1917 Dorr Trucktable it 1918 9/18/06.44 - Maillis. Lane visit, stay at adfance T.Rosurlt letter supporty JDRJr. load plan potched $ for S.de Monts Manual -Early Road Septem 5/16 1/8 albright resigns from Pachferezca -S.T. Mather Dir NPS (1917-29) - Giro Commerce appt. Dr. NPS A -Fallow up letter to mother (12/14) -Initial road bddg of GBD's ORFr. after visit. focus in thaning Efforts to protect montains rand GBD's plans 3/18/18 for land argusion. - Parh off clo described Henry L. Eno liter to Lane Mr. Kennedy * Ero. Dark Room. and origin deplained the marning mountains ad E Fubbre fn Den.y NPS. (19/13) (10/20/18) - -smm annual report - Dani lette L Lone (10/29) is park standards (8/26). growth, lad againstines, An Publications, -many Daly letter to H.Albright (11/29)ris train trovelts Bar - naming mt fn 6BD. Robert Abbes Harber and borr's character reasons for sonamaj Dry as Dorr (8/25) - BBO (12/2) to Albrightere -smm annual Report (10/01/17). WCA Building oplans/phatography 1 - Parh Pargia hist (7/17) dBD's translation - Gecha of a national Pack -Eliot to Jr. (2/16) on sale of firew ood. -Name change for Mts - offer Cluffs Radio Station Consestroved (8/28) actu by U.S. Geographic Pard Eliot (812) on Dorri knowledge of MDI -Foulds to Dorr (p) 89f) on -Eliat (11/24) to Jr. n Jesuits' Field carrigg road plans history + acquisition -Hearing in H.R of bill to GBD receive (9/30) letter from his cousin, establish LNP (5/30) T.W. Ward in Sunsillaits Publistrais. - Mathew otcam SMM(6/16 Farrand article on Nat Perfore UDI" in Ngoog Strat. Pranfor SMM- Inept., asp.re GBD,Pp.402f. 10/29/17 Wu Near Dit concerned of Massachusetta is Internated the plant develop ment of its Distu University Man Will Whier its own interest all study form The first National path of Charactu to the last of Colorado and the Hot State of arkausas has been created On the Coast of than Within a Ompto long days fail from Briting a day da heyr Mobi ride II Created by the President and Decretary of the Interest midu them 2 thi monement Act, and named m honor to th founda of Acadia, with whom aucunt bounds of lies, this pass the from de Monti National monument you New for the full that an opportunity to share as is its night III / in the knoft and ox- pluditures of the National park service Well you hot, as a member y the Uppropriative Committe of the Hour interest Years w accuring for this single just apportionment such as has of our National part Cypten a been requested by the Seculary you IV Interior m the National park ap profession for du Insuing you 2 II already hanks third among the Warthin part areas of the Nation in the number of do annual visitors, and, bording as d does when Mu at point of greates beauty a nichly harbored Coast Cothst 10 Capabili of a plaort development that will benefit every lastern section of the Country truly you [G.B. Dorr] Keep! V. important. File: 1917 Chrono. 5/18/18 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRANKLIN K. LANE, SECRETARY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STEPHEN T. MATHER, DIRECTOR NATIONAL MONUMENTS AS WILD-LIFE SANCTUARIES ADDRESS :: :: By T. S. / PALMER Expert in Game Conservation. Biological Survey DELIVERED AT THE NATIONAL PARKS CONFERENCE AT WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 4, 1917 ACE OF THE S Note: 6.B Dorr credits author, T. S. Palmer, with idea of WASHINGTON using Antiquities GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1917 Actors to secure Probation. See pg, 15-20. Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 Page 2 of 3 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRANKLIN K. LANE. Secretary THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STEPHEN T. MATHER. Director PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARKS " CONFERENCE HELD IN THE AUDITORIUM OF THE NEW NATIONAL MUSEUM Washington, D.C., January 2, 3,4,5, and 6, 1917 OF THIS WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1917 Back to Bibliographic Information I Conservation Home Highest Resolution Image (TIFF - 15K) - Full Illustration (.pex - 11K) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=amrvg&fileName=vg29/consrvvg29.db&recNum= 4/13/2005 Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 Page 2 of 3 PROGRAM. TUESDAY, JANUARY 2. Stephen T. Mather, Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, presiding. MORNING SESSION, 9:30. OUR NATIONAL PARKS. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah. Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma. Representative Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin. Representative William Kent of California. Carl Vrooman, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. AFTERNOON SESSION, 2.15. DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL PARKS. Enos Mills: "The national parks for all the people." Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, conservation chairman, General Federation of Women's Clubs: "Women's part in national parks development." Huston Thompson, jr., Assistant Attorney General: "The public and the national parks." Prof. Lowell Jackson Thomas, Princeton University : "Typical develop- ment at Mount Rainier." EVENING SESSION, 8.15. Opening of the first annual exhibition of National Parks paintings in the galleries of the National Museum. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 3. Robert Sterling Yard, presiding: EDUCATIONAL DAY. MORNING SESSION, 9.80. George D. Pratt, conservation commissioner of the State of New York: a Organized out of doors." Prof. E. M. Lehnerts, of the University of Minnesota: "University classes in the national parks." 8 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?colld=amrvg&fileName=vg29/consrvvg29.db&recNum=.. = 4/13/2005 Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 Page 2 of 3 4 PROCEEDINGS NATIONAL PARKS CONFERENCE. Philander P. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education: "Public schools and the national parks." J. Horace McFarland, president American Civic Association: "Economic destiny of the national parks." AFTERNOON SESSION, 2.15. Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary Smithsonian Institution: "National parks as a scientific asset." Arthur E. Bestor, president Chautauqua Institution: "Organized popular education." Herbert Quick, member of Federal Farm Loan Board The author and the national parks." Gilbert H. Grosvenor, editor National Georgraphic Magazine: "Teaching by picture." William H. Holmes, bead curator. National Gallery of Art: "The painter and the national parks." Rev. Charles W. Gilkey, of Chicago: "Spiritual uplift of scenery in na- tional parks and the Grand Canyon." EVENING SESSION, 8.15. Illustrated lecture by Herbert W. Gleason. THURSDAY, JANUARY 4. MORNING SESSION. 9.30. Enos Mills, presiding: RECRRATIONAL USE OF THE NATIONAL PARKS. W. A. Welch. chief engineer Palisades Inter-state Park: "The making of a recreational park." J. W. Barber: as Winter sports in the national parks." Mrs. Ada F. Chalmers : is Family hiking in the national parks." Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Commissioner of Fisheries: "Fish and fishing in the national parks." Marion Randall Parsons, Sierra Club: "Living in the national parks." AFTERNOON SESSION, 2.15.. John B. Burnham, president American Game Protective and Propagation Society, presiding: WILD ANIMAL LIFE IN THE NATIONAL PARKS. Henry S. Graves, forester and chief. Forest Service: "National forests and national parks in wild life conservation." Charles Sheldon, chairman game preservation committee. Boone and Crockett Club: "Mount McKinley," E. W. Nelson, Chief of Bureau of Biological Survey "The Yellowstone and the game supply." Back to Bibliographic Information Conservation Home | Highest Resolution Image (TIFF - 32K) - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=amrvg&fileName=vg29/consrvvg29.db&recNum=... 4/13/2005 Evolution OF the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 Page 2 of 3 PROCEEDINGS NATIONAL PARKS CONFERENCE. 5 E. Lester Jones. Superintendent Coust and Geodetic Survey "Future of the antelope." T. S. Palmer, assistant in charge of game preservation. Bureau of Biological Survey: National monuments as wild animal sanctuaries." Belmore Brown, Camp Fire Club: "Climbing Mount McKinley." EVENING SESSION, 8.15. Illustrated Lecture on Mount McKibley by Stephen R. Capps, Geologist, United States Geological Survey. FRIDAY, JANUARY 5. MORNING SESSION, 9.30. Stephen T. Mather. Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, Presiding. THE QUESTION BOX. J. B. Harkin, commissioner of Dominion parks, Department of the Interior, Canada : Canadian national parks," AFTERNOON SESSION, 2.15. Dr. H. M. Rowe, president American Automobile Association, presiding: MOTOR TRAVEL TO THE PARKS. George C. Diehl, chairman A. A. A. Good Roads Board: "Touring, a by- product of roads building; or roads building, a by-product of touring." Cortlandt Field Bishop: "American versus European scente assets." Orville Wright: "Air routes to the national parks." A. W. Seaman, Long Island Automobile Club: Transcontinental touring equipment." Frank A, Davis. secretary-treasurer National Old Road Trails: "Sign post- lug the highways and byways." David G. Joyce, chairman A. A. A. Touring Board.: "Multiplication of American road travel." EVENING SESSION. 