1919 Dorr Timeline it 1920 1919,1920. Charles W. Eliot -Three new N.P. for mother. Acadic, 6. Cangula Zion. - aug. of Man War - Annual Report Standards Brook Valley NPS efforts to buing - Barner control (6/20) GPO into conformity (7/3/19) - 1st N.P.Annual Report Drive - Park Status begins 2/26/19. desciency Commercial "excellent". Eagle/Beaver/Truis /Park office -Park Rangers activity (5/7). b able (9/1) Photographic work -Parhactivity and photos - GBP letter tota (12/9). His (2/19) mather in D.C. follow attending Denver - -GBD to # Albrucat (2/17) Park Conference invester Pats re winter at ANP. Dorr Nov. Park Road Develop. at oldform on deer & beavers. Dors's covere@ surviving Don request for stipend for dicunstitu f Park plan Input mirtality issues force mr. Hadley (4/16), See Jr. letter to Charles Simpson (11/7) also foodwritten letter debrary inte nse in detail@ GBD's Halley road concerns, refering to Dorrispon. - LNP Annual pph 1920 (#/9/1) forgetfulness and of 3 sources of all not dead's Ja lost. titles/Part office feavers/ Abbel - Lincaln Cromwell note to JORET (8/24) reporting on Amphetheater tour EGBO, : - Dotting (9/20) le D.W Cuylen's clan that loads shoved be Charles Elist, + JDRJr. ad others. open to all vehicles. - See e 1920 Easts -Seal Harton VIS. report of - Master List of JORJr. Gifts to U.S. Joseph allen (9/3) re support - Allen to Hadbey (ie b) re Hadley's first and oppositia to road develop is employment by 6 BY. by Jr. + need for 66070 get - GBD to allight (8/15) u eagles and pure approval of full plan/ - Comm. E President Wilson. fear of concersion 6BD to albright (9/26/16 17th cosettlement 1 BHT (9/8) lengther report of of MDI and cross atop thyray Squalion Nt. VIS/Commus, response to Road expension, Inc where -Judge Peters Congressival d fease of montague Reportant letter forTJRFT. establishment of LNP (2/17) of Stebbins letter to Jr. 8/28/20 -Tillman - Report in Congressivel Record of real estate transaction where passage (3/7). B Farrand involved. Not@ANP. 1 GBD hosts first vist of AMC - GBO handwritten length letter (12/29) This is 1919, ru 1920 (7/2/19) from Boston to Jr. re rate but -6BD host FL Olmsted (7/30/19) mostg@ bridle path in Ban Hurbor + FY22 fundina. 1919 1920 - dorr (3/16) in West (1919) translator. Eliot to Jr. ((9/3) that no one - - Dair to mother (3/3) ri Tour funding of knows what lands Dor has 56500.to promate LNP. amassed for LNP/WGA. Wait -Commerce letter (9/15) to 6BD re Lafraver activets Dorr to write down this info. but chastizes Darr @ delay in report Alloright Impt. doe. needs Asst. Sup. -Jr. 1st goft of law to HeTPR - 6BD to mother(3/5) re local fish game. ass. (10/18/68) Beech Hill traet. Summary of donation 1959. - GBD to mother (3/25) u winter sports a MDI. Wildlife -Schilf to chm of House Appr. Comm. LNP -Abbey Rochefeller Atlantic Month (2/20) (411) express 880 pport for "Writer But Never Sent "article Familis-Atistos Elcot to Jr. (12/3) re Dom letter creat m re Seal Harbor culture. -Fr. donates lord for S.H.Village (peem (SHUIS) c Dorr's forg Farrand as dandscape archited = Schiff 1919 visit (BHT 9/20)r obit, - Schift Trail naming leased far View from P. Livingston - 6B0 to Jr. (12/29) on his 67thb-days -Jr. at feed Habor (710) re BHT. c ri acquisition of weatern lands. his father, 1st visit on 80th b day -Foulds CM 116) on Anyphetheater opportung Also Dorr's vision for carrier road extension 680 to Bond (4/9)on name changes of mountains. Nine page mens. 1 BHT attale (312c(53) on Had eg's retirement, see also (5/2) First held in 1919 as clerical person. Peace Tree Planting (7/30) - 6BD (1/2) eleven page letter to Jr. - Simpson to Jr. re Dorr's advice" re Dorr's road blgd. & and D.C. politics is battabor residents Empt. or intrusiveness in carriage road - GBD to Jr. (7/22) re carriage load pach developut pronoples construction, November 1919. - GBD to Jr. summary (12/9/19) Days expossion of 6BD kept he witho N.P.S. Canf in Denver's month earlier. -Death of Theodire Roosevett 1/6/19. Page l of 4. HARVARD ALUMNI BULLETIN 1919 303 is an honorable chair, filled by.. its latest through this intimate knowledge of the occupant with honor both to himself and principles both of sound and of aviation, to the University. As a teacher of physics, exercised first in France, where he was as an administrator, in the deanship of the serving as Harvard Exchange Professor, Graduate School of Applied Science, as a and later in Washington. His devotion to pioneer and acknowledged master of the this service, causing him to ignore, the de- difficult field of acoustics, he made for mands of his own physical well-being, himself a place of the highest academic doubtless hastened the untimely ending of distinction and held it so modestle that the his life. His adoption into the immediate mere naming of it after he is gone seems family of Harvard some years ago as an almost to partake of intrusion upon what honorary member of the class of 1886 was he kept inviolate. Yet his service to the so highly valued by Professor Sabine him- country must also be named, for it was self that the University and its sons may the important contribution of a scientist truly mourn him as one of their intrinsic to the processes of winning the war, fellowship. THEODORE ROOSEVELT BY MAJOR-GENERAL LEONARD WOOD, M.D., '84. T HEODORE ROOSEVELT'S services mocracy in danger, if not a democracy were never more needed by our dying. country than today. His death com- His voice has been raised on many is- Oct. 27,1858 ing at this time, perhaps the greatest crisis sues, sometimes in commendation, some- in our national life, is a calamity. times in criticism, but always with a pur- to In the consideration of the great issues pose single to the people's welfare. He of the moment his broad experience, clear hated shams, was intolerant of weakness Jan. 6, 1919 judgment, good sense, his comprehension and feared nothing so much as failure to of the issues, and his almost intuitive un- do his whole duty as he saw it. Many peo- derstanding of the sentiments of our people ple misjudged him, but no one who knew are all needed, as is his conscientious and him intimately ever failed to recognize fearless leadership. Theodore Roosevelt's that, right or wrong, his desire was for the voice has at times seemed to be the voice good of our people and the upholding of of one crying in the wilderness, but sound national policy. He felt that both whether listened to for the moment or not the individual and the nation should not his words have always rung true, voicing only be prompt to voice its disapproval of sound policies and pointing out safe lines injustice and wrong-doing, but should be of procedure. ready to back its righteous protest with He perhaps more than any man in pub- force if need be. In other words, it was lic life appreciated that true democracy not enough to protest against wrong, we means equality not only of opportunity must also use everything we have of force and privilege but also of obligation; that and strength to correct it. there can be no true democracy which It was my good fortune to have known does not welcome honest criticism and him long and intimately and to have had practise frank and fearless publicity. No an opportunity to see him under stress and one knew better than he that a democracy strain not only in times of war but in shunning publicity, resenting criticism and times of peace. He was a splendid ex- striving to limit free expression of opinion ample of clean and upright living and of on the part of press or people, is a de- strenuous endeavor. He believed that men Google UNIVERSITY 304 HARVARD ALUMNI BULLETIN STANDING, LEFT TO RIGHT-C MINOT WFLD. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, CHARLES G. WASHBURN, RALPH N. ELLIS, GEORCE GORHAM PETERS. SITTING-DR. CHARLES WARE. RICHARD M. SALTONSTAILL HENRY B. CHAPIN. Theodore Roosevelt, With a Group of Classmates While in College. should have not only clean, sound bodies tion which he had filled with ability and but also clean souls. As a leader he was in which he had exercised a very great fearless, direct and compelling. As a measure of power, to assume the duties subordinate he was frank and while dis- and responsibilities of Lieutenant-Colonel tinguishing between servility and subordi- of the First U. S. Volunteer Cavalry, or, nation was always a loyal and conscienti- as it came to be known, the Rough Riders. ous subordinate. He gave his opinion The interests of his men were his own. frankly and honestly and if his chief dif- He realized and lived up to the definition fered with him he accepted without dis- given by Socrates to Xenophon of the cussion and lived up to the orders re- ideal officer as one who looks after the ceived. welfare of his soldiers. He instinctively I happen to have been his military com- appreciated that, the less the soldier is able mander during the Spanish-American War, to protect himself because of his sub- and in all my experience in the army of ordinate position. the more the officer is something over thirty years I have not under obligation to look after his interests come in contact with an officer who more and welfare. He was a brave officer, never fully represented ideal military subordi- thinking of his own life, but always of his nation of the best type. Frank to express objective and of attaining it with as little his honest views when called for. as a loss as possible among his own men. He soldier always should be, fearless in look- defended his country in war as his sons ing out for the interests of his subordinates, have done in this war, and as he endeavor- he nevertheless was prompt and unfailing ed to do. Keen always to practise what he in carrying out the policy agreed upon. He preached, he sent his sons cheerfully to dropped without effort all that prestige the front. and having failed in his own ef- and influence which had surrounded him forts to go turned everything he had of as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, a posi- moral and spiritual strength into an effort Google from UNIVERSITY HARVARD ALUMNI BULLETIN 305 The Same Group in the Same Positions at the Twenty-fifth Reunion of the Class. in Commencement Week, 1905. to build up a vigorous prosecution of the character. His personal characteristics war, realizing that when you have to strike were charming. He was an embodiment of it is humane to strike hard. gentleness and consideration with subordi- He saw with a clear vision that the war nates and those in the humbler walks of was as much America's war as it was the life. If an engineer brough! him safely war of France and the European Allies. through a hard run he never failed per- He saw the far-reaching danger of German sonally to express his appreciation. There success. He realized that the quicker we was always that instinctive desire to make were in, the fewer men would die, the less those with whom he came in contact feel there would be of opportunity for that that they had done him a good turn, that kind of upheaval and unrest which comes they had been of real service, to impress when wars are too long drawn out. He upon them the dignity of labor and that realized that we must meet the organized the way really to dignify labor was to do strength of wrong-doing with the dis- one's task. no matter how humble, cheer- ciplined and united force of right. He fully, and thoroughly. A thousand times was a believer in preparedness. He knew I have seen him win the lasting affection that had we been ready to do our part in and regard of those with whom he came in the great struggle our protest would have contact by these little simple human acts been listened to and there would have been of appreciation and kindness. With a no war. but once the war was on and all snob, a cad, a faker, he was brusque, di- these things were but as water that had rect, and intolerant, as all honest men gone under the bridge, with his eyes to should be3 the front he did everything possible to aid No man had a finer family life. No in a vigorous conduct of the war. man was more devoted to home and family. He was after all a very human man, im- or more intolerant of loose living or of petuous and strong, with the defects and vulgar thinking. I never knew him to tell the strong points which come with such a a suggestive story, and I have never known Gougle 306 HARVARD ALUMNI BULLETIN anyone who really knew him and under- American ideals. With him no man could stood him even to attempt to tell one in be an American and something else. He his presence. He loved nature and under- saw in universal training for national ser- stood her varying moods. He loved the vice something which would fuse the di- wild places of the world and the animals verse elements which come into and make and the birds which inhabited them, and he up much of our population into one homo- understood them to an extent that few men geneous mass of Americanism. He saw in ever have. He enjoyed keenly a hard bout this training all together, shoulder to with the broadswords. giving and taking in shoulder, rich and poor, newcomer and the spirit of fair play and good sportman- native born, an influence toward better un- ship. Stiff rides across country, long derstanding and truer appreciation, a walks and hard runs through the ups democracy of service, a community of and downs of the banks of the Potomac, purpose, with its brotherhood of man. He and the rough bits of Rock Creek Park, saw in it the building up of a truer and a were sources of keen enjoyment and served better citizenship. He always stood ready to keep him in good condition, vigorous in to sacrifice everything for his country. He body and clear in thought. understood that none are fit to live who He dearly loved to gather his own are afraid to die. He was a many-sided children and those of his friends and take character, but all sides were good, as dif- them for long tramps along the river banks ficult to give a word picture of as it is to and through the bits of dark forest in the write a description of the Grand Canyon park, piloting them across the streams and or any great and complex thing. around bits of rocky cliffs. across little We have lost a great leader in the crisis valleys, using the trunks of fallen trees as of the nation's life. He has left us in his bridges, and bringing them in toward writings, in his work, in his precepts and nightfall through the woods. These ex- ideals clear guides for the future. Though cursions were to the children like voyages his voice is silent his spirit lives and will into an unknown land The streams they live to stir us to effort in times of public crossed were rivers and the bits of forest danger and to stimulate our righteous ef- were the unknown. These tramps were al- forts for good government, fair dealing. ways filled with little lessons and interest- and right living at all times. Wise leader, ing talks by which he taught the children true patriot, devoted husband and father, things he knew would interest them and the best type of American, such was Theo- would build up in them a love of nature dore Roosevelt. We can ill spare him in and an understanding of many things. these days. In his last message to us he He measured a man's Americanism by has left an inspiration and preached a the way he lived and measured up to lesson which we must heed. A VOICE FROM THE NINETIES BY GUY MURCHIE, '95. T HEODORE ROOSEVELT'S relation to were driven out and compelled to operate young men was as close as it was in- henceforth only in shady places. spiring. His fascinating, intrepid, It is not strange that so swift and virile convincing career made him their inevit- a leader should inspire young graduates of able leader. The torch he kept blazing all his own college. But the universality of his could see. Young men took an interest in appeal has touched the imaginations and their duties as citizens because of him, and hearts of young men in every continent. under his driving force corporation pre- He had fighting edge for friendship as well dominance in polities, winked-at customs as for righteousness. And from all his in finance, and all respectable corruptions towering gifts one may well pick out three Google Harvard Alumni Burletin 1919 ROOSEVELT By JOHN JAY CHAPMAN, '84. Lines read at the Roosevelt Memorial Meeting, Harvard Club of New York City, Feb. 9, 1919. Life seems belittled when a great man dies; The age is cheapened and time's furnishings Stare like the trappings of an empty stage. Ring down the curtain! We must pause, go home And let the plot of the world reshape itself To comprehensive form. Roosevelt dead! The genial giant walks the earth no more, Grasping the hands of all men, deluging Their hearts, like Pan, with bright Cyclopean fire That dizzied them at times, yet made them glad. Where dwells he? Everywhere! In cottages And by the forge of labor and the desk Of science. The torn spelling book Is blotted with the name of Roosevelt, And like a myth he floats upon the winds Of India and Ceylon. His brotherhood Includes the fallen kings. Himself a king, He left a stamp upon his countrymen Like Charlemagne. Yes, note the life of kings! A throne's a day of judgment in itself And shows the flaw within the emerald, For every king must seem more than he is. Ambition holds her prism before his eye, Burlesques his virtues, rides upon his car Clouded with false effulgence, till the man Loses his nature in a second self, Which is his rôle. Yet Theodore survived- Resumed his natural splendor as he sank Like Titan in the ocean. The great war Was all a fight for Paris-must she fall And be a heap of desolation ere Relief could reach her? Sad America Dreamed in the distance as a charméd thing Till Roosevelt, like Roland, blew his horn. Alone he did it! By his personal will. Alone-till others echoed-bellowing From shore to shore across the continent Like a sea monster to the sleeping seals Of Pribylov. Then, slowly wakening, The flock prepared for war. Twas just in time! One blast the less and our preparedness Had come an hour too late. Aye, traveller, Who wanderest by the bridges of the Seine, Past palaces and churches, marts and streets, Whose names are syllables in history, Twas Roosevelt saved Paris. There she stands! Look where you will-the towers of Notre Dame, The quays, the columns, the Triumphal Arch- To those who know, they are his monument. Google PRAISE FOR THE WILDERNESS WARRIOR "What an absolutely perfect match between subject and writer. Douglas Brinkley brings to this magnificent story of Theodore Roosevelt's crusade on behalf of America's national parks the same qualities that made T.R. SO fascinating a figure-an THE astonishing range of knowledge, a superb narrative skill, a wonderfully vivid writing style, and an inexhaustible energy. This is a major contribution to our understanding not only of Roosevelt but of the historic movement to save our wilderness." WILDERNESS -Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals "To understand America, you need to appreciate Teddy Roosevelt. Doug Brinkley WARRIOR brilliantly uses the lens of Roosevelt's love of nature to show why he is SO influential, fascinating, and relevant to our own times. This wonderful book is as vibrant as he was." -Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein "Our greatest conservation president, Roosevelt lived much of his life in, around, THEODORE ROOSEVELT and for nature-a fact that biographers have tended to ignore until Brinkley AND THE CRUSADE FOR AMERICA stepped forth. This new portrait of T.R. is one of the best we have. It is a grand portrait of a man and his era, rich in detail and infectious in enthusiasm." -Donald Worster, author of A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir "No president has been a greater champion of our natural world-especially its wildlife-than Theodore Roosevelt. Now that extraordinary force of nature has his DOUGLAS BRINKLEY own champion in Douglas Brinkley. This is a stirring account of the man who turned our attention to conservation and the many glories of our American landscape." -Ken Burns, coauthor of The War "Douglas Brinkley has brought us an important, deeply researched, compellingly readable, and inspiring story-how Theodore Roosevelt's poignant childhood love of nature grew into a fierce presidential commitment to preserve our national environment. No earlier historian and biographer has done such a splendid job of showing how much we all owe to T.R.'s activism as wilderness warrior. Exactly a century after his presidency, there could not be a better time to revisit and celebrate T.R.'s unfinished environmental legacy." -Michael Beschloss, author of Presidential Courage 2009. HARPER An Impront of Harpert CollinsPublishers www.harpercollins.com ISBN 078-0-04-056528-1 LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK AT THE REMARKS ARRIVIES OF HON. JOHN A. PETERS OF MAINE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FEBRUARY 17, 1919. WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1919 106075-19302 3 increase it to 20,000 in the not distant future, all without cost to the Government, through the continuance of the public- spirited efforts of the farsighted and patriotic gentlemen (pre- eminently including Mr. George B. Dorr, of Boston and Bar REMARKS Harbor) who have been devoting their energy to this matter OF for years. The park already is an important national project, and its HON. JOHN A. PETERS. possibilities are immense. It is the only national park area established for the use and enjoyment of the people east of the Rocky Mountains LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK. and the only national park area in the country bordering on The next business on the Calendar for Unanimous Consent the ocean and giving people contact with the sea or view of was the bill (S. 4957) to establish the Lafayette National Park coastal scenery. in the State of Maine. It is in the heart of the most beautiful and picturesque The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the pres- scenery on the Atlantic coast, if not in the world. It includes ent consideration of the bill? as its dominating feature the highest summit on the Atlantic Mr. STAFFORD. Reserving the right to object, personally, shore. It is the only spot where the mountains meet the sea. It I have no objection to creating the Mount Desert Park or the is in a climate eagerly sought by thousands for its invigorat- Sieur de Monts National Monument, situated on Mount Desert ing and health-giving qualities in summer, autumn, and even Island, as a national park, but I question the propriety of giv- winter. This New England section constitutes by far the great- ing the name of Lafayette to a small monument such as this, est recreational asset in the country and the most available, rather than having Lafayette's name attached to some large lying within reach by motor, train, and boat from the most national park which might more fittingly express the obligation densely peopled section of the United States and of over half of our Government to that great revolutionary patriot. of its total population. This shore is being rapidly taken up Mr. PETERS. Mr. Speaker, if there were any larger park in private occupation by people coming from every eastern and which the gentleman desired to have honored by this name, I central portion of the country, and in a few years' time this tract, now nationally owned, will be the single spot of beauty on can see force in his objection, but there is none, and there are it freely open to the public and devoted to a public use. many reasons why this is an appropriate name. This land which is the subject of this bill and is of about 5,000 acres in It will furnish recreation and pleasure to different types of people to an extent greater than any other park possible in this area now, and is to be increased by gifts to the Government to 10,000 or 20,000 acres, has very interesting historical relations country. Is a man interested in geology? Within the area of this with the French, having been discovered by Champlain in the park are some of the most ancient and interesting mountain very early part of the seventeenth century. and rock formations in the world, clearly exhibiting to the The people interested in this measure desired to change the trained eye of the geologist changes of level of the coast and name to Lafayette National Park. While I personally believe the later movement of the ice sheet, which stripped from the that the name of Mount Desert National Park might be more land its ancient soil, wore down the hills which had been appropriate and more distinctly local, I deferred in my judg- ment to that of others interested in this matter. For that reason pushed up, cut the valleys, and formed the innumerable lakes and ponds, now filled with the clearest and purest of water. I hope the gentleman will not insist on his suggestion that the Is a man interested in history? This land contains the site, name be changed by amendment. in 1613, of the earliest French missionary settlement upon the Mr. CRAMTON. Will the gentleman yield? continent. It was discovered by Champlain in 1604, who first Mr. PETERS. Certainly. landed and named these mountains, which for more than a cen- Mr. CRAMTON. It should be noted in the statement of Secre- tury remained the property of France as a portion of her ancient tary Lane that this proposed park is now the third among all Province of Acadia, granted in 1688 by Louis XIV to Cadillac, national-park areas in the number of people visiting it annually, the founder of Detroit and early governor of Louisiana, passed something like 50,000. Mr. STAFFORD. I agree with the mover of the bill that by English conquest into the possession of Massachusetts and the name "Mount Desert" would be more appropriate. by her given to her last colonial governor, Sir Francis Bernard, as a reward for patriotic service. Mr. PETERS. I hope the gentleman will not insist upon it. Mr. STAFFORD. I am not going to enter an objection to the Is a man interested in botany and forestry? This particular spot, for some reason, through a combination of soil and cli- consideration of the bill just because I think the name of Lafay- ette is not fittingly connected with this island park. mate, is more earnest in its effort to grow things than any Mr. PETERS. It is a larger and more important park than other place in that fertile section of the country. It is covered remarks of the gentlemen might indicate. It is essentially a by an extraordinary variety of trees, shrubs, and flowers, and park and not a monument, and that is one reason why this bill capable of sheltering and nurturing many others. Is a man interested in wild life? This country is rich in should pass. Having now an area of 5,000 acres, it is hoped to bird life, and this particular spot under national management 2 106075-19302 100075-19302 4 could be made a bird sanctuary of large importance, lying, as it does, directly in the course of the Atlantic coast migration route to the great summer breeding regions of the north. It was formerly a favorite haunt of moose, deer, and beaver, which need protection only to become again abundant. Trout thrive very plentifully in the lakes and streams, and it is alone among our national-park lands in the admirable opportunities it offers for deep-sea fishing. For the tired professional man, business man, or mechanic it offers unexcelled facilities for recreation and health, walking and climbing its paths and trails, breathing the ozone of the forests mingled with the breath of the sea. Secretary Lane has called attention to the fact that the creation of this park was not the result of chance but of care- ful, thought-out intention. No better way of extending into the crowded eastern regions of the country the immediate benefits of our national-park system could have been devised. The bringing of this park into the national-park system will be of inestimable benefit to future generations. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection? There was no objection. Mr. PETERS. Mr. Speaker, I move that the bill be consid- ered in the House as in Committee of the Whole. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maine moves that the bill be considered in the House as in Committee of the Whole. The question is on agreeing to that motion. The motion was agreed to. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the bill for amendment. The Clerk read the bill, as follows: Be it enacted, etc., That the tracts of land, easements, and other real estate heretofore known as the Sieur de Monts National Monu- ment, situated on Mount Desert Island, in the county of Hancock and State of Maine, established and designated as a national monument under the act of June 8, 1906, entitled "An act for the preservation of American antiquities," by presidential proclamation of July 8, 1916, is hereby declared to be a national park and dedicated as a public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people under the name of the Lafayette National Park, under which name the aforesaid national park shall be entitled to receive and to use all moneys heretofore or here- after appropriated for Sieur de Monts National Monument. SEC. 2. That the administration, protection, and promotion of said Lafayette National Park shall be exercised under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior by the National Park Service, subject to the provision of the act of August 25, 1916, entitled 'An act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes," and acts additional thereto or amendatory thereof. Snc. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to accept in behalf of the United States such other property on said Mount Desert Island, including lands, easements, buildings, and moneys, as may be donated for the extension or im- provement of said park. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the third reading of the Senate bill. The Senate bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the third time, and passed. On motion of Mr. PETERS, a motion to reconsider the vote whereby the bill was passed was laid on the table. 106075-19302 0 16. Acadia National Fut Page Act of February 26, 1919, establishing the Lafayette National Park 215 Act of January 19, 1929, providing for extension of boundary limits of Ldfsyetta National Park in Maine and for change of name of said park to the Acadia Nacional Park 215 Act of May 23, 1930, authorising transfer of former naval radio station, Seawall, Maine, as an addition to Acadia National Park 216 An Act To establish the Lafayette National Park in the State of Maine, approved February 26, 1919 (10 Stat. 1178) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- tives of the United States of America in Congress as- sembled, That the tracts of land, easements, and other Lafayette National Park, real estate heretofore known as the Sieur de Monts Na- Makes tional Monument, situated on Mount Desert Island in Steve de Ments Kational the county of Hancock and State of Maine, established Monument, changed to. and designated as a national monument under the Act of June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An Act for the preservation of American antiquities," by presi- dential proclamation of July eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby declared to be a national park and dedicated as a public park for the benefit and enjoy- ment of the people under the name of the Lafayette Na- tional Park, under which name, the aforesaid national park shall be entitled to receive and to use all moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated for Sieur de Monts National Monument. (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 341.) Sao. 2. That the administration, protection, and pro- by Kational motion of said Lafayette National Park shall be exer- Park Service. cised under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior Vol. ss, a 888. by the National Park Service. subject to the provision See 9. of the Act of August twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled "An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes," and Acts additional thereto or amendatory thereof. (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 342.) SEC. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to accept in behalf of the United States such other property on said Mount Desert Acceptance of dental leads, Island, including lands, easements, buildings, and etc. moneys, as may be donated for the extension or improve- ment of said park. (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 348.) Ax Ast To provide for the extension of the boundary limits of the Lafayette National Park in the State of Maine and for change of maine of said park to the Acadis National Park, ap- proved January 19, 1929 (65 Stat. 1083) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent- atives of the United States of America in l'ongress w 71 DAK NARBOR AND BAR HARBOR RECORD BAR HARBOR, MAINE, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1919 R PRESIDENT WILSON SIGNED LAFAYETTE IANT NATIONAL PARK BILL ON THURSDAY Winter Bar Final Step in Forming New National Park-Name is Now Official and Sieur de Monts Monument no Longer Exists-New Park tim to Contains Five Thousand Acres on Mt. Desert Island the sum of President Wilson signed the Lafayette The new national park on Mt. Desert Residents, summer residents, lovers Of National Park Bill Thursday morning. Island includes five thousand acres of of Mt. Desert Island, here and every- Bar president thus took the last step in mountain, lake and seashore scenery, where, will be more than delighted to enj the creation of the new national park on that, in the opinion of men and women know that the last step has been taken ann Mt. Desert Island which is the first who have traveled around the world, by President Wilson and that these lands eve national park east of the Mississippi and is unsurpassed. Thousands of other have passed forever int the care of the at only national park on the Atlantic acres will soon be added to the park. nation. The proposition has passed this The following telegram was re- The scenic beauty of the park is extra- through several stages before the dream enj celved Thursday morning from George ordinary and alone enough to more than of a national park came true. It origi- yea Dorr, who has worked for years to warrant the dedication of these acres as nated with the formation of a-corpora- ade this national park a reality and to a public park for the benefit and enjoy- tion known as the Hancock County but whose untiring efforts the new park owes ment of the people. Trustees of Public Reservations. This in existence. But, added to the natural beauty of corporation was organized in 1901 for Bar Washington, Feb. 27. the country are historical associations the express purpose of forming a public Hay The President signed the Lafayette that make this the ideal place for the reservation. In 1916 it became the mee National Park Bill along with that national park that is to bear the name of Sieur de Monts National Monument givir for the Grand Canyon National that illustrious Frenchman, whose name This week President Wilson signed the A Park this morning. The name is has come to be the symbol of the tra- bill making it the Lafayette National the official. ditional friendship and common idealism Park. The development of the proposi- thir Signed GEORGE B. DORR. of France and America. It is lost tion to this point has taken nearly twenty tho Lafayette National Park Bill was fitting and proper that this park, which years and during these years while others Cas expoduced in the United States Senate is to be a monument to the close associa- have worked for the same cause, George brou Frederick Hale of Maine and tion of the two great nations, should be B. Dorr, is the man to whom not only cost taxsed on Oct. 3, 1918. An identical located on the Island of Mt. Desert, Mt. Desert Island, but the nation, owes and introduced in the House of Rep- which was discovered by a Frenchman, the greatest debt for without his tireless appe revertatives by Congressman Peters and named by a Frenchman, settled by a efforts it might have been many more not unanimously passed on Monday, Frenchman and for a long time owned years before a national park on Mt. floor signature of the President by France. The early history of Mt. Desert Island would have become a inte: was required to complete Desert is an interesting chapter from the reality. who forming the new national early history of the Old France in the had New America. show cated W HARBOR BOY CECELIE ORDERED BAR HARBOR HOSPITAL INTHIS DIVISION by a TO OPEN MARCH 10 diffici chan Philadelphia Public Ledger has comment on the mark of TO BAR HARBOR The Bar Harbor Medical & Surgical Way Hospital will be opened on March 10, SO va Division. This will 1919. The hospital has been thoroughly must particular interest to Bar Harbor Statement by Cong. Peters in Speech fumigated, floors varnished, ceilings cal- distir for this is the division to which for "A Navy to Match cimined, walls and other portions of the state Moran, 2 well known Bar Har- the Country' building painted. maid YEAR BAR HARBOR MAINE, SATURDAY. MARCH 8, 1919 FIVE CEN ART NEW TOWN ME MCA APPR Teami Will Small Numb Matches Meeting-1 composed of Selectm nine three well known matches nights a week. the Cadillacs Bar Harbor's annu from was over in record ti team driving A bleacher officers for the ensuing elected and the seven cheered on the Rodick was high the warrant disposed o worth and also ing that opened at ter tail pinfall. The morning was adjourne the week ahead Tuesday afternoon: : of money appropriate Austin, Cleaves $179,407, which is $27, amount raised in 1918 k Capt., Brewer, than the amount raise Cupt., Goodwin, There are few change officers for the com Small, J. Smith. Emery and Charles reg Kelly, Rodick. the board of selectm Dept. B. Webber, are filled by Bert Y Copp. Lester P. Cax Lawson, Lear. by Orient E. Brewer H. Smith, Hall the road commission. Capit. Paine, was elected to fill th board of assessors, ma Hudsons tion of H. D. Wake de Coles municipal officers are VE Cadillacs year just closed. in VE Pierce- The attendance at Arrows meeting was unrusually THE are Rece undoubtedly due in la VE Coles lack of contests for o uds VM Peerleas but 327 ballots cast for monthly of the Nearly every articl directors will be had been carefully g filding Tuesday MR. GEORGE B. DORR AND HON. FRANKLIN K. LANE AT SUMMIT OF CADIALLAC (FORMERLY GREEN) MOUNTAIN warrant committee, W 1:45 o'clock. mendations nearly a adopted by the vot less than two hundre COMPARED Town Expresses Thanks to Mr. George B. Dorr during the second da TEN YEARS when appropriations were passed. The pr inon of the total The following resolution was introduced at the annual town meeting tions were as follows m of Bar Harbor Tuesday by Fred C. Lynam and was carried by. unanimous rising vote in be of interest General government as. Whereas Mount Desert Island will be eminent- persistent, intelligent work, carried on under the Town debt PPROPRIATION Interest 147,556 ly benefited by the establishment in its midst of a most adverse circumstances. State Aid Road 247,220 National Park. Its tree, plant and animal life He has overcome obstacles that no other friend Poor 368,881 will be protected, the approaches to its scenic 181,115 of this section would have commanded the courage Common schools Industrial education: 150,092 beauty improved and increased, its natural beau- to overcome, and has finally secured for us and Educational administra 142,275 ties advertised to the world through tens of for our posterity the Lafayette National Park Repairs at rural school 148,700 High school 177,358 thousands of cuts, leaflets, and pamphlets issued on Mount Desert Island. Board of Health 185,152 by the Federal Government, and the Island We regard the achievement as a crowning event Fire department 151,980 benefited in ways too many to enumerate. in a life, SO much of which has been devoted to Police 778,407 Kindergarten Therefore, Resolved, that we, the inhabitants the interests of Bar Harbor. Memorial Day 3. E. St. will of Bar Harbor, in Town Meeting assembled, wish Resolved that a copy of this resolution be sent Sewer repairs Water Londay evening, to extend our most cordial, most appreciative to Mr. Dorr and be published in the Bar Harbor Repairs or roads and b BER will be con- tes. There will thanks to Mr. George B. Dorr for his tireless, and Bangor papers. Sprinkling Repairing Ocean Drive efreshments will Street lighting Garbage removal CAPT. STRATTON GIVES TALK PATRIOTIC PAGEANT HAYSEED DANCE AT D has recently BEFORE WOMAN'S CLUB AT GIRLS FRIENDLY HALL NORTHEAST HARBOR There was but little B.H.T. 3/8/19 Rg. lof3 FIVE CENTS A COPY NUMBER 244 TOWN MEETING OVER TUESDAY- APPROPRIATIONS OF $179,407 Small Number of Voters Present at Annual Meeting-H. Copp and B. H. Young New Selectmen-Orient Brewer New Road Commissioner Bar Harbor's annual town meeting carried as recommended by the warrant was over in record time this year, the committee. This thousand dollars will officers for the ensuing year having been be used under the direction of B. H. elected and the seventy-one articles of Young, one of the selectmen, to mail and the warrant disposed of so that the meet- distribute literature that has already ing that opened at ten o'clock Monday been printed and for such other purposes morning was adjourned at three-fifteen as he may see fit to use it for. Tuesday afternoon. The total amount A proposition for the town to buy the of money appropriated this year was Nickerson, Spratt & Greeley lot, so- $179,407, which is $27,000 more than the called, on West street, to be used in the amount raised in 1918, but $16,000 less disposal of garbage, was turned down. than the amount raised in 1917. It was voted to raise $3,500 for the pur- There are few changes in the municipal pose of paying for the disposal of garbage, officers for the coming year. Julien the contract to be awarded by the select- Emery and Charles Green retire from men. Robert McKay was the lowert the board of selectmen. Their places bidder for this contract and will receive are filled by Bert Young and Harry it. Copp. Lester P. Carter was defeated The voters decided that it was not by Orient E. Brewer for re-election to advisable to raise $5,400 for the purpose the road commission. John Suminsby of securing the services of the Boston was elected to fill the vacancy on the symphony players for a series of daily board of assessors, made by the resigna- concerts here during the coming summer. tion of H. D. Wakefield. The other Fred C. Lynam reviewed the proposition municipal officers are the same as in the and spoke in the highest terms of the year just closed. orchestra, but advised against the town The attendance at this year's town raising money for the purpose of paying meeting was unusually small. This was these players. Mr. Lynam would like. undoubtedly due in large measure to the to see the players here, but would like lack of contests for office. There were for-the expense to be carried by private but 327 ballots cast for municipal officers. subscriptions. The sum of two thousand Nearly every article in the warrant dollars was raised to pay the expense of had been carefully gone over by the a series of thirty-six concerts by the MOUNTAIN warrant committee, which made recom- Bar Harbor band. mendations nearly all of which were The largest single appropriation was adopted by the voters. There were for general repairs of roads and bridges. procent This was for $37,747 and will be used for tion of H. D. Wakeheld The other municipal officers are the same PLS in the and spoke in the highest terms of the year just closed. orchestra, but advised against the town 19.20F3 The attendance at this year's town raising money for the purpose of paying meeting was unusually small. This was these players. Mr. Lynam would like undoubtedly due in large measure to the to see the players here, but would like lack of contests for office. There were for-the expense to be carried by private but 327 ballots cast for municipal efficers. subscriptions. The sum of two thousand Nearly every article in the warrant dollars was raised to pay the expense of had been carefully gone over by the a series of thirty-six concerts by the MOUNTAIN warrant contmittee, which made recom- Bar Harbor band. mendations nearly all of which were The largest single appropriation was adopted by the voters. There were for general repairs of roads and bridges. less than two hundred voters present This was for $37,747 and will be used for during the second day of the meeting a great many different pieces of road when appropriations totalling $179,000 work. dost passed. The principal appropria- The town accepted the report of the tions were as follows: warrant committee, not to buy a com- bination chemical and hose truck this General government $ 8,400 year. n under the Town debt 15,000 $5,000 was raised for work on the Interest 7,500 Ocean Drive from the end of the State Aid Road 8,660 meadow in the gorge to the Radio Station other friend Poor 6,000 Another five thousand dollars will be Common schools 13,900 I the courage expended an the Harden Farm road Industrial education 1,700 I for us and between Cromwell's Harbor road and Educational administration 1,950 Kebo Brook bridge. The sum of $8,660 ational Park Repairs at rural schools 1,500 was raised in support of Article 71, by High school 12,800 which the town will take advantage of Board of Health 2,000 the five year clause in the provisions for owning event Fire department 9,700 state aid roads. This money will be Police 5,000 n devoted to expended on the Ocean Drive. Kindergarten 400 A resolution expressing the thanks of Memorial Day 250 the voters to George B. Dorr for his work ution be sent Sewer repairs 2,100 in securing the Lafayette National Park Water 3,600 Bar Harbor was introduced by Fred C. Lynam and Repairs on roads and bridges 37,747 8,000 was passed by a unanimous rising vote. Sprinkling The resolution appears on page one. Repairing Ocean Drive 5,000 Following is a complete report of the Street lighting 8,500 annual meeting giving the action taken Garbage removal 3,500 AT on each article of the warrant: EAST HARBOR There was but little discussion of any The meeting was called to order by of the articles in the warrant. There W. H. Sherman, town clerk, at ten o'clock d to be the biggest was some little discussion of the appro- in the forenoon on Monday, March 3d, f the winter took priation of one thousand dollars for ad A. D. 1919. Warrant and constable's food House or the vertising the town but finally an appro- return read by the town clerk. l was the fourth priation of one thousand dollars was (CONTINUED ON PAGE 7) Although it was d as in past years om start to finish, SPRING Search the Whole stify. In fact. no Universe sful dance of this Northeast. You will find nothing to compare for pureness with < a part in this hoe- lines and watched KEBO ded to produce a Mount Kebo Spring Water follows: "this ere kome to hour Endorsed by the leading physicians as "pure, anse which is two HARBOR palatable, and portable in the highest degree" in ble notes for the same. le 65. To see if the town will that the State Aid money, as referred Trypheca Higgies have remained Pg. locate a fire hydrant on Roberts to in Art 71, be expended on the Otter after W visit to Lamoide 3 of near Roberts Square. Cree's road instead of on the Eagle Lake Cast. E. B. Salisbury is 1: That the selectment and fire road, as previously designated by ICE is home who a sore leg. e authorized to locate 3 hydrant selectives. Wallace Stanley DES returned erts avenue or Roberts Square to RESOLUTION: Introduced by F. C. from Indian Point where be at the intent of Art. 64. Lynam: WHEREAS, Mount Desert employed during the winter le 65. To see if the town will Island will be eminently benefited by the Higgins sell the schoolhouse in the Knox establishment in its midst of or National Miss Myrle Thomas ass so-called, and authorize the Park Its tree, plant and animal life Boston from where site was 02/00 en to negotiate the sale and trans- will be protected, the approaches to its care for the family in their recest he same. scenic beauty improved and increased Miss S. D. Bailey of Bar Harto i: That the selectmen be and its natural beauties advertised to the the seekend guest of Mrs. 1. A. eby authorized and instructed to world through tens of thousands of cuts, the past week. schoolhouse referred to in Art. 65, leaflets and pamphlets issued by the Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Jarian are eir judgment it seems for the best Federal Government, and the Island receiving congratulations an the of the town. benefited in ways too many to enumer- birth of a baby boy. ate. Therefore, le 66. To see if the town will RESOLVED That we the inhabitants raise a sum of money to pay of Bar Harbor, in Town Meeting ac 's' Aid as provided by Chapter223 sembled, wish to extend our most cordial, DR. J. B. ELLS ublic Laws of 1917. most appreciative thanks to Mr. George d: That the town vote to raise B. Dorr, for his tireless, persistent, of $900 in support of Art. 66. intelligent work, carried on under the DENTIST le 67. To see if the town will most adverse circumstances. authorize the selectment to sell 3/18/19 He has overcome obstacies that no nsfer any property for which it other friend of this section would have Offices over the Bouquet Millinery Store eeds acquired by sale of property commanded the courage to overcome, Corner Main and Cottage Sts. es, and to execute the proper and has finally secured for us and for our opp. Gonya's Drug Store or transfer of same. posterity the Lafayette National Lark 1: That the selectment be and on Mount Desert Island. by authorized to carry out intent We regard the achievement as a crown- Office Hours: 8 a m. to 5 p. m. poses set forth in Art. 67. ing event in a life, so much of which has le 68. To see what action the been devoted to the interests of Bar ill take in reference to the pur- Harbor. Classified Advertisements the Nickerson, Spratt & Greeley RESOLVED. That a copy of this reso- To Late for Classification -called, extending from West lution be sent to Mr. Dorr and be pub- O the shore, to be used in connec- lished in the Bar Harbor and Bangor WANTED-Anyone having a two hor th its garbage disposal and raise papers. cart for sale is requested to write = of money for the same. Unanimously carried by rising vote. giving description and price of car following motion was lost by a All of the articles of the warrant having Frank Andrews, Eden, Maine. 95 No to 55 Yes. on: That the selectmen be and by authorized and empowered to from the owners, the Nickerson, Greeley lot, so-called, situated north side of West street and west Hats 4:20 of the Clark Coal Company, it of distinction strip of land about 47 feet wide feet long, extneding from West to the shore, together with all easements, appurtenances and Lamson - Hubbard cluding all buildings thereon, large hay storage house, for the $10,000, provided however the will give to the town a good and Sold By N. HILLSON & SONS title to said land, and to raise of $10,000 for the purchase of either by assessment or to issue TO DENT Ellsworth, Maine. March 31st, 1919. Mr. George B. Dorr, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorr:- I don't know your exact address but should be glue to know 15. Mr. Knowlton writes me that we have movel into : fine new office, #401, which is on the other side next the elevator. It seems that Mr. Knowlton has refrainet from hanging uc on the walls any or the old Neps as he is writing for some of the enlarged pictures of the park. I don't think he understanda that's were to weit unsil I picked out some, or, come to think of it, did I leave it to you to pick them out? I am not cartain bour that. I shall be glad if you will put right on the 1 point. Yourn very truly, [J.A.Petors] address 1 Somerset Club, [4/3/1919] Boston. Dear M Peles, I was Wondan, whiseyn were I am My dely he Ralla how, When alwaysu safe address treath you, but I quest Wh on Shirth to how 4nd for a few Hon John A. Peters Papers. Dorr Estate correspondence. 2 days. and after that am planning to come down by mour to Ran Main. I want this the ronh aim with win Jimen information Motorists Just now ] am In the midel of the 5 5 Sompreet Club, Boston. 11 by 11" and are lu larged you a 65 to plate think thin u good Logs, ra good lulangement - not loving quality or Does this meet you hm ? (2 helt him do you plate that them on you wall, Drugh N Ground 2/3 Mow many would you like, M you Our we ? (4) Und Would ym like them mounted is pasted Whm paper, show a Mr Worda (5) Wood them ? And invo B Somerset Club, Boston. probaber or Culau, make-uh of our of Committee Gillettin ant wortz is Mondell also If lu out, fill leads N and what new Refablice member will Count li Out Ou the Refublica Lids, q May Urit Gellett, Memdell, d Ref. Minnit, 1 If layely a lew Committee Who, bythe the affirmate the but Committee It dow byth Chairman of the Ulueral Committee,or how 2 ENGINEERS CLUB BOSTON [April 5,2019] Wean m Peters, m King x Than a Con- fereace about you picture; selected a number that I already had here (the Sam I had W Washing to las yes and Sent them down M wockham to munt Ellsuntt assom this is down, be will Wake Other for Washington littridu plicati these or Substituting alleres 1. 