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of an old street car with its dummy engine, and of a modern bus are used to show two stages in the solution of the city’s transportation problem. The crossed torch borders which are found predominant throughout the book, and the torch design on the cover are decorative interpretations of the torches which dotted the city’s streets in the busy days of the boom. The fly leaves show six stages in the development of Muncie from the Indian village of Munseytown to a thriving city of about 52,000 people. In the first stage, the white man in his covered wagon invades the village. In the second stage, after settlements were made, transportation by railroad is shown, with a station in a hollow tree trunk. In the scene at the time of the gas boom the countryside is dotted with derricks and tanks. The next phase, which deals with education, shows an old time Hoosier school house. The modern city on the horseshoe bend of White River is the scene of the fifth stage, while the sixth scene is a visionary image of the future Muncie. All of the art work in the book has been based on the general theme of progress. We wish to express our thanks for suggestions, for pictures, and for the use of valuable books: to Miss Gertrude Schwab of the Muncie Public Library, to Mr. Tate Wilson, a dealer in antiques, to Mr. Frank Claypool, who was the president of Muncie’s first Commercial Club, and to the school board of the city of Muncie.
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FOREWORD (j 7HE name of our book, THE MAGICIAN, alludes not to J the Hindu charmer, the gypsy conjurer, or the American slight-of-hand performer, but to the literary exemplification of Muncie’s magic growth overnight, and of her development from those hectic gas boom days to the present time. We have given our efforts to the completion of a pictorial history which we hope will prove a lasting memoir of the city and of Central High. Throughout the book we have attempted to show a definite relationship between the old and the new, as one may observe on the division pages. The first of these, heading the section called The School,” portrays the old and new high school buildings. The division page for the administration section shows the old and new court houses, symbolizing administration. Since the teachers are the guiding influences of the school we have chosen for their section the old and new city halls where the leaders of our city have their offices. Considering libraries, like classes, to be organizations for the improvement of the mind, we have placed at the beginning of the section for classes, pictures of the old library, which was only a room in the old city hall, and of the new library, which is one of the city’s most attractive buildings. The postoffices, the ideal of organization, we present to you on the organization’s division page. Pictures of the old and new gymnasiums head the athletic section. The old gymnasium is located in the west wing of our high school building. For features, pictures
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