1907 Timeline 9/05) Dorr 1908 =But LL, (Long if arts Open - Athletic field - Forestry Photosophy Statement -Homors Property (12/8/24) by GBD at BHULA, 1907 -Homans gift (Seligman art.) -filth from G. Pinchet in Sierra - Letter from 6. Pinchat (5/27) N7. respondy t letter (3) for CBD. Cretaining docation (1500?) -William Everett on mety's -CBO "sitting" c Urs Piper- CBD at his home Thunsday Published in Proc. Soc Pychical Pes. Every Club 12/29 (see strep. file) for 1911 -But Arts her owen Johnson. - Rochefellers 1st west to llaine -wm Evertt on 2. Jan. meety c (10/14/68). GBD at his hence. Eliot announer his retirent By April 1909 Lowell 15 actog Pes. - -Roomelts governor Coferem e. Sharldand mother - Jri+ Abby in Bardtarber (July) for 1st times Nelsan born. - 1908 is year that GBD as "ny our action with c HCTPR" bepinng. GBD to S.A.Elict, 11/11/29 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BULLETIN 19 Visiting Committees to the Museum Notes. for 1907. GROUND WAS BROKEN FOR THE NEW BUILDING THE Visiting Committees entrusted with the on April 11. Excavations are proceeding for the duty of examining and reporting upon the va- foundations of the power plant and for those of rious departments of the Museum and branches of the eastern wing of the main structure. its activity for the year 1907 are as follows The Museum has never in its history felt its limita- tions of space so keenly as at present. The collec- Administration. Library. tions in its keeping, its own possessions and objects Laurence Minot, Chairman. C. K. Bolton, Chairman. loaned, greatly exceed the capacity of both gal- Arthur F. Estabrook. Holker Abbott. leries and storage rooms. Five years ago a large A. Lawrence Lowell. Mrs. Henry D. Burnham. Wallace L. Pierce. Miss Agnes Irwin. storage space was rented elsewhere and more has Mrs. Roger Wolcott. A. W. Longfellow. been secured since. Within the past few weeks the only one of the basement offices which was not Chinese and Japanese Art. Collection of Paintings. also used for storage has been in part given up to Edward J. Holmes, Dr. A. T. Cabot, Chairman. that purpose. The Museum will be obliged to ask Chairman. Dr. Henry C. Angell. the indulgence of its friends during the remainder Dr. W. S. Bigelow. Eben D. Jordan. Mrs. Harold J. Coolidge. E. C. Tarbell. of its occupancy of the present building, both be- Ralph Adams Cram. F. P. Vinton. cause it is unable to take advantage of all desirable Robert Treat Paine, 2d. offers for loans and on account of the crowded and Mrs. George Tyson. sometimes irregular arrangement of the galleries. Classical Department. Print Department. E. W. Forbes, Chairman. Francis Bullard, Chairman. THE NEW EDITION OF THE HANDBOOK of the Mrs. W. Scott Fitz. Gordon Abbott. Museum is now in press and will soon be placed W. Amory Gardner. Allen Curtis. on sale. It contains several new features. The Bela L. Pratt. H.G. Curtis. J. Montgomery Sears. F. G. Fitzpatrick. type is larger, it has more illustrations, explanatory Mrs. J. C. Phillips. introductions to each department have been added, and there is a location plan for the objects illus- Educational Effort. Textile Collection. trated from each of the collections. The complete Stratton D. Brooks, Chairman. Dr. D. W. Ross, Chairman. book, containing nearly three hundred pages, with George B. Dorr. Miss Frances G. Curtis. over four hundred illustrations, will be sold for 50 Miss Fanny P. Mason. Dr. J. W. Elliot. Mrs. R. S. Russell. Mrs. Bayard Thayer. cents, postpaid 60 cents, while any one of its six Walter Sargent. C. J. H. Woodbury. sections - Egyptian Art; Classical Art; Western Art, Pictures Western Art, Miscellaneous Objects Egyptian Department. Western Art (except Textiles). and Textiles Chinese and Japanese Art and the G. M. Lane, Chairman. J.T. Coolidge, Jr., Chairman. Museum and Its History - will be sold separately Mrs. Frederick Ayer. Miss Ellen S. Hooper. at the price of 15 cents; postpaid, 20 cents. Mrs. T. James Bowlker. F. G. Macomber. Augustus Hemenway. John Endicott Peabody. Joseph Lindon Smith. THE ADMISSIONS TO THE MUSEUM for the four months of January, February, March and April were 95,890. In 1906 to the same date they School of the Museum. were 102,087. The figures indicate an increase in the admissions over last year, since the daily ANNUAL EXHIBITION. attendance of the pupils of the school is not now registered. Of the total admissions, 51,343 were The annual exhibition of the works of the pupils Sunday visitors, as compared with 47,284 in the was held at Copley Hall from May 24 to May 30. same period for 1906, and 4,983 were paid ad- PAIGE SCHOLARSHIP. missions, as compared with 4,667 for 1906. This scholarship, entitling the holder to two years' study of art in Europe, has been awarded to Miss AN EXHIBITION OF WATER COLORS will shortly Alice Ruggles of Buffalo, N. Y. Miss Ruggles be installed in the lobby on the basement floor of entered the school in October, 1904, and has held the Museum, reached by the stairway from the the Helen Hamblen Scholarship for two years. western end of the corridor of casts. Since the In the Portrait Class Miss Ruggles took third in sixth and seventh picture galleries were given up Concours December, 1904, and the Sears Prize to oil paintings, no water colors have been shown of $50 in May, 1905. In the Advanced Paint- at the Museum. The basement lobby offers a good ing Class Miss Ruggles won number one in Con- amount of wall space and a fair light. cours in March and December, 1906, and in March, 1907, and was awarded the Ayer Prize DURING JUNE, JULY, AUGUST AND SEPTEM- of $100 in May, 1906, and the Ayer Prize of BER the Textile Room in the basement and the $50 in May, 1907. Library will be closed on Saturdays at 1 P.M. This content downloaded from 137.49.1.13 on Mon, 22 May 2017 14:31:02 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Page 1 of 1 From Ron Epp: regarding the Transit Route From To " Date 02/18/2011 07:30:36 PM > Hi Bill, > > Thanks for the informative and helpful phone call this morning. > > I reviewed my files on the Dorr involvement in the transit line and here is what > I've got. > > The date was January 1907, not 1906, when John Stewart brought to Dorr's attention the proposed trolley route from Ellsworth to Bar Harbor. The four-page account appears as the beginning of part 2 of The Story of Acadia National Park, which was not published in Dorr's lifetime and was an editorial construct of Mary Hale based on manuscript materials at Oldfarm, materials that I don't recall seeing at the Bar Harbor Historical Socirty Museum. > At the ANP Sawtelle Archives (BV.3.f.5.2) is an undated document written by Dorn that is basically concerned with securing the athletic field with funds from Mrs. Kennedy. It begins with a paragraph on the transit company surveys done in spring and summer 1907 but lacks the detail of SANP. Mary Hale's son, Richard Walden Hale, Jr. refers to this topic in his Story of Bar Harbor (1949) where he states that the effect of Dorr's ploy was to keep automobiles out for another year (p. 177). Also, a two page essay by the Rev. Edwin A. Garrett, III that I think appeared in the BHHSM Newsletter titled "He found the Money" refers to Mr. Kennedy as President of the Mt. Desert Transit Company. Raymond Strout has quite an assortment of corporate papers and may know something more about this matter. To sum it up, all that I've read seems derivative of what Dorr claims in the SANP. If you find anything more, I'd appreciate you passing it along. Sorry that I'll miss your presentation on March 10th. If you have some notes, I'd appreciate a copy. To reiterate, Elizabeth and I will be arriving in BH (staying at the Atlantic Eyrie) on May 17th and leaving on the 22nd. My JML talk is at 4 p.m. on the 20th. Becky Cole-Will is also trying to arrange an hour long presentation for the park interpretative staff on the "Superintendent Dorr: Myths, Mysteries, and Facts." If we hear nothing more about the Chapman archive by the time that I arrive, what do you think about the two of us spending a quick hour or so surveying at least some of the content in the boxes labelled JDR Jr.? Hope the two of you enjoy the southern climate. All My Best, Ron > Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. > 47 Pondview Drive > Merrimack, NH 03054 > (603) 424-6149 > eppster2@myfairpoint.net Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 47 Pondview Drive Merrimack, NH 03054 (603) 424-6149 eppster2@myfairpoint.net https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/hwebmail/mail/message.php?index=1702 2/25/2011 112 RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. Petition of the Mount Desert Transit Company, asking approval of articles of association, and action of the Board thereon. January I, 1907. Articles of association of street railroad company organized under Chapter 53 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Maine, and Acts amendatory thereof and additional thereto. We, the undersigned, Clement B. Newbold, a citizen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. George B. Dorr, Robert Amory and Fred C. Lynam, citizens of the State of Maine, residing in the town of Eden, in said State, and John S. Ken- nedy, a citizen of the State of New York, residing at New York city in said State. do hereby associate ourselves together *for the purpose of forming a corporation under the provisions of Chapter 53 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Maine, and Acts amendatory thereof and additional thereto, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating by elec- tricity, compressed air or animal power, a street railroad for public use for street traffic. for the conveyance of persons and property. The name of said corporation shall be the Mount Desert Transit Company. The gauge of road to be constructed and operated by said corporation shall be four feet and eight and one-half inches. The places, cities and towns from which, in which and to which the said street railroad is to be constructed, maintained and operated, are as follows: From Ellsworth to the line between the towns of Trenton and Eden at or near Mount Desert Narrows, so called: thence to Bar Harbor in the town of Eden: thence also (from said Trenton line) to Northeast Harbor in the town of Mt. Desert thence also (from said Trenton line) to Manset in the town of Southwest Harbor, said road to be constructed, maintained and operated in the city of Ellsworth, and the towns of Tren- ton. Eden, Mt. Desert, Tremont and Southwest Harbor, all in the County of Hancock and State of Maine. The length of such railroad as nearly as may be, is forty (40) miles: The amount of capital stock is one hundred and sixty thou- sand dollars ($160.000). Digitized by Google Original from PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 2 RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. 113 The number of shares of which said stock shall consist is sixteen hundred (1600). The names and places of residence of three persons, a major- ity of whom are citizens of the State of Maine, who shall act as Directors of said corporation and shall manage its affairs until others are chosen in their places, are as follows: George B. Dorr, residing at "Old Farm," Bar Harbor, Maine, Robert Amory, residing at "The Eyrie," Bar Harbor, Maine, and Fred C. Lynam, residing at No. 8 High Street, Bar Harbor, Maine. In witness whereof we, the subscribers, have hereunto signed our names and stated our residences, and opposite our names, respectively the number of shares which we, each of us have agreed to take in said company, this 26th day of December, A. D. 1906. No. of Names. Residences. Shares. John S. Kennedy, 6 West 57th St., New York City, 1,400 Clement B. Newbold, Jenkintown P. O., Penna., 50 Robert Amory, Bar Harbor, Maine, 50 Fred C. Lynam, Bar Harbor, Maine, 50 George B. Dorr. Bar Harbor, Maine, 50 Affidavit of Directors of the Mount Desert Transit Company, as required by Section 3 of Chapter 53 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Maine. We the undersigned, George B. Dorr, Robert Amory and Fred C. Lynam, being a majority of the Directors of the Mount Desert Transit Company, said Directors being named in the Articles of Association, to which this affidavit is annexed, hereby make affidavit that the stock of said corporation, as required by Sec. 2 of Chap. 53 of said Statutes as set forth in said Articles of Association, viz., one hundred and sixty thousand dollars ($160,000) has been in good faith subscribed by respon- sible parties : that five per cent of the amount of said stock, to wit. the sum of eight thousand dollars ($8,000) has been paid thereon in cash to the directors named in said Articles of Asso- ciation, and that it is intended in good faith to construct, main- by Google Original from Digitized PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 3, 114 RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. tain and operate the road mentioned in such Articles of Asso- ciation. George B. Dorr, Robert Amory, Fred C. Lynam. STATE OF MAINE. County of Hancock, SS. Dec. 29th, A. D. 1906. Subscribed and sworn to by the above named Fred C. Lynam, Before me, (Seal) ALBERT H. LYNAM, Notary Public. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. County of Suffolk, SS, Dec. 27th, A. D. 1906. Subscribed and sworn to by the above named George B. Dorr and Robert Amory. Before me, CHAS. HALL ADAMS, Commissioner for the State of Maine, residing ( (Seal) at Boston. in said County of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts. STATE OF MAINE. In Board of Railroad Commissioners. It having been shown to the satisfaction of the Board of Railroad Commissioners that all of the provisions of Sections two and three of Chapter fifty-three of the Revised Statutes have been complied with. this certificate of such facts and this approval in writing are hereunto endorsed upon the foregoing Articles of Association of the Mount Desert Transit Company. Dated at Augusta this first day of January, A. D. 1907. JOSEPH B. PEAKS, BENJ. F. CHADBOURNE, PARKER SPOFFORD, Railroad Commissioners of Maine. Digitized by Google Original from PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - Chebacco IX (2008). Investing in Acadia: The Invisible Hand of John Stewart Kennedy 680 THE AMERICAN REVIEW William J. Baker lion dol small be In The Wealth of Nations (1776), Adam Smith extolled the "invis- fight an afterwar ible hand" of logic linking individual enterprise to the common good. kind. Although the relation of personal self-interest to larger social concerns is This That su an arguable topic, Smith's "invisible hand" metaphor is a term potential- tive and ly rich with meanings beyond the metaphorical. History is filled with fluences, high exc literal examples of invisible hands working quietly behind the scenes on York an projects beneficial to large numbers of people. America the taxpa In the creation of Acadia National Park, John Stewart Kennedy is to be the one of those unrecognized, unremembered patrons whose philanthropic men who eyes, not generosity contributed to the common good. Histories of the Park set on li invariably focus on the monumental efforts of George B. Dorr, Charles and not pile of W. Eliot, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., not on Kennedy. They are the the Cree dominant players, he an afterthought. In contrast to their fame, the capacity New Kennedy name is not popularly attached to any mountain, historic to meet home, or carriage trail on Mount Desert Island. institution education Mention of John S. Kennedy usually evokes questions about his ever situ surname. Was he related to that rich and powerful Kennedy clan from from me ger. sent Massachusetts? Was he an uncle or cousin of John F. Kennedy? No, his aid. Th American home was New York City, not Boston; his roots were Scot- owes it when it tish, not Irish; his heritage was Protestant, not Catholic; his passion was that is to economic investment, not politics. These He was an entrepreneurial, managerial wizard, but a private man, not when pu a public figure. Kennedy himself is partly to blame for his own invis- dispositi THE LATE JOHN NTEWART KENNEDY, OF NEW YORK. Kennedy ibility. On projects ranging from hospitals, libraries, and museums in Whose princely bequests for educational purposes of servic New York City to mountain peaks on Mount Desert Island, he ada- were Announced last month.) into his great ins mantly refused to allow public mention of his financial support. (3) The New York Public Library, soon ing of c to take possession of its monumental home; tion that Having once made a huge donation to the enlargement of the New of cent pro York Presbyterian Hospital with the proviso that no announcement of his gift be "proclaimed postentatiously," he similarly put a publicity lid on all the energetic and financial contributions he made to the early stages 6 7-17. Davis affiliations 1 2dreader 1900 (1) Massachusetts 141471 19X0. Cmn. or Lectures xPubs. " " they c C.S. Sargest, Chees. lt. Resect Transit Co. Davis Rolain most Desent Transit Compay Incoparated 1/1/1907 at request Dou, Newheld, Genory, Lynam & Jchn S. Kernedy Lempt 40 males Ellsonth Terton Eder, Teaton N.E. Habe, Monet 5 1, 600 shares, 1400 bought 3 J.S Kenney 50 i. " GDD. Capitaland at $160,000. 100 Dones a Director, paid $2,500. are 4. FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS OF THE State of Maine WITH STATISTICAL TABLES COMPILED FROM THE ANNUAL RETURNS OF THE RAILROAD COMPANIES OPERATING RAILROADS IN THE STATE FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1907, INCLUDING PETITIONS, DECISIONS AND RULES OF THE BOARD MADE DURING THE YEAR ENDED NOVEMBER 30. 1907 AUGUSTA KENNEBEC JOURNAL PRINT 1907 Digitized by Google Original from PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Report of Trees and Planting Committee 1907 GENERAL PLANTING. The chairman reports that work was done by Mr. Grant last autumn. in planting on the village streets and in caring for planting done in previous years. at an expense amounting to $233.-no work having been done by the committee since that time. Care of previous planting, of vines especially, is now necessary and fresh planting along the roadside where opportu- nity has arisen. The places of certain trees, more- over, which were wantonly destroyed a year ago during the visit of the fleet along the walk on lower Main street, need to be refilled by others, which can be obtained from former plantations on the roadside that It would now be better to thin out. On this various work $200 could be expended with advantage If this is more than can be spared from other work $150 would serve for doing what is urgent in the committee's work. VILLAGE GREEN PLANTING. All the trees planted last year and this are doing well, with the exception of certain canoe birches at the western end of the Green which were attacked last autumn by an insect working its way between the bark and wood. around the trunk. The trees thus attacked will need to be replaced. Once established, the canoe birch is one of the hardiest of trees and not readily subject to the attack of insect or other dis- leases, but it is liable to suffer in removal even under the best conditions and is then subject to such attack Amph while its vitality is impaired. One or two of the large poplars on the northern side of the lot, which suffered from the drought last year, are also dying and need to be replaced. Other- wise the only planting to be done upon the Green is Frestry that of a few Norway maples along the southern side of the long path, corresponding to those planted on the northern side this spring along a portion of the walk. These uniting with the others will presently make this walk a shady one throughout the greater portion of its length and add considerably to the pleasantness and beauty of the Green. For these various plantings on the Green your committee recommend an appropriation of $200. After this planting is done but little further appropria- tion for tree planting on the Green will be required. FORESTRY. An attempt has been made this summer by the Tree Committee. jointly with the president of the association. to initiate a movement looking toward investment by the summer residents, either Individu- ally or in association, In such lands on the island as an expert may judge to be of permanent forestry value and not of greater value for other purposes ; and their scientific forestry treatment for the purpose of busi- ness Investment under the direction of a competent expert. The chairman of the committee. having given some study to the question himself and con- sulted experts upon it, believes that sound Investment can be made in such lands on the Island. investment which would ultimately bring a good as well as perma- 133 nent return. The forestry conditions on such land upon the Island are distinctly good. Growth is rapid and pro- duction quick: the woods which can be grown are valuable and all the wood grown will always be readily marketable on the Island itself : and there is a large extent of land upon the island, many thousand acres probably-which. while it is of little or no value for other purposes. would be fertile in tree growth. Such lands rightly treated would be permanently productive. and as in good forestry the woods would be merely thinned from time to time until their main crop of trees had reached full size and marketable value. not over two per cent. of these woodlands at most would ever be cut over in any single year. And this cutting would be massed each year in special areas selected with regard to the growth of trees upon them and to future work. and so selected also as to exert a can- stant check upon the spread of fires upon the island- an important matter in forestry investment as for the landscape. The constant disfigurement now caused by cutting in small. scattered areas along the roads country and paths. and the danger that exists at present from fires starting or spreading in the brush left in them which should be bornt. would be avoided under such Dorr treatment. Under it by far the greater part of the forestable lands upon the island would always have good woods -and a considerable portion of them old and fine of ones-growing on them and subject to good care and forestry treatment. This would be infinitely better believe than the present state of things or anything that could otherwise be hoped for, and would help. more than anything eise could do. to ensure the permanent for beauty of the island. and to add to Its attraction as a summer home. Nor would it hinder at all but help they the outright purchase of such portions of the older woods as might seem to be specially important to fath keep permanently forested for the pleasure of our drives and walks. Such portions would be but a small part of the land capable of good forestry treat- ment. and piece by piece they could be acquired as the woods on them became mature. and held as public reservation. The chairman of the committee believes that this scheme is practicable and economically sound. and that aesthetic results of great importance to the island would inevitably result from its adoption. There is no question moreover that the price of wood is going to advance steadily for many years to come, until the forest crop becomes a profitable one to grow in more arid regions than ours and under conditions less favorable to forest growth. The first step towards such investment is a thorough forestry study of the island by a competent expert and the preparation of a report upon it and forestry map. This the chairman hopes it may be possible to get done within the coming year. The acquisition of land for forestry purposes would follow after slowly, land being only purchased when it could be acquired at a price reasonable in view of its own actual value for the end in view and that of the stand- ing wood upon it. In confirmation of his opinion in this matter the chairman of the Tree Committee sub- mits a letter just received by him from the Forestry Department at Washington. GEORGE B. DORR. Chairman. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICE Washington. Branch of Silviculture. September 3. 1907. MR. GEORGE B. DORR. Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Sir: Mr. Pinchot has undoubtedly written you that he is very much interested in your plan for taking care of the forests on Mount Desert Island. Your scheme for preserving the forests not for purely sentimental or aesthetical reasons but also for financial considera- tions is a very sound one and is in full accord with the principles of true forestry. A work of this kind suc- cessfully carried out would be of great value to forestry in general. and would serve as 2 conspicuous object lesson to other forest owners and forest inves- tors of what can be done in this line. The forests on Mount Desert Island seem to offer a good opportunity for such an enterprise. and the Forest Service will be very giad to do ail that it can to help you in carrying out your plan. I do not think it will be possible this fail to make as thorough an examination as would be necessary for a full and authoritative report on the situation. which is absolutely essential for your purpose. Unfortunate- ly. Mr. Cary cannot visit the island this fail I shall. however. be very glad to send Mr. S. T. Dana. of the Forest Service. about September 15. to talk matters over with you and to make a preliminary investigation of the conditions there with a view to completing the work next year. Very truly yours. (Signed) Wx. T. Cox. Assistant Forester. and circulated with The annual Voted that the report be printed report of the association. 213 1907 has lately published a brief memoir of Charles The Emerson society gave Mrs. Howe yesterday the ith special regard to this phase of his ceaseless largest audience of the season, while she gave her remi- rom which I gather more facts than Monroe gives niscences of an early acquaintance with the Concord poet- ir years older than Alcott, but died in 1872, 16 sage, and a view of his relation to life and society. She ier; not, however, until he had seen and described spoke of the early misconception of him in Boston, when 6 of his efforts to introduce the Prussian system of she first came here about 1837-8 to visit, where her nal schools. In his Framingham address in 1864 brother had a friendship with Longfellow, and herself with peaking of the convention of Plymouth county, De- a distant kinsman, Samuel G. Ward, then of Boston. It 1836: was he who introduced Emerson to her as an acquaintance, who was to accompany her back to New York; during which rge meeting-house of the First parish in Plymouth journey she endeavored, she said, to convert him from and I opened the whole matter as clearly and Unitarianism to her youthful orthodoxy, and reminded him S I could, --showing that the great work must be- that Satan is ever roaming about, seeking whom he may nding a state normal school in Plymouth county. I devour. To which Emerson replied, "Yes, Miss Ward, audience to catechise me about my views and but do you not think the angel gets the better of the demon 1 they did so. The audience warmed themselves at last?" which was to her rather a new view of the subject. abod Morton, Esq., deacon of the First parish, Mr. Malloy and others took part in the brief discussion said: 'Mr. President, I am glad to see this day. following, and related the pleasure with which he heard is well begun. The mass of facts now presented Mrs. Howe give her lecture on Emerson's relation to so- lainly prove conclusively the inestimable value of ciety at the Concord school of philosophy in 1884, and met seminaries. Mr. Brooks says he wants the first her socially for the first time at a dinner table that day. lished in the Old Colony, and so do I, sir; and I Some allusion having been made to Goethe and Emerson, $1000 toward its establishment." Mrs. Howe said, "Do you think that with all his genius Goethe did so much for society as Emerson?" and it was :cured the building of the Bridgewater normal replied that he did not. nd this was my old friend Morton, father of Mrs. uncle of my college friend, Edwin Morton, long (493) May 23, 1907. EMERSON IN A WEEK OF AN- d with me in many actions--among them the sup- NIVERSARIES. hn Brown and the relief of his family. Edwin Mor- father of Edwin, was a partner of Ichabod, then a This has been a week of anniversaries and memorials. us merchant, sending out vessels from their own The ancient glories and strifes of anniversary week are Wellingsley, on both sides of which stood the cot- passed away; but there is still much to be said and done in nid orchards, of the two brothers. They gave this last full week of May. It now includes what was not ney toward the Brook Farm experiment and there- formerly much noticed, --the birthday of Emerson and of rassed their property. When the older brother Mrs. Howe, both which are this week celebrated, although 364, his nephew Edwin wrote and joined in singing the domestic commemoration of Mrs. Howe comes on the ral hymn, which I think better poesy than James actual birthday, next Monday, the 27th At the Emer- quoted above:-- son society meeting, --the last of the season, some portions of Parker's critique of Emerson in 1850 were read, in ICHABOD MORTON. contrast to the flippancies of the latest biographer, who uses Emerson to exalt his own altitude of criticism. The in have heaven here, if we but live rightly --I.M.] biographer knew not his victim, while Parker, a man of competent learning, had known Emerson intimately for a He dreamed that heaven should come to earth, dozen years. And ceaseless toiled the day to view; O'erborne, he sank before its birth, (494) May 30, 1907. LOUIS AGASSIZ--WHY EMERSON And lo! to him the dream is true. NEVER PRINTED THE LECTURE ON THE FRENCH. O weary heart! o weary hand! No more the anxious strife renew ! Louis Agassiz, whose 100th birthday was properly cele- A Power above the vision planned brated at Cambridge on Monday, was Swiss by birth and And heaven indeed has come to you. early education, but also studied both in Germany and Paris, and had a degree of loyalty to the science teaching Sweet May returns, --with leaf and flower in the French capital which led him to protest against The garden of his love expands; Emerson's one lecture on the French national character, Rewarding Autumn brings her dower, which he gave in Cambridge while I was in college and But gives the fruit to other hands! Agassiz was our geological professor--long before his So blest is he, and ever blest, great enterprise of the natural history museum was car- Who patient SOWS where others reap; ried forward to success. Having heard the lecture, and And ever-ripening fields shall best never hearing more of it, or seeing it in print anywhere, His ever-growing memory keep. I once asked Emerson what had become of it. It belonged to the same period as the lectures on England which made May 16, 1907. MRS. HOWE AT THE EMERSON up "English Traits," and that book had been 20 years be- Y. fore the world when I asked the question. Emerson replied, Corp. 18 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. June 15th, 1907. President Charles W. Eliot, Harvard University, Cambridge, Kass. Dear President Eliot, It would materially help toward the completion of the new road planned for the development of the land lying to the south of my own at Bar Harbor the greater part of which has now already been built at my own expense and that of Mrs Markoe if Harvard College would place two hundred dollars in my hands to be expended by one on the building of that section of the road which runs across the western end of its lot and gives access to it. And on the clearing of the land adjacent to it from dead trees which now disfigure it and are a source of danger from fire in summer. I have myself built the road and cleared the roadsides along the adjoining Chase land and I hope to be able to Eet the whole road completed so that it can be used for driving before the summer ends. Yours truly, George B. does UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICE Washington. Branch of Silviculture. September 3. 1907. MR. GEORGE B. DORR. Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Sir : Mr. Pinchot has undoubtedly written you that he is very much interested in your plan for taking care of the forests on Mount Desert Island. Your scheme for preserving the forests not for purely sentimental or aesthetical reasons but also for financial considera- tions is a very sound one and is in full accord with the principles of true forestry. A work of this kind suc- cessfully carried out would be of great value to forestry in general. and would serve as 2 conspicuous object lesson to other forest owners and forest inves- tors of what can be done in this line. The forests on Mount Desert Island seem to offer a good opportunity for such an enterprise. and the Forest Service will be very giad to do all that it can to help you in carrying out your plan. I do not think it will be possible this fall to make 25 thorough an examination as would be necessary for a full and authoritative report on the situation. which is absolutely essential for your purpose. Unfortunate- ly. Mr. Cary cannot visit the island this fall. I shall. however. be very glad to send Mr. S. T. Dana. of the Forest Service. about September 15. to talk matters over with you and to make a preliminary investigation of the conditions there with a view to completing the work next year. Very truly yours. (Signed) Wx. T. Cox. Assistant Forester. and circulatch with The annual Voted that the e port be printed report of the association BAR HARBOR'S NEW TEMPLE. Special to The New York Times. New York Times (1857-Current file): Jun 16. 1907; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times 2001) pg. SMA3 BAR HARBOR'S NEW TEMPLE. Copy of Old Greek Shrine Will Be Devoted to Music and Art to be Opened Next Month. Special to The New York Times. Emma Eames and Emilio de Gogorza will BAP. HARBOR, Maine, June 15.-The appear. middle of June finds Bar Harbor's Sum- series of six concerts has been planned, including some of the best-known attrac- mer colony busy establishing themselves tions of the country. The list is as fol- for the Summer months, and cottage after lows: July 13, Mme. Emma Eames and tottage opening daily. The Newport Emilio de Gogorza; July 26, Petschnikoff and Marguerite Hall; Aug. 8, De Pach- House, one of the largest hotels in town. mann. Chopin recital: Aug. 9, Barrere opened to-day, with a good booking, quintet and Mrs. Francis L. Wellman, née while the St. Sauvuer opens Thursday. Miss Emma Juch: Aug. 17. Campanari; Aug. 23, Bar Harbor Choral Society. For The Malvern and the Louisburg will not this concert a number of well-known solo- open their doors until July 1. ists of National reputation have been en- The opening of the hotels makes little gaged, whose names will be announced later. difference to the cottage set, however, The committee in charge of these con- which is continuing to arrive daily. The certs consists of Mrs. Robert Abbé, Chair- more fashionable clubs are all now open, man; Dave Hennen Morris of New York, Secretary; Mrs. John I. Kane, Miss De- and are being used to considerable ex- hon, Mrs. Henry Lane Eno, Mrs. Park- tent, especially the Swimming Club. man, Mrs. Ernesto G. Fabbri, Louis B. Among the arrivals of the week have McCagg. George B. Dorr, Walter Dam- been Mr. and Mrs. John Stewart Ken- rosch, Ernest Schelling, Mrs. Miles B. Carpenter, Mrs. Francis L. Wellman. Mrs. bedy of New York. with two or three W. P. Douglass, Miss Baker, Mrs. Alex- Gests, who have opened Kenarden Lodge, ander J. Cassatt. their handsome estate on the shore, for The first meeting of the Village Im- provement Association Is called for Tues- the Summer months. Mr. Kennedy spent day, June 18. at the Y. M! C. A. rooms, two days here looking after his interests and as it is the first meeting of the year, in the Mount Desert Transit Company, a large attendance is expected. L. E. Opdycke of New York is President of the new electric system here, of which the society. be is President. A number of well known Mrs. J. Montgomery Sears's cottage, The Summer visitors are Directors. He left Briars, on the shore, which has been let to Mrs. Foster Milliken of New York for for Canada, where he will spend the rest a term of years, has been sublet for the DE the month on his annual fishing trip present season to R. Fulton Cutting of at the Restigonaho and Cascapardia Sal- New York, who will arrive about the 20th of this month to occupy it with his family. thon Clubs. Mr. and Mrs. William M. Fleitmann of Mrs. Henry F. Dimock of New York has New York were among the Jate arrivals taken the Cleftstone cottage on Eden of the week, and will occupy the Pendle- ton cottage, The Bagatelle, this Summer. Street, and expects to arrive here the Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Auchincloss of New first week in July. Mrs. Dimock is prom- York and family have arrived here for mently identified with the new Temple the Summer months, and will spend the season. bf Music and Arts, which is nearing com- Mr. and Mrs. John Erwin of New York pletion, and which, it is hoped, will be arrived this week. and will occupy Buena ready for use this Summer. Vista, on Eden Street, which they have had for several Summers. The new Temple of Music and Arts is S. Megargee Wright and family. who expected to be one of the most attractive have had one of the Roberts cottages on features of this resort. The building it- Mount Desert Street for several seasons, have taken the Lookout cottage on the self is a copy of an old Grecian temple, Eagle Lake Road this Summer, and ar- finished to represent Parian marble. The rived this week. building is finished in white stucco, with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Bridgehan of New York arrived Tuesday morning to spend a red roof. All the lighting will be from the Summer at Rockhurst, their cottage the top, after the manner of the ancient on Mount Desert Street, which is one of Greek shrines. The walls and ceiling the show places of the town. Mrs. Carolyn K. Wright, who had the of the stage will be constructed on the Ladd cottage last season, has leased the same prinolples as the sounding boards Hinch cottage, on High Street, and is ex- of the stages in German music halls. The pected shortly. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Emery of New York Lile roof is of special tiling of Venetian arrived here this week, opening their cot- red, made especially for this building. The tage, the Turrets, on Eden Street, for Interior finish is of Michigan pine. The the season. pillars which adorn the sides and ends are Bar Hapbor is to have the distinction of entertaining the Austrian Embassy the largest wooden columns ever turned in again this Summer. as a cottage for the Maine. There is a large logigla on the members of the Embassy has been leased front of the building. and on either side from Frederic May. The members of of this are large panels in which will be this Embassy are well-known guests here placed plaster casts from the Parthenon and very popular. Other additions are frieze, which are being imported from expected to the diplomatic colony here shortly. Paris. The new building has a very attractive Mrs. Dehon and Miss Dehon of New situation near the Kebo golf links on the York were among the arrivals of the Cromwell's Harbor Road. just east of the week. and will occupy the Frost cottage amphitheatre putting green. The location on West Street, which they have had for a number of seasons. Is in a most beautiful grove of trees. The Mrs. Martin Van Buren of New York hall has a seating capacity of 380. The concerts that will be given there has arrived at the Higgins cottage in the this Summer will be noteworthy events in Field, where she has passed many Sum- mers. the musical world. A number of commit- Mr. and Mrs. Lea McIlvaine Luquer of tee meetings have been held at the new New York came this week to spend the building this week to complete details of season at Eagle Cliff on the Schooner plans formulated in the early Fall of last Head Road. year, and the building will be pushed to Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Ostrander of completion at once, to be dedicated July 17, when no less personages than Mme. New York arrived Monday to open their cottage here for the season. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. EAMES DEDICATES BAR HARBOR TEMPLE Special to The New York Times New York Times 1857-Current file): Jul 14, 1907; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 2001) pg. 7 EAMES DEDICATES BAR HARBOR TEMPLE Copy of Old Greek Shrine Built for the Summer Concerts. THE SEASON'S ATTRACTIONS First Hop of the Season at the Swim- ming Club-Dinners, Bridges, and Receptions. Special to The New York Times. BAR HARBOR, July 13.-The new Tem- ple of Mustc and Arts at Bar Harbor was dedicated to-day, in the presence of one of the most fashionable audiences ever gathered here. Mme. Emma Eames was the soloist, as- sisted by Emilio De Gogorza, the bari- tone. The building, which is close to the Kebo golf links, and situated in a com- manding position on the side of a hill. is a perfect model of an old Greek temple, both inside and out. It was built en- tirely by subscription by music lovers of the Summer residents, and is designed solely for an art gallery and concert room. The concert given to-day. was the first of a series in which the other artist$ are Giuseppe Campanari, Vladimir D6 Pachmann, Alexander Petschnikoff, and Margaret Hall, the Barrere Quintet. and Mrs. Francis L. Welman, and the Bar Harbor Choral Society. The Building Committee consisted of Mrs. Henry F. Dimock. Mrs. Robert Abbe, Henry Lane Eno. George B. Dorr. and George W. Vanderbilt. The Concert Committee consits of Mrs. Robert Abbe. Dave Hennen Morris, Mrs. John I. Kane. Mrs. Henry F. Dimock. Mrs. Alexander J. Cassatt. Miss Dehon. Mrs. Henry Lane Eno. Mrs. Parkman. I Ernesto G. Fabbri. Louis B. McCagg. George B. Dorr. Walter Damrosch. Miss Baker. Mrs. W. P. Douglass. Mrs. Fran- / cis L. Welman. Mrs. Miles B. Carpenter. and Ernest Schelling. The first of the season's series of week- ly hops was given at the Swimming Club to-night, with one of the largest gather- ings in attendance ever there. A number of dinners were given pre- vious to the hop. Mrs. J. C. Gerndt of New York enter- tained at bridge at the Swimming Club. followed by a pleasant tea. Those pres- ent were: Mrs. William Macey. Mrs. Francis L. Welman, Mrs. Harvey Inglis. Mrs. Walter Dabney. Mrs. E. H. Buckley, Mrs. Stewart. Miss Macey. Miss Larkin. Mrs. Anderson. Mrs. Shinkle, Mrs. Win- throp McKim. Mrs. William L. Fleitmann, Miss Linzee. and Miss Biddle. Mrs. Henry F. Dimock of New York came to-day and has the Clefstone cot- tage. She came from her Summer home at South Coventry. Conn., and has as her guest her daughter. Mrs. Cary Hutchin- son. Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. Minis and Mrs. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 1907 11 April 2019 The archives at the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington Connecticut contain several letters from William and Alice James to the owner of the Hill-Stead residence, Theodate Pope (later Riddle). These letters written to Theodate in the years 1906-1908 usually reference her sustained interest in psychical research, an area of professional interest to Mr. and Mrs. William James for more than two decades prior to this interchange. The archives also contains photographic evidence of the James's visit there in 1907, and perhaps on other occasions. There are repeated references to other researchers and interested parties in this area, John George Piddington, Richard Hodgson, Hubert Livingston Carrington, and James Henry Hyslop-and of course George B. Dorr. A letter from Alice (7.14.1908) is most revealing for she hopes "that(George Dorr's work of this Past winter will prove to be a solid one. He has tried to make it such and he certainly has taken good care of the 'light.' He is building a summer cottage for Mrs. Piper at Owl's Head [Rockport, ME] where she will be near to Margaret Bancroft, and SO looked after a little." Therein she also refers to the "unwise" efforts of Ethel Sands who wrote "warning letters to G.B.D." William, James writes (9.2.1907) to Theodate beginning "A first-rate week (with Dorr at Bar Harbor, and two hour talk with Carrington last evening." In a letter from Oxford (5.8.1908) he refers to a letter to Dorr which he now sends Theodate {not included], remarking that "knowing of G.B.D.['s] recent devotion to the cause and admirable investigations, [I] felt put out at what seemed an attempt to get at Mrs. Piper from London, over his head as it was." He compliments Theodate and states that "similar explanations [were given] to D[orr] which will make him also see it in the true light. He has struck quite a new lead, and 'Myers' is developing a novel type of manifestation. There seem to be no end of them!" William also writes to Theodate (8.14.1907) that "we are going to Geo. Dorr's on the 22nd," after three days with Miss Pope at Farmington. Ronald H. Epp Hill-Stead& William James 482 November 1907 November 1907 483 To Ida Minerva Tarbell The greatest pleasure your book has constantly brought me, for it has aid close at hand through it all, came from the ever-present assurance 95 IRVING ST. I CAMBRIDGE. Nov 17.0 hat you had cared to send it. The book itself, meanwhile, grows more Dear Miss Tarbell, urely memorable. I cannot quite adjust my thoughts, even yet, to all I thank you for your letter, too long unanswered. It may be (tholl eterms of it. I am sure, however, that it comes nearer the philosophy isn't likely) that I shall have some stuff susceptible of popularization. ward which I have blundered through my fifty years than I should at happens that just at this moment McClure is accepting a short addre st have thought it could. That what we call truth is itself conditioned that I gave at Radcliffe College the other last "address" I shall the imperfections of our wits and our language is as plain as that the ever give in my life! Someone from that magazine had interviewed rth turns. That we live and die in terms of surmise is another little wife during my absence in the Country about my writing some articl uth not to be gainsaid. That we need not think in these lesser terms and she had promised to "submit" that as soon as it was delivered, with clear. That the terms in which we think, at our wisest, are as far this the result of their accepting it if I will make it a soliloquy-a least perfection soon comes to follow. Finality is nowhere within human an address on a particular occasion. So I must now soliloquize it That we can always press some way further on the road thither is have nothing now in sight for a possible "American." But I shan't for datemakes life at once most despairing and most inspiring. get!-What a beautiful November. Paint, old as all this may seem, it will perhaps tell you better than any Very sincerely yours, Wm Jam itort to be more precise what the vistas are when I have strayed with ALS: PMA from you, during the months of silence. In temperament, I am Ida Tarbell, previously with McClure's Magazine, was at this time associated with A more and more the Tory I was born. It is a good world, this, and a very ican Magazine. that the same time. Progress takes us into new regions of both sorts. 2WJ's "Social Value of the College-Bred." who would rather linger cherish the old good- secure that, ill as mngs go, they might go worse. You who press on have more confident not completely sustained, I personally think, by the noble, tragic From Barrett Wendell story of human aspiration. But, at heart, we are more at one than 358 Marlborough Street, I 19 November for careless moments sometimes make us fancy. For what we both for most is that the truth we leave behind us shall help the time to Dear James: The pure delight your letter brings me is dimmed by sense of towards more righteousness that it has been our own passing lot carelessly I must have seemed to neglect you all these months. iffuse. Pragmatism came to me, a night-mare of a summer was beginning as pleasant to see Billy the other day. Every hearty message to dear old Aunt Sarah Barrett, who has no other of her line near by and to you all. a stroke of paralysis, which seemed final. She lingered, day by day Always sincerely yours Barrett Wendell I had-gladly, too, for she has been perhaps the most constantly 18 bms Am 1092.9 (683) lightful of all my kin since I was a baby-to be with her every day letter of 18 November 1907 is calendared. ter weeks, she began, most deplorably, to recover a bed-ridden Arah Barrett was a sister of Mary Bertoldi Barrett Wendell, Wendell's mother. tence. Incidentally, there were many perplexities-a new thing fo in just this aspect. It goes on still. She is really better, to survit definitely. I do not have to see her constantly, though I am therea Margaret Mary James ten as possible. From May to October, however, I hardly missed And it was all I could do-Letters, work, reading, everything well 95 IRVING ST. I CAMBRIDGE. Nov 21.07 the board. And so the weeks passed into months, without a WOW Peg This is just a note, snatcht into the before breakfast hour, you; until, for my shame, I didn't write. others being still up stairs, to say that we are gladly expecting you p.484 485 for Thanksgiving. We have been having rather busy times, with Sher I am now hurrying to Harvard Square with your bundle. I suppose win Gibbens, Miss Pope, etc spending the nights, but it's over. I tod you got the previous one, also expressed to the Hotel by Adams express. have got off some extra jobs, and can settle to work on the Hodgson This one goes by American Express. Please acknowledge receipt! Piper records, beginning to day. Bill is gone with Roger W. Superscript(2) to the Yours, as ever, WJ. Cape-poor things! the weather being SO bad. Your mother is well ALS: CtY no headaches. Mrs. Piper is in Boston at last. Geo Dorr also I saw The Mills Hotels were in New York City. James Bates Peterson, WJ's long-standing him yesterday at Sam Ward's funeral at Mount Auburn 3 Royce is giv charity, resided in one of them. ing Lowell lectures, I shall go to night. 4 Also for the 2nd time to Lo! hengrin at the Castle Square Theatre to morrow night. Think of 3 weeks of that superlative Opera with best seats at 50 cents!! Keep well To Wincenty Lutoslawski and give my love to Mary W..6 I'm summoned to bkfst! Your loving W.J 95 IRVING ST. | CAMBRIDGE. Nov. 23. [1907] ALS: MH bms Am 1092.9 (3090) Dear Luto-Your heartrending letter of yesterday arrives this A.M.-all 1 In his diary for 18 November 1907 WJ notes: "Sherwin Gibbons and his wife for the the effect of Mills Hotel! Aussi que diable alliez vous faire dans cette night." galère? The brutality of their not receiving the package because it was 2 Roger Sherman Warner. unpaid! I ought to have paid it, but I imagined your feeling pleased at Samuel Gray Ward (1817-1907), American banker, father of Thomas Wren Ward, paying it yourself. A similar package (also unpaid) (the second) went WJ's diary entry for 21 November 1907 is: "Went to Royce's Lowell lecture. Loyalty. the day before yesterday (or yesterday, I can't remember which, my brain See letter to Cattell of 21 August 1907. is SO muddled in these days). 5 According to his diary WJ saw Lohengrin on 15 November and thought the "basi I singer" splendid. hope you wont turn away from/America merely on account of the 6 Mary Worthington. brutalities of the Mills Hotel. As regards the general question of what you had better do next, I confess that I have no advice to give. Your lines of activity-Yoga & Poland-are so remote from anything that I To Wincenty Lutoslawski have had experience of, that I have no intuitive impressions. All I know 95 IRVING ST. I CAMBRIDGE. Nov 21. 07 is that one can't build up anything solid all of a sudden. Unless you Dear Luto-Truly you lead an adventurous life! Your record of wish simply to be passive, I should not go to Asheville yet. And if you achievements in your long letter which arrives this morning, is wonder do wish simply to be passive, there are numerous places in Europe far ful. You ask me to address you at "General Delivery" which I do as far more erfreulich than that. Your provincial tour in Massachusetts was SO as this letter goes, but the bundle of pamphlets that came two days ago, successful, that I would try to work that line a bit first. Why not go next I prefer to send by express, as it exceeds the limit of 4 pounds weight, to Chicago? and see if any opening occurs? I can do nothing in the way and to send it to the hotel, where I am very sure you will find it. The of help, for X have no access either to Yoga circles or Polish circles, and Mills Hotels are charity institutions, almost, built for working men, and having seen you started in both those ways (I tell everyone that you are barely [able] to pay interest on plant. I'm surprised that Fletcher the Yoga of my Energies article{)], I must leave the resultant in the should have sent you there You must have given him a tremendous hands of yourself and Time! Don't leave America yet. Wait for some- impression of your asceticism.-Don' hope for anything more from thing to turn up! Lowell, who probably thinks he has done all he can for Poland by hav- Yours as ever W.J. ing had you! As for a bank, I have no direct knowledge of New York ALS: CLY Banks, but all the large ones must be sound, e.g. the Fifth Avenue B. the 1st, or the 2nd National Banks, etc. You will probably have to be identified by someone before they will open an account for your check. Courtesy of Concord tree C.F.P.R. F.B Sanborn. TableTalk 1981. Transcendental Books. of 218 1907 seen in his travels. But where did Milton get the the same effect; indeed, he was one of the first consulted y of his Paradise Lost? or how could he describe by Lowell in the matter of the Atlantic, and I was present ttom of the monstrous world"? or Shakespeare pic- at some of these colloquies, as a listener. Lowell was hemia and the plains of Troy, and the landscape and strongly in favor of making political comment a marked ces in the "Tempest." Where had Coleridge seen feature, and proposed a special department for political asure-dome of Kubla Khan, or the vistas of the An- censure, with the device of a broom at its masthead, like lariner? Imagination is the poet's best hold; if he old Van Tromp's particularly intended to sweep old t, he can invent a better landscape than Nature can Buchanan from the seas. It was by adding strongly to nly furnish. Parke Godwin's essay on Buchanan's administration that Lowell sharply offended Godwin. The weakness of the Nov. 7, 1907. ALFRED WHITMAN AND CON- Atlantic on the political side has usually been an unwilling- -HIS SERVICES TO KANSAS--A FRENCHWOMAN'S ness to take a positive tone and adhere to that. The chief TATION ON THOREAU. business of a literary magazine, however, must be litera- ture; and in that the Atlantic has seldom been surpassed, ed Whitman, who died suddenly this week at Law- in its first 20 years. in Kansas, was the son of a Kansas pioneer and d graduate, who was very serviceable to Kansas in (508) Nov. 21, 1907. SIGNIFICANCE OF SAMUEL iggle of years against negro slavery. Alfred him- GRAY WARD, A CONTEMPORARY OF VERY AND THOR- S at school in Concord, where he became intimate EAU--EMERSON'S LETTERS TO HIM--MONCURE D. e Alcotts, and took part with them in dramatic en- CONWAY, AND SANBORN AND ANTI-SLAVERY--THE ments. He was one of two lads from whom Louisa COMMONWEALTH. made up her composite "Laurie." During the civil served with his father, a major, in Kentucky, but One of the earliest surviving graduates of Harvard, ce lived in Kansas and been one of the active friends Samuel Gray Ward, died at his house in Washington on state university, to which 10 years ago the sculptor Sunday, and was buried at Mount Auburn yesterday. He presented his bust of Miss Alcott. Alfred's broth- was in the class of 1836, and among his classmates were B. Whitman, is a prominent lawyer of Boston A Jones Very and Col. Henry Lee. He was of the same age Frenchwoman, a traveling scholar of the Sorbonne, as Thoreau, who, if living, would now be 90, and like him oston pursuing her inquiries in American literature was an early intimate of Emerson and the Concord group with a view to her doctor's thesis next year on of authors. His artistic and poetic temperament inclined u, of whom she is an admirer. It is only of late him to a literary life, and he was one of the "Dial" con- that such scholarships have been granted to women. tributors, as they were. His father, a banker, insisted on his following that occupation, and he did so, for more I Nov. 12, 1907. GENESIS AND BACKGROUND OF than half a century. He paid the expenses of Channing's TLANTIC. first volume of poems in 1843, and occasionally wrote verse himself. He belonged in the circle at Cambridge gs were rather better in 1857, when the Atlantic be- of which Mrs. Prof. Farrar was the hostess (afterward a d payment was made for whatever came out in its resident of Springfield), and where Margaret Fuller, her -column pages. The name seems to have been sup- friend Miss Anna Barker, daughter of the New Orleans y Dr. Holmes; but the plan of a magazine or review merchant, Jacob Barker, and other brilliant young ladies fice in Boston, but contributors on both sides of the were at home; and some time after leaving college he was as old as 1837, and was definitely discussed in married Miss Barker. It was to his friend Ward that the 1, when Alcott was there in July, 1842, as mentioned "Letters to a Friend" of Emerson, edited by Prof. Norton, fragment of his diary in England which alone sur- were written, from 1838 to 1853, but Mr. Norton is cer- --the rest having been lost in a box of papers at Al- tainly wrong in saying Mr. Ward "was a younger man than as Mr. Norton's English papers were lost in the Emerson by nine years. That would put back his birth- lay in 1857. But Alcott wrote, July 21, thus:-- day to 1812, and make him 25 at his graduation, --whereas he graduated under 20, as was much the fashion in those ning, at Heraud' S: Barham, Westland Marston, days, --Emerson himself having graduated at 18, and and others were there We discussed printing a George Bancroft at 17. Mr. Ward early traveled and re- urnal, to be supported by contributions from the old sided in Europe, and collected engravings (particularly and the new, and issned quarterly. A good deal was of the work of Michael Angelo, Guercino and Piranesi), Heraud and Barham deem Carlyle's interest essen- among which was the beautiful copy of an ancient Endymion its success with the public. I put the work on its which has long hung in Emerson's house. It was Ward's erits, quite independent of names; and Wright agrees portfolios which Emerson examined in 1839, and which e I gave them the theory of my new journal; figure in the "Ode to Beauty." Some months before its es it must meet, the audience it must create, the publication in the "Dial" for 1840, Emerson sent to Ward outors it must secure. I proposed that it should an- Thoreau's poem "Sympathy," which his friend styled an ) something like this: 'The Janus; an Ephemeris of "Elegy," manent in Religion, Philosophy, Science, Art and 3.' My idea was obviously too broad and daring for For elegy has other subject none. And to Ward in February, 1843, Emerson confided his nk Emerson wrote from England in 1847 something to opinion of Wendell Phillips, when at the Concord lyceum, 2 of 1907 219 1907 invited by Henry Thoreau and his young friends, Phillips with its cable cut, which finally carried them to the bottom. had overcome the veteran lawyers of that town in debate on It cost Conway few or none of his real friends in America, negro slavery. Said Emerson:-- but it fixed his purpose to remain in England, and the next year his wife and children went to join him there; his Con- "The core of the comet did not seem to be much, but the cord house was sold, and I stored such of his furniture as whole air was full of splendors. One orator makes many; Mrs. Conway could not take with her or have sent after her. but I think him the best generator of eloquence I have met His career in England and in Europe generally, was a suc- for many a day, and of something better and grander than cessful one, and his life, on the whole, a brilliant success, his own." in spite of his changes of place and opinion; and I must es- teem his quiet and sudden death, though away from his For years Mr. Ward had a home in Boston and a summer children, a happy exit from a world in which he felt him- residence in Lenox, afterward attached to the large Shadow- self lonely. brook estate of Mr. Stokes; but of late years his home has been in Washington. Last summer he spent at his grand- (509) Nov. 28, 1907. THOUGHTS ON JAMES H. daughter's in Jamaica Plain.