Don'Timeline 1921 2/17/07 1922 Charle, W. Eliot - Dorr H.Eno represents the - S.Mather & A.Commerce visit wild Gardees of Acade Assoc. t Meet in Princeton c Harpswell LNP, stay at old Farm Arno reviews JDRJr. Plan hab. Trustees - LNP Annual Ppt 1921 (9/12) - -Schoodic Acquisition Begins. MODB t bridle pattal Cadellow, See 1928 for Finality. education publication, hail system - 6BD to Jr. re motor noal 10/14/22 at ZNP -LNP" Consolidation: New Phase - Lynamletter to fr. (2/26) u letter CBD JORFr. 9/12/22 property acg., including Dow -JORJr. on Art and Nature 5/26/22 working Relationship. inspecting properties. -Seventeen properties boyer -June 23 visit h Conner by 6BD in eay 1971 Listing 1 re JDRJr. (5/21/22) letter -MOIBL MDI. 29th Report. -Annual Rpt. 1922 instruction -Davi Lorn letter to u Dakgree to reduce to 1 page (8000 words) (MDIBR) referry to 6B0 (916/21) (5/12/22) -SHUIS (1921) engaged in cooperation e - -Danis salary (12/8) other VIA'S in exponse to smm LNP. - GBO to Commerciane Part office Also intro. of beavers. - SED to Jr (12/28) re wood cutting (images) in guest detail - -Attorney Lynam (7/27) re forestry standards Fr to Simpleon (via Foulds 18.117) on acquisition 2 lates for $9,700 for GBD. 4 stage carriage lond upansion. - Jr.t Lynam is Bubble Jara - Diot to 680 (4/21) re transfer of MOTBR from Harpoverell Suchey Cofe of Park boundaries. Simpson works Pend. (1/21). will $ for survey for Dorr + Jr. - MOIBL Estableshood BackarJoy bhst-Nates CBO handwritin letter (7/22)to Commerce - Dorrs indebledness e. 1920 (7/29) re mother need for photographer shireld - Dorr calls Jris road system (8/15/40) President visit ANP -CBD to Commerce orrest duts! the" child of my suggestion. "Dyet -Dorr Station culture of -Letter Commerce (9/14)by Bttrendent critical of park management Paul Simpson succeedifoller - 6B0 to Eaton (6/15) re LNP origins and publications. -Begin ningo of Echo take Camp Appulached 1924 -BHT 7lag Raising(8/9) at Tital Echo Lake 10 6BD, Chapter 1922 (3/20) -BHT reprent if Commerar Rpt to mother M Pach Roads Plan re Hearings in D.C Anpt Praises 4BD! -Eliot to Jr. (7/22) he GBD's pracefor Jr. Is this 1st Eliat entach to Jr.??No' -Jr. buy (9/8) 25 acres of Charles Clerect -In to GBD (8/14) he Park Plan le roaddevel. land From Stebbins through 6BD" Elist to Dorr (4/21) m Happwell Sedisbory Core tremster OF MOIBL. - 7/26 Commerce to CBD approval for -Elist to Dunham (4(26) r death of pack road + trait plan. hicheshood + Est. Dunham lectureling -Stebbins to Mrs Dunham (4116)on death of husband; dso Jr. letter (8/30) re " ; Jr. on Dunham at llemonal Seura BAlso letter from U. Dahlgren TB. Farrand. -CBD on Uan'o War Valley t W.D. Lears and Thorner Lawson. Jone -Commercial espection Report (1922), plases GBD- for S.T. Mother -BHT (3/26/24) in Connerer's Visit in 1922. -BHT (10(1) erroneas article on auto Road to top of champlain (sic) ut. - See Quin HAER let Rd. essay Also in Cakellae File. Adthnization Landscape Architecture A QUARTERLY MAGAZINE Official Organ of the American Society of Landscape Architects Vol. XI JANUARY, 1921 No. 2 "HANDS OFF THE NATIONAL PARKS" By the late CHARLES P. PUNCHARD, JR. I CAN think of no better title for this article than the above which is borrowed from a recent news bulletin of the National Parks Association. These five words should act as a danger signal to every lover of the National Parks. They should arouse his indignation and patriotism just as thoroughly as any other signal of warning which might be dis- played before the public, and particularly at this time when the National Parks are experiencing at all times of the year a popularity which was not anticipated for many years to come, and when, nevertheless, they are functioning under difficulties of lack of funds as never before. The National Parks were never in more danger than they are at the present time. Recently there has sprung up an insane desire on the part of certain individuals commercially to exploit these national recreation grounds for pecuniary gain, and the astounding part of the situation is that the promoters of these commercial projects seem to select the most popular parks and the most interesting scenic spots, or have selected areas which are favorite haunts for game, some of which is on the point of extinction, and the preservation and increase of which is vitally important. There is not only the question of game and scenery to be considered This content downloaded from 137.49.125.110 on Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:55:06 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 54 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE in the exploitation of these areas, but also the question of flora, topog- raphy and other natural physical features which combine to make them interesting to the student and the tourist. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, ever since its establishment has been jealously guarded by Congress against such commercial exploitation, but within the past year a bomb shell has landed in our midst, in the shape of an irrigation project which contemplates the taking of a large portion of the southwestern corner of the park for reservoir sites, and the possibility of the use of the Yellowstone Lake, Heart Lake, Shoshone Lake and Lewis Lake for additional reservoirs.) The southwestern corner of Yellowstone Park is the home of the Yellowstone Moose, a species which is on the point of extinction, and only its protection by law and the protection of its natural habitats has succeeded in increasing its numbers slowly but encouragingly, until at the present time it is possible to see one of these interesting animals crash through the brush as one travels south from Yellowstone Lake to the Jackson Hole country. Heart Lake, Shoshone Lake and Lewis Lake are beautiful bodies of water, completely surrounded by the typical dense Yellowstone forest of lodgepole pine. On the shores of Yellowstone Lake and these smaller lakes are to be found natural phenomena such as geysers, hot springs and paint pots equally as interesting and beautiful as the more widely advertised and more frequently visited specimens on the well-traveled park roads. Lack of funds has retarded the construction, by the Park Service, of roads to one or two of these lakes, but such projects are on the programme of the Superintendent of the Park for future development. Aside from the loss of scenic areas and wild game caused by their commercial projects, there is another dangerous aspect to be considered, which if once established will affect the whole National Parks policy. This danger is the matter of precedent. Once the wedge has entered it can be driven home with surprising ease. Unforeseen and possibly This content downloaded from 137.49.125.110 on Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:55:06 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms "HANDS OFF THE NATIONAL PARKS" 55 unlimited similar projects may become established throughout the National Park system. Yellowstone National Park is not the only National Park under fire at the present time. Recently there has developed a project to dam the waters of the Merced River in Little Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California. The reason given for this undertaking is irrigation, but when the matter is pressed and the promoters of the project cornered, they admit that the real reason is power to be sold in the San Joaquin Valley below. It will be found on careful examination that the underlying motif in all projects which contemplate the construction of mountain reser- voirs, is power. Daily it is becoming more and more apparent, and an accepted fact, that very little of the water to be retained by the great Hetch-Hetchy dam will find its way to the watermains in the streets of San Francisco, but on the contrary will be used to develop power for use in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys. Regarding the Yellowstone project, I have recently been informed that Secretary Payne has taken a very definite and positive stand against this legislation as dangerous to the whole National Parks system and policy. This is indeed encouraging news, still it is not the time to drop this matter, but the time to press it strongly and impress on the minds of the members of Congress the danger from such projects to these national playgrounds, and the necessity of forestalling any future projects. In some of the National Parks grazing is temporarily permitted in the more remote regions. During the war as an emergency measure, other areas were opened to grazing with the result that the following year similar demands were made for this purpose, the precedent argu- ment being used in presenting the demands. This has been overcome to a certain extent, but grazing has not and cannot be eliminated from the National Parks until all the patented land within them has either been This content downloaded from 137.49.125.110 on Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:55:06 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 56 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE eliminated by a change of boundary or has been purchased by the government. To exclude some of these areas is quite impossible on account of their location well within the Park, and any alteration of the boundaries would seriously affect the administrative and scenic conditions. Grazing in National Parks can do no good. Cattle and sheep soon strip the small mountain meadows of their limited amount of feed and constant travel to and from water holes and streams destroys good trails and roads and also makes many new trails which to the inexperienced, and persons unfamiliar with the country, are very confusing. Aside from this the pollution of the streams is to be considered. A herd of cattle or sheep can cause more destruction to mountain roads and trails in one season than all the freshets and storms of a corresponding period. National Parks must be National Parks or cattle ranches, they cannot be both Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, is only beginning to enjoy again the carpet of wild flowers which grew so profusely at the time the area was thrown open to sheep grazing. Repeated attempts have been made by the National Park Service to obtain money for the purchase of such privately owned lands as are within the National Parks, but so far Congress has not seen fit to provide funds for that purpose. Unfortunately the National Parks have inherited many conditions which are not agreeable, but it is part of the broad programme of the administrative officers to correct these conditions as time and money permit; in the meantime our Parks are visited by persons who are always ready to criticize on general principles, who do not appreciate the larger work of organization first and the laying of the foundations for the finish which will come later, but who blindly select some tem- porary unimportant detail which can well wait until such time as the necessities are provided for or at least started. Of course none of us are infallible, and the best of us are bound to This content downloaded from 137.49.125.110 on Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:55:06 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms "HANDS OFF THE NATIONAL PARKS" 57 make mistakes unless we are miraculously good guessers. But it is nevertheless exasperating when, after careful study with collected data from innumerable sources, after a careful balancing of all factors, and accommodating our work to available funds and local conditions, and with all these considerations solving our problems as best we can under the circumstances, we are sometimes rudely confronted by persons who appear on the scene suddenly, look over our problems hastily and, de- parting, sum up the situation in words to the effect that we have missed the opportunity, and this or that should have been done; but at the same time they carefully and cleverly avoid mentioning any specific and consistent remedy for the problem or the condition. The friends of the National Parks should bear in mind more con- stantly than they always do, the newness of the whole movement and the difficulties under which the small personnel is now working, and be sure when they criticize that it is really "constructive criticism." LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND THE ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO NATIONAL FORESTS By ARTHUR H. CARHART, Landscape Architect Recreation Engineer, U. S. Forest Service LA ANDSCAPE and recreational developments are in a pioneer stage in the National Forests of our country. These vast public grounds, more than any other areas, are the last that remain of unscarred wildness and almost undiscovered natural beauty. In no other field of professional Handscape architecture is there such an area of land under one management to be planned. Here is a new and un- equalled opportunity for development. The National Forests are situated in twenty-four of the States. The Forests which are nearest the boundaries of the country are the lake-land of the million-acre Superior National Forest in Minnesota, the Chugach and Tongass Forests of Alaska, the Angeles of California, This content downloaded from 137.49.125.110 on Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:55:06 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Pg. 1 of 7 January 12, 1921. Dear Mr. Rockefeller: I delayed answering your letter of recent date concerning the widening of the Bar Harbor Bridle Paths till I could consult -- the consent and co-operation of the Town being involved -- two members of the present Selectmen's Board on whose discretion and silence I knew I could rely: Mr. E. G. Fabbri, who went on the Board with me six years ago and has remained upon it ever since, and who is now spending the early winter with his family at Bar Harbor; and Mr. C. E. Dow, manager of the Mt. Desert Nurseries, who became a member of the Board last year and possesses to an unusual degree the confidence of the Town. They have now met and consulted together, and I have an answer from them, signed by both. In it they express great interest in yoursuggestion and the possibility opened up by its accompanying but suggested only -- offer. They approve it as embodying a valuable extension of the scheme and, with a single limitation which they regard as essential at the present time, both in operation and for presentation to the Town, will give it their support and influence as members of the Board -- which would I think unquestionably result in its adoption. The recently adopted scheme for a combined Town and Park Bri- dle Path system starting from the Bay Drive between Bar Harbor and Hull's Cove and extending across the island, both east and west of Eagle Lake, to meet with yours - which is what the present plan ultimately contem- plates -- was not adopted by the Town without encountering considerable opposition on economic grounds, and Mr. Fabbri and Mr. Dow unite in 2 considering that it would not be wise to approach the Town at the pres- ent time with a suggestion of widening the entire system and opening it for driving use, which would raise at once two controversial ques- tions, construction expense part; one economic: the greater annual cost involved in the maintenence of a widened way to be maintained in suitable condition for use by wheeled vehicles; and the other, legal: whether the Town at the present time actually has the legal right to exclude motor-driven vehicles from any public way it may maintain. To meet this last objection - which would, of course, be fatal if not met in case of widening - there are two methods: First, to obtain from the State Legislature the legal right for the Town to lay out and make expenditure upon, as part of its road system, ways re served for horseback and horse-driving use alone, and to reserve them; or, second, to lead these horsback and driving roads through sections of Park or Reservation land, and especially, where possible, to make them enter through such; as over lands so hold the Town will neither condomn a way nor make expanditure but truet to national park and con- tribution funds for construction of such portions, and for their main- tenance. The first course, that of obtaining special rights from the Legislature, has the three objections, (1) of leaving the matter in un- certainty for at least the next two years, as the State Legislature - whose meetings are bienniel - is already in session now and the time for entering new bills will shortly lapse: (2) of arousing opposition within the Town if understood to carry with it any plan for widening which would make it physically possible to drive motor vehicles, of any 3 sort, over them, as exclusion of them would mean increase of police ex- pense - of which the Town is always chary - and not improbable legal controversy with motorists, disputing the Town's right to keep them out; and (3) of leading to pressure on the Town from motorists to open the way, once built, to use by motors. The second method avoids these difficulties, no one disputing the right of the National Park to maintain within its bounds whatever regulations the National Park Service may decide ,while the expense during the summer months of maintaining a special guardian to insure observance of the Park Service rules regarding these ways, and to main- tain the ways own good condition, would lie well within the possibil- ities of the annual appropriations now granted to the Park. This plan of obtaining motor vehicle exclusion through the co-operation of the Park has now already been adopted by the Town in re- gard to all that portion of its system yet laid out which lies to the east of the Breakneck road, where lands already held by the Park, or for its acceptance, have made such an arrangement possible. And Mr. Fab- bri's and Mr. Dow's suggestion is that your offer be made -- should you decide to make it - as applying to this portion only of the system at the present time, leaving that which lies to the westward of the Break- neck road to be dealt with later, after the proposed widening has been carried out over this section and after portions of the way beyond, to the westward, shall have been acquired as park lands, giving opportunity for the Park's co-operation in securing motor vehicle exclusion and in providing guardianship for its enforcement. And they ask me also to convey to you from them, as members of the Board, their warm appreciation of your generously suggested offer, and sense of the importance of the 4 change which you suggest, taken in conjunction with the intention fi- nally to connect these ways through the National Park lands with your present system to the south. I have been giving you their opinion. My own, which you ask for, coincides with theirs. To attempt more at the present time than they suggest would be liable - and likely - to defeat the whole; to accomplish this, would inevitably lead on to more. I think decidedly that what you suggest is much to be desired, over all main branches of the future system, which would then become single and connected ulti- mataly from your own entrances on the Seal Harbor and Brown's Mountain roads to the Bay Drive along the Island's northern shore. And it would make a wonderful system. I am enclosing a map on which I have marked the intended Bar Harbor bridle pathe with their southward connections, as now planned and accepted as a goal to work for. The northern area, taken right advantage of, is remarkably adapted to the purpose. The connected range of Young's and McFarLand's Mountains - abrupt only at the north- ern end, rising to the height of over 700 feet above the sea, and jut- ting out far beyond any other northern elevation on the Island -- offers easy roading to its summits, for bridle path and driving purposes, and views as fine as from the higher mountains, while the wholearea is nat- urally well watered and wooded, wild and picturesque. The portion utilised of the Breakneak road, marked on the map in red as are the in- tended bridle paths, while it would still legally remain open to use by motors, is rerely used by them, owing to the long, steep hill by which only one can approach it from the Hull's Cove end, and the intention 5 is to widen the connecting portion to ample safety and maintain on it an ourthy surface suitable for horseback use. The land it loude to on the south, though not so shown upon the map, liss wholly now within the Reservation bounds, and Reservation and Park lands stretch thence un- brokenly southward until they meet the mountains and the mountain passes. I have marked the northern entrances to the Bar Harbor Bri- dle Path eyeten as now planned: A, B, and C - with D as a remoter but contemplated possibility. At A the system takes its northern start at a turn on the Bay: Drive nearly opposite the old red-brick Hamor house just north of Hull's Cove, and follows up thence the valley of Hull's Cove brook, which comes down from the Breakneak ponds. This valley furnishes the only break, and offere the only pass, in the long rock well of the northern bluffs between Bar Harbor and the Norway Drive. At B a second but subsidiary entrance is obtained at the sum- mit of the old, practically abandoned, Corkscrew kill road which the Bay Drive, blasted out at the bluffs' foot along the shore, replaced. This road - once part of the old stage route from Bangor to Bar Har- bor -- is nov practically availble from the Hull's Cove end alone, unless for horseback use, its original northern outlet having been secrificed to create is site for the Henderson house, built upon its course; but a steep substitute way, laid out as a winter ico road from Witch Hole Pond before Bar Harbor took it s ice from Eagle Lake, gives present op" portunity for bridle path connection with the Duck Brook side. The land at its summit, where entrance is marked, and for a mile beyond 6 following the outlined course, belonge now to the National Park, being a gift to it from the Bowler family made last winter after Robert Bow- ler's death but following his desire. This tract, a hundred or more acres in extent, takes in two-thirds of the shore of Witch Hole Pond and is finely wooded, the woods on it having been cared for and pro- tected by the Bowler family for nearly forty years. At 0 connection is again obtained with what is known locally at Bar Harbor as the New Eagle Lake road but is marked on the more re- cent mape "The Champlain Road," leading from How's Park with its sur rounding group of summer residences and various connections with the town to Eagle Lake. This entrance, too, is over land which the Nation al Park is in process of acquiring as a gift from the Hendersons, from whom and from Dr. Abba the National Park has now received or is in process of receiving the whole of Duck Brook ravine from this point down to the Bay Drive. With this much explanation, I think what I have outlined on the map will make all clear to you. What I have marked in red is what is planned. What is marked both in red and ink the Town now proposes to develop for bridle path use next summer. What of this last is marked in ink with a solid line is what Mr. Fabbri and Mr. Dow suggest might be widened in accordance with your plan; what is marked in ink with a broken line following the course of a century-old wood road built for early lumbering -- is what they think it would not be wise to suggest widening or opening to driving use at the present time. On this there is as yet no park-land ownership, and opening it to driving the ques- tion of expense apart - would bring up inevitably the whole legal 7 question of the Town's right without a special enabling act of Legis- lature to restrict its use. Mr. Fabbri, Mr. Dow and I, all feel, however, that if widen- ing these ways and opening them to driving as well as riding use is ever to enter into the plan, now is the time to initiate it, before the Town and public have become accustomed to look on them as bridle paths alone - taking the opportunity to embody it in the scheme that this entrance portion offers with its extensive park control. Mr. Harry Lynam has just met me by appointment on his way north. I have given him a copy of your letter regarding the Sargent mountain options and he will take the matter up at once of securing what you outline in your letter, if he finds it can be done within the lim its set and that the lands described are sufficient -- of which I find I cannot be wholly sure from memory -- to secure the necessary roadway. If not, he will report to 116 again before taking action. He will also get what options he can secure upon the northern side. The options will be taken in my name, and I will then give you as paper transferring them or the lands' ownership to you, which would not be recorded. Yours sincerely, [G.B.DorT] Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 26 Broadway, New York City. Transcription of typed two-page G.B. Dorr signed document held by Raymond Strout. Undated: estimated timeframe by R. Strout, 1921-22. "Lafayette National Park is more, however, than a recreational and historical area. It forms a magnificent geological movement, and is unique in the opportunity it offers for preserving and exhibiting in a single tract our northern flora. Lying in this belt, passing through the Adirondacks and White Mountains, where from the Great Lakes east the boreal forest descends to meet the Appalachia, the Park with its ocean-tempered climate and remarkable diversity of landscape form is filled peculiarly to illustrate within a single tract, readily explored, the vegetation of a far- extended region, once densely forested. The sea surrounding it, fed by the Arctic Current, abounds in life rich in forms of interest to the marine biologist or student of our sea-food resource. And the Great Atlantic Coast migration route of birds nesting in the North, originating in remote antiquity, passes by and over it, affording them-as the whole coast did once-safe resting ground and sanctuary on their way. Through the long years to come, with their loses and vicissitudes, this Park, extended to a wider bound, must serve increasingly as a means to conservation and an opportunity for study, valuable alike to the [knowledge of science] to the artist, architect, and landscape planner." 3/20/1921 University Club, New York Dear Mr Rockefeller I was not able, on account of snow and for other causes, to get until within the last few days the information I needed from Bar Harbor relating to the cost of widening the town park joint bridle path The question concerns at the present time that portion of the path lying between the Breakneck road, near the ponds, and the old Corkscrew Hill road This section of the path has, I find, a measured length of 6554 feet - approximately a mile and a quarter - two thirds of this, and somewhat more, lies over land belonging to the National park, given the Government a year ago last winter The rest lies over land purchased by the town since last November for the purpose of their path, the town paying for what it tock - which extends also across the Breakneck road, to the westward, and eastward to the Champlain road, $100 per acre This town third utilizes an old wood road, whose width - of 7 to 8 feet of open way - establishes the width of the path as originally intended, unless narrower in special sections At the other end, next the Corckscrew Hill road, there is at wider road, some seven or eight hundred feet in length, and built for driving, that would need no further widening This was built by the owners in the "boom" time. The section between these two involves new construction, and my intention has been for the present to construct over it only a narrow bridle path, to con- nect these wider portions and be widened later. I must limit my ex- penditures on the park's behalf to $1,000 this year for bridle path con- struction I may, and doubtless shall, be able to spend more another year The town has appropriated $3,500 since its meeting in November for bridle path construction, including surveys and the purchase of land, some of which was given but for the rest of which it has had to pay at the rate just stated - $100 per acre, for strips fifty feet in width, containing the intended path It has now secured, east and west from this, some miles of way and stands practically committed to that much development, though this is probably a beginning only of a more extensive system The commencement of an extension southward through the Valley of upper Breackneck pond to connect with the wooded parklands west of Eagle Lake has also been secured, only three fourths of a mile remain- ing to complete connection And what I now am aiming at is a main-line bridle path and driving road extending ultimately from your system in the south to the Bay Drive and these northern parklands The way lies open for it To return to the question of widening and its cost, the land offers good roading, firm under foot and without visible ledge; with no steep slopes to be encountered, or other exceptional cause of ex- pense The land is wooded but the woods are open The chief cost of widening lies in the fact that most of the portion needing new con- struction calls for side-hill work, where the expense of a narrow, single way is little more than on the level but where expense increases 2. 