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CHARLES SANGER
My name is Charles Sanger and this is my wife, Lucy Jebens Sanger.
I came to the U. S. from Germany. I learned the carpentry trade very young and I was good at it. For proof: I contracted and built St. Stanislaus College not only once but twice - originally and again in 1903 after the fire of 1894. I also built St Joseph?s Academy, Merchant?s Bank Building, Christ Church on Cedar Point, City Hall in Bay St. Louis and St Clare Chapel in Waveland.
My plans for the Court House in Bay St. Louis we used but I lost the bid to build it.
I also built 8 of the beautiful homes on Beach Blvd. which was called Shell Road in those days. One of those homes burned but the other 7 are still standing. You may know these houses by their present owners: McDonald, Haas, Blaize, Shaffer and the Fell house in Waveland is owned now by a Mr. Crain. As a contractor the name of Charles Sanger is deeply inscribed in the architect of Bay St. Louis and Waveland.
I also was a drilling conractor. I drilled artesian wells because the Bay water was not exactly drinking water. I often drilled a well for a house before I built the house. I drilled an artesian well for myself = 354 deep in one week. It had a flow of 150 gallons per minute. Naturally other people had wells drilled and water piped into their house. I charged $10 per year for the first faucet and $2.50 for each faucet thereafter. I sold my city water system to the City of Bay St. Louis in 1922.
And since I was in the digging business, I dug holes for telephone poles . And after storms I often restrung lines for the Cumberland Telelphone Company in Bay St. Louis.
I sold my dry ice factory on Bookter Street in 1928.
I built my first ?break water front? for Dr. Logan on the beach in 1892. From that I built several break water fronts to keep the bay and sea water from damaging the Shell Road, and, homes on the beach. I designed and was the contractor for the sea wall from Cedar Point to Ulman Avenue, and from Carroll to Osoinach Store in 1920. The sea wall from Cedar Point to Ulman was 10 feet above the water and had steps; no steps in the wall from Carroll to Osoinach.
My name is well known in this community.
See clipped papers for reference