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PREPARING GARDEN SHOW
White and Gcid Will Be the Pre^
dominating Colors.
ALL SIGNPOSTS UNIFORM
More than 7.000 Yards of Car
peting Will Be Used to
Cover Platforms.
Preparations for the eleventh national
sutomohlle show 1- Madison Square Garden
January 7 to 21 are moving rapidly. W hile
It* Qastf*a automobile show has always
ban « social i«tßf« of importance th*
«how enmmtttee of the Association of 1.1
oeaaad Automobile Manufacturers is plan
ning to make the exhibition more conßßle
nous than ever in this respect.
In the how of next January there will
be two nights during Part One period, from
January - to 14. during which only gaeo
lene pleasure vehicles are to be exhibited,
.... doub'.e admission will be charged. At
former shows in the Garden the double
ndmissitm days always attracted the big
gest crowds.
The preparatory decorative work is pro
gressing. At a carpenter shop near the Gar
<l^n two entire Basra are given over to get
ling ready the lattice work which will be
t;se<l rwnatvds throughout. This lattice
■work is helne ma<ie In sections which are
numbered bo as to be" easily fitted into place
tvhen installed In the building. The sec
tions when ■-• ... are dipped into a tank
of paint and wh«>n dry are stored away.
W. W. Kr-'wi'-. th« architect in charge.
Fays that the lattice construction work for
,-. r forthcoming show Is the bicg^st under
- ... of its kind he has ever known cf.
More ihan '•<*} square yards of carpeting
•will be u.ed to cover the exhibition space*
on th*- main floor, exhibition hall and ele
vated platforms. The carpet is of a spe
cial weave of light green fabric. It Is now
Vxing . v.-. •"■ and cv; into the required
Jength?. Forty men are working on the
lamp poets which will mark the car
exhibits. Hundreds of other craftsmen are
cr.gaced on rustic work, plaster effects, etc.
WTdte and colrl are the colors which have
V>e*>r selected to ■.."■.'..:• 5n the deco
rative sch«ne throughout the Garden, -md
■while these colors will be most prominent,
green and crimson will also be used. The
yiolicy of last year of having all the fur
r.ishings and signs in charge of the show
managers and made a part of one harmon-
Jo'jp scheme Is again being followed.
The Part Two period of the Garden Fh<rw,
from January l« to 21. pTomisea to he
equally Interesting with the Part One pe
riod. The exhibits of commercial or freight
veh'rles. dectric pleasure or passenger v*
hicles and motorcycle? will he th* most
comprehensive display of its kind ever seen
Jn N'.'iv York.
TWO-DAY ENDURANCE RUN
* New York Dealers Plan Test in
Three States.
The JCew York Automobile Trade Asso
ciation has just issued entry blanks for a
two-da: endurance run through New York.
JCew Jersey and Connecticut! to take place
November 2? and 30. The endurance run
will V.* conducted under official sanction
No. an of the A. A. A.
This contest is restricted to stock cars,
fiasE A, and there will be three divisions
«'-cordinc to price, allowing competition
vtK'fr various price classifications. There
mill be silver trophies in each division.
This promises to be the bipgest endur
ance run from point of <m.V3 r ever held in
the neighborhood of New York City. More
th&n thirty firms have alrea.lv signed ap
pUcatfone and some of the entrants will
eatcet several cars. A special Inducement
Is made where one entrant is represented
>- more than one car. the first entry he
ing |S; for a second entry. US; third, $'.«,
fo\:rxh and subsequent entries, $".
An unusual feature of the run will be
that the start and finish will be at New
York City each day. The Ural day's run
starts it & o'clock from Columbus Circle,
pr.ir.r to Stamford. Conn., through New
Sochelle. Larchmont. Mams-one Rye, ,
■p«-jrt Cii^ster. Greenwich, continuing on
throueti BprmgdaJe. New Canaan and
JRldirefieid to Danbury, which Is sixty-two
mil*-:- from the start. Here the entrants
and their guests will <at lunch. Return
ing, the route i<=ads through Mill Plains.
Brew=i*>r. CarxneL. Lake Malionac. Baidwin j
■Place. Briartliff. Klmsford. Harts Corners
fend Greenville to New York City.
The checking places on this route will be
at Briarcliff. Danborj and Stamford. The
total distance is 13»; miles. It is more than
probable that the direction of this route
"viil ho reversed.
