Porr Timeline 7/28/06 1916 1915 - Chailes W Eliot Autos permitted in Town aftett.Desert - NPS established, ST Mather our Dorr's efforts to seot lose Seein de Mosts Spring to JORJ'r. Monto established - Early food Septem - 6180 letter to See. Lane - -Trustees reject Jrs offer to (7/12) outlining plan for purchase Trusteeland but Seen as musts month give good bui Iding persessive on Tressta propert 916 -Sm Monoment Produmation - Dorr travels to D.C. -smm signing (10/6/39) - TAX Lab Permit for Construction -WGA incorporation- - JDRFr. (4/5) letter re naming TAX. two documents, -Schiff Path designated. Impt letter (2/25/15) from Eliot Jr. -smm contributions on GBD's project for huslery bout Inpt. lads Martha 1/10/69 to dand from Jr. Letter from 5 pg. letter 1 -Eliot -> Sr. (11/144+11/13) -MAIGL start up choccisions on Socy Lanes 1916 visit Eliot eiten to Jr. (6/15) ie -Eliat GBD (4/30) telling his Abbe reley map. that when he seen Pres Wilson that Elect 's belind s.m.m - Foulds on Jr. carriage Lood expansion Cp. 72) -WCA c.w. sliot 2nd. -Jr.'s beginning of active involvent HCTPR authorized Jr. to use their lands -R. Wintes actidem NPS Act Jr. game $34,500 to HCTPR Na CBD. and its alleged conflecting claims See JOR AND typescupt, Note no -Dorr's he makes on estobed record the 1939 Heter summary See P.Rochefeller J. Ernst summary for of sm Moncant (8/22) Meeling dates, -C I Eliot 2nd (10/28/50) re Jrc interest in HeTPR - Cramton's tribute (1/15/29) to Mother's career oh in settroment HR speech. -Dair acquires Summit of from Bliss famely (Sumat of Chorplain) snot Dorr Letter, Pg. I of 9 Bar Harbor, Maine, Jan. 22, 1915. Hon. John A, Peters, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Peters: I have gone Very thoroughly again this fall into the question of the land necessary to secure to complete a reservation which the United States Government will accept as a Federal Park under the Monument Act. Every condition seems to be remarkably favorable at the moment for securing this. It passes through the Department of the Interior to the President, and Secretary Lane has expressed to me, in connection with the project, his deep interest in such landscape conservation. President Eliot is ready to use his influence with the President, which is considerable, to secure his ap- proval of the project, should there be need. I can count, further, on the necessary cooperation of the leading permanent officials in the government offices through which it would page on its way to Secretary Lane. I went over the matter with them thoroughly last winter and they have all expressed great interest in the undertaking and have themselves urged upon me the importance of putting it through before there is a change toward possibly less favorable conditions in the personnel of those offices. While everything 1s thus favorable, there are certain conditions which must be fulfilled, according to the rules 2- laid down in the Department of the Interior for similar cases. One of these is that the land set aside shall be free from easements, or any legal rights of others in them. Another is that the public approaches to the park, or monument, shell be well placed, adequate and suitable to its public use and pur- poses. A third is that a complete abstract of title be rond- ered with the land, showing that the titles by which it is held aregood and defensible, which involves also clearing up any titles found possibly to be defective. Fourth, the Govern- ment further requires that such lands as are plainly necessary to the public purposes and usefulness of the monument be in- cluded at the start, so that these may not be defeated later by the private holding of necessary tracts, or the Government involved in litigation and condomnation proceedings in order to secure them. The essential portions being once secured, however, the Government will be content to establish the monu- ment and leave to future acquisition the completion of the tract to its best boundaries in a subordinate way. I have gone over the matter very fully with Mr. Bond, thank the Chief Clerk of the Land Office, with mope, preliminary our- veye made by the Public Reservations for this purpose and brief abstracte of the deeds by which we hold, prepared at Mr. Bond's request by Mr. A. H. Lynes. Mr. Bond has in turn submitted these to the commission appointed in the Department of the In- terior to pass unon auch matters and has forwarded me its re- port with his own comments on 1t. I have also, at Secretary 3- Lane's request, gone over the matter thoroughly with the land- soape architect placed in charge. by . recent act, of all National p and monuments, who has expressed to me. both personally and again in writing, his interest in the undertak- ing and desire to further it. The requirements now outlined express the result of these disquesione and reports; if these requirements can be satisfied, there secme to be no question under the conditions immediately obtaining at Washington as to the Government's readiness to oreate the monument and initiate work for its development along good public lines. Once established, a careful study of this development will be made et once, under Secretary Lane's direction, by the landscape architect of whom I have spoken, and permanent plane for it prepared. Work in accordance with them would then be initiated without delay, Secretary Lane etill holding office. One of the Government's stringent requirements is that its main treet shall be compact, well-knit together in a landscape way and capable of enclosure by e eingle outline. TO accomplish this for a monument extending, at the present time. from Sergent and Joydan Mountains on the weet to New- port Mountain on the east, which Secretary Lane and his advisers consider would be adequate for the crestion of the monument, requires the further acquisition of two gorge or velley tracts, which lie between these mountains. One of these is that held by the Rodick Realty Company occupying the pass to the eouth of Picket Mountain gorge. connecting the 4- Island summit-mass of Green Mountain, with its Dry Mountain spur, with that of Newport Mountain, isolated by this valley, This tract of land contains in its valley portion some of the most important woods in a landscape sense now left upon the southern watershed of the Island, woods essential to the beauty of the view from either height and the pleasantness of important trails. The most direct and only interior road be- tween the northern and southern shores passes through it also, Extending the Reservation ownership of the northern watershed 1a this gorge. already secured, to the southward, it will establish the necessary and essential connection between these mountain masses and give opportunity for their good approach and path development. The second valley necessary to secure for linking to- gether into a compact whole the tract to be conveyed is that of the pass by Bubble Pond, between Green and Pemetic Mounte ains. The greater part of this is owned by Martin Roberts whose land, occupying a considerable stretch elone the south- eastern shore of Bagle Lake and three-quarters of the western shore of Bubblo Pond, together with the whole available portion of the gerge between, completely separates the Green and Pemetic mountain ISSUED and controls all possibility of road development through this pasa as well as that of path connection scross it between Bar Harbor and the eastern shore of Eagle Lake and Jordan Pond with its surrounding sountains. Mr. Roberts has not been willing to consider part- 5- ing with this land until now, and only does so now on the understanding that it will be offered to the Federal Govern- ment. The price he asks is ten thousand dollars. This seems to me distinctly reasonable under the circumstances, for he has to my knowledge expended between four and five thousand dollars alone on the construction of the road, two miles in length, connecting these lands and Bubble Pond with the Nagle Lake Road, which will form an essential part of any future road through the pass between the Seal Harbor region and the northern shore, and will become at once available for through public use on its extension along the western shore of Bubble Pond over the land in question, an extension not over three- quarters of a mile in length and free from any engineering difficulties. Mr. Roberts' land has about half a mile of frontage upon Bubble Pond and probably half a mile more in all on Ragle Lake. It 1s well wooded throughout and contains about one hundred and twenty acres in two lots, separated by a Reservation strip across which he possesses a right of way and over which his road extends. A third essential traot consists in the triangular piece shown in the map on sargent Mountain, to which Dr. C.C. Morrison has title, This tract lies wholly in the town of Mt.Desert, on the Jordan Pond watershed. It occupies an extensive por- tion of the northern slope of the mountain and is crossed in different parts by the path along the west side of Jordan Pond through Southwest Pass and by the northern mountain 6- trails over Sargont. Dr. Morrison has, further, a tax deed title to the land at the southern end of Bubble Pond, extend- ing to the Roberts' land and controling together with it the possibility of a road through that pass. To this land the Reservations have title also. from the previous owners. Which claim would control in case the matter were brought into court is ungertain and it is essential to extinguish his, which he is willing at the present time to do, as well as to part with his Sargent Mountain treat to the Reserva- tions, at a reasonable price, $2500. Another tract of less extent but important for its sit- unation, lying (although not so shown upon the map) in a con- spicuous position on the eastern slope of Bubble Mountain and extending acrose the Carry trail in the region of the water- shed between the lakes, is entirely enclosed by the Reservation lands included in the monument treat. This land belongs to Mr. R. E. Kittredge who has 80 for declined to place a price on it in advance of our being in a position to close with him upon a reasonable offer. It also is essential to include, from the Government's point of view, on account of the opportunity it affords to build campa or other buildings with- in the proposed monument and for the right of passage it con- fera across the adjoining Reservation lands from both the Jorden Pond side and from that of Eagle Lake. One other right exists in that region which it is necessary also to extinguish, that possessed by F. 0. Alley of Bar Marbor 7- to out wood on the northern side of Pemotic Mountain over land originally owned by him but now by the Trustees of Public Reservations with this essement upon it, which involves the further right to cross the adjoining Reservation land to reach it. All that is required to give good bounds and approaches to the monument on its northern and eastern sides has been already done, or is provided for in the future upon the Government's acceptance, and what alone seems necessary now in order to secure the establishment of the Federal Monument accordingly is money sufficient to acquire: 1- The Rodick Realty land lying on the Otter Creek water- shed in the Dry and Nowport Mountain gorge and extending to its southward from the western slope of Newport Mount- ain to the eastern slope of Green Mountain. 2- The Roberts land occupying the gorge between Green and Pemetic Mountains and extending down the eastern side of Bagle Lake to meet the land already held by the Trustees of Public Reservations from Green Mountain summit to the lake. 3- The Morrison. Kittredge and Alley tracts, wood rights and rights of way. on the land lying between Eagle Lake and Jordan Pond on the slopee of Sargent, Pemetic and Bubble Mountains. 4- Funds sufficient to make 2 thorough examination of the deeds by which the land in held and render an 8- abstreet of title of the property, as required by the Government in accordance with its rules, together with such surveye of the land 28 the Government may require. 1- The value of this lot I do not attempt to oftinsts but leave to you and Mr. Stebbins to determine; lying wholly as it dons upon the southern watershed and crossed by the Seal Harbor road, you and he can estimate its value better probably than I. Its total extent I underetand to be about three hundred eeres, the bottom lands well wood- ed though ineccessible by road; the mountain portione is- portant for their trsils and views. 2- This lot I have before stated the price for. It san- not be obtained for less, for Mr. Roberte has only agreed to sell in order to make possible the establishment of the Government Monument. He is well able to hold the land indefinitely 1f be chooses and has had thoughts of estab- lishing e poimanent camp upon 1t at Bubble Pond which might blook the way indefinitely for any public ownership or nec. 3- The cost of this I have estimated, with Mr.A.H.Lynan's aid, et $5,000. Te believe that it can be secomplished for this sum, approximately, if done now but the price given by Dr. Morrison he has made contingent upon present sale, the time being £ feverable one, for reasons needless to 60 into, for closing with him. 9- 4- The Government has established a strict rule with re- gard to the acceptance of lands under the Monument Act that a full and complete abstract of title, in condition for future use in case of need, be rendered with the deed of gift. together with a surveyor's map showing location, bounde, etc., and the establishment of permanent bounde upon the land. The sum. $2500, estimate for this work Mr. Lynan and I believe to be leas than it will actually cost and the least that it would be safe to allow for it. It is only made possible by the amount of work sl- ready done by Mr. Lynam on these titles. That this 1s a matter not capable of postponement but one whose adventages runt t either be secured now, and promptly, or abandoned you will understand. President Eliot also is desirous that this statement with regard to what seems necessary to complete the transaction with the Government be forwarded to Mr. Stebbins, and rendered Mr. Rockefeller accord- ing to hie request, with the least delay possible. Relying accordingly on your warm interest in the matter. which I know, believe me to remain Yours sincerely, [G.B.Dorr] Dorr Letter. Pg. lot 3 Bar Harbor, Maine, Jan. 23, 1915. Dear Mr. Peters: This is a private line to yourself. When Presi- dent Eliot had his talk upon this subject with Mr. Rockefeller [1914] in the fall, it was on the basis of a Government Monument extend- ing to (and including) Dry Mountain only on the eastern side - from Sargents on the western. I had given him some facts based upon this in case we could do no more. If we can do no better now I think I can get the Government to consider that as adegnate to the creation of its Monument, leaving Newport Mountain and the land between to include hereafter when we can. You and Mr. Stebbins can do as you think best, accordingly, with regard to this and leave acquisition of the Rodick Realty tract in the gorge to be accomplished later if you deem it wise. But it is import- ant to include if possible, for the Monument needs Newport Mount- ain with its picturesque rocks and bold position to complete it at the eastern end and from the water. It is too magnificent a thing to be omitted. Moreover, the Bliss land, which includes the actual mountain summit, and that belonging to the Schooner Head people which connects it to the southward with the Reserva- tions' present Homans tract, reaching now to Gorham Mountain, can both undoubtedly be obtained for a Government Monument and may prove difficult to get without it. Then the Cadillac Cliffs beyond and the ocean front below them on the Ocean Drive would be sure to follow, extending the monument over the mountains 2- practically from Bar Harbor to the sea with a good orth develop- ment between. The Roberts' land is exceedingly important to secure. It cuts the Government truct SO completely in two, extending as it does from Bubble Pond to Eagle Lake, that it would prove ciff- icult, and probably in the end impossible, to get the Government to create the Monument without it, though I was endeavoring last winter to work it out on that basis loving to Mr. Roberts' unwill- ingness then to part with the land. This land really controls the situation not only with regard to linking the eastern and west- ern portions of the Government tract together in ownership but with regard to any path development between them or road develop- ment through that pass. The important thing is to get the Government in, now while the opportunity is open. Bar Harbor has done its full share toward this, and all that can be hoped for at the present time owing to deaths and other circumstances. with Mr. Rockefeller the question of amount doubtless only enters in, under the cir- cunstance of his wealth, in so far as to be assured that the ends sought are important and that they cannot be obtained for less or without such contribution from him. From what he wrote me this fall, after President Eliot's talk with him, suggesting that I send him such EL statement and submit it also to Mr. Stebbins on whose judgment he relied, he said, in regard to Mt. Desert matters, I have no question that what Mr. S- advises him in a definite and clear cut way to be important for the future 3- development of the region he takes an interest in and the Island's welfare, he will do. But he himself will plainly make no study of the matter but rely on Mr. Stebbins judgement. (The important point to make him understand accordingly, it seems to me, is that JDRI. the real thing this contribution from him will accomplish is not the further reservation of important tracts with the opportunities which they control for roads and paths, though it will do this incidentally, but doubling and trebling the value of our whole undertaking by siving it & national character, the prestige, assured development and food control which ownership by the Federal Government alone can give.) And also that the opportunity is one that will not brook delay. Sincerely yours, DASH Minda it Oil is Days B Wear President Shot [19:5] I form objection and, In has the developed. inty the incirable objector, of the tomic acceplane. of Mn Kannidy's rome gift 01 the athletic field /Pad at Bartan - Ou the friend of lost takes (which will of Courte la recoursed, , N much lun, by the through torm by the Conversion of a llew with harl / play mont alay- I do not the creatin for you Hiidan heighborhood believe it to be Serim but thing My promo a live it Courses before town much line xI dinn toward throught two day n so - While I am there I threety I will take for starte, the a.H. Synam On the deed examination needed off the Got laude, the Our lue allead; hold a the 2 I long matter / art thing Cau be till' it is done perfected Edle hay just asted gf they Selection board who will without pay but limploy - litter for dum thin Number or outside a Illand manager - and the Labbia W have lilte elected On that 4 the big I'll the Was the your the you not let you Haw grafts Thed me another City, to gel on May / White ! - INim Sincerely 11 is the intention of the trustoes the barn in one place. SHALL TOWN LEASE IT! to deed the property absolutely to the things disposed here 2/3/15 town after the expiration of 20 years. ure in very realistic and old- Citizens to Vote on Plan at Town The trustees propose at once to con- way. Meeting vey that part of the land lying north Ordbastra was sta of Park road, used at present for ten- tioned here, known to the general A plan will be presented to the nis courts, to the Y. M.C. A. and the public Kelley's Orchestra. Mr. next annual town meeting relating Y.W.C.A. the Kelley had a get-up that was simply to the Bar Harbor Athletic Field, so- This land consists of about one-half with killing. and in his competent fashion called, and the voters will be given of the property lying north of Park is announced the dances, kept the lads an opportunity to say whether they street and nearer School street and the and gais stepping the measures cor- wish to lease the land at a rental has been used for tennis courts for ake rectly and in proper sequence or time, sufficient only to pay for the taxes several years. The land has been of- and was indispensible generally as and care, surveyed and is large enough for four the dancing master of the occasion. The property in question is the tennis courts, two for each association. that To describe and characterize the field now used and known as the A proposition has been made to ake costumes would require, in simple Bar Harbor Athletic Field, contain- lease the remaining land lying north this justice, a mention of all there, for ing between six and seven acres and of Park road and extending from the heir everybody was mighty well attired lying between Main and School streets tennis courts to Main street 1, some the with a spectacular effectiveness. and south of the Park road, form- public corporation for the purpose of me There was a picturesqueness and erly called Livingston Road exten- erecting a publicity building or in- charm and Interest in the old fashion- sion, and which was conveyed by Mrs formation bureau where advertising evi- ed get-ups that never lost its attrac- John S. Kennedy to a board of sev- matter connected with the town, ens tiveness to those who sat in the bal- en trustees, the donor having deter- cluding path maps, photographs, de. are conles. The balcontes were filled mined, in the language of the deed, criptive pamphlets, etc, and Informa- ad long before seven o'clock and the to devote said land, or the proceeds tion of all kinds may be obtained as grand march began an hour after thereof, to such uses as will be of the It is understood that this plan of ward. greatest good to the public publicity will be put in operation dur- ant The spectacle was worth a journey The land was conveyed to the trus- ing the coming spring and summer his of many miles. and, to a New England tees with the following power To and will be of immense benefit and at er, born and bred here. to whom the hold said land and permit the same to convenience to the town and its sum- traditions of the past are precious and be used for outdoor games and sports mer visitors. 48 unfailingly interesting, such a re- and for the development and encour- 48. production of a moving picture of agement of athletics, and certain oth- SURPRISE PARTY the long ago as was afforded Monday er premises which included the leas- right by the genial and hospitable Ing of the land to the town of Eaen. A very pleasant surpise party was a- Hayseeders, is well worth attempting. to a conference formed for public par- Miss Louise Fernald super- t- at least once a year We consider visor of music in the public schools, that they did a distinct service to the The trustees have no Finds for the at her home. 11 Federal street, Satur- if public in drawing together such a payment of taxes and should the day evening Superintendent and large collection of old-tim worthies tows some orkallon organized Mrs. Palmer, Principal and Mrs There is the probability that for public purposes neclum to the pro Harry W. Kidder. and the high school hundred years from now the costumet perty It would have to be sold The teachers called and spent the even town would thus lose the opportun me. bringing with them a very beau- Continued on Page 8 olty of obtaining eventually as a tiful gift Refreshments and games free KIII this valuable piece of prop- were enjoyed and Mrs. Palmer and erty. Mina Latham assisted Mrs Fernald In case the town should deeple 11) in serving the refrshments. o lease the property the conditions to IGGINS be imposed by the trust are as follows: That it shall be used for Jer in outdoor games and sports ard for and Provisions the development and encouragement of athletics, and shall be maintained also &UP HOTEL by the town in good. parklike con- dition and order for the 118C and please ure of the people of the town of Eden and its summer visitors, and shall not be used for any purpose that, in see - Dorr. Pg.1of3 Bar Harbor, Maine, February 3. 1915. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Esq., 26 Broadway, New York City. My dear Mr. Rockefeller: I have been unavoidably detained until now in sending you the statement you asked for with regard to what is necessary still to enable the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations to enlist the Federal Government's aid in their con- servational work. This delay has been partly due to Mr. Roberts' reluctance to part with his essentially important land controling the pass by Bubble Pond and completely separating the eastern and western portions of the Reservations' mountain lands, the basis of the proposed National Monument; and partly due to difficulties connected with boundaries and approaches on the Bar Harbor side which I have but lately overcome. Mr. Stebbins and I had planned to meet and talk this and other matters connected with the subject over in New York when I had got them straightened out, but talking them over lately with Mr. Peters, who has been warmly interested in our undertaking from the start and has offered his help on it at Washington - where he is now our County Representative - should it be needed, he told me that Mr. Stebbins had gone to California, not to return until spring. Mr. Peters said that he was in touch with him how- ever, through their joint interests on the Island, and would take the matter up with him for me if I would set down in some 2- formal way what we had been talking over. I put the statement of these needs accordingly into the form of a letter to Mr. Peters which he could enclose to Mr. Stebbins, and comment on. This letter and one that I wrote, succeeding it, myself to Mr. Stebbins, I now enclose you copies of, as between them they present the matter in as clear a form as I can put it, and as it may enable you also to consult with Mr. Stebbins better if you have in its original form what I now have sent him. What I do not take up, except by reference, in these letters, as thoroughly discussed already, is the reasons why it is import- ant to get the Federal Government's cooperation in our undertaking and create the Monument. These reasons I will render you in full if you would like to have them stated, but I wish at the moment to avoid taking un your time with what perhaps is needless. They are strong and convincing, dealing with the Reservations'own in- 1/ ability through lack of endowment. or other funds to care, not only properly but at all, for what they have now secured; dealing 2/ with the Government's immensely greater prestige and power to protect lands that are at once so wild and public from abuse or any form of lawlessness; to protect their woods from insect 31 diseases and from fire, their interesting wild life and wild flowers from destruction; dealing with its ability to make and carry out a permanent plan and policy for the lands' development, 4/ which a constantly changing board of trustees like ours cannot be counted on to do; presenting means of obviating further attack 5/ upon the Trustees' freedom from a taxation they are not prepared 3- to meet nor yet to render the equivalent of in work done and devel- opment achieved; and offering them an opportunity to extend their work into outlying tracts - waysides, points of view, and interest- ing landscape features - where it is needed, and to change E none too friendly local attitude into a friendly and helpful one. I have been over the whole subject thoroughly, I need scarcely add, with President Eliot and it is in accordance with his strongly expressed desire as well as from my own interest in it and faith in its importance - even in the presence of great human interests, such as the Foundation deals with as I know - that I present it to you. Yours sincerely, JAPeters [GBD] Copy JDR Jr. 26 Broadway New York. February 8, 1915. My dear Mr Dorr:- I have your letter of February 3rd, with its several enclosures. The subject in hand is clearly set forth therein. I note that three-fourths of your problem is now definitely out- lined, leaving the last three of the four points, and the amount of money involved is $17,500. I assume that from Mr. Stebbins and Judge Peters you will soon get an estimate on the first piece of land, and shall be glad to know what it amounts to. Have any negotiations been opened with the Rodick Realty Company, oming this three hundred odd acres of land ? Is the company willing to sell ? When you get this fourth point, the rob- lem will be a concrete one, and the question then will be, as I understand it, , whether you can finance it. So far as the Rocke feller Foundation is concerned, I do not think that at this time it could properly consider the proposition. If other inhabi- tants of the Island are interested and desirous of putting the project through, I shall be glad to cooverate financially. Have you any pledges or promises of assistance ? Should this monument be created, what would be the situa- tion with reference to roads made or to be made through the Road, valleys that would then be a part of the monument ? Would they be owned by the townships or by the monumen t ? Who would care 2 for them ? What, if any, restrictions would there be on them with reference to their use by automobiles, or would that be governed by the restrictions pertaining to the respective townships in which they lay ? (should the government accept the monument and build the road along Bubble Pond to the Seal Harbor end of the pond, there connecting with the present r r vate road, could that road still be maintained as a private road and automobiles be excluded from it, irrespective of its connection with the government road, in the event of automobiles being admitted on that 3) As you know, I am very strongly oversode to aut omobiles on the Seal Harbor side of the Island; in fact, I deeply regret that they have been admitted to the other side. I shall be glad to hear from you further on this matter, Very truly, (Signed) John D. Rockefeller Jr. Mr George B. Dorr, Bar Harbor, Maine. 410 South Grend Avenue Pasadera, Cal. Feby 11, 1915. Dear in Dorr, Your letter of the 3rd is at hand and carefully noted. I regret that the decencity for by being out here this winter pre- vents the 12:47 taking up tis 26601V tion matter nov, but I hope it : 11 not no too late when I get back in the spring. Mr Rockefeller in usually to consider it as soon as I have seen you and have things builed down and ready for presentation. He naturally wishes to avoid all detailed York. I should to ink a good plan would be to get down on paper ni th maps and esti- tes 01 cost just what the Coveriment wants and then in the early when people are on the spot try to put it through. Trusting that you are well and with best regards I remain Yours very sincerely (Signed) George L. Stebbins. I plan to reach New York April 28th and go to Seal Harbor about May 10th. 18 Cortionwealth Avenue, Boston. February 13th, 1915. Hon. John A. Peters, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr Peters, I have just got your letter acknowledging receipt OI mine in regard to the Government Monument lands. I an sorry you have been laid up, and sorry for the occasion of your return to Ellsworth, I now enclose you copy OI a letter I wrote Mor Stebhins a week OI so after I wrote you, sending it to his New York address for forwarding. It thought it courteous he should hear directly from me on the subject, as well as have the statement sent you. Copies of this statement, and this letter to Mr Stebbins I then em- closed directly to Mr Rockefeller with a personal letter to hinself, a copy 01' which I enclose you also. His reply has just reached :10 and of that too I enclose you copy. I shell amount it shortly and explain what has beer done, and will be done, on the Bar Harbor side to make the orgation of the monument possible. This, in its importance and extent, should dispose of any question on Mr Rocke- feller's part with regard to full cooperation in the midertaking from other summer residents. Those on the Ber Hurbor side have given largely, and all that can be hoped at present; the important tling not is to get such assistance from Mr Rockefellor 28 will put the matter through thile the opportunity is favorable. A single death or change in official personal at Washington night alter the situation 2 infavocably, and ratally perhaps, at any moment, and I trust Mr RockeTeller nay by made to see that it is not a question of his Sharini this particular expense with others -- since I understand him to wish to do his full part in the matter, according to his now extensive interests on the Island -- but to his sharing liberally at a critical time in the mole undertaking's cost. this, In his contribution would not be exceptional, but less in point of fact than that OF more than one upon our side. The Government once in, other contributions on an important scale will follow; of that I already have assurance. And the Gav- ernment will spend liberally, I have assurance too, on the completion and full development of its monument if it once takes hold there. A contribution made now upon an adequate and generous scale would 8 unt more than much hereafter. Yours sincerely, George B Dow Postswift follow , That Dorr. Pg lot 18 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. February 17th, 1915. Mr A. H. Lyanm, Bar Harbor, Maine. My dear Mr Lynam, I wrote you under rather uncomfortable conditions from Augusta yesterday. The chances for our forestry measure seem now to be uncommonly good, if no agitation against it from the other toms on the Island makes itself felt in the Legislature when it comes before it. Mr Deasy and I met the chairman of the committee, Mr Colby, in the hotel corridor this morning and he again repeated his assurance that we should get a good report from them upon the measure. This report may be either unanimous or divided however, and if it goes before the Legislature with a unanimous report in its favor, it will be in a much stronger position there. so I asked Morrison to try and arrange before he came away, which he planned to do tomorrow morning, for(in some way)learning if there were any members of the committee not friendly to the bill. If there should be and we know it in time, we might be able to bring $ me influence to bear. Also it is going to be desirable to quietly keep in touch with the western side of the Island, through people liv ins there who would not talk, SO that we may know in season if we are going to be up against opposition, petitions, etc., from legislative that quarter when the bill comes un for ité readings-- first or 2. final. Please keep me informed OI further progress in the matter; I will go down to Augusta again at any time if it should seem de- sirable. I hope you will take up the two drafts for incorporation with Mr Deasy as soon as you get a chance. He and you each have copies OF both now, in my last form. To the Articles of Association of the public service corpor- ation I the Arboretum and Wild Gardens -- I would like to add the paragraph I now enclose, giving it power to act as a forestry as- sociation. There is a great deal of land upon the Island, and doubt- less on the mainland within the County too, that could be forested in the future under scientific management so as to meet its legiti- mate taxes and add greatly to the interest and beauty of the County, possibly becoming in the end a source of revenue also. I think I know several tracts already on the Island, owned by sumer residents, which could be counted on to come in are long for such holding and which & uld not be taken out of taxation by deeding to the Public Reservations. If this forestry measure ifor the Island soes through, I want to be in a position if possible to associate it with the Arborotum and Wild Gardens corporation as its first undertaking and act of public service. It is directly clong the line o1 the work it 10 uld undertake hereafter and it would give the Association stand- also inn of importance at the start. The Spring Incorporation I want to get started at once SO that I may put that whole matter on a business basis. so, as I began by saying, I hope you will do what you can to L'orward both. Answering your letter, I do not want to form mail a separate hotel corporation if it be not absolutely necessary, and Mr Deasy said he saw no reason what it should he. From all 3. that I can see, the powers given in this regard by my Spring Company draft would abundantly cover the whole field. I had a short talk with Mr Bunker yesterday in his office, happening to pass by there as he was coming out, and he gave me some striking instances in the way in which charters drawn for one purpose were being allowed to serve for others widely different. Therefore it struck me that excessive care to cover every point that might arise hereafter, SO long as the general ends were clearly stated, was not necessary. What I am anxious to do however is to get our two acts of incorporation so drawn that they can be used not only in a legal way but in a public one,as statements of the ends sought and objects undertaken. Yours truly, G.B. Dant 4. P. S. February 19th. A trip to Augusta, OI it ich more anon, and other nitities prevented my nailing you this letter and its enclosures until now. In the rigantime I have got an answer to my letter (enclosed) to Mr Stebbins, copy of which answer I enclose also. Post portement of the matter until summer would practically near postpoment until Tall, or later, and might easily be Total to success. There has already been, inevitably, much postponement and I all anxious to set the Monument an accomplished fact if possible before another 592501. Inverything is now done that can be done until I am in a position to put at least the central Bountain Reservations into shape for Government accept ance, and conditions at Washington, still favorable to the widertaking, might readily change adversely as you know at any time. On the other hand, Mr R. seens interested in the matter and if he can be shown the importance OI impediate action and realizes also that what he may do at most will be no more than what others have already done, I an inclined to think that he will make immediate action possible. It would be a great thing for the Island, as rell as for the progress of our Reservation work both Government and other -- if the matter could be concluded before the coning surrer. Dorr Pg. of5 18 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. March 8th, 1915. 