The Action in Jericho
Locomobile Passes Headquarters
As with the three previous races, Jericho Turnpike was a significant part of the course. For the 1908 race, the cars traveled east to west down the turnpike for the first time. Jericho residents were thrilled when George Robertson drove his #16 Locomobile past the team’s headquarters located in D.F. Maltby’s Automobile Garage. The building would later become Jericho’s first firehouse.
William Cullen Bryant’s Family Enjoys the Race in Jericho
The Vanderbilt Cup Race never failed to draw people of wealth and social status. The family of noted poet and New York Evening Post editor William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) enjoyed a picnic at the races. From left to right were Bryant’s great-grandsons Frederick Marquand Godwin and his cousin Conrad Godwin Goddard, Bryant granddaughter Fanny Godwin White and Elizabeth Marquand Godwin, Frederick Godwin’s wife. The woman holding the thermos is Frederick Godwin’s sister Elizabeth Love Godwin, a great-granddaughter of Bryant (far right). Fanny White was the first woman to obtain an automobile license in Roslyn, New York.
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1908
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The 128-page book by Howard Kroplick, a researcher and lecturer on the races, contains rare images of the races from the archives of major museums, libraries and private collectors. The book Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island will be available from Arcadia Publishing in March 2008.
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