Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1912 — BIG AUTO RACES DRAWING VAST THRONG. [ARTICLE]

BIG AUTO RACES DRAWING VAST THRONG.

Special Trains Will Take Thousands To Indianapolis to Witness Dec* —r oration Day Motor Races. Many cars passed through Rensselaer today (Wednesday) enroute to Indianapolis to attend the speedway auto races. Between 8 o’clock and noon, George Gorham, watchman at the Main street crossing counted 101 cars. Many had passed at an earlier hour and many since that time. Gasoline dealers in Rensselaer were kept on the jump. Tuesday night after Landlord Fate had filled the Makeever House he found sleeping accommodations for twenty-eight people at private residences. About every American make of car has passed through Rensselaer, while a number of foreign cars have also gone through. No serious accidents have been reported. Tuesday the left hind wheel of a Flanders touring car belonging to a Chicago doctor broke off near Alx. The car was traveling at a rapid rate and the wheel ran off into a field but the car was stopped without further injury. James Willis went after, the car and brought it to town. Tuesday was a fine day for touring but the temperature sank several degrees that night and autoists with thin clothing and thin coats suffered a great deal on the trip. Many of the ladies were chilled through and through and stopped off in Rensselaer to warm up. Tuesday afternoon’s hard rain drenched a number of the tourists. Steam and electric roads running into Indianapolis will take great throngs to the races, many of the roads running excursion trains. According to the Indianapolis Star all the seats are not sold by a good deal, and it is probabls that seats can be procured right up to the hour of the races. Governor Marshall has shown his generosity by permitting a prize figiit to take place in Indianapolis. The American association ball park has been turned into an arena and Ray Bronson and “Packy” McFarland will fight it out tonight. The governor has made a great bluff in shutting off fights at Gary and Hammond, but he keeps “hands off” in Indianapolis, where Tom Taggart, the real democratic leader in Indiana, runs things to suit himself. The „ cars 1 returning will pass through here Friday and Saturday. Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, in company with James Quinn, a Chicago politician, and Aiderman Kenna (Hinky Dink) stopped here today, on their way to Indianapolis, to fill their gas and oil tanks. Evidently everything was tied or nailed down when Hinkey Dink went through for after a thorough search there was nothing found missing. Among the other notables that went through this morning were Paul Armstrong, the noted author and playwright, and P. J. Schaefer, a millionaire stockholder in nineteen Chicago theatres. Boys who have been holding out' at the'gasoline stations, enjoying the automobile procession, were able to give us the names of fifty different kinds es- automobiles that - passed, through Rensselaer. The following kind were seen: American, Alco, Apperson, Buick, Case; Chadwick, Columbia, ChalmersDetroit, Daimler, Diamond T, E. M. F., Falcar, Fiat, Flanders, Ford, Hupmobile, Franklin, Haynes, Kisselkar, Knox, Lambert, Lozier, Locomobile, Marion, Marmon, Mercedes, Maxwell, Mitchell,' McFarlan, Mathewson, Moline, Packard, National, Oakland, Oldsmobile, Overland, Paige-Detroit, PierceArrow, Premier, Reo, Regal, Rambler, Speedwell, t Stoddard-Dayton, Stutz, Studebaker, Stearns, Winton and White.