Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1909 — LIKELY PASS THROUGH RENSSEAER [ARTICLE]

LIKELY PASS THROUGH RENSSEAER

More Than 100 Machines From Chicago to Start This Morning. Chicago, Aug. 17.—Indianapolis 4s to be the center of motoring activity this week, and thousands of (enthusiastic automobile owners and dealers are planning to visit the Indiana capital Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the three days set aside for the series of races on the Speedway. More than one hundred automobiles from Chicago will start on Wednesday morning to carry the Chicago motorists to Indianapolis in a body, the largest cavalcade of its kind ever assembled in this country. The start will be from the New Southern Hotel at 6 o’clock Wednesday morning, and arrangements have been made for luncheon at Lafayette, Ind. A seventeen-mile-an-hour time schedule has been agreed upon, which will get the tourists to Indianapolis in time for dinner at 7 o’clock. Thomas J. Hay, president of the Chicago Automobile Trade Association, heads the movement for a general tour to the Speedway race opening.