The evening world. Newspaper, September 22, 1906, Page 2

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} fhehes to spare and going a mile a mintite, he went through. He was cheered for his driving, but It looked like his finish for the fraction of » . ‘ * ‘Lawwoell, in one of the Frayer-Miller cars, Was a lucky fellow when bh 3 to negotiate the turn at Thomaston on the second Inp.and went of 4 4 Aited. As his machine turned over he and his machinist flew through a air. They were up on thoir feet in an {nstark, got the onlookers to belp : them right the car and were on thelr way with leps than ten minutes delay, [. ‘The mishap told against thejcar; however, as It showed dirt in its carburet- t fore later. Bert Dingtey, who was acting as machinist for Lytte in the Pope Toledo if, Met with a peculiar accident. At Bull's Head two men stood -{n the ft to hand him gasoline «an. In trying to take the of} on without ckening speed Dinkley niiscaiculated-and the can hold out to him struct Bib inthe face, rendering him unconscious for over a minute. He con- | ued in the car, Later the car blew out a tire with @ report like a cannon ; Jellico on the sixth inp. _ JUST DODGED AN. EXPLOSION. j Kotief's Oldsmobile behaved badly fromthe start.on sceount of Its car- urettors. It did hot reach the Manhasset turn untli 7:46 o'clock, althougt Ht Was first nwdy at 6 o'Mlock. Kécler got out to ainke repairs at Manhasset fetid While the crowd were about the machine the gasoline flared up. The ss fowd_sonttéted, expecting an exploaién, but Keeler and his meohenic pat | out the blnze. Belden, th A Frayer-Miller, while making the second round came to 1 stop on ‘the tirn st Bull's Head. it was found that three stopcocks bad | Groken. ‘Tincy wos thuntering slong In hit Jocomobile not far behind, | - © @né a number of moctatow roshel forwacd and pushed the disabled ma- | . hike to one side of the road for fear Tracy would. crash Into it. Only & few seconds after this had been done the locomobile flew by. ir,-W, % Butier, of No. ttt Hatsey strest iyo, announced at er, t, Brookiys, Bulld Head croesing folipwing the race that he would protest the placine OP Re Pope Duirde-caraciateeng that Lt hag been towed bs @ ped tines ‘ ear fully heif a mile during the contest. The Pope-Toledo broke down, he declared, and was hauled to a power-control station, where it was repatred | Scjccama penetned: AAS Sere JR Tutier te xsit to be interested tn the Pravne Miller! § Car Company, whose entry finished sixth, Thir declaration was made by Dr. Butler, however, before he was informed of th action of the committee ‘Ww declaring Of the race DOZENS OF NARROW ESCAPES. ‘The premature anuouncement that the contest had been ended canred| @otens of narrow escapes at the topof the bil! on the Lower Manhasset turn- | pike at noon, nearly wrecked several of the racing machines and drove the| Meputy sheriffs, endeavoring to protect the lives of spectators, into a frenzy | “The race ts éver!” went up in a shout at 11.45 A. M., and passed quick- | Immedi- mrt | | beecmpae ig = 7 | before. in machinist, was taking a inst swift glance Into the mon- | ster’s Intestines of brass and The seconds to the terse and ex pectant sight-seers were long enough. To Lytle and Dingley have beon like the last long minutes of a man stynding on the scaffold. But the minute passed Five, four, three, two, one, GO!" snapped the starter. For an instant Lytic’s black-cap and Dinaley’s curly locks hovered above the bozizon. The gray Pope-Toleda’s batteries a purring sound, and was lost in the distance. No. 2 was gone Ika ghost No. Sivas ready, panting, trembling with eagerness on the starting iadrk. An so they sped. - - “ No, 2 was a Matheson, with Mongin! . Then came the first Thomas. | Miller, the Christie, Frayer-Miller, Locomobile, Haynes (the only green car), driven by Harding, the famous Pngiish hil! ¢limber, and a iast Frayer- Miller, Ae car after;rar shot away down the road enthusiasm grew in the banked up masses of the grand stand. stee re through ‘the throngs of automobile ocoupapta lintng the road. they begnn to turn their machines into the course. Harding, in the green Haynes machine No. 14, whirling over the bill {n/ eloud of dust, found a big. touring car aheail of him. He swerved to one; ‘barely In-time to save himself and the reckless spectators. The tourtas | hétd two men and tro women. Three feet was all that separated then} the death carried by the racer. Jvet three minutes Iter Lytle, in his Pope-Tetedo, had the same except that be had two cars instead of one to dodge. Both