- HOLMES, ONE OF JOHN BROWN'S MEN--THE LIFE OF Moncure Conway' residence in Washington before the MAJOR GEORGE LUTHER STEARNS. STOP civil war was short and troubled. Dr. Earle heard him preach there in February, 1856, and he came and dined The death of James H. Holmes, a young lieutenant of with Dr. Nichols and Dr. Earle March 23 of that year. In John Brown in Kansas, was attended by painful circumstances. his diary the doctor wrote:-- He was about the age of Moncure Conway, and in his sphere, for a time, did good antislavery work, as Conway did. He "Mr. Conway is as interesting in conversation/a in the was the son of a New York broker, well educated, and went pulpit; a man of superior intellect and of moral qualities of early to Kansas to act on the free-state side; brave and en- a very high order; yet his religion is that of the extreme thusiastic, he joined the small band of Brown in 1856, and Unitarians. He does not believe in the miracles. Among again in 1858, and had many adventures under that leader- his reasons is that not one of the books of the New Testa- ship. I had often urged him to write out his record of Kan- ment was written until 50 years or more after the birth of sas life, and he had promised to do so, but, SO far as I Christ, and long after his death, --time enough, he thinks, know, never completed it. He wrote fairly well, and was for a story to grow considerably, if stories grew then as for years a journalist, at one time a Vermont rapidly as now. This heterodoxy does not divide his church newspaper, and corresponding from Washington for distant so much as his anti-slavery sermons, which please Horace newspapers. But he was one of those persons, by no means Greeley and John P. Hale of New Hampshire, --both of whom few, who need the direction of a leader to keep them up to have seen there. But nine families/ have withdrawn be- the mark. Under Lincoln's presidency he became an office- cause of one anti-slavery sormon. holder (secretary of the territory of New Mexico), and then appeared at Washington in some department office. In the November following Conway was settled in Cincinnati, The moral and political tone of Washington is far from ele- where he remained, preaching, editing and lecturing, till vating, is one of the most vile and corrupt of modern he had so effectively divided his parish that when he re- capitals, -and Holmes fell under influences from which his signed, in the summer of 1862, and came to Boston to edit old captain would have guarded him. I fear in later years the emancipation weekly, the Commonwealth, there was the instincts and tendencies of the broker got the better of little opposition to his leaving, though he left many good the unselfish sentiments under which he enlisted in the na- friends there. He settled in Concord early in the autumn tional crusade against slavery. But, as I have noticed in of 1862, where he had already spent many weeks, nine other men who failed to live up to their youthful ideal, years before, and he became a neighbor of my own. I was Holmes always retained that fraternal feeling which bound associated with him in editing the newspaper, and took the antislavery men together, when they were a small but charge of it in March 1863, when Conway went to England never discouraged minority. For some years I had lost for a short missionary tour, as he supposed, and became sight of him, and was thus unable to make some provision my London correspondent. He communicated to me, too for his declining and lonely years. It seems that in his re- late to write him what a blunder it would be (for there was treat at Red Bank, N.J., he suffered great privations from no ocean cable then) his purpose of proposing emancipation poverty, and when his last illness came upon him, he was to Mason, as if authorized by the American abolitionists alone and unable to summon aid for a day or two. When I showed the letter to Phillips and Garrison, and we all found, he was taken to the house of a friend where he died agreed that a brief intimation of his scheme should be given on the 21st. His friend, John Redpath, a kinsman of Brown's in my newspaper and an effort be made to cover the retreat first biographer, James Redpath, went down from New York that so indiscreet a diplomatist would have to make when and nursed him until death. Holmes desired to be buried the letters were made public. Conway's intentions were of beside his captain at North Elba, where also the slain com- the best, but he was seldom discreet when left to himself; rades of Brown at Harpers Ferry had their bones laid at his excellent wife, then 3000 miles away from him, often rest under McKinley's administration, escorted to their moderated his enthusiasm into something at least resem- funeral ceremonies, near Brown's grave, by a detachment bling discretion. Upon the whole, I think his blunder did of United States soldiers sent on from Plattsburg by Elihu more good than harm, for it unmasked to Europe the big- Root, then secretary of war. At the burial Bishop Potter oted folly of the disunionists, in clinging to slavery as the and Whitelaw Reid were present, among many others, and life buoy of their new oligarchy; while it was the anchor the graves are fenced in around the great bowlder upon the 908 1908 Lasting legacy To the Editor: May 6 marks the centennial of a gift to the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations of two tracts of land beloved to this day. ( George Bucknam Dorr described the donation of the Beehive above Ocean Drive and the adjacent mountain lake called "The Bowl" as "the starting point for gathering the t land that I made the foundation for I Acadia National Park." New Hampshire-born Eliza Lee ) Homans donated these "beautiful, unique, and wild" acres. She was the widow of the Boston surgeon Charles D. Homans. For more than four decades they had been Mount Desert Island summer residents. Her friendship with Charles W. Eliot - president of the trustees and Harvard University - provided - context for her precedent-setting philanthropy. In conveying the deeds, she asked Mr. Eliot to publi- cize the gift but to do so "without bringing my name in." Mrs. Homans hoped that her gift would encourage others to do the same. Within the next seven years, through the energetic culti- vation of trustees and others, 40 parcels of land totaling more than 7,000 acres were assembled. Much of this property was transferred to the federal government in 1916 when the Sieur de Monts National Monument was established. That same year, work began on the Homans Path granite steps and stone archways that ascended from the Springhouse area. Bar Harbor resident Alice M. Long paid tribute to Mrs. Homans in the August 10, 2006 Mount Desert Islander. On the centennial of this gift, we can do its donor no greater service than to support the stewardship efforts of the National Park Service and the Friends of Acadia. Ronald H. Epp Merrimack, N.H. November 14, 1968 MEMORANDUM 1908 TO: Mr. Richard Dana FROM: Joseph W. Ernst SUBJECT: Acadia National Park I have answered Mr. Rockefeller's questions as far as possible from material in the Archives. Mr. Sanders of the Accounting Department is trying to establish final dollar figures on JDR Jr.'s contributions toward carriage and motor roads and fire reconstruction. Mr. Rockefeller asks: Page 1 1. When did JDR Jr. first go to Maine for the summer? The Family first went to Maine for the summer in 1908. They rented Sears Cottage on Weymouth Lane in Bar Harbor. 2. Does the 60 miles include both horse and motor roads? No, the 60 miles is for carriage roads only. Page 6 3. What did JDR Jr. give for building of the road up Cadilac Mountain? JDR Jr. built the Jordan Pond - Eagle Lake Road from which the road up the mountain makes its ascent. There are no fig- ures as yet on his construction expenditures. The government built the road up the mountain and JDR Jr. emphasizes that full credit be given to the government. He did make certain suggestions as to lo- cation which were utilized in construction. JDR Jr. gave $250 toward the expense of the dedication of the Cadilac Mountain Road. 4. What did JDR Jr. give for Ocean Drive? In 1934 JDR Jr. finished the construction of Ocean Drive to Sand Beach. North of this point he worked with the government. In 1935 he offered certain lands to the government to make the ex- tension possible. His proposal was accepted but there are no par ticulars on actual construction. The attached copies of correspon- dence spell out the arrangement between JDR Jr. and the government. There are no construction costs available as yet. 5. What proportion of costs did the government pay in the building of Cadilac Mountain Road and Ocean Drive? This information is not available in the Archives. -2- Page 7 6. Is the 60 miles of road on both Park and Hills land, if so how much is on Park lands? The 60 miles of horse roads are all on Park land. 7. Did fire reconstruction work go on after 1952? JDR Jr. continued to clean up fire damage until his death in 1960. Mrs. Martha B. Rockefeller continued the work until 1961. There are no total cost figures available as yet. Page 8 8. In 1931, JDR Jr. had the Brown Mountain and Jorden Pond Gate houses built for about $80,000. They are stone and wood structures reflecting Norman architecture. The Brown Mountain house was given to the Park in 1932, the Jordan house was given to the Park in 1940. 9. JDR Jr. purchased the Jordan Pond Tea House in 1923 for $40,000. He leased it back to the owners who operated it until 1945. JDR Jr. gave the house and surrounding land to the Park in 1940. 1. 4. his he firster to it - The Lindlow :- which of Course caw to Easily he done without My dea President Elist . - They 1908 bringing my home in - Idena hhe. writte my and the putic field might hope that others deen of gift to the Hancock Should do like hrie County Truster Public - Yours truty Reservahar " of Bee and certain lots of Saud, E.d. Homand. on the other Cruk dide - and the School Hrad Lide. - Estrictia by the 3. 2. grant which I had the ! but retrietions are already made ld the somehmen Lo In will ! Bu. Him agreduct I am trong that I cannot Company Idia hot how do anythay in the put in the dun any bay of any fift of money restrictions a to the but shale hope to do that nection of any buildings - lath - Thoppe this will and my great fraud . children may find a be considere a hight Example merry. Gr. Round Established and I hope ah putheily 4. northy - Bar. Harbore is that a honderful Lep 17 is mouth we have had Thank you By draw what Inn Sets - and President Ehis for form moon. nies :- - aunral hote aneut my Bee Hive and meters the - gift - "Post has - the perfection - of meather - logical - but I shake be This and propter her is hot a clear East wind very flad if my action and a brilliant Lun. has any inspiration to thmi. those others - Your cordrally thich he might get I.d. Homan the to/o of heropost- owned 88.8 and oorgraph HIHH - warry 20327 11V 3. 2 by the Schoon Hrad a better man could Synoticate - but the he found for anything recent death of ml than Idaace m. Tripts Chanles Dalton - has he has bird with me made it less simple- his will Ispake though Ido hot know for rearly thirty years He Knons and loves the to Chifford - Bngham property which for these Lumed think h from gothers of word about h - and he years. he has protection all adminate dug. . and Letters is of fire - gestion Ide - hot think telligent and him and he minently in HILL, BARLOW & HOMANS, TELEPHONE NO. 6411 MAIN COUNSELLORS-AT-LAW. 53 STATE STREET ROOMS 1033-1040. ARTHUR DEHON HILL. ROBERT SHAW BARLOW. ROBERT HOMANS. BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. May 29, 1908. Charles W. Eliot, Esq., L.L.D., Cambridge, Mass. Dear Sir: - At the request of Mrs. Charles D. Homans we send you herewith & copy of the only plan we have of the land recently con- veyed by Mrs. Homans to the Hancock County Trustees of public reserva- tions. The parcels of land marked "Eliza L. Homans" are those which have been conveyed. The parcels marked "Heirs of George H. Homans" were not owned by Mrs. C. D. Homans and are not included in the deed. The heirs would very probably be very Clad to also convey their land to the Trustees, but unfortunately a considerable undivided interest is owned by minors and no Probate Court would, we think, consent to the transfer of the minors' interest for nothing. Yours truly, Hill, Forwarded by PAGE EIGHT BAR HARB PUBLIC RESERVATIONS mountains are under the control of the It has been found quite necessary Corporation, and also more shore land from N to the future welfare of Mt. Desert so that people may enjoy these beau- day. A Island that a good deal of land be time spots for public use. laid aside for public use. When the Island was first visited by the sum- RED NOSES Any k mer colony everyone had the advan- Do you suffer the embarrassment of or by t tage of walking about as they chose, carrying around an extremely red M. Pott: instead of being confronted every nose? orare you tortured with a red, few steps by a sign marked. "No blotchy or pimply face? if so you are Trespassing.' It has, however, foolish to stand it long; it is the changed to such an extent that at the July simplest and easiest thing in the Church present time a man who arrives here world to get rid of. No matter what blue sto hardly dares to go beyond his own might have been the cause, the fol- rewarde land, orthe public highway. lowing harmless and inexpensive On March 28. 1903, the following Highbro treatment will positively remove all act was passed by the Maine Legis- 27-1+ traces of your embarrassment in lature, granting certain powers to the from two to four weeks. Hancock County Trustees of Public Get this prescription filled at any Reservations:- Drug Store:-Clearola one-half oz., Capab 'Be it enacted by the Senate and ether one oz., Alcohol seven ounces. Apply 4 House of Representatives in Legis- Mix and apply to the parts affected Rectory. lature assembled. as follows: as often as possible, but morning and "Section 1.-The incorporation of night always allowing it to remain St. the Hancock County Trustees of Pub- on as long as possible, never less lic Reservations. a corporation or- Been than ten minutes. the longer the bet- ganized at Bar Harbor. Maine under moving ter, then you can wipe off the powdry the Revised Statutes of Maine, Chap- perfectio film deposited on the skin. ter 55. is hereby ratified and con- and sut You can get this put up at any firmed. ing. Aft Drug Store. For any skin troubles "Section 2.-Said corporation shall this has no equal. The T have power to acquire, by devise, the Sho: gift or purchase, and to own. arrange, Eastern hold maintain and improve, for free CONCERT AT THE LOUISBURG about 7. public use, lands in Hancock County, Maine. which by reason of scenic The fourth in the series of Sunday weather beauty, historical interest, sanitary evening concerts at the Louisburg at- Harbor advantages, or for other reasons, may tracted by far the largegst audience of Bean be available for the purpose. the season at these concerts. Fully them? J "Section 3.-Lands and improve- 500 people. including cottagers, guests licious S ments thereon. held by said corpora- from the other hotels and local music Nash ba tion, for free public use, shall be lovers. gathered to listen to a most foot Led exempt from state, county, or town interesting program, given by the day. Be taxation. Louisburg orchestra under the direc- be early "Section 4.-This Act shall take tion of Mr. Barth. The orchestra was First CO1 effect when approved. assisted by Mrs. Orissa Forrester- but 15 ce "Approved March 28, 1903." Smith, soprano, of Providence, a The following were the original guest at the Louisburg, who added James incorporators:-George B. Dorr, L. greatly to the enjoyment of the oc- his shop B. Deasy, John S. Kennedy, George casion. and has L. Stebbins, Charles W. Eliot, Edward Interest centered in the singing of to-date U B. Mears, Lea McI. Luquer, and L. E. Mrs. Smith, a young singegr of pre- es. Esti: Kimball. possessing personality. Mrs. Smith and all Until last May this corporation has a very rich and pleasing voice, of had not done anything in regard to remarkable power and flexibility, S obtaining land. On May 6th, how- which she uses intelligently. The ever, a gift of one hundred and forty- plano accompaniment/to the first song GRADIR seven acres, more or less, was re- and orchestral accompaniment to her ceived from Eliza L. Homans This second, furnished a pleasing contrast. N gift is divided into two parcels of In response to a hearty demand for land lying between Schooner Head an encore, she sang "Little Boy Blue" Sealed by Florence Buckingham Joyce. section c and Otter Creek, in a section called Mr. Lamson. who has already firmly in length the Beehive. The first of these con- established his reputation as a sym- received tains one hundred acres, more or the first time at these concerts as a office un! less, and begins at the west line of Dr. Hasket Derby's lot, and passes by soloist. HIs playing is marked by at which virility and repose, and his interpre- publicly, the south side of Beehive Mountain. The second parcel contains 47.06 tation of the Liszt "Cantique" so Plans pleased/the audience that he was forms of acres, beginning near the southwest obliged to add a charming number, a may be side ofBowl Pond and extending along the southerly ridge of Newport Moun- gavotte by Gluck. Selectme, tain. Besides these Sunday concerts the proposal orchestra plays a miscellaneous pro- made on On May 20th the lot of land upon gram evry night, to all of which con- Each r which the Champlain Monument certs the Louisburg management bid with stands was obtained from the trus- tees of the last will of Linda Dows cordially invites all music lovers. The the Town Cooksey. This piece of land is very orchestra will give their annual sub- per cent. small, being about 11 feet by 6 feet, scription concert on Sunday evening, The Su but it answers the purpose which it August 16, which has always proved quired to serves, and from now on the Monu- in he or the events of the season. sum of contrac ment will stand on public property. The It is felt that these grants of land FOR SALE and all b. will be followed very soon by others High grade Jersey, milch cows. in sections which 1. is very important Inquire at P in Tree Farm, Lamoine, would be made public property. It Me O. 132. Ellsworth, Route Acadia History The Bowl, the Beehive, and a Secular Epiphany By Ronald Epp Note: This article is adapted from the forth- On August 29th, 1901 Dr. Eliot and sev- This conservation commitment did not coming biography of George B. Dorr, to be pub- en other charter members of the Hancock immediately result in systematic activity to lished in spring 2016 by Friends of Acadia. We County Trustees of Public Reservations, secure donations of Hancock County prop- will feature several excerpts in future Journal including Bar Harbor resident George B. erty. The incorporators believed that op- issues, leading up to Acadia's centennial year. Dorr, signed a request for incorporation for portunities would naturally arise but a half "social, charitable and benevolent purpos- century later local author Sargent Collier B y the end of the 19th century, two es." Following additional discussion they would claim (in The Triumph of George B. decades of summering at Northeast added to their drafts language that recog- Dorr) that during these early years the Harbor had convinced Charles W. nized the need for property improvements corporation slept. No gifts were bestowed, Eliot that public use of private land had such as laying out and building roads and no efforts made to acquire them, no toes been curtailed by the expanding summer paths. stepped on.' Historical evidence shows, to population. On the other hand, the phi- On the same day that Theodore Roos- the contrary, that Trustee membership dur- lanthropy of some influential and gifted in- evelt assumed the office of President of the ing the first year more than quadrupled, dividuals contributed to improvements in United States following McKinley's assas- to 55 members. In 1903 two small parcels the local infrastructure. Summer residents sination, the incorporators met again. The were donated-a hilltop site overlooking provided leadership in sanitation, road and beginnings of the land trust movement in Jordan Pond and a 24.5-square-meter site trail development, and town beautifica- Maine thus dovetailed with the national in Seal Harbor, set aside for a Champlain tion projects-not to mention support for inception of the Progressive Era. With its memorial plaque. The membership did not churches, libraries, and community parks. roots in Populist politics of the late nine- increase further until the first substantial Private ownership of land was both the teenth century, progressive thinking was properties were acquired, five years later. cause and remedy for the preservationist now united with a national conservation However, behind the scenes incorporator problem that a new conservation organiza- movement-and became a cornerstone of George B. Dorr and local attorney Albert tion would face. Roosevelt's domestic policies. H. Lynam were actively identifying tracts of land, researching titles, and cultivating a philanthropic culture that would soon bear fruit. In May 1908, President Eliot re- ceived a deed from summer resident Eliza Homans (1830-1914) for parcels of land that proved to be the catalyst for the con- servation of landscapes that became Aca- dia National Park. In Dorr's seminal 1942 publication, Acadia National Park: Its Origin and Background, the donation was acknowl- edged as "their first important gift singu- larly appropriate to the trustees' purpose, beautiful, unique, and wild." For four decades the Homans family of Boston had been island summer residents. The surgeon's widow was the daughter of a New Hampshire cleric, Reverend Samuel Kirkland Lothrop, later the head of Boston's Old Brattle Street Church. In 1868, the Dorr and Lothrop families had been drawn closer together when Charles Hazen Dorr George B. Dorr and Charles W. Eliot, the founding leaders of the Hancock County Trustees of Public (the father of George B. Dorr) and Eliza Reservations, at Jordan Pond. Homan's brother (Thornton K. Lothrop) 8 Winter 2014 Friends of Acadia Journal The Beehive's distinctive silhouette contributed to the significance of Eliza Homans' precedent-setting gift. Friends of Acadia/Aimee Beal Church purchased the substantial Higgens Tract, confidence was apparently broken, for Dorr pleted the Beehive ascent took in expansive which fronted on Frenchman Bay. When had a Homans family memorial path con- views of Sand Beach and the Otter Cliffs Lothrop sold his portion of the property to structed-a challenging ascent featuring trailing east and south. Dorr's father a decade later, the Oldfarm es- granite steps and graceful stone archways In the nineteenth century, Hudson River tate was then developed. on the steep face of a mountain that would School painters (Thomas Cole, Frederick During the Trustees' early years there had later bear Dorr's name. This was one of six Church, Fitz Hugh Lane, Sanford Gifford, been speculation about the signature dona- memorial trails added to the system from and Aaron Draper Shattuck) represented tion that would be needed to energize sub- 1913 to 1916, an accomplishment that landscape features like the Bowl and Bee- sequent donations. The friendship of Eliza pathmaker Rudolph Brunnow attributed to hive, creating near-reverential public inter- L. Homans with Charles W. Eliot-culti- Mr. Dorr. Olmsted Center landscape archi- est in the natural history of the island. In vated on Mount Desert Island-provided tect Margaret Coffin Brown's 2006 study of The Artist's Mount Desert (1994), John C. the context for her precedent-setting phi- island Pathmakers rightly affirms that Dorr Wilmerding, Northeast Harbor collector lanthropy. Mrs. Homans offered the Trust- "envisioned the memorial trails as part of a and curator of American art, notes that as ees their first sizable tracts of land, which plan to enhance the public reservation and Thomas Cole gazed from Schooner Head included landforms of singular historic and improve its eligibility for designation