The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1881-12-30

NSuSo % O2ssAaA Appreciation.
The following communication
from well known gentleman of
Bay ST. Louis to tho New Orleans
Times DemOcrat will be read With
interest by our people.
Bay st. Loais, hiss, Jan 5. lss2.
a bright and beautiful but very
cold day ushered III the new year,
1882, at Bay st. Louis II finds our
people more prosperous aud happy
than any New Years day in more
than 20 years past. Money is
plentiful, and Christmas cheer is
abundant. We are GU the boom
upward and forward, and con.
sequently happy. Our proximity
to New Orleans ID giving us great
advantages aud infusIng animation
iuto every industry. Everybody is
busy, wages are good, and though
the cost Of oil articles OF food Is
higher, nobody seems to care or to
sufer on that account. Especially
are We profting by the demand for
lumber and bridge timber for the
New Orleans and Northeastern
railroad.
The woods are full OF wood chop.
pers, and teams cutting aud hual-
ing railroad piles for tho great
bridge over Lake POutchartrain.
Any sort of man who has average
muscle or can drive an ox-team can
make 81 Il day or upward, aud u
man, team aud log-cart gets Sl2
IA day.
A GREAT AND VISIBLE CHANGE
hvs come over the Bay. Not long
ago it was iull of idlers and loafers
lounging about the saloons cnr0us.
lively, and soaking whiskey. But
now tho saloons are silent and do.
serted. The loafcrs have departed,
some to drunkard's graves aud the
others to work. Ii is very difficult
now to 1nd u mechanic or laborer
who Ia not full OF work.
Hancock county is the only sea
coast county that will receive any
benefit from the great Northeastern
road but it will empty corancopio
upon this county.
A very active demand for land has
sprung up all over the county,
and land litigation Is becoming
lively.
Speaking of bridge timber re-
minds me that it was a Bay st
Louis man (Putnam) who discov
cred and demonstrated by expert
ments the best preseryative ol
submerged timber, to wit, creosote,
and it was a Bay st. Louis man
| (my own self who gave the pro
duct short and convenient de-
scription, to wit, creosoted um'
Der.
The most sagaoious citizens OF
Bay ST. Louis are sanguine aud
jubilant in contemplation OF It's
iuturo. They ioresee that New
Orleans, like all great cities, must
build up prosperous suburban cities
aud towns, and Bay st. Louis il
the nearest, the most bealthtul'
One of these sagacious aud progress
sive citizens is A. A. Ulman, who
has tho means, the nerve and the
heart to undertake and to consu
mate great enterprises for the pub
| lie good. He has made Ulman'
vile hive Of industry, and a
focus of activity aud of trade
lie employs aud feeds hundreds
of people, reclaiming and saving
many from vice aud idleness by
furnishing them opportunities and
Incentives to honest industry, while
be sets them the axample OF work
lug himself ii hours day, troms-
a. u. until 0Io'clock at night. Where
is there another Southern man, rlcl
enough 10 live in Idle luxury, who
can show forth such an example
On Christmas eve he had six large
fat beeves slaughtered and gave
them away to his employees, Gus
toners and the poor, and tho mex
day he distributed 1900 loaves o
bread. In recognition of his puo
lie spirit aud generosity ana o
their obligations to him rs u pup
lie benofactor, hundreds OF peopl'
joined in
, A SPONTANEOUS MOVEMENT ON NEW
YEARS EVE