3/20 in a rapid ratio with widening, and the deepening cuts and fills which it involves There are also a couple of wet hollows to be crossed, at the head of valleys, but they are not broad What, upon consideration, seems to me wisest would be to widen the path across this section the least possible, at the start, to make driving possible, and to aim at retaining over the whole the essential character feature of a bridle path although a wide one, open to driving. This would at once save the principlo, embody it in the under- taking, and avoid opposition from any who might not wish to see it lose its dominant bridle path character, or might fear it would. The time is opportune The two members of the Bar Harbor Selectman's Board whom you will remember I consulted privately in December, when you first wrote me on the matter, Mr C E Dow, manager of the Mt Desert Nurseries and Mr E G Fabbie, both of whom strongly favor the proposal, have just been reelected on the Board; and Mr Dow has been made its chairman The town and park together will expend this year in the neighborhood of $1500 on this section, in accordance with the original intention The cost of widening, to adriving width, could hardly, under the conditions I have outlined, be less than this, using all econ- onl; and might prove more The work is too new in character, and too much remains to be worked out as it goes on, to make it possible to draw up advisedly exact specifications; nor could I contract it out where the Government does not bear the whole expense, but share it. On the other hand, the opportunity for the establishment of a broad policy in the matter is important, in my judgment, and should not be lost What I would suggest, therefore, is that you should con- tribute -- if you so incline to do -- whatever sum, not to exceed $1500. the amount of town's and park's joint expenditure this year on the same section, you may desire to expend on it this year I will charge myself with the economic expenditure of the amount and do with it the best I can to secure the result intended and establish the principle of a wider way If more than $1500 should, in the end, prove to be needed, I will also, if still in position to do so, contribute further toward it, from park funds, another year I shall be going down to Bar Harbor in a couple of weeks' time with reference to the establishment of a marine biological labor- atory this summer at Salisbury Cove, on the land secured for such purpose there a few years since, the opportunity to utilize which under favorable auspices now seems to have arisen And while I am there I could start work upon the path, as the ground will then be open and the time favorable for burning brush Yours sincerely, (ggd) George B Dorr B6.F8.1 ANPA File 1921 Bulletin of THE MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY 1937, (FORMERLY THE HARPSWELL LABORATORY) MEMBERS Founded by John Sterling Kingsley in 1898 Howard B. Adelmann, Cornell University Eli K. Marshall, Jr., Johns Hopkins Uni- James B. Allison, Rutgers University versity OFFICERS Gerrit Bevelander, New York University Samuel O. Mast, Johns Hopkins University Louise DeKoven Bowen, Chicago, Illinois Roy W. Miner, American Museum WARREN H. LEWIS Hermon C. Bumpus, Waban, Massachusetts Dwight E. Minnich, University of Minne- Earl O. Butcher, Hamilton College sota Carnegie Institution of Washington Esther F. Byrnes, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- Stuart Mudd, University of Pennsylvania President vania Frank J. Myers, Ventnor, New Jersey Robert W. Clarke, Yale University Herbert V. Neal, Tufts College DUNCAN STARR JOHNSON William H. Cole, Rutgers University Thurlow C. Nelson, Rutgers University Edwin G. Conklin, Princeton University Stanley J. G. Novak, Boston City Hospital The Johns Hopkins University Ulric Dahlgren, Princeton University George H. Parker, Harvard University Vice-President George B. Dorr, Bar Harbor, Maine Robert F. Pitts, New York University Edward K. Dunham, Jr., New York City David O. Rodick, Bar Harbor, Maine GUY E. TORREY J. T. Halsey, Tulane University George B. Roth, George Washington Uni- Robert W. Hegner, Johns Hopkins Univer- versity Bar Harbor, Maine sity Harold D. Senior, New York University Treasurer Hope Hibbard, Oberlin College James A. Shannon, New York University Margaret M. Hoskins, New York University *Herbert N. Shenton, Syracuse University DWIGHT E. MINNICH Duncan S. Johnson, Johns Hopkins Uni- Homer W. Smith, New York University versity Heinz Specht, U. S. Dept. Industrial - University of Minnesota Percy L. Johnson, Missouri Valley College giene Secretary Abram T. Kerr, Cornell University Benjamin Spector, Tufts College Warren H. Lewis, Carnegie Institution Guy E. Torrey, Bar Harbor, Maine DAVID O. RODICK Frank R. Lillie, University of Chicago Donnell B. Young, George Washington Uni- Bar Harbor, Maine Clarence C. Little, Jackson Memorial versity Laboratory E. Lorraine Young, III, Harvard University Clerk Edward F. Malone, University of Cincin- nati WILLIAM H. COLE Rutgers University ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Director of the Laboratories John Hampton Barnes, Philadelphia Penn- E. Lee Jones, McLean, Virginia sylvania Mrs. Walter G. Ladd, Far Hills, New Jersey TRUSTEES Cecil Barret, New York City Mrs. Morris Loeb, New York City Gist Blair, Washington, D.C. Theodore Marburg, Baltimore, Maryland To serve until 1937 Robert E. Blum, New York City C. L. Marlatt, Washington, D.C. Richard E. Byrd, Boston, Massachusetts Henry Morgenthau, New York City *WILLIAM H. COLE. Rutgers University Myra Fox, Bangor, Maine Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, New York City ROBERT W. HEGNER, The Johns Hopkins University Mrs. Alexander Gordon, Baltimore, Mary- James F. Porter, Chicago, Illinois *WARREN H. LEWIS, Carnegie Institution of Washington land David Riesman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania E. K. MARSHALL, JR., The Johns Hopkins University Thurlow M. Gordon, New York City R. E. Schuh, Brooklyn, Maine DAVID O. RODICK, Bar Harbor, Me. Thurlow M. Gordon, Jr., Princeton Univer- sity STANLEY J. G. NOVAK, Boston City Hospital Died Jan. 6, 1937 To serve until 1938 LOUISE DEKOVEN BOWEN, Chicago, I11. HERMON C. BUMPUS, Waban, Mass. *ULRIC DAHLGREN, Princeton University GEORGE B. DORR, Bar Harbor, Me. HERBERT V. NEAL, Tufts College *GUY E. TORREY, Bar Harbor, Me. To serve until 1939 J. T. HALSEY, Tulane University DUNCAN S. JOHNSON, The Johns Hopkins University CLARENCE C. LITTLE, Jackson Memorial Laboratory DWIGHT E. MINNICH, University of Minnesota HAROLD D. SENIOR, New York University *HOMER W. SMITH, New York University * Members of Executive Committee 2 3 Cambridge, Mass., 21 April 1921 Dear Mr. Dorr: Henry L. Eno told me some weeks ago about the proposed transfer of the Marine Biological Station from Harpswell to Salis- bury Cove. It seemed to me a very desir- able achievement. Does it not suggest the completion of the organization of the Wild Gardens of Acadia and the organization of a committee to raise an endowment for it? The sooner it is announced the better. I hope your health has been pretty good this winter, and that you are taking some care of yourself. Sincerely yours Charles Elion Mr. George B. Dorr The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. April 22nd, 1921. Wild Gardens of Acadia Association, Bar Habor, Maine. Dear Sirs: At a meeting of the Trustees of the Harpswell Laboratory held at the above date and location, the agreement to lease the land at Salisbury Cove from the Wild Gardens of Acadia Association and to move the Harpswell Laboratory activities to the land so leased was ratified and signed by our treasurer. The lease which the Wild Gardens of Acadia Association offered us was approved and the Director was requested to write a letter to the officers of the Wild Gardens of Acadia Association stating our understanding and interpretation of this lease. In regard to paragraph four, the phrase "And for none other except as may be essential or important to the furtherance of such end," the trustees interpret that as permitting them in addition to laboratory buildings and equipment to erect and construct tents, cottages or habitations for the students, research workers and assistants on the land and to receive a rental for these accommodations. In regard to paragraph five the phrase "this lease shall ipso facto cease and become null and void;" it is understood that in case of war or like emergency that if both parties agree to the suspension of the activities of the laboratory this clause in the lease will not operate. 2 In regard to paragraph five, the words "to make improvements," the trustees understand and interpret this to mean "to make improvements that may be approved and consented to by the trustees of the Harpswell Laboratory." Mr. Dorr expressed the wish to have a cottage and wharf on the Eastern end of the land and I agree to this and my consent was confirmed by others of the trustees. I would suggest as a modus operandi that the Harpswell Laboratory and its friends collect the funds for this improvement, build it according to Mr. Dorr's wishes and lease it to him without rental as long as he cares to have it. The greatest part of this "improvement" would be to have Mr. Dorr with us. Very sincerely, Uhic Dullgren UD/L. [c. 1911] ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE HARPSWELL LABORATORY CORPORAS TION OF SOUTH HARPSWELL, MAINE, PARTY OF THE FIRST PART, AND THE WILD GARDENS OF ACADIA CORPORATION OF MOUNT DESERT ISLAND, MAINE, PARTY OF THE SECOND PART, CONDITIONING THE TRANSFER OF THE HARPSWELL LABORATORY FROM SOUTH HARPSWELL, MAINE, to MOUNT DESERT ISLAND, MAINE. The two parties above mentioned agree that the transfer of the Harpswell Laboratory from South Harpswell, Maine, to Mount Desert Island, Maine, shall be effected under the following conditions: l. That the Harpswell Laboratory shall transfer its activities to Mount Desert Island. 2. That the Harpswell Laboratory Corporation of South Harpswell, Maine, shall become a member of The Wild Gardens of Acadia Corporation and be repre- sented on its Board, the present organization of the Harpswell Laboratory remaining as at present incorporated. 3. That The Wild Gardens of Acadia Corporation desig- nate for occupancy by the Harpswell Laboratory a tract of land to be set apart from the lands now held by it at Salisbury Cove, Maine, the boundries of said tract to be determined in consultation be- tween appointed representatives of the Harpswell Laboratory and The Wild Gardens of Acadia. 4. That the Harpswell Laboratory undertake as its purpose and aim to establish and maintain a lab- oratory for scientific study and investigation, as stated in its certificate of incorporation from the State of Maine. 5. That the Harpswell Laboratory agree that in the event of its ceasing to exist as an active Biological Association the lands leased to it in accordance with the aforesaid designation shall revert to the control of The Wild Gardens of Acadia. 6. That the Wild Gardens of Acadia agree to use its best endeavor to promote the interests, scientific and financial, of the Harpswell Laboratory, and to secure for it such other stations in that region as the future may determine as desirable. Wild Garden of George Acadia B. Wast Henry Lane Ew VIS 1921 6 SEAL HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY 7 INTRODUCTION PRESIDENT'S REPORT The Society in presenting its twenty-first Most of the activities of the Society are annual report desires to call the attention of carried on by the Committees appointed for all visitors to Seal Harbor to the work it is that purpose and are fully described in their doing for the general comfort and welfare, and reports which follow. to ask a continuance of the liberal support There are, however, a number of matters given it in the past. Its only revenue is from of general interest which may be summarized voluntary contributions and the more general here. they are the more efficiently can the work be One of these is the increasing co-operation carried on. between this Society and other Associations All visitors to Seal Harbor as well as resi- having similar purposes at Bar Harbor, North- dents are cordially invited to join the Society. east Harbor and Southwest Harbor. Among No formality is necessary to become a member. the influences leading to this co-operation is The handing in of a name accompanied by the growing appreciation of the importance one dollar to the treasurer of the Society, tutes membership. Life membership, $25. 1921 tept. of considering the welfare of the whole Island Mr. George L. Stebbins, at his office, consti- as well as that of individual communities, springing in some measure from the transfor- mation of the Public Reservations into a Suggestions in regard to its work will be National Park. An evidence of this broaden- gladly received by the Executive Committee from any member of the society. ing point of view was the appointment of delegates from the above-mentioned Societies The attention of temporary residents is to consult with the Custodian of the Lafayette called to the fact that the entire current re- National Park with a view to harmony in the ceipts are expended each season SO that they development of policies and co-operation in receive the benefits of any contributions made. their execution. 1921 8 SEAL HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY 9 Of more local interest are certain ad- Other administrative functions carried ministrative functions undertaken by the So- on by the Village Improvement Society and ciety. In agreement with the Town of Mount annually requiring considerable outlay are Desert, the administration of the Village what in military parlance is called the "po- Green, generously given to the Town by licing" of the Village street and the Beach, Mr. Rockefeller, has been delegated to the rendering these public places orderly and tidy. Village Improvement Society, which has under- Also the maintenance of certain rights of way taken to use its endeavors to develop this for the convenience of the public. property in accordance with the wishes of The Society has also, when occasion the community insofar as it has the means arose, assumed other public administrative to do so. As stated in the report of the Com- duties not otherwise provided for. Last sea- mittee charged with the details of this under- son it cared for the disposal of garbage and taking, it has been possible hitherto only to other wastes, voluntarily acting as fiscal agent clear up the grounds and prepare them for in establishing the new method of disposal such future development as may be determined reported by the Sanitary Committee. upon and rendered possible by funds now lacking. In conclusion, it is hoped that the activities of the Society have met with the general Among the obviously desirable improve- approval of the community, and that it may ments to the Village Green, are facilities for confidently rely upon the co-operation and resting under the shade of such trees as have financial support of all who are interested in attained sufficient growth SO that children and the welfare of Seal Harbor. adults can gather together in a more sheltered RICHARD M. HOE, place than is offered by the beach. Another President. important improvement would be a con- venient path across the Green towards the Post Office. 25, 1921 FIVE CENTS A COPY NUMBER 360 NCE PROGRAM WEIR MITCHELL STATION EMORIAL DAY WILL OPEN JUNE 25 5-25-1921 and Legion Plan 10 Exercises Work Being Rushed on Laboratory and Other PAGE STARTS AT 1.30 Buildings at Salisbury Cove-The CoL 6. 7 Three Wars, Fraternal Summer Course Outlined d Schools in Line of Order For the Day Attractive booklets have been ro- Wednesday, July 6 ing program for Memorial colved here announcing the opening 1) Morning: Lecture and work on 1 the headquarters of the of the Harpewell Laboratory for Bio- the protozoa. Parker Post, Grand Army logical Research and Study which in- Afternoon: Lecture and work on blic and the George Edwin clude the program of the twenty-third the ecological relationship of American Legion. session which will be conducted at the animals. norial Day at all Army laboratory's new location, the Weir Thursday, July 7 Stations the National Flag Mitchell Station at Salisbury Cove, od at half-staff from Sunrise and which will begin June 25th and 2) Morning: Lecture and work on cen will be hoisted to top extend through September 10th. the protozoa. I and remain there until The preface page is Illustrated by R Afternoon: Lecture on the ecology of animals. fine cut showing a glimpse of cliff and accordance with Military sea and made from a photograph loaned Friday, July 8 and It is requested that by Supt. George B. Dorr of Lafayette 3) Morning Lecture and work on implaying flage on Memorial National Park. Another photograph the Porifera. ollow these regulations. that of Sand Beach, occupies the con- Afternoon: Lecture on the differ- that proper respect may cluding page of the booklet. ention and specialization of ani- he National Flag on Memo The preface is: mals. d other occasions, it is re- THE HARPSWELL LABORATORY Saturday, July 9 t when the National Colors Founded by John Sterling Kinghley, 1898 4) Excursion in row-boats and launch arade that all men and boyn BOARD OF TRUSTEES on Frenchman Bay to tow for colors, stand at attention, Members ex officio protozoa and to study smaller and remain so until the JOHN STERLING KINGSLEY, Univ. of III. forms of life obtained. After e passed Director Emeritus and President of two hours the catch will be CB M. HONTER, Commander the Corporation studied in the laboratory. James E. Parker ULRIC DAHLGREN, Princeton University, Post No. 105, G. A. R. Monday, July 11 Acting Director II H. KINGSLEY, Commander MILTON J. GREENMAN, The Wistar 5) Morning Coelenterata George Edwin Kirk Afternoon: Lecture on animal life Institute, Treasurer Pont No. 25, A. 1. histories. Members morial Day Program 11. C. BUMPUS, Brown University Tuesday, July 12 M. Yankeo Division Band D. S. JOHNSON, Johns Hopkins University 6) Morning: Coelenterata. Dirge at American Leglon Vice President of the Corporation Afternoon: Lecture and work on arters. F. R. LILLE University of Chicago animal taxonomy National Colors will be holnted IL V. NEAL Tufts College of Staff. G. H. PARKER Harvard University Wednesday, July 13 Assembly F. J. PORTER Chicago, III. 7) Morning: and Afternoon: Forward G. A. R. and H. D. SENIOR New York University Excursion and shore collecting in Legion H. Q. Cottage E. B. WILSON Columbia University at Halibut hole for Hydroids. to Main Street, Main Street J. L. CONEL New York University, Towing on way for jelly-fish Desert Street, Mt. Desert Secretary of the Corporation and Ctenophores. o Cemetery. Work on the laboratory is now fast Thursday, July 14. Exercises G. A. R. and an Legion at Soldiers and nearing completion. This is being done 8) Morning Platyhelminthes. under the direction of Willis C. Paine. Afternoon: Lecture on animal dis- Monument in Cemetery, con- with saluting dead with Firing The old Leland place has been repaired tribution or Zoogeography. and Taps. and will when finished make a very Friday, July15 M. Line of March proceeds up attractive home to be occupied by y) Morning Platyhelminthes. Desert Street to Ledgelawn Director Dahlgren and his family. Afternoon: Lecture and work on e, Ledgelawn Avenue to LivJ The new building is situated well food of animals. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) out on the point, and is a substantial wooden structure, long, quite low, with Saturday, July 16 many windows and presenting a most 10) Excursion. Fielding excursion to NDY attractive appearance. codledge or Halibut hole and The entire program (CONTIN&ED ON PAGE &) at of lly pre-war prices) n's Fountain Pens Book of Every Mem- Bank Strength Every Emergency. ig Company Proprietors 174 OUR SEACOAST NATIONAL PARK APPALACHIA. VOL XV PLATE XXXVII Our Seacoast National Park By GEORGE B. DORR THE Appalachian Mountain Club stands uniquely as an organization in our eastern country for interest in mountain scenery and movements for its conservation. To it is largely due the establishment of the White Mountains National Forest, a great conservational measure. In the same belt of latitude as it and the Adirondack Mountains of New York, the Empire State's great forest playgound, lies, far to the westward, the oldest and most widely known of our National Parks, the Yellowstone; to its eastward, still in the same belt of latitude, lies one of the youngest, the Lafayette, situated in old French territory on the coast of Maine and representing singly in the great system of our national parks contact with the ocean and inclusion of nationally owned coastal waters in its recreational territory. Lafayette National Park lies surrounded by the sea, occupy- ing as its nucleus and central feature the bold range of the Mount Desert Mountains, whose ancient uplift, worn by STEPPING STONES ON THE KANE PATH. LAFAYETTE immeasurable time and recent ice-erosion. remains to form the NATIONAL PARK largest rock-built island on our Atlantic coast. (Tisle des Monts déserts," as Champlain named it with the keen descrip- tive sense of the early French explorers. The coast of Maine, like every other boldly beautiful coast region in the world whose origin is non-volcanic has been formed by the flooding of an old and water-word land surface, which has turned its heights into islands and headlands, its stream courses into arms and reaches of the sea, its broader valleys into bays and gulfs, The Gulf of Maine itself is such an ancient valley, the deep-cut outlet of whose gathered waters may still be traced by soundings between Georges Bank and Nova Seotia, and whose broken and strangely indented coast, twenty-five hundred miles in length from Portland to St. Croix-a straight line distance of less than two hundred miles is simply an ocean-drawn contour line marked on its once bordering upland. At the center of this coast. the most beautiful in eastern North America, there stretches an archipelago of islands and island-sheltered water-ways and lake-like bays wonderful THE TARN, LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK August 1921.Vol. 15. Appalachia APPALACHIA. VOL. XV OUR SEACOAST NATIONAL PARK 175 region-and at its northern end, dominating the whole with its mountainous uplift, lies Mount Desert Island whereon the national park is placed. Ultimately it is intended that the park shall be extended to other islands in this archipelago and become, by the establish- ment of some simple houseboat system under the direction of the National Park Service, a water park as well as land one. For these are national waters, held by the United States in as absolute possession as its western forests and other public lands from which the great western parks were formed. and their recreational possibilities in connection with the park are boundless. Mount Desert Island was discovered by Champlain in September, 1604, sixteen years and over before the coming of the Pilgrim Fathers to Cape Cod. He had come out the previous spring with the Sieur de Monts, it Huguenot gentle- man, a soldier and the governor of a Huguenot city of refuge in southwestern France, to whom, the December previous, Henry IV, 'le grand roi, had entrusted establishment of the French dominion in America. De Monts' commission, couched in the redundant. stately language of the period, is SNOW-SHOEING IN THE PARK, WINTER OF 1920. THE SUPER- still extant and its opening words are worth recording. SO inti- INTENDENT OF THE PARK ON THE PATH CALLED mate and close is the relation of the enterprise to New England EVELYN'S MILE history: Henry, by the grace of God King of France and of Navarre. to our dear and well beloved friend the Sieur de Monts, Gentleman-in-Ordinary to our chamber, Greeting! As our greatest care and labor is and has ever been since our coming to this throne, to maintain it and preserve it in its ancient greatness, dignity and splendor, and to widen and extend its bounds as much as may legitimately be done, We. having long had knowledge of the lands and territory called Acadia, and being moved above all by a single-minded purpose and firm resolution We have taken, with the aid and assistance of God, Author, Distributor, and Protector of all states and kingdoms, to convert and instruct the people who in- habit this region, at present barbarous, without faith or religion or belief in God, and to lead them into Christianity and the knowledge and the profession of our faith and religion; having also long recognized from accounts of captains of vessels, pilots, traders, and others who have frequented these lands, how fruitful and advantageous to us, our states and and subjectsmight be the occupation and possession of them for the great evident profit which might be drawn therefrom, We in full confi- dence in your prudence and the knowledge and experience you have APPALACHIA. VOL. XV, NO. 2 CAMP LIFE IN LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK 176 OUR SEACOAST NATIONAL PARK OUR SEACOAST NATIONAL PARK 177 gained of the situation. character and conditions of the try of Acadia from the voyages and sojourns you have made in it coun- property of the English crown. Warfare followed till the cap- neighboring regions, and being assured that our plan and resolution and ture of Quebee in 1759, when settlement from the New Eng- ing committed to your cure you will diligently and attentively, and be land coasts began. To the Province of Massachusetts was less valorously and courageously, pursue them and lead them to comple- not granted that portion of Acadia which now forms part of Maine, tion-have expressly committed them to your charge, and do constitute extending to the Penobscot River and including Mount Desert you by these presents, signed by our hand, our lieutenant general, to Island, which it shortly thereafter gave "for distinguished represent our Person in the lands and territory, the craste and confines of Acadia, to commence at the 40th degree of latitude and extend to the services" to its last Colonial governor before the breaking of 46th degree: And We order you throughout this territory as widely as the Revolutionary storm, Sir Francis Bernard, the title to it possible to establish and make known our name and authority subject- being later confirmed to him by a grant from George III. ing to these and making obedient to them all the peopledwelling therein, In September, 1762, Governor Bernard sailed from Fort and by every lawful means to call them to the knowledge of God and William in Boston Harbor with a considerable retinue, to the light of the Christian faith and religion. view his new possession, and kept a journal that may still be De Monts, sailing in the spring of 1604, founded his first seen. He anchored in the "great harbor of Mount Desert." colony on an island in the tidal mouth of a river at the western just off the present town of Southwest Harbor. which he laid entrance to the Bay of Fundy-Baie Françoise he named it, out with his surveyors; he explored the Island, noting its fine though the Portuguese name Bahia Funda, Deep Bay, in the timber, its water power for sawmills, its good harbors, its end prevailed-which two centuries later, in inemory of it, was abundance of wild meadow grass. "high as a man," and of wild selected to be the commencement of our national boundary, "peas"-heach peas perhaps-for fodder, and its wealth of While he was at work on this he sent Champlain in an open fish in the sea. He had himself rowed up Somes Sound, a vessel with a dozen sailors to explore the western enast. A glacial fiord which deeply penetrates the Island, cutting its single, long day's sail with a favoring wind brought him at mountain range in two, and which he calls the River, as in that nightfall into Frenchman's Bay, beneath the shadow of the region other inlets of the sea are called today, following an old Mount Desert Mountains, and his first landfall within our French usage. And he visited Somes, one of the earliest national bounds was made upon Mount Desert Island, in the settlers from the Massachusetts shore, then building his log vicinity of Bar Harbor. cabin at the Sound's head where Somesville is today, and walked across to see a beaver's dam nearby, whose "artificial- A few years later the Island again appears as the site of the first French missionary colony established in America, whose ness" he wonders at. Then came the Revolution. Bernard's "stately mansion" on speedy wrecking by an armed vessel from Virginia was the the shore of Jamaica Pond and his far off island ou the coast first act of overt warfare in the long struggle between France and England for the control of North America of Maine both were confiscated, he taking the king's side and In 1688. seventy odd years later, private ownership began, sailing away from Boston Harbor while the bells were rung in jubilation. And Mount Desert Island, once the property of the Island being given as a feudal fief by Louis XII to the Sieur de la Mothe Cadillac-the later founder of Detroit and the Crown of France, once of that of England, and twice Governor of Louisiana, who is recorded as then dwelling with granted privately, became again the property of Massachu- setts. But after the war was over and Bernard had died in his wife upon its eastern shore and who still signed himself in his later documents, in ancient feudal fashion, Beignetti des England, his son, John Bernard, petitioned to have his father's ownership of the Island restored to him, claiming to have been Monts déserts. loyal himself to the colony, and a one-half, undivided interest In 1713, Louis XIV, defeated on the battlefields of Europe, ceded Acadia-save only Cape Breton-to England: and in it was given him. Then, shortly after. came the grand- daughter of Cadillae-Marie de Cadillae as she signed herself Mount Desert Island, unclaimed by Cadillae, became the 178 OUR SEACOAST NATIONAL PARK -and her husband, French refugees of the period, bringing letters from Lafayette, and petitioned in turn the General Court of Massachusetts to grant them her grandfather's possession of the Island-asking it not as of legal right, how- ever, but on a ground of sentiment the gratitude of the colonies to France for help given in their war for independence And the General Court. honoring their claim. gave them the other half. Then it sent down surveyors and divided the Island, giving the western portion, including the town of Southwest Harbor that his father had laid out, to John Bernard, who promptly sold it and went out to England, and died governor of one of the West Indies, being also knighted; aud the eastern half, where Cadillac once had lived and where Bar Harbor, Seal and Northeast Harbors are today, to Marie de Cadillac and her husband-M. and Mme. de Grégoire-who came to Hull's Cove on Frenchman's Bay and lived and died there, selling their lands, piece by piece, to settlers. It is from these two grants made by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to the granddaughter of Cadillae and the son of Bernard. each holding originally by a royal grant. that the Government's present title to its parklands spring. History is written into its deeds. During the first half of the nineteenth century Mount Desert Island still remained remote and inaccessible, except to coast- ing vessels, but fishing hamlets gradually sprang up along its shore, the giant pines, whose slowly rotting stumps one comes upon today among the lesser trees, were cut and shipped away, town government was established, roads of a rough sort were built, and the Island connected with the mainland by 0 bridge and causeway. Then came steam, and all took on a different aspect. The Boston and Bangor steamship line was estab- lished; a local steamer connected Southwest Harbor with it through Eggemoggin Reach and Penobscot Bay, a sail of remarkable beauty, and summer life at Mount Desert began. The first account of it we have is contained in a delightful journal kept during a month's stay at Somesville in 1855 by Mr. Charles Tracy of New York, the father of Mrs. J. Pier- pont Morgan. Sr., who came with him as a girl and has the journal still. The party was a large one-twenty-six in all- and filled Somes's Tavern full to overflowing In it, besides OUR SEACOAST NATIONAL PARK 179 Mr. Tracy and his family, were the Rev. Dr. Stone of Brook- line, Massachusetts, with his family; Frederick Church, the artist, and his sister; and Theodore Winthrop, killed after- ward in the Civil War, who wrote "John Brent," with its once famous description of a horse. They climbed the mountains, tramped through the woods, lost themselves in them-half a dozen of them--and slept by a campfire in the wild; drove over to Bar Harbor, then on to Schooner Head, where they slept at the old farmhouse, climbing the then nameless "mountain with the cliff" that shadowed it at sundown, and drinking by the pitcherful such milk as New York could not supply. Then, like Hans Breitman, in elimax to their stay, they gave a party, importing by the boat to Southwest Harbor the first piano the Island had ever seen, and inviting to it the islanders and fisherfolk from far and near. It was a great success. They danced, they sang songs, they played games, and had a lobster salad such as only millionaires can have today, keeping up their gayety until two o'clock in the morning, when their last guests-two girls from Bar Harbor who had driven themselves over for t-hitched up their horse and left for home in spite of remonstrance and the offer of a bed. Such was the beginning of Mount Desert social life! Ten years later, when the Civil War had swept over like a storm, summer life began in earnest at Bar Harbor, compelled by the sheer beauty of the spot. No steamer came to it till 1868; then, for another season, only once a week. No train came nearer than Bangor, fifty míles away with a rough road between. But still it grew by leaps and bounds, the new com- ers overflowing the native cottages and fishermen's huts, sleeping in tents, feeding on fish and doughnuts and the abun- dant lobster. The native cottages expanded and became hotels, simple, bare and rough, but always full. The life was gay and free and wholly out of doors -boating climbing. pienicking, buck-boarding, and sitting on the roeks with book or friend. All was open to wander over or pienie on: the summer visitor possessed the Island. Then lands were bought, summer homes were made and life of a new kind began. It was from the impulse of that early summer life that the movement for public reservations and the national park arose, springing from memory of its pleasantness and the desire to 180 OUR SEACOAST NATIONAL PARK OUR SEACOAST NATIONAL PARK 181 preserve in largest measure possible the beauty and freedom of One important aspect of our national parks and monuments the Island for the people's need in years to come The park, is that they, unlike the to follow economic as park, is still in its beginning. When first accepted by the lines are absolute sanctuaries, islands of shelter for the native President as a national monument, it contained. by estimate, life in all except noxious forms. Like the monasteries in the five thousand aeres in a tract that included the highest moun- middle ages that sheltered-all too fragmentarily-the litera- tain peaks upon the Island, lying to the eastward of Somes ture and learning of the classic period, they are a means of Sound in the Cadillac grant. Now it contains approximately incalculable value for preserving in this destructive time the twice that acreage and stretches across Somes Sound to include wealth of forms and species we have inherited from the past the western peaks and a wide frontage on the shore. Its lands and have a duty to hand on undiminished to the future, so far have been throughout a gift to the Government coming from as that be possible. many sources, and much personal association is linked closely In this aspect of a wild life sanctuary, plant and animal, and inseparably with its formation. It is still growing, and Lafayette National Park is remarkable. Land and sea. wood- with the contiguous land-locked ocean waters, beautiful as land, lake, and mountain, all are represented in it in wonderful lakes and nationally owned like it, to extend out oute, there is concentration. In it, too, the northern and temperate zone no limit to the number to whom it may give rest and pleasure floras meet and overlap, and land climate meets sea climate, in the future. coming from our crowded eastern cities, from each tempering the other. It lies directly in the coast inigra- which it is accessible by land or water, rail or motor car. tion route of birds, and exhibits at its fullest the Acadian The question that was met and decided in the park's crea- forest, made famous by Evangeline, and the northerninost tion was whether our national park system should be really extension of that great Appalachian forest which, at the land- national in character, including all great types of landscape ing of De Monts, stretched without a break from the St. in the country and extending its nearby benefit to all its Lawrence to the Gulf. This forest is the oldest, by the record people. or restricted to the grand but wilder western regions of the rocks, and the richest in existing species of all the mingled where the Government still holds vast tracts of mountainous broad-leaved and coniferous forests in the temperate zone. or arid land. In this the question is not dissimilar to that And it possesses, also, a rich biologie field in the neighboring which was decided likewise along the lines of a broad national ocean, the parent habitat of life. Deeper waters apart. the sea policy a few years since by the establishment of the White beach and tidal pools alone form an infinite source of interest Mountains and other eastern national forests, possible of and study; while the oceanic climate, like that of the land. is accomplishment by purchase only. profoundly different from the climate to the southward, off The answer to the question often raised of state and national the Cape Cod shore. parks lies, it seems to me, in this: Will the resort to them be To take advantage of this biologie opportunity, an associa- principally drawn from. and their benefits received by, the tion has been formed under the name of The Wild Gardens of people of the state in which they lie, or the people of the nation Acadia, to utilize in conjunction with the Government the generally-t people of many states? This question was opportunities offered for research and study. A marine bio- strikingly answered in the case of Lafayette National Park last logical laboratory is to be established this coming summer on summer, when a register placed on the 17th of July at the land secured for the purpose, bordering the pure, deep-chan- Sieur de Monts Spring entrance to the park, near Bar Harbor, neled waters of upper Frenchman's Bay, where work will be was found at the beginning of September to have been signed done and lectures given on the marine life of the region and its by people from thirty-five different states-thousands in num- biological relations, under the direction of Professor Ulrie ber but relatively few from Maine, whose long and deeply Dahlgren, of Princeton University, and other biologists in penetrating coast line and many lakes provide abundantly for association with him. its people in pleasant, nearby ways. BHHS MOIBL file September 8, 1921. Prof. Ulric Dahlgren Director Obs. Laboratory Weir Mitchell station Bar Harbor, Me. My dear professor Dahlgren: Your letter of the fifth reached me yesterday. I have had a talk with Mr. Dorr this morning in regard to the subject of that letter and he advises very strongly that we should comply with the suggestions that you make in respect to needing the property to the Laboratory instead of the wild Gardens. My family therefore have agreed that that shall be gone under a deed which shall contain some sort of a clause limiting the use to which the property shall be put to biological study, with a clause or reversion in case of a failure so to use it for 8 fixed number or years, say three. There is only one possibility which may prevent our accomplishing this desirable result. A8 I think I told you, I am purchasing the property from a number of cousins who each have a small interest in it and in each case I have told them that I purchased for the purpose of convey- ing to the Park. A conveyance to the Laboratory, while aub- stantially a compliance with this statement, 1s not literal- ly so, and before conveyance is made perhaps I will think it is necessary to let them know of the slient change in plan. I an not anticipate however any difficulty on this point. There stands on the property & small house and a barn. They are both in bad repair. They are occupied by a man of the name of Pettengill and his family and I am anxious that they should remain as tenants ouring the win- ter. It would be a great hardship to turn them out now and I don't suppose you will need to occupy the property until the sering is pretty well advanced ano meanwhile it might be an advantage to have it occupied by respectable people. I am sorry that I will not be able to get up to see you and Mrs. Dahlgren before you leave. Very sincerely yours, omo REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES NARA,CP, R679. CCF, 1907-39. Acadea. Annual. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE 1921 Avenue (2nd) Rpt. OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT LNP Pg.1.f.00 Dept. 18, 1981. Dear Lr: I Our enclosing 0023 or my annual report. have Areas Cornerd to 10. Ibright grended to the revilar report of two very interesting 10 orts, one Johnson of Johns Dupkins University "obsortimities for the Botanist in lafayette National your" She other by Major Barrington Moore on "Scientific portulities O: the Larayette National Park." 30th acceps MPC or great value, coming as they do from men widely Colover in the scientific world. I trust that they may be sound userl i connection with my report. Cordially yours, the Director, supt. National Bark service, Department of the Interior, sshington, D. C. REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 2 of 10 KATIONAL PARK ANNUAL REPORT by George B. Dorr, Superintendent National Park has advanced rapidly during the past year, both in territory and in public recognition of the place it holds as the enstorn and seacoest representative of the great national park system. That the Federal Government should have become the possessor and guardian in the moonle's interest of the greatest piece Of seenery on our eastern coast and one or the most splendid coastal Landscapes in the world wins constantly increas- in commendation as the fact is recognized. Visitors come to it - largely by motor now - from half the states in the Union, Many bringing camping outfits with them, the park having happily on ortunities to suit all comping needs by shore Or lakeside or in the woods. Lying IS the Party does within easy touring distance from great city populations, the development of motor camping as one of its important fe tures i collain to be Paid. During the past season over two hundred motor-campers have utilized U.O came sites of the Park and have left enthusiastic over its hospitality, sad 11 points to a great increase next year in motor camping, an increase that will be limited only by the development of good camping opportunities and the vabilicity given to their existence. -1- REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 3 of 10 The most important event in connection with the Park that has happen- ed during the past year is the establishment on its border, attracted by its night oro: once, of what promises to become one of the great biological stations, marine and land, of the world. The Wild Gardens of Acadia Corporation, an- WGX proached Inot fill by the Harpswell Laboratory for Biological Research formerly at Humpswell on Cusco Bay, Imine, placed at its disposal for a new home a tract of land it had been holding for such purpose upon the Island's northern shore; on this a laboratory building has been constructed, research has been carried on, and lectures given upon marine biology. Ultimately it is intended to cover every field of biology, animal and vegetable, represented on Mount Desert Island or in its neighboring ocean, one the presence of the Luboratory, with the men o;' distinction in all branches of natural science which it will Creat to it, , and has indeed already to it this FOSCOR, will add element 01 extraOrdinary scientific t to 1LL atical Park Crofessor Ulric Dahlgron of Princeton, the director of the Laboratory, tai the result of his exploration of their that the ocean waters Count Dea rt are 10000 tionally rich in northern fanna and flora amortmiti or their study; and two of his associates who ying the land SPOS of the to M., ald : living museum of the region life, Dr. Duncan D. Johnson, Professor of Botany at Johns Hopkins University, major Barringto Moore, former president of the Ecological ociety of America, have kingly risten, at the Park superintendent's request, onts to initide in this report, which 20°C herowith appended. -2- REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 4 0 t PO The Town of Bar Harbor has actively cooperated with the Indayette National Park Service in giving publicity to the Park, in furnishing information to ico visitors, and in providing for their housing Of its own Antitistive, it has : laced attractive and conspicuous signs bearing the Part's reason impertant points on all the principal high-roads leading to it from ed and from the Canadian border at St. Croix, pointing the direction the violance. Next year it plans to extend these signs to Boston to rebec. Souther way in which the Town has cooperated with the Park during the that our and been in the construction of bridle paths leading to or ex- form imp those Tuilt or building in the Park, obtaining from the State Legis- during its Diemial session last winter the right to lay out and con- ruct bridle withs and driving podd for use with horses, from which motor volicles shill be excluded. For this purpose the Legislature has Liven the Town the 0.010 o OPS 02 condemnion and other rights which it has for the laying out and construction of other public ways. Under this power ways fifty feet in with have Scen lain out by the Town in order that apple room might be recerved for the preservation of their beauty. This action on the Town's part will be post conditions in obtaining fitting approaches to the lands of the Date by 700 $ or by nor e, while the Town bas shown itself similarly O: 30 outerstin vi th the Puris in regard to motor road approaches. licine Time always been horse-breeding state, and great 1 here t is tilcen in the Park not only a point of interest for motorists till in used care enjoyed in those days of motors - form deporture to the ark in every have been acquire thin -3- REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 50F10 the 19 t your to the sides to the Park domins, out of interest in this development. Coucher Great interes Imo, list Saun taken during the past year in the storin long well-engineered lines, as a motor road, the old Net. Road backboard 10th to the sunit of Cadillac mountain, tice strenit also Of the I.D. Mirbeen landred 0.0 twenty-ouvon feet above the sea, from whose Ti riche. This road, when built, will be one or the great scenic motor roads the conti No other elevation upon our costeru coast conguies with the DOTAL time or the well in Allitnde, read it till be worth, alone, lon otor to obt in the splas in vioro 01 Impo and water, of mountain, lake and the 2086 is ive will other, culturating at the su mit in a suporb or 00004 to The survey for the road is being made now dreation.ru ent, 2210 a Lei it of is thousand feet 11th not 0 coodin sin or cent for like _ruster por- tis 2101 one at & sizle golfr. to ten Dr I' cent. The national Park office at Bar Herbor, placed on a site created for it, will oly the MO: sing of the well with the broad green 01 the ic 15 10 or the Date in front, is 120% become the focal point to all souriot trivol to the region naturally turns, and it 1: us to dolling widely 'POM every ortic ....I the covetry even the furthest, this in the how grant in the interest : about hat is needed above all are colligitions on ll subjects connected with the Park, historical and scientific. The these is constant and the educational Opportunity great, Alilo the our and to history REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 6 of 10 Who of so beto resulted helpfully 0.20 to is it is orvice, its chief clerk - Benjamin ley - having spent two months last inter at achington, lonning thric or 17.7 shirt sun office 0.0 admistin in its LORK at it period needed, while is it should moure in the future on OCOPORE scale - as it has Already continued to do - and invaluable UNROLL in the Government service needing the refreslment of media air, its woods card mointains and cool northern see. It l worth noting in this connection that at the nowly coteblished 1002 country boren - E your bo: & - how is 0.1 furnishod through follow veels, each poon, to some thirty-five people, Tobroufter in likely to The limitor opportunity for 10 ing. lace in OE Locaries offers such spleuvie Opyor- 37 to 3 M with 1 00 landscape form, itc bere-towned grenite mountains, itc Idelificent outlooks mon may an ocean. The development is on ungent need, of I'm most opcontial lills and Pendition jet unbouched, while mony clso of the 016, discribed free 121 carlier >criod, need reconstruction to LC for to use tiem. -5- REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 7.of 10 OPPORTUNITIS FOR THE BOTMIST IN THE LAFAYETIE NATIONAL PARK by Duncan i. Johnson A ten & eeks stay on Mount Desert Island had loi the writer to appreciate keenly "now exceptional are the advantagos it offers to the botanist. During this time he nee body lss ocean and bay shoros calli has trampod over eight oi 1 to highout Pross rook-ribbod Cadillac Mountain to the densely-forestod, nose-covered poties os Bernard Countain A beautiful moonlight night, spent in cam on the sun as ON Countrien, a cloar thousand feet directly above the ocean' eage, as dollowed by a survise of surpassing splendor over the 10-voiled SOC. Arter those one cannt refain from comparin the scenic charms of Mount Discort with those alvea J onjoued in Europe, in the out indies, in the southern Annalachions and in the mountaine 01 Arisona and California. Iiere 210.00 is form to combination intimes views of rucged mountains, surf-Tringed islands, villages scattered along beautiful shores, and sparkling lakes and Days dotted with white salls. Hourt Descrit has, furthertope, the always fascinating attrac ion of an unbounded occur horison. Those for enjoyment and recupora- tior the Ladeyette National Parric offers to any out-door man and not alone to the botonist. In more strictly botanical aspect Mount Decert is quite unique when com- pered 1th all oth I' parts of our Atlantic coast. There is here a number of plant species reveries ly large for so limited il area, including many plants of quite iverce distributional relationships. In direct consequence of the highly varied topography of the Island there 10 1so a BPC t V riety or ecological types. -1- REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 8 of 10 Nowhere on our eastern coast, save in the Lafayetto Na tional Park, is there so ele- vated a region having a really moritime climate, and nowhere else is there afforded oppor tunity to study a vertical section of so varied a vegetation. This ranges from the roll and brown seaweeds below tide-level, such as coor at Schnoner Head and in the bountiful tide pools of Anemone Cave, up to the stunted, \ind-blown pines, spruces and birches OF the dry sunnitis of Champlain or Callillac Mountain. Between these extremes are CO be sound many intero ting types of vogetation, including sphagmen boye full of cranborry, cotton grass and pitcher plants; thickets of sheep laurel, rhodora and Labrador tea; mats of crowborry, bear-berry and rock cranderry; and finally in the Park itself, sylondid ev rgreen foretts of pine, spruce, balson and hemlock, and decidious forests of oaks, birch and maple. This varied vegetation of course affords or our tuni ty for many sorts of Dotonical invostigation, such as detailed studios o: the development OIL physiology of individual species. Invos tigation of the distributional limits 01 species found on Mount Decert is of great interest, as this Islnd seems to be the northern limit of many southorn types, and the SO ther. limit of certain arotic ones. A detailed study of the ecology of distribution of forests and other végotational types 01 this moritine mountain range should yield especially important re ults. The significance of these findings would undoubtedly be greatly emphasized by is commurison . ith the results of a study now being Rado of the vegetation of a similar topographic area at Carnol, on the Pacific coast. -2- REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 90f10 Moore, SCIMITIVIC OPPORTINITIES OF NICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK With advancing civilization, aroas on which natural conditions still oxist are rapidly dininishing, and one of the most important runctions of the National Parks is to preserve for scientific study parts of our flore and fauna undisturbed by outside agencies. 0.2 special interest to the biologist are the tension points, or riooting lacos of different habitats. They offor the excoptional opportunities for studying controllin influences, different groupinge of plants and animals, and the resyonse of living organisms to their environments The Ierayette National Party tension points of unsual in coreat, and is Secullarly favorable 201 such research. the predominent vegetation is natthere with 321 approciate mixture of arotic-alpino clements, yet southern please cover large areas and sometimes ovor mingle with those from colder regions. At sea level, here and on neighboring islands, there is a luxuriant growth of crowberry (Umpetru) nigrom) hich olsewhere in this latitudo is found only on Airbino mountain sunits, while bayberry (Myrica caroliniensis), sweet forn (Coretonia porigrina) and other inhibitents of warner regions are nevortheless abundant. For wenty yours a group of Javanese pine (Sciadopytis vorticillita., i troo so sensitive that it is killod by the cold at the Brooklyn Botonic G rden, and also the cucumbor tree (Marnolle commital have been driving on the Island without protection. -1- REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 10 of 10 The forests of Mount Desert rppresent a stretch of country exten ing from southern New Jersey to Labrador. There are pure stands of pitch pine (Pirus rigida) with an understory of huckloberry (Gaylussacia bacoata) and bear-berry (Arctostaphylos uvo-ursi) such as are found in Now Jersey. hito pine frequently takes possession of abundoned farm land, and is ofton soon ith oak or with spruce, fir, and sometimes with booch and sugar 123210. as in central and northern Now England. Pure spruce, and SDYROO and PAY, GOVEN extensive 02028, as in denade and in the Adirondack Mountains above 2500 Yeat ocovation. Each stand has practically the same composition as that found in the locality in which it occurs abn dantly, as well as a large proportion of the usual associated plants; and ench association is reproducing vigorously and mintaining it olf. The institution 01 the insects appeare to slow the same contact of northern and there form an the plants. Dr. Us W. Johnson of the Boston Society of Notated History has collected Dipters or vinged incepts on the Island for 2 number of years and has Comm them extrnordinarily varied. That there should be this concentration is plants and animals from such Riversa holitate on the limited land we occur surrounded - included within Lafayetto National Park is in itself a matter of the first scientific interest. That these contrasted groupe successfully maintain themsolves indicates contrasts correimonai sly strong in the environment of the various parts of the Park. The underlying Gambos of such growings require study 02 climate, soil, physiography, ocean currents, and hi tory. It is particularly fortunate that this truly remarkable 2302 is to be neeperved in its natural condition Ellsworth, Maine. September 14th, 1921. Mr. George B. Dorr, Bar Harbor, Maino. Doar Mr. Dorr:- Paul Simpson at "Seal Harbor is working for you in some Park work. An important sale has been made at Seal Harbor in which Mr. Hoe and other well known people there are interested and a now family is coming in, evidently of considerable wealth, whose interest in our propositions could be profitably stimulated. Partly for those reasons and knowing that it would be all right with you and having a fow hours work by & surveyor to be done in connection with this sale I refer to, I have taken the liberty to tell Paul Simpson that I would make it all right with you on his leaving the work for & while this afternoon. Don't bother to reply to this but don't discharge Simpson because he loft the job for a short timo at my request. Yours truly, [John A Peters] page 20 THE NORTHEAST HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY 21 Coal, removing garbage, gravel 119.00 Report of the Paths and Trails Committee Cost of water sports 314.16 For the Year 1921 New Towels 340.75 Wages of employees 680.00 Fare of employees 63.30 With a few trifling exceptions, no work of Board of employees 281.50 any consequence was undertaken by the Com- Superintendent's salary 500.00 mittee during the year 1921, other than con- A. L. Manchester 7 1-2 per structing the trail mentioned in the report cent gross receipts 425.35 for 1920, from the summit of Brown's moun- A. L. Manchester rent of new tain to the Notch Road, thence through the house 168.75 woods to the Giant Slide Trail, and opening A. L. Manchester rent of old up the old trail from the summit of Little house 80.00 Brown's mountain to the Giant. Both of Special commission to super- these trails have been extensively used-es- intendent 105.61 pecially the latter-- which affords a very at- tractive way of reaching the summit of Sar- $4720.74 gent mountain. Digging the pool 349.20 A short trail was constructed from the one New Bath houses 2137.56 through the woods to the Giant Slide Trail $7207.50 to a connection with the trail over Little Brown' Balance 1246.20 Mt. which permits a tramp over both Brown's and Little Brown's mountains and thence $8453.70 to the summit of Sargent without recourse LUCILE A. WOOD, to the public highway. As the beauties of Treasurer. the North face of Brown's mountain and those of Little Brown's and Bald Peak become fam- pg. 2 of3 22 THE NORTHEAST HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY 23 iliar these trails will be among the most popular on the Island the trails on the very beautiful and interesting All of the trails were well maintained dur- mountains west of Somes Sound. ing the year and few if any, complaints were Mr. Dorr has agreed to provide for the use received. of the Committee out of the Government In 1922 it will be necessary to repaint and appropriation for the maintenance of the reletter all the iron signs, erected some years Lafayette National Park during the fiscal ago, and it is estimated that the cost of this year, ending June 30th, 1923, a sum not ex- work will be about $100. ceeding $375, on condition that the money A supply of wooden signs has been provided shall be expended upon trails located in the and few additional ones will be required dur- Park and that the Committee shall provide ing 1922. The important trails have been and expend a like sum in the construction and marked with cairns or signs or both and no maintenance of other trails located without trouble should be experienced in finding the the Park area. If the Committee's expendi- way over them. tures are less than $375 the Government al- The springs which have been developed lowance will be reduced to the same amount. have been a source of much comfort to many In other words Mr. Dorr, subject to the con- walkers and the members of the Society and dition above stated, has agreed to provide a their friends are again urged to inform the sum equivalent to the Committee expenditures Committee of any others they may discover. but not to exceed $375. None of this govern- The revised Path and Island Maps were ment allowance will pass through the hands issued and put on sale about July 1st, 1921, of the Committee or its authorized agent. and have given general satisfaction. There A similar arrangement has been made with should be a further revision of the Island the three other Paths and Trails Committees. map and perhaps it would be wise to prepare The Committee deeply appreciates Mr. and publish a special map clearly delineating Dorr's action and considers the arrangement a satisfactory one, especially as it is under- flage 30F3 VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY 25 24 THE NORTHEAST HARBOR REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ROADS stood all the work to be done shall be in ac- cordance with its directions and plans and un- der its sole supervision. August 16, 1922. Towards the end of the season some com- At its last annual meeting the Village plaints were received with resp ect to the con- Improvement Society passed a Resolution dition of the Bridle Path, between the en- recommending the Town to vote an appro- trance and the Rye Field and during 1922 it priation for oiling a strip of road as an experi- will be necessary to have the path between ment to demonstrate the most efficacious these points regravelled. The cost of this and practical method of laying the dust during work will approximate $200. the summer months. The Committee expended during the year In conformity with this recommendation for labor on Trails $216.09, labor on Bridle the Town, in March of this year voted an ap- Path $76. and for wooden signs, $95.90. a total of $387.99. propriation of $5,000 and specified that of this amount: The Committee again desires to express its 1. $1,500 be used in preparing the roads appreciation of the good work done by Mr T. A. MeIntire in supervising its operations. and applying calcium chloride from Seal Harbor to Asticou Corner. Mr. McIntire's services have been rendered 2. That 40 barrels of light oil which was without compensation, other than the satis- on hand left over from last year be applied faction he has derived from helping the cause. from Asticou Corner to Ice House Hill, Harbor- The thanks of the Chairman are due to the members of the Committee and to the men side. who have done the hard work, especially Frank 3. That heavy oils and Tarvia B. be ap- B. Lowrie. plied from Ice House Hill to Neighborhood House. WILLIAM JAY TURNER, Chairman. 922 [1.9.1922] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT STUDY FOR PERMANENT DEVELOPMENT OF LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK LAND AREA The total land area of Lafayette National Park, acquired or possible on Mount Desert Island, is limited narrowly in com- parison with the areas of the great western Parks of similar resort, set aside in wilder territory. The aim of the Nation- al Park Service, accordingly, is to develop it intensively, so as to bring out to the full its beauty, interest, and useful- ness to the public. To this the tract lends itself remarkably in its extra- ordinrey concentration of landscape feature and its exceptional fitness for the preservation of the native regional life, plant and animal, in wide variety. In this latter respect the Park, unique in its eastern situation among the land areas under National Park control, can serve importantly. as it can also, with its striking scenery and wide resort, in promoting recognition of the beauty of nature and the importance of preserving it as a national resource. with these ends in view, it seeks the Park's development within its Island bounds by foot trails and ways for use wi th horses, 312370 301VA33 XAA9 JANOITAN riding or driving, rather than by motor-driven vehicles, ROBRAH-RAB whose swift passage diminishes space and makes impossible No 30830 lingoring or detailed observation. One motor road, of any considerable length, alone enters into this plan, a road survoyed during the peet sum- mer from the public highway to the summit of Cadillac Moun- tain, the high point of the Park, the Island, and our easte m coast. After long study and many trials a route has been secured, between four and five miles in length, that has no equal in the eastern states for beauty and breadth of out- look, for variety and interest of view; it also has a grade not exceeding six per cent at maximum, an easy grade for motorists, and wide, safe curves. This road, when built, will be a unique feature in our esstern states. There will be nothing like it in the e country to the eastward of the Rockies, and it alone, as a landecape feature, will draw motorists from far and near. Beyond this single road, it is planned not to invade the natural beauty of the parklands or their value as wild life sanctuary, but to secure, as opportunity may come, striking points of interest upon the mainland as outliers of the Park - such as the Schoodic Mountains, Bluehill, tracts on the shore of inland lakes within easy motoring distence from Bar Harbor that afford good fishing ROIRETMI 70 ROBRAH RAB and good bathing, or geological feature of exceptional 3HT TO BOFFO interest, such as the great snake-like esker that winds for miles over the level plains between Bangor and Cherry- field; and to utilize the Federal or state aid motor roads leading to them as excursions for the motorist vieitor to the Park. In addition to these, for more distant excursion, Lafayette National Park has what is unique to it in the whole Park system, unlimited opportunity for excursion by water through island-sheltered water-ways to yet other points of interest and beauty. Reserved in broad sections for foot trails, bridle paths, and driving roads the National Park lands upon the Island become at once of wide extent, fitted to occupy the visitor with objects of fresh interest for days or weeks together, while ways of such a character will not detract from, but in the end - taken back by nature - will add to the interest and charm as well as the accessibility of the landscape they exhibit. These lands, as they are divided by motor-highways through the mountain passes of the Island chain, fall nat- urally into separate groups. The central of these groups, ROIRATUI 30 EDITATE NRA9 JANGITAN ETTAYARAJ HOBRAH RAB and the broadest, containing the great variety of landscape to 301730 feature, is that lying between the deep pass to the westward called the Notch, where the old road runs from Somesville to Northeast and Seals Harbors, and the pass occuried by Bubble Pond, and in seeking to give emphasis to the wild life Banc- tuary aspect of the Park, an aspect that must steadily grow in importance and interest as the years go by, it is planned to distinguish this section, containing Eagle Lake and Bubble Pond, Jordan Pond, Aunty Betty's Pond and Upper Hadlock Pond; containing Pemetic Mountain and the Carry pass, the Bubble Mountains and Southwest pass, Sargent Mountain, Penobscot Mountain with its amphitheater, and Parkman Mountain with its peaks and passes, together with the woodlands associated with these, as the "Sanatuary", an area devoted to wild life, both animal and plant, and destined to remain, according to inten- tion, undisturbed forever by motor intrusion. On either side of this area there are, to the eastward, two mountain areas - road enclosed, according to fact or in- tention; and to the westward the great natural feature of Somes Sound finra with its bordering mountains, and, separated from this by the road to Southwest Harbor, an area containing Beech Mountain and Beech Cliffs, the various peaks of Western Mountain, Echo Lake and Long Pond - in their picturesque south- ern portion. 70 JANOITAN NAR Each of these areas has its own special character and SWIMM HORBAH SAS BHT 30 301790 interest, but none other offers the important wild life ap- portunity this central one possesses; in it, guarded by rangers and undisturbed by motor travel, wild life in every form appropriate to the region and desirable to retain should quickly become abundant and teme, a delight to the observer. The inclusion of such an area, set aside and devoted to such use, should add immensely to nthe interest taken in the Park, to the pleasure it will give and the support it should re- ceive, and to its educational value and the effects of it, whether in the life, plant or animal, it helps directly to preserve, or in the inspiration that it gives toward the es- tablishment of areas of similar intention elsewhere will be important and far reaching. The scheme outlined lacks possibility of complete ful- filment at the present time, because lands that are essential to it have yet not been secured, but it involves no lands devoted now to other uses or that we may not hope to get. And it marks out the courses the National Park Service in its development of the Park would wish to follow. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT January 9th, 1922. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 26 Brondway New York City Dear Mr. :ockefeller:- The work involved in the study I have been making for the permanent development of the Park along the lines we have di scussed has grown as I have be- come immersed in it, and seems greater now than ever. But I have accomplished enough to present a scheme for approval to the National Park Service, and to win approval for it; and enough to show the great possibilities that oven out along the lines that we have held in view. My first aim has been to givs unity to the design, and make the Park a 0 single and organic whole. Other aims I have held steadily in view have been practicability of carrying out and like- lihood of permanence in what is planned, and the creation of a plan that would be approved at Washington and whose wisdom and appeal to public interest would obtain for it a sunnort that would grow only stronger as the years go by ROIA3TNI 3HT 70 Mr. J.D.R.Jr. XRAS - JANOITAN 1-9-22 XHA9 JANOITAN ETTEYARAJ ENIAM ROBRAH RAB and it is carried out. so that no shifting of administra 3HT 70 301770 tion would be liable to lead to affect it. These things, after much thought and study and many days spent in the field myself, I think I have accomplished. The result differs in detail in one respect from what we had in mind, but I think on studying it you will find it good. And from the National Park Service point of view the change seems essential. [G.B.Par] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR. MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT STUDY FOR permannet DEVELOPMENT OF LAPAYETTE NATIONAL PARK LAND AREA The total land area of Lafaaette National Park, acquired or possible on Mount Desert Island, is limited narrowly in com- parison ith the areas of the great western Parks of similar resort. set aside in wilder territory. The aim of the Nation- 81 Park Service, accordingly, is to develop it intensively, so as to bring out to the full its beauty, interest, and useful- ness to the public. To this the tract lends itself remarkably in its extra- ordinray concentration of landscape feature and its exceptional fitness for the preservation of the native regional life, plant and animal, in wide variety. In this latter respect the Park, unique in its eastern situation among the land areas under National Park control, can serve importantly, LS it can also, with its striking scenery and wide resort, in promoting recognition of the beauty of nature and the importance of preserving it as E. national resource. With these ends in view. it seeks the Park's development ithin its Island bounds by foot trails and ways for use with horses, 2. ROISETTI -70 THEMTRA930 JANOITAN riding or driving, rather NSA JAMOLTAN than by motor - driven vehicles, ENIAM ROBRAH RAB whose swift massage diminishos space and makes aHT 70 301770 lingering or detailed observation. One motor road, of any considerable length, nlone enters into this mlan, 8 road surveyed during the past sum- mer from the public highway to the summit of Cadillee Moun- toin, the high point of the Park, the Island, and our oustern coast. After long study and many trials a route has been secured, between four and Rivo viles in length, that has no equal in the eastern states for besuty and breadth of out- look, for variety and interest of view; it also has a grade not exceeding six nor cont at maximum, an ossy grade for motorists, and wide, safe curves. This road, when built, will be a unique feature in our eastern states. There will be nothing like it in the country to the eastward of the Rockies, and it alone, as a landecape feature, will drew motorists from far and near. Beyond this single road, it is planned not to invode the natural beauty of the marklands or their value as wild life sanctuary, but to secure, as opportunity may some, striking points of interost unon the mainland as outliers of the Park - such as the Schoodic Mountains, Bluehill, treets on the shore of inland lakes within easy motoring distance from Bar Harbor that afford good fishing 3. ROISETTI 3HT 70 JANOITAN ROBRAH RAS and good bathing, or geological fenture of exceptional 70 301770 interest, such as the great snake-like esker that winds for miles over the level plains between Bangor and Cherry- field; and to utilize the Federal or state aid motor roads leading to them as excursions for the motorist visitor to the Park. In addition to these, for more distant excursion, Lafayette National Park has what is unique to it in the whole Park ays tem, unlimited opportunity for excursion by water through island-sheltered water-ways to yet other points of interest and beauty. Reserved in broad sections for foot trails, bridle maths, and driving roads the National Park lands unon the Island become at once of wide extent, fitted to occury the visitor with objects of fresh interest for days or weeks together, while ways of such a character will not detract from, but in the end - taken back by nature - will add to the interest and charm as well AS the accessibility of the landscape they exhibit. These lands, as they are divided by motor-highways through the mountain passes of the Island chain, fall nat- urally into separate groups. The central of these groups, ROIA3TNI 3HT 70 THEMTRA930 4. XRA9 JANOITAN JANOITAN ROBRAH RAB and the broadest, containing the great variety of landscane EAT 70 301770 feature, is that lying between the deep DESS to the westward called the Notch, where the old road runs from Somesville to Northeast and Seal Herbors, and the pass occuried by Bubble Pond, and in sooking to give amphasis to the wild life sanc- tuary aspect of the Park, an inspect that must steadily grow in importance and interest as the years go by, it is planned to distingish this section, containing Eagle Lake and Bubble Pond, Jorden Pond, Aunty Betty's Pond and Unper Hedlock Pond; containing Pemetic Mountain and the Carry pass, the Bubble Mountains and Southwest pass, Sergent Mountain, Penciscoot Mountain with its amphitheater. and Parkman Mountain with its peaks and passes, together with the woodlands associated with these, as the "Sanctuary", an area devoted to wild life, both animal and plant, and destined to remain, according to inten- tion, undisturbed forever by motor intrusion. On either side of this area there are, to the eastward, two mountain areas - road enclosed, according to fact or in- tention; and to the westward the great natural feature of Somes Sound finrd with its bordering mountains, and, separated from this by the road to Southwest Harbor, an area containing Beech Mountain and Beech Cliffs, the various peaks of Western Mountain, Echo Lake and Long Pond - in their nicturesque south- ern portion. ROIRETUI 3HT 70 5. >15819 JANOITAN ach of these areas has it's own special character and ENLAM ROBBAH SA8 EHT 70 301770 interest, but none other offers the important wild life on- portunity this central one mossesses; in it, guarded by rangers and undisturbed by motor travel, wild life in every form appropriate to the region and desirable to retain should quickly become Abundant and tame, a delight to the observer. The inclusion of such an area, set aside and devoted to such use, should add immensely to the interest takon in the Park, to the pleasure it will give and the support it should re- ceive, and to its adventional value and the effects of it, whether in the life, plant or animal, it helps directly to preserve, or in the inspiration that it gives toward the es- tablishment of areas of similar intention elsewhere will be immortant and far reaching. The scheme outlined lacks possibility of complete ful- filment at the present time, because lands that are essential to it have yet not been secured, but it involves no lands devoted now to other uses or that we may not hope to get. And it marks out the courses the National Park Service in its development of the Park would wish to follow. [G.BDDrr]] THE CLUB'S PERMANENT CAMPS 367 the appeal of the unspoiled little lake, there is a peculiar charm to Ponkapoag, heightened greatly in that it can be reached by auto, over a delightful route, in less than an hour from the heart of the busy city. With these natural advantages, the cleverness and ingenuity of members can be counted upon to do much to add to the pleasure of visits. To spend a starlit evening by a camp-fire at the edge of the pond, surrounded by great stretches of woods, after a busy day in the city, is a real refreshment of the body and spirit. Perceval Sayward ECHO LAKE CAMP The beginning of the Echo Lake Camp dates from the regular August Camp of 1922, which was made possible in this location by the invitation and coöperation of Mr. George Dorr, the Superintendent of the Lafayette National Park, and his assist- R.G. Clough ants, Mr. B. L. Hadley, Chief Ranger, and Mr. Henry Smith, CAMPING AT PONKAPOAG Ranger. (It was through their efforts that a rough road was constructed into the camp, a site cleared to permit the erection of tents, and a cabin built, which served first as a kitchen and later as an office.) The first year of the camp was a rough one. Tents were erected wherever the topography of the cleared space permitted. The so-called dining-tent served as a shelter from the sun and as a plaything for the rain and wind. The usual excellent spirit of the August Campers soon overcame physical discom- forts, and they became enthusiastic over the features and attractions peculiar to the Lafayette National Park. At the end of the season this enthusiasm resulted in an almost unani- mous feeling that this camp site should be retained as a per- manent camp for the Club. After consultation with the Park officials, who were most cordial in their invitation to continue, the Excursion Committee appointed a subcommittee with power to equip and continue the camp. In 1925 the control et the camp passed from the Excursion Committee to the Council, which recognized the permanent status of the camp R.G. Clousi PONKAPOAG CAMP by the appointment of a managing committee, as in the case of the older camps of the Club. From this rough beginning in 1922 the camp has gradually grown in comfort and in size. Chief among the improvements which have increased the comfort of the camp are the following: Applachia V. (6 (1924) 368 THE CLUB'S PERMANENT CAMPS the large dining and recreation pavilion, glassed in on all sides, with a large stone fireplace for chilly or damp nights; modern sanitation, running hot and cold water, electric lights and power, an ice-cold well in the center of the camp; large roomy tents with board floors, iron beds with box mattresses; swimming float, boats, canocs; telephone connections; auto road into camp with adequate parking space; and increased and well- organized kitchen facilities. On Mt. Desert risc thirty named peaks, nine of which are more than fifteen hundred feet high. All the thrills of mountain climbing can be found here without the unduly prolonged exertion found elsewhere. The one hundred miles of govern- ment trails in the Lafayette National Park provide ample short walks and long tramps. Experienced camp leaders plan and direct daily excursions. The camp is on the cast shore of Echo Lake. Directly Parker B. Field across the lake rises Beech Cliff, six hundred feet sheer. The BAKER'S ISLAND lake, two miles long and a half-mile wide, is beautifully located, Dancing Rocks with mountains on both sides, making it ideal for canocing and boating. The water is clear and delightful for swimming Fishing for the angler is near at hand. About two miles away is Southwest Harbor, where the boat lands the guest after an all-night sail from Boston. Here may be found motor boats and sail boats at an average cost of about fifty cents per half-day per person. Many hikes start by using motor boats to the base of the mountain to be climbed. Clambakes at Baker's Island have now become a camp institu- tion. Moonlight sails and fishing parties can be easily organized at short notice. Tennis and golf are available at the near-by country club. Thus this camp is unique in that it combines mountain, lake, and scashore recreation. Nowhere in America can this peculiar combination be found except at Mt. Desert Island. While there are no set rules and regulations governing the camp, the committee in charge has attempted to keep the activi- ties well organized and planned. Each day a hike or sail is Parker B. Field planned for those who wish to participate under the leadership ECHO LAKE of the resident leaders. The social activities and evenings are Camp on left Beech Cliff opposite taken care of by guest committees, SO that monotony has never become a camp problem. The camp is open four weeks in August, the guests coming in two sections of sixty each, for two weeks. Z. Carleton Staples THE HARPSWELL LABORATORY WEIR MITCHELL STATION BAR HARBOR, ME. January 23, 1922. Mr. A. H. Lynam; Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Lynam: I received your letter concerning our share of the taxes and will issue a voucher to our treasurer, Dr. M. J. Greenman, ordering them paid. Before doing SO I would like to inform myself on several points. Were these taxes levied by the assessors on the 14 1/2 acres we leased from the "wild Gardens" as a separate item? ur did they levy on the whole property including the land to the north as well as the land to the south of the road and the "Wild Gardens" then apportion this share to the 14 1/2 acres leased to the Harps- - well Laboratory? Also was the Laboratory building included in the property taxed? I ask this because the selectmen promised not to tax our individual property and I wanted to be sure that their office force had not forgotten this fact. I am happy to report that Mr. Henry Eno has completely recovered from his very serious illness (pneumonia) from which he nearly died. I am busy collecting money for our Harpswell Laboratory operations next summer and already have enough on hand or pledged to enable us to conduct the work. Much interest is also being shown by the scientists of the country and 1 expect that our facilities will be taxed to their utmost by students and research workers. 2. During February I shall be working in the large new aquarum and laboratory at Miami, Florida and expect to get many pointers there as to new we may develop at Bar Harbor. With kind regard to Mr. Dorr and to your brother, I am, Yours sincerely, Ulin Dahlgrom Pg of 8 Somerset CITI, Boston. aprist go 1222 Wear Mr Lynam, Than a letter from Prof Wallgow in Whiel he speak of Coming denn to Ran a few days' Stay, about the 12th or 13n april - and then yu I hall probably Mm on from here 8 2 Somerset CITIL, Boston. 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WASHINGTON Dear LS. Dorr: For your information we are inclosing a copy of a letter dated May 4, 1922, signed by the Acting Secre- tary, in regard to the preparation and submission of the 1922 annual report. You will note that our report is limited to 160 printed pages including the index but exclud- ing any illustrations. In allocating pages, one page is allotted to your report. This means that your report will be limited to 1,000 words printed in E-point solid type. If tables are submitted for printing, you should allow for a proportionate reduction in number of words of text. In the preparation of your report you are par- ticularly referred to Circular D, copy of which you should have in your files. Special attention should be given to paragraph 1 of this circular "Special requirements". It is very important that the instructions regarding size of paper, spacing, etc., be followed, as those are based on the rules of the Government Printing Office, and unless followed will necessitate additional work in the Washington Office to put the report in proper form for submission to the printer. The official park season for the purpose of the annual report is from October 1 to September 30, and travel statistics should be for this period. The figures of tourist travel to the park should be omitted, suitable blank spaces being loft in report for the insertion of these which must be wired in at the close of the day September 30. Tabulated statement should be placed immediately in the mail in order that figures may be checked before sending to print- er. It is requested that your report for Lafayette be submitted in duplicate to reach here not later than Sep- tember 14. You should also send a copy of your report direct to Field Assistant Albright at Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. This with the one copy that you will want to retain for your files will make four copies to be prepared. You should also include with your report suitable photographs for possible use as illustrations. air ICED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 2. With the necessity for radical reduction in the size of our report and with the limited space allotted you, you are placed on your mattle to submit a concise report which at the same time will be of general interest. Cordially yours, (Sgd) ARNO B. CAMMERER Acting Director. Mr. George B. Dorr Supt., Lafayette National Park Bar Harbor, Maine Inc. 2469 AND*EN New York May 26, 1922, Dear Mr. Dorr: Your letter is just received. I am sorry not to meet Mr. Mather in New York today as I had hoped, and regret, too, that he cannot go to Maine before the middle of June. Do you suppose it would be possible to get Mr. Mather's consent to the construction of the road along the west side of Jordan Pond, starting from my present road just above the Jordan Pond Dam bridge, SO that work might start on that road as soon as you get back to Maine and have approved the final route which Mr. Simpson is now working on? It seems to me that this is highly important and that because this road is the connecting link between Seal and Bar Harbors for horses, Mr. Mather might feel; justified in authorizing you to start work on it even before he had visited the park. If this consent can be wisely secured before you leave Washington, I should think an important step of progress would have been made. Again, if nothing can be done until Mr. Mather comes to Maine, the road would not have been started until after the summer people had begun to come, and work would be going on nearer this end, where it would be more of a nuisance than had it progressed a little further up the lake. A word on this subject at your convenience will be appreciated. jorie or I note what you say about Representative Nelson, of Augusta, and would be glad indeed to go about the roads with him should he Actord be. at Seal Harbor while I am there this summer. What you say in the postscript of your letter about the attitude of the Chinese towards beauty is quite true. Unlimited time, leisure and a spirit of contemplation are essential to the development of the highest art, are they not? Please tell Mr. Mather how sorry I am not to have seen him and that I am looking forward to seeing him at Seal Harbor, if that should be possible. Very truly, Mr. George B. Dorr, Cosmos Club, John D. Professional Washington, D.C. New York May 31, 1922. Dear Mr. Dorr: Your letter of may 29th is received. I am sorry that Mr. Mather is not well and unable to make the trip to Seal Har- bor, but glad that Mr. Cammerer can go. You are quite right in thinking that it might create comment were I to be in Seal Harbor when either of these gentlemen is there. While I have not heard from Mr. Simpson, I assume that by the time you arrive he will have completed his survey of the horse road along the west side of Jordan Pond, past the boulder slide, and hope that among the first things you do with Mr. Cammerer will be to go over that piece of road with Mr. Simps on, and if the location of the road meets with your approval, that Mr. Cammerer will be willing to authorize you to proceed with the work on it, for, as I have told you, Mr. Clement could start work on this road at an early date. I shall think of you and Mr. Cammerer as walking over these routes together, and shall envy you the beauty and joy of it all. I am sure much will be accomplished by this joint visit. Thank you for calling my attention to the article on Early Chinese Ceramics. I have not seen it, and am glad to know about it. I hope your cold is much better, and that a return to the Maine air will put you in good shape again. If Mr . Cammerer should be returning from Maine through New York, I would be interested to have a little chat with him, to gain his impressions of what he has seen in Maine, and would be glad to meet his convenience as to the time and place of an interview, if one should be possible for him. Will you be good enough to give Mr. Cammerer this message, also my kind regards? Very sincerely, John Mr George B. Dorr, Somerset Club, 42 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. Acadia. interstor C 1 Culture DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GRAND NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT July 11, 1922. Dear Mr. Cammerer: I enclose the map you asked for showing the residence at Northeast Harbor and the general residential layout. I enclose also what is called the Path Map for the eastern half of the Island. This map, though it bears a recent imprint, as a fresh edition, really goes back a good many years and is mainly valuable for the mountain trails, but it shows the general situation and the mountainous character of the tract very plainly. From it you will see that what is known as Asticou Hill, a bold granite mass four hundred and fifty odd feet in height and a continuation to the shore of the Sargent Mountain mass, lies between Northeast Harbor and the Jordan Pond area which includes Seal Harbor, Long Pond, and the Amohi theatre. President Eliot, whose house is the oldest summer residence in the Northeast Harbor district, lives where Asticou Hill, separating two areas, comes down to meet the sea, his residence accordingly bordering on both. The neighborhood area of the Northeast Harbor colony takes in Brown Mountain (Norumbega Mountain), the only one which has not yet been acquired for the Park, and the two Hadlock ponds, whence their water supply is drawn. am The general residence at Northeast Harbor lies close along the shore. I have only indicated the houses of a few of the summer ARCHIVES 2. residents who have taken in one way or another an active part in the colony's affairs. The principal hotels are marked: The Rockend House, the Clifton House, and, at the head of the Harbor, Asticou Inn. President Emeritus Eliot and Miss Mary Wheelwright of Boston, who has been active in securing lands for the Park, have homes by the eastern entrance to the Harbor. Mr. Seth Milliken of New York, who has been helpful also, has a home by its western entrunce, and Mr. Gano Dunn, who is one of the leaning electrical engineers of the country and a man of high scientific prominence, ha: a home on its western shore. He has been, and is, of great assistance to me. Mr. Pepper has built a house on Schoolhouse Ledge. Mr. Lincoln Cromwell, president of the Northcast Harbor V. I. A., whom you met in New York, lives in a house on the Somes Sound shore which is, second to Dr. Eliot's, the oldest summer residence in that section, built by his wife's father. On the eastern side of the Harbor live Professor Emeritus Francis Peabody of Harvard, Dr. Richard Hart of Philadelphia, one of the leading sur- geons of the country, and Mr. Carroll Tyson, an artist specially interested in birds and painting them. My friend. Dr. Drury, head of St. Paul's School, a man of splendid public spirit, lives by Gilpatrick Cove, together with a colony of old friends of mine - Henry Parkman and others. NATIONAL ARCHIVES 3. Senator Pepper's house on Schoolhouse Ledge is of recent building. That of his friend Mr. Turner, present chairman of the Northeast Harbor Path Committee who is taking charge for me, as are the other path committee chairmen, of the Government trail repair lying in their section, is just completing the house marked in his name to the north of it. Mr. Pepper, whose season here, Mr. Cromwell tells me, has never been a long one, spends a large part of it by preference in a camp entirely away from this section of the Island, on Goose Marsh Point at Pretty Marsh Harbor on the western shore, some dozen miles or more away by road from Northeast Harbor. Having no map of the whole Island to send, I enclose, to show where Mr. Pepper's west shore camo is, one of the Geological Survey Mt. Desert sheets, showing the western half. The Geological Survey, you may recall, is bringing out a Lafayette National Park sheet which will take in the whole Island, now shown by it upon three separate sheets. I left with its editor, Mr. Wood, the text to be printed on the back of it according to arrangement. I am anxious to get this map for use this season, and Mr. Beaman, of the mapping department, said it would be put through promotly once he got the text. I wrote Mr. Demaray some days since asking him to find out where the delay lay and, if he could, to set things going - or let me know concerning it. I have not yet heard from him and as it is possible he may be away, won't you make inquiry? Sincerely yours, Mr. Arno B. Cammerer, Group B.WH Acting Director, National Park Service, Washington, D.C. I George B. Dorr NorthEast Harber Map 1922 UPPER POND Mapsion charlton Yaruall residence J.a. Murray Diston Words Ean Harber N.E. Harbor 92z chance W.W. golf Grounds Length W. S/inkeler W.J Turney asticom 1 Inn SOCIAL Harborsic J. Tunis Camell Club Tyson Lincon h W. Pepper 61> Rishard Hart Crowwell Tennis o Prest N.E. Club Gano Wann Harber v.da R J.Purrencement P.O. 0 Prof. hancin H. TH. Curter Swiming Samuel Elit Pool Rockyed House Cliftony Hitel King House Kathre Win m. 0 Dr. Henry Parkmen ® Dram OS milliken W. Elist x 10m Vaughan W. Fraser of Carring Reproduced at the National Archives R679 UP S, Centra Sile 1907-39/Bon 4, File 121, of 1. Bix Citation: Quarters TUT Conseplocated DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR in sepalate NATIONAL PARK SERVICE file. Above and 1822 LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK P9-2. BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT July 15, 1922. Dear Mr. Cammerer: I write in answer to your telegram of July 14, regarding lease for office quarters, carpenter shop and garage for present fiscal year; and asking that I expedi te request for approval of the same, giving full details. To take them seriatim s The Park office is situated on a plot of ground cornering on two of the principal streets of Bar Harbor, Park Road and Main Street. The length of the plot upon Park Road is two hundred and six (206) feet. The length of it upon Main Street is eighty-one (81) feet. The Park Road frontage faces the principal park of the Town, the Bar Harbor Athletic Field, from which shady foot-paths extend to the mountains of the National Park, a mile and a half away. The site the Park office is on was created for it, the land being donated for the purpose to the Wild Gardens of Acadia, a corporation formed for the purpose of cooperating with the National Park Service in the development of, the Park. when The Park office was built upon this site by the Wild Gardens of Acadia, and designed for its purpose. It was built on the first establishment of the Park as National Monument, and has 1/5/2019 Xfinity Connect Percival Baxter and George Dorr Printout charlie jacobi 1/5/2019 4:56 PM Percival Baxter and George Dorr To Howard Whitcomb Ronald Epp Copy Aaron Megquier Hi Howard and Ron I have documentation in Superintendent Dorr's monthly reports that Gov. Percival Baxter helped open Lafayette NP on May 15, 1922, meeting at that time (if not before) with George Dorr. They met again in July 1922 and had another scheduled for the fall. This makes a lot of sense. It's hard to imagine they did not meet. Thought you would want to know! Charlie 1927 Vis Citiman 28 SEAL HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY 29 Committees of the four Village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, North- THE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK ! east and Southwest Harbor. on Mount Desert Island, Me. The motor road commenced in the fall of includes 12,000 acres of mountains, woods and 1922 leading from Great Pond Hill, on the Bar : lakes Harbor Road to Somesville, to the Jordan Office, Corner Park Road and Main Street Pond House is now completed and will be open Bar Harbor, Maine for use in early July. Work is proceeding on the road leading from this to the summit of Superintendent George B. Dorr Green or Cadillac Mountain and is open to the Assistant Superintendent A. H. Lynam public as far as to a striking point of view over- Chief Ranger Benjamin L. Hadley looking Bar Harbor and Frenchman's Bay. Clerk Carl G. Nowack The lakes within and bordering the Park Clerk Typist Grace M. Oakes have been extensively stocked with fish sup- Publications: "Rules and Regulations," in- plied by the State Fish and Game Commis- cluding a brief history and description of the sion, about 150,000 fry and 100,000 fingerling Park, Free. salmon and trout being planted annually. Map of the United States Geological Survey Deer have steadily increased in number Lafayette National Park sheet with geological in the Park, as have Ruffed Grouse and other description compiled from the Shaler and other birds, taking advantage of the sanctuary accounts, 10 cents. given them. The beavers presented to the The Acadian Forest by George B. Dorr, Park by the State Fish and Game Commission 25 cents. in 1921 and 1922 have increased to an extent where control measures have become necessary The Park is interlaced with many miles of to prevent their spread. There is now a well wood and mountain trails. These are de- established colony at New Mill Meadow on veloped and maintained through the Path Duck Brook, where a lake which is a feature in 1927 30 SEAL HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY 31 the landscape from the mountains has been created by them, and another on the outlet from : Aunt Betty's Pond. These colonies form in- BY-LAWS teresting features of the Island's native and original life. Those which have wandered No. 1-NAME Name. 1 elsewhere are being trapped by the park rangers The Society shall be known as by a method devised by the United States the Seal Harbor Village Improve- Biological Survey which does not injure them ment Society. and are being shipped away to points where No. 2-BOARD OF DIRECTORS Number of beaver are desired. members. The Board of Directors shall Additional publications of interest: consist of not less than ten nor Trail map of the Eastern Part of Mt. Desert more than twenty members, all of Island. whom shall be elected at the Monograph of the Geology of Mt. Desert, annual meeting of the members of illustrated: F. Bascomb. the Society by ballot or other History of Mt. Desert: by Dr. George Street. method provided by vote of the The Flora of Mt. Desert: by Edward Rand. members of the Society, and shall hold office until their successors are elected. In addition to the elected directors, the President, the Vice-Presidents, the Secretary, the Treasurer and the members of the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Mount Desert shall be ex-officio members of the Board of Directors. 