8.15. Illustrated lectures by H. H. Hays and Judge WIII G. Steel. SATURDAY, JANUARY 6. Stephen T. Mather. Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, presiding. MORNING SESSION, 9.30. THE GRAND CANYON. Representative Simeon D. Fess, of Ohto : "Colossus of canyons." Dr. George Otis Smith, Director U. S. Geological Survey : "The Survey's contribution to the national park movement," Back to Bibliographic Information Conservation Home Highest Resolution Image (TIFF - 30K) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=amrvg&fileName=vg29/consrvvg29.db&recNum=.. 4/13/2005 Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 Page 2 of 3 6 PROCEEDINGS NATIONAL PARKS CONFERENCE. Ford Harvey : "The public and the Grand Canyon." Charles Sheldon, chairman game preservation committee Boone and Crockett Club: ** Glories of the Cataract Canyon." L. Claude Way: "Practical problems." AFTERNOON SESSION, 2.15. THE GREATER SEQUOIA. Representative Frederick H. Gillett of Massachusetts: "The problem of the Greater Sequoia." E. O. McCormick, vice president Southern Pacific Co.: "National parks and the railroads." Euos Mills: "Perhaps our greatest national park." Emerson Hough: "The top of America-Mount Whitney." Robert Sterling Yard : "The Tehipite Valley and Kings Canyon," EVENING SESSION, 8.15. Bear stories by Enos Mills. Illustrated lecture by Dr. Harry O. Relk. Back to Bibliographic Information Conservation Home | Highest Resolution Image (TIFF - 13K) - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=amrvg&fileName=vg29/consrvvg29.db&recNum=... = 4/13/2005 Vol. 531, Page 470. Indenture. Dated Dec. 16, 1916 Recorded Jan 30, 1917. Sieur de Monts Spring Company and The Wild Gardens Acadia. In perpetuity, the right to maintain, protect and control as a wild garden of the Acadian region, under the name of the Delano Wild Gardens, a tract of land owned by said Spring Company situated near Bar Harbor, in the Town of Eden, Hancock County, Ma ine , bounded generally as follows: The said tract consists of the valley of Trout Brook lying between Sieur de Monts Tarn and the brook's crossing of Sieur de Monts Spring road, together with its entire drainage area upon either side, so far as owned by the Spring Company, and so far as the same lies between the County Road, the Tarn and the Spring Road. Provided, however, that said tract shall meet but not extend across the foot of the path leading to the Sieur de Monts National Monument at the foot of the Tarn and shall border the County Road from the northern entrance of the round turn encircling the summit of the Tarn's barrier moraine to the entrance of the Sieur de Monts Spring Road, and shall border the Spring Road thence to its crossing of Trout Brook. Reserving, however, to the Spring Company, its successors and assigns, the right to enter unon any or all of such land, to maintain water pipes and paths across the same, to name such paths, to establish regulations for their proper use, to post such regulations or other directions upon the land From the February, 1917, Bar Harbor Times Pg N early the last steps are completed in the sale to the Han- cock County Trustees of Public Reservations, the corporation which made possible the acquisition by the Federal Government of the wonderful news Sieur de Monts National Park, of the greater part of Robinson Mountain, on the west side of Somes Sound. While this tract is separated some dis- tance from the rest of the reservation, it is a further development of the reserve ISLANDER PHOTO BY EARL BRECHLIN idea, which aims to preserve Mount Desert Island's most Acadia Mountain in a view from Beech Mountain. Before the land was beautiful and grandest bits taken over by Acadia National Park, the mountain's name was Robinson. of scenery for the public use forever. The acquiring of a few more scattered interests pened on its shores. Here of feet. Now and then ap- disturb the almost enchant- and the formal permission occurred one of the first pears a little cove or beach, ed quiet of the picturesque to sell in case of one or two clashes between French and and dotted here and there spot. In the olden days it was heirs under guardianship English for possession of are a few white farmhouses a favorite spot for travelers by the Probate Court, is the New World, here was nestling near the water or and tourists, but the tide of about the last step required. the first French settlement perched high on the hill- summer travel has passed A number of interests in on Mount Desert, and one sides. The entrance is shut away from its shores to the mountain land on the west- of the earliest in this coun- in by islands, and is almost more fashionable resorts of ern part of the island, owned try; and it is particularly invisible from the ocean till Bar Harbor and Northeast by Southwest Harbor par- fitting that this tract should a short distance from it. On Harbor on the more eastern ties, have recently been ac- pass into public domain, either side the mountains side of the island. quired. to be enjoyed by all people, overhang the water which is The Sound opens be- Robinson Mountain is no matter what changes in at times still as glass and at tween the two prosperous only 700 feet in height, but ownership may hereafter others rippled by a sudden resorts of Northeast and it appears, from its con- occur on this island. breeze of the mountains. Southwest Harbors. Half tour, to be much higher. It Way back in 1896, on Once this picturesque dozen mountains frame the rises straight out of Somes a visit to Maine shores inland lake was the scene of narrow bay and give it ap- Sound, a long and narrow Rear Admiral Gherardhi; a busy and lively commerce. pearance of one of the wild- body of water which cuts head of the famous White Somesville, the placid village est recesses the Trossachs. the island of Mount Desert Squardron, predicted that at the head of the Sound, But the Sound has yet has yet almost in half, and is com- the shores of Somes Sound was the center of a large no Scott to ennoble it. The parable in beauty with the formed a strategic base shipbuilding industry, and first prominent feature after famous Hudson palisades. where all the navies of the ship after ship sailed out of entering the Sound is what Robinson Mountain juts out world might find a safe har- the little harbor and down is known as the Narrows, into the Sound at its narrow- borage and defy the attacks the long sound, with its high about a mile from South- est spot, with the opposite of another. During that stretches of mountains nar- west Harbor, where the clear shore only about a quarter 20 years there have been rowing down on either side. blue waters are compressed mile away. Three so-called mighty changes in naval The Sound is also reported into a strait only a quarter mountains immediately ad- warfare, and yet it is safe to to have been the scene of mile wide, with the shores joining Robinson possesses say that German or English wilder sights. Here Captain so seemingly close that it the tremendous Thunder grand fleets might find the Kidd is said to have bur- would be but the effort of a Cliffs, almost 700 feet high, prophecy true of value of ied some of his ubiquitous walking to toss a stone onto which rise sheer out of the Somes Sound as a coaling treasure; here the French either bank. Just beyond water and are prolific in station or naval base is well colonists, fleeing from the this the Sound flows by 2 echoes. worth considering by this Englishman Argall, fled for mountains, Flying Moun- The new acquisition to government. temporary shelter; and here tain and Dog Mountain, the public reserve will ri- This Maine coast fjord the British cruisers during with the wide semi-circle of val in interest as well as in duplicates those of Nor- the War of 1812 landed, Valley Cove, and Robinson scenic beauty the National way and there is probably brave in their swelling sails, Mountain beyond. It seems Monument. It is unrivaled none like it on the Atlantic manned by red-coated ma- as if these 2 mountains were in beauty, the long sound Coast. Six mile long, of a rines and officers for water sitting as guardians over cutting into the island until depth varying from 3 to 25 and supplies. their favorite body of water, it reaches far inland, with fathoms, and with a width All this changed now, guarding the entrance with a high mountains coming varying from 1200 feet to a however. No steamers ply jealous eye. The tremendous down to meet the waters mile or more, it is flanked today on the glassy surface Thunder Cliffs rise almost and affording scenery which by lonely and mountain- of the great fjord. A few out of the water, extending