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CIVIC LEADERS AT BAY ST. LOUIS
RAISED MONEY, BOUGHT PRIZES, AMD PROVIDED LEADERSHIP TO RESUME YACHT RACING AFT1?.R WAR Summer - 1867
Daily Picayune - Wednesday, August 21, 1867 - p 1 c ^ quoting from Bay St. Louis Gazette of August 19, 1867
HO1'/ THE REGATTA ’'/AS BROUGHT ABOUT
Rome time ago several of our public-spirited citizens came to the conclusion that even if political and financial affairs did not go exactly as they ought to, still there was no earthly reason why the noble snort of yxKhiwfc yachting should go to the dogs also.
There has been nothing worthy the name since the season commenced with the exception of some little affair at Point Clear, a little watering place in Mobile Bay, which went off without any eclat.
There were some of the finest and swiftest yachts imaginable on the Gulf Coast from New Orleans to Mobile; the owners were willing to enter them, and the public were anxious to see them run, and all that WpS needed was the impetus of a first start given by some energetic and directing minds, to have as grand a display of aquatic sport as these waters ever witnessed.
These directing and managing heads were not long lacking;:
—	Mr. C. V. Carroll, Major J. H. Nicholson, Mr. Emile O'Brien, and a few others took the initiatory steps, and carried them through with the greatest promptness.
A splendid set of prizes were bought, which were exposed for a few days in the window at Tyler's, that well known jeweler on Canal Street, to public inspection; and their beauty and magnificence were the theme of universal remark.
They consisted of a heavy soli^ silver cake stand, with a beautiful medallion of Washington in the centre, as first prize; a pair of plain heavy, gold-lined silver goblets, in a fine morocco silver case, as second prize; and a magnificent gold-lined cun, with the head of Martha Washington in relief	on its side, as	third pri^e.
This last	one was a special premium, presented by Mr. J. H.
Nicholson, the	great paving contractor,	formerly of New	Orleans,	but
now of Bay St.	Louis, who is ever ready	to do his share	towards
helping a’lon? anything that promises to advance the prosperity a.nd well-being of his country.
Each prize has engraven on it, in tasteful and elegant characters, the words;
"To (name of winning vessel) by the citizens of Bay St. Louis - August 19, 1867."
(copied by M. James Stevens)