South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-24
BY THOMAS E. HEALY.


We were the New York Central going west
far as Chicago for little weekend trip-whch
newspaper do In a while On right
three statesmen holding forth after the manner
their tribe.
Pretty place. South Bend" says one
Yes, it IS Seems lively and prosperous" says
No 2.
touch Of hnalty. After this the three sOOthsayers
turned their eyes the window and took a last tail
end view of the city in question.
My God, that" says my companion,
rabid South (for which he VIII probably live
and die and be buried in ST. Joe county,, listen
it-dsmissing with pretty and nice little
if it were a collection Of candy shops and free
movies"
That's all right" says l. they aren't 50 bad at
They mean well, anyway and they wouldn't have said
even much If they had stayed any longer than
days. And they didn't TO the Orpheum. for can
they're happy. Statesmen don't have time to take
in Chaplin st. the Auditorium the Magyar Hall
consteation-so what going to do about it?"
His Novel Novel.
know now what my companion going to do. He
has in mind a book 10 be the city by
himself. I'll disclose the title SO that you'll recog-
the production when II of the press.
The Rise and Growth of South Bend-A Tale OF
the Ages" 1t is to be novel-that is in novel form
(meaning novel suppose). The opening chapter be-
gins the corner Of the Hotel Oliver, where chef
gone daft hits high school boy the head with
ladle. He is about to hit the victim again
the Washington st. stops and iron beaten
divers jumps off and hits the chef behind the
left ear. (This brings industry-plow making).
the chef till the seventh chapter, when he viii
appear city mission which is also here.
Lots of Local Color
Then there are other characters which bring n
Studebakers and the Singer Sewing Machine Co.;
the courthouse, Jefferson hotel First Methodist church
watch factory, OBreins the police station all
the other buildings and places that make South Bend
all st. Joe county. The heroine OF the
book is not born in this city and this I tolC
young author, is a drawback. But he will have the
girl born Buda under the Of Estelna
Anna Dorothy Drggsk. She has five bloods in her
blue blood-and is temperamental to fault,
romantic passionate, quick, femnisc hard flexible,
soft. cruel sympathetic. proud weepy and damn dis
danful times, etc. etc. She loves South Bend and
lives there--otherwise she is all right
You the author tries develop the that the
city does good Estella, a real
South Bend dame This in the object Of the
book-to portray the growth Of the South Bend soul
well that of the buildings, streets and cigar
stands which encompass that soul. In Chapter So,
which begins the second book South Bend has grown
10 population OF 1862, the last two consisting OF
twins born to Estella, who married the high school
boy that hit in Chap. by the raving chef OF
the second book opens year 1896. which
makes 1t partly fuuristc novel-and the author IS
decidedly optimistic in pertaining to popula-
ton.
Helping Mr.. Oliver
Estee's husband becomes manager-in- chief OF the
Oliver Chilled Pillow Works in the year his
administration trebles output Of poughs to Hedjaz
and doubles the annual proudest posses
sion and coony-Yap. He has a monthly published
entitled South Bend zap" showing how this city
really, after long of neglect by the government
zap and hidden between the cocoanut
In return for the poughs South Bend receives