles an hour" said Mir. Blaschke last night q never saw Disbrow as he passed the camera. It looked to me as though the machine was going 1000 miles minute"
 | After the exhibition the big ma chimes were taken back to the garages and prepared for shipment to Hot Springs. They were loaded during the night and are scheduled to arrive lin Hot Springs sometime today.
 H. Tysinger, the Little Rock dealer who inaugurated this event for the entertainment of the people of the capital city, had sent out invitations | to every city. county and state ofa- cial. as well as to many promincat business men of Little Rock. Nearly every invited guest and many thous- ands of spectators linel the streets Hong before the machines arrived and remained until the last run had been lEade
 The following invitations were sent out to the officials:
 "The writer, as promoters of the
 races to be held on Gaines street tri' leay afternoon at o'clo?G, invites yea to be present.
 "The home of Mrs. w c roster will be reserved for yoa ani the other
 officials.
 "This invitation is also extended Fl the name of the following race driV' CTS:
 Louis Disbrow, New York.
 Eddie Hearne, Detroit l "Johnpy Raimey, Cilclnnat | Lou Heneman, Chicago. "Yours very truly, | "H. HYsINGER. '~ If was the first time that some or inc drivers had ever made a speed run on a crowded city street, put | [ .ouis Disbrow. holder of nearly all the dirt track records. had made such a run on one other occasion. and lsS experience in that event stood hlm III good stead While fleinemha RaimeY and Hearne shot their big speei ue' mons along the asphalt driveway at ully loo miles an hour, 1t Is estlmat-