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Entrance to Brown's Vineyard.
many of his works will bear witness. Besides building the big Crescent Hotel, to use an expression of one of his friends “he built nearly half the town.” He has just completed a row of beautiful Queen Anne Cottages, which are located near the Louisvilleand Nashville Railroad. These have been erected for the use of summer residents and if there had been five timt s as many built, they could readily have been sold or rented. Among other prominent buildings erected by Mr. Ray, are summer residence of Mr. C. A. Wors-, the store of Mr. Yennl and the large grocery of L. M. Oex. He has also built dozens of cottages in the center of the town. Mr. Ray it the only undertaker in Bay St. Louis and is often sent for from the surrounding country to take charge of funeral arrangements.
A veritable garden spot of beauty is the Vineyard located in Bay St. Louis on the borders of the piney woods, and is owned by Mr. F. W. Brown. At this vineyard,
Mr. Brown has planted almost exclusively the famous Scuppernong Grapes and the estate covers ninety acres of the finest land in this section of the country, so that it was well worth the drive we had to take to get there. Tho vineyard was started] about thirty-five years ago and Mr. Brown bought it shortly after the first vines were planted. Since that time, over thirty years ago, Mr. Brown has from year to j ear, enlarged and improved upon his vineyard, until at this writing
he has over fifteen acres of good bearing grape vines. From this as a usual thing he makes fifty barrels of wine, which is celebrated for miles around the country side, as the famous Scupparnong Chain-pagno.
Being within a pleasant drive of Bay St. Louis, Waveland, Ulmanville, and Nicholson Avenue, it is a great resort for the society people, who are summering along the Gulf Coast and many are the
pleasant parties and dances which take place in the large hall and dancing pavillion of the house. Not the least pleasant part of a trip to Mr. Brown’s Vineyard, is the long covered grape arbor, which extends for several rods in a straight line back of the house and runs to a summer house at the extreme end of the vineyard. This is laid out with seats and tables for the accomodation af pic-nic parties, who come to the Brown estate to enjoy themselves.
Mr. Brown having been in the business so many years, has everything in the way of machinery pertaining to successful wine making, and also has a wine cellar in one of the buildings on the estate, in which at the present writing there is stored several thousand dollars worth of this wine.
Scuppernong Champagne is celebrated all over Mississippi, Louisiana and all the surrounding country for its medical qualities and orders come to him every day for his celebrated goods, 60me people sending from Chicago, New York and other Northern and Eastern cities. It is claimed for this wine that it is not only a cure, but also a preventative for many of the sicknesses that flesh	is	heir	too.	The writer	having partaken of some of this wine, can
vouch for	its	excellence.	Mr.	F.	W. Brown and his wife are both getting along
in years, each having nearly reached the three score and ten mark, so that he
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Birds Eve View of brown’s Vineyard, Over the Arbor.
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