Brooklyn Life from Brooklyn, New York • Page 30

BROOKLYN LIFE. 30 Tomb was the result. The pace down the drive to Seventy-second street was fairly good, averaging over twenty miles per hour. The Autocrat had as one of the passengers in his car one of the mounted squad, whc continually urged the driver to "let her go." We were frequently hailed by policemen on the curb with the cry "Hit her up Thoughts of consistency and jewels continually recurred to mind, but were promptly forgotten in the en joyrnent of being advised to "open up a MOTORING. THE all-absorbing topic of interest among local enthusiasts is the race meet, the first of the season, to be held this week Saturday on the Brighton Beach race-track, at Coney Island.

To promote this and a series of similar events there was recently organized and incorporated at Racing at Albany the Brighton Beach Automobile Club. Brighton. ThJs newiy.organize(j ciub has a number of well-known Brooklynites as its backers, and must succeed because of influential membership and because of the high class sport it proposes to offer to the public. The president of the club, Mr. Charles H.

Hyde, is probably the best known of the officers. Mr. Hyde has been an enthusiastic motorist for two years and through his personal efforts the New York -Motor Club, of which he also is president, has leaped into prominence and popularity. From present indications the residents of this borough will have the privilege of witnessing no less than ten or a dozen race-meets on this most picturesque and speedy track. As a curtain-raiser Mr.

Hyde and his associates have arranged to have Mr. Charles G. Wridgeway drive a Peerless car against the one thousand mile record, starting on Friday of this week. As "calculated and arranged, Mr. Wridgeway should complete his event just about the hour of the opening event.

The present American record is held by the Packard car, driven by its designer, Charles Schmidt, of Detroit. To-day's program provides open, closed to amateurs, and stock car races, each calculated to attract a most liberal representation of the best-known track drivers. TO-DAY'S race-meet at Brighton is regrettably lacking in one respect. The promoters of the event have failed to schedule an Australian pursuit race. This form of race was first tried in the United States, and on this track, about three gap.

benously, these policemen were keen to appreciate tne absolute control and consequent safety of the car. No serious accident marred the event, although Mr. Henry Sanger Snow and Mr. Diaries Jerome Edwards, each in an endeavor to avoid collision, skidded completely around on the slippery asphalt near' Ninetieth street. The parade' was disbanded at four o'clock at the corner of Seventy-second street and Columbus avenue.

The guests and officials of the parade were entertained at the clubhouse, 753 Fifth avenue. Among those who drove 'from this borough were Messrs. A R. Partington (Franklin), Charles Jerome Edwards (Cadillac), Louis R. Adams (Autocar), Laurence Abraham (PopeToledo), Virgil Parker (Maxwell), G.

G. Stephenson (Pdpe-Toledo), Carl Page (White), J. Russell Parker (White), Augustus Post (White) and Henry Sanger Snow (Locomobile). THE arrest of Mr. Augustus Post in Manhattan recently would seem from the testimony given "before the magistrate to have been both: unjustified and unjustifiable.

Those who are familiar-with Mr. Post's careful driving are loth to believe that he was either careless or exceeding Unjustified the limit The attempted assault on the part Arrests. p0iiceman when remonstrated with appears to be ground for a formal complaint to the commissioner. Mr. Post is a tourist of worldVwide repute and is the vice-president of the Long Island Automobile Club.

THE advent of the Richmond County- Automobile- Club into the ranks of the American Automobile Association and the New York State Association completes the list of State clubs. As the list now stands there are seventeen clubs with a total membership of about two thousand. Richmond County This club has been considering the move for some months. At a recent smoker held at its club assembly rooms in St. George there were in attendance a few of those gentlemen who have been interested in the upbuilding of the A.

A. A. They were Mn Augustus Post, chairman 6f the touring committee; Mr. A. R.

Pardington, former chairman of the racing board; Mr. Charles H. Gillette, years ago, when the Long Island Automobile Club held its first track event. No event ever held in this country, save one in Boston last Interesting Novel' ty Kaces. May, has so aroused the interest of the spectators as the race between Mr.

Harry Harkness (40 Mercedes), Mr. George C. Cannon (15 Stearn) and a freak steam racer from Trenton. the retiring secretary, and Mr. A.

G. Bachelder, the secretary-elect. Each of these gentlemen presented arguments for joining, with the result that the club unanimously applied for enrollment. During the course of the evening the Long Island club extended its house privileges to the new club and in turn was urged, to join in a tour around the island. The first duty of the new club and the A.

