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. .'.-r.-.iiy Settled oil'Coast Lat-:;t r.i' 2ightccntli Century.
ifather was born in New ’.i in ISOS because of the lack dicril facilities at the Bay. His wv.s an officer under Gen’L >v Jackson at the battle of New i:i 1315, his sword was lost Stanislaus fire. The Sau-..'.ily settled on the Gulf Coast r part of the eighteenth , !.-:ving been granted a con-
•	*■{ 1-nh in what afterwards : ihincock and Harrison coun-ihj;- engaged in the lumber : c.i both Jordan and Wolfs On Jordan river and Bayou i:: ihey planted Sea-Island cot-nd sugarcane. A disastrous ane of 1856 (so my grandfather e) flooded the plantation with r.ter rendering the land worth-..i’ cotton and sugar' cane for
’.\:ul.r.e family (from which .. : iior also descends) arrived on coast in the early part of the . eath century when they were ■d to flee Santo Domingo at ’ on their o.wn ship when the : rose in rebellion (they were K.nters).
.'rothers ^Tarried Toulme Sisters.
) .i.uicier brothers (Henry and ' r.'.arried two Toulme sisters
■	i.v :.«d Madeline). The double ••ui	families into a friendship
.j	never	questicned.	With
sla\es and lots of business rolled alon** happily until war broke upon them and years left them poor. The .	- n	where	su^ar cane	was
:	.?•!	Bayou	LsCroix is	still
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Mf. Saucier, in addition to writing news, was perhaps better known to older readers of The Echp as the author of the famous Jacques Pistache Letters, all of which ran in serial form for over a long period of years, so great were their popularity. In this edition The Echo carries two of such letters written, original, and are published in reminiscence of other days and as a tribute to the letters of other times.
•	Mr. Saucier and Mrs. Saucier and their three daughters reside in Louisiana, and their fine son, 'Ensign Harry S. Saucier, is in the Lend-Lease Department, at Washington, where he holds responsible position. The Echo is proud of the privilege to carry this picture, and to pay tribute to a friend tried and true. In this we are joined hv the many friends of Harry’s in Bay St. Louis.
known as the “Sugar Field.”
My father, reaching the age of sixteen in 1862 ran away from St. Stanislaus and home and joined the Confederate army at Mobile. Seven members of the families paid the supreme gift to their beloved Southland. My father and his uncle Captain J. V. Toulme returning alive.
When the writer was “growing up” the Bay (known as a port of entry by the U. S. Government as Shieldsboro) was a beautiful fishing village, a lovely jewel in a turquoise setting of the sea. Two world famous sports trained along its beach road: John L. Sullivan and Bob Fitzsimmons. Both expressed their fondness for the place.
The Old “Treaty Oak” Fell Prey To Storm.
The King of all the beautiful trees
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| 3ut our new friend and citizen, Charles G.. Moreau, would not be disheartened, h^’d made up his mind and no high wind, salt water or blitz could deter him. So there in, that little fisher-village that could not boast of anything modern was bom THE SEA COAST ECHO, a weekly edition that promised the people all the news all- the time—and brother, that word has been “The Real McCoy” for this past half century. Quick to see: a desired improvement and to foster it, The Echo kept the fires burning.’1 If there was anything that required the civic interest of the people The Echo was its most devout advocate and champion. Today the once fisher”s village has been groomed into a real city that holds her place with head aloft, proud of her own accomplishments.
A Damon and VTliythis Friendship 'Lasting Over 50 Years.
When the Echo was launched this writer and the. editor formed a friendship which has continued uninterruptedly this half century. At the outset friend Moreau was very kind and offered to print whatever we would like to see in type, so we gingerly offered a “spring” poem after that whenever we got a toehold on a rhyme, The Echo would suffer and the writer began to believe he was of great importance.
The spring of ’92 brought surcease to the suffering Echo when we left under contract for , South America to build the ’Cartagena-Magdalena railway and ship docks, in company with our buddy Dixon L. Witter fwho later was in the Boar War of S. Africa and died in Cape Town.)
We left the “States” aboard the larpe sailimr vessel Charlotte (which is Siamese for slow) on Saturday, Mav 7. 1892 and we walked the decks r>f thnt cussed windjammer for forty-one lone. hot. days, arriving at the beautiful walled city of Cartagena on June 17 with about two gallons of u'nter in the tank. Ten days out r** Mobile sighted Point San An-jipht at the, western end’ of Cuha. th«rp wa ^ot into a dead calm and drifted between there and siriht of Mcrirf-> r.iaht off the-const of Yu-
his splendid administration and thC|Spr decisions of his court were always^ ^ad sustained on appeal to higher court.; ciot Julge Breath was well known as.and secretary-manager of People Bldg. &|the Loan Association, a trust he. held | Cd i for over thirty years and up to his'nen passing in recent years, aged 85'and years.	I was
He -was highly connected in his thor own right and was married to Mrs. 1 Oak Madeline Toulme Breath, who passed |jts away long years ago, a represen-1 twei tative of the old and honored families. Istret Mrs. Vicky Breath Calogne is a^he surviving daughter, and on October:beat 31, 1941, his only son, Charles A. she Breath passed away. Mrs. Lydia | dreri Eagan is a step-daughter and W. E., fe'.l Saucier a step son.	i	and'
Judge Breath was a man of learn-' the ' ing, cultured and traveled and widely jcerti known. C. A. Breath, Jr., and Mrs. j “Cit. Roger M. Boh are his grandchildren, j who
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one of the most beautiful spot^ v.eijnli ever saw. It is nine miles long by.oaks about two miles wide, the water is j they deep sea water "and one can see the | walk coral and sponges on the bottom in j back twenty-five feet. It is entered by j thin; a small entrance called Boca Chico | is iv. (small mouth in Spanish) there is | in yi a large entrance but not navigable | Kl as it was closed to prevent Sir Fran-|Joyc cis Drake, the pirate, from entering “Tro the city. The Bay is surrounded by mind mountains, the beaches lined with hern Cocoanut trees.	<
Every Sunday we’d gather coral I i! I and sponges, and beautiful sea shell3. A { Back in the interior along the river3j '	!
Dique and Magdalena there is U t-’j a profusion of wild fruit and nuts. Agu!
The city, then with a population of 1 about twenty thousand, was all wail-1'
. .i ‘ Congratulationr, j Coast Echo <, i
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