The evening world. Newspaper, October 6, 1906, Page 3

fHE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, Big Autos Reckless Speeding to the Vanderbilt Cup Race Kill One Man; also Fatally Injured Another and a Woman THE GREAT RACE + Extraordinary Crowds Gathered Along. the Line of. Auto Cup Struggle — Ovation for “Daredevil” Tracy. | 5 { BY ROBERT EDGREN. { ‘At fifteen minutes a big paper bd: ed up from the grand-stand si the st g point on the Vande course. It rose ‘lazily. A cheer, started In the crowded bleachers, 3t and ran down along . where thousands waited. The balloon | was a signal. In ten minut would begin. | A smalf boy with a me arks tothe front row in the boxes, where t members of the 400 sat sol- emnly. J. Thomps ion-with a military cape! and yellow leather music roll: s' y hround his calves, strolled proudly past the press-box. The s ed his megaphone and then— “One minute!” shouted the starter. A lull. Fifty second passed. “Ten seconds, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two—GO’ ‘The vermilion Thomas ro for a leap, and then fn a: Htress uw the long, blac after § o'clock led, shook on {is steel aprings;, posed Hke tant it was on its glistening, ofled su a tiger cat crov Siidiig witha of the road: Ast Miud_explosion shook { — OF ER 300,900 SEE THE RACE. ais i “Eyery one “Jooked around suddenly to see what car had blown up. niit ward: A-cloud of smoke haung-overhead_Bits gaudy Chinese paper frifte? down, It was the bomb that told the countr ejde that at last the race was really on. ' A falnt -cheercame the road from the waiting thousands down Min eola way. And then, like a blue thunderbolt, the Panhard was Inanched. The M gray aa tarnislied tead, followed a minute after. CHEERS FOR TRACY And so the: t—Fiat d-their-faces er-Miller, Hotchkiss and Merce Lacomotite. who rays heen't—a-daredew Goes roto he-matied a dareduvii,. brows for the American champlon that Wagner, rival, following a minute behind bim, cau cd a-startled deGr, Wagner wusatter him like a humping wolf, Kee No. 11, was ont. A Jead-colored Itala” took hls place. Then the ‘gr Haynes, the only touring car In the race; the Bayard-Clement, Fiat, Chris- tle, the only fifty-horse-power; Metrich and: other Ttala, Old Long Island, still slumbering In its haze of revolutionary traditions. has not had another such stirring up since G. Washington played hop- seotch here with the British. This thirty-mfle patch of Long Island was so weighted down with automobiles that If Montauk Point hadn't been heavy It} would have tilted up in the afr. Thousands of touring ferry-boats to Long Island Ci night, and eyery boat Was pack $50 FOR NIGHT’ and ronabouts came out last night. The ran every ten minutes all through the LODGING. = rom 1.40 on trains \puiled ozt for the battleground every half hour, Uncounted thousands. took these morning trains, for hotels are scarce ates of $50 -a-night-tora-pink-papered_room- wt around one spring Klondike o ——— AT cipreourse at Goldfield, Nev. stole Ta Garden CyB -$tottor hts snitefor the nicht. Hrealct. AK New Yor extra & records, iimm Of autos moved through the fog that covered | ling Into the course were turned. Tito teniporary” Feopie-sioptin-thelenrs,and when it turned cola. chicken sandwiches and opened bottles. To-night al Idie might furnish some way of estimating the| dawn, caucus of the “dead s aize of the crowd About fhe Mineola Hotel was one of the greatest of crowds. John H Barnard, of Rochester, was there, ane for a time thought he had been charged $20 for & cup ot coffee. . Barnard ordered a cup of coffee and} walter oa iy Th change was slid Into his. bandh TNE PROPTIetor oT Mie Wore w “ Barnerd in the mean time drank’his coffee, and In the bottom of the cup was a $2 gold pleve ad dropped in without alther the waiter or Mr, “Barnard notic in zs Neon knows how many really saw the race. To make a rough guess, | the thr 2 four hundred thousand sightseers along that thirty | miles 6f oiled road. The —prandstniid-sente vere _ali-sold_oue two weeks -pgo:—Bvery—dan as-cromdedtethe lit —The-famous thatrpin" of attractions. then “Manhasset Hill; Krug's corne’ e were trot ‘timer Watches the Careful Manicuring - — OVER 300, 000 SAW Artist Mor Received by Each Big Auto Before Weighing In SCRAPING OFF THE PAINT ON GASEOLINE TANK S10 RE! DUCE. WEIGHT //_ ACHING BEING GROomEP FOR WEIGHING IN, WEIGHT 2-000 ir ees HOLES BORED SHEETS OF GROWN PON WHICH THE RACING MACHINES MUD. WiLL