MOTOR RACE.
1 NEW : YORK TO PARIS. ; ( . or telegraph—ruEßS association— copyright. - • New York, March 2. Show and bad roads' impedo .the New York to Paris motorists.' They passed Chicago for San .'-Francisco,'; where they will embark for ;V, - ;; --. ,1. • . THE ROUTE. , ■ , '. -Six automobiles started from New York last month on the- race, to Paris.. The course jwill be from Neii-.-York-io ,Chicago,i thence to Sj- ' beria, via the : Behrin'g: Straits, themto'.Mos- - cow, and' from-'there" on to Paris. Tho compctitionds.organised by ."Le Martin," a 1 Parisian nowspappr, tho proprietors of which offer ■ a cup to the wiiirier. The entries included four, -Frenchmen, one. German,- two Americans,'two' Portuguese, and. - one Italian. .Prince ' Borghese, one .of the competitors,, finished first in :tlie' Peking-Paris . contest.- Each 'car isy'p'ro-. • videdVsrith claborate.cooking.utensils, .and the motorists hope,to.replenish their stocks of.provisions Iby . shooting ;, roindper, seals, ~white' 'partridges, bears, etp. V - " J i
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 137, 4 March 1908, Page 7
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143MOTOR RACE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 137, 4 March 1908, Page 7
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