is worth traveling miles to ous shores, sometimes de- idle sailboats, an occasional up nearly to the crest of Dog see. It is a perfect setting for scending straight down into dory, or sometimes a puff- Mountain, like palisades of the historic events that hap- the water sheer hundreds ing little gasoline launch, see MOUNTAIN page 3 Pq. of The Islander EXTRA! SECTION 4 PAGE 3 MOUNTAIN/2: Early Acadia National Park clear water at their foot. vantages of the spot, and This is the most impos- soon a sturdy little colony ing piece of rock scenery on grew there. The son of Cap- Mount Desert, rising sheer tain Somes married Judith, for nearly 700 feet and pro- the daughter of his fellow lific in echoes. Beyond these pioneer, and it was only 30 sit 2 more warders, huge and years ago that their son, shaggy, watching over the John Somes died at Somes- placid village of Somesville. ville at the advanced age of Right at the foot of Robin- 92. son Mountain, which looks For many years Somes- across at the figure of its fel- ville was practically the capi- low-watcher, Brown Moun- tal of the island. Here was tain, the largest steamship in the chief water power for the world could lie, for there the mills, here were the mills are more than 25 fathoms of which ground their grain clear water at its base. PHOTO COURTESY OF DON LENAHAN and made their wool into Just around the cove from cloth, and good crops could Thunder Cliffs, the wildest A memorial plaque on Acadia Mountain is visible be raised nearby. Here was spot, in this unique body only from the waters of Somes Sound. It honors also the seat of government. of water, is a spot which has Rev. Cornelius Smith and his wife Mary Wheeler, From here in 1805 went been the scene in past years pioneers of the summer colony in Northeast David Wasgatt, the local of stirring scenes in fact, and Harbor. squire, who married all the which has been peopled by couples, wrote all the deeds the imaginative dwellers of and was lawyer and justice this vicinity with character Frenchmen with flowing Harbor, impelled by a spirit of this maritime colony, as still more stirring than those curls, and strange costumes of curiosity, he sailed up the the first Representative to who have probably set foot flit over the hiding place of broad sheets of water which the General Court of Mas- on its shores. their buried treasure and lay before him, and gath- sachusetts. It was then a The spot is said to be bemoan the ill-fated colony ered another harvest from long way to Boston, where haunted, and not an inhab- which was SO confident of the salt marshes at its head. was the seat of government. itant of Somesville would go raising up a grand empire in It seemed an ideal spot for a Faithfully and well, however, to that wild spot after dark the new world. home, and in 1762 he came did the blunt and honest for love or money. Here also in the War of with his wife and family squire represent his con- Here in 1613 the little 1812 the British frigates lay from their Puritan home on stituents. French colony under the and sent squads of perspir- Cape Ann. With him came Here also for many years Jesuit fathers Biard and ing sailors for water, while also another hardy pioneer, lived Captain Somes, watch- DuThet was surprised by their officers decked in gold James Richardson, a well-to- ing the community which the English under Captain lace and flaunting in their do, and well-educated settler he had founded grow up Samuel Argall of unsavory scarlett coats, landed up at of Scotish-Irish blood, and around him. fame, and the high moun- the village of Somesville far- also with is family. He died at the ripe old tains echoed the sounds of ther up the bay, and strutted The two settled down at age of 80 and his grave is still cannon shots, perhaps the through the village, gazing the head of the Sound, the to be seen at Somesville. He first heard in the new world. superciliously at the rude first winter dwelling in the was a famous pilot along the Most of the French were homes of the settlers. cabin of their vessel and in New England coast and had taken captive and more than At Somesville, at the the spring building perma- the honor and responsibility one fell, pierced by the balls head of the Sound was the nent homes at the head of of guiding into the harbor of the English. Before they first beginning of settlement the harbor. the Halifax, the first British left, and before the battle on Mount Desert. In 1791 It was a lonely life for the fleet that ever entered that came on, tradition says, they Abraham Somes, a citizen of first 2 years, and many times magnificent harbor. buried heaps of shining lou- Gloucester, took a land grant the families, especially the Today the quiet village is d'or in this glen, for which from Province of Massa- women, wished themselves basks in the sunshine like a vain search has been made chusetts, of what is now the back in their snug homes in grandfather, thinking with from time to time. site of Somesville. In those Cape Ann, and many times a touch of satisfaction on Even at the present day early days many of the Mass. would go to the shore and its past. The ancient farm- there are appearances as of coast dwellers came down to gaze wistfully down the long houses that line the road cellars, believed by island- Maine to carry away loads strait, where beyond the bear witness to the antiquity ers to have been the site of of salt hay from the Maine mountains was the home of the local civilization and the old French colony and marshes. and the friends who were look carelessly at the flight to this day they have been For many voyages Cap- cut off by those seemingly of time. dug over by treasure seek- tain Somes came down to impassable barriers. But af- ers. Here at night, so the Maine and on one occasion ter a time others moved to To find out more about old settlers say, the ghosts after reaping a full crop from the shores of Somes Sound, Bar Harbor history visit of perked and bewigged the marshes around Bass impelled by the evident ad- www.barharborhistorical.org cott New LLAM ISELIN & Co. 357 FOURTH AVENUE COR.26TM STREET P.O. BOX 387 MAD. SQ. CABLES: GREENCANAL, N.Y. NEW YORK Feb.13,1917 Charles 7. Eliot, Esq., Cambridge, Mass. Ny dear Sir - As a new name for Robinson Liountain the only word which has as yet appealed favorably to Mrs. Cromwell and me is Acadie Mountain. I am aware that the name Acadia is commonly applied to the Canadian Coast only, but Parkman says that the French used the word Acadie for all of the country from Pennsylvania to the Culf of St. Lawrence. You promised to keep this matter in mind for us and I simply suggest this word to see how it appeals to you. I ran across Lr. Dorr at the Cosmos Club in :7ashington a couple of weeks ago. He was trying to influence a specific appropriation for the care of the Sieur de lionts Park, and thought he had been successful. Yours very truly, Lincoln becomerll Champlain Governor Remard Du That Algonquin Penobscot Coff/ Crossure New Coller for. Cambridge, Mass., 2/1 19 February 1917. Dear Mr. Cronwell: In connection with your search for a new name for Robinson Countain, I am studying a new set of names for all the mountains, or at least the principal ones. There are two nanes of persons, who have held important grants on the Island, which I think should be commemo- rated - the names of Bingham, whose heirs have given title to a large area in the ebstern half of the Island, of and Covernor Bernard of assachusetts, who had a large grent on the western side of the Island. The name of the Jesuit Du That, who was killed near the foot of Fly- ing Kountain, eight, 1 think, be appropriately commemo- rated by giving it to that mountain. Another French name which cught to be attached to one of the mountains, preferably Green, is Champlain. Two Indian names might be given to hills on Mount Desert - Algonquin, the name of the Indian tribe which stretched from Hudson Bay to Virginia on the Atlantic Coast, and the name Penob- scot. The only family name borne by people now on the Is- land, which seems to ne worthy of commomoration, is the name Somes. That family had sought for a good place to settle on the Island before the Battle of Quebec; but did from Gloucester not movo/to the head of Somes Sound till after that battle had decided that Mount Devert WHP to be English and not French. They mede a real settlement at the head of the From the March, 1917, Bar Harbor Times T he stage is all set for Bar Har- bor's annual town meeting, the largest and longest in the state. The warrant which contains 92 articles, will be found in the annual report. Rarely has the political situation been so quiet and with so few contests as is the case this year. The town gov- ernment seems to have been reduced to a business-like system, and there is a marked absence of the old time cam- IMAGE COURTESY OF COLLECTION OF EARL BRECHLIN paigning. For the seven positions on the What to do about a toll bridge between Mount Desert Island and board of