South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-10-10
LOCAL PAGEANT
BEST IN STATE
Henry B. Roney Praises Those
Who Took Part in the
South Bend Event.
by Henry B. ROney.
pageant DIRECTORY

Mishawaka, 1 beg the privilege Of
addressing few words TO the
chorus, cast ana cItizens-the three
Cs who have made the pageant the
success il was Pageant matters
may now be ancient history from
the live editors point of view. but
the memory of its splendors can
never die, and will be a delightful
thought in retrospection for many
long years.
/ have now Witnessed five of the
principal pagesnts in the state and
studied every feature. They were
each the elimination Of long months
OF devoted work, each largely diff
ferent; each wonderfully creditable;
each put on with remarkable fidelity
and history, and bespoke a civic
pride and large heartedness never
before manifested in the state in
equal degree. but / feel it due 10
the participants and 10 the business
men who furnished the 'sinews Of
war, TO say that in the many power
full scenes and episodes of the South
Bend pageant. viz. The pathetic
passing Of Father Marquette in his
last illness, with the great band like
a mighty organ interpreting the sor-
rows of his soul in Massenet's An
gelus": the Indian fight with their
overwhelming numbers 10 the music
OF Clusters Last Charges; the end
less camp fires and tepees of the
Indian villages; the gorgeOusness and
beaded and bespangled chiefs of the
different tribes; the heartbreaking
departure in seemingly countless
numbers Of the soldier-driven Pot
tawatomies, a scene of aboriginal
tribal splendor never before seen, i
believe. in. this country; the pictur-
esque arrival of LaSalle in his fleet
of real canoes on real water, the
thrilling run of Jean BeaudOin and
his tragic death in his sweetheart 5
arms: the long rar-hung columns of
children, literally thousands of them,
stretching away in the dim light
until their further lines were lost
beyond the reach of the searchligh hts,
then their forward sweep clad in our
nations tri-color massing in bril-
liant cOnverging rays around the
star spangled are of blue, the nag
nificent Pullman band and the Won
derful electric hghting-these fea-
lures unquestionably have never
been equalled in the state, and
fully believe. in our entire country
There were twice as many partic-
ipants massed i'm our closing tableau
alone as have appeared in any other
pageant
Credit - Due.
And il is because in the vastness
of the enterprise credit has been
Bend workers, that L want TO dis
associate myself from the pageant
long enough TO say that Mrs Lam
ports great talent and long and ef-
iCient work has never been under
stood nor appreciated; that much
I the greater need of praise belongs
TO Mr. Barnes and his splendid as
sistants, Mr.. Hamilton and Mr.. Len
Than; that il was Mr. Barnes mas
terly generalship that marshaled
that army of children into position
for the sunburst; that it was Father
ODonnell of Notre Dame VINO di-
rected the work OF the electricons
and the wonderful splot lights and
/ searchlights from the long bridge
/ built on the top Of the grandStand.
/ And how could we have put on
/ the pageant at all without first OF
all, the superb cooperation Of the
Of is b
/ awake: the men of Notre Dame: the
I Canoe club; the Sons of Veterans;
\ the DIST Indiana battery, the boys
/ and girls of the Mishawaka High
/ school who overcome their difference
and ineXperience so splendidly after
/ the first night and played their parts
like veterans. Ike HutChins old.
/ time fremen. and Clinton b. Steph-
/ enson's pioneers, Frank Jeffries' Re
bekahs, Mrs. Applegates origina
/ Women's club. Mr. Travers Stude-
\ baker club. Commander Horace Mar
I tins and f. A. Stephenson's old sol.
l diers. the COquillard Parent-Teach-
! eT s association. the Woman's Civic
/ league, Mr.. Koos' melodious John.
I ny Appleseed" Miss Goodman.
\ splendid pageant of nations and ma
tional dances. Capt. Hitler and hi.
soldierly CADETS from Culver. and
indeed where shall 1 Stop? / am be-
wildered when 1 think Of the enor
nous number of participants anC
the utter impossibility Of remembe
Ing them all, but I simply canno
overlook the cooperation Of Mis-.
/ Harmon. Miss Terry and the man,
other teachers i'm both parochial anC
public schools who helped so greatly
And the princely generosity OF tn,
/ Northern Indiana Railway Co anC
/ George Beitner's army OF big-heart
ed truck owners and their kind
hearted chauffeurs who carried
those thousands of little ones 10 anC
from the park free and without al
accident What volumes il speak.
for the tender care given them b,
the car conductors. motormen anC
truck drivers.
Papers Are Great Help.
But after all is said and done. IN,
very greatest contributors 20 IN,
success of the pageant are the tw,
papers. The News-Times and IN,
Tribune Never have / known news
papers 10 be SO lavish in giving fire,
! space 10 local enterprise. Thr