Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1910 — People in Northern Towns Crined Their Necks Sunday. [ARTICLE]

People in Northern Towns Crined Their Necks Sunday.

At Hammond, Indiana Harbor, Gary, Laporte, Valparaiso, South Bend, and all the cities and towns in northern Indiana, along the line of the Lake Shore railroad, people were expecting last Sunday to see the airships bound for New York. The local newspapers had understood that there would be quite a nuinber'-of machines make the start and had prepared the people for a marvelous sight. Only one of the ships started from Chicago, however, and that only got a short distance from the city. The people along the line of expected travel, however, "did not know that and they waited with upturned faces until night and even after dark, all hoping to catch a glimpse of a flock of racing aeroplanes. At Laporte an industrious park owner had advertised that the ships would stop in his park and he had arranged with Ely to get half of the gate receipts if he would stop his airship there. More than SSOO was tkken in but when darkness came and -the airship had not appeared' the people were refunded their money. Doctors are said to have been kept busy all day Monday doctoring stiff and sore necks.