NOT (ON THE WHEELS ACCUMULATE FERRIES JAMMED WITH CROWDS FOR THE RACE — Great Crush Began Early and Continued All|. Through the Night and the ey Morning- Hours ————-— ~ SHOPPERS IN JAM SHATTER WINDOW Artery Severed by Glass, While Others Are Cut. ORDER OF START, DRIVERS AND CARS IN TO-DAV'S RA erin the history of New York has Robert Graves. rush atoa department store to-day a numb; I street here personw were I Nive for a long || 6 Hotchkiss... Mek. Brown, the store and there, clamoring { ing’ but streaks of dreda outside The crush outside great that several men wore pushed against © big platyof glass Aix 9 Locomobile ame so jand th ed pointe The Even: re cards were in demand, | rds were given away at the ¢erry ovhall Keene last nigtit by 9 0° had determined to & rirteen-year-old boy wood Haynes. | Haustat temporarii atone time du: ® hours after m Betting on the Best Route. ere made by chauffeurs as & RBarard-Cler when_it brake He had ra artery tn hts fered and his neck and shoulders | seme pring street it Oo great was the crush as Barnabas Hospital, where s said he i* in a eritfeal condition pe —were—also—outt bed in it frightened avay people who had never visited the | au streets | to the ‘Thos |course. One bet of 31,00 was mado bo- int and Sain fis sporting man, Oo. Ke aboard lamith, a New Orl dete mere tte whinl was the quicker rout hundred tents near the grand-atand brought their weight in gold Te a 1 i d His Actress Wife ‘Millionaire an Sees Who Have Parted After a Quarrel ut. those roads about Toya #alstreets_and the Fren) Bridge Has tts Night-Rush- é britke and bst-you I get to the Mineola grand stand first." he bet was made for a thousand, and MpRON held the Btakes as the the Rossmore : Get out early stied to the ferry and watt- of hours In line after offer- all sorts:of money to others to get in ahead of them: re : “HUSKING BEE NIGHT | Se ATeTHE COUNTY FAIR theatres packe oodsemnioa~ road “fare People as a botter man tan Hemery, who won last year, Wagner ges filled every empty lot. A farmer rented | The speculater, charging for auto spac = i {condition for = u ninatior tials ft had been soaked In-ol}-and railed down. {ler the rain yesterday morning thousand of autos travelled over it all day long, thelr broad tres smoothing and hardening the surface until it was firm-as asphalt. ‘The; whole roid was one black, shining streak, fine as any boulevard. Water ran |» off withont hurting’ tt, The sand-banged turns were in shape. Atonll dangerous ts a long wire netting fence seven feet high kept | back the spectators. Three hundred deputy shertMs patrolled, assisted | by 300 flagmen with red and yellow flags, The red fags meant dunger to tha people and safety to the drivers., FOREIGN DRIVERS OUT TO WIN: 4 It was freely predicted before the race that the forelgn drivers would elther breik records or fail io finish, Lancia, who never finivhed in an American race but always made a great showing untt! something broke down, wus expected to set-the pace, Heis a hard drive; and a hustlers He | will plunge at a curve full speed and take any desperate chance, | Wagner, a Frenchinan In spite of his name, was sdnt here by the Dar- | rales Tuesday, got out’ verry old gar and made the course in 26 min- | {Lutes—prenomeniil time. But WagAer would not believe that-a spetd of sev- ‘Yenty' milos for the ten Japs was possible, The course has sixty-two turns, many of them dangerous, “I dontt care how hard 1 go as long as my car stays on the road," he |), id, “but high power won't fo on thia road.” i ‘he low-power cars. seemed .to- Have some advantage: Christy's 200- | Horse machine proved that fact when it went to smash. That's one reason why Christy fell back upon. bis 50-korse touring ear, fe Trac, American champion, was’a great and popular favorite. He had been twice placed In tho big race, and {t looked Ike his timo to win, for he has improved steadliy in speed at-each attempt. Wagner sald Tracy or | be would win, Te: Blon’s specialty was In turning corners at a fast clip. He had ft down&o a sclence, Lawyell, with bis Prayer-Millor, had» made the awlitent practice course, hovering, the Alatance tn 2 minvtes, [My Tver, stomn WOMAN FAG HEADS BAND OF GAL THIEVES. Four Little Shoplifters Tell Judge She Taught Them To Steal. Four Uttle girs, smal! haar mage pies, stood on tthe bridge in Jefferson M ‘ket Court to-day and told’ Magise @ Wahle a story of a, woman Fa- gin’s evil tnMuence over — them that