The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1916-03-25

1t was "some'' gathering and then
some more that assembled at the court
house Tuesday night, pursuant to call
from Mayor L. B. Capcepon as chair
man, which call appeared in the col
umns of The Echo last Saturday.
The object of the mass meeting was
to receive the report OF a committee OF
citizens appointed as result of the
mass meeting of citizens held at the
same place early last October after the
storm. This committee, appointed to
devise ways and means for the building
of seawall along the entire front Of
the city of Bay ST. Louis, reported at
Tuesday nights meeting, and its re-
port was accepted by the adoption of the
foregoing resolution, offered by Judge
Will T. Mcdonald. Before it's adop-
ton, however, on suggestion of j. N.
| Wisner, the request was made that il
there were any one present who op.
posed the proposed seawa1l and bond
issue necessary to defray the cost OF
building. or who had any reason to ad-
vance why the citizens should not favor
such step, that they "speak out in
meeting or hold their peace for ever" I"
The silence that followed was that of the
proverbial kind when one may hear a
pin drop.
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unanimous and rising vote left nc
room for doubt. The mays" then were
asked to RISE, but there were no "nays.'
Mayor Capdepon, as chairman of the
meeting, presided with dignity and
ability and prefaced the reading of the
report from the Committee with few
remarks germane to the subject. The
reading of the report was then conclud-
ed by City Attorney E. j. Gex.
A. r. Hart and c.. G. Moreau were
appointed secretaries.
The chair announced that Mr.. ]. N.
Wisner's name was on the programme
for the evening for an address, which he
forthwith delivered, dwelling on the
imperativeness of Bay ST. Louis con-
structing at once in this .crisis of her
history FseaWall to protect and a boul-
levard to attract" He dwelt on the
beauty and natural attractiveness of
Bay st. Louis, its unmatched climate,
its artesian water that is the fountain OF
lifeto the victim of nervousness; that
Bay ST. Louis offered to the tourist a
combination of nature that could not be
found elsewhere-a land where the pin
ey woods with its balmsamic breath me t
the sea with its fragranse and life-es-
sence of salt, an admixture of piney
woods and sea ozone!
"Where else can you find this happy
combination?' paused the speaker for a
reply.
He said Bay St. Louis was located
only 50 miles away from what promised
and is destined to become the greatest
city in the world, located as New Or
leans is at the gateway of the Missis-
sippi valley and in iuxtaposition to the
Panama Canal. He said Bay st. Louis
and this Gulf Coast had the cheapest
commuters rate afforded by any rail
road company in this country. The
next was the Erie Railway running into
New York City, and at that there was
quite disparity between the l.. 6; NJ
rates and the Erie's. He had Travelled
this country over-from Miami, Florida
| to the North and then westward TO CAL
ifornia; had lived in Texas at various
points, but nowhere had he been i'm.
pressed as favorably as in Bay St.Louis
! where he first came two years ago and
nowhere was he ever as we'll satisfied
as here, and he had proven that by the
investment here of spacious and at.
tractive home and by the amount o.
money spent in improvements since hi.
| advent. That while bond issue for 8
seawan would cost him proportionateI,
as much as the next one, he was willing
to pay the price for living In Bay St
] Louis lit was worth it. And referring
1 to the probable advance in realty value,
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