Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1912 — MANY FINE AUTOS GOING TO THE RACES. [ARTICLE]

MANY FINE AUTOS GOING TO THE RACES.

Rensselaer on Official Chicago-Indian-apolis Route—Not So Many Cars As Last Year. Rensselaer is on the official ChicagoIndianapolis auto route and many fine cars passed through here today, enroute to Indianaplois. to attend the Speedway races on May 30th. It seems quite probable that there will not be nearly so many cars pass this way, however, as there were a year .ago, owing to the fact that many who are going from Chicago to attend the races are going by rail. They have secured sleeper and dining car accommodations and will thus be able to avoid the hotel holdup in Indianapolis. Most of the cars that go through are large, powerful and expensive ones. Their occupants are usually men bf wealth or chaps who don’t care for expenses. When gasoline is purchased every fellow in the car usually offers to pay. The driver of a large Locomobile stated that he had undertaken to go by the George Ade route, but had encountered bad roads and finally gave it up and kept to the Rensselaer road. There are a good many fellows who express disappointment when they find Rensselaer to be a dry town. They ask how far it is to the next oasis and groan when Informed that it is almost fifty miles. F. C. Deming, a wealthy lumber dealer, and E. F. Johnson, an insurance agent, of Hammond, passed through Rensselaer en route to the races this morning. , ’