New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-07-11

Ocean Springs.

Eds. Crescent - Having read an editorial
article in the columns of one of our city dailes,
detractng from the character of the accommo-
dations at Ocean Springs, feel it my duty, as
friend to Mr.. Eyeritt, and as one who has en-
joyed his hospitality and witnessed his efforts to
accommodate all who have visited this new
watering place on the Lake shore, to give my
version Of matters and things, in order that the
public may have the benefit of both sides Of the
question.
In the first place the waters Of the mineral
spring at Lynchburg are universally admitted
to contain extraordinary medicinal virtues.
This fact can be readily attestei by all who
have been for any time in their use
In the second place, there is no point on the
Lake shore where a finer and more constant sea
breeze can be enjoyed nor better lt-bathing
had, than at Ocean Springs
In the third place, there is not at any hotel
nor on any steamboat in the South, a better
table set than at the Lynchburg Hotel. Ia
addition to the ordinary fine things of a table,
he furnishes his boarders for dinner and break
fast the finest quality of saltwater fish, pre-
pared in the most delicious manner, and any
quantity Of the most palatable oysters, fresh
from their native element, together with wines,
| dessert, etc.
In the fourth place, the visitor will find Mr.
Everitt and Mr. Brown, his gentlemanly clerk,
and all of the employees of the establishment,
mantesting an earnest desire to minister to his
comfort and pleasure in every possible manner
Everitts hotel is not as large as he would
like, but MS a general thing he has been able to
furnish comfortable quarters to all who have
visited him this season. 1t is true that on come
occasions he has been oyerrun by a large arri-
val on Sunday mornings, and temporarily un-
able to afford rooms to all who demanded them
but he is sureI fix things right before he ceases
his efforts or takes rest himself
Mr.. Everitt is well aware, and SO is the pub
lie that his hotel buildings are not as large as
the popularity Of the proprietor and the Springs
demand, but to say that the accommodations
are not good, is an Of fragrant injustice to
him.
In order that Ocean Springs may, as ii will
become one OF the finest watering places in the
world, Mr. Eyeritt has already designed mann
moth hotel, Immediately on the Lake Shore. to
be 500 feet in front, two stories high and the
rooms so arranged as to command view of the
Lake and back bay, and have full blast of the
sea bre &c. The site selected is one of the most
beautiful points the eye ever behell 1t is GU II
bluff some twenty -four feet above the sea, and
fronted by the most delightful, shady grove of
live oaks ever saw. | was informed that it Is
the identical spot where Bien.ille of historical
fame, erected his fort 1t is not far from the
mouth Of Fort Bayou, which makes out FROM the
back bay
When this magnificent building, which will
be brick, is once completed and we'll furnished
then Mr. Everitt will be able to discover to the
world his extraordinary qualities as hot
keeper Until then, can only say, that he I.
now to he found at Ocean Springs, able 10 Give
TO any reasonable number of people such accom-
modauons as are not surpassed at any watering
place III the Southern or Western countrv