Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1910 — Brookins Making Successful Flight from Chicago to Springfield. [ARTICLE]

Brookins Making Successful Flight from Chicago to Springfield.

Special information received by the Republican at 1:30 o’clock told of the successful flight that Walter Brookins, the daring young aviator, was making in a Wright biplane from Chicago to Springfield, 111. He set out on the flight at 9 o’clock and was confronted—by -a heavy wind from the southwest but he was mastering it, and at 11:15 he passed over Mantino, 111., and at 12:45 he passed over Gilman. The distance he is to travel is 191 miles and he bids well to succeed. Wednesday his trirft flights in Chicago were successful and Rensselaer people who saw them pronounced them very fine. Among others was A. J. Brenner, of the Makeever hotel.