The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1905-07-29
SIGNS OF ACTIVITY AT
THE STATE CAPITAL.
Jackson Clarion Ledger:

Work was begun yesterday on the
100000 worth OF improvements to be
made on the Norvelle hotel. 1t will be
pushed with all possible haste, says Mr..
/ Alexander, the proprietor, and it Is con-
/ fidently expected that at least the two
additional stories will be completed and
in use by the time the Exposition opens
in November and $4,000 people pass
through our gates in the ten days
| thereof.
1t is pleasant to contemplate just what
| Jackson is doing in tbs hotel line at
| this time. No city in the South can
produce such an excellent record. Over
| 300 rooms for the strangers within our
gates are being added to our hotel facil-
! tiles. The Edwards is building large
addition, four stories in height and with
an office that will not be excelled in this
section. This is already one Of the
| largest hotels in the State, and when. the
| improvements are completed it will be
the largest. The NorYelle will more
than double It's capacity, having con-
slderably over 200 guest rooms when
completed. A nice brick hotel with 40
or more rooms and several business
! houses underneath is being erected on
| Capitol street just west of the A. & V.
railroad. This will be more completed
and occupied in few more weeks.
Plans have been made and work will
soon commence on another in West
Jackson that is to have so ormore guests
rooms together with a roomy Office, din
ing room and other conveniences. So it
seems that Jackson has at last deter
mined to arrange for the proper care of
| the multiplied thousands who enter our
gates during each year, and volume
that increases fast each succeeding year.
More than half million dollars worth
of magnificent buildings are in course
of construc ctiOn or under construction IN
| Capitol street between the old Capitol
and depot alone, to say nothing of sew
eral hundred thousand being expended
along the street further West. The Mer-
chants Bank building, which in solidity
of construction and beauty of architec-
ture and finish is without an equal in the
State and possible several adjoining
States, is nearing completion and at
tracts the attention and admiration of
every visitor.
The Jones Remington building, a
drawing of which can be seen in their
show windows on State street, will soon
begin to rear it's head above the sur
rounding property and for mercantile
establishment will be the tallest and
handsomest in the State. Work on this
building will be pushed harder than ever
in few days when the rubbish of the
old church has been removed.
Just across the S. J. Johnson is re-
moving the old buildings from the site
where will soon be built the largest mer-
camille establishment in the State. With
in a short time several dozen workmen
will be employed upon this work also.
Next door to the Jones-Kennington
building will be another new building
for use as a mercantile establishment to
occupy the site now covered by the
small frame residence recently occu-
pied as a tailoring establishment, vacat-
ed yesterday to allow its being torn
down to make room for the more pre-
tentious establishment. 1t is not def
nitely just how tall this building will
be, rumor making it anywhere from two
to six stories in height. At any rate,
on the three coreers mentioned, fully
$3.50, 900 will be spent on buildings with
in the next few months.
Further down the street handsome
block of six buildings ranging from three
to five stories in height are going up
ana that is a very fine business section
also. The Capital National Bank will
have one of the best appointed banking
ing houses IN the South. This, as we'll
! as several other of the buildings in this
new block are beginning to assume pro-
portions and it bids fair to be one of the
handsomest in our growing city, and
that is saying great deal.
In strict keeping with the activity
further up the street, just across from
the depot can be seen two fine four
story structures going up as fast as men
and money can do the work. The Mar
I tin G Gaddis building, with its beautiful