SECRETARY WORK DEFINES NATIONAL PARKS POLICY Confirming the Practice of Fifty-two Years of Government, He Declares for Highest Scenic Standards and Complete Conservation On January 14, 1924, Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work, of Colorado, addressed the following letter to Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida: My DEAR SENATOR: I have before me your letter of January 4 asking for a statement of poliey that governs the creation of National Parks. Under the theory and practice of the United States Government since 1872 when Yellowstone National Park was created, our National Park System is made up of areas enclosing scenery of quality so un- usual and impressive, or natural features SO extraordinary, as to possess national interest and importance as contradistinguished from local interest. Such outstanding examples of typical world architec- ture as the Grand Canyon, exemplifying in unequalled grandeur the highest accomplishment of stream erosion, or the rugged portions of Mount Desert Island in Maine which are incorporated in the Lafayette National Park, exemplifying unique rock forms in association with quite extraordinary eastern forests, compel immediate recognition of National Park values. The National Parks, therefore, must not be lowered in standard, dignity, and prestige by the inclusion of areas which express in less than the highest terms the particular class or type of exhibit which they represent. Size is not important so long as the proposed park includes within its boundaries those scenic elements that meet established standards, but the area must be susceptible of effective development to make it accessible to the people, and of convenient administration and control. Duplication of exhibits already in the National Park Sys- tem must be carefully avoided in order that the individuality of the members of the System may be maintained. And, when once established by the Congress along well-studied boundary lines, they must be conserved in their natural state, un- touched by the inroads of modern civilization, so that coming generations, as well as the people of our own time, may be assured their use for the purposes of recreation, education, and scientific research. Very truly yours, (Signed) HUBERT WORK, Secretary of the Interior. NotE: In late January of 1924, preparations began for a hearing in Washington, D.C Scores before Interior Secretary Hubert Work. of of documentation have been separated pages from this archival series (I) and placed in series III titled "Roads: 1924 Hearings". Consult this file for chronological complete ness. ADDRESS ONLY THE DIRECTOR. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON D. a DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON January 5, 1924. Personal and confidential. Dear Mr. Dorr, - I tried to get this letter off to you last night, but I had conference which took me way into the night, and again tonight I've got to give a lecture at the Metropolitan Club which will pull me away from here in half an hour. Still, I must get a line to you to review the happenings of the past few days. Thursday Secretary of the Interior Work called me up and said he had been requested by Senator Pepper to give a hearing the next morning to himself, Harold Peabody of Boston, and Mrs. Eliot Wadsworth, and that he had agreed. He went over the Lafayette Park situation with me, saying that these people were going to protest against the road program. I went over the entire plan with him, including the history of the case, the elimination of certain of the road trails and the approval of those shown on the map, as well as the approval of the through motor road and the pro- posed road project up Cadillac. I explained to him about young Mr. Rockefeller's donations as being part of donations from half a dozen peo le for the same purposes (he had told me Senator Pepper had told him that Rockefeller was standing the cost of all the work. ) Well, to make matters short, the next morning the three called and I was called in. Senator Pepper was particularly fine in his statements, giving you and Mr. Rockefeller all possible credit, but claiming that you had not taken anybody into your cafidence despite many inquiries on you from your most intimate friends and neighbors so that a cloud of suspicion has been cast on what you really intended to do. That they were protesting against the road trails in particular, since there were more than enough of trails located in those areas by the trail association, and that there was no assurance that these road trails would be kept as such, but would eventually be motor roads. They protested strongly against the type of some of the bridges you were putting in, stating that you were putting in bridges more fitted for Central Park or a city park than for Lafayette Park. They said that the various chairmen of the small towns on the island were all worried, and what they wanted was a hearing or meeting at which all these plans could be discussed and the various points of view on these matters thoroughly discussed and brought into the open. Dr. Work ADDRESS ONLY HE DIRECTOR. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON D. c. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON showed them the approved map, approving my giving them a copy for their information, and directed me to arrange for a hearing, and informal hearing, with Harold Peabody at which all these points could be brought out. The Doctor is a great man for holding these hearings so that everybody who has a grievance may have a chance to have it out, and the plan is shortly to arrange for this hearing here in Washington which all these people and those whom you want to have appear may be heard. I read to him Senator Hale's and Fernald's letters and that from Congressman Nelson, and explained also Judge Peters's and President Eliot's attitude. I found that even among the group represented by Peabody and Pepper there was a difference of opinion on various things, for instance Senator Pepper was Green to have the road you are now building continue along Jordan Pond while others want it flexed around Pemetic -- I think that is the mountain. The Doctor also told me that he wanted all construction work stopped until this matter had been decided. I told him that such a meeting probably could not be called before April or May, if it was to be held on the Island, but th if it were to be called for Mashington it could be held at any time, - and that anyway winter conditions would prevent work on the roads till June. I'm to write you a letter in a few days, officially holding up work on the roads. I then told him, and I emphasized to Peabody that even were a vote taken on the best course to pursue, that I wouldn take the judgment of the majority vote for what is best to do under the circumst nces, since it might easily be one side, and it can be either side, could gather enough people present by their votes to over-ride the sensible thing to be done, and that as far as I am concerned, after these meetings, or this meeting, have been held, and the points at issue brought out, I would ask the Secretary to ask the landscape member of the National Fine Arts Commission, the Federal Advisory Body, whose services are available in such cases, to make a personal inspection and decide the points involved for the Secretary's guidance. Peabody though this a good point, and later on when I mentioned it to Dr. York he himself agreed that that was the course to pursue. Senator Pepper emphasized the fine or you were doing and had done, and that he had no desire to disparage the work in any wey that Mr. Rockefeller and his associates were doing, that properly directed it would be as beneficial as it was public spirited, but that they are fraid the park was being ruined with the best of intentions to the contrary. He said he was going to see Senator Hale. I think the above covers t e points brought out, frankl- and in detail. [Armo Cammerer] Mr. Dorr to Mr. Cammerer night letter strictly personal. Western Union Bar Harbor, Jan 7th, 1924. Letter of January 5th marked "personal" received this morning. Work is continuing as authorized on motor road to Bubble Pond and on one horse-trail. Not possible to wholly interrupt without matter immediately becoming public and front- page item in newspapers in state and over country. Most im- portant no such action be taken without fullest consultation with and due notice to both Senators from State and Congressman from this district. Men hired for winter who gave up other work for this on faith of Government authorization would be thrown out of work and strong feeling aroused to permanent injury of Park. Nothing to be gained from immediate stoppage. On motor road am simply connecting two ends already completed with work partially done throughout between. This section, ending at Bubble Pond and now three-quarters done, lies wholly in town of Bar Harbor, and is not part of that to which objection has been raised, which latter can be left open for discussion later. Construction proceeding only on single horse-trail, that west of Jordan Pond where rockslide in conspicuous portion is already past. No bridge building involved. No change in situation with regard to objections raised would be accomplished by cessation on this trail on which small crew alone is working. By leaving it to con- tinue until conference is held would obviate necessity of bringing matter publicly to attention. Not physically possible for me to leave at once for Washington. Have just returned from Boston where my presence was required for matters relating to my work. Matters here require me now for next few days and there is a limit to my strength and energy. Have made plans for coming shortly to Washington as Yard informed you and will come earliest I can. No meeting in Washington should be held at which both senators from Maine and Mr. Nelson are not present. The presidents or vice-presidents of all Village Improvement Asso- ciations on the Island should be given opportunity to attend, with ample notice, not path committee chairmen merely. And if these associations are to be represented at such hearing the communities themselves who are vitally interested should be re- presented also. Not to do this would endanger good relations between the two and place the Government in position of seeking selected class opinion only. The Trustees of Public Reservations from whom the Government received its land in gift should be represented also. [G.B.Darr] Mr. Dorr to Mr. Cammerer Bar Harbor, Jan. 10, 1924. Dear Mr. Cammerer: I sent you Monday night the night-letter of which I enclose copy, marking it "strictly personal", as your letter which it answered came, and I sent it not as official but Public Vs Rocord charged against my personal account so that no record of it might get into the files. I think it will have made the situation briefly clear. Winter is no hindrance to the