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032'4','aGts Dnily Heralu pu.bU.GV2d by Korean's Lit ary Club Thursday, October l?r 1911
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(The following contribution was written by Lann F. Hinsdale, I-itt. D., whoso husbsn^. the Rev. Robert G. Hinr.dale. S.T.D., was a former rector of the Fpiscooal Church in Biloxi.
I'rrs, Hinsdale has known life in the cities of the Fast, North and Pacific Slope and speaks from oxpori^nce of life in Bilibxi. y'rs, Hinsdale is the author of "Legens find Lyrics of the Gulf Const." —The Editor)
HISTORIC BILOXI — PAST AND PRESENT
Biloxi calls from the rieors of the northland to her equable climate, pure water and balSDirdc air.
The ancient city of Southern T'ississippi was named by the Biloxi Indians, discovered when Iberville care in 1699. It is the region of rose and Jasmine and the home of the mockingbird.
Out of the mists of American history one may see the "Badine.11 the "FnrinH rnd the "Francois." vhich under command of Iberville in the days of Louis XIV appeared in the waters of the Gulf, when the great pioneers of French colonization selected the Coast es the seat of Government.
On April 6th (1699) Iberville wrote:
"I have sounded the entrance to Biloxi Bay and found a channel with seven feet of water. All of us judged it best to estqblish the post on the bay three leagues from the Pascaboula river, on vhich are the three villages of the Blloxis, the Pnscaboulas and the >‘octobys."
Could Iberville waken frr-m his long sleen and see the waters of the Round or. Regatta Day, while bands are ploying and flags fly from the Yacht Club, and watch the swift movement of motors. schooners, sloops, yachts end smaller boats, he might feel something of his dream of exploration realised. He might see tall spire and golden cross where the missionaries gathered the red rren for worship.
Looking with far eyes he tr.ight see the future of this Cosrt in its relation to the Panama Canal in the near future, and the wide world opening newly at the gates of the Gulf.
Iberville cruised along the Gulf Coast. He made marks on the trees and cut the picture of a pipe Df peace with three rhips and the trees told the first chapters in the history of French colonization, and made the beginnings of journalism vhich is today ably represented by the Biloxi Herald.
I'any other stories the old trees^ight have told of the aborigines who long ago felt the arrow heads of warfare irbedded in their roots end have stood =cuard above buried hearths and forgotten councs.
Science with her virnoving fan in ;the hands of the ethnologist and archeologist i3 dimly bringing to light many absorbing pages of Biloxi's other days.