The second days run covers about 139
mil^s and the oars will be checked out on
The J«=-im\v s^jde of the 4"d street ferry at 5
•'do in the morning promptly.
• From this point they will continue
through Hackensack. Suffern. Ramapo.
Tuxedo. Booth Field. YhJls Gate, to New
fc'jrK. where a stop will be made for th'
r>o'.n lunch, sixty-two miles from the start.
Hemming, the route lies through Little
■Britain, Gosh^n. Cheater. Munroe and South
-J-"V-ld. retracing the same route to New
T« k from Southfield as used in the morn
hue Tl ■ checking places will be Tuxedo,
"y*>wburg and Suffern.
The absence of dust from th« highways
■1 this time of the year and the bracing
■weather will make the run exceedingly in
i«'.--tint: and enjoyable.
■ Th* final date for closing of entries i
•i-lacd at November 25. Blanks can be had
of or. a Po.-rinfi. the New York represen
tative of the National Motor car Company.
•>.>>. 1522 Broadway, or of C. H. I^arson, of
.the QMamul '• Company. No. 1»>%3 Broad
v^y. rn'mlirf of the contest committee of
"Jhe N*>w York, Automobile Trade Associa
tion, who an carrying out the details of
"t • ' run.
PACKARD SERVICE BUILDING
-Plant to Take Care of Owners
Ready in Long Island City.
In these day* of changes in the ■ alumni
V.ile - -.**- world the purchaser has come
lo look for Fomething beyond the mere
a«-qui*ltl<>u of the car — he ■wants to know
-tow the company is coins' in look out icr
Vis Mum ;.'i< r the macbjm- i* delivered
*r<s if on the road In dally use.
"Packard Service.** which has set its own
Ftandard. i*= typified in the new eight story
nuilding of concrete, steel and sjasa located
■or Thompson avenue, I>O!)K Island City,
-which has just been . opened by the l>nck
•mra Motor Car Co., of N«"»- York. This
Yullding Is unuFual in many ways. It is
probably the best lighted in America, three
sides of glass set in specially imported steel
fraiTj*;? making tli}s possible) The equip
ment «if every department has been dic
tated by Packard experience. In fact, the
jilant is a miniature factory :n itself where
oars in reed of overhauling can be handled
3n exactly the ««me manner as at Detroit.
The -building is two and one-half miles
from the New York salesrooms at Uroad
may mid Cist street, reached via Queens
kM Bridge and a viaduct spanning
th« ■Bsjaaafia yards of the, Pennsylvania
3/onß Island Railroad systems. It is on
■he direct automobile route from Manhat
tan-to all parts of J,o:iq Inland.
In the basement the power plant Is lo
mien The main floor is utilized as service
Hal sales rooms; the. second floor as a stock
room lor imrte and accessories; the third
lor the storing of cars and bodies: the
fourth and fifth for the painting: and i:p
h'lls'erinj? department, and the six»h and
t*-veritii floors for the mechanical and over
hauling departments. The eighth floor,
•with a clearance of 15 feet, will be exclu
sively lews**! to the truck department,
» <■ *■ vehicles with- the largest bodies may
be «tortd.
The Packard Motor Car Co.. of X. Y.
has invJieu" til motorists to inspect the new
budding.
THE .AITOMOKILK AS A DOMESTIC NECKSSITV AND A SPORTING SPEED MARVKL.
USING BRUSH RUNABOUT T< > <
IT A SUPPLY OF WOOD.
UTO NEWS OF IHE DAY
Touring in the Orient — Bits of
Trade Happenings.
William Turner Lewis, of Racine. Wis..
ard his wjfe. who are now in Norway, have
JUS i covet 13.000 mites in a motor car
during a tr«F through .-oral European
countries which began last May. Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis, who are cacl nearly seventy
years old. purpose completing a trip to
the Orient after motoring through Northern
Africa, returning to America by way of
Honolulu before reaching home next July.
They are making the tour in a "Mitchell
?!>:.• manufactured by the Mitchell-Lewis
Motor Company, of Racine. Wls. The car
is being piloted by Frank X. Zirhes. a well
known "cross country driver. By the time
Zirbes completes this trip he will have
driver a Mitchell car through the princi
pal coantries of all the continents except
ing Australia.
lxmis Mansbaeh, treasurer of the Times
Square Automobile Co.. left yesterday for
-,-,■■ ■} visit to Western branches at
Chicago. St. Ivouis and Kansas City. Mr.