6/12/2015 - (1536x2048) The Eyrie Seal Harbor, Maine July 14th, 1922 Dear Mr Lynam: I am greatly distressed to know of the condition of your eyes, of which you have advised me in your letter of July 12th, but reassured by the fact that the Doctor seems to feel confidence that with the treatment which he has prescribed this difficulty can be stopped, and the further fact that he does not think it necessary for you to do any different than you have heretofore. I much hope that your eyes will yield to the treatment prescribed and that you will soon note improvement in them. Thank you for writing me. Very sincerely, Johna Rockyulag Mr A H Lynam, Bar Harbor, Maine. https://web.mail.comcast.net/service/home/~/?auth=co&loc=en_US&id=297920&part=2 Pg. I of IR Amo Blammerer to S Mather REPORT OF INSPECTION TRIP To Lafavette National Park, Maine [ Circa 6/10/1922 Memorandum for Director Mather: You and I left Washington on the Federal Express at 7:30 o'clock on the evening of June I, 1922, arriving in Boston the morn- ing of the 2d. We left Boston on the evening of the 2d, arriving in Ellsworth, Maine, at 6:40 the next morning, motoring from there to Bar Hargor. where we were put up by Superintendent Dorr at his home. Mr. Dorr had met us in Boston and accompanied us to the Park. Saturday, the 3d, was rainy, with low-hanging fog clouds obscuring all except the immediate distance. With Supt. Dorr and his assistant, Mr. Lynam, I made an automobile circuit of the eastern section of the Island and walked over a path of new construction along the eastern side of Jordan Pond. It was impossible even to see the further shore of the pond on account of the fog, which, however, enabled me to give more attention that day to the path construction and the beauty of the natural ground covering. The next two days were bright and sunny, and you and I were ocoupied from morning until evening following woodland trails and climbing the mountains. On the 4th we aironited the Amphitheatre head to Jordan Mountain, passing Sargent Mountain Pond upon the way. The next day we climbed Champlain Mountain by the Precipice Path, descending by the Bee Hive to Sand Beach, where we bathed and lunched. We then motored 2. over to Beech Cliff. You had to leave on the evening of the 5th, I remained, to con- time my inspection and to make preparation of this report, until the evening of June 8th. when I left for Boston on the 9 o'clock ferry. purpose The special purpose of my inspection was to study the road and trail system laid before us in Washington recently by Supt. Dorr on a tentative project-map which he had prepared and which was the result of strategic long study on his part directed to securing a Dasis ecommication system for the Park. This accorded happily with out recent instructions to the superintendents to prepare maps, estimates, and other data covering road projects to be submitted to Congress as the basis for a general road program Supt. Derr has been studying for years the needs of the Park in regard to roads and paths, to link it with the residential sections of the Island and to afford interesting-ways of travel through it, his study in- cluding also that of means to efficient fire control and game protection. Supt. Dorr's original plan, tentatively laid out, is attached hereto as Exhibit A. It shows two systems of ways, one of which, marked in red on the attached blue print, is planned for motor you's the other, shown in yellow, for a system of road-trails for use on foot or by horse, motors being excluded from them. Before referring to Exhibit B, which shows conclusions arrived at in conference between you, Supto Derr and myself, I want briefly to register certain impressions that the Park and Island have made on me. 3. I had not been in Lafayette Park before and was surprised at the large scale of the Island. From the point where one enters it from the mainland, by the bridge at the Narrows, to Seal Harbor, is sixteen miles by read, while from the her.a of Sames Sound to Schooner Head is nineteen miles. This constitutes only the eastern half of the Island, whole is more compact and less extended than the western half and is the section that you and 1 covered in such portion as we had opportunity. This extent of the Island is increased further and emphasized by the bold, abrupt charaster of the mountain masses, while the wonderful views of the ocean, dotted here and there with islands, give a sense of vestness that eliminates all feeling of narrowness or restriction. One may. indeed, regard the broad expanse of water, islanded and stretching away into the horizon, as an extension of the Park, available for recreational uses. It would be difficult to say which of the remarkable opper- tunities the Park offers for enjoyment and redreation are the more attractive woodland walks and rides, walks along the well-planed, well-kept trails that lead over the mountains and up the precipitous cliffs, affording a constant succession of grand and beautiful views, or motor trips, or beating and sailing, or bathing. To the lover of nature the appeal of the woods is irresistible. Along the trails on every side objects of fresh interest in plant and animal life are donstantly arising. the lakes are filled with fish and the ocean is limitless in its offering for deep-sea fishing. No visitor coming to spend one or two days would be content wi th that short space of time but will wish to remain and extend it. This will not be a park for "trippers" but a place for visitors spending not less than a he week or two. It is to be borne in mind that the great mass of visitors to a national park do not desire wilking trips over rugged territory or strenuous climbs: for such, youth and activity, the habit and the love of exercise, are necessary. For too older, the less strong and active, or less atremously inclined, who are the vast majority, means must be provided making reasonably accessible the features of special interest and beauty in the Park. Were these, in such a system as Supt. Dorr has now planned, to be added to the Park's already extensive foot-trail system, I venture to predict that Lafayette National Park will become the most popular place of resort for lovers of nature and landscape to the eastward of the Great Lakes and Pass Mississippi. speak Before proceeding to a discussion of the road projects I wish to state that the trail work carried on from early times and recently with fresh energy since the Park's creation has resulted in something very fine. There are over two hundred miles of well-kept trails, carefully marked se that a boy venturing forth for the first into the Park area would have no trouble to find his way. Locations have been carefully chosen for the trails to bring out the greatest scenic value in the areas traversed, and exquisite taste is apparent alike in the selection of routes and the care of waysides. The original plan for motor roads and trail roads tentatively suggested by Supt. Dorr is shown, as stated, by Exhibit A. We next come to Exhibit B, which is a revision of Exhibit A with elimination,which you considered advisable, of certain extensions or duplications of the road 5. trails. This map shows one main, park line for motor travel from the town road now ending blindly near the Jordan Pond House to the Bar Harbor- Somesville road, with a road to the summit of Cadillac Mountain springing from it opposite Eagle Lake. Road trails available for foot, horse-back, or horse-drawn vehicle, but closed to motors and constituting a separate park system enclose in two great, connected loops the enobscot-Sargent Mountain mass and that of Penetic Mountain, The Triad and The Bubbles, passing four lakes - Eagle Lake, Jordan Pond, Hadlock Pond, and Bubble Pond - upon its course. Northward it is linked with road-trails of similar character already constructed in the Paradise Hill and Witch Hole Pond section above the Bluffs on Frenchman's Bay. These road-trails have been planned along easy grades, affording, when constructed, to the splendidly wooded slopes of half a dozen mountains absolutely necessary lanes for fire and game protection. I think it impressed you as it did me, and as was emphasi sed by Supt. Dorr, that these sections of the Park covered not only by yellow lines showing road trails, but by the red lines showing motor roads, are practically inacessible except under the most stremous exertions for such protection work or for enjoyment. I personally traversed the thickly forested western slope of Pemetic Mountain with great difficulty, and from the fire protection standpoint, roads of such a character, properly located, are an absolute necessity. The great value of a road for fire protection was divious in the Beech Hill section of the Park, where an old, rough road served not only as a patrol lane for a forest fire that burned over Beech Mountain two years ago, creating a scar hundreds of acres in extent 6. that will be many years in healing, but acted also as a barrier to that fire when it reached the road; on one side we now see the native tree growth and plant life in all its freshness, while on the other side the charred trunks of trees covering hundreds of acres were in horrible can trast. In order to ascertain to what extent the roads would be visible from the mountain tops when built special attention was paid to the proposed locations of those along Pemotic and Jordan Mountains. On Tuesday I sircled Jordan Pond, partly by the new survey and partly - where such existed - by foot trails, and then followed the motor road survey through the woods along the western'slope of Pemetic Mountain from the foot of Jordan Pond to the northern and of Bubble Pond, a distance of about three miles. Surveyer signson, who made the survey, and Mr. Lynan accompanied Supt. Dorr and mo. The read is excellently located throughout with a maximum five per cent grade. With the exception of one or two places where it will cross rock slides It cannot be seen from either above or below: and along these rock-slide sections boulders and other weathered rocks which are abundant along the route can be se arranged that the road will scarcely appear, at all, in evidence. The reads, with the exception of a small section of the system flanking Bubble Pond which will run close before shore of the Pend, are surveyed at elevations sufficiently high to be out of sight from the trails and planned to bring aut to the atmost beautiful reflection and light effects of the lower-lying ponds, as they are termed Locally but which are true lakes. Not until these roads have been built, affording the general 7. public such a view as this of these exquisite, clear, and beautifully shaped bodies of water will it get a true appreciation of their great charm and beauty. % am confident that the future will see a demand rather for the on ting of vistos at well-chosen places to open the views to visitors than for vegetation to hide the road construction. I personally verified this in following the survey of the proposed motor road running along the west flank of Pometic Mountain, and also the section of the road trail system on the west cide of Jordan Pand. Neither you nor X had time to follow the route of the proposed motor road to the top 0f:0a:111as Mountain, or to alimb that mountain, but anyone who has climbed any one of the major mountain masses will come to the sure conviction that a road for moterists should lead to the top of at least one of the mountains no that those who cannot climb may get opportunity to receive the inspiration and feel the exaltation of spirit that come with an hour spent on the breese-swept hillsswith their superb views over sea and island, losing themselves in far distance. If one good motor road to the ton of Cadillac Mountain is not provided in this plan, it will inevitably come through popular insistence in the future. In fact, every one of the reads now shown on Exhibit B, in my opinion, is essential and should be safely established on this basic plan. In my opinion a road up Gadillac Mountain will not be equalled anywhere in the United States for its combination of mountain massing, valleys, inland lakes, and ocean and should be given when built a distinctive name that will identify it as a national scenic road and give it individuality throughout the world, even as the Corniche and other old-world drives are world famous. 8. Exhibit B has been prepared as the result of an hour's conference between Mr. Dorr, you and myself, shortly before your leaving. Comparison with Exhibit A shows what road details have been eliminated. The map as now altered shows a simple commicating and feeder system laid out so as to serve the most important administrative requirements of fire fighting and game protection patrols while at the same time affording views of the best scenic exhibits of the Park without invading other and extensive sections which can be reserved to the walker. I am returning from this inspection trip with a true realisation of the wonderful work Supt. Dorr has done and I am confident I can speak for GBD you similarly in putting this on official record. No one can appreciate, until he has been on the ground and viewed the immense tracts oz valuable lands turned over to the Government through his efforts, and the detailed construction work already done, what a stupendous undertaking it has been. This achievement is quite without parallel elsewhere. In his splendid ao- complishment, Supt. Dorr has been ably supported by many other public spirited men in the free and generous donation of lands and money; and in fact, as soon as the read projects shown on Exhibit B are approved, donations of large SUMB not from one but a number of interested and public spirited individuals will be available, not only to build the motor road from the Bar Harbor -Somesville road to the Jordan Pond road but for the acquisition of thousands of acres of land, not yet in the Park, but so strategically located as to be absolutely essential for the complete 9. rounding out of the Park and its enjoyment by the people. In reviewing these achievements the conclusion is inevitable that no one else than Supt. Dorr could have accomplished what has been done and is being done and will be done, and that he has established for all time in the creation of Lafayette National Park, as it eventually (ill leave his hands, a splendid example for the American people of what a public spirited man, supported by a group of public spirited citizens, inspired by his initiative and ideals, can do to reserve for all time a great scenic area for the health, recreation and pleasure of the American people. He has done this modestly and inconspicuously, with whole-hearted endeavor toward one end. In conclusion, I feel that no element entering into a thoughtful consideration of these road projects seems to have been overlooked. The plan shown in Exhibit B, in my opinion, shows the reasonable solution of handling the practical problems of traffic control and distribution of visitors, coupled with fire and game protection, and is imperative to meet the inflowing hosts of visitors the coming years will bring. The Park is one that must be enjoyed at leisure. It is small in comparison with our other major parks, but it is rich in its offerings. Eventually licensed operators will have to be installed to furnish saddle horse and light buggy service at reasonable prices. Itherefore recommend that the plan receive your approval as basic for a motor road and road-trail communication system for Lafayette National Park. 10. It mast be emphasized for our records that this report must be kept confidential as far as the general public is concerned. Should it become public in an way land values might rise to such figures that the proposed donations will not be sufficient to wover the amount needed for adquisition and the opportunity be lost. Therefore should discussion of individual projects or development work arise it should be carried on generally and without reference to this map or this report. I may add that the demand for a development such as Supt. Dorr proposes appears to be strong in the State, not only in the immediate region of the park, but throughout the whole extensive resort section of Maine which has come to regard the park as an impor tant asset. [Arno B.Cammerer page 11. EXTRACT from Mr. Cammerer's Inspection Report 1922 I therefore recommend that the plan receive your approval as basic for a motor road and road-trail communication system for Lafayette National Park. It must be emphasized for our records that this report must be kept confidential as far as the general public is con- cerned. Should it become public in any way land values might rise to such figures that the proposed donations will not be sufficient to cover the amount needed for acquisition and the opportunity be lost. Therefore should discussion of individual projects or development work arise it should be carried on generally and without reference to this map or this report. I may add that the demand for a development such as Superintendent Dorr proposes appears to be strong in the State, not only in the immediate region of the Park, but throughout the whole extensive resort section of Maine which has come to regard the Park as an important asset. To Stephen T. ather Director National Park Service page 12 EXTRACT FROM MR. CAMERER'S INSPECTION REPORT 1922. In conclusion, I feel that no element entering into a thoughtful consideration of these road projects seems to have been overlooked. The plan shown in Exhibit B, in my opinion, shows the reasonable solution of handling the practical problems of traffic control and distribution of vivitors, coupled with fire and game protection, and is im- perative to meet the inflowing hosts of visitors the coming years will bring. The Park is one that must be enjoyed at leisure. It is small in compari- son with our other major parks, but it is rich in its offerings. Eventually licensed operators will have to be installed to furnish saddle horses and light buzzy service at reasonable prices. I therefore recommend that the plan receive your approval as basic for a motor road and road-trail CO unication system for Lafayette National Park. It must be emphasized for our records that this report must be kept confidential as far as the general public is concerned. Should it become public in any way land values might rise to such figures that the proposed donations will not be sufficient to cover the amount needed for acquisi- tions and the opportunity be lost. Therefore should discussion of individual projects or development work arise it should be carried on gen rally and with- out reference to this map or this report. I may add that the demand for a development such as Superintendent Dorr proposes appears to be strong in the State, not only in the immediate region of the Park but throughout the whole extensive resort section of Maine which has come to regard the Park as an important asset. ADDRESS ONLY THE DIRECTOR. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON D. C. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON July 26, 1922. Dear Mr. Dorr: Referring to your letters of June 14th and 16th on the tentative Lafayette Park road and road-trail plan, which I personally inspected on the ground early in June (the Director himself for a few days accompanying you and me on our inspection), I have just concluded a thorough review of the project with First Assistant Secretary Finney of the Department in whose particular bailiwick the national parks fall, covering thoroughly the scope of my report to the Director of June 10th and also other points of possible importance in connection with the development of the project, and we have both approved it as per Exhibit B attached. This Exhibit is an exact copy of the similar Exhibit B in this office having Secretary Finney's and my signature. We are convinced that the project is well thought out, and will enable the enjoyment of the wonderful natural beauties within the Lafayette Park by all visitors without marring the beauties of the landscape in any way, or intruding upon areas that should be preserved for quietude and repose; in fact, special attention has been given that areas such as the amphitheater section, Sargent Mountain Pond, and numerous other beautiful valleys and secluded spots be kept away from too close proximityto these roads and trails. The road to the top of Cadillac Mountain is important, though it is equally important in my opinion that no road go to the top of any other mountain in the Park. The plan is approved, and whenever you have sufficient donations to go ahead with the work you may do so, bearing in mind to keep the roads and road-trails as inconspicuous as possible. I should mention for your information that we have had cordial letters from Senators Hale and Fernald and Congressman Nelson, assuring their great interest in this project, and giving their unqualified endorsement to it. Cordially yours, Mr. George B. Dorr, Supt., Lafayette National Park, Acting Director. Bar Harbor, Maine. Inc. 1107. [A.B.Caminerer] il. of Minnesota. Thomas 5. Roberts HERBERT W. GLEASON Natural History Corres pondence ILLUSTRATED LECTURES ON TRAVEL AND NATURE-STUDY Scenic Alaska The Old Spanish Missions of California Mt. Monadnock Luther Burbank and His Magic Gardens Our National Parks Volcanic Peaks of the Pacific Coast The Maine Woods Alpine Flowers. of the Rocky Mountains Our Romantic Southwest . Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees Lafayette National Park Wild Flowers, East and West Grand Canyon of the Colorado - The Yellowstone Wonderland Island Gardens of Mt. Desert - Mushrooms and Other Fungi The Wonderland of Southern Utah - Over the John Muir Trail Afield with Henry David Thoreau The Spell of the Desert Ancient Cliff Dwellings of the Far West - The Canadian Alps Gardens and Deserts of Southern California Bird Life 1259 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE, BOSTON 34. MASSACHUSETTS April 18, 1924. My dear Dr. Roberts: Here is another story which I had in the Boston Trans- script this week. The pictures are punk (there were a number of others which got crowded out, perhaps just as well), but you may be interested in the story. By the way, if you should want any of these gull photos for your educational work, or any lantern slides of the same, I think I can secure them for you at nominal cost. The negatives are in my control, but I took them for Mr. Geo. B. Dorr, superintendent of the Lafayette National Park, and he is glad to have them used for educational purposes. We have spent the past two summers at Bar Harbor, - rather a 1922-24 mild substitute for our trips into the Far West but we have greatly en- joyed them, and plan to go there again this summer It is a combination of business and pleasure for me (exclusively pleasure for Mrs. G.) which is very agreeable. My work during the summer is chiefly notographic, with occasional lectures, and with a motor-boat and automobile at my dispos- al, the time goes pleasantly. You ought to visit Mt. Desert. I am sending you copy of a pamphlet recently issued at Washington which will tell you more about it. The half-tones in this are very good, as I think you will observe. By the way, can you tell me where I can get a good "blind" for bird work? I remember Mr. Figgins used to make a good contrivance, but I think he has discontinued the business. Tell me about yourself and what you are doing. I would like immensely to spend next month in Minnesota among the birds, but that is hardly fessible this year. Sincerely yours, Histori H. Eleason Dr. Thos. S. Roberts, Minneapolis, Minn. 8/2/2018 AMC's 100-Plus Years in Acadia National Park - Appalachian Mountain Club Appalachian Mountain Club S MOUNTAIN August Camp Lafayette National Park Echo Lake Mount Desert, Maine July 29- August 12 1922 2. On July 8, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson dedicated 5,000 acres on Maine's Mount Desert Island as Sieur de Monts National Monument. The National Park Service (NPS) was founded later that summer and, in 1919, Sieur de Monts was redesignated and renamed Lafayette National Park. Doesn't sound familiar? A decade passed before it gained its current name: Acadia National Park. AMC's presence on Mount Desert Island dates back even further, to 19th-century trips to Beech Mountain. Then, in 1922, AMC hosted its annual August Camp on Mount Desert Island. For $58, members could enjoy two weeks along the shores of Echo Lake. Horace Van Everen, the club's recording secretary, noted in the January 1923 edition of AMC's Bulletin that park officials- including the "father of Acadia," George B. Dorr-requested that AMC host a camp at Echo Lake every year. According to Van Everen, the idea garnered the "liveliest interest and attention." AMC members made subsequent excursions to the temporary camp in the summers of 1923 and 1924. In 1926, AMC signed a 10-year lease with Wild Gardens of Acadia, a group of financial supporters, under the stipulation that the "the Club shall exercise supervision and control of the property, using every care to guard against fire, shall protect wildlife." The lease formally established Echo Lake as an AMC camp. In 1934, Dorr, the superintendent of the park, sold the 13-acre Echo Lake parcel to AMC for $1, with the conditions that the camp would remain dedicated to recreation and that AMC would seek NPS's approval of any changes. As the popularity of Echo Lake Camp grew, AMC added modern amenities such as hot and cold running water, electricity, boats, and swimming floats. Even so, the camp retains much of its rustic charm today, with campers still spending a week or more living in canvas tents. LEARN MORE See vintage shots of other national parks. Learn more about centennial events at Acadia. Find events to celebrate Acadia's 100th, for which AMC is proud to be an Acadia Centennial Partner. Acadia National Park, August Camp, Camps, Conservation, Critical Treasure, Echo Lake Camp, Maine, Maine Chapter, AMC Outdoors, Flashback, From the Magazine, July/August 2016 https://www.outdoors.org/articles/amc-outdoors/amcs-100-plus-years-in-acadia-national-part 3/7 8/9/22 B.H.Times, ANI VOLUME VIII $2.00 A YEAR BAR HAR WAS A BIG DAY AT OVER 100 ENTERED EAST MILLINOCKE APPALACHIAN CAMP FOR TENNIS WEEK HERE THIS W Rain Delays the Opening Maine's Fastest Team to r Flag Raising Feature At Local Diamond Friday Echo Lake Wednesday Matches of Competitions and Saturday Bar Harbor plays East Mill 100 GUESTS PRESENT WILL PLAY THURSDAY here Friday and Saturday of thi East Millinocket has, unquest In Spite of Unfavorable Weather the fastest team in Maine this yr Luncheon, Speeches by Distinguished First of Week Interest Keen in attendance at the week end gar Visitors and Other Events Maritime Championships in all probability be the largest on Program season thus far. Bar Harbor/ 14-inning game to this team a On account of the heavy rains early Millinocket last week by a score of With more than one hundred guests in the week the opening matches in Bar and the visitors come here with a present the Appalachian Club camp Harbor's first tennis week were post- some respect for the Bar Harbor at Echo Lake presented a lively appear- poned until Thursday. When the en- On the name day. following 1 ance on Wednesday of last week when tries closed Saturday noon there were Inning game, the Bar Harbor team Judge John A. Peters and the members more than 100 players entered, many of to Millinocket, distance/ 10 of his house party were the guests of them being entered in three events. and defeated the fast Millinocket honor at a luncheon given by the Club While the delay on account of bad weath- by a score of 8 to 1. and the Park. er is to be regretted, it is not expected The local team lost to the Prov The festivities began with the arrival that it will interfere greatly with the Independents here Saturday by a and reception of guests. Many drove success of the tournament. of 8 to 6 down into the woods road the con- The pitching dall of he Bas I struction of which in a few weeks by GIRLS' FRIENDLY SOCIETY Nine has been strengthened by " Lafayette National Park workmen has ENTERTAINS OLD TOWN GIRLS dition of Bernard Mr arthy. been the occasion of many favorable the first string Goorgetown pitche remarks. Outside in the main road, Summer activities of the Girls Friendly the past action Md arthy has lines of cars were parked, and there Society have included many interesting with the fant teams In were many guests from the various events. On Saturday the Society en- York state and should prove of towns, the boards of selectmen from tertained the Girls Friendly of Old real ameilance to the Har Harbor Mt. Desert, Southwest and Bar Harbor Town when 18 girls /guents, coming The fans who saw being invited and well represented. by automobile and accompanied by against the Island Falls team fix The sounding of the bugle and then several officials. They were entertained were apparently much pleased will the notes of the Star Spangled Panner, at supper by Mrs. R. Higgins. Mrs. show that he made when the 11 with Supt. George B. Dorr of Lafayette John Conners, Mrs. R 11. Moon, Mrs team was defealed by a acute of a National Park pulling the flag slowly William Burton, Mrs Alonzo Parker, up the new liberty pole while all stood Mrs. Vasconie Higgins, Mrs. Harry at attention in salute and as the flag Gordon, Mrs. Charlety Hass, Mrs. F H MISS HENNETT AND MII MAN huttered from maschead, giving the Sherman, Mrs. John alkenstrom, Mrs 0.11 CONO oath of 'allegiance, was an inspiring W. E. Patterson M A picture. operated by looking after the drivers George Harris the well known With the sounding of the dinner call who brought the party. On Saturday and Miss Edith Hennett. the guests, men in one line and women evening at the I uring Hall of St Saviours the first the Building of in the other, prepared for the march the guests were entertained at a dance Saturda M. 11 to the refreshment tent where Chef with about 100 present. Moore or has friends in 11as Hastin Bellamy of the Camp Force assisted chestra played his brings the Fits by B. L. Hadley, Chief Ranger and Following corporate Communion on finely hale by Miss Crosby and Miss Oakes of the Sunday morning at :30 breakfast was his Fark service looked after the general served in the arish Hall with 11 guests ability 10 to serving. The manner in which the present. The hables were attracti but she is a and bringing together of the two lines as- with bouquets of sweet (x as and gladion of Information and sembled the partners for dinner was Mrs. Alonzo usker, Mrs. Irving litence must artistice a social element which went far toward Mrs. B. E. Think After breakfast the is an unue dispensing with all formality. The party motored to Sieur de Monta Spring. ly fine lipenial as his plas menu was a delicious one and well visiting also the Kennedy Gardens. and proved served. Fish with cream sauce, clam driving along the ocean drive, returning The chowder and coffee, the two latter for the 10:45 service Miss Alder 511. items prepared by Henry Bragdon of tertained 11 members at the Y. W. A inder Willia Bar Harbor as only he can do it, vege- at dinner and a motor trip was enjoyed Green Midk table salad, ice cream, cake, doughnuts in the Itemoon to various politia of The Nails their Hundreds Name and coffee made up a delicious lunch. interest Mr. Maria At the close of the luncheon hour, Another interesting feature of the Au se is guere the guests assembled on the shore of summer was the piente to Sleur de Monta the the lake, while President William F. Spring enjoyed by the candidates on 11 out des ktako 11e flows hat Rogers, of the Appalachian Club, be- July 21st. that cal plus Le le gan the speaking program, introducing Miss Judge Peters. Judge Peters, associated One the pleasantest gatherings was 1 Automic Keynaldo Hahn so closely in the minds of all with the that at Kump Killbare at Eagle Lake 1 l'eche Meynaldo 11a creation of Lafayette National Park Tuesday afternoon when suitie 40 meth Pain Maynahdo Has told of the first liberty pole at Machias. bers the Appalacitian lub Camp are Turn Delease In part Mr. Peters said: members at Echo Lake having liked We "I was asked to welcome you to liange Harris this luncheon as guests. On reflection over Dry Mountain ended their day at I find it is entirely improper. It is your the camp. Ranger John Rich of Lafay Park-not mine, nor Mr. Dorr's, but ette National Park who ONIO the camp was a most hospitable heat Chief yours. I helped what I could in the Ranger Hadley, assisted by Misso passage of legislation which made it SUBSCRIBE FOR THE TIMES Crysby and Oaken of the office staff possible for this Park to become yours. served tea and a substantial It is yours. The deeds are duly re- corded in your name. You have a right panying mehu. A photograph of the to be on your own land. I think it group was taken by Herbert H Gleason proper, however, for me to mention and is social hour spent about the amp, that we cannot all of us, one hundred which ended in the club's giving vote SAVINGS DEPARTMENT of thanks in cheering for Supt Doss (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) who was direcent It has been stated that EDWARD B. MEARS if the railway employees A. S. RODICK would in THE BAR HARBOR FLAG RAISING AT THE SHEILA BAIN YOUNG THE BAR HARBOR TIMES APPALACHIAN CAMP VIOLINE OF PROMIS Newspaper (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) Miss Sheila Bain, whose vioth mude Wednesdays at Bar Harber, Maine, by SHERMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. millions of people, operate here without has recently attracted attention, SERMAN, Pres. SESSMAN, Tréss. SHIMMAN, Vice-Pree. rules and regulations. Congress passes is a pupil of Victor Kundo the certain legislation which places the supervision of Leopold Auer, and BION F. SHERMAN EDITOR AND MANAGER management with the great Interior protege of Josel Homanh Office Times Building Telephone 709 P. O. Box 564 Department, which in turn delegates In a 27. 1922. from AL that management to be a bureau called Description Price $2.00 a Year In Advance Advertising Rates Furnished OR Application Mr. Hofmann be gubtes Prol. Aper the National Park Service. follows: 'She04 (very gifted in- latered as second dam matter July 10. 