Be, a jess than two dozen machines were flocking into the course by Deputy Sheriff Edward Gmyh, with his men, by threats of explanations that other racing machines were coming, suc- riving most of them back to the aide of the road again, WOMEN IN THE GRAY DAWN, PM fe big eae = ae nae artic care Deputy Smith: tt Ladfes who had never seen a sunrise before, but who had cliithed to stop at his signal and he threw the at the occupants. One nak : ad iT t ane it gayly their - in the dim 5B y dawn, Longe up and abit with aa A few seconds later the Christie machite, Walter Christie driving, ment. ‘eminine shrieks of encouragement followed the drivers on their irled past. until the last gray phantom had vanished tn the distance. a <n Rumiber of the car, which he had been unable to stop, Smith eays,| It war a grent scene ei . The first Vanderbilt cup race brought out a bare 100,000 spectators. Even that taxed the capacity of the poor overworked Long Island Ra!l- road to the limit. To-day there were 200,000, to make’ rough guess. Some cate deys ego. Thousands came last night.” At Mineola, at every other crowded country place, the hotele‘were packed. An auto pump could not have fofced in another guest. This particular part of Long Island gets rich once a year, and lives on its capital the reet. This is the time. In one hostelry that I visited, rooms were higher than seats in heaven. One gues™who had been enjoying a small pall bedroom at $3 par with board tearfully told me that he hed been turned out with the alternative of @ garret cot or a soft plank in the back yard. His room had been rented to a visiting New Yorker, price $50 for one night, privilege of looking out of the window in the morning thrown In. CROWD SLEEPING IN THE FIELDS. Thousands slept int Island Yankee had chal Men tilted their heels up on t _ oH 100 MILES AN HOUR SPEED SET BY RACERS BY ROBER1 EDGREN. ‘At 6 o'clock this morning a tong line of ‘racing cars, gray- painted Monsters, lay silently along the Jericho turnpike on the Vanderbilt ¢ Sup § course. They were arranged in two lines, the even numbers on the left side of the road, the odd on the right” | / “Are you ready?” queried the starter. i Dusty mechanics stepped back q Keeler, in cap and g fields or stayed up all night. One shrewd Long tet for $5 for (ie Bight,-and-he-made-money couy ratis and slept fitfully, Automobiles in and thelr occupants dozed on the leathern from No. 1. The Oldsmobile driver, | * . es ggles, gripped his Steering wheel with a grim glance | droves stopped along th ' cushions, so it was a sleepy-eyed crowd that etirred itself at 4 o'clock and 4 up the road that sire { straight ahead past the fluttering g scattered along the cor It did the scattering under difficulties, for ‘ and Jong lines of shave trees, and Machinist Miller fumbled wit already the racing road was closed and vigilant watchmen warned off all 3 “One mini starter i ing crank and leaped back into his place. No. 4 shud red, heaved on its | trespassers. i ; ; g fubber tires and ratiled g-gun salute from its exhausts | There wea fo slumber i nine & of the varioits makers | during that last twelve hour niechanies tested every screw ond i a : bolt ‘and fragile pari for the ) depended upon this last S| The crowded | forwssd breathlessly. The flagmen | inspection : waved theig red and brushed k the eager sightseers who sureed Accidents cost money, and every car had to sturt. It cost) hundreds forward ai the roadside of thousands of doliars, this race. Take the Thomas cars, for instance. “Thirty seconds !— “ee eee tc ais There was an experse of something lhe one hundred thonsand, they claim, four !—three!—two !—one “| connected with lesigning, building, rebuilding and perfecting their racing | “Gor cats. Then there were shipping and travelling. Thirty mechanics, all well | Whe car leaped ahead like a great eray tes __| lid, were sent tothe course.with the cars Their keep cost $3 aday each, A A} er veh ms ay fe y | barn was rented fora month for $1,000, and it cost mdre to turn it into a times its own len A modern racing f achine shop fit to repair or even bulld a racing car. fore the startled spectators could turn the 3 rs speut fully as much. The Pope-Toledo Company had had slipped away into the level di 2, le € ely equipped plant on the course. Costing Ike this, acet- slias aed a dist brown Cloud of ; ; ‘ experiences, The . Apperson car, cwisted tnto a tangle p du wak “AND THEN THE SECOND! . t No. 2, the Pope-Toledo, grim and gray as a low-l HA lor NDRED MILES AN HOUR. in war trim, was already on the mark : me ’ Leahy Se ee Seeley. 