Man si.) is..- ii states that since election the
market for second hand cars has been
steadily improving and there is a strong
demand for used cars at from 5600 to
$1,000.
Trip Speaker, the heavy hUnac hat=n-an
of the Boston Red Son. has iust coi i
a rwv from hoston 1 " Hillsboro, Texas. In
his 1911 \"<-iie. In a wlr< received b; G
■T. Garland, jr.. Speaker says, "Arrived
HUteboro •■ p. :n.. Bpeedometer readin's:
?,.'IT4 milf>.-- Car nas given perfect satis
faction. N" trouble, and trip was certain
ly a tough oi <■ '"
James Brady Post, at the wheel 'it a
Steams, added another victory to the long
string won by Steams owners this season
when he took first place in the feature race
at the meet heM in Middletown, N. V..
laFt week. The race was for ten mile? over
a rather poor track and Post won handily.
mnaini victories have been plentiful this
season, and with one exception they have
all heen won by *m;i'^iir owners The sin
gle exception was i '■'<- twenty-four hour
race at Brighton Beach. In which the
Steams established a new world's record,
reeling off 1,253 miles, an average of over
fifty-two miles p«^r hour, including stops.
Sixteen days nn<l nigTlts ot continuous
running: by a 1600 Maxwell runabout, with
out a stop of the motor, was a feature of
the Texas state fair a : Dallas, which ended
on Sunday last, simultaneously with the
conclusion of the non-stop motor car run.
The performance of the Maxwell was one
of the .-["■:•-■ 1"- of the fair. Not once did
the car require any adjustment or repairs
nor was the high gear disengaged from
start to finish. The idea of the run was
conceived hy the I'nited Motor Dallas Com
pany as a feature of the racing carnival,
and it provided an interesting parallel to
the 10/tOO-mlle non-stop run by a larger
Maxwell car in New ir'ngland a few years
ago. By covering ,'.,162 miles during the
sixteen days a se.-or.d member of the Max
well motor family becomes the nearest
rival for the world's 10,<MA)-mi]p record.
Authority has been given to Postmaster
Bacharach of Atlantic City, N. J.. to
completely abolish the use of horse-drawn
: wagons for the use of mail in that city
and substitute Brush runabouts. This gives
to Atlantic City the distinction of being the
i lirsi postal district whose collection equip
! ment is composed entirely of automobiles.
For some time the office has been using
two Brush cars, and these were supple
mented on November 1 by tnree now curs-:.
Th* five cars accomplish more work in k-^s
time than the horses.
The achievement of Miss Regina Rambo.
of Marietta. <;a., in the rec< nt toui around
the Stat<- of Georgia, places ii f r in the
•tront rank of women motorists. Miss
Rambo not only completed the contest of
UMI miles, but !inif-t:e<l with a iierfect
wore, d. .-i-ite the fad that every car in the
tour was lafJi^i by the tail o! a hurricane
and endangered by failen trees. As her
XKW-YOTIK DAILY TRIBLTfE. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1910.
ROBERT BURMAN, IN BUICK CAR. WINNING PRIZE FOR FIRST AMERICAN MACHINE TO FINISH IN GRAND
PRIZE RACE AT SAVANNAH LAST WEEK.
guests Mis? Rambn was accompanied by
the wife <f Governor Joseph Brown of
Georgia and two other women. She drove
a Columbia, a car of the same model as
used by her brother, Marcellus Ram ho, in
the Atlanta-New York go.*i roads tour. In
thai contest Mr. Rambo won a silver lov
ing cup.
Ti>e recent retirement of John W. Stod
dnrd from the presidency of the Dayton
Motor Company, manufacturers of th*»
Btoddard-Dayton cars, was marked hy the
presentation of a hronze tablet by the 2^oo
men employed in the shops in Dayton.
Ohio. The incidents n .n Mr. Stoddnrd'? husi
ness career iv^m 1872 to 1910 were repre
sents! by the products of bis business in
bold bas relief on the hu^e tablet. It was
a surprise t" Mr. Stoddard as well as to
the department heads, the idea being con
ceived and carried out entirely by the sh>>p
Hroi kers.
