Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-02-08
Early Auto Days We're Not Bright;
First Race, rs Years Ago, SlOW EUent

wcro put IN receptacle on the motor
10 cool tho engine.
ln the consolation race tho Duryen
broke q chain ana in repairing tht
driving apparatus lost the lc1d nnd
foriy-elRht precious mIuuicg. Finally
the Duryca driver was forced % pull
over into ditch to av0id % collision
with road hog This accident pot
b entirely ont 0f commission
Tho nufyoa scored e bclatod tri.
umph Thanksgiving day November
1888, 1898, WHOM II defctod figc other
starters In tho postponed $4,000 rlcc
innd averaged seven and half miles
IAN hour nrer "a ffiY-f0nr-milc course
The Judges of thia contest were Hurry
Timkcn then president of HE Nn-
tiona Association ~ C0rriage l'nlld-
rrH. Genernl llorfaitc rcpreee ntmR
+ tho United states army ana Professor
lmrfotl Chicago electrician
Weather conditions wcro anything hu'
idcal 1he rOads were covered with
deep snow, on which rin had f9llcn
I0nd frozen ln some places the snow
land bee Were strong enough iQ enrty q
mans weight
Idst &c Prizes.
At Tic close ~ tho contest II wnf
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decision. as it was claimed that mn tho
competitors had violated the ruleg.
After a wrokH dclibcmtlon the fol.
lowing awards wore announced
Medal Morris ~ Salon electric
cab Tor best showing 10 tho test for
absence Of noise vibration. heat or
Odor and cleanliness
Two thousand dollars Dufyen for
me best performance for speed ana
pm
one thnueand five hundred dollars
Mueller a. Co., second in operation
Five hundred d0llars Macy a Goa
general showing
Five hundred dollars strugis, gem
nrnl showing
Two hundred dollam-G w. Lewis
Tor friction disc and brake.
ono hundred and fifty dollars
llnynR a Appor0n. for plan far the
prevention of vibration by balance ~
driving engine.
one hundred dollars Max llurtcl
Tor device for starting motor from the
sent
Flfty dnlmrs he fnvcrgn. for
counterhalanco on engine
Colonel LudlnMon ct the United
states army. opposed any reward for
model nH 'na vehicle showed nns dis
tinct improvements
COmmontlng ON the result, the
rmrs-ilemld said. editorially
"'rhe American type " motor cycle
has not Ret boon produced This ~
not in diaparnRomoni OF the many oX-
rcllent designs oxhiblted. but Is e plain
fnot, tho truth uf which VIII ho nd-
mltied hg any mechanical onginoer
whose opinion % worthy ~ cenald-
omtl0n"
Tho paper then sought To apoloRlze
tg the manufacturer hy stating that
I'm four months not much is accom-
phHhed
Two Cars Finished
on tho day before the race there
were eleven confident glurtors ont of
the original entrants but ON the
morning OF the contest there were
only His cars ot The aiarilnE line Two
OF these the DurYea and Mueller
finished Tho conditions were brund.
Tile motor power could bee either elec-
tririty. aieHm. air. gasoline Uf oil For
testing the wagons. a alnud had been
provided on which pulling power cost
of operation URpneliY nnd power os
endurance were demonstrated
in the rDic of referee aid moi dress
uke the modern race 0fficlnl. in
knlfketbapkora puftees and Nnrfolk
Inf wore hra,v nrftlr ru,hera OK
tlu car mufflOrs, heaYy wraps and
gloves. m cuch of the side pockets
M mv roai / stored 4 sand,virh for an
emergency. mpnilent mad ana ter
rlbi,. nnthuelaptlo. / wnH up before the
broels III ann ANA IA the atattinr nolnt
Althaaah not "A motor chr manufac-
tirrr IA fSe5. was motor euthus.
nat eirhtpan vanra ago hoeamo Ia
tsrcetrt ip mo Mas lfurtcl WAGON be.
..tti.e Fl seulb urn ln ten feet. started
from lha aelt ana Weighed only gro
potnda aefoad Ia hnv thls car AZ
fr.nitnet lntrrvnla for several months
y'.te1 llurtsi la fba lon "a 4 wcsi
sldr harn where ha WAS trying h. uct
hla yaean to move. Ta ihn best of
lnV reraHrdtion hc mover pot 1T closet
to moyne tnnn iD Waa nn the daV of