9 Ba “One minute!" shouted the official. ne ; Muss COLOBH (TO LeRUR AERA IER La eae tle, commander of this second rakis sey ‘ ‘ iy sea aired carrentals nd ra ring | ¢ take eb on the rotten hits of road, of w thre te antod to qualify and keep bis machine ty > Belder Law wa The first five counted, and position made the trial 1 t xpected to q too, and so with ne . : il) the ott 1 I ated upoh making about fifty-eight The « e 4 of a ¢ which no one apparently wi t v Id be contented with a The Maxwel! n elght minutes “Well, now, have been neas 27. | COURSE A POOR SELECTIO Later a Magwell touring car was efripped in a vatn attempt to make it replace the racer, It ren gto one of the innumerable sand banks ana broke The opurec to-day was full of auch obstructions, It was a rotten Brt-rrarrt | “Oh! bother the others. The Sunday World is the paper.” wheol os hin predecessor, now half a mile away, had dons half a minute | they must | roared. The roar died down to A second Thomas, a thin, & first Frayer- “22.303 advertised ‘ % ; nf : bad wheel. He Pi ‘ it % aid to be out for the course record. have been offered through The W 4 East Norwich Owen saw th we oe ca orwich Owen saw the greer during the last five week day le was nearly up. Then suddenly there wee a v train Lad weakened the nework of his re ! B-r-1-1-1-r-r! car # that « le WAY and the cylin jropped, That car was a “What?” hopeless wrgck © Haynes finished in 4s minutes, Owen's time would REBELS SHOT FOR ATTACKING WOMEN, HAVANA, Sept. 2—Three men of the insurgent command of Gen. Guas have been shot hear Santiago de las Vogme TIME MADE BY THE LEADERS i IN THE ELIMINATION RACE. Start. IstLap. 2d lap. 34 Lap. 4th Lap. 6th Lap. Oth Lap. 7th Lap. 8th Lap. 9th Lap. 10th Lap. for attacking women. Tracy..... +) 611 37.53 1.08.55 1.89.29 2.09.17 244.16 8.1345 3.61.12 4.22.11 4.53.38% 6.27.45 — * 5 Le Bion.... 6.05 33.34% 1.06 138.03 20955 © 242 3.14.38 3.49.56 4.21.39 6. oa be 6.51.23 || Harding » 612 36.14 112.28% 15048 22844 3.0440 8.46.07 421.038 5.00.56 6.46.37 |Plytie ...... 6.01 $2.83 1.0442 188.20 21115 240.68 4.08.46 5.1133 5.58.31 Christie + 6.08 33.05 1.18.27 1.58.33 2.47.30 4.16.38 6.43.39 Lawwell 17 1.2741 217.35 2.61.42 4.18.19 course to race over, so the old drivers said, although some thought it better | than the James Gordon Bennett cup course. Some ol] had been sprinkled over it, enough to make a skimpy trail about broad as the spread of an auto’s front wheel. Eight miles of the | road had not been oiled at all) This part was full of dust and chuek | holes that mado the racers jump as if they had run over a nest of Jap | mines. Here and there a bank had been cut away or a dangerous ag removed, but the unbanked turns were fierce. The course was alow. “Not safe for a seventy-mile speed,” said the experts. At ie Corner a lot of sand had been dumped to bank the turn. It extended | 200 feet and was about twenty feet wide. But it was soft and loose. was Worse than nothing. No attempt at all had been made to butla i the angles in remoter parts of the course. Even one place near Manhasset Office- iddecs Will Hil, the worst of ali, was overlooked, and right around the turn lay a | grand-stand. The Long Island farmers did more to protect their chickens Up a Stump if He Quits Race. "HIGGINS MEN WORRY WHILE HE MAKES UP MIND 6.) Coward Arch Prop Shoe. This shoe is the on! for “Flat Foot" of ‘ak Instep,” 4 form of foot trouble that is becoming quite common It is frequently mis- taken for rheumatism on account ofthe | than the promoters did to insur} safety to human life. Word was sent | around that all chickens must be “stabled” and kept off the road. Yestér- day fine flock of turkeys gave’ u: ey ains it carses in the foot jay afternoon a fine flo rs eye gw iP their lives under the wheels (ppetal to The Evening World.) alent “Flat Foot" results from a of two or three touring cars that were tne hurry. And a Mineola-turkey | —armany, N. ¥., -Sept-—ti—The Sara soos, breaking down of the archasd ie tough enovga to have as many lives a cat. toma Convention js to be dominates bY ‘nsten and is generally caused by pro- George Washington Aldridge, w. it of Public Wor! the $9,000,000 canal improvemen and Fcgnols Hendricks, who w inteneent of Insurance during the in surance scandal Congressman “Mike’ Driscoll—a Hen @ricks man—ts to be permanent Caair Turning from turkeys to more serious things developed by the race. Robertson, driver of the wrecked Apperson chr, and Warren, his mechanic, have been in the hospital. Robertson had al broken collar-bone and was generally