Times-Herald Contest: Through Snow and Slush – The Horseless Age – January 1896
Comment is on the way. 18.08.2026 Text and photos with courtesy of hathitrust.org, www.hathitrust.org , compiled by motorracinghistory.The Horseless Age – Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1896, pp. 29 – 30 TIMES-HERALD CONTEST. Through Snow and Slush Contestants Struggle on-A Severe Test and a Signal Triumph. Notwithstanding that Chicago had been visited by a […]
Thanksgiving Day Route – The Horseless Age – December 1895
Just before the Times-Herald race, the route was changed slightly, of which the map is shown here as well as it’s description. Rules are also revised, in all now „only“ 27. One could get the impression, it’s more a contest for rule-makers than for car-drivers. Just jokin‘, I know. But 27 rules for some 52 […]
Times-Herald Contest: Rules and Route of the Road Race – The Horseless Age – November 1895
Here, The Horseless Age in its first year ánd in its first issue, published several extensive details of the Times-herald Contest, stipulating the prizes, all of the 32 articles of the contest’s rules, the complete course, sas well as all the entries, 66 in total. Text and photos with courtesy of hathitrust.org, www.hathitrust.org , compiled […]
The Trial and Postponement – The Horseless Age – December 1895
The Times-Herald Contest originally was set for November 2, 1895. Alas, it showed that only a handfull of contestants proved able to actually have their vehicle ready-for-go in that short of time. Therefore, a new date was set on Thanksgiving day, November 28. But for those available in November 2, a day earlier was announced […]
Duryea Is First – The Chicago Times-Herald – Friday Morning, 29 November 1895
This Friday-Morning issue of the Chicago Times-Herald, is published just after the Thursday 28 November Race. I don’t know the name of the reporter(s), but this real long read is so much interesting not to neglect. It is the most accurate reporting of the race, in a way, as if U were participating yourself or […]
Key To Map of the Times-Herald Race – Charles B. King
Charles B. King was one of the umpire-drivers of the 1895 Times-Herald Race in Chicago. Fifty years later, he commemorizes his experience of that historic event in „A Golden Anniversary – Personal Side Lights of America’s First Automobile Race“. This work comprisies in all some 60 pages, of which we’ll post here several chapters separately. […]
The Times-Herald Race: America in the Lead – The Motocycle – November 1895
Of the eleven originally foreseen contestants, some couldn’t make it to the staring line. So only six really got on the way, four gasolines and two electrics. They gathered all six in line for the Jackson Park World’s Fairgrounds. The race in itself is more or less, summarised in this two-page article. With permission of […]
The Times-Herald Race: Several Break-Downs – The Motocycle – November 1895
This article is more extended version of therace description. It gives a more specific report of the race, where the what’s and where’s of some of the contestants is described. Interesting though, the first American application of pneumatic tyres, similar to the ones half a year earlier in the Paris-Bordeaux race. Finally, on page16, a […]
The Times-Herald Race: Judges – The Motocycle – November 1895
The new American motor magazine „The Motocycle (Automobile), already started on its onset with reporting the 1895 Times-Herald Race in Chicago. Many articles wre published, of which here only the most inetersting ones are given. It started out with pointing out the judges and their assistants. All things first! With permission of hathitrust hathitrust.org == […]
America’s First Horseless Carriage Race 1895 – Saturday Evening Post – January 1941
This article was published in The Saturday Evening Post of January 5th 1941, just some 45 years after the event took place. Written by Herman Henry (H. H.) Kohlsaat (1853-1924), reportedly editor and publisher of the Times-Herald newspaper, the originator of this first vehicle event in America. He got the idea of a carriage contest, […]