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It vas an appropriate step to get back to a French name; though, to save the necessity of such awkward conversational distinctions as the town of Bay St. Louis and the hay of Bay Gt. Louis, it might have been more convenient, at least, to have honored some of the men vho made history here nearly tvo centuries ago in naming it.
A Lit tie Paris
The present town of Bay St. Louis is practically a city. It has, with its modern suburb of Ulmanville, a summer population of between
7,000	and 8,000: and its winter inhabitants number between 3»000 and
Moo.	*
It is provided with a fine depot and railroad office by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, over whose line it is only ?0 miles from New Orleans, and 90 from Mobile.
The refined Creole population of the Crescent City regard Bay St. Louis with great favor, and respond to the exceptional compliment paid to one of the greatest of their illustrious line of princes in its naming by liberally patronizing the resort. Many of the families residing there themselves bear the historic names of men who have figured conspicuously in the colonization of this portion of Mississippi and all of Louisiana.
It is here that one can find citizens as polished and polite as those that frequent the fashionable boulevards and clubs of Paris; and women as beautiful only as Creole women are. Bay St. Louis in the summer is a little Paris within itself, or a fashionable suburb of that lesser American Paris, the French part of Nev Orleans. Even in vinter it has a comparatively large Creole population. Yet the Saxon race has several thousand representatives in town.
Description
"The Bay," as the Anglo-Saxon denizens are wont to call it, has streets along its water frontage 8 or 10 miles long, and magnificent shell drives extending throughout this distance.
It is a compactly-built little city—as compactly as a partiality for shade treqs, shrubbery, flower gardens, and grassy lawns around its beautiful villas and cool cottages will permit. Its streets near the Sound and the Bay of St. Louis contain large numbers of handsome private residences, and many extensive boarding-houses.
.	The	largest hotel in the town vas burned to the ground seven
years ago (1§79). There is talk of replacing it by a much larger and more-han'Jsome edifice to meet the demands of Northern y±s± winter travelers and tourists.
Northern Visitors
Quite a number of Northerners spent a large portion of last vinter
in the town, and expressed high opinions of the attractions of thic locality as a winter resort.