South Bend World Famed Classic Reprint

Excerpt from South Bend, World Famed During the recent depression of business, South Bend was the most prosperous City in the United States. The City has always been noted for the stability of its industries. Its ideal location on the greatest railroad in the world and on other great railroads, its situation close to all the markets for raw materials, and its place at the center of distribution in the United States insure for the City a marvelous growth in the future. A truly great period of expan sion lies before the City, and to meet this the municipal government will be confronted with many difficult problems. Among the most important works to be undertaken bythe. City in the next few years will be the build ing of new water pumping stations, new fire stations, new schools, a new City Building, new fire and police alarm systems, the elevation of the tracks of the New York Central Railway, the removal of the Grand Trunk Western Rail way from Division Street, the building of the boulevard paralleling the St. Joseph River, the development of park lands and City Plan ning. South Bend is committed to a progressive policy of meeting all the situations demanded of a City great in industry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.