as a toward the Beehive precipice, he wrote: artistic interest. national monument or park." "This is a very grand scene. The craggy In conveying the deeds, Eliza informed By accepting this first gift to the Trustees, mountain, the dark pond of dark brown Eliot that she had not put any restrictions Eliot and Dorr acted not merely as agents water-The golden sea sand of the beach in the deed. In a light-hearted manner, she of opportunity. Each had historical asso- and the light green [sea] with its surf al- recognized that it she did not engage the ciations with the Homans family, and real- together with the woods of varied color- Trustees she ran the risk that "my grand- ized the promotional value of such gifts. make a magnificent effect such as seldom children may find a 'Merry-Go-Round' es- The 140-plus-acre tract lay on the south seen created in the sun." Pamela J. Be- tablished there!" On a serious plane, it was side of Newport (now Champlain) Moun- langer's Inventing Acadia (1999) argues that her intent that this gift would be "a bright tain. It included a glacial cirque historically Acadia National Park was a product of sce- example, albeit an anonymous one." In her known as the Bowl. The site was contigu- nic monumentalism, preserved primarily as May 7, 1908 letter preserved in the Records ous with the craggy, 520-foot granite head- a response to nineteenth-century American of the President of Harvard she asked Eliot land prosaically named the Beehive. From landscape aesthetics. Mount Desert Island to publicize the gift but to do so "without its rounded, bare summit overlooking Sand became one of the nation's most exclusive bringing my name in.' Eight years later that Beach and Schooner Head, those who com- sacred places, a "product of the cultural Friends of Acadia Journal Winter 2014 9 An incomplete painting by Frederic Edwin Church, depicting the Beehive and Champlain Mountain as seen from Great Head. Brush and oil paint, graphite on cardboard. Gift of Louis P. Church to Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. work of landscape painters who were also stage up and down the mountain," and the summit road entrepreneurs at a time 'enshrined' for their genius in representing possibly sub-divide the acreage for sale to when the growing popularity of the au- the place." interested parties. tomobile generated island-wide specula- Despite such aesthetic considerations, Before the end of the summer, Dorr re- tion-and heated controversy-about the at a practical level how might Dorr add to peatedly walked the summit of the highest benefits and risks of this new vehicle to Eliot's success? Dorr immediately turned island peak with attorney Lynam, "tracing island culture. Trustee acquisition delayed his thoughts to the acquisition of the most out the boundaries of the land I sought." public motorized access to the summit prominent island landmark. He informed Wasting no time, Dorr triumphantly de- for the next twenty-four years. Only later Eliot that he "would see what I could do to railed the syndicate plan with the financial would Dorr and his fellow Trustees realize get the summit of Green Mountain-Cadil- backing of philanthropist John S. Kennedy that his success atop the Cadillac summit lac now." It was a moment of immediate and and A.H. Lynam's deft legal counsel. In had made "this Park's creation my major unifying recognition, a secular epiphany! his published memoir, Dorr stated that he interest and work." Dorr knew that the goals of conservation quickly purchased from the estate of Dan- would be best served if he could secure the iel W. Brewer-a descendent of early Hulls RONALD H. EPP, Ph.D. has worked in most topographically significant landscape Cove settlers-the eighty-five acre "Moun- university teaching, scholarly publishing, on the island-the summit of the highest tain House Lot" where the Brewer family and academic library administration, and mountain on the U.S. eastern seaboard. had earlier entertained guests at their inn is the retired director of Shapiro Library at Dorr's quiet acquisition of island proper- at the end of the rough summit road. Dorr Southern New Hampshire University. His ty now escalated strategically. These eighty- explained that the distinctiveness of this longtime research into Acadia's early his- five acres were selected for one particular exceptional property "lies in its all-round tory and personages has led to published reason: their landscape quality. In another view." This new Trustee property on Cadil- articles in the magazines and newsletters letter preserved in the Harvard University lac Mountain included "every command- of many Acadia-area organizations. Ron Archives, Dorr explained to Dr. Eliot that ing view upon the whole broad summit, and his wife Elizabeth, who passed away a syndicate of land speculators intended to the highest and boldest on our oceanfront, in 2013, first joined Friends of Acadia in purchase the summit, on which they held from Maine to Florida, and the central fea- 1995. a lease. Their intent was to convey paying ture of Acadia National Park." sightseeing passengers on "an automobile Of secondary importance, Dorr stopped 10 Winter 2014. Vol.19 Friends of Acadia Journal MAIN APPROACH TO THE BUILDING OF ARTS The grove at the left of the building has been utilized for an outdoor theater. THE BUILDING OF ARTS AT BAR HARBOR BY OWEN JOHNSON I T greets the eye, in the first surprise of The stage is not intended for elaborate its red-tiled roof, its marshaled col- dramatic representations, and during the umns, and its fine proportions, like a first summer only such plays as were pre- glimpse of some forgotten Grecian tem- sented on the green, and which have an ple. Nobly set into the slope of the hill, outdoor atmosphere could be said to be with a background of cool groves, and appropriate. Of such the "Midsummer accentuating the dark, bare-topped moun- Night's Dream," one of several given by tains of the island,-the highest on our the Ben Greet Company, was the most Atlantic coast,-the Building of Arts successful. The classical costumes and meets the perplexed visitor with the grace- colors, seen in a stage of open forest, were ful dignity of a serene age. One listens suggestively in keeping with the Building for the echces of a shepherd's pipe or of Arts at the right of the audience. Men- seeks among the tree-trunks the flitting delssohn's music was given by members passage of a flowing robe. of the Boston Symphony, concealed in a If it were nothing but a beautiful mon- clump of bushes, and the groups of danc- ument, admirable in mass and in detail, ers and the tripping processions of wood- Mr. Lowell's Building of Arts would jus- land figures gave an antique gaiety to the tify its existence. But, more than this, moonlit night. The summer of 1909 will it is the expression of a unique and inter- probably see the completion of a Greek esting purpose. Created by a few public- amphitheater, which is to be constructed spirited summer residents to supply a near-by against the slope of the hill, the focus for the abundant artistic and intel- spectators facing the colonnade of the lectual life of Bar Harbor, the Building building. With this addition, it will be of Arts already, in the first short season possible to give open-air performances of of its occupation, has produced a marked Greek and Elizabethan drama, as well as impression by the creation of a distinct frequent festivals by the choral society of musical atmosphere. The high plane of the village. Orchestral and vocal per- the season's work in music may be in- formances will continue to be given in ferred from the fact that among those the hall, which by an admirable arrange- who have taken part are such distin- ment of doors and windows can virtually guished artists as Madame Emma Eames, be thrown open to the breezes in warm Mrs. Francis L. Wellman (Emma Juch), weather, while one may get charming David Bispham, Vladimir de Pachmann, glimpses of trees and hills. The graded Cortlandt Palmer, and many members of lawn at the side of the building will serve the Boston Symphony Orchestra. for floral exhibitions, to which at night 1 For the working out of the scheme credit is due to Vessrs George Dorr Henry Lane Eno, George W. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Henry F. Dimock and Mrs. Robert Abbe 676 678 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE the shadowed background of the white building, set with soft electric lights, will tation of several of the best Greek mod- lend a fairy illusion. els. In plan it is rectangular and rests, Each year the committee will seek for as do many of the Greek temples, upon its program events of unusual, even na- a broad stvlobate in which steps are cut, tional interest-a Molière comedy with leading to the main entrance and the log- Coquelin, a Shaksperian production by gias. The columns which support the Forbes Robertson, the appearance of the roof over the loggias and the porch are Boston Symphony Orchestra, or the ad- similar to those of the Erectheum and the Propylae. The smaller Corinthian order vent of a great prima donna or pianist. The influence of such an organization, of the pavilions is taken from the small if successful, will be such that insensibly Odeion, or shrine, found near the Temple of Olympian Zeus. this program may widen in scope to in- clude important exhibitions of painting One interesting feature of the design, that in this country is somewhat unusual or sculpture, or addresses by distinguished speakers on topics of broad interest. in so severely classic a building, is the use of color. The tones are the same as The Building of Arts, still in its de- velopment, is an interesting problem, and were used by the Greeks, although out of deference to the New England love of the impulse of which it is the expression is of deep significance. It is in this coun- severity they are not used quite so vividly or over such large surfaces as in Athens. try the first conspicuous effort on a large The porch at the westerly end forms scale to crystallize the diverse elements the main entrance to the building where that form the summer colony into a real three pairs of doors lead to a large foyer society, having as its objective the highest separated from the auditorium by the esthetic and intellectual stimulation-not piers which support the balcony. The only to encourage liberally the arts of America, but to contribute to self-education stage is at the east end of the building and has been arranged with a wooden and to the helpful mingling of city and sounding-board and movable sides. village life. The movement is in capable The auditorium seating 400 is 37 feet hands and has every prospect of success. by 70 and is lighted at the level of the Manifestly, if such great summer colo- balcony by twelve large windows with nies as Bar Harbor, Newport, and South- heavy Greek grilles opening out on the ampton shall undergo such an evolution loggias and the porch. Between these the importance to the artistic life of the windows are panels of simple Greek country from the stimulus will be great. moldings. At each side of the audito- Perhaps from such sources, removed from rium are three pairs of doors giving ac- the conflict of commercialism, may come cess to the loggias and so arranged that the beginnings of an intellectual atmos- the auditorium, the loggias, the proposed phere of great moment. amphitheater on the north and the terrace on the south may be used together. The ceiling is composed of forty-five large I IN view of the fact that this is the first plaster coffers adapted from those of the structure of its kind in America for such Ionic porch of the Propylae. At the a purpose, some practical details may be center of each is a large classic rosette, of interest and use. the central portion of each alternate one The Building of Arts is severely classic being reproduced in glass and in these in design, and represents a selective adap- are placed the electric lights. SITE OF THE BUILDING OF ARTS Bar Harbor is on the right and the Kebo Valley club on the left. B3.F9.31 THE BAR HARBOR ASSOCIATION Building during the past season in OF ARTS the series organized last winter by the Association's Committee on Music, President's Report Made at the Annual besides two others of a popular ehar- Meeting of the Association aeter and others still for which the September 16, 1907 Hall was rented. These concerts ( were of an interest and an artistic The Building of Arts is done and distinction notable in themselves has had its first season. It is now and thoroughly in accord with the an accomplished fact, and what those aim' and object of the Building, interested in it trust may prove a The Committee by whose untiring long career of useful and important work, under the devoted and inspir- influence, has aleady began for it. ing leadership of Mrs. Abbe, they Beautiful in architecture, simple and were organized and carried out, and dignified in character, it is singularly which is already making plans of well fitted to its purpose and our aim- interest for another season, deserves the encouragement of the ideal in and has the thanks of all who love art. The site chosen for it also has good music and who care for the more than justified itself by its rest- maintenance of high standards in it. ful and inspiring beauty and the won- Owing to the lateness of the sea- derful background and setting which son when the Building was finished it gives, not to the Building only and the amount of work involved in but to everything of an artistic its completion, it was not possible to nature, of whatever kind, that takes arrange for dramatic performance place at it. The Greek open-air at it this season-apart from the theatre on the upper side of the beautiful and interesting Shakes- Building remains to build. When pearean performances given in the built it will add immensely to the grove above It by the Ben Greet Com- effect, as well as to the value for the pany. Nor was it possible, for like ends we have in view, of what has reason, to arrange this summer for been achieved already. Plans tre any herticultural exhibition at the being studied over for it at the pres- Building. But the Committees in ent time and the directors hope that charge of these two branches of the through the interest felt in its unique Building's work trust to be able to character and artistic possibilities make It serve Its purpose well another opportunity for its completion season in these fields also, and are be found before another season has already planning to that end gone by. The cost of the Building, much Six concerts were given at the greater than was anticipated by the architect in a construction largely ments gotten up for its benefit last new in character, has been, for the year and this by Mrs. Dimock, a the Building's own construction. splendid contribution to the building $51,363.00; to which is to be added fund to which the completion of the for the completed Building, $1945 Building at the present time is more, the contract on the steps and largely due; by $13,000 obtained last platform of its base just finished and year from the sale of bonds; and by completing the construction. $20,000 advanced the Building this On grading, loam, drainage, road- year by the directors, to enable it to building, under-ground piping for be finished at the present time and electric light and telephone wires, begin its work. and all other expenses of like nature Signed, not included in the construction George B. Dorr, statement, $14,203.49 has been ex- President. pended. This work also is now com- Sept. 16, 1907. plete, with the exception of the Greek Theatre and the Building's eastern TREASURER'S STATEMENT end, and, apart from the bill for the Receipts steps, none now remains unpaid ex- Subscriptions to Stock $31,200.00 cept the architect's account for the Donations, 1,310.00 salary and the living and travel- Borrowed on bonds, 13,000.00 ling expenses of the Clerk of the Borrowed on Demand Note, 20,000.00 works and certain other sums Received from Entertain- paid out by him, amounting in all to ments, 10,111.31 $2,637.20; and the architect's com- Received from Rent, 1,193.96 mission, on which no payment has been made as yet. These bills, except $76,815.27 this last, the cash in hand will meet. Expenditures The balance due the architect will Construction of Building, $51,363.01 then alone remain to pay and should Grading, Road, Drainage and be paid as soon as possible, so that other Expenses outside the Building may stand clear of debt of the Building, 14,203.49 for its construction, the loans and Purchase of Land, 5,000.00 bonds apart that made its building General Expenses, 2,191.78 possible. Furniture, 292,05 The Building has been paid for by $31,200 in subscription to stock; by $73,050.33 $1310 in out-right donation; by $10,- 111.31 brought it by the entertain- Balance on hand, $3,764.94 Archurs # EPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 3/13/02 R679, Cent. Classfiles 1933.49 NFIRA/CP/ 19 Acudic-General Box 791. lof3 R679/ 1607 ^ UNITED STATES Acadea Box 791. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service Acadia National Park P Bar Harbor Maine Y September 25, 1941. Mr. Newton B. Drury, Director, National Park Service, Washington, D. C. Dear Director Drury: A reorganization of our old Bar Harbor Village Improvement Associa- tion has resulted in placing in the chair as president Amory Thorndike, one of the town's leading, year-round citizens, grandson of my old friend Dr. Robert Amory of Boston, one of the original small group that aided me Park in the early days in securing, years before the Park was formed, its present office and headquarters site. HOQ Mr. Thorndike, as new president of the Village Improvement Associa- tion, has taken up with vigor the problem of rescuing our beautiful Build- Bottom ing of Arts from the situation which the changing times and the passing, save myself, of the older generation which built it, have brought about. Arts Yesterday evening he came to see me about it and the result of our talk is this letter to ask if, on the offer of the Building and the lands to about it, later, to the Government, with good title and with all indebted- (ness, taxes and other, cleared away, the National Park Service may be reasonably counted on to recommend its acceptance by the Government. The Building was built some thirty-five years ago to take advantage of the remarkable musical and arts opportunities which offered themselves at Bar Harbor at that time, and filled its purpose wonderfully for many years thereafter, along with other uses of meetings, exhibitions and the like to which it also, in its situation and in itself, lent itself supremely well. Then, along with the passing of the old conditions and the people who were part of them, came my own illness and loss of sight, and the Building is adjustment to the new conditions of the time failed to be made, debts arising from accumulating taxes and other causes till, as President of the Association, I received, this spring, unexpectedly, notice of a JDRF. Sheriff's Sale for unpaid taxes. The taxes on account of which the sale was brought, for the year 1938, the first year's taxes due, were paid by portaged Mr. Rockefeller, upon my writing him, he placing the matter in the hands of Mr. Serenus Rodick, his legal agent and my own, who, with no one bidding Building of against him, purchased the property. CBD, is Pres. of Building of the Arts Assoc. preperty arts NAL ARCHIVES CP/R679 CCF,1933-491 of3 Acadia. Box 791 Taxes for three further years, amounting in all to about a thousand dollars, still remain to be met. These the Bar Harbor Village Improve- ment Association, under its new organization, generously proposes to meet, collecting funds for the purpose, if it can be given reasonable assurance that the National Government will in due course accept the property, if offered to it free of debt and without obligation. They would ask only that it should be used along lines appropriate to its character and the place that it has so long held in the community. Acadia National Park, on its acceptance, would be enriched by all that the Building has stood for in the past and by its fitness to meet the new opportunities the future must inevitably present. The situation, the Building apart, is unique, looking forth sunnily and southward across green golf links lawns to the nearby, dominating mountains of the Park, where the beautiful new road leads up from around the Great Meadow, past the foot of the wooded Kebo range and the stream that flows down from it, to ascend, across lands now wholly within the Park, to the very summit of Cadillac Mountain. The Park has at present no hall for talks and lectures; and the Building, become Park property, might be used most valuably not only in opportunity for telling of the wild life, the plants and forests, and the geological history of the Park, but also of that of the ocean waters that surround it, exceptionally rich in oxygen and the countless forms of life, vertebrate and in vertebrate, such waters breed. The region is remarkably rich, also, in the story, the human story, of the past that of the first settlers from across the seas under a grant from Henry IV of France, Henry of Navarre, to his follower in the Religious Wars, the Sieur de Monts. The conflict that inevitable arose between these first settlers from the coast of France and the later-coming colonists who sailed southward past these coasts to settle on Cape Cod, at Salem and along the shores of Massachusetts Bay, makes most interesting reading; while the issue of that struggle and the fall of the French dominion in America creates one of the most important chapters in all history, leading, as it does, directly on other to the birth and early growth of the United States. uses Other uses of the Building that I have had in mind and that will fit 1. in well with its title and original purpose are: One, the wonderful op- portunities it presents for motion picture exhibits along relatively new and rapidly developing lines, showing in color the whole Acadian region, its landscape and wild life; two, the new opportunity offered for great music in recorded form, which may be given, and given again, at relatively slight expense, not only for the pleasure of music-loving audiences but for the educational benefit of the younger generation, sensitive as children are to 3 such impressions; and, three, talks by competent exponents on our national problems, political and economic, and on the policies designed to deal with them. This last has seemed to me from the start to be a most important 2 UNK CPI R679/CCF, 1933-49 / Acadia box 791 3 of 3 opportunity for the Building, taken over by the Government, in view of the great and increasing number of citizens from the whole country over who make Acadia National Park the northern objective of their summer outings and who will carry back home with them, to ponder and to give others, the thoughts and ideas that may be given to them here. her Butter findest ANP " C aftent In conclusion, let me frankly say that with the long and rich as- sociation that I have had with the Building and the many memories that crowd into my mind, as I look back upon all that it has been and stood for, I would be glad indeed that it should now stay linked, as in truth it has been, with the whole work it has been given me to do for the creation of the Park. With kind personal regards, believe me Yours sincerely, (SGD) GEORGE B. DORR THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES NARA/CP/ R6791 CCF, 1933 -49 / Acadia, Box 791. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON ADDRESS ONLY THE DIRECTOR. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 0.2- September 30, 1941. 1906 Mr. George B. Dorr, Superintendent, hcadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorr: I have received your letter of September 25 regarding the possibility of the Village Improvement Association in Bar Harbor acquiring the Building of Arts and offering it to the Government for an addition to Acadia National Park if the National Park Serv- ice may be reasonably counted on to recommend its acceptance. Before giving an answer I would like to make some inquiry and study as to whether the use of the building would aid the inter- pretive program of the park. I am asking officers of the Branch of Interpretation to look into this question. I shall let you know as early as possible my decision. Please so advise Mr. Thorndike and express my sincere appreciation of his interest in the matter. Sincerely yours, (SGD) NEWTON B. DRURY Director. aed:mp ATTHENATIONAL ARCHIVES WARA/CP/ R679 ICCF, 1933-49, / Acadian box 791 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ADDRESS ONLY WASHINGTON THE DIRECTOR. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE September 30, 1941. CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM for the Assistant Superintendent, Acadia National Park. Please note the attached correspondence with Mr. Dorr regarding the possibility of the Building of Arts being donated by the Village Improvement Association to become a part of Acadia National Park. Mr. Dorr's letter is an eloquent plea for the preservation of the Building of Arts by some public or quasi-public agency. As I remember the building and its location, it is not entirely suitable for our purposes and probably would involve some administrative re- sponsibilities that we might not be justified in assuming. AS indi- cated in my letter to Mr. Dorr, before making a final decision, I would like to have your views and a report as to the condition of the building and what expense would be necessary to make the building serviceable and the approximate annual cost of maintenance and opera- tion of the building in the event it could be used in connection with the interpretive program. Would it be possible to rent the building at an adequate fee for community and other appropriate uses? The revenue, of course, would have to be deposited to the credit of mis- cellaneous receipts. Also, I would like a report from Park Naturalist Sullivan as to what uses be would suggest in connection with the inter- pretive program should the building be acquired for the park. Please expedite your reply. (SGD) NEWTON B. DRURY Director. Enclosure 1701616. GLENGARIFF SEAL HARBOR, MAINE [3] Sept 3 1908 Charles W. Eliot Eng Asticou Dear m Eliot Enclosed I hand you a plan of the crest of Barr Hill containing about 4.7 Acnes. I have had this survey made for the purpose of deeding the property to the Hancock County Trustees, as a public reservation. Access will be given by a path from the Bracy road which lies to the South, right being reserved to myself, my heirs & assigns to change the course of the path under any nicessity arising from the future development of the balance of my abutting land. If will give me much pleasure if you your co.trustees should dec. de to accept this small addition to your present holdings. If you would like toser the bound of the proposed reservation I should be glad, suiting your convenience to call for x drive you there With kind regards to yourself There cliot I remain Yourstinearly ) apolytic. Bar Haroom, Raine. Sept.16, 1908. Charles IV. Eliot, Ms. Northoast Haebon, Haire. My dear Mr. Eliot:- At the muggestion of Dr. Milkhell Mr. Charles T. How conveyed to the Pre Harbor Villa Inprovement Agsociation in September 1906, a tract of wood land CO tailing some forty (10) acros of land, not for from Hull's Cove. The treet is known as the "Fawn Pond Park". This converance was made subject to the condition that, if the V. I. A. should be dissolved or should desire to aban- don the property, it must convey the tract to the Town of Fiden to DO held as a public park. During the past two yours the V. I. A. has expended several hundred dollars in opening paths and otherwise improv- 7 ischlines Tohard land inc the property. It the it will doubtless continue to spend each year a moderate amount in the same fashion. A suggestion has born make by Mr. Kennedy that, in view of possible doubts arising as to the Association's liability to pay taxes upon this land, it might be vol. to convey the forty acres to the Hancock County Trustees of Public Revorvations, of which you are # the president #, - a course which I understand Mr. How would among provided your corporation would keep the treet in opdon as the V. I. A. is teying to do. Pending F2. examination of the 10.01 questions involved, allow on to Emgire whether your corporation has, or is likely to have, sufficient funds available for the purpose Inot indi- caled, also whother you would care to take over the entorprise. Sincerely yours, L.S. Pres. B. II. V. I. A. Drasy & Lynam L.B. Drasy Attorneys and A. Lynam Counselors Bar Harbor, Maine, Sept. 23, 1908 Rev. Chas. W. Eliot, Asticou, Me. My Dear Mr. Eliot:- Your favor, enclosing deed from Mr. Cooksey to the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, of four and seven-tenths acres of land near the summit of Barr Hill, is received. I have forwarded the same for record. After being recorded the deed will be placed in the hands of Mr. Mears. Yours very truly, 100mg III. 2 I. 85, 839 OFFICE OF JOHN D. ROCKEFELLEP.4 N DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK copy BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT CBD Document Plenning December 8, 1924. Dear Mr. Rockefeller: President Eliot, who faces things frankly, asked me last summer to set down in writing my ideas and plans for the development of the Park and for my work's continuance. And he asked, also, that I take up the work of perfecting the organization of the Wild Gardens of Acadia whom he and I have planned to succeed me in its furtherance and direction. I have been at work on this since people left and plan to continue until it be done. One of the things that I have most in mind is carray road the development and right future use of the magnificent system of bridle paths and roads for use with horses which you are forming and which I believe can be made a feature SO important that when we both are gone, in years to come, it will still continue devoted to such use, gathering about itself a sentiment that will perpetuate it. In studying the situation over, I have re- visited old haunts and seen them with new vision. An oppor- tunity which the more I have studied it becomes more interest- 2 ing is that of extending your road system for use with horses eastward to encircle Newport Mountain, as the roads now building do, upon a more extensive scale, the combined masses of DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 2. Sargent and its associated mountains. Mr. Hill has examined this for me in detail and tells me it presents no difficulties that cannot readily be over-come. The grades would be easy, the views of the sea superb, the road overhanging the shore, while the eastern view, to Schoodic Head and over Frenchman's Bay, would make a wonderful contrast to the western one obtained from the road now under construction on Little Brown's and Sargent mountains. This fall I succeeded in obtaining the first tract 3. of land upon the ocean front the Park as yet possesses -- HOMANS taken temporarily, till plans shall be worked out for its development, in the name of the Trustees of Public Reserva- tions. This is the Homans tract, bordering on the southern 19.08 side ,and overlooking, Schooner Head. It was the summer home of the donor of our first Reservation tract, given through President Eliot in 1908, the Bowl and Beehive tract at the south end of Newport Mountain. Mrs. Homans' early gift carried with it no access from the public road except by courtesy, the trail to the mountains and across a low pass in them to Otter Creek, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 3. which dated back beyond my memory, lying across the Homans pasture, the pasture of an early farm. The public road divides this new property into Synem 302 two portions, the one extending westward to the mountain receive foot where it joins the Bowl and Beehive tract; the other, containing twenty-five acres on the shore between Schooner Head and Great Head, having a magnificent view up Frenchman's Bay and across its entrance to Schoodic Head and to the open sea. Mrs. Homans' house, a simple bungalow of the early type, still stands, and will probably, until better can replace it, be put in order by the Government for public use, making the land at once available. The mountain portion of the Homans land, passing beneath the Beehive, has beautiful woods upon it that have been preserved by summer resident ownership for fifty year and that extend into similar woods that came to the Reserva- tions through Mrs. Homans' gift in 1908. Beyond this the 4 road would pass at an elevation of from 250 to 300 feet above the sea close below the Cadillac Cliff path, with Gorham Mountain which is the nearest to the sea of any in the Island chain, rising immediately above. The road would be approxi- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 4. mately level, running parallel to the Ocean Drive but high above, and the course not difficult for road construction. The woods which clothed this land have recently been cut, SO that no obstacle exists to an unbroken ocean view similar to but finer than, owing to its elevation, that afforded by the Ocean Drive. Around the turn above the Radio Station at Otter Cliffs the road would pass, still at approximately level grade and with a similar wide view south-westward, to close beyond the junction of the Ocean Drive and the Seal Harbor- Bar Harbor road, where there is good opportunity to cross beneath in a deep bed of glacial gravel, bringing it quickly into land already owned. This section of the suggested road stands by itself. The Homans site will make undoubtedly a Park center on the eastern side important for a road system that would fully serve the Park to reach and that, like Jordan Pond, will become a terminus of drives and expeditions. The road beyond this to Bar Harbor, should it seem desirable to extend it, would pass first through other and old woods; then through an open meadow beneath the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR. MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 5. east cliff of Newport Mountain, the grandest on the Island and hidden from the motor road by woods of oak not likely to be cut; then would slightly rise again, where the Town road dips, to another splendid stretch of view across the Bay, overhanging the resident shore, which would bring it to the valley of Bear Brook and the existing Park and Reservation land where old roads of wood-road character would carry it to the Morrell Park property which the Town maintains, and will doubtless maintain permanently since it received it as a trust, as a riding school and horse-show center, from which Bar Harbor can be reached easily across Great Meadow by direct and grassy ways. The connection from Morrell Park through the Gorge, made on the eastern side of the Otter Creek - Seal Harbor road, to the underneath road-crossing would complete the circuit of the mountain. In large and in detail, the whole road would be one of beauty not surpassed by the one under construction, yet not duplicating this since the views it opens and the territory are entirely different, as well as the climbs and various excursions it would give access to. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 6. The distance along the suggested course from the Otter Creek road crossing to the Homans site would be not far from three miles, estimated by the map, the circuit of the mountain as a whole not over eight; and in general the construction would present no difficulty. With this road built, the Park would have a horse-road system crossing the motor one at level grade only at Jordan Pond, and twice by tunnel, at Eagle Lake and at the place I speak of, and that would be complete in itself, linked up with all resort portions of the Island eastward of Somes Sound and extensive enough and varied enough to make a permanent and unique feature in its offering to the public. Yours sincerely, George B. Work John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Esq., 26 Broadway, New York City, 1908 By HERBERT J. SELIGMANN cadia National Park MOUNTAIN PLAYGROUND BY THE SEA D IVIDED by the broad expanse of Frenchmans Accordingly, in 1901, the village improvement so- Bay, Acadia National Park lies like two giant cieties of Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor and Seal paws, one of which includes vast tracts of land on Harbor appointed delegates, including many summer Maine's largest island, rugged Mt. Desert with its residents, to a committee which met and formed the imposing mountain range, and the other jutting out Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. to the east in the sloping pink granite ledges of Among its incorporators were Dr. Eliot, George S. Schoodic Point where, during gales and hurricanes, Kennedy, and George B. Dorr who later spent much hardy souls gather to watch enormous combers sweep of his life and fortune to advance the cause of the in from the North Atlantic. In addition to these two park. A special act by the state legislature in 1903 main sections, the park includes a large portion of gave the new corporation power to "acquire, hold, isolated Isle au Haut some 20 miles southwest of Mt. maintain and improve for free public use lands in Desert as well as a small section at Islesford on Little Hancock County Cranberry Island where the park maintains a museum. Local landowners and summer residents quickly Even the acreage of Acadia is not static. When responded to the program set before them. In 1908 consulted in August 1958, Park Director Frank R. Eliza L. Homans gave a tract of land above Ocean Givens gave the total area as 30,751 acres, but by Drive; the trustees of the Linda Dows Cooksey estate this time some public-spirited citizens may have gave land on the drive near Seal Harbor; George B. added to that figure. Mr. Givens compared the park Cooksey gave five acres on Barr Hill; Kennedy gave in its size and problems of administration to a small funds for the purchase of 100 acres atop Mt. Cadillac. town. In this he was conservative. During 1957, at- Two years later George L. Stebbins organized a group tendance was estimated at 850,000, with 1200 or more of summer residents to buy a 3600-acre tract which persons camping nightly at the Black Woods and included the western slope of Cadillac and all of Seawall sites. The demand for camping privileges Pemetic Mountain and the Southern Bubble. In 1912 has been SO great that the time limit, for each party the executors of Charles T. Howe of Boston offered has been reduced from 30 to 14 days. for sale 2000 acres including Jordan and Sargent In its origins Acadia National Park was unique in mountains, and $7000 was raised for this purchase. two ways: it was the first national park to be estab- Later gifts came from such prominent families as the lished east of the Mississippi; and it was the first one Cromwells, Abbes, Hendersons, Markoes, Pryors and to have been entirely donated by gifts of land and Lawsons. In all, at this writing there have been 129 money from private citizens. In the early 1900s Bar separate transactions, the gifts and purchases varying Harbor was already famous throughout the world as in size from one acre to large tracts. a resort area where many of the nation's wealthiest Among the large gifts have been those of John D. and most influential families spent their summers. Rockefeller who, in 1910, gave Beech Hill, the cliff Among them was Charles W. Eliot, famous Harvard on the west shore of Echo Lake, and later, as well president, who for 20 years had made his summer as building carriage roads and bridle paths, bought residence at Northeast Harbor and in whose fertile and gave other tracts. With his cooperation the so- mind the idea for a park originated. It was he who called Mountain Road (not to be confused with the ggested to friends that they form an organization to summit road on Mt. Cadillac), which passes Jordan conserve and maintain for the benefit of all people Pond, was built in 1932. the natural beauties of Mt. Desert. (Continued on Page 41) 36 Abbe 1914 check The birth of the park was not without its pains. geology and wildlife are provided. All the guiding In 1913, under threat by the legislature to withdraw and lecture services of park rangers are without its tax exemption, George B. Dorr went to Washington charge except for the boat trips. Whether you are to urge consolidation of the lands into a national curious about mountain top plants, marine life in tidal monument or park. The next year Dr. Eliot, Dorr, pools, trees, wild flowers or birds, there is a guide Ernest H. Forbush and Professor M. L. Fernald con- ready to conduct you. A schedule of these tours tributed illustrated articles to the National Geograph- is issued weekly throughout the summer. ic Magazine describing Mt. Desert Island and urging Most visitors find that their vacation days are not establishment there of a national park. The deter- long enough to let them "do" the park as thoroughly mined efforts of the conservators bore fruit on July 8, as they would like. Ordinarily a full day is needed 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson signed an ex- just to visit beautiful Sand Beach for a swim in the ecutive order establishing Sieur de Monts National surf, to watch the combers explode in Thunder Hole Monument. This was changed three years later to on Ocean Drive, and then to drive to the top of Mt. Lafayette National Park and finally, in 1929, to Acadia Cadillac with its spectacular views of inland forest National Park. The last act also authorized the in- and lakes to the north, long vistas of indented coast clusion of lands outside Mt. Desert Island. to the east and west, and the stirring panorama of The problem of administering the Acadia Park of open sea to the south. today, a vast and widespread domain of mountains, In addition to Cadillac, there are at least a dozen lakes, shores, beaches, campsites, picnic areas, mu- other mountains that offer exciting fun for both the seums and highways, would, it seems, tax a small novice hiker and expert rock climber. There are 100 army of trained personnel. Actually the job is done miles of trails and footpaths; a wide choice of lakes under a director with a year-round staff of between and hidden fresh water ponds available for swim- 20 and 25 persons, to which are added in the peak ming and fishing; secluded mountain brooks to ex- summer months of July and August some 25 tempor- plore, and