selectmen, 10 candidates have filed nomination papers. Of Trenton was on the agenda for the March 1917 Bar Harbor Town these, six are the members of the old Meeting. board, Julian Emery, Joseph Stevens, Henry Lawford, Charles Green, Er- Main Street from Livingston Road to will authorize the road commission to nesto Fabbri and George B. Dorr. Max Cromwell Harbor Road; Eden Street buy a truck; to repair the town stable; Franklin, one of the members of the from Cottage Street to Duck Brook to take care of the athletic field, and to present board, announced a short Bridge; the Otter Creek Road from the buy a book typewriter for use in the time ago that he would not be a can- top of Dorr's hill to the Mount Desert assessor's office. didate for re-election. The other can- line. An ornamental light is asked for at didates are George Berry, Frank Nash, Concrete bridges are asked for on the junction of Malvern Hill Road and Eugene Leland and Bion Whitney. the Harden Farm Road, Schooner Kebo Street, and a light at the corner The other positions where contests Head, and two on the Great Meadow of Park Road and Ledgelawn Avenue. occur are for member of the board Road. Sidewalks are asked for on the A sum of money to be used in ad- of assessors, with Wyman Wadleigh east side of Holland Avenue from Cot- vertising the town and the designation and Horace Wakefield as candidates, tage Street to West Street; the northern of its expenditure is asked for and it is and for member of the road commis- side of Cottage Street from the high proposed that the entire amount be sion for which the candidates are John school lot to Miss Bowdoin's garage raised by taxation this year, and not by Preble and Walter Sargent, the retiring entrance' on Kebo Street from Trviot taxation and subscription. member. Cottage to Cromwell Harbor Road. The municipal coal and wood yard Frank Whitmore, the retiring The town is also asked to widen the project which came up-last year will member of the school board, has no bridge on Eagle Lake Road near the also be taken care of this year, and the opposition as his own successor, not junction of Forest Street, and to widen town is asked to buy the Spratt lot for has James Emery, nominated for the the Eagle Lake Road from Arcadia a sum not exceeding $21,000, and to 1 year term caused by the resignation Cottage to General Morrell's entrance. appoint a committee composed of the of Mrs. Marietta Sweeney. Horatio Other articles are to see if the town selectmen and three citizens for this Wakefield will be probably unopposed purpose. for moderator and W.H. Sherman for A sworn town weigher is asked town clerk, while Charles Paine has no for, and the installation of town hay opposition for town treasurer, collec- scales. Other matters asked for the tor of taxes and overseer of the poor. reimbursement of the committee ap- Harold Carter agent of town school pointed at the last meeting to investi- fund, Fred Hadley, auditor and Roy gate the Trenton Toll Bridge matter; Hamor, Chief of the fire dept., have the purchase of a lot of land and the no opposition. The prospects are that erection of a suitable municipal court the first day of town meeting will be room and police station; to establish a rather a quiet one. rate of $2.75 per day per man for la- The first 24 articles of the warrant bor, $7.00 per day for double teams are more or less routine ones. Article and $4.50 for single teams for all town 25 asks for repairs of the Heald build- work; the try-out of the J.C. Farrell ing, while repairs are also asked for on patent hose couplings; an ordinance the high school building. Several ar- prohibiting the throwing of paper and ticles come up in connection with the other refuse in the street; the advis- Town Hill school, asking for the estab- ability of purchasing a motor combi- lishment of a free high school there, nation chemical and hose wagon for an enlargement of the school house the fire dept.; and ordinance in refer- so that a four years high school course ence to the digging up of sidewalks may be established there, and an arti- and highways; and designating the cle asking for the draining of the base- standing places of automobiles and ment in that building. The town is also carriages for hire. asked to authorize the conveyance of Taken altogether, it promises to high school pupils and to make an ap- ISLANDER FILE PHOTO give the voters several days of oratory propriation for that purpose. Ernesto Fabbri, W.H. Sherman, and business. Everything is now ready The reconstruction of a number of for the meeting. roads is asked for, including the road and George Dorr were among leading from Town Hill to the Mount the people nominated for elected To find out more about Bar Harbor his- Desert line; the Harden Farm road; office in Bar Harbor in 1917. tory www.barharborhistorical.org COPY March 7, 1917. Dear Mr. Dorr: Your letter of March 5th is received. I quote the following paragraph from my letter to you of December 30th, 1916: "I further understand that in order to buy the mountain from the west of these three mountains referred to in the above paragraph, over to Seal Cove Pond, including all of the western range of mountains, probably $20,000 will be required. This is based on definite prices quoted on some tracts and the judgment of yourself and others in regard to what the remaining tracts can be bought for. Whether this estimate of $20,000 is inclusive or exclusive of the northern portion of Beech Moun- tain, which you think can be bought for $3,000 and for the purchase of which I have agreed to supply the money, you are not sure. Toward this $20,000 , I understand that the people of Southwest Harbor can be re- lied upon to contribute $10,000, and that the remaining $10,000 is yet to be secured. Of the tracts comprised in this $20,000 section, I understand one option expires on January 1st, which you are anxious to take up, and that the amount of money involved in the purchase of the tract which the option covers is $1,500. Toward the second $10,000 involved in this $20,000 purchase, you can count on me for $5,000, which I will pay whenever you ask for it. This will enable you to exercise the option expiring January 1st and to make any other purchases which it is desirable to close immediately. When the $5,000 has been expended, I shall be glad to know just what the situation is. Of course, this $5,000 is in addition to the $3,000 which I agreed in the Fall to contribute for the purchase of the northern portion of Beech Mountain." You are asking for the payment of my pledge of $8,000. I assume, therefore, that you are ready to make the purchase of the northern por- tion of Beech Mountain which you thought could be purchased for $3,000 and for which purpose I agreed to supply the money necessary up to that amount, last Fall before leaving Seal Harbor. Am I right in this as- sumption and what is the actual price at which this property can be bought? My pledge toward the western mountain purchase, other than that just referred to, was for $5,000. Has the $10,000 which you stated you had every reason to believe could be collected from the Southwest Harbor people been pledged and collected, and if not in whole, to what extent? In line with your request, I am enclosing my check for $8,000, $5,000 of which is in payment of my pledge of $5,000, the remaining $3,000 to be used to whatever extent is necessary for the purchase of 2. the northern portion of Beech Mountain. If the whole amount is not needed for that purpose, please so advise me. I wish it were possible for you to give me definite information with reference to the moneys received from others on this mountain project, and also as to the tracts of land actually bought and the prices paid therefor. It is much easier for me to follow transactions which are thus definitely set forth, and at the same time, it is much more interesting than where what is being done or being purchased is stated in general terms only Very truly, (Signed) John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Mr. George B. Dorr, Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. THE NATIONAL PARK ON MOUNT DESERT ISLAND By Beatrix Farrand ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY GEORGE R. KING ORE than three centuries lowed Champlain and started a settle- ago Champlain wrote ment at the mouth of Somes Sound, and "The same day we passed to-day the deep, cool spring, which still @galso near to an island about bears their name, flows down the grassy four or five leagues long, southern slope near where the huts of in the neighborhood of their short-lived colony are said to have which we just escaped being lost on at stood. little rock on a level with the water 7e A chain of round-topped mountains which made an opening in our barque crosses the island from east to west, and near the keel. It. is very high, and the new national park includes erwhole notched in places, so that there is the ap- eastern part of the range. These high pearance to one at