Adventures in the New York-Paris Motor Race.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12438, 10 April 1908, Page 6

Adventures in the New YorkParis Motor Race.

Notwithstanding a collaps-p five mil ■> from Rochester, the Italian Zu&t car, driven by Signor Antonio rfcari'olgio, w.i-. still leading at latest reports. The first throe cars, the ZuM., Titomas, and De Dion, wore stopped by tiees, whit ii had tallon across a rough track which they followed along the shore of Lake Krje. Captain llanshen, of the D-j Dion, cut through the trunks with an axe to lot the ca<r p«rf«. Ihiormous blocks ot ice taken from Lake Erie also lay across the road, and the nine occupants of tho three car-. had to pull hard to get them out ol the way.

A wooden bridge was the next obstacle, the supports being 'so close that the <.v-, had not loom to pas>s beneath it. Tiuco hours were spent in hacking down homo ot the supports and then replacing them. Finally they came to an open path pint as broad as the cars. Along this they' fapt-d at .">!) rnihs an hour.

"The Zust led the cake-walk," says the correspondent. The drivv of the 'J'lioiua.^ car said aiterv.ards, "It was idiotic, but I simply had to follow the Zu-st." And the Dc Dion driver said, "11 was s1i"Olunacy, but I was not going to be beai-ii by the Thomas." , "rxccllciit isport." telegraphed M. St. Chaffray, driving the De Dion. "Wo ;ii" onchant"d. liverywhere they receive u< with orations. They want to 'know who aic the Americans, who are the Italians, -who the French. .But we are ,so smothered in mud that we do not know ourselves.