The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-20
OUR LAKE SHORE.

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suggesting to our citizens the propriety OF
spending what time and money they had to
spare this summer at resorts near their homes,
and by go doing encourage the improvement
Of our home watering places and keep within
our own borders the large amount Of money
annually taken away to other sections of the
country.
The landlords and proprietors Of these re-
sorts have, however, an almost imperative
duty to perform. II they would induce oul
people to stay near home during the long,
dull summer months. they must provide such
attractions as will make it question with
sojourners as to whether better accommoda-
tons, or more enticing pleasures can be found
at Northern watering places, than are pro.
vided for them at home.
Proprietors should not expect to accumu-
should endeavor to make their places as
pleasant and attractive as possible, by each
year adding some new feature of interest;
and although at first they might barely clear
expenses, still they would be laying up store
of future wealth, besides adding to the advan-
tages of residence in our beautiful South.
land.
Our Lake shore offers natural attractions
not surpassed by any sea shore in the country.
Easy of access, it provides for our citizens
healthful summer homes sufficiently distant
from the city to avoid its heat and turmoil,
and yet near enous h to reach it in few hours
in case of sudden call home on account Of
business or other imperative needs. A spirit
of energy and enterprise is all that is needed
to make of our Lake shore formidable rival
to the springs of Virginia, or the much.
Wanted Northern summer resorts, at least to
Southern people.
Scheme after scheme has been devised to
add to the already great attractions of oul
places ''across the Lake," but in very few
instances have they been carried out. Some
of our weather. citizens have erected beau.i.
grounds at the different points along the
shore, but the number has been SO small that
they have, in many instances, soon become
wearied of we'll doing, seeing that their
neighbors have failed to follow an example SO
worthy of imitation; and we know of in
stances where, despairing Of any i'm
provement, parties have given it up as hope
less; and leaving their places in the care Of
servants, have gone to distant resorts in pref
erence. Good long drives, comm odioas and
comfortable hotels, the attractions of music
and the dance, added to the pleasures Of
yachting bathing and fishing, all under
proper arrangement and on larger scale
than at present adopted, would soon attract
greatly increased patronage, and conse-
quent material benefit to the exchequer of
proprietors.
Projectors and visitors have their proper
duties and rights, and both should look well
to the proper performance Of the one, whilst
they have reason to expect the enjoyment of
the other. Let all parties concerned con-
slider well their interests, and we are sure that
mature reflection will result in SO great an
improvement that ere many seasons the sum-
mer resorts OF distant States will possess but
few, if any, attractions superior to those to be
found within almost q stones throw of our
own homes.