Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-09-06 | Page 32 | Details Complete for Auto Contest

BETAtLS COMPLETE i i i More Than Fifteen Cars Will Enter the Gunnison Endurance Endur-ance Race. PREPARATIONS ARE MADE FOR ROYAL GOOD TIME People at Stopping Places Prepared Pre-pared to Give Contestants Great Reception. Preparations for tho groat cndiiraucc automobile run from Salt Lake City to Gunnison, Monday, aro practically completed. com-pleted. The cars will start at 10 o'clock from in front of The Tribuno building and will proceed in order, each car bc- I ing numbered. Thoy will bo expected to proceed throughout the run at a speed not greater than twenty miles nn hour and to make the different distances dis-tances within schedule time. A distance dis-tance will bo maintained between the ! cars sullicicnt to prevent any inachiuo j running in the dust of tho preceding one. and cvoiything will be dono to mako tho trip an enjoyable one. A pilot, car will precede tlio cont . slants, placing flags at all crossroads, a red Hag signifying a turn to tho right and a purple Hag a turn to tho loft. The number of entries at tho prcsout timo is fifteen. A recent letter from Anthony Motcalf. president of tho Ciiy Council of Gunnison, to W. E. Macar-ton, Macar-ton, who is managing tho alfair, expresses ex-presses great interest in the run and promises his assistance and co-operation in making tho event a success. May Increase Number. Tho letter also gives tho information that it will be possiblo to incrcaso tlio number of ontries by six. and owners of cars who wisli to compote arc to- I quested to present themselves to Mr. I Macarlon in front of Tho Tribune building build-ing Monday morning between 0:30 and 10 o'clock, in ordrr that thoy may bo given instructions 'il properly entered. I All owners of cars who intend to make tho run 4 ''free lance" are also requested request-ed to communicate with Mr. Macarton at that lime, so that arrangements may be mndo for their entertainment at Nc-phi Nc-phi and at Gunnison, The first stop will bo at Springvillo, where an hour will bo taken for lunch. Tho first night will bo passed at Ne-phi, Ne-phi, and the contestants arc expected to reach Gunnison boforo noon Tuesday. Tues-day. Citizens of Gunnison have arranged ar-ranged to give a banquot to tho visitors and a chicken dinner will bo served. During the afternoon a ruu will bo made to Manti. a dislanco of about thirty miles, and a banquet will also bo served there, to be followed by a dauco in tho evening. It' is expected! that many of the cars will return to this citj' Tuesday night, although it is tho inte'ntion to start Wednesdaj- morning morn-ing and mako tho run "freo lance" during the day.