1/2 A. H. Lynam, Bar Herbor, Maine. Dear Ar Lynam, ar Fabbri and I got up to Bangor safely last night in abundant time for our train, though a good part of the road from Ellsworth on was in bad condition and one long, steep and iey hill that we had to descend distinctly dangerous - the chains we had upon our wheels not helping in descent upon the ice. But it was SO late when ite got off I could not stop as I wished to for a few words with you on the way. I find on talking with President Eliot over the telephone here that the conditions )rr Rockefeller wishes to establish as the con- dition of his contribution are somewhat different from those suggested in the letter that I showed you. The amount remains the same but he wishes to have it used so as not only to secure the Rodick Realty tract in the Otter Creek Gorge necessary to adequate connection between the Newport Mountain government tract and the Dry Mountain one, but also the completion of the Reservations ownership -- the ice-house lot upon the Snow land excepted of necessity -- from their easternnost holding at the base 01' the lake to the Roberts' camp- site land upon the eastern side. That is, he and President Eliot want to be assured 01' unbroken path or road connections northeard 2 from Jordan's Pond, upon either side, along the lake edge. And to have the Reservations ownership upon that watershed an unbroken one, subject to no future complications. This will obviously in- volve cooperation from the Water Company, but before I take it up with them I would like you to tell me again just what it does involve. What I now understand it to involve is: (1) the two Roberts' tracts of which I wrote hin; (2) the Morrison ownership and claims of which I also wrote; (3) the Kittridge lot if it be obtainable; (4) [?] the Alfred Conors tract of which you spoke the other day as now obtainable; (5) the Perkins camp lot that I have just acquired through you; (6) the lot adjoining this held by the Water Company in Brewer's name ; (7) the old ice house lot whose use the Brewer Ice Company will abandon according to their present plans during the coming summer. It will also involve, to carry it out according to its intention, arrangement for proper path connection along the lake edge in front of the future ice house lot - the Snow lot. Is there anything more involved in the southwestern or southern portion of the watershed ? And what do you think can be done with the Brewers for the acquisition of the old ice house lot, giving them of course the right to use the houses through the coming season ? Will you not sound Frank Brewer upon the matter, unless you think it wiser to leave until next come down. If you do take it up with him, these things should be borne in mind: (1) the absolute worthlessness of the natural site itself for any canp purpose with that the lake at its present high water level;- (2) with the exception of the filled-in base made for the old ice house building it was practically all turned into swamp land when the level of the lake that was raised, and it has irreclaimable swamp land adjoining it which A 3 the Reservations already own; (3) that it is cut into by a right of way upon its western side, taking out that seems to be the only naturally dry land that it contains except whatever small portion may be covered by the building imediately adjoining this or the town road; (4) that no building other than an ice house can be put upon this land by tiem as an Ice Company with a neighboring intake, nor without condemnation (should it be done) by the Trustees of Public Reservations, who could then be called upon to pay no more than nominal damages in view of the Ice Company's own interest in uncontaminated water; (5) that the Water Company itself will never buy this lot unless at a wholly nominal price, because of the Ice Company's own interest in preventing contamination and because of the Water Company's desire to build instead a costly diverting trench upon the other side Of the town road. The only chance of sale of this land by the Ice Company at a more than nominal price lies now through the Reservations. From the Reservations' point of view it would be distinctly important, if possible, to be able to tear the old buildings down and open up the view from the town road before people get away at the sumer's end. It would show an accomplishment that would help on toward others, and send the summer people OFF with an impression of movement in the right direction that would be, in its report abroad, of no slight advantage to Bar Harbor. If you care to take the matter up with the Brevers as on your own accord -- as in the case of the Perkins lot it would seen to me a possibly adviseable way 02 bringing it about -- giving then the impression that the impulse toward it came rather from you time from tie Reservations, whom some among them might attempt to 4 hold up if they thought the land was sought, or needed. Mr Rockefeller, I gathered from President Eliot, wished to avoid the discussion of the value of land owned in part by one of his associates, Judge Peters, and therefore put it in the way ex- pressed in President Eliot's letter. But what he really offers to do is to contribute the amount stated toward the expenses neces- sary to put the Reservations ownership into shape for government acceptance, to be applied as I find best provided the end is ac- complished and he is kept free of the complication I refer to. It might be well to explain this to Mr Deasy, since you showed him President Eliot's letter, so that he may understand the matter clearly, and especially with reference to the cooperation it will now become necessary for me to seek from the Water Company with regard to the lake-basin lands, which will probably be brought before him later by myself or others as the Water Company's counsel. On the other hand unt il I have talked the matter over with Mr Tod and Mr Ogden in New York and have got their advice upon it I am anxious that nothing whatever should be said at Bar Harbor to any other on this head, nor to him perhaps until later- With regard to the value of the Rodick Realty land in the Otter Creek Gorge, which you will be discussing now with him and Mr Peters, the best way it seems to me would be to insist, on the Reservations behalf, and in the interest of the Government Monument, on their personally going out with you and looking 6 he land over, now while the land is free from snow and the woods of leaves, before attempting to pronounce upon its value unless indeed they are willing to bleav unreservedly accept your judgment on it. In that case, show them the great extent of nearer and more desirable land now opened up between the Gorge and town and the hopelessness of any future {Continuation of 3/8/1915 Letter from Dorr to Lynam] page 5 Sale of working men's or farmer building sites beyond the gorge-where - the land is so poor as this upon the slopes and so wet and undrainable along the bottom, and where it is so encumbered with roots and rocks. If they will only give this matter, as its importance deserves, personal study they both must see that this presents the only chance of sale at a considerable price which is conceivably likely to in the course of years. And they should realize also that when they make it possible for me to meet Mr. R's conditions now, by the establishment of a reasonable price upon it-the Reservations, too, will have to drop the matter, with whatever else may happen upon it... Yours truly, [G.B. Dorr] WANT YELLOWSTONE OPEN TO MOTORISTS New York Times (1857-Current file): Feb 21, 1915; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. XX5 WANT YELLOWSTONE causes me to express the hope that it is now possible for the people en OPEN TO MOTORISTS rcute to the Panama-Pacific Exposi tion to enjoy the advantage which automobile service in Yellowstone Three A's is Working for Admission of Cars would afford. It would be a splendid New Columbia River Highway to thing and of much benefit to the traveling public, and I am hopeful Be Open Soon. that the 1915 interstate travelers will have opportunity of using their own vehicles in the Park." Two attractions soon may be added through the park, visiting points of Admission into Yellowstone would interest that are never seen by the probably result in considerable travel to the scenic assets of the Pacific ordinary visitor." over the park-to-park road connecting Northwest and serve to accelerate road 'travel in that part of the coun- In the Yellowstone matter Senator with Glacier National Park, and a try. One of these is certain-the James H. Brady of Idaho and Sen- use of the new Snoqualmie Pass road Columbia River Highway; the other ator F. E. Warren of Wyoming have over the Cascades, with Seattle as been especially active. In a letter the destination. Then would come is possible-opening of the Yellow- just directed to Stephen T. Mather, the use of the Pacific Highway stone 'wonderland to motor-driven Assistant to the Secretary of the In- through Oregon southward to Cali- vehicles. Samuel Hill, the good roads terior, in charge of the national parks, fornia. For those who would emerge enthusiast, recently wrote Frank X. Senator Brady thus refers to the sub- from Yellowstone at the western gate Mudd, Chairman of the A. A. A. ject: there would be offered the Idaho Touring Board, as to the great thor- Conferences had with your prede- route, which would include Shoshone oughfare which will begin at Port- cessor in relation to certain improve- Falls, known as the Niagara of the land. ments and changes in the park roads West. You may say authoritatively that the Columbia Highway will be open for travel July 1, although only hard surfaced in part. In my opinion the Columbia Highway will surpass in scenic beauty any road anywhere in the world." The effort to secure the admission of automobiles into Yellowstone Park is not of recent origin, and John A. Wilson, President of the American Automobile Association, is continuing the policy of his predecessors in urg- ing that this area should be available to the modern form of transportation. A communication to him from E. P. Mathewson, President of the Three A's Montana body, summarizes the situation as follows: "We of Montana have felt for some years past that the stage lines in Yellowstone Park were not pro- gressive and were not looking to their own best interests in working against the introduction of automobiles. As a rule, the visitor to the park now- adays takes the five-day trip. People who are not physically fit are ex- tremely weary after a long ride in the stage coach, and many people who would otherwise visit the park will not go on account of the poor ar- rangements for transportation. If the good people running the stage lines would substitute the modern sight- seeing automobiles they would have twice the number of passengers and could charge a larger fee. In addi- tion to this they would be able to take a much more extended route Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Dorr. Pg I of 6. Virth 18 Corrionycalth Avenue, Boston. Nebruary 24th, 1915. President Charles ". Miot, Cambridge, lass. Dear President Eliot, The building up of the Reservations on the northern side, done by Bar Harbor suther residents, resolves itself in my mind A into two sections; at eastern one from the subsid of Green Mountain down the ridge where the old carriage road ran and across the noun- B tain rance toward Frenchman's Bay; and a Western one taking in the Magle Lake matershed and extending on to that of the South West Valley and the northern slopes of Sargent's Mountain. This second section has been largely, though by no means wholly, done by the Water Company but the influences that accomplished it -- the directors' board of summer residents as opposed to the narrowly commercial side represented by the local president, Hr F. C. Lynen -- have regarded the Water Company's expenditure as made outite as much as a contribution toward the Trustees' work in conserving the attractive- nsss of the Island as to ensure the punity of their water product. It has only been with tiis second end in view -- and during the last your and a 11, vi thin wich the greater portion of there lands have is en acquired, with reference t.o the Federal Momuent -- that they have been willing to cooperate with us in the 103LE may they love. (I) Oil this weaters side or the lake, and alone the southern end to meet the Roverts 2 land in question at prevent, the cost or what has now been decided to the Renerations -- including legal expenses, surveys, etc., is proximately $30,000. This taxes in over SMO and 2 holf niles or actual lake frontage nd extends unready (ii) (with the exception of the tracts listed in My letter to Arr Peters) to Meet the Reserve- besides tion tracts that drain to Jordan's Pond; and opens out the to a further extension westward which will take in the Mole of under South West Valley, draining to Applt Betty's Pond, much of which I have alroad now secred. on the eastern side of the lake there has been 2: expenditure or about 12,000, in all, in the interests of Public Resorvation, besides lands acquired by the Water Company at the lower end of the (near its in-take) laks IOF moter protection purposes but to all intents and purposes also reservation laws. These with certain other contributions that have been made independently 01' the water Company, Rotal expenditure rike region it westward on public recerv tilon in the Safle LIKE to sotigwhat over 50,000, only a small port for of which would have been name by the water Cold adome action 102 its 0101 mater-protection interests. And there - UI i is which is or essential nor to the creation or - Federal Monument, either as a portion of the Momuent it self or as constituting its necessary Comproved and approach. (II) On the sastern section, from the Island surrit ON Mountain north and east, a expeditive or $20,000. has 200M made by 1.02 and Kennadays re Kennedy of an ecual amount, and over, spent on the Athletic Field reddies at the south and of the tom which will be the starting point 10200104 for MARRY all the 202 Harbor Regroation Milks. 3 As much none was contributed jointly for the Reservations! ween this side by Hr Bordoin, Mas Carpenter, l.r Ano and Some ago #500. were contributed by in and krs Kane for the soscific purchase of certain lands on the yest of the Otter Creek corre. Again, Hr ReCase, Dr brundow, Mrs Markoe, 12 301, lins Homens and and the Horans' heirs none recently - and I have all made various direction contribution in land besides, sone of w ich das only with reference to the cift. This brings the total expenditure upon the eastern section up Titrel to another $50,000, independently OF considerable expenses borne in connection with deeds, surveys, etc., etc., variously necessary to the work, and independently of Lifts of land not directly purchased for reservation purpose. Only one tract I importance, lot including the Monnell land of which I spoke last lime and it ich I Incl practically assured ill be givet to the Government - as a direct gift to it - on the creation of the Monument, not remains to secure upon this side and that is in food hands and will be held by the orders until we are ready to acquire it. It is a finely wooded strip lying in the val- ley of Kebo Brook between the KAhos and Green Mountain. O? erent or of the Monument I feel practically certain of being able to acquire -- by the fresh irpetus which this will give practically 316 Mille 01' Newport Mountain to the sea-front upon the Ocean Drive, the land which includes tile actual surrit and a long portion or the area south slope having been alr ady promised Mr. on that e cedition, Will the Satterlees I all confident will make an Important contribution tolards the southern shore 120 in 4 Sand Seach vestimed, along the Ocort Drive. On the other side of the town, the He tersione of Mashington -- we are grantly interested in the wing -- have already officered to out in reservation when in tract OI' Linely woulded last connecting with In Abhels on the store and containing the trail that runs up Duck Brook come on the MAY to Vitch Hollow Pond and was Less, and the day open for are important extension OI' the Renervations there, contecting the LAKE with the monthome shotte. A people 126 interested 2017 in making it as in to Dr Ritely 11, W.O hot it must t hurt linself and malked constantly. Thus the S101 you ment ioned last wight $15000. TO ula by no nears Collibitute a u liquely linge contribution to our undertaking. I feel sure that Mr Kennedy, tare be alive still, rould gladly contribute that much in addition to what he and are Kennedy have already given, for the accomplisiment of the and in view and the creater things that it undoubtedly will lead on to. And I think ;r Bondoin would have done the same, tran his attitude toward the work and his expressed wish to further it as it pro cressed. (IF this much can he secured now, I think I would take no risk in assuring responsibility for securing as patch more from other sources within the coiling season, and it could even " made a condit ion if necessary that the 1and should not by transferred to the Government 1'02" the Romunent until such contribution had been made or Yes securely pled The examination of title, and the legal steps that may prove necessary to connect defects i it necessary to the Go" ernient's acceptions, is likely to prove a Tenativ job, involve considerable elemento of uncortuint and delay. I an mixious to get started on is at ones i as no pro 2600 can her Media until it is done. I I'll also anxiosta i. COUNT and Robertat tmenta on the 5 basis of my present understanding with them, lest they go back on their if there should be delay; Morrison, who is quite alive to the importance of his tracts to the Konument schere, has already shorn himself an uncertain factor and not been kept in line without some difficulty. there are also two other tracts, not mentioned in my letter to Judi e Peters because I felt they belonged rather to our northern side, which I can secure now and probably would not is able to secure at any reasonable price if the owners ziderstood they were important to the Government's coming. These control the path ap- proaches from the northern side to Sargent's Mountain. with the sum you ment ioned last night in hand I could now 80 ahead at once and do effective work, both at the Island end and at Wash ington. And I should be in a favorable position to get further assistance in closing up various minor tracts not essential to Governdent acceptance but desirable to include at the start if pos- sible. It would also put 116 in a position to take up the swint of Nemport Kountain tract again with Xr Bliss, who is waiting to hear from me upon the subject. Purtismone, I should then 1661 safe in going ahead and organ- WGA izing the Arboretur and wild Gardens corporation. Until I do Dr Tobe's bequest) will have to wait -- as it is to that body, roose character and scope I have talked over with him, that he wishes to dead the property. The same thing applies to My taking up again with II Tod the question of hrs Kennedy's endovent contribution. She vi 11 only make it, ir she makes it at all, to some such carofully devised body. of this I had experience with hom in regard to the Athletic Field. Hr Tod's idea YAS not a begment bitt that she should transfer the stock whenever sho decided to take the gift, Keeping 514 investment during her live Such is uld be very 6 much to the advertage of the proposed comporation, giving its future all essurance which would invite in turi support from others. The la ver of loss through delay in both these cases is plain, and Dr Abbets request 56078 practics lly assured if the deed can he drawn up. Serious also, as I sse it, would her the los 01 opportunity to gain other support and advance our undertaking this outner if actually 1/6 have to wait until the summer CONGS before taking any further step. Yours sincerely, GrogiB Dow Trails Between $4000 x 9000. more has been expended on permanent pack why, such as ) described last right on foresty andays fr Washington elc; hereafter be of the present/peur- balion lauds - look which done S the if its mommunt is created - within the last the -year- of when Them done personally weet the the I heal about, iteath I I show do not speak establish and would rather hot Gulen wm 1 is necessary to Wass that the Letu needed now is not as a Contribution fat it has been information he often, the was to the yealu offertically before ut now- 18 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston February 25th, 1915. Mr A. H. Lynam, Bar Harbor, Maine. My dear r Lynai, I enclose you copy of a letter I have just written Mr round Lord with regard to the section of road the Great Keedow which I all offering the town at 8 mewhat under its construction cost. fir Lord has the amount of expenditures made by Millard Hamor three years ago and Andrew Liscamb lately upon this road, which now when raked and rolled in spring should be as good a piece of road as any of its character in the State I think. The letter will explain itself but I want to add regarding it for your knowledge in case you think best to speak of it to anyone on the Warrant Board that the connection between the road and park system which I have worked out in this direction and the Government Monument in its eastern approach are direct and important. I have just been going over this whole matter with President Eliot, and he has undertaken to secure at once if possible from the source we spoke Of a contribution sufficient to make immediate progress possible. If he is successful, I shall come down shortly to confer with you about getting started on the requisite examination and perfection 01' our deeds and the acquisition 01 the most immediately important tracts of land. I showed President Elliot the draft of the Arboretur and Wild 2 Gardens rporation in the form which I last sent you and he approved it. I want to get this also into shape as early as I can with reference to Dr Abbe. Please telephone or telegraph me if you should th ink Me imme- diately needed at Bar Harbor with regard to anything that is coming before the annual meet ing. Unless I am needed I will not come for there is much that needs my presence here but I will come if it seens best and I know in time enough beforehand. I understand you to be looking after the Athletic Field matter, and that you will let me know if that also should for any reason need my presence. I am also relying on you to keep in same touch, through Morri- son, Eddy, or otherwise, with the progress OF our bill at Augusta. If you have any news to give me with regard to it, or upon any other of these matters, that it is desirable I should have please let me have some word of it tomorrow SO that it may reach me Saturday morn- ing. Believe me Very truly yours, I-B.Dow P. S. Dr Thorndike consents to stay on the Park Board until after town meet ing. I luelon letter Mr Peter ) thought opposition to our forest measure developed at the ligis latine reading Some and of support from bir might he a helf Please keef it fer use accordingly if needed Dee [2/1915] wear President Elist, This that) luclou was th bat I could today do of you want it-conduced, or bettered in any way, please have word telephoned he Common rd will stud out to it V andered it prelusa it from , What I am aupion Our al this there it not to Con the paint of pertinuly by waite for an equally 2 shared Subscription Until ust fat of later th Mumeal while it lies before uv, get the greater offectivity ahead I will gladly Mcdulake to than a him than qual share Oh the pact hereafte, Nh the Near values, if Can take Without Uni his helt the - heretant P.B.a. 110.00 Cambridge, Mass. 25 February, 1915 Dear lr. Dorr: I have written to-day to Mr. Rockefeller, asking him squarely for : 15,000. I feel some hope, but no assurance of success. I do not remember whether I told you last fall that Hr. Rockefeller lately made two very desirable purchases for the preservation of Beech Hill and its sur- roundings. For the present, he seems to prefer to hold such purchases himself, and to pay taxes on them, rather than to give them to the Public Reservations; but, all the same, the preservation of considerable tracts is ac- complished. is Sincerely yours, [c.w.Eliot] George B. Dorr, Esq. Dorr. Pg l of 3 Coff 18 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston February 25th, 1915. Mr Edger I. Lord, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Sir, I wrote you rather hastily last night - having been occu- pied until late with other matters - concerning the section of new road that I am offering the town at its approximate construction cost, which has been however greater in various ways than the figures given. Part, moreover, of the cost of the work this year, done under Jr Liscarb's direction, was due to three years' free use 02 it by the town, compensated by no repairs, and to its having carried practically all the heavy teaming as well as three quarters of the general driving between Otter Creek and Bar Harbor during that time. The only element 02 expense in the whole work upon this road which has been in excess of the economic minimum, with the existing rate of wages in the town, was due to the late season at which the final grading and gravelling was done this fall, but the amount of this excess mas slight and was made adviseable in my judgment by avoiding interruption of the genoral use 03 the road until the season's end and by the employment which 18 gave then other York was beasing in the town. Horeover, this was much more than offset by my free con- tribution of gravel toward its surfacing. This gravel, in the doop bed os it which I have opened along 2 the town roadside near the gorge, I shall place at the service of the town for surfacing its present roads connecting with this 1° this be taken over by the town, it being plainly necessary that the town should employ a large amount of such material upon them within the next few years. When a well graded, well drained and gravelled road shall have been extended in from this road to the town at least seven eighths of the travel to Otter Creek will go that way, the grade by it being practically level thence into the town and the roads much more direct. This new section I am offering needs not hing but a surface raking in the spring; the section of Harden Farm Road with which it con- nects, and which I also built, is already well graded and thoroughly drained and only needs surface gravelling; from Harden Farm Road, to the Brook, drainage on the upper side is needed, together with grading and gravelling the surface but it lends itself well being made at no great cost an admirable piece of road. At this point, just beyond the last bridge ming out from the town, the park road across the western portion of the meadow and under Dry Mountain which I have planned and partly built will leave the to m road, following the survey which you have helped me make and gone over with me. If the town accepts my offer with regard the above new section of constructed road, I shall pro ceed to construct this other road for public use the co ming season, putting into it what the other road has cost me and what more may be required. Over one thousand dollars have already been expended on it, and at least the meadow outlet as much on the drainage of western meadow which alone makes such a road poss ible. As an alternative route to the Gorge, and park-like portion of the Ocean Drive, I believe this road will be of great 3 service to the town as a resort, opening up in one portion striking mountain views and in another what are perhaps the best woods yet left upon the Island. This road beneath the mountain will also open up hat will be- come, according to the plans now made for the development of the Public Reservations, the main path system leading from Bar Harbor to Dry Mountain, Green Mountain and the Gorge between, as well as over the ridge of Green by the White Cap to Eagle Lake and the west- ern mounta ins. And it accordingly forms an important feature in the plan worked butiffor the approach from Bar Harbor to the Federal Monument if it be established, nor without such good approach will it be possible for me to interest the Government in it - which else I think the chance is more than fair of ultimately doing. This I speak of that the full scope of what I have in mind may be apparent. On the other hand I am anxious to avoid any feeling in the future if the town does not accept my offer, but deems the shorter and better connection which this road establishes to the west of Straw- berry Hill not worth its construction cost, by stating plainly beforehand that should it so decide the road will be closed to travel -- as well as any short-cut such as formerly existed across the upper portion of this tract; the Great Meadow valley as a town approach is worthy of a good road if of any. Yours truly, (G.B. was Dorr. Pg lof3 18 Connomenlih Avenue, Roston. Merch 1st, 1915. President Charles 7. Vliot, C a bridge, Yass. Dear President viiot, I have been thinking over the situation with regard to your application to Xr Rockefeller on behalf of the Trustees of Public Reservations, with reference to his possible reluctance to make such : contribution unless he should receive assurance that others would contribute peri passu with himself to secure the Gov- ernment's cooustration -- leaving out meat has has done leretofore nici makes it possible. I have also written since I sew you to one or MY friends in New York and 161101 at 3ar Hurbor MO.O takes keen interest in the nature and have cot an answer from him. If in Rockefeller should not wish to contribite Traily the amount you sked for, I think assurance can be given 01 a contribution of equil : count 1ro the Bur Harbor side for the expenses necessary to the Government acceptance and securing favorable initial boundaries. In my letter to Judge Puters, written to serve as a statement for Mr Rock feller, I dealt only with matters -- the relatively small amount required for additional legal expenses report - that seerd to to concern intinately residents and landowners on the MOON 120M Otter Opens to Northeant Harbor. I did It feel Stephins' support or ..." Routefall r is inter st (: Mld be 2 secured for the solution of connected with our side. This omission from my earlier relating to our norther I side the implication in of a though I did not wish to put bald locally limits in these inaddition to it Fully the STUT you asked for will still be received to secure A remoining strate 1/10 points and good appro ches to the Nonwignt from the north, its nature 1 approach side for the general public; and I have counted all along on being able to accomplish this if I could definitely say that what "as 1 in the central portion and on the southern side no uld be accomplished also. And if Mr Rockefeller wishes to make this a condition of his gift, I do not believe it will present a serious obstacle though leading possibly to some delay. Ky aim has been to secure the important moints of view and access which would not leave it possible for people to block the Government's way here fter. All that I consider thus necessary I hold secure ly at the moment by option or satisfactory agreement with dependable onners or where this could not be done, I have in certai in cases purchased land hyself and hold it rendy to dedicate to public use u on the Government's acceptance. And this has been done throughout with careful thought as to extension of public 01016 ership hereafter, as interest is makened and fresh 1 beco 10 available, over various important tracts I/E cannot hope to cot irrie- diately, sail as Great and Great Pond Hills; ReParland's Hill with the well-matered, good-soiled woodland valley to its west; the deep :Icno Of Dück Brook, witch Hollow Pond Brook, and Hull's Cove Brook, all lending up to the Regurrat ion land already secured must and nort of Pagic Lake; start Botty's Pone with the South West Valley region bathest it and Surgent's Novemtain, etc., stic. Once what ME now are - a birth at security is sterome and the Government entiblinied 3 OIL the ill all Tall in in the of time I feel quite sure; for dat is to inf deaded to the Consentent is so planned that they all can is tidds continuous with its holdings at NO great cost herebeter nd it will have condensation Dorars bling it to aten in and secure t.e. in the last resort if closed on used by private The direction OF these parens, emiding it to act where we could not, I thought it viser not to dwell upon in writing to in Rocke- feller, Juice P tyrs understands it clearly, however, and it has sected to 116 ons of the most important reasons -- looking Tomard into the ruties and the ultimate perfection of our work for Gov- present Off vership of our Mountain tracts. It would assure the ulti- mate acquisition, for instance, of such a publicly important focture as Brown's Mountain and prevent its IX sent owners from either exacting an exhorbitant price for it or disfiguring it with any summit building. Therefore if ir Rockereller, who has already written me of his willingness to contribute along with others to make the completed offer to the Government possible, should write you unfavorably in reply to the proposition that he give outright the sity you ask, it seens to MG that the next step should be to ask him if hy will not contribute this on the basis of an equal or similar contribution, given or pledged, from surver residents upon 01/20 side. This would still enable 116 to 80 ahead at once, I feel quite sure, and bring redomplishment about before the suther if no sudien change in per- sonel Occurs at Was incton in the meantine; and would also maxs it possible with little direct, I think, to secure in the early the remaining tracts listed in M letter to Judge Paters, by joint subscription 12/11 hold stims, and more prohable Young for Cambridge, Mane. 4 Parch, 1915 Dear Mr. Dorr: During Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, I ombraced several opportunitios to talk with J. D. Rockefeller, Jr. about a contribution to your good work at lit. Desert. Re mode some inquiries, and felt some difficulties, but ulti- mately told me that he would give now $17,500 to cover the Roberto and Morrison purchases and the estimated expense of giving 8 satisfactory list and description of the titles. , He made, however, two conditions, first, that other persons on the northern eido of the Island, already interested on behalf of the Bar Harbor community, provide you now with the money to buy that important tract on the Gorge Road. Neither he nor I remembered at the moment for what sum of money that trect could probably be purchased; but I recalled that you felt it to be probable that you could get the money for that purchase. Ur. Rockefeller had acquired somewhere a con- viction that that Corge lot was really essential to the Monument. Mr. R. is leaving on Friday for & much- needed vacation, and is, in the meantime, much pressed with work. iie said he would write to you; but I could not 800 that he had any time to give to the subject before he left. He may mean to write to you on the journey. In addition to the money condition at- tached to his gift, he mentioned another to which he seemed -2- 2 to attach importance. He thinks the new lands should be conveyed to the Trustees of Public Reservations, in order that they may be secure there, in case the Monument project falls through. Perhaps, even before you receivo Mr. . Hockefeller's letter, you can tackle the problem of getting that additional sum of money. You would have to work under the condition of definite action by Mr. i. Sincerely yours, [C.W.Eliot] George B. Dorr, Esq. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE HELD AT BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA MARCH 11, 12, AND 13 1915 NT OF THE AM WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1915 Bar Her bor, Maine, April 5, 1915. George B. Dorr, Esq., Bar Harbor, Me. Dear Mr. Dorr: In organizing today the Sieur de Konts Arboretum WGA and Wild Gardens there were present in person a majority of the applicants for incorporation. The timo and place o:? organiz- ation havinr boen fixed by the application and further notice waived the absence of a minority does not affect the legality of the organization. The statute ig silent on the point but our best legal authorities support this view. We think that there is no doubt that a majority may under the circumstances act with full legal effect. As a matter of extreme caution, however, we would like to have the records show that those absent were represented. We accordingly enclose proxies which will you please have signed and filed with the Clork. Yours very truly, LBI/IALC ileary Hynam Barada 3 Jan Bar Harbor, Maine, April 7, 1915. Pres. Charles W. Eliot, Cambridge, Mass. Dear President Eliot: WGA I have just completed my incorporation of the Arboretum and Wild Gardens and the papers have gone forward to Augusta. Mr. Deasy would like to get your sig- nature to the paper I enclose, for reasons which his letter, enclosed also, will explain. I have just deposited with l'r. Deasy as the Reservations' counsel the sum of $8,000, of which $7,500 are required to fulfill Mr. Rockefeller's condition regarding the purchase of the Rodick Realty land in the Gorge; the rest will give us a certain leeway of expenditure for legal expenses, surveys etc. I have just written asking him to deposit, ac- cordingly, with Mr. Deasy the sum he promised, this other c on- tribution being made conditionally also and none of it being available until the whole is in hand. I wrote him also that I was anxious to be able to apply it as soon as might be, be- cause I had none but verbal agreements, not binding legally, with Mr. Roberts, Dr. Morrison and others and if I failed to act promptly I might lose the opportunity secured, through the withdrawal of one or the other of them from their offer. I came down here with Mr. Fabbri for a Selectmen's 2- meeting last Thursday, on my return from Washington, and am staying on a few days for various public matters. Last night we had a public hearing on establishing a new system of accounting in the town, for which Mr. Fabbri and I brought down a certified accountant from Portland recommended to us by Mr. Gettemy, head of the Massachusetts bureau. I think we shall be able to get such a system installed; all looks favorable for it now. At Washington I found again great interest in our under- taking and had especially - Secretary Lane himself being absent in the west - a most satisfactory t : 1k with his Assist- ant Secretary in charge of the park system of the country so mother far as it lies in the Department of the Interior. This was a Mr. Kather of Chicago, whom I had not me t before but took at once a great liking to and who in turn took a warm, immediate interest in our undertaking - which he said was similar in character to something be was himself seeking to accomplish for Redwood preservation on the nothern California coast. Here Mr. Lynam is actively at work upon our deeds and has already made good progress with them. If he can get them into acceptable shape I can see no reason now why we may not hope for speedy actionby the Government; the only hinder- ance I should fear would come from red tape delay by the Government in passing on them, and Mr. Mather has offered me & 3- his assistance to overcome this so far as possible. Yours sincerely, Please return the paper with your signature direct to Mr. Deasy at Bar Harbor, as I myself may no longer be here. pg 1 of 3 Jan SealB 18 Community avenue, Bostor. 