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istancé automobile contest, Heath made the last round (30 miles) in 27 minutes 51 seconds. His opponent took is for the last round, and it was in this round that Heath { lead and won. EL WAS KILLED which a life wos lost occurred soon after the race Arent, the millionaire automobile enthusiast, Diese, were sunniug along the Hempstead road at a speed le & minute when the tire became loose on the right front the rim like a gmake. The machine swung to the Mr. Arent out and then to the lef, urning over and bury- Deneath it. Muesse! died in Nassau Hospital at Mineola, Anis right ear, but was not otherwiee injured. Face was young # machinist in the car with William Wal- was run over. His injuries were not sorious. Clarence | pwnd and bis machinist were hurled forty feet. Neither | Tu the last round A. C. Webb, driving an American | “Jericho turapike, found the steering gear locked. Before heels over head into a field. Neither was injured, al- Machine was going along at more than sixty miles an hour, 10 OF CUP PLEASED, | Vanderbilt, jr., after the race was over professed himself as | with it, He called attention to the fact that not a spe-| ‘the deplorable accident that caused the death of Mr. Aretns’ ‘said, “but it was an unaboldable accident, There are fatal ac-| j All lines of eport and endeavor, and there is no way to guard nat the |, The intelligence of the people along the course made me con- btore the race that no outsiders would be injured. } $e One of the greatest races ever run. The result ehows that long | Ue wiclag can be held in this country without the slightest ts of the district through which the automcoiles tave } OF HEATH AND CLEMENT. inish was exciting enough to warm the blood of the most indif- . Heath bad taken the lead away from Teste, who sent. imported machine around the. first ninety miles of the 1 Nour {6 minutes and 29 seconds, and then met with an accident bis of the race. Roun after round Heath kept in the lead and Gabriel pursuing him relentlessly. hriel had to retire after the sixth round, and then Heath met with an pnt that enabled Clément to get a Iéad of nearly six minutes, From nit wae a long étern chase, with Heath gaining inch by Inch until the Bat pe sneree, it hr ent eieed. eetelnns 0 gels 38, eerste : rm proaobly ‘have finished in third place | THE COURSE.. cfowa witnessed” the-races, and the finish drove the crows ilait “the ht fails, Jead in of the a back stretch of the course be- lass and barbed wire, cdusing Jn the seventh round becanse of the road between Hempstead and | were made by nails, pieces of giaes and sections of to heen scattered slong the course by some malictour Tadbsth had net. sedtstosé 0 tingle eoedént. His ma- ‘perfectly, and to all appearances he had the race well holding a steady speed, was gaining slowly. ‘petween Hempstead and Queens is strewn with nails to tires,” declared Heath, “It wes one of those AG paaptnre that resnited.tn the death of Mr, Arent’s, Pprres | AKDOWNS IN THE RACR. | breakdown after the leaders had completed the Ree tres gece stereo or misfortunes of the ines in this respect. | T ‘Chased each other around the course with greater | he machines attained. It was persistently rumored, when Ga- by his breakdown, that he had run down and killed a, | reapabnie In fact there were many narrow escapes at | 4 of Canger. had bad luck on the sixth round. His machine went ear Hickavill, and in his gredt excitement he retarded ‘36, Every time a car passed him he tore his halr and cursed) extreme fervor. | finally got » start, after a long delay, he did the fastest run- r had geen. Along the Hempstead turnpike nis speed must | miles an hour, ‘ 6 Was © train at the station at Queens as Gabriel came around the the railroad track on two wheels. The train had almost fine of the course when It was observed that Gabriel had ig- danger signal and was coming on at full speed. A spectator sig-| «yor who shut off steam and put on the brakes Gabriel | Ved m ?E SAW MR. ARENTS START ON FATAI RACE, ¢ Arents was the New York millionaire whose attempt to faurels brought about the fatal accident early in the day. He 60. horse-power Mercedes with his mechanic, Karl Meusse!, who i the machine. Mr. Arents had been driving over the course rs, and figured that his familiarity with every turn of it would well in the race for the prize. -was the fifth starter, and went down the Jericho Turnpike with young wife sat in the grand stand, and watched with white disappeared in the direction of the first turn, Mis- him from the start. Before he had gone ten miles he a tire and suffered a long delay while the damage was being as Ae more trouble going through the second control at Hempstead, Mraightened ott on the road to Queens the mochine began to iat @ tremendous rate. Soon Mr. Arents was going at seventy ‘sn hour and his driver was holding the Mercedes to the course as ) as needle to the pole, 3 “4 of Brooklyn, and his two sone were standing alongside net foad, watching the race, when the Arents car approached description of the accident could be written than that given by ine Was going like @ streak of light.’ he says, “when there 0 1t was just opposite us, The tire on the right front wae eke a ange. at arts WAS LOST. MG hardly follow the motion the cagchine potest ‘Ty FOB SUR 7 and his! , driven by Werner, broke down on the Hempstead | fie {t the machine dashed into a tree, throwing Mr. Webb | «HE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1904. WINNER OF VANDERBILT CUP, HIS: AUTO. AND MAN WHOSE AUTO WAS WRECKED Heath Defeated Clement in the Most F xciting Finish } ver Seen in a J ong-Distance Race—Carl Muessel Was Killed in Wreck of the Arents Machine, f | | GHORGE ARENTS, JR. swerved to the right. Mr. Arents was shot out like a projectile from a.cata. power and shot ahead, just as a train, which had been signalled to come pult. It seemed to me he was thrown fifty feet, alighting on his right side, ahead, approached. The Frenchman missed being run down by, ten feet. The chauffeur apparently had not lost entire control of the machine. By a despérate effort he turned it to the left with the intention evidently of BE 2 Me eg ths cat perry yal as ger fn straightening it out in the road. “But the turn waa too short. The heavy machine turned over ana 'O¥ *s¢4Pe from disaster while making a quick turn on the Rocky Hill rosd buried him under it. Spectators down the road pasted the word along to ®t Queens on the first lap. It swerved off the roadway, ran up on the grass the approaching racers and they went by slowly until the injured man aud plot along the rvad and missed crashing into a big tree by about ten inches. | the wreckage were removed.” Hawley quickly guided the machine back into the road, and it rushed away | News of the wreck was telephoned to the grand stand at Westbury, | {ts Journey. The narrow escape caused momentary excitement among the and William K. Vanderbilt put out at top speed across the triangle to the Spectators, and a cry went up as it seemed as if the big car must surely scone of the accident in his automobile. The injured men were loaded into | 4#5h intu the tree. it and hurried to the Nassau Hospital in Mineola. Meussel, who had not Later Hawley broke his machine and retired trom the race. recovered consciousness, died on the operating table. He.was all broken, No. 4 blew out a fuse while passing Queens. Driver Webb stopped and to pieces, Mr, Arents had his right ear cut off and sustained internal in-| Put in a new fuse and started off again after a delay of about two minutes. | juries. Car No. 1, owned and driven by I. Wormser, jr., while rounding the turn at Jericho on the third lap burst the left forward tire, The car sto) ARENTS PROSTRATED WITH GRIEF. for thirty seconds and then went on with a flat tire without vane ol ; Mrs. Arents, upon being informed of the accident, hurried from the make repairs. j grand stand. to the hospital in an automobile furnished by one of her BIG CROWD COWES HOME. friends. She found ber husband prostrated, not only by his own painful’ The Long Island ferry officials had ail they could do this afternoon to injuries, but by the death of the chauffeur, who had been in his employ for furnish transportation to the crowds returning from the race. Autos of every, years, Muessel lived In this city, in First avenue, between Highty-frst and) description kept arriving at the ferry or as near as they could get to it, and Bighty-second streets. | at one time there was a line of machines that extended up Borden avenue to Teste, the fourteenth starter, who also had a 90 horse-power Panhard, | y4.1.con avonue, and the number was being constantly added to. ‘Was assuming the lead until he met with an accident on the fourth round. 45 extra squad of police was detalled to the ferry to maintain order and. Walle aproding ows the Bethonae r0es, approaching the Gnugerous Pisin. | | guard against accidents. Many of the auto parties had a long wait before edgs turn, his steering Reat gqt out of order and he was compelled to stop’ toy could get aboard boat to take them to Manhattan. for repaits. The secident happened at about 8,45 o'clock and Teste was still | *< there, uttering agonized protests, at 10 o'clock. <Taen Geta sates fee, iota Bo tat 6 re at Sonera YOUNG CROKER MAKES ing ly he drew ind the machines of hi power. | DARING TRY TO WIN. At last bis machinery got out of order at Queens and he was almost hope- lessly out of a chance to finish. The race toward the close was between the professional foreign chaut- | i Fa pee tas Acted ica Age gave biel ak | ane pated Croker. is fet, ve es er Rs fie ae a ial abl characteristic of his father, the one-time leader of Tammany Hell, and he} kept on until he had all the other contestants in « shiver, ing the most powerful machines. VANDERBILT FURNISHES THF HUMOR, At the close of the fourth round this was all that was the matter wit Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt furnished the comedy touch to the race. pis machine: When the time came for him to start his machine was out of order. It Gasoline tank leaking. was $.20 o'clock beforn it was in shape and Alfred Gwynne petulantly de- Frame