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MEXICAN GULP COAST ILLUSTRATED.
Mr. A. V. Rosambeau is a well-known and popular man in the place. He has been engaged in merchandising for many years. Mr, R. is the Clerk of the City Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
Among other prominent citizens are the following: Hon. G. W. Davis G. W. O’Neil, Col. W. R. Stewart, E. S. Davis, H. F. Russell, Capt. L. Porte-vant, Dr. D. Newcomb, Dr. Bragg, Col. .N. Clark, H. Nill, A. D. Sheldon, Col. Grayson, J. B. Wigginton.
Among those residing in New Orleans who have summer homes at Ocean Springs are Hon. Wm. B. Schmidt, of the firm of Schmidt & Zeigler, A. A. McGinnis, Bishop Keener of the M. E. Church South, Messrs Weeks, Parkinson, Longshore, Kuhn, Hern-auld, and others. Thegroundsof Mr. Schmidt are the largest and most highly improved in the place and are among the finest on the Coast. Besides the improved grounds there is a park of several acres. The family residence is not pretentious but very comfortable and'supplied with modern conveniences. It is lighted with gas manufactured on the place. | artesian fountain gives a full	of	^
water brought from a depth	feet; a *
hydraulic ram forces the water over the place.
There are several fish ponds supplied with green trout and other kinds of fish. The ^ grounds immediately around the residence are highly improved and richly ornamented with rare flowers, shrubs and plants. At the close of the Cotton Centennial Exposition at New7 Orleans, Mr. Schmidt purchased the beautiful “Alabama Cottage,” the headquarters of that State, and had it erected at Ocean Springs, where it now serves the purpose of a Music Hall. Mr. S. is not only a very successful business man, but keeps abreast with the latest improvements in whatever pertains to matters whfere his interests are affected. He has adopted sub-irrigation and sub-drainage on his extensive grounds where vegetables and fruits for his own use are grown, and his table iu the Crescent city when the season for their maturity arrives, is supplied with these products fresh from his own grounds. He has the Scuppernong grape, the pecan in its best estate, and other specialties too numerous to mention in detail. There are also a number of high-
HON. W. B. SCHMIDT.