Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-28
WILSON'S RESTING PLACE
QUAINT AND BEAUTIFUL
President Visiting Section Which
Is Also Rich in
History.
And There Is Great Abundance Of
the Finest Things to
Eat.
PROM tAe Louisville Courier Journal

OCEAN SPRINGS, ISIS. December %.
The beautiful part of the gulf coast of
Mississippi extends from Ocean Springs
10 Bay St Louis. a distance of thirty
TWO miles. The Presidential train, after
reaching Ocean Springs, had about an
hours run before Pass Christian was
reached and through. perhaps. one of
the most lovely and picturesque countries
in the world. The train passed through
Biloxi a quaint old town, settled by
the French long before the Louisiana
purchase: Beauvoir. the home of JEFF
ferson Davis, now occupied as home
for confederate veterans; Mississippi
Citv. Gulf Port Long Beach and then
Pass Christian.
All of the above mentioned towns are
the winter resorts of well-to-do people
from all over the country, especially from
Chicago and ST Louis Many business
men of New Orleans also have homes in
these places and occupy them the year
round, as a train on the Louisville q
Nashville makes the distance. ninety
miles, in a little over two hours. The
schedule time from Washington is about
thirty-six hours.
Good Things to Eat.
The President will be pleased with the
quaint old town of Pass Christian and its
beautiful surroundings. and that which
he will have to eat will tempt the most
delicate For breakfast he can have a
luscious grapefruit, juicy oranges and
strawberries fresh from the vine; a Span
ish mackerel. speckled trout. pompano
or founder fresh from the mississippi
he can have some of the best oysters III
the world, TO say nothing OF gumDo
hS Shrirnn salad. yellow vans,
fat cartridges, mallard ducks, possum,
and everything else that is good, with a
black nanny to cook them, and Tor sure
she knows how.
Every one hereabouts is hoping that the
weather will be warm and pleasant. as
il has been since the first of November.
For six weeks past the thermometer has
ranged from fifty-fiye at nights TO sixty
i've and seventy-five degrees in the days
Ii has been one of the most Deauufui
Indian summers ever enjoyed by human
ity anywhere on earth. Only one or
two light rains in all that time, and
lovely sunsets every evening. And If
the present spell of pretty weather does
not break up, the President will see the
most brilliant sky he has ever wit
messed, for the skies in southern Miss
ississippi are honey combed by millions
and millions of stars. and it Is said that
even n the dark of the moon one can see
better under southern skies than in the
north when the moon shines.
Country Rich in History.
Then the President is visiting section
OF the country that is not only pretty
and picturesque, but rich in history. Only
tive miles from here Capt Kidd made
his headquarters on Horn Island and
got all of his fresh water from
ocean springs. And here il was that
the Confederates made the salt that sup
piled nearly the entire Confederacy dur
ing the war. There is just lots and lots
of history and stories connected with
the garden spot of the world If one could
only think of il.
There is hardly a month in the year
that a party from somewhere does not
come down in the latitude and dig for
lost treasure. and, truth to tell, they do
occasionally find Spanish gold and vaiu-
able relics. Whether the tales Of Kidd
were facts or fiction. the former is be-
lieved here by many, and they are
searching and digging for what the old
pirate and his crew buried alive in the
many islands of Mississippi sound. ad-
Joining the gulf of Mexico. But just wait
until these ferret-eyed Washington cor
respondents. these deft, mighty showers
of the quill and romancers of the press,
get here. They will dig 1t all out and
enlighten the masses.