smashed up. Warren's arms were | both broken above the wrists. Yet these two dauntiess athletes could not & bit of sentiment was longed walking or standing. + Men whe are on their fret a F will find the Coward Arch Pro aoe vety different from the otmaee footwear, Jt vests the foot, restores the natural Superintes a he convestion, 4d Senat be kept away. If they could not ride in the race, at least they would see | Armsirng, who represents Aldridge's elauticity to the muscles and. makes = : ; A district. te temporary ‘Chairm WV ni their rivals go, so they were taken from the hospitai, and, propped up on {i#*rict. je to be temporary Chalanae walking « seer. Pins; aveclaliy pillows in front of the deserted Apperson quarters, they looked on. This Gubernatorial candidate, if Higmins Trrommend thie shoe | oe oth is/the-spirit of the auto driver. Accidents and broken bones cannot damp |[UD® Bruce will be temporary Candle. 0% wachisd ie’ it. Death itself has no terrors. morning. Aldridge, Woodruff, Barne — ORDER AT THE FIRST TURN. : ee Governor's alison ‘cabinet SOLD NOWHERE ELSE went there this afternoon, The order in which the cars went past the first turn in the road at| “¢nt | JAMES S. COWARD, oMce holder crowd which Is be- | SO a oe! | 268-274 Greenwich St., N, Ye Jericho, four miles from the start, was: The Pope-Toledo first, at 6.04 1-2; |Mind the Governor 3s 4 %. ene Dew They te vefore Matheson second, at 6.05, and the Oldamobilo third, at 6.06. The two them a tone thain of diMeultios it (rman wannex ophrat.) Higeins sends word that Mra pratt Orders Fuled, Thomas, the first driven by Culllote, at 6,07 Bion, at 6.09, followed. A Frayer-Miller at 6.11, the Christy at 6.12 1-4 and a Frayer-Milier at 6.14, driven by Lowweil, were next in order, with ‘Tracy in the Locomobile following at 6.15. The Haynea-was tenth, driven by Harding, at 6.16, and Belding, in the third Frayer-Miller, wae eleventh at 6.18 1-2 GRAVESEND ENTRIES. 2 The and the second by Le Sead tor Catalog. DYSENTERY DIARRHOEA 9 CHOLERA MORBUS . ernally m baif'to @ teaspoonful of Rad. way's Meaty” itellaf Ana Rat. tambien at r, Topeated as often as the discharges nd a Gann arated with Ready i 1 over thé stomach and bowels will aftord momen 1 and soon effect a cure, Radway’ taken in w ins and he believe that the Gov- ernor's health is auch as to make It impossible for him to stand two more | years of executive lite. Brackett’s stock would go up one bundred cent. if Higgins should ket out of the rave. ~ SUNSTROKE | Wellowed by Partial Starvation, | 1 of Pequest The effects of sunstroke upon the | digestive system are often very se. | Vere, as well us upon the nerves. | GRAVFSEND, N. ¥ Momiays Sept 1 en Reiddick ries for >-year-olds: $2 Rapid Waier An Ind. lady had a striking expert-| Cramps, Spasme. mach, Na at aie Sane + Porc ig tery Nerwouried and ui dah Puck ~ s ve jenn aees, Sek Hekdaohe, ulence Hy | ee re ‘our years ago I was sunstruck, | /*119%s Pe oat won * a2 ks FIFTH RACE mares; all ages Steep: one mile a algteenth WS! Babee mia 136 Ringe Shot 23 at Prquoat wn 118 NT . my 240 Diamond Fie Ho and my stomach so congested it was/ ‘erribly painful even to swallow lig-! nids, and as nothing would stay on | my stomach I began to fear starva-| jtlag, 1 finslly . became oe | helpless and was given up by our | physician. “A neighbor told me how a good Grape Nuts had done her hus- ® < Malden (ilies and geld | ide inet Joos oid piling’ tive chct'a*hali | band, who suffered with dyspepsia, | There, te piace | * halt miles. =e. and her son with suena fever, ao! sie § malariovs, fe bs] 4 | | began to use this wondertul food, | tte by = quick!y as ea fi | | and slowly began to recover, until eur La mabe mittee” “Sola” fp ie td now | am strong and well again. I| ni pway & 00» 53 Bim x. ¥ sey ‘tes {can eat anything, 1 want. anc think | oy) ance * Grape one 4 e 04. jen HIRD WacH—All. ance; band oi <8 Jings that wan ever given to wuilering |” Pes ob m au humanity | SLYNN.—THOMAS FLYNN, at bite reat” iN ~ “When I began to use Grape Nuts! ence, No 23) West 90th ot. Native = os 1 only yaad ed ene Now 1). 0%. Se Ne ins, 2PM. ter = ‘Fonetown ess 1 weigh 1 past four years be ye 4 *agoreniice allo ‘ monk Calvary. Members of Nirdaro Tran, | a Apprentice wance, have been 7 rarer y Mie beyond tinproved Onder of Reiman. apd bere of The Beventh Assend!: sa HERMAN RIDDER HOME = ue cag my iy tie Hermen Widder, of the New York waar cadena Stan(eZeitung: Col, H. A, Dupont, of a oe wy on é Cries ome ae CoJ steady char, gd 1 owe my :

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