Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-06-01
[lIY JAMES FAUX. ]

ed trans-contlnental party to the
San Francisco Exposition by specia
Grain year before last, besides other
stuuts in that line.
The country through which we
rode down TO Gufport from Hat
tiesburg was pariicu.arl interesting
to this scribe as he had rode al
round 1t but had never gone over
this stretch. It's very much similar
to the country which lies below Ev-
anston travelling towards Pasca.
goula Much of the same character
of level cutover fiat country with
possibly more water courses and less
marshes as the coast as approached.
The new
COUNTY OF STONE
with its capital of Virgins was re-
ferred to by Blakeslee in public an
nouncement as we rode along through
it as the Baby County OF Mississ-
ippi. Its well developed babe,
however, as they are advanced con-
.siderably along the lines Of farming.
At one place there was i most splen-
did Demonstration Stock and Agri-
cultural farm. Make, where the @.
Il S. |. turns off with its branch To
Columbia and that part of the state
was one of the few places where our
train which was a special stopped.
OF course Virgins waved as down
as it was the county-seat.
We rolled into Gulfport about 10
O'Clock and found waiting van to
convey our hand baggage to the
Great Southern whore we walked in
party They took care of our bag
gage there for the day We were
soon being whirled away in eutomo-
biles generously furnished bv those
hospitable Guifporters. Long
Beach 10 the West of Gulfport was
our first objective point, and that
was sure delightful ride Swimming
along in = high-puwer car on that
beautiful white shell road skirting
the beach nnti we reached the city
which TAX Is it's name from q long
stretch of such beach" The coast
front has filed up so with residences
that its hard to determine where
Gulfport leaves off and Long Beach
takes up which is the same way on
the East side of Gulfport coming out
of that cltv into the confines Of Mis-
sisslppl City. Near here was point
ed out to us as We passed the histor-
ic oaks under which Jno l.. Sullivan
won the worlds championship in the
noted prize fight With RYAN which
occurred over a score of years ago
when Mississippi was yet back
ward that it had not enacted laws
forbIdding tue brutal sport within
It's boundaries. The Sullivau-Kil-
rain fight near Hattiesburg fought
after the one staged on The scene
which we were passing brought a.
bout such legislation, however, as
Kilraiu got badly hurt in the en-
counter
There are some beautiful dwellings
along here. In fact the shore front
itself is more beautiful than to the
west of Gufport as the swell of land
is more of a gentle slope and less of a
fiat strand. Homes of people of
prominence are that of the late Sen
ator H. d. Money; that OF Congress-
man B P. Harrison; Director-Gen-
eral H. e Blakeslee "a rented house
of magnificent proportions and beau
tiful outlines Jthe beautiful bungalow
type of house of Bart Eaton, general
attorney for the G & S |. r r and
formerly district attorney IN the
Laurel district, whose car-guest we
are on this drive and from whose
tongue flows constant stream of
sparkling talk which serves to enter
tain us as we ride and explains pass
ing points with knowledge upon
which we can rely. The grounds OF
the COUNTRY CLUB are especially
beautiful. The writer has visited
many colntry club grounds getting
round oyer the continent as we have
and was glad to find such credita-
Bile one right here on our Mississippi
coast Another place OF striking
and spacious grounds which
we pass is that of the