The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1898-01-15
BAY ST. LOUIS LETTER.

| NophibS ualCucS quicker IDan tne
march of time. To keep up with the
times is to he progressive. Time
moves; we must step lively to keer
up with its innovations. Bay Saint
Louis is not backwards her citizens
are live people, and they keep
things humming. If you will take
tour OF the town there are plenty
OF things for obscrvant eyes to zorro.
borate the foregoing, New improve.
menls are steady, and while Bay St
Louis is not thoroughly as most OF
we 0ery progressive citizens would
have it yet It's march Of progress is
Is not lethargFc.
Our esteemed townsman, Joseyl
Combel, as noticed in the locals of
The Echo recently, isgiving the town
solld ornament, an addition to its
greatness and at the same time is
giving himself and providing his
FAMILY with most comfortable and
attractive home. Charlie Sanger, who
has erected the handsome St. Stanis-
laus college building aud who has
tbullt more houses Of every descrip-
ton at the Bay and Waveland during
his time than anv other man, has The
JOB. The house is to be of four good
sized rooms, plastered, that is, two
rooms of each side of an 8-foot hall,
aud nice gallery of some 8 feet.
The roof will be slated, an example
which every practical man, who ie
about to build, should adopt. States,
although little higher than cypress,
are of more value, in appearance and
wear, to say nothing Of the advan
tage bearing on insurance rates. AS
the ham advertisement we read in
The magazines would say: "a little
higher in price, but"
When man really commences ia
build it IS so refreshing aud crafty.
ing to the pubic-spirited citizen.
One always hears so much of tn
man who is going to build lone Sc
seldom sees when the building OF
that man does appear. Every town
has its quota of "chronic" builders
air castle barons-but thanks To
goodness Bay st. Louis is fortunate
in this lacking. Building and going
to build are two subjects decidedly
different. For instance, the Firemen
nall.
Bay St. Louis certainly would find
use for ar opera house, or hall used
as the term if the hlgh-sounding oil
opera house CRATES too harsbIy on
the purse. A hall, commodlous and
substantial, would, to fit an old
newspaper expression, ''fll long
felt want" Our fire laddies had
better make haste in executing theil
intentions or some local stock com
pany might, like the tearly bird"
make the catch. Probably that syn
dicate Of northern capitalists we gen
orally read about in the crossroads
press of the new south, might sur.
prise us by really putting in an ap-
pearance and make clean sweep.
A good thing seldom goes begging
long. This would not be the 6fst
time of strangers freezing out thu
home folks of what is rightly their.
The Bay is rich IN resources, II
possibilities and probabilities. Draw
from the resources, convert the pro
liabilities into the real, and the pro
liabilities all that theycan possible be
The board of supervisors Monda,
week passed most commendable or
dinance relative TO oyster dredging
But, practically speaking il Will ac
complish nothing. An "old salt. )
who knows so much about the oys
ter of the sound that he knows it'll,
else, IS our authority for the saving
that the dredging carried on the wa
ters are those over which Hancocl
has little jurisdiction. Harrison
might cooperate with Hancock mos
effeetually.
The fog-regular London weatbe,
has been so undesirable tbes,
days past, and people have foun,
little or nothing else to speak about
Bad weather is always bad to pusi.
ness. The only good about thi
weather was the chance il gave tn
"oldest inhabitant" in coming to tb
front once more.
| Tuesday evening, notwithstandint
the inclement weather, Mr.. w. II
Yenni, accompanied by those dear /,