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horse was in the meantime undergoing new and 

 vigorous treatment which I hoped would permanently 

 cure him. 



Grand Central Hotel, 



South Bend, Indiana, 



Axigust Twenty -first. 



At ten o'clock I left Paw Paw, reached Decatur at 

 noon, registered at the Duncombe House and then 

 continued my journey by rail. I hardly realized that 

 I was out of Michigan in this town on the St. Joseph, 

 for the river belongs to the "Wolverines" with the 

 exception of the capricious South Bend, and the streets 

 have the breadth and abundance of shade that have 

 won so much admiration for the cities of Michigan. 

 It has, besides, the Hoosier enterprise, and began to 

 be an important manufacturing place fifteen years ago. 

 The first settlement began in 1831 with a handful of 

 houses and a population of a hundred souls. It has 

 now reached over 10,000. Prominent among the re- 

 sources to which its growth may be attributed is its 

 proximity to the hard-wood forests of Northern 

 Indiana and Michigan. 



These woods have proven a bonanza to South 

 Bend. Enterprising manufacturers have drawn from 

 their unfailing source; prominent among them being 

 the Studebaker Brothers, who have had an enviable 

 career. These enterprising men started in 1852 

 with a cash capital of sixty-eight dollars, and a 

 knowledge of blacksmithing which they had acquired 

 at their father^s forge on the Ohio. Thus equipped 



