Show THE VANDERBILT CUP The public will 1 shed no tears over the announced abandonment of the Vanderbilt cup race for automobiles this year ear It I was the Shah of Persia we believe belee who In declining an Invitation tation to see some horse hore races said sid sidI It I Is known to me that th t one tie horse hore can ci run faster tater than another It I is also true tre that one automobile can run rn fast tast faster er r than another Given Ghen a machine of d f high power one one on put together with wih all al the tIt th cunning cumi g of a master mater m cha and place in that machine a reckless daredevil d re evl driver The Te combination de devours de vours distance at the rate rte o of a mile mie In tn thirty or forty seconds But what after all aU does it i prove proe Merely that one on automobile goes faster fast r than another automobile It I certainly does not prove that tat the man who wants want a car cr In which he may take his family and friends out for tor an afternoon of en enjoyment enjoyment enjoyment should buy that particular make of car The man who rides for pleasure does not want want to go dashing through the country at the countr rate rte of a amile amile mile mUe a minute There Is no pleasure In n that sort ot of riding and It Is nn un necessary to point pint out the te fact that such excessive speed Is Js dangerous not only to the automobilist but to the public It I was intended to make make the Vander hilt bit cup race re an annual feature Now Nov NovIt It I is to be abandoned because It I Is i too dangerous In other otter words the meagre results result attained do not justify the risk to the motorists and the peo people pie pl along the th road rad assembled to see seethe seethe seethe the race Hereafter It U Is to be hoped that the speed maniacs will confine o ne their efforts elor to specially built bult tracks Manufacturers of bf high speed S E l autom automo automobiles bibs biles bies ca can test out their cars c r on tracks r I 1 1 I of their own nd then when they are sent out to purchasers the speed regu regulations rg lations may be depended upon to take care of them There Is a motor track In England Englad on which recently a man maintained an average speed sPed of ot something like seventy miles mies an a hour for hours he e track is so built bult and banked as a to make mae It absolutely ab safe as far as the spectators are concerned Let Lt a track like that be b b built bult in this country for the sc l speed mer merchants merchants merchants chants and let them race around rund on onit onIt onit it to their hearts hears content conten But the highways belong to the te public and the te automobile scorchers scorcher must remember the th fact fact |