2 ENGINEERS CLUB BOSTON as ymarch I anote Many Vegan asking this to take workliam over t Ill you Was were peady, It that he Could tall Ollu list you the you plan for fastion Ou the wall I want to get them placed So they ailt Show their beat, Valeo to that tue Cau get than off again Substitute others at Washington topicially for him to 1. 3 ENGINEERS CLUB BOSTON We need to devise a good Syllaw so that Oltain to will want t yet From from you at trashington, but When thin Wall The abb the make a fal exhibit there W that I luclose a newspafer Cut they about itu Fedual good good foods friend_ The athly Our, our need la Great, NI did tool 4 ENGINEERS CLUB BOSTON ful have take hote af the ta thing 6 Other maltus of wh had the Ratalidin National there would Something for that, : for for road development Jasked the Ruiel people this, to baue the name when Our list Rul the av ENGINEERS CLUB BOSTON Motor referen the worg in the best that dow Writin it about the eltia Vestim The Sanding Carl fill has ftill Ellsworth, Meine. April 7th, 1919. Mr. George B. Dorr, Somerset Club, Boston, lisss. Dear Mr. Dorr:- I am here and chall be here until Congress meets again except for n recess ry brief absences. (I am sorry you are comins down in emotor with the idea of publishing the information you obta in touching the roads. The t would be a misfortune from which we would not recover for sometime. Judgine by the condition of the-ronio arount her the less you as y about them the better.) They told me down to my garage here thr t your people have sent some specific tiona which call for 8 Dodge oar. We only soll the Buick which is C much better our than the Dodo The people in Washington would got better value for 8 Buick. They should get onto their job. You are very gool to take 80 much trouble about the pictures. The size suita me first rate. The enlargement, I think, in in good proportion. (i) Werwill put them on the wall in groups. (3) I would like F set for my use in Ellaworta and one for my use in Washington in the now office. (4) I should like them mounted. (5) Leave with of border to the artist or other suproselly intel igent person. (8) We will fastinri them to the walls by posting them up. (?) Yes, this will make mounting necessary. Nobody knows when the next session will Dc. I shoul guesa slightly before the first of June. 2. I will enclose you E list of Republich adeignments on committees which will give you the in- mendor form tion about the Appropria tions Com ittee. Of the new members, Crampton, Wason, Magee and Tinkham are quite special friends, of nine. Of the 01: members Slemp is a Consum. very special friend. Good, the Chairmen, I know some- what and the also applie to French and Cannon. / The two bottom men on the Committee are strangers to mc but on the whole I-feel - that I am very well set in with the Committee. Neither Gillett nor Mondell will be a member The chairman, I believe, will appoint the suc- committees. I hope you are well and that I shall see you down here before long. Yours very truly, Page l of9 LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK Boston, Mass., April 9, 1919. Dear Mr. Bond: I have been in conference with President Eliot, my associate in the establishment of the Lafayette National Park. He is very warmly interested in the change of mountain names made by the United States Geographic Board on Mount Desert Island, in connection with it, and feels - as does every one else whom I have seen here - that a very valuable piece of work in the way of edu- cative history for the people and of awakening them to the interest of the past has been accomplished by it. We are already planning to found a series of historic papers on it, which will go out widely, but first he wishes, and I with him, to complete it by two further changes, which he urges strongly - as does his son Samuel Eliot, of the Indian Board, who edited the History of Mount Desert and is our best authority, apart from the early narratives and records, on all connected with it in the past. The first of these changes is that of completing a cen- tral Indian group upon the Island, which we can base our Indian papers on, by changing the name of the mountain mass (which is but 9/3/20 Copy Sent to Rebecca Cale-Will, A.N.P. a single mass divided only by & shallow break, or rift), whose northern and southern portions are now known as Sargent and Jordan Mountains respectively, to Penobscot Mountain. The Penobscot tribe of Indians was one of the most powerful members of the widely extended Abnaki group at the time of the French occupation of Acadia. Their winter and spring home was in the neighborhood apparently of the Falls of the Penobscot River, at the head of tidal water, where Champlain ascended from Mount Desert Island, guided by them and searching for the fabulous Indian capital of Norumbega. But their summer and autumn residence was along the coast, on the shores of the island-sheltered waters, the bays and harbors, that stretch un- brokenly from Penobscot Bay to Frenchman's Bay. All along these, in favorable locations, there are deep mounds of clam and mussel shells, showing their camp-sites - which must have remained unchanged for centuries to judge by the mounds' depth. These Indians, of the Penobscot tribe, took the American side in the Revolutionary Tar and were given in reward a definite political position in the State - Massachusetts then, but equally to- day in Maine - being represented of right by a delegate always in the legislature; and they were given a home also, called Oldtown, on an island in the river, just above the falls. They and the Passamaquoddy Indians, a smaller group, are all that remin in New England, with 2 independent organization, of the old Indian tribes. All the place names and water-names of Indian origin we have along the shore come from them: Kebo and Pemetic Mountains on the Island, Eggemoggin Reach, Penobscot Bay and River, Bagadnce, and others. In earlier hotel days at Bar Harbor they had an Indian summer village of their own, just outside the town, to sell their wares; and one still sees a few there every summer. also It was they, who greeted the French Jesuit Missionaries in such friendly fashion in 1613, when they started their colony of St. Sauveur at the foot of St. Sauveur Mountain, as we now have named it; and their chief Asticon, told of in the Jesuit Narratives, has given his name to the little village at the head of North East Harbor, where the trail from the latter starts to go up the mountain we ask now to have given their tribal name. This name I have looked up in Indian authorities and it means, with some obscurity as to its latter part, which may be locative, Flowing-over rocks, Rocks and Water in conjunc- tion. They were the Indians, in Indian parlance, who "lived where rocks and water met", whether at the falls or at the river's mouth - both having been suggested. Champlain, whom they guided up apparently through Eggemoggin Reach, speaks of the river as issuing in the vicinity of the Island, and the latter as a Rock-headland at its mouth. The mountain to which we seek to have the name given is 3 the second in height upon the Island, with an unbroken view west- ward to the Camden Hills beyond Penobscot Bay - a view that sweeps the whole basin of the Penobscot to Bangor, except as hills may hide it. The whole archipelago of islands also from Mount Desert Island westward, where one finds throughout the ancient Indian sholl mounds, lies spread out before it. I have written to the State Librarian at Augusta, Maine, to ask if by chance there might be any mountain bearing the tribal name, but he writes there is none. It has been given to the bay and river, to a town upon the upper bay, and a county on the river, but never to a mountain. Nor could any other mountain in the state look so broadly out over lands and waters that these Indians haunted, or that bear so many evidences still in arrow heads and shell mounds of their former presence. This mountain lies, massive and dominating, between the one to the eastward bearing the Indian name of Pemetic, conjectured to be that of the Island originally - not the mountain only - and that to the westward, on Somes Sound, to which your Board has already given at our suggestion the name of Norumbega, while Acadia and St. Sauveur Mountains lie across the Sound, the first also an Indian name originally. Our plan is to found on these, and especially on Penobscot Mountain, since so much is known and has been written concerning the Penobecot Indians, a study of their lives and ways, their food and the plants 4 they grew, their basket-work and other manufactures. The birch-bark cance was theirs peculiarly, the Massachusetts Indians using dug-outs of a much more clumsy mould, since they had no trees to yield the bark. The Director of the Peabody Museum at Harvard, who is one of the best authorities in the country on these Indians, has offered to assist us, as have also the people in the Smithsonian. W1 th regard to the present names of Jordan and Sargent, they are in the same category as Brown's, already changed to Norum- bega, and should, like it, by local usage be given the posséssive - being not Jordan Mountain, Sargent Mountain, but Jordan's Mountain, Sargent's Mountain, these being, when the early summer visitors first began to come and climb the hills, people who lived at their foot and were time associated with the mountains in the climbers' minds, President Eliot, who has lived at this mountain's southern foot himself for many years and knows the native people, feels strongly that no worthy or well-grounded association of a personal character is embodied in either of these names, as there was none in Brown's. The mountain is a superb one scenically, looking down on lakes to the east and north; and out over mingled land and water oceanward and to the west. It is a single mass, moreover, as I have said and as the map which I enclose will show, and the name Jordan has but recently been given to the part that bears it. It was not used when President Eliot first made his home upon the shore below - its only summer resident. The whole was then 5 called Sargent's, from people who lived at the northern base, where it reaches to the Sound - it being chiefly climbed at that time by people staying at the Somesville tavern and approaching from that side. Given the Penobscot name, we should then have a central Indian group with an early French historic group Champlain and Cadillac - to the eastward, looking out across the Bay of Fundy to- ward St. Croix and down on Frenchman's Bay, and an early English group - Bernard and Mansell - to the westward, commemorating Massachusetts and its succeeding ownership - with Acadia and St. Sauveur Mountains upon the Sound between. The second mountain I am writing about involves & modifica- tion only, and an addition, not a change. It is one that we seek to have made in connection with the Airmen's Memorial - now well under way as an adopted project - and is to confine the name "The Flying Squadron" to the bold, outstanding crag that will bear, and be crowned by, the memorial; and to give the mountain itself, rising behind it, the name of Peace Mountain. For this, which President Eliot strongly urges, we have several reasons. In the first place, bearing as it will the war memo- rial, we wish to make it tell beside of the hope and deeper motive of the war in ultimate world-peace. In the second place, we wish to base on it, in connection with the names already given, a study for the 6 people of the broad historical associations of the tract. Apart from those of the present day with the great events that have marked, and are marking still, the period of the park's creation, which we desire by its means and publications based upon it to put on record for the future, there are three early, important periods of peace suc- ceeding war with which this old Acadian territory is associated, each marked by the establishment of a new dominion in which the Island and its mountains shared. The first of these is the "borne et heureuse Paix" with which, De Mont's' Commission states,it had "pleased God to provide His Kingdom", releasing the peace-time energies that made possible the ex- ploration of new lands and the founding of colonies. The French dominion in America was established on that Peace, which ended the long period of the Religious Wars in France. The second of these, over a century later, is the Peace of Utrecht, held in 1713, by whose terms, and the ultimate consequences of whose terms, Acadia first, and then the whole French dominion in America, passed into English hands, or - in the case of the Mississippi Valley - those of England's colonies. The third is the Peace, known as the Treaty of Paris, that closed our Revolutionary war and formally recognized as an independent nation the United States, into whose control in turn our portion of Acadia then passed, as part of Massachusetts. On these different periods, and their consequences, an exceedingly interesting paper may be written, linking them with the other names now already embodied in the park and mountains: De Monts and Champlain with the first period; Cadillao with the second; Iafayette with the third, with which Bernard, the last Colonial governor of Massachusetts and the Island's second owner, would be also linked. The Flying Squadron, as a crag dominating the pass and crowned by the memorial outlined against the sky, would tell, itself, of the fourth period, together with a monument that we would place upon the mountain's top. Our plan is ultimately to publish papers sketching, for visitors to the park and others, these various associations with events and people. In this the park, strenghtened by these names, can do & unique work, as the only national park area in the country that - placed on the ocean border - witnessed the early European set- tlement and occupation of America; and in its successive association with France, with England, and the United States. President Eliot and I, accordingly, greatly hope that the United States Geographic Board may look favorably on our request, and complete by these two further changes the re-naming of this - now park- included - coastal group, for the greater interest and educational use- fulness of the park hereafter and the opportunity it will afford for publishing in connection with it a related series of historic studies, ranging in period from the Indians to the present day. President Eliot 8 desires particularly, also, to take the opportunity Peace Mountain, as a name, will offer to make clear to future visitors to the park our thought in naming it Lafayette - that of the direct relation which has existed between our entrance in the present war and our national memory of past help afforded, without which our national independence might not have been achieved and for which the name of Lafayette has become peculiarly the synbol. These two changes, to Penobscot Mountain and Peace Mountain, with the name The Flying Squadron retained but limited to the memorial crag, will permanently complete our group. There are no others we might wish to alter, unless subsidiary peaks. I find warm interest taken universally in these changes, those made and those pro- posed, and the conviction that they will not only add greatly to the interest of the park but be valuable in a broader sense in helping to create an historic background to our national life, and a wider vision. Yours sincerely, Mr. Frank Bond, Chairman, Executive Committee, United States Geographic Board, Washington, D.C. q. Page 1 of to COPY Copy ENGINEERS CLUB BOSTON April 9, 1919. Dear Mr. Bond: The inclosed letter will explain itself. This is a personal word to bear it company. Great interest has been taken, both locally and elsewhere, in the change of mountain names upon Mount Desert Island. It is warmly approved, as bringing out the old historic interest of the tract, re- storing memory of its old association. The Maine papers want to bring out articles upon it, as does also the National Geographic, but before they do President Eliot and I are anxious to permanently complete the change by two further changes I am asking for at his request. I trust there may be no obstacle to doing it. We have given the matter.not a little thought, conferring together, since my return to Boston. The first mountain I write of in my letter will make, so named, (Penobscot Mountain), a superb memorial to our native Indians, and provide, as it were, a basis for papers on them, as we plan in our park series. The view from its summit sweeps the whole land and water region that they once made peculiarly their own. Its furtherest extension toward the sea already bears the name of their Chief Asticou, who welcomed the Jesuit missionaries there in 1613. And the little post office of Asticou at its foot is President Eliot's post office, to which his letters go, he being also the first summer visitor to make a home upon that shore. I did not suggest changing the name of this mountain last fall because, although I knew his general feeling in the matter, he had such intimate and long association with the locality that I wanted to make very sure of a name to satisfy him, which this one wholly does. That the old ones are not worthy, also, to re- main, worthy in their personal association, or fit companions for the new ones, he does not hesitate to say, and would feel our work left incomplete if they should stay. I inclose a map to show the western and southwestern view commanded by the mountain; to the south and east it looks across the open sea, and to the north, on a clear day, one may see Katahdin, toward which the two main branches of the Penobscot flow, with Oldtown, the present home of the Penobscot Indians, on an island in the river midway between. -2- Hying The second change asked for in my letter, that of and reserving the name "The Flying Squadron" for the Airmen's Memorial Crag specifically, and giving the mountain bear- winddrawn the Peace ing (i.e. the crag), (formerly Dry Mountain) that of deusin "Peace Mountain". TO this also we have given much thought and study, consulting others also interested in the Memorial. undend We feel that the name chosen for the mountain (Peace Mountain) will heighten also the effect of the Memorial (the Flying squadron), giving it a splendidly fitting and ideal back- ground; while it will obviate besides the difficulty - not fully realized last fall, when we were still in the war's midst - of getting it adopted in Dry Mountain's place. This is the only one among the changes made in regard to which this difficulty will arise; and this will not arise in regard to its application to the Memorial crag, a yet unnamed fea- ture of the mountain with the visible Memorial to enforce it. Nor will there be any difficulty whatever with "Peace Moun- tain", a brief name, which all who have yet heard it love, and one which retains in it also the word "Mountain", which will, as I now see, be clung to, though the word "Dry" not liked by any one - will readily be given up. This apart, how- ever, when we took the name (The Flying Squadron) from the Memorial to describe the whole mountain, at the end of last summer, no one then thought the war might end without at least another spring campaign - perhaps more - and without casualties in the air service on a far greater scale than has now proved to be the case. I have now with me the full Air Service casualty lists, and a relatively few tablets, happily, will bear the whole. As we have now planned it, with the aid of members of the National Committee, a big bronze eagle with outstretched wings, as about to fly, will crown the crag, with the tablets below, facing the ascend- ing trail, the road beneath, and a most splendid view. The name "Peace Mountain" President Eliot desires particularly as a means towards linking up in our historic card series the past and present in a common view, and of saying withdrand a word that he would like to say, or to have said, on ma national friendships and world peace, pointing out the re- deising lation between the national friendship Lafayette especially was instrumental in bringing about between America and France, and the vast aid returned to France, with manifold frandened interest, a century and odd years later, which might not have been rendered else. -3- Our plan is, the name being adopted, to carve out from the sharp granite crest that crowns the Mountain, a simple, dignified memorial to the peace that has been, with justice and world freedom, the aim and object of the present war, and that will ultimately crown it, rising from the ashes of our and others' sacrifice. And to the earliest periods of peace besides that I have outlined in my letter. Looking out across the ocean as it does, between the two mountains we have named for France - Cadillac and Champlain, and with the latter Hugenot Head - and bearing on its flank the war memorial to tell of what we have gone through to gain such peace, a great group of papers can, in the course of time, be founded on it. And the first of these I would like to have President Eliot write, the coming summer, his eighty-fifth, and fifty-third, with an occasional absence, at Mount Desert Island. Sincerely yours, George B. Dorr. P. S. I have looked up the name "Peace Mountain" in every means of reference here, the Boston City Library and the Harvard Library, and it does not appear - Peace River there is, a name that I have always loved, and a Peace Valley somewhere out in Missouri, but that is practically all. April 16, 1919. Mr. George B. Dorr, Boston, Mass. Dear Mr. Dorr:- Your ideas about the pictures are excellent. I should be glass to have your man come up here and a rrange about details. A good exhibit in Washington, 8.8 you say, would be the nucleus of 8 lot of advertising because is whole lot of people come in my office; and I ion't think I toll you that I have E new one, 401, on the front side near the elevator. Mr. Knowlton savs 10 is the best office in the building. It is larger and lighter than the other one, with a nico view, and doubtless will show off pictures much better on account 01 the size and light. We will plan, now that we have cert in amount OI pull with the powers that be, to fix up the room in good shape and these pictures will great feature. You did not out in the clipping you referred to. I shall be glad to see it. I know there is E large app ropriation which has to be matched by the State The Dodge automobile is all right. You will be satisfied with it. I had no desire to assist in the sale of a Buddk. I believe the Machine Company here has more customers than it can get cars for. I hear nothing about an extra session more than you see in the newspapers. The sundry civil bills have got to be put through, as you any, but it will not take long. I trust you are coming down this way before long. Yours truly, [J.A Peters] Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, 1919 TO THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK = [Vol. 24] TRANSMITTED TO THE LEGISLATURE APRIL 17, 1919 FOUNDED BY ANDREW H. GREEN AND INCORPORATED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, 1895 Headquarters: No. 154 Nassau Street, New York, N. Y. ALBANY J. B. LYON COMPANY, PRINTERS 1919 Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN [2.] Lafayette National Park 207 "The Grand Canyon has long been recognized as one of the greatest scenic regions of the world, and it is even quite generally regarded as a national park, although it has never been managed as a part of the park system and has never been susceptible of development as such. It is eminently fitting and proper that this magnificent gorge should now take its place as a link in the national-park chain which already includes most of the Nation's wonderful and extraordinarily distinctive natural features." LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK In our former Reports we have recorded the creation of Sieur de Monts National Monument of about 5,000 acres on Mt. Desert Island, Me., by presidential proclamation of July 8, 1916. All of this land was secured by purchase, or through donation, by the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations and was con- veyed by this corporation to the United States. Since the estab- lishment of the reservation, additional tracts of land to the extent of 5,000 acres have been secured and tendered to the Government, and the Secretary of the Interior has indicated that he will accept these lands as soon as the deeds and other instruments of title have been examined and found satisfactory in all respects. The reservation, therefore, may be regarded as having a total area of approximately 10,000 acres. Ultimately this will be extended to 20,000 acres through the continued efforts of the public-spirited gentlemen who are devoting their time and personal funds to the development of this park enterprise. In view of this offered enlargement through private generosity, and the increasing public interest in this easternmost of our national reservations, it was felt that the status of the property should be changed from that of a National Monument to that of a National Park. A bill (S. 4569) introduced by Senator Hale of Maine, effecting this change and also changing the name to Mount Desert National Park, passed the United States Senate on June 29, 1918; and a corresponding bill (H. R. 11935) intro- duced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Peters of Maine was favorably reported. While these measures were pend- ing those most interested in the park conceived the idea of making it an international memorial and naming it Lafayette National Park; and on September 24, 1918, Senator Hale introduced Google Original from PRINCETON UNIVERSITY [3] 208 Lafayette National Park another bill (S. 4957), identical with the first, except that it named the park in honor of Lafayette. This bill became a law, being approved by the President February 26, 1919. The propriety of giving this park a name suggestive of France is obvious. Mt. Desert was once a part of old French Acadia, and its history is associated with the names of Henry of Navarre, De Monts, Champlain, Cadillac, and other famous Frenchmen. Lying in almost the identical latitude of Bordeaux, it not only looks eastward to France, from which came our help in time of need during the American Revolution, but it also faces one of the two great ports to which we sent our help to France in her time of need in 1917-18. Lying SO far eastward on our coast, it offers an opportunity for an advantageous field for air-craft which in the near future are to cross the ocean; and its associations with French history suggest many features commemorating the bonds of sym- pathy which unite our country with France. Secretary Lane, in advocating the change of status from a National Monument to a National Park, under date of May 15, 1918, recapitulates the attractions of Mt. Desert Island, as follows: 'Mount Desert Island has important historic value. It is the place where Champlain first landed on this coast, and the French had a station here years before the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. Scenically its impressive headlands give Mount Desert the distinction of combining sea and mountain. These headlands are by far the loftiest of our Atlantic coast. Their high, rounded summits, often craggy, and their splendid granite shelves form a background for a rugged shore line and an island-dotted harbor which is one of the finest that even the Maine coast can present. Back of the shore is a mountain and lake wilderness which is typical in a remarkable degree of the range of Appalachian scenery. "From the point of view of conservation, the value of the proposed park can hardly be overestimated. The forests are largely primeval. Oaks, beeches, birches, maples, ashes, poplars, and many other deciduous trees of our eastern ranges, here found in full luxuriance, mingle with groves of pine and giant hemlock. The typical shrubs of northeastern America are in equal abun- dance. Wild flowers abound. There are few spots, if any, which can combine the variety and luxuriance of the eastern forests in such small compass. "The rocks have their distinction. This was the first part of the continent to emerge from the prehistoric sea. Archean gran- Google Original from PRINCETON UNIVERSITY [4] National Parks Committee 209 ites in original exposure such as these, though common in eastern Canada, are rare in the United States. Worn by the ice sheets of the glacial period, eroded by the frosts and rains of the ages, their bases carved by the sea, their surfaces painted by the mosses and lichens of to-day, they are exhibits of scientific interest as well as beauty. "Still another distinction is Mount Desert's wealth of bird life. All of the conditons for a bird sanctuary in the East seem to be here fulfilled. Once Mount Desert was the home of many deer, some of which are now returning from the mainland. Moose haunt it still occasionally. Once its streams abounded in beaver, and will again after a few of these animals are planted in its protected valleys. "From a recreational standpoint, the Mount Desert Park would be capable of giving pleasure in the summer months to hundreds of thousands of people living east of the Mississippi River. Last year it was visited by more than 50,000 individuals. The island is accessible by automobile, railroad and boat, and is only a rela- tively few hours distant from many large eastern cities. Developed as a national park in the interest of all the people, this reservation will become one of the greatest of our public assets." The superintendent of Lafayette National Park is Mr. George Bucknam Dorr, who has been one of the leading spirits in bring- ing the park into being and developing its possibilities. NATIONAL PARKS EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE A new movement, designed to increase public appreciation and use of our National Parks and Monuments, was inaugurated at a meeting held in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington on June 26, 1918, when the National Parks Educational Committee was formed. The need of this organization grew out of the rapid growth of public interest in our National Parks and the feeling that the governmental functions of physical administration should be sup- plemented by the organized efforts of the people themselves to reap the full enjoyment of these great recreative and educational institutions. Those present at or subscribing to the organization meeting were: Wallace W. Atwood, Ph. D., Professor of Physiography, Harvard University; Prof. Arthur E. Bestor, President of Chautauqua Institution; Belmore Browne, explorer; Digitized by Google Original from PRINCETON UNIVERSITY COPY May 2, 1919. Dear Mr. Bond: Will you please submit to the U. S. Geographic Board the following two changes of name in the Mount Desert Island granite chain; they both apply to mountains now included or in the process of being included within the newly created Lafayette National Park: (1) Name the mountain now called Jordan, PENOBSCOT MOUNTAIN. This mountain lies between the one bearing the old, locally established Indian name of Pemetic, and the due 7,1409 one recently renamed Norumbega, that having been the name may given the Penobscot river and the adjoining territory by Champlain in his account, published in 1613, of his ex- ploration of that coast. Penobscot river from the head of tidal water down, Penobscot Bay, and the islanded waters, the shores and islands, extending from Penobscot Bay to Frenchman's Bay were the home originally of the Penobscot Indians, the most powerful tribe at that period in the whole Abnaki, or Algonquin, group and the only ones of importance who still remain in New England, having an assigned home on an island in the Penobscot river, by the head of tidal water as of old, and possessing political rights of representation in the State government. Deep shell-mounds mark their ancient occu- pation of these shores, one of the principal being sit- uated close to this mountain's base, as equally to that of the neighboring Norumbega mountain, on the shore, while the name of the Chief whose village occupied this site at the time of the Jesuits' coming in 1613, as given in the Jesuit Narratives, is already perpetuated in the little village and postoffice of Asticou at the foot of the hill in which this mountain terminates southward, named Asticou Hill. The name Jordan is relatively early as applied to the lake to the east of this mountain, going back some fifty years, but it has only recently been applied to the mountain, to distinguish it, for climbing purposes, from Sargent mountain to its north, which originally included it. Whatever old association the name Jordan has belongs solely to its association with the pond, so-called, while the name Sargent as applied formerly to the whole mountain mass of the combined present Jordan and Sargent mountains is still older than it, both going back to early lumbermen, one of whom settled at the mountain's wooded northern foot -2- and the other at the lake's southern, or outflow, end. From the proposed Penobscot Mountain the whole land and water region traversed familiarly, except in winter, by the Indians in their birch-bark canoes, lies extended to view, westward to Castine and Bagaduce and the Camden Hills, and southwestward to Isle au Haut, named by Champlain; to Vinal and North Havens, (2) Name the mountain now called Little Brown's Mountain, lying between the proposed Penobscot Mountain, Sargent Mountain, and Norumbega Mountain, and dominating boldly the pass through which the old county road runs from Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor and Asticou to Somesville and the mainland, PARKMAN MOUNTAIN, in honor to Francis Parkman, the historian alike of the ancient French dominion in America and of these Indians in relation to it. He used to cruise these waters, studying the coast with reference to his writings; was an older friend of President Eliot, who particularly desires this commemoration; and has described in books that will live the discovery and early occupation of this region, and these Indians' life and ways. Sincerely yours, George B. Dorr. Dorr Cambridge, Mass., 9 May 1919 Dear Mr. Borri I congratulate you on achieving Penodscot and Parkman. As to Sargent, I wonder what new grounds you have discovered for precerving that name. 1855 is a very recent date, and the Sargents I have heard 788 about were by no means a momorable family. Jordan's Pond is very well named; because a Jordan established there a pioneer dam and Baw-mill. I am glad to hear that you are going to Bar Harbor soon. Sincerely yours HIGH Mr. George B. Dorr [5/6/19] COSMOS CLUB WASHINGTON,D.C. 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The work for the rangers in the Lafayette National Park has been planned and carried out in the following manner during the past months: Protection was secured by the establishment of distinct areas of responsibility for two of the rangers, John Rich and Henry Smith, under my own direction and the supervision of the chief ranger, Mr. A. H. Lynam, to whom matters relating to the enforcement of national park restrictions limiting the former freedom of action of the adjoining population over the park lands were referred. To John Rich, who is specially familiar with that region, the territory lying to the west of the great granite ridge of Cadillac Mountain was assigned. This includes the Eagle Lake basin and that of Bubble Pond, the Carry pass, Pemetic pass, and the southwest valley at the northern foot of Sargent Mountain, together with the following mountain groups: Pemetic, Sargent, the Bubbles, and the western slopes of Cadillac. This tract is naturally a favorite winter haunt of deer and under the protection given they have rapidly increased by the incoming of wanderers from the mainland until a herd of 17 has recently been seen. This tract is also a natural haunt and a nesting ground of pErtridges - ruffed grouse - the most valuable game bird in New England, which is in present danger of extermination through de- structive shooting and whose immediate protection in this reserve is of high importance, as they are not wanderers like the deer -2- and once exterminated in a habitat will not be replaced by others. The time of greatest danger for them is when the leaves are off the trees and food is scarce, in winter and early spring, for then - toward dusk especially - they feed off the buds on the bare tops of deciduous trees and can readily be picked off by hunters. Mr. Rich's supervision of the tract assigned to him is planned to vary, so as to be incalculable to poachers. One day he takes the west- ern side of the lake and southwest valley; another, the eastern side and the woods at the northern foot of Pemetic Mountain; a third the Carry and the Bubbles; a fourth, Turtle Lake and south- east pass. In practice, however, these are combined and varied according to what seems advisable at the moment, as a baying hound in pursuit perhaps of deer may change his course for the remainder of the day, or conditions of snow or storm make guardianship need- less. When winter came I arranged, as I have done in previous years, for men out of work in the town to get their winter firewood in the reservation under supervision, they taking only inferior growth needing to be removed and working under immediate direction, clean- ing up as they go and burning, in places marked for each, their own slash and what other dead wood or other rubbish there may be upon the area assigned to them. In this way much important work is accomplished, valuable to the park, at the cost of supervision only. Both Rich and Smith had such work in charge this winter, that in Rich's territory lying along the eastern side of Eagle Lake, and that in Smith's in the Gorge and Eliot Woods. -3- In spring again, when the snow has gone but the new growth has not started, is a most dangerous time for woodland and forest fires, and some of the worst we have occur then spreading through the dry, leafy ground or dead marsh land grasses with fearful rapidity under a drying wind. This calls for constant watchfulness at periods, according to the season and the weather. At the present time that danger too has passed and Mr. Rich is engaged upon a study for me, with the Bar Harbor Park map in hand, of the old V.I.A. trails within his territory, setting down day by day what he finds and rendering me his report each week. Taking an ax with him, he removes as he goes along fallen trees and simi- lar obstructions and sets up missing cairns while making note of places where more extensive work is needed. He has also done upon occasion such various work of carpentry as have been required, as making boxes for shipment or putting up shelves, etc. for the as- sortment and storing of papers, photographs, or other park material. Henry Smith's work has been practically identical with this save as to area, he having been given the territory to the east of Cadillac Mountain and its long granite ridge, including the Flying Squadron and Kebo mountains, the Eliot and Sieur de Monts woods, Cadillac Gorge and Indian Pass, and having guardianship also of the distant section by Jordon pond and Jordan stream, where serious damage was done by trespassers. His work in this area was thoroughly efficient, and done - which is important - without exciting hostility or illwill among the neighboring people. This area he has had to reach by driving, as it is at the nearest point =4⑉ eight miles away but he has visited it at least one day a week throughout the winter. Since spring began he has had charge of guarding certain trout streams and trout pools in that section of the park which have been regularly fished out hitherto by poachers in spite of having been posted by the state, and I have been unable to hear of but a single string of trout being taken from them as yet this year - which was done at the opening of the season. Smith has also done work this spring in burning broken boughs and other brush, unsightly or dangerous to leave,and, like Rich, on occasional odd jobs of carpentry - such as the crating of the photographic enlargements lately sent to Washington, which was done by him. He is now in charge, under supervision, of a difficult and important piece of park construction upon the Flying Squadron, a work that from now on will largely occupy his time till summer. He is exceptionally competent for taking charge of work of such a character, and will need no supervision when he has once been train- ed to it. Mr. Dockham's chief work this winter, after the mountain trails photos were closed by ice and snow, has been the systematic organization of my accumulated photographic and other material illustrative of the park or obtained for record, in anticipation of a thorough landscape and physiographic study of the whole park area I plan to make with his and Mr. Lynam's aid this coming summer, to use and place on record. Mr. Dockham has also been charged with rendering me various reports I needed on conditions in the park, with photo- graphic illustration, and done other work that I `required in pre- paration for the coming season. Lately he has been employed on -5- making the enlargements required for the Department of the Interior's exhibition and on furnishing the photographic prints required for magazine and other articles. His present work is that of pre - paring for the National Park Service at Washington a numbered and photos described collection of park photographs for its reference and use when needed - requested by the Service. When this is done, he will relieve Mr. Smith in the patrol of the territory which the latter has had in charge, so that Smith may devote his whole time till summer to the work of park construction and repair - for which the time is short. Superintendent Ells orth, Maine. May 8th, 1919. Mr. George B. Dorr, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Dorr:- Your letters CFISC. The make-up of the sib-committee is Interesting I should be surprised but pleased if they out in Gallidan. He would be more friendly to our proposition then the other man. The letter in relation to the road money I have sent to my friend, Paul D. Sargent, Chief Engi- - neer of the Highway Commission. I have already had some Ulk with the Governor About this matter. I have E general knowledge of the situation which I will perfect before I see you. I 3M much interested in having good roads leading to Bar Harbor, as we all are, and we must do everything possible in that behalf. You are aware no that Congress meets the 19th. I shell be there 8.8 early sa the morning of that day. I have wired the Army and Navy Club for 8 room. I hope I shall see you there or here before long. Yours very truly, [J.A.Peters.] Dorr Cambridge, Mass., 9 May 1919 Dear Mr. Borri I congratulate you on achieving Penodacot and Parkman. As to Sargent, I wonder what new grounds you have discovered for preserving that name. 1855 is a very recent date, and the Sargents I have heard -28$ about were by no means a momorable family. Jordan's Pond is very well named; because Sooks a Jordan established there a pioneer dam and Baw-mill. I am glad to hear that you are going to Bar Harbor soon. Sincerely yours CC [C.W.Eliot] HOH Kr. George B. Dorr G.B.Dorr 1. June 11 with the signing by President Wilson of the Aot changing Sieur de Monts National Monument into the . present Aoadia National Park, the first stage in the attainment of my goal was reached; a place in the sun had been won for our mountains by the sea, whose rugged heights, outlined against the western sky, had been a land-mark to the early voyageurs sailing out from Europe and the first weloome sight of land within out national bounds to greet the Puritans and other colonists of that early time on their long Journey out. But this was a beginning only; much yet remained to do before the larger vision that had oome to me should be transmited into fact. A seaooast park, the sea-waves rolling in and broaking on its granite ooast (the first as yet within outn national bounds, east of west it had no aotual contact with the sea, save where, as though guarding on the west the narrow entrance to Somes Sound, mountains purchases by a group of Northeast Harbor summer residents for the magnificent blimbs they afforded descend precipitously to the water's edge. Again, the first land acquired for the future Park had been the broad, level summit of Cadillao Mountain, the highest not only in our Mount Desert Island chain but on the whole eastern coast of the United States in the vicinity of the sea. 2. June 11 But the old road, steep and rough built over half a contury before by native enterprise when summer visitors first began to come in numbers to the Island, had now been almost wholly washed away by storms and the melting snows of early spring, leaving the mountain top, with its wonderful ocean ooean views, inaccessible to all but active alimbers. of those and other laoks I was acutely consoious but could only let them wait and bido their time, which, now the Park was established, I felt sure would o ame. But now a new factor entered in which was eventually to have a wido boaring on the Park's development though im- mediately to make it the subject of no slight controversy. Mr. John D. Rookefeller, Jr., had proceeded quietly along in the construction of the horse-road system which, planned to be built partly on land he would a oquire for the also purpose but which extended H, necessarily, over land bolonging to the Government, which had been authorized by Secretary Lane when he oame to say with me at Oldfarm in 1917, and had completed all but its last unit, on which kunx oon- the Amphitheater Road 80 -called struction was just commencing, when, in June, 1920, he drovo over to 300 em with a letter in hand fromMr. George Wharton Pepper, a loading summer resident of BNorthoast Harbor, which he asked mo to read. Mr. Pepper began by commending the roads 3. that Mr. Rookefeller had already built, which had furnished so safe and pleasant a retreat from the publio ways now open to motor cars -- for those who still retained their stables, but ended with requesting him to build no more. At this, Mr. Rockefeller, who regarded his Amphitheater Road as the olimax of his whole endeavor, was much perturbed but said that should it prove that Mr. Pepper's attitude was widely shared among his Northeast Harbor and Soal Harbor neighbors and friends, he would not wish to continue construction even though authority for it had been given him by the Government. And in the end he gave it up. To ascertain the feeling among the Northeast Harbor summer residents whom those roads particularly concerned, Mr Linooln Cromwell of New York, president of the Northeast Harbor Village Improvement Association, offered to call a meeting of the Association for a frank discussion of the question and a vote upon it. Pending this, he invited a group of a to dozen or so to his house in Northeast Harbor/talk the matter over informally and Iwas asked, as the Government's representative, to oome. Mr. Pepper was present and, answering some remark he made conoerning the disfigurements resulting from such roads, I took issue with him, saying that rightly planned roads of such a character need result in no disfigurement and spoke of the pleasantness and beauty of a bicyole path of wood-road 4. character which I had built myself twenty years before on our own land beneath Champlain Mountain where, oiroling a peaty, glacial pool, it took its way onward through primoval woods of birch and hemlook; and, describing the soone in autumn when the leaves were falling, quoted some lines from Milton that oame to me as I spokes "Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallambrosa, where th! Eturian shades High over-arch'd imbower." Later I got a letter from Mr. Pepper in which, referring to this, he said: "When you quoted Milton, I know my o ause was lost 8" But lost it wa.8 not, for as the result of Mr. Pepper's opposition in which others joined, Mr. Rockefeller ceased construction, I had need at that time, with no roads of any kind nor even trails traversing the north and south-trending valleys of the Park of some way of simple wood-road character tp connecting the woodlands at the mountains' base on either side for ranger use and fire protection. And seeing Mr. Rookefeller's interest in similar construction, I asked him if he would not like to undertake one along the western side of Jordan Pond and through the valley beyond it at whose further end the watershed was formed between it and that of Eagle Lake. 5. The territory, though in his neighborhood, was new to him, not given, as I, to climbing for its own sake, and, accompanied by his surveyor, he took his time to explore it. The following summer, that of 1921, Mr. Rockefeller came to me with a carefully studied plan for a horse-road system some seven or eight miles in length, encircling at high level the whole broad mass of Jordan, Sargent and Parkman Moun- upon 1 to course, north and south, tains and o ommanding wide-sweeping views of lakes and mountains and far horisons,upon-ibe a system which would connect to the east of Uppe Hadlook Pond with the what he had already built under Secretary Lane's permission. Along with this he offered, bearing in mind the motorists and their needs as if to compensate for their exclusion from the horse- roads, to contribute $150,000 for the building of a Park motor road, from the Bar Harbor-Somesville Road at Great Pond Hill to the foot of Jordan Pond, where it would find connection, through a town-road spur, with the county highway along the shore to Northeast Harbor. This joint offer I a coepted 80 far as with me lay and transmitted it in due oourse to Washington. In the meantime, word of Mr. Rooke- feller's offer spreading, bitter opposition to its acceptance sprang up among groups of the younger summer resident element at Northeast Harbor and Bar Harbor, who, vL th no experience of the disastrous effects of private ownership and apeculation 6, which I recalled so we 11 during the Bar Harbor boom-time a score of years before, resented road development of any kind within the Government lands as an intrusion upon Nature and invasion of their rights. Vut ours was not a wilderness area nor was it for any special group or class that the Government was taking over the great soonio portions of the Island to preserve for the people for all time their intrinsic beauty and freedom. It was no question now of whether this should be done but of how best to do it. And to this, with a long background of observation elsewhere, in other beautiful portions of the world , I gave my own best thought and energies. My chief preoccupation was to do nothing that the future could not alter if better ways were found, and next to that to leave the way open as widely as possible for changes of such sort. The Lafayette National Park By William S. Bridgman DISTANT VIEW OF BAR HARBOR AND FRENCHMAN'S BAY, FROM ONE OF THE ROCKY HILLS OF THE PARK I F there is any one who questions the summer climate and real picturesqueness of value or fails to understand the purpose scenery are to be found together; can nothing be done to preserve for the use and enjoyment of the of the national parks of the United great body of the people in the centuries to come States, he should read and consider a some fine parts at least of this seaside wilderness passage written a few years ago by one of of Maine? America's grand old men, Charles W. Eliot, Fortunately, in this particular instance, ex-president of Harvard. Speaking of the something has been done, and done in a gradual occupation of the Maine coast by very admirable way, to preserve for future spreading colonies of summer residents and generations the beauties of nature unspoiled invading armies of sightseers, Dr. Eliot said: and unmonopolized. The answer to Dr. The spectacle of thousands upon thousands of Eliot's concluding question is the recent people spending several weeks or months of sum- creation of the Lafayette National Park on mer in healthful life by the seashore is very pleas- Mount Desert Island, the largest and most ant. but there is danger lest this human flood so picturesque of the almost countless wave- overflow and occupy the limited stretch of coast which it invades as to rob it of that flavor of washed fragments that fringe the rocky wildness which hitherto has constituted its most coast