The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-04-04
OCEAN SPRINGS.
Early History and Present Coalition Of
This Delightful Summer and Winter
Resort on the Gulf Coast Of MIS-
SIsslppl.

Correspondence of the N. o, Picayune.
About the year 1850 a small
| group Of medical experts from New
Orleans visited the then town oi
Lynchburg on the coast of the
Mississippi tound, to analyze and
report upon the curative properties
of certain springs discovered to
exist there and in the vicinage, the
reputation of which had spread
abroad through many visitors who
flocked to the different seashore
watering places Of the coast during
the summer months to recuperale
IN strength and health, and who
had chosen to soJourn there.
In the party were DR.. Warren
Stone, the grand old Esculapian,
whose record in the memories OF
those of his time who survive him
is one Of revered and honored bril-
liancy; DR.. w. q. Austin, the pa
triolic and respected septuagena-
rian, whose professional career Of
nearly half century in the Cres-
cent City has been appreciated
throughout, and who is at present
by appointment of The Governor
of Louisiana the very responsible
and efficient quarantine physician
stationed at Port Eads Prof. j.
Lawrence Smith and Bishop Nc
Tyeire.
Quite a large assemblage stood
around selected spot where clear
water gushed forth from numerous
springs, and DR.. Stone made a
short address, in which, as succinct-
ly as can be reproduced, he re-
marked that in The background
and The drains of The filtered fluid
of a continent seeking the level of
the sea disclosed temporary ioun-
talns of youth, the perpetual OF
which the intrepid Ponce DE Leon
failed TO find. Bishop McTyeire,
with outstretched hands in his
blessing, one pointing to the
springs and the other TO the sea,
in a striking peroration said,
Ocean-Spriugs, and such ever af-
forwards has been their name.
The place became a favOrite re.
sort in the days Of Southern afllu-
ence for healthy recuperation and
consequent enjoyment, the nu-
merous proofs of which are to be
seen croWning the high bluffs along
the gulf front and facing the beach
of Biloxi Bay, each proprietor hav-
ing his separate hill, as it were, the
natural drains from the many
springs in the rear having cut
seams at short distances apart as
exits TO the sea, thereby establish
my convenient dividing lines. Such
typical Southern homes as those of
Mr.. w. B. Schmidt, Ambrose A.
Maginnis, Mrs. K. j. Maginnis,
DIR. w. G. Austin, Noah Longshore,
f. Beltram, Mrs. James d. Ed
wards, on The western half; Mr.
Thos Friar, Duncan Sinclair, Rey. |
Charles f. Evans, j. Feilig, Sllas !
Weeks, Newcomb CLARK, Rev w.
9. West, d. w. HalStead, VIM. |
Howard and Col. j. NJ. Hollings-
worth, on the eastern; Bishop j.
G. Keener and Rev. }. B. Walker,
on opposite sides Of the Louisville |
& Nashville track, where the rail
road bridge across Biloxi Bay be-
gins ; the pleasant retreats Of Capt.
John Thorn, Parker Earle, NJ q.
Tracy (the renowned painter of
auimals), Mrs. A. A. Staples, Capt.
June Polteveni, George ID. lttman,
@. Heniard, +. p. Parkinson, Ii. @.
Mendenhall, w. I. Tebo and Col.
A. ID. Sheldon, formerly of Troy,
N. Y, who is having built a fine
and very many comfort
able abodes, III the central portions
of the town.
"True merit finds its reward" as
is being evinced in a returning APP,
probation of this beautiful and IA
vored spot of nature, with its mag
old live oaks, whose limbs
aud branches spread in some in
stances over shaded surfaces of 100
feet in diameter, its lofty pines, its
gardens Of flowers and orchards of
fruit trees and other advantages,
which have been brought to notice
by the endeavOrs of Col. w. Il
Stuart, stock raiser and importer
of Jersey cattle, Col. William r.
Sigerson, the we'll known horticul-
lurist; Mayor I. NJ. Weed, the ac.
and affable agent OF
the Louisville d Nashville Rail
road; Major II. A. Vancleaye, pro-
prietor of the Vancleave Hotel,
and Mr.. +. Frye, of the Ocean
Springs Hotel. In no other MIS-
siSsippi Sound resort can more
strangers be found, particularly /
from the Western States, who hav-
ing once tried here, ii they do /
not purchase properly and perma-
nenily remain, like Monsieur Ton
son in the play, come back again
with others 70 live through and en-
JOY The winter months OF the year.
This Is as II should be-we 20
west and north in summer for the
change and they come south in
but the former DO not offer
the double advantage Of recreation
and comfort at all times, while We
unhesiiatincly clam both.
Ocean Springs is modest IN us
rrelensions as a Business center, J