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MR. AND MRS. JOHN M. PARKER JR. sat cut Ca at their Pass Christian home.
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difficulty finding dry clothes large enough. After he dned off and gulped down cups of steaming coffee, he went out “On I'norafJ^belj others, sons came to take us to f5ew Orleans, we felt guilty about
■	leaving. But Mr. Parker had developed a bad throat and also we knew most of the sur-
DIXIE WHITE HOUSE survived the hurricane, is so named because President Woodrow Wilson spent the fail and v/inter of 1913 there.
	
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“Of course everyone had house guests and entertained for them. The overflow visitors would stay at the old Nelson Hotel, Gray Castle Hotel and some would go to the Inn By The Sea at Henderson Point, which we referred to as u,c “petticoat of the Pass.”
Someone reminded Mrs. Parker that she was famous for her Saturday afternoon formal dinners, and this reminded them of the many gay weekends at the Pass.
“I can remember way back when some guests would arrive by horse and carriage,” Parker recalled. “That was when I was a kid and Dad was goveror of Louisiana. We spent our summers at the Pass.
“The families that spent the summer at the Pass would ship their horses, car-riages and barouches by train. Later, but before we had good roads and bridges they shipped their automobiles.
“The railroads had a Sunday dollar round-trip excursion to the Gulf Coast. They’d run two and three trains with 15 coaches to handle the crowds.
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“BESIDES THE New Orleans visitors, we had celebrated guests from all over the world.
“I remember back in 1915. Former president Theodore Roosevelt and his wife were our house guests.
“He was studying the bird life of the area and wrote an article about it in Harper’s that same year.
“For years after that people would come to see the house Teddy Roosevelt slept in.	e
“There were many famous landmarks. There was the Dorothy Dix summer home which unfortunately was destroyed by fire.
Dixie White House so named because “There is the President W o o d r o w Wilson , and his family spent the fall and winter of 1913 there as guests of the owner, Miss Alice Herndon. It survived the hurricane.”
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