of Maine. refreshing charm. It is not the tide oi life itself, For several reasons this latest addition abundant though it be, which can work the scene to the list of national parks is of special such harm. A surf-beaten headland may be interest. Wonderful, and even matchless, crowned by a lighthouse tower without losing its dignity and impressiveness; a lonely fiord shut in as are many of our great scenic reservations, by dark woods, where the fog lingers in wreaths their value as truly national playgrounds as it comes and goes, still may make its strong has hitherto been seriously lessened by the imaginative appeal when fishermen build their fact that they are in the Western and Far huts upon its shore and ply their trade. But the inescapable presence of a life, an architecture, and Western States, remote from our great a landscape architecture alien to the spirit of the centers of population. Lafayette is the first place may take from it an inspirational and rec- park east of the Mississippi. Within a few reative value for work-wearied men no economic hours, by train or boat, of Boston, within terms can measure. The United States have but this one short an easy day's journey of New York, Phila- stretch of Atlantic seacoast where a pleasant delphia, and Washington, it is already vis- 438 Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Munsey's Magazine LXV11 (June-Sept. (919) 438-448, Author 1 & hegdon thensen historical topics THE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK 439 ited by more than fifty thousand people annually, and it is manifestly destined to of American history, the era of the early French explorers. It is a remnant of old give health and pleasure to a much larger Acadia, and the spot where Samuel de number in the near future. Champlain made his first landing in what is A REMNANT OF OLD ACADIA now the United States, sixteen years before the Pilgrim Fathers set foot on the shore of Besides the beauty of its scenery and its New England. Champlain was then lieu- value as a breathing-spot, the new park has tenant and cartographer to the Sieur Pierre several distinct phases of interest. It is de Monts, who in December, 1603, was closely associated with that heroic period commissioned by the great Henry IV of WHITE BIRCH TREES ON SCHOONER HEAD PATH - SCHOONER HEAD AND GREAT HEAD ARE THE EASTERNMOST POINTS OF THE ISLAND, OVERLOOKING THE ENTRANCE TO FRENCHMAN'S BAY Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 440 MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE France to occupy and colonize " the lands he sent out Champlain, in a little boat and territory called Acadia," " extending, as carrying about a dozen men, to explore the then defined, from the forty-sixth degree of coast to the south. Entering the inlet latitude southward to the fortieth-roughly, known to-day as Frenchman's Bay, Cham- from Cape Breton to the Delaware. plain's vessel was damaged by striking a In the summer of 1604 the Sieur de hidden rock, and he ran her ashore on the Monts established his first post at the island that forms the western side of the mouth of the St. Croix, now the northern bay, near the present site of the town of boundary of the United States; and thence Bar Harbor. The island, conspicuous for PATHWAY ASCENDING DRY MOUNTAIN, WHICH IS TO BE RENAMED PEACE MOUNTAIN Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN THE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK 441 WINTER IN THE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK-ICE-CLAD ROCKS ON DRY MOUNTAIN its lofty headlands with bare, rocky sum- tension to a frontier on the Delaware, drew mits, he named the Isle des Monts Déserts, their southern boundary-line at the Ken- or Island of the Desolate Mountains. Get- nebec, while the New Englanders - the ting afloat again, he was piloted by friendly Bostonnais," as the French called them- Indians along the sheltered channels- claimed the coast as far north as the St. " thoroughfares," they are locally called Croix. The question was finally settled in nowadays-to the Penobscot; and in his 1713 by the treaty of Utrecht which made record he describes the island as a headland Acadia British, and the whole of Maine now at the mouth of the river. fell under the jurisdiction of the colony of The first white settlement on the Isle des Massachusetts. Monts Déserts was a missionary station The next owner of the island to figure in established there by French Jesuits in 1608. history was Francis Bernard, Governor of Later the lordship of the island was granted Massachusetts, to whom it was granted by by Louis XIV to Antoine de la Mothe the colony in return for "extraordinary Cadillac, who dwelt on it for a time before services." In October, 1762, Governor Ber- he moved westward to found Detroit and nard chartered a sloop and sailed from to become governor of the vast territory Boston to inspect his possessions. His of Louisiana. In deeds that he signed in diary, which is extant, thus records his his later years he still described himself as landing on the shore of what he calls " the " Seigneur des Monts Déserts." river "-meaning Somes Sound, the deep During this period most of Maine was a glacial fiord that pierces the island to its disputed zone between the French provinces center: to the north and the British colonies farther Went up the river, a fine channel having several south. The French, abandoning their pre- openings and bays of different breadths from a 5 Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 442 Google THE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK 443 Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN IIIIIC e a qualier OI a 111 some places the tions from several other would-be colonists. rocks were almost perpendicular to a great height. The general course of this river is north, five But the approach of the Revolution brought degrees east, and it is not less than eight miles him other things to think of, and after the long in a straight line. At the end of it we downfall of the old régime his island was turned into a bay, and there saw a settlement in confiscated by the State of Massachusetts. a lesser bay. We went on shore and into A few years later, however, the Legislature Abraham Somes's log-house, found it neat and convenient, though not quite furnished, and in it restored half of it to his son, John Bernard, a notable woman with four pretty girls, clean and granted the other half to a grand- and orderly. Near it were many fish drying. daughter of Cadillac Mme. de Gregoire, and her husband-two French émigrés on The governor found half a dozen families whose behalf Lafayette had interceded. settled on his domain, and received applica- M. and Mme. de Grégoire established their GLACIATED ROCKS IN THE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK-- IN THE DISTANCE ARE THE ISLANDS OF FRENCHMAN'S BAY AND THE MAINLAND BEYOND Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN THE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK 445 THE CLIFFS OF ACADIA MOUNTAIN (FORMERLY ROBINSON MOUNTAIN). LOOKING ACROSS SOMES SOUND TO NORTHEAST HARBOR AND THE OPEN SEA home on the island, and died there; and letter in which he requested the House from their grant the present titles to Bar Committee on Public Lands to approve the Harbor property are derived. bill establishing the park: WHERE SEA AND MOUNTAINS MEET Scenically its impressive headlands give Mount There is much more to be said about the Desert the distinction of combining sea and mountain. These headlands are by far the loftiest island of the Sieur de Monts and of Cadil- of our Atlantic coast. Their high, rounded sum- lac, apart from its historical associations. mits, often craggy, and their splendid granite Its special claims to distinction were well shelves form a background for a rugged shore- line and an island-dotted harbor which is one of summed up by Secretary Lane in the official the finest that even the Maine coast can present. Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 446 MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE Back of the shore is a mountain and lake wilder- men as Bishop Lawrence, of Massachusetts, ness which is typical in a remarkable degree of the late Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadel- the range of Appalachian scenery. From the point of view of conservation, the phia, and Dr. Robert Abbe, Henry Lane value of the proposed park can hardly be over- Eno, and the late John S. Kennedy, of estimated. The forests are largely primeval. New York. Oaks, beeches, birches, maples, ashes, poplars, and Partly by gifts, partly by purchase, the many other deciduous trees of our Eastern ranges, here found in full luxuriance, mingle with groves Hancock County Trustecs acquired a con- of pine and giant hemlock. The typical shrubs of tinuous tract of five thousand acres in the northeastern America are in equal abundance. wildest part of the island, which they Wild flowers abound There are few spots, if any, offered to the government as a national which can combine the variety and luxuriance of the Eastern forests in such small compass. monument, and which was accepted as such The rocks also have their distinction. This was by President Wilson in July, 1916, the title the first part of the continent to emerge from the then formally adopted being the Sieur de prehistoric sea. Archaean granites in original ex- Monts National Monument, in honor of the posure such as these, though common in eastern Canada, are rare in the United States. Worn by first French proprietor. To establish a the ice-sheets of the glacial period, eroded by the national park an act of Congress is needed, frosts and rains of the ages, their bases carved by and the necessary legislation was secured the sea, their surfaces painted by the mosses and last year. A provision of the bill authorized lichens of to-day, they are exhibits of scientific interest as well as beauty. the Secretary of the Interior to accept Still another distinction is Mount Desert's additional lands or other gifts for the ex- wealth of bird life. All of the conditions for a tension or improvement of the park, and bird sanctuary in the East seem to be here ful- already the original five thousand acres filled. Once Mount Desert was the home of many deer, some of which are now returning from the have been more than doubled. It is hoped mainland. Moose haunt it still occasionally. Once to double the present area in the near its streams abounded in beaver, and will again future. after a few of these animals are planted in its The dollar-a-year men who worked so protected valleys. From a recreational standpoint, the Mount unselfishly for the government during the Desert Park would be capable of giving pleasure war have received well-deserved praise, but in the summer months to hundreds of thousands they were not an entirely new phenomenon, of people living east of the Mississippi River. for the National Park Service has long had The island is accessible by automobile, railroad, public servants of the same type on its staff. and boat, and is relatively few hours distant from many large Eastern cities. Developed as a na- One of them is the director of the service, tional park in the interests of all the people, this Mr. Stephen T. Mather; another is Mr. reservation will become one of the greatest of our Dorr, who has become custodian of public assets. Lafayette Park at a merely nominal salary. He spends most of his time there, living in One other point that must not be omitted a house that was his own contribution to is the fact that all the land in the Lafayette the park, and he is devoting all his taste, Park was presented to the government by skill, and energy to its development. its owners-which was the case with only one other of the half a hundred tracts that THE PARK'S FUTURE DEVELOPMENT have been set apart as national parks or Mr. Dorr thus expresses his general plan national monuments. Hereby hangs a story for the future of the park: of much generosity and public spirit on the part of those who have contributed to the Our idea has been to develop it for the brain- making of the new playground. workers of the country, people who would be responsive to the beauty and inspiration of its THE MAKING OF THE NEW PARK scenery, and who can get away for a brief or longer holiday. They are going there now, in The movement first took shape about ten numbers, but what we want to provide for spe- years ago, when a number of summer resi- cially is the need of people of moderate or narrow dents incorporated the Hancock County means who would appreciate what it has to give in beauty, interest, and climate. Areas are being Trustees of Public Reservations. The pres- selected within the park where similar buildings ident of this body was Dr. Charles W. to those provided in the Western parks may be Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, while built in the future, as soon as funds are available for the park's development in connection with Mr. George Bucknam Dorr, of Boston and them. Bar Harbor, was vice-president and the active moving spirit of the association. It is confidently expected that before very Among those who helped its work were such long the visitors to Lafayette Park will Google Original UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 448 MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE number at least a quarter of a million the park-a corporation called the Wild annually. It is no simple or easy task to Gardens of Acadia, of which Dr. Eliot is make a limited tract-limited, at any rate, president. Its object is to collaborate with in comparison with some of the spacious the Federal authorities in establishing sanc- parks of the West-serve the needs of such tuaries for the animal and plant life of the a host and yet preserve its natural charms region-a purpose for which Lafayette unspoiled. That, however, is what must Park is peculiarly suited by its climate, its and no doubt will be done on the rocky location, and the peculiar formation of its island of the Sieur de Monts. One of Mr. rugged hills and its deep and sheltered Dorr's ideas is to turn as many travelers valleys. and sojourners as possible from the land Secretary Lane was undoubtedly right in to the sea. As additions are made to the saying that this island park on our northern- park, he hopes to secure landing-places most Atlantic coast promises to become one along the coast that will offer a unique of the choicest possessions of the American opportunity for excursions in picturesque people. It is a signal proof of the fact that and sheltered waters, suitable for yachts, a democratic government can by a wisely house-boats, or canoes. ordered policy provide its citizens with Mention should be made of another many of the finest things that wealth can agency that is working for the benefit of buy or the world can offer. MY BROOK A GLORIOUS jest my brook has found, And earth is gladder for the sound. All day and night the silver throat Is joyous with a gurgling note. The very jays slink near to guess The reason of that roguishness- The pleasantry that, summer-long, Hides, yet is patent, in its song. I wish that I had only half The mirth implicit in its laugh; But how shall mortal be as gay When men are what they are to-day? Who taught the nimble waters all The secret merriment they drawl? The mother rain? The wayward breeze? The winking stars? The comrade trees? Who was the teacher? What the jest So cryptic yet so manifest? Something, perhaps, a faun once said To set a dryad blushing red. Or something deeper, yet as bright As laught that gave the nymph delight- Some drollery devised by Pan, But not to be revealed to man; Or some innate, essential mirth, Drawn from the Attic salt of earth, An element to give the heart With nature its intrinsic part. I do not know; I cannot tell What entertains my brook so well. It chuckles, chuckles to the wood- I wish I knew a joke as good! George Sterling Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DAN AND BAR VOLUME IV $1.50 A YEAR T.TIMES: BAR HARBORS MAI APPALACHIAN CLUB WILL OF LATE R. B. BOWLER HOTELS OPEN FOR SEASON FILED FOR PROBATE GOL Many Early Arrivals at Rar Harbor AT SEAL HARBOR The will of the late Robert Pendleton This Year-Hotels Rapidly Bowler has been filed for probate at Filling PO Ellsworth. With if is the request of all interested as heirs and next of kin that With the opening of the Malvern on Mountain Club Spending it be allowed and proved. Saturday the Bar Harbor hotels are New Week at Seaside Inn Mr. Bowler gave legacies to his secre- ready for the summer season. With a tary and to Edward Harris of Bar Har- good number registered at the present bor, who is described an the will as "My time the bookings for the balance of the PARTY OF FIFTY HERE faithful friend and worker on my estate season point to a large attendance at MAN at Bar Harbor. the resort for the summer. The reser- Wonders of New National Park a The will provides that the estate be vations for the coming week will double Golfer Revelation- Grandeur Un- kept together for a time if needed for the number of guests now registered. surpassed," Says Mr. Perkins the protection of iron mines in Cuba Among the guests registered to date in which he was interested. at the St. Sauveur are: Llewellyn Fifty members of the Appalachian After legacies to various relatives the Barry, Philadelphia; Mrs. R. W. Gaw, Ther Mountain Club arrived from Boston at residue of the estate goes to an aunt, Miss Gaw, H. L. Gaw, Philadelphia; at the the Seaside Inn, Seal Harbor, Saturday Mrs. Alice B. Bowler, and to a cousin, Mrs. Eads Hazard, New York; Miss has bees morning. The members of this party Mrs. Jane Bowler Gilman. Elizabeth Randolph, Savannah, Ga.; It seer have spent their time thus far in tramp- Mrs. C. Vanderbilt Cross, Mrs. Joseph popula ing through the many wonderful moun- around Bar Harbor. While here they W. Burden, Miss Leila Burden, Mrs. so ma tain trails of Mount Desert Island. were the guests of Mr. George B. Dorr George Thatcher, New York; Mrs. number They will remain here until Saturday of The party arrived on the J. T. Morse Emma Grima, New Orleans the Ko this week and will continue their climbs at noon from Seal Harbor where they Among those expected at the St. to offer and tramps through the Lafayette are making their headquarters. Sauveur in the next week are: Dr. and Desert National Park. This is the first ex- At the wharf they were met with auto- Mrs. Harold Williams and Miss Williams course cursion that this well-known club has mobiles and took a short trip around the of Boston; Mrs. Melville Post, Phila- On eve made to Mount Desert Island, but it town, going out to the Building of Arts. delphia; Miss DuBois, DuBois, Penn.; able CO will by no means be the last, for the They stopped at the National Park Mrs. Rhett, Mr. and Mrs. of the members of the club are exceedingly office to see the fine photographs of the A. M. Coates, Providence, R. I.; Col. natura. enthusiastie over the beauties of the park on exhibition there and then went and Mrs. DeWitt C. Falls, Mr. and Mrs. The ne National Park and without doubt- to Old Farm, Mr. Dorr's residence. Courtland S. Van Rensselaer, Miss have b they will return from year to year in The next stop was at the Sieur de Wynne Pyle, New York. as goo increased numbers. Monts Spring where lunch was eaten, The early arrivals at the Malvern for certain Mr. Frederick H. Perkins of Boston, preparatory to the trip to Seal Harbor the season are: Mr. and Mrs. Henry may b who is chairman of the committee on over the mountains The party went C. Emmet, New York at Kebo Cottage; ciated arrangements, said to the TIMES man, over Dry Mountain down into Green Albert Eugene Gallatin, New York, play o "This trip has been a revelation to many Mountain Gorge and then over Green Richardson Cottage: L. Edward Frith, The of us who had not heretofore realized Mountain to the Boyd Road where the New York, Kebo Cottage; Mrs. B. C. will be the unsurpassed grandeur, the wonderful party was met by autos to take them Tilghman, Philadelphia, Cornersmeet; compet beauty of scenery and the wonders of to Seal Harbor. Miss M. F. Mellon and Miss M. Mellon, bers, st. this Lafayette National Park. There The party was enthusiastic over the Washington, Geranium Cottage; An- tickets, is nothing to compare with it on the toine Lefebure, Amsterdam, Holland; out Ju scenery of the new national park and were very grateful to Mr. Dorr for his Mrs. Clinton Ogilvie, New York; Mrs. as foll Atlantic coast. The members of our club are most enthusiastic in regard to kindness to them. Mason Campbell, Philadelphia, Talley- bogey, the beauties of this island park. We The Appalachian Club has a mem- rand Cottage; Mrs. George W. Forsythe, score, New York. winner cannot say enough good things about it bership of 2100 from all over the world Its beauties are beyond words." Mr. Parties are arranged to visit all the well Among those expected during the points known mountain regions of this country week are: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scrib- Season Perkins' enthusiasm is no greater than that of the average member of the club. as well as Europe. Several trips have ner, Mr. and Mrs. John Sloane, Mrs. a prize Without exception they are delighted Benjamin Nicoll, Miss Eleanor de Graff least m been made to the Alps. Needless to with their trip and plan to return another say, the membership includes some of Cuyler, Mr. W. MacNeal Rodewald, have t the best mountain climbers in the coun- Mr. Chandler Robbins, Miss Marion player year. C. Bourne, Mrs. Albert Flake, Miss have cc The party is stopping at the Seaside try. A party of 100 has recently re- Inn, from. which point all trips are made. turned to Boston from the mountains Helen Flake, Mrs. Flake-Manning, Mr. least. and Mrs. William A. Burnham and The Among the trails covered and the points of North Carolina. Another party of 100 will leave soon for the Moosehead Mrs. Charles G. Peters of New York; Men of interest visited are: Beech Cliff, Cadillac Mountain, Otter Cliffs, Jordan region. The Appalachian Club has Mrs. Eben Sutton, Baltimore; Mrs. morning done as much as if not more than any J. P. Richardson, New Orleans: and Kebo C Pond, Pemetic Mountain, The Bubbles, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) Mr. James McCosh Magie. Handica Champlain Mountain, Cranberry Isles, Among the guests at the Newport Waldron Somes Sound, Sargent Mountain, Brown's House are: Mrs. Persifor Frazer, Phila- nesday, Mountain and Bakers Island. The Why is the delphia; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gerndt, only; A itinerary for the remainder of the week includes many other points of interest Harmon Piano Co. New York: Mrs. H. L. Horton, Boston; tition (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) prize, S in the National Park and about the doing the most of the business of Hancock County? island. The members of the club spent Tues- "There's a Reason" day afternoon in seeing the country Honest Pianoa. Honest Treatment. Honest Prices Jordan Pond EDWARD B. MEARS A. STROUD RODICK EDWARD B. MEARS & CO. Seal Harbor, M: WEDNESDAY. JULY 2, 1919 Walter APPALACHIAN CLUB OPENING BA Howard, AT SEAL HARBOR Howard, George (CONTINUED FROM PAGE I) Newla Dr. W. C. Coshman, Mr. and other organization in America for the Mrs. Moore, Mms Mary Ostrander, preservation of the mountain forests. WOODLAND G. H. Milliken, Allen Forbes, The dub really had no conception of Alida Livingston and H.L Bradley what Mount Desert Island has to offer Out Door Dancing Pa until this trip was made. It is highly probable that in the future the trip to FRIDAY EVENING, BATTING AVERAGES the Lafsyette National Park will be RADIO-BALL CLUB made an annual event. Music by Ladies' Orch The excursions are planned and carried GENTS 55 CENTS LA The following is 2 complete list of the Radio Station baseball club's batting out in a most interesting manner. The Refreshments trip is always in the hands of a com- average for one or the whole six games they have paken part in. mittee that makes all arrangements for Dancing Tuesday and Friday The Radio team has won three and hotels, baggage, itinerary, etc. It is run Throughout the Seas lost three games this season. They almost as a Cook's Tour. The days are spent in tramping and the evenings LEWIS LELAND, Manager took both games of the series from Seal Harbor defeating them 32 to 12 in the are spent at the Inn. Whist and danc- first contest and 13 to 10 last Saturday. ing are always in order during the even- They have won one and lost one with ings. About two thirds of this party B. S. HIGGINS CO. $250. are women but they are no less enthu- 21 foot pleas Ilworth. Ellsworth won the first siastic than are their husbands and Dealers in gratings. sea game 15 to 13, in which game catcher Sturtevant of Ellsworth broke his left brothers, and the ladies of the Appala- engine, all painted. arm. The Radio team captured the chian Club never fall behind in the long hikes over the mountains. Groceries and Provisions next game at Elisworth 15 to 7. The $150 f Bar Harbor town team has scalped the The entire party enjoyed one of those Rad'o boys twice, the never-to-bt- excellent Jordan Pond House chicken dinners Monday evening. The excel- South Go forgotten Memorial Day game, when the lent dinner at the picturesque Jordan P. E. Sharpless and Vermont phone W town team won in the last half of the ninth. 14 to 13. Again the town team Pond House, followed by dancing, was Butter with Twombley in the box won 11 to 3. one of the features of the outing that S. L. K This game will be remembered for the will be long remembered. The party Imported and Domestic Canned Bar will also have a Fourth of July celebra- Goods and Condiments strikeouts Twombley had. No less tion on the lawn of the Seaside Inn. A than 22 fanned the air during the contest. French huge bonfire will be built. An orchestra has been engaged. There will be one MARKET The Radio batting average: F Name Games At Runs Hits Per or two suitable addresses and many Played Bat other features in the way of entertain- Beef, Lamb, Veal, Poultry, Game, THOROU ctg p, 2b, of 4 13 9 .692 ment and amusement. They will also Fruits, Vegetables, Eggs, liegel, 10 weighs nine Berry, rf 1 5 1 3 600 give an entertainment during the week Cheese, etc. for the benefit of the Fatherless Children weighs sever Murphy, se 1 2 1 1 500 of France Fund. pies are ten Larberg, 1b 6 33 12 12 363 Mr. Perkins stated to the TIMES man PROPRIETORS OF Marshall, 2b, of 4 16 4 5 312 ready to ship Ragan, 3b, 2b 5 25 7 7 280 that the entire party was very much Bar Harbor Hardware Store 6 28 9 7 .250 pleased with the hospitality of the MRS. G Enie, If Gibson, rg 1 4 2 management of the Seaside Inn and with 1 250 131, 133, 135 Main St. 10 Park the cordial treatment received. He Brunner, 2b, se, 3b 6 33 12 7 213 Lgatstein, 2b, rf 2 10 3 2 200 said that the people of Seal Harbor had There is more Caramb is this section Storer, 88, rf 6 35 7 7 200 made them feel very welcome and very of the country than an other diseases 1 2 200 much at home and everything possible put together. arm for years 11 was sup- R Sent, c 2 10 posed to be accurable Doctors prescribed Glasser, p 3 11 5 2 .181 had been done to make the trip most local remedies. and by constantly failing Ope teelen, If enjoyable. The general air of refine- to cure with local treatment. prosounced 3 12 5 2 .167 it incurable Catarra is a local crease 2 167 ment found on Mount Desert Island is Bannister, c 4 12 4 greatly influenced by constitutiona! coc- Greeley He in pleasing contrast to that found in ditions and therefore requires constitu- )avis, c 5 14 5 2 .143 tional treatment Hall's Catarro Medi many resort centers. The members Miller, P 3 7 0 cine. manufactured by F. J. Cheses & Under ne 1 .143 hrouse, p 0 000 of the Appalachian Club are thoroughly Co., Toledo, Ohio. is 2 constitutional 1 1 0 Two base hits: Enie 5, Siegel 5, enjoying their trip to Mount Desert remedy. is taken internally and acts thru the Blood on the Mccous Surfaces Clean, com Island. The people of the Island are of the System One Hundred Dollars re- Lagan 3, Brunner 3, Larberg 2, Mur- reasona delighted to have them here and to ward is offered for any case that Hair, by 1, Marshall 1. Three base hits: Catarrh Medicine fails to cure Send for day know that the members of the club have circulars and testimonia's arberg 1, Storer 1, Gibson 1. been so favorably impressed with all F. J. CHENEY & CO., Tokedo. Ohia Sold by Druggists inc. MRS. NEL ason. Hall's Family Pills for constipation REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES NARI, CP, RG 79 GCF-1907-39. Acadia Misc. Reports/Reports, Annual. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR noto LNP first NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON year as N.P. July 3, 1919. Dear Mr. Dorr: With a view to convenience and uniformity I would ask your special Regular biging. and careful attention to the following instructions relative to your annual report for 1919, in connection with which please refer to the Studencies manner in which your report for 1918 was printed in Appendix B of the Service's annual report for that year. The manuscript should be typed in double space on plain paper, 8 & 101. leaving a margin at least 1 1/2 inches at top, bottom, and sides of each page. Number pages in center at bottom of page. Single spacing may be used only for quoted matter or statistical tables. Indent para- graphs 10 spaces. The printers prefer that each page begin with a para- graph; therefore, do not start a paragraph near the bottom of a page. A space of 3 inches or more at the bottom of a page may be left at the end of a paragraph if all the next paragraph can not be written on the page. Room for wide tables can be made by pasting additional sheets at the side only, and statistical matter should not be crowded. The manuscript should be headed, page 1, as follows: Lafayette National Park. George B. Dorr, Superintendent, Bar Harbor, Maine. Each topic discussed in the report will be given a center heading (not underlined) as, for example, General Statement. 9 H REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES The final page will consist of a table of contents, enumerating in order the previous center headings. For arrangement of the table see pages 107--110 of the Service's 1918 report. The completed report should be forwarded not later than September 15, 1919, with a letter of transmittal in which should be included a statement whether any employees holding departmental appointments for service in Lefayette National Park are below a fair standard of efficiency, and if so, the number of such employees. The final figures for tourist travel to the park should, as in pre- vious years, be omitted from the report, but at the close of business on October 12 a telegraphic report should be made showing totals from 00- tober 13, 1918 to and including October 12, 1919; your telegram to be promptly confirmed by a letter giving the information. Please bear in mind that this report is not to be a report for the 1919 fiscal year except in so far as it relates to fiscal matters. It is a season report and should contain all data regarding the park oper- ations since approximately September 15, 1918, including the present tourist season. Travel figures should be handled as indicated above. Kindly include in the report all matters of special interest that have transpired during the past year. For example I would refer you to the 1918 report of Mr. D. L. Reaburn, former super intendent of Mt. Rainier National Park, in which he gave an interesting account of recession of the Nisqually Glacier and the celebration of the 48th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Mainier. 2 REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES You should also lay special emphasis on all matters relating to the wild animals, birds, forects, and vild flowers, and the work of the Service in encouraging the study and enjoyment of these and other natural features. As I have already advised you Mr. Albright is engaged in preparing various sections of the 1919 report of the Service and you should aid him as much as possible by sending him copies of special reports, monthly reports, travel, statistics, newspaper bulletins, etc. You should send him a carbon copy of your annual report as soon as it is finished. His address is Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. Cordially yours, [H.MAlbright] Director. Mr. Geo. B. Dorr, Superintendent, Lafayette National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. air 3 DAN AND BAR HARBOR RECORD BAR HARBOR, MAINE; WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1919 ROCKEFELLER ARRIVES 7/9/14 Y COMPETITIC AT SEAL HARBOR JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER R KEBO Y R ERE TO ARRIVE THIS WEEK Party Motors to Seal Harbor Estate Brown, J. From Pocantico Hills e of Will Spend . Season With Son at Saturds ugh Seal Harbor. Is 80 This Week h John D. Rockefeller arrived Saturday lon Hopes to Live to Be 100 S' second len at Seal Harbor to spend the summer with fi; the T as of his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., at the John D. Rockefeller, who was eighty hurds ome latter's wonderful estate, Gleneyrie 4th, years old Tuesday, will arrive in Seal b T The party came through Saturday in Harb or this week and will spend the a et- and ats five automobiles from Poland Springs season there with his son and grand- W ning where they spent Friday night. In children. Mr. Rockefeller confesses that W are the the the party also was William Rockefeller, s of he hopes to live to be 100 years old. FC the brother of John D. Rockefeller. "Then I/will just begin to live," he says. W ng his They have motored the whole way from Mr. Rockefeller spent his birthday at the New York estate at Pocantico Hills at his Tarrytown home. In the morn- m ns where John D. Rockefeller celebrated ing he played his usual game of golf se A. his eightieth birthday on July 8th, DAY with a few friends. In the afternoon me he enjoyed a concert by the New York sch ng Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the children came ahead by train, arriving military band of fifty pieces. Mr. an will an in Seal Harbor on Friday. Rockefeller attributes his good health an prial ning to golf and a daily spoonful of olive oil. five This is John D. Rockefeller's first trip to Maine and to his son's summer Mr. Mr. Rockefeller will doubtless be seen gre: ee t frequently during the season:on the links dre ed home. He expressed himself as much ure, The of the Kebo Valley Club. and ia- pleased with the scenery all through Maine t Stat and particularly at Mr. Rockefeller's b the Jr.'s place at Seal Harbor. He has not er of the club feel that t the of set any definite ending with his stay of the most successf he but plans to remain in Seal Harbor for organization has e quite a while. He is spending the time y. The run from he quietly and spends much time on the Swans Island W he estate. He motored over to Bar Harbor The fog that d Monday morning and was seen on the of previous rt street visiting some of the stores. Sun- and a cle day morning he attended church with the flee+ is the family at the Seal Harbor Congre- fast c' gational church. or and He plans to keep in touch with golf, en me of his favorite pastime, and will probably 8 be seen much on the links of the Kebo a Valley Club. he HUA. C.W.Eliot Papers. B.95 x Jeck [1919] July To" gy Dear President-Slit My Multerius manage telts his be has plasty your planton Dietamuer frahmella (William) the plant you Laid Mrs 2 Eliot Wished for out about The Eagle pillin you off for Washington Than Monica Our for the Harvard Club of new Ind to Have keeks the days tum than fall Than a pleased afternom the other day list Mr Brooking, when I hall In again Sincerely June, Dore 19. 2, Asticou, Raine Tasty 24 July 1919 Door Vr. Dorr: Is the tino you are giving showing people about the Park general in the interest of the Park or of The Cardons of .codia? It seems to no that the interests of the lattor enterprise should be vigorously promoted this summer. I hope your exponditures on photographs can be utilized in favor of both the Park and the Cardens. I thank you for your information about Fraxinolla. I have tcl: Dr. Abbo that I will attend his tree planting at the Spring; but I have not yet hoard from him on what day the ceremony is to come off. Is he waiting for peace to arrive! If so, he had better attack the Senate minority with all his might. I should not wonder if Mr. Brookinge nade a good contribution to the Cardens, if you can get him interested in the educational side thereof. You know, of courso, that he is the Business Manager of the Washington University of St. Louis. Sincorely yours Mr. Goorre B. Dorr In BHT Abbe websin 4.5 Peace Tree Planting-at the Spring in the Wild Gardens of Acadia July 26, 1919 Young Sequoia-from Yosemite Valley Young Pine-Mt. Desert Nurseries Planted by Chas. W. Eliot and Geo. B. Dorr SEQUOIA Sequoia, rooted in the glorious West, Torn from congenial soil, enriched with gold, Consent to dwell with us, and feast On granite sand and leafy mold. A thousand years is long enough For thee, thou great exclusive tree, To grace the Western slope, so now, Thrive here! We crave thy dignity. PINE Forests of this Pine Tree State, Whose old and rugged stock Gave merchant ships and masts, This sappling pine speaks now in symbols of the East. "For our great State, Long Life and Peace!" Page lofz It is hoped that this initiation of the wild gardens which occupy the lovely 7/30/17 vale between Dry Mountain and Picket Mountain between 'The Tarn" and WBAR the town, will be followed by further development as rapidly R memorial PEACE TREEPP ENTING funds are given. Already the Delano fund is available and will be drawn (Contributed) 7/26/1919 upon to reproduce the wonderful flowers On a beautiful afternoon last week orchids, wild growth and trees, which more than a hundred friends of the once filled the valley and attracted Lafayette National Park gathered at infinite varieties of birds and wild life. the Sieur de Monts Spring, at the en- Among those in attendance were trance of the "Wild Gardens of Acadia; Mrs. S. W. Bridgham, Mr. and Mrs. to share in the ceremony of planting A. Murray Young, Miss Burnham, two young nursery trees dedicated to Mrs. Clinton Ostrander, Mrs. John lasting Peace, Markoe, Miss Cottonet, Mrs. Newell One was a Sequoia from the Yosémite Tilton, Mrs. H. H. Thorndike, Miss National Park in the Rocky Mountains) Mary Coles, Mrs. Biddle Porter, Mrs. the other a white pine from the Mount Baker, Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Mrs. Desert Nurseries. John I. Kane, Miss Minot, Miss Frith, President Eliot, and George B. Dorr Miss Catherine Rush Porter, Mrs. placed the first trowelful of earth- on Fremont-Smith, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. each, representing, as they do, two great W. T. Manning, Dr. Peabody, Philip America spirits-one renowned for half Wadsworth, Courtland Palmer, David a century at Harvard University, which Ogden, Henry Lane Eno, George B. Dorr has sent broadcast over our country and res. Charles W. Eliot. hundreds of thousands of cultured graduates, during his presidency; the land in Brooklin; quit claim deed, re- other a life of devotion to floriculture and forestry and the greatest single promoter of the Lafayette Park. Everybody present, including children then assisted the planting by placing a little Maine soil at the foot of each tree and breathed a prayer that peace should endure as long as these trees should lend their shade to our forests, and that the blight of war should never again come to our home. No speeches were made as all felt that the dedication and a silent prayer actually, meant deeds and not words. These lines were written anonymously for the day. SEQUOIA Sequoia, rooted in the glorious West, Torn from congenial soil, enriched with gold, Consent to dwell with us, and feast On granite sand and leafy mould. A thousand years is long enough For thee, thou great exclusive tree, To grace the Western slope, so now, Thrive here! We crave thy dignity! PINE Forests of this Pine Tree State, Whose old and rugged stock Gave merchant ships and masts This sappling pine speak$ now In symbols of the East. "For our great State, Long Life and Peace!' e's a Reason" those in attendance were: Miss Sophie Duer, Miss Alice Eno, the Misses Stew Pag 2 of 2 Lonest Treatment, Honest Prices art, Miss Louise Hunt, Miss Louise Imported and Domestic Goods and Condime Morris, the Misses Byrne, Miss Pris- eilla Taylor, Miss Katherine Knapp, Miss Elise Everett, Miss Mary Strange, the Misses Train, Miss Currie Matthews, MARKET Miss Storey, Miss Elizabeth Hyde, Beef, Lamb, Veal, Poults Miss Gladding, Miss Pancost, Miss Louise Ashburst, the Messrs. Bates, Fruits, Vegetables, Seymour, Wadsworth, Fred Lawrence, Cheese, etc. Jarvis Hunt, Edgar Scott, Beverly Duer, the Measrs. Robbins, the Messrs. Ryle, the Meairs. Taylor, Harrison PEOPRIETORS OF Dulles, Leonard Opdycke, Courtlandt Bar Harbor Hardwa van Rensseiser and John Ewing Fred L Olmsted, President of the 131. 133. 135 Main e of good taste, American Society of Landscape Archi- an eye for cor- tects, is in town the guest of George cas in form and B. Dorr. Mr. Oinstead is studying ction in quality, the approaches to the Lafayette Na FOR SA tional Park and the plans for the Wild rane's Gardens of Acadia. Mr. Olmsted, who is here in his yacht, DUFF PROPERT will remain for several days for be is GRINDSTONE enLawn deeply interested in the important work of the National Park and especially Cottage Furnishe in the Wild Gardens of Acadia. He is CORRECT ITING PAPER] z member of the (advisory board of the for occupancy. latter has approved its Mr. Olmsted and his brother, John, Owner going ab l'and character, are the members of the firm of Olmsted live. Will sel its various fash- Brod., of Brookline, Mass, leading bargain. kniffed and landscape architects. They are sons of the late Fred L? Olmsted who planned SHERMAN'S Central Park in New York dty and many George C. Blanc other important parks throughout the country. Winter Harbor 1 7/30/19 Peace Tree Planting-at the Spring in the Wild Gardens of Acadia July 26, 1919 Young Sequoia-from Yosemite Valley Young Pine-Mt. Desert Nurseries Planted by Chas. W. Eliot and Geo. B. Dorr SEQUOIA Sequoia, rooted in the glorious West, Torn from congenial soil, enriched with gold, Consent to dwell with us, and feast On granite sand and leafy mold. A thousand years is long enough For thee, thou great exclusive tree, To grace the Western slope, SO now, Thrive here! We crave thy dignity. PINE Forests of this Pine Tree State, Whose old and rugged stock Gave merchant ships and masts, This sappling pine speaks now in symbols of the East. "For our great State, Long Life and Peace!" LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK and MOUNT DESERT ISLAND 1919 This pocket map has been prepared for Presentation copy to the use of all lovers of Mount Desert. The remarkable shape and extraordinary me Emma Eames de geographical formation of this beautiful island, with its hundred miles of splendid On behalf of the Lafayette National mountain trails and as many more of Park, by lovely roads turning and twisting to every George B Doff point of the compass, its twenty-six lakes and many streams, make its details at once so attractive to study and yet so con- fusing often, in their wonderful variety, that such a map, accurate, easily carried and practically indestructible, should prove a valuable guide alike to motorists and walkers, and a delightful companion. The Lafayette National Park is yet in its infancy but its position as one of the few national parks of the country is assured. The only one as yet in the early settled East, it is unique among its companion parks in being formed by the gift of citizens, and the same generosity that has created it may be counted on to extend its limits. FRENCHMANS BAY BEAUNIULISLAND MOUNT DEBERT Chamaches Charles th. If MODELLED BY ROBERT ABBE. REPRODUCED BY HOWELL'S MICROCOSM, WASHINGTON,D.C. COPYRIGHTED 1916. 4TH Presentation copy to M.T. llanning On behalf of the Lafayette National LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK Park, by Charlesh Eliot and MOUNT DESERT ISLAND 1919 This pocket map has been prepared for Peace Tree Planting at the Spring in the the use of all lovers of Mount Desert. Wild Gardens of Acadia The remarkable shape and extraordinary July 26, 1919 geographical formation of this beautiful island, with its hundred miles of splendid Young Sequoia-from Yosemite Valley mountain trails and as many more of Young Pine-Mt. Desert Nurseries lovely roads turning and twisting to every Planted by Chas. W. Eliot and Geo. B. Dorr point of the compass, its twenty-six lakes and many streams, make Its details at SEQUOIA once 80 attractive to study and yet so con- Sequoia, rooted in the glorious West, fusing often, in their wonderful variety, Torn from congenial soil, enriched that such a map, accurate, easily carried with gold, and practically indestructible, should Consent to dwell with us, and feast prove a valuable guide alike to motorists On granite sand and leafy mold. and walkers, and a delightful companion. A thousand years is long enough The Lafayette National Park is yet in its For thee, thou great exclusive tree, infancy but its position as one of the few national parks of the country is assured To grace the Western slope, so now, The only one as yet in the early settle Thrive here! We crave thy dignity. East, it is unique among its compani parks in being formed by the gift of PINE citizens, and the same generosity tha has Forests of this Pine Tree State, created it may be counted on to Whose old and rugged stock its limits. Gave merchant ships and masts, This sappling pine speaks now in symbols of the East. "For our great State, Long Life and Peace!" NATIONAL PARKS New York Times (1857-Current file); Aug 3, 1919; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. 79 N.Y.Times, 8/7/1919 opportune time for the enlightenment and allurement of Summer wayfarers, is packed full of interesting information that not only describes the wonderland regions, tells the tourist what he will find in each of them and how to get there, but also car- ries much interpretative matter that an- swers the questions every intelligent per- son is bound to want to ask when, for instance, he looks down into the Yosemite or Crater Lake, or up at Casa Grande National Monument, or Montezuma Castle. Love of beauty spiced by wonder," the author thinks, is the equipment for en- joyment of the average intelligent traveler of today. Now add to this a more or less equal part of the intellectual pleasure of comprehension and you have the equip- ment of the average intelligent traveler of tomorrow. To hasten this tomorrow," he adds, is one of the several objects of this book." At any rate, the traveler to these wonderlands of ours will find his enjoyment of the journey very greatly en- hanced by Mr. Yard's book. because it will so much enlarge his understanding of their significance and deepen and sharpen his appreciation of their beauty and grandeur and mystery. The reader who must do his traveling at home will find the work n.f. a source of delight and a storehouse of information, so eloquent are its descrip- tions and so full are its pages of all man- ner of interesting facts. Classifying the national parks according to the character of their geology, Mr. Yard puts them into three divisions. First are those in mountainous regions whose core is of granite.- Lafayette National Park in Maine, Mt. McKinley in Alaska, and those in the Rocky and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Next be takes the five of vol- canic origin and the four in the regions of sedimentary rock. The final section is de- voted to the Grand Canyon and to the many reservations, chiefly in the South- west, called National Monuments, which preserve for the whole people indi- vidual places of rare historic, scenic, or other interest. Each park or monument is described fully, and with so vivid a pen that with a little Imagination one almost feels one's self beholding its beauties and glories with physical eyes, its history re- counted. and such facts are told concerning its geologic aspects as interpret its exist- ence and fill with wonders its billion- yeared vista of creation. There are many beautiful illustrations from photographs and numerous maps and charts that add greatly to the work's value. The end papers present a map of the western half of the United States with the national park locations specially indicated. Mr. Yard is to be congratulated upon having had the courage and the faith in the American reading public to write a new and very different kind of travel book. [Robert 5. Yord] NATIONAL PARKS THE BOOK OF THE NATIONAL PARKS. By Robert Sterling Yard. With maps and Illustrations. New York: Charles Scrib- ner's Son3. T° that large-visioned official, Secre- tary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, should go the credit of being the first to perceive the value as a national asset, both economical and recreational, of the scenic areas of this country and of devising. organizing. and furthering the means by which the American people might be better informed concerning them and the regions themselves made easier of access and enjoyment. The year before the world war started it is said that the American people spent almost $300,000,- 000 vacationing in Europe. That Summer the receipts of Switzerland's hotels and transportation systems amounted to $100.- 000.000, half of it paid by Americans, Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. BEAUTIES OF OUR NATIONAL PARKS New York Times (1857-Current file); Aug 17, 1919; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. 