15th, 1915. Dear President mlot, I have just returned from Bar Harbor where I spent the whole day Saturing going 0142 Reservation defils, etc., with in Densy and Kr Lynnco. Hr Densy nor has in hand and chance the fill find neces- sary for purchase of the Resorvation Indis described in the letters you have 0901, to Art Rockefeller and Judge Peters. I h ve no legal option binding on the oimers of these lante but I have just seen them all personally with the exception of Dr Horrison and one other, moon ar Lynan saw, and I can count upon their present readiness to confirm their offers. These offers I formally accented on the Reservations' beholf, to MAKE all sure, but by agreement with them is based upon proupt action on over pert and would not be looked upon by t 4 as binding if there should be delay. Mr Lynam has already made great progress with lis examination of our titles; his rbstract 10" extends to sure six hundred pages, and is supplemented by larger sheets excibiting inheritance lines after the MANAGER of emealogical tables. Ferrer end less serious 4717 flaws have this for Peteloped than night have 1440 anticipated, and practically none have yet appeared in the titl- of any of the lands mg nor to by acquired with the single exception of the Korrison tract extending up the slove of Sargent's Mountain from the Southwest Valley. The defect in this presents no serious obstacle in X Densy's judgment, 11.00 12.15 4. it in oth 22 tracts and corr ated it 2 exists identification also, I find, in payment to it portion of the How Land adjoining in Sangelit's Mountain and already placed in Road tracts 07 " learned hy 2 single proceding. But UPI: will UNION this real $ 10.15 in HOW important. : Densy according asks 19, the repositivility for the dis- percentant or the joint fund according to its conditions having been planed upon Hin at my suc Astion, to obtain from in Rousefeller per- Mission to use his judgment and cent discretion in taxing title to the stipulated londs. This is the principle re have always gone upon in the Reservations work and I have no question but that 3ir Rocke- teller intends ite should pursus it now in reference to his contri- bution, as the other conditional contributors do I have direct assur- ance, but 1.2 Deasy wishes to act strietly within the authority given 1 in and would like some assurance, direct or indirect, from Mr Rockefeller of his freedom to use discretion and act according to his juligment 01 the Reservations' interest in the fulfilment of his responsibility. Probably the only deft t calling for the uss of Side discretion in the various now involved is the one I SIE ak of, wich involves a port-interest only in the western Morrison traut and dates from a period fifty years or so gone by but which prevents the dead, in the lifrt of the thorough stilly wich we NOW re Living all our decis, from being ranked as perfect. The price at Which Dr Korrison has agreed to sell to us still remains a fair one, no one seeking to dispute his title and there being no need to cl-ar it for any other purpose than our on, and his important Pond tract, essential to the Government's acceptitive, being only obtainable as ? portion or is individed ONE in thin rection. Mother Matter Mention in the SAMA connection is that I 3 find the name of Conners should be adved to that of Kittredge, Alley, etc,, in describing the ownership yet remaining to be SSC red at the south end 01 Talls Lake in the tra t lying between it, Bubble Mountain and the Southiest Valley; med in similarly describing the wood-rights and attendant rights 01 way to he done away with in this tract. this involves no increase in the land area to be ac- quired or moods to be protected but singly a distribution of the Ownership, etc., in all identical area to a wider of owners; the estimated cost remains unaltered and the result the save. The acquisition of the Rodick Realty tract in the gorge, which these contributions nor assure, reaching as it doss to timber line on Newport Mountain, puts the Trustees in a favorable position w th regard to the Bliss land ich meets it there and, extending widely over the of the motor in ridge, includes the great cliff upon its eastern side red the in adow at its base -- out to the Schooner Head Road. I have just taken the matter un accordingly with l.r Bliss, who has not MS very cordially in regard to it and asked me to have prepared a survey showing the bounds I thought de- sirable for the Reservations on the eastern side. This I have just done in the form of a road-survey passing round the readow drained by Kendow Brook and leading to the cliff foot, and out again to rejoin the road half a mile or so reyond the point at which it leaves it, my plan being that what lies to the restward of this road -- which all lies over ir Bliss's land -- should be deeded to the Reservations. This is in accordance with the suggesti on that I made him in our talk, and if carried out will Make a solendid extension of the public rond and border to the Reservations. Yours sincerely, [G.B.Dorr] Pg. 1 of 5 Dari is B COSMOS CLUB WASHINGTON, D.C. april 1915 Wear President Sliot, M Neasy, before making any effenditure under du joint fund now Subject of his chap, wishes to recieves allurance that he has authority to use his beet fudgem oldies tion as a lawyer, Counsel, in taking title, Phones need anica, profecty whom title he approan a adequate and good but may find upon the thorough examination our littles, to be lew h form We are now making hito all respect than technically for feet - which few main titter are if haced badfar enough- Mr Deavy, you 2 free from flaw Our other malter he wanted nu $ mention, that we find du have of Council should le found to that of Kittredge. ally. , Uc., to be in describing the Owner- shif yet to bu Secured at the South lud of Eagle Lake hi the fract lying between it, 4 COSMOS CLUB WASHINGTON,D.C. Bubble mountain With Southwest balley, / ,Wh Similarly describing the wood night casementa X attendent lights of way e the down away with m . this had this hivolvesho increase hi the laud- area to be acquired or woods to be protected fal Simply 5. a different distribution of ownership Wrights within the area already stated; the estimated Cost Remains un- altered, N I relum r how York tought: Botton lonemed night, stopher, over is new you towmon to talk Our with MakMan Phisi We fift of duin Idminist had Nor See J Cambridge, Mass. 27 April, 1915 Dear Mr. Dorr: I was unable to see Mr. Rockefeller in New York last Wednesday, but I had a long conversation with him over the telephone. His conclusion was that he desired to join you and me in confiding in Mr. Deasy's discretion in accepting imperfect titles for lands to be paid for out of the joint fund, now subject to his draft. Mr. Rockefeller emphasized his joining with us in taking this responsibility. I sent you the following telegram the next day: "Rockefeller joins us trusting Deasy's discretion in accepting titles." You perceive that in this way of transacting business I one gets no record of lr. Rockefeller's action. lily memory as to what Mr. Rockefeller said over the telephone is now perfectly distinct; and I write this note, in order that you may put it on the appropriate file. Idid not think it expedient or necessary under the circumstances to tell him about adding the name of Connors to those of Kittredgo, Allay, etc. Sincerely yours, [C.W.Eliot] George B. Dorr, Esq. TRAVEL RUSH TO THE WEST. New York Times (1857-Current file): Jun 6, 1915; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. 18 TRAVEL RUSH TO THE WEST. Glacier Park Opens Early to the Advance Guard of a Busy Season. BELTON, Mon., June 5.-The tide of cross continent travel has set in this year so much in advance of the usual time that the Glacier National Yark has opened earlier than ever before. The formal opening will not be until June 15, but there was an unofficial opening last month, and the chalets at Glacier Park and at St. Mary Camp are already receiving visitors, and it has been found necessary to put into operation the mid-season automobile service between these points. A new launch service has been started upon St. Mary Lake, there being no facilities so early in the season for the handling of tourists at Going-to-the-Sun Camp. The Park station was Two bring about travel-the Panama Ea- rcpean Glacier Parks are every main this causes war. Pacific planned on unusual hotel opened the Yellowstone have Exposition route at from last tide combined the of Wednesday. Eastern of Glacier nearly and and to the excursion cities to the Exposition, and unprecedented travel in both is expected during the warm months. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission Dor Bort firt V May 13.1915 wear Preident Elist, I shall Come Britin tommon Friday, night and out to Ill you - telephoning first - On Saturday morning f must petum here for lakin, title to the Rure Malton lands the begin, of the walf I'm hucarly General B. Door Pg l of6 From Geo. B. Dorr 15 May 15 C.M.E. Memorandum relating to title of certain real estate in the towns of Eden and Mount Desert to be acquired by the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. Property consists of the following lots: 1- Rodick Realty Company Lot. 2- Kittredge Lot. 3- A. E. Conners property. 4- Roberts eleven acre lot. 5- Roberts (Burr) Lot. 6- Morrison Turtle Lake Lot. 7- Morrison Sargents Mountain Lot. I All the above property is subject to possible dower rights. In many of the old deeds wives did not join. At the date of these deeds a wife's dower was merely a life estate. If those who failed to join are dead their rights have ter- minated. If any are living their rights will terminate with their lives. Moreover, dower doos not attach to wild land. The land in question was undoubtedly so considered. It would seem that the most of this land would be treated by the Court as wild. The rule for determining who ther or not land is dowable is thus stated by the Court in the case of Ford VS. Erskine, 50 Maine, 230: (See lost page ) Upon the whole we do not consider the possibility of the existence of dower rights as being any impediment to the taking of title by the Trustees of Public Reservations 2- II Farnsworth & Company mortgage. This paragraph relates to the Roberts and Conners Lots and to the Morrison Sargents Mountain lot and not to the other parcels. In 1855 the owners of the property gave a mortgage of same, with other land (4,000 acres in all), to W. A. Farns- worth, Henry Morse and Merritt Austin, to secure a debt of $2,500. This mortgage has no been discharged and is held by Lucy Farnsworth of Rockland, Maine, daughter of the mortgagee Farnsworth. She claims that this mortgage is un- paid and is still subsisting. I think that this mortgage can safely be ignored (except possibly as to the Morrison Sargents Mountain Lot) for the following reasons: First, as to the Conners Lot and Roberts (Burr) Lot. Roberts and Conners' title is based on a warranty deed from W. A. Farnsworth, one of the mortgagees. Lucy Farns- worth who holds the mortgage is the daughter of W. A. Farns- worth. From him she inherited a fortune which she still possesses, She is liable on his warranty. The warranty deed from Farnsworth (who had previously received from the other two mortgagees deeds of a tract including these lots) may have operated to extinguish the mortgage so far as these lots are concerned. This is a close and difficult question not necessary to enlarge upon here. But the title is practically insured, for if the 3- mortgage is still in force the warranty deed affords abund- ant protection. The statute of limitations does not affect her liability, inasmuch as the limitation in the case of a covenant of warranty does not begin to run until eviction. In this respect the title to these lots is the same as that of all the lots on the western and southern borders of Eagle Lake which the Water Company has previously taken title to. Roberts Eleven Acre Lot. This was also included in the mortgage. The two sur- viving mortgagees gave a release to L. A. Emery, one of the owners, underwhom Roberts claims. I think this operated to release the lien of the mortgage so far as this lot is concerned. Morrison Sargents Mountain Lot. This lot was included in the mortgage, has never been released and is not held under Farnsworth's warranty. Title to this lot must be made out, if at all, by possession. Title by possession may have been acquired as against the mortgagee (See last paragraph of thismemorandum). III Bar Harbor Water Company rights. The property in the Eagle Lake water shed will, of cour se, bo subject to certain rights in and restrictions in favor of the Bar Harbor Water Company. These outstanding rights, however, make the property nonotheless valuable for the purposes of the Trustees of Public Reservations. 4- IV Incumbrances to be released. There are some incumbrances which will be released when the title is taken. It is, of course, unnecessary to enlarge upon these matters. V Defects other than as above set forth. The first four paragraphs treat of matters affecting the whole property, or several parcels. Eliminating those matters we find very few defects except in the Morrison Sargents Mountain Lot. The following is a list of the properties with defects (other than those mentioned in the first four paragraphs) specified. Rodick Realty Company Lot - No defects. Kittredge Lot - No defects. A. E. Conners property - No defects. Roberts eleven acre lot - No defects except possible outstanding very small fractional interest. Roborts (Burr) Lot - No defects. Morrison Turtle Lake Lot - We are morely getting from Morrison his title under tax deed of this lot. This lot is a part of the Weston Lot to which the Trustees of Public Reservations now hold title, subject to Morrison's tax deed. As to a few aores of the Weston Lot the title is 8 omewhat doubtful but this does not affect the tax title. 5- The tax title may, or may not, be good. Morrison's deed extinguishes it as an incumbrance on property now held by the Trustees of Public Reservations. Morrison Sargent Mountain Lot - This lot has a less satisfactory title than the others, It is, so far as the record shows, subject to the Farnsworth mortgage (See paragraph II). Moreover, fifteen thirty-seconds of the old record title are outstanding. But there is another record title to this lot ( junior to the title effected by mortgage and outstanding interests) which so far as it goes is clear. This begins with a tax deed given in 1861. In 1883 one Jordan, claiming property under tax deed, gave a warranty deed of it. Morrison holds the property under certain intermediate conveyances running back to Jordan's warranty deed. Jordan's tax title was not good. His warranty deed given in 1883 did not convey title as against the old record title. But if since 1883 possession has been had under and in accordance with this chain of title such possession may have ripened into complete title. Under a recent statute it is much oasier now than formerly to make title to land of this character. If Korrison and his grantors have since 1883 been taxed and paid the tax upon the property very slight acts of possession will be sufficient to give title as against persons out of possession, paying no tay and making no claim. 6- We have not had time at this writing to thoroughly examine into the facts as to possession of this property. We shall endeavor to do this immediately. (Quotation from Ford VS. Erskine with reference to wild lands) "The R.S., C. 103, 2, provides that a widow shall not be endowed of wild lands of which her husband died seized; nor of wild lands conveyed by him, though afterwards cleared; but she shall be in any wood lot or other land used with the farm or dwellinghouse, though not cleared. This has long been the sottled law of this State and of Lassachusetts." "The reason for this rule is, that dower boing an estate for life only, woodland can boof nc practicable value to the tenant in dower, as it cannot be improved nor the wood cut off by hor without liability for waste. is to woodland con- nected with the improved land, a different rule prevails, as in such caso she would be entitled to wood necessary for fuel and for repairs of buildings, fences, &C. But, to be entitled to those rights, it must appear that she is dowable in an estate of which the woodland is part, on which there are buildings or fencos &c., to be repaired or supplied with fuel". (COPY) Pg 1 off Avolan 1 prace the Asticou, Maine To 1 September, 1915 Dear Ellon: Your view of George B. Dorr gave me some food for thought; and I have been reviewing his labors and his achievements. Some of his under- takings are unfinished; because they are comprehen- sive, far-seeing, and require the co-operation of many persons of liberal disposition. His largest and best plan for Mt. Desert requires the co-operation of the President of the United States and of several of the Government scientific bureaus. To procure such co-operation takes much time and a diffused, but energetic activity on the part of the promoter. On the other hand, some of Dorr's undertakings at and near Bar Harbor are finished, and are serving the purposes he had in view. Such are, - the Public Library for which Mrs. Jesup gave the money, but which Dorr imagined, engineered, and did. For the Y. M. C. A. building Mrs. John S. Kennedy gave the money; but Dorr (September 1, 1915) 2. suggested and accomplished the job. The Build- ing of Art is another good work which Bar Harbor owes to Dorr. It has been finished, and in use for some years, and was never more useful than it has been this summer, when much first-rate music has been given there. Dorr's Mt. Desert Nurser- ies were wholly developed by him during a long term of years, and were a distinct horticultural achieve- ment, though probably never a successful business venture. During the last two or three years, Dorr has undertaken to build, with money that various persons have supplied, some first-rate roads and foot paths in the Big Meadow, Dry Mountain, Picket Mountain, and Gorge region. All these roads and paths have been admirably designed and laid out by Dorr, and executed under his direction. Three of them are finished and in use, and are great additions to the facilities of walkers; others are underway, and proceeding towards completion as fast as the coming in of the money permits. Dorr has been writing for the last four or five years two books, - one on the famous springs or water (September 1, 1915) 3. sources of the ancient and modern world; the other on the literary use by poots and prose writers of allusion to the flora and fauna and to the habits of plants and animals. Neither of these books is of a nature to be finished offhand at a sitting; they have both required years of reading and note-taking. He tells me that the first will appear withing a few months, and that the second is almost ready for the printer. As they are both books of the kind that can be worked at and added to indefinitely in the manuscript, it would not have been surprising if he had worked upon them as long as he lived, and left them to be published after his death. George Dorr is an impulsive, enthusiastic, eager person, who works at a high tension, neglects his meals, sits up too late at night, and rushes about from one pressing thing to another; but he is very diligent, as well as highly inventive and suggestive. I submit that your idea that he never finishes anything is not well founded, and that what he needs from his friends is sympathy, support, and furthering in his undertakings, and good advice as regards the care of his health and moderation in work. Affectionately yours, CHARLES W. ELIOT 4, What a splendid endorser President Eliot was of a man he believed in. It was a real joy to type the letter. L. D. E. B12,FL ANP A PATH GUIDE OF MOUNT DESERT ISLAND MAINE TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE OFFICIAL PATH MAPS COMPILED BY Waldron Bates, Edward L. Rand, and Herbert Jacques PUBLISHED BY THE VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETIES OF Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast, and Southwest Harbor 1915 AIN, B12,F2 Day Mountain and Sea Rocks 21 Dedication 3 Dike Peak 14 Dole Trail 40 INDEX Dog Mountain 42 Dry Mountain 13 Duck Brook 8 Amphitheatre Trail 24 & 31 Duck Islands 44 Anemone Cave 24 Eagle Lake 14 Arrows 6 East Peak-of Western Mountain 41 Asticou Hill 31 Echo Lake 42 Asticou Hill Trail 20 & 31 Fawn Pond 7 Asticou Path 18 Flying Mountain 42 Asticou Road Walk 30 Freeman Ridge 39 Aunt Betty's Pond 15 Giant Slide 24 Baker's Island 44 Giant Slide Trail 30 Bar Harbor 7 Golf Links (Northeast) 28 Barr Hill 18 Gorham Mountain 10 Barr Hill Road 19 Gotts Island 44 Bates Memorial Tablet 10 Great Cranberry Island 44 Beachcroft Path 9 Great Head 10 Beech Cliff 42 Great Hill 7 Beech Mountain 42 Great Pond 40 Black Path 7 Green Mountain 13 & 25 Boyd Road 15 Hadlock Pond (Lower) 29 Brook Walk 26 Hadlock Pond (Upper) 29 Brown Mountain 29 Half Day Trips 44 Brown Mountain (from Seal Harbor) 21 Harbor Brook Trail 18 & 31 Bubbles-A Circular Trip of the 21 Heights of Mountains 46 Bubble Pond 14 & 24 Hunter's Beach 21 Cadillac Cliffs 10 & 22 Ingraham Rocks 19 Cairns 6 Introduction 5 Canyon Brook 15 Jordan Mountain 15 & 22 Considerations-General 36 Jordan Pond 14 Cranberry Islands 44 Jordan Pond District 32 Cross Roads 39 Jordan Pond-from Seal Harbor 19 Day Mountain 20 Jordan's Shoulder 20 Jordan Stream Trail 17 B 12, F2 a Kane Path 9 & 14 Kebo Mountain Sargent Mountain by the Giant Slide 23 8 Kurt von Diederick's Climb Sargent Mountain from Upper Hadlock Pond 23 9 Ladder Path (Bar Harbor) School House Ledge 28 13 Schooner Head Lake Walk 10 26 Lake Wood Scrambling 34 7 Sea Rocks Little Brown Mountain 21 24 Seal Harbor Little Cranberry Island 17 44 Seaside Path-Seal Harbor Long Pond 17 18 Shore Trail-from Seal Harbor Man-of-War Brook 17 & 23 43 Maple Spring Trail Sieur de Monts' Spring 9 30 Skidoo Trail McFarland Path 28 15 Mitchell Hill Somesville 43 19 Southwest Harbor Mountains-Heights of 37 46 Mountains-Suggestions Southwest Valley 35 5 Mountain Walks Stanley Brook Trail 17 26 Mushrooms Stone Horse Trough 12 47 Newport Cliffs Suggestions-as to walks 5 24 Newport Mountain Swimming Pool (Northeast) 27 7-11 & 24 Northeast Harbor Tennis Club (Northeast) 27 27 Norwood Cove Trail Times for Walks-approximate 5 40 The Bowl Orange & Black Path 13 11 Otter Cliffs The Bubbles 22 10 Ox Hill The Ovens 8 18 Pemetic Mountain The Pines 39 22 Pemetic Mountain and Bubble Pond The Triads 21 24 Pretty Marsh Triad Pass 20 41 Precipice Path Valley Cove 42 12 Quarry Trail Van Santvoord Trail 17 29 Recommendations-General Walks-Extensive 33 31 Redfield Hill Walks-Suggestions as to 5 19 Robinson Mountain Waterfall Trail 30 43 Rockfern Trail Western Mountain 40 28 Russian Tea House West Peak of Western Mountain 41 13 Sand Beach White Path 7 & 11 10 Sargent Mountain Wild Garden Path 9 15 & 23 Sargent Mountain District Wildwood Farm Trail 17 33 Witch Hole Sargent Mountain-Circular Trip of 8 24 Woods Roads 40 pg.10f6 Early Road Systems and what they DRH led on to. Mr. Rockefeller's interest in Acadia National has been from first to last connected, directly the or indirectly, with the system of roads for use with horses which he inaugurated when the Town of Mount Desert, in which his home lay, was opened to auto- 1915 JORSE. mobiles, in 1915. Limited at first to some driving VIS. u CED Strippers. roads and bridle paths on the estate he had purchased at Seal Harbor, east of Long Pond -- the long, narrow lake formed where the outflow from Jordan Pond is ,6810 u dammed by the stones thrown up against it by the sea - Siewn spring Mr. Rockefeller sought to extend his horse-road system beyond the lake over lands purchased earlier for development by Mr. James T. Gardiner, son-in-law to Bishop Doane. Mr. Gardiner, a noted civil engineer, had laid out this land for summer residence by a system of well planned, simply constructed roads which, no houses having been built upon the tract, might serve Mr. Rockefeller's riding and horse- driving purpose well if he could reach it without going out upon the public road; but this he could not do without entering upon lands at the head of the lake held by the Trustees of Public Reservations and offered already at that time, through me, to the Federal Government for a national park. 2. This, in what it led on to, is how Mr. Rockefeller's connection with Acadia National Park aross and is, in what sprang from it, the underlying source of his long- continued interest in it. What followed at that time is told in the general story of the Park; to take it up in what concerns the present, one needs to go back on the one hand to Mr. Rockefeller's regret over the unbuilt unit in his original plan, approved by Secre- tary Lane in 1917, the amphitheater road, and on the other to his purchase of the Seal Harbor Realty Com- pany's lands along the shore to Otter Creek. These two combined led on directly to his offer, 1930 made to the Government in 1930, to be accepted or re- jected as a whole, to build the missing link in his Great The horse-road system, and, purchasing the necessary lands, a motor road along the shore from the Sand Beach to Hunter's Brook, under conditions which he stipulated for the removal of the United States Naval Radio Station to another site and the cession to the Park by the Town of Bar Harbor of its Ocean Drive; together with acquisi- tion of the lands between for a continuous Park road connecting the road on Cadillac Mountain with the now road along the ocean-front. The Government accepted, and surveys began. 3. At this point, the lands upon the shore acquired, Mr. Rockefeller drove over to see me in the autumn 1929 of 1929 to talk over with me his acquisition of the Great Meadow, necessary to the connecting road, to be turned over by him to the Park when all was done. I told him, frankly, that I could talk the matter over more freely, I thought, with one of his associates in New York. He agreed to this and on returning to New York that fall, he asked Mr. Raymond B. Foadick, now head of the Rockefeller Foundation but a lawyer then in active, independent practice, to take the matter up with me. Winker 1929 When I went on to Washington that winter I stopped over, accordingly, in New York and put myself in touch with Mr. Foedick, making appointment with him at his office. I liked him at once and asked, as we sat down: "Can I talk freely with you?" And he answered: "You can talk as freely as you like." He told me that when Mr. Rockefeller asked him to take the matter up, he had said that he would like to talk with me. 4. "Why do you want to see him?" asked Mr. Rockefeller, "Why can't you write?" But Mr. Foadick had held to his point. We went over the whole matter, the past history of my Wild Gardens project and the lands upon the Meadow I had already given the Government. Then, arranging to meet him again, I went off with him to lunch at his downtown club. Soon after, Mr. Foadick, having talked with Mr. Newderer nwyrr Rockefeller, came to see my at the University Club, res St where I was staying, for a further talk. 54th In letting the Great Meadow go, I was desirous of keeping Sieur de Monts Spring, which, with the land about it, I had incorporated and wanted to develop in my own way, for, quite independent of the Park, it was widely visited. Mr. Rockefeller did not need it for his purpose but was bent on having it. His house was nearly opposite my Club, on Fifty-fourth Street, and he was there, ill in bed with a cold, when Mr. Fosdick went across to see him to tell him of my wish to keep the Spring. He would not hear of it and said he would sooner give up his plan. 5. "Does not Mr. Dorr want me to go on with it?" he asked, "If not, I will give it up. Perhaps I have undertaken too much." And Mr. Fosdick came back from Mr. Rockefeller's bedside with that query. I thought of the ocean front and sent him promptly back to tell Mr. Rockefeller that I did want him to go on with it and would give up the Spring, stipulating only for the transfer of the whole property to the Government when all was done. There- upon though I did not ask it, he pledged himself to make the transfer within three months if I desired. This, I sent word back to him, I did not want, but assurance only that in due course it would be done. A year or two later, no construction taking place, 1930-31 it occurred to me that Mr. Rockefeller had once been quoted as saying that he would recognize no obligation unless it had been set down in writing and I asked Mr. Harry Lynam to forward him my recollection of our agreement, asking him if it were in accordance with his own, and he returned my draft with his signature attached. 6. In my meeting with Mr. Foadick nothing had been said as to the value to be placed upon the Spring and Meadow. This Mr. Rockefeller himself took up with '. Mr. Harry Lynam, acting for me, when he came down to Seal Harbor early the following spring. Mr. Lynam looked up my old accounts and records of payments, making deduction for such portions of the Meadow as I had already given to the Government and Mr. Rockefeller made payment for the land upon that basis. This was finally settled in a talk Mr. Rockefeller had with Mr. Lynam just as he was leaving to catch the steamer for Mount Desert Ferry, when he turned at the door and said, according to Mr. Lynam's report to me that afternoon: "Mr. Lynam, I think you have done a good piece of work for both of us, Mr. Dorr and me." And he left well satisfied. [G.B.Dor]] Letters must be addressed to the Boston Office: 4 Park Street Firm to insure prompt attention New York Office: 16 East 40th St. The Riverside press H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY CAMBRIDGE, Mass., December 21, 1915. George B. Dorr, Esq., Bar Harbor, Me. My dear Mr. Dorr:- After going over the manuscript of your book on Plants for Northern Gardens, the first criticism that comes to my mind is such a radical one that I am writing this to you now in order that you may have time to think it over, providing it is of any value whatever. It seems to me that the book as it is now constructed is too much like a catalogue. One reads along through a list of plants alphabetically arranged, and this is all very well if one has a fairly good working knowledge of plants to begin with and can use this book much as one would use a text book or catalogue. It seemed, therefore, as though the subjects should be divided up in some way, possibly the early flowering plants grouped together, as likewise those for the Summer months and those for the early Fall. And then again border plants might form a separate chapter, or plants for shaded or partly shaded locations, plants requiring an especially moist soil or plants suitable to grow in a light sandy soil. In other words, I have in my mind's eye a book in which there is a preliminary talk on gardens in general, with paragraphs on the locations of gardens, the aesthetic value of gar- dens, etc., followed by chapters in which various characteristics Letters must be addressed to the Boston Office: 4 Park Street Firm to insure prompt attention New York Office: 16 East 40th St. The Riverside Bress H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY CAMBRIDGE, Mass. G.B.D. - #2 or departments of the garden are considered, with the plants corre- sponding to each part. . In this way it is quite conceivable that some plant might be spoken of more than once, but I can see no harm in that. The material that you have already prepared could prac - tically all be used without revision but would have to be strung on a thread of description and comment and direction, which would add to its value for a novice and to its interest, I believe, for the general reader. The above comment is merely my personal opinion, and has nothing whatever to do with H. M. Co. in any way. I have no special knowledge of plants and do not consider myself in the least a lit - 11 erary cuss - only a printer. However, as you were kind enough to ask me to let you know what impression the book made on me, I have done so very frankly, and shall not be surprised if you do not in the least agree with me. & I feel that you could select the proper chapter headings and group for this book in such a way as to make it of absorbing interest. Sincerely yours, C.H.Hard Roberts. CHR/AGN 6/27/2021 University of Maine System / All Locations URSUS Pandemic Update: Requesting and delivery between most URSUS libraries has resumed. For information regarding pick up locations, hours, and procedures please contact your home library. Maine State Library Closed For Renovations: ILL (Interlibrary Loan) and online requesting of MSL materials is unavailable at this time. For a current list of services available visit www.maine.gov/msl/. Author France. Sovereign (1589-1610 : Henry IV). Title Commissions du Roy et de Monseigneur l'Admiral au sieur de Monte, pour l'habitation és terres de Lacadie Canada, & autres Book endroits en la Nouvelle France : ensemble les defenses premieres & secondes à tous autres, de trafiquer avec les sauvages desdites terres Publisher Bar Harbor, Me. : G.B. Dorr, 1915 CALL Copies LOCATION STATUS NO. Bangor Pub. 971.01 LIBR MSCC Map it Lib. Cage F844c USE ONLY Phys 39 pages ; 16 cm. (80) Descr Note The commissions were issued by the King and his High Admiral Charles de Montmorency, Dec. 18, 1603 -- Note, p.[2] The documents are variously dated, Oct. 31, 1603 to Mar. 16, 1605 Facsim. of ed.: Paris : [ P.Patisson], 1605 Subject Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Alt Du Gua, Pierre, sieur de Mons, approximately 1560-1628 Author Dorr, George B. (George Bucknam), 1853-1944 France. Amiranté Alt Title Commissions du Roy et de Monseigneur l'Admiral au sieur de Monts OCLC # 13472863 ursus.maine.edu/search~S1?/tCommissions+du+Roy+et+de+Mopnseigneur+l%27Admiral+au+sieur+de+Monte/tcommissions+du+roy+et+de+mopns...1/2 916 Souerset Club Bosbon. 3/21/1916 To Chairnee of the fenate Judiciary Comm : CBD remarks @ his interest in committee work or Presidents: nomenation of Lneis B, Brandles for the Supreme Cout vacany. Dam ful impelled as a pees me fuel of his partner, Mr. wavery and as a member of a Boston x Hawaed group who have watched be cover develop, he writer to counter the views of these who oppose his confuntion as they an "projerdiced asl wrong," Descupe B. as "ana of Keen extelligence, but begin 8 deals, posses ing a lare creative quality of magination that embired with fescless courage of coverations has bight her at times to the public benefit." Suchaction ae at toust "in conflict ur the vested interests. ut cotallighed points of view We need such a new as this on that high beach to keep it open to the ever-charge throught at sentiment of the would and Nation, these in their changes and proomy judnest on there through the decisions that it renders. I trust recordingly, for the petties caroling safe that The Senate may confirm hs -ramination. CBD. u.s. Congressional fereal Set. Research Notes: RontEppNotEs Town eecord of Eden - Val. 11 3/21/06 at 6 p.7. 2/19/16 :GBD is one selectron 9 3/6/16 : Annual thest. r Ballotin for 3rd Sele for GBD received largest the stuates (537 of 3,800 a votes) or 11 cadidats, scue to he close p 31 : 4/8/1916 : Vote on purchase of lad for Pak lette reall 8 Fred C.Lyran Justilion to Fred Lyma From GBD on seary addit 901 (F Links " Because I regard an addition G- hale Solf Corn be role offer to deed town 14 acles oflas , see BH Tikes at cle p-35 cuticle 10- - W-H Sheem (Tora Club) approad respect That Ton of Edu the " Sincere grobid de to Mr. geo. b Dan for hr exceedingly genous offer to donate to the trun 14 acre of valuable lad R pack purposes." n.135 Special Tour leaf 9/29/1917. act. 3 "to reconvey for 63D the lad, upers, prior lof J parents covered y said D on to said Dan to 5 did Tora g deed dated Septemb 12, 196. Town Records of Eden U,L. (( - ps 2. p 202 Ton Annual Annual leaf Casino, 3/3/1919. p211 the Resolution Intr. by F. Lynom: "Where Mal Desel solal will eminent benefitted f th establishal of a natrail Pack. It plants tree plat 7 one and will h protecto, the approach to its Scuric heart go inground to increased, its natural beauties advantised to tc world thingh ten of ? thousands of cuts, leaflets t poophlets issues by the Federal Souht, t ten tolan henfited in wg too may to councrate." Resoleed that intolutal f B.H, Let not appreciatly tets to 6BD for his tinders, persignent, intelli gud work, carved on order the most adverse circumstances II He ha ofercome obstacles that no other fuel of 2 the sectia would have concoacled the courage to overcome, ad Ga fund received for us ad for our prestarity the F flyeth Veta Pal a Net Dest that wourgard th achewed a a arouning went in a left so nece of which ha be develod to the intents of Bar Harbori P8. For Records of Anneal Tru Meet pg-3 253 3/1/9920 : Selector Vote. GBD not a cardidate Henor Love Ero / E. Febsic are p. 263 Art. 68: 6BD appt. t Comento any for Bosta Symphong Qualitaria to appear in some Sea 1920. P 35 Common Bride Paths, GBR late to rever money for octing 2 sprinkling Annaallles , Casino, 3/7/1921. GBD not a selector caddate E66 7abhri selector. lot 7), And leaf, 1922 + 1923, + GRD not adidat 3/21/06 Town of Eden New ot the Municipal officer Year End. 1915 Assessors Repat Reft of selectruc Rpt st Electrol Finance , touctor , from Euped Educ. Lebra , Sedective Salaues (550-1gc) Fini Sept. Police, moth Extern@ Also froud f Health Schools, Sewer, Roads. Pg.62: GBD one of 7 Selections CE. Fabbii 1916: Rpt of felector GBD one of 7 Selector, InCl E. Fabber, Refer to $4,211.94 defi wt dee to and an the otter Ceach road + Ocean Deur " for when $15K use anthonyed 1917 Rpt if Selector Funds for energency war purpose "to and depededs of soldeen salos, amoun (2,130) ERD 15 one of 7 selection. Vite Stats : 191 5 1916 1967 1918 1919 Birth 71 76 74 74 77 Death 59 1346 60 86 69 1918: No GBD 1919: u a a : " " 3/21/06. Pg.-4 Tom it Edenillan : Annual Repets (1909 - 14). 