sea, as of seven or granite hills are the ice-worn survivors eight mountains extending along near of a giant mountain thrust through the each other. The summit of most of them sea-laid rocks of the beginning of the is destitute of trees. I named it Isle geologic era. They are among the old- des Monts Déserts." West rocks of the world and they still sur- This description of the bold and grand- vive in places here and there along the ly outlined mountains of the new reserva- shore; the strata are either twisted or tion was written after Champlain's voy- level and bear witness to a time so in- age of exploration down our eastern coast finitely remote that our minds are be- in 1604, under the orders of his friend and wildered, and we fail to realize how many patron the Sieur de Monts, whose charter millions of years have passed since this and grant had been given him by that gray-fissured stone was soft, clayey mud. picturesque and gallant gentleman, King Glacial fiords, deep cut into the granite Henry of Navarre. He was told to sail mountain ranges, are the finest we have down the coast of Acadia, since in those outside Alaska, and, unlike as the two early days the name of "Acadie" was giv- places really are in almost every partic- en to the whole eastern coast of Maine, a ular, there are points of view on the island tract of land vast in comparison with the which flash an instantaneous picture to little Nova Scotia district of Evangeline's one's memory of certain deep-sea and day. forest-grown inlets of our northwestern Champlain first saw the island after territory. It may be a certain mystery the fog had lifted on a morning in early of clear water, deep forests and remote- September, and he refers more than once ness, a virginal freshness of the northern to its high mountains, then, as now, land- landscape in the silvery sunlight of the marks to every coastwise traveller by sea brief summer. or land. He headed his boat up the broad The ten mountains in the park are the sheet of water now called Frenchman's highest land on our Atlantic coast-line, Bay, landed in a little cove near where and known to every one who sails our the town of Bar Harbor now stands, and eastern waters as they were long ago to after talking to the friendly Indians, Champlain. Their ice-modelling has whom he found cooking their dinner, he been on such noble lines that they seem fared farther westward under their gui- larger than their actual height, and the dance through the islands into Penobscot cliffs and rock formations are also on a Bay. After some years the Jesuits, those big scale. The lakes in the heart. of the courageous frontiersmen of the Faith, fol- reservation are deep and clear, and in one 484 The National Park on Mount Desert Island 485 or two instances their beds have been gouged out lower than the present sea- swept heights, clefts of the bare granite rocks give just the scanty soil needed for level by the tearing and grinding of the ice. Those who have had the good for- some of the species of far-northern plants. These settlers from the arctic come to tune to be familiar with the hills year their most southerly colonies on the The high mountains are landmarks to every coastwise traveller by sea or land.-Page 484 after year and who have clambered over Mount Desert hills and on a few of the their desert tops, know their charm. The higher tops of the White Mountains. The endless ocean lies to the southward; and pale flowers of the Greenland sandwort are westward is an intricate glistening design found in the glacial scores and cracks of of sea meeting shore, with shining lakes and far-away blue mountains fading into the granite summits, waving agitatedly on their thin, wiry stems, which bend and a pale golden haze on the horizon. twist in a wind that makes one shiver In this fortunate place of mountains, even in midsummer. Mats of the black sea, and forest, plant lovers have un- equalled chances for study. On the wind- crowberry grow on the hillsides and along the shore within reach of the spray, and flex VOL. LXI.-50 Huwa 0 The granite shoulders of Jordan and Pemetic Mountains shelter the north end of Jordan's Pond, in the heart of the Reservation. I The granite shoulders of Jordan and Pemetic Mountains shelter the north end of Jordan's Pond, in the heart of the Reservation. Westward from the top of Sargent Mountain an intricate glistening design of sea meeting shore fades into a golden haze.-Page 485. 488 The National Park on Mount Desert Island this small plant seems as much at home their own. They have neither the maj- in Maine. under conditions that would estv of the great forests of the Pacific blast most green things, as it does in Si- beria. Alaska, or Hudson's Bay. slope, where great columnar boles spring a hundred feet skyward before the first The mountain tarns are surrounded by limb breaks the upsoaring lines, nor have thickets of leather-leaf. and here and they the quiet charm of the English there a plant of Labrador tea shows its groves of oak and beech; but these north- The forest ground cover-Shin leaf, twisted stalk and fern. soft, white flowers among woolly-backed ern woods have flashes of birch gleaming leaves, and one cannot help wondering if against dark spruce and wind-driven pine, the tea which the early colonists are sup- and are carpeted with a ground cover of posed to have brewed from them was unrivalled beauty. Patches of the lus- not somewhat outlandish in flavor. The trous and pervasively flavored winter- are a island is a meeting-ground for the black green yield to tangled mats of Linnaus's peat spruces from the northern muskeg favorite twinflower, and long, pale run- whic swamps and the pitch-pines from the ners of partridgeberry, with symmetri- basin sand barrens to the south, while the scrub- cally paired and accurately spaced leaves, pale oaks reach their northern limit in the make prim sylvan processions toward like t United States, mingled with a flora that sheets of scarlet bunchberries. The of bl. the jargon of the botanists calls subarctic. harsh leathery leaves of Mayflower hud- much The forests on the island are unusually dle in tight clusters under the shelter of comp varied in their leafage; they are really rocks, and in the aromatic depths en- mass only comparable to the forests of Japan chanter's nightshade and goldthread COV- lands in complexity of texture, but a certain er the ground at the roots of tropically the radiance and beauty of coloring is all robust clumps of cinnamon-fern. There T the maj- he Pacific les spring the first nor have English ese north- gleaming The aromatic depths of the pine and hemlock woods near Beachcroft path. ven pine, cover of the lus- are acres of rhodora growing in the deep, one of its most useful purposes as a refuge winter- peaty soil of the low-lying, moist meadows for birds. It is already known to be most innueus's which now fill some of the preglacial lake favorably placed as a breeding-place for ale run- basins. In earliest spring sheets of the many of the arctic species which come to mmetri- d leaves, pale reddish flowers, mingled with spray- the island in their southernmost flights, like tufts of shadbush, are framed in rims and in the coming years the sanctuary of toward of blackish evergreens, and although the the reservation will shelter more and more S. The much-praised flowers are dull in color birds safely within its limits. Sea and ver hud- compared with other azaleas, the very lake shores, high cliffs, deep forests, wide helter of masses of them give the austere wintry marshes and meadows give a variety of ths en- landscape a flush of color as welcome as nesting-places which already draw more ead cov- opically the song of the first robin. than a hundred and forty different species The new government land will serve to the island. Ornithologists have long There 489 Newport, Dry and Green Mountains from a hill-top in Bar Harbor. The National Park on Mount Desert Island 491 known it as one of the best places in the the beaver ponds still remain, and it is Eastern States in which to study both sea hoped before long to start a colony of and land birds, and as a favorite resting- them in one of the wild-life and plant place on the migrations. Many shy and sanctuaries which are to be established. rare species are found frequently, often in It is not surprising that the island View from the pines of Huguenot Head across the gorge to Newport Mountain. the near neighborhood of houses, while- should have been known and loved for in most gardens humming-birds dart and many years by the thousands of people chatter and play all through the summer who have come to find refreshment in days. For a long time an eyrie has been its quickening air, blended from sea and perched high above a cliff overlooking forest. After winters spent in cities, men the sea, and not infrequently the great and women go to Mount Desert to play birds are seen sweeping over the valley and work and roam in its forests or sail hundreds