Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1909 — Many Automobiles Passed Through Here Wednesday. [ARTICLE]

Many Automobiles Passed Through Here Wednesday.

More than 200 motorists from Chicago passed through here Wednesday on the way to the races at Indianapolis. They came from the Windy City ’in fifty-five machines. The pathfinders arrived early in the morning after blazing the trail with one hundred pounds of white and pink confetti. Charles P. Root and Frank Trego were the pathmakers and rode in a big National machine. The followers rolled in all forenoon and reached Indianapolis along toward evening. Luncheon was taken at Lafayette. The pathfinders left Chicago at 4 o’clock and the Trail of honking followers left two hours later.

The tour passed through Hammond. 21 miles; Crown Point, 44 mile.-,; Orchard Grove, 55 miles; Shelby, 00 miles; Thayer, 63 miles; Virgin, 76 miles; Aix, 83 miles; Rensselaer, 90 miles; Remington, 102 miles; Wolcott, 107% miles; Montmoreuci, 12S miles, to Lafayette, 135 miles, wheie a stop was made for luncheon. Then the trail continued through Dayton, 143% miles; Mulberry, 149% miles; Jefferson, 157% miles; Frank f ort, I ill miles; Kirklin, 171% miles, to IndianapoliSu 202% miles.