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GORDON BENNETT CUP.
SUGGESTED CHANGE OF COURSE.
The current issue of the “Automobile Journal” gives several
interesting particulars concerning the proposed arrangements for the motor
race for the Gordon-Bennett Cup. A Special Commission, consisting of Mr.
S. F. Edge, Mr. C. Johnson, Mr. W. G. D. Goff, Chairman of the Irish Automobile
Club, and Mr. R. J. Mecredy, its hon. secretary and treasurer, was appointed
to go over the proposed course to fix controls, and, with the County Surveyors,
to arrange what repairs would be necessary to the roads, and whether it
would be necessary to bank up bridges, in order that the Co. Surveyors
might prepare and submit estimates of the cost. The Special Commission
were to meet on Wednesday, the 18th inst., at 7.15 a.m. at Kildare Station.
It was agreed that if, after examination, it should be found desirable,
the course should be made to go direct from Kilcullen to the north of the
Curragh Camp, thus avoiding the somewhat twisting roads between Kilcullen
and Naas, and Naas and Newbridge. It is to be hoped that the improvement
of the road surface, which is to be defrayed out of the fund now being
raised by the Automobile Club, will afford labour at good wages to a number
of people.