of feet below. its waters, and live in its beauty till it be- Game used to be plentiful on the island comes a part of their lives. The opales- and is again increasing: deer are multi- cent light which often covers the bay and plying and becoming quite tame, and the islands in the early summer mornings ap- startling whirr of the ruffed grouse as he pealed to John La Farge, whose sketches rises is heard on many an autumn walk. show his appreciation of its tenderness Mink were found until recently, and now and charm, and he also delighted in the and again a fine fox pelt was brought in dark pines, holding fast to the granite by a trapper. In Champlain's time the rocks, above the deep-blue foam-streaked Indians came to the island to hunt beaver, sea. Marion Crawford laid the scene of and although they and the beaver have one of his shorter novels on the island, both disappeared, here and there some of and was always interested in comparing " to red use the by reas ty, or such a trustee a tract the B Charle earliest island. Stewar the to summi it to th nation tain, 1 Mount Indian Bubble they h all the lakes ( Mr. D of unsv the ult A forest pool at the foot of the Diedrich path. its northern sea and shore with the Italian a new trail swept his fellow workers along coast, which he knew so thoroughly. with him, and day after day he would go Mount Desert had another sympathetic back to some particularly baffling cliff admirer in Doctor Weir Mitchell, who till he had found a way around or over or loved it both wisely and well. He was through it. He started the path system often seen walking on the mountain trails, which has made the hills accessible to with springy step and eyes alert, keenly many a walker who would otherwise have interested in all he saw and delighted to found the dense forest growth a hopeless discover far-away recesses in the forests barrier. He gave much of his too-short and hills. He eagerly spoke of possibili- life to studying the island and linking to- ties for paths to give access either to the gether mountains, shore, and hitherto un- unknown canyon of a ferny brook or to a known districts in a continuous series of bluff headland from which a new point of trails which make it possible to tramp view might be seen. His unfailing enthu- from one side of the island to the other siasm and wise counsel were of incalcu- on ways either level or steep, according lable use in helping the development of to the walker's mood or choice. the system of paths begun and carried on In I90I, at the suggestion of President with unflagging energy by Waldron Bates. Eliot, whose son Charles Eliot, the dis- For many years Mr. Bates devoted a tinguished landscape-architect, had con- large part of his summers to indefatigable ceived a like scheme for Massachusetts, exploration of the hills and valleys. A Mr. George Bucknam Dorr assembled a tireless walker and fearless climber, he group of people who saw clearly and acted enjoyed nothing so much as working out wisely in organizing themselves into the a good path up an incredibly steep crag Hancock County Trustees of Public Res- or finding a way between rock ledges to ervations. Two years later the legisla- some quiet grove hidden in a fold of the ture of Maine confirmed the incorporation mountain. His boyish excitement over of the organization. Its purposes were 492 The National Park on Mount Desert Island 493 to receive, hold, and improve for public he therefore realized that in order to keep use the lands in Hancock County, which it for the use of the people at large it by reason of historic interest, scenic beau- should become one of the national parks ty, or any other cause were suitable for under federal control. He, accordingly, such an object.' Seven years later the went to Washington to consult Mr. trustees received their first gift of land, Franklin K. Lane, the Secretary of the a tract on Newport Mountain, including Interior, with regard to the acceptance the Bowl and the Beehive, from Mrs. of the tract by the government, under the Charles D. Homans of Boston, one of the Monuments Act, which allows the ad- earliest of the summer settlers on the ministration to set aside by presidential island. Later in the same year Mr. John proclamation lands of historic, prehis- Stewart Kennedy of New York bought toric, or scientific interest," as national the top of Green Mountain, the highest parks, either when previously owned by summit on our Atlantic coast, and gave the government or when freely given it it to the trustees to hold for the use of the from some private source. Two more nation. As the years passed, Dry Moun- years' work on Mr. Dorr's part were spent tain, the whole of Newport, Pemetic in enlarging the boundaries of the park Mountain (the only one still bearing its still farther, and in searching and perfect- Indian name), Sargent, Jordan, and the ing the land titles of the reservation ac- Bubbles were given to the trustees, and cording to the high standard which the they held an undivided tract, including government requires. Mr. Dorr then re- all the highest land and the high-lying turned to Washington in June, 1916, with lakes of the eastern part of the island. the deeds of the property prepared for ac- Mr. Dorr had given nearly twenty years ceptance by the government, and with of unswerving and far-sighted devotion to Mr. Lane's effective help and co-operation the ultimate usefulness of the island, and he was successful in obtaining the Presi- The Kane path skirting the glacial basin of the Sieur de Monts Tarn. 494 The National Park on Mount Desert Island dent's signature to the proclamation on will show water-lilies and arrowleaf and the 8th of July. sheets of blue pickerel-weed, with are- The new federal land was named the thusa and pitcher-plants growing along- Sieur de Monts National Monument in side sundew in the bog near by. memory of Champlain's friend and com- Every one interested in any of the pro- panion whose courage and hope for the tean forms of gardening knows the ex- future made the voyage possible. The traordinary delight in the co-operation of French expedition to Acadia failed after the island climate. The cool nights fol- a gallant struggle, but the names of the lowed by clear, sunny days give herba- Sieur de Monts and his associates will be ceous plants a brilliance of color and vigor kept in remembrance for all time in the of growth which cannot be found except name of the first national park on the At- in the high Alpine meadows. As the wild- lantic coast. garden idea is developed everybody who Although Mr. Dorr has given years of wishes to see the northern plant and bird patient work to the creation of the new life at its best will come to study on the reservation, he feels that the future holds island. Already a fund for one wild gar- many chances for its further development. den has been given in memory of a mem- He looks forward confidently not only to ber of a family who cared much for Mount the maintenance of the present system of Desert, and paths, now included in the paths, but to joining distant points by reservation, have been made and named further communications. There are after others who spent many happy sum- giant-rock slides and wide ocean views, mers there. bold cliffs and quiet meadows which can The Sieur de Monts Park is the first to now be seen only after a painful struggle be set aside in the crowded Eastern States, with matted underbrush. Roads should and it should be the forerunner of a long be built in the park which will be un- series of reservations, to preserve for the equalled in their beauty of combined sea public use their most interesting and va- and mountain horizons, and while its wild ried types of scenery. Those who love charm should in no way be lessened, it is Mount Desert call it affectionately "The possible to make the different parts of Island," and they are happy in the knowl- the government land more accessible. edge that its hills are safe, that the forests The approaches to the Sieur de Monts will be protected from fire and mutilation, Park and its surroundings are being and that in the time to come generations studied under the wise guidance of Mr. will follow them in search of the peace Dorr, who is its first custodian. At his and refreshment they have themselves instance an offshoot corporation from the found in the cool bracing air and sweet- Hancock County Trustees of Public Res- scented woods. The great gray hills be- ervations has recently been formed and long to the nation, and each year, as the named the "Wild Gardens of Acadia," winter snows yield and the brooks are re- and under its direction plans are being leased, the birds will come back to their made to establish wild gardens and bird sanctuaries, the flowers will begin an- sanctuaries on lands adjacent to the reser- other summer, and men and women will vation as well as elsewhere in the State return to the reservation again and again and in Canada. The shady valley of a to seek and to find