1910 : The Select I not GBD 190 E Two Selectmen of tde, not 6BD. 1908 : Three " " / 1 907 7' There " ' ( ) 1906 : The '1 " 11 / 1905 : Then u " " I 1984 : Thee " 'c " , 1911 The Select I not 6BD 1912 11 is " 'r " 's : 1913 " 4 " " cl " 1914 Dorr D.B. University Club Fifth Ancuue & 34th Street [Marca1916] Wear President Elist, , is able is ging to Stud you,at-My Sug. gustin of you interest in it, two of the big mah - Shann, Whee photopaphic of his thing time, Illerise Wanded light H Hadows the mah itself I Undustand . green you late - as The also to the - Rut do not give or Sand away, any of of dues you had M R W they are thi abble of ki 1 a 3 benefit of Music at the Bailding of arts - 5 having been Lo sold already M R. can get On of the with photograph at well, of he to inchiner_ Than been linking Why stradely r shall have Nuce 4. University Club Fifth Aneuue & 34th Street of tell yn presently of peoplea made - him I must stop but aw analwar you Sincerely G. Palm Fuday The Islander EXTRA! THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2016 Historical records President Wilson Will Accept Mr. Dorr's Gift By Deborah Dyer, director, Bar Harbor Historical Society From the March 1916 Bar Harbor Record H on. John A. Peters, member of Congress from this district, was guest at the Florence Hotel, hav- ing motored down from Ellsworth. Mr. Peters told a Record representa- tive that the recent conference with the President of the United States which he and Mr. Johnson and Mr. Dorr had in regard to the national park reservation on Mount Desert Island was exceeding- ly interesting. The President talked with them for fully a half hour. He was per- fectly familiar with the historical facts connected with the early settlement of Mount Desert Island, so little of this had to be explained to him. Mr. Peters told Mr. Wilson that Mr. Dorr was by far the most public spirited FROM THE COLLECTION OF EARL BRECHLIN man he had never had the pleasure of knowing. In Mr. Peters' mind there is A vintage postcard view of the Cadillac Mountain Road. little doubt but that the gift will be ac- Legislation creating what is now Acadia National Park won favor cepted. If it is some road building, will possibly be done on the property this at the same time federal funds for the state highway department year for under the Bankhead Good were authorized to improve the road to the summit. Roads bill, which has recently passed the Senate. $10,000,000, for road build- ing on forest reservation is provided for. The bill also provided $75,000,000 to be apportioned to the States in the next five years for permanent work on post roads. The bill is similar to one already passed, and is sure to be signed by the President. The money will be available this year as the bill specially provides that the fiscal year shall commence June 30, 1016. Maine's apportionment under this bill will be 1916, $48,750; 1917, $97,500; 1918,$146,250 1919, $195,600; 1920, $243,750; total for five years $731,250. If this bill becomes a law, the Maine Highway commission will receive, to be used this year, $48,750, a share of which may be used in building an auto road on Green (Cadillac) Mountain. ISLANDER FILE PHOTO ISLANDER FILE PHOTO To Find out more about Bar Harbor Maine Congressman history visit www.barharborhistorical.org President Woodrow Wilson John A. Peters From the April 1916 Bar "I now confirm that the summit of the Mount Harbor Record Desert hills, unique in elevation on our coast, and All looks favorable now for the accom- commanding broadly the entrance to the Bay of plishment of Mr. Fundy and eastern approaches to Penobscot Bay, Dorr's splendid with a government coaling station in its rear and but colossal magnificent landlocked harbor in the upper bay, task in the es- forms a strategic point of great value for the nation tablishment of to possess particularly as a coastal observation a national park station in connection with the operation of lines of upon Mount Des- ert Island. The work information of aeroplanes. and other air craft has been a long one but and of means of defense generally." once achieved it should en- - Brigadier General George P. Scriven dure with the nation and the granite hills. This will have the dis- tinction of being the first national park to be estab- lished in the east, war mon- uments expected. It should lead the way to others, but no other on the continent can ever equal it in its own seacoast type. Mere acceptance by the government, however, should prove but the begin- ning; a new development of many-sided public interest should follow. President Interior Secretary Here is some of the cor- Woodrow Wilson George B. Dorr Franklin Lane respondence Mr. Dorr has given relating to the matter. tive geologic record. present to the United States Bay, with a government Mr. Dorr's Letter And it constitutes the an important tract of land coaling station in its rear to the Secretary of the dominant and characteris- on Mount Desert Island. I and magnificent landlocked Interior tic portion of the first land, have discussed it with Mr. harbor in the upper bay, Washington, .C. Mount Desert Island, to Dorr and his patriotic proj- forms a strategic point of Sir: be visited and named by ect has my warm approval. great value for the nation On behalf of the Han- Champlain when sailing The setting aside of the land to possess particularly as cock County Trustees of under De Mont's orders as a national monument a coastal observation sta- Public Reservation, State in exploration of the New seems eminently proper tion in connection with the of Maine, I have the honor England coast. and I trust I shall be able to operation of lines of infor- to offer in free gift to the The papers I enclose lay it before you shortly in mation of aeroplanes. and United States, a unique and herewith will explain in a formal shape for your ap- other air craft and of means noble tract of land upon our more detail the thought and proval. of defense generally. eastern seacoast, for the es- purpose of the gift offered, Cordially Yours, I believe that the offer of tablishment of a national with the reasons which have Franklin K. Lane the gift should be accepted. monument. led us to conviction of its ex- Very Truly Yours, The tract offered is rich ceptional public value and General Scriven's Letter to George P. Scriven in historic association, in worthiness to be accepted. Woodrow Wilson Brigadier General scientific interest and in The bound volumes of The President Chmn. Inter-Depart- landscape beauty. Approxi- report upon the deeds by The White House Wash- mental Board for Coastal mately 5000 acres in extent, which the offered lands are ington D.C. Communications it contains within itself the held represent the long la- My dear Mr. President: only heights that imme- bor of one of the most com- Mr. Dorr brought the The study of the title diately front the open sea, petent and well versed legal matter of the proposed deeds for this monument is with mountainous charac- firms in Maine, whose thor- national monument on probably the most monu- ter upon our eastern coast. It oughness of investigation Mount Desert Island. coast mental piece of title search- contains also, owing to past may be relied upon with of Maine, to my attention ing ever undertaken in the glacial action and its own safety, I remain, sir, with re- two years ago when he first State of Maine. It has oc- variously resistant rocky spect, came on to consult the De- cupied the firm of Deasy & structure, an extraordinary Sincerely Yours, partment of the Interior Lynam for over two years variety of topographic fea- George B. Dorr with regard to it. and is embodied in several ture which unites with the I then made the state- bound volumes of types re- climate caused by the sur- Mr. Lane's Letter to Wood- ment to him which I now port, now in the hands of rounding sea to fit it beyond row Wilson confirm that the summit the land office at Washing- any other single location in Washington, .C. of the Mount Desert hills, ton, D.C. the east for shelter, growth May 2, 1916 unique in elevation on our and permanent preserva- My Dear Mr. President, coast, and commanding To Find out more about tion of a wide range of life, I am familiar with Presi- broadly the entrance to the Bar Harbor history visit both plant and animal. It dent Eliot's and Mr. Dorr's Bay of Fundy and eastern www.barharborhistorical. forms a striking an instruc- very interesting plan to approaches to Penobscot org VOLUME II 4/15/16 ONE DOLLAR A YEAR BAR 18-HOLE COURSE BEGINS TO LOOK REV. E.E. M LIKE REALITY FOR NEXT YEAR IS NEW Another Chang Town Votes $10,000 For Park Purposes- odist Past George B. Dorr Offers Fourteen Acres- CONFERENCE $5200 Is Subscribed by Residents Clarence E. Dow Chq General Conferenc $10.000 voted by the town to- quality, and needs but to be enlarged to Jones To the furthering of the golf links take high rank among the fine courses $3,200 already subscribed among in the country. As a result of the Es residents, and the proba- A long discussion followed, in which ence, which brought services response from the the merits of the proposition were thresh- close on Sunday night, variors, who are most directly ed out from every angle, and various appointed as the plac for whose direct bene- points that were not clear at first were sessions of the next cc is under way, the new straightened out. in April, 1917. An i bids fair to become a It was finally voted that the select- with the church here V next summer. The action men be, and hereby are, authorized to time ago, and as Bar Saturday showed that a de- issue the town's ten year four per cent. had the privilege of tateral even surpassing that at negotiable bonds for the sum of $10,000, conference for a numb the securing of this asset for the purchase of park lands, said be the opportunity of attractions, has been lands to be denominated Park Bonds. friends of the Clark that enterprising steps Voted, that the Selectmen be, and next spring to show to boom the town's they hereby are, requested not to issue come this island town It also should have the re- the bonds provided for in the vote!under ing pastors. to a still greater de- this article until the following con- Another change g differences which ditions are complied with: Rev. E. E. McLain, the past in some rillrasur First: That a suitable agreement ministry here as soon and transient residents. may be entered into by which the pur- here. Rev. John Jon office was well filled on chase price of the fourteen acre lot be last fall from Indiana, the time set for the used for development of that property to the Kright Me W. H. Sherman, town in connection with a golf course. Calais. Mr. Jones h meeting to order, and Second: That the adjoining property in his brief pastorate H. D. Wakefield sufficient with Mr. Dorr's gift in acreage many friends who will moderator for the nine hole course be purchased by the transfer. He suc committee appointed at others than the town for golf links. erick A. Leitch, who meeting to take up the Third: That, in the opinion of the setts. results at a special Selectmen, the additional nine hole golf The three district held as early as prac- links will be constructed. Rev. Carl N. Garlan report through John It is not intended, however, to be con- district, Rev. Albert members of the sidered necessary for all of the funds for Bangor district and C Lynam and the construction work to be subscribed Palladino of the Buck It will also be as a condition precedent to the sale of all returned. The o at the annual the bonds. in this locality were next WILL passed that The following resolutions were adopted Brooksville circuit. this meeting that the by a unanimous rising vote: deen; Bucksport an shall appro- p8 Resolved that the citizens of the Gamble; Bucksport to assist in build- town of Eden, in town meeting assem- Bucksport, J. E. Blal at Bar Harbor, bled, hereby express their sincere grat- P. Pelley; Ellsworth While there would itude to Mr. George B. Dorr for his dore S. Ross; Frankli to the legality of the exceedingly generous offer to donate 14 ham; Penobscot, Alfr :1) assist in build- acres of valuable land for park pur- pect Harbor and S seemed to be no poses. Roy C. Dalzell; Sout town could legally Resolved that we, the Inhabitants of bert F. Doran; Ston park purposes, and the Town of Eden, in town meeting Deer Isle, George Spa 11 saw fit upon im- assembled request the Board of Select- ard H. Moyle; Surry men to send the following communi- Elwyn S. Gahan; We that the COR-1 cation to the President of the Kebo George Davis. date pledges from Valley club: Clarence E. Dow, amounting to To the Officers, Members, and Stock- George B. Hunter, of than had been ex- holders of the Kebo Valley Club ted delegates by the Gentlemen: tion to the general co suit of reconciling to a still greater de- this the supposed differences which ditions are complied with: Rev. E. E. McLain in the past in some nitrisure First: That a suitable agreement ministry here as between native and transient residents. may be entered into by which the pur- here. Rev. John The assessors' office was well filled on chase price of the fourteen acre lot be last fall from India Saturday afternoon, the time set for the used for development of that property to the Krtight I special meeting. W. H. Sherman, town in connection with a golf course Calais. Mr. Jones derk. called the meeting to order, and Second: That the adjoining property in his brief pastora read the warrant. H. D. Wakefield sufficient with Mr. Dorr's gift in acreage many friends who for the nine hole course be purchased by the transfer. He The special committee rappointed at others than the town for golf links. erick A. Leitch, wh the annual town meeting to take up the Third: That, in the opinion of the setts. matter and report results at a special Selectmen, the additional nine hole golf The three dist meeting to be held as early as prac- links will be constructed. Rev. Carl N. Gar licable, made its report through John It is not intended, however, to be con- district, Rev. Alb H Stalford. The other members of the sidered necessary for all of the funds for Bangor district committee were Fred C. Lynam and the construction work to be subscribed Palladino of the B Food L. Savage. It will also be as a condition precedent to the sale of all returned. The remembered that at the annual the bonds. in this locality we meeting a resolution was passed that The following resolutions were adopted Brooksville circ is the sense of this meeting that the by a unanimous rising vote: deen; Bucksport at a special meeting shall appro- Resolved that the citizens of the Gamble; Buckspo priate a sum of money to assist in build- town of Eden, in town meeting assem- Bucksport, J. E. I an 18-hole golf course at Bar Harbor, bled, hereby express their sincere grat- P. Pelley; Ellswor to be open to all.' While there would itude to Mr. George B. Dorr for his dore S. Ross; Fran be some question as to the legality of the exceedingly generous offer to donate 14 ham; Penobscot, raising money to assist in build- acres of valuable land for park pur- pect Harbor an a golf links, there seemed to, be no poses. Roy C. Dalzell; S question but that the town could legally Resolved that we, the Inhabitants of bert F. Doran; raise money for public park purposes, and the Town of Eden, in town meeting Deer Isle, George expend such sums as it saw fit upon im- assembled request the Board of Select- ard H. Moyle; Su provement of the park. men to send the following communi- Elwyn S. Gahan; Mr. Stalford reported that the com- cation to the President of the Kebo George Davis. mittee had secured to date pledges from Valley club: Clarence E. Do residents of the town, amounting to To the Officers, Members, and Stock- George B. Hunter $3,200. much more than had been ex- holders of the Kebo Valley Club ted delegates by ;ected Gentlemen: tion to the genera A proposition was then read from So popular has golf become, growing H. B. Haskell, of George B. Dorr who owns a large a- every year in favor with an increas- Vannah, of Waldo mount of land in that vicinity, adjoining ingly large number of people, that no present course, that he has a tract watering place, no summer or winter re- containing 45 acres available for the sort can hope to hold its place among NEW BI construction of an additional nine holes. the great resorts unless it has a good offered to give the town 14 acres of golf course. Bishop Brewster this, provided the town would raise and Your club has an excellent nine spend $10,000 upon it to fit it for the hole course. It has been very satis- purpose of golfing A further provi- factory for many years, but in very Bishop Benjam sign is, that the rest of the lot. 31 acres, recent years there have been signs of his services as h selected as well for the purpose of cre- congestion, and last season there were Episcopal dioces ating an additional nine hole course. more players at various times than could June, according Mr Dorr offers this for about $25,000, play comfortably. day. He will not which is understood to be the exact We are informed that the natural his work in Colo of the property capacity of the course is 36 players part of May, an Should the proposition be brought and that as high as 84 had been found unable to preside about. the course, in connection with on the links at one time, robbing the tion of the dioces the present Kebo course, should be one pastime of much of its enjoyment. 17. of the finest in the country. There is The crowding of the links gave rise to an unsurpassed view from any portion considerable complaint with the result of the links, the mountains rising direct- that your board has been making an in the background, while the course is attempt to secure land and money for rolling country, with small ravines, an additional nine holes, not only as crossing an attractive little brook, and we understand it, that the course may offering a scenic setting that is unri- not be crowded, but because the play- S. valled. The present course is of high (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) A DIAMOND RING CLUB A money Saving Plan Original with us. 5c Secures You a Beautiful Diamond Ring for $25 4/15/16 Private public THE BAR HARBOR TIMES OLE COURSE BEGINS and stockholders to o-eparate as indi- opinion, make possible to secure these 65 yards, from the tee TO LOOK LIKE REAL- viduals with the representatives of the additional links the next coming play is over undulati ITY FOR NEXT YEAR Town of Eden in developing a separate season with the town's co-operation and course is bounded on 0 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) nine-hole course, with the idea that at good will toward it on all sides. ral water course and of 18 different holes is much more its completion it shall be under the I will deed to the town, freely, as for on the other side is You factory than playing over a nine general management of the Kebo Valley Park purposes but to be permanently and a fringe of fine course twice. Club. employed by it, as a contribution towards green is so situated t our board has secured some sub- It is our opinion that Bar Harbor is the additional links, fourteen acres of ard forms a trap for tions from summer residents and entitled to the highest possible devel- land. more of less, as shown in a prelim- side and public way your request subscriptions have opment as a summer resort, made possi- inary survey by Mr. Lord and exhibited yards of the green for pledged by Bar Harbor residents ble with proper consideration of the upon a blue-print, upon condition that the back. This hole n amount exceeding $5,000. Lands interests of all concerned. Our people the town shall issue its negotiable bonds length and with very been surveyed and options have are dependent for their livelihood upon for the sum of $10,000, estimated by will make an ideal ho secured, but not sufficient funds the prosperity of this town. The fact Mr. Andrew Liscomb as necessary and FIFTH yet in sight for the work outlined. that over 600 players played over thirty- sufficient to put this land in fair playable The fifth tee is me citizens with golf experts and eight hundred games last season, and condition for the season of 1917, though urveyor, have been carefully over the fact that more than one-half of all not in its best final form as a portion of fourth green, and the ous properties lying easterly and our occupied cottages were represented what this should ultimately become, one lating ground for th heasterly from the present Kebo of the first and finest golf courses in the hundred yards to a gr on the links, indicate the necessity of in front by a water cy Golf Links, and it is believed the development of the best interests of country. an excellent additional nine holes the town. And upon the further condition, that grass on sides and ba be constructed on some portion The pleasure of our summer guests the deeds shall not pass nor work be SIXTH these properties, One lot of land and the business interests of our resi- begun upon the land until purchase is The sixth tee is led by Dr. C. C. Morrison located dent citizens alike ask for your hearty assured of the remaining territory, ap- fifth green, about 50 the north side of the Cromwell co-operation in the development of an proximately 31 acres, required for the is over a flat, level t bor Brook could probably be uti- 18-hole golf links for this town. completion of a standard 9-hole course. tance of 375 yard d to great advantage in conjunction We recognize the liberality of the This land, acquired in recent years and rough ground. h properties of George B. Dorr et course heretofore pursued by the man- with special reference to keeping open adjoining. agement of the Kebo Valley club in al- the opportunity for golf links extension, SEVENTH AND another lot of land belonging to lowing any respectable person the use whose only opportunity in the vicinity The seventh and orge B. Dorr, containing about 45 of the links, and in view of this liber- of Bar Harbor it affords, I offer to sell for bout 350 and 375 ya les, lies south of the Cromwell Har- ality, we believe that we can count on golf course for its exact cost in purchase length, and the terr brook If, when all conditions are your hearty co-operation in the future. price, simple interest and taxes, estimated much the same as in en into consideration, this property We realize that the responsibility of by Messrs. Deasy and Lynam, through to its natural traps a uld be selected for the additional your position may place upon you a whom the various purchases combined NINTH hole golf course, a gift of a sub- work of development and construction in the major lot were made, at $25,000- The ninth tee is p ntial number of acres will be made that is somewhat arduous, but we are with the proviso, however, that the pur- from the Harden F the town by the owner, leaving the ready to afford you directly or through chaser of this lot, as the town in its ac- tion, where a fine of the remaining acreage at about the assistance of committees, any co- ceptance of the other, shall agree to BO tains and Mt. Keb .000. It is proposed and action operation that may seem to you helpful. develop them as to make them not only tained. The hole .taken to that effect by this Awaiting your reply, we remain, the first class links to which they natu- elbow, as a grove o meeting that if the Dorr property Yours very truly, rally lend themselves. but an object of one side for the p sed for a golf course, that the town (Signed) beauty and interest in the town's sur- the road. The leng spend $10,000 upon SO much of the SELECTMEN OF THE TOWN OF EDEN roundings and especially with reference approximately 410 perty as it receives by gift, putting Mr. Dorr's proposition is as follows: to their borders upon public roads or will be situated wit condition for golfing, after which paths, or neighboring residential land. Bar Harbor, Maine, April 8, 1916. the first tee. The be leased to the Kebo Valley Club The land offered to the town for park of the entire cours other similar association. Mr. Fred C. Lynam, Chairman, purposes under this agreement is a tract and will make, W Ve ask that your Board at as early Town Committee on Securing Addi- of exceptional natural golfing possibili- one of the sporties ute as convenient meet with a com- tional Golf Links at Bar Harbor. ties, according to expert opinion, undu- tee to be appointed by the Board Dear Sir: lating in character and bordering upon Darr's Selectmen, at such place as you Because I regard an additional 9-hole two considerable brooks, with two designate to go over the whole golf course, so laid out as to constitute, lesser watercourses intersecting the line Letter BRO ation, as to properties and ways not only an independent unit in itself, of play between them; it borders also, Rev. Harry Tay means of financing the proposition, but an integral portion as well, of an for several hundred feet, upon a park begun a series of re he end that Bar Harbor may have an 18-hole or full course when taken in con- road, to be known as the Sieur de Monts Baptist church. ole golf course If, after a con- junction with the present 9-hole links Road, now being built privately but for Capt. and Mrs. nce with the committee that the at Kebo Valley, as having now become a an intended public use, which, passing of Somerville, M rd of Selectmen shall appoint, it is matter of imperative necessity to Bar along the wooded base of Dry Moun- spending the past med inadvisable to co-operate in Harbor for its prosperity and future tain, will constitute the most direct their home Mon manner suggested we ask that the growth as a resort, I make through you, route for pleasure driving between Seal Mrs. Idella Hil Valley Club, its officers, members, the following offer which should, in my Harbor and either these links now con- past winter in Ma templated or the existing ones. cal treatment, ca Yours truly, much improved in GEORGE B. DORR Mr. and Mrs. O Several other items of miscellaneous ville, were in tow business came up besides the main propo- days. Mr. Green ition voted Pg. oF5 Does this duplicate essay in MOIBL Centennial valunce ? Check (12/10/02) 1916 One of the things in which I have taken the greatest interest, the Park has been the Marine Biological Laboratory at Salisbury - The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory. In searching for a good wharfage for our transit company, when we had been threatened with a trolley line upon our Bllsworth Road, and in 1907, I had purchased for it # ultimatel took over myself, the old lava point by Emery Cove and this led me to acquaintance with the more extensive lava flow and points upon its eastern side which interested me 1141771 as well as its projection into a deep channel of the bay. I found that this was the old Thomas Emery farm, part of the Emery district in the Island's earlier days with the old Emery graveyard on it and showas the old/Burry farmhouse. The farm, the older generation gone, was for sale I found but one does not see the beauty of the situation from the roadway running past it, the boom was over and there were none to purchase it. The matter slopt in my mind. 1914 Then came Dr. S. Weir Mitchell's death and there was talk among his many friends at Bar Harbor of putting up some memorial to him on the Village Green - a very suttle proceeding I thought it and proposed that some. 2. thing really interesting be done instead. Dr. Mitchell had been one of the executive committee of the Carneige Institution at Washington and had told me of the intomest he took in the Marine Biological Laboratory it had established at Key West, Florida, and of the work which was being done there. This subject was one in which I took great interest myself and I proposed instead of the monument upon the Village Green a fund be raised to purchase the Old Emery Farm at Salishury Cove with its good wharfage opportunity, its picturesque character, its old farmhouse and the pure water off it coming in ######### a deep continuous channel from the open sea, water ###1 not liable ever to be contaminated and fit for scientific work, as Eastport had been where the alder for a time had worked. I talked it over with Dr. Robert Abbe and he became enthusiastic over it. Together we drafted an appeal for funds and got them, some eight thousand dollars, sufficient for the purchase of the farm. It could have been sold soon after for a much larger SUB. Then chance brought me into contact with Dr. icthyologist at Princeton University and the Miclogist in charge of the Camero Tmettintio 3 work at Key west which Dr. Mitchell told me of and of his interest in it, I got him down to look our tract over end report upon its fitness. This was in the summer of 1916. I was in Weshington when he came but my house was open and one my friends who had a power boat well adapted for such use took him out to dredge and make the study of our waters. Then I returned with the Sieur de Monts National Monument established and Dr. Majee was present and spoke at the meeting held at the Building of ARTs in celebration. He told at the meeting of the purpose of his coming and the great opportunity we had for carrying on under the best condition and important Diologic study, comparable to the work he had himself been doing at Key West and that instituted by Professor on the Cape Cod Shore, representing an ocean climate differing radically from each other and our con. was echoed back to Princeton and I presently got a letter from Dr. Culrich Dahlgran, Prof. of Marine Biology at Princeton University, talling me of an organization incorporated several years before for doing similar work on Casco Bay and suggesting it would be a pity to divide the interest. I answered that I quite 4. agreed but that I thought the best course would be for them to join us at Salisbury Cove where the conditions were better and more permanently assured than they possibly could be at Casco Bay. A meeting with their corporation followed the following autumn. I agreed to turn over to them, incorporated under the title of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory with headquarters at the S. Weir Mitchell station at Salisbury Cove, a fund sufficênt for their moving down with their equipment and for establishing wharfage and some simple buildings on the Emery land and work began the following summer. It had had to be carried on by annual contributions, with no endoment fund it but/had dontinued now for nearly twenty years with constantly increasing interest and should continue permanently for the work is endless. The Laboratory is a place for study and investigation, not for teaching. It is a research laberatory devoted to the advancement of our knowledge in a field that exhibits earliest forms of life which we have knowledge of and something of life's progress since in the multitudness invertbrae form which it has taken on. The workers e at the Laboratory a number of them now have homes of their own at Salisbury Cove where they or the association have bought land, 10 5. beautifully situated, outside the original Thomas which is scientific Emery farm, ######## devoted to the work, with the old Emery farmhouse turned into a dining hall where they all congregate at mealtime. It is all in delightful contrast to Bar Harbor's fashionable life and far more in keeping with the true character of the regions, rich, in natural interest and the beauty of great scenery. I have great hopes it will continue to get funds to aid it in experimental work for which the field is infinitely rich and the become a permanent institution of the shore, a place where men of science from our eastern universities come and work and gain their refreshment in SUMMOR. It is a far better place for that than is Cape Cod. [6.BDDor]] Pg. I of3 ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION. In accordance with the provision of the Revised Statutes of the State of Maine, Chapter 57, and acts amendatory thereof or additional thereto, we the undersigned, whose residence is stated opposite our respectative names, hereby associate ourselves together for the for- mation of a corporation for educational and scientific purposes, to wit: To acquire by gift, purchase, lease or ot herwise, real estate in Hancock County, State of Maine, to hold, develop and improve for the purpose of making a permanent exhibit, of scientific, educational and artistic value for the public benefit, of trees, shrubs, herbs and other plants and of striking scenic features: for forming bird and other wild life refuges and gardens; for the experimental growth of plants not native to the region and publishing reports thereon; for publishing studies, illustrations and descriptions of the region's native life and landscape; for furnishing opportunities for observa- tion and study to students of plant life, of gardening, forestry and landscape art; and for preserving, and developing to the full, the natural interest and beauty of the lands acquired, which may however be sold, exchanged, or etherwise disposed of, in any part that may seem best to the Associates with reference to the purposes of their incorporation, or to their ability to carry out these purposes. To act as a forestry association within the limits of Hancock County, receiving in gift or acquiring by purchase lands suitable for successful forestry. And operating these lands as forest lands 2 (1) for educational ends, (2) for shelter to wild life and plants of lover growth, (3) for the greater beauty and interest such well- forested tracts will give to the County landscape, any funds derived from such forestry to be employed in furthering the association's public aims. BY-LAWS. No. 1 Name. The name of the corporati on shall be the "Sieur de Monts Arboretum and wild Gardens." No II Members. The members of the corporation shall consist of not less than seven nor more than fifteen. The associates who have signed the articles of association shall be members. Other members may be added by said associates providing the total number shall not exceed fifteen. Vacancies in membership caused by death or resignation to be filled by majority vote of remaining members. In adding new members and filling vacancies the following plan shall as far as possible be observed. Three members shall be persons named by the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. Three members wild Gardens of acades Original Establishment 1916(December) pg.loft To B. E. Clark, Esq., Justice of the Peace, in and for Hancock County, State of Maine: We, the undersigned, desire to be incorporated for educa- tional and scientific purposes, to wit: to acquire by gift, pur- chase, lease or otherwise, real estate within the area of the State of Maine draining into the Penobsect Bay and River, the scupe Bay of Fundy, and the sea lying between said Bays, (ana including also in the Dominion of Canada the whole of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; to hold, develop and improve for the purpose of making a permanent exhibit, of scientific, educational and artistic value, for the public benefit, of trees, shrubs, herbs and other plants and of striking scenic features; for forming bird and other wild life refuges and gardens; for the experimental growth of plants not native to the region and publishing reports thereon; for publishing studies, illustrations and descriptions of the region's native life and landscape; for furnishing opportunities for observation and study to students of plant life, of garden- ing, forestry and landscape art; and for preserving and develop- ing to the full, the natural interest and beauty of the lands acquired, which may however be sold, exchanged or otherwise dis- posed of, in any part that may seem best to the bers of the corporation, with reference to the purpose of incorporation, or to their ability to carry out these purposes. To act as & forestry and fishery association within the aforesaid area, receiving in gift or acquiring by purchase 2. lands and waters suitable for successful forestry and fishery, and operating these (1) for educational ends (2) for shelter to wild life and plante of lesser growth and (3) for the great- er beauty, usefulness and interest of the tracts so operated, any funds derived from such forestry or fishery to be employed in furthering the corporation's public aims. We, therefore, appeal to you in writing to issue your warrant to one of the following applicants requiring him to call a meeting thereof at such time and place as you may appoint for organization and for all purposes specified in the Revised Statutes of Maine, Chap. 57, and amendments thereof and addit- icus thereto. Names. Residences. George B. Dorr Bar Harbor, Me. L. B. Deasy Bar Harbor, Me. A. H. Lynam Bar Harbor, Me. A. S. Rodick Bar Harber, Mo. David O. Rodick Bar Harbor, Maine. Guy E. Torrey Bar Harbor, Maine. Charles F. Paine Bar Harbor, Maine. 3. To B. E. Clark, Esq., Justice of the Peace, in and for Hancock County, State of Maine: We, the undersigned, desire to be incorporated for educational and scientific purposes. We, therefore, appeal in writing to you to issue your warrant to one of the appli- cants requiring him to call a meeting thereof at such time and place as you may appoint for organization and for all purposes specified in the Revised Statutes of Maine, Chap. 57, and amendments thereof and additions thereto. Names Residences Charles hr Elion Cambridge Mass 12 East 10th wwyork.com Emists G. Fabbri Bon Harber Maine Robert Abbs 13 Wrat 50 the NSW YOU George B- Work Bar Harbor- Maine LB Dary Buctboton nee a H, Lynam Bar Harbor Me As Rodick Thank L Bruwer 4. To George B. Dorr, one cf the above ramed applicants: You are hereby authorized and directed to call at meeting of the above named applicants to be held at the office of Deasy & Lynam, Bar Harbor, Town of Eden, Hancock County, Maine, on the second day of December 1916, at 5 o'clock in the after- noon, for the purpose of organizing and for cll purposés speci- fied in Revised Statutes of Maine, Chapter 57, and amendments thereof and additions thereto. B. E. Clark Justice of the Peace. To the signers of the above application: You are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time and place and for the purpose set forth in the above appli- cation and warrant which are expressly referred to and made & part of this notice. George B. Dorr. 5. We, the undersigned, being all of the signers of the above application, do hereby fix as the time and place for holding said meeting, the office of Deasy & Lynam, Bar Harbor, Town of Eden, Hancock County, Maine, on the second day of December, 1916, at five o'clock in the afternoon. We hereby acknowledge that we and each of us received due, legal and timely notice of the above warrant and we do expressly waive other and further notice. George B. Dorr L. B. Deasy A. H. Lynam L. S. Rodick David O. Rodick Guy E. Torrey Charles F. Paine B3 F9.24 /I/PA Undated DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LANA NATIONAL PARK ACADIA BAR HARBOR. MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT The Delano Wild Gardens stretch from the Spring en- trance road and lawns to include the wooded valley of Trout Brook, which they follow to the Tarn and thence to the Town road, coalescing with the Kane Path entrance from the road. In accordance with Mr. Lynam's desire to keep concise and brief the deed by which the Wild Gardens of Acadia trans- ferred to the United States their right and duty to maintain and develop these Gardens as an exhibit of the native woodland flora, full detail of description of the locus was omitted as not ne cessary and the brook valley as its central feature alone was mentioned. The right and duty transferred by the Wild Gardens of Acadia to the United States is to maintain, develop and extend the foot-path system of these gardens in accordance with the adopted Wild Gardens plan and to create along these paths favorable opportunities for a representative, educational and attractive growth of our native woodland plants, adding to the soil as needed, and maintaining, and in due course of time replacing as replacement shall be required, their piped irri- gation system from the Tarn, which waters also the Museum and Sleur de Monts Spring lawns. Genes B. DAY dvv In seeking gifts of land, the Trustees of Public Reservations have generally held to a policy of acquiring areas which are not fitted for farming use or attractive as cottage sites. This general rule is based on the theory that no land should be withdrawn from taxation which is potentially useful for some income-producing purpose. Upon careful analysis of the practical use of the land the wisdom of this rule would appear to be doubtful. The question is not whether income-producing land should be withdrawn from taxation; it is rather a question of relative values of different uses of land to the community as a whole. The value of the tax return in money direct to the public from private property may be far less than the money, health, and recreational values, direct or indirect, from the Park property. Organizations The Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations was organized in 1901 and incorporated under a special act of the Maine Legislature in 1903 for "social, charitable, and benevolent purposes including the purpose of acquiring, owning, and holding lands and other property in said Hancock County for free public use, and improving the same by laying out and building roads and paths and making other improvements thereon." They hold lands free of taxation. The Corporation, recently added to, now num- bers about eighty members, with membership drawn alike from the permanent and summer residents of the county. Five mem- bers constitute a quorum. Meetings called for business purposes have been held as occa- sion required, frequently at other than the summer period. A large proportion of the members being summer residents, it is desirable that most meetings should be called in summer, in addi- tion to the annual meeting in that season. A change in the by-laws to require a large quorum might be beneficial. The Wild Gardens of Acadia is a corporation founded by WGA Mr. George B. Dorr in 1916 to carry on and perpetuate the work which had resulted in the first acceptance by the United States of lands for Park purpose on Mount Desert Island to establish bird 1916 and other wild life sanctuaries, and plant exhibits; and to pro- mote study of the native coastal fauna, marine and land. Estab- lishment of the Biological Laboratory at Salisbury Cove is due to it, and various researches into the plant, animal and insect life of the region. [9] I expect to be in Cambadie Day until May seventeenth inclusive Wednesday Eag Pa blain March [1916] Wear President Elist, the dear xd au linking to get title taka f the servation Cauds de fact of nelt truly, or lady he the week , On barinus account it is the - pertant to do all Can 1 There are Our or two palter I Want to go Man aid the fall, my givy to be lu Countries for the treft few day, or are you give offth Chance? Please let the have a live to tell the or a telegram if you are giving off - -When I would Come thight af I bash for Sog Mail l Cambridge, Mass. 4 April 1916. Dear Pr. Dorr: We have been back from Permuda A week, end I find myself wondering what has happened during the past three months about the monument, the observatory, the memorial trails, and the book. On inquiry, I am told that you are at it. Desert, so I send this large is question mark, hopding that you here not been altogether absorbed in the work of a Selectman. Very sincerely yours, [c.w.Elrot] George B. Dorr, Esq. rrom une Apru 1910 Bar "I now confirm that the summit of the Mount Harbor Record Desert hills, unique in elevation on our coast, and All looks favorable now for the accom- commanding broadly the entrance to the Bay of plishment of Mr. Fundy and eastern approaches to Penobscot Bay, Dorr's splendid with a government coaling station in its rear and but colossal magnificent landlocked harbor in the upper bay, task in the es- forms a strategic point of great value for the nation tablishment of to possess particularly as a coastal observation a national park station in connection with the operation of lines of upon Mount Des- ert Island. The work information of aeroplanes. and other air craft has been a long one but and of means of defense generally." once achieved it should en- - Brigadier General George P. Scriven dure with the nation and the granite hills, This will have the dis- tinction of being the first national park to be estab- lished in the east, war mon- uments expected. It should lead the way to others, but no other on the continent can ever equal it in its own seacoast type. Mere acceptance by the government, however, should prove but the begin- ning; a new development of many-sided public interest should follow. President Interior Secretary Here is some of the cor- Woodrow Wilson George B. Dorr Franklin Lane respondence Mr. Dorr has given relating to the matter. tive geologic record. present to the United States Bay, with a government Mr. Dorr's Letter And it constitutes the an important tract of land coaling station in its rear to the Secretary of the dominant and characteris- on Mount Desert Island. I and magnificent landlocked Interior tic portion of the first land, have discussed it with Mr. harbor in the upper bay, Washington, D. C. Mount Desert Island, to Dorr and his patriotic proj- forms a strategic point of Sir: be visited and named by ect has my warm approval. great value for the nation On behalf of the Han- Champlain when sailing The setting aside of the land to possess particularly as cock County Trustees of under De Mont's orders as a national monument a coastal observation sta- Public Reservation, State in exploration of the New seems eminently proper tion in connection with the of Maine, I have the honor England coast. and I trust I shall be able to operation of lines of infor- to offer in free gift to the The papers I enclose lay it before you shortly in mation of aeroplanes. and United States, a unique and herewith will explain in a formal shape for your ap- other air craft and of means noble tract of land upon our more detail the thought and proval. of defense generally. eastern seacoast, for the es- purpose of the gift offered, Cordially Yours, I believe that the offer of tablishment of a national with the reasons which have Franklin K. Lane the gift should be accepted. monument. led us to conviction of its ex- Very Truly Yours, The tract offered is rich ceptional public value and General Scriven's Letter to George P. Scriven in historic association, in worthiness to be accepted. Woodrow Wilson Brigadier General scientific interest and in The bound volumes of The President Chmn. Inter-Depart- landscape beauty. Approxi- report upon the deeds by The White House Wash- mental Board for Coastal mately 5000 acres in extent, which the offered lands are ington D.C. Communications it contains within itself the held represent the long la- My dear Mr. President: only heights that imme- bor of one of the most com- Mr. Dorr brought the The study of the title diately front the open sea, petent and well versed legal matter of the proposed deeds for this monument is with mountainous charac- firms in Maine, whose thor- national monument on probably the most monu- ter upon our eastern coast. It oughness of investigation Mount Desert Island. coast mental piece of title search- contains also, owing to past may be relied upon with of Maine, to my attention ing ever undertaken in the glacial action and its own safety, I remain, sir, with re- two years ago when he first State of Maine. It has OC- variously resistant rocky spect, came on to consult the De- cupied the firm of Deasy & structure, an extraordinary Sincerely Yours, partment of the Interior Lynam for over two years variety of topographic fea- George B. Dorr with regard to it. and is embodied in several ture which unites with the I then made the state- bound volumes of types re- climate caused by the sur- Mr. Lane's Letter to Wood- ment to him which I now port, now in the hands of rounding sea to fit it beyond row Wilson confirm that the summit the land office at Washing- any other single location in Washington, .C. of the Mount Desert hills, ton, D.C. the east for shelter, growth May 2, 1916 unique in elevation on our and permanent preserva- My Dear Mr. President, coast, and commanding To Find out more about tion of a wide range of life, I am familiar with Presi- broadly the entrance to the Bar Harbor history visit both plant and animal. It dent Eliot's and Mr. Dorr's Bay of Fundy and eastern www.barharborhistorical. forms a striking an instruc- very interesting plan to approaches to Penobscot org Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 Page 2 of 3 2 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE PUBLIC LANDS 434 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 662 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 434 and H. R 8668 BILLS TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES APRIL 5 AND 6, 1916 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1916 Back to Bibliographic Information I Conservation Home | Highest Resolution Image (TIFF-11K) - Image 1 of 186 Turn to image NEXT IMAGE 1 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=amrvg&fileName=vg05/consrvvg05.db&recNum=... 