New York-to-Paris Auto Race subscriber-fathers-day the castle remains virtually untouched

the castle remains virtually untouched more than 340 years later

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New York-to-Paris Auto Race subscriber-fathers-day the castle remains virtually untouchedSix automobiles leave Times Square on February 12, 1908, for a 20,000 mile race to Paris sponsored by The New York Times. The route was established in three stages, with cars to be shipped by steamer from San Francisco to Seattle, then driven through Alaska and across the Bering Strait to Siberia for a home run toward Paris. The Americans reached Alaska first, but that route was declared impassable. Instead the contestants agreed to an alternate route