The Hattiesburg news., 1916-12-06
JACKSON HIGHWAY
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play and they also know how to work.
] put play first in this case. even
though it is a perversion Of the old
saw about business before pleasure
for the old spirit--seeling freedom
that brought the first settlers away
from repression in France seems to
run in the veins of the present gen
GRAFTON. However, r shall tell you
later what New Orleans is and what
it has been.
Leave New Orleans at Night.
Getting out of New Orleans now
is a night proposition. The ferry leaves
Milenberg, suburb of the Crescent
City, at 4:SO p. M, arriving at Man
deville, on the north side Of Lake
Pontchartrain. at $3.50. The fee is IS
for a car and rs cents per person.
Returning, the ferry leaves Mande-
vile at GLIB a. m. After landing we
headed for Covington, 10 miles west
Of Vaudeville, since the hotel ac-
commodations there are better than
those at Vaudeville. Covington's slo-
gan is, an the Heart Of the Ozone
Belt" It is health resort Wheth-
er the sign / saw next to the hotel
had any particular significance with
reference to the mortality rate, do
not know, but I'll give it to you as
cheaply as I got it. 1t says; Com
plete funerals 10 cents week."
Next morning we retraced our path
to Vaudeville and then onward
to Slidelb driving the 80 miles in
so minutes. Breakfast was the OBJ
5ective, SO speed limits were not OBJ.
served. After breakfast at one OF
the hotels where the only thing they
ask you is: "How will you have your
eggs, boss?" which, by the way is
quite common in the south, we drove
to Iridia4 Village. where the ferry
across the Pearl river awaited us. In
cidentally / might say that the Pearl
river does not seem to have any par
ticular place to go, but wanders
around the bayous promiscuously This
is a dry season of the year, too, but
when the water is high they say thai
even the croeodiles cannot find dry
place in the woods in which to SUI
themselves. After a 2-hour ride
through channels of varying width, The
edges of which were decorated witt
water hyacinth and alligators enough
to make grifs for the whole Ameri
can ,traveling public-possibly ough
to except a few of these-we came tt
Lcgtown, although why it is not call
ed Westontown is mystery to me
1t was the Weston ferry that brough
us to Logtown, the Westons own thu
mills there, and il ] met one it seem
met fifty of that name. With tn
backing Of the Weston family it seem
that that jackson highway and tn
bridge across the Pearl river nea
Tcgtown must come to a successfu
conclusion in southern Mississippi. Z
S. Weston, who heads the Westo
humber interests in Logtown, is a
official Of the jackson highway an
an enthusiastic one, too
The next stop was Bay st. Loui
both the name Of the town and tn
body of water beside It. Here "
had to head north and make a 3O-nil
drive around the bay to get to Pas
Christian although he would see th
Pass from Bay st. Louis. the town Th
Gulf Of Mexico has taken some rath'
large bites out Of the shore line
southern Mississippi and Alabama
one were to follow the coast line a
the way the distance would be consi
erahly greater. The road around BE
St. Louis Is not what | should ca
4 good road, although parts of It a
good especially where 1t has bet
phelled
Pass Christian, Gulfpcrt and Bio
form a trio Of cities along the Gil
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