4/13/2005 Dorr. Pg. I of 3 Don On the ham Sunday D.B. - Dear Presidentral April 1916 I ham had a Shenum but I thank Successful week of it at Washington, Illinory on becaun the accasim Illimed To foomah to lit Jo by Thensday I had My interview Wilson] with the President taken tit by Senator Johnson of mame (Democrat) In Peti r In Hindr (Refushion) - The Privident Ave want 2. / Cridially & listened as it Illined unit interest, looking also at the photograph I took him Y Keeping us longer than las her anticipation The men with 1/in thought the math will presented, 1 lift well Satisfier. But for the When On Can only wait I took th President a letter from Sicy Lane, I Commending th math him Y statuing that In lisbut to find lim 11/ in formal (refer shorthy for his signature - I his huronal letter this also In 3. For of Smithinian from Main Gan Scrivin, luak the Goot Signed Jensen, accepting form the print of vial of observational live , 1 rections admis - asst ficy mattin, ofthe Interior , in Charge him taken the matter Way Warenty uh- - and the Main thing now funs inT for get Our and to the Govt at ma, while things an mornin. I an first ammy in new Tork Ymm as always G.B.D Charles W. Eliot to George B. Dorr Esq. Cambridge, Mass. 15 April 1916. Dear Mr. Dorr: I take it that you sent me the Bar Harbor Record of April 12th, in which I have read with pleasure the report of the Town Meeting which acted favorably on your letter and the general project of increasing the facilities for golf at Bar Harbor. You have evidently made real progress towards the execution of your designs between Bar Harbor itself and the gorge between Picket Mountain and Dry. Is there any progress to report on the monument project, or the observatory project (Mr Kendall's) ? I have not yet received a copy of your book, nor even an announcement of it. Sincerely yours, Charles W. Eliot. George B. Dorr, Esq. par Hacbor Times. 4/8/1918.p7.3. Want Mt. Desurt scene Park." H.C.Trusties. Lead It credits to 6BD toke request that fedual govt. the over " several thoughted MOI acres "ffer preservency franchularly bud life. characteristic New Enford flora and favor, Other active makes: Dr. Eliot. L.B Dearg th late S. Ween lifehell Job S. Kennedy Used "a sever of large photopophic thibs "ta n heardied Dualla photograph on exhibit in Boston lufore movets Wishing C any properties held ae londs around Jooda Pould & Eagle fah which fees BH+SH.weta supply, top of Greault., etc. 17 Fresh Pond Parkway Cambridge 30 April, '16. Dear Mr Dorr: I have just sent you c/o the Cosmos Club the following night letter:- "When you see President Wilson about creating National Monument at Mt. Desert please assure him that as summer resident there for thirty-five years and President Trustees Public Reserva- tions I endorse project in general and in detail, and believe that Monument would be of high permanent value to whole country." The Maine Senator must not adduce political considerations - local or other. We wish you complete success. Sincerely yours, Charles W. Eliot George B. Dorr, Esq. MARBOR 1 IMICS pageloft BOR, MAINE, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1916 THREE GENTS A COPY NUMBER 96 UT GOOD ROADS DAY NATIONAL PARK TO BE MADE OF MT. DESERT HILLS DE 5000 ACRES OFFERED TO UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT day President Wilson Meets George B. Dorr, Senator Johnson and Congressman Peters Relative to Acceptance of Public Reservations-Every Prospect It Will Be Accepted of Dry and Newport ing the village of Seal Har Mountains and 8 strip comprising gift of George B. Cooksey the balk of the chain of mountains York and the site where which form the center of the island de Champlain, the exp of Mount Desert and afford com- saw the mountains of Mt. Dirations of mountain and lake A handsome monument, exentry unsurpassed anywhere in unfinished boulder with the country. tablet, commemorates the the Other tracts include Fawn Pond ery of Mt. Desert by limitees Pablic will and its shores. the gift of Dr. S. this spot which overlooks DATE Bag Harbor Weir Mitchell, the well known sea being the first seen by of President Wilson Meets George B. Dorr, Senator Johnson and Relative to Acceptance of Public Reservations Prospect It Will Be Accepted President Woodrow Wilson was hills of which it is made up. It portions of Dry and Newpert asked on Wednesday of this week comprises a part of the center of Mountains and 8 strip comprising (1) accept, on behalf of the govern- the Island, extending nearly to the bulk of the chain of mountains ment, a tract of 5,000 acres of land Seal Harbor and to Eagle Lake. which form the center of the island on Mt. Desert Island as & national The land is of value chiefly for its of Mount Desert and afford com park and memorial to early settlers. scenic beauty and forests, and will binations of mountain and lish, Senator Johnson and Representa- form a natural park equal to the scenery unsurpassed anywhere 11 tive Peters of Maine with repre- most famous western parks, al- the country. sentatives of the Hancock County though on a smaller scale. The Other tracts include Farm Pond Trustees of Publie Reservations acceptance of this property will and its shores, the gift of Pi. : saw the President on the subject. mean much to Bar Harbor. Weir Mitchell, the well known is rd, to whom 30f veto ,in the Advices from Washington state George B. Dorr, one of the novolist didate. It that the park will probably be ac- members of the board of selectmen 147 ment of Bar cepted. and a member of the corporation, time since Homans A recent issue of THE TIMES con- has been in Washington during the hive You veto power tained an account of the formation past week, and met the president striking of the Hancock County Trustees of to urge the taking over of the park. part of d the young Public Reservations, and the prop- Mr. Dorr's collection of photo- two south rable in the erty acquired from time to time by graphs has been sent to Washing- Mountain and a few bequest or purchase. There is no ton to give the members of Con- ent in town, such reserve in New England, and gress some idea of the beauties of secret, has the property comprises some of the Mt. Desert Island and the land in gold watch, most beautiful spots along the At- question, ung woman lantic coast, including the top of Among the property included O fills to the Green mountain, portions of Dry are the lands around both Eagle ditions pre- mountain, The Bee Hive, and va- lake and Jordans Pond, which The vote is rious others of the hills and peaks furnish the water supply of Bar the members of the island. It opens up a tract Harbor and Seal Harbor, respect ne know the matchless for scenic beauty, and lively; the top of Green mountain blic the last assures the fact that these will al- famed for its beauty, and from graduation. ways be kept for public use. As which can be obtained the finest of the class, a national park it is expected that and most distant view in southern S, are as fol- the reservation will become a place Maine; the Green mountain for the protection of fauna, espec- riage drive, up the side of the alter Francis ially bird life. mountain, affording surpressing ery, Orville The photograph at the head of views all along the way; Picket and Gushee, this column gives an idea of some mountain, a small eminence over EIGHT) of the property, and the chain of looking the village of Bar Harbor; While National parks protect the various fauna of different see 4 f4 tions of the country, there is no place in Northern New England to preserve the characteristic animal life, especially bird life. The in terior of Mt. Desert will form an ideal spot for this. Margaret Lewis, with Mrs. Olive close second. After the business social the gathering descended to dining-room of the Y. W. C. A attractively arranged little table eachefor four and decorated with and white, engaged the attention members. Ice cream, sandwiche olives, candy and coffee were Mrs. Myra S. Holmes and Miss Hodgkins acting as committee freshments. The club voted to continue ings through the spring and months once a month, the session purely social ones, with a numbe picnics and other good times This winter the club has studied history and literature, and the have been instructive and enjoy It was voted to entertain the I Federation next fall, and during th ON PAGE EIGHT lof University Club May 11 2916 Fifth Annue & 3+th Street Dear Preident Elid, Please place you Signature ham - plates, which Dr abb has own min on lach of du Incloud had specially Imposed for the mah this in his fanty, his Conception, and I thing that like its mak itself be has camid it out Why well. I went I lu him tas days ago, and found him laid up in bed unit an attach of gout but green of Widown interest the mah and looking found r much further unhon it, for another year's out feet, during the Coming I delights him by telley him that I had fond the by photograph I got yta him M my Why things New you g the protect help he Washington He How plans to include One of dues unit each coby of the male they be has hm sold fr du Blady artsbewfit (Music find ) at As At's I had a talk Friday with his 2. I have had a long talf. A, unit or Britten bed of the how 4ak Rotance Earden, and found him equally and Shangy interested th Gaiden side you Undutakay, Mady 8 do all becan thich his name on plate as Som as you Conviniently Can, do that he Please Sign nuru t as Abbe (13 that spect) the may go unit - his long ant get tim first r mafer - now already in Washing your Sincerely Genze B. Dear Dan S.B. Cambridge, Mass. - 15 May 1916. [1916] Dear Ur. Dorr: Yourc of May 14th has reached me this morning. Twenty-four hours carlier I got a letter from Dr. Abbe, telling me not to sign the labels he had given you for con- veyance to me. I have sent him today the reply of which a cop! is enclosed. I took it for granted that you would wish: to accede to his wishes about the ultimete form of the 447 lubel. I rn cager to honr whether you reader any impression on President Vilson. Chocolate ^incerely yours, George B. Dorr, Esq. $114 National Geographic Jan. 1917 A GAME COUNTRY WITHOUT RIVAL IN AMERICA The Proposed Mount McKinley National Park 1916 By STEPHEN R. CAPPS, of the U.S. Geological Survey I N THE spring of 1916 a bill was Two parties from the U. S. Geological presented to Congress to establish in Survey were detailed to a part of the Alaska the Mount McKinley Na- proposed park in 1916. We proceeded tional Park. This bill was passed by the into interior Alaska by the usual route Senate during the summer, and its final down Yukon River, and disembarked at enactment into law now requires favor- the new town of Nenana, at which place able action by the House and the Presi- construction on the new government rail- dent. Before this article is published the road is in progress. necessary legislation may have been com- The 55-mile trip over a little-used trail pleted and the dream of this new park up Nenana River was eventful enough. have become a reality: but in any event We had only a badly damaged and leaky every one of us who loves outdoor life boat to cross that swollen and turbulent should realize what a wonderful coun- stream, and for the better part of a day try-a country of impressive mountain the horses refused to swim the icy tor- scenery and big game-we have in that rent. Then, too, in the forested lowlands northern territory, and how seriously the the mosquitos surrounded us in clouds. wild life of that region is menaced. We could protect ourselves with gloves Photograph by J.S. Sterling HAULING LOGS VIA THE "CANINE" ROUTE IN ALASKA 69 Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Harbor K ading County Paper and the Society Journal ot Mt. Desert UtopianDream WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1916 9741(d) NATIONAL PARK THE KENDALL HOME IDEALISTIC DREAM TO COME AN EXQUISITE ITALIAN VILLA AT TRUE BAR HARBOR With Indefatigable. Zeal. Mr. Dorr This Newly Acquired Estate Will Pushes his Project to Perfection Excel in Architecture and Interior After Fifteen Years' Patient Work Furnishings and Decorations The uptopian dream of a national Among the many beautiful and park, on Mount Desert island, written sumptuous summer residences of Bar up at length in the Record a few Harbor none is likely to be more months ago is in a fair away to be- highly esteemed by artists and con- come a delightful reality thanks to noisseurs than the Lyman B. Kendall the persistency of Mr. Dorr the father house on the Corniche road. of the project. It originally belonged to Henry L. Mr. Dorr has been in Washington Eno, but was purchased by Mr. Ken- recently and together with Mr. Peters dall last season. Since then it has and Mr. Johnson, Maine's congress- undergone a process of alteration and men, he had a conference with presi- renovation which has virtually con- dent Wilson who is inclined to look up it into a new house, and that the matter with favor. Mr. Dorr opan almost palatial kind. Mrs. Ken- carried with him a set of wonderful dall, herself a keen and discriminat- photographs which he had had made ing judge of periods and styles in art at his expense showing the beauties of and home decoration, called in the the property. (sic) services of Mr. Frederick Sterner, the History of the Resevation famous New York architect, and with him Mr. H. B. Sherwin, equally well- In 1901 George B. Dorr, Charles W. Eliot, Lea McI. Luquer, Loren Kim- known as an interior decorator, and between them wonderful and ex- ball and E. B. Mears met in Bar Har- bor and formed a corporation to be quisite changes have been made. A veritable Italian character has known as the Hancock County Trus- been imparted to the building itself tees of Public Reservations and whose object should be, according to toth externally and internally, in the articles, to acquire, own and hold keeping with its wonderful site over- looking scenery which might be that lands and other property in Hancock of the Italian Riviera or Adriatic county, for public use. coast. B means of loggias, door- In 1903 the Maine legislature rati- fied and confirmed the incorporation ways, porticoes, cornices, ceilings, marble floors and stairways and and granted additional power3. especial lly one carved ceiling, of All the lands owned by the corpora- considerable antiquity and remark- y tion had to be bought with money able value, and by the utilisation of donated for that purpose or the la 1 given *outright to the body. In 1308 priceless tapestries and brocades it the first tract of land was given to will be possible to imagine oneself in the corporation and each year since an Italian palazzo rather than in a then land and money donations h " Bar Harbor "cottage," as the fashion- come in, until today the body no able euphemism goes on the island. Mrs. Kendall who with Miss Evelyn about 6,000 acres of wild lands, lands which are not suited for farming pur- Biddle of Philadelphia arrived last poses, and consist for the most part Sunday, having motored from New of mountain peaks, one of these be- York, is personally superintending ing the highest on the Atlantic sea- the finishing touches of the artistic board, some forest lands and the and highly paid decorators from Italy, valleys between the mountains, all France, Flanders and other parts of running into one continuous reserva- Europe employed by Messrs. Sterner tion. and Sherwin, and it is hoped that the house will be ready for occupation in 2. The lands include Green Mountain the White Cap Hadlock Valley, The about month's time. Among the lubbles, Sargent's Mountain, Sar many objects of attractiveness with South End, The Triad, Dry which will be furnished will be an Mountain, Little Meadows New pipe organ in the Mall to be port Mountain and extend to the built on the upper floor, with the con Schooner Head Road sole on the ground floor The key- Hill. board can be operated either auto- Other tracts include Fawn Pond matically or by an organist, and it and its shores, the gift of Dr. S. Weir will be one of the finest instruments Mitchell, a tract of 147 acres given that the firm has installed in a pri- by Mrs. Eliza L. Homans of Boston, vate dwelling including Beehive Mountain, one of It is the intention of Mr. and Mrs. the most striking spots on the island, Kendall to entertain largely during and part of the famous Ocean drive; the coming season, and already a the southerly ridge of Newport Moun- considerable house party has been in- tain; Barrs Hill; overlooking the vited. Among the social fixtures Mrs. village of Seal Harbor the gift of Kendall has arranged for an open air George B. Cooksey and the site where performance of a Spanish play, in the de Champlain, the explorer, first saw beautiful grounds, and there will be the mountains of Mt. Desert. A hand- numerous dances and dinner parties. some monument, a huge unfinished boulder with a brass tablet, com- ago to have the government accept memorates the discovery of Mt. this land, but all the titles had not, at Desert by Champlain. that time, been thoroughly examined, The officers of the Hancock County and the officials are reluctant about Trustees of Public Reservations are: accepting land unless the titles are Charles W. Eliot, president; George absolutely without cloud. Since that B. Dorr, first vice president; George time the firm of Deasy & Lynam have S. Melcher, second vice president; A. examined the titles, and made an ab- H. Lynam, secretary; and George L. stract of the entire property, Stebbins, treasurer. The present object of the Hancock Among its members: Charles W. County Trustees of Public Reserva Eliot, Dr. Richard H. Harte, Rev. tions is to turn this entire strip of Francis G. Peabody, Rev. Samuel A. 6,000 acres over to the United States Eliot, George L. Stebbins, George B. Government to be kept as a National Cooksey, Richard Hoe, Edward C. Park, under the Monument Act passed Bodman, Rev. Dr. William T. Man- in 1907 !which provides that the Ad- ning, Rev. William A. Brown, Prof. ministration shall have the right to E. S. Dana, Amos Clement, Prof. set aside stretches of land of great William T. Sedgwick, Frank P. Prich- public intèrest because of their his- ard, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Benja- toric geological, biological, or senic min Arnold, Jacob Diston, Dr. Fred- value, and also provides that such eric Fraley, William W. Frazier, .E. lands may be accepted às gifts. Kimball, William Draper Lewis, John It is planned to have the main en- S. Melcher, Henry Parkman, Joseph trance to the park, when it is taken P. Tunis, W. W. Vaughan, Arnold over by the government, reached by Wood, Lincoln Cromwell, George B. a road or path which will start at the Dorr, E. B. Mears, L. A. Austin, Her- Athletic Park on Main street, where bert Jaques, John C. Livingston, B. it is planned to have a terminal for Ogden, C. B. Pineo, W. J. Schieffelin, nearly every path or mountain climb Dr. J. Madison Taylor, Pres. George on the Island. Other entrances will Harris, Dr. George Phillips, Dr. Rob- be built near the Brunnow estate on ert Abbe, A. H. Lynam, E. B. McLean, the Schooner Head Road, near Eagle Clement B. Newbold, Herbert Satter- Lake, at Seal Harbor and probably lee, Ernesto G. Fabbri, Hon. L. B. at Northeast Harbor. Deasy, L. McI. Luquer, B. E. Clark, Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, Fred C. Lynam, George A. Robbins, Edgar Traction Engines Do Good Work. Scott, C. C. Morrison, Col. Edward Using traction engines for pulling Morrell, John K. Mitchell, Alfred M. down the big trees of the western A Coats, Henry L. Eno, John B. Hender- tralian forests has proved a The government owns son, J. L. Ketterlinus and Philip Liv- plants and last year ingston. off 5,700 acres fr An effort was made about a year ily timber down 9/9/2018 June Meeting, 1916. Gifts to the Society; A Hector St. John Mystery; Letters of Joseph Willard, 1781-1799; Natural Philosophy Societ JUNE MEETING, 1916. T HE Stated Meeting was held on Thursday, the 8th instant, at three o'clock, P. M.; the second VICE-PRESIDENT, Mr. WARREN, in the absence of the PRESIDENT, in the chair. The record of the last meeting was read and approved; and the Librarian reported the list of donors to the Library since the last meeting. The Cabinet-Keeper reported the following gifts: From Edward Gray, a half-tone of a miniature of Samuel Gray (1760-1816) in the possession of Mrs. George Audenried. From George Bucknam Dorr, colored lithographs, sheets I and 2, of "The Defenders of our Union," published by Korff Brothers, New York; and a pen-and-ink sketch of the side-wheel steamer, the Worcester, showing the letters "U.S.M." on her flag. From Mrs. Kingsmill Marrs, a photograph, enlarged from a stereoscopic picture, March, 1872, of Prof. Calvin E. Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Misses Harriet and Eliza Stowe, at Mandarin, Florida; also a bronze Allied Relief Medal, 1916. From Dr. Warren, a photograph of a painting in his possession, made in 1851, showing a view of Boston and the Back Bay looking over the Brookline Reservoir from the summer house of Dr. John C. Warren. The picture bears the initials, not quite definite, "J. W. A. S.," which point to John White Allen Scott, a Boston artist (1815-1907), one of whose views of Boston was engraved in 1854. From Mrs. Henrietta Wise Downes, of Hingham, a Franklin Medal, in silver, awarded by the School Committee of Boston in 1804 to her grandfather, Edward Everett, at the North Grammar School. A section of the beam that supported the rostrum in the Senate Chamber of "Congress Hall," Philadelphia, occupied by Congress, 1790-1800. From Mr. Norcross, a bronze medal of the Sons of the American Revolution, 27th Congress, Newark, N. J., 1916. PDF Help Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society Third Senes. Vol. 49 (oct. 1915- June 1916), 95.411. Explore JSTOR About JSTOR Dictaphone March 29 The name, The Flying Squadron, bears the impress of the time when the Government received the tract, July 8, 1916. It tells of the volunteer group of flyers, the Lafayette Escadrille, who offered their lives to France, before the United States had entered on the World War; and of those who enlisted afterward for service in the Flying Squadron of the nation, all doing dangerous and splendid work in t hat new and untried field. And in my thought it was reminiscent, too, of the flight of the Valkyrie Maiden to the top of a mountain cliff in Wagner's magnificent opera. It was an addition of highest interest to our growing mountain chaim, uniting into a single mass its noblest group of mountains on the island, which were to form the nucleus for the future national park. Its acquisition shows in the first chapter in my story. JML. Dorr Papers. Xfinity Connect Fwd_Elliot letter Printout Jack Russell 5/16/2020 10:38 PM Fwd: Elliot letter To Ron Epp Copy Carolyn Rapkievian Brother Ron, I here forward an inquiry from my dear friend Carolyn Rapkievian, late of the National Museum of the American Indian, who is now - praises be! - the "Acting" Executive Director of the Bar Harbor Historical Society. As you will she, she forwards a note from the BHHS archives from President Eliot to George dated 4/30/1916 wishing him well in a pending appointment with President Wilson re the nearly consummated SdM NM. Eliot writes "The Maine Senator must not adduce political considerations - local or other." Carolyn asks me to illuminate - but, alas, I am dim. Our two Senators at the date of CWE's note were Democrat Charles Fletcher Johnson, who failed re-election that fall, and Republican Edwin C. Burleigh, who died 47 days later. I recall that there were 11th hour issues with cabinet members who said Wilson could not accept/approve the gift of Acadia, but have no clue what Eliot may be referring to in the final sentence of his note to Dorr. Can you help us? Fraternally, Jack Begin forwarded message: From: Carolyn Rapkievian Subject: Fw: Elliot letter Date: May 16, 2020 at 8:46:35 PM EDT To: Jack Russell Hello Jack! I have a political history question for you. The attached letter is in the BHHS collection from Elliot to Dorr, 1916, regarding a visit with Wilson - cautioning Dorr, "The Maine senator must not adduce political considerations - local or other." I have read Dorr's autobiography but don't remember this specific reference. Do you know which senator and exactly what might have been the anticipated issue? Hope all's well, Carolyn n Hi Jack & Caroliyn, May 17, 2020 Thank you for the opportunity to respond to Carolyn Rapkievian's query. I have reviewed my documentation for 1916 to first determine whether there was a progression of discussion about Eliot's political concern. The Eliot Papers at Harvard contain a handwritten letter sent to Dorr at the Cosmos Club two days earlier, virtually identical to the typed copy of April 30th-with the exception that the final sentence "The Maine Senator other" has been added to the typed copy. I suspect that the handwritten copy was never sent. My research did not reveal which Maine Senator. Since Eliot refers to singular "The" rather than the plural, it may be that health information about Senator Burleigh had already come to Eliot's attention, removing him as an active player prior to his death on June 16th. But we do not know that. We do know that on June 2nd Dr. Eliot writes the Hon. David Houston advocating the importance of Dorr's efforts, urging Houston to give Interior Secretary Lane...strong and welcome support." If this be a "political consideration" then Eliot has later practiced what earlier he advised Dorr against. Frankly, in my biography I sidestepped the issue because of a lack of documentation. My belief is that Eliot had no lack of confidence in Dorr's political savvy. As I explained in Creating Acadia National Park, three years earlier with no input from Eliot's Cambridge office, Dorr worked with John A. Peters to defeat a Maine legislative effort to annul the charter of the Hancock County Trustees. The success of that secured Eliot's approval and Dorr was off to Washington to become more facile about the relevant players involved in the monument approval process. The addendum to Eliot's April 28th letter is likely a simple cautionary notation for Dorr to resist any trap that would politicize their efforts! Carolyn, I look forward to meeting you. As Jack and Earl Brechlin know, it was my intention to visit MDI the first week in Maine. Too early yet to determine when such a visit will be safe. Please contact me if you have other concerns. Best wishes, Ronald Epp Plan Vast Network of 100,000 Miles of Strategic Highways Covering Whole of th New York Times 1857; May 28, 1916; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. SM10 Plan Vast Network of 100,000 Miles of Strategic Highways Covering Whole of the United States Complete System of Interconnecting Roads, Including Great Transcontinental Routes, Shown on Map Prepared by National Highways Association in Co-operation with Other Organizations Interested in Improving Country's Lines of Communication---Problem National, Not a Local One HE National High- T M I N 1 Colemas G (3) 9 D o DR 3 9 00 = m 6 My ESP 6 O 3 HIGHWAYS @ AMERICAN KEY Reproduced with permission of the copyright öwner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Charles W. Eliot to Hon. David F. Houston 17 Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge. June 2, 1916. Dear Mr. Houston: I hope very much that you can further with the President the proposal to make large holdings of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations on the island of Mt. Desert into a National Monument. I know that such a matter does not lie strictly within your province; but I cannot but think that you could give Secretary Lane, who is warmly interested in the project strong and welcome support. The undertaking has been slowly developed through many years by a group of summer residents on Mt. Desert of whom I am one. The Island is a unique piece of land. There is nothing approaching it on the Atlantic coast of the United States for dignity and rough beauty. It possesses much historical interest, and also much scientific interest. Its principal hills and valleys ought to be preserved for the instruction and enjoyment of future generations. The advantages of the Island as a health and pleasure resort are so great, that it is sure to be a place of pilgrimage as (June 2, 1916) 2. long as our nation endures. The promoters of this enterprise are disin- terested, and are actuated by public spirit and a desire to conserve beauties and advantages which the Nation can best secure to posterity. So far as I know, there is no opposition to this beneficent undertaking either local or other. It commends itself to every one who studies it. There are no legal or technical difficulties in the way. Please further the project, if you can. Sincerely yours, (signed) Charles W. Eliot Hon. David F. Houston. / SERVICE SYMBOL Message WESTE UNION CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL Day Message ay Letter Blue WESTERNUNION Day Letter Blue Night Message Nite Night Message Nite Night Letter NL BORAM Night Letter NL If none of these three symbols appears after the check (number of TEL If none of these three symbols words this is a day message. 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ALWAYS OPEN. 2. 753 A'1 70 NY 48 NL WASHINGTON DC 27 IR CHARLES W ELIOT CAMBRIDGE MASS 93 THE DEMOCRATIC SENATOR FROM MAINE HAS OFFERED TO TAKE ME TO PRESIDENT FIRST OF COMING WEEK PLEASE WIRE THE PRESIDENT ACCORDINGLY TO MY CARE AT COSMOS CLUB WASHINGTON EARLIEST POSSIBLE AND STATE WARMLY OWN STRONG INTEREST IN OUR UNDERTAKING AND CONVICTION OF ITS WORTH AND PERMANENT PUBLIC VALUE GEORGE B DORR: PHONED TO .30 AT 1217 BY TO BE VANDERBILT FOREST NOW NATIONAL PARK New York Times 1857-Current: Jun 25, 1916; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg.E3 VANDERBILT FOREST NOW NATIONAL PARK More Than 50,000 Acres of Pis- gah Tract at Biltmore Deeded to the Government. SOON TO BE OPEN TO PUBLIC Widow Carries Out Owner's Desire That Great Preserve Be Kept Intact in Natural State. More than 50,000 acres of the late George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore estate near Asheville, N. C., has recently been deeded by his widow to the United States Government for a national park preserve. Mr. Vanderbilt gave the name Pisgah Forest to his great natural estate surrounding Biltmore House, and that has been adopted as the permanent name by the National Forest Reserve Commission, which has direct charge of the property and is now planning to open parts of it to public use, under limitations. The Forest Service will lease plots of not more than five acres for terms not exceeding thirty years to those who may wish to build camps or Summer homes on the former Vanderbilt estate, which in respect to natural beauty is regarded as one of the finest in the Southern States. The rent for these plots will be not less than $10 a year. The acreage granted and the rent will depend upon the site and the extent of the projected improvements. Appli- cation must be made to the United States Forest Supervisor at Asheville, designating the site desired. the acre- age and the estimated cost of the camp or cottage. Applicants are requested to consider accessibility to water supply and means of transportation. High ele- vations along the automobile road built by Mr. Vanderbilt to reach his Biltmore estate will be accessible, and because of the grandeur of the views are naturally expected to be much in demand by prospective settlers; but in selecting these lofty elevations the Forest Super- intendent advises caution in regard to the water supply. Wanted Nation to Own Forest. Mr. Vanderbilt's Pisgah Forest, at the time of his death in March, 1914, was estimated to contain about 120,000 acres. He began buying the property more than twenty-five years ago, paying as little as $3 an acre for several large parcels. He expressed a wish shortly before his death that the Government might become the owner of the greater part of the preserve and offered a tract of 65,000 acres to the Forest Reservation Commission at $5.75 an acre, subject to a contract he had made with the Carr Lumber Company to cut trees of a diameter of more than sixteen inches Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission and for which the company was to pay Mr. Vanderbilt $12 an acre. Another tract of 17,000 acres of virgin timber land was offered to the Government at the same time at $13.75 an acre. In June, 1913, the Commissioners in- spected the property: but much to the disappointment of Mr. Vanderbilt de- clined to buy it. evidently assuming that Mr. Vanderbilt would preserve the tract and that the Government would have the essential advantages of a great natural preserve without cost. After the death of Mr. Vanderbilt new conditions arose. Lumber companies and others made offers to the Vander- bilt estate for large areas at prices con- siderably larger than that made to the Forest Commission. Negotiations were then reopened with Mrs. Vanderbilt; and as she desired to have her husband's wishes carried out. she agreed to sell the greater part of the tract at $5 an acre. The recent deed to the Govern- ment of 50,000 acres marks the com- pletion of the bargain. An additional amount is expected to be transferred by deed to the Government in a few months when some technical details of title are cleared up, and when that is done the Forest Commission will hold the ward- enship under the Government of a tract of 80,398 acres in the heart of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and seventeen miles from Asheville. Area of 125 Square Miles. There is exempted from the sale, as was done in Mr. Vanderbilt's original offer, the 500 acres surrounding the hunting lodge, and 12,000 acres imme- diately connected with Biltmore House. This latest national forest or park which has come into possession of the Government contains about 125 square miles. Its highest site is Mt. Pisgah, which rises 5,757 feet above the sea, and its elevated tableland has an average of not less than 2,400 feet above the sea. Game and fish abound in the forest. IL is estimated that there are 3,000 deer, besides bear, wolves. foxes, racoons, opossums, squirrels, rabbits, quall. tur- key, native pheasants, and the descend- ants of the Chinese and English pheas- ants with which is was stocked years aga The cold water is the native habitat of the speckled or mountain trout, and in the larger streams are the imported rainbow trout. The Forest Service Intends to make the park a game preserve, and later on plans to grant limited hunting and fish- ing, it is indicated. The heart of this wilderness may be reached in a three hours' automobile ride from Asheville, and the greater part of it may be overlooked by a road unsurpassed in scenic attraction. It was built by Mr. Vanderbilt exclusively for use by his automobile in reaching his hunting lodge. Pleturesque Roads. The road extends from the County Macadam, twenty miles from Asheville, and ascends 2,500 feet by steady grade of 3 to 5 per cent., seven miles to the lodge, and then continues ten miles along the ridge. It circles tall peaks, hanging over steep precipices, crests heights a mile in air, and then becomes nearly level for several miles. An extension of this road twelve or fifteen miles to Brevard or Pisgah For- est would connect it with the State road to Asheville, affording a circling eighty- mile ride. The Forest Service is now surveying a road to connect the State road with the automobile road. The Davidson River part of the forest can be reached from Brevard or Pisgah Forest on the Transylvania branch of the Southern Railway. From Pisgah Forest one may ride on a log train fif- teen miles up Davidson and the racing Looking Glass Creek to the Pink Beds- so called because the bloom of a great area of rhododendrons make a vast surface of pink. The Mills River sec- tion can be reached by automobile from Asheville. A Dance for Miss Helen Wilbering. Mrs. Joseph C. Wilbering of Pelham Manor gave a dinner dance last night at the Manor Club for her daughter, Miss Helen Wilbering. Among the guests were the Misses Marie Damon, Dorothy and Bettie Simonson, Bettle Collins, Alys Sinclair. Martha R: Stewart, Jessie Kingsland, Elizabeth Rogers. Frances Mulliken, Katherine Taylor, Emma, Mary. and Louise Pallen. Kittle Keogh. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission 108 915 June 9. 1916. Dear Dr. Eliot:- Your letter of June 3rd is received. at had already heard through other sources about Mr. M. R. Hilford and his work. A recent letter from Mr. Dorr apea B most encouraging ly of the prospects of an early consummation of the project which he has so long been undertaking to carry through, 1 have not seen the Relief Map of Mount Desert, made by Dr. Abbe, but shall hope to do so at Seal Harbor. Looking forward to seeing you there within another month, I am, Very sincerely, President Charles W. Eliot, Capbridge, Massachusetts. The Birth of the National Park Service The Founding Years, 1913-33 Horace M. Albright The Birth of as told to Robert Cahn the National Park Service SadthakeCity: : HoweBrothers, 1985, RACE ALBRIGHT, a twenty-three-year-old second-year law Berkeley, California, bound for Washington, D.C. and a year's to Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane. Almost imme- thrust into the midst of the movement to establish the Service Before long, his name and that of Stephen Mather, Washington a year later, were linked forever with national 111 the mining business, Mather was courted by Secretary the nation's two dozen national parks and monuments; persuaded to "stay for one year" to establish a bureau NEXTFIF IEEN YEARS, Mather and Albright created Service as we know it today: its creed, its mystique, its dure lion for the future. Their truly epic struggle took government and business, as they harnessed the awaken- to the nation's "scenic crown jewels." VICE was actually created by Congress in 1916. lot. but during his long spells of illness and depres- 1,111 the Service. Even at Yellowstone (where he 1919 (2)) Albright was Mather's special field high standard for park administration which is for the modern Park Service. of running Yellowstone, of guiding politicians, through the park, and of helping build the mystique creded Mather as director of the Park Service. had successfully guided the bureaucracy's goals of leadership, professionalism, and the growth of the system to include most of the 111 today, including Zion, Grand Canyon, Hand Teton (whose creation and expansion nion be tween him and John 1). Rockefeller, addition of military and historical parks, truly national it legacy for future Americans continued 8/25/2020 Xfinity Connect George B Dorr National Park Printout RONALD EPP 8/25/2020 9:56 AM George B. Dorr National Park To steve@gsmassoc.org Steve, I found it! Your hunch about Albrght was correct. It is in The Birth of the National Park Service: The Founding Years, 1913-33, page 85: "In my opinion, it could have been named George B. Dorr National Park, for if ever a park was achieved by the inspiration and determination of one man, it was this one." Bear in mind, that this book was published in 1985 when--like Dorr-- Albright reflected on his decades of experience with the establishment of other parks within the system. Many had been championed through individual effort but in Albright's far-ranging experience none rivaled Dorr's achievement. Best, Ron Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 7 Peachtree Terrace Farmington, CT 06032 603-491-1760 eppster2@comcast.net https://connect.xfinity.com/appsuite/v=7.10.3-6.20200722.052513/print.html?print_1598363945260 1/1 Creating the National Park Service The Missing Years (1913 -1919) By Horace M. Albright and Marian Albright Schenck Foreword by Robert M. Utley I University of Oklahoma Press Norman 1994 [350 pages] Page 1 of 2 Form 1201 CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL Day Message WESTED UNION CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL Day Message Day Letter Blue Day Letter Blue Night Message Nite Night Message Nite Night Letter NL Night Letter NL If none of these three symbols TEL ORAM If none of these three symbols appears after the check (number of appears after the check (number of words)this is a day message. Other- words)this isadaymessage. Other- wise Its character is indicated by the symbol appearing after the check. NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT wise character is indicated by the symbol appearing after the check. RECEIVED AT 169 CONGRESS STREET, BOSTON ALWAYS OPEN here 9.B. 4WVN 148 NL WASHINGTON DC JUL 1 1916 DR CHAS W ELIOT CAMBRIDGE MASS PLEASE SEND LETTER IN OWN HAND SOONEST POSSIBLE ON RECEIPT OF THIS TO SERETARY HOUSTON ASKING HIS SUPPORT WITH PRESIDENT FOR MOUNT DESERT MONUMENT ENCLOSE TO ME WITH SPECIAL DELIVERY METROPOLITAN CLUB WASHINGTON FIND HE IS HOLDING PRESIDENT BACK FOR SIGNING DEED THROUGH SENT UP FOR SIGNATURE AND WARMLY URGED BY SECRETARY LANE IN WHOM PROVINCE ONLY THE WHOLE MATTER RESTS OFFICIALLY HOUSTONS ATTITUDE STRONGLY CONDEMNED BY INTERIOR AND PARK DEPTS HAMLITON OF RESERVE BOARD HELPING HEARTILY AND WILL 2. Form 1201 WESTE UNION CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL Day Message Day Letter Blue Night Message Nite L Night Letter NL If n. Lymbols TEL LORAM If none of these three symbols appears into (number of appears after the check (number of words) this is a day message. Other- words)thisisa day message. Other- wise its character is indicated by the wiseits character is indicated by the symbol appearing after the check. NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT symbol appearing after the check. RECEIVED AT 169 CONGRESS STREET, BOSTON ALWAYS OPEN 2ND#4WVN TAKE MATTER UP PERSONALLY WITH HOUSTON ON RETURN TO WASHINGTON NEXT WEDNESDAY SHALL SEND YOUR LETTER BY HIM DO NOT REFER IN IT TO ANY OPPOSITION ON HOUSTON PART BY SIMPLY WRITE STRONG PERSONAL APPEAL ASKING SUPPORT FOR IMPORTANT CONSERVATIONAL ENTERPRISE OF HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC INTEREST IN WHICH YOU SHARE AND TAKE GREAT INTEREST THIS SEEMS LAST OBSTACLE IMPORTANT F TO REMOVE IT PROMPTLY ALL LEGAL DIFFICULTIES NOW CLEARED AWAY GEORGE B DORR 230AM ITS ORIGIN AND BACKGROUND 41 With these papers in hand, I met Senator Johnson by appoint- ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ment the next morning and accompanied him to the entrance of the Executive Chambers at the White House, where I waited while he had his interview with the President. Its Origin and Background When he came out, he said: "I had a good talk with the President! I don't believe he'll GEORGE B. DORR turn us down! I gave him your papers, showing the complete legality of what we ask and that his own use of the Act out west upon more than one occasion had established a clear precedent. Then I said to him, 'Mr. President, I don't want you to turn this down!' He wasn't born yesterday; he knew what I meant!" Still the Proclamation did not come back, nor any word con- cerning it from the President to Secretary Lane. Then, soon after, I chanced to be dining alone one evening at the Metropolitan Club, where, at another table, was a group dining together, amongst whom were Governor Hamlin and Secretary McAdoo of the Treasury, who, separating from the others as they rose to go, came across to my table to greet me. "Mr. Dorr," said Secretary McAdoo, "Governor Hamlin has been telling me what you are planning to create on the Maine coast and I want to tell you that I think it's splendid. If there is anything that I can do to help, I shall be glad to do it." Then he went on to speak of a project for a central heating and power plant for the Government offices in Washington that his department, the Treasury, was at work upon, and that archi- PRINTED BY BURR PRINTING CO. tects the country over were bitterly assailing. He would like, he BANGOR. MAINE said, to get my views on it. So it was arranged that he would call 1942 for me next morning at the Cosmos Club, where I was staying. 42 ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ITS ORIGIN AND BACKGROUND 43 He came in his light, open roadster and we drove out through Departments must, I think, have been at the root of it. But at Potomac Park and along the projected mall of the L'Enfant plan. the moment I was less interested in the cause of it than in how The power plant his engineers had planned was close beyond this it might be overcome. on the edge of the Potomac, where it could be reached alike by Secretary McAdoo had told us that Secretary Houston had rail and water, and it seemed to me then, as it still does, that no based his objections on the ground that he did not believe the Na- better, from all points of view, practical and artistic combined, tional Monuments Act, under which we were proceeding, empow- could have been devised. ered the President to accept our tract and he had stated this in his This I told him when we had looked it all over and then he memorandum, which was how President Wilson came to have that turned to me and said: idea. "Now, what can I do for you?" Governor Hamlin, who was a close neighbor of Secretary "Just one thing," I replied; "find out for me at the White House Houston at Washington and saw him intimately out of office what the difficulty is that President Wilson does not sign our hours, volunteered to take the matter up with him as one in which Proclamation." For Secretary McAdoo, as son-in-law of the Presi- he himself took a personal interest and show him its legality. dent, was in the intimacy of the White House and might be able Accordingly, I provided Governor Hamlin with the same ma- through this to ascertain what others perhaps could not. terial with which I had furnished Senator Johnson for his inter- The next day at noon I was in Governor Hamlin's office in view with the President; and, the thought occurring to me that the Treasury Building, directly opposite the White House, when Secretary Houston might shift his ground to the economic one, I Secretary McAdoo came in on his way back from a meeting of added that if the question of the absence of funds came up, I had the Cabinet and said: myself cared for these lands since I got them and that this I would continue to do, however long it might be, if the Govern- "I've come to reportl" ment accepted, till Congress should see fit to grant us an appro- His report was that Secretary Houston of the Department of priation. Agriculture, who had at that time great influence with the Presi- Governor Hamlin had his talk with Secretary Houston and dent, had submitted a written memorandum in opposition to our showed him, as he told me afterward, through proofs and prece- plan. dents not to be disputed, the complete correctness of our proce- I have never been able to this day to understand why Secre- dure. As I had anticipated, the question of funds did come up and tary Houston should have done this. It was distinctly an act of Governor Hamlin, prepared in advance, was ready to meet it. discourtesy to Secretary Lane in whose province not his - the Secretary Houston then raised the objection that the Government matter lay. Some element of the long antagonism between the two could not accept gratuitous service. This, too, it had occurred to 44 ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ITS ORIGIN AND BACKGROUND 45 me he might do, and Governor Hamlin again was prepared to quote Dear Mr. Secretary: me, and did, to the effect that if the Government should approve I know this does not come within your province, the project I would take over charge of the Monument at the low- but I cannot but feel that you will be interested to cooperate with Mr. Dorr and myself in what we be- est salary paid at that time to anyone in Government service, a lieve to be so much for the public good. dollar a month. Accordingly, when the Monument was finally established I was formally appointed its Custodian at that salary. And he went on to outline, as though new to Secretary Houston, This I received at the end of two years' service from the Treas- what we hoped and planned. urer's office in a single check of twenty-four dollars which I pre- Taking copy of the letter, I mailed it in Washington. Three sented to Mrs. Lane, the Secretary's wife, for her war-time hospital. days after receiving it, Secretary Houston wrote President Wilson, I had but slender hope, however, of Governor Hamlin's suc- in a letter which I later saw, as follows: coss in changing Secretary Houston's point of view; it was a case Dear Mr. President, where prejudice might easily outweigh reason. So, playing my I have changed my view in regard to the pro- trump card, I had telegraphed that morning to President Eliot, to posed reservation on the coast of Maine and now whom I knew Secretary Houston to be indebted for kindness shown think it highly desirable that you accept. him earlier in his academic career at Harvard as professor, telling him in detail what had happened and asking him, ignoring any Very truly, knowledge of it, to write the Secretary in his own hand, not em- David F. Houston. ploying secretary or typist, inviting his cooperation in our en- deavor, which he had much at heart himself as for the public good. Three days after he received this letter, President Wilson 11 was now already late June and not knowing whether or not signed the Proclamation, on July 8th, 1916. President Eliot had left Cambridge for his summer home at North- It had been a trying time; the weather in Washington had east Harbor, I duplicated the telegram, sending it to both ad- turned exceedingly hot, without let-up day or night, and everyone dresses. who could went off for week-ends in the country or trips to the It caught him at Cambridge, I later learnt, just as he was shore. But I had not dared to leave lest something unexpected about to leave for Northeast Harbor. He sat down at once and should turn up. When all was over and I went to bid Senator Johnson good-bye, he said: wrote to Secretary Houston a letter such as I suggested, dispatch- ing it to me to read and mail in Washington. His letter began, "Mr. Dorr, if you had not stuck nothing would have hap- with a dry humor which would be evident only to ourselves: penedl" 8/7/2020 Xfinity Connect D_F_ Houston, Secr of Agriculture Printout RONALD EPP 8/7/2020 12:00 PM D.F. Houston, Secr. of Agriculture To Steve Kemp Hi Steve, I have skimmed David F. Houston's Eight Years with Wilson's Cabinet: 1913 to 1920 (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926), Vol. 1. There is no mention of Dorr, the Trustees, or the Sieur de Monts National Monument. There ism however, the following: 1. on the first page, he references his "three years in the Graduate School of Harvard in government, taxation, banking, international payments, budgets, and industrial history." (2) On pages 2-3 he describes Eliot as a champion of real democracy at the 1892 nomination of Grover Cleveland: "I shall never forget President Eliot as he stood that evening [in 1892 when] I realized what it meant at that time for the President of Harvard to stand forward as the advocate of a Democratic candidate. There was an element of the spectacular in [Eliot's] appearance, and he was most impressive, as he, the leader of learning in America, as noble a figure, perhaps, as American learning has produced, took his position standing as straight as an Indian, with heels together, hands clasped in front, without a gesture, and in rich tones and effective, precise English made his appeal to an audience which listened SO intently that one could almost have heard a pin drop." Later (page 214) Houston references Eliot's (1914?) Atlantic Monthly comments on the suitability for office of Republican Hughes, indicating repeatedly in this volume his esteem throughout for President Eliot. (3) On the issue of the timing of Houston's change of mind, he remarks (page 189) that in 1916 he attended the national conventions of the Republicans in Chicago (6/7-6/10), the Democrats in St. Louis (6/14- 6/16), and the Progressives in Chicago (6/21 - 6/23); importantly, Eliot's June 2 letter to Houston would have reached him immediately prior to https://connect.xfinity.com/appsuite/v=7.10.3-6.20200722.052513/print.html?print_159681608701 1/2 8/7/2020 Xfinity Connect D_F_ Houston, Secr_of Agriculture Printout his departure for Chicago and an absence from D.C. for the next three weeks On one of the Western Union telegrams that I enclosed to you, Dorr on July 1 refers to Houston's return to D.C. "next Wednesday", [the 5th of July] ].when Eliot's letter should be on Houston's desk. Finally, Dorr's July 10th letter to Eliot in Northeast Harbor, notifying him that Pres. Wilson had signed the deed. So we now have an improved chronology of events leading up to Houston's 'conversion' but nothing on paper indicating precisely when or for what reason. With nothing else in the Eliot archives, it is unlikely that Houston wrote back; a telephone call may have settled the matter. What is your slant on all of this? Ron Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 7 Peachtree Terrace Farmington, CT 06032 603-491-1760 eppster2@comcast.net https://connect.xfinity.com/appsuite/v=7.10.3-6.20200722.052513/print.html?print_1596816087076 2/2 Page 1 of 1 PROCLAMATIONS, 1916. 1785 hundred and sixteen, the boundaries of the Washakie National Forest shall become modified and established as shown on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this thirtieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fortieth. WOODBOW WILSON By the President: ROBERT LANSING Secretary of State. Br THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA July 8, 1918. A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the Hancock County Trustees of Public Resorvations, Sieur de Mouts No. tional Monument, Me. State of Maine, did, on the 10th day of June, 1916, pursuant to the Preamble. Act of Congress entitled, "An Act for the Preservation of American Vol. 34, p. 225. Antiquities' approved June 8, 1906, (34 Stat., 225), by their cor- tain deed of conveyance, properly executed in writing and acknowl- edgod, give, grant and convey to the United States of America the fol- lowing described lands at that time held by them in private owner- ship and being located upon Mount Desert Island in the State of Maine, and bounded and particularly described as follows, to wit: Beginning at a largo hemlock tree in the west line of land of Charlee Description. C. Burrill, said tree marking the southwest corner of the Humphrey Stanwood Lot, BO called; thence south six degrees thirty minutes west, but everywhere following the west line of said land of Burrill, one thousand three hundred and thirty-eight feet, more or less, to the southwest corner of said land of Burrill; thenco on same course, south six degrees thirty minutes west, following the west line of land for- merly of John B. and Charles T. How, now of Georgo B. Dorr, four hundred and twelve and five-tenths feet to an iron bolt set in the ledge and a eross cut in the ledge on Kebo Mountain, said bolt mark- ing the southwest corner of said land of Dorr; thence, following the south line of said land of Dorr, south eighty-three degrees thirty minutes cast six hundred and forty-fivo feet to a codar stake driven in the ground; thenco south seven degrees five minutes east five hun- dred and ninety-eight feet to a cedar stake drivén in the ground; thence south fifteen degrees east five hundred and ninety-two and five-tenths feet to & cedar stake driven in the ground; thence south two degrees thirty minutes east four hundred and forty feet; thence south ten degrees east four hundred and ninety-seven feet to a stake and stones; thence south twenty-four degroos thirty minutes east three hundred and fifty-seven feet to a stake driven in the ground; thence south five degrees thirty minutes west one hundred and ninety-four feet to a stake driven in the ground; thence south thirty minutes east six hundred and ninety-two feet to a stake driven in the ground; thence south fifty-two degrees forty-five minutes east to the west side line of the Kane Memorial Path, so-called: thence southerly, but always following the western side line of said Kane Memorial Path, to its intersection with the Ladder Path, so-called; thonce southerly and eastorly, but everywhere following the western and southern side lines of said Ladder Path, to an iron bolt driven in the ground at a point one rod westerly of the western sido line of the Otter Creek Road; therice northerly, but everywhere parallol with http://memory.loc.gov/ll/amrvl/v1472/v1472001.gi 1/4/2005 Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 Page 2 of 3 PROCLAMATIONS, 1916. 1791 hundredths feet; thence south seventy-four degrees thirty minutes Description-00 tinued. west to a point one hundred and fifty feet distant from the shore of Eagle Lake; thence northerly, but everywhere parallel with and ono hundred and fifty feet distant from said shore of Eagle Lake to the southeastern line of land of W. M. Roberts; thence north fifty-two degrees thirty minutes east, but everywhere following the south- easterly line of said land of Roberts one thousand two hundred and seventy and five-tenths feet, more or less, to an iron bolt at a corner of land of the Estate of T. L. Roberts; thence south thirty-seven degrees thirty minutes east, but everywhere following the south- west line of said Roberts Estate and land now or formerly of William H. Puffer one thousand one hundred and fifty-five feet, more or less, to a stone post at the southwest corner of said land of Puffer; thence north fifty-two dogrees thirty minutes east, but always following the southeasterly line of land now or formerly of Puffer et als, being lot No. 56 on said Potors Plan, to the Thomas Wasgatt Lot, so called: thenco south thirty-seven degrees thirty minutes east, following said Wasgatt Lot, to land formerly of the Heira of Benjamin Ash, now of the Rodick Realty Company; thence south two degrees thirty minutes west, but always following said land of the Rodick Realty Company five thousand seven hundred and thirty-five feet to said Brewer- Gilmore Division Line, or Deane Line; thence north forty-five degrees east, always following said land of Rodick Realty Company, et als, three thousand eight hundred and fifty-two and seventy-five one- hundredths feet, more or less, to the hemlock tree, the place of be- ginning, and WHEREAS, the said conveyance has been accepted by the Socro- tary of the Interior in the manner and for the purposes prescribed in said act of Congress, and WHEREAS, the said lands embrace about five thousand acres adjacent to and including the summit of Mount Desert Island, which island was discovered by Samuel de Champlain and upon which he first landed when, acting under the authority of Sieur de Monta, he explored and described the present New England coast, an explora- tion and discovery of great historic interest. The topographic con- figuration, the geology, the fauna and the flora of the island, largely embraced within the limits of the Monument, also, are of great scienti- fic interest, Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United Maine. National Monument, States of America, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested Vol. 34, A 225. by Section 2 of said Act of Congress, do hereby deolare and proclaim that the said lands heroinbefore described and which are located within the irregular tract and fully delineated on the diagram hereto attached and made & part hereof, are hereby reserved and set apart as a National Monument, to be known and recognized as the Sieur de Monta National Monument. Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not Reserved from metics ment, etc. to appropriate, injure, destroy or remove any of the features or objects included within the boundarios of this Monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this 8th day of JULY, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-first. WOODROW WILSON By the President: FRANK L. POLK Acting Secretary of State. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collld=amrvl&fileName=v1472//amrvlv1472.db&recNum=6... 1/4/2005 Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 Page 2 of SIEUR de MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT Mount Desert Island MAINE Embracing the island summit and about Ave thousand acres of adjacent lands - Monument Boundary Aust Berrys Part in Surgeong - Argue Things DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Franklin K. Lane. Secretary GENERAL LAND OFFICE Clay Tallman, Commissioner http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=amrvl&fileName=v1472//amrvlv1472.db&recNum=7...1/4/200 ORIGINAL IDEA IN SIEUR DE MONTS MAP ACCEPTS MONUMENT Remarkable Map at Spring is Work of Dr. Robert Abbe-Geography of Coast in Every Detail With the Presidents Signature Comes Fruition at last to Mr. Dorr's An entirely new and original idea in Gigantic Task map making has just been completed at the big spring near the gorge road. On the front of the bottling house a A telegram has been received from cement panel eight feet square had been Mr. Dorr from Washington, notifying prepared, two years ago, by Mr. Dorr, the selectmen thati the National for a map which would be a suitable guide and an attractive study for visitors monument on Mt. Desert Island was to Mount Desert Island. established by Presidential procla- The task of making this was accepted mation, signed Saturday and made by Dr. Robert Abbe at the invitation of Mr. Dorr. public Monday under the name of Realizing that future visitors would Sieur de Mont National Park, by sec- come by motors, by yacht, or by rail retary Lane of the Interior, who and would find the geography of the coast and of the island confusing-a map states to the press it is the first was designed after much thought, to National Park to be established east include the neighborhood from beyond of the Missisippi. Parks and monu- Bluehill, on the west to beyond Schoodic on the east-and extending northward ments are combined under a single to include Ellsworth, and its large lake head by bill now passing congress. region, and the mysterious and elusive Gouldsboro hills, and great Tunk Pond region. The map shows every motor road, and town within this section, every lake and stream, every path painted in red, light- houses and steamboat routes. Every svailable government and coast survey map was used to make this com- posite picture. It has been artistically and beautifully painted in colors, to represent mountains and all elevated land in high relief on a flat surface-with admirable illusion by the rare skill of Mr. L. W. Tabbut and his son Ralph. The painstaking lettering of every detail will delight and inform not only visitors, but many residents, who think they already know all there is to know about this wonderfully beautiful island- but will find many pleasant surprises from its study. Mr. Egisto Fabbri has supervised the color scheme and added designs which give to the map its force and beauty. Received Asticou, Maine, July 11, 1916. Washington, D. C. July 10, 1916. To Dr. Chas. W. Eliot, Northeast Harbor Received word today that President Wilson had signed deed estab- lishing national monument. Secretary Lane giving publicity as first National Park east of Mississippi and an important step to National Park service. June issue Geographic will have SS pictures. Your letter admirable and brought results. (Signed) George B. Dorr From do 3 HILL Washington, D. C., July 12, 1916. Hon. Franklin K. Lane Secretary of the Interior Washington, D. C. Dear Secretary Lane: The organization of which I write you in my accompanying formal letter is intended to provide an instru- ment for accomplishing certain definite results important to the Mount Desert Monument. Of these the first is the comple- tion of this yet imperfect park upon our coast the only one beside the sea the Nation will ever have perhaps to its best intended boundaries bringing it in chosen places to the ocean edge, which it does not reach at present, and taking in the mountains on either side the Somes Sound fiord. The second is to secure adequate and good approaches to the Monument on the Bar Harbor side especially on which its main approach must always lie and where it has not been possible to connect directly its mountain trac#s with the town roads. The third is to develop it and certain ad- - joining tracts of remarkable fitness for the purpose and making STATE A 2. part of such approach as a biologic reservation, conserving and exhibiting the region's native life in animal and tree and plant, and making it a source of interest and help to students. The plan for the organization has been most carefully studied over by President Eliot and myself, in conference with leading men of science and others, and by our Public Reservations Counsel, at one time president of the State Senate and one of the best lawyers in the East. No responsibility will be assumed by the Department in becoming associated with this enterprise, but it will give it in so doing an important and almost essential of- ficial standing and endorsement in seeking to attain these ends. Sincerely yours, George B. Wast THE A Swimming Club has announced a series Requa of New York are the guests of of special dances. including a prepared- Mrs. William H. Force at Isle Cote. lless bail. a folces ball. a fête-cnam- L. F. Requa and Miss Requal are also pètre, and a black and white ball. In here. addition to the general dancing there Miss Alexandra Emery was hostess will be programs of pantomime and one- at a luncheon party of fourteen. Her act plays. guests included Misses Mary Cass Can- Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., field, Jeannie Emmet, Dorothy Sturges, and family arrived at Eyric. Seal Har- Alessandro Fabbri. A. Eugene Gallatin, bor. this week. Their cottage. to which and H. C. Emmet. Jr. additions have been made, is now the Dr. and Mrs. Robert Le Conte of Phil- largest on the island. adelphia have arrived for the season. Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, with Mr. Cortlandt Palmer of New York will and Mrs. Herbert Lee Satterice and arrive shortly to join Dr. and Mrs. Rob. family. arrived this week on the yacht ert Abbe at Brook End. Corsair. Mrs. Morgan will again occupy Two of the youngest members of the the Jacques cottage. adjoining Great Summer colony daily on the bridle paths Neck. the Satterlee estate. The Satter- are the Misses Anna and Susan B. lee cottage is among the simplest at Stewart Scott, the little daughters of the resort. as it has been the family's Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Scott of Philadel- desire 1.0 preserve natural conditions as phin. The two small daughters of Mr. far as possible. It Is the only cottage and Mrs. Gouverneur Morris are also with a beach and Mr. Satterler has the good riders, and both of them can man- distinction of being the only visitor to age a pair of reins with the assurance take a morning plunge in the cold surf. of grownups. Among the recent arrivals are Mrs. Mrs. Philip McMillan of Detroit is J. Wilmer Biddle and the Misses Marion visiting her mother. Mrs. Nicholas An- and Harriet Biddle of Philadelphia. derson. on Mt. Desert Street. Mrs. William Beekman and Miss Mar- Mr. and Mrs. Larz Anderson of Brook- gretta Beekman of New York have taken line. Mass., who have spent much time possession of the Knoll, Eagle Lake here, are leaving for their ranch in Road. Wyoming. Mr. and Mrs. Lea McI. Luquer of Mr. and Mrn. Frederick Vanderbilt ar- New York have taken possession of rived from New York Tuesday to take their cottage for the season. possession of Four Acres, the Cassatt Mrs. Lucien Carr and Miss Harriet cottage Carr of Boston left for St. Andrews J. M. Waterbury and grandchildren. this week. after spending several weeks the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Gouver- in Bar Harbor. neur Morris. have arrived for the sea- Mrs. Henry F. Dimock has arrived son. Mrs. Morris will join them later. from Washington to spend the season The Hon. Alfred Anson, who has been at her cottage, Elsinore. She passed here on a month's furlough with Mrs. the Winter in South America with her Anson, at The Turrets. sailed yester- daughter. Mrs. Giuseppe Catalani, day to join his regiment in England. whose husband is attached to the Ital- Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gray Griswold ian Embassy. and Miss Mary Cass Canfield. a daugh- Mrs. Thomas De Witt Cuyler of Ha- for of the latter, are here for the Sum- verford, Penn., has joined Mr. Cuyler at mor. their cottage. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ellot of Cam- Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer entertained a bridge. Mass. have located in Asticou dinner party of twenty-six Tuesday BAR HARBOR DOINGS. at Northeast Harbor, evening at Chatwold. Her guests in- Mrs. W O. Sturges and Miss Dorothy cluded the Hon. and Mrs. Alfred Am- Sturges have arrived from New York son, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Le Conte, Mr. Long List of Well-Known People for the season. and Mrs. Edgar Scott. Mr. and Mrs. Among Arrivals. The Rev. and Mrs. Robert Speer of Ernesto Fabbri, and Mr. and Mrs. Leon- New York have been the guests of Mrs. ard Thomas. Special to The Nor York Times. John S. Kennedy at Kenardem. Mr. and Mrs. Ernesto Fabbri gave a Mrs. Victor Cushman of Washington, dinner party at their cottage Sunday who has been visiting her parents, Sen- AR HARBOR, Mr., July 15.