Carhartt service was practically demon
strated last Sunday when William E. Bliss,
of Meriden, Conn., rammed another car
going at a lively rate The. colliding car
■■-. k< d, b H Mr. Bliss came off
wiih few damages to his car. About three
minutes after the collision EL <'* Kelsey,
general manager of the <'arhartt C"<> . drove
up with his mechanician, on his way to
Boston, and Mr. Bliss was soon aJ>lf to pf-t
under way apain.
Three months have now elapsed since
the Regal Motor Car Company became
actively interested in the export business.
At that time K. M Lock wood, of New
York, an expert in the export business,
was engaged as the. foreign representative
of the Regal Company I^argo orders for
the season of 1910 and IDII have already
been placed with individuals and cone*
in Adelaide. Brisbane and Melbourne, Aus
tralia; Cape Town, South Africa; Buenos
Ayres, Argentine Republic; Sidney, New
South \\"a!«~s; Tokio, Japan; para. Brazil;
Puerto Barrios, Guatemala; Mexico City,
Mexico; London, England; Kingston. Ja
maica, Bind Montevideo, Uruguay. During
the past month shipments were made to
London, Brisbane, Kingston, Montevideo
and Adelaide-. The London contract is
with Seabrook Brothers, who have con
tracted for 350 cars.
Haying been in constant use both winter
and summer since the fall of 1307 without
suffering even a puncture, a Diamond tire
on a Chicago garage's Locomobile demon
strator was removed from the rim for the
first time last month with 28,000 miles
service recorded for it on the odometer.
En live* years but one change of Diamond
tires was made on the Locomobile demon
strator, which, mi that period of time.
covered a total of 58.000 miles.
The tenth anniversary of the founding
Of the Long Island Automobile Club will
be celebrated in conjunction with the an
nual dinner at the clubhouse, No. 920
Union street, Brooklyn, on Wednesday
evening', December 7.
Charles K. EUess & Co.. Eastern distribu
ters of the Marion car. report the arrival
of several of their new 191] models, among
which are the Marion "Thirty" In road
ster and five-passenger touring bodies, sell
ing for $1,000 and $1,150 -respectively. Th"
Marion ■"Thirty" has 110-inch wheel base,
30 h. p. motor Splitdorf magneto duel ig
nition being included in the equipment.
John T. Matcbeti and Edward McFarlan.
who will operate under the firm name of
Matchett & McFarlan, have been ap
pointed age rtts for th r> Marhin in Queens
and Kings Counties by Charles B. EUess
& Co., and they will open quarters at 1281
Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, Where they will
carry a full line of the various Marlon mod
els. "
More Independent Shotv Entries
Many of the Cars To Be Exhibited Are New
to Metropolis,
The success of the coming independent
eutomobile show, which opens in the Grand
Central Palace on New Year's eve, under
the management of the American Motor
Car Manufacturers' Exhibit Association,
seems assured.
Two < r rhro-- weeks nir» only thirty-two
makers had signed contracts to exhibit
their oars, bui since then the other inde
pendent makers, after careful investiga
tion and finding that there was no ques
tion anout the success of the exhihit. have
heen entering at the rale of two or three
a da> . and c:i Wednesday of tl.i- week
fifty-nine makers had signed contracts for
Si'i-i'-,..
With the possit le exception of last year.
when there were eighty odd exhibitors tn
the Palace show, this Ls the largest num
ber of exhibitors that have ever taken part
pitiier in a licensed or unlicensed show In
this city. There is reason to believe that
ai least a dozen more makers will come in
during thf* next wop 1 * or so. The new ex
hibitors include a number of well known
makers, and so;ne who hay yet to make
ii n;imp for themselves.
Many of ihe cars which will he on exhi
bition at the coming show are new to New
York and will not be seen at any other
show. Manj of tJiem embody in their con
st nn tion new idpa.?.
The. new exhibitors who have signed up
(luring th<> past three weeks are as fol
lows:
J. M. Cunningham & Boob' Co.. Rorhpstpr (Can
mnjrhsm.i: Oliver .Motor car ''"mpan.- Detroit
fOHver Truck*; \v. A Paterson Company, Flint.
Mich. (Paterson): I'»nn Motor Car company,
11 111 1 tshursr tPenn "30"); Penn-Unlt Tar Company!
Allento«n. n n. tF'pnn-UTilO; J. If. Qulmby .<;•
AUTOMOBILES.
