The herald., 1911-04-20
WILL EXTEND TO GRAND ISLE;
GREAT RESORT AT BAY ADAM

Plans involving the development of
Bay Adam, as a popular summer re-
sort, may mature from the early i'm
provement of the New Orleans, Fort
Jackson and Grand Isle Railroad, and
at the meeting of the stockholders of
the company recently the matter was
generally discussed, to be taken up at
later date, when the development of
the valuable railroad property is well
under way.
Bay Adam, according to the state
ments made at the meeting. is one of
the most ideally located places on the
southern coast, with good fishing, boat
ing and hunting, and according to the
plan first proposed, a stock company
may be formed to promote and advance
it as a summer resort.
Bay Adam is on the line of the New
Orleans, Fort Jackson and Grand Isle
Railroad, that is to say, it is half
mile distant from the tracks, and as
was suggested to the Fort Jackson and
Grand Isle directors, it would be an
easy matter to construct a shell road
from the rail line to the Bay Adam
precincts proper.
The plan to make Bay Adam a sum-
mer resort was first evolved some
months ago, when it was known that
Charles ID. Warren, who represented a
$10,000,000 syndicate, had acquired con-
troll of the Grand Isle Road, and while
nothing was said of the matter the pro-
jectors went ernestly to work shaping
out things to be ready at the right mo-
ment to arrange for the improvements
Bay Adam is less than fifty miles
from New Orleans, and with its many
natural advantages il could be made
into a first-class watering place If mo-
ney enough was spent on it, 1t is said
that If the plan carries through, a ho-
tel and number of summer cottages
will be erected, and the attractions
added that would give 1t a high stand.
ard as place of pleasure and recrea-
ton.
The meeting of the stockholders of
the New Orleans, Fort Jackson and
Grand Isle Railroad ran through two
days, and only Saturday was the bust.
ness under consideration accomplished.
Mr.. Warren, who is president of the
Traders Bank, of Toronto, Canada,
came down from New York to attend
the meeting, and at the subsequent
meeting of the directors he was re-
tanned in the Office of president, and
Otto T. Maier, the we'll known local
stock and bond broker, was reelected
vice president.
Saturday the transfer of the stock
owned by C. d. Haines, and others. of
New York City, was transferred to Mr..
Warren, and the record filed in the
conveyance Office.
At the meeting of the stockholders
only general plans of improvement
were talked over, but nothing of a de-
finite nature decided upon. Mr.. War
rem was getting ready to leave the city |
for New York Saturday night, and it |
was stated that when he returned in |
fortnight immediate plans for the
improving of the line would be made.
The plans will call for a very large
outlay of money, and will include a
rebuilding of all portions of the track.
as may be found necessary; the pur-
chasing of new equipment and the ex-
tending of the line to Grand Isle. The
Grand Isle project will not be an easy
one, as much of the track will have to
be built through virgin swamp, and
possibly wide detour may have to be
made to reach the island. However.
Grand Island is the roads objective
point, and it is certain to finally reach
hat beautiful spot, where the finest
turf bathing in the country is to be en-
oyed.-Picayune.