miles of seashore to roam. Places of special ary rangers. Each of the regular rangers is a college interest along the shore are Anemone Cave, Great graduate, trained for his work by the National Park Head, Otter Cliffs and Hunters Beach. If one is Service. The permanent personnel includes eight seeking a change from the sea, forest and mountain, rangers and three fire control aides, all equipped he can watch the brook trout in the "sweet waters of with cars with two-way radios; four lifeguards sta- Acadia" bubbling clear and cold from the gravel at tioned at lakes and sea beaches; two rangers stationed Sieur de Monts Spring, or study the stone age utensils at campsites and another at the information desk at and other artifacts of prehistoric or recent Indians park headquarters in Bar Harbor. At the latter point in the Abbe Museum of Archeology. Another re- visitors can get maps, directions and information warding trip is a visit to the historical museum at they may need. Islesford where the story of the discovery and settle- Facilities within the park are currently being ex- ment of the Mt. Desert region is documented. panded under the Mission 66 program, a nationwide The traveler will find that there is more to Mt. National Park Service improvement plan slated to be Desert than just its park. There are the beautiful completed in 1966. Development at Acadia is guided harbors of Northeast, Seal and Southwest, with their by a master plan that gives prime consideration to summer fleets of yachts; the fishing villages along the improving facilities and highways without detracting western side of the island and the great five-mile from the park's natural beauties. Each new project fiord, known as Somes Sound, which nearly splits the is carefully weighed and planned by experts for- island. Here, too, are more ponds, woods and hills esters, naturalists, engineers and architects. to explore as well as excellent overnight accommoda- There are few rules imposed upon a visitor to the tions for those who prefer something more elaborate park. He is required to respect the park's natural than a campsite. resources including its animals, trees, shrubs and Wherever one goes on the island, he should be flowers, to drive carefully and to build fires only where impressed with the emphasis that is placed on fire authorized. There are no advance reservations for precautions. There is good reason for this. It is campsites; the green-clad, friendly ranger on the difficult today to stand on the summit of bare-ledged scene issues permits in the order of arriving appli- Cadillac and imagine that only a dozen years ago cants. much of the mountain was a volcano of wind-blasted In return, the visitor is assured of being able to flames. At that time one of the worst forest fires in find his own pleasure in any part of the huge reser- the nation's history swept across the island, burning vation he may choose to explore. Every variety of a total of 17,188 acres of which acres were outdoor enthusiast may find his preference here. Spe- within the park. In the bleak days of late November cial boat trips, automobile tours, walks ranging from 1947, shortly after the last flames were extinguished short strolls to strenuous climbs, and lectures on by rains which came too late, one could drive past (Continued on Page 60) 41 B ACK in the days when a man could pay his in- come tax out of his pocket change, people built great houses for their comfort and great yachts for their pleasure. Men like Joseph Pulitzer, J. P. Mor- gan, Cyrus H. K. Curtis and Atwater Kent used Maine's splendid harbors to shelter some of the finest yachts the world has ever seen. These magnificent ships were kept in constant use through the summer months for entertaining and for commuting Down East from big eastern cities, and gave employment to many Maine men who either worked aboard them or held jobs ashore in businesses servicing the yachts. Some of these were built in Maine shipyards, notably at the Bath Iron Works, which launched eleven in the period 1929-31, While yachting enjoyed some popularity in this country in the early 19th century, it was not until the post-Civil War decades of the 1870s and '80s that the Golden Era began. Flush with fortunes made in the new and growing industrial revolution, men with time and money on their hands turned to yachting for sport and social prestige. Hundreds of yacht clubs were established during this 20-year period. Sailing craft, at first predominant, were superseded by the large steam yachts which gained increasing favor after the 1880s. By the turn of the century one often could judge a man's social and financial status by the length of his yacht. Big, beautiful, luxuriously ap- glories of the era. pointed, these floating palaces were the crowning YACHTS OF THE GOLDEN ERA By JOHN C. CALHOUN, JR. 42 B ACK in the days when a man could pay his in- come tax out of his pocket change, people built great houses for their comfort and great yachts for their pleasure. Men like Joseph Pulitzer, J. P. Mor- gan, Cyrus H. K. Curtis and Atwater Kent used Maine's splendid harbors to shelter some of the finest ACADIA yachts the world has ever seen. NATIONAL PARK These magnificent ships were kept in constant use through the summer months for entertaining and for (Continued from Page 41) commuting Down East from big eastern cities, and The Tarn near Sieur de Monts Springs between gave employment to many Maine men who either blackened mountain walls and suddenly feel that he worked aboard them or held jobs ashore in businesses was in a world bereft of color. Today this same servicing the yachts. Some of these were built in valley is laced with green, its mountain walls washed Maine shipyards, notably at the Bath Iron Works, clean by rains. In one way, the park benefited from which launched eleven in the period 1929-31. the holocaust for, while great stretches of forest were While yachting enjoyed some popularity in this leveled, new vistas of sea and mountain were opened. country in the early 19th century, it was not until the But the great Bar Harbor fire of 1947 brought post-Civil War decades of the 1870s and '80s that the more changes to Mt. Desert Island than the destruc- Golden Era began. Flush with fortunes made in the tion of 17,000 acres of forest. While property dam- new and growing industrial revolution, men with age within the park boundaries was estimated at time and money on their hands turned to yachting for slightly over a half-million dollars, damage outside sport and social prestige. Hundreds of yacht clubs the park exceeded $11.2 million. Many millions of were established during this 20-year period. Sailing the latter figure were represented in dozens of palatial craft, at first predominant, were superseded by the summer "cottages" belonging to some of the nation's large steam yachts which gained increasing favor wealthiest families, people who had brought world after the 1880s. By the turn of the century one often notice to the island resort and some of whom had could judge a man's social and financial status by the been principal figures in gathering the lands that length of his yacht. Big, beautiful, luxuriously ap- later became Acadia National Park. pointed, these floating palaces were the crowning Today many of the extensive foundations of these glories of the era. homes still remain, crumbling and overgrown with weeds. New park roads run near some of these ruins, reminding passers-by of another era when far- sighted men used some of their wealth to help pre- serve the magnificent beauties of Mt. Desert. The dreams and work of these men have borne fruit, and the naturalness of the island they knew will remain after the last traces of their burned mansions are buried beneath spruce forest. The park was named Acadia from the commission granted in 1604 by Henry IV of France to the Sieur de Monts. It might well have been named Arcadia for the Greek traditional home of pastoral poetry. GOLDEN ERA By JOHN C. CALHOUN, JR. ACADIA NATIONAL PARK 75TH ANNIVERSARY 37 Significant dates in the history of MDI and Acadia 1529 - Diego Ribero, a Portuguese mariner, February 26, 1919 - President Woodrow Wilson 1947 - About 8,700 acres of the park's east side named Somes Sound Rio de las Montanas. This is signed a bill making Sieur de Monts National and many summer cottages were wiped out by a the first known written mention of Mt. Desert Monument a national park. Called Lafayette disastrous fire. Island. National Park, the park was the first national park 1954 - One million visitors recorded. September 1604 - Samuel de Champlain, a car- east of the Mississippi, and it was the only park 1960 - John D. Rockefeller died. His gifts to tographer-recorder sent on an expedition by the made up entirely of private gifts. Dorr became the Acadia included 57 miles of carriage trails, 17 stone lieutenant general of New France, Sieur de Monts, first superintendent at a salary of $1 per month. bridges, two gatehouses and approximately 15,000 described and identified Mt. Desert as an island Fall 1929 - Congress changed the name to acres of land. and named it L'Isle des Monts-deserts. Acadia National Park, derived from the French 1966 - Two million visitors recorded. 1613 - A colony of French Jesuits attempt first name for much of northeastern North America. 1971 - The non-profit organization, the Maine permanent settlement at St. Sauveur located on 1929 - A 2,000-acre area on Schoodic Peninsula Coast Heritage Trust of Bar Harbor, was founded Fernald's Point at the mouth of Somes Sound. The was acquired for the park from a pro-British family to encourage long-term protection of Maine islands colonists were welcomed by the local Indians, but that had hoped the park's name would be changed and other properties. the colony was wiped out by the British. This began to Acadia, as it was. June 21, 1979 - Jordan Pond House was a long period of conflict between the French and 1931 - Cadillac Mountain road completed. destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt with local contri- British for control of northeastern North America. 1932 - With a donation from John D. Rockefeller butions within two years. 1759 - The British defeated the French forces at Jr., Jordan Pond and Northeast Harbor gatehouses 1980 - Just under 4 million visitors recorded. Quebec, and Maine became British territory. were completed. 1986 - After years of local debate and negotia- 1761 - Abraham Somes of Gloucester, sailing up August 5, 1944 - George B. Dorr died at the age of tion, Congress passed legislation establishing lim- from Gloucester for a cargo of staves, so liked the 91. Dorr is remembered as the father of Acadia its on how much land Acadia can acquire in sur- area he moved here and settled Somesville, the old- National Park. rounding communities. est town on Mt. Desert Island. 1837 - First bridge was erected connecting Mt. Desert Island and the mainland. 1840s and 1850s 1 First summer visitors, mostly scientists, artists and novelists, came to Mt. Desert Island. 1868 - Steamboat service started running between Boston and Mt. Desert Island. Island House, the first hotel, was built near the steamboat wharf in Southwest Harbor. Other hotels followed in Bar Harbor. 1880s Land speculation boomed on Mt. Desert Island as Bar Harbor became a popular summer spot for wealthy summer "rusticators" from Eastern cities. 1895 - The Jordan Pond House, a tea house on Jordan Pond which is now in the park, was built by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McIntire. 1901 - Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations was organized by a few of the island's leading summer people to acquire and pre- serve the island's beautiful landscapes. George George B. Dorr rushed into Bar Harbor to buy the land around Sieur de Monts Spring minutes before his option Dorr was named the first executive officer. Other on the property was set to expire. A group of developers were standing by at the Village Green with cash in members included Harvard University President hand, ready to take over the option. This ceremony at the picturesque spring took place sometime around the Charles Eliot, George Stebbins and Lea Luquer. turn of the century. Today Sieur de Monts is the site of the Abbe Museum, which houses a collection of Native *Jan. 1, 1903 - Maine State Legislature granted the American artifacts from the area, and Wild Gardens of Acadia. PARK COLLECTION trustees a charter making it a tax-exempt corpora- tion whose purpose was "to acquire, by device, gift or purchase, and to own, arrange, hold, maintain, or improve for public use lands in Hancock This group watches over Acadia County, Maine, which by reason of scenic beauty, ost parks and historical sites have the park administration. historical interest, sanitary advantage, or other like M groups that support their programs. This year the Friends helped persuade the federal reasons may become available for such purpose." Friends of Acadia has been doing this government to commit to raising half the money Land on the summit overlooking Jordan Pond and in Acadia National Park since the necessary to restore John D. Rockefeller's carriage a tract near Seal Harbor were the first two parcels group was founded in 1986. roads and create an endowment for their perpetual given to the Trustees. The group's mission is to help protect and pre- care. The group also has helped establish an Acadia 1908 - The Beehive and the Bowl marked the serve the park. That has meant working with the Youth Conservation Corps to work in the park. Trustees' first significant acquisitions. Cadillac Congressional delegation to boost the park's bud- For more information about the group, write: Mountain (then called Green Mountain) and Sieur get, organizing volunteer work crews to restore Friends of Acadia, P.O. Box 725, Bar Harbor, ME., de Monts Spring were added next. trails and roads, and monitoring actions taken by 04609, or call (207) 288-3340. January 1913 - Legislative lobbyists questioned the tax-exempt status of the Trustees. This sparked George Dorr's quest to establish a national reserve. The Trustees owned about 5,000 acres on Mt. Desert Island. Recycling in the park March 4, 1913 - George Dorr arrived in Washington, D.C. to start his fight to save the cadia National Park glass, 2,387 pounds of plastic the park again this summer in future park. A was one of five parks and 2,006 pounds of aluminum. almost all the frequently visited 1915 - Automobiles were allowed on all of Mt. nationwide chosen Coastal Disposal, a Southwest locations. Bins also have been Desert Island after a bitter battle between residents last year for a pilot Harbor company, collects the placed in island towns 1 in Bar who wanted to preserve peace and quiet on the recycling program sponsored by material from the bins and trans- Harbor they are on the pier, in island and those who favored automobiles. Cars Dow Chemical Co. and ports it to Augusta where it is front of the First National Bank; were allowed in Bar Harbor in 1913. Huntsman Chemical Co. separated and sold to manufac- in Mt. Desert, they are at the July 8, 1916 - Sieur de Monts National About 130 big plastic bins turers. Somesville fire Station and at the Monument was signed into law by President were placed throughout the park From July to December about Parkman Mountain Parking Woodrow Wilson. George Dorr was named first last summer and in several 11 percent of the total annual Area in Northeast Harbor. custodian of the monument. island communities. By the end waste from Acadia was recycled, Material does not need to be 1917-1940 - John D. Rockefeller Jr. financed the of August, more than 24,478 according to Dow officials, who separated when it is placed in design, construction and maintenance of the car- pounds of recyclables had been hope to reach 20 percent his year. the bins, but should not be heav- riage road system. collected - 20,085 pounds of The bins have been placed in ily contaminated by food. 2/18/19. Ellen Bullard Clark's Bostm Blue Book, 1908 Ps. 46.. Resedents of Commonwelle ave /I 3 the Williams. Bellard n Stapler is Mrs Katherine "i Flash K Miss Ellen 11 P4.99. # 18 Mr. georg B Dore H 20 Mrs C.P. Curtis H 30 the this Henry Parknon # 45 Mrs Mrs. Ellerton L. Dorr is 20 ALBERT MEADOW BAR HARBOR MAINE 25 Sepr.1908 bean In. Euch In. beasy advises me that ow V. I.A. is legally liacle to taxation upon ito noh earate In addition 5 found and Park we ones one and me quarter acces of wood laud in to Village here, under similar obligation shin. twice is as a pack. Ir Receus to rea now that the arrange ment perposed 2. by you would be a do. Dirable me for no tomate in bet caseer, and 2 Hall Lay to onlye of before me association next Summer. Ihave conveyed tor mischell (at whose in Hance In. How your four end Pack) your suggestion againing to lader land on Sayer and Jones mmufains, and shall too glad to Canner ricate 5 you the result as soon us Iow apprised of if Verykeer IMM x.2 opdyaho beautiful lon HUA. Records of the Pres of Haward u., C.W.E. B83 [Purchase of Cadillac Summit] 4. Bar Haln Sept. 281908 Dear President Shit got a price Green the active da for its tof of Montain $3000 for Our hundred acus belonging to the Brave family him- - Thea I went, unit ON mutchell, the and he Authorized the They for the (sic) Haucoek County Pathe Law intervicester Who Mork Kit qualter u/ however 3. 2. Ifond that of the hear, Hr product a third of undivided, had given Qu often On his third for $1000 to Man hamid Moran, a heal that x atter Speculative to Ran Hain The often - war grum John month ago, in Connection unit au attember to peerius the Cream Monstan had. Moran leasut of an luquey Nu Dear made for the 2 3. approval of hig gift Weigh list him, Thum, and yru acknowledgement ofit in the Allociation's ham will be a tom Cc of pleature 5 him the Kinning will key the main , third of du Muchan topig He has also shoka to hus today the totas of newfert 10 Sargert of the of beening 4 6. and I thing that he ma, dong lo durit u hair to Cale this mail, X am that Gange B. DOH not :- Pack 210 Bar Karbor, Kaine. September 29th, 1908. President Charles 17. Eliot, Harvard College, Carbridge, Mass. Dear President Eliot, I wrote in haste last right to catch the mail and it has just occurred to ne that I spoke of the Hancock County Public Lands Association in My letter instead of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. Kr Deasy has charge of the matter and will see that all is in due legal form when title is taken of Homans: the property. Cadillac The owners of the remaining third have also acquired possession of the Green Mountain Road Corporation which has a right of endment domain for road and toll-house purposes, but not for a hotel, from the Eagle Lake Road to the swedit of the mountain. It has not exercised its right however with regard to the hundred aeres in question though it has done so over the land below. The exercise of this right in condernation of land for roadway across the lot that occupies the swedt night be held to seriously injure the value of the latter in ownership and as two thirds of the cost of such condemnation would be paid to the trustees I doubt if the owners of the rondway will exercise their right at present. They have a plan to make this road into an automobile road, running an autonobile stage NO and down the mountain, and the whole matter is involved with the automobile question here. No house upon 2 the surrit could be built however while we hold a two thirds interest in the property except by its division into separate parts and I think that our interest ---- that is, the interest of the public lios in postponing such division as long as possible, if we cannot obtain an aution sale of the property and division of the price obtained instead of a land division. such division by sale is mare in Maine apparently, although cormon in other states; the excep- tional character of the property however, as a mountain-top whose sole value lies in its all-round view, night lead to a judgement in favor of sale instead or land division in this case. Yours sincerely, Sing B. NAM I 2. [oct.2,1908] Bar Garbor, Maine. matters which are calculated to keep the pic- turesquoness of the localities uninpaired. My dear President:- We have spent quite three hundred dol- I am sure you will be lars on the Fawn Pond and it was so well man- very much gratified at the result of Mr. aged that no sign of interference by man now Dorr's efforts about the Hancock County Park disturbs there the lover of Nature. business. I had this morning a long conver- In my interview with Mr. How, I think it nation with Mr. How, who tells me he will fa- came out D cetty clearly that he himself would cilitate in every way next summer the trans- next year convey to the Hancock County Park fer of the Fawn Pond to the Park, with the Association a large tract of land, probably agreement that the Villiage Improvement Asso- fifty to seventy acres, lying between Eagle ciation shall care for it, let us say for Lake Road and the road up Green Mountain. five years. It will be a matter of fifty This, if I mistake not, will take one, per- or sixty dollars a year, but in fact on all haps two, of the best trails up the mountain, lands we acquire we shall need some thought will lie of course on the eastward side and as to expense for forestry, paths, and other will be a most valuable acquisition. I may 40 acre Fawn Fend HCTPR Harvard University Archives. Records of the President. C.W.Eliot. B.83 3. ask, however, at Mr. How's request, that you will not speak of this for the present I send you this because I know it will gratify you to feel that a larger public interest has been awakened in the matter. I shall be in Boston at the end of October and hope then to have the pleasure of seeing you. I must make some kind of an of ^icial visit to Harvard to see the Carnegie laboratory of nutrition. Yours very truly S. weir mituney October second, 1908. To President Eliot, Harvard College. B Kert. R.H., 2003. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller by centuries of erosion, dominate the landscape. Rich forests of spruce, fir, and pine flourish safely in wilderness areas, and over five hundred species of wildflowers bring a riot of springtime color CHAPTER 10 to the hillsides or hide undisturbed in moist and secret haunts. The climate is by turn intimidating and soothing, as fog and rain, sun- light and gentle winds chase each other endlessly. John Cabot discovered the island in 1497. Samuel de Champlain named it in 1604. In 1613 the French Jesuits established a mission and a settlement, only to see it destroyed by the English, who claimed the region by virtue of the Cabot explorations. The land remained part of French Acadia, however, until France finally re- linquished it in the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Under English the jurisdiction Mount Desert developed as a fishing and lumbering center. In the middle of the nineteenth century, city folks became attracted to the island's possibilities for recreation-trout fishing, hiking, canoeing, sailing, activities that had been eschewed by the A bby had been in and out of bed all winter with a cough and residents of the older summer colonies, where stately rituals of a rheumatism and was now four months pregnant. When she more elegant order prevailed. Even when Bar Harbor became a learned that Dr. Thomas was spending the summer in Bar Harbor, playground for millionaires, it never took on quite the lush charac- Maine, she decided to follow him there for her delivery. On June ter of Newport. The fêtes were somewhat quieter, the villas, with 19, 1908, the entire household began the exodus. "We assemble at their wood-and-shingle style, became known as cottages, and active No. 13," John wrote, "where we have supper, and at eight o'clock sports remained an essential diversion. the train leaves with the residue, sixteen strong. We arrive at The family occupied Sears Cottage, a rented waterfront house 1:30 P.M. tomorrow. on Wayman Street, owned by Evelyn Walsh MacLean. On June "Abby is very well and I think will stand the journey nicely. 28, John left for Tarrytown to check up on Kykuit's progress. In The children with their new socks, which leaves their knees bare, his absence Abby occupied herself with quiet tasks. "Mrs. Barnes will not mind the heat." The immediate family was four, the rest and I have been putting the bassinet together," she wrote. "I were staff-including stablemen to look after the horses. The train showed it to the children, little John wanted to get in and try it, was the Bar Harbor Express out of Grand Central, north to Ban- and Babbie thought it had better be put in her room, if she was gor, and then east on the Coastal Line to Hancock. Passengers and going to take care of the baby."2 horses boarded the Mount Desert ferry for the eight miles across She was reading Emile Zola's Rome- "His views of the R.C. Frenchman Bay, to be met on the island side by buckboards and church and socialism and Dogma I found very sympathetic." And victorias. she asked John to order two more books for her, On the Training of Nowhere along the Atlantic seaboard is there such an island as Parents by Lawrence Abbott, and a text on Chinese porcelains by Mount Desert. Its haunting beauty is as ever-changing as the sea Cosure Maukhouse. itself, Great granite cliffs, pounded by the surf, rise starkly from John returned from New York on Sunday, July 5. Three days the ocean floor. More than a dozen mountain peaks, worn smooth later, at 12:10 P.M., Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was born, named 128 129 BERNICE KERT Abby Aldrich Rockefeller after Abby's father. To celebrate his safe and healthy arrival, John kind of old money, gave the villages their special flavor, their ca- presented her with an "alluring" piece of jewelry. Two weeks later chet. The golf course was only nine holes and the clubhouse medio- he was back at Kykuit to supervise the last details before his parents cre. Tennis courts were plentiful, if indifferently maintained. moved in. Sailing parties that meandered around the many small islands were "The rain yesterday kept the children in the house and I could Abby's favorite outdoor recreation, especially if they turned into have them with me most of the time " Abby wrote him. "We all-day picnics. Sunday sermons were delivered by the prominent are getting our share of fog now but I don't mind. Fog was clergy of several denominations who took their holidays in North- part of the New England climate that she loved. She often said east Harbor. how thankful she was that the Lord did not place her life inland, John no longer commuted regularly from New York, but formed that she was not really happy unless she was near water, the ocean the habit of bringing his work with him. The mass of detail he was was the best, but she would settle for a river. Ending her letter on handling, as Senior began to shift projects to him, was endless. His a note of tenderness, she wrote how much he meant to her; neither drive for perfection, his passion for "taking pains," dominated his the children nor all the luxury with which he surrounded her could thinking. He did not care for sailing, not the way Abby did. He make up for his absence. expected her to reserve her afternoons for him, SO that he could John was hungry for such words. "I am glad your happiness take her driving or hiking with him over the footpaths, pausing at depends so much upon me," he replied. "I should hate to have you Jordan Pond House for tea, toast, and jam. just moderately glad to have me with you; my feelings are SO ar- With the end of the season Abby was back in Tarrytown to dent." Nothing could make up for her physical presence, the enjoy the pageantry of the Hudson-Fulton celebration of the ter- chance to touch her, to feel her closeness. It was an intensity that centenary of the Henry Hudson exploration of the Hudson River for him always bordered on desperation. The question, not yet in 1609, and the centenary of the first use of steam navigation on answered, was how he would deal with competition for that close- the river by Robert Fulton. John disposed of all the tickets sent to ness from his own children. him by virtue of Senior's contributions and was satisfied to watch A year later, in 1909, the family returned to Mount Desert. the illuminated regatta, fireworks, etc. from Kykuit's perch. For This time they rented in Seal Harbor, like its neighbor, Northeast Abby, however, the exhibitions were of much greater interest. Harbor, a quiet, low-profile enclave. Charles William Eliot, who The Metropolitan had rounded up an extraordinary loan exhibition had transformed narrow, sectarian Harvard College into a demo- from New York collectors of Dutch paintings-Rembrandts, Hal- cratic, illustrious university, was one of the first summer visitors to ses, and Vermeers. build his house in the area. A colony of distinguished scientists, At a time when the Met was overwhelmingly Europe-oriented, jurists, and architects gathered around him, some of whom, like Henry Kent, the greatest museum administrator of his era, decided Eliot himself, were already known to Abby and John. Christian to mount an exhibition of American industrial arts from 1625 to Herter, who did some of the early work on poliomyelitis, was the 1825. Abby, who had been nudging John into "used furniture brother-in-law of Abby's friend Adele Herter. Simon Flexner, stores" for years, saw her taste vindicated. For the first time since head of research for the Rockefeller Institute, and his wife, Helen, the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876, "grandmother's old things," returned every summer. stored for years in America's attics, received the attention that had Rich, patrician families, representing the Protestant elite, were been reserved for the decorative arts of Egypt, Greece, and West- regulars, among them the Clarks of Philadelphia and the Hannas ern Europe. of Cleveland. A deliberate shabbiness, characteristic of a certain In October she paid a visit to Dr. Thomas. He confirmed what 130 I HARVARD EXTOLS ELIOT. New York Times (1857-Current file): Dec 12, 1908; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times 12/14/08 pg.03 HARVARD EXTOLS ELIOT. Overseers, Accepting President's Res- ignation, Say He Is Educa- tional Leader. Elist CAMBRIDGE Mass., Dec. 11.-In ac- cepting with reluctance the resignation of President Charles W. Ellot, the oversers of Harvard Colege have placed on record a resolution of admiration and esteem. The resciution in part is as follows: Called to the Presidency in early man- hood, he has administered the affairs of this university for forty years with emi- nent skill and fidelity. Its vast develop- ment during his term of service has been 'mainly.dire to his wisdom. his strong con- victions, his enterprise and zeal. prompt to initlate reforms and fearles yet pru- dent in pressing them, he has, by his con- structive energy, transformed Harvard College into a great university and at True same come nas excelled an influence on the educational forces of the Nation which has largely shaped their policy, so that he stands to-day the leader in his age. and generation. The Harvard University Gazette an- nounces the appointment of Edward Waldo Forbes as Director of the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum in place of Prof. Charles H. Moore. whose resignation has recently been announced, to take effect Sept. 1, 1903. Mr. Forbes has been promi- nently identified with the artistic inter- ests of Boston and Cambridge for sev- eral years. CROKER SEES DR. BULL. Comes from Lakewood to Spend Half an Hour at Friend's Bedside. The condition of Dr. William T. Bull was so much improved Thursday that he was permitted by Dr. ynkoop. his at- tending physician. to receive a visit from his life-long friend. Richard Croker. Mr. Croker motored to town from Lakewood, N. J. as soop as he learned that Dr. Bull would be permitted to see him. and they spent half an hour together. Dr. Wvn- koop said last night that his patient was much brighter as a result of the visit. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission ORGANIZED UNDER THE LAWS OF MAINE. GREENMOUNTANGARRIAGE ROAD CO. OF BAR HARBOR, ME. 8.7 CAPITAL STOCK $25.000 PAR VALUE $5.00 This Certifies, that L. B Deary is entitled to -One Shares of the Cahital Stock of the Green Mountain barriage Road Co. Transferable on the books of the Company by Assignment dorsed hereon and surrender of this certificate. In witness whereof the seal of said Corporation and the signatures of the President and Treasurer are hereunto affixed Dated at Bar Harbor. maine, this 312 day of fec 1908 Innory Treasurer George President. Rs Nort ORGANIZED UNDER THE LAWS OF MAINE. GREENMOUNTAIN CARRIAGE ROAD CO. OF BAR HARBOR, ME. 86 9998 CAPITAL STOCK $25.000 PAR VALUE $5.00 This Certifies, that Geo. B. Dorr is entitled to ninety nine hundred annuity eight Shares of the Cahital Stock of the Green Mountain Carriage Road Co. Transferable on the books of the Company by Assignment en- dorsed In hereon and surrender of this certificate. witness whereof the seal of said Corporation and the signatures of the President and Treasurer are hereunto affixed L. Ateam Dated at Bar Harbor, maine, this 31st day of Die 1908- George Bobler ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. In accordance with the provisions of the Revised Statutes of the state of Maine, chapter 48, section I6, we the undersigned, whose res- idences are stated opposite our respective signatures, hereby associ- ate ourselves together by these written articles of agreement for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of Maine, to purchase, lease, or acquire a right of Way over a strip of land extending from the summit of Green Mountain in the town of Eden, Maine, to somewhere near its base, and over said strip of land to locate, construct and operate a toll road. Said corporation shall be located at Bar Harbor in the town of Eden in the county of Hancock in the said state of Maine, and shall have its office at said Bar Harbor. The first meeting of said corpor- ation shall be held in accordance with section I7, of said chapter 48, for the purpose of adopting a corporate name, adopting by-laws, defin- ing the purposes of the corporation, the amount of capital stock, val- ue of shares, choosing all necessary officers, and whatever else may be necessary for the proper organization of said corporation, at Hamor Block at said Bar Harbor on the fifth day of July, A. D. I888, at 7 X o'clock P. M. Dated at Bar Harbor, Eden, Me., this 20th day of June A. D. I888. Names. Residences. Eiling Hamas Bar Horbas me it 9 loan DECLARATION OF TRUST. WHEREAS, we, the undersigned, George B. Dorr, L. B. Deasy and Albert H. Lynam, hereby acknowledge that there has been transfered to us ten thousand shares believed to be all the capital stock of the Green Mountain Carriage Road Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Maine and established and located at Bar Harbor, Hancock County, in said state. Said stock is included in three certificates to wit; Certificate No. 86 for nine thousand nine hundred ninety- eight (0,998) shares issued to George B. Dorr; Certificate No. 87 for one share issued to L. B. Deasy and Certificate No. 88 for one share issued to Albert II. Lynam. Now we acknowledge and declare that theentire consideration, to wit; the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) paid for said stock was paid by the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, a charitable corporation organized under the laws of said state of Maine and established and located at said Bar Harbor. We therefore declare and agree that we do hold and will hold said stock in trust for said Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations and that we will manage and dispose of said stock for the sole use and benefit of said last named corporation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF we the said George B. Dorr, L. B. Deasy and Albert H. Lynam, have hereunto set our hands and seals this thirty- first day of December, A. D. 1908. Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of I, George B. Dorr of Eden, Hancock County, Maine, having been elected one of the Directors of the Green Mountain Carriage Road Company corporation at a meeting held this day at the office of Deasy & Lynam, Bar Harbor, Maine, do hereby acknowledge that I have received due and sufficient notice of said meeting and do hereby waive any other or further notice thereof and consent that the two other Directors constituting a majority and quorum of Directors may proceed to elect officers in my absence. December 30th, 1908. George B. Wars Law Offices at Henry McHall Maine. Ellsworth, Me July 29, 1909. In re Green Mountain Carriage Road Co. Hon. L. B. Deasy, Bar Harbor, Maine. Brother Deasy: Yours of the 28th inst. received returning the assignment from Mr. Greely to me in re certificate number 71,646 shares, which certificate was supposed to be lost. Enclosed please find herewith the original certificate number 71 assigned by Mr.Greely to George B. Dorr of Eden, Maine, as requested by you. Have forgotten what kind of an assignment or assignments I gave myself but it seems to me that either my assign- ment of the supposed lost certificate ought to be returned to me or else some memorandum made thereon to show the original certificate has been found and transferred as per your request direct from Mr. Greely to Mr. Dorr. Will you kindly look at my assignment of the supposed lost certificate and let me hear from you further. Very truly yours, P? S. Have left date of enclosed assignment blank as I did not know the date of my previous assignment and it occurs to me that this probably should be dated as of a fixed date so as to correspond with your records where you count this cez tificate as present The holder's on represented at any meetings. Kindly let me know what date you fill in. HEH/S STATE OF MAINE Office of Attorney-General Augusta, Me., August 23, 191 5 . To Hon. John E. Bunker, Secretary of State of Maine. I, O. H. Dunbar, Assistant Attorney-General of Maine, hereby certify that I have received satisfactory proof that the GREEN MOUNTAIN CARRIAGE ROAD COMPANY a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maine, has ceased to transact business, and is therefore, under Chap. 47, Sec. 3 I, R. S. of Maine, excused from filing annual returns with Secretary of State, as now required by law, SO long as its franchises remain unused. Yours very respectfully, O. H. Dunbar, Assistant Attorney-General of Maine. A true copy of excuse sent to the Secretary of State for filing. Attest: Assistant Attorney-General. ORGANIZED UNDER THE LAWS OF MAINE. GREENMOUNTAIN CARRIAGE ROAD CO. OF BAR HARBOR. ME. 68 646 CAPITAL STOCK $25.000 PAR VALUE $5.00 This Certifies that L. A Enury - is entitled to Six hundred forty Six - Shares of the Cahital Stock of the e Green Mountain Carriage Road Co. Transferable on the books of the Company by Assignment en dorsed hereon and surrender of this certificate. In witness whereof the seal of said Corporation and the signatures of the President and Treasurer are hereunto affexed Dated at Bar Harbor, maine this 8th day of Sept. 1891 Treasurer Jro I Higg President. ms ORGANIZED UNDER THE LAWS OF MAINE. GREEN MOUNTAIN CARRIAGE ROAD CO. OF BAR HARBOR. ME. 88 CAPITAL STOCK $25.000 PAR VALUE $5.00 T This Certifies, that Albert 16 type been is entitled to Our Shares of the Cahital Stock of the Transferable on the books of the Company courrage by Assignmenton Green Mountain barriage Road Co. dorsed hereon and surrender of this certificate. In witness whereof the seal of said Corporation and the signatures of the President and Treasurer are hereunto affixed maine this 319 day of Dic 1808 lads For value received hereby sell, assign and trans= For value received I hereby sellbassign and trans= fer to fer to Geo B. Derr. of of Barkarber Eder, Maine Shares the within 646 Shares of the within described stock, and do hereby constitute of the within described stock, and do hereby constitute and appoint said and appoint said Attorney to transfer the same on the books of the Com= Attorney to transfer the same on the books of the Com= pany, with full power of substitution in the premises. pany, with full power of substitution in the premises. 18 18 Witness : Witness : a.a. ford, Life Jersing For value received hereby sell, assign and trans= fer to of Shares of the within described stock, and do hereby constitute and appoint said Attorney to transfer the same on the books of the Com= pany, with full power of substitution in the premises. 18 Witness : Jan. 27, 1917. Collector of Internal Revenue, Portsmouth, N.H. Dear Sir: The Green Mountain Carriage Road Company, a Maine corporation, has no property, has ceased to transact business and on that account has been excused from filing returns to the State of Maine. In the past it has made returns to your office. Will it be necessary to do si in the future ? Yours truly, AHL/C OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES FOR 1908 GARDINER M. LANE, President FRANCIS L. HIGGINSON, Treasurer ARTHUR FAIRBANKS, Director BENJAMIN IVES GILMAN, Secretary of the Museum FRANK H. DAMON, Assistant Treasurer STANDING COMMITTEES Committee on the Museum THE DIRECTOR, Ex Officio, Chairman THE PRESIDENT, Ex Officio FRANCIS BARTLETT WILLIAM STURGIS BIGELOW ARTHUR T. CABOT J. TEMPLEMAN COOLIDGE, JR. FRANCIS L. HIGGINSON A. W. LONGFELLOW DENMAN W. ROSS Committee on the School of the Museum of Fine Arts THE PRESIDENT, Ex Officio THE DIRECTOR, Ex Officio J. TEMPLEMAN COOLIDGE, JR. Finance Committee THE PRESIDENT, Ex Officio ROBERT D. EVANS THE TREASURER, Ex Officio MORRIS GRAY NATHANIEL THAYER This content downloaded from 137.49.1.13 on Mon, 22 May 2017 14:30:08 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms COMMITTEES Appointed in Pursuance of By-laws Proposed at the Annual Meeting, Jan. 16, 1908, for Adoption at the Following Meeting Committee on Annual Subscriptions A. SHUMAN, Chairman ANDREW G. WEBSTER ELWYN G. PRESTON JUDGE M. J. MURRAY JOHN S. LAWRENCE MAJ.-GEN. WILLIAM A. BANCROFT BERNARD J. ROTHWELL Advisory Committee on Education CHARLES W. ELIOT, Chairman A. LAWRENCE LOWELL STRATTON D. BROOKS MISS FANNY P. MASON MRS. R. C. CABOT MRS. R. S. RUSSELL REV. ARTHUR T. CONNOLLY WALTER SARGENT J. RANDOLPH COOLIDGE, JR. MISS ANNA D. SLOCUM GEORGE B. DORR PROF. H. LANGFORD WARREN ARTHUR FAIRBANKS PROF. J. H. WRIGHT GARDINER M. LANE This content downloaded from 137.49.1.13 on Mon, 22 May 2017 14:30:08 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms