Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1916 — A PLUCKY WOMAN DRIVER IN TOWN [ARTICLE]

A PLUCKY WOMAN DRIVER IN TOWN

Claire Rochester at the Wheel of the CWat to Coast Roadaplane— In Accident Monday. Claire Rochester, a professional singer, who has gained a great deal of newspaper publicity as the driver of the car in the New Y’ork World Roadaplane Tour to illuminate the Statue of Liberty in New Yoik Harbor by popular subscription, passed through this city Tuesday and her car attracted much attention. She was accompanied by her husband and they were both suffering from injuries received Monday when she was forced to drive her car into a ditch on the Jackson highway at Highlands, Ind., to avoid being hit by a train at a grade crossing. Their car was pretty badly smashed but had been repaired. They left New York for San Francisco in the car she j now driving on June 27, and crossed the continent in a little over eleven days. During the trip west Miss 'Rochester slept in the car and also had her meals served at the wheel. She has been drivii% five years and the accident Monday was the first of her career.

Miss Mary Sprague came yesterday from Bridgeton, Ind., to visit her brother, Ralph Sprague and family for a week or more. *