Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-01-14
LECTURE ILLUSTRATED BY EIGHT
STEREOPTICON VIEWS CAN BE
MADE THE VALLEY BEAUTIFUL
As SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

The first of a series Of lectures on hor-
ticultural and landscape decoration to
be given along the gulf coast. one of the
latest efforts of b. +. YOakum, in behalf
Of Frisco territory. will he heard in
Brownsville today The lecture will be
by DR.. VI. +. BrOadduS. official lecturer
for the Frisco lines. His talk will be
illustrated with eighty-five colOred ste
reOpticOn views. showing horticultural
scenes in California that. with proper
effort may be duplicated along the Gulf
'oast and in the Lower Rio Grande Val
ley. The lecture will be delivered in the
agricultural tent in the fair grounds at
! o'clock this afternoon.
The slides which DR.. Br0adduS will
show present views selected by him in
california. in the belief that the same re
suits achieved there could be achieved
lere. They are realistically cOlOredd
Every detail of the work necessary TO
lchieve the result shown in the views
will be brought out in the lecture
Dr. BroadduS is quite familiar with
he Lower Rio Grande Valley. its posi-
lilticS and its achievements. He was
lcrc first in October 1910. and the last
ime in June. 1911. He has been kept so
busy lccturing in New England. New
York. PENNSYLVANIA. Ohio. Michigan, In
diana. Illinois. Wisconsin. Minnesota.
md other northern states. largely on the
Rio Grande Valley. that he has not been
permitted to visit this section since that
time.
DR.. RroadduS il 4 native of Virginia
md MiSSOurianby adoption. He Is
4 graduate of the Louisville University.
After his graduation, he spent a year In
European countries. most of which time
he spent in studying agricultural and
social propositions. DIR. BroadduS is 4
man Of Taft-like proportions and bears
a remarkable resemblace to President
Taft He has many times been mistaken
for the nations chief executive, and
newspapers in various parts Of the
country have published photographs Of
him as the presidents double.
I'm an interview yesterday DR.. Broad
duS said:
II believe the Lower Rio Grande Val
lev. with One-half the money that South
crn California has spent, would Outshinc
that country. Our sell is richer. our eli
mate Just rs good. and we are fifteen
hundred miles nearer the markets
"Some of the most beautiful trees that
are natives Of the Atlantic coast are con
SpicuOuS by their absence i'll California.
You take for instance, the magnOllaS, the
cape icSSamneS. and the Olcander trees.
They are beautiful trees, and III the fact
that they are to be found on this coast
and not on the Pacific is 4 basis for tn"
supremacy in horticultural beauty that
NAV bc attained by this coast. In my
lecture | will undertake to show the peo-
Dle of this section what can be done
here a. well az in California.
THE Frisco railroad. DIR. BroadduS
concluded. lis doing more than any 9th
er railroad in the United States to in
form the public as to the soils. climates.
productivity. the markets, and the op-
nortmticS along their lines.
1t will be the purpose Of these lee
lures to show the people here the great
necessity Of their waking up to these
desirable conditions. The YOakum lines
sent DR.. BroadduS to California to
study and photograph floral cultivation
and landscape decoration. They recog-
nized the fOrccful effect Of actual pho
tographs in strengthening an argument.
It il Il well known fact that the growing