Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1903 — They "Anto" Come. [ARTICLE]

They "Anto" Come.

And They Did Come After a While but Not In Droves. If yon want a orowd in town all yon have to do is to advertise something attractive, and pnt yonr adv. in The Republican. This was dearly illustrated Friday by the keen interest exhibited in the coming of the Automobiles. Notwithstanding the fact that they were not to pass here before noon yet as early as nine o’clook the orowd began to assemble at the court house square and kept their places until 3 p. m., when the first automobile passed through town. Many persons evidently went without their dinners for fear that the *‘prooession” would get through town without tjieir seeing it. But they did come, at least some of them did, and when they oame great was the excitement manifested. The orowd dosed around them and it was with difficulty chat the operators were able to get out of their machines or get around them. Of oourse the number of maohiues shrunk some before they readied Rensselaer, and only four were in evidenoe. Four others started with the party from Chicago but for some reason had to return. The automobiles did not tarry long at this plaoe, only long enough for the party to get a lunoh at the restaurants and then pulled out for Lafayette. The three that got in first had been retarded by a series of mishaps that occurred to the fourth and none of them got in until three o’clock The fourth machine came in about a half hour later. The party ate supper in Lafayette. The first three machines were models of eleganoe and convenience and were well equipped for an outing. They were 16, 20, 25 horse power, respectively, and the operator of one of the maohines said there was not a mile of road that they had traversed between here and Chioago that he oould not run over at full speed of bis maohine, something like 25 miles an hour. From here the party went to Remington and then to Lafayette and Indianapolis.