1914, at the postoffice at Bar Harbor, Maine under Mr. Mather", continued Mr. Peters, deed and has a very fine tone produce Act of March & 1879 the able head of that Bureau, the tion; in two years or less she safely Im National Park Service, and our own and successfully appear the concert prince of altruists, Mr. Dorr, has local stage." Miss Bain is now tittle lover he Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association has for many charge. They have a policy which 1 fourteen and has given her services Im $ been working for a more attractive Bar Harbor. Our Village think is wonderfully well adapted to to many charities in Northeast and every situation-that this shall be Bar Harbors. She gives recital in in was made possible by the A. and its upkeep has been in great Democratic Park, for the use of Northeast Harbor at the Neighborhood Spc ands of the association for many years. The care of the Shore all people who love nature and appre- House on Tuesday, evening, Aug. 22. ciate such opportunities as this. And Im the Village Cemetery, the building and maintenance of numer- what could be finer than to have this KAMP KOHUT BOYS parks, mountain and other trails, the improvement of a section Club, the very foundation of which AT EAGLE LAKE lies in that close touch with nature? Tw and there; all have come under the work that the V. I. A. has I am very regretful that the Club comes A party of six from the boys' camp, for the resort. but once to a place.' Kamp Kohut, at Oxford arrived Thurs- Mo Just here was a ripple of dissention day night to spend a few days in Lafay- e direct results obtained by the V. I. A. are in themselves im- and the club members informally as- ette National Park. They went intrme- sured the speaker that they would diately to Eagle Lake where they spent W nt, but perhaps no more so than the indirect results in building certainly make a return trip to the the night, and are to remain during er a period of years a common pride in the appearance of the Park. their stay. The Darty was accom- Plai Mr. Peters then went on to speak 0 e and its surroundings. The great majority of Bar Harbor's panied by the campmaster, Charles the liberty pole and its flag and gave Lillis. After leaving Bar Harbor round and summer residents take real pride in seeing to it that a little history of the first liberty pole they are to go to Rockland to spend Spo erected in this section, that at Machias ild beauty of the Island is not-marred and that from time to a few days camping in that vicinity. back in the days of the Revolution This is one of first parties of this he natural beauties of the country are made even more enjoy- and of its defense from 2 British ship. sort that has availed itself of the privi- Slip In speaking of his guests, Judge y the addition of a new feature of beauty or of convenience. leges and fine camping grounds in the Peters said it was a pleasure to bring park. In the party were Newton Rice Wh have been years when the has done more work than in to Ellsworth and to Mount Desert of New York, Morris Ullman of New Island the members of his party and and some administrations have naturally been more active Haven, Donald Adleberg of Codar- Silk he would ask them to speak to those hurst, L. I., Daniel Sherby, Robert ore efficient than others, but taken over a period of some thirty present. Baum, and Louis Hoffenmaier of Wash- He spoke of the Hon. Wilfred W. it would be difficult to over-estimate the value of the direct ington. Silk Lufkin, Collector of the Port of Boston direct work of this Association. and introduced him, remarking that SECURE GUARANTORS FOR he had come on his private yacht, Wo t has been said of the Bar Harbor I. A. might with equal CHAUTAUQUA NEXT YEAR the revenue cutter Ossippee. In the e said of the similar associations in the other resorts of the midst of laughing applause Mr. Lufkin The guarantors for the 1928 Chau- Sum spoke briefly expressing his pleasure At about this season each year these societies come to the tauqua J. H. Butterfield, Mrs. at being present. Mr. Lufkin in re- Morris Lymburner, Mrs. In L. Canning. Fox of the Island, both resident and non-resident, asking for con- plying to Judge Peters' laughing accu- Rev. W. H. Patterson. Mrs. Myra D. sation that he was no mountain climber financial support. The TIMES believes that this work is Joyce, Mr. H. F. Carter Mrs. Ardello said he wanted to go on probation as Hadley, Mrs. Effle Road, Mine Geral. of support from each one of us, in such measure as we feel a possible member of the club. dine Butterfield, R. 1. White, E. J. can afford to contribute. It is essential that these societies, In like mannier the Judge introduced, M. 1. Hodgkins, Mrs. F. G. with many a quaint and witty quip Small, Bertha Poletson, Dorother Stan- heir work through generally efficient committees, have ade- of kindly humor, the Hon. Jacolr John loy, John 1. Thompson, Rav. Dayton 150 MA nds with which to carry on. Rogers, the Hon. Allan T. Treadway. E. McCMain, Mary Hope Dow Mm. Massachusetts congressmen. Both were T. A. McIntire, Eugene H. Higging. tant as is the financial support, there is another kind of greeted with applause. Judge Peters Allen Mitchell, Arthur C. Gray, Amon then introduced Gen. John H. Sher- Salisbury, H. Bloomfield, Min C. B. that is just as truly needed, the kind of support that makes burne of Boston, the only volunteer Spend B. L. Hadley, Mrs. Irving of the V. I. A. less difficult and consequently less expensive. officer to be made A Brigadier General Front. S. D. Hecht Co., Albion in the Great War. Gen. Sherburne Sherman. reference to a more general interest in the appearance of rose, in response to Judge Poters an ge on the part of all who spend all or part of the season here. nouncement of a 'real general' expressed Gossard his pleasure and thanks to those who the disposal of waste paper and other rubbish on the part at the office as well as at the camp in applauded him but did not make a for every the Club's behalf, the work of H. M. Il contribute greatly toward a more attractive town. The speech. Smith of the ranger force and others. oicnic grounds along the Ocean Drive, at The Ovens, at the Miss Jennie Doe of New Hampshire At the close of the exercises, the in Branalerce a member of the State Legislature of formal Kreeting of various members All the latest onds and lakes are for the enjoyment of all who may come her home state made a brief but telling of the club, of the town officials from rest and recreation. A few picnic parties the members of little speech, saying that New Hamp- Bar Harbor and Mt. Denert, took up savdo shire with her own scenic beauties was an hour or more. President Rogers of glect to burn or take away their own rubbish soon have in far from Jealous of Maine and her beau- the Club was cheered as he left the Prices $3.25 vay marred the great natural beauties that attracted them tiful first eastern Park. Fred Tucker, campgrounds in early afternoon on No extra a former president of the Club spoke his way to Boston on business The t and the next comers are greeted by clutter and rubbish briefly as did Gardiner Jones, one of Congressional party received their share VIOL B. ything but attractive. It really seems more than careless- the Club's oldest members, having of applause and three cheers echoed joined in 1876. as Supt. Dorr of the Park left the camp. selfish, that some persons apparently have SO little con- Graduate Manager Staples of the Camp then The day was a success from every for others. A little more thought of the next comers asked various of those who had been point of view. Guests present who IH Collage Street connected with the event to speak. were noted were Philip Livingston of enjoyment/ be much worth while. What has been S. H. Mayo of Southwest Harbor IN New York; Miss Clio Chilcott, Lalay- nic grounds might be said of the Shore Path, the Green and sponded to the tribute of cheers and ette National Park lecturer of New applause paid to him and the people York, Miss Blackwell head of the y other points of interest on the Island. Some of us might of Southwest Harbor generally for their department of French of Washington eat expense give a little more attention to the appearance kindness to the club. Benjamin 1.. Irvoix High school. New York; Mrs. Hadley chief ranger responded in Robert Lincoln O'Brien and son Lin. E.F. a properties, and thus add to the attractiveness of the resort. brief but graceful characteristic and coln, wife of the editor of the Boston knows the history of the Village Improvement Association kindly little speech in which he depre Herald: Mr. and Mrs. 8. P. Davis of CARPE cated thanks saying that he had en- Hartford, Conn. of the others over Mt. Desert Island, must appreciate that joyed the cooperation with the club A feature of the afternoon was the Furniture Made done and are doing a splendid work. They can and will that it was pleasure and not duty taking of photographs in which many better work, if they are given both the financial and moral Mr. Staples made an appreciative besides those present for the purpose Furnleure and speech of appreciation of the Park in participated. The Park camera oper- and :he community, in greater measure than is the case at present general, from Supt, Dorr down to the ated by Herbert W. Gleason the well office force, mentioned the work done known lecturer and photographer and Shop. West St. assisted by Ernest Gustafsom and Wil. lim B. Campbell of the Park service Yache and n. played an Important part. GBD "prince of altruists" PAR AUCTION BAR HARBOR TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1922 ST GIVEN ing yearly as the fame of it as a vacation CURTIS SATURDAY AT FINE CONCERT E.H.PEOPLE HEAR ground grew. Summer life then was WINNER vastly different then from what itis now. The visitors found shelter and board ecital Program at OF NATIONAL PARKS with the island natives, going into their H. P. Curtis was the wi ts Delights Audience. homes, living as they lived, and making stroke competition in the friends of them. Their diversion and series at the Kebo Valley pleasure was found in climbing the moun- ing a card with a gross of 8 the young Cuban who Mrs. Huntington Williams Hostess tains, sailing in the harbor, and pic- of 65 with a handicap of an enviable place for To 200 Who Hear Interesting nicing by the seashore or in thewoods. Van Buren was runner u) nals of American con- Talks On Works of National Parks Their needs were simple and their wants gross of 107 and a 32 handi beared in a remarkable few. Their recreation was gained largely a net of 75. ding of Arts on Satur- in the opportunity offered for life in the The scores: d was received with More than 150 were present at the open. It was from the record of this udience which seemed home of Mrs. Huntington Williams in early summer life that the idea arose it preasure in his work. Northeast Harbor on Friday afternoon of preserving the natural beauty and Total th finish which gives when, with President Charles W. Eliot offering it to the public in the same way H.P. Curtis xqusite@perfection and presiding an interesting though informal in which it appealed to those early Martin Van Buren ks such players. He program of speaking upon National visitors. Dr. J. A. Furley interpretation which Park work was carried out. The speak- have said that summer life in the Dr. Robert Fowler t with an individuality ers were A. E. Demaray of Washington, early days was different from that of Edward Robbins he composer's thought editor of the National Park Service, the present time. The change came James Robbins a something of under- who is the guest here, unofficially of about gradually, the easy, carefree ways E. Lee Jones 88 has the personality Supt. George B. Dorr Chief Ranger first giving place to a more ordered H.D. Burnham the feeling of the Benjamin L. Hadley and Frederick V. hotel life, with its customary social C.S. Van Renssalaer ch something of his Coville of Washington, the eminent events, and from the hotel life, grew George A. Robbins is work. (ch) botanist. what is now the leading summer visitor Lawrence Morris In opening the meeting President life of the Island, the cottage colony. M. P. Collins gram was not a long Eliot in his simple and kindly way which ven numbers six were With each change, the other changes sets a speaker at ease and makes him Other players in Saturds lays Chopin with that have necessarily taken place. The so- tition included M. L. Fear welcome first introduced Arthur E. cial activities have taken on a more h can bring delight Demaray, editor of the National Park Ryle, W. H. Conroy, Earl er of the great classics formal aspect, making such demands Service at Washington. L. Livingston, J. M. Harts those to whom music upon the time of our visitors that less F. L. V. Hoppin, A. S. Wr through melody and Mr. Demaray is an able speaker, frank time than formerly is found in which Mears, G. G. McMurtry, Perhaps no selection simple, straightforward and he struck a to enjoy the woodlands, the seashore Kuser, Dr. J. F. Mitchell, M. ld have been more keynote when he those who and the mountains. It is hoped that The score on points of the such a concert. For saw one national park always wanted with the establishment of the Park and the closing number to see another and all the others. He its activities along varoius lines the stands with James Robbins or the Military Po- said that in the five years he had ahd summer residents will find renewed en- Robbins in the lead with brite. But he played been connected with the Park service joyment in the Island's natural charm. each. H., D. Burnham, R dances exquisitely he had had wonderful opportunities G. G. McMurtry, Dr. Rol to visit the other parks and that he had have two each, and S. M. delightful numbers, EMINENT BOTANIS IS Rachmaninoff and visited 12 out of the 19. GUEST IN BAR HARBOR S.P. Delaney, have one each balance and variety 'I am very often asked," said Mr. gram a perfect whole. Demaray, "which I prefer or which Frederick Vernon Coville, botanist, I would recommend that prospective MALVERN EMPLOYER who 18 connected with the United States visitors should see first. I am unable to Department of Agriculture, is visiting MOST SUCCESSF answer those questions because each Supt. George B. Dorr at his home on UNDA KNOX. park is 80 different from any other park. Old Farm road. Mr. Coville 18 one of The annual ball of the Ma I myself have not yet been able to ac- the most eminent men in his profession. Employees, held at the ( . widow of the late quire a preferance and no matter which He is here for special research work Thursday evening, was at d away on Thursday park one visits first the desire to visit on the Island. Mr. Coville is a native of the largest crowd of dancers a Eden, Maine in the the others is created. To me the most New York but has been in Washington the Casino this year. Alw been hers for over impressive feature of Lafayette National for many years having been since 1893 the big Casino dances of the was 83 years of age Park is the matter of its creation. The curator for the United States National year's ball surpassed all for th came as a great other parks have all been created out Herbarium and botanist for the United ly it was not wholly of lands already belonging to the Gov- both in attendance and qua States Department of Agriculture. His tertainment. The introductio was quite helpless ernment. They have simply been set writings on many botanical subjects novel features in decoration She was most ten- aside by acts of Congress and dedicated are considered high authority and he tainment added much to t her youngest daughter to the recreational uses of the people. has held many important chairs and of all who attended. The y with whom she has The lands of Lafayette National Park served on many important committees Miss Adele Olga made a bi are given entirely by private owners to years. in connection with his work. the nation. I wonder whether the value all present. been a most devoted of such a gift is yet fully conceived of her untiring efforts Mr. Demaray continued to speak of her father and mother the great possession of the people which years. the parks constitute and of the reali- always lived an ac- zation that they are the people's own. being a most devoted He touched upon Lafayette National and her cheery smile Park and its relation to the Mount issed by her family Desert Island of the Park's great at- he was the mother of traction to people. He spoke of the ur of whom survive problems brought up by this increase es nine grandchildren in-travel and of the necessity for meeting and children and two them and referred to the manner of children. handling the problem of motor camping FRID mildren are Mrs. John by the other parks, of how tracts are for, George of Somers- set aside and of how these plans are North East Harbor daily working out satisfactorily. Emery of Eden. The Mr. Demaray then continued to speak fand children and two them and referred to the of d children. handling the problem of motor camping children are Mrs. John by the other parks, of how tracts are bor, George of Somers- set aside and of how these plans are of North East. Harbor daily working out satisfactorily. Emery of Eden. The Mr. Demaray then continued to speak home at Eden on Sun- of the dévelopment of the great depart- erment at Mt. View ment. the National Park Service and n Hill. Many beauti- of Stephen T. Mather, its head, who ent by friends and took up the work, for pure love of it, ribute to the deceased. seven years ago. He spoke of the re- markable advancement which the or- ganization had made since, of the in- noma American Legion creasing interest everywhere in the esville for its annual national parks and their administration. ty will present typical Particularly, Mr. Demaray touched The citizens of Bartle- upon the development of the parks aged to decorate its with regard to roads and of the effort is DOLLAR 3 so that the former being made for the parks to have roads think themselves on through them which shall be equally d in the shops of the as good as the highways which lead to ven Bartlesville's river them. ;he Seine. In closing Mr. Demaray paid tribute to those who, in this great work of the $ $ $ $ $ preservation of these beautiful areas for the people of the land, are erecting lasting monuments which shall be for all time inspiration to others. At the close of Mr. Demaray's address, Just received specially for President Eliot said: "I would like to bear testimony to the description of Mr. Mather and his most remarkable selection of merchand work." President Eliot then introduced Fred- erick V. Coville, the eminent botanist. Mr. Coville in beginning said that he went to Washington more than 30 years ago and that since that time he had spent most of his life in the south. "Some years ago," said Mr. Coville, there drifted into my office a man named Dorr. He said he had come to talk with me about a project he was inter- ested in, namely: a national monument on Mount Desert Island. He told me Friday at of the steps that needed to be taken to put the project through and asked my advice, I did not have much advice to offer. Mr. Dorr then alluded to the fact that Mr. Gifford Pinchot was his Listed below are a few friend. At the first opportunity I asked Mr. Pinchot if Mr. Dorr had great persistence, for the project he had out- lined to me was one, I thought, which cluded in this called for great persistence. Mr. Pin- chot assured me that Mr. Dorr was a persistent man. I gave the project such small and slight assistance as I could. About five years ago Mr. Dorr Waists Silk Hose invited me to visit the monument. When I came to this Island found the plants of my boyhood days in New Dresses 2 Sport Hose York, the bunchberry, the spruce and many another which we did not know in Washington," said Mr. Coville, continu- Sweaters W IS in ing. President Eliot then introduced Chief Ranger Benjamin L. Hadley saying that Mr. Hadley was a man well ac- quainted with the uses made of the m national parks and well qualified to describe them. Mr. Hadley in opening his address said he had long been a lover of the out. 919 of-doors and that three years ago, it had been his great good fortune to be- Specially Priced'f come connected with Supt. Dorr and the work. Mr. Dorr is doing in Lafayette National Park. Mr. Hadley expressed in simple words his love for Mount Desert Island, his native place, and of Only at $ his interest in the Park and its work. In part, continuing, he said: wonder how many really know the idea which prompted certain men here present to undertake and successfully Coats Gingham Dr carry out the formation of the first na- tional prak east of the Rocky Mountains. the Dotted Swies Dressos President Eliot then introduced Fred- erick V. Coville, the eminent botanist. Mr. Coville in beginning said that he went to Washington more than 30 years ago and that since that time he had spent, most of his life in the south. "Some years ago," said Mr. Coville, "there drifted into my office a man named Dorr. He said he had come to talk with me about a project he was inter- ested in, namely: a national monument on Mount Desert Island. He told me Friday at of the steps that needed to be taken to put the project through and asked my advice. I did not have much advice to offer. Mr. Dorr then alluded to the fact that Mr. Gifford Pinchot was his Listed below are a few friend. At the first opportunity I asked Mr. Pinchot if Mr. Dorr had great persistence, for the project he had out- cluded in this lined to me was one, I thought, which called for great persistence. Mr. Pin- chot assured me that Mr. Dorr was a persistent man. I gaye the project such small and slight assistance as I Waists Silk Hose could. About five years ago Mr. Dorr invited me to visit the monument. "When I came to this Island I found the plants of my boyhood days in New Dresses of Sport Hose ( York, the bunchberry, the spruce and many another which we did not know in Washington," said/Mr. Coville, continu- Sweaters W S in ing. President Eliot then introduced Chief Ranger Benjamin L. Hadley saying that Mr. Hadley was a man well ac- quainted with the uses made of the m national parks and well qualified to describe them Mr. Hadley in opening his address said he had long been a lover of the out. of-doors and that three years ago, it had been his great good fortune to be- Specially Priced 1 come connected with Supt. Dorr and the work Mr. Dorr is doing in Lafayette National Park. Mr. Hadley expressed 'in simple words his love for Mount Only at $ Desert/Island, his native place, and of his interest in the Park and its work. In part, continuing, he said: "I wonder how many really know the Hadley idea which prompted certain men here Coats present to undertake and successfully Gingham Dr carry out the formation of the first na- tional prak east of the Rocky Mountains. Dotted Swiss Dresses One of the current ideas 18 that the mountainous lands of the island, being unfit for cottage sites, economic or com- mercial development, would make, under Capes Dresses proper supervision, an excellent area for nature and out-door lovers to en- Silk Sweate joy themselves; that is, looking toward the future, such a state of things might come to pass.But as a matter of fact, the idea arose from conditions as they existed years ago, to be exact, at the period beginning shortly after the close of the Civil War and continuing until the close of the summer hotel-life days just prior to the beginning of the twenti- eth century. To explain this statement so that it may be clearly understood, I must go E. LAURI back to the year 1855. when we find recorded for the first time summer visi- for life on Mt Desert Island. From 150 MAIN STREET or then on, until the close of the Civil War, Op the Island was visited by a few each PHONE 596 year, who found great enjoyment in the physical charm and beauty of it. With the close of the War, summer life here took on added activity, the number of visitors to the Island incresa- BAR HARBOR, MAINE, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 30 1922 FIVE CENTS A COPY FEATURES AT Dr. Eliot on History "TANGLED HEA WATER SPORTS of Mt. Desert Island BHT E 8-30-1922, TO CROWDED Features Enjoyed Dr. Charles W. Ellot presided at the Large Gallery recent meeting at the Northeast Harbor home of Mrs. Huntington Williams at PAGE / Society Photo-drama fr WIMMING CLUB which time the establishment of Lafayette National Park and other matters per- Event of Season. taining to the development of Mt. COL 4 Desert Island were discussed. So Great That Harbor Team Wins Relay The Life Saving Race and TIMES was unable to get the complete r Unusual Events on text of Dr. Eliot's address for last week's formances Card issue, in which a general account o the Given meeting was published. A copy has ugust Water Sports at the since been made available and the ad- Club last Wednesday there dress is of such unusual interest that 1A1 All llar y large attendance The it is printed in full. Hearts the lar 5 fair, and the pool, with drama in 11ar ml ractions at its best, thronged month by of the Mrs. Williams, ladies and gentlemen: HOT bevy of those who came to under 11102 of Mr. IN heir various individuals and The object which Mrs. Williams had all Milean, dreat how the tory in the many interesting in mind when she invited us to her house and for bour and for then fire contested events. There today cannot be completely fulfilled ronde enthusiasts in general and will for the lemons IN the 11er 11 lition to the usual races for because Mr. Dorr declines the part be featured by the presence of the 1al Friday evening that it has which was originally assigned to him; dic., who are to the given n special asses, many novel features, cidex to 1 wi additional but I am clear in my own mind us to vitation to nttend lition to the cupe offered for also at the the objects for which this opportunity The details of the program have not rds by the club there were and evening popular pri for the younger contestants. should be utilized. It seems to me that been completed. The annual Inner, feature or the Saturday we summer residents, old and new, however, will Ix held at M., ml the Derby gave a handsome formance will In the winner of the beginner's need to be informed about the changes Newport House, which in to by: the board Davin () to those 14 years of age and in this beautiful Island which the CA- quarters for the Association at Har Har will play not only lin the Joseph Blake offered a tablishment of the Lafayette National bor. Governor Percival P. Baster has chandler alior the show Park may be expected to produce, and been invited to be n speaker, and it in for the winner of a special The with of lllmink to restate our own plans and hopes in believed he will accept. There will yards for those under nine wan completed have were regard- to conserving, preserving, and also be H national speaker President part of the film has developing the beauties of this unique Hiram W. Ricker will premide. and will tt was chairman of the com- New York Thom be club in charge of sports. Island. deliver his annual address. vileged (1) more Harts I first saw this Island in 1866 when The Bar Harbor Board of Trade in ? were Dr. James Mitchell, are monts enthinian and John S. Rogers. Col. on a short voyage with three younger arranging a fine program of entertain- for the production The Harvard men from Swampscott, Mass., ment for the members of the arrorin- nton Falls was referee and turn has not yet to Bar Harbor and back in a small schoon- tion and their friends, one of the features t and Sidney D. Ripley were trial runt have er that we had hired from a Swampscott of which will be a 40-mile automobile Warwick Scott acted as have Here them the that Edgar Scott as announcer. fisherman, who went as skipper and pilot trip to the points of Interest on Mt. merit in medician the although he knew nothing about the Desert Island and to Lafayette National race was that for beginners always IN Maine coast beyond Rockland. Then Park. There will also/ be a fine musical years of age, swimming a of amateurs of PT program in connection with the annual 15 yards and this was won I saw the extraordinary combination Among the last Katherine Blake with Miss which the hills, partly wooded and dinner. During the day there will be one of that thrillers of the second and Miss Gertrude partly bare, the deep-cut valleys with special events, as it As planned to make on the Ortan last ird. The time was 20 sec- their ponds, the outlying islands, and the occasion more of a field day than a ink. In this Mine he race, with the small ladies the bays and sounds and the broad ocean strictly business session. Blaine and Mr had produced. Five years later I be- The complete program will be announc- Scott. the the will prettiest was a big feature gan to spend six or eight weeks of the ed as soon as completed, which will The cup given by Mrs. in is hair-raiming summer in tents on Calf Island in French- probably be in about two weeks. to little Miss Blake. Jumping the you on above the same type with the age man's Bay with my two little boys and urr toward the family of one of my married sisters. SANFORD TO PLAY finally in choil frants ars was won by Jane Ayre e Livingston second and I kept in the excellent harbor of Calf HERE LABOR DAY the resha with the heavy tzer third and was also a Island a good-sized sloop yacht, which 11 my wis 1 enabled us to sail out the bay and the Double Header Band 11 Game, of Min and Mr rest holding the closest at- he audience. The time was neighboring waters in all weathers, and Other Holiday Attractions In this in marter seconds and the other so to become familiar with the endless Bar Harbor. must have taken small beauties of the Island as seen from the courage 10 into the were Billy McFadden, Miss rs and Morter Fearey water. It was only. in October 1880 The bigxiti baseball attraction of Mothed in that Mrs. Eliot and I paid H visit to the the season IN scheduled for Labot Day. 11H wan This inners diving brought out ble divers among the young- south side of the Island bent on finding next Monday Sanford is coming here of the thrilling the age limit of 15. Each a place to build a house where we could for a dunble-header, the KAMEN 1st 2.00 of have fine views both seaward and land- and 4:00 in the afternoon. The Bur Kraphs was required to make two R. Ayre took first honors ward, and secure the boating facilities Harbor Band will be at Athletic Field the living off a tie, Miss Betty which we desired. After a careful and the largest crowd of the suison in iven second place and Miss survey of that portion of the coast which expected to and them games, The third. Others entered were lay between the present Northeast The Sterlings of Concort, champions has A. B. Strange, R. Wing and Harbor Golf Links and Seal Harbor, of New Hampshire, play here tomorrow vle we bought the 100-acre Lingham lot The Easterns are here Friday and Satur- holiday Bar Thom claus with an age limit of which stretched from the top of the hill day. The from will get plenty of gind do not next event and three dives now called Asticou to the shore, where baseball for the closing week of the summer Amoe Eno was awarded we have since lived with great content, Desert and E. C. Williams, second, and on which a considerable number oberts, third. Other divers of Hopkinson-Eliot children and grand- children have grown up with strong Why to yre, Miss Anna Pettingill, Espy, Miss Susie Scott and attachment to the Island and its various delights. Harmon Piano Co. The lot we bought from Judge Emery of Mar Merber NTINUED ON PAGE 4) of Ellsworth, the agent of the Bingham doing the plano bediness of Fastern heirs, had been burnt over about thirty cars before by a fire which had destroyed "There's a Reason" GS DEPARTMENT (Continued on Page } of Supplement) Honest Planoe. Treatment. Good as been stated that employees of its Become be devoted limited provision be >made for those only the Park Today something about the sketched beg to thank our Hostess for giving accordingly much you and something about the consers vation and development of the beauties the pleasure of meetingr pressed from the beginning of our 00- cupation with the immitinent to of this Island, and about the of the Island fire. As talked with reconciling freedom of access by the Rev. Mr. and "Mrs. John Leutz of uxiliary and our neighbora and friends, both perma- multitude with the precious sense of Milton, Pa. Mr: Edwin Paul, yes and nent residents and summer residents, we isolation and withdrawnness which 8 Milton, Pa., Miss Jennie Davis, New learned that there was another great wilderness can give. York: Mr. and M# H. W. Loud, Skow- danger to which the beauties of the Island I shall ask to speak first to you a hegan, Maine Mr. and Mrs. P. L. hion meeting win be held this were exposed, namely, the bad use of gentleman whose chief function is that Courant, Fairfield, Maine; Mr. and Mrs. the Baptist church oh. Sunday the woods by their owners as sources of of publicity agent for the National Park Chas. Brown, New York; Mr. and Mrs. when $subject wilk be The lumber and firewood. When these pri- Service He has other cares and duties H. G. Weltman and sons, Wm. and Bible. vate owners cut the woods they owned, in connection with the Park Service, George of New York: Mr. and Mrs. they made a clean sweep, hauled off but in this Capacity of publicity agent Geo. Gascoigue, New York; Miss Amelia the logs, and left their tops and the he has visited during the last two or Burnham, Dorchester, Mass.; Miss brush wherever the trees had fallen, three years all the National Parks of Lilly Bates, Dorchester, Mass.; were thus creating large ugly in the the country especially the largest Parks guests at the Miller Cottage last week See woods and increasing the danger from like the Yellowstone, the Grand Canon, They were all delighted with the beau- fire. Against these two dangers to and those in the Rockies and the Set ties and hospitality of Bar Harbor and the Island, the earlier summer residents kirks and near the Pacific Coast. I be- undoubtedly will return another season. who settled here in thei60s and 70s soon lieve he is now visiting for the first time began to struggle. With help from the only National Park on the eastern Mrs. Amelia Edwards and Mrs. A. leading permanent residents they es- coast of the United States-Mr. Demar- McKenzie, mother and sister of Mr. tablished the Hancock County Trustees Wm. Edwards of the Miller Cottage ar- ay. rived on the Boston boat for the balance of Public Reservations, a corporation of the season. which could hold securely large areas At the close of Mr. Demaray's address of land on the Island which they bought President Eliot said: The Brewer Store wishes to announce from the existing private owners. These "All of us who have known about for the benefit of contestants in the July Trustees made no attempt to acquire the admirable work of the National Simplex Electric Iron Contest that Miss land on the shores, but gradually suc- Park Service during the past eight or Marie Richards of Bar Harbor was ceeded in obtaining considerable areas nine years are much obliged to Mr. awarded tenth prize. This was a choice of land on the hills and in the valleys Demaray for what he said about Mr. between an electric toaster and an electric between the hills, away from possible Mather, the Director of that Service. Traveler's Iron. or probable residential quarters and un- We have regreted very much that Mr. The friends of Mr. Edward B. Mears suited to any agricultural use. Mather's health has been 80 much im- are happy to learn that he is improving The Trustees raised money to buy paired that he has been obliged to with+ rapidly after surgical treatment at the land in all sorts of ways, by concerts draw-temporarily we hope-from his Bar Harbor Hospital. lectures, public subscriptions, solicita- ardous duties. We who love this Island, tion of residents at their own houses however, have lately experienced a great / H. Warden and Mrs. and solicitation from persons who came pleasure in the recent visit that the Act- John W. Garrett left Bar Harbor, Mon- to the hotels for short visits. In these ing Director, Mr. Cammerer, has