CARS
We have always wished we could place our closed ears side by side with those of all competitors and #ive you a chance t
compare the complete cars point by point Then you would immediately see that we have finished to a
nicety all the little details. You would see that you gel one dolkl and fifty cents worth ol vnh;
for every dollar invested in a Buiek Closed Car.
Buick cars are not limited to town use; they have ample power for touring and hill
climbing, are first away through snow, city traffic and at every crossing.
We have always advocated competitive demonstration not up
the slight grades of Central Park and Riverside Drive, as
any car can climb these hills without overheating the motor
Speaking of the or bringing out detects in riding qualities, brakes and body The \ ew York Tnb-
Marquette - Buick's construction: but up F<»rt George Hill, where ears that urn. speaking oi the
showing in the (,nu.d overheat their motors and Gland Prize Race.
YoS I ivs - C H show signs of weaknJ »Js: Hob B«r
lorkMeraldsays: It c man drove a m..st won
was the best showing Our guarantee of service is backed by 62,000 satisfied dert'ul race in his Huick.
ever made by an Amer- customers, and a brand] house organiiation with stock j[; s ■ r ,— m9S
ican built machine in a rooms sh( s an( , nIR alk . (l facilities for trade nnt . of thf plurkksl
race oi sucsi imi)or- . i •
t . mce Our demonstrating cars are at you .service. Ride in one drives ever recorded.
over the Fort George Hill route on high gear and draw
your own conclusions.
VICTORIES
MARQUETTE-BUlCK— Champion
American Speed and Endurance Car
In the world's greatest mad race, the Grand Prize, held at Savannah.
Cia.. November 12th, a Man|ucttc-Hnick, driven by Robert Barman, defeated all
the American cars and averaged t'>7.o7 miles per hour for U."> { miles defeating { -2 \ Lraters.
• (2) 0^ rJ| Mar '""" s . Alco Yanderbilt Cup Winner and' (8) Fiats.
A $17« HI XX, driven by Louis Chevrolet at Riverhead. L. | September-'^. 1009, still holds the
World s Stock C ar Road Race Record of 70 miles per hour.
BUICK MOTOR COMPANY
BROOKLYN NEW YORK NEWARK
42 Flalbush Aye. Broadway al 55th St. 222 Halscy St
Co.. Newark. N J. 'IsntUi. Reader Car Com
pany, Brockton. Mass. (Roaden; Scioto Auto Car
Company, rhilllcoth«». Ohio lArbenz); Spencer
I.lano-Briner Company, N>w York City (P*trel>;
Ptavpr Carriaße . Company. Chicago tStaveri;
"U'arren Motor Car Company. Detroit (Warren-
Detroit); West Side Garage and Motor Company.
New york City <S*>ltz Truck): Whiting Motor
Cai Company. ' Flint. Mich. (Whiting): C. W.
Kelsr-y Manufacturing Company. Hartford. Conn.
'KHsev Motorette); Crawford Automobile Com
pany. Hagentown, Mi. (Crawford); Coleman
Motor Car Company. Illon. N. Y. (Coleman);
Ca.=s Motor Truck Company. Port Huron, Mich.
(Cass); Victor Motor Truck Co..Butfalo (Victor);
Otto Motor car Company. New York City (Otto);
The Only Car Company, New York City iOn!y
car*: Alpena Motor Car Company. Alpena, Mich.
• Alpena Flyer): H"nr>' Motor car Pales com
pany. Chicago (Henry); Correja Motor Car Com
pany, New York City (Oorreja); Gaylord Motor
Car company. Gaylord, Mich. 4GaylorrJ); Otto F.
Rost. New York City (Black Crow); Geneva
Wagon Company, Geneva. N. Y. (Geneva); Rich
ard B. Parre, New York City <Cyklonette>.
The show will continue for one week.
MARINE AND FIELD CLUB SHOOT.
Six marksmen parti«ipatee] in the regu
lar, weekly shoot at the traps of the Ma
rine and Field Club, Bath Beach, yester
day. J. H. Emanuel. jr., was the highest
gunner of the day.
The scores follow:
Strine? of 2,"> targets Tl.
