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r>iloxi long under the dominion of the Indians h's teen represented by the flags of Fpain, of France, of England, by the ?tars and bars of the Confederacy, while today "01(3 Glory" floats proudly in the breeze and speaks of a free Republic and a united brotherhood.
Biloxi is midway betveen Nev Orleans and Lobile, eighty miles from New Orleans and sixty from T-'ofcile, on the Touisville and Nashville road. It overlooks the Gulf and is built on a peninsula which is a mile or more in width by probably ten miles in length.
Biloxi is connected with the magnificent Back Bay country by a fine bridge vhich leads to orchards of growing pecans, satsuma oranges, figs and grapefruit. Hsre uncultivated land awaits the agriculturist* Among the number vho own one of the famous pec^n and orange groves is Mississippi’s beloved and revered Senator, H. D. loney, and his son.
Biloxi is the home of many wealthy Southerners vho cone from the adjacent cities with their families for recreation of sea bathing, yachting, fishing and speeding their automobiles over the shell roads under the shadow of giant live oaks, magnolia and pine.
The hones of these residents along the beach are generally built with verandas in the colonial ?tyle of architecture. From out the shelter of the white pillars look some of the fairest faces of the South.
T'any northerners of home prominence have bought comfortable residences here and come here to snend the winter. A proportion of their, stay the year round. Possessing a popul«tion of about
10,000,	a large proportion of Biloxi’s n'tive residents go out to the sea in ships to supply the oyster and shrimp canning factories vhich are known at home and abroad.
The Louisville and Nashville road holds the city in frequent relation with New Orleans and Mobile, the Gulf Coast Traction Company connects Biloxi with Pass Christian. In addition the sea offers her pleasure bent for sails to the adjacent lovely islands, whose lights are the guardians of mariners.
Conspicuous among them is the far-famed Ship Island, the National Quarantine station, where Fort 1'ass^chusetts, 12 riles away, surrounded by mounds of white sand, looks out on old ocean and dreams of the wars of long ago and the heroes of the Blue and Gray.
Eiloxi counted by hours is about tv?o and a half from Nev Orleans, tvo from l-'otila and less than thirty hours from Chicago. The accessibility of Eiloxi to the central cities of the North is appreciated by tourists.
A^ong the various hotels, boarding houses, furnished cottages and furnished rooms scattered through the city and graded in pricc to the demand, the stranger finds himself, at home. He may select from the market supplies of sea food, oysters, fish, crab and shrimp in season. If disposed to vatch the use of cast net or hook and line he may Join his comrades on the wharves, and on n-uspicious days see the sporting of the porpoises, the flash of the silver tarpon and the flight of the gulls.