just day for Baltimore. various ways the Trustees got money paid to the Lafayette National Park. Desmond Fitzgerald of Boston the enough to buy nearly five thousand acres Under his direction Mr. Mather's good well known consulting engineer, was here of land which had previously been in work, following the good work done by last week, returning from Isle au Haut, shire private ownership; but there they stop- Secretary Lane, for this Island will be on his way to Northeast Harbor to join ped. They could not raise money enough carried forward with wisdom and die- his daughter, who will return with him to buy the remaining areas which ob- cretion. to spend some days in Bar Harbor. viously ought to be preserved for future The next friend who is going to ad- generations. dress you is a botanist by profession Dr. and Mrs. Herant Baron Mat- Not only were the Trustees unable to and the devotion of his life, and a bot- teossian of Philadelphia are at the Lyman anist well acquainted with the flora House. buy further areas, but they had no money to spend on the improvement not only of our country at large, but of the forests they owned. From the with the local flora of this coast of Maine Village Improvement Societies in the and particularly with that of the Island Remarkable Bronzes on three largest villages the Trustees got of Mount Desert Mr. Coville is in- Exhibit at Library. some help in making and keeping up terested in the improvement of the flora At the Print Room of the Jesup Mem- trails; but in general the Trustees were of this Island, not only in its preserva- orial Library there have just been put obliged to be content with merely hold- tion. He is interested in the restora- on view two bronzes by Clyde de Vernet ing lands without any effort to save the tion of the losses the flora of the Island, Hunt. These bronzes were exhibited existing stand of forest from fire or to has suffered, and in the bringing hither last year at the Paris Salon, and a copy improve the wild flora and fauna. of the Acadian species which will thrive of one of them is in the permanent col- Under these circumstances, the idea here. I learn with pleasure that he is lection of the Metropolitan Museum was suggested to the Trustees of Public well acquainted with the work already of Art in New York. They are at- Reservations that they give their lands, done for the flora of Mount Desert by tracting much attention, not only from or most of their lands, to the Govern- my friend and pupil at Harvard, Ed- those for whom they are made a delight ment of the United States to constitute ward L. Rand Mr. Rand was asked by the study of art or sculpture, but what is called in the Legislation of the by Mr. Dorr, wHen Mr. Dorr was first from those who see in them all the mar- United States a Monument. The Pre- made Curator of the Park here, to under- vel and beauty of this beautiful ex- sident of the United States by his own take a well-planned restoration of botan- pression of such art, so great that it act can accept a Monument, without ical species to the Island, like the sub. speaks to those unversed as we.l as to asking any appropriation from Congress Arctic species which had been lost or critics. either for the purchase of land or for much reduced in number of represen- the care of the land thus acquired. The tatives; and Mr. Rand was also asked TRACY REUNION Trustees gave nearly all the areas they to make plans for the introduction into the Island of the other botanical species The 27th Annual Reunion of the Tracy had acquired on the Island of Mount Desert to establish here a National which really belong to this region. Un- family will be held at Gouldsboro point Monument in the technical sense. But fortunately Mr. Rand suffered an at- on September 2nd, 1922. on the Jono- tack of apoplexy about eight months than Tracy homestead. All connected still, as no appropriations are made by ago; but I am happy to say that he is with the family are invited to come. A Congress to a Monument, there were no slowly recovering, and that no one will picnic dinner will be served in the pavil- means of improving the reservation as scenery or of protecting and increasing be more delighted than he to have the lion, with hot tea, coffee and clam chow- the wild life, vegetable and animal, work which he undertook at Mr. Dorr's der. which it contained. suggestion taken up by Mr. Coville ORD Some of the Trustees under the lead and made perfect. I present to you MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD of Mr. George B. Dorr conceived the Mr. Coville. Eastern Standard Time idea of converting the Monument into STEAMERS LEAVE BAR HARBOR FOR a National Park; and Mr. Dorr invited After Mr. Coville had finished, Presi- Augusta, 10.15 a.m., $3.35 p.m., *9.00 the then Secretary of the Interior, Mr. dent Eliot said: Bangor, 110.15 a.m., $2.15 m. $3.35 Franklin K. Lane, to visit the Monument I take this opportunity of mentioning 9.00 p. in. and make himself familiar with its ex- that Dr. Ulric Dahlgren, the Director of Bath, 10.15 a. m. $3.35 p. m., *9.00 MO. traordinary beauties. At that time no the Laboratory at Salisbury Cove, for- Boston, 110.15 m., $3.35 m., 0.00 p. in. Brunswick, 110 15 a.m., $3.35 p.m., *9.00 National Park existed in the eastern merly at Harpswell, is going to give a Ellsworth, 110.15 1.2.15 p.m., 18.35 p.m. lecture a week from tomorrow night at m. part of the United States. Great Na- tional Parks and National Forests had the Neighborhood House in Northeast Lewiston, 110.15 $2.15 13.35 m.) m. the Sallarke Harbor which I am sure everybody here MI Desert Ferry. $840a m., 110 what is called in the Legislation of the by Mr. Dorr, wayn United States a Monument. The Pre- made Curator of the Park here, to under- vel and beauty of this beautiful ex sident of the United States by his own take a well-planned restoration of botan- act can accept a Monument, without ical species to the Island, like the sub. pression of such art, so great that it speaks to those unversed as we.l as to asking any appropriation from Congress Arctic species which had been lost or critics. either for the purchase of land or for much reduced in number of represen- the care of the land thus acquired. The tatives; \and Mr. Rand was also asked Trustees gave nearly all the areas they to make Nans for the introduction into TRACY REUNION had acquired on the Island of Mount the Island the other botanical species The 27th Annual Reunion of the Tracy Desert to establish here a National which really belong to this region. Un- family will be held at Gouldsboro point Monument in the technical sense. But fortunately M Rand suffered an at- on September 2nd, 1922. on the Jono- still, as no appropriations are made by tack of apoplex about eight months than Tracy homestead. All connected Congress to a Monument, there were no ago; but I am happy to say that he is with the family are invited to come. A means of improving the reservation as slowly recovering, and that no one will picnic dinner will be served in the pavil- scenery or of protecting and increasing be more delighted than he to have the lign, with hot tea, coffee and clam chow- the wild life, vegetable and animal, work which he undertook at Mr. Dorr's der. which it contained. suggestion taken up by Mr. Coville Some of the Trustees under the lead and made perfect. I present to you of Mr. George B. Dorr conceived the Mr. Coville. MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD Kastern Standard Time idea of converting the Monument into After Mr. Coville had finished Presi- STEAMERS LEAVE BAR HARBOR FOR a National Park; and Mr. Dorr invited the then Secretary of the Interior, Mr. dent Eliot said: Augusta, 110.15 $3.36 *9.00 Franklin K. Lane, to visit the Monument I take this opportunity of mentioning Bangor, 110.15 a.m., $*2.15 13.36 .00 p. in. and make himself familiar with its ex- that Dr. Ulric Dahlgren, the Director of Bath, 110.15 m $3.35 p. m. *9.00 p MO. traordinary beauties. At that time no the Laboratory at Salisbury Cove, for- Boston, 110.15 $3.35 in. merly at Harpswell, is going to give a Brunswick 110. a.m. $3.35 0.00 National Park existed in the eastern Ellsworth 110.15 $*2.15 p.m. 18.35 p.m. part of the United States. Great Na- lecture a week from tomorrow night at .00 m. tional Parks and National Forests had the Neighborhood House in Northeast Lewiston, 110.15 1+2.15 p. 13.35 p. m.) been created in the Rockies, the Selkirks, Harbor which I am sure everybody here m. Mt. Desert Ferry. 18.4 m., 110. a. IN and their foothills, and the Government will be interested to listen to, for his $3.35 p. m., 15.30 p. m. *9.00 p. m. had taken intelligent charge of many subject is a very fascinating one, the New York, m. 1+2.15 m. luminous marine animals. I have been Philadelphia, c2.15 of these invaluable public areas; but Portland, 110.15 a.m., $2.18 p.m. $3.35 m.) near the Atlantic shores of the conti- telling some of the permanent residents *9.00 p. m. nent nothing had been done by the of Northesat Harbor about this lecture Washington, c2.15 p. m Government. Secretary Lane encour- and find many of them have the greatest Waterville, 110.15a.ru (*2.15 $3.36 p.m. .00 m. aged the Trustees of Public Reservations interest in it. You know that all men t Daily, except Sundays Sundays only. to believe that Congress under his lead who go down to the sea in ships are c Tuesday Thursday and Sunday Will run would accept the Monument as a Na- actively interested in that luminousness Monday Sept. instead of Sept. 3. tional Park, and he thought it probable which we call phosphorescence. The . Pullman passengers only 1 Daily, except Saturday that Congress would appropriate as spirit in which that research Laboratory D. C. DOUGLASS, M. L. HARRIS, much as $60,000, a year to the main- at Salisbury Cove is maintained is the 6-26-22 & Gen'1Mgr. Gen'l Passenger Agt. tenance and improvement of this the finest possible, and I hope you will all only National Park in the eastern part go to hear Dr. Dahlgren, its Director. of the country. He was never able to To whom do we owe the coming of that procure an appropriation of that size, Laboratory from East Harpswell to but Congress did eatablish the Lafayette Salisbury Cove? To Mr. Dorr. He EASTERN ONLY National Park, and made an appropri- hopes to make it contributory to the ation of $20,000, in the first instance. progress and growth of that Corpora+ This first appropriation was subsequently tion with the romantic name of 'The STEAMSHIP LINES, Inc. 5 raised to $25,000. By these steps the wild gardens of Acadia," which he in- lovers of this Island, whether summer vented. BAR HARBOR LINE residents or permanent residents, have (Standard Time) arrived not only at the conservation of President Eliot then said: LEAVE Rockland daily at 5 a. m. for JRE the beauties of this unique Island, but "Our next speaker is a young man well North Haven, Stonington, South- also have provided the means of adding acquainted with the uses made of the west Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Seal to their attractiveness and charm for great National Parks in the West and Harbor, due Bar Harbor 11 a m. coming generations. on the Pacific Coest which have been RETURN:-Leave Bar Harbor daily In the meantime, the original summer successfully opened in wise ways as at 1 p. m. for Rockland and way residents in the Town of Mount Desert resorts for a multitudinous public. He is landings. Y MARRIED which covers the central strip of the well qualified to describe these uses to BLUEHILL) Island from Otter Creek to Prettymarsh us. I present to you Mr. Hadley. (Standard Time/) and High Head, had united with a large LEAVE Rockland daily at 5 a. m. for HINKS SHE majority of the permanent residents At the close of Mr. Hadley's address Dark Harbor, Eggemoggin, South in the Town in an effort to keep auto- President Eliot said: Brooksville, Sargentville Deer Isle, mobiles out of that Town. The Town This statement by Mr. Hadley is Brooklin, South Bluehill, due Blue- voted. by a very large inajority against certainly encouraging in regard to the hill 11.45 a. m. the admission of automobiles; but at sensible use of the Island for public RETURN:-Leave Bluehill daily at the next session of the Maine Legislature enjoyment. But perhaps we ought not 12.30 p. m. for Rockland and way small minority of the permanent resi- to part without listening to some of the landings. dents in the Town caused to be intro- apprehensions which the old summer CONNECTION is made at Rockland duced into the Legislature a Bill com- residents on this Island and. their chil- with steamers from and to Boston. dren and grandchildren feel lest the en- AT BOSTON connection is made via life time of bitter pelling the Town to admit automobiles, went from Cambridge to the hearing joyments which they have had here the Metropolitan Line express freight hem. at Augusta to protest against that Bill should hereafter be lost. I know that and passenger steamers for New and was permitted to state the case of my grandchildren are eager to have the York and points South and West. the Town against it; but I did not enjoy old summer life on the Island perpetuated the argument of the counsel for the unchanged for successive generations; MAINE STEAMSHIP LINE will have a bet'ter Bill at that hearing. His argument and some. of both the older and the Portland-New York Freight Service problem consisted chiefly in reading to the Com- younger generations feel that it will mittee extracts from a description of the be impossible greatly to increase the Local freight service between Port- beauties of Mount Desert which I had resort of all sorts of people to the Island land and New York has been resumed written a few years before: and the coun- without diminishing or destroying one from Custom House Wharf, Portland. sel finally appealed to the Committee of the greatest sources of enjoyment Upon completion of the new state pier conditions as they in words something like this:-"You that those of us who came here forty at Portland now under construction, hear what the natural beauties of the years ago have experienced. Much of direct freight service to and from in- Island of Mount Desert are, how worthy our enjoyment on the Island and of terior points and New York will be thiry are of love and admiration, how the enjoyment of our children and grand- resumed. ther are to be studied by all the children has been due to what may A. M. Herrick, Agt. F. L. Roberts, Agt. people of Maine Will you not agree fairly be called its wildness. We and Bluehill, Me. Bar Harbor, Me. that all the Maine people who want to they have been able to walk the forest drive on to the Island of Mount Desert trails or climb the rocky alopes without their automobiles shall be permitted coming upon any signs of civilization; to do so? This argument prevailed so' to speak, or of the artificial life in with the Committee and the Legislature; the cities and towns of our winter resi- For Trip or Season's Hire from that time we have defiged denses, Is ful going to be possible to contemplate an increasing resort to keep some of that sense of wildness and, 1919 PACKARD TWIN-SIX Island of Mount Desert in automo isolation for the solitary walker or the TOWN LAUNDELET biles the people not of Maine alone groups of young walkers up Sargent of Rot many other States. We are all Pemetic or Green if roads are to be This car has always been a private four hopes and fears built on the sides of those hills? I have ear, is in perfect condition every way, is Island, and take it for granted personally witnessed these pleasures one of latest models, is equipped with Bark to be below my own. Westinghouse Air Springs. One couldn't that is now delighting find ED more comfortable car. and waters. How who that must lose? That de- Call C.G THOMPSON is the prespect I think upon the wisdom) the but have we not all/the careful consideration with which the Phone 750 that this auto, Island is opened to the new rush of visi Stand, opposite Village Green and other tors: Having a kni acquaintance to come the men have most to do WILL SELL THIS CAR with DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT September 12, 1922. Dear Mr. Rockefeller: Our work together for Lafayette National Park has reached a point where we can look both back and forward. Plans I have been working over for a year n for its development have been approved by the Govern- ment, and thanks to your generous cooperation I can for the first time look forward to a consolidated party park area and to constructive work that should transform the Park in respect to its possibilities of use and enjoyment by the people. It is a distinct stage reached in the Park's history, that of its passage from the period of commencement and the overcoming of initial diffi- culties to one of attainment, and I write this letter to mark it and in recognition of that cooperation from you which has made it possible. Looking back upon the past, the work you have done constructively within the Park under the authority given through me by Secretary Lane when he was here in 1917 is of the highest order in its 2 thoroughness, its forward vision, and its attention 9/12/22 to the details that make or mar the beauty of a road or landscape. I have done work enough myself of a similar character, and made failures and mis- takes enough in doing it, to understand the prob- lems you have had to solve and appreciate the success with which you have met and overcome them. Being, as superintendent, responsible to the Govern- ment and the people as the means through which that work proceeded, so far as it lay within the Govern- ment bounds, I have followed it naturally with close attention and great interest, and have found it ad- Dorl mirable. What it has accomplished also, grown then working JDR to greater beauty through the mellowing of time and would the rich mantle of vegetation which time will throw about it. The same problems on a greater scale face us now in the work that lies before us. I shall welcome from you suggestion or criticism on the work I take charge of personally and I shall feel safe in the work you similarly undertake under the new authority for con- struction given me this summer that it will be done from the highest standpoint and with due regard to nature. gi With respect to the care and annual repair of 9/13/12 the roads you have built and are building and to forestry, to planting, to grading or other work upon the lands that border these, it is of the greatest assistance to me that you do this work which the funds I receive from Congress are too limited as yet to enable me efficiently to carry out myself, and I especially ask that you will continue it and that you will look upon this letter as a re- quest to do so, if you will; and as formal author- ity also for so doing -- authority delegated to you by me as springing from my own authority as superintendent. I greatly value, in this and in all other ways, the assistance you are giving me in this creative period of the Park's existence and in every way I can I desire to make the giving of it satisfactory and pleasant to you. Sincerely yours, GEORGE B. DORR, Superintendent. VACA, ep, 2671, CCF 190739. Acadia EP 6 1922 30 Pinckney Street, Boston, 14, Mass. September 14,1922. Mr. Arno .Cammerer, Acting Director, National Park Service, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr.Cammerer: What is there new to say about Lafayette National Park? Anything? sent Dr. Smith, of the Geological Survey has just me a copy of the map brought out this summer with the suggestion that it might be of public interest. It wuld have been of greater public interest, and might have been useful as a peg on which to suspend a park story, if I could have had it earlier. The summer is now practically done. Perhaps if there was something new to say about the park and its development we might be able to tell a little story and bring in the map and its excellent geological story. In some ways the map is a disappointment to me. It does not show the boundaries of the entire park--at least not as I understand them. Such information as I have been able to secure on that score is very vague, Mr. Dorr seemingly being desirous of keeping mum for some good reason of his own. Then too the map shows no foot-paths. They are there on the ground, or were several years ago, long before the park was thought of, when I last tramped over those hills. There must be more now. There is a feeling in some quarters I find that this park is more or less a riding ground for Bar Harbor and other summer residents, but not much of a place for mere vacationists. I thought that per- haps the four weeks camp of the Appalachian Club there this summer might help to allay that notion, but no, someone has called my atten- tion to the fact that they were not in the park, and were kept as far removed from the so-called high-brow residential section of the is- land as possible. If the map is right they were not in the park, yet I understand that they were in it nevertheless. Then too it is pointed out that the park authorities and the Bar Harbor town officers are spending money on bridle paths, a type of path for which trampers care but little, and nothing on footpaths. If these notions are groundless perhaps something should be said to correct this point of view. Possibly it will be as well to let the subjedt alone until another spring comes around. That of course would be a more appropriate season. I hope that Mr. Mather has returned or is soon to do so and that he feeling thoroughly himself. with Sincerely yours, M Chambaram Seal Harbor, Maine September 18th, 1922. Dear Mr. Dorr:- Your letter of September 12th, spealing so Appreciatively of the work which it has been my pleasure to do in the interest of the Jafayette National Park, has been received. I am most grateful for your kindly words and thank you for writing as you have. The possibilities of the Park seem to me SO unusual and its beauties SO extraorMinary that I am glad to see it made increasingly accessible to those who enjoy nature. I note what you say with r eference to the upkeep of roads already built and under construction in the Park, and forestry, planting, grading, etc. in connection therewith, and your authorize.- tion to me to do work along any such lines on your behalf as I my feel disposed to do. while I would not of course wish to commit myself in the matter, I shall be glad for the present at least to act upon your authority. I cannot close this letter without expressing my high appreciation of the unselfish, untiring end devoted service which you have rendered in bringing the Park into being and are continuing to render in its upbuilding and development. It has given me very genuine satisfaction and pleasure to cooperate with you from time to time in your spleniil work as opportunity hous offered. Wishing you the fullest measure of success in the con- summation of your plans, I am Mr. George D. Dorr John Rockificing Very singerely, Bir Marcor, Reine Page I of 2 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON September 27, 1922. Dear Mr. Chamberlains Your very interesting letter of September 14 has remained be- fore me until I could find time to write to you at some length about Lafayette Park. The new Geological Survey map of the park was gotten out pretty late in the season and was rushed through to meet the evi- dent demand for a good topographic map from park visitors. Only a limited edition was printed and it is hoped that before next summer a second and more complete edition can be published. The boundaries of the park as shown include only the area of the former Sieur de Nonta National Momment and later lands donated to the park are not shown. Mrs Dorr has had a big problem on his hands to get the deeds to the later d onsted lands in such shape that they can be accepted by the Government. Not only have the titles had to be searched out but individual surveys of the land have had to be made. It is hoped the great bulk of the donated land Canada be formally accepted and added to the park before long. Unofficially there are now between 11,000 and 12,000 aares in the park area and on the inclosed map I have had the your areas roughly outlined in green. The Appalachism Club camp was located at the upper and of Beho Lake on parts lands not yet femally accepted, and I suppose that is the reason the impression that they were not in the park game about. The mm does not show any of the footpaths and trails which, of course, are still on the ground. the Survey is adverse to putting on its maps features which its surveyors do not mark. The may needs a lot of revision to show new features, and it is hoped - can get the Survey to send a man up there sountine in the near future to make the necessary corrections and additions. The venture of the Appalachian Glub this summir me highly and cesaful, in fact, the Club is talking of making - at feature of its animal program. The members transpeal all both east and most of Jomes Sound and all were park. As a matter of fast they probably brought our the vedation pos- sibilities of the park as they had never been out I think their Line will grow rapidly. ABD,13C PSH Copy to Superintendient Dorr. 2. looking forward to having a number more such camps next year, possibly several Boy seout Gdmpa. As you know, we have been struggling along for a number of years now with appropriations hardly sufficient to isey up our maintenance and protection work. Except for a few individual projects for new read con- struction we have had no funds for development work. In the meantime the good roads movement has progressed with rapid atrides under Federal aid. Since 1916 $540,000,000 have been appropriated by the Government for Federal aid in road construction. In addition to this the Forest Service in the same period has had a little over $50,000,000 for road construction in the national forests. All this has resulted in vast im- provement of the reads leading up to the parks, and when motorists using the good roads arrive in the parks they are thoroughly disappointed on account of the poor condition of the park reads. Secretary Fall has just forwarded to the Bureau of the Budget with our estimate for the next fis- cal year a road budget for the improvement of the present roads and the con- struction of new roads in the national parks, contemplating an expenditure of $7,296,000 to be divided into three animal appropriations. What the fate of this road budget will be in the hands of the Bureau of the Budget and later in the Appropriation Committees of Gongress it is difficult to foretell. The need of road development in the national parks is becauing nit $ more and more evident each year, and we feel the time has now arrived when every effort must be made to accure adequate funds to place the park roads on a per with roads reaching. Only one item for Lafayette Park has been included in this budget and that is for a road reaching the stands of Cadillas Mountain which is the highest point - the Afliantia Seaponst. This road ense built will note Infoyatte Park the measa for every estern motorist;for there will be notother road which combines the beautifies of mount tain with the vast expanse of the sea. One Immixed thousand dollars has been included for the construction of this read. The approximate location of it is also indicated on the map. I - going to ask Mr. Dorr to look you up the next time be is is Beston and talk with you about some of the Infayette Park problems. Cordially yours, F. CAMMERER Arno B. Commerce Acting Birector. Mr. Allen Chamberlain, 30 Pincknay Street, Beston, 14, MASSACHUSETTS. Inclosure 1543. NEHGR - The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1847-1994 - New England H Page 2 of 3 1923] Proceedings of the N. E. Hist. Gen. Society 77 Brother Henry Sampson oweth me £26. Witnesses: Richard Eburne, vicar, and others. Proved 14 June 1627. (P. C. C., Skinner, 63.) [This abstract has been adapted from the abstract of the will of Katherine Sampson pub- lished in REGISTER, vol. 40, p. 303, and reprinted in Waters's "Genealogical Gleanings in England," vol. 1, p. 176.] [The rest of the Haskett material, with pedigree, will be published in the REGISTER of April 1923. - EDITOR.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY By HENNY EDWARDS SOOTT, A.B., Recording Secretary Boston, Massachusetts, 4 October 1922. A stated meeting of the Society was held in Wilder Hall, 9 Ashburton Place, at 2.30 P.M., President Chase presiding. The minutes of the May meeting were read and approved, and the reports of the Corresponding Secretary, Librarian, Historian, and Council were accepted, the Council reporting that since the May meeting members of the Society had been elected as follows: Honorary Member John Venn, Se.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., of Cambridge, England Life Member Eliza Taft Newton of Holyoke, Mass. Resident Members George Bucknam Dorr of Bar Harbor, Me. Mrs. A. Roberson of Binghamton, N. Y. Mrs. Stella E. J. Mills of Willimantic, Conn. Mrs. C. K. Baker of Auburn, R. I. Harry W. Glossbrenner of Indianapolis, Ind. Mrs. W. H. May of Pittsfield, Mass. Walter M. Tuller of Wypantskill, N. Y. Mrs. Emilie Maris Cole of Duluth, Minn. Jessica J. Haskell of Hallowell, Me. Jessie E. Blackstone of Anaconda, Mont. Mrs. Le Roy B. Cox of Chicago, III. Elizabeth Crawford of Kittanning, Pa. Mrs. A. C. Rippier of Brooklyn, N. Y. Claud F. Lester of Philippi, W. Va. Mrs. E. B. Thomas of Pasadena, Calif. Mrs. William H. Hoffman of Barrington, R. I. Mrs. John F. Storm of Union, S.C. Percival Jones of Boston, Mass. Mrs. Mark C. Price of Greensboro, N.C. Louise Tanner Reeve of Buxton, N. Dak. Mrs. J. H. Cutter of North Litchfield, N. Y. Mrs. F. R. Heustis of Hyde Park, Mass. Mrs. Clarence R. Sloan of Marietta, Ohio Allan Hiram Whitman of Malden, Mass. Elizabeth F. Gordon of Bridgewater, Mass. Perry Oliver Holden of Ashland, Mass. Mrs. T. L. Smith of Concord, Mass. Mrs. Grayee E. Eldred of Cody, Wyo. Arthur Crew Inman of Boston, Mass. Nathan E. Truman of Bainbridge, N. Y. Back to Last Master Search Results page Back to Search Results page http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/register/default.asp?vol=77&pg=77&page...3/14/2005 10/11/1922 THE BAR HARBOR TIMES An Independent Weekly Newspaper Published Wednesdays at Bar Harbor, Maine, by SHERMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. W. H. SHERMAN, Pres. F. E. SHERMAN, Treas. A. F. SHERMAN, Vice-Pres. ALBION F. SHERMAN EDITOR AND MANAGER Office Times Building Telephone 709 P. O. Box 564 Subscription Price $2.00 Year in Advance Advertising Rates Furnished on Application Entered as second-class matter July 10. 