The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1882-09-15
WINTER RESORTS.
Advantages Possessed BY the
Mississippi Seacoast as q
Winter Resort-Fishing,
Hunting, Etc.
New Orleans Times Democrat.

New Orleans llmes-Democrat.
Yesterdays cold wind gives
warning that winter is close upon
US. IL is time TO air the blankets
aud to make arrangements with
your coal merchant. Should this
chilly and invigorating wind blow
but u few days longer, We may ex-
pect To see upon our streets once
more our summer wan,lerers,,lrive
from the airy seaside and the frosty
mountain by old Boreas' blasts.
Our watering place season is
nearly over. The hotel proprietor
is counting over his gains and
loses of the summer, aud dcnoun.
cling the arrangement by which
his year is only three or foW
months long.
Y 1t has always struck us rs an alb
surdity that fhoae pretty little su b.
urban towns frinsing Mississippi
Sound, Hay st. Louis, Pass Christian,
Mississippi City, Biloxi aud Ocean
Springs, should close their hotels
and lock up their cottages and tall
to sleep at the first whisper Of cold
weather. They are far better win
ter than summer resorts, and their
best seasou should begin with Oc-
tober. And so it would be with a
little enterprise, u lit'le advertise.
mcnt of these places, the finest
winter resorts iii the country.
Look at Florida, which winters
some $4,000 rich Northerners, aud
fills its pockets with New England
gold; and compare it with these
coast towns. The latter have
everything in. their t,vor. Who
would compare the drcary, monot.
onous dead level of the Florida
swamps with the rolling lands ".
ing just back of our watering
places; aud as for climate, our
gulf coast Is far ahea,l of the land
of flowers, for 1t is famed by the
warm breczes of the gulf, instead
OF by the more chilling, tenpestu.
ous blasts nursstl by the grim At.
lantic; and nowhere in the world Is
air purer than here, with the gull
warming it on one side, aud hun
dred miles of pine forest purifying
it aud lending 1t u rich and healthy
fragrance on the other.
SO much for health. As lar as
comfort, amusements aud Enjoy.
ments are concerned, our Sound
watering places have every ,dvan.
tage over their more eastern rival.
There are no better places f,r hunt.
ing, sailing, rowing, fishing and all
such outdoor sports, anf all the
time you are within twoor three
hours Of the largest Southern city,
famous for its wiuter spd'ts, frsti.
vities, balls aud paratles.All along
the coast duck and sniWarc abun.
dant throughout the wnter, and
just back Vt the coast towns, In
perhaps as beautiful IS Arcadian
snd is primitive n courfry Ms any
In the Union, richly wooded, with
pure pebbIy streams, rassy bills
and ali the grandeur ofiature. the
finest deer hunting is 0 be found
east Of the Mississippi with bears
and large game shouldyou prefer
still more exciting spoE The fish
ing it is true, has fann Of here
since the Bonnet Cam crevassc,
but with reddish, poapano aud
Spanish mackerel in Abundance,
not to mention trout, ,sheephead,
ETC., what more can pu ask for I
As Tor sailing aud rowig, a glance.
at the map will shovthc advan-
tsges the Sound possesses, protect
ed from the storms oflhe gulf by
the fringe of islands, Cat, Horn,
Ship and others, whic leaves be.
tween them and the cost, u stretch
of water as. safe as iharbor from
the blasts and danger of winter.
Nor will the siuterganderer 6nd
in this county tho uncomfortable
log cabin swill NEE with in many
portionsof Florida. This is coun.
try tvd centuries i'd, aud which
has 'een improved Or years by the
rici men Of this dty and which
oasts Of as comfortable and as
pretty residences is New Orleans
itself.