The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1921-06-04
What Stranger Thinks of Hotel
Project for Mississippi Gulf Coast.
New Orleans States.

J. K. Leaning, of Seattle, Wash,
well-known hotel owner and opera
tor of the Pacific coast, is among
the guests at the st. Charles, coming
here to investigate several proposi-
tions for establishing new hotels on
the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Mr.
Leaning is the sole owner of the
bennington hotel in Seattle, but re-
Gently disposed of that property and
is looking over the country for new
location. He has been engaged in
the hotel business virtually all his
life since a young man and in the
last three years has devoted much of
his time to travelling about the coun-
try studying hotel construction with
the idea of ascertaining how to elm
mate much useless expense IN this
type of building.
''I will say frankly that l am high
ly enthusiastic over this part of the
country and particularly over the
Mississippi Gulf Coast section as a
wonderful winter and summer res
ort," said Mr.. Leaning. 81 am max
ing inquiry into several hotel pro-
iects on the Gulf Coast and it is pos
sible I will build large hotel at
some point on the coast. If one pro-
ject | have under consideration de-
velops satisfactorily we probably will
start without loss of time to con-
struct the first unit of 200 rooms, of
what eventually will be a 600-room,
up-to-date resort hotel. We will have
golf links, tennis court, an athletic
field, boating, bathing and all other
attractions and facilities of the most
modern resort hotels.
"New Orleans advantages as city
and port have impressed me most
forcibly, and in my opinion, within
| the next fifteen Or twenty years one
| will see New Orleans the fourth city
| in the United States. She has every
natural advantage in location and
| facilities to become a great center
of population in the future and
believe she will attract such other
things as may be necessary for he1
to acquire in order to develop.
ST have been all over the country
looking for location for resort
hotel and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
strikes me as the ideal section fol
both winter and summer tourists anc
visitors The coast section, in my
opinion. excels either Florida ol
California in climate, advantages
and atractiveness, as resort center
and when the people of the Unitet
States learn of the comforts ant
| pleasure afforded in this section
they will be focking here in grea
numbers. For the business man o.
the north who are in the habit o:
seeking winter resorts, for themsel
YES and families, the Gulf Coast i
much nearer than Florida or Callfor
MIA and they could leave their busl
ness and come to this section withou
risking neglect of business affairs
On the Gulf Coast the Northern Wis
itors would be within % hours o
their nome and business in case the.
were required to interrupt their va
cation and hasten back to their bust
ness.
"In time, I am confident the Mis-
sissippi Gulf Coast will be one of th'
greatest and most popular all-the-
year-round resorts in the Unltet
States. And my idea in the event o
establishing new hotel, is not to ge
rich in a season, but to operate
| first-class hotel in every particular
and at moderate charges for salts
factory service"
Mrs. Leaning, who now is visitIn,
in the North, will join her husban'
here in a few days, he said.