CALIFORNIA SHIPBUILDING.-THE BROWN FAMILY. 



enact a law that, to all vessels built and owned in this State, all ports and 

 harbors under control of the State shall be free. This would give the home 

 shipowner and shipbuilder a chance to help themselves and the State. With 

 an extension of our industries, new values are created in every direction. The 

 fostering of any productive industry by wise and helpful legislation must in- 

 evitably lead to the production of taxable property and thus increase the 

 public revenue. A great future is expected for the commerce of San Fran- 

 cisco, the port of California. Shipbuilding and shipowning will be necessary 

 factors to the realization of this future commercial prosperity. About 

 twenty-five thousand of our population are now dependent on the ship- 

 building industry of San Francisco. With all restrictions removed and the 

 right kind of fostering care applied, there is no reason why there should not 

 be one hundred thousand of our population, within the next ten years, di- 

 rectly supported by the shipbuilding industry of this port. 



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The Brown Family in California 



By JASON BROWN 

 CHAPTER THIRTEEN 

 ^ THE LANTERN SLIDE LECTURE AT KINNEY'S CORNERS. 



{POSE you've heard there's going to be a lantern slide lecture in 

 Kinney's Corners Wednesday evening," said our good neighbor, 

 Simpson, as he stopped his team at the gate and Ethel sprang, 

 rosy and blushing, to the ground. 



"Yes, indeed, I have," said I, "and we're all going." 

 "Good enough. These illustrated lectures on California are the 

 very thing. It's all right to go prospecting off to Asia Minor for an evening 

 or spending an hour or two looking at views of foreign lands, but when it 

 comes to seeing something too many people don't know much about, just 

 let me look at some California views. They're the finest in the land, and, by 

 the way, I was just telling Miss Ethel that I think she'd make the prettiest 

 picture in California." 



So it happened that on Wednesday evening eight of us crowded into 

 William Simpson's big three-seated rig. There was Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, 

 myself and Mrs. Brown, and Ethel and Robert and Walter and Willie, 

 still our baby at four years old. I don't know how much city people enjoy 

 their amusements, but I can hardly think they can get such genuine and 

 wholesome pleasure from them as we do from our simple recreations in the 

 country. When we get through with our fun we feel good, and when they 

 get through they have to work to get over it. 



It was early summer in our California home, though the month was but 

 March. The grass along the roadside was almost to a man's knees, and in 

 some places they had been cutting it. Some of the grain was headed out 

 and nodding in the moonlit fields. The breeze was warm and fragrant 

 with the breath of the growing things. As we rolled along toward Kinney's 

 Corners my wife and Mrs. Simpson struck up "Beulah Land." Will Simp- 

 son and I joined in, while Ethel's clear tones rang like her mother's when, 

 years ago, a great country lad, my steps had followed her's to the little New 

 England meeting house. 



The hall was packed. Everybody was anxious to hear Mr. Erwin, who, 

 as Special Commissioner of the State Publicity Committee of the California 

 Promotion Committee, has shown his wonderful views and talked about 

 California to people in the East. Before beginning the lecture Mr. Erwin told 

 us how eager people were to see these pictures in the East and that he 

 would shortly start on an extended journey through the United States 

 and would show many new pictures which he was now gathering throughout 

 California. 