39 From Its description, it accms pecullarly yachting, salt-water and fresh-water BEAUTIES OF OUR NATIONAL PARKS schools for tree study. their branches fitting that this should serve as a fishing, tramping, exploring the wilder- a museum of bird life." memorial to the man: ness, hunting the view spots-these are The book takes up all the other na- Similar in kind to the Yosemite Na- the Summer occupations of many vis- tional parks in order. and renders a liv- tional Park. Roosevelt is far ruggeder itors, the diversions of many others. ing image of the territory it describes and more masterful. It will be the na- The more thoughtful will find its his- Not the least cause of this is the scien- Robert Sterling Yard Describes Governmental tional park of superlatives. Yet each of torical associations fascinating. its ge- tific, historical and legendary back- these similar areas is a completed unit ological record one of the richest in the ground around which the story of each of striking individuality. Yosemite, tak- continent, its forests well-equipped is told. Preserves-New Theory of the Yosemite Ing its note from its incomparable val- kcy. never will be equaled for sheer beauty: Roosevelt knows no peer `for exuberance and grandeur. Yosemite will ORERT STERLING YARD of romances and the tragedies of earth's mountain, for the monsters of the Ander remain Mecca for the tourist: Roosevelt R the Department of the Interior earlier days." and the Himalayas, which surpass it in will draw into its forest of giant trees is the author of a book cailed Mr. Yard then:,proceeds to tell the altitude. can be viewed closely only and upon its shoulders of chiseled The Book of National Parks," story of the eighteen national parks, from valleys from 5.000 to 10,000 feet granite thousands of campers-out and (Scribner's.) which treats the sixteen of which No within the boundary higher than McKinley's northern val- lovers of the high trail. subject from the standpoints of physio- or the United/States. First of all he leys. An entire chapter is given to the atory graphical origin and of aesthetic value. gives some of the natural features of The Hawail National Park containe of Mount McKinley, the " master moun- Sinco the beginning of the great was our parks which surpass anything the the fourth greatest dead crater in the tain." of this continent. the national parks of this country have rest. of the world has to offer: world, the hugest living volcano, and the For a long time McKinley was not proved of immense popularity to the The Swiss Alps, except for several Kilauea Lake of Fire, which Is unique known to be the tallest mountain on national sightseers. According to Mr. unmatchable individual features, are CX- and draws visitors from the world's this continent It was not until 1894 Yard. we spent $256,000,000 annually in celled 'in beauty, sublimity and variety four quarters." that two young gold prospectors recog- foreign sightseeing before the war. by several of our own national parks, In writing about the wonders of the nized its commanding proportions and Switzerland's tourist receipts amounted and these same parks possess other als- Yosemite Valley Mr. Yard puts forth a entered it on their maps. It was they to $100,000,000. more than half of which tinguished individual features unrepre- theory of the origin of its being which who named it. When asked to give the came from Americans. During the year sented in kind or splendor in the Alps. has been advanced by no other author. reason for the name, one of the men before the war tourist travel redeipts The Canadian Rockies are more His authority for this theory is F. E. replied that he had been` so disgusted became Canada's fourth largest source than matched in rich coloring by our Matthes of the United States Geological with the free-silver arguments of men of income, exceeding in gross receipts Glacier National Park Glacier is the Survey. According to him. the origin traveling with him that he named the even her fisheries. The greater part Canadian Rockies done. in Grand Canon of Yosemito's making has been neither mountain after the most ardent gold- came from the United States colors. It has no peer. glacial erosion nor a break or cleaving standard man he knew. Had TTC known. as a nation." SLYS The Yellowstone outranks by far of the rocks by the convulsions of the Before that, the mountain had been Mr. Yard, .. that there was just as good any similar volcanic area in the world. earth's surface, but the result of mill- known to the natives in the Alaskan scenery of its kind in the United States It contains more and greater geysers lons of years of constant friction caused territory by various names. The na- and many more kinds. we would have than all the rest of the world together by the torrents of water of the Merced tives of the Cook Inlet country on the gone to see that: it is a national trait the next in rank are divided between River against the surface of the rock. east know it as Doleika and tell you to buy the best." Mr. Yard then goes Iceland and New Zealand. Its famous To comprehend it." he srys, we that it is the Pock which a god threw on to describe the nation's best rom canon is alone of its quality of beauty. must consider two geological facts. The at his, cloping wife. They say it was the angle of the scientist and the rist Except for portions of the African fact is that no dawdling modern Merced once a volcano, which is not the fact. His attitude throughout the book can jungle. the Yellowstone is probably the out the chasm. but a torrent consider- The Aleutes on the south called it Tra. best be described by the following ra- most populated wild animal area in the ably bigger: and that this roaring river lelka, the big mountain. The natives graphs: world, and its wild animals are com- swept at a tremendous spced down a of the Kuskokwin country on the west To see in the carved and color ful paratively fearless. and even sometimes sharply tilted bed. which it gouged knew It as Denalai, the god, father of depths of the Grand Canon not only deeper and deeper by friction of the the great range. The Russians who es- friendly. the stupendous abyss whose terrible Mount Rainier has a single-peak gla- enormous masses of sand and granite tablished the first permanent white beauty stips the soul. but also today's cier system whose equal has not yet fragments-which it carried down from settlement in Alaska on Kodiak Island chapter in a thrilling story of creation been discovered Twenty-cight living the High Sierra. The second geological knew it as Bulshia Gora, the great whose beginning lay untold centuilles glaciers. some of them very large, fact is that the Merced and Tenaya tor- mountain." back in the ages, whose scene covers rents sand-papered the deepening beds spread octopus-like from its centre. It Lafayette. the Latest. 3,000 square miles of our wonder City of these canyons day and night for sev- is four hours by rail or motor from Southwest, whose actors include :he eral million years; which, when we re- Lafayette National Park is the latest Tacoma. greatest forces of nature. whose tre- member the mile-deep canyons which the acquisition of the Government. It is Crater Lake is the deepest and blu- Colorado River and its confluents cut especially Interesting to the people of mendous episodes shame the imagina- est accessible lake in the world. occu- tion of Dore and whose logical end in- through a thousand or more miles of the East, for it is the only national pying the hole left after one of our Utah and Arizona. is not beyond human park cast of the Mississippi. The man. vited suggestions before which finite largest volcanoes had slipped back into minds shrink-this is to come into the credence. if not conception. He goes on ner in which it came into Government the earth's interior through its own rim. presence of the great spectacle properly to add that the constant tilting of the control is very interesting. The para is Beauty of Yesemite earth's surface kept the Merced flow made up of many small parcels of pri- equipped for its enjoyment. But how ing down from a great height. so that vately owned land which a group of many who sec the Grand Canon get Tuxemite possesses A valley whose it continued to sandpaper its bcd. public-spirited citizens. because of the more out of it than merciy the beauty compelling beauty the world acknowl- whereas other rivers, by eating away impossibility of securing national ap. that grips the soul? edges as supreme. The valley is the their beds. ordinarily lose their tor- propriations. patiently acquired during Geologic Stories. centre of eleven hundred square miles of rential qualities after R period of years. a series of laborious years and present- high altitudo wilderness This theory of the origin or the Yose- ed in 1016 10 the people of the United So it is throughout the world of The Sequola contains more than R mite has the official indorsement of the States. In speaking of this park, Mr. #cenery. The geologic story written on million sequoia trees, twelve thousand Government. Yard says: the cliffs of Crater Lake is more $:11. of which are more than ten feet in diam- Mr. Yard describes the area which The pleasures of the Lafayette Na- pendous even than the glory of its eter. and some of which are the larg. Congress is at present `considering sct- tional Park cover a wide range of hu- indigo bowl. The war of titanic for es est and oldest living things in the wide ting apart as Roosevelt National Park. man desire: Sea bathing, boating, described in simple language on he world. rocks of Glacier National Park is un- The Grand Canon of Arizona is by excelled in sublimity in the history of mankind. The story of Yellowstone's Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Darie 9.13. Asticou, Maine 29 August 1919 Dear Mr. Dorr: I hoar from Mr. William Draper Lewis that you have told him that you think you have discovered a good way of approaching Mr. Lawson. would you mind tolling no what the way is! The -365 Mountain Cormittee at Northeast Herbor wish very much to close up the gift of Dog and Flying Mountain and the Jcsuit Field within the next three works If 2011 possible. I have been in bad with a cold; but expect to be about again, and safe as regards contagion tonorrow. Sincerely yours [c. W. Eliot] Mr. Goorge n. Dorr Dear President Eliot, Hand you a Coly of the Aladia Mountain inscription It- fulled to hu exceliment Sincerely Yours August 2g 19 Gumma B. Dess 2. Inscription - Acadia Mountain. Acadia Mountain given to the public in memory of Rev. Cornelius Smith and his wife Mary Wheeler who were pioneers of the summer colony at Northeast Harbor 1886 - 1913 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT September 10, 1919. Dear Mr. Buell: I write this letter to outline the situation with regard to the Southwest Harbor-section lands desirable to include within the boundaries of the National Park as opportunity offers, according to my study of the situation and my talks during the last two years with Secretary Lane and the Director of the National Park Service;and to set down for future reference what we have talked over together and agreed upon. I have mapped out for the Washington office four distinct mountain areas of park-land on the island, outlined by motor roads. The easternmost is that including Newport Mountain, Picket Mountain, the Beehive and Gorham Mountain, the Cadillac Cliffs, the Bowl, and Beaverdam Pool,and is surrounded by the Ocean Drive. The second is that surrounded by the old Twenty-two Mile Drive from Bar Harbor through the Otter Creek Gorge, passing through Seal Harbor and Asticou and returning by the gorge between Brown's Mountain and Sargent Mountain,and the Eagle Lake road. This comprises the Dry Mountain and Green Mountain mass, Pemetic DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 2- and Mountain and the Bubbles, the Jordan and Sargent mass, its 2432 western boundary being the direct Somesville - Northeast Harbor road. The fourth area is the one I have defined with you enclosing the western mountain group and the three lakes that border or lie between them, Denning's Pond, Great Pond, and Seal Cove Pond, with the lake edges and the woodlands th t lie along the mountain bases. From these areas would be excluded all existing or desirable residen- tial sites and all occupied and cultivated farming lands desirable to preserve as such - there being practically no wooded land upon the island now the t could be profitably cleared for farming purposes, the cost of clearing being fully double, even under favorable conditions, the farming value of the land when cleared. The National Park Service at Washington, to whom I shall submit a copy of this letter, is exceedingly desirous of having the park boundaries defined in such a way as this for purposes of guordianship and protection, for public in- formation, and with reference to planning for the lands' development. The eastornmost of these areas I call in the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 3- annual report I am now at work upon, the Bar Harbor section; the one adjoining it to the westward, the Bar Harbor and Seal Harbor section; the one to the westward of this, bordering the Sound, the Northeast Harbor section; and the one outlined with you, the Southwest Harbor section. This last area I studied so far as I found time two years ago and again this present summer, not being able last year to get down at all owing to work elsewhere. It has wonderful possibilities and I feel strongly that nothing less should be considered as our ultimate goal than the scheme that we have outlined, however long it may take to attain. Two of the lakes, Denning's Pond and Great Pond, are among the most beautiful sheets of water in the world, while Great Pond is not only the most extensive sheet of fresh water on the island but is the present source of one water supply - that of Southwest Harbor - and the available future source for another - Somesville. The woodlands that border them and lie along the mountain bases are exceedingly desirable to secure also in connection with the park, this being the only national park in the country exhibiting a DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 4- deciduous forest. With regard to securing the lands in this the as other - sections my judgment, which is supported by that of Secretary Lane and the National Park Director, Mr. Mather, is to obtain first - next to the actual mountain summits - what is most accessible end might be most difficult to obtain here- after, making this and not extent of land the criterion. Following this criterion the lands, however narrow, along the eastern shore of Denning's Pond that lie between the road and lake, and the lands at the head of the lake on its drainage area, and at the head of Great Pond on its örainage area - already in great part secured - are of high importance, and I have placed them first. The legal study of the ownerships in this tract is long and complicated, and Mr. A. H. Lynam, who is now cooperating with me as assistant superintendent of the park, has been as making E study of them since I secured his appointment to that asst Supur. position at Washington last winter. Mr. Lynam and Mr. Deasy prepared our original deeds for acceptance by the Government, and he has an experience and fund of knowledge on the subject [G.BDorr] I of 2. The Eyrie Seal Harbor, Maine September 15, 1919. Dear Mr. Eno: This is to confirm the verbal pledge which I made the other day and which supersedes the one made in writing earlier. I will contribute toward the fund which you are raining for Mr. Dorr Five thousand dollars ($5,000), provided $25,000 is contributed by others. This provisio I make at your request, since in your judgment it will aid you in securing the two or three thousand dollars which you still lack. I will also cancel Mr. Dorr's indebtedness to me of $4,300. It is understood that the $5,000 will be added to the other $25,000, and that for the $30,000 thus secured, $30,000 worth of the lands owned by Mr. Dorr but bought having in mind the needs of the National Park, will be deeded to the Government by Mr. Dorr. It is also understood that the land for the purchase of which I loaned Mr. Dorr the $4,300, and which I assume is separate from the tract owned by Mr. Dorr which you value at fifty or sixty thousand dollars, will be deeded to the National Park. Mr. Dorr describes this land, in his letter to me of December 29th, 1916, as follows: "The second group of lands of which I spoke is that which ex- tends across the north or Kebo end of the same mountain and is mark- ed 'B' upon the map, colored yellow. It also has been slowly ac- quired as opportunity was found, and controls similarly a group of essentially important trails, while necessary also to complete the tract upon this north side, being a sharply defined projection north- ward of this main granite ridge. It is bounded on the west and north by the brook which comes from Green Mounta in Gorge, and it looks down eastward on the Great Meadow, a great portion of which I have myself a lready placed in reservation as a personal gift. The trails it carries are those which connect the Jordan Pond and Eagle Lake region with the main mounta in group, from Dry to Sargent, with the Bar Harbor region. There are no alternate routes that can re- place them except those just spoken of that pass through the first tract and continue northward through Otter Creek Gorge. "The total cost at which the second group of land stands charg- ed in my memoranda is $4,300, which is far less proportionately than that of any land in this neighborhood at the present time, though only one such tract - that lying to its we st - carries any path control." In my letter of January 2nd, 1917, to Mr. Dorr I said: "If still more funds are needed in order to enable you to meet the obligation of $4,300 referred to in your letter of December 29th, as the purchase price of tract 'B' on the northern slope of Green Mountain z.f2. 2. in the event of payment of this obligation being called for you may draw on me as required for this additional amount. This pledge of up to $4,300 I should be glad to have recorded as moneys placed at your disposal if needed to cover an emergency If later on other people interested in the monument can be found to purchase this tract for the monument, it would be understood that this money would be returned to me." In my letter of January 4th, 1917 to Mr. Dorr, I said: "And on the other hand, the advance of this 1,300 is made in the hope that you will some time be able to interest some other person in the purchase of this tract as a gift to the monument, in which event the advance made by me would be returned to me." I am sorry that in making this pledge, which amounts to a total of $9,300, I have not come up to your expectations of what I had in mind to do, these expectations apparently being based, as you in- timated, upon the request for further information which I made at Mrs. Markoe's luncheon some weeks a go. I thought in asking for the information that it was essential, in order to enable Mr. Dorr to know just where he stood and that it would also be essential in order to enable you to determine what of Mr. Dorr's obligations should first be satisfied. If I had not asked for the information, either you or Mr. Dorr would ha been obliged to collect it before the purpose which you are seeking to carry out could have been effected. At the outset it was not in my mind to contribute more than the $2,000 which I mentioned to you. I increased that amount to $5,000 and added the $4,300 partly because of my interest in securing to the Park as much land as possible, partly because of my desire to assist Mr. Dorr, but even in larger measure because I have appreciated the hard work which you have done in connection with the matter all summer and because I was sorry to disappoint your expectations. I talked the whole matter over quite fully with Dr. Eliot the other day, telling him of our conferences at the various stages, of my original purpose and pledge and of its in- crease in our last interview. I was glad to find that the Doctor seemed well satisfied with what I had agreed to do, and he express- ed himself unqualifiedly as feeling that I was do ing all and more than my share. I make this lengthy explanation only be cause at my request you were frank enough to intimate what was in your mind, from which I infer that I am doing rather less than more than you had hoped I would do. Since I am leaving for New York tomorrow, I shall not see you again, but hope that in the near future you will have com- pleted the fund and accomplished that for which you have spent your- self so unreservedly this summer. Please let me know when and where you would like to have my check sent. Very s incerely, Mr. Henry L. Eno, (Signed) John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Bar Harbor, Maine. g.is. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT September 25, 1919. Dr. Charles W. Eliot, Asticou, Maine. Dear President Eliot: You asked me to tell you the situa- tion with regard to the Southwest Harbor lands. This is the first chance that I have had. I began to study these lands from the reservation point of view early in 1917, on receiving in trust certain funds from Mr. Rockefeller to employ. privately in co- operating with the Southwest Harbor summer residents in acquiring lands for reservation and inclusion in the park. I employed Mr. Schuyler R. Clark of Southwest Harbor as my agent in the matter, he being at the time similarly employed by the Southwest Harbor committee. Mr. Clark came up and met me in the city and went over the situation with me thoroughly in the light of such knowledge as he had. I outlined what seemed to me the most important properties to secure, in the order of their importance - viewed in relation to what was being done independently by the Southwest Harbor people. Some of these the t were readily purchasable he obtained that spring; others he . LRIOR ARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE NTENDENT 2- thought that he could get by waiting and watching his opportunity. With regard to these latter he explained to me that the difficulty was not a money one. The people owning them were mainly of old settler stock, holding family inheritances going back perhaps for generations, and would not sell at any price that would be wise to offer un- less they were taken in the mood or when they chanced to need the money. It was necessary also to proceed care- fully because if any idea should get about that others than the Southwest Harbor summer residents were interesting themselves in the matter it would become impossible to se- cure the lands at all at any reasonable price. 1917 I was working that summer myself under considerable difficulties, having the park lands included in the national monument in charge and no appropriation from Congress to take care of them or for obtaining clerical assistance. In the fall I went to Washington, returning only for a brief period at the beginning of the winter. At that time the most important matter for the park was securing an adequate appropriation for maintenance and ad- 1918 ministration. To this I gave my time till into the summer, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE THE SUPERINTENDENT 3- the sundry civil bill that year not passing until then; and other matters connected with the park, and personal, prevented my coming to Bar Harbor again until last Decem- ber, when I came down to establish the national monument's office and returned to Washington to secure the passage of the bill making it a national park. In establishing my office force I secured the services of Mr. A. H. Lynam, who had prepared our former deeds under the direction of Judge Deasy and was more conversant than anyone with the land ownerships upon the island. Mr. Lynam, whose family was in California at the time, took up his active work as Assistant Superintendent with the special aim of extending our knowledge of the ownership and title of lands desirable for reservation on the island, and of preparation for the Government's acceptance of those we had acquired and had yet not conveyed, on his return from Cal- ifornia this spring. I then at once put him in touch with Mr. Clark, and he has since been quietly working - along with other matters - on the Southwest Harbor lands, Mr. Clark having in the meantime secured certain further lands that I had designated, and failed in getting others. No MENT OF THE INTERIOR ATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE opportunity for securing any lands that I originally out- lined to Nr. Clark for purchase with this fund has been lost. Had such arisen, Mr. Clark would have at once communicated with me and I should have promptly taken it. This summer for the first time, with a park auto- mobile to use and Mr. Lynam to assist me, I have been able to enter on an adequate study of the situation, and in certain cases to correct my earlier impressions. Mr. Lynam has now got well started on his Southwest Harbor work, and his services in the matter - secured by the work at Washington that took me from here - represent the Government's contribution toward the undertaking - which he needs assistance however to accomplish, in the presence of his other work, within a reasonable time. This assist- ance I understand will be contributed by summer residents upon that side. SWH The ownerships that we are seeking, wild lands for the most part and held with little care, are exceedingly ob- seure, even the boundarios in general not being marked; and what is done has to be done with all precaution, as if the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE is SUPERINTENDENT 5- interest of summer residents from the wealthier communities of the eastern portion of the island was inferred prices would rapidly become impossible, or lands impossible to get - owners holding them to await developments. I have spent several days and parts of days lately, as I could get the chance, in quietly studying the different tracts. In my letter of September 10 to Mr. Buell I out- lined what seemed to me of first importance. What I have seen since leaves that unchanged, but in addition to the tracts that I outlined then as most important, viz., the Babbid ge lot on the west side of Echo Lake, the Lurvey lot at its basin's head, and the lots at the head of Great Pond, where Cold Brook runs in and the Southwest Harbor Water Comp- any has its pumping station, I would now add another; that which will give entrance to the park lands on the western side, where Seal Cove brook comes down to meet the sea. These all are tracts which might be permanently lost by waiting and are essential to a good development. The mountain lands not yet secured and the wood lands generally can better wait. Mr. Clark is at work on the acquisition of these stated lots accord ingly. Some he has been seeking DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE a SUPERINTENDENT 6- to get S ince 1917, and has made offers for them; others he and Mr. Lynam are now working upon jointly, endeavoring to ascertain the ownership, the boundaries, or the soundness of the title - matters in some cases of considerable difficulty. Certain ones Mr. Clark has, and has had, authority to purchase without fur ther consultation if he can get them within a price agreed upon; others we know as yet too little about to determine their velue. Without Mr. Lynam's aid we would be brought to a stand-still in regard to some of the most essential, and even with it it is like- ly to be three or four months before we can get a clear understanding of the situation, though he has been at work on it at intervals since spring. Mr. Clark thinks it will still need six months. In the interim, there are certain lots that we can take at once if the owners a gree to sell and I hope to make progress upon these this fall. It is a matter that cannot be hastened, not only because of these difficulties of title, ownership and boundary, but because any apparent urgency or unwillingness to wait along and mull over a trade in native fashion, as Mr. Clark has urged on me repeatedly, would inevitably result not only in DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE THE SUPERINTENDENT 7- sending up the price of the particular lot in question, but of every other we might want. In the meantime, all that remains of Mr. Rockefeller's fund, an approximate half, is - as it has been - safely held and will be drawn upon until exhausted as the oppor- tunity comes. Deposited in Boston, that knowledge of Mr. Rockefeller's interest in the matter might not transpire, I have now - having Mr. Lynam's aid to count upon - placed it, through my friend and family trustee, Mr. Charles P. Bow- ditch, in a special account subject to Mr. Lynam's draft as to my own in case of accident or quick need of action. I append the statement of the account as it now stands. Sincerely yours, George B Work 8. Paid R. H. B. Fernald for lot No. 105 at head of Echo Lake and adjoining Beech Hill property on the west, Dog Mountain property on the east, and Lurvey property upon the south $ 2600.00 paid Loon Higgins for lot at head of Great Pond, being part of Herrick lot 500.00 Paid S. H. Mayo, lot at head of Great Pond 150.00 Paid George Street, lot at head of Great Pond 275.00 These last lots adjoin property acquired by the Southwest Harbor committee and other lots remaining still to be acquired, which Kr. Lynam and Mr. Clark are nov. at work upon. Paid George R. Fuller for legal services 50.00 Paid Schuyler R. Clark, services and expenses in securing lands acquired, in making study of other lands, and in endeavoring to secure areas selected 425.00 $ 4000.00 Reproduced at the National Archives Acadea Box 3.Filet. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 6161 68 das LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE did OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 2 September 26, 1919. Dear Sir: I write in answer to your letter of September 9th regard- ing the facts referred to in the letter addressed by Mr. Chevalier of Philadelphia to Congressman Darrow, of which you enclosed me a copy. I am sorry that Mr. Chevalier did not apply to this office for the facts, which would have been given him most gladly and which reached him incorrectly. As Mr. Chevalier states, the first actual settlement on the island was made by a Jesuit Mission, in 1613. The story of this Mission is told in all detail by Father Biard, one of its leaders, in the"Jesuit Narratives". They first arrived in Frenchman's Bay and named their settlement- when the fairness of the spot disclosed itself with lifting clouds the morning after their arrival - Saint Sauveur, in gratitude to the Divine Guidance that had led them there in safety after a long and dangerous voyage. Friendly Indians established at the entrance to Somes Sound per- suaded them soon after to come and settle on the opposite shore at what is now known as "Fernald's Point". They were not massacred by the Indians, who on the contrary con- tinued most friendly toward them, but their settlement was destroyed - some of the Mission being taken into captivity, others killed I by a hostile expedition from Virginia under the charge of Sir Samuel Ar- gall. It was a lawless and unjustifiable act committed in a time of peace, which Parkman states to have been the starting point of the long contest between France and England for the control of North America that ended on the Heights of Abraham nearly a century and a half later. As this Mission was the first religious station established, even temporarily, by the French in North America, the spot has an interest historically which certainly should be recorded. The story with regard to the cross is this. A lady, long time a summer resident at Northeast Harbor and old friend of my own, consulted me in the summer of 1917 wit th regard to commemorating the Jesuit settlement by the erection of a cross on Flying Mountain, a ridge of granite overlooking what is known as "Jesuit Field" and jut- ting boldly out across the entrance to Somes Sound. I went with her in a boat to study the proposal, and suggested the erection of a tem- Reproduced at the National Archives -2- porary cross in wood to observe the effect and obtain the judge- ment and criticism of others on it, submitting the matter first, however, to Secretary Lane on the occasion of his visit to us that summer. Mr. Ralph Adams Cram, the architect, was sent for and a temporary wooden cross, designed by him, erected upon the site proposed. His design was for a Celtic Cross, thirty feet in height. Its erection aroused both warm commendation and much criticism. It stood until this spring, when it was removed under the direction of a member of the committee who had purchased Fly- ing Mountain, for presentation to the Government. In the meantime the lady who had offered to present it and had paid the expense of Mr. Crem's advice and of the erection of the trial cross, died and left no provision for carrying out her plan, which has lapsed ac- cordingly. Whether it will be taken up again by the Government or others later on cannot of course be stated at the present time. The purchase for the park of the Jesuit Field below where the actual settlement was made has not yet been completed nor sufficient funds raised, and until the ownership of at least an adequate portion of it by the Government is definitely assured no further step in the matter can properly be taken. Flying Mountain was purchased for a gift to the park by means Dear of a subscription fund but its transferance to Government ownership mt. has not yet taken place, the cross having been erected on land held at that time, as still, by private individuals. Its transfer is one of the matters over which I and the assistant superintendent of the park are working at the present time. I may state personally that the cross as erected appeared to me a most interesting feature; I should be glad to see it suitably em- bodied in enduring granite as was planned, quarried in situ from the mountain - though the original cross erected by the Jesuits accord- ing to Father Biard's account must undoubtedly have stood less dramatically upon the field below and been of wood. Flying Mountain gets its name from an old Indian legend, that at some time it formed a part of the higher mountain dominating it from behind. This higher mountain, formerly called Dog Mountain for no significant reason, was changed in name at my suggestion by the U. S. Geographic Board last November to Saint Sauveur Mountain, to commemorate in its granite mass the Jesuit settlement. Trusting that this statement may enable you to make the matter plain to Congressman Darrow and Mr. Chevalier, I remain Sincerely yours, The Director, George B. Dort National Park Service, Supt. Lafayette Nat'l Park. Department of the Interior, Washington D.C. L.B. DEASY, PRESIDENT FRED C. LYNAM, TREASURER VERNON G. WASGATT, ASST. TREAS. Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. CAPITAL $ 50,000.00 SURPLUS $ 200,000.00 Harbor, Maine Sept. 30, 1919. Henry Lane Eno, Esq., Bar Harbor, Me. Dear Sir: The followin are the deposits to the account of Dave H. Morris, Treasurer, since Sept. 5th. Mr. & Mrs. Edwin G. John S. Melcher $ $25 Merrill $20 A. M. Coats 100 Mrs. James Byrne 100 Edith Prescott F. H. Macomber 1. Walcott 100 Edward C. Clement .25 A. H. Stinson .50 John B. Burke 25 E. L. Bagley .50 Maynard Spurling 50 Edward Childs 50 Mrs. S. B. Childs 50 L. S. Clement 50 Lena Campbell 50 Julia C. Weymouth 50 Geo. N. Jordan 1. F. A. Pinkham 25 John G. Bagley 25 Edith L Eno 100 E. P. Sohier 25 Mr. & Mrs. Walter F. W. Francis Bird 1 Bird 2 T. R. Beal 25 John L. Wilkie 25 Francis M. Scott 100 Helen MacGregor Edwin Gould 150 Byrne 100 Grace Eliot 3 Carola Eliot 3 Ellen Peabody Eliot 3 Mare Gale Eliot 6 Mrs. M. A. Hanna 50 Ethel DuBois 10 L. A. Austin 2 Cornelia W. Drury 25 C. C. Ladd 2 J. H. Sawyer 10 Alice R. Hinch 1 A. L. Witham 1 Marion Clark Maderia 5 Mrs. & Mrs. Lea McI Samuel Hillson 2.50 Luquer 100 Nathan Hillson 2.50 F. E. Whitmore 1 Chas. R. Dugin 1. John H. McCormick .50 Effie E. Reed .50 Mrs. J. H. Butterfield 50 Barbara Butterfield 50 Wm. Douglass 50 Geraldine Butterfield 50 Hohn H. Butterfield 20 Emil Giles 50 Gerald Hodgkins 50 Edith West 1 J. A. Morse 1 Thos. Searles 1 H. F. Carter 1 C. E. Marcyes 1 Christine Austin 1 E. B. Mears 10 E. C. Webb 1 L. W. Tabbutt & Son 5 Geo. B. Murch 5 L.B. DEASY, PRESIDENT FRED C. LYNAM TREASURER VERNON G. WASGATT, ASST. TREAS. Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. CAPITAL $ 50,000.00 SURPLUS $ 200,000.00 Bar Harbor, Maine Henry Lane Eno, Page 2. A. V. Wilson $1 Julius Kurson $5 N: M. Roberts 100 M. Franklin 10 A. S. Rodick 15 R. H. Kellam 1 Frank McGouldrick 1 Mrs. Frank McGouldrickl Ralph Torrey .50 Walter H. Buell 5 S. R. Clark 5 Mary S. Febinger 10 Lillian Brown McConnell 1 Joanna Kilby 1 Harold A. Howard 50 Mrs. Goe. H. Monks 250 & Total Yours truly, 17,374 May Asst. Treas. Journal of the INTERNATIONAL GARDEN CLUB VOL. III SEPTEMBER, 1919 No. 3 CONTENTS Japanese Primulas, by Harry A. Day, F.R.H.S. 345 Flower Names, by Esther Singleton 355 The Flower Lovers and Gardeners of Ancient Mexico, by Zelia Nuttall 365 New or Noteworthy Fruits, by U. P. Hedrick 380 A History of Gardening in England, by the Hon. Alicia Amherst 390 The National Park of the Abruzzi, by. Luigi Parpagliolo 421 Outdoor Theatres, by Arthur Westcott Cowell 431 A Sussex Rock Garden, by F.J. Hanbury, F.L.S: 437 Tulip Droppers, by A. B. Stout 463 Notes from the Arnold Arboretum, by C. S. Sargent 473 Practical Horticultural Notes 489 343 [Translation by George B Dorr] The National Park of the Abruzzi By Luigi Parpagliolo of the Fine Arts Directorate of Italy I ROFESSOR PIROTTA, of the University of Rome, has launched through the instrumen- tality of the Federation Pro Montibus a plan for a national park in the Abruzzi, and has done it in a simple yet eloquent form worthy of a man of science of the good old time when it was a matter of pride to clothe a scientific conception in a literary form and to animate it with artistic sentiment. To many, to most perhaps, in Italy the words "national park" will sound new; to many, also, will appear strange in the un- happy days that we are traversing-and during the hard trials especially to which ancient woods and sylvan shades and smil- ing parklands have been subjected these last years-the elo- quent and poetic words in which Professor Pirotta tells of the beauties of nature, and the noble idealism of his plan for pre- serving them from further destruction. To me it seems, how- ever, that the proposal for this national park has come at a Reprinted from the Nuova Antologia, May 16, 1918, by the Federation Pro Montibus, an association for the establishment of national parks and for the protection of the Italian flora and fauna. It is a pleasure to print this as a record of the first Italian effort to set aside for the people a tract of land for the enjoyment of all and which, as custodians of the beauty of nature, we have no right to allow to degenerate through private caprice or greed. Readers of the JOURNAL will remember Mr. George B. Dorr's account of the Sieur de Monts National Monument near Bar Harbor, Me., the establishment of which was due to his efforts. His interest in this work has led him to kindly translate for the JOURNAL this account of a similar attempt in Italy.-ED. 421 INTERNATIONAL GARDEN CLUB THE NATIONAL PARK OF THE ABRUZZI 423 422 truly opportune moment, when the discussion of an object of with the greatest authority and has taken the most active part such kind was needed to raise up our national spirit, too much in it in Europe, is the eminent Swiss naturalist, Paul Sarrasin: embittered and cast down by unmerited disasters; and because "Upon the heels of the geographic exploration of the earth," it is a work of wisdom in the midst of vast destruction, be it said he at the International Congress of Geologists at Graz wrought by an enemy or imposed by necessity, to save what in August, 1910, "which may be looked upon as ended, has one still can of natural treasures "that are truly," as writes followed with gigantic strides the impoverishment of its riches, Professor Pirotta, "the artistic and scientific patrimony of our and the destruction of its living beings, attacked in their happy and obscure existence. Industrial vandalism, sweeping the nation." The idea of a national park in Italy is not new. Publicity world, has disturbed everywhere the natural associations of was given it some years ago by the Swiss commission for the living things, sacrificing to the greed of men and temporary gain the exquisite and splendid beauties of our hospitable protection of natural beauty and our own Government in con- nection with a plan for the establishment of a park to the north earth." And in the name of posterity, who will one day anath- ematize us for having left them desolation for an inheritance, of the Valtellina, and east of the Bernina Mountains, in ex- he invited the naturalists of the whole world to abandon books tension of that splendid and recent park creation made by and laboratories and run to the defense of nature, in ever Switzerland in the Lower Engadine. But nothing came of it greater danger: "Awake!" he exclaimed, "The world is con- finally. And this perhaps was well; for, placed there, alongside quered; let us provide for its preservation." of a greater park of similar character beyond our border, such The proofs he brought to this congress of the wasteful and a park would have added little of independent value, the systematic ferocity with which greedy speculators pursue, year aim of the Swiss commission in proposing it being one rather after year with ever greater fury, the destruction of precious of practical advantage, to protect their park against Italian animals to obtain from them oil, skins, ivory, feathers-objects, poachers. in general, not of need but of luxury-were indeed appalling The idea of a national park, however, was not abandoned. and it was in reference to these, and others scarce less tragic of It remained in the minds of a number of our leading men relating to the destruction of the flora-t Alpine flora es- science as a germ in good earth, awaiting favorable conditions specially-by florists, by collectors, by conscienceless botanists, to sprout and grow. Early in the year 1913 a national league in that the congress voted to establish an international conference for the protection of nature monuments, similar to that on the subject in which all civilized states should be invited Switzerland, sprang from the initiative of the Italian Botanical idea to participate officially. This conference took place, on the Society, and although it also led to no result it kept the invitation of the Swiss Government, at Berne in November, alive. Nor, indeed, could Italy remain passive in the presence the 1913, Italy participating through the medium of her diplomatic of the world movement for the protection of the flora, minister. An international congress for the protection of fauna, the geological documents, the beautiful and significant nature resulted from it, and engagements were entered into aspects of the earth, threatened with inexorable destruction- the by the states most deeply interested. a movement spreading through all the civilized nations of Among the various representatives who attended it was world from Europe to America, which the war has suspended retake Professor Hugo Conwentz, Director of the Museum of Danzig, but has not suppressed and that once peace is made will who described the truly splendid organization that he-first its course with added vigor. One of the pioneers of the speaks move- on his own initiative and then as head of an official commission ment, the leading one perhaps, certainly the one who 424 INTERNATIONAL GARDEN CLUB THE NATIONAL PARK OF THE ABRUZZI 425 established by the government to make a study of the natural and of Bex to prevent that of Pyrola umbellata. In Bavaria beauties of Germany-created for the protection of nature, severe penalties were established against picking Edelweiss. distributing the work in various branches; geology, water In the Island of Borneo, in certain districts, it is forbidden by courses, botany, zoology, and prehistoric antiquities. He a law passed in 1895 to gather orchids under penalty of a fine founded associations which extended beyond the Empire into of $500. And similarly, for certain species of animals that all countries where German was spoken; distributed question- are continually becoming more rare to the point of extinction, naires by thousands; promoted regional and general congresses; penalties against hunting, of more or less severity, have been published illustrated documents rich in plant topography- widely established. But none of these have proved sufficient. created, in fact, such a movement of ideas, activities, and The Proclamation of 21st September, 1821, by the Government provision for the future, such an atmosphere of living interest of Sardo to secure the conservation of the wild goat did indeed in the protection of nature, or rather of the "Native-land" result in protecting that precious ruminant of the Alps in the (Heimath), from which one of the most powerful associations Val d'Aosta, but we do not know how large a part in this was took its name-as to set in motion an undertaking for the due to the fact that this animal was always held to be game establishment of three great national parks, similar to those reserved for the Princes of the House of Savoy, and whether already long since established in the United States of America. the Royal Preserve of the Gran Paradiso did not give more protection than the law. According to this plan, three great tracts were to be set aside, one in the south, among the Alps, the second in central Ger- In England they have laws that prohibit the destruction many, a third in the north, in the heathlands of Luneburg, with of wild birds, but these not proving sufficient, various organi- zations have united to acquire island shelters where the safe the intention of preserving, or reintroducing, in them the native nesting and reproduction of the migratory birds may be secured. animals of Germany, such as the beaver and the wild OX. In its colonies, more especially in central Africa, the English government has had recourse to an indirect means to save II from destruction animals whose species are threatened with This idea of national parks showed itself, at once, to be extinction: it has imposed a very high tax on hunting permits, the most practical and efficacious way of rescuing from total which limit moreover to but very few the animals that may destruction a number of races of animals and species of plants, be hunted. And in the United States, where special reserves of preserving intact characteristic geological features, of pre- were established many years ago at the expense of the govern- venting the destruction of certain unique aspects of nature of ment to preserve the last remaining bison, a proclamation by which have claimed, and will always claim, the attention President Roosevelt in 1903 created the Federal Reserve of men in an almost religious sense. the Pelicans along the Indian River on the eastern coast of it The more widely this idea has spread, the more clear The Florida, to preserve the existence of the black and white peli- has become that legal enactments alone are not enough. cans. Individual species, it is true, may be protected now and Canton of Soleure in Switzerland established in 1894 a fine again by legal enactments but the primitive aspect of nature of ten lire ($2) for the benefit of the schools of Oltingen, against produced in the course of centuries by the reciprocal action of the gathering of Daphne Cneorum, Daphne alpina, and Linaria indigenous plants and animals can only be safe-guarded, even rediviva; similar provision was made in 1903 by the Communal approximately, in regions as yet undisturbed by man or but Council of Schwytz to prevent the extirpation of Rhododendron slightly altered, by the establishment of absolute protection ferrugineum on the Righi, and by the Councils of Andelfingen 426 INTERNATIONAL GARDEN CLUB THE NATIONAL PARK OF THE ABRUZZI 427 in a complete reserve, a sanctuary for every living form created the Federation counts twelve national parks, besides those by nature that belongs to it and has been saved to our time; created at their own expense by individual states, as New thus only can we hope that native life threatened by the inter- York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, California, and Michigan, in vention of man can be preserved and continued on to future their regions of greatest interest. generations. III From such reflections sprang the conception of the Swiss National Park of the Lower Engadine, which became a fact This proposal then of a national park in Italy-and of one in 1913. It had however antecedents-in America especially, especially in the Abruzzi Mountains "where," as Professor where the so-called "practical" people have not launched, as Pirotta says, "the beautiful name of our country first appeared; with us, their bolts against the sentimentality of those who where all is Italian and all proclaims the greatness, the energy, believe it necessary that the interests of art and science should the art of our ancestors; where the highest mountains of the once in a while be preferred to those of material advantage. noble Apennine range raise their summits, to descend in lesser In the United States it was sufficient that certain travellers peaks and mountain ranges toward one and the other of the like Doane, Langdorf, and Hayden should send to the Federal two Italian seas"-is but the expression of a great world move- Government enthusiastic reports on what they had seen in ment and must be carried out if Italy is not to fall behind the regions bathed by the springs of the Yellowstone and the other lands in culture and civilization. But now comes the Missouri for a law to be passed-approved by Congress on the of practical question: How can we preserve this territory? How first of March, 1872-proclaiming a national park a stretch can we institute this park of the Italian people? Let us see territory 55 miles by 65 miles, "which," it was stated, "during what others have done; what, to take a concrete example, was a relatively recent geologic epoch has been the seat of the most done in our own neighborhood and under similar conditions tremendous phenomena recorded in our country." This Region by the Swiss commission for the protection of natural beauty. of Wonders, as it was called, would speedily have been taken One of its members drew the attention of his colleagues to possession of by speculators-so the account goes on to tell- that portion of the Lower Engadine traversed by the River if by this admirable act of legislative foresight it had not been the Inn which includes on the one side the Scarl Valley with its consecrated to the benefit of science and the enjoyment of wild lateral branches and on the other the great mass of the Quatorvals, and the commission, led by Sarrasin, took a daring people. But America did not stop here. After the institution of step; it leased, on the 31st of December, 1909, from the Com- the Yellowstone Park, Lord Dufferin, the Governor-General mune of Sornez for the duration of twenty-five years, the of Canada, interested himself in the threatened impoverish- wild valley of Cluoza, for a stretch of 25 kilometers, and so ment by industrial use of the Falls of Niagara, and suggested by laid the cornerstone of the future national park. Following this, it commenced negotiations with five other communes to his colleague of the State of New York the acquisition both with the object of enlargement and nine months later, in the two governments of the lands along the river, on September, 1910, Sarrasin was able to announce that the work sides; and to this the sum of 300,000 pounds sterling devoted. More recently, these same United States, again Petri- to would be complete within the following year. "You may ask me," he said to the Congress of Graz, "with prevent industrial exploitation, acquired the wonderful In what courage do we commence such an undertaking, one which fied Forest of Arizona, making it also public property. today sequence to this yet other acquisitions were made, till THE NATIONAL PARK OF THE ABRUZZI 428 INTERNATIONAL GARDEN CLUB 429 will exact without doubt many and large resources." My at heart the welfare of the nation. The sum required is not great, for the plan is to follow for the present the Swiss system answer is: "Not with courage, but with the faith that conquers of long leases of the communal and provincial domains and every obstacle." private woodlands included within the intended bounds. To procure the necessary means he instituted a Swiss "League Does this seem visionary? But is it visionary to think that for the Protection of Nature," with dues of one lira a year for a nation of thirty-six million inhabitants can find within itself each associate. Faith worked its miracle; the associates in- the resources to accomplish a work of high civilization at the creased to 9000 in 1910, to 26,000 in 1913, to 35,000 ultimately. center of its territory? The moral influence alone of a league so numerous, including I have not sought to lay out a mathematically exact scheme people of every sort and condition, scientific, literary, artistic, but rather to set forth an idea that can be discussed, corrected, and political, could not fail to incline the government favorably dropped perhaps in favor of other and better ideas-more toward its project. Speedily the interest of members of the practical, better fitted to the end. The problem of the National Federal Council was secured for the establishment of a great Park in the Abruzzi lies before us; in some way it must be Swiss reserve in the Grisons, the canton of the Engadine, and solved if we are not to remain alone among the nations in not when in June, 1912, it was decided to ask of the government adopting this new form of conservation-the conservation of a subsidy of 18,200 lire to pay the stipulated rental to the natural beauty and of opportunity for scientific study. commune of Zernez the cause was already won before the federal Such an undertaking, too, must promote a new development council, which hastened to make the project of the national in the Abruzzi country, in that part of it at least which has park its own. The legislative chambers did the rest. the good fortune to find itself within the boundaries of its Is it then best to follow the same course in Italy? It has national park. It will become the goal of men of science, of already been entered on, but the coming of the European War tourists, of nature and landscape lovers; and summer resorts arrested the propaganda which was a necessary preliminary. of the first order will spring up in it. Moreover, one of the Let us recommence it; we are still in time. duties of whoever is called to direct and administer the park Paul Sarrasin has stated that the Swiss league succeeded in will be precisely this, to arouse in all who visit it the eager raising 35,000 lire a year-or, better, in obtaining 35,000 asso- desire to bring to it the greatest possible number of persons ciates paying each a lira annually; Italy with its far greater who now go elsewhere to seek green spaces, silence, health- population should be able to enroll ten times that number. giving air, the restful and consoling view of natural beauty. Number's apart, however, there are in Italy certain associations Thus will cease to be unknown one of the most beautiful regions that have become most powerful-the Alpine Club, the Touring in Italy, and the strangers who after the war-in greater num- Club, and others, whose associates pay dues far greater than bers than before-will come in pilgrimage to enjoy our sun a single lira, and, without seeking to infuse more active life and admire our art will not pass directly, as they do today and have for centuries, from Rome to Naples, but will turn into the national league for the protection of nature monuments, aside toward the center to behold the wonders enclosed in the Federation Pro Montibus that has now taken the lead with regard to the national park should be able with the aid our national park, and pass from it upon their southward way. Onward then! The undertaking is worthy of an association of these to carry on the noble work and secure the necessary such as the Pro Montibus which includes within itself men financial means, first from the government, then from the of the highest standing in the political and administrative life communes, the provinces, the institutions of credit, the cham- bers of commerce, the art associations, all in a word who have 430 INTERNATIONAL GARDEN CLUB of the nation, and whose executive council has given so many proofs of active energy in recent years and is presided over by a man of the highest organizing ability, tenacious and culti- vated, the Hon. Miliani, Minister of Agriculture-the man who went in 1907 to see with his own eyes the Yellowstone Park Outdoor Theatres and published an enthusiastic and most instructive description of it in the Nuova Antologia, where it may be found in the By Arthur Westcott Cowell May 1st issue of 1909. HE open air theatre was well presented in the June, 1918, JOURNAL from two contrasting points of view as regards design the classic Greek theatre which by its stern regularity and architectural feeling may be classified among other refined formal landscape treat- ment and the typical sylvan theatre so rustic as to be unde- fined by line of stage or wings. These are two extremes, both excellent, and entirely correct in ideal and design. There is a possibility, however, that the one might not serve the pur- poses and needs of the other from the mere fact of the strong character of the theatres themselves-which would in the one case prove too classic for many a pageant or rustic scene and the other entirely too "woodsy" for an act portrayed as upon a village common or in city yard or park. It is exceedingly difficult for many of an audience to forget the external sur- roundings of a character portrayed upon the stage in interpre- tation of a scene or act. Properly, a park should boast of two garden theatres, the one for classic plays and conventional kind of scenes, the other for Indian plays and woodland scenes, and it might be that an enthusiastic audience would follow the play if necessary from one stage to the other as the play might demand a change of arboreal setting. If, however we are proposing a single out-of-door space for presentation of plays, and that is as many as most places will ever possess, it would seem quite possible that a theatre laid out in the extreme correctness of either school of design-formal or informal-might upon occasions be quite unsuited and that one designed with less emphasis either one way or the other would err less and prove the most useful and adaptable. Its 431 9/18/13 Dec. 1919 THE AUTO ERA (Sept. 1919- Self-Contained:-They tell of a certain In either case the reservation is within the Old Dick, a fisherman off the coast of Massa- limits of any extended tour in New England, chusetts, who is noted for his poise and la- which is visited every summer by hundreds Aug. 1920) conic mode of speech. It is said that no one of thousands of motorists. Moreover, the has ever known him to evince the least excite- tendency of automobile tourists in New Eng- ment in any circumstances or to waste a word land is to follow the coast more or less closely in any situation. in going north and then swing west across One day last summer, Old Dick was row- New Hampshire and possibly Vermont for a ing leisurely in his boat when a dory bearing run inland. The Lafayette park will make three or four persons from a resort capsized almost an inevitable turning point for tours near him. During the confusion that ensued, in New England.' Old Dick rowed over to the scene of the dis- The park comprises a cluster of abrupt, aster and remarked, placidly, to the persons craggy, granite mountains, the dying up- who were clinging to the boat, screaming heaval of the Appalachian range. The scenery wildly for help: is magnificent and added to the attraction of "Hadn't you better git in?"-Harper's. bold mountain views is the glory of the cold northern sea, that bathes the feet of the towering peaks that make the park. Motor- Our New National Park:-At last the ists in New England this year have a new and east is to have a national park. Since Con- delightful experience awaiting them. gress many years ago took the wise step of creating these great public playgrounds, force of circumstances has always decreed Husband-Yes, my dear, that's a man-o'- that they should be in the western country. war. Wife-How splendid! And what is They were designed primarily to preserve for that little one just in front? Husband-Oh. the nation and for all time such natural that's only a tug! Wife-Oh, yes, of course- wonders as the big trees of California, the tug-of-war! I've heard of 'em!-Sketch. wonders of Yellowstone, the glaciers of Glacier park, etc. But the recent Congress has chang- ed all that by creating the Lafayette National Just the Same: you act toward Park in Maine, a reservation combining in your wife as you did before you married miniature the mountain wonders of our west- her?" "Exactly. I remember just how I ern parks and adding the compelling magic used to act when I first fell in love with her. of the sea. I used to lean over the fence in front of her Lafayette National Park," says Alexander house and gaze at her shadow on the curtain. Johnston, writing in a recent issue of Motor, afraid to go in. And I act just the same way "comprises a tract of more than 10,000 acres, now when I get home late."-London Tit-Bils. located on the Island of Mount Desert, where is that queen among seaside cities, Bar Har- bor. All this land was donated by public Going Farther and Faring Worse:- spirited citizens for the express purpose of "A long walk will give you a fine appetite." founding this national reservation. In goodly "That's the reason I'm sitting still," replied measure, we owe our new park to the uncon- Mr. Growcher. "I can't afford a fine appe- querable determination of George Bucknam '-Washington Star. Dorr, custodian of the Sieur de Monts Nation- al Monument, the nucleus around which the Lafayette park has grown up. For many Bricks and Boomerangs:-"De man dat years, Mr. Dorr has fought for the consum- sells another man a gold brick," said Uncle mation now achieved and has himself do- Eben, "generally finishes up by gittin' fooled nated a considerable portion of the land com- hiss'f on sumpin' a heap mo' important."- prised within the park limits. Washington Star. "In addition to its manifold attractions of scenery and historic interest, Lafayette Na- How He Got It:-A colored veteran just tional Park enjoys the advantage of a pe- back from the other side when questioned culiarly strategic location. It lies at what is about an iron cross he was wearing explained: practically the northern terminus of the New "Boss, it was a extra decoration. De Kaiser England touring routes. From Boston the hisself sent it to me by a special messenger park is approximately 300 miles. The high- what dropt daid jus' befo' he give it to me." way trip from New York is about 550 miles. -New York Globe. Page Eighteen Google Original from NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY DR. EDWARD K. DUNHAM 35 EAST 68TH ST. NEW YORK, N. Y. Oct.4th. 1919. Hon. John A. Peters, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Peters: Beginning in 1914, I took part in an endeavor to foster wholesome activities in Seal Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Mc Kinley and the two Cranberry Islands, particularly in winter. It seemed to those of us who were interested that the rural or "county" branch of the Y.M. C.A. was the most promising agency to initiate and support such an effort, and I am of the opinion that we are correct in this judgment. The war interrupted this undertaking. Our Secretary enlisted before the draft came into operation. This Fall we have made a temporary arrangement with the Maine State Y.M.C.A to appoint E.F. Andrews (S. H. Realty Co.) an assistant secretary for Hancock Co. This appointment extends to April 1/20, only. He is not trained to the work and needs and will obtain help from the State headquarters in Waterville. I can see, however, that such a local effort would be enormously benefitted by such an organization of the whole county as the State Committee is trying to create and I seriously contemplate doing what I can to help them bring this organization into being as far as the personel is concerned; i.e., the ap- pointment of a Secretary and an Assistant for the whole County and their main- tenance. Mr. .Andrews appointment is a purely local affair and is already financ ed, so his employment does not enter into the larger plan beyond merging with it in case it comes into operation. I am prepared to father the chief burden of financing the larger undertaking, together with those in Seal Harbor who will participate. But it is obvious that it is important to obtain support from other parts of Hancock County. It would be a handicap to finance a county 2. .it worthy of popular support through a few people in an isolated cor- of that county. So I write to ask you to take an interest in this matter, and if you can see your way to doing so, to make some financial contribution, in order that XXXN the undertaking may avoid a stigma of being too sharply localized. I am sure you will see the point of this, and hope that you will understand that I write to you, not to try to hold you up, but because you are the one per- son (excepting Mrs . Hale, to whom I am also writing) in Ellsworth that I know well enough to make the venture. Yours very truly, Enward K. Ducham FORM 15 VOUCHER NO. 127772 TO Mr. A.H. Lynam, FROM Bar Harbor, Maine JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. 26 BROADWAY, NEW YORK THE CHECK HEREWITH IS TENDERED IN FULL PAYMENT OF THE FOLLOWING: In full payment of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s pledge dated September 15th 1919 to Mr. Henry L. Eno toward the fund Mr. Eno is raising for Mr. George B. Dorr -$ 5,000. 2023 PLEASE DETACH AND DEPOSIT CHECK. No ACKNOWLEDGMENT REQUIRED. KEEP THIS VOUCHER FOR REFERENCE. DAVE H. MORRIS 19 EAST 70 TH STREET NEW YORK Oct. 10, 1919. My dear Henry, I have your letter of October 6, and have sent the check for $25,000 to Mr. Lynem, B.S requested. T. assume that you have arranged that all of George's debts will be liquidated, as originally planned. Please accept my hearty congratulations on the brilliant manner in which you have handled this fund. Yours as ever, whole. Professor Henry Lane Eno, Bar Harbor, Mains. THE AUTO ERA Motor Cars in U. S. A.-7,602,000 Registration for 1919 Doubles 1916 Record: Iowa Leads in Density, New York in Total HE enthusiasm for motor stocks in T far-West and one for every eight persons along Wall Street is no greater than the the Pacific slope. interest displayed in all sections of The "density" is greatest in those states the United States over the automobile where climate conditions are mild and even and its future. In addition to the many all the year round and in the farming regions. attractions offered by the machine itself there Iowa still leads with a car for every 6.2 per- is the extra stimulant of road-building, open- sons, Nebraska has a rating of 6.5, Califor- ing up new possibilities for the automobile. nia 6.6, South Dakota 7, Kansas 7.1, Montana Probably one billion dollars will be expended 8.1, Minnesota 9 and SO on. Incidentally, in the next few years by the various states California's figures represent only actual in- on good roads, foreshadowing increased dividual fee registrations and if all replace- pleasure riding and short-haul transportation ments and manufacturers' and dealers' cars by motors. were included the total registration would be The Boston News Bureau has just com- well over 500,000. pleted a canvass of the automobile situation New York again leads in point of total in the 48 states and District of Columbia. registration with 535,000 machines, yet the The results show that there will be 7,602,000 per capita number is only 20, or three lower automobiles, both passenger and commercial. than that of Massachusetts. Ohio. the bell- officially listed on December 31st next. The wether of the West, is a close rival with 1919 registry, needless to say. will be a new 510,000 cars, or one for every 10.3 persons, high record and compares with actual tabu- Pennsylvania with 475,000, or one for every lation of 6,225,192 cars at the end of 1918. 18.5 persons is next and Illinois has 470,000. This increase of 22% follows exactly the same Incidentally, Illinois expects to run its progress during the 1918 year despite the pur- motor registration up to 600,000 during the ported shortage of cars. The 1919 registra- 1920 year and since fees have been increased tion more than doubles that for 1916. 50% for that period $5,000,000 increased in- By the turn of the new year there will be a come is expected from this source. The state car for every 14 persons in the United States has voted $60,000,000 for 5800 miles of hard based on the estimated population of 105,- surface roads, 1000 miles to be ready early 253,400 a year ago. In the New England next summer. states with a car for 15 persons and in the The prosperous sunny South has only one Eastern region with one for every 17 the show- car per 22 persons, yet its absorption of auto- ing is near to the average rate. However, mobiles in recent years outstrips that for the distribution thruout the country is not any other section. For instance, Missouri SO uniform, with the ratio one for every 22 is going to have a registration of 245,000 in the South, 10 in the mid-West. nine in the automobiles on January 31st next. or five times the total of five years ago, while Geor- gia's registration has grown from 9000 odd to 130,000. In Georgia the demand for small trucks coming from white and colored farmers is unprecedented. New road con- struction in states below the Mason and Dixon line has quickened buying of cars. Kentucky has four or five new cross-state highways under construction now, which when completed will connect up many iso- lated parts of the state. Tennessee has several mail truck routes and next year will have a number of motor transport lines operating on a regular schedule. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Adler and their Winton Six in front o' their residence on Riverside Drive, New York "Does your wife sing?" "Er-that's a City. Chauffeur at wheel. matter of opinion.' Boston Transcript. Page Seeen Digitized by Google Original from NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY O. November 11th, 1919. Dr. Edward K. Dunham, 35 East 68th Street, New York City. Dear Doctor:- You must pardon me for not sooner answering ybur letter in relation to The proposed Y. M. C. A. activities at Seal Barbor and vicinity. I am entirely sympathetic with the plan. Anything of that kind that makes for better citizenship is a valuable asset in the community. I cannot do very much for it as I am away most of the time, and financially have a great many calls upon me but I will help some and in I can do anything more specifically next summer when I am at home more I will do so. Yours very truly, [John A.Peters] ARMISTICE DAY IN PARIS THE following letter describing the "gentle", which is an excellent adjective for it. scenes in Paris on November 11, Now I will go back and start at the beginning and when the cities of America were cele- try to do justice to the scene. brating the signing of the armistice in a In the first place our patients were very much strangely similar fashion, has recently thrilled by the thought of peace and a lot prompt- been received from Lieutenant Colonel ly threw their crutches out of the window and Joshua C. Hubbard, '92, M. C., U. S. A., declared that now they were all right. I fear attached to Base Hospital 85, A. E. F.: most of them had to go out and find their crutches afterwards. The parade of the men and Paris, Monday, Nov. 11. patients was of course quite impromptu. In the It is now 12.30. The cannons have been fired front ranks were the two Red Cross girls. off and the whistle blown which notifies us that As soon as I could leave (about 2 P. M., and I the armistice has been signed. With you the did not return till 12 M.) I went to the Champs news will reach you before breakfast and there Elysées and walked into the centre of things. will be more excitement than here. It is hard to Flags were everywhere, on buildings, fastened to realize what it means. "The war is over." "La automobiles, carried by men, women, and child- guerre est fini" does not convey a thousandth ren. Of course the tricolor of France predominat- part of the meaning. Of course every one of us ed, but the Star and Stripes was a close second, is figuring on when he can get home. As I see many of the French having little ones pinned on it there is no chance for me for months. There to them, as well as carrying large ones. Every will be plenty of surgical cases that cannot be kind of conveyance was out, and every one was gotten back to the U. S. A. for a long time, and more than filled. Big army trucks were dashing this hospital will be particularly well equipped up and down simply packed full of all kinds of to care for them. The men of the hospital are humanity, soldiers, laymen, boys and girls-ev- having some parade about the yard to which I eryone shouting and waving flags. Whenever a must go. car would slow up a few more would climb on. Nov. 12, 6 P. M. I wish I could adequately Mud guards and tops had their quota of passen- describe the last 24 hours. It has been really gers as well as running boards. Everyone was wonderful to be here at this time. If you remem- happy and no one complained. ber I have always said that I wanted to be in As I got to the Place de la Concorde of course Paris at the return of the army. Though the the crowd increased and there would suddenly men did not come home yesterday, the celebration start spontaneously little parades of men and wo- was grand, and it still goes on. Even as I write men. The crowd would gradually increase as it now I hear the "Marseillaise" being sung on the went along, everyone arm in arm, all singing and street. I have no doubt that you will read fully shouting. I saw one being led by a U. S. negro. about the day's doing in your newspapers. I sent One crowd had an inspiration, grabbed one of the this morning some of the French papers with a German guns, and dragged that up the street in short description and a few pictures. I will do their midst. (I have just been called to see the my best to paint in words the afternoon and ev- flash-lights playing across the sky). The police ening. made no attempt anywhere to hold the crowd in In the first place I must take back all I have check. There really was no reason for doing so, written about the Frenchman taking things as for, as I have said, it was very well-mannered. they come and never getting excited, for he cer- I passed the afternoon wandering about from tainly showed his enthusiasm yesterday and is to one street to another, trying to take in everything. keep up the fête till the end of the week, I un- In one place men and women were throwing derstand. One thing that struck me about the down papers to the crowd. After a short time crowd was the fact that it was not destructive I had all I wanted of them. One Canadian band at all. Nothing was torn down and nothing brok- collected such a crowd in no time that the street en as far as I could see. I believe that in some was impassable. A taxi-cab was stopped in of the restaurants, like Maxim's, glass-ware was front of us. In a moment boys were swarming smashed. I passed my time on the streets with all over it, and the driver was so interested that that crowd and did not think to go into any of the he did not realize that the top was caving in till swell restaurants where I hear there was much it got down to his head. He held it up with his doing in the way of standing on tables. hands till the boys could climb down. One man described the crowd as being very I had planned to go home for supper, but the HARVARD ALUMNI BULLETIN 1918 227 crowd in the subway looked to me too large, so that when she came out first she was trembling I ate at a restaurant and was soon out in the so that I thought she would have to sit. The rush, again. crowd joined in the chorus. You can imagine The centre of the celebration moved in the the reception she had. Following that a man evening to the region of the Opera House. The sang the Brabançonne- national hymn of crowd was everywhere over the street. Occasion- Belgium). Another sang the hymns of England ally there would be a rush to the chairs in front and the U. S. which received a greater ovation of some café where someone was trying to make than any of the others, except the French. Of a speech or lead a cheer. The crowd went back course the crowd was not satisfied with one per- and forth. Several men and boys would take formance and the show ended by everyone sing- hold of hands and run along together. When- ing all the hymns over again. It was all very im- ever they sighted one or two girls they would en- pressive. circle them and kiss them before letting them After that I gradually worked my way home. go. The respectable women and girls accepted There was surprisingly little drunkenness. At the kisses just as readily as the others. It was one time in my wanderings I was beside a French all done with much laughter and occasionally a officer for a little while, who was wandering aim- crowd would collect to see the efforts of some lessly too. Finally he spoke to me and ran off a soldier to kiss an unruly girl. Often the girl lot of stuff in French, all of which I missed. Then would escape. One of these rushed into my he said "It is you that gave us the courage." arms. You remember "when in Rome", etc. As I went about, it was not at all uncommon to Well, I remembered it, in time, too. About 8 P. overhear "l'Américain", "vive l'Amerique." M. a crowd began to collect in front of the Opera All the crowd seemed to have a very friendly House. From where I stood it looked to me as feeling toward America, as they certainly should. though that large square were completely filled. The whole thing was the treat of a lifetime and The woman next me, after having stood some I think makes up for all the discomforts of get- time, fainted away. I tried to get her or her head ting here, the "Spanish flu" included. It was down but the good French women insisted on just like the celebration of a football victory, holding her up. Of course she would no sooner only many times greater. come to than she would do it again. I could not This afternoon I went into another section of think of how to say what I wanted to do. Finally the city and found the crowd still celebrating, I got her down for a few moments and she was the street packed from house to house. The all right. afternoon confetti had been added and I saw one At 9.30 from the balcony of. the Opera facing crowd of women and men carrying on a pole an the crowd, decorated with flags and lighted up, effigy of a German. I understand that the sing- one of the opera women (Chelin) sang the "Mar- ing from the Opera House balcony is to be re- seillaise." She was dressed in the tricolor of peated tonight. I guess the celebration will last France and carried a flag. She was so affected till the energy is gone. LETTERS TO THE BULLETIN FROM PROFESSOR A. B. HART ki, of the Bureau of Investigation of the Editor, HARVARD ALUMNI BULLETIN: Department of Justice, discovered in the In accordance with your suggestion, it diary of one Fuehr a paper labelled "Im- gives me great pleasure to place before the portant List of Names" (32 in all), which multitude of readers of the HARVARD was made part of the testimony. Upon the BULLETIN the facts with regard to the dis- same paper or a separate paper-it is not covery of my name upon a list found in clear which-was "another list" of about the papers of a German spy. Whatever 30 names of persons who "are not believed touches the honor of a Harvard teacher to be friendly to the [German] cause"; concerns all Harvard men. this was not made public. Upon the first So far as the press reports of the testi- list Mr. Bielaski made the personal com- mony before the Senate Committee on ment that it contained "practically all who December 6 go, they show that Mr. Bielas- were actively pro-German prior to our en- Gougle HARVARD UNIVERSITY Page 1. of 4. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT November 20, 1919. Dr. Gaor Po n. Dor. Erhert Hotel. leaver. Col. Door I'v. Forr: I mm error ocian premith recording Mr. Weller valob calord for. it may interest you to Protew that Comprossman Pators morning to make for himself see to CO the with now botter constructed on Plying Squadron, I martan Herry SMITH to to with us and before IIII-- ablo loans him I Sound it way convenient to bo ablo to see V.P. Hiddley to find hir for ma and elad to su with us. is Potient were vory mad pleased and is make now for snowher party next week. Very tanly yours, L/H [A.H.Lynan?] Copy sent to: Mr. George B. Dorr, 0/0 National Purio Service, Department of Interior, Woshington, D. To be held until colled for, 2. Benjemin L. Hadley was born at Bar Harbor, Maine, March 15. 1894, and has always lived in Bor Harbor. He was educated in the common schools of the village, and completed tho course at the local High School by graudation in June 1912. AB ii young boy he had a great love for the woods and mountains of Mount Desert Inland and early become thorough- ly familiar with the pathe, roads, hills and volleys, often timos voluntoering to guide tourists to tho spots of greatest interest. For four summers (1908-09-10-11) he was employed in ono of the local summer hotele, there coming closely in touch with the summer visitors, an experience which is in- vnluable to anyone who night in Inter yours become associated with work which would throw them constantly in contact with the summer tourist. After graduation from High School Mr. Hadley took a winter course at the Brynnt & Stratton Business College in Boston, perfouting the courno of bookkooping, stenography and typewriting already well started in High School. From pe- May 1913 to September 1913 ho did public shorthand and ty writing in Box Harbor and among those who were his foremost patrons are to be found the names of the late Dr. A. F. Schuuffler, of Now York City: Lire. John S. Konnedy, of Now Yorlt iy: Cit . the late R. Holl McCormick, of Chicago; Mr. John To Rogers, Lawyer, Now York City: Honry Lane Eno, of Princeton, I.J., and many others. In Sap tomber 1913 he ontored the employ of the A. E. Lawrence Company, of Bar Her bor, as bookkooper, which position he hold until June, 1917, when the call to arms sounded, and Mr. 3. dadley responded. He WD.S first assigned to the Quartermaster's Office at Fort McKinley, Maino, serving there until January 2, 1918, when he was transferred to the 3rd Officers' Training Camp at Fort Oglethorpo, Georgia. He graduated from the camp April 18, 1918, with warrent as First Sergeant of Infantry, and certificate of graduation recommend in appointment 8.S Second Liout. Infantry-and assigned to 2nd Replacement Roginont Infon- try, at damp Cordon, Ga. Commissioned 2nd Lt. Inf. June 5, 1918. Transferred Jul: so, 1918 to Came Pike, Ark. Trunn- ferred Sept. 30, 1918, to Tank Corps, Camp Polk, Releigh, N.O. Attached to Company "O" 305th Buttalion, Tank Corps. Promoted October 24, 1918, to 1st Lieut. of Infantry Transferred from Company "13" 305th Btn. Wank Corps to command of Company "0" 342nd Btn. 2.0. Transferred from command of Company "O" 34 2nd Bin. to Command of 348nd Battalion Tank Corps December 2, 1918, to domobilize the Battalion. Work of demohilization completed December 31st, 1918, nt Camp Greene, N.C. Honorably discharged from service January 2. 1919. Mr. Hadley dama Girectly to Bar Harbor, Maine, after discharge from the service and worked for the Brewer Ice Company during the winter. on April 1st, 1919, he returned to the employ of the A. 10. Lawrence Company ns automobile salesman. Owing to shortage of cars 01 the market, the Lawrence Company, at his suggestion, relonand him, in order to take up another lino of work, they boine unable to furnish anything. He was given excellont recomondations by thom. on July 28th, 1919, 4. Mr. Hadley entered the employ of the Lafayette National Park, where he now is. on August 22, 1919, Mr. Hadley took the Civil Service examination for Clerk - Stenographer, at the Postoffico, Bar Harbor, Maine, before Prank G. small, Chairman of the local board of Civil Service lianiners. on April 20th, 1918, Mr. Hadley was merried to a young ludy whose home is also in Bar Harbor. and 11 is his intention to rosido perminently in Ber Harbor. He is very popular in the community and holda various positions in local organizations - is Transurer of the Gnorge Edwin Kirk Post 125 of the American Legion, and is vory active in the verious lasonic bodies. He is at present Instructing a clean of High School boys in that early history of the island which has a diroot boaring on the Lafeyotto National Park and in the nomenclature of the paths, roads and trails and points of exceptional interest within the park, which will fit them to become qualified guides over any portion of the National Park. 6/19/2015 National Park Service Conterences D. Dispersal The NPS Historic Photograph Collection contains several photos of the various conferences, including panoramas of participants. E. Folder List Series I - Biennial Superintendents , Conferences Box 1 - Conferences, 1911-1925 Proceedings - First National Park Conference, Yellowstone, September 11-12, 1911 Proceedings - Second National Park Conference, Yosemite, October 14-16, 1912 Proceedings - Third National Park Conference, Berkeley, California, March 11-13, 1915 Program - Fourth National Park Conference, Washington, D. C., January 2-6, 1917 Proceedings - National Park Conference, Washington, D. C., January 2-6, 1917 Summary Notes - Fifth National Park Conference, Denver, November 18, 1919 Program - Sixth National Park Conference, Yosemite, November 12-13, 1922 Minutes - Seventh National Park Conference, Yellowstone, October 22-28, 1923 Minutes - Eighth National Park Conference, Mesa Verde, October 1-5, 1925 Correspondence - Jesse Nusbaum, Superintendents' Conference, 1928-1942 Box 2 - Conferences, 1926-1939 Program - Ninth National Park Conference, Washington, D. C., November 15-20, 1926 Minutes - Ninth National Park Conference, Washington, D. C., November 15-20, 1926 Program - National Park Conference, San Francisco, California, February 15-21, 1928 Program - Superintendents' Conference, Yellowstone, September 17-24, 1929 Proceedings - First Park Naturalists' Conference, Berkeley, California, November 11-30, 1929 Extracts for Conclusions of Park Superintendents' Conference, Washington, D.C., November 17-December 15, 1932 Program Dinner for 1934 Conference Program - National Park Conference, Washington, D. C., January 23-24, 1936 Extracts from Recommendation of National Park Superintendents' Conference, January 2, 1936 http://www.nps.gov/hfc/services/library/conf.cfm 2/18 Fruiting beilin DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON Dear me Lynam In Dom has a couple of days with me, on his way nonch prun washington I and in winl onr his cleeque book togeller so you mediu totter any more one That End of we Fund matter This disposition of the money placed this endu culinly hi accordance with our understanding lve also-discussed the matter of the other Cruk Road property which mr Wutaker Gad already miller me), and agred That it would be user for the Pork to pay 1100, to the Toma #900, 900, as Whitater suggests, since the roless would be much less likely to make objections if UnT Torn has the melling End of it and that the etha Too is hardly worth fighting about ) the trace obland by the Park friening my cheepanyway. you wee have to arrange loborar the money from the Bank , if necessary upon my Endorsemal, make the spring when 2 return -- this year I hope, Early in may lany sincerely items Lauteria New National Park, Zion Canyon New York Times (1857-Current file); Dec 21, 1919; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times By EYRE POWELL. N.Y.TIMES 12/21/19. pg. 48 New National Park, Zion Canyon By EYRE POWELL. tive secretary, Robert Sterling Yard, to HEN Uncle Sam can reach make a report on the new park. Accom- W down into his bag of yet un- panied by his daughter, they penetrated known wonders and pull forth far up the main canyon to a point where few white persons had ever been. There a brand new national park, the the gorge narrows to a width of fifteen magnificence of which fails of proper feet and the perpendicular walls, 2,500 you description, it constitutes a rather big feet high, seem to meet and obscure the coup in the campaign between America sky. The Makunteweap Creek fills the and Europe for the tourist travel of the entire bottom. The "wet trail" was navigated on horses. world. On his return to Salt Lake Mr. Yard President Wilson signed a bill on Nov. stated that Zion Canyon was so magnifi- 19 setting aside Zion Canyon, the Utah cent, and so mucn grater than he had wonderland. as another permanent play- been led to expect, that he lacked ready ground for the American people. Quietly description. His complete report, which will be published soon at Washington by as it was done (for it was overshadowed the National Parks Association, was SO by other news), it is expected to be a glowing that Stephen D. Mather, Direc- large factor in proving that for every tor of the National Parks Service, went European attraction America can go one out to see for himself. better. It showed that against every On entering Zion Canyon the huge move in the organized campaign for Court of the Patriarchs" is seen, guarded by immense colorful rock trip- American dollars instituted by European lets, the Three Patriarchs themselves. tourist interests Uncle Sam can produce Farther up is "El Gobernador," a single fresh ammunition from an inexhaustible white rock rising 3,000 feet from the supply of new marvels. canyon floor and said to be greater even Zion Canyon, discovered by the Powell than the famous "El Capitan of the Yosemite. expedition some fifty years ago, is 300 Angel's Landing," across the canyon, miles south of Salt Lake City, reached rises to a height of 2,500 feet, and is of a by automobile stage from the little town red ranging from almost pink to a deep of Lund, Utah. Until the establishment blood-red color. "The Temple of Sina- of the stage lines, two years ago, it was wava," a place of legend and mystery to the early Indians, is a perfectly circular, little known, excepting to scientists and natural ampitheatre whose 3,000-foot the inhabitants of tiny Mormon settle- walls from down on two rock pillars ments near by. standing in the exact centre. These were Then gradually people commenced to worshipped as idols, not only by the In- drift in. To the amazement of the set- dians, but also, it is said, by the pre- historic inhabitants, whose cliff dwellings tlers, they appeared awe-struck at the are still to be found, some of them yet tremendous canyon, with its multi-col- unreached by modern man. ored, 3,000-foot cliffs, its mountain The strata of the earth seen there and peaks of dazzling white and the tremen- in the country to the north and south dous vista of surrounding skyline. The show almost every known era of the earth's history. In Zion Canyon itself old Mormons, there since Brigham are immense red cliffs surmounted by Young's time, and their children, who still greater white ones. To the north had been born and raised in the midst are the vermilion-pink cliffs of a stratum of the region's grandeur, could not un- above the white. In the south, step by derstand it. Most of them had never step to the Grand Canyon, the deposits been out as far as the railroad, or seen of earlier periods are exposed. anything else. To them it was only the Only Zion Canyon itself has not yet ordinary every-day world. been opened up, but with its new standing "Is this any different from the rest trails will be constructed to the many of the country? Is it really wonder- other features of the park that are yet ful? they asked. even unnamed. There are peaks of Tourists assured them it was, and left cream-white rock rising from the en- to tell of what they had seen. Others circling blood-red cliffs which have never visited the spot. Finally, W. W. Wylie been climbed or christened. In other established a camp in the canyon to ac- parts of the region taken in by the park commodate them, and Senator Smoot in- boundaries are unsurveyed amphithea- troduced the bill which has just been tres, huge natural bridges and lofty, signed. level-topped plateaus, rich field for the Just before the bill's passage the Na- tourist who wants to leave the traveled tional Parks Association sent its execu- portion of the canyon and turn explorer. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 920 BACK THEN Acadia's Angel circa 1920, Dorr Mountain, Acadia National Park EVEN IF YOU'VE HIKED THE JAGGED STONE steps of 1,270-foot Dorr Indeed, the road to the creation of Acadia National Park in 1929 Mountain, Acadia National Park's third-highest peak, you probably had many twists and turns. John D. Rockefeller Jr's role in the know little about its namesake, George Bucknam Dorr. But Acadia's process was initially kept secret, lest the land price skyrocket. father's star is rising, boosted by Ken Burns' sprawling 2009 docu- Aiding Dorr were former Harvard president Charles W. Eliot and mentary, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, and a forth- Bar Harbor and Ellsworth attorneys Leure B. Deasy and Albert coming biography of the millionaire conservationist. Lynam, and U.S. Congressman John A. Peters. Dorr made personal The son of wealthy Bostonians, George B. Dorr (1853-1944) appeals in Augusta and Washington, D.C. Over the decades, Acadia inherited fortunes from both parents. While first visiting Mount National Park grew to its present size of 47,390 acres, with park Desert in the 1870s, the highly-educated gentleman scholar, world land also encompassing part of Isle au Haut and Schoodic Point. traveler, and nature lover decided to make the island his primary For Dorr's part, his advancing years brought a depletion of his home. Over the next four decades, as his vision of protected land personal wealth, but a satisfaction that his hard work had paid off. grew, he often cajolled islanders to donate land or money, and The park's first superintendent, he later helped build the carriage gave several parcels of his own. trails and Cadillac Mountain road. Photos of the lanky bachelor in < "The account of how Dorr and other trustees amassed the tweedy attire are well-known, says Rebecca Cole-Will, the park's necessary holdings is a long tale," says Ronald H. Epp, a philosophy cultural resources program manager. Along with reminding us of professor and librarian from Merrimack, New Hampshire, and Acadia's protected grandeur, they help keep a generous man's author of a forthcoming biography of Dorr.> legacy alive. -Richard Shaw May 2011 Maine Ahead >> 9 M. . D. Darr 9.18 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT January 2, 1920. President Charles 7. Eliot, Combridge, Mass. Dear President Eliot: It I enclose you copy of my letter to Mr. Rockefeller. ^ will you read it over and if you SOC anythin 01 importance to correct in it, or to alter, will you not please sen no" a telegram, collect, to the park office here tomorrow :ornin or orenoon, saying simply "Hold letter for reply". If I hear 110 Mino from you I will assume that you approve the letter and I will mil it to Mr. Rockefeller by the efternoon mil tomorrow. It has taken time to write and I would like to get my answer back to him as soon as possible. I have written iv reply through several copies, and Come over it care- fully with Mr. Herry Lynam and to us it seems right. I write this in great haste and am as ever, Yours sincerely, George B. Dorr Insurer r best Wishes both you n M Elist for its New Year page ( of 11. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK Coly BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT January 2, 1920. r. John D. Rockeroller, Jr., 26 Broadway, ow York City. Doar Lr. Rockefellor: I have reache Bar Herbor and an able now to reply more rully to your letter concerning the new road. Yes- terlay, the cround being still practical J clear of snow, I again went over Mr. Simpson's survey for it, spending tho whole after- noon till earl upon it. Mr. Stepson, I cather from your letter, cia not clearly understand just what was in my mind. only a ninor portion of the road - which I take on conjecture, from servibling along its course, to be in all somewhat above two niles in length - needs any other care or treatment than has been given - and well given - to the roads already built. The only part of it that I wont over ith Lr. Li pson is that extending from the Spring Brail crossing to the extreme southorn and of Jordar's Mountain, a distance of a half a mile perhaps, and on this part thore are but throe places in regard to which I sug- coste any change. TO take un those throo places in detail, the first, starting from the north, is at the intersection of the Spring -2- Trail, where the giant rock-slide has come down the mountain. Mr. bimmon's first survey, as I understand it, would have 101 the road across the lover portion 01 this rock-slider entering above the Spring Trail. This Mr. Clement told mo he understood to have been Civ n up on account of danger from weakening the support of the rock-slide above and that he had suggested crossing further down, in the vicinity of the Spring path and nools. On account of. the beauty of these pools, lying clear among the tumbled, lichene rocks, it sceme to me desir- able that the crossing should be made instead a short way further down, where the water - become a brook - turns away from the mountain base and can be crossed without sacrifice by the road, which would need but a rise at a moderate grade to overtake its former level course and would lose no interest or beauty by the change. This could be one, 80 far as I am able to judge without survey and estimate, not at an increase but a distinct, and probably considerable, economy of expenditure. The second place, a considerable distance on from this, is where a low pernendicular cliff, forme by a seam in the Cranite, rises steenly and continuously un from the wood-land at the mountain base to the heights above. The road survey butts squarely against this cliff where a cisnt frost-break in its upper portion has left a narrow sholf, onto which to pass beyond the road must climb. The engineering problem her 9 from any standpoint, is a difficult one and is rendered d ubly difficult by the nce of solving it without dis- -3- figurement. Foreover, there is here a further element to be consid- ered: along the mounting base of this cliff, under its shadow, a main foot path up the mountain from the south is planned. I have spent a great deal of time at this point and think the difficulty can be solved by making a direct, wide-engled a roach to the shelf, continuing the general road-line from the east, and building an arch against the the cliff which would span the foot path, instead of making a solid fill. Mr. Cinson's plan has not been wholly clear to INC at this point but the change, if any, in the intended course would be a slight one and would do in the interest, so far as it changed the course at all, of an easier and safer sweep around the upper cliff, while the arch, Lir. Clement thought, could be built at little, if any additional eccess. That the arch should be a ido one is not nec- essary, as it will simly span the path,using the cliff as one support; but as the rock fill would nee to be a deep one there, and built with care upon its outer faces, it might ork out that a bridg of vider soan would be in the interest of economy; 1 think it not unlikely that it would. Such an arch, from the standpoint of the foot path, might be made a feature of interest and Leauty and would leavo the continuity of the cliff - itself a feature of creat interest - as well as of the climb unbroken. The third point at hich a problem arises is again a consid- orable distance on toward the southern extremity of the no intain, where a group of huge rocks have been tunbled down by frost from the cliff above and rost at the verge of a fur ther sharp descent. Mr. Simpson's - survey in its present course would involve a estruction of the outer portion of this rock-[roup, directly through whose site the road line traverses. A slight change unward at this point, of the road width or but slightly more, would throw the road - at no additional excense but to a lessening of it in my judgement - between this lower group and another giant fragment which rests above, leaving abundant space for the unnarrowed road between. This change would simply in- volve the rise of a few feet in the road level which could be obtained at an easy grade from either side, and would be decide 1y to the ad- vantage of the view from this point - one of the finest in the course of the whole road - raising the road-course higher above the tree tops in the woodland at the mountain base which already threaton to invade presently the view-line from the lower grade. Beyond the southern extre: ity of the mountain, along the western side of the mountain, I have not been able as yet to follow the survey but a short distance, or study it in detail. Mr. Simpson thought there were one or two places upon it that night call for fur- ther study but would present no serious ifficulty, and I have no question he is right from my general impression of that side and of its rock-formation. Along the western side of the arhhtheatre, from the present roadway to the crossing of Little Harbor brook, I followed the survey last fall and saw that it presented no dif iculty in a land- scape sense or problem from the park point of view. And this is also true in regard to the survey from Jordan Pond brook to the Spring Trail crossing. The only difficulties in the whole course are presented -5- by the uniquely bold elevation of the road-line around the precipitous southern end of Jordan's Mountain, lifted up to obtain the striking ocean view with forest foreground. In regard to the survey which Mr. Simson understood me to desire, it was simily such a blue print as he would naturally furnish as a basis for contracting, with the specification of requirements. Such a survey, marke in stations, would enable me to identify and dis- ouss with you intelligently problems at particular points that might anpear to call for it. Moreover, where work of such a character is contemplated it seens to me wise. that,so far as hummly possiblo, 11 chance of risunderstanding should be climinated by careful definition in advance. There are but few stretches in the intended road, however, that seem to me to need such definition, and a survey covering those alone would be ample for our purpose. None is necessary for the great- or part, where the course is made abundantly clear by the physical sur- vey which I have traversed while no misunderstanding would be likely to arise in respect to the character of the work upon it, defined by work of similar character already done. But as the work must obvious- ly be at bost - as you say it is - excensive, I have been particularly arxious since I looko the road course over and recognized the excep- tional problems it presented that you should not be involved through any want of clear understanding for which I might be in any part re- sponsible in expenses creater than you might wish to undertake. I am frankly surprised at what you tell me of the average cost of the -6- roads you have already built in the park. I think the results you have cot have been obtaine with great economy. The creater portion of this new road should be no more expensive, but it seems to me im- possible that the portions I have indicated, and certain others pos- sibly along the corresponding pastern side of the mountain where the elevation carries it through similar bold rock formations, could be built without considerably excee ing this. One serious item of ex- pense, which I am experiencing equally in my path construction work in places on the mountains, springs from the general principle laid down for all constructive work in the park that it shall be done in a way to blend as naturally as possible with the native rocks and landscape. In what work of such a kini I have dono myself since the monument's establishment, I have made it.- following the instruction of the Na- tional Paris Service - a rule without exception to construct support- ing walls where they would show from: D. distance or below of old-faced rock, corresponding to their background. This, in my experience, adds a very considerable percentage to the construction cost, but the principle undoubtedly is right. Happily, however, in the present case the course in question is strewn abundantly with frost-split rocks whose excosed faces match the neighboring cliffs, and along those bolder sections so much rock will be required for interior fill that I doubt if any large additional expense will be involved in adhering to this principle, which I undor- stood moreover from Mr. Clement to be in general accordance wi th your own. -7⑉ The point I made with Mr. Simpson in regard to norroving the road in difficilt places applier only in my talk with him to the short, bridge-like section around the sholf described in my second-listed point of difficulty. The shelf there is narrow and cannot be widened. Here, it seemed is no, a narrowing of the road to perhans twelve feet, as on a bridge, might be made without harm. In the park real past Sieur de Monts spring which has been extensively travelled by autono- biles these last three years, no serious dif foulty from narrowing to that or less, has arison, thin being done at points to save old trees. Very probably, however, curvey may show there is no need in the present case for narrowing. The matter of the ordering stone along the road-cide in places needing it for safety, of which I spoke to Mr. Simpon,is of secondary importance. Where it is possible without sacrifico of economy the use of rounded, time-worn stone tends loss, in places where the road passes along the mountain side unmasked, to draw a noticeable, artificial line across; and there a continuous wall is not required for cafety, as on bold turns, opon spacing between rock and roak portits the eye to travel down to the nearby woods and forest floor below,which I hope in time to make of interest everywhere along these roads. No leave particulars, I am greatly interested in your road building and have, as I wrote you in my earlier letter, been secking to incorporate it as an integral part in the general scheme of the park's development. The difficulty to overcome is the now general elimination of the horse as the means of Letting about, in favor of the automobile; -8- and the great present cost of hiring teams, which practically excludes all but those who have horses of their ovn here or are indifferent to expenditure. One of the main difficulties I have had to overcome at Tashington is the impression that has obtained during tho last twenty years that the Island is a place for weal thy people only, and I am exoce ingly anxious to show uses of the park that lie wi thin the reach of everyone who cares for naturo and the beauty of our woods and mountains. What Congress will do for the park's development hereafter will depend mainly on our success in this. What I am anxious to avoid, again, - especially till we get established in our work and in general understanding of our aims and plans - is hostile criticism reaching back to Washington, that no are developing the park for the benefit and pleasure of wealthy summer residents only, or that the work we are on is not in harmony with the wild beauty and pri- - moval quality that drew, first the artists and their friends, and then so many here in early days. own work has been criticised, I know, along this line. Some part of that criticism I have benefitted from, and Lore I have felt confident that time would show to be mistaken. Some such criticism has gone back within the last two years to mem- bers of Congress, who have submitted it for answor to the Park Service; and the Service to me. so far I have been able to meet it success- fully, but if such a point should be brought up - however rully it might be capable of being answered - upon the floor of Congress when the annual question of appropriation for the park once up, it would -J- leave on impression behind difficult to eradicato. Therefore I feel we need to move with special care in these years of beginning, and to do not only hat we fool confident will an rove itself in the future but ill carry its own imediate answer to the inevitable criticism of people unsocustoned to looking far ahead or desirous of having things remain unchanged as they have known them. It is on this ao- count as well as from NV own conviction of the preciousness of all detail of landscape interest and beauty here, where the torritory although far less than it will become, I hope, hereafter - must al- ways, bounde by the sea and private residence, remain limited in con- parison wi th the (x) t western parks with which it now takes rank, or with the numbers who in years to como must visit it. ith reference to woodland work and cutting in connection with road or path within the park, may I tell you again - to cover the whole ground - how well I thought or Lir. Doigo, in whose hands, from my talk with him and observation of his work, I should fool the work quite safe. This, frankly, I would not BAV unreservedly in re- speat to any of the local Even those whom I have trained m self, face with new conditions, 8 often wrong from lack of fundar montal comprehension and a grasp of principles. This park is the only one as yet in the lintional system ax- hibiting the Appelaction flora with its trees and shruos and 1 can arrious to tako the opportunity of those roads that you are building 20 well as 01 the patis to make an inp rtent arboretun exhibit char- natoristic of the region. 