C. I^mrke ....l'» 0 11 11 » 11 P '* i ft
c D. Pavre....ll 8 11 1 15 It M •'
P. E. Chase... 12 15 11 11 l- 13 10 M
C. M. Camp... 11 12 9 14 12 11 . <«
J. H. Fmanuel. .... o
jr 12 is 15 14 18 IT ?4
P. R. Towne.. 4 11 8 13 13 8 «
UPPER MONTCLAIR COUNTRY CLUB
IP, Telegraph to The Tribune. 1
Jlontclalr. N. J.. Nov. Handicap com
petition on the links of the Upper Mont
clair Country Club this afternoon was won
by A. S. Armagnac. who had 6 down with
Dr. C. S. Sickel a good second with 7 down.
AUTOMOBILES.
BRUCE-DOWN'S RECORD PUN $25,000 II £
Winner of Grand Prize Has
Driven Car Only Four Years.
IS PROTEGE OF CEDRINO
He Ran Away from School in
1908 to Ride on the Beach
in Florida.
I>avirl 1.. Bruce-Brown, driver of the Wot.
car that won th*» second international road
race for the Automobile Club of America's
Grand Prize Gold < 'up at Savannah on No
vember 12. was horn in New York City on \
August 13. VKL He did his first automobile .
driving in September, 1906. when Louis
Warren, father of Arthur Warren, th" rac
ing driver, taujrht him how to handle an
automobile. The car he learned with was
a machine owned by Mrs. R. A- Bruce-
Brown, his mother, and David say*. "I :
soon put it on tb- bum. thinking I was al
ready ■ racing driver."
His first appearance in an actual race
was at the Empire City track on Memorial
Day in UK, at an Old?moblle reunion. H«
drove his own Om Oldsmobile runabout
and won the three-mile event, open to 1907
runabouts, and finished first in a pursuit
race In the latter event he defeated Dr.
.tullan P. Thomas. Alan Hudson and
Julian AuKUStlne.
The driving- skill shown by youn* Bruce
j Frown attracted the favorable attention of
the late Emanuel Cedrino. who made a new
fifteen-mile world's record for a one-mi!*
i dirt track the sam« afternoon,, with a spe
cially' built raclne car. Cedrino liked young
Bruce- Brown's driving ■• much that he
! asked him to *o to Florida the next win
ter and compete in the amateur events. So
in March. 130S, he ran away from Har
sirom's school, at Norwalk. Conn., and
came to New York. Cedrino took him Hi
Florida, as he had no money of his own.
His mother heard of his -akin* French
leave of the school, and suspected he had
gone to Florida. She telegraphed at preat
length to Robert Lee Morrell. chairman of
the contest board of the Automobile Club
of America, who was referee of the Florida
beach races, not to permit David to race
or so into the time trials under any cir
cumstances. Mr. Morrell thereupon told th*
boy he must not drive on the beach at all.
But a number of men who were there stood
around in front of Mr. Morrell one day
when Cedrino was supposed to be tretting
ready for a one-mile record trial. Just be
fore the signal to start Cedrino grot out of
the car and David got in and started away
on what turned out to be his world's one
mile amateur straightaway record of 35 3-5
seconds.
His other races in lfW were In the hill
rllmnln* events of the Yale University
Automobile Club on Shingle Hill, at West
Haven. Conn. He drove a W>-hors* power
stock car that Cedrino had driven in th*
! Briarcliff road race. He won the event for
! cars of 600 cubic inches piston displacement
!or less and made faster time than th*
! drivers of cars in' the 750-cubic inches pis-
I ton displacement. He ma.l* the fastest
I time of the day and the student motorists
i gave him a special medal for making the
: fastest time of any of the amateur drivers.
In March, 19», he went to Florida again
i and this time drove the Benz No. S
■ which Hemery drove into second place in
! the first Grand Friz* race at Savannah on
Thanksgiving Day in 190?. With this car
he lowered his own amateur one-mile rec
ord to 33 seconds flat. He also won the Sir
Thomas Dewar cup for th* fastest one
mile, regardless of class, and broke the
' ten-mil* world's record, rolling start. I.aT*r
I on in the year be won the one and two
1 mi!« straightaway time trials at Jamaica.
Long Island.
All his racing in 1309 was done with the
No. S Benz. which was generally known
as the Hemery Benz." He competed ill
the Giants' Despair hill climb at Wilkes
' Barre and won the free-for-all in 1 minute
'31 1-5 seconds. In MO he drive the Hemery
1 Benz up Shingle Hill in 51 4-5 seconds, which
•is still th* record for the grade. This feat
was a remarkable, on*, as it was th* first
time in four years that a racing automobile
had made better time in a hill climb than
! a racing motorcycle.
