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The town has several fine hostelries, the chief among which are the Montrose, the Bossel, anti the Fairview, besides many boarding-houses and cottages, where the traveling and visiting public are well entertained.
Most of these places, or houses, were originally constructed to meet the demands of summer visitors to a seaside resort. But recently they have been altered, to render then perfectly comfortable for the Northern visitors, who are commencing to show a disposition to see the Mississippi seacoast for a winter home more than any other portion of the South.
During the past winter as many as 1600 Northern tourists and travelers visited Biloxi, many of them remaining for months, charmed, as they said, with the cheap living, convenient railroad travel, and balmy atmosphere of this coast.
1,OOP Accommodatlon Hot el Needed
The proprietor of one of Biloxi's leading hotels professes the opinion that if a capitalist or a company would erect a hotel in the town capable of accommodating as many as a thousand winter guests at ? time, they could keep it full of Northern tourists, and do an extremely profitable business, devoting their efforts exclusively to providing for this class, and closing their doors to summer patronage entirely; and that practically every additional laree hotel built on the coast would benefit others existing by bringing the region into greater prominence as a vinter resort.
On this theory, which appears not only plausible but strictly correct, the mammoth Floridian winter hotels were not the effect of the annual Northern migration in that direction, but they were the cause of it. They were built to attract winter tourists or residents and to increase the visiting throngs, rather than provide for those vho had already fallen into the habit of coming. This is a fact vhich seems to be well worthy the consideration of capitalists.
The Northern visitors who stopped or dwelt at Biloxi last winter vere chiefly from the extreme Northern and North-western States, whose southward journey to this point is much shorter than that to San Augustine, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, or other resorts of Florida.
The mere fact of Biloxi's suburban relationship to New Orleans forms one of its chief attractions to such visitors, and in this all the sencoast resorts of Mississippi possess a great advantage.