In its issue of Wednesday, May 31,
the Daily Times-Index, published at
San Bernardino, California, con
tained the following interview with
Fred Linde, the well-known; local
jeweler, who together with P. A.
Wutke is making a visit to a number
of the principal cities of the country:
" 'I never saw a country, grow like
this,' said Fred Linde, a Louisiana
man who lived in Los Angeles seven
teen years ago, 'and I have seen quite
a little of the big United States too.'
"Mr. Linde, who is now engaged in
business as a jeweler in Donaldson
ville, Louisiana, was accompanied by
Paul Wutke, also from Donaldsonville.
They had been spending a few days
in southern California, on their way
to New York, Mr. Linde's native state,
and had come to San Bernardino to
see an old friend from the state in
which they now make their home.
"'I'll tell you what,' went on Mr.
Linde, 'if Los Angeles keeps growing
for the next seventeen years as she has
been doing since I left California, she
will be a solid city to the sea. Say,
when I was here there were only two
jewelers in Los Angeles, and I was
one of them.'
" 'Think of how much you would be
worth if you had remained,' observed
a lady to whom he was speaking.
" 'Wouldn't be worth a bit more than
I am now,' replied the Louisiana man.
