The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-12
Cars Returning this
Afternoon after 3-DAYRUN



quarters in Market Square at 2.55
o clock this afternoon, the first driver
completing the three-day run, outside
the official party. He was but ten feet
behind j. Clyde Myton, the pacemaker
Entrant No. 2, F. b. Bosch, president
of the club, was second, and John C.
Orr, third entrant, was third to check
in. After that the machines began
struggling in.
The cars were kept close to the sehed-
ule on to-day's run because of oiled
roads encountered between here and
Lancaster. The ears were compelled to
Slow down coming through Steelton on
account of the wet wood block streets.
Several hundred persons were assem-
bled in the Square to witness the return
of the tourists.
Trophies In Store for All
While the finish of the publicity run
of the Motor Club of Harrisburg, which
covered many miles of Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Delaware, officially
took place this afternoon, when, one
after another, the cars checked in at
the headquarters of the club, IL North
Market square, the real windup will be
next Friday night in the Dauphin hotel,
when the prizes will be handed out.
Seventy.fve handsome trophies will
be distributed and it will be merry
assemblage at which the cups will be
apportioned The drivers with perfect
scores after the three-day grind will
have first choice and they will draw
before penalized motorists will get a
chance. After the drawing there will
be voting for the most popular driver
and the best advertising scheme adopt
ed on the road The men who drove
the make of ears of which the greatest
number participated in the run also
will get trophies. There will be tro-
phies for everybody.
The Mayor of Clayton n. j., without
waiting for the run to be finished, sent
by mail this morning letter asking
the Harrisburg party to return to his
town at some future date.
The ears checked out of Atlantic
City on time yesterday morning and
got receptions along the route at Som
ers Point, Ocean City, Sea Isle City,
where the course of the motorists was
mapped out through the own with
flags, and at Avalon. After luncheon
at Stone Harbor the autoists started on
their longest leg of the second day s
trip to Penn's Grove, N. j., where the
cars were ferried across the Delaware
river to Wilmington, Del. On landing
the reception committee provided the
party with badges and led the Harris
burgers in long procession through
parts of the city and through Brande-
wine Park
Prize Awarded to I. W. Dill
There the first prize to be awarded
was won by l. w. Dill, driving a Hollier
"S." His was the first ear to enter
the city equipped with Fabricoid up
holstering. The motorists were guests
in the Dupont hotel, where they spent
the night, while the women in the tour
ing party were entertained by the Ia
dies auxiliary of the Wilmington Mo-
tor Club. Wilmington was most hos
pitable and the party had fine time.
The cars checked out of Wilmington
this morning at 7.30 O'Clock, on what
was the shortest days run of the trip.
The first city of any size on the day s
travels was West Chester Next was
Downingtown, then Coatesville and
Lancaster, where the motorists lunched
at the Hotel Sterling
There was but one checking station
between Lancaster and home. That
was in Elizabethtown. While the
schedule provided that the cars should
arrive in Harrisburg about $50 o clock,
there was no penalty for arriving ear
lier, except for beating the pacemaker,
and the cars beat it" for home.