-The evening. B ator and Mrs. Foraker, has joined Mr. The Country Club has arranged a se- eighth annual exhibit of the Amer- Cushman at their cottage. ries of dinner dances and trap shooting ican Sweet Pea Association at- Mr. and Mrs. Nils Forman and C. P. contests for the season. tracted many visitors from the Sum- mer colony. It is the first time Bar Harbor has claimed this event. the con- ventions having been held before at Lenox, Newport, Roston. and New York. Warner Mifflin Leeds of New York, President of the Bar Harbor Horticultural Society. made the wel- coming address. Among the Summer visitors offering prizes were Alfred M. Coats, who donated a silver cup and three cash prizes for table decorations of eight covers. and Mrs. John S. Ken- nedy. who gave two cash sums for twelve vases of sweet peas of various varieties. The exhibit will continue to- day. After an absence of two years Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lane Eno and family of New York have returned to Bar Har- bor and are occupying the George B. Dorr cottage. Last season they sold Somoger. their own cottage. to Mr. and Mrs. Lyman B. Kendall. Mr. Eno has always taken an active interest in the affairs of Mount Desert. and with four others was an original stockholder in the Building of Arts. The other four were Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, Mrs. Rob- ert Abbe. the late George Vanderbilt, and George B. Dorr. Under professional direction the TheNew York Times Published: July 16, 1916 Copyright © The New York Times Asticou, Maine 24 July 1916 Dear Mr. Dorr: (1893-1984) when my grand-son Samuel A. Fliot, Jr., who is living with his wife and baby at his father's house here, heard of your National Monument achievement, he wrote out of his own experience on the Island, and with the help of information de- rived from some of his birding colleagues, the enclosed article which seems to me to have merit as a contribution to "publicity" on the general subject. Would it fall into your general pub- licity plans to advise me where the article might advantageously be published! Samuel would like to earn a little money by it if possible. Bould you think it best to add E. sentence either at the beginning or the end of the article describing what the contributory effort of the Wild Garden and Bird Refuge Corporation is to be? As you will see in this article, Samuel has a very large and appropriate vocabulary, and a great love for Mt. Desert. As soon as I begin to see good publicity state- ments in the newspapers 3 propose to move on some of my neighbors here to get some of the hills in the western part of the Island given to the Trustees of Public Reservations. Sincerely yours George B. Dorr, Esq. No. 12 Shares 1 Mt. Desert Golf Association Incorporated Under the Laws of the State of Maine. Capital Stock Par Value, $100,000 $100 per Share. t This Certifies that George B. Dorr of --Bar Harbor is entitled to One Shares of the Capital Stock of the sup, MT. DESERT GOLF ASSOCIATION. Transferable on the books of the Company by assignment endorsed 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, Me., this 31st day of July 1916. Treasurer Cly President THERE IS HEREBY CREATED A SERVICE 101 gressive in 1912, thereafter an "independent") and once a con- CHAPTER IX federate of his in Chicago politico-social reform enterprises. The national-park strategists decided to have Kent, who was a fervent conservationist, introduce a fresh and, while they THERE IS HEREBY CREATED A SERVICE were at it, better-knit park-service bill. Skull sessions took place in Kent's fine house in F Street, at the Cosmos Club, and in Yard's apartment in the Dresden on Connecticut Avenue, a N. favorite setting for park caucuses and soirees. Mather, Kent, OT more than a dozen members of the 63rd Congress Raker, Yard, Marshall, Albright, Enos Mills, Gilbert Grosvenor, could have talked impromptu on the national parks for as long Frederick Law Olmsted, and an American Civic Association as two minutes without drastic digression. The 64th, however, group made up of J. Horace McFarland, Henry A. Barker, and assembling on the first Monday of December 1915, had passed Richard B. Watrous pondered together, and from among them an instructive summer. Many of the gentlemen had visited one a strong and seemly bill emerged... or more parks themselves; others had heard great things from It contained a policy statement contributed mainly by Qlm- friends and constituents, whose travel had more than doubled sted: the purpose of the service was "to conserve the scenery the best previous year in the Western scenic parks; all had and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife of the bumped repeatedly into park propaganda in the newspapers national parks, monuments, and reservations] and to provide and magazines. The time had come, Mather judged, to go all for the enjoyment of same in such manner and by such means out for his bureau. There had been two previous attempts: one as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future in the 62nd Congress in 1912, the other in the 63rd in 1913. win generations." There was no harm in getting a purpose down, Both bills carried the name of the Honorable John E. Raker, even though the only purpose admissible raises more questions Second Congressional District of California (which included than it answers. The squaring of use with preservation has Yosemite), and neither advanced SO far as a committee report. been an endless work of delicate adjustments. Mather found Raker persevered. He had been hearing from the folks back himself over the years acting as a moderator between one frac- home, he informed the House Committee on Public Lands. tion of the parks' friends that wanted the reservations tricked The folks had told him: "Continue, young man, and we will out as luxury vacation resorts and another that wanted them be with you as long as you persist in this good cause." Thus left as close to the entirely primeval as possible. Keeping a assured, he introduced his national-park bill in the 64th Con- healthy balance, he discovered, was a nightmare or worse. He had no formula to fall back on. no scales for weighing out use gress. Politics suggested a new tack. Raker, an inoffensive enough against preservation. The problem was permanent and, with Democrat, was for some obscure reason held in deeper re- travel increasing, aggravative. pugnance than most of his party by the House minority leader, Early in April 1916 the House Public Lands Committee James R. Mann, a Republican representing, coincidentally, heard testimony on the Raker and Kent bills. None of its mem- Mather's own district in Illinois. Mann, on the other hand, bers opposed the idea of a national park service, but Irvine L. liked and admired Congressman William Kent, of the First Lenroot, a watchdog-of-the-treasury Congressman and an old- California District, a non-Democrat (Republican in 1910, Pro- time opponent of national-park spending, satisfied himself that 100 Rohert Shareland Sleve lather of the National Parks (N.Y. Krepf, 1951). NATIONAL PARK FITLY DEDICATED 8/22/1916 The meeting at the Building of Arts on Tuesday, in honor of the Sieur de Monts National Park, was indeed a meeting to be proud of; and George B. Dorr received a real ovation from all present. Dr. Eliot pre- Meeting Held On Tuesday sided with his usual charm and his personality made itself felt at once through the sympathetic audience. An amusing bit of repartee between With Notable Speakers Bishop Lawrence and Dr. Eliot added a delightful touch of humour, and the entire meeting made one feel the atmosphere of good will, friendship, PRES. ELIOT PRESIDES and mutual admiration among the well-known speakers on the stage. Ovation Given George B. Dorr- Telegrams From Governor And President Tuesday afternoon a noteworthy meet- ing was held at the Building of Arts, at which the new Sieur de Monts National Monument was fitly dedicated to its new The public meeting at the Building of Arts on Tuesday afternoon purposes. The call for the meeting was was a wonderful gathering of representative people who assembled to pay sent out by a number of prominent sum- tribute to him who had accomplished such a magnificent magnum opus, mer and permanent residents, and the the establishing of a national park on Mt. Desert Island. With breath- capacity of the building was taxed. The less attention and frequent applause the vast audience listened to the speeches were brief, recounting the his- glowing eulogy paid to George B. Dorr and his grand achievement by tory of the tract, the various acquisitions that master scholar and cultured gentleman, who has been his coadjutor that have been made until the entire in the work from its insception, Charles W. Eliot. Congratulatory tele- tract was secured, making a complete grams were read from Pres. and Mrs. Wilson, Governor Curtis, and and magnificent public pleasure park and others; and Mr. L. B. Deasy gave an interesting resume of the fifteen in a congratulatory vein at this addition years that had been spent in perfecting the Reservation and acquiring to the Government's list of beauty spots. title of the lands. Other speakers were Bishop Lawrence, Dr. A. T. That this is a national park will be a great Meyer, Hon. John E. Bunker, and Mr. Dorr, who was given an ovation. asset for the island of Mt. Desert and this It was an ideal day and the setting for this public demonstration was in fact was forcibly brought out at the perfect harmony with the spirit and intent of its purpose. Sieur de meeting. Monts National Park takes its name from Sieur de Monts, "well be- The gathering was called to order by loved," by Henry IV of France, who granted to him in 1603 the territory Dr. Charles W. Eliot, former president of known as Arcadia, and this nobleman, with Champlain as a pilot, sailed Harvard and president of the Hancock for the west. Sighting this picturesque island he entered in his log book, County Trustees of Public Reservations, "L'isle des Monts Desert." which has brought about the securing of the park. He paid a fine tribute to George B. Dorr, the moving spirit of the organization, which touched a popular chord. A telegram was read from Gov. Curtis, giving his congratulations and the sincere interest of the state. Pres. Eliot public value, and regretting his inability son, now deceased. Mr. Dorr was heard then called upon Secretary of State John to be present in person. with the closest interest and gave some E. Bunker, who spoke in behalf of the The next speaker was Rt. Rev. Wil- of the inner history of the movement liam Lawrence, Bishop of Massachu- which has culminated so successfully. governor, touching upon the cordial good feeling that exists between summer resi- setts, who spoke of the various contri- butions that had been made and the asset dent and native. Hon. L. B. Deasy, who has had much it would be to the island, as well as paying to do with the corporation, told of the eloquent tribute to New England's charms. early history of the trustees, the founda- tion of the organization fifteen years ago, Dr. Albert T. Mayer, director of the the first gift of land in 1908, and the Department of Marine Biology of Carne- gradual accretions that have been made gie Institute of Washington, spoke of the advantages which the park presented for since. A telegram was then read from Pres. scientific study and for the preservation of native flora and fauna. Woodrow Wilson, expressing his interest in the park and his appreciation of its The last speaker and one who received an ovation for his work of years was George B. Dorr, who told of the hopes of the organization and paid tribute to his associates, especially Pres. Eliot and his NARA, CP, R679, NPS,CCF, Acadea. 9407-39. COPY FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD WASHINGTON August 18, 1916. Hon. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, Washington. My dear Mr. Secretary: I spent ten days on Mt. Desert Island recently, see- ing much more of it than I had ever seen before, in fact, I hadn't been there for some fifteen years. I enjoyed particu- larly going over the new monumental reservation which you recently approved and created. I think you and Mr. Mather would feel well repaid to visit it and I am sure you would be impressed with it. I believe the establishment of this reservation is going to awaken interest in the East in reser- vations of wild lands for the establishment of monumental parks, etc. Mt. Desert, as you know, attracts wealthy and in- fluential people from all over the large eastern cities and I think, therefore, that the location of this first park mom- ment in the East will result in attracting a good deal of favor- able attention, and not only lead to the creation of others, but, incidentally, make it easier for you to get the co-operation of eastern Senators and Congressmen in the development and up- keep of these parks. While I was at Mt. Desert I had the pleasure of meet- ing Mr. George B. Dorr, who has given his life and his means to this work, and from him I obtained a more intimate know- ledge of what was being done than I had been able to get alone. As you probably know, he is trying to establish, separate and distinct from the monumental reservation already made, adjoin- ing reservations, which can be used for animal and bird sanctuar- ies, for marine and forest laboratories, wild gardens, biologi- cal laboratories and the like. He is making good headway in getting the aid and co-operation of scientific men, both in and out of the Government service, and wants to establish in connection with it an advisory council which shall include in its number heads of the interested bureaus in Washington, and FDR? the chiefs of some of the scientific societies. I presume you have heard more or less of the matter from Mr. Dorr direct, and I am simply writing to express my belief and that you made no mistake whatever in endorsing and approving the project of the establishment of the park, and I confidently be- lieve that any further aid and encouragement that you can Mr. Dorr will not be misplaced. Yours very truly (Sgd.) F. A. D elan SIEUR DE MONTS PUBLICATIONS 11 Sieur de Monts National Monument ADDRESSES UPON ITS OPENING AUGUST 22 1916 ADDRESSES ADDRESSES BY ON THE ESTABLISHMENT CHARLES W. ELIOT OF THE President Emeritus of Harvard University SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT HON. JOHN E. BUNKER Secretary of the State of Maine PRESIDENT ELIOT HON. L. B. DEASY LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LOVERS OF MT. DESERT: We come together here to celebrate a very important step in RIGHT REV. WILLIAM LAWRENCE, D. D. a long progress-long as we look backward, and longer still Bishop of Massachusetts as we look forward. Some of us have known this Island for many, many years. The first visit I made to it was just GEORGE B. DORR fifty years ago, and I have long been intimate with the Island and its surroundings. Most of us, I suppose, have DR. ALFRED G. MAYER lived here many years, or at least many summers; but the Director of the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie great event we celebrate today-the taking of nearly half the Institution of Washington hills of the Island as a National Monument-has awakened a strong interest also in the Island on the part of single-season DELIVERED AT A MEETING visitors, and those who come here for a few days only-or even for a single day. That is an important new fact; be- HELD AT cause the promoters of the present enterprise are looking for- ward to a large extension of the National Monument which THE BUILDING OF ARTS will greatly add to the interest and attractiveness of this beautiful Atlantic Island at all seasons of the year. The old BAR HARBOR, MAINE lovers of the Island expect to welcome many new lovers. Thursday, August 22 We who have long known the Island know that it is unique on the entire Atlantic coast of the United States, with 1916 nothing even to approach it in varied interest and beauty. Now, the public spirited people who have got together by gift or purchase the lands which constitute today the National Monument have long been hard at work upon the matter-sometimes under discouragements; so they feel that today is a day for rejoicing and mutual congratulation. The labors of years have been brought to a cheerful and hopeful 6 SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT 7 consummation. But these sentiments do not relate to their PORTLAND, MAINE, AUG. 21, 1916. LEURE B. DEASY, own experiences and their own happiness alone. One of the BAR HARBOR, MAINE. greatest satisfactions in doing any sound work for an institu- It is with sincere regret that I am obliged to inform you that tion, a town, or a city, or for the nation is that good work it will be impossible for me to be with you at the noteworthy done for the public lasts, endures through generations; and exercises by which you are to celebrate the establishment of the little bit of work that any individual of the passing gener- the first national park in the state of Maine on the Island of Mt. Desert, to be known as The Sieur de Monts National ation is enabled to do gains through association with such Monument. I am pleased, however, to take advantage of collective activities an immortality of its own. I have been the opportunity afforded by this occasion to extend in behalf accustomed to work for a University-in fact, I worked for of the people and state of Maine to you and your commit- one forty-nine years; but the greatest element of satisfaction tee and to those whose generous acts and earnest efforts have in looking back on that work is the sense that what I was resulted in the realization of a project at once SO admirable and so desirable my most sincere congratulations and hearti- enabled to do, with the help of many others, is going to last- est greetings. as good bricks built into a permanent structure. This is the OAKLEY CURTIS, great satisfaction of all the promoters of the enterprise we Governor. meet today to celebrate. We hope to hear during the meeting something about I have the honor to introduce to you the Hon. John E. the different stages of development of this enterprise. I hope Bunker, Secretary of State for Maine. we shall appreciate before we leave this hall what long-con- tinued service a few m n, and particularly one man, have HON. JOHN E. BUNKER rendered to this community through this work for the preser- vation of the Island's hills, woods, and water-supplies. I LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: We have assembled here this hope we are going to hear what needs to be done in the future summer afternoon for the purpose of formally observing the to the same ends. For example, we must understand that establishment of a great national park by our Federal Gov- other great hills of this Island need to be brought into reser- ernment; but more especially to show our appreciation of the vation, to be held first by the Hancock County Trustees of kindness that has made this occasion possible. We have Public Reservations and then by the Government of the gathered from near and far, not only the residents and sum- United States. And then I hope we are going to hear from mer residents of Mount Desert Island, but visitors from dis- a very competent source of the new interests which are about tant states and foreign climes, that by our presence we may to be developed in the wild life of the Island, in the trees, record our thanks for the generous devotion that has ex- shrubs, mosses and flowers, and in the animals that can pressed itself SO practically in this enduring Monument. thrive here on land or in the sea. This undertaking has a In the absence of His Excellency, I am proud to extend large forward look; and before this meeting closes, I think to you the greetings of the great State I have the honor to there will have been presented to us a picture of what we, the represent today, and to bring you the congratulations of our present enjoyers of the Island, can do for the benefit of Governor. All honor and credit to those whose generosity coming generations. and persevering work have resulted in an accomplishment so great. The story of the founding of Maine's National Park Governor O. C. Curtis has sent the following telegram to will be told to generations yet unborn. May they also learn the Hon. L. B. Deasy: the purpose and gain the spirit of its founders. 8 SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT 9 PRESIDENT ELIOT ton, a member of the earliest group of summer residents upon The next speaker has been identified with the legal work the Island. That same fall, through the initiative of Mr. involved in obtaining the great reservations which until a few Dorr and the gift of Mr. John S. Kennedy of New York, the days ago were in the hands of the Hancock County Trustees summit of the Island-the old hotel tract upon Green of Public Reservations. He knows the history of the enter- Mountain, belonging to the heirs of Daniel Brewer-was prise; he also knows what the meaning of the undertaking has acquired, to pass this summer into the Nation's keeping as been in the minds of those who promoted it. I call on the the highest point upon our eastern coast. Hon. L. B. Deasy. Dry Mountain, Newport and Pickett Mountains, Peme- tic-the only one that still retains an Indian appellation- Jordan, Sargent, and the Bubbles, in whole or in at least their HON. L. B. DEASY summit portions, followed steadily as the seasons passed, with MR. CHAIRMAN: Not forgetting the many who have the gorges and high-lying lakes that they include, till in 1914 rendered valuable assistance, who have made generous dona- an undivided tract, that seemed to Mr. Dorr and President tions of land and gifts of money to buy land, the chief credit Eliot worthy of offering to the Nation, had been secured. for the establishment of this National Park belongs to two Mr. Dorr went to Washington accordingly that spring men. and decided, on the strength of encouragement given him by It owes its inception as a public reservation to the far- the Secretary of the Interior, the Hon. Franklin K. Lane, to sightedness and public spirit of the distinguished chairman of seek its acceptance by the Government under what is known this meeting. as the Monuments Act, passed in 1906 under President It owes its successful accomplishment and ultimate Roosevelt, and widely since then made use of by the Govern- transformation into a National Park to the energy, the per- ment in western portions of the country-this Act being one sistence, the unfailing tact, the consecrated altruism of which authorizes the administration, upon the recommenda- George B. Dorr. tion of the Secretary of the Interior, to set aside by Presi- The movement for the creation of a great public reserva- dential proclamation lands of "historic, pre-historic, or tion on Mt. Desert Island started in 1901, when, at the sug- scientific interest" as National Parks, when previously owned gestion of Dr. Eliot the Hancock County Trustees of Public by it or freely offered to it from a private source. Reservations was organized under the general law. Two Two further years were spent in active work, in extend- years later, in 1903, the organization of this corporation was ing the Park's boundaries and securing its approaches, and confirmed by a special Act of the Maine legislature. The in studying and clearing the land titles of the tract, to bring purposes of the Corporation as stated in this Act were to re- them up to the high standard that the Government requires. ceive, hold, and improve for public use lands in Hancock In early June this year, 1916, Mr. Dorr again returned County which by reason of historic interest, scenic beauty, or to Washington, taking with him all necessary deeds for the any other cause, were suitable for such an object. Government's acceptance, and, aided by the hearty support It was not until 1908, however, eight years before the of Secretary Lane and his Assistant Secretary in charge of proclamation of the National Monument, that the Trustees Parks, Mr. Stephen T. Mather, obtained President Wilson's received their first gift of land, the Bowl and Beehive tract on approval of the Park, the proclamation creating it being Newport Mountain, from Mrs. Charles D. Homans of Bos- signed by him on July 8th. The establishment of this Park guarantees that it will SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT 11 10 SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT toric association with the early exploration of our coast and be perpetually open for the use of the public, not as a matter its attempted occupation by the French. of sufferance but as a matter of right; it guarantees that it We do well, therefore, to celebrate this occasion; we do will be protected against devastation, against commercial well to express our appreciation of the work done by Dr. exploitation; it guarantees that its animal, bird, and plant Eliot and Mr. Dorr, and of the important co-operation of the life shall be conserved, something that could not be accom- Secretary of the Interior and his associates; but let us re- plished under private or even corporate ownership. These member that all these efforts might have come to naught had guarantees are worth far more than the Park has cost. it not been that he who had to render the final decision and This great Park lies midway between Northeast Harbor, do the final act was a man big enough to pause amidst the Seal Harbor and Bar Harbor. It is equally accessible to multitudinous duties and besetting cares of his great office to them all. All have a common interest in it. It reaches out give this matter consideration, and clear-visioned enough to to each of these resorts and binds them together into one perceive its real worth and value. community. But to him who possesses imagination and vision, the PRESIDENT ELIOT opening of this Park has a wider and deeper significance. That these mountains, standing at the very edge of the Con- In evidence of the interest which the President of the tinent, looking out across the ocean far beyond our Country's United States has taken in the cause and object of the meet- domain, should remain in private ownership, bought and sold ing today, I read this telegram from President Wilson: by metes and bounds and used for private gain, is incongru- THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 17, 1916. ous. That they should be held by the Nation in trust for all MR. GEORGE B. DORR, its people is their appropriate destiny. BAR HARBOR, MAINE. The man who lives in the interior of the country has Mrs. Wilson and I warmly appreciate your kind message but very little to remind him of the Federal Government under it is only too evident to me now that the constant demand of which he lives. He has the postage stamp and the income public duties upon my time will prevent our having the pleasure of visiting the new park this summer. tax, but scarcely anything else. But go with me upon the WOODROW WILSON. crest of any one of these hills in the National Park and look seaward; upon every headland a light-house; upon every We are to hear next from Bishop Lawrence, who, I am sunken ledge, a buoy or spindle; the safe road or channel sure, will speak some words of congratulation on the achieve- along the whole coast marked by buoys; and when the fog ment we are this day commemorating; I have a hope that he curtain falls, the Nation does not forget its children upon the will indicate to us also how considerable sums of money for water, but guides them to safety by signals. the carrying on of our project can be raised. It is fitting that the Nation should be given this unique post of vantage, these mountains by the sea from which its BISHOP LAWRENCE most beneficent work may be observed. It is fitting it LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MR. ELIOT: My present should hold them in trust for the public, because of the les- duty is that of congratulation. Whom shall I congratulate? sons they teach of ancient geologic history and Nature's Why ourselves, of course! It is always pleasant to congratu- ways; because of the exceptional variety and interest of the late ourselves on any happiness that comes to us. In the life they shelter, plant and animal; and because of their his- first place, then, please try to recall the thought that came 12 SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT 13 into your mind as you heard of this National Park. Presi- dent Eliot claims, and has the right I think to claim, seniority henceforth can take them from her. To my mind this Park here; but others of us, too, are running close back to fifty is fitted remarkably to be a park for urban people. I feel years ago this summer. But whether we go back a single oppressed by big national parks. Their distances are too year or fifty there is not one of us here who has not some de- great. They do not appeal to one's capacity for achieve- lightful association with this spot. And when we heard the ment. But here we have hills which those accustomed to President had signed that proclamation I think our first im- city life may mount, and walks they may use to gain strength. pression was relief. No one now can come down and spoil Here we have a park naturally formed in its smallness of dis- these lands the Government has taken under its protection. tances, in its quintessence of beauty, to help city-dwelling No fire can sweep through them. We are content in the men to gain new energy for heavy work in winter. thought that they are in the hands of the Government, and, knowing how it has administered other parks, we therefore PRESIDENT ELIOT congratulate ourselves that the Nation has assumed control, Bishop Lawrence certainly has given us a pleasing pic- feeling assured that what it has taken will remain forever ture of the results of the conservation of the Island for our- beautiful. selves, for our descendants, and for the world at large; but it In the second place, may we not congratulate those who apparently slipped his mind to tell us how the money we yet have been instrumental in the creation of the Park? Un- need is to be raised. I take his place on that subject with doubtedly; but that has been so well expressed by Mr. Deasy one item. A lady spoke to me after our meeting in the Union that it is needless to say more. That these mountains should church at Northeast Harbor last Sunday, and said she wished have remained endangered so long when it was clear that to send me a check to be applied to the preservation of this private ownership might claim them is a mystery. That beautiful Island. The next day I got a note from her. more people have not come forward and given of their wealth "Dear Mr. Eliot: to save them is a wonder. Transfer the value of a thousand Enclosedíple my; check to be used, towards the feet in New York City, covered with nothing but steel and preservation of the mountains of this wonderfully beautiful mortar, to one of these mountains, and a large part of it is Island, which we old Northeasters love." bought. How small that sum compared with the happiness I found in the note a check for one thousand dollars. that it will give. Think of the good sense and joy of giving Before I call on the next speaker I venture to correct one as some have given, and of the opportunity that remains to statement in the otherwise entirely accurate remarks of Mr. give as others will give. For we may be confident that this Deasy. He attributed to me the early conception of what Park will not remain bounded with its present lines, but will might be done here for the developing of a noble public park, increase until in time it covers the beautiful parts of the thereby securing for future generations this Island as a great whole Island. health and pleasure resort. He did me more than justice. I feel that we may congratulate Mr. Dorr on having had The conception in my mind was derived from my son, the the privilege of being one to whom the achievement of a great landscape architect, who died in 1897. Moreover, the con- thing has come, and that we may add the thanks and con- ception of a Hancock County Board of Trustees, which has gratulations, too, of future generations. People will gather been applied on this Island, was copied from the Massachu- here from all parts of this country, from all parts of the setts Board of Trustees of Public Reservations which my son world. New England has won these mountains and none not only conceived, but carried into effect. So it is to my 14 SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT 15 son, and not to me, that the merit of the conception belongs. come to see, should be secured. The areas adjoining it that I have, however, had a continuous function with regard are fertile in wild life--exceptional forest tracts, wild orchid to the work of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reser- meadows and natural wild-flower areas of other type, the vations, of which I have been President. This function has pools haunted by water-loving birds, and the deep, well- been one of consultation, advice, encouragement, and now wooded and well-watered valleys that lie between the moun- and then incitement; but this advice, this encouragement has tains-are necessary to include in order to make the Park been addressed to just one person, Mr. George B. Dorr, the what it should be, a sanctuary and protecting home for the principal worker in the enterprise, one great step of which we whole region's plant and animal life, and for the birds that ask are now celebrating. I hope Mr. Dorr will say a few words to its hospitality upon their long migrations. Make it this, and you not only on the nature of the enterprise itself, but on the naturalists will seek it from the whole world over, and from future work which ought to be done for it; because he is not it other men will learn similarly to cherish wild life in other only a man of persistent enthusiasm and devotion to what- places. ever he undertakes for the public good, but also a man of wise The influence of such work, beneficent in every aspect, and far-reaching vision. I present to you Mr. George B. travels far; and many, beholding it, will go hence as mission- Dorr. aries to extend it. We have a wonderful landscape, to deep- en the impression, and, now that the Government has set its GEORGE B. DORR seal of high approval on it, wide publicity will be given to all that we accomplish. MR. CHAIRMAN: By taking the opportunity given us by the richly varied My thought turns forward, rather, to the great opportu- topography of the Island, by its situation on the border be- nity that springs from what is now achieved, than back tween land and sea, by the magnificent beginning made, and toward the past, save for the memory of those I would were the Government's co-operation, we can do something now here to be glad with us at this first stage attained. It is an whose influence will be widely felt. And here I wish to say a opportunity of singular interest, SO to develop and preserve word which falls in singularly well with the thought of the the wild charm and beauty of a spot thus honored by the far-reaching influence this work may have. Nation that future generations may rejoice in them yet more Charles Eliot, Dr. Eliot's older son, was a landscape than we; and SO to conserve, and where there is need restore, architect of rare ability and enthusiasm. Moved by a public the wild life whose native haunt it is that all may find de- spirit that he derived alike from his own nature and the home light in it, and men of science a uniquely interesting field for influences that helped to form him, he initiated in Massachu- study. setts the system of Public Reservations on which our own was For both purposes we need more land, as anyone may modeled. - To him Mt. Desert owes that debt of leadership, see by studying the Park and Reservation bounds on Dr. while he, in turn, might never have been awakened to the Abbe's wonderfully illuminating relief map. We have begun value and importance of such work had it not been for the an important work; we have succeeded until the Nation itself inspiration, the love of nature and the quickened conscious- has taken cognizance of it and joined with us for its ad- ness of beauty, drawn from boyhood summers passed upon it. vancement; let us not stop short of its fulfilment in essential During the early summer, when I was at Washington points. Adequate approaches to the National Monument, working on this matter of the Park's establishment and was which men and women from the country over will henceforth plunged for weeks together in its oppressive heat, it struck SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT 17 16 SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT morning from Professor Francis G. Peabody, who has now me what a splendid and useful thing it would be if we could his summer residence at Northeast Harbor, but who used to provide down here, in a spot SO full of biologic interest and live in Bar Harbor. All through his early married life he was unsolved biologic problems, so rich in various beauty and a resident at Bar Harbor. locked around by a cool northern sea, a summer camp-some simple summer home-for men of science working in the MY DEAR PRESIDENT ELIOT: Government bureaus, in the museums and universities. I am prevented by a cold from attending the meeting at They would come down to work, as Henry Chapman and Bar Harbor today, but wish to express my keen interest in Charles Sedgwick Minot used to do, on a fresh field of life, its purpose. To one who has tramped over these hills almost every bird or plant or animal, and then go back invigorated, ready summer for forty-six years, the assurance that this privilege to do more valuable work the whole winter through in con- is to be secured for all later generations is a peculiar happi- sequence of this climatic boon and stimulating change. ness; and I trust that the obligation laid on residents along the Western shore to guard their mountains and water-sup- This is one opportunity. Another, which is urgent, is to plies may be as obvious and imperative as it has been to their secure now, while it may be done, tracts of special biologic neighbors at Bar Harbor and Seal Harbor. interest not yet secured, irreplaceable if lost in private owner- May I add one personal reflection? Mr. and Mrs. ship or through destruction of their natural conditions,as Charles Dorr were, from my point of view, late comers to Bar well as adequate approaches to the National Park, con- Harbor, having settled there not more than forty years ago; but they were the first to discover the possibilities of the shore venient and scenically worthy of the national possession to for landscape-gardening, and to transform the wild beauty which they lead. Both of these are essentially important at surrounding their hospitable home into a well-ordered and this time. No one who has not made the study of it which I unspoiled park. have can realize how truly wonderful the opportunities are How happy it would now make these devoted parents to which the creation of this Park has opened, alike in wild life know that among the names to be forever associated with the unique loveliness of this Island was that of their beloved son! ways and splendid scenery. To lose by want of action now Cordially yours what will be so precious to the future, whether for the de- FRANCIS G. PEABODY. light of men or as a means to study, would be no less than tragic. Mr. Peabody has in this letter referred to the need of guard- Do not, therefore, look on what has been accomplished ing other mountains-Brown Mountain, Robinson Mountain as other than a first step attained upon a longer way, which and Dog Mountain. should be followed only the more keenly for the national Mr. Dorr spoke to us of another development which co-operation that has been secured, the national recognition ought to take place on this Island-the study of its wild life won. of all sorts, its trees, shrubs and flowers, marine animals and land animals. Such studies add greatly to the interest PRESIDENT ELIOT of such a place as Mount Desert, both for adults and for children; and they afford exquisite delights to the people You see, ladies and gentlemen, that this celebration of an of whom Bishop Lawrence spoke as urban. important step in the progress of a large public work has in- In Mr. Dorr's work to secure these reservations on Mt. evitably brought in the mention of simple domestic loves, of Desert and put them in the hands of the Government he has transmitted affections and dispositions. found need of advice from scientific experts in all branches of I want to read at this stage a letter which I received this 18 SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT 19 natural history. This occasion would have been incomplete unless we had been enabled to hear from one of these scientific of the new National Park, tells me he has noted more than experts. I present to you Dr. Alfred G. Mayer, Director of 140 species of birds during his residence at Bar Harbor, a the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institu- wonderful list for any single area. Fully a hundred of these tion of Washington. are land birds, many of whom will soon become delightfully tame under the Nation's kindly and protecting care. The DR. ALFRED G. MAYER rest are wanderers along the coast and strangely interesting, often, in form and habit. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: The scientific study of this region is singularly rich in There is something essentially American in this gift to interest in many fields, with its fascinating geologic history, the Nation, American in the sense that it must ever remain its glacial scars upon the ancient rocks, its grand fjord, stimulating and constructive in regard to the character of its Somes Sound, its splendid sea-cut cliffs and deep ravines; recipients, never arresting as so often were the gifts of older while the forest, with its "murmuring pines and hemlocks," times. Yet was it an English friend of our land, Smithson- its golden autumn foliage and dark green spruces, its density a lover of freedom and a man of noble dreams-who first and interesting forest floor, is to me in its wild state the most established this modern form of giving in our country, when attractive in the world. he bequeathed to it in his will funds for the establishment of Alone among the nations we possess a coast line extend- the Smithsonian Institution. ing from the pine trees to the palms, from the gray and all but At first men feared the very breadth of possibility it arctic waters of Maine to the sparkling blue sea of Florida's opened; but a great and leading spirit, Joseph Henry, so Gulf Stream. shaped this possibility into definite achievement that today Our Government has, strangely, never established a no other single agency for the advancement of science upon permanent laboratory north of Cape Cod for our fisheries' this continent has succeeded so largely in constructive work benefit, yet no richer or more promising field for biological as the Smithsonian. How fortunate you are, then, in having work exists than that offered by these fruitful northern similarly, as founders of this present enterprise, two other waters, nor a more desirable and practical station for such great and leading spirits-our famous and distinguished work than that offered by the tract of sheltered and deep- chairman, Charles W. Eliot, and his far-sighted associate in watered coast at Mount Desert now dedicated to the mem- this project, George B. Dorr. ory of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell. For it is a project that contemplates far more than its How deeply we need more information respecting our mere gift of land, important though that be. fisheries is all too evident. Why was it that in 1911 our To Natural Science this gift, carried to its completion fishing fleet obtained not more than one quarter of its usual according to the plans now made, should prove inestimable; and expected catch of Cod? Think of the millions that and it is as a naturalist that I must look upon these beautiful might be saved, the loss and misery averted, could we but forests with their soft green moss and clustering ferns, and predict the fisheries catch as we now do the crops on land. on the old gray rocks that bear so rich a growth of lichens. In Norway, where the study of the practical problems of the But it is a meeting ground not of floras only; both the sea has made more headway than with us, they are able even Canadian and Appalachian faunas meet here too, and so to predict in accurate measure the seasonal growth of trees rich in bird life is it that Mr. Henry Lane Eno, ornithologist along the coast, and to determine ahead the earliness or late- ness of the spring by observing the temperature of the neigh- 20 SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT 21 boring ocean waters. Similarly a relation has been dis- covered between the abundance of those floating plants, the contamination by Bar Harbor or other sewage; and your in- diatoms, and the fluctuations of the herring in the North Sea. tended station there, with its well protected anchorage and Many a problem of vital import to our race awaits the ready access to the sea, constitutes a far better site for a solution of these ocean problems, and the science of marine laboratory than any one of those now occupied by our Fish biology, with all the advance that it has made, is yet but in Commission at Woods Hole, Beaufort, or Key West; for, good its infancy. as these sites are in some respects, none of them are imme- Let us hope that the guiding spirit of this foundation, diately adjacent to the pure waters of the open ocean. George B. Dorr, and his wise counsellor, Dr. Eliot, may be The tide-pools are far richer in marine life than those of given opportunity to establish it safely upon this larger basis, Newfoundland and compare favorably with those of East- now that its first and hardest stage has been completed, and port, Maine, before that region became contaminated by to continue the undertaking in like spirit to the past till a sewage. The marked variety, too, in the character of the priceless heritage be secured to future generations, in an en- shore, with its rocky tide-pools, its muddy or gravelly beach- during opportunity for important work in a locality so fa- es, its luxuriant growth of Fucus, Laminaria and other sea vorable. weeds, and the shade of the well-developed sea-caves in the cliffs, are all of them important factors, rendering the site PRESIDENT ELIOT superior to that of Newport in its best days for a Marine Laboratory. The address to which we have just listened contains so The surface "tow" showed that the floating life is that of many points of interest, so much of science and suggestive the cold Shore Current which creeps down our coast from the thought, that we must all hope that we may be enabled to Gulf of St. Lawrence to Cape Cod, and of which a remnant read it. It ought to be printed for wide circulation. even reaches Cape Canaveral in Florida. Now, in August, This congratulatory meeting is now ended. We part the animals are sub-arctic in character, but in the spring and with rejoicing in our hearts at what has been accomplished, early summer I should expect to find many truly arctic forms and I am sure also with strong hope that the good work will maturing rapidly in the warming waters around Bar Harbor. be vigorously carried forward. Curiously, our Government has never established a perma- nent laboratory for the study of the sea north of Cape Cod, yet this region is that of the Cod and Haddock fisheries par The following letter received from Dr. Mayer since the excellence, and, with the exception of the oyster, nearly every meeting is published here as adding, by a fresh expression, great fishery centers off the New England Coast north of to the already great interest of his address. Cape Cod. Thus your intended laboratory on Mt. Desert would meet a long-felt want. Gloucester, Mass., August 28, 1916. With our Country's past history in marine exploration, Dear Mr. Dorr: with such names behind us as Maury, Boche, and the Agas- During my recent stay with you at Oldfarm I was able sizs, father and son, we should not now be content to permit to inspect the shores and to make surface hauls in the waters the little nation of Norway to surpass us; yet this it has done, surrounding Mt. Desert. The tests I made show clearly and able as our men of science are they are powerless in the that the water off Salisbury Cove is practically free from absence of support for such researches. It is a great work, accordingly, that you and the public- 22 SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT spirited men associated with you are contemplating, and I hope if you do establish such a laboratory on Mt. Desert Island in connection with the Sieur de Monts National Mon- ment it will be one worthy of your aim and sufficiently endowed to enable it to conduct research work of interna- tional importance that will bring back once more to our Country the honorable position it once had of leadership in the study of the sea, its physics, its chemistry and its life. I have not spoken of the land, for this may be beyond the scope of the statement you desire from me; but nowhere along our entire coast is there such varied terrestrial environ- ment as is afforded by your abrupt, rocky mountains, post- glacial meadows of peat, your lakes and fjords, and your dense forests of Mt. Desert. A meeting place for both the Canadian and Appalachian faunas, it offers suitable habitats for a remarkable range of animal life. The smallness of the Island, in view of this, is a decided advantage, enabling one to travel readily from one environment to another of a wholly different character. It should afford a remarkable opportunity, also, for experimental plant-acclimatization, and with the co-operation of our Department of Agriculture interesting results should be achieved in this direction. In your gardens even now we find plants from the Carolinas growing by the side of others from Labrador. In the name of science I wish you all success, and shall esteem it a delight to render all service in my power to aid your project for the advance of learning and the appreciation of that rare beauty which is our Country's own. Yours truly, ALFRED G. MAYER. Mr. Dorr's dictation, April 18, referring to Buildin I of Arts and the meeting in celebration of the establishment of the Monument, at building of Arts, on August 22, 1916. When the meeting was over and we had one cut upon the lawn, Mrs. Delano Hitch came to me and said: "What is there that I might do to help? I would like to do something. And I, with my Wild Gardens plan still in mind, said: "If you would really like to do something, the thing I most would like would be to take one of my Wild Garden areas and develop it in a way to tell what I have in mind." And she replied that she would be glad to do it. After some study of the possibilities then within my reach, and with the thought of making Sieur de Monts Spring the center of a Wild Gardens group, I chose the valley that the brock from the Tarn has washed out from the glacial gravel deposit left by the melting ice sheet across the outlet to the Gorge between the steep-cliffed through forming the Gorge mountainsbetweon which, the ice had torn its seaward way. 2. This forms an exceedingly picturesque valley, just suited to the purpose, between the open Tarn above and the Sieur de Monts Spring below.. I described it to Mrs Hitch, who could walic but little and her brother, Mr. Frederick Delano, who was with her at Bar Harbor, went out with me and looked it over. We decided it might take $5,000 in constructive work to shape it for my plan and make a bottom for it of good loam, ready for my Wild Gardens planting, and Mr. Delano said he would not advise his sister to undertake it without putting aside at least as much in endowment for its planting and aftercare. They left so on afterwards and Mrs. Hitch sent me her her check for two thousand dollars which was all I felt I could wisely accept at the time. to commence work on it, which I gradually expended in the years that followed. But new problems relating to the future ownership of the land of which it, the Tarn and the Spring all formed a part, arose and confronted me with difficulties which it took lor 5 to solve with confidence as to t he future. 3. While this was the condition still and I was stru ;ling with the problems that the development of the National Park created, she died and I received a letter some time afterward fro Mr. Delano, askinz if his sister ha made any commitment involving any completion of the plan. I wrote him that there had been no legal commitment at any time, that the delay had been unavoi dable, caused by matters beyond my control but that all had been done that his sister's interest had made possible and that I had added as much more to it myself; that time had only and added to the interest and distinction of it/should he wish as her executor to continue the plan in accor ance with the original design, I should be glad. To this Mr. Delano made no reply. And I have never heard fro him since. There the matter has rested so far as the Delano family is concerned. The vall which I with & difficulty protected from road invasion and other use, makes, even in its present state, a beautiful feature at an increasingly important point within the Park, visited annually by many thousands who come to the Spring and some day what is needed to carry out the original plan will be done by the Government if I and my plans have influence to bring it about. [GBDorr] HUA. CW. Eliot Papers. B95. COMPASS HARBOR COTTAGE BAR HARBOR, MAINE Wea President Elist, Than m Weavy's y or Mayur address up Our I will units at from In memory as com a 5 find the of you Can and year - and all you unds Introduction - over, W for for printing together unit what you Henoraph abh get dam from Rish Laurace's, I will Lu what Can be done thint the whole in form Sample from gh distribution to the Lemon Insidents after the Hand who may Can for it as a and to do it before they thin was when the Leason's clothing - Dorn J. 13. Asticou, Maine 31 August 1916 Dear Mr. Dorr: Here is a partial report of the meeting of You will of course insert the telegram from August 22nd. Covernor Curtis, Mr. Densy's revised speech, the telegram from President Wilson, your own speech, and Dr. Mayer's ad- The report of Bishop Lawrence's speech needs re- dress. vision, as you will see on reading it. I hope you will feel like taking supper with us some night soon; for some matters have been brought to me which need your consideration. Telephone Orrin A. Don- nell, Northeast Harbor 115, when you are coming. Sincerely yours is George B. Dorr, Esq. 42177 Bar Harbor, Maine, September8, 1916. Dear President Eliot: The Trail Committees of the V. I. Societies may, and for the present owing to lack of Government appropriation must, continue their C vestomary work of waring for the trails upon the lands now deeded to the Government. Government ownership assures the permanent freedom of these trails, and ultimately funds to aid at lea st in caring for them can be safely counted on. But even when such are available, it will atill remain desirable -- in my judgment -- that the summer residents upon the Island who use these paths should retain, by cooperation in their up-keep, some measure of control over the then more thorough work that will be possible upon them. The Government certainly will welcome help of such a character, and recognize its value. To have people like the chairmen and other members of the various V. I. A. path committees working with it for the attainment of its purposes of openness and con- servation is a rare opportunity, such as the western parks do not afford and the Government may be relied upon, organized at Washington as it now is by the establishment of the National Parks Service, to take all possible adventage of it. What the Trails Committees ought not to do upon these lands is to lay out new, important trails over them, establishing new routes or making new connections, without due consultation both with the Govern ment's representative an the Island, upon whom the responsibility must ultimately devolve, and with the chairmen of any other V. I. A. Path Committees whose trails might be made to connect with these to make a 2- greater system. The Path Committees should not, also, allow the men in their employ to cut disfiguringly the boughs of trees upon the trails, or gash their bark, which these men, in my experience, naturally tend to do; nor to allow boughs or other brush, cut in keeping the trails open, to remain unburnt longer than burning at a safe time makes necessary; while all burning, on the other hand, should be done with greatest care, to cause no danger and leave no disfigurement behind. The Government rules prohibit strictly, in all its parks, cutting their wood without express authority, gathering their wild flowers, shooting their wild life, destroying the nests of birds, setting traps, and carrying fire arms across them; they prohibit also the build- ing of fires upon them, without special leave and under strict conditions. These, and other similar restrictions tending to the preserva- tion of the Park's wild life, to its beauty and interest and best devel- - opment, the various Path or Trail Committees of the Island should all interest themselves in having carefully observed, and where necessary enforced, upon the Government's lands, with the support of its authority. Yours very truly, [G.BD]] g.13 Asticou, Maine 13 September 1916 Dear Mr. Dorr: I have answered the enclosed letter from Mr. Joseph Allen, and enclose a copy of my answer. If you think my answer incomplete or in any way unsatisfactory, give me the needed cor- rections, and I will write to Nr. Allen again. Some progress appears in the negotiations for Robin- son, Dog, and Flying Mountains; but I think we need to unite those three in one undertaking if possible, or at least to operate sim- ultaneously on Dog and Rc binson. I was mortified when I got home Monday evening to learn that the maid who met you at our door manifested reluctance to give you and your companions something to eat. Her attitude, however, was not entirely unnatural; for our own supper had been over nearly an hour, and the remnants had been put away, and our cook was sick in bed. Please excuse her. Sincerely yours 1717 Mr. George B. Dorr SEASIDE INN, SEAL HARBOR, MAINE. September 18, 1916. George B. Dorr, Esq., My dear Mr. Dorr: Mr. Edward Rand said that I might write to you, though my only excuse is that I have been on the Island for twenty-six years, [1890] and that I am a member of the Path Committee here. I came to the meeting at the Building of Arts when the new Reservation & National Park was explained and hears the very interesting speeches. The point which struck me most forcibly and which I have felt most keenly myself, was that the mountains and forests would be protected from the dangers which which large private ownership often brings. So I with many others, am distressed to learn of the plans for the new road which is to go over the shoulder of Jordan Mountain and around the Amphitheatre. To us this seems the very danger which we had hoped would be averted. We were not happy about the southern end of Jordan stream, Squirrel Brook and Mitchell Hill, which made a large slice of territory to be taken away from the walkers and from those who really love the Island and regret the efforts to make it into a White Mountain or Adirondack Park but of course if a man owns land he may do what he will with it. When it comes to the Govern- ment Reservation it seems to me a very different thing, and I hope you will realize that there is another and very different point of view from *** Mr. Rockefeller's. Will you not consider us also and do not take away from those who have spent the most of their life in summer here, all that they care for; for I suppose that one road will follow another closely if the present plans are followed. I am glad to hear that you do not approve of taking out all the firs and spruces from the side of the road, or of grassy banks which need a lawn mower, or of skinning the bluffs and roads to show the unhappy bare skeletons of what were once mossy cliffs covered with ferns. Will you not consider, before this side of the Island becomes a series of thoroughfares? Thank you for your patience in reading my suggestions and protest. Very truly Yours, Elsie L. Shaw . Miss E. L. Shaw, Seaside Inn, Seal Harbor, Me. Colony Bar Marbor, Enine, September 21, 1916. My dear Miss Shaw: I am glad to have your letter. It expressed well one point of view, and an important one. The aim of this National Park must be to intensify as much as possible the wild beauty of the Island, not to civilize its spirit or destroy the conditions favor- able to its native life. To what extent ronds, if not motor ronds nor wide, will hurt or help is a matter people differ on. To make certain difficult parts of striking scenery accessible to the less strong and active is a gain from the public point of view, if not achieved at the sacrifice of what gives them charm. The problem is to keep this charm and yet serve at the same time the interests of the many, as public property must do. All that I can do to preserve the native character of this primeval landscape, of rock and ocean, of northern forest and interesting under vegetation, I certainly shall do. That such a road, however, as that which I now understand to be intended must of necessity destroy this character, if rightly planned and built, I do not frankly think; if it did, the manner of the use or doing rather than the road itself would seem to me the cause. Openness and wide accessibility without impairment of the beauty of the scenery, of its appeal to the imagination or its scientific interest is the problem that we have to solve. Some compromise may be necessary between these different needs, but I believe that it is possible 80 to work them out that each shall strengthen and sustain the other. Yours sincerely, Bar Harbor, Maine, September 22, 1916. Dear Mr. Allen: Your knowledge of the Penl Marbor trails is founded upon use; mine is not, and my approval of your plans needs exprese sion only become the Government hrs placed me in a position of responsibility in regard to what is done. In the old foot-ways trodrien by a generation's feet and worked over by successive path committees formed of people who have loved to travel them, this first of enstern national parks hns R fenture of extraordinary interest that makes it at its cren- tion older in C human way than the oldest of the Government's great western ones. Yours sincerely, [G.B.DorT] MBER 23. 1916 FIVE CENTS A COPY NUMBER 129 MMR. GLUCE WILD GARDENS Her Hand Bag, Có Ring and Pear BHT OF ACADIA While strolling uring a recent sta J. J., Mme. Alma ( 2-23-1716 New Corporation Formed ontaining jewels V1 To Develop Wild Life 5,000 In a telegram re PAGE / oseph W. Mott, APPLIES FOR CHARTER he Traymore Hote hat he make every nissing gems and of (OL 7 Purposes To Shelter Wild Life Of All Sorts, And To Benefit Forestry or their return SI And Fishing employed detective recovery. An organization having its foundation Mme. Gluck's tel in the same movement which brought if the lost articles f about the Sieur de Monts National Park, 'A small blue le the new government mountain and wild aining cards and m land reservation on the island of Mt. :ompartment; large Desert, a corporation has just been hape, with chains of seed pearls; gold be aone in an organized way to extend formed for the purpose of developing the ing with diamonds, and a diamond and the Christmas cheer to the needy of our wild life of this state, and a portion of the >earl pin." community and to permanently be on the Dominion of Canada. The application One of the pins was presented to the lookout for collecting and placing useful for incorporation has been filed with the inger by Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss. articles where they may be of service. secretary of state, and the corporation Representatives of the churches of the will be known as The Wild Gardens of community were present and many ex Acadia. pressed their desire to co-operate who A number of Bar Harbor's summer FINDS FOR DEFENSE were unable to be present at this gather- residents have become deeply interested ing. in preserving the characteristic New Refuse New Trial In Hancock Co. As a result of the gathering a society England fauna and flora, and not only is Case to be known as the General Welfare the Sieur de Monta National Park one of Society was organized. C. A. Bryant the steps to this end, but a biological The law court Thursday handed down was elected president, Mrs. C. C Ladd laboratory is planned, to have its location 3 rescript in the Hancock county case vice-president, J. Alden Morse treasurer, at Salisbury Cove, at tidewater, for the of the Devereaux Company versus For- and Miss Dow secretary. preservatio of marine life, and to foster rest o. Silsby, sheriff of Hancock county, The purpose of this organization will original research. This will be named overruling the motion of the plaintiff for be to collect useful articles of clothing, after the late Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, the a new trial. etc., and to find worthy parties in our eminent novelist and surgeon. The new The rescript, per curiam, is as follows: community with whom they may be corporation will be along the same THE DEVEREAUX COMPANY placed. Any one who hue articles of, general line#, and its stockholders include VS. clothing, etc., may leave them at the active spirits in the other organizations. FORREST O. SILSBY Y. W. C. A., or if anyone cares to coh. Among the purposes of the corporation, Rescript, Per Curiam. tribute money it will be gladly accepted as set form in its application, are the This is an action on the case in which by the treasurer or any member of the, following "To acquire, by gift, pur- the plaintiff Bues to recover damages finance committee, whose names appear chase, lease or otherwise, real estate for the loss of the steamer Corinna, her later in this article Money will be within the area of the State of Maine, tackle, apparatus and urniture, through needed as some of the needs of our needy draining into Penobscot bay and river, the alleged negligence of Maurice L. citizens will have to be purchased. the Bay of Fundy, and including also Grindle, a deputy of the sheriff appointed The special mission of this society for in the Dominion of Canada, the whole of by the defendant and for whose conduct the present week will be in the securing NovaScotia and New Brunswick; to act the defendant is answerable. The jury and the giving of Christmas presents of a as a forestry and fishery association with- found for the defendant. The plaintiff useful nature to our poorer citizens. in the aforesaid area and operating land moves for a new trial because the verdict These needs are being thoroughly investi- and waters suitable for forestry and is against the law and evidence. gated by a competent committee. fishery for educational ends, for shelter On the fifth day of May, 1915, Maurice The committees appointed at the meet- to wild life and plants of lesser growth, L. Grindle, the deputy of the sheriff, ing Sunday were: The constitution and and for the greater beauty, usefulness and attached the steamer on a writ issued by-laws committee, Miss Hopkins, sec- interests of the tracts so operated." out of the supreme judicial court. On retary of the Y. W. C. A., chairman; The incorporators are George B. Dorr, the twelfth day of September, 1915, the Irving Small and Corydon Richardson. a well-known Bar Harbor summer resi- steamer was accidentally destroyed by Finance committee, Corydon Richardson dent and one of the selectmen of Eden, fire. The two questions of fact that chairman, J. Alden Morse and Mrs. as well as the owner of the Mt. Desert the jury passed upon were, did the officer Phoebe Rodick. Committee on mer- Nurseries; Hon. L. B. Deasy, president use ordinary and reasonable care after chant solicitation, C. B. A. Bryant, of the Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co.; the attachment and prior to the fire, and chairman; Mrs. C. C. Ladd and Mrs. A. Strout Rodick, president of the First since the fire has he done what an ordi- Higgins. This committee will interview National Bank of Bar Harbor; A. H nary, prudent and cautious man should the merchants and find out those who Lynam, End David (). Rodick, Guy E. have done to preserve and care for the will co-operate with this society and give Torrey and Charles F. Paing, town treas- property remaining under water? The to them their odds and ends and leftovers urer. George B. Dorr is president and jury found, under proper instructions. as so the society may place them where treasurer, 11. B. Deasy, vice-president to the care, that it was the duty of the they may be of service to some of the and A. Lynam, secretary. These also deputy to exercise, both before and after needy children of the community form the board of directors he did exercise the care The committee on school solicitation, thisto Local Opinion on the Origins of Acadia National Park Lucy Atkins, Adrianna Beaudette, Peter Jenkins June 5, 2009 College of the Atlanta students Full paper at Thordedike febrary Table of Contents Introduction Methods and Results Discussion Conclusion Appendix A Timeline Appendix B Laws Appendix C Articles Appendix D HCTPR documents Appendix E Interviews and personal communications Conclusion Considering the available evidence that we reviewed, we are fairly certain that there was little to no controversy over the creation of either Sieur de Monts National Monument or Lafayette National Park despite a definite local constituency that opposed the initial acquisition of lands by Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. Perhaps the difficulty we had with finding clear opposition to the founding of Acadia comes from the fact that there was probably a range of opinions then, just as there is now. As Mark Honey reminded us, Mount Desert Island locals, like any group of people, were not of one mind but split into different groups with different desires Some embraced change, and some resisted it; some supported summer residents, and some resented them, Similarly, some current locals adore the Park and praise Dorr, while others refuse to enter the Park because of high entrance fees. 1 TO LINK NATIONAL PARKS BY ONE ROAD New York Times (1857-Current file): Nov 26, 1916: ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg.XX2 TO LINK NATIONAL PARKS BY ONE ROAD Aims of National Park-to-Park Highway Association Approved by Interior Official. Stephen T. Mather, ass'stant to the Secretary of the Interior, is a strong supporter of the plans of the National Park-to-Park Highway Association. In regard to the route chosen and what it will accomplish he says: Every transcontinental highway merges into the park-to-park highway and all become feeders to this the most scenic road in the world. The route tours the Yellowstone, with its strange phenomena, goes through Montana to Glacier Park. with its rich foliage. beau- tiful flowers, and immense glaciers; thence on to the west coast with vari- ous points of interest en route, down 10 Yosemite. with its ancient trees, some of them thirty feet in diameter. on to Los Angeles and into Arizona, to take in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. The Mesa Verda, anc.ent home of the cliff dwellers. a new national park, is a point of Interest, and from there Colorado is traversed. taking in the road to the top of Pike S Peak. the Garden of the Gods, Rocky Mountain National and Estrs Parks, To the Americans and to the Euro- pean in years to come this road will be of compelling interest. and its attract- liveness will bring thousands to spend their Summers along the backbo 10 of the Rock'es and down the Pacific Slope This highway of 3,300 to 4,000 miles annot all be built at once, but by 01 granization and concentration of effort pon it within five years it may become a standard width road. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission. wild Indive garden RECORD OF MEETING OF ORGANIZATION. Under the authority of the foregoing application and warrant and waiver of notice and pursuant to said warrant the applicants assembled at the office of Deasy & Lynam, Bar Harbor, Town of Eden, Hancock County, Maine, on the second day of December, 1916, at five o'clock in the afternoon for the purpose of organization. There were present in person: George B. Dorr, L. B. Deasy, A. H. Lynam, A. S. Rodick, David O. Rodick, Guy E. Torrey and Charles F. Paine, being all of said applicants. George B. Dorr called the meeting to order and on motion therefor George B. Dorr was made temporary chairman and prc- sided. On motion therefor A. H. Lynam was made temporary clerk and duly sworn by L. B. Deasy, Notary Public. On motion therefor the following votes were unanimously adopted: VOTED that original application, waiver of notice and warrant be filed with the Clerk and a copy thereof spread upon these records. VOTED that we proceed to organize as a corporation under Chapter 57 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Maine and acts amendatory thereof and additional ther to. VOTED'tist the name of the corporation shall be "The wild Gardens of Acadia", and that its location and principal office shall be Bar Harbor, Town of Eden, Hancock County, Maine. 2. VOTED that the corporate purposes as stated in the appli- cation be the corporate purposes of the Company. The chairman presented a form of by-laws for the regula- tion and government of the affairs of the company which were read article by article, unanimously adopted and ordered to be inserted at length in the record as follows: BY-LAWS No. 1 - Name. The name of the corporation shall be "The Wild Gardens of Acadia", and its location and principal office shall be Bar Harbor, Town of Eden, Hancock County, Maine. No. 2 - Members. The members of the corporation shall number not less than seven nor more than thirty and may consist of educational or other corporations, associations or institutions as well as individuals. Persons who have signed the articles cf association shall be members. Other members may be added by said incorporators provided the total number shall not exceed thirty. Vacancies in membership caused by death or resignation shall be filled by majority vote of remaining members. Members of this corporation shall not, by reason of such membership or by participation in meetings, incur any liability of any nature. No. III - Directors. All powers of the corporation, except such powers as 3" required by the laws of the State of Maine or by these by-lows to be exercised by the members, shall be vested in anderercised 3. by a board of directors, which said board shall consist of such number, not less than three nor more than thirty, as shall be determined by the members of the corporation at any annual meeting. Individuals may be elected to the board of directors to represent on the board corporate members, notwithstanding such individuals are not members of the corporation. Such directors shall be elected at the meeting of organization by the incorporators and thereafter by the members and shall hold their offices from the time of their election until the next annual meeting and there- after until their successors are elected. No. IV - Officers. The officers of the corporation shall consist of a President, Vice-President, Clerk and Treasurer all of whom shall be chosen by the incorporators at their meeting for organization and thereafter by the board of directors. The President shall be a member of the board of directors. All officers shall hold their offices from the time of their election until the next annual meeting and there- after until their successors are elected. These officers shall have the powers usually belonging to such offices. The offices of President and Treasurer may be held by the same person. No. V - Committees. Committees may be appointed at any time by the President of the corporation. No. VI - Resignations. Any member may resign his membership in the corporation at any time by written notification to the Clerk of the corporation. No. VII - Meetings. The annual meeting of the corporation shall be held at 4. Bar Harbor, Eden, Hancock County, Maine, on the first Monday of August in each year at eleven o'clock in the forenoon at the Jesup Memorial Library or at such other place as the directors may determine. Special meetings of the corporation may be held at any time upon the order of the President or three Directors. It shall be the duty of the Clerk to give notice of the annual meeting and all special meetings by sending to such member, by mail, postage paid, a notice of such meeting at least ten days before the time of holding the same. Such notice shall be directed to each member at his address appearing upon the books of the corporation. If no such address appears, such notices may be directed to Bar Harbor, Maine, or such notices may be given in hand to members ten days at least before the time of holding the meeting. Such notices may be signed by the President or Clerk. All doings of the annual meeting shall be valid notwith- standing no notice is given, but no business shall be tran- sacted at a special meeting of members unless notice is given as aforesaid which notice shall specify all business to be transacted. A meeting of the directors shall be held without notice immediately after the meeting for organization and immediate- ly after each annual meeting of members, at the same place. If all directors are present at any other meeting of directors no notice shall be required, otherwise notice of such meeting shall be given in hand to each director or sent 5 by mail is each director postage prepaid at least three days before such meeting. If sent by mail such notices shall be directed to each director at his address appearing upon the books of the corporation. If no such address appears such notices shall be directed to Bar Harbor, Maine. Such notices may be given either by the President or Clerk. No. VIII - Quorum. Three members of the corporation shall constitute a quorum of members and three directors shill constitute & quorum of directors. No. IX - Proxies Each member shall be entitled to one vote and pay be re- presented by proxy granted not more than thirty days before the meeting. No. X - Contracts. All contracts, deeds and mortgages shall be authorized by vote of the directors and executed on behalf of the corpo- ration by the President or Treasurer, or by any other officer or agent authorized by vote of the directors. No. XI - Secretary of Directors. The Clerk of the corporation shall be ex-officio Secretary of the Board of Directors. No. YII - Amendments. These by-laws may be altered, amended or repealed by two-thrids vote of the entire membership at any unnual meeting and they may be likewise altered, amended or repealed at any special meeting of the members called for the purpose. 6 Upon motion therefor it was unanimously VOTED that the incorporators, all of whom are members, pro- ceed to the election of a Board of Directors, Clerk, President, Vice-President and Treasurer by written ballot. This was ac- cordingly done and the chairman reported that the following persons had been unanimously elected to their respective offices; Directors. George 3. Dorr L. B. Deasy 4. H. Lynam President - George B. Dorr Vice-President - L. B. Deasy Treasurer - George B. Dorr Clerk - A. H. Lynam The Clerk Was duly sworn according to the following original record of his oath: STATE OF MAINE HANCOCK SS. Dec. 2, 1916. Personally appeared A. H. Lynam, and made oath that he would faithfully and impartially perform the duties required of him as Clerk of The Wild Gardens of Acadia, Before me, Vernon G. Wasgatt Notary Public On motion therefor it was unanimously VOTED that the President, Treasurer and E. cajority of of the Directors prepare and verify the certificate of organis tion required by the laws of Maine and cause the some to be recorded and filed in the various offices required by law. A meeting of The Wild Gardens of Acadia was held at the office of Deasy & Lynam, Bar Harbor, Maine, on Saturday, December 16, 1916, at four o'clock in the afternoon, with the President in the chair. A deed, dated December 16, 1916, from George B. Dorr to this corporation, of certain lands near Newport Mountain, was presented and on motion it was VOTED to accept said deed, and it was further VOTED that it is the understanding of this corporation that the gift intended by this conveyance is that of the own- ership of the land undeveloped for the public service and con- servational purposes of the organization of this corporation, and it is further intended to this end that expenditures made in the past in fitting it for such use by the construction of roads and paths by securing water supply, drainage or the like, valuable to the corporation's wild life aims should be regard- ed as an indebtedness of the corporation to be met in the future at such time as funds shall justify it, this being how- ever not a condition subsequent to a continued possession of the tract by the corporation with whom such repayment shall remain for legal purposes a voluntary act. A deed, dated December 16, 1916, from George B. Dorr to this corporation, creating an option on certain land of Mr. Dorr, was presented and upon motion the same was accepted. A deed, dated December 16, 1916, from George B. Dorr to this corporation and the Sieur de Monts Spring Company, creat- 2 ing an option on certain land of Mr. Dorr was presented and upon motion the same was accepted. Indenture, dated December 16, 1916, between George B. Dorr, the Sieur de Monts Spring Company and this corporation, conveying to this corporation the Jesup Path, so called, and indenture, dated December16, 1916, between the Sieur de Monts Spring Company and this corporation, conveying to this corp- oration the Delano Wild Gardans, so-called, were presented and upon motion it was voted that the same be approved and that the President and Treasurer be and the same are hereby author- ized to execute said instruments in behalf of this corpora- tion. The following were duly elected as members of the corporation, to wit: Charles W. Eliot, Henry Lane Eno, Alessandro Fabbri, Robert Abbe, Thomas De Witt Cuyler and George L. Ingraham. ON MOTION it was voted to adjourn. Clerk. 3. We, the undersigned, members of The Wild Gardens of Acadia, hereby waive notice of the meeting whereby the above votes here passed and hereby ratify and confirm said votes and the records of said meeting. REPORTS OF THE VISITING COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS OF HARVARD COLLEGE FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 1915-16 EAT VE R I the TAS CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Published by the University 1916 Digitived Original from INTERNET ARCHIVE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ON FORESTRY JOHN S. AMES, JOHN E. THAYER, FREDERICK L. OLMSTED, GEORGE C. CUTLER, JAMES S. RUSSELL, HENRY JAMES, Jr., FREDERICK J. CAULKINS, WARNER R. BUTLER. TO VISIT THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION CARROLL DUNHAM, WILLIAM H. RUDDICK, WALTER C. BAYLIES, ISAAC S. WHITING, JOHN LOWELL, SIMON FLEXNER, NATHANIEL T. KIDDER, DANIEL W. FIELD, AUGUSTIN H. PARKER, T.J. BOWLKER, GEORGE FABYAN. TO VISIT THE OBSERVATORY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY JOEL H. METCALF, CHARLES F. CHOATE, Jr., GEORGE I. ALDEN, CHARLES R. CROSS, GEORGE R. AGASSIZ, FREDERICK SLOCUM, ELIHU THOMSON, SAMUEL W. McCALL, ERASMUS D. LEAVITT, HERBERT PARKER. TO VISIT THE BLUE HILL METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY GEORGE WIGGLESWORTH, AUGUSTUS HEMENWAY, Mrs. A. LAWRENCE ROTCH, I. TUCKER BURR, WILLIAM CAMERON FORBES, HENRY W. CUNNINGHAM, LIVINGSTON Davis, MORRIS GRAY, WILLIAM M. DAVIS, JOHN WOODBURY. TO VISIT THE BOTANIC GARDEN OLIVER AMES, ARTHUR F. ESTABROOK, EDWIN F. ATKINS, GEORGE B. DORR, ERNEST B. DANE. TO VISIT THE GRAY HERBARIUM NATHANIEL T. KIDDER, JOHN E. THAYER, GEORGE G. KENNEDY, JOSEPH R. LEESON, EMILE F. WILLIAMS, SUSAN MINNS (Miss), WALTER DEANE, Mrs. WILLIAM G. WELD, GEORGE R. WHITE, KATHARINE P. LORING (Miss). TO VISIT THE BOTANICAL MUSEUM WALTER HUNNEWELL, MARY LEE WARE (Miss), ELLIOT C. LEE, WILLIAM POWELL WILSON, DAVID PINGREE, B. PRESTON CLARK, H. CLIFFORD GALLAGHER, STEPHEN P. SHARPLES, Exigitized by ROBERT W. ATKINS. Original from INTERNET ARCHIVE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE LIST OF VISITING COMMITTEES, 1915-16 No. 72. ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY 291 73. FRENCH AND OTHER ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITER- ATURES 297 74. GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY, AND PETROGRAPHY 301 75. LAW SCHOOL 305 76. MUSIC 309 77. ENGLISH 313 78. THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 315 79. THE DENTAL SCHOOL 319 80. THE MEDICAL SCHOOL 321 81. BOTANY 325 82. PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND SOCIAL ETHICS 327 83. INDIC PHILOLOGY 335 84. THE GERMANIC MUSEUM 351 85. THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 353 86. ZOOLOGY 355 87. THE FOGG MUSEUM AND THE DIVISION OF FINE ARTS 357 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 1914-15. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS. Digitized by Original from INTERNET ARCHIVE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS