The Cost of Automobile Racing

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 6, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 39.

The Cost of Automobile Racing

The mad, rushing world can not be satisfied unless it breaks some speed record. For instance, in a recent automobile race in Indianapolis, a Buick car lowered the speed record for 100 miles, from 104 minutes to 92 minutes and 42 seconds. At the same race meeting, five lives were lost in two accidents. At one time two cars ran together, a boiler exploded, one man was killed, others injured; and yet in a few minutes the great crowd of mad spectators were cheering the races as tho nothing had happened.