Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1909 — BLERIOT IS READY TO RACE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BLERIOT IS READY TO RACE

Would Meet Either of the Wright* In $25,000 Contest. Paris, July 30. —Louis Bleriot, the French aviator, appeared greatly pleased when Informed that the of-

flcials of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition had offered a purse of $25,000 for an aeroplane race between him and the Wright brothers. He said: “You can say that if either of the Wright brothers challenges me under the Seattle conditions I shall immediately accept.” .

LOUIS BLERIOT.