between front and rear wheels depressed thre clared that he wax going to start anyhow, Supports of frames broken in three places So he starte*, with a flying start, which was in direct violation of the Machinist's eéat broken. rules, The referees ordered that he be flagged and made to return and take Two suspension forks lost @ standing start. Dut Alfred Gwynne failed to recognize the flags; neither The fon of the old chieftain ot Tammany started off with 4 run of hard did he show up at the grandstand again. He appeared to be greatly vexed jue At the first turn--Jrri’ic—he was going too fast to swing his ma- at the whole affair when h< mad: the flying start, and the suppositon is that oning and ran forty fect off th» course, narrowly missing a tree and scrap- when he reached the Jerichy curn he kept right straight on toard Montauk 1,6 oy @ tire. Later on, while golng through the Hicksville road and ap- Point. proaching the control at low spesl he heard Heaty thunderiag behind bim. Gradually the machinos are falling out of the race. Car No. 11, run by ons ryle of the race Is that the leading automobile shall turn to the right Maurice Bernin, has retired. Car No. 3, run by Joseph Tracy, was the first +, aiiow another to pase. Croker turned to the left to be withdrawn from the race. In rounding one ot the curves the car broke Probably ony other driver than Heath, with his quick mind and tre-| mendous strength, would have run into the Croker automobile and there! {is guide and Tracy stopped his machine. Car No, 1, owned by Mr, Stevens, lost a tire when snaking the first 1ap| would have been a fatal wreck. But Heath got past by the width of a hair. and was forced to stop for teu minutes for reptars. This, so Campbell, the Going through the Hempstead control on the (pane Me Mr. Croker’s acco! jabriel sing him on the first la; automobile was examined by the foreign experts, He was advise. to with- ghee: yeern rugs Lapin pie . draw, because of the likelihood that his machine would go all ‘o pieces, Ike WALLACEH’S HELPER CRUSHED UNDER CAR, {he “one-horse shay,” The first accident after the start of the race occurred at the Hempstead | down the turnpike in the direction of Queens. stop, when car No. 19, driven by Wallace, stopped for repairs. ‘The mechanic of the car, Arioulo Bor was under the car when it started without warning. The mochanic wes crushed under the wheels, and was so badly hurt that he could pot continue the race. A substitute mechanic was secured Ametenl MORRIS PARK EN TRIES FOR MONDAY. at to The Evening World.) he | and the race continued MO’ BRIS PARK, N. ¥.. Oct. &—The | Because of an accident Alfred G, Vanderbilt's big ninety-horse-power entries for Monday's mces are as fo car, which was No, 10 in the programme, and which was driven by Pau! sin. fertonge of | x| Sartori, did not start in the race when the signal was given, and its place was taken by car No, 11. Later Mr. Vanderbilt repaired his car and It shot from the grand-stand several minutes late. SAR“ ORI HAS NARROW ESCAPF. Sartori was not acquainted with the road over which the race was run, as was shown a few minutes later, when he all but lost his life by being run down by a train outside of Westbury, In fact, it is sald that he would it not been for John Barrett, United States no 1 ty wh iol ie wh my ny wt no 7 t surely have been killed had Minister to Panama. Losing his way, Sartor! was splaning along on a road off the beaten ree. | track at a rate of alxty miles an hour when he came to the railroad cross- ing. An express train, witb a great crowd on board, was coming down the tracks at the same instant. Mr. Barrett saw toe racing automobile approaching and he saw the train bearing down upon it, He stood in the contre of the tracks and h waved at the charfleur, Blinded by the flying dust, for the road over y h he was running was not olled as was the course, the chauffeur sae the warning, and he came on with a new burst of speed. ‘ ‘ VANDERBILT'S MACHINE IS BARRED. Brains are Built ; T * iG Ma : skis he the eng gral of Ke re . Pi ; From esttain iad of lng of Mr arrett showed the engineer that ethin a ‘ong, and A but on his brakes and reversed his lever. 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John | bye’ jr, beat B.T. Allen by 7 uj 6 to play. W. J, Evans beat J. G. mer by 5 up and 3 to play. QUAKER WOMEN BEATEN BY BOSTON (Special to The Evening World.) WISHAHICKON HEIGHTS, Pa.. Oct. | ~The victory the Philadelphia women bette | MONDAY |Noaey brought ea « great geiery or( 25Ce Special Patterm Day. Anal. metch, between” the Philadelphia | IMPORTED and Boston women, Boston has a very | CRINOLI NE MODELS. stung team, but much depended upon | Latest Skirts, Sleeves, Walsts, thelr Ability to master the trici TOILETTES FASHION CO., courte, as It ts s0 narrow in pla 172 Fifth Ave, cor, 22d St. that the slightest hook or slice meas TOILETTES AND JUNIOR TOILETTES, trouble, As most of the Boston wom carried for either the New York cr, Eniedelphin women yesterday, while | latest Editions Now on Hale at All. 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