work that I am doing on the motor road. The section of this from its com- mencement at Great Pond Hill on the Eagle Lake Road to the crossing of the brook at the foot of Bubble Pond is a distance of two miles. The first mile is practically done; some surfacing, the care of borders to eliminate rawness and dis- figurement, and the placing of some coping stones alone remain to finish it. This section was about equally divided between ledge and earth deposits; the portion I am now working on is wholly ledge, the shallow soil which covered it having been stripped off and used to make a screening bank upon the lower side. The end by Bubble Pond, which is in earth, was completed last fall and needs only surfacing with gravel and landscape work along the sides to finish it. The strip between, where blasting is required, I prepared last fall for winter work by stripping it to the sloping rock, so that snow could be removed with slight expense as rapidly as the work progresses. A thousand feet on this section, also, has now been roughly done and work upon the rest is rapidly proceeding, with a carefully culled-out and exceptionally efficient crew. By next summer, if there be no interruption of the work, the two completed ends should be connected and the landscape work along its borders done, when it will become a unique source of interest and pleasure to a great host of visitors. No pains are being spared to bring the road into harmony with its surroundings and no criticism has come to me from any source of my work upon the portion now completed, but only commendation. For drilling I bought two months ago a costly but most efficient air-compressor which is practically inde- pendent of winter in its operation and exceedingly effective. Its acquisition was a generous gift to our equipment. [G.B.Dorr] Mr. Dorr to Mr. Cammerer Bar Harbor, Jan. 10, 1924. Dear Mr. Cammerer: I sent you Monday night the night-letter of which I enclose copy, marking it "strictly personal", as your letter which it answered came, and I sent it not as official but charged against my personal account so that no record of it might get into the files. I think it will have made the Publie situation briefly clear. Winter is no hindrance to the work that I am doing on the motor road. The section of this from its com- mencement at Great Pond Hill on the Eagle Lake Road to the crossing of the brook at the foot of Bubble Pond is a distance of two miles. The first mile is practically done; some surfacing, the care of borders to eliminate rawness and dis- figurement, and the placing of some coping stones alone remain to finish it. This section was about equally divided between ledge and earth deposits; the portion I am now working on is wholly ledge, the shallow soil which covered it having been stripped off and used to make a screening bank upon the lower side. The end by Bubble Pond, which is in earth, was completed last fall and needs only surfacing with gravel and landscape work along the sides to finish it. The strip between, where blasting is required, I prepared last fall for winter work by stripping it to the sloping rock, SO that snow could be removed with slight expense as rapidly as the work progresses. A thousand feet on this section, also, has now been roughly done and work upon the rest is rapidly proceeding, with a carefully culled-out and exceptionally efficient crew. By next summer, if there be no interruption of the work, the two completed ends should be connected and the landscape work along its borders done, when it will become a unique source of interest and pleasure to a great host of visitors. No pains are being spared to bring the road into harmony with its surroundings and no criticism has come to me from any source of my work upon the portion now completed, but only commendation. For drilling I bought two months ago a costly but most efficient air-compressor which is practically inde- pendent of winter in its operation and exceedingly effective, Its acquisition was a generous gift to our equipment. [G.BDORR] Dorr 9.13. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT January 15th, 1924. Dear President Eliot: atters needing to be considered by the Trustees of Public Reservations have come up since I returned here and in your absence I have requested Mr. Lynam, as secretary, to call a meeting of the Corporation on Tuesday next, to attend which I shall stay. I am taking the opportunity of the meeting, also, to get a by-law passed which will enable the Corporation to drop as members for continued mon-attendance at its meetings men like Mr. L. 2. Kimball of Northeast Harbor who do not attend them and take no interest in the Corporation's work and aims. I have gone over this and other matters with Judge Densy and know you will approve. I hope to be again in Boston shortly, on my way to Washington, and to COME out and see you. Yours sincerely, George B.Dass Itra day of sameline after light fall of law, and wonderfully beautiful ERR. Darr 9. B. Cambridge, Mass., 16 January 1924 My dear Dorr: I do approve of the meeting of the Trustees of Public Reservations which you have called for January 22nd and of the proposed additional By-Law which will enable the Trustees to throw out the name of Loron Kimballof Northeast Harbor. l'everthcless, I hold that winter meetings of the Trustees should be avoided if possible, or that no business should be done at winter meetings except what may fairly be called matters of course or matters proviously agreed upon by the Trustees. Have you got something good dono about Schoodic? I hoard a report, coming through an English woman, that Lady Lee had agreed to something. I wish I could share your pleasure in a "day of sunchine after a light fall of snow" at Mount Desert; but I can walk from my desk across the room and look with delight at those two beautiful photographs of the Eliot woods which you cave me. They often attract the notice of visitors at my Study. Sincerely yours [c.W.Eliot] Mr. George B. Dorr EARWARD UNIVERSIT? PHILOSOPHY ANDIPERCE COMPANY Hok January 23. 