10- I have real with interest your votations from my telegram and letter of to years and it interest in your work is as warm today as then, and I so nothing to change or monify in that I paid unless it were to defino better, with the knowledge that two years' excerience has brought, my own powers and limitations in the matter, and my respon- sibilities. then ceretary Lane came down and stayed with us in the summer of 1917 I took advantage of his cresence here to bring up the question of your continuing the work you had begun within the park and to ask authority in the mtt r from him - hich he Dave me. At that time the National Park Director was ill and absent from his office, but later I brought the matter an to him as wall and he approved. I did not ask to be relieved of my reconsisibility for what was done, nor could I - under the general principles of the Government service - been relieved of it if I had. To the Government, as to the ublic, I still romain as res onsible personally for all that is done as though mysolf had done it. For this reason I should be conversant, generally or specifically ac- ouring to the need, in hat is planned, and be in a position to just- ify it upon occasion as my act. On the other hand, I have felt that the more freely you could work things out unon your own responsibility the greater - from By own experience - your interest and pleasure in the work, and it is only the loidness and conspicuous character of the new road survey where it has been taken at high level round the southern on of Jordan Countain that has made it soon - for both our sakes - ad- visable to work out toge ther for that soction what we can both temprovo -11- and will not be at variance with what would be desired at Washington. with cordial greeting and good wishes for the coming year, believe me Yours sincerely, [G,B]or] 37 East Thirty-Sixth Street Jan. 2nd, 1920. My dear Mr Dorr Of all the lovely gifts and greetings which came to me this year there was not one which gave me such a thrill of pleasure as that exquisite picture of my beloved "hiddengarden" 1 Indeed I cannot express my thanks in any adequate form or phrase 1 It was perfectly delightful of you to think of sending it, and I hope you will accept my most warm and hearty and appreciative thanks 1 Herbert, who shared my pleasure in that exquisite picture, wants to share my thanks to you, and to join me in kindest greetings and best wishes for the New Year. Believe me Most sincerely yours, Louisa Pierpont Satterlee Page 1 of3 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK signify BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT February 17, 1920. Dear Kr. Mather: I have been so absorbed in our work here since my return at Christmas time that I have not kept the Park Service in as suc3 touch as I would have liked with our activities and winter life. I have been glad of the opportunity to be here uninterruptedly through the winter because it has made me realize the winter how beautiful it can be in this region and the extent to which the park can be developed in the direction of winter sports and outings. I have secured a number of photographs I hope to send you soon which will tell of this better than words can. When I first came down at Christmas the lakes were frozen solidly, and what snow had fallen had come before the ice had formed so that ideal conditions existed for skating and ice- boating. This lasted for quite a while, the weather being clear and fine. Then snow followed, and has kept falling at intervals ever since, creating a new landscape of exceeding beauty when the sun came out and shown on it, and good condi- tions for snow-shoeing and sking. After the last deep falls of snow the conditions became difficult for our deer, now mainly congregated .in two herds in -2- the Eagle Lake basin and Southwest Valley This area is under the special charge Of Ranger John Rich, who has watched over them wi th the utmost interest and faithfulness and has lately, with assistance, hand-sledded hay across the lake to feed them after an ice-storm had cased the trees, to every bud and twig upon them, in a thick coat of ice. I hope presently by such feeding to get them tame enough to obtain some GOOD photographs OI them in their winter quarters; if I cannot this year, I shall next year if funds permit, for I shall then stack hay sheed in their winter feeding ground. The chief danger with the decr has been lest dogs get in on them then they are held by deep and lightly crusted snow. For this,and the protection of the birds, Mr. Rich has needed assis tance, SO that some one might be 'on the job' contin- uously, early and late, and to this end I have employed Mr. Horace Liscomb who lives - the only person there - near the outlet of the lake, bordering the park, and has proved excellent in that work and especially in checking the running wild of hounds, a matter requiring some courage when owners as well as dogs are to be dealt with, as well as activity and faithfulness. His work in fact has been SO good in this respect that the State has offered to co-operate with us in his employment, assuming one half of his employment each month and we the other. The State law is strict, though its observence hitherto has not been, and the States co- operation with the park in its enforcement will be of the great- est assistance to us. In the early winter, before the snow fell and after the lakes STATE 3H1 -3- had frozen, the motoring was ideal across Eagle Lake and I used to go frequently in this way to its upper end to pay a visit to our yet solitary beaver, with whom I have now taken steps to place companions in the spring. Already his fall-constructed home has been the object of great interest among the people here this winter, and I think that when we get a good colony estab- lished it will make a feature of wide interest in the park at all seasons. Another or ortunity the park has presented during the pre- sent month, the open season beginning February 1st, has been . fishing through the ice. The day the season opened Mr. Lynam and Mr. Hadley, who camped the night before by the lake shore, caught a number of fine lake tro ut and the following day pre- sented me wi th a fine fish of two and one-half pounds in weight. One men that day, fishing similarly, caught the law's limit for a single day - fifteen pounds - while the largest caught weighed three and one-half pounds. Our afternoon mail le Eves early at this season and I must close to catch it, concluding this report later. Very sincerely yours, The Director, Groups B. Dost National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C. STATE 3H1 o DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Signs NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT FEB 22 1923 February 19, 1920. Dear Mr. Mather: I had to leave off in the midst of my report day before yesterday, to catch the last mail from Bar Earbor, which leaves at this season in the afternoon; and yesterday Mr. Hadley and Mr. Lynam went up to Ellsworth, the County Seat, to take cop- ies of deeds relating to the last gift to the park - that portion of the Duck Brook tract which I wrote you is to be purchased and given to the park by a summer resident. I am anxious to get this matter concluded while we have the op ortunity. To take up my report where I left it: Ranger Henry Smith has now for some weeks past taken up his residence at Northeast Harbor, boarding there, to look after the protection of the park upon that side and superintend important forestry work which I have arranged to be done there for the benefit and safety of the woods, and incidentally the benefit of the people living in that vicinity, who it is desirable should be interested in and friendly to the park. The method I follow, which I found to work well in other years in this vicinity where it was done under my own direc- tion, is to let such men as wish to cut their winter firewood and have the opportunity to do so. are willing to pay for it in labor, Each man is alloted a clearly defined area and the wood that he can cut within it is marked for TANOLIVA -2- him, and his cutting of it is strictly superintended. In return, the park obtains the removal OI inferior trees, hindering the growth of better ones and causing dangerous fire conditions, and of dead limbs and underbrush, leaving the tract worked over open and in good forestry condition. In this way work of urgent im ortance to the park for fire protection has been accomplished within the last three years, which if done by paid employment would have cost thousands of dollars. Two years ago, when fuel of any kind was difficult to get and the winter severe, I had at one time sixty men at work in this way under my own direction. Now I am working similarly on the North- east Harbor side, 3. dozen miles by road away, where also there are woodlands meeding to be cleared, and at last accounts had twenty odd men at work. This, of course, can only be done on tracts within good havel- ing reach of inhabited centers, and portions only of our woodlands car be so dealt with. I have spent much time since my return in securing pho to graphs of the park in winter, and have a number now which I think will be of permenent value to it in a publicity sense and welcome to you at Washington. I mount to have sent you a collection of them to accompany this report, but find I have prints of but a few as yet, which I shall send,end others presently. -3- Some of these photographs have been used by the Bar Harbor Times, a weekly paper which reaches the summer residents in winter and the people of the State quite widely, for a Lafayette National Park illustration supplement covering the winter season. Of these I am having extra copies printed as they are issued, and it has occurred to me that it might interest those members of the National Park Service to whom the National Park Service News is sent to have copies of them. I enclos you some already issued, and if this meets with your approval and you will let me lanow how many you could use I will forward them at once to Washington. Believe me, Yours sincerely George B. worr Supt. Lafayette National Park. The Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C. to this letter my BSR DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT Pruceton. 7th 26/20 Dear mm Lynam I sent off the murlgage yesterday. I am sorry alout the delay, but on top of may broken antile 2 picked up a case of Infleurage which Knocked me our so that 2 couldnt do an any thing for some days and irm yea In ratter aliaky. 2 mish than you would explain this to the grullemen insolnd in the situation. 120 you Kuoor what has become of mm Rom ? 2 heard that be was living grule. alone w his collage. 2s this true ? or has he gone back to trashington or Boston ? Ite was here in December, and promised to lr lack on his way soulle the nexT month. That hould have bren January and its nor nearly march. 2f he is up then slee, ask have to drop me a line. very sweetly NARA,CP/RG79/CCF/1903-39/Aadia box 3,Fle4, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK MAR 5 BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE DIR March 3, 1920. Dear Mr. Mather: I sent you a telegram last night to tell you that the Town of Bar Harbor at its annual meeting had voted to appropriate the sum of $6500 for publicity purposes to be employed especially in mak- ink known the town's new asset in the Lafayette National Park and what it stood for in accordance with the National Park Service plans. This is a wholly new departure on the town's part, as it has never before voted but meager sums for publicity purposes, and yesterday's relatively large appropriation was voted unanimously and on the un- ánimous recommendation of the town's conservative Warrant Committee which passes in advance on the articles in the Warrant and recommends cutting down or eliminating appropriations called for by articles of the Warrant that seem to it unjustified. This I hope will be the beginning of a permanent attitude, if right advantage be taken of it, of helpful co-operation on the part of the local communities here which constitute the approaches to the park, and of a sympathetic comprehension by them of the Park Service aims and plans. The whole movement has frankly been a surprise to me at this time, coming in advance of what I had best anticipated, and I wish to state that, though the ground was evidently ripe for it or it could not have happened, the credit for its happening at this time is due to Mr. Hadley's clear understanding of national park ideals and opportunities Reproduced at the National Archives NARA CP, R679, CCF, 1907-39-Acadic. Box- 3. Pg. of4 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT March 5, 1920. Dear Mr. Mother: Quite an active local fish and game association has sprung up here, with its headquarters at Bar Harbor - the Mount Desert Fish and Game Association - and is giving us real help in bird and game protection and in the development of the fresh-water fishing opportunities of the island. The president of it, Dr. G. A. Phillips of Bar Harbor, is our representative in the State Legislature and has secured the appointment of a State Deputy War- den to co-operate with us in wild life protection by the enforce- ment of the state laws - not only with regard to men but dogs, who are the deer's warst enemy when they run wild, as a number of locally owned hounds in different portions of the island have been allowed to do, unchecked, for a generation past. Dr. Phillips and this office are working together to secure a State Fish Hatchery on the Island, and hope not only to get it but to have it made one of the most important in the State. The State Fish and Game Commissioner is coming down when spring opens up, to look the opportunities over with us, and after he has done so I shall probably run on myself to Augusta for a talk about it with the Gov- ernor, who must ultimately pass on it. The place I have in mind for it is immediately bordering the Reproduced at the National Archives -2- park at Eagle Lake, where the young fish not sent away could be turned loose into the lake, to find their way also up the main brook that feeds it into its subsidiary basin, Bubble Pond. Both these lakes, of glacial formation, are naturally good trout ponds, whose only fault at the present time from the fishing point of view is that they are over-rich in food - that is, under-stocked for the abundant food- supply the waters yield. Mount Desert Island is extraordinarily rich in good fishing lakes, all of which the park now variously borders, the lakes them- selves I being what are termed "great ponds" - belonging to the State. The largest, Long Pond - all these lakes being called ponds by the early settlers and the word'lake coming in only with the summer visit- ors - which lies on the western side of the island, with Beech and Mansell Mountains descending boldly into it at its southern end, is from four to five miles in length, and broad and irregular. Eagle Lake and Bubble Pond, which may be regarded as a single system from the fishing point of view, come next; then Echo Lake, slightly under two miles in length, lying between Acadi a and St. Sauveur Mountains and Beech Cliffs; and Jordan Pond, between Pemetic and Penobscot Y Mountains; with more besides. If we can get these lakes stocked to their limit, and keep them stocked, they, with other lakes that lie abundantly within motoring distance on the main land and one of which is already provided with a State Hatchery, should be sufficient to make the park a great spring-fishing center, and to give good fresh- water fishing also through the summer. Mr. Hadley is working with Reproduced at the National Archives -3- me over this matter, and we hope to be able to report good pro- gress later on. another feature in the wild life sense that I had not realized till now is the extent to which wild ducks naturally winter here, where they receive protection, taking advantage of the un-frozen waters in the bays and inlets where the freshwater streams bring down a food supply. We have lately been co-operating with the state warden and the local fish and game association in giving them protection from illegal shooting, and feeding them through the hard weather by floating grain down the streams, which carry it and spread it out over their tide-flooded deltas. Hundreds of wild ducks were seen feeding in this way one day this week where Duck Brook comes down and meets the bay. These ocean waters are national; the state law is strict for the - birds' protection; and I think that with the now at all times pro- to use A tected waters of the lakes till they are frozen,and then the waters of the bay till soring, a great deal can be done to make the park a permenent home for such aquatic birds. I sent you yesterday by express some photographic enlargements, as I said in my lost letter that I meant to do, duplicate to the ones sent on this week for the exhibition in New York. There are sixteen of these, about a half the number sent to the exhibition. I think you will find them rthy. If you would like others for exhibition use in Washington or elsewhere, let me know and I will send them. The legends to accompany these are pasted on the back, but for the Reproduced at the National Archives exhibition in New York they will probably be printed separately as well, with numbers corresponding to the pictures. I have just sent nother group of these enlargements, similar but not identical, to Senator Hale, who told me when I came through good Washington last December that he could make use of them, he thought. We are having today what should be the last snow storm of the winter. There has been great interest taken here this winter by the young people in the town in skiing and all winter sports, save skat- ing and ice-boating which the heavy snow fall has prevented since the early winter. Mr. Hadley had arranged to get some photographs of ski jumping this afternoon, had the day been good, but it may be now that we shall lose our opportunity for this until another winter. Then, by arranging ahead, I think some striking pictures of winter sports can be obtained. Sincerely yours, George B. Wast Supt. Lafayette National Park. The Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C. Reproduced at the National Archives 2679 NARA CP. CCF 1907.34 Acadia Bot 3. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT March 16, 1900 Dear Mr. Mather N on of the 1919, of the Internation Samien Club Journal. In it, beginning on THE 421, will find a translation I made last year of an article on the proposed National Park in the Abbruzzi Mountains. The article I took it from, printed by the Federation Pro Mon- tibus, was given me by Mr. Albright. I will have a reprint see of it made for the National Park Service if you think worth while. The issue of the Journal came out when I was in the West last fall and I have only just received this copy and 1919 one other, though others were sent me at the time, they write. Sincerely yours, Supt. Lafayette National Park. The Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C. Aetna Insurance Co., of Hartford New York Underwriters' Agency Connecticut Fire Insurance Co., Hartford Niagara Fire Insurance Co., of New York Continental Ins. Co., of New York Fred C. Lynam & Co. Northern Assurance Co., of London Employers Liability Assurance Corp., of London North British and Mercantile Ins. Co., of London Fidelity-Phenix Co., of New York Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, England Fire Association of Philadelphia Providence-Washington Ins. Co., R. I. Great American Ins. Co., of New York Phoenix Insurance Co., of Hartford Hartford Fire Insurance Co. General Insurance Queen Insurance Company of America Home Insurance Co., of New York Quincy Mutual Fire Ins. Co., of Quincy Insurance Company of North America Royal Insurance Company, of Liverpool Liverpool and London and Globe Ins. Co., England Springfield Fire and Marine Ins. Co. OFFICE WITH BAR HARBOR BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY London Assurance Corporation Sun Insurance Office, England National Fire Insurance Co., Hartford Traders & Mechanics Mutual Fire Ins. Co., Lowell Bar Harbor, Maine, March 24, 1920. H on. John A. Peters, H ouse of Representatives, "ashington, D.C. Dear Mr. Peters:- I was at the office of the Lafayette National Park yesterday, the first time that I aver happened to be in the building. Ben Hadley, who is in charge of things there, showed me a good deal about their advertising matter, their correspondence, etc. etc. I learned in the conversation that an appropriation is being asked for for the Park and while I know that you are doing all that you can to secure it SO many times a man likes to feel that his efforts are appreciated and further that they are not misplaced. I have come to the onnclusion that the Park will not only be a great thing for Bar Harbor but for the whole island and the county as well, to say nothing of the pleasure that the maintenance will give to the many tourists who will come here. I realize how much the success of this enterprise has depended upon the help that you have given Mr. Dorr. The $6500 raised by the town for ad- vertising purposes could probably only have been secured because of the fact that the town realizes the value of the Park to its advertising possibilities and wishes to co-operate as far forth as its means will properly permit. Very truly yours, FCL/P Reproduced at the National Archives NARA,CP, 2679, 1907-39. Acadea Box 3 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT March 25, 1920. Dear Mr. Mather: Mr. Dorr has asked me to write you on the subject of winter sports here and the possibility of making them a feature of the park. There has been an unusually keen interest displayed in Bar Har- bor the past season in winter sports. The week preceeding Christ- mas found the lakes frozen to a depth of eight inches to a foot and very smooth, which presented excellent opportunities for ice-boating and skating. During the holiday season this opportunity was impro- ved to the fullest extent, there being scarcely a day but what there were numbers of people at Eagle Lake enjoying the sport which only ice-boating can furnish. Eagle Lake lies generally north and south, and on clear days with a favoring westerly wind there is a two-mile strai ightaway run to the head of the lake, and given an ice-boat with a good spread of sail, there is a thrill in every foot of the four- mile round trip. Shor tly after the first of the new year the snow commenced to fall heavily, and the ice sports gave way to snow-shoeing, skiing, and tobogganning. Then the opportunities presented for out-of-door exercise and enjoyment were eagerly seized upon, to a greater de- gree than ever before. Snow-shoeing parties could be seen daily Reproduced at the National Archives -2- enjoying the wood-roads and trails in the park, and the more diffi- cult trails up the mountains became popular objectives of the ad- venturous. The park lands are ideal for the full enjoyment of snow- shoeing. The broad valleys, easily accessible from any portion of the Island, traversed as they are with trails and wood-roads, offer to those who care simply for a walk on snow-shoes unlimited possibi- lities. For those who care for more strenuous exercise, the mountain paths present other interesting possibilities. There are innumerable paths on the mountains, and many of them are ideal for this sport, avoiding the portions that are dangerous. Not a single accident among the snow-shoeing parties has occurred this winter. Previous to this winter, skiing was almost an unknown sport here, although there is an excellent natural skiway on the golf links, bor- dering the park. This winter, however, this form of winter sport has come to the fore, and found great favor among the High School scholars, girls and boys alike. They have taken full advantage of the fine conditions which have prevailed and developed quite an art among themselves in skiing. Their activities along this line have attracted a great deal of attention throughout this section, and every Saturday and Sunday afternoon "Bunker Hill" on the golf links has been crowded with ski-ers and spectators. Several impromptu contests were held, which furnished a lot of interest and amusement for both participants and onlookers. Remarkable opportunities are offered by the park land for con- structed skiways and toboggan slides, at a minimum expenditure. The Reproduced at the National Archives -3- land which lies on the eastern shore of Eagle Lake slopes far back and not too steeply onto Cadillac Mountain, and with the frozen sur- face of the lake to run onto a better opportunity for this as other forms of winter sport could not be had. With the town awakening as it has done this year to the possibilities offered by the park, it seems as though Mount Desert Island never stood in a better way to become a popular resort for winter tourists as well as summer, Sincerely yours, The Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C. March 27th, 1920. Fred C. Lynar, Esq., Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. . Lynam;- I am glad you appreciate the value of the National Park. I think it can be used to great advantage for the benefit of our section. I am working on the matter of appropriation. The Burbau asked for $50,000. The Chairman of the Committee has requested all parks to indicate where reductions may be made. We have got to take some out. I have suggested cutting out the bridle paths if anything and I hope to get all but that. You may be sure that I am doing everything possible on this ond. Yours very truly, JACOB H. SCHIFF; HIS LIFE AND LETTERS New York, Cyrus Adler by all who have at heart wholesome recreation for the April II, 1918. people of our country. V.2 HON. SWAGAR SHERLEY, Respectfully yours, CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE Doubleday Doran, JACOB H. SCHIFF. ON APPROPRIATIONS, 1928. While he was quite averse from having things named WASHINGTON, D. C. after him during his lifetime, he was willing that a new DEAR SIR: trail to the top of Dry Mountain should be so named, when the offer was made to him by George B. Dorr of Will you permit me to write you in reference to the ap- propriation which I understand Secretary Lane of the De- Boston. His acceptance of this offer came on May 17, partment of the Interior has recommended to be made for 1920 1920, when, alas, he could no longer enjoy the tramps 110. the current year for the protection and development of which he delighted to take. the Sieur des Monts National Monument at Mt. Desert Island. I have been a resident of Mt. Desert Island during the summer for the past fifteen years; have visited almost The attachment to Frankfort was strong, maintained every nook and corner on the island, and in my travels all by frequent visits to the surviving members of his fam- over the United States and in foreign countries, I have ily there, and evidenced by the support of philanthropic found no section that Nature has made more attractive institutions. He established funds, one or two in mem- than Mt. Desert Island. I really believe that the island is ory of his parents, in the orphan asylum and the hospital one of the finest gifts God has bestowed upon the people of of the Jewish Community-and showed an interest in the United States, and it is but right that they should show the proposed university, the museums, and other insti- themselves worthy of this gift by seeing to its proper pro- tutions which belonged to the city in general. tection and preservation. Mrs. Schiff joined her husband in this feeling for It is, therefore, a source of congratulation that the Gov- Frankfort, and herself presented through her husband ernment has taken this upon itself by taking over a larger ornaments for the chief synagogue of the city. In trans- part of the island and making it into a National Park, and mitting this gift to the board of directors, he wrote on it is to be hoped that it will likewise see to the proper main- August II, 1902: tenance of the newly created park through moderate ex- penditure as may be required to make this park a real joy The same feelings which, despite my long absence from and benefit to the people of our country, who are visiting my native city, I cherish for everything that affects its it in ever increasing numbers, and to give it the protec- higher interests have impelled my wife to give expression tion against forest fires which, as I understand, is very on her own part to the regard which is entertained in our greatly needed. May I, therefore, bespeak your valued in- family for the stock from which we are sprung. She feels terest, which aside from myself, will be highly appreciated that there is no more appropriate manner in which she 324 325 Cambridge 38, Mass., , 8 April 1920 Dear Mr. Lynam: I hereby authorize you to call a meeting of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations whenever it becomes desirable to execute and de- liver the new deeds of lands which are to be conveyed by the Reservations' Trustees to the National Park. I imagine that the new Secretary of the Interior will carry forward the policy of his predecessor with regard to the acceptance from the Trustees of Public Reservations of additional lands for the National Park. Sincerely yours Charles hr. Eliot Mr. A. H. Lynam Dorr 9.13 Cambridge 30, Mass., 8 April 1920 Dear Mr. Dorr: Mrs. liot and I would like to hoar about your a tivition for the last tirer months. .. miss your occasional visits at this house. I lately had a letter from Mr. Lynum in which he said .BB that you had been at Bar Harbor all winter, except for a trip to the test. We hope that you are in good health and spirits. Sincerely yours [c.W.Eliot] Mr. George B. Dorr Page lof 7. Forr 9.B. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE up 14 20 LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT hear President Elist, many thanks froyour Mm Eliot's kind inquiry Than slayed on here the unite through findi, much that the day after day untit the days grow into lunter lumitive & [sping is here Rain are singing now; the squille have official thin bright blue flower: is make ite great stalks wh he the garden- Snow lingus still h patches but will Som be you it fell tub he the limite layal II DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT one true two feet when the lead Than been ready itu limite though sun On to Washington at any have will reference to our affer / riation for the each, but, keeping in close loud it with Peten through When I should have at this flags thanf y chica ) bam felt Mystell hum useful here c If lists Will the Honk appropriation Committee still, Who have not yet refusted On it.' some M. ductim from the Alimate with the meviath III DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE ,F THE SUPERINTENDENT this year, Ou the general found of Cuttu all setumates of the administration tom ; and I am gut hopi for him than healthwat was isked, Which still will lee of hours a word advance after the present The Robert Bowler tract, which border on Until Hole Pond stakes h Hill, to Called La hundred acren, um or len, of Woodland well clothed unit hus, was gran us he the Wintu, N Sundy often hach II DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE i THE SUPERINTENDENT Than written a paper On th way for a book on Main just Chining out; and lue have a Collection of pay picture, unit lights 9mg the mude of the Grate New you high I churh, as a feature of an "Edu- Caternal French Exhibit" Organized by alem- hitter of teachus Wild wrote on saf that are be referenced Then an 25 schools, & the Efhibit stays a and at each and T DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR. MAINE ,F THE SUPERINTENDENT the Educational Boards of bot maine & Iowa have lately written for pictures for Hides material go a telf I think a laye offerting educational lens in Irm it to the of for the yarh x will guns a Unique politica to it kind Watur to the main, tate Than dear a good of nadi, evenings c On Marim biology Non indect life, of foll of Which I wa professionally agnerant II DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR. MAINE ,F THE SUPERINTENDENT and Grolagy in relation of land form - tions, you other matter. (and Than been nading steadily th N.Y. their Nother paper to buf w lind -- Which Than down quite gully c - but events he the great would the Situation at Washington has been a in found the experiment if the the low, fu fort wide the atlantic What was to free le This of all, in the Warthing idealism N this for better things - -- Them LeeLs fact You Elirt Vin & VII DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE THE SUPERINTENDENT ant kind 5 his, I an Sincerely Inn. Eng R.deer April 14 920 Carbridge 38, l'ass., 15 April 1920 Dear Ur. Dorr: Your charming letter of April 14th from Bar Harbor reached us this morning. Me think you must have enjoyed yourself a good deal this winter, in spite of the bad wouther and your soli- tary condition. I received this morning by mail an advertisement of B tear from Juno to September, 1920, under the auspices of the Massachusetts Forestry Association, and read on the outside cover, both front and back, "The National Parks and Forests/Tour". The tour does not mention any national parks or forests east of New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. One would suppose that the Inceachusettc Forestry Association had never heard of the La- fayette National Park or of the national forests in the Appalach- ians. This seens to 70, from your point of view and mine, a de- fective announcement. It comes high, however, the price for the whole thing, including a short preliminary tour, amounting to 395. not including laundry and similar personal items. I observe that the business management is to be in the hands of the American Express Travel Department. Quary - Is it time to net the Massachusetts Forestry Association, and other State Associations, to organize tours to the Lafayotte National Park? Sincerely yours [C.W.Eliot] Mr. Goorge B. Dorr DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE FICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT April 16, 1920. Dear Mr. Mather: I write to ask if you will not kindly take steps to secure for Mr. Benjamin L. Hadley, my clerk-s tenographer assistant in this office succeeding Mrs. Daly, the extra payment at the rate of $240 annually authorized by Congress and previously Liven Mrs. Daly. I have noticed .in the newspapers that there has been some ques- tion raised in Congress with regard to continuing this payment to the Government employees in its present form but should any change be later made I have felt it eminently desirable that Mr. Hadley should be placed in the position of receiving it, when if this additional compen- sation should be given some other form by Congressional action be would be rightly placed regarding it. Mr. Hadley is proving himself in various ways important not only to the conduct of this office but the park's development of great use- fulness to me and I strongly recommend that this additional compensation be granted him. Sincerely yours, are Supt. Lafayette National Park. The Director, National Perk Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. 3HL A DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR. MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT Postcode- Whitthe the the Hadley is day much mm to ielf the than its clerical auter only I his polition Hen Train 11 A in one initiative, a Class my mm just / m the Ra Health High School to ad intelligently as guides to be hail in kummer to in paid a a its Creating be you a layel attended cell du Other da, here On the carly history of miam in water & in had, as back found f it; una he is the luse on what natural parks Hand t ut the University of than you and 2. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT Tom him past been reading up, in the Yard's book N the Pash Sauza publications, and he so is take, change for the of local & Hate publics matter this really a man who hould Com mand a salary higher than we Can at woll offer /un in the post in account but is for but to lay fort on account y - in remime in terest in the unt, X our it, because bott he a lue hife have thong inherited lies here Totalty are according he may be gain all that this office u awards, and things Unimmund it The Page I of 4 JOHN A. PETERS, M.C. HOME ADDRESS: 3D DISTRICT MAINE ELLSWORTH, MAINE NAVAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE JOHN F. KNOWLTON SECRETARY House of Representatives Washington, D. C. 4920 Dear Mr dwish you would past yourself av fully as possible arto for land purchen th the west road, Do ar the all nody take that matter of with que On my return., When Mall want 90090 oau then and look thing our lerit ym- I do not want to defined II JOHN A. PETERS, M.C. HOME ADDRESS: 3D DISTRICT MAINE ELLSWORTH, MAINE JOHN F. KNOWLTON NAVAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE SECRETARY House of Representatives Washington, D. C. lutirely When Clark be the matter, for To Theat th in at all about it Until I cause down, bat to haves- fibh without water stall togate free Om when to face for There a a wide temptory there x that the Ollve x put the filth dust un ham to spend when it arti lu quest useful, or will lead On to mum JOHN A. PETERS, M.C. III HOME ADDRESS 3D DISTRICT MAINE ELLSWORTH, MA NAVAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE JOHN F. KNOWLTON SECRETARY House of Representatives Washington, D. C. We Ought to get uf a Ownerships W that whole temtory, armed the Caker, / Our the momutam dim the direction of Deal Cour. Doom late, it May Any get become imputant leill yu not All What you Can do New to get a start or Genzi R. Ness 'Attorny' Pl. Don't use yrs stamped laveloper JOHN A. PETERS, M.C. TV HOME 3D DISTRICT MAINE NAVAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE JOHN F. KNOWLTON SECRETARY House of Representatives Washington, D. C. W-Cuclon my letter, or he tenting yes use the frenken pack luvelofer for - the Our witt Tafayett the Coran- Note This 15 early version of Pp. 15ff. of Ptape The Story of ANP. Pg. laf6. 1. June 12 With the signing by President Wilson of the Act changing Sieur de Monts National Monument into the present Acadia National Park, the first stage in the attainment of my goal was reached; a place in the sun had been won for our mountains by the sea, whose rugged heights, outlined a against the western sky, had been a land-mark to the early voyageurs sailing out from Europe and the first welcome sight of land within out national bounds to greet the Puritans and other colonists of that early time on their long journey out. But this was a beginning only; much yet remained to do before the larger vision that had come to me should be transmuted into fact. A seacoast park, the sea-waves rolling in and breaking on its granite coast, the first as yet within out national bounds, east of west,) it had no actual contact with the sea, save where, as though guarding on the west the narrow entrance to Somes Sound, mountains purchases by a group of Northeast Harbor summer residents for the magnificent blimbs they afforded descend precipitously to the water's edge. Again, the first land acquired for the future Park had been the broad, level summit of Cadillac Mountain, the highest not only in our Mount Desert Island chain but on the whole eastern coast of the United States in the vicinity of the sea. 2. June 11 But the old road, steep and rough, built over half a century before by native enterprise when summer visitors first began to come in numbers to the Island, had now been almost wholly washed away by storms and the melting snows of early spring, leaving the mountain top, with its wonderful ocean ocean views, inaccessible to all but active alimbers. Of these and other lacks I was acutely conscious but could only let them wait and bide their time, which, now the Park was established, I felt sure would come. But now a new factor entered in which was eventually to have a wide bearing on the Park's development though im- mediately to make it the subject of no slight controversy. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., had proceeded quietly along in the construction of the horse-road system which, planned to be built partly on land he would a cquire for the also purpose but which extended xx, necessarily, over land belonging to the Government, which had been authorized by Secretary Lane when he came to say with me at Oldfarm in 1917, the Amphitheater Road so -called and had completed all but its last unit, on which kax con- struction was just commencing, when, in June, 1920, he drove over to see em with a letter in hand fromMr. George Wharton Pepper, a leading summer resident of BNortheast Harbor, which he asked me to read. Mr. Pepper began by commending the roads 3. that Mr. Rockefeller had already built, which had furnished so safe and pleasant a retreat from the public ways -- now open to motor cars -- for those who still retained their stables, but ended with requesting him to build no more. At this, Mr. Rockefeller, who regarded his Amphitheater Road as the climax of his whole endeavor, was much perturbed but said that should it prove that Mr. Pepper's attitude was widely shared among his Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor neighbors and friends, he would not wish to continue construction even though authority for it had been given him by the Government. And in the end he gave it up. To ascertain the feeling among the Northeast Harbor summer residents whom these roads particularly concerned, Mr Lincoln Cromwell of New York, president of the Northeast Harbor Village Improvement Association, offered to call a meeting of the Association for a frank discussion of the question and a vote upon it. Pending this, he invited a group of a to dozen or so ******* to his house in Northeast Harbor/talk the matter over informally and Iwas asked, as the Government's representative, to come. Mr. Pepper was present and, answering some remark he made concerning the disfigurements resulting from such roads, I took issue with him, saying that rightly planned roads of such a character need result in no disfigurement and spoke of the pleasantness and beauty of a bicycle path of wood-road 4. character which I had built myself twenty years before on our own land beneath Champlain Mountain where, circling a peaty, glacial pool, it took its way onward through primeval woods of birch and hemlock; and, describing the scene in autumn when the leaves were falling, quoted some lines from Milton that came to me as I spoke: "Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallambrosa, where th' Eturian shades High over-arch'd imbower." Later I got a letter from Mr. Pepper in which, referring to this, he said: "When you quoted Milton, I knew my C ause was lost 1" But lost it was not, for as the result of Mr. Pepper's opposition in which others joined, Mr. Rockefeller ceased construction. I had need at that time, with no roads of any kind nor even trails traversing the north and south-trending valleys of the Park of some way of simple wood-road character to connecting the woodlands at the mountains' base on either side for ranger use and fire protection. And seeing Mr. Rockefeller's interest in similar construction, I asked him if he would not like to undertake one along the western side of Jordan Pond and through the valley beyond it at whose further end the watershed was formed between it, and that of Eagle Lake. 5. The territory, though in his neighborhood, was new to him, not given, as I, to climbing for its own sake, and, accompanied by his surveyor, he took his time to explore it. The following summer, that of 1921, Mr. Rockefeller came to me with a carefully studied plan for a horse-road system SOME seven or eight miles in length, encircling at high level the whole broad mass of Jordan, Sargent and Parkman Moun- upon its course, north and south, tains and commanding wide-sweeping views of lakes and mountains and far horizons,apen-its a system which would connect to the east of Uppe Hadlock Pond with the what he had already built under Secretary Lane's permission. Along with this he offered, bearing in mind the motorists and their needs as if to compensate for their exclusion from the horse- roads, to contribute $150,000 for the building of a Park motor road, from the Bar Harbor-Somesville Road at Great Pond Hill to the foot of Jordan Pond, where it would find connection, through a town-road spur, with the county highway along the shore to Northeast Harbor. This joint offer I accepted so far as with me lay and transmitted it in due course to Washington. In the meantime, word of Mr. Rocke- feller's offer spreading, bitter opposition to its acceptance sprang up among groups of the younger summer resident element at Northeast Harbor and Bar Harbor, who, VII th no experience of the disastrous effects of private ownership and apeculation 6. which I recalled so we ll during the Bar Harbor boom-time a score of years before, resented road development of any kind within the Government lands as an intrusion upon Nature and invasion of their rights. Vut ours was not a wilderness area nor was it for any special group or class that the Government was taking over the great seenic portions of the Island to preserve for the people for all time their intrinsic beauty and freedom. It was no question now of whether this should be done but of how best to do it. And to this, with a long background of observation elsewhere, in other beautiful portions of the world , I gave my own best thought and energies. My chief preoccupation was to do nothing that the future could not alter if better ways were found, and next to that to leave the way open as widely as possible for changes of such sort. [E.G.DORR] 6 SEAL HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY 7 PRESIDENT'S REPORT INTRODUCTION VILLAGE GREEN The Society in enting its twentieth As briefly referred to in our last Annual annual report desires to call the attention of Report, a great opportunity for extending the all visitors to Seal Harbor to the work it is activities of the Village Improvement Society doing for the general comfort and welfare, and in a way that will be conspicuously beneficial to ask a continuance of the liberal support has come during the past year. given it in the past. Its only revenue is from Through the generosity of Mr. Rockefeller, voluntary contributions and the more general the property formerly occupied by the Glen they are the more efficiently can the work be Cove Hotel has been deeded to the Town of carried on. Mount Desert to be held in perpetuity for All visitors to Seal Harbor as well as resi- public use as a Village Green. In his wisdom dents are cordially invited to join the Society. Mr. Rockefeller has arranged with the Town No formality is necessary to become a member. that for a period of years the care of this Village The handing in of a name accompanied by Green shall be exercised by the Village Im- one dollar to the treasurer of the Society, provement Society, which at its last meeting Mr. George L. Stebbins, at his office, con- appointed 2 committee to act for it in this stitutes membership. Life membership, $25. matter. Suggestions in regard to its work will be With the aid of Mrs. Max Farrand, well gladly received by the Executive Committee known as a landscape architect, this Com- from any member of the society. mittee has prepared plans contemplating the The attention of temporary residents is development of this property and with the called to the fact that the entire current re- co-operation of the Town certain desirable ceipts are expended each season SO that they changes in the roads will at once be undertaken. receive the benefits of any contributions made. Funds for the initial expenses of clearing 8 SEAL HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY 9 up the debris after the removal of the hotel buildings, restoring the natural contours of the ground, and planting a few trees which will require time to produce an effect, have TREASURER'S REPORT been contributed by Mr. Rockefeller and a From April 1, 1919, to April 1, 1920 few others, and it is planned to carry on this work in such manner as to assist the Town General Fund in making the changes in the road at the corner RECEIPTS authorized by the County Commissioners Balance April 1, 1919 $112.30 and for which a sum of money was voted at From membership dues and the last annual Town Meeting. The enter- subscriptions 920.00 prise has, therefore, made a substantial start. $1032.30 For future developments to render the Village Green a source of comfort and pleasure, EXPENDITURES the Society must depend upon contributions General Expenses, printing, of money, plants or other property which can postage, etc $ 66.70 be turned to use in adding to the convenience Work about the Village 200.63 and beauty of this prominent and attractive Maintainance of lights on part of the Village. Ox Hill path 41.95 By reference to the Treasurer's report, Paths 442.63 $751.91 it will be noted that there is a gratifying in- crease in the contributions to the Society, and Balance on hand April 1, 1920 $280.39 a larger membership han the year before, GEORGE L. STEBBINS, showing a recovery from the war conditions. Treasurer. RICHARD M. HOE, President. ; 4. Chapman Archive. JDRJr. Papers. B.143.W61. Whether it and disnable, your 3d 1920 if bitte Cost, The University Club Fifth Abenue & 54th Street to aequire the whro - orto get.free division made Dear Mr Lynaw, Put this old document, which M. Palmu Camps B.WOSS la just presented to the Park in you safe along with the Lafay etti paper be gave before & Which for have It in original letter the king of trance, Cadillac's key, Lonis 145 to the toing Both these happen should be of kept lu a clearly marked buc to effect than for of 3. package by thunderer when making it bth bills they will list get nifed wh Garden of Acadia nather than the with outland duch or other Resorvetion trade the Cream down paper r when we can madely of the commished put the handrem them Please acknowledge recubt, ofth had unit other Rut before pecanding it with bu will K make Sun of your safe-bothing ofth Safareth letter at the ford out who the other Sam there to putty this away- form all, quiety identify the foundavin x situation of I also enclose dud fluth Mu tract, with new a tobacco 10ml and your other land from M Hall, which efflain to the wad 1 themselver Please take Hefer at then look things our list you on my return T We within Bar Harbor, Maine, July 18, 1919. Hon. John A. Peters, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Peters: The community on Mount Desert Island, including both residents and summer residents, are getting up a testi- monial to Mr. Dorr for his work in putting through the Lafayette National Park. The committee in charge is headed by Pres. Eliot, Bishop Lawrence and Judge Deasy. I am very anxious that your name and that of Senator Hale should be included in this committee. The object of the testimonial is to present additional lands purchased from Mr. Dorr to the Park in the name of the community, in this way both helping the Park and aiding Mr. Dorr in the burden which he has borne SO unselfishly for some years. Would it trouble you too much to see Senator Hale and if you are both willing to have your names included telegraph me a single word "yes", as we are anxious to start things as soon as possible. The use of your names entails no obligation aside from your approval of a testimonial with which I am sure you will be entirely in sympathy. Very sincerely yours, Kend may 1938 Page 1 of 8. How I acquired Man o'War Brook Valley on Somes Sound from Thomas W. Lawson. St. Sauveur Mountain, overlooking the entrance to Somes Sound and Jesuit Field, was acquired by a group of Northeast Harbor summer residents and visitors with whom, crossing the Sound by boat, it was a favorite climb, and given to the Trustees of Public Reservations, following my initiative in the mountains around Bar Harbor. And Acadia Mountain, to its north, was acquired in greater part by Mr. Lincoln Cromwell of New York and his wife, and presented to the Trustees through me, in memory of her father, whose home, then become their home, looked to the mountain from across the Sound. Separating these two mountains lay the beautiful, wooded valley drained by Man o'War Brook, which, tumbling over rocks, descends to Somes Sound's western shore. With these two mountains in possession it was an essentially important tract to secure. It belonged Lawson to Mr. Thomas W. Kawson of Boston, noted operator and speculator on the New York and Boston stock exchanges, XThomas William Lawson (1957-1925) 2. and he was known to be difficult and cranky. The land had come to him through an act of kindness. His sister had a summer home at Somesville and the owner of the Man o'War Brook tract was her friend and doctor, who had purchased it some twenty years before and as he now needed to dispose of it, Mr. Lawson bought it. The question was how best to approach Mr. Lawson in seeking to acquire it. Mr. William Draper Lewis, distinguished Philadelphia jurist, and active in the Northeast Harbor summer resident group offered to undertake it, but knowing Mr. Lawson's temperament by report, I was fearful lest he might not find him in a friendly mood and our Public Reservations cause would be prejudiced rather than helped. So, assuming the responsibility myself, I watched and waited. Failing once to get in touch with him when passing through New York, I planned to invite myself down to stay with a Boston friend of mine, Mr. Joseph Bigelow, who had a house on the Cohasset shore, where Mr. Lawson was his neighbor. But before this plan was carried 3. out, Mr. Schuyler R. Clark of Southwest Harbor, who had aided us importantly in securing certain mountain lands on the Southwest Harbor side and who knew the situation in regard to Mr. Lawson, drove over to Bar Harbor to find me one mid-summer morning in 1920 1920 and said: "Mr. Dorr, I saw Tom Lawson this morning in Somesville and I thought you might like to know he was here, so came over to tell you. He is staying with his sister. n So that afternoon I drove over to find him but found his sister only. I introduced myself and told her I had come to see her brother. She said that he had come down for a rest and I answered: "Then he may not wish to see me; but if he will do so and you will telephone me to the National Park office at Bar Harbor, I will come over again at any time he sets, to find him." Two days later a telephone message came to the Park office from Mr. Lawson, saying that he was motor- ing to Ellsworth on a business matter and would drive 4. through Bar Harbor on his way back to call on me. So I went to the office and waited his arrival. And when he came I took him into a room where we could be by ourselves and talk. He was decidedly a 'character' and I was interested to learn more about him. I said nothing of why I wished to see him, but asked him to tell me how he started on his financial career, Forthwith he launched out upon the story of it in a most entertaining way. "My father," he said, "served in the Civil War, was wounded, and died of his wounds, soon after his return home, when I was but a little boy. My mother made her home in Cambridge after that and I was sent to school there. But I always had visions of gold and one day I played truant and went in to Boston and to the old State House, where in those days merchants and sea captains met to transact their business, and I saw them weighing gold. It fired my imagination and I went out into the street and saw a sign: 'Boy Wanted, , in a window and went in. It was the counting house of Mr. Copley Amory. Mr. Amory was there and said: 'Little boy, what do you want?' I said: 'I want to get work. 