1914, at the postoffice at Bar Harbor, Maine under the Act of March 8, 1879 The announcement that construction has been started on the road Sia to the summit of Champlain (Green) Mountain is the most interesting Cadillac and the most important news that the TIMES has published in a long time. A motor road to the top of this mountain has been the dream of Bar Harbor people since the passing of the old carriage road. While most of us have been merely dreaming, a few men, under the constructive leadership of Mr. George B. Dorr have been working for the road with the result that actual construction has begün. The beginning of this road is a most important step in the development of Lafayette National Park and with it the growth and development of the Mt. Desert Island Resorts. In the early days of Bar Harbor and of the Green Mountain Railway, the trip to the highest point on the Atlantic Coast was the preeminent feature of a visit to Mt. Desert. When the new road makes this trip again an easy one for all who may come here it will again become the outstanding feature, for there is nothing like it to be had in America. Such outstanding achievements as this bring to the general public a realization of the importance of Lafayette National Park and some- thing approaching an adequate appreciation of the work of Mr. George B. Dorr and his associates. A few men, who, from the nature of their work have been privileged to see the plans for future roads through the park and to have a general knowledge of future plans for the park- greater than that of the general public, have an enthusiasm for the work that knows no bounds. Likewise their appreciation of Mr. Dorr and his work is boundless. The development of Lafayette Nat- ional Park since its foundation has been great, but this development is comparatively small in contrast with the plans for the future. The people of Mt. Desert Island should do everything possible to assist in this development. MAINE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1922 FIVE CENTS A COPY NUMBER 432 BEGIN CONSTRUCTION OF AUTOMOBILE ROAD Eiroc11 TO TOP OF CHAMPLAIN MOUNTAIN Lafayette National Park Project Approved by Government- Work on Magnif- icent Mountain Road Begun by Superintendent George B. Dorr Walters G. Hill of Bar Harbor is Engineer Construction has been started by the Government on a motor road tive purposes. It forms excellent road The summit of the spur, slightly to the summit of Cadillac Mountain in Lafayette National Park, the material, being mingled clay and gravel above the road that circles it, commands highest point upon our Atlantic coast with a magnificent sea view. not packed so hard as to be difficult of a wonderful view, beautiful and The construction now contemplated will cover over 4,000 feet in length, handling. scarcely less broad, except upon the sea- The places where retaining walls are ward side, as is obtained from the n oui- bringing the road to an elevation of 519 feet above sea level. Funds required are four, where the curves are tain summit. for the construction of the remainder of the road, approximately four sharpest, and rock of excellent character A spring of pure water, also, and ex- miles in length, have been asked for by the Secretary of the Interior for building \permanent and solid walls cellent opportunities for water storage, in his estimates for the fiscal year of 1924 submitted to the Bureau without cement lies. close at hand, while and shady foot-trails lead to this Joint of the Budget, the construction to be completed in three years. as much material in general will need to from either side. The road as planned by the Secretary of the Interior and the Nat- be removed as will be required for con- At the mountain summit one comes struction, building and excavation closly out-facing the road on its last turn-on a ional Park Service calls for the best and most permanent construction balancing. vast sweep of ocean to the far horizon and for a road of easy ascending grade and liberal width. No such A superb point is reached where, nearly fifty miles away. It is an extraordinary road as this from the scenic point of view exists in Eastern North two-thirds the height of the mountain, view; there is no other like it on our America, and great credit should be given to Secretary Albert B. Fall, a bold spür stands out from the mountain Atlantic coast, and few in the world of the Interior, and to the Director of the National Park Service for ridge-with which its summit is level-upon accessible by road. The whole road, as its western side, overhanging Eagle Lake. planned, from start to finish, is singularly this project. This spur the road circles in order to gain beautiful and impressive, a true park road The road takes its rise from the summit of Great Pond Hill in the grade and not exceed the maximum and it will make a unique addition to our vicinity of Bar Harbor and the views from it are superb from its com- established, but it affords a view that in national park system. mencement. Sincerely yours, itself would make such circling desirable, Superintendent Dorr commenced survey for this mountain road a George B. Dorr were it not necessary. Superintendent. year ago last August, the work being done under his direction. by Mr. Walters G. Hill of Bar Harbor, engineer. On June 27th of the present year, the completed survey was submitted to the Director of the National Park Service at Washington, accompanied by the following letter: The Director National Park Service alternately eastward over Frenchman's Department of the Interior Bay to distant mountains and the Bay Washington, D. C. of Fundy, and westward over lakes and fiord and mingled sea and islands to Sir: the Camden Hills. I have the honor to present the pre- liminary survey for a motor road to the The road has been engineered with summit of Cadillac Mountain, the sum- strict regard to safety, the curves being ample: in the only three instances where Walters G. Hill of Bar Harbor is Er Construction has been started by the Government on a motor road tive purposes. It forms excell to the summit of Cadillac Mountain in Lafayette National Park, the material, being mingled clay a highest point upon our Atlantic coast with a magnificent sea view. not packed so hard as to be d The construction now contemplated will cover over 4,000 feet in length, handling. bringing the road to an elevation of 519 feet above sea level. Funds The places where retaining for the construction of the remainder of the road, approximately four required are four, where the c sharpest, and rock of excellent miles in length, have been asked for by the Secretary of the Interior for building permanent and S in his estimates for the fiscal year of 1924 submitted to the Bureau without cement lies. close at h of the Budget, the construction to be completed in three years. as much material in general wil The road as planned by the Secretary of the Interior and the Nat- be removed as will be required struction, building and excavat ional Park Service calls for the best and most permanent construction balancing. and for a road of easy ascending grade and liberal width. No such A superb point is reached who road as this from the scenic point of view exists in Eastern North two-thirds the height of the r. America, and great credit should be given to Secretary Albert B. Fall, a bold spür stands out from the of the Interior, and to the Director of the National Park Service for ridge-with which its summit is 1 this project. its western side, overhanging E: This spur the road circles in ord The road takes its rise from the summit of Great Pond Hill in the grade and not exceed the vicinity of Bar Harbor and the views from it are superb from its com- established, but it affords a vie mencement. itself would make such circling Superintendent Dorr commenced survey for this mountain road a were it not necessary. year ago last August, the, work being done under his direction. by Mr. Walters G. Hill of Bar Harbor, engineer. On June 27th of the present year, the completed survey was submitted to the Director of the National Park Service at Washington, accompanied by the following letter: The Director National Park Service alternately eastward over Frenchman's Department of the Interior Bay to distant mountains and the Bay Washington, D. C. of Fundy, and westward over lakes and fiord and mingled sea and islands to Sir: the Camden Hills. I have the honor to present the pre- liminary survey for a motor road to the The road has been engineered with summit of Cadillac Mountain, the sum- strict regard to safety, the curves being mit of the Mount Desert mountain range ample; in the only three instances where and highest point on our Atlantic sea- close curves are required a radius of board. The road shown, three and fifty feet is employed. Construction has ninetyeight one hundredths (3.98) been figured for an eighteen-foot travel- miles in length, is the result of a study led way, with three-foot shoulder. on my part lasting over years and of The plan calls for an earth and rock fill, a thorough engineering survey, entered such as the mountain itself will yeild, upon last August under my direction and for a gravel surface similar to that by a capable and efficient civil engineer on the neighboring town roads, without who had had previous experience under macadam or other bound surface. This a State Commission and independently seems all that is required with a grade in Canada and as superintendent of far less than is met with constantly on constructive work, Mr. Walters G.Hill. the regional roads and with the water The established maxium grade for taken care of by an ample ditch upon the road is six per cent, the average grade the upper side, and frequent culverts. is four and forty one hundredths per The rock is granite, deeply trenched cent. The route taken has been as by glacial erosion and split by frost. carefully studied from the landscape Its seamage is such that it can be split point of view as from that of good by explosives at relatively small cost engineering, being so led over the ridge for amount moved, while it splits nat- by which it mounts as to give views urally into excellent shape for construc- October 14, 1922. Dear Mr. Rockefeller: I commenced work on the motor road at once upon receipt of your telegram and had a crew at work upon it Monday morning. I now have two crews on it, in different sections -- picked men under competent foremen -- and two stout horse-teams. My plan is to work all the men I can to advantage while the weather and all conditions remain favorable as now, and to get the utmost I can accomplished before winter sets in to hinder. I want to have this portion of the new road completed in time for use when people return next season. The view is beautiful at the point it reaches, suggesting the beauty that the whole will have, and everyone will be interested in it. I have arranged to have Mr. Clarence E. Dow, manager of the Mount Desert Nurseries, whom I can thoroughly rely upon, act as my representative in charge of the work. He is intelligent and trust- worthy, has had various and wide experience in constructive work and in the handling of men, and under- stands my point of view. He will give such time to it personally as the work requires and will call in Mr. Brewer for consultation as he and I may need in res- pect to rock-blasting and other matters in which he had had exceptionally wide experience. Mr. A. H. Lynam will act, as heretofore, as treasurer as funds are forwarded and will keep full statements of account to forward or show you as you may desire, making payments upon my approval. The men, as is customary here upon such work, are paid weekly, and it is necessary also to have funds at hand for the discharge of men if found unfit, or for other sudden or immediate needs. After consultation with Mr. Lynam, I would suggest that the sum of ten thousand dollars be forwarded to him as treasurer for the present season's work. He will receipt for it to you and be at all times responsible to you for any unexpended balance, keeping as I have said full record of what is spent. I shall spare no pains myself to see that all is expended with the utmost economy of means to end. [G.B.Dor]] 6/19/2015 National Park Service Conferences 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 0 BERT M. FERNALD, ME., CHAIRMAN. FRANCIS E. WARREN, WYO. JAMES A. REED. MO. JOSEPH 8. FRELINGHUYSEN. N.J. HENRY F. ASHURST. ARIZ. c.c. JOSEPH 1. FRANCE, MD. CHARLES A. CULBERSON, TEX. IRVINE L. LENROOT, WIS. PARK TRAMMELL, FLA. RY W. KEYES. N.H. CLAUDE A. SWANSON. VA. United States Senate .IAM B. MO KINLEY, ILL. HARRELD. OKLA. NATIUMAL FARK SERVICE OLIVE BOYNTON, CLERK. COMMITTEE ON Brices V Hill PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. 3 DEC 9 1922 OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR December 8, 1922 Stephen T. Mather, Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C. My dear Sir: Will you kindly advise me if you have a caretaker at Lafayette Park, the amount of his salary, if his appointment is for life, and any other information you may have on the care of the Park. Thanking you, Yours very truly, U. S. S. lmb 1. # United States Senate M DEPARTMENT OFTHEINTERIOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. DEC it 1922 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR WASHINGTON December 1922. December 8. 19:2 Dear Mr. Fornald, cephen T. Mather, Director, National Park w your letter of December 8, Depay advise when Dational Park is administered Wash direction and expervision of a Superintendent, the Superintenteat of lafayette material Park is dec. B. Dorn, wheee salary is 41,000 a year. My are appointed by the Secretary of the Interier," these positions are excepted from examination under Civil Service rated.se me it you have a caretak safayette Question was created by Act of Congress February 25, 1919, the land having been donated to amouthe Unitedstrates MN Debt still associates. It is largely through Mr. Derr's efforte that Infayette Park is has trusties of the park Mr. Dorr was Custodian of the Sieur do Ments National may Members the care of the Park. Thanking you, Cordially yours, Yours very truly, ALL (Sgd) ARNOR CAMMERER Director. Sen. Dert Permaid, United States Senate. U. S. S. BRU A6M lmb Acadia History 1922 SCHOODIC'S JOHN GODFREY MOORE Allan Smallidge ad John Godfrey Moore not died pre- mon schools, and spent one year at nearby the deal. Moore was subsequently elected to H maturely at age fifty-one, the wildly Cherryfield Academy. When he was 18, he the Western Union board of directors. beautiful Schoodic Point might be a went to New York and entered into employ- After living some years abroad, Moore very different place today. As it happened, after ment as a clerk in the lumber dealership of returned to New York as the head of the bro- Moore's death his heirs began spending their Thomas Mahew and Wilson Godfrey, his kerage firm Moore and Schley, also acquiring time away from their summer places in Winter uncle. At age 21, Moore started his own lum- large interests in Chase Manhattan Bank and Harbor and it was not until 1922, some twen- ber business and prospered almost immedi- several railroads. After the panic of 1893, he ty years after his death, that George Dorr was ately. In company with a partner named John invested $25,000 of his own money in a case able to make arrangements to acquire Evans, he executed several important con- to defeat a new federal income tax law. The Schoodic for the park. By then Moore's some- tracts with the War Department, including Supreme Court ruled in his favor and the what younger second wife, Louise, had remar- piers and breakwaters at Buffalo, New York, law was defeated, at least for the time being. ried and Moore's daughters were living in and Cleveland, Ohio, as well as dredging All during his career, he maintained his England, one married to Viscount Lee and the projects along the Delaware River. interest in and loyalty to the rural section of other, a spinster, living near her sister. The In 1880, he and Evans went into the fast- Maine from which he sprang. He became contact between Dorr and Louise Leeds was developing telegraph business, founding involved in the plan to develop Grindstone a casual one, made while both were having the Mutual Union Telegraph Company and Neck in Winter Harbor and built himself one supper at the Jordan Pond House, but the constructing lines to rival Western Union. of the largest cottages there, which he called result was that Dorr was able to set the wheels Their intentions were to lease their lines to "Far From the Wolf." He purchased hundreds in motion for the eventual land acquisition. businesses by day and to newspapers by of acres of forest and islands in the vicinity, At the time of his death, however, Moore night. Before all their plans could be real- including Schoodic Point. He built Schoodic had vastly different plans for Schoodic Point. ized Evans died and Moore, as the new pres- Drive, the first carriage road on the point, John Godfrey Moore came from modest ident, led the company into one of the biggest which wound from his newly-built bridge at beginnings. He was born in Steuben, Maine, competitive wars in the history of telegraphy. Frazer Creek, along the bold, rocky shores to the son of Captain Henry D. and Maria The outcome was that Western Union was the salt ponds and Devil's Anvil. His road also (Godfrey) Moore. The young Moore took forced to lease Mutual Union lines. Moore climbed to the summit of Schoodic Head, a whatever schooling he had at the local com- and his associates realized vast profits from favorite spot, reputedly, because from there Picnic party on Schoodic Head, July 1923. Summer 2005 Friends of Acadia Journal he could see all the way to his native Steuben placed a bronze tablet in his memory at the ALLAN SMALLIDGE is a native of Winter and beyond. He had plans to build a grand overlook on Big Moose Island. Also in his Harbor and a graduate of the University of hotel at the summit, and supposedly honor, in 1937 the name of the road which Maine. After a career teaching high school had ideas for the further development of runs from the village south to the bridge at English both in Maine and in Massachusetts the rest of Schoodic. He died, however, before Frazer's Creek was officially, albeit belatedly, public schools, he returned to Winter Harbor these plans could be brought to fruition. changed by the people of Winter Harbor from to serve as Town Manager for fourteen years, Apparently his heirs were not as enamored Schoodic Street to the Moore Road. until retiring in 1998. of the area as he was, although his daughter Faith did maintain a summer home on Grindstone for several years afterward. FORESIGHT E GENEROSITY The day after Moore's death, an article appeared in the Bar Harbor Record quoting a previous interview with him concerning his acquisition of Schoodic Point and the islands and of the pleasure he realized from building the first substantial road on the point. He stat- ed that he had acquired the land because of its beauty, noting that there was nothing he admired more than a mountain, "especially when an ocean goes with it." Also, he explained, he had enjoyed the experience of Yankee trading with the previous land own- ers, and he thought that it would be a good investment considering what was being developed in Bar Harbor at the time. The road, he said, was built for his own pleasure and convenience, but also as an object lesson in economy for the local authorities. He felt that they could repeat his successes in the public roads all over the area. Moore said, "[The road] is nine miles long and I enjoyed every foot of it It did me and my family as much good as a trip to Europe and didn't cost any more. Besides, it gave employment Schoodic Point to a large number of people who need the ESTATE PLANNING money." While it may have seemed arrogant of him to assume that he could teach the Preserving and protecting those things that we all hold dear - our quality of locals how to build roads, any hard feelings life, a distinctive heritage, and the integrity of Mount Desert Island's the statement may have provoked was prob- natural wonders - is a wise investment. You can help protect Acadia forever. ably defused with his sincere efforts to cre- It's simple. Add only one of the following sentences to your will, or a codicil: ate jobs and to aid the local economy. After Moore died on June 27, 1899, con- 1. I hereby give % of my residuary estate to Friends of current services were held in New York City Acadia, Inc., a Maine charitable corporation, P.O. Box 45, and at St. Christopher's-by-the-Sea in Winter Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, for its charitable purposes. Harbor. Bedford Tracy, a young Winter Harbor attorney who was a local associate of Moore's, 2. I hereby bequeath $ to Friends of Acadia, Inc., elaborately eulogized him at the Grindstone a Maine charitable corporation, P.O. Box 45, Bar Harbor, Maine service and concluded with the words, "The 04609, for its charitable purposes. fragrance of his acts of kindness perfumes his sepulcher, and he must live on, embalmed 3. I hereby devise the following property to Friends of Acadia, Inc., by our love and garlanded with our affec- a Maine charitable corporation, P.O. Box 45, Bar Harbor, Maine tion. The cold marble bears in mockery many 04609, for its charitable purposes: [legal description of property]. a name forgotten but for the letters chiseled on its icy slab. It cannot be so with the name of John G. Moore, which is chiseled on the For more information, contact Lisa Horsch at 1-800-625-0321, tablets of too many hearts to need the aid of email her at lisahorsch@friendsofacadia.org or visit our marble or bronze to perpetuate it." website at www.friendsofacadia.org Nevertheless, Acadia National Park has Friends of Acadia Journal Summer 2005 7 page I of 2 TIMELINES JANUARY 1929 POSTAGE Scenes of LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK, ONE CENT WITHOUT and several thousand acres on and around Maine's Schoodic Peninsula, just across the DESERT ISLAND MT. MAINE bay from Mount Desert Island. BAR HARBOR Fast-forward to 1922 when Moore's since-remarried widow went out to dinner Somes at MDI's genteel Jordan Pond House. Six years prior, the feds had designated the surrounding hills as Sieur de Monts National Monument, which in 1919 became Lafayette National Park - named for George Washington's French military sidekick and commemo- rating American solidarity with France at the end of World War I. Into the Jordan Pond House walked park superintendent George Dorr, largely responsible for acquiring and convincing others to donate the lands that constitute the park. Moore's widow asked Dorr whether his trustees association might accept her late husband's Schoodic holdings as a Lafayette donation - it'd just be a matter of convincing her stepdaughters, Ruth and Faith. The Moore heiresses were then living large in England. Just after her father died, Ruth had married a British military officer National Park and diplomat, Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Lee, and moved across the pond with him and her sister. Lee leveraged his wife's inheritance to quit soldiering and launch a political career, and Ruth and Faith pooled their funds to buy Becomes Acadia an Elizabethan manor called Chequers, which the Lees later donated for use as the prime minister's summer home (it's still the British equivalent of Camp David). After the war, Arthur Lee had received a peerage, and by the HOW A PAIR OF HEIRESSES WHO (ALLEGEDLY) SCORNED THE FRENCH time Dorr was petitioning her in 1923, Ruth INADVERTENTLY CREATED OUR MOST RECOGNIZED FRANCO BRAND. had become the Viscountess Lee of Fareham. BY BRIAN KEVIN Downeast Editor of chief. Of course, if there's one thing wanna-be British aristocrats don't like, it's the French. mong the gaggles of Gilded Age robber barons Or maybe the sisters liked the French just fine who preferred their pleasure domes with a and it was the Viscount Lee who bore a grudge A view of Maine's Frenchman Bay, John Godfrey against his homeland's fairly recent allies. Moore was the rarest sort - a genuine local Whatever the reason, the story goes that the boy. Born in Steuben in 1847, the son of a ship daughters couldn't truck with a moniker captain, Godfrey left Maine for New York City as honoring the French, and they stipulated that a teenager. He started in lumber, then pivoted to Lafayette National Park be renamed before the telegraph biz, rapidly scaling a startup and they would donate their Schoodic estate. selling it to Western Union. In 1885, flush with buyout cash, he took "Who knows what kind of prejudices the time-honored route of affluent young men who aspire to be more they had?" asks Allen Workman, who, in affluent and went into finance. his book Schoodic Point: History on the Edge of Moore's investment firm moved money around for various WASPy Acadia National Park, is one of many to relay tycoons - Morgans, Rockefellers, Whitneys - and he spent the next the anecdote. "I can hypothesize that Lee was decade-and-a-half doing wealthy financier things: suing the federal just such a proud descendant of the British government to avoid paying taxes, narrowly dodging indictment Empire - you know, those French, they in a corruption scandal, building a huge, turreted vacation palace hadn't run the war right and SO on." outside his hometown. When he died of a heart attack at 52, he So why did the Anglophile donors sign left behind a wife, two grown daughters from a previous marriage, off on "Acadia," a name that France had 44 downeast.com Jan. 2020 Page 2 of2 bestowed on its Atlantic settlements in the New World? Historians aren't sure. Dorr's biographer, Ronald Epp, says he knows of no source material explicitly mentioning the sisters' antipathy for the French. Dorr writes of their "objection to the name of Lafayette," but he doesn't elaborate. The explanation, Epp says, has simply "appeared anecdotally over the decades." Dorr, he points out, was an admirer of French history and culture, and it's fair to assume such a request would have left him conflicted. But the park's founder had also been fond of the name "Acadia" for decades, and he may have sensed opportunity. Dorr was gifted when it came to parsing ideas and schmoozing wealthy donors. THE PARK'S FOUNDER HAD BEEN FOND OF THE NAME "ACADIA" FOR DECADES. "He could probably convince anyone that, for the general public, the word 'Acadia' is a toned-down expression of any associations that they bring to 'Lafayette'," Epp says. In their writings on the park, both Dorr and National Park Service director Stephen Mather played down the Frenchiness of "Acadia," emphasizing instead its likely derivation from cadie, from the same Mi'kmaq root as quoddy (as in "Passamaquoddy"), meaning "place." However he won them over, Dorr obtained his limey patrons' blessing for "Acadia," and when Congress authorized the park to add new lands in January 1929, it conferred the new name. "Little did the Moore daughters know," Workman says, "it would end up on hundreds of businesses all across Hancock County" - an area with only a faint link to the French-derived culture of northern Maine and Canada now univer- sally recognized as "Acadian." That's what Lafayette would have called l'ironie. Timelines is a special monthly history column celebrating Maine's 2020 bicentennial. Brian Kevin is Down East's editor in chief. January 2020 45 amusi.g and ups. 13. lates with perfect pitch al agony of the die-hard absurdity and genuine His taste for hyperbole ANTIQUES us humor, however, usingly tiresome as the Wendy Moonan ses, and because some otes are decidedly dubi- hor, who is in his 50's, Rockefeller's he received, as a boy, froman old-timer who ne rn down tickets ("), reader begins to Legacy how many of his stories Of Roads re, "True Believers" is bitrary in what it leaves John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874- it leaves out. Given the 1960), son of the founder of Standard is book, why does Mr. Oil, is remembered for his philan- ine his stories about the thropy: $537 million in gifts to educa- I Cubs and their long- tional, cultural, medical and other S to brief asides? Why charitable projects. In New York er on so repetitiously alone he founded Rockefeller Univer- S and Notre Dame? (Is sity, built Riverside Church, be- e could title one chapter queathed the site for the United Na- See Green"?) Why so tions headquarters and donated the whining about stupid Cloisters and Fort Tryon Park. little about greedy own- What is less known was his passion National Park Service stical players? for road building, which began 90 A stone carriage bridge over Duck Brook in Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island in Maine. Mr. Queenan fails with years ago. tes to hit the ball out of Between 1913 and 1940 he designed ugh he does manage to 57 miles of carriage roads on Mount easily accommodate a carriage," pecting their third child, they visited donate their land for a park in 1908. tertaining ground-rule Desert Island in Maine. They were Ms. Roberts wrote. Mount Desert. Nelson was born In 1914 they approached Rockefeller carved through spruce and hemlock- The Rockefellers loved coaching. there. It was a happy time. Two Eliot took the perfect tack. "I sun covered mountains, around glacier- After the senior Rockefeller moved years later, at the age of 36, he de- posed that you appreciate the fact formed lakes, across streams and the family to New York, he went car- cided to devote his life to philanthro- that well-built roads are the most du over chasms. All were designed to of- riage-driving through Central Park. py. "He realized that he had no de- rable works of man," he wrote. fer splendid views of mountains, His son also became an expert in sire to pursue his father's business "They outlast all other structures lakes and the Atlantic. He also built driving carriages, a great skill. interests or to make more money, and monuments." It worked. Rocke- 17 granite and cobblestone bridges, In 1893 John D. Rockefeller Jr. Ms. Roberts wrote. He purchased a feller began to transfer his land to marvels of engineering. went to Brown University; an ob- huge Tudor-style house in Seal Har- the park, ultimately contributing a ues Eventually he donated 51 miles of servant Baptist, he said he consid- bor on Mount Desert. third of its acreage. road and 11,000 acres to Acadia Na- ered the Yale crowd "too fast." He Mount Desert had long been a ha- In 1960 he died, and the National tional Park. (All of Acadia's 41,645 graduated Phi Beta Kappa and re- ven for painters like Thomas Cole Park Service took over the responsi- Flea Markets-Shows 9004 acres were privately donated.) The turned to Manhattan to work in his and Frederic Edwin Church; scien- bility for the carriage roads. But the park now attracts four million visi- father's offices. "He held major re- tists, botanists, clergy and academ- agency did not have enough man- CAPE MAY, N.J. tors a year, many of whom use its sponsibilities for which he had virtu- ics, including Charles W. Eliot, presi- power to maintain them properly. By ANTIQUES SHOW gravel roads for carriage rides, hik- ally no preparation and no guid- dent emeritus of Harvard Universi- 1986, when Ed Winterberg, a Ken- AUGUST9 & 10 75 Antiques Dealers at Historic Cold Spring ing, mountain biking, cross-country ance," Ms. Roberts reported. ty; and nature lovers called "rusti- tucky lawyer, approached the Park Village. Furniture, Textiles, Linens, Silver, skiing and snowshoeing In 1901 he married Abby Aldrich, cators." By the 1880's Bar Harbor Service about obtaining a franchise Primitives Books. tibles more Sat Sun adm $7 Few people had thought about the daughter of a senator from had become a summer social capital. On to offer carriage rides, he recalled, includes 00f GS Pkwy those roads until Ann Rockefeller Rhode Island. He took her on coach- John D. Rockefeller Jr. loved the "The roads were so overgrown they w.stellashows.com Roberts, Nelson Rockefeller's ing trips to Mohonk Mountain House island and bought more and more looked like a Christmas tree farm.' ART MEXICAN CONTEMPORARY daughter, researched them for her in upstate New York and to the property. "He had deep personal Mr. Winterberg met David and Excel prices. Aug 14-18 at midtown East master's degree in landscape archi- Homestead in Hot Springs, Va. feelings for the earth and its beauty, Peggy Rockefeller. "They took my hotel www Info: Guillermo Solorzano tecture at the University of Virginia. 'For him, carriage driving was his conviction that the Divine Pres- measure," he said. "I suggested we cell: Contact at anopcoo.com 'No one in any of the publications I more of a sporting exercise than a ence is revealed in nature, and his redefine the carriage roads as a cul- saw even considered that grandfa- social one," the landscape architect belief that nature plays an important tural zone, so the park would see ther might have actually laid out the William D. Rieley wrote in a 1989 pa- role," Ms. Roberts writes. their many uses. The service was roads himself," she wrote in "Mr. per for the National Park Service, He hiked through his forests to afraid horses were elite." Rockefeller's Roads: The Untold 'Historic Resource Study for the plan his roads. He hired engineers to Mr. Winterberg won his conces- Story of Acadia's Carriage Roads Carriage Road System, Acadia Na- do the bridges and a work crew of 60 sion and started giving rides in car- and Their Creator' (Down East tional Park, Mount Desert Island." to cut 16-foot-wide roads. The men riages pulled by giant Percherons Books, 1990). realized grandfather He may also have needed to get had to quarry the granite by hand, and Belgian draft horses. "I drove was intimately involved with every away. Beginning in 1900 his father lay down road foundations with split Olympia Snow, Sen. George Mitchell DIT stage of the work, from the concept became the target of ferocious at- granite slabs and smaller rocks, add and the under secretary of the interi- the most minute details of execu- tacks for his monopolistic business clay and gravel to the surface, build or to show them the terrible state of tion. practices. Ida Tarbell wrote a muck- retaining walls, dig drainage ditches the roads," he said. Senator Mitchell Rockefeller learned road building raking book, "The History of the and install culverts. The protective proposed a financing mechanism from his father. In 1873 John D. Standard Oil Company," and the stones perched along the edges are every dollar the government spent to Rockefeller Sr. bought land outside press attacks turned vicious. In still known familiarly as "Rockefel- fix the roads would have to be m/nytstore his native Cleveland to build a sum- 1904 Junior had a nervous break- ler's teeth." matched by a private endowment, mer house. He carved out roads, in- down and took his wife and baby Acadia National Park was not his The Friends of Acadia raised $4 stalled stone bridges and landscaped daughter to the South of France for idea. George B. Dorr, a Boston aris- million, and in 1991 Congress started w Hork Times 700 acres. His son was intrigued. six months," Mr. Rieley wrote. Even tocrat and charismatic naturalist appropriating funds to match that .com 'Grandfather learned how to lay out after they returned, he did not work who summered on Mount Desert, amount. Today the vintage carriage a road according to the contours of for months. and Eliot, the Harvard president, be- roads are again pristine, shared by the land and lay a grade that could In 1908, when he and Abby were ex- gan persuading summer people to bikers, hikers and horse carriages. NYT 8/8/03 B32 1922- COMPLIANCE DOCUMENTATION FOR THE HISTORIC MOTOR ROADS ACADIA NATIONAL PARK in FEDERAL HIGHWAYS PROJECT #PRA-ACAD-4A10 du ke ? a il si- the Prepared by By H. Eliot Foulds, Landscape Architect rk se d, ley 1. Edited by ly Lauren G. Meier, Historical Landscape Architect we cul- Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation Cultural Landscape Program S North Atlantic Region National Park Service September, 1993