The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1894-04-14
BAY ST. LOUIS.
A Short sketch OF that Most Delightful
Resort ON the Gulf Coast.

Ahhericah traveller, published a.
Louisville, KY, contains an excel
lent article on the subject. Below
is given an extract from it.
"When the }ittle settlement grew
into a.town it was called after an Of.
ficer of the United States Army,
Sheldsboro, name winch il bore
until recent Yeas, when it was re-
chartered under the name of Bay St.
Louis. 1t was an appropriate step
to get backto French name though
to save the necessity of such awk.
ward conversational distinctions as
The town Of Bay st. Louis and the
bay ofBay st. Louis, 1t might have
been more convenient, at least, TO
have honored some OF the men who
made history here nearly two. centu-
ries ago in naming it.
The present town of Bay ST. Louis
is practically city. 1t has, with
its modern suburb Of Ulmanville, a
summer population of between seven
and eight thousand; and lis winter
inhabitants number between three
and four thousand. 1t is provided
with a fine depot and railroad office
by the Louisville and Nashville r..
r. Company, over whose line it is
only fifty miles from New Orleans,
and ninety from MOBILE.
The refined Creole population Of
the Crescent City regard Bay St.
Louis with great favor, and respond
to the exceptional compliment paid
to one Of the greatest of their illus
trious line Of princes in its naming
by literally patronizing the resort.
Many of the families residing there
themselves bear the historic names
Of men who have figured conspicuous
ly in the colonization of this portion
OF Mississippi and all Of Louisiana.
1t is here that one can find citizens
as polished and polite as those that
frequent the fashionable boulevards
and clubs OF Paris and women as
beautiful only as Creole women are.
| Bay st. Louis, in the the summer
is little Paris within itself, or {
fashionable suburb Of that LESSEE
American Paris, the French part Of
New Orleans. Even in winter il has
a comparatively large Creole popula-
tion. Yet the Saxon race has sever
al thousand representatives IN town,
"The Bay" as the ADglo-Saxon
denizens are wont to call it, has
streets along its water frontage eight
or ten miles long, and magnificen,
shell. drives, extending, throughout
this distance. 1t is a compactly
built little city-as compactly as o
partiality for shade tees, shrubbery
flower gardens, and grassy lawns
arounds its beautiful villas and COO
cottages will permit. Its streets
near the sound and the Bay St. Louis
contain large numbers of handsome
private residences, and many exten
sive boarding houses. The largest
hotel In the town was burned to tn,
ground fourteen years ago. Their,
is talk Of replacing 1t by a muol
larger and more handsome edifice, Il
meet the demands of Northern win
ter travellers aad tourists.
Quite number of Northerner
spent large portion of last winte
in the town, and expressed higI
opinions Oft the attractions of this 10
cality as winter resort. Many O
! the fine summer boarding-houses ar
J kept open in the winter to accommo
date the hundreds of Northern peo
pie who have found, this such
pleasant. winter home. If all the va
cant rooms and residences. utilize,
in the accommodation of a surplu
,, population Of several thousand dur
, ing summer, we're available durin,
, the winter, the number of inhabi
. tants Of Bay st. Louis might be KEEP
, permanently between seven an
: eight thousand, They might b
easily made available as both sum
mer and winter visitors could fre
quent the place, and live at a yer,
low cost for rents, rooms and board
which would result from residences
boarding-houses and hotels being oc
! cupied and Aenjoylng full bushes
during twelve months of the year
The times Of the two classes of Wis
Z itors would harmonic. exactly. Th
excess Of summer population reside
here from the beginning Of June q
the middle of October. The North
ern tourists usually remain in th
u South from November 10 Nav. Thu