Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1909 — THE AUTOMOBILE RACES. [ARTICLE]

THE AUTOMOBILE RACES.

H. H. Wheeler attended a meeting of the officials of the Chicago Automobile Club and the traffic managers of the Panhandle and Monon railroads at Chicago Tuesday when arrangements for transporting the crowds of people that will want to view the races here in June were completed. The Chicago Tribune on Wednesday morning said that western railroads are making preparations to transport from 250,000 to 500,000 people to Crown Point to watch the running of the two road races of the Chicago Automobile club set for June 18 and 19. This probably is the greatest transportation problem the western roads have sb yet tackled, but a conference held yesterday seems to have partly settled the problem. Planß are being fnade by the Pennsylvania to transport 5,000 people an hour to the races. The first train will start at midnight and will be made up of ten cars. A like train will be run thereafter every twenty minutes up to 8 o’clock in the morning. The Monon will put its entire big picnic equipment into servioe for i the occasion and in addition will rent 200 passenger cars from the Eastern Illinois.—Crown Point Register. 4