'What can you do?' he asked. That fazed 5. me for I did not know what I could do; but I saw a man in back weighing out gold and putting it on scales with a scoop. And I said: 'I think I could shovel gold. , "Whereupon, Mr. Amory opened the door in the counter and said, *Come in and try'; and I tried. Mr. Amory, watching me, said: 'I think you'll do; how much do you want?' "That 'fazed' me again and I said: "We don't see much money at home and I don't know just what it means.' Then Mr. Amory said: 'I'll have to say for you -- three dollars a week.' "That seemed to me a great sum and so for the moment it was arranged. But I was playing trueant and got a great scolding at home when I was found out and was sent back to school. I ran away again to Mr. Amory, was caught again and got another scolding and was sent back to school. I ran away a third time to Mr. Amory and wept. He said: 'I think I'll have to take a hand in this. Wait here until office hours are over and I'll take you to Cambridge and we'11 see your mother.' 6. "so I drove out with Mr. Amory when business hours were over in his open barouche, with coachman and a smart span of horses. Mr. Amory talked with my mother and it was arranged that I should continue on at school, but go in to Mr. Amory's office to work at certain times. That is how 1 got into business on State Street!" I checked this story by asking my friend, Mr. Copley Amory, the elder Mr. Amory's son, if it were true and he told me that it was. Mr. Lawson then went on to tell me what led him to write his book, "Frenzied Finance - Wall Street From Within." The book had a wide circulation in its day and did better work in exposure of what was going on in 'high finance' beneath the surface than a Congressional Committee could have done. "Gene Thayer," he said, "came to see me in Boston and asked if I would subscribe five thousand dollars toward building a cup-defender yacht. I told him I would. Some days later he returned to ask if I would make it ten thousand as they were having difficulty in raising the amount. I said I would. Presently he 7. came again and said: 'It's all off. We can't raise the money1' "I was feeling pretty flush at that time and said:'I''1 tell you what I'11 do; I'11 build the boat myself and race it; but it must be understood that it is my boat.' He said: 'That's finel' And I went ahead and built the boat. "Then, with the races but a few weeks off, they came to see me and said that I must turn the boat over in temporary ownership to some member of the New York Yacht Club to be raced. "I was mad right through and told them they might go to hell. That's what led me to show up those Wall Street fellows by writing Frenzied Finance." Thus far I had said nothing to Mr. Lawson of my reason for wanting to see him and now he looked at his watch and said: 'I must be going.' I know what you want; you want that land. There's just one question that I would like to ask: 'Has all this land you have been given?' "Yes," I told him, "every acre that we have. The Go vernment has purchased nothing." 8. "Well, " he said, "you ought to have that land and I am going to give it to you. You have a deed drawn up and let me know when it is ready and I will come over and sign it." I lost no time. Mr. Harry Lynam, my legal assistant, drew up a deed that afternoon, telephoned to Mr. Lawson that it was awaiting him and the next day Mr. Lawson motored over to Mr. Lynem's office and signed it. I never saw him again. He died soon after. That is how the Park got "Man o' War Brook Valley," linking its mountain lands west of Somes Sound. [G.B.DORR] r Ellsworth, Maine. July 19th, 1920. President Kenneth C. M. Sills, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Dear President Sills:- I havo your circular letter of July 12th, forwarded to no from Washington, with copy of Report of Board of Visitors of Naval Academy supended. I nor have lookod over the same and I heartily approve of P it in evory respect. This particular report seems to be not in form to be signed. It was simply 5 copy with your name in typewriting. If there is one original to be signed you can send it to me any time and I will sign and return. Yours very truly, [J.A. Peters] Pagelof6. Estimate July, 61920 KNOW AL. MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That the Mount Desert Transit Company, & corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Maine, and located at Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine, in consideration of the sum of one dollar and other valuable considera- tions paid by George B. Dorr and Ernesto G. Fabbri, both of said Bar Harbor, Augustus Thorndike of Boston, Suffolk County, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Charles F. Paine, Guy E. Torrey, A. Stroud Rodick and A. H. Lynem, all of said Bar Harbor, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, does hereby remise, release, bargain, sell and convey, and forever quit-claim unto the said George B. Dorr, Ernesto G. Fabbri, Augustus Thorndike, Charles F. Paine, Guy E. Torrey, A. Stroud Rodick and A. H. Lynam, Trustees, and their successors, heirs and assigns for. ever, a certain lot or parcel of land situated in said Bar Harbor and bounded and described as follows, to wit:- Beginning at a stone post set in the ground in the northeastern corner of land now or formerly of Albert B. Mitchell; thence westerly but everywhere following the northern line of said land now or formerl; of Albert G. Mitchell, ninety-eight feet to a stone post set in the ground in the eastern side of Ledgelawn Avenue; thence northerly, but following Lodgelawn Avenue to the southern side line of Park Road, formerly Livingston Road Extension; thence easterly by said Park Road to the western line of other land of said Dorr, Fabbri, Thorndike, Pair Torrey, Rodick and Lynam, Trustees, it being also the eastern side of School Street; thence southerly by said land of said Trustees and by 2. the western line of land formerly of Edgar Scott to the Cromwells Harbor Road; thence westerly by said Cromwells Harbor Road to the eastern line of land formerly of Danforth P. Marcyes; thence north- erly by said eastern line of land formerly of Marcyes to the stone post at the place of beginning. This conveyance is made expressly subject to all public ease- ments in and to such parts of Park Road, School Street, Cromwells Harbor Road, Ash Street and Ledgelawn Avenue as are included within the limits of the above description, and also subject to all private easements in Ash Street, and also subject to the incumbrance of the town sewer crossing the same. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, together with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging, to them, the said George B. Dorr, Ernesto G. Fabbri, Augustus Thorndike, Charles F. Paine, Guy E. Torrey, A. Stroud Rodick and A. H. Lynam and their successors, heirs and assigns, forever, in trust however, for the purposes, with the powers and subject to the limitations hereinafter set forth. FIRST POWERS OF TRUSTEES. The Trustees shall have and exercise the following powers: To hold said land and permit the same to be used for outdoor games and sports and for the development and encouragement of athletics. To make rules and regulations for the management of said property and to exclude from it any person, or persons, or class, or classes of persons that fail to conform to such rules and regulations. 3. To lease said land to the town of Bar Harbor or to any corporation, or corporations, organized for public purposes, or to lease a part of the same to said town and a part to such corporation or corporations. To collect rentals and apply the same to the payment and satisfaction of taxes upon said property and any sum necessary for the care and preservation thereof. It is designed that in case the property be leased the rental shall be fixed at a sum only sufficient to pay for taxes and care. In case the property shall be leased the Trustees shall have power to make the lease subject to such terms and conditions as they think necessary. To make contracts for the sale of said land, or any part, or parts thereof, with any person, or persons, and for such consideration as the Trustees determine and to sell and convey the same, or any part, or parts thereof, and to give good and sufficient deed, or deeds of the same, vesting complete and absolute title in the Grantees. This power of sale shall be subject to the limitation hereinafter set forth. If said Trustees deem it expedient, to convey said property without consideration to the town of Bar Harbor, or to any corporation, or corporations, organized for public purposes, or a part to said town and part to said corporation, or corporations, and to give deeds of the same vesting in the Grantees complete and absolute title to said property. This power of conveying without consideration shall not be exercised, however,until after the expiration of 4. fourteen years from the date hereof. SECOND LIMITATIONS. The Trustees are not to exercise the power of sale herein vested in them provided the town of Bar Harbor, or any corporation, or corporations, organized for public purposes, shall offer to take a lease, or leases, of the premises and pay a sufficient sum as rental to pay the taxes upon the property and a sufficient sum for the care thereof, and upon such terms and conditions as the Trustees may fix, but if said town, or such public corporation, shall not offer in writing to take such leases, or shall not pay as rental a sufficient sum for the above purposes, then the Trustees shall have and exercise the power of sale herein vested in them. The Trustees shall have power to determine whether their power of sale exists and any deed given by the Trustees shall convey clear title and shall not be subject to and be defeated by means of any claim or proof that the condition herein set forth has not been complied with. THIRD RESTRICTIONS UPON USE. / Said land is hereby conveyed subject to the following restriction, not a condition subsequent, to wit, that no building, 20 or structure of any kind, shall during the term of fourteen years from the date hereof, be erected upon the same, or any part thereof, except such building or structure as may be approved by the Trustees, 5. or their successors. Any lease or deed that said Trustees may give during said period of fourteen years shall be subject to this restriction, whether set forth in said lease or deed or not. FOURTH SUCCESSION IN TRUSTERSHIP. In case of the death, resignation, or incapacity, of either of the Trustees, the surviving, or remaining, Trustees shall have the right to fill any vacancy or vacancies. Such vacancy or vacancies shall be filled by writing, signed by the surviving or remaining Trustees, recorded in the Registry of Deeds for Hancock County, Maine, and thereupon the board of Trustees, consisting of such surviving or remaining Trustees and the successors so appointed, shall have and exercise all the powers and be subject to all the duties herein set forth, and the property shall be vested in such board without further conveyance, Provided, however, that so long as five Trustees remain they may act as such and exercise all powers herein granted without the appointment of successors in case of vacancies. FIFTH DISPOSAL OF PROCEEDS IN CASE OF SALE. In case the whole or any part of the premises shall be sold, the proceeds shall be applied to such public or charitable use, or uses, as the Trustees, or their successors, in their absolute discretion shall determine. 6 And the said Grantor does hereby covenant with the said Trustees, and their successors, heirs and assigns, that it will warrant and forever defend the premises, to them the said Crantees, and their successors, heirs and assigns forever, against the law- ful claims and demands of all persons claiming by, through or under it, but against none other. IN ITNESS OF the said Mount Desert Transit Company has caused its corporate seal to be hereto affixed and these presents to be signed in its name and behalf by George B. Dorr, its President, and Fred C. Lynum, its Treasurer, thereunto duly authorized by vote of said corporation, this second day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty. igned, oaled and Delivered MOUNT DESERT TRANSIT COMPANY in Presence of By- President. Treasurer. STATE OF MAINE COUNTY OF II HCOCK ss 1920. Then personally appeared the above named George B. Dorr, President, and acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act and deed, and the free act and deed of said corporation. Before no. Notary Public. 1920 FIVE CENTS A COPY NUMBER 319 WSE WINS MEN'S SINGLES CUP PROPOSE UNIQUE-REGREATION S Singles Championship Cup was won by R. E. Rowse al play Monday morning. CENTER FOR BAR HARBOR won from B. F. Wilcox, 1. 's Singles playing was com- nday, August 2, and contin- Public Meeting August 19 to Discuss Purchase of h the week. There were ies for this part of the tourn- Tract Adjoining Athletic Field-Whole to round resulted as follows:- Be Recreation Center and Gateway to toy defeated Edgar $cott, P. Bryan defeated James Lafayette National Park -9, 6-2, 6-2; B. F. Wilcox P. Scott, 6-2, 2-6, 6-4; nas defeated P. Talmadge, If the plans for the purchase and and of the publicity committee are at mold Wood, Jr. won from development of the tract of land ad- the corner of Main street and Livingston , Jr., by default; Edwards joining the Bar Harbor Athletic Field road. It is intended to make this the S. Van Rensselaer, Jr., prove to be as popular with the general principal gateway of the National Park. W. Wilcox defeated Jarvis public as with the few citizens who have Mrs. Farrand spoke of the possible 6, 6-2, 6-4; and R. E. Rowse already given the matter some thought, developments of this tract with the H. Stewart, 8-6, 6-2. then another year may see a beginning athletic field as a center for recreational d round resulted as follows: and more than a beginning of a most activities of the community. The ex- from Bryan by default; attractive feature for Bar Harbor. It cellent athletic field already gives an OX defeated Thomas, 6-0, is proposed to purchase this land, now opportunity for baseball, football, soccer Wood, Jr., defeated Edwards owned by the Mount Desert Transit Co., and other games. There are two tennis d R. E. Rowse defeated and to begin at once upon its develop- courts there at present. It is proposed OX, 6-2 6-2. ment as the recreational center of the to build more tennis courts, to lay out mi-finals B. F. Wilcox de- resort and the principal gateway of the grounds for croquet, for bowling, for Bryan, 6-1, 6-3; and R. E. Lafayette National Park. It is under- quoits, for handball and for any other eated Arnold Wood, Jr., stood that this land can be bought for sports and diversions that there may be )-7. $4,500 or less. The land would connect a demand for. It is further proposed morning Rowse took three the village and the National Park and to build a dancing pavilion. there and from B. F. Wilcox, 6-2, situated as it is would form the logical a band stand and to hold all concerts thus won the series. entrance to the Park. there rather than on the Village Green A public meeting will be held at the as at present. A modern and well Assessors' Rooms, Odd Fellows' hall, equipped playground for children is a for THE TIMES. Thursday evening, August 19, at 7.30. most important feature. There is ample At this meeting men and women who room for the parking of hundreds of the Lark Schubert have given the matter considerable motor cars. Comfortable seats for many at Flits on Baby's Eyes thought will outline the plan. All persons would of course be a part of Carpenter others are urged to be present and to the plan. There are many more sug- ymn Henschel make suggestions. If it is the sense gestions but the general idea is to make Miss Zell of this meeting that the tract should be this not only the starts for trips through Faure purchased, then ways and means of the Lafayette Naional Park, but also Frank Bridge purchasing it and holding it will be to make the place in itself so attractive Miss Mukle discussed. It is not expected that there that it will be in every sense the center 5 From Me Mine All will be any considerable opposition to of activity for all who come here for rest Rachmaninoff the purchase. and recreation. ed Birch Gretchaninoff The first meeting was held Monday Fred C. Lynam spoke in regard to le Pays Thomas morning at Reef Point, the home of the details of the proposed purchase Rabey Mrs. Max Farrand, the well known land- and voiced his approval of the whole Miss Zell scape architect, who has always spent idea. Mr. Lynam was in favor of Schubert her summers here and who has shown making the purchase by subscription. alse Herbert always such a keen interest in all matters E. A. Graham was as strong in his nce Popper of village improvement. George B. approval, differing from Mr. Lynam only Miss Mukle Dorr, superintendent of the Lafayette in his recommendations as to the method National Park, outlined the scheme and of raising the money. expressed his unqualified approval of It was the unanimous opinion for THE TIMES. the whole idea. Mr. Dorr dwelt es- of those present at the meeting that the pecially upon the great advantage which town should own this tract of land and this tract ha as the connecting link that its development along the lines Printing and between the town and the national park. suggested wou Id prove most beneficial S Developing As is well known, the offices of the par k (Continued on page 8) stman Kodak Co. The Orchestra a Nation. Kr PBOPOSE UNIQUE RECRETATION Dave Hennen Morris, Benjamin L. tainly the committ CENTER FOR BAR HARBOR Hadley and Albion F. Sherman. the most generous (Continued from page 1) in the entertainmen to the resort. However, it was felt "Kick" in Hot Drinks. others wishing to V that a public meeting should be held In China it is the custom to drink the work may get before any definite steps were taken wines hot. The thrifty Chinese be- member of the co and a committee was appointed to make lieve that heated wine intoxicates Major Archibald arrangements for this meeting. The more expeditiously than cold ine. York is chairman committee members are: George B. Major Thacher, W Dorr, Mrs. Max Farrand, Louis B. WILL ENTERTAIN EX- fighting in the r McCagg, Jr., Ernest A. Graham and SERVICE MEN SATURDAY originator of the John J. Emery. This committee was (Continued from page 1) the men and is git given power to add to its number if from the Athletic Field DO the Head- his time to the pla desired. quarters of the George Edwin Kirk Post mem bers of the fin Among those present at the meeting of the American Legion, corner Cottage Col. DeWitt Clintor were: Mrs. Farrand, Frank McGoul- street and Roberts avenue. A committee Walter G. Ladd of drick, Mrs. Frank E. Sherman, Charles of ladies will serve luncheon there to Rev. William E. Pat B. Pineo, Irving W. Small, Fred C. the visitors. At 1.30 a motor ride The members of Lynam, Serenus Rodick, Rev. Charles about Bar Harbor, around the Ocean mittee are: Miss L. Kinney, Ernest A. Graham, John H. Drive, including a visit to the United culloch Miller, M Stalford, T. L. Roberts, Rev. A. M. States Naval Radio Station, will be F. E. Sherman an MacDonald, Dr. Augustus Thorndike, given the men. This will conclude the Edgar Scott is ch L. B. McCagg, Jr., John J. Emery, day's entertainment, the guests leaving mittee on transpo Mrs. F: B. Rowell, Ernesto G. Fabbri, on the 3.30 boat for Ellsworth. Cer- members of this co CASINO THEATRE, Monday, Tuesday, Wed Pathos Love Page (of 3. The Eyrie Seal Harbor, Maine August 30, 1919 Dear Mr. Eno: I have your note of yesterday with accompanying statement, for which I thank you. The indebtedness set forth in the statement seems to be of three kinds: 1st - Indebtedness secured by mortgag 6S amounting to -$14,250. 2nd - Unsecured indebtedness amounting to 43,800. 3rd - Indebtedness secured by collateral amounting to- 27,000. A total of -$85,050. Possibly you have fuller data in regard to all of these matters. Certainly it would seem to me that no intelligent action could be had, with reference to which debt should be paid from the fund which you are raising, unless complete data in ragard to all of the debts was at hand. I had hoped your statement would include this full data, not more for my sake than for your own and Mr. Dorr's. Referring to the several classes of indebtedness, the following is the fuller information which I should be glad to see: Under the first heading, there is a tract of 6 acres bought from Samuel W. Bates, on which $750. has been borrowed; also a tract of 25,000 square feet bought from Luther A. Leach for 500. These two tracts are spoken of as part of a large tract worth $50,000, which forms the eastern boundary of the park. That these two small pieces are essen- 2. tial parts of the tract is not mentioned. It may be that they are in consequential and could as well as not be given up for the sake of the cancellation of the obligations incurred in their purchase. No mention is made of the rate of interest in either case or of whether taxes had been paid. Of course this data must be known to someone, and Mr. Dorr will need to know it in order to know just where he stands. The third tract under this first heading is a tract of 85 acres bought from William M. Roberts for $13,000, held in trust by Mr. Peters. Nothing indicates when this note becomes due. As to the second heading, unsecured indebtedness, one would like to know who have loaned the various sums referred to in Boston and Bar Harbor, on what terms as to rate of interest, duration of the loan, to what extent interest has been paid, whether the notes are overdue; and so far as the outstanding debts to contractors and others locally are concerned, to whom they are owed and what the exact total is. This same data is desirable in regard to the unsecured loan of $5,000 which appears under the same heading, payment of which has already been demand- ed. As to the third class of debts, one naturally asks what banks have made the loans, how much in each bank, what the collateral is, how long the loan runs for, what the rate of interest is, and to what extent interest has been paid, also for the payment of what lands in the park they have been incurred. The total of all of these obligations does not surprise me as much as I presume it does you, for I had assumed it would run to at least 50,000. To pay 25,000 of the loans would, of course, help Mr. 3. Dorr, but it does not in any sense solve the problem or secure to the park the possession of those lands which are represented by the loans. How reasonably sure do you feel that the statement which you have prepared covers the full extent of Mr. Dorr's obligations incurred in connection with the park, and are there not apt to be other matters cropping up which he has forgotten about? Now would seem to be the time to search garret and cellar and get an absolutely complete and accurate detailed statement of all of the obligations related to the park. If Mr . Dorr once knows exactly his financial situation, it will be easier for him to work out a solution of the problem. I am going to New York on Monday, but shall be back the lat- - ter part of the week. Very truly, John Mr. Henry L. Eno, Bar Harbor, Maine. $2.00 A YEAR BAR HARBOR, MAINE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 192 WATERSPORTSDRAW WILL BUY LAND FOR WOULD RAVE ANNUAL FLY FROM A LARGE GALLERY RECREATION CENTER MEETING IN AUGUST TO BA lundreds at Swimming Funds Will Be Raised By Big Public Meeting Thought Much Curtis Plane Worth While. First Meet- Club Friday Morning Popular Subscription ing Thursday Evening bor Mond IANY ENTRIES IN SPORTS TO COST ABOUT $4,000 The committee appointed at the P. PILLOT citizens' meeting of last Thursday to consider the advisability of changing econd Day of Aquatic Sports Even Public Meeting Thursday Evening Second Visitor o the time of Bar Harbor's annual town More Successful Than Decided to Buy and Develop Land Enjoy Flig meeting from March to September, has Was the First Adjoining Athletic Field tropolis met and will recommend that the change be not made. In place of a town meet- The weather was ideal for the water The sentiment unanimously expressed A. P. Pillot of N ing an annual public mass meeting at orts at the Swimming Club Friday at the citizens' meeting at the municipal summer visitor to which residents and summer residents orning. The largest number of entries offices Thursday evening was that the o Bar Harbor. may discuss matters of policy in municipal the different events and the unusually five acres of land adjoining Athletic Field the harbor Mond affairs has been suggested. The first rge gallery made this another gala day should be secured for the use of the hydro-aeroplane public. It was voted to buy this land meeting will be held tomorrow (Thursday a season of unusual success at this having stopped a evening.) The report of the chairman pular club. This was the second day and to raise the necessary funds by public head and York OI follows: the present season set apart or water subscription. The price is to be not Pillot had an ex The committee that was called for orts and its success more than justifies more than four thousand dollars. No him. While here August 23, 1920, to discuss the advisa- judgment of the officers of the club subscription of more than $25 will be Mr. and Mrs. P bility of petitioning the legislature to reviving the custom of staging two accepted from an individual. It is Devon Cottage, E change the date of the town meeting ys of these sports in a season. The hoped by the committee in charge that flew to Northeast ice reports an even larger sale of there will be a very large number of from March to September, reports that lunched with frie such a change not seem feasible, :kets than in the previous event and subscribers for sums ranging from five to Bar Harbor la entries were as numerous and the in view of the fact that the majority cents to twenty-five dollars. Any He left on the retu amount over and above the actual cost of the summer residents have no legal mpetitions as interesting as in any and Mrs. Edward nilar event in previous years. of the land will be used in its develop- status and that where the experiment who came here ea C. P. Barnett was chairman of the ment as a recreational center for the was tried elsewhere in the state it proved 2 Curtis flying be mmittee that 80 successfully staged to be impracticable. resort. make the air tri e event. The judges were: Charles F. Paine was chairman of the The committee begs to recommend Bar Harbor. assatt, D1. James F. Mitchell and meeting. George B. Dorr was the first as a substitute for this proppeed change iward Browning. Col. DeWitt Clin- speaker. Mr. Dorr outlined the propo- that a meeting be called for Thursday Reports from al sition and emphasized its importance night, August 26th, 1920, at eight cate that the popu Falls was referee, Arthur D. Addi- o'clock at the Assessors' Office to dis- travel is rapidly was starter. The time-keepers were: as the one natural gateway connecting each season will Reginald S. Huidekoper and Capt. the town with the Lafayette National cuss the practicability of holding annu- people traveling b hn H. Potter. Edgar Scott was the Park. Mrs. Max Farrand told of her ally mass meeting, in which the summer Pillot left New Y nouncer who kept contestants and desire to see the whole tract developed residents and towns people may discuss the Cape the first llery well informed of the progress as a center for athletics and for all sorts the policies of common interest for the Saturday morning the events. of recreation. Others spoke briefly in ensuing year. land at Marblehe Following are the results of the com- FRANK B. ROWELL. favor of the purchase. After a general heavy fog The titions: discussion of the matter it was unani- Sunday in a sou Beginners' race, 10 yards,: Carlo mously voted to purchase the land by away during the winter and consequently plane getting as on Stumm, Philip Livingston, Natica public subscription and that the follow- had no voice in the meeting. A com- The flight from Y eAcosta, Peggy McKittrick, Cummins ing committee take charge of raising mittee, consisting of Mr. Clark, Mrs. completed Monda Fatherwood,/Eliz Mitchell ndReginald the funds: George B. Dorr, Mrs. Max R. B. Bowler, Frank B. Rowell, Charles The plane was a ing; won by Carlo von Stumm in Farrand, Louis B. McCagg, Jr., John J. Shea and L. A. Austin, was appointed est during its sta DeAcosta, second and Emery and E. A. Graham. This com- by the chair to consider this matter and may be quite con liza Mitchell third. mittee has power to enlarge. It was to call a public meeting at a later date. people here still Boys' race (12 years and under) also voted that the land, when acquired them as curiositi yards: A. Zantsinger, E. C. Williams, be held by the same trustees who hold The last of the regular Wednesday Eno, H. Garret, Conway Olm- Athletic Field. evening hops at the Malvern botel will attended and enj Robert Ayer, J. Espey; won by At the close of this business, E. S. be held this evening. These dances, portion of the Bar Zantzinger in 18 seconds, J. Espey Clark was asked to address the meeting which are held Wednesday evenings in as well as by many cond and E. C. Williams third. and spoke of the proposition of asking July and August are always among the the nearby resorts. the Maine Legislature to change the date enjoyable features of a Bar Harbor Girls' race (16 years and under), which plays for th of Bar Harbor's annual town meeting season. This year has been no exception at the Malvern yards: Mary Baker, Mary Steichen to August or September instead of March and these pleasant affairs have been L. Stewart; won by L. Stewart in popular with the seconds, Mary Baker second and as at present. Mr. Clark said that the ary Steichen third. reason for this was that all of the summer Boys' diving (16 years and under), residents and many of the residents were Films and Supplies Kodaks dives of contestant's own choice: Thomson. C. C. Zantsinger, REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES R674. Page I of 16 Leforette N.P. Annual Rpt. 1920. 1st. Annual fot. as Natroid Park: appear A be draft Table of Contents. Care Pp. 7ff.) Estimate 9/1/20 General statement 1 Park extension 3 Estably ahmont of office and ranger force, 4 ild Life 5 Visitors 7 Publicity 8 Natural His tax: 8 leather Ubse vation 9 construction work 9 Buildings 10 Purchase of automobile 10 Peace Free Planting, 10 Recommendations, 11 Gift to the paris of & letter from Lafayette, 14 Lafsyette National Park. George B. Dorr, Superintendent, Bar Harbor, laine. General Statement. The principal fact which stands out above all others in the history of the Lafayetto National Park during the year just past is its birth, the Sieur de Monts National Monument having become the Lafayette National Park by the President's signing the bill creating it on February 26, 1919. This establishes the first national park to the east of River the Delrotas Bodiey Mountains and marks an important now de- parture in park policy by the Secretary of the Interior and the Director of the National Park Service. The bill was passed unamimously by both House and Senate, and the action of the administration in this new departure has been warmly approved upon every sido. This is not only the first national park in the eastern states, but the first in the country actually bordering upon the sea and adding its refreshment and moreal to those of a forested and mountainous land. The new departure is important also as Opening the way towards the preservation under government control of other areas of exceptional interest and beauty in the eastern and central portions of the continent. such areas in these long occupied and settled states need a different policy and treatment from the extensive western tracts of mointain, plain, and forest. Hence ARCHIVES the work of the National Park service in the Lafayette National Park is creative in an important sanso, dealing with new conditions and involving the solution of new problems. It is concerned with the intensive development of a relatively limited but singularly interest- ing area in a poopled region where human associations replace in a measure the appeal of far-extending wildness made in other parks. In it, however, one great element of wildness that must endure forever enters in uniquely - that of contact with the ocean and the sight from mountainous heights of its great plain of waters stretching boundlessly away till hidden by the curvature of the earth. great human association has been established with that ocean since the creation of this park began. The youth and mannood of the nation have streamed across it in a great crusading movement and, with their en. achieved, have returned bacic over it - in lessened numbers. The wave of generous feeling that flooded the whole country during this period has recorded itself in the name the park was given, made doubly appropriate by the early ownership by France of the Acadian region within whose bounds it lies, and by its broad outlook on that dangerous highway which brought our aid to France, as it once had brought us hers. 2 IONAL ARCHIVES Perk Extension. the Park. The Lafayette National Park is still in process of creation in regard to lands. Formed by gift to the national government, its bounds are growing steadily through further gift. This involves a constant, complicated study of old deeds and titles, whose defects must be searched out and cleared before the government, with its high standard of requirement, can accept them. This has been one of the principal works undertaken during the past year by the park administra- tion. Each tract of land whose ownership is offered to the park or sought for it means a separate - and often long - study in the county records. Old Deeds and Titter 11 deeds and titles on the island go back ultimately to three sources: first, a gift of its western half by the Commonwoal th of Massachu- Three The setts, made shortly after the foundation of the country. to John Bernard, son of the last colonial governor 02 Massachusetts to whom the whole is- the land had been originally granted by that province; second, a gift of its eastern hair to the grenddaughter of antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, a Dark soldier of cadia, to whom it had beon granted a century before by the Province of uebec and the Court of France; and third, to early settlers' rights excepted by the General Court of Massachusetts when it are those grants. Two maps prepared by order of the assachusetts Court to show those excepted rights are still extant, though barely rescued from destruc- tion: the Peters plan, so-called, of the eastern half of the island, pro- pared by an ancestor 01 the region's present representative at Congress, 3 the Hos. John A. Peters; and the salem Town plan of the western half, made by a bearer of that singular name. These maps are being photo- graphed for the park, to preserve their record and to show the island as it was at the beginning of its present occupation; and all the stulies that are being made of deeds and titles are being placed on record, also, in bound volumes. Establishment of Office and Ranger Force. Entribution The next important fact connected with the Lafayette National park Park during the past year has been the establishment of its office office and administration, the appointment Of rangers, of an assistant superintendent, and of a clerk-stenogracher acting also as a secretary. This last office is one of peculiar importance in the Lafayette National Park, as -t involves not only the performance of the usual clerical duties of such a position but the intelligent answering, in the superin- tendent's stead, of a constant stream of letters and inquiries, the tact- ful and friendly reception of visitors to the office in 3 place of great resort, and the gaining of a familiarity not readily acquired with local conditions in a long settled region. All this has boon most ad- mirably done since the beginning of last winter by lrrs. Richard M. Daly, of whose work in a difficult and new position the superintenient cannot speak too highly, while her previous experience in the Department of the Interior at washington has been of the utmost value to him in the systematic Organization of the national mark office and the introduction of National Park Service methods into its work. 4 One respect in which the duties of the superintendent and his assistants in the Lafajette National Park are uniquely different from what obtains in other national parks springs from the fact that the ark is still in process of formation in a territorial sense, and needs for completion the awakened interest of its visitors in its ideals and plans, which gives it a distinctly mis - sionary place and work to do. Wild Life the Buk The ranger service as organized has proved most efficient. Hunting over the parklands has been checked, if not entirely stopwed; the Ruffed Grouse, the most important game bird of the region, whose numbers have been decreasing to an alarming extent for a whole genorati past, have largely increased in number during the past season in the park's protected area; hundreds of ducks, migrating southward, may now be seen on its included lakes; and tracks of deor are frequent in its wilder portions. The greatest difficulty an- countered in regard to these latter comes not from men but dogs, who, hunting generally in couples, puesue all game from deer to hares and foxes through the woods, without respect to boundaries or laws. 5 Among the interesting incidents of the park's wild life history during the past year was the birth at a wild spot within its bounds of two bald-headed eagles, in a nest placed in the top of a dead Lagles rock-maple, some fifty feet above the ground. The parent eagles com- EMBOOC nest building almost immediately after the President signed the bill creating the park, and were watched by one of the rangers, Mr. John Rich, as they circled above the chosen spot. From that time on he kent the nest under observation and the eagles, both young and old, became accustomed to human presence, and later, when the young birds grew to size, some remariable photographs were secured by the aid of an exten- sion ladder run up into the close neighborhood of the nest. As this bird is not only one of the most splendid of our American birds but is the nation 1 emblem, an enlargement of one of these pictures was forwarded by the superintenient to the President at Washington. Two young beavers have been recently presented to the park, beeners and others are to follow Originally they abounded on the island, and old d.ama of their construction still remain. Admirable opportunity exists for restoring their communities under the park's protection, and it will be interesting to bring them back and re-establish them in their native haunts. 6 NAL ARCHIVES Visitors. The mark this season has had many visitors distinguished in the nation's life. One of the more recent of these was the Hon. Vance LiCOrnick, who expressed a warm desire to have the President himself come down and visit the park next year. interesting visit was that of the Governor of the neighboring state of New Hamp- Park shire, who also took the keenest interest in what be termed "Now ngland's national park", speniing a number of days in it with its super- intendent, its ornithologist, and others. Other of 7 the Son. George as the Imited states, 01 Er. Gano Dunn, Vice-chairsan of National Research Council, 10 and Mr. Frederic Law Olmsted, president of the American society of Land- sease Architects. These apart, among the most noteworthy visits the park has had during the season have been those of e membrix of people an virtion variously connected with the, eministration at Richington, of whom have come with WELPIN expressions of that their stay has want to them, and of their desire to extend to others knowledge of the opportunities of the park for sumer recreation. In the early season a large detach- ment, also, from the Annalachian 011b came down and stayed for ten days at Seal Harbor, at the southern border of the park, visiting its points of interest and climbing its mountains with great enjoyment. mother Vicitor was Mountaineering urerica. 7 the material for a book upon his subject. A third branch of natural history study, that of the park's entomology, has also been provided for by the superintendent, who has secured, without official appointment the services of Mr. Charles in. Johnson, curator of the Boston Natural History Museum and one of the leading entonologists of the country, for the seasonal study of the park's rich insect life until material shall have been gathered for a book of authority upon it. And the Director of the United States Geological Survey Las promised his interest in securing, as funds become available, a thorough study of the park and i sland which will make their age-long geologic history available to all. Weather Observations. outher observations for the government, in continuetion of a long series privately made by the superintendent on record now at Washington, has been undertalson by the park, Lin. D. Dockham of the ranger service being placed in charge. Construction Work. Construction of important mountain and woodland paths has (Dorr) been begun this year on Flying Squadron Mountain, where the Secretary of the Interia has announced plans for a noble memorial to our fallon airmen; and at the Champlain Mountain entrance from Bar Harbor, itself the point of moin approach to both Mount Desert Island and the park. 9 Buildings. A storage building was erected (approximately 18.30 foot in size) at a suitable point near the nor there foot of Champlain Countain for the storage of emplosives to be use ) on road and trail construction. Purchase of Automobile. Under authori ty given by its last year's appropriation, an automobile for the nork service was purchased which has proved of the greatest value in its work and has rendered constant service with- out mishan. Peace Tree Planting. n the early summer an interesting ceremony took place at Dan the vieur de Monts spring contrance to the Flying Squadron Mountain, beneath the bold crag selected for he airmon's memorial, the pl nt- ing of two "Peace trees", the one a nino representing the east and the State of Meine - the line free State - the other E Secuois representing the vest and California. Those were precented by Dr. Robert Abbe of How York; Dr. Charles W. Miot, President imeritus of Harvard, and the superintement of the park laid the first spadefuls of earth to plant them, and children followed them to represent the future. the Vin law 10 Recommuniations. Brivie raths. The superintentent, ufter long study of the park's opportunitice and landscave character, would strongly urge the devolon- mant 20 C easing recture, of a connected system of bridle paths link- And the whole warts together. for this the of ortunity is singularly creat, owing to the e soonic varioty of the within easy riding company, real the wonderful occan or inland water views from every Ginence mountain shoulder. such bridle paths 002 8 where autombile roade court not be constructed; they case be ballt and Bopt in revair at is are fraction or the out of motor realizione riding mikes possible the detailed observation of interesting waysude Zouitures which would page mentic up ax soarcely noticed, in the owift speci oz meCore. lester removing THE 03 a extended soule in resently nooded in BEN population of 1246 200 LATIVE Serect, timene in Long- Science Acceri USO 308 is 04 great bounty, deasing, and STATE production 1. a of non it SHIRLY is, at address chease itself, 1et$ by the dear lisho its density dreates 14th the you AL that invo w and ried within it. Shon is & fire sturts in tino of dryness, it Remarks by CODE stron wind, 11 :411 21002 stiple tracts, Gestroying even the coods or future Donth on the 1. ortent, forest heart. Once cleared, owever, 11 ARCHIVES such moodlands, 1500 the rinoval forest, largely keep themselves onen, and booome CO. ruec of groat delight and rec cational value. one further reason oxiets for civing 2000 care to these woods Off the Infayette National Parks, they form the only exhibit in the national cyston of the for elachian forest, with its minila everyzeez are decideous treos me its namificent automated coloring. hope. One of the cost prepting no de of the are is that of 4) survey and map. the 020 government survey of Mount Decert 1:15mm was make LONG since and heatily, with numerous inscuracies. very vicitor to the des res state needs a EST) for guidance, and the claver Secondary for it could be combined with the coological stay 6." the Island stready referred to, which to in itself important be = feature as great octobative interest. Hast or owner at various points in the parts are zeetl The would anders possible for ore efficient D20 toction 5 well lif $ are TOWA be of Great unofulness $1.00 in 10- to visitors. In the HIMS r 40 they are mecoscar for the and chellon. 10 ARCHIVES Urails. The part has ar asset of unique value in the old mountain trails trodden for generations by the foot of climbers and marked by airns of stone. There are fully & hundred and fifty miles of these within the paridant area. They are rough and simple but they are necessary until bottor - where desirable - can be prepared, and they corely need repair and clearer marking. 11 built foot paths for safe and easy passage to striking points or view or establishing main connections in the park are greatly needed, too, any every year should see their length extended. TO these the splou id nature of the granite rock as they rise above the woodland areas and the beauty of the moodlands lend themselves so well that nothing like them, in the flow portions yet constructed, exists cloo- where in eastern North America, and but rarely anywhere. Resert to the Park It is impossible to render accurate statistics of the park resort, as is done in some of the western parks that furnish within themselves the only opportunity for residence to their visitors, OF are cateroc only at a single point. The Infayette National Part lios in is peopled region on as island that the 903 sweete broadly round, sand is devoted - E constal fidning industry auart - wholly to the entertain- ment 01 ceror visitors and to the market gurdening and dairying necessary to their 1000 supply. Hall e domon resort villages, cyrume from is ARCHIVES early fishing villages, lie about it on the shore, while other re- sort villages PO thin motoring and boating reach, extending from Winter Harbor union Prencheon's Bay to Blue Hill, Castine and Iclesborough, lie around it on the cainland or on other islands. The park lies at the scenically culminating point of the whole region and is widely visitoù, by 1 mm and water both, from every part of it. Under such circunctances no accurate, statistical account of visitors is possible, but they are very numorous the owner through. The railroad and boat estimates run high into the thousands, and more COLOR by motor no than train. At one time in the season twelve hundred automobiles were re- corded at Bur Harbor, and the 0 were hundreds more besides won the island elsevhere. Placed where the park is, and with the beauty and clinate that it has to offer, the resort of the future to it will be Letermined only by two development of its resources. Gift to the Park of a letter from afayetto. 