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a lq/vely lady and SYMPATHETIC WOMAN CALLS ON THE ECHO AndMts Youthful Publisher To Ifncourage the Enter-.prise in 1892,
ONE of the fondest recollections tht publisher of The Echo cher-i hes even to this day?dating from tne time when this newspaper was ini its swaddling clothes?was a visit from Mrs. Elizabeth Poitevent Nicholson, publisher, with her husband, George Nicholson, of the New Orleans Daily Picayune. She was equally as well known by her non de plurr^, of ?Pearl Rivers.? It was at the ume her master poem, ?Hagaar,? was receiving nation-wide acclaim.
Sne had come to The Echo office direjtly from her Bay St. Louis-
S	Wav ;land home, located on the ; beac i, near Nicholson avenue, known Fort Nicholson.? This name suggested by a retaining wall T. McDonald, of Pass Cfrris-still living, had built down the beac^i, in front of the premises. It an idea all his own, in which ; opinion Mrs. Nicholson concurred, th/t a seawall of this type of construction in contrast to the many ber and piling make-shift retaining walls that had been built and I failed of purpose, would hold out against the invading elements of wind and wave. The high wall, was so constructed that it did somewhat resemble a fort. But during one of the biggest equinoctial storms prevalent along the Gulf Coast for a -period covering a number of years, and j well remembered by older resident?^
! the water, in all its fury, undermined the foundation and the wall was said-to have ?slipped? and crumbled like so much timber in the mad," vote* of rushing water. .Parts of the brick structure, still held by cement, ' are to this day to be seen on the site or nearby?and serve as fragmentary relics of the past, over sixty years ago!
Time has well taught us that.Ior.ts; nor seawall of this type no longer resist.	1	*	'V-'. ^
Mrs. Nicholson had driven to:-The ^ Echo office to visit ?the young pub-ifpil lisher," as she announced her entrance into the office after alighting from her carriage, drawn by a be~ loved black horse, and reins in hand'
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