rest and new strength brook will be used to grow the great os- in its beauty. And every one who comes, mundas, trilliums, and other forest and either now or in the future, should re- moisture-loving plants; or a collection of member that he owes a large share of his rock-plants will be established on a slope enjoyment to the clear vision, the wise where saxifrages and their tiny fellows development, and the self-sacrificing en- will root deeply and bask in the sunshine, thusiasm of the first custodian of the or a water garden at the edge of a pond park. From the May, 1917, Bar Harbor Times O n or after Sunday, June 3 you may go across the bridge without paying the toll. The chairman and treasurer of the Trustees of the Mount Desert Bridge District will meet with the owners of the bridge and unless some unforeseen obstacle arises, Merritt T. Over Chairman of the Board, will officially take over the old toll bridge. Charles H. Wood, Esq. at- torney for the trustees, will be present and will assist in making the transfer. A draw tender will be ISLANDER FILE PHOTOS placed on the bridge at once by the commissioners and An aerial view of the Trenton Bridge area circa 1948. for the first time it will be possible to drive on and off Mount Desert; George Har- he was. Just as the owners was Mr. Shand's new Over- Mount Desert Island with- mon of Southwest Harbor; and trustees came out of land. With him were Mrs. out stopping to pay tolls L.W. Rumill of Tremont and the house, with the neces- Shand, Miss Ida Shand, to the owners of the old Henry Smith of Trenton. sary papers signed, a car Senator Charles Wood and bridge. The transfer will be Due to the prompt and containing two young men Representative Judson Saw- made without ceremony of efficient work of these paid the last quarter to Mrs. yer. Following Mr. Shan any sort. In less than three gentlemen, the first step in Thompson. came a car from Northeast weeks from the day orga- securing the new and free The car got away before Harbor with Mr. Ober and nized, the trustees have bridge has been accom- it could be stopped and its party. achieved the first object for plished. owner informed that he had The first car to cross which they were elected. Merritt Ober, treasurer paid toll on a bridge which the bridge free after the The bridge is free. of the board of trustees gave but a moment before had cars of the parties making The trustees have worked the owners of the old bridge been made free. the transfer was owned by hard to get the bridge free at a check of $5,000 and re- There was no celebration the R.J. Reynolds tobacco the earliest possible date. ceived in return a deed of or no ceremonies of any Company and was driven They will immediately de- the structure. John Somes sort. by E.E. Gustin of West- vote their time and atten- of Mount Desert, Presi- The only thing resem- brook, traveling salesman tion to the next problem of dent of the Bridge Com- bling occurred when about for the company. making the bridge absolute- pany, Clifford Thompson, 15 gentlemen present to- It is interesting to no ly safe for heavy traffic. treasurer and Mark Somes, gether opened the gate that the last car to pay to It is not yet known clerk were the officers of the and officially made the and the first to cross free whether an entirely new company present. old bridge free. After tak- were both cars from off is- bridge will be built or It is not known just who ing down the toll signs the land, which shows that the whether the present struc- was the last man to pay a party took the first free ride rest of the state shares the ture will be rebuilt, but the toll. Mr. Shand would be over the bridge. benefits of a free bridge trustees are to take the mat- interested to know who The first car over free along with the towns which ter up with as little delay as make up the district. they did the freeing of the It was interesting to note old bridge. the pleasant surprise mani- This matter has to be fested by the occupants of taken up with the full board, the cars which came along consisting of the trustees, immediately after the gate county commissioners and had been opened. As each highway commission. Some one stopped to pay the definite plans are expected usual toll he was greeted by soon. In the meantime, the the pleasant news that the old bridge is as good as it bridge was free and that he has been and it is free. had paid his last toll to get The trustees of the on and off Mount Desert Mount Desert Island Bridge Island. District are Charles Shand, Ernest Graham, John Stal- To find out more about ford, Frank Brewer and Bar Harbor history visit Charles Shea of Eden; Mer- An vintage postcard of the Trenton Toll Bridge www.barharborhistorical. ritt Over and C.D. Joy of circa 1915. org 1917 Proposed Biological Laboratory on Mt. Desert Island to be established in memory of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell A few friends of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell unite in asking your interest and cooperation in the completion of the fol- lowing carefully considered memorial to him upon Mt. Desert Island. This memorial, which we feel to be one of exceptional permanence and distinction, is the acquisition on the shore of the upper bay, close beyond Salisbury Cove in a spot of singular fitness and beauty, of some eighty acres of land to be placed in the hands of the Sieur de Monts Arboretum and Wild Gardens-a corporation formed in affiliation with the Trustees of Public Reservations for the purpose of plant and bird life conservation and biologic research upon Mount Desert Island-which will secure forever in these quiet reaches public access to the shore or landing from it, and will serve also as a much needed base for marine biologic work in the northern waters of the Bay of Maine, climatically widely different from those at Wood's Hole and of great scientific as well as economic interest. The plan is one that has been gradually maturing since Dr. Mitchell's death and has its place as an important part of a general undertaking for conserving the freedom and beauty of nature on this Island and developing its scientific interests in relation to the biology of the region- an undertaking which the United States Government is now likely to take up in turn, by the acceptance from the Trustees of Public Reservations of a great portion of the Island's mountain system, with its included lakes and gorges, for a National Monument. The only opportunity which the Trustees of Public (1) Reservations, through their affiliated organization, the Sieur and future work. It would be known as the "S. Weir Mitchell de Monts Arboretum and Wild Gardens, can hope to secure Biological Laboratory." for reaching the water-which they nowhere reach at present Nearly half the cost of the land of which we speak- -at an accessible point on either side of the Island lies with its quaint old farmhouse and other usèful buildings- through this present opportunity of which we write, but it is now assured. If the rest can be obtained before the brief is a singularly favorable one, comprising a wide extent of option which alone we have been able to secure expires, shore with deep waters for wharfage, clear approach, and' the opportunity uniquely offered by this land will be assured admirable opportunity for the anchorage of boats, or even to public usefulness forever, in Dr. Mitchell's honor. ships of any size. It is land of remarkable-variety and picturesqueness, ROBERT ABBE LOUISA SEDGWICK MINOT with old oaks and other trees upon it and reaching far back JOSEPHINE CARPENTER EDWARD MORRELL upon wild meadow-lands.. Readily accessible from every BESSIE C. COLES DAVE H. MORRIS side, by land and water, it would be constantly visited by S. W. COLTON, JR. DAVID B. OGDEN both residents and summer visitors and all who sailed the THOMAS DEWITT CUYLER GEORGE WHARTON PEPPER coast. And associated as it would always be with the life, GEORGE B. DORR HORACE PORTER the out-door happiness and scientific interests of succeeding CHARLES W: ELIOT WILLIAM M. POLK. generations, no other gift that could be devised would SO HENRY LANE ENO MARIA DEHON POLK tend to keep Dr. Mitchell's memory fresh and green and to: ALESSANDRO FABBRI JAMES FORD RHODES make him a liying personality amongst the living. GEORGE HARRIS GERTRUDE S. RICE The need of an opportunity in this region for a well RICHARD H. HARTE GEORGE S. ROBBINS situated working base for marine biologic study and experi- ANNIE C. KANE HERBERT L. SATTERLEE ment is one that Dr. Mitchell himself was keenly alive to, MRS. JOHN S. KENNEDY LOUISA PIERPONT SATTERLEE interested in it especially through work done under his and KATE MACY LADD A. F. SCHAUFFLER others' direction by the Carnegie Institution in more southern LOUIS B. McCAGG J. MADISON TAYLOR waters, and it is one that the U. S. Fish Commission has MATILDA MARKOE CHARLTON YARNALL lately given serious attention to for important economic reasons. Central to the Gulf of Maine, with its deepest water leading directly to the Island, as recent soundings show; free from city sewerage or river inflow; within a brief ferry from the only point where the railroad comes down to the sea east of Rockland; and opening through sheltered waters to innumerable islands and fish runs' where experi- ments in propagation may be carried out with exceptional advantage, no other spot, in the opinion of experts, opening Checks may be made payable to to these colder waters; offers a base so favorable for present Mr. Dave H. Morris, Treasurer, Bar Harbor, Maine. (2) (3) May 2. 1917. Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. Sir:- In the matter of the application of the Sieur de Monts Spring Company, serial No. 90038, I desire to submit the following facts: Said application was refused registration on the ground that the term was geographic. Applicant desires to traverse this for the following reasons: On the ground that the word Acadia has never had place in Eng- lish geographic usage except as a translation from the French and is used in literature and history only, referring to the past: that its English equivalent, as specifically stated in King James' Grant to Sir William Alexander in 1621, was Nova Seotia, or New Scotland, designed to show it as a northward extension of New England, and laid claim to by the English, then and afterward. under that name; that in French the word was Acadie, not Acedia; that efter the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, and the fall of Louisberg in 1758, the name even in its French form ceased to apply to any region, except historically, the English never employing it for any portion of the territory when they acquired it but using other names, as they had done from the be- ginning; that no American or English geography has ever given it as the geographic name of the region which the French used the word l'Acadie, or Lacadia, as spelt in the original usage, to describe, but have used Nova Scotia, New Scotland, Maine or District of Maine, -2- New Brunswick, and Cape Breton instead; that in Maine, the only por- tion of the United States that includes any part of the region call- ed l'Acadie by the French while they possessed it but since then called by them also Nouvelle Ecosse, etc., following the English, the right to the use of the word Acadia as a trade mark for the wa- ter of this spring has been granted since the autumn of 1915. The Ohief draughtsman has been requested to remove the word "Water" from the drawing. It is believed this places the applica- tion in position for publication, which action is requested. Respectfully submitted, [G.B.DoeR] GBD/K ORIGINAL IDEA IN SIEUR DE MONTS MAP 1917 Remarkable Map at Spring is Work of Dr. Robert Abbe-Geography of Coast in Every Detail An entirely new and original idea in map making has just been completed at the big spring near the gorge road. On the front of the bottling house a cement panel eight feet square had been prepared, two years ago, by Mr. Dorr, for a map which would be a suitable guide and an attractive study for visitors to Mount Desert Island. The task of making this was accepted by Dr. Robert Abbe at the invitation of Mr. Dorr. Realizing that future visitors would come by motors, by yacht, or by rail- and would find the geography .of the coast and of the island confusing-a map was designed after much thought, to include the neighborhood from beyond Bluehill, on the west to beyond Schoodic on the east-and extending northward to include Ellsworth, and its large lake 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 available government and coast survey map was used to make this com- pósite 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 about they already this wonderfully know all beautiful there is to island- know 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, VOLUME III BHK $1.50 A YEAR 6/16/17 BAR HARBOI SIEUR DE MONTS UNITARIAN SERVICES FOR SEASON OVER $200,000 FOR PUBLICATION OUT Rev. John M. Mark He Sunday LIBERTY LOA Speakers for Season Announced The Unitarian church will open for the George B. Dorr Has Had season Sunday, June 17. The services Total Subscribed at Loc Charge of Work will begin at 10:45 a. m. and all are Banks Friday Morning cordially invited to attend. The services. next Sunday will be conducted by Rev. OTHERS PUBLISHED SOON John M. Mark, a Chaplain in the United FEWLARGESUBSCRIPTION States Navy. The preachers for the of Herine of Sleur de Monts season are as follows: Practically Whole Subertiptic l'ublication Prepared by Mr, Sunday, June 17th, Rev. John M. Comes From Permanent Rest Dorr For Government Mark, Chaplain in U. $. Navy; Sunday, dents of This Section June 24th, Rev. J. W Tickle, Ellsworth, TIMES has montly received a copy Maine; Sunday, July 1st, Rev. Oscar B. Bar Harbor and vicinity has nu of the none Sieur de Monts publi- Hawes, Newton Centre, Mass.; Sunday, scribed over two. hundred thousa issued by the National Park July 8th, Rev Paul S, Phalen, Augusta, dolars to the Liberty Loan As the he This pamphlet, which is en- Maine; Sunday, July 15th, Rev. Augus- for closing the subscription books dr The Constal Setting, Rocks and tus P. Recerve, Springfield, Mass.; near Friday morning. A. Strour Radio of the Sieur de Monts National Sunday, July 22nd, Rev. Frederick M. chairman of the Libert boun Co was printed in an edition of Eliot, Cambridge, Mass.; Sunday, July mittee. gave out as the usual $208.1 at the Government Printing 29th, Rev. Francis G. Peabody, Cam- Although there were a (new early La: Washington. It is one of a series bridge, Mass.; Sunday, August 5th. subscriptions the najority of following those printed at Rev. Palfrey Perkins, Weston, Mass.; total has (d) in bonds of 130 office. last year Mr. George Sunday, August 12th, Rev. Earl M. denominations Very who has been in Washington the Wilbur, Berkeley, Calif.; Sunday, August scriber! by surrence and part of the past winter, has had 19th, Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, Cam- tically the whole of the work of preparing the series. bridge, Mass.; Sunday, August 26th. permanent resulents booklet referred to above has an Rev Henry Hallam Saunderson, Boston, The committee with introduction by Mr. Dorr and also has an Mass.; Sunday, September 2nd, Rev. total article on the geology of Mt. Desert Haughton Schumacher, Hingham, Mass. of the year when condensed by him from a Government Sunday, September 9th, to be announced town than 12 ANY report by Nathaniel S. Shaler and a later later. success the William Morris Davis operation above is number four in the series from all Number Ave on "The Park as a Plant architect, who drew from his summers at The sunctuary and Wild Garden Tract is the island, the home influences that sur- Liberty also ready The Government has just rounded him, and the bent of his own days arrangements for the publishing mind, a love of nature and a will for public his bit the summer months of a joint service that enabled him to leave behind monthly and Forest Service pamphlet on the him, when his day closed suddenly in the The de Monta Park and the White fullness of his early manhood. an endur- Forests. Mr. Dorr is to have ing monumen't in important public work the Boy of this work for the Government initiated and in ideas that other men results (1.V the matter is already under way. could make their own and built into their of the drive to 1x upon a larger scale and will work in turn. What he then said cannot be issued in an edition of fifty be better said today; the importance of Had !... 11 will be fully and well action which he foresaw so clearly and in illustrated and the aim is to make it a felt so strongly has only become more would been HV of permanent literature upon the evident and more urgent with each times would local banis ha tract it describes. passing year. The first pamphlet on the Monument : Another contribution in the pamoblet wealthy contains an article on "The Coast of considents but. the You Maine by Charles Eliot the landscape is on "The Woods of Mt. Desert" and is news of Ra: Hachor and near gardener This article was written some written by Edward L. Rand, secretary resorts have on our Thirty years ago. In his introduction to of the New England Botanical society All would have need m the article Mr. Dorr says: and author of "The Flora of Mt. Desert. money and if would have han amay "The following description of the The illustrations are typical Mt. Desert the subscription to 1.4% here lound Island scenes showing the wonderful Maine coast and appeal for the preserva- At the becausing of the most his Lion of its beauty and freedom to the combination of sea and mountain seen can pupie is surrence public in appropriate tracts was written ery. Dr. Abbe's relief map also ADDRESS using all Choic county manuary and is and gives one not familiar with this somewhat ampler form-nearly 30 socie People on alas hury hn years ago by Charles Eliot; the landscape section a good conception of the rugged under heavy