0 The most recent among an interesting series of gifts made to the Lafapette National Park this surver, the others being chiefly lands, is an autographe- lettor written by Lafayette on the occasion of his return to the country in 1825. Uhic purchased for the park, will be framed and placed on view, where all may see it, in the National 14 Park Office. It roads as follows: General quis de Lafayette, Ibany, June 23th, 1835. Richard forest, Require, Department of state, Leshington City. La's Slay had informed be that such lotters as had a chance to meet no at Louisvillo were sent there, that the posterior packete were detained at Wishington. He therefore invited me to task their being sont from the state office to any place where they GOULD meet us. You know, Ydear sir, that those packets of letters, whatover be their volume, have Deen hitherto forwarded by the stago, nr do I understand in what ther way I could get them. The letters I have received from family and friends sllude to an anterior correspondence the most of which render part of them unintelligible and ununswerable. I must therefore claim your kindness to have those packets sent to me as soon and as safely as possible from schington 22th also fros Lovisville as you know in whose hands they have DOOR deposited. I am this morning setting out for Doston where anything you please to sen will find 120 until the twentieth of this month I shall hence visit the states of Maine, Now Memoshire and Vormont so as to be returned to Albany on the twenty-ninth. On the thirti th evoning 1 expect to 8 down the North River to New York, baying pomo visits on IV way, but so as to reach the city two days before the sourth of July. I beg your pardon for the trouble I give you, but you know b. tter than myself at which of those places the letters from Washington and afterward those from Louisville can Lest get to in hands, an I as sure you will friendly sympathize in my eagerness to obtain them. 1 need not observe that letters directed to my son Or to -r. Le Ballour ought to be also re rned. is to the trunks or ot. or packages of those kind which camot be forwerded is mail, 1 will claim your Hindness to have them conveyed to Now Yor: and director to Mr. hittlock, Jr., at that place. hile I ought to apologize I will only thank you for the trouble which you have encouraged se to give you, an of Milch I consess, I stand in creat nood, having no other way to return the series of by correspondence, from the other side of the tiantic. ith the nighect regard, 1 have the honor to be, yours E.D. Uson concideration of the difficulties attending other conveyances them the stago, 1 beg you, my dour sir, to keep at the trunks and other objects too bulky .0 8 by that complity I to be at the sout of Government about the addito of July. 15 BHT 9/1/20 CENTS A COPY NUMBER 322 PUBLIC MEET- NATIONAL PARK ING FOR SEPT. 8 MEETING MONDAY Residents and Townspeople Public Invited to Meeting at Casino Discuss Municipal Affairs Labor Day. it Speakers Will Tell of Growth and Progress of be recalled that a meeting of Lafayette National Park. was held on August 19th to the proposed purchase of extra A report of the progress of the La- the recreation field. Inasmuch fayette National Park will be made at utual discussion and agreement a meeting to be held at the Casino, meeting proved most satisfactory Bar Harbor, on the afternoon of Labor estion was made that such a Day, September sixth, at half past four. sembly of residents and summer President Charles W. Eliot will preside might well take place every year at the meeting and there will be ten onsideration of municipal affairs minute addresses by a number of promi- rder to allow summer residents nent speakers. All are most cordially ssion of opinion in the shaping invited to attend this meeting. es. The suggestion took the No announcement of a public meeting appointing a committee to con- will be of greater interest to residents advisability of petitioning the of Mt. Desert Island who have watched re to change the date of the with keennest interest the growth of town meeting from March to this park and who will want to attend er. this meeting which is the first of its kind. ommittee appointed met a few A report upon the new lands acquired r, but decided that the proposed with the fund raised by the community was hardly justifiable in view and a general report upon the growth ct that the experiment had been of the East's only national park will where in the state and had failed form an afternoon's program that is that only a few of the summer certain to draw an unusually large had a legal status. The com- attendance. greed, however, that an annual meeting in which townspeople Mrs. John Shepard of Portland is mmer residents might discuss visiting at the home of her brother, of common interest might be Justice L. B. Deasy. t mutual benefit even though it legal authority. A public meet- started Monday, when Mrs. Colt and accordingly called for August 26 Miss Whiting were defeated by Mrs. SS this proposal. Notice of this Howard and Mrs. Fearing, 6-1 and 8-6; was too close upon the time set and Miss Richards and Miss Hall de- fective and the number of people feated Miss King and Miss Sophie Duer, dance was too small to be repre- 6-4, and 6-1. discussion that took THE BAR HARBOR TIMES, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 8 MEETING TRIBUTE ARMING BHT TO GEORGE B. DORR DAY AF 9-8-1920 Speakers Rejoice in Possession of 5'8 Spring Sc Lafayette National Park and Ex- PAGE 9 vent Arranged press Appreciation of Mr N. Slater Mo AY Dorr's Work (OL 2 300 Pre Dr. Charles W. Eliot was the pre- e than three siding officer at the Lafayette National iled at Morris' Park meeting at the Casino Monday of Sieur de M afternoon. The occasion was one of National Par rejoicing in the possession of the Lafay- at the invitation ette National Park and at the same time and Mr. Geor the whole meeting was a splendid tribute Miss Alida Livingston and Fulton J. occasion was a unique or to George B. Dorr, superintendent of Redman. ory of Mrs. Slater's the Park. It was an expression of the Warwick Scott of Philadelphia and spring is dedicated. appreciation of the community for the Bar Harbor is largely responsible for violinist of unusual untiring efforts of this gentlemen who the revival of racing in Bar Harbor and was assisted by the has devoted years of his life to the de- from the interest shown it is evident Mr. George Harris, J velopment of the National Park. At that the sport has come back and will ner, violin; Miss Pe the close of the meeting when Mr. Dorr increase in popularity with coming sea- Mr. Levin, viola; was called to the stage to receive from sons. Several of the yachtsmen at Mr. Russell, piano. the hand of his friend, Dr. Robert Abbe Grindstone Neck have suggested that The day was erfect a roll containing the names of four the Bar Harbor yachtsmen organiz- ing setting it seemed hundred persons who had contributed and arrange for inter-report racing. was ever more pleas to the $25,000 fund for the purchase of This is meeting with the approval of were all at their best RS parklands, the entire audience stood yachtsmen here and will probably be of have a more appr as a token of appreciation of the man interest to many in the other resorts Mr. Harris, who has and his work. Mr. Dorr asked Dr nearby. Mr. Scott and a dozen other great pleasure by Bar ONDS Eliot to thank his friends for him. yachtsmen are considering building a on many occasions, The heavy rain kept many from attend- new class for next season and although than he was Sund ing the meeting, but the attendance was they do not hope for such a fine class of his most ardent a by no means small and it was representa- as the old Bar Harbor Thirties, some statement that they CO. tive of the community as a whole. The fine racing is anticipated. his voice more. Mr graceful manner with which Dr. Eliot Friday's race was the first in a series the program which presided and the appropriateness of his that will be run through September Nearer My God to T tees of Port- remarks were the subject of much com- at 2.30 Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Gray Days ment from all present. afternoon. At Dawning 1. bond, nam- It was altogether an occasion for re- Dear Old Pal of Min NAME TIME joicing. Each speaker from a different Edward Osstead, 2 hours, 8 min. 25 sec. Somewhere a Voice is ng to sell. angle spoke of the value of the park to Warwick Scott, 2 hours, 9 min. 0 sec. At the Brook this and to future generations. None Emery 2 hrs. 9 min. 14 sec. Aria from Aide failed to pay a tribute to Mr. Dorr, who Miss A. Livingston 2 hrs. 9 min q5 sec. GEORGE HA is the man responsible for the existence Fulton J. Redman, Disqualified Where My Caravan I of the park as such. The speakers were: Judges: Dr. J. Mitchell, Mr. H. B. Andante Sonata, Op A. H. Lynam, assistant superintendent Baker, and Mr. Ralph Kingsley. Requiem mpany of the park; the Rev. Dr. William T. Sail Forth Manning, rector of Trinity church, GEORGE HA New York; Fred I. Phillips of Northeast New York Largo Harbor; Barrington Moore of New York RELIEF ASSOCIATION BALL Perfect Day and Bar Harbor; and Dr. Abbe. Letters WAS SUCCESSFUL EVENT Lead Kindly Light were read from Congressman Peters, Everything combin who was of great assistance to Mr. Dorr The annual ball of the Bar Harbor an afternoon that W in his work in Washington; from George Relief Association was given at the the memories of th D. Pratt, conservation commissioner Casino Thursday evening for the benefit beautiful in music and of the state of New York; and from of the Bar Harbor Hospital. Edward so fortunate as to be W. A. L. Bazeley, commissioner of Kirk, treasurer of the association, has at this unique and C dise conservation for Massachusetts. not completed his report as yet but he expects that the amount raised will "THE CONFESSIO BOYS' CONFERENCE be something over one thousand dollars. SMASH [c-1920] For many years Mr. Dorr has bought and hold lande for the ultimate use of the public reservations and the National Park, Last summer a subscription W' proposed in order to purchase from Mr. Dorr some of those lands -- held so long, and with great personal sacrifico, by him.-in order to present them to the Purk as a public tributo from the community. This fund -- amounting to 125,000 -- was successfully raised; nearly four hundred residents and summer residents, the large majority of which were residents, from all parts of lt. Desert Island, having contributed. In pursuance of the purpose of this public contribution, and as i. consideration from l'r. Dorr for the purchasing 1'und, over one hundred acros of important lands have been conveyed for by him to the Park, the recorded transfers of which are in- acribed in the Registry of Deeds for Hancock County, Inine. Those lands comprise a number of tracts. must of which lie under Dry and Kobo Nountains, lying to the east of the old boundories of the Park. Their 30 uisition has made it possible to bring the Park to the Hardon Form Road, and insure full ac ean to. and pro- tection for the Jesup Path, as well as all mountain trails leading from its neighborhood. These tracts, lying nour the settled districts. are not only of considerable pecuniary value, but of : hepreatest incortance to the Park since they form the rin and rost - 2. - direct gateway to the Park aroa from this Town. If Mr. Dorr had not secured them as the opportunity offered, it would have beat extremely difficult, 8.8 well as expensive to have obtained them now. It would take too Long to attompt to give here a deteiled description of time Isabel There are, however, in my office Isr fe scale maps of all those new acquisitions which 100 be seen at any ti e by subser there or 01hors who may bo interested. [AHHLYNAM ?] 9/8/20 THE BAR HARBOR TIMES, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1920 9 MEETING TRIBUTE 17 FOOTERS IN CLOES RACE SATURDAY CHARMING MUSICALE Base Ball TO GEORGE B. DORR Keen Interest in Revival of Yacht Racing Here. Inter Resort SUNDAY AFTERNOON Races Speakers Rejoice in Possession of Bar Harbor saw its first yacht race Morris's Spring Scene of Unique Lafayette National Park and Ex. since 1917 Friday when class of the Event Arranged by Mrs. 11. press Appreciation of Mr popular 17 foot water line boats N. Slater More Than SATURDAY Dorr's Work away for as close race as one couldask 300 Present Edward Olmstead was the winner of the Dr Charles W. Eliot was the pre- first race, covering the course in two More than three hundred persons siding officer Lafavette National at 3:00 hours, eight minutes and twenty-f assembled Morris' Spring, the open Park meeting the Casino Monday seconds. Five boats entered finished source of Sieur de Monts Spring La. afternoon. The occasion was one of within one miute of each other. They fayette National Park, Sunday after- rejoicing in the possession of the Lafay- finished in the following order: Edward noon, the-invitation of-Mrs H. N. ette National Park and at the same time Olmstead, Warwick Scott, J. Slater and Mr. George B. Dor The Bar Harbor the whole meeting tribute Miss Alida Livingston and Fulton mem- George Dorr superintendent of Redman. ory of Mrs. Slater's son, to hom the the Park It was an expression of the Warwick Scott of Philadelphia and spring is dedicated. Mrs. Slater, appreciation of the community for the Bar Harbor is largely responsible for violinist of unusual talent and ability, vs. untiring efforts of this gentlemen who the revival of racing in Bar Harbor and was assisted by the following artists has devoted of his life to the de from the interest shown it evident Mr. George Harris, Jr., tenor; Mr. Pos. velopment of the National Park A ner, violin: Miss Pearle Otto, planist; Radio when Mr. Dorn that the sport has come back and increase in popularity with coming Mr. I evin, viola; Mr Ziefe, cello; from Several of the vagitsmen Mr. Russell, piano. Dr Robert Abbe Grindstone Neck have suggested that was erfect and in this charm- four Bar Harbor yachtsme organiz- ing setting it seemed that no musicale contributed for the and arrange for inter-resort racing. more pleasing The artists TO THE HOLDERS meeting with the approval at their best and never did they here and will probably be of have more appreciati audience OF THE to many in th other resorts Mr. Harris, who has been heard Mr D Mr Scott and dozen other great pleasure by Bar Harbor FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS are considerin building on many occasions, from attend- for next season and although than Sunday From OF THE was hope for such fine class of most ardent admirers the representa- Harbor Thirties, some statement that they RODICK REAL CO. The is anticipated his more. Mrs. Eliot the first series the program which of his through September Nearer My God Sullivan The United States Trust Co. trustees of Port- com- Thursday and Saturday Gray Days Johnson At Dawning Cadman land. request the tender of a $1,000. bond, nam- for believe. for man asking the votes of his fellow citizens re- TIME Dear Old Pal Mine Rice Voice them. 1 am a Republican, the Edward Olamtead 2 hours, Calling Tate ing the price at which you are willing to sell. Warwick Scott, Poisdeffre represent Bur Harbor in the Legis. 2 hours. Brook None lature of Moine, for the following this. Briefly, the principles Emery, 2 hrs. min. Aria from Verdi First. am for Bar Harbor Miss A. Livings hrs. GEORGE HARRIS, Second for the morro of which. "I Direct. Fulton J. Redman Disqualified Where Caravan Has Rested hose prop vision still stands Judges: Dr. Mitcheil, Mr. H. Andante Sonata. Op. Beethoven for 'Old Glory` over all. The L. P. Hollander Company Baker, and M Ralph Kingsley. Requiem Rogers and Stripes destined to lift the world out and Sail Forth Rogers up on Earth. Good to Man.' EORGE HARRIS. JR. On this platform Largo Handiel Boston Est. 1848 New York GEORGE A. PHILLIPS. ASSOCIATION BALL Perfect Day Bond SUCCESSFUL EVENT Lead K dily Light Every combined ANNOUNCE Dorr ball of the Bar Harbor ssociation of the that all 'hursday evening for the benefit Harbor Hospital Edward so to be among the guests of the association, has unique and charming musicale Summer Merchandise Big Democratic his report as yet but that the amount raised THE CONFESSION over one dollars. SMASHING RECORDS including unique all Ha Reid's famous stage the entire proceeds from has been RALLY Gowns, Suits and to the hospital motion picture attendance Thursday from its large. A concert by smashing records Symphony Players preceded the upon this popular form: Coats Levin of Russell's producers state that they by the and ninety thou few appropriate picture, and HOMER S. CUMMINS super is now being offered who had helped that is one social and financial the the dancing was Former Secretary Democratic National Committee Below Cost popular Legion Orchestra With unexcelled from one the floor filled the Star theatre dancers, all of whom appeared to Monday Tuesday, Sept. 13 and 14. enjoying the affair greatly at their BAR HARBOR STORE DISTINGUISHE IN MAINE MRS. ANTIONETTE FUNK Main and Mt. Desert Sts. Fone One of the greatest women speakers of the Before Closing for the Season the elect STORY country. E. LAURITANO the be will be the speakers at HOW TOPSY WON and Tiger said that was not fair. Rousevelt. Democratic they other for Bainbridge their the 47 Street 150 Main Street Main Street Mrs. in dispute 10th Bar Harbor Northeast Harbor Homer up well they the The CASINO Tel. 396 kittens should be brought those two baughty kits quarreled Bar Harbor Surprise Sale Mrs. this and that THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9th her brothers plague their Suits, Coats, Dresses and Skirts them and for Music by BAR HARBOR BAND $50 $42.50 $35 $20 to $35 Just OVER pounced upon $40 to $50 AND PUNN sn $30 to $37 PAILS three children AND Topsy while her and plan Skirt- value brothers with envy and $12 to $18 Tim. first. and triglet dresses in juniors mouse 17.1. : $20 $40 Tiger We guarantee all our merchandise you ned supper. said Mrs. Puss. This sale is at the Bar Harbor Store only two not always quarrelling of you would have won the prize would not run mouse hut your sister cought the mouse and Music of Shepherds go and watch this morn brought It to me first and the prize what wear ribbon this is hers." than sit in front in As they were to have saucer of BETTY BURKE WITH letter than her teachers and friends Get Close Vic It cream for supper. Tim and Tiger "LA LA LUCILLE anticipated and she was graduated from going prize," said thought It best not to talk any more the Boston institution with high honors. here that Tiger. it. but Tim whispered to his brother and Miss prima donna She has since appeared in concert and think I'll get the moun GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS said: of 'La la Lucille, as soloist with several notable instru- Sun first said Tim can best "Who wants the old red ribbon any which the Casino Theatre mental organizations throughout the and Closer you your birth of the Suvior you running. way? don't Only girl kittens wear Saturday. Sept. 11, is native of New eastern states with marked success. General work or your Opportunity the biggest Neither of you those things." M Millerly will be your vision, the more will you stand quarreling," said Mrs. England. She was born in Greenwich, Miss Burke possesses soprano voice there don't want It. either." said Tiger. Powerful Home influence tap Conn., and in her early childhood her of exceptional sweetness, mellow and Extring battle See and the clearer will loom the giving each of her sons rolling over on the grass. "Boy kit Also. many Business real purpose back of each effort that The blessed Influences radiate ears which sent both scud- voice attracted such favorable attention tens fight with ribboos on their flexible and of high range, and as she in FORFOW the din you make in life. from 0 home well ordered and happy the barn Decks.' and comment on the part of vocal teach- is just nearing the end of her teens, is distant relationship Step Step Closer are countless and far the un. the biggest hole, (Copyright) ers and musicians of the immediate extremely pretty with most graceful Close quartered JOC are able to de selfich love there kindled and nour. himself and his customers neighborhood that she was induced to and attractive stage presence, she is Ster tect defects. and correct them. Close lahed shines forth as beacon light Closer enter the New England Conservatory of destined to go far in the profession. centered there is DO lost motion, but to encourage the world's hopes and Individual supportancy and will The Bar Harber Times, $2.00 year in advance Music in Boston for course in vocal advt. fresh combat. or 001 power stroke If faith in Willard. whether training. Her voice developed even Pagel of 6. Bar Harbor, Maine, Sept. 8, 1919. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Seal Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Rockefeller: The tract of 85 acres bought from William M. Roberts et al was for $13,500. and not for $13,000. This land was obtained, not upon a mortgage, but upon a direct loan from the Union Trust Company of Ellsworth, Maine, in the shape of a demand note, with interest payable semi- annually at the rate of 6% per annum. The last semi-annual payment of $405., due August 19, 1919, is still unpaid. The taxes for the present year. amounting to $122.40, are also unpaid. This note was secured by placing the title to the land in trust. in the name of the president of the bank, Mr. John A. Peters. It was the understanding sit the time the note was originally given that payment should not be demanded (unless under extraordinary conditions and upon due notice) until sufficient time should have elapsed to enable Mr. Dorr to mature his plans and show to others the importance of this tract in relation to them. The bank now asks the termination of the note or the substitution for it of a reduced loan secured by a mortgage upon the land. With regard to the two small lots upon which are the mortgages held by Luther A. Leach and Samuel W. Bates, the first was necessary to, and contains, the entrance to the park road J.D.R.Jr. #2- which gives access to the trails up Dry Mountain and passes by Sieur de Monts Spring: this road is already widely used and has become one of the important features of the park. The second, lying at the foot of Kebo Mountain, is essential for approach to the whole Kebo range and to the paths leading up Green Mountain gorge, to Green Mountain summit, and up Dry Mountain on its western side, all included in the National Park or secured for it. As to the third class of debts, listed in your letter, I have communicated, since receiving it, with Mr. Dorr's agent and family friend in Boston, Mr. Ingersoll Bowditch, with re- gard to Mr. Dorr's secured indebtedness and find it, on getting exact information, to be somewhat different from what I had understood, viz: $20,000., on demand, at 6% interest, loaned by the Merchants National Bank of Boston, with interest paid to July 1. 1919; and $10,000., due September 19, 1919, at 6% interest discounted, loaned by the State Street Trust Company. These loans were both incurred a number of years ago, in meeting park expenses, along with others which have since been discharged by Mr. Dorr. The $20,000. loan represents part payment for the tract now estimated at $50,000. the $10,000. loan represents in part payment for other portions of this land and in part various expenses, legal and other, incurred J.D.R.Jr. #3- in the earlier stages of the park's creation, prior to the Monument's acceptance by the Government, and were necessary to it. Mr.Bowditch has not furnished me with any statement as to the collateral securing these loans but I can readily obtain this from him should it be desirable. With regard to the unsecured indebtedness which forms the remaining division listed in your letter, I have gone into this matter thoroughly and subdivided it in turn into three classes. (1) Direct loans, made on the park work's account. (2) Debts continued as loans out of interest in that work. (3) Direct debts. In the first class are: 1st, Your own loan of $4,300., whose conditions you know. 2nd, A loan of $10,000., made, similarly without interest, by a friend of Mr. Dorr in Boston at a critical period in his work. This loan was made by a personal friend, from personal motives, to save the work which must have been defeated had it not been made, and was made by a person of moderate fortune who had no direct connection with Bar Harbor. The ultimate success of Mr. Dorr's work could not have been achieved without it, and it should be repaid. This friend's name Mr. Dorr has given me, but in accordance with the lander's wish he would not feel free, I know, to let it go beyond. J.D.R.Jr. #4- In the second class are: 1st, A debt of $5,000., incurred some years ago in connection with another matter of a public nature, which was continued at Mr. Dorr's request by the persons to whom it is due that he might be enabled to employ the money, temporarily, on this work. This, though made in 8 friendly spirit, is in effect a demand loan and the circumstances under which it was made, which Mr. Dorr has explained to me, make it especially desirable that it should be promptly paid, payment having now been asked for. Interest at the rate of 5% per annum is due upon it, but this is included in the sum stated, simple in- terest only being asked. 2nd, Two other debts of a similar kind, due to people who have at different times witnessed Mr. Dorr's work at Mount Desert and been interest in its success. Who these people are and the circumstances under which these loans were made I also know, and that it is necessary they should be repaid. One of them is for $1,500, the other for $4,500. Neither has carried interest. In the third class are debts for work done, or materials supplied, in connection with Mr. Dorr's park work. Some of these debts are of long standing and have been generously c on- tinued as virtual loans by people to whom they are due, out of interest and faith in the work that Mr. Dorr was doing: others J.D.R.Jr. #5- are recent, but all are due to the work that Mr. Dorr has been engaged upon in the formation of the National Park, and have been necessary to it. They are due variously for c n struction- al work, for surveys, for printing and publicity, for engineering consultation, etc., etc. They represent the gradual accumula- tion of a long continued work much the greater part of which has been paid for directly by Mr. Dorr personally as the work has gon along. In regard to them, as to the whole matter, I would like to state that, having watched the work go on for the last several years with intimate knowledge, I think Mr. Dorr has worked with remarkable economy of means to end, and that no- thing less then the expenditures which he has made in addition to his personal work and influence could have achieved the result which he has now accomplished. He has spent unsparingly of his own funds as plans for the park have needed, placing first the public end he was pursuing and his own affairs second, with the result that he has made each year since the work began important contributions toward it, and paid himself the cost of his campaign to the extent of his a bility as it went along. It is this that has resulted in leaving him, now that his end has been achieved in its first difficult stage and the co-operation of the government secured, burdened with the debts from which I am endeavoring to set him J.D.R.Jr. #6- free, - not only on his own account but equally for the benefit of his future work and influence upon the park's development. These debts in the unsecured class, not already dealt with, include among others, the following items, given approximately: F. L. Brewer 80 Company, contractors $ 3,100.00 J. H. Stalford, contractor 600.00 R. H. Moon & Company, building construction and material 2,500.00 Rodick Realty Company, land rent 1,050.00 George R. King, photographer, park illustration for campaign at Washington 550.00 Riverside Press and other printers for publicity work 1,050.00 E. Y. & E. R. Leland, labor 800.00 E. W. Hill and others, surveys 250.00 X. I. Goodnough, consulting engineer 300.00 Mt. Desert Nurseries, work on paths and park approaches 1,500.00 Lymburner Electric Co., on park office, 350.00 W. L. Pierce, plumbing and heating, park office and garage, 550.00 Legal services and expenses, 1,000.00 Wild Gardens of Acadia, taxes 187.20 Taxes on lands held personally for inclusion in the park as stated in earlier part of letter Sincerely yours, ARCHIVES NARA.RG 9.NPS. Pg.loF Acade. a Boy 3, Folder 121 5 of 5 File DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON September 15, 1920. Personal Dear Mr. Dorr: Thank you for your personal note of September 18th regarding the annual estimates and other matters. The copy of LaFrance, containing your article on the Bark's historical associations and its early connections-with the land of France, has just arrived. Your article is a splendidly written and interesting piede of work, and I congratulate you most heartily on the results of your labors. needs, I know you thoroughly understand when I say th I appreciate from the bothoon of my heart all of the remarkable work you are doing for Lafayette Park, and how much your time is taken up during the year. You should have a thoroughly capable assistant who would take part of the administrative details off your hands. This doesnot mean that your present assistants are not thorough- Dorr ly capable, or capable of developing, but when we directed that the estimates should be in Mr. Albright's hands by September first there was every reason why they should be in his hands on that date, and your assistant should have exerted every effort to get them out to reach Mr. Albright by that time. We are working under high pressure at cer- tain times of the year, and this is particularly true with the submission of the estimates and the preparation of the Annual Report. If they are not in at a certain time we stand a mighty good chance of not getting them in at all, and there are penalties attached, under the law, for non- compliance with such instructions. I am very mach can- eerned about this situation, and I want to have a talk ow 2of2 with you at the earliest opportunity so that we can get things into shape for next year. These administrative details are of the utmost importance, and I cannot dwell too insistently on the necessity of your administrative assistants being thoroughly alert to see that time limits are not exceeded under any conditions. You, with the tremendous amount of work on your hands, should not be bethered with these administrative details, and it is for the sake of the big work you are doing and to keep your mind off these annoying incidents that I am commenting as above. With kindest personal regards and hoping to see you soon, believe me Most sincerely yours, (Sgd.) ARNO B. CAMMERER Acting Director. Mr. Geo. B. Dorr, Supt., Lafayette National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. 30-11 COPIES TO MR. MATHER MR. ALBRIGHT ONAL ARCHIVES Acadoar / Miscellanism Reports/Reporter Annuals DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON September 22, 1920. Dear Mr. Dorr: We have just received the copy of the Journal of the American Museum of Natural History for May and June, which contains & number of excellent pictures of the Lafayette National Park. This was indeed very in- teresting. In looking over your very excellent annual re- port we have noted that you have made no special provision for including in it the total travel to the Lafayette Park for this year, the final figures for which are to be wired to this Office at the close of the travel year on October 13. i.e understand that these figures will be an estimate, but we in st have them here in order to complete our statistical part of the report. Please do not fail us. Cordially yours, GAMMERRE (sea) Acting Director. Mr. George B. Dorr, Superintendent, Lafayette National Park, Bar Harbor, MAINE. are ADDINEC VOLUME VII B H.T. $2.00 A YEAR 9/29/1920 BAR HARBOR MAINE. POWERS as MRS. ROBERT ABBE MANY SUMMER HOMES JACOB SCHIFF ARE NOW OCCUPIED Sub-Master DIED SATURDAY DIED SATURDAY Last Oxfo Although tomorrow is the ast day John of September and one is inclined to was sub-mast Another of Bar Harbor's Oldest and think that the season- over, there are Prominent Banker and Philanthro- school. last ye today nearly one hundred summer one of the 64 Much Respected Summer Resi- cottages that remain open and occupied. pist Was Long a Summer sent the Unite dents Passes Away Not a few of these peop e will leave the Powers is a first week in October, but many will Resi dent Here in the class remain here well into the coming month efficient teac Mrs. Robert Abbe died at her and several families plan to be here here last year summer home here Saturday morning. until November first and a few later. Jacob H. Schiff internationally knc in town who The remains were taken to New York The fact that the autumn is one of the banker and philanthropist. and for to learn of th Sunday afternoon and funeral services most aelightful seasons of all the year many years a summer resident of Bar Mr. Powers here held from Grace church Monday. here in Maine is becoming better known Harbor died at his New York home Decemb er and In the passing of Mrs. Abbe Bar Harbor each year and more and more people Saturday night. Death was due to at Oxford éa loses a summer resident who for a great will in the future spend all of September arterio sclerosis. He had been in failin study medici many years has been one of the town's and much of October here health for six months and for ten days planned to en best friends and her loss will be mourned Among the summer residents who are had been confined to the house. Mrs. in medicine by an unusually large circle of friends now in Bar Harbor are the following: Schiff their son Mortimer L. Schiff The selecti and admirers among the summer colony The Hon. and Mrs. Alfred Anson, and their daughter Mrs. Felix Warburg, mittees chose and townspeople. Her husband, Dr. Mrs. J. W. Auchincloss, Miss Bowdoin, were with him at the end. Two brothers scholars now Robert Abhe, her daughter, Miss Mary Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Burnham and Philip and Ludwig Schiff merchants of About 400 me Suydam Palmer and her son, Mr. Court- Miss Burnham, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Frankfort-on-the-Rhine, also survive him 64 appointme landt Palmer, were with her at the end. B. Baker and family, Miss C. S. Baker, Mr. Schiff spent the summer of 1919 year as last Although Mrs. Abbe was an ardent Mrs. R. B. Bowler d/family, Mr. and in Bar Harbor, leasing Far View from before. The lover of New York and Bar Harbor, Mrs. W. G. Beale, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Mr. Philip Livingston. Mr. Schiff en- scholarships in her homes, she felt especially at home Bates, Miss C. W. Biddle, Mrs. Uriel joyed the life here at Bar Harbor and by the favora in New England as her birthplace was H. Crocker, Mrs. J. B. Cochran, Mrs. was interested in the resort, being es- force for th in Stonington, Conn. from there she C. Chapman, Mrs Cary, Miss Miles pecially fond of the scenery here. He Resolutions married Mr. Courtlandt Palmer of New Carpenter, Miss E. S. Crafts, Mrs. had many friends among the summer. university ad York, a member of an old New York Haskett Derby, Mrs. L. H. Dulles, colony and was much respected by the senior standin family. Two of her children, Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lane Eno, Mrs. residents of the town. than in the ('ourtlandt Palmer and Miss Mary Max Farrand, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Jacob Henry Schiff was born in Frank- of Ph. D. ha Suydam Palmer, are well known and Fabbri, Mr. Fabbri, Mrs. Frank Foster fort-on-the-Main, Germany, in 1847. to meet the have many warm friends in Bar Harbor. Foster, Mrs. George Guthrie, Mrs. S. He was educated in the schools of Rhodes sch She was married to Dr. Abbe in 1891, Haight, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hart- Germany and in 1865, when 18 years ance with a some years after the death of Mr. shorne, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Howard, old, came to he United States, locating the will of Palmer. Mrs. Myle Heminway, Miss Hoffman, in New York city. He began his busi- comprise cha She first came to Bar Harbor with Mrs. Thomas Hubbard and Miss Hub- ness career as a clerk in a banking estab- and physical her family of little children in 1880, bard, Judge Ingraham, Mrs. James lishment and a few years later became nation is held urged to come here by her cousins, Jackson; Mrs. E/ben Jordan, Dr. Francis a partner in the firm of Budge, Schiff the basis of th Bishop Lawrence and the late Robert Howe Johnson Mrs. John I. Kane, & Co., bankers and brokers. He con- supplemented Amory. After many summer visits Miss Cottenet Mr. and Mrs. J. L. tinued in this business connection until with the com Dr. Abbe secured the site of Brook-End, Ketterlinus, Mrs. John S. Kennedy, 1875, when the firm went out of business. The followi which has been the family residence for Dr. Ludwig /Kast, Miss L. A. Kutz, It was then. that Mr. Schiff associated men chosen twenty years. Mrs. Abbe will be re- Mrs. Keim, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Liv- himself with the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & ratification of membered as a very fine pianist and an ingston and family, Mr. and Mrs. Waiter Co., of which his father-in-law, Solomon Maine 1920 ardent lover of music. The beautiful G. Ladd, Miss Edith Macculloch Milier, Loeb, was then the senior member. College) Mad Building of Arts at Bar Harbor was the Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Moore, Mr. and When Mr. Loeb retired in 1885, Mr. Massachuse outcome of several years of wonderful Mrs. Dave H. Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Schiff became the head of the firm and brook, (Harva music by the Kneisel Quartette, the Edward B Mears, Mrs. John Markoe, has so continued up to the present time. Rhode Islan concerts being given at Mrs. Abbe's Mr. and Mrs. Barrington Moore, Miss The firm has been known as one of Jr. (Brown home until the audiences became too Minot, Mrs. R. Hall McCormick, Mr. the leading private banking concerns New Hamp large. and Mrs. Otis Norcross, Mr. and Mrs. in the country for many years, identified (Dartmouth The strong motive of Mrs. Abbe's David B. Ogden, Mrs. William Ordway with some of the largest financial opera- Vermont 19 life was the reform of errors in social Partridge, Mrs. J. Biddle Porter, Mrs. tions. It financed and was largely wood, (Yale and civic affairs. She was a pioneer A. E. Plast, Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, interested in the re-organization of the Vermont. suffrage worker and was associated in Mrs. William Polk, Mrs. Herbert Par- Union Pacific Railroad in 1897 and Connecticut reform work with the best leaders in sons, Mr. and Mrs. Fulton J. Redman, subsequent transactions by which the (Yale Univer New York city. Her conviction was Mrs. George A. Mr. and Mrs Southern Pacific and other Western that the best way to make good citizens George S. Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. Frank railroads were acquired. The firm placed was to begin with the children and B Rowell, Mrs. William B. Rice, railroads were acquired. The firm he served ma inspire them with the love and knowledge Mr. Thomas Ridgeway, Dr. and Mrs. placed the large Japaness loan in the was promine of their own city. The outcome of this Frank Fremont-Smith, Mrs. Edgar Scott country during Japan's war with Russia serving as vi was the development of the wonderful Mrs. Gardiner Sherman, Mrs. Lillian and has been identified constantly with of the Baron City History Club of New York and Lyttelton Savage, Mrs. H. O. Sturges many of the financial operations of president of later the League for Political Education. Miss Dorothy Sturges, Mrs. Edward national importance. Mr. Schiff was Chronic Inval At one time Mrs. Abbe was drawn into Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schelling, a director in numerous banks and other ested in educa public life and was a brilliant public Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Train, Mrs. large corporations. ticularly the speaker. Olive Tilton, Mrs. S. M. Wright, Mrs. Mr. Schiff was notably interested in a subject in C. K. Wright, Mrs. G. H. G. Wing civic and other lines of service. He He founded HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL and the Misses White. was a conspicuous member of the second Harvard Uni TEAM IN FIRST GAME TO-DAY Committee of Seventy and of the later Theological Bar Harbor High School will send its football team to Sullivan today for the Play in the Bar Harbor Business committees of Fifteen and Nine which and gave a fui Men's Golf Tournament will start were similarly employed to work civic York Library first game of the season. The local betterment. As vice president of the a Semitic li school has a large squad out and Sub- Saturday at the Kebo Valley links. The Chamber of Commerce and as a member His varied master Turner expects to develop a qualifying rounds have all been played, the final handicaps arranged and the of many of its principal committees, association wi strong team this year. Among the organizations. first rounds will be played Saturday. thirty odd candidates for positions on a member of the team are several veterans of last Those who cannot play Saturday are of Art, the Ellsworth, Maine. September 29th, 1920. Hon. Paul D. Sargent, Augusta, Maine. Dear Mr. Sargent :- with Mr. George I was L. down to Northea Harbor yestorday Harbor Realty Company's Stobbins the manager on the of Island, the and in Seal wo were asked by Loring ,business man Northoast Harbor, to look a Brown's Mountain as wo at road at the foot of came a back, and WO did so. Kimball authorities did not thought that possibly the state is concerned the present it is laid not to keep within owns the tho limits land understand that 30 far as no of on either sido of where Ehway. Kinbell without (Stato Aid road, I you are building is perfectly the now willing road, asking any damage and no course of the road and that you shou change the ho it would be very de- sirable to do so. Welhaa thinks Joy, the most expert with us a man named Chauncey road man of great exporience, buildon in that section, view a a change in tho course and confirred our that no obviating a considerable tho of road would be very desirable, small section of hump and quite a curvo; only a the easily shown on the faco road need be turned away. It is observable as OF the earth but not SO readily on paper hump bo would be shown would not the without the a profile. The road is going to be one of from Ellsworth to Northeast Harbor gers for southern important highways. that most Passon- off at Ellsworth instead the island almost all of got sround by Bar as it will save a coupl of going way Harbor be a pormanont road and hours by the road This of will money over a long would cost a lot of poriod error down time. I wish you would a compotent engino of sona if you cannot como and look at this place yourself, out tho road as it should be. the face of the earth, and lay 2 I should not be surprised if there were a little friction or feeling between Kimball and Atwood, the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, so that Atwood might deprecate any change. It is not a matter of personal feeling that should be considered but the good of the public which is what I am looking out for and it may be that you should take an interest in the matter. Yours very truly, [John A. Peters] 0 Elleworth, Maine. October 18th, 1920. Mr. Hall, Caro Lafayette Matl. Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Sir:- I am enclosing a picture of my friend, former Congressmun Gardiner, who died in the war. It is a little bit second handed but with your skill I thought possibly you would be good enough to mount this on cardboard and perhaps take the spots off it. I should much appreciate anything you could do to it. Yours very truly, [John A. Peters] 8 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT Oct. .. 1920 Hon. John : Peters, Ellsworth, Haire. Dear Congressman Peters: Yours of October 18 received, with enclosure, photograph of Compress .041 G It will be a pleasure to give this my very best octostion, which I will do at once. I vill forward it to you ithin a day or two; and at any time when you have anything of this Mind which I can do for you, you have only to let the know. Very truly yours, AGII-O Oct 24/19 Dear Mr. Lynam? I do not think that Mr. Dorr can afford to convey the impression (already, as you know, prevalent in certain quarters) that this fund and what it obtains for the community is not on the level. In regard to certain of the subscribers at any rate - members of the committee like Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Cuyler, Mrs. Kane, Mrs. Anson, and some others - I feel that a policy of concealment will create a most unfavorable impression, and effectually inter- fere with further contributions. We might get over the difficulty by sending a general letter, such as you suggest, to all subscribers, and, in addition, an accurate statement with plan to a list of names decided upon by you and me. I do not see why that would not meet the situation. As for me, I am responsible for the whole matter, and I am unwilling to act in any way not per- - fectly above board. The committee has guaranteed that lands will be conveyed to the Park in consideration of the sum rais- ed by the subscribers; the first question any of them may ask, and many of them will ask is "what lands were conveyed" ? How can I refuse legitimate informati ion ? You must see that I simply cannot afford to put myself in an equivocal position GILLS matter. Please let me know, as soon as you can, what your opinion is, Yours H. L. Eno L/H October 29, 1919. Mr. Henry Lane Eno, Princeton, N.J. Dear Mr. Eno: In answer to yours of the 24th I beg to state that I had no intention whatever of suggesting in my letter any policy of concealment. What I did suggest, for reasons stated, was the inadvisability, as it seemed to me, of sending out a printed diagram of the ownerships in that section which would show publicly the lands enclosed within the area conveyed and still nooding to be acquired, and of avoiding as far as possible, among the local people here, a discussion of land values in reference to the park. No question ought to exist as to the value of the lands con- veyed by Mr. Dorr in return for the purchase money. It was or- isignally his intention, as you know, to include a larger area, but the tract conveyed seemed to us equivalent to the amount subscribed. If this seems to others open to question I feel sure Lr. Dorr would still wish to carry out his original plan. The deed from Mr. Dorr has oo on recorded and I are enclosing a copy of it, together with a rough pencil diagram showing both the land convayed by l'r. Dorr and the lands still outstanding. The red lines encircle the tract conveyed by Mr. Dorr and also the outstendi 1. 1 nda which are surrounded b blue. Very truly yours, L/H Elloworth, Maine. Novembor 1, 1920. Mr. Hall, Care Lafayette Natl. Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Hall:- I have just returned from a campaign spoaking tour and brought back as a souvenir a handbill advertising a meeting shore I spoke in How Jersey with Lillian Russell, my first and probably last appearance on the stage. Would you be kind enough to paste this on a piece of cardboard as I am going to stick it up in my room as a menento of the occassion. a Yours very truly, [John A.Peters] Ellsworth, Maine. November 5, 1920. Mr. Hall, Bar Harbor, Me. Dear Mr. Hall:- In New York the other day I saw Congressman Lufkin who told me that neither the nor Senator Galder had received the photographs which you took at Bar Harbor and which you sent them. It must be some trouble with the postoffice as usual but I guess you better try it again because Senator Calder spoke of it to Mr. Lukkin. Send to Senator William M. Calder, Brooklyn, New York, a set of photographs and you had better write him that they have been sent so if they don't arrivo he will let you know. Do the same thing with Hon. W. T7. Lukkin, Essex, Mass. If sent before the first of December they should both receive them at their home addresses. Yours very truly, [John A. Peters] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT lov. 5, 1930. you. John in Peters, Ellsworth, lindie. Peters: Zerry lett : of today is received this THE and I 20. writing at OXCC to tell you that the Loto r lie of Senator Caller and Congression Inflin will receive i attention They will To sont to their home Dofore the first of December, as you suggest. Thonki X you for Letter, I we sincerely yours, ACH-0 a.Garland Hall ADDRESS ONLY THE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON, D. C. Heman Pt UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON [istimate 12/20/20] The Acting Superintendent, Lafayette National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Sir: Reference is made to a blank form of deed left in this office by Mr. Dorr, together with abstract of title, covering certain land located at Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine, known as the Homans Lot which the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations propose to convey to the United States for inclusion in the Lafayette National Park. This form of deed and abstract of title have been examined by the Solicitor of the Department, and we are just in receipt of his opinion thereon under date of December 18, copy of which is inclosed for your information. After the requirements pointed out by the Solicitor have been complied with the deed will be in order for re- submission to the Department for acceptance. The form of deed and abstract of title are returned herewith. Sincerely yours, Acting Director. Inclosure 229155 26 Broadway New York December 24, 1920. Dear Mr. Dorr: I have your letters of December 18th and 20th, also Mr. Joy's letter to you of the 17th and his letter to Mr. Lynam of November 27th. If you and Mr. Lynam agree, I authorize the purchase of the tract to the west of the Reservation, bounded on the north by the little Brown Mountain Reservation purchase, on the south by the properties owned by the Savage heirs, and extending about half- way from the Reservation on the East to the Brown Mountain Road on the west, the tract being owned by the heirs of Captain Thomas Man- chester and of an estimated acreage of 100 acres, at a price not to exceed $50. an acre, the price quoted by Mr. Joy. I very much hope that Manson Manchester, the fourth of the part owners, may join the other three in selling, SO that the entire tract can be purchased. I also authorize the purchase of as much of the Graves Brothers' tract of approximately 50 acres, bounded on the east by the tract just referred to, on the north by the little Brown Mountain Reservation purchase, on the west by the Brown Mountain Road and on the south by the tract known on the map as Tract "G", at a price not to exceed $50. per acre. I am assuming when one actually talks business and cash pay- ment on these tracts it may be possible to secure a better price, which of course your representative will do if he can. In view of the prices quoted Mr. Joy by the other prop- erty owners in the vicinity, it would appear to be an advantage rather than a disadvantage to register a purchase at not to exceed $50. an acre, which having been done, it may be possible to get a closer price from some of the other people whom Mr. Joy has seen. I presume you will agree with me that it is better not to go back to them until these two trades have been consummated. As to the situation regarding the properties to the north of Sargent Mountain and to the west of the Southwest Valley Road in its stretch north and south, will the proposed purchase of the two tracts near Hadlock Pond injure the prospects of getting better prices on the property just referred to or improve them? If the former, should more definite options be secured there before action is taken on the west side? 2. I fancy you and Mr. Lynam will agree that it is not wise for me to appear as the buyer of these properties or for the deeds to be recorded in my name. What do you suggest in the matter? Might the deeds perhaps be made to you or Mr. Lynam, in either event deeds being made by either of you gentlemen to me, but held by me and not recorded for the present? This is the best solu- tion of the difficulty which has occurred to me. I had thought, of course, of Mr . Joy's name being used, but fear that if he ap- pears as the buyer I will shortly be suspected as his principal, while if either you or Mr. Lynam appear, the natural supposition would be that the Reservation was acquiring further properties. Please give me your views in the matter. Very truly, Mr. George B. Dorr, Seal Harbor, Maine. Charlee W. Eliet to George B. Dorr, Beq. Cambridge, Mass., 27 December 1920. Dear Mr. Derri Your beautiful photographs have arrived in safety, and we propose to hang them up on our walls as soon as we can got them framed. They are delightful. It is good news that we may see you soon in Cambridge, We were wondering whether you were well, and if well, busy in Washington or in Bar Harbor. So your letter of December Sind was very welcome. Sincerely yours, Charles W. Eliot. George B. Dorr.