A. A. is to bt the abolishment of the obsolete rules now obtaining on the Staten Island ferry which requires the driver to push his car on and off the boat. IF you have any influence at Albany, exercise it. The obnoxious L'Hommedieu bill, which proposes a tax of, one dollar per horse-power per annum is said to be making progress.

The claim is that automobilists want good roads and 1 TT tU ...1 For about six miles, or until the two steam cars had exhausted their water supply, the race was thrilling. It required, of course, but the fraction of a moment for the Mercedes to lap the two steamers when their speed began to slacken. I have seen many a race, on many a track, and save the one at Readville last spring I have yet to see one so all-absorbing and which has so aroused the spectators. The race at Boston, was between two local millionaires, each a skillful and fearless driver and each determined to win. The contestants were Messrs.

H. L. Bowden (60 Mercedes) and William Wallace in Marcel Renault's Paris-Madrid racer (30 Renault). The terms of the race provided that Mr. Wallace should start from the tape and Mr.

Bowden from the half-mile mark, in the back stretch. At the crack of the starter's pistol both cars struck their full stride, and before each had traveled a sixteenth of a mile the times recorded were under a minute. Each contestant in the first six miles alternately led, neither by over two seconds, until the seventh mile, when Mr. Wallace -gradually showed a gain of about one-eighth of a mile. At this point the referee declared the event off, deeming it unsafe to continue because of the excessive dust.

During this entire race the grandstand and clubhouse was in pandemonium. THE AUTOCRAT, on April fifteenth called attention not alone to the very attractive inns located on Long Island but to the transformation which is being worked in and among them. This short paragraph has had two most satisfactory results. The first is the attention directed to Long Island's the subject, with the result that the Autocrat has been called to account for not making the list longer, and the second was the copying of the article almost verbatim by my friend the editor of Automobile Topics. While this editor failed to give due credit to Brooklyn Life, I feel that the neglect to do so was quite unintentional.

The writer does not wish to have it presumed that the few hotels and inns named three weeks ago comprise the full list of those very inviting hostelries on Long Island which cater to the automobilist. The list of such is long and they will from time to time be named and their various and particular features described. THAT was a most excellent showing made by the Long Island Automobile Club in the parade of last Saturday. -In spite of the rain which fell at the starting hour, some seven cars left the main entrance of the park at the hour appointed. These were later joined by four Last Saturday's more cafs before tbe moved up Fifth Parade.

avenue from the rendezvous at the Lafayette-" Brevoort at half-past-two. The local club held the position of honor in the seventh division, made up pf visiting clubs. The route up Fifth avenue was covered at a very slow pace on account of the traffic, which was not as was expected. As soon as One Hundred and Tenth street was reached the pace was accelerated, so that by the time Riverside Drive was reached a real genuine scramble to round Grant's yay iui uicm. iiuw duuui uic uuii wuu Your drives a narrow steel tired wagon on the high-influence.

way and badly and cutg it xhe automobile improves the road bed and helps to niaintain the surface by rolling it down. The bill is pernicious and should meet with prompt and overwhelming defeat. Use your influence. MEMBERSHIP in the Long Island Automobile Club carries with it, in thesedays of club more than the usual amount of credit and honor. The name and fame of the local club is becoming synonymous with all that is best in the sport and good fellowship.

The unique ideas Samaritans mtrduced by the touring committee command a following by many other clufts In the country. The trade and daily press are urging clubs to: emulate the ex-' ample set T)y the Brooklyn organization. The latest innovation introduced is the placing of signboards at known obscure turns. This suggestion, made by Mr. Post chairman of the highways committee, met a ready response.

first signs placed marked. rnnte rn the trnnd maris of Nassau rniintv via fYknnr avenue, thence through Glendale village to the Hoffman boulevard. One or two of these' signs were jemoved by thoughtless -'or malicious persons, but others, remain. This newjroute makes it possible to reach Jamaica without traveling over Jamaica avenue, which is both unsafe and unsatisfactory. The new garage of the club is to be completed and ready for occupancy by June first none too soon, considering the rapidly increasing membership and consequent demand for accommodations.

Twenty names are to be voted on at the next club meeting, making a total of fifty-one additions since March first. New York State n6w has about seventeen thousand registered motor cars. Rhode Island the baby State now has nine hundred and fifty-seven licensed cars, an increase of seven hundred and sixty-seven since Sep'tejriber Thi ArkcMSiAT..