The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1922-04-01
|P|CKW|CK HOTEL IS
SOLD TOH. S. WESTON
AND WILL REOPEN It.
Purchases For Company Which "h
Own and Operate It--Repairs
and Emprovensents to be
Made at Once New
nasemens on 18th.
COMP ANY INCORPORATED AS
BAY HOTEL COMPANY.
II. c. Babcock of Memphis, 50 Be
Manager-Plans For Future
Include New Brick Build
ing With rs or 100
Modern Rooms.

On Thursday deed of transfer
was filed for record at the office OF
the county clerk in the courthouse,
when it became known that the Pick
wick Hotel had been sold. III. S.
Weston of Logtown is the purchaser
and the price paid $23,500 cash. Mr.
j.. Shansy, the owner, had the proper
| ty on the market for some time and
when it became known that a sale
had occurred there was no surprise
expressed. On several occasions pre-
viously deals had been pending for
the purchase OF the property but
none marerialized.
PURCHASED FOR COMPANY.
Whlie MIR. Weston made the pur-
chase it is not for he personally, but
for a party of local capitalists and
business men who banded themselves
for the purpose, headed by MIR. Wes-
ton, who long ago cherished the de-
sire of acquiring the property.
in this issue of The Echo appears
the charter of incorporation of the
Bay Hotel Company, which, when au-
thorized to do business by the State,
will take over the property and op-
crate it for its own benefit.
The Bay Hotel Company is clos
ed corporation, the following-named
gentlemen owning the stock, II. S.
Weston, Ernest J. Leonhard, A. Bat
tistella, C. A. Weston, r. c. Eng
man. David Weston, Leo w. Seal, Il.
c. Babcock, all are well known
and representative business men of
Hancock county. Their names is
sufficient guarantee of the success Of
the management of the business.
POSSESSION APRIL 18TH.
The new company will take active
possession of the hotel premises and
business April 18th. H. C. Babcock,
Tor over twenty years travelling
this coast and southern territory, will
conduct the hotel. Mr.. Babcock is
widely known and he Is extremely
popular. He Is most cordial gen
tleman, radiatlug with cheerfulness
and breathes the very atmosphere of
welcome to all witt: whom h, times
in contact, and from reports it ap-
pears the hotel company has secured
the right man for the right place.
DE ArhMEn DhV
The place will be known as the
Bay Hotel. This name was selected
yesterday afternoon. Its selection
wss adopted not only for its .ppr >
priateness but for its brevity as well.
1t is a name not easily forgotten,
easy to pronounce and one that will
make itself popular with the public.
The Bay Hotel succeeds the Pick
wick, which Mr.. Shansy purchased
! some twenty years since from the
estate of the late Capt. J.V. Toulme,
who built the well-known hosiery
and operated it for a long while un-
| der the name of the Crescent Hotel.
Ii was extremely popular in it's day,
long before the Louisville d Nash
vile railroad ran its trains through
rhis territory, when the steamers
Jerome" and "Camelia" made the
rip TO and from New Orleans. Capt
Tonl.l,G v as a typical mine genial
nos az he was known the country
over as one C its best Boniface.
Prominent quests from all over
were welcome here, many during
the winter from the North. For
many seasons the author of "Alice of
Old Vincennes" with his wife and
daughters registered at the Crescent
TO UNDERGO REPAIRS.
| For the present the Bay Hotel will
undergo such repairs and improve
ments as the immediate needs de-
mand, later in the season to be fol-
lowed by the building of dance pa
vilion, it is proposed. 1t is also
planned to put this summer to the
fullest test, and if the business proves
satisfactory further Improvements
and expansion will follow.
Ultimate plans are to construct a
new hotel building possibly of brick
and concrete, containing from 75 to
100 rooms. This new building is to
be located directly in the rear of
the present one, which will be re-
moved and there will in this wise be
no interruption of the business dur
ing the construction. Thus an old