amazed the court officers in {ts revela- | tlons of an organized gaitg of child shops lifters, none of them more than counter~ high, ruled over by a woman under whose Influfi ce th hid t. toly Mary ‘Tressia, by her own confession, leader of the band, ts the largest’ and most intelligent of the lot. Her blac} eyes held no trace of shame na she ot how she and her three ttle com- panions—Bona Pallata, Tessie Lunzo and Sara Clacchto—all about twelve years old, had for months pilfered sauce cessfully the largest dry goods shops In w York. ‘os were held comp! the detectives, settesige the women, for ot-ar Thea S48 Varied AS the stock Gar- | a department store. ells Mary ‘Tre Tue trom ti a ‘dren L x0 to school oor, but Bara Cufochio wus St of all, One day she came to, “ool in a fine new ss and had of money for candy and) pop. ne told tn t she — hail al S Ou of a big store on She told ne it Was very 2 one thought of she ts so Uttle, I suppos How She Looted Store wrap myself up in a big he told mé nd then’ tt4 eaay things under it" She said sie Nix lt for me to xet_money. DeCauRe unt 5 after: shoot f ala! she woul us” 10. ents - = to! Stuf she sokl after we had - 4nd- promised us a quarter y tue girl we-csuk! get to her. Soon we had a Phove vu of more, I guess, Id start to steal right after At was the bost time: « hurry to get through at the counters were care. es have -trken things in who walked up and down ight « tome. I guess y didn't think a little girl could take anything, Some stores have lower ters than others, and these were. the We went to mostly. Of colfrse,-{ 1eus. while think those dig stores would Jethings we took, and dL guexx thoy'll goat tet ie out” Pointed Out Alleged Fagin. Just. before the Hite girls we into the court- ios Prec oni TERT MOURNE Tae » evil ge shila polnted Hk Colo ma bbe nid me toate ie Palaclo woman, a brown-skinned, wid-halred ‘crelt ospra ir Icha prang at the kill you when T get Tleket ti ttat ayert uses inthe reams Little Mary lo woman and in a ata—the—woman— Agent Pr; 2 “Darnttz “welzud her Pee wee hebd fen: ation by Magistrate Wahle ‘in bonds at 3500. ¢ TIDE WASHES UP BoDy. Sixty workmen were unloading a ethene rf BoTo “street, the tide brouglit—a—aeniechodytrtttin inamong the barges.) Polloeman James nry. aided by several of the men, uled out the body ad man had apparently been In t three or four-weeks, He was da short brown rautis a hett sind Were no marke the clothing Unhicky Number for Dahotw Womens e—qnestion whether ghenunhe 3” fs really more unlucky than any—ethernumber has never been entirely’ settled in everyone's mind: A So. Lak. woman, after” thirteen Pept mia y trem Arne Ta way to brekk the “Unt She writes: ‘or thirteen years I have been’a nervous wreek from. drinking: coffe: N, feart=in- fact my Police Reserves Form Line by train tried to ms Lana reached from t Speculators early Dex and tlokota that wi | dow of the rr conta were sold as rap could obtatn 9 antl even as, LFRENCH A AERO AERO CLUB TO Ck PUES FOR CUP. Aero Club of} “haa degded that olnpany for ninety them at from $12 e terry house, althou clared the winner of the recent contest it will challenge for the James ry ten minutes, The plan wan a many autos as could be loaded naide the mited an Count de In Vaulx haa called attention to the remurkable nerve the participants in last Sun avyen of the. contestants upon # boat ae a move up.: It waa mow work, and j an Hour or xo-was hole by it tem being actually potsoned Laat year I was confined to“my. ved for six. months. yt dawned on me@.that coffee caused the trouble. Then T began using Postum fnstenad of ordi coffee, but with little faith, as my mind wes In such veondition that t hardly -kngw what to do next Extreme nervousness and falling eyesleht caused me to lose all cour- age. In about two weeks after Iq coffee and began to use Postum, [ was able to read and my head felt Lam improying ell the timo and | will ben strong, well woman ‘I have fooled more than ane per- on with @ delicious cup of Postum. Mrs, S. wanted to know where .t bought my fine coffee 1 told her my graces had (t And x out {t was Postum she has used (t ever singe, and her nerves are build. up fing. i My brain 1s strong, my nerves nteady, my appetite good, -and ext ( enjoy tr sound pleasant Name given by Postum Co Crepky Ah det che Hite book ville ~~ House Full of Loot, SS arte for £08, BOP MOKeE. and asters We— are arrested, lt —£—— to-day when the wash of y she found