This year Brire-Rrown was running in
thirteenth pla<-e in th* Vand^rbilt ''up rac*
when th" rac* was stopped. B. A H*arn<='
drove the car in the Fairmount Park race
at Philadelphia I 'avki >wns a Benz and a
Fiat
AUTOMOBILES.
Five Hundred Mile Contest at
Indianapolis Next May.
BIG PRIZE FOR WINI^r
Cars To Be Eligible Must She*
a Speed of 7 5 Miles an Hotit
to Qualify.
Th» jW-mll* international iw?^,^
race worth fIMM which will be rin
th* Indianapolis Speedway on May 27, jp,
Is attractlnar I great deal of attention «
over the world. Already many entries h» 7 ,
been received. Th* first prize will be. J-*.
000 in gold and The other prize* are sasjk
!arg» in proportion. in addition Tiiilg^
makers of tire?. oil, magnetos and otfc,
accessories have offered special cash prjjM
The distance, coupled with the stlpnlatfc
that every entrant must show a 3f*^j ..
neventy-flve mil*« an hour to qualify.
the size of the cash prizes have put •«
race In a class by BMII
This race will be open to all cars of
cubic Inches piston displacement and .j^^
with a minimum weight of 2.V<> p«fnd^£j
j Kardlere of stock requirements. It wt3 4
run under the auspices of the Amert^
Automobile Association. under •:-.* di^Ui*
known in the present rale booi
Class •''
A pin? of workmen will be kept bitty *
winter at the, track. Although the tea*
with its permanent surface of vtrr^
1 brick Is now fast, no chance will be m
! the. winter snows to hurt it in the 'tea*.
\ Th* stands, now capable- of seating $,;«
I person?, will be enlarged.
Among the entries are Lewis Str- r-.
j will drive th* Case car. and a Simplex tar
i driver not nominated, ȣ
MATHESON RECEIVERS 001
Court Discharges Them and Ne?
Company Starts with Big- Capita!
Judge Fuller, of the Court of -?-•
Pleas of Luzerne County. Peni sittin?;
equity, handed down on Thursday !asti
final decree to th* receivers of the Ma&»
son MotQr Car Company confirming !a
order of October 31 to th» receivers. Ash*
Miner and W. C. Shepherd, to transferr
the, Matheson Automobile Company a!!^
the property, right.? and franchises of £
Matheson Motor Car Company. J£
The above action completes the last ip
?t*p necessary on the part "f the cosJH
. discharge the receivers from further ■
vice, and from now on the Marhe?-->n Abu
[mobile Company will continue - lei i
i new management.
At the first stockholders' meeting of'iij
reorganize company the follcwing di.T|
tors were elected: W. C Shepherd, praM
dent and general manager; J. W. HelaH
back, vice-president: E. F. Matheson, Ktj
retary. and Henry H. Pease, treasurer.
Th* paid-in cash capital of the. Matties*
Motor Car Company was $350.C» 0 and ft
bond issue $200,030. The paid-in cash cap!^
of the Matheson Automobile Corapajj
which was the New York selling compaaj
was $150.C«>\ Seven hundred thousand OH
lars of new money has been added to &
reorganized company in the form of SIM
first preferred stock issued and $1(5,35
bonds issued. The new money added gira
th* reorganized company a paid-in ca£
capital of SI.ICO.OW plus '- --'• ■'*«»•,
fjajL«N which makes this company teas,
ciallv one of the strongest concerns In *
country engaged in the exclusive "3
factur* of high powered high grade ■*]
cars Th* authorized stock and bond tan
of the company are ».«*.«» first : pwtoc
Stock second $«WK» stock. iV^m^
mon stock and $3».o*>J bonds. ,T, T
During the period of receivership, n
company continued manufacturing op^j
tions and now has a stock of flnwhed
of 1911 model, which is the -:rne **\
history of the business that the cocju
ha, been in position to fill orders f*»
Contracts amounting to a large voW. •
tosißcai bar* been executed with mo- -
th* former Matheson dealers. 1
It is expected that the New *°**-
rooms, garaee ahd repair *V«£§g
the company, on Broadway • »^
street, will be continued asa r-W» Wr
r.as heen liaasfmrea ■■«•■ - |
Wilkes-Barre. - jH
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