PILGRIM FATHERS OF TO-DAY. 



PIONEERING IN A PULLMAN SPECIAL. 



These modern colonists proposed to seek homes at a distance of 

 more than three thousand miles from where they formerly lived, and yet 

 they did not look forward to the journey with anything like dread. 

 The colonist of a generation ago made fifteen or twenty miles a day in 

 his prairie schooner. Days ran into weeks and, frequently, weeks into 

 months before he finally found anchorage for his ship of the plains. 

 These latter-day colonists had but four days and nights between them 

 and their destination, though many States were to be crossed and the 

 boundary of a foreign country paralleled for a long distance. Instead 

 of a covered wagon they embarked in Pullman sleeping cars, which 

 offered every modern convenience known to the most luxurious home. 

 The sleepers "Netz" and " Ophir " and the elegant dining car "Occi- 

 dental" comprised the special train in which the third excursion of tbe 

 Lake View Land Company set out for the most delightful corner in all 

 Arid America Southern California. 



The head of the party was the captain of many such expeditions, 

 Mr. Frank E. Brown, who made his reputation as the father of Redlands, 

 the most beautiful and successful of all the orange colonies in the para- 

 dise of the far Southwest. There is a certain indefinable fellowship 

 between the parties to such an expedition as this, who are leaving estab- 

 lished communities in the East to make their homes together in a new 



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IRRIGATING AN ORANGE NURSERY. 