1924 Dear Afra Don't We, have an opportunity to seoure 8 portrait of Professor Royce which 10 an excellent likenesso It meets with the one thusiastic approval of Professor Palmert who subscription 18 complete with the ex coption of about $300.0 a AS a friend of oype you kwill perhapp be able to join us TO completing the subscription Lioto Sincerely yours, J N.Words Honorable G.B. Dorr Page I of5. Feb 5th COSMOS CLUB WASHINGTON,D.C. 924 Wear President Eliot, Iham received urtic from Mr Lynam of a meeting of the Hil Co Trustin of Public Reen- - batins, Called to anthony transfer th the Gov't of the Lake Wood probuty been of Hull's Cour which Mus Kam has lately bought for Such purpose, through me, which was duded thinkward the Truster The Gov't has approved the tith which fills - lu the study git made by Mr Lynau - One Struet 2 3. dud for execution after The hact taken he the whole basin of the little lake, Heift What the R got - lively odd year ago, for I backs How, togethe wist the thing labolit, 4. COSMOS CLJB WASHINGTON, D.C. Jaur Paid Which drain into Lake Wood - the Whole Compress that 160 acres of lake n Woodland Vistbly lovely The purches a ally bill hig yard hear the outlet of the lake kift by the triller Pisch! Than had a rather Sheminos the fruit I gither, but so far all has you as will and Could asly- there to lu a hearing before Decretary work On March 26 ADDRESS ONLY THE DIRECTOR. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON, D. C. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON February 12, 1924. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 26 Broadway, New York City. Dear Mr. Rockefeller: I found it necessary to come on to Washington before I got this letter off which I enclose. CBD I received word from the National Park Service that a fresh attack was being made upon our work and plans by Sir Peppers Senator Pepper, using the influence of his official po- sition with the Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Work, to whom the whole matter of course is new. And my presence here was needed. I was happily able to forestall success- fully his first attack and think all coming well, but I have had an anxious time. I shall be able now to get away from here within a few days, when I shall come to New York and shall see you. A hearing on the subject has been ap- pointed by Dr. Work for the 26th of March, for which I am preparing. I have the Park Service and the National Parks Association strongly wi th me, President Eliot, the Trustees of Public Reservations, and the whole State of Maine. I before have no question as to the result, but it will not do to take anything for granted or leave anything undone that may help to present the matter rightly. Yours sincerely, George B. Was Source: R.H.Epp. Creating Acedia National Park 2016. See also Roads/1924 Road Hearing file in Dorr Archive, Series III. One wonders whether Dorr's superlative effort to engage the Barr Hill enthropist in park development could have grown out of some level awareness that new Rockefeller projects-beginning in 1924-would mpete" with his persistent interest in Mount Desert Island. These ded developing the Mesa Verde National Park museum, securing erties in Jackson Hole to eventually create the Grand Teton National funding the establishment of the sugar pine forest approach to mite Valley, and securing a five-million-dollar gift from the Rockefeller dation to establish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Not to on Rockefeller's undertaking the most ambitious restoration project Colonial Williamsburg.49 While the answer to this question is beyond the scope of this inquiry, Count Desert island park expansion was no longer tolerable to George now a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. For more than ears he and his island allies had tried to arouse popular support for ation of interior wildlands exempt from road intrusion. He threatened the debate over Lafayette National Park road construction into the Senate. As Yard's publication circulated, it provided a standard against to measure the reasonableness of the unprecedented assault by those demanded the cessation of road construction within the park. As the terior secretary agreed to open hearings in Washington to resolve of road construction in Lafayette National Park, the foreseeable of Mr. Rockefeller's carriage roads and the fate of the park ndent were at stake. THE PRINCE OF ALTRUISTS 207 NARACP, R679, CCF Acadea SYBK SERAICE Misc Rpts OE THE New England Conference for Protection of National Parks Composed of delegates from various HARLAN P. KELSEY, Chairman New England Organizations FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, Secretary Fellow Boston Society of Landscape Architects Brookline, Mass. Salem, Mass., March 7, 1924. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Harlan P. Kelsey APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB Mrs. Julian C. Woodman Mr. Stephen T. Mather, MASSACHUSETTS STATE FEDERATION OF National Park Service, WOMEN'S CLUBS Department of the Interior, Allen Chamberlain Washington, District of Columbia. SOCIETY FOR PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS Harris A. Reynolds Dear Mr. Mather: MASSACHUSETTS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION Frederick Law Olmsted Some little time ago I wrote you with reference BOSTON SOCIETY OF to action taken by the New England Conference for LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS Protection of National Parks relative to the Lafayette National Park and proposed building cf a system of ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTED BY AUTHORIZED DELEGATES roads in that park. Votes pending in other organizations APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB May I ask what is the present status of this matter MASSACHUSETTS FORESTRY as many of our members are very anxious to know if the ASSOCIATION Park Service intends to carry out the plans as previous- SOCIETY FOR PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS ly determined upon or willing to grant Hearings with a CHOCORUA MOUNTAIN CLUB view to possible elimination of some of these roads. BOSTON SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS MASSACHUSETTS STATE FEDERATION Mr. Albright was here fortunately and attended the OF WOMEN'S CLUBS MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY meeting of our New England Conference and gave a splendid MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL talk on the Roosevelt-Sequoia matter. He also heard the SOCIETY discussion on the Lafayette National Park matter which MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING AGRICULTURE is really of vital interest to New Englanders and he can FIELD AND FOREST CLUB tell you how the matter stands. Any information you can MASSACHUSETTS CIVIC LEAGUE give me on this matter will be of the livliest interest MASSACHUSETTS FEDERATION OF PLANNING BOARDS to our people here. NEW ENGLAND TRAIL CONFERENCE THE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB, INC. I have never written you what a remarkable recep- MAINE FEDERATION OF WOMEN' CLUBS tion your official photographer got for his illustrated and CONNECTICUT FORESTRY ASSOCIATION moving picture address on Yosemite. About 1200 of our City BROOKLINE CIVIC SOCIETY BOSTON SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS club members heard him and I had the pleasure of introduc- ing him and say a word for the National Parks. If this lecture was put on the road so that everyone in the United States could hear it I believe it would tot- ally revolutionize National Park affairs. It is not only the best lecture and exhibition on nature I have ever seen and heard but it is staged in a very pleasing way and gives an idea of our National Parks that drives it home so that people will not forget. You are to be congratulated on Alain having such a piece of publicity material to use and I wish it was possible in some way to have this lecture sent to every leading center in the country this summer. Also it would be a ten-strike to have it exhibited to Congress [H.P.Kelsey] 3HL A adidas LINE MEN BM New England Conference for Protection of National Parks Composed of delegates from various HARLAN P. KELSEY, Chairman New England Organizations FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, Secretary Fellow Boston Society of Landscape Architects Salem, Massachusetts. Brookline, Mass. March 7, 1924. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Page 2 Harlan P. Kelsey APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB Mrs. Julian C. Woodman MASSACHUSETTS STATE FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS self or where the members of Congress could see it. Allen Chamberlain SOCIETY FOR PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS With best regards, Harris A. Reynolds MASSACHUSETTS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION Yours very truly Frederick Law Olmsted BOSTON SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS Chairman. HPK: LO ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTED BY AUTHORIZED DELEGATES Votes pending in other organizations APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB MASSACHUSETTS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION SOCIETY FOR PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS we all know Mr. Dears real CHOCORUA MOUNTAIN CLUB BOSTON SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS MASSACHUSETTS STATE FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL that he is more than anyone interest in Lafayette V MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY SOCIETY MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING AGRICULTURE FIELD AND FOREST CLUB Else perhaps responsible for MASSACHUSETTS CIVIC LEAGUE MASSACHUSETTS FEDERATION OF PLANNING BOARDS NEW ENGLAND TRAIL CONFERENCE having such a park afall. THE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB, INC. MAINE FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS Jet this doesnot mean that CONNECTICUT FORESTRY ASSOCIATION BROOKLINE CIVIC SOCIETY BOSTON SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS his ideas of chopping the park up with road is the right ave. Our us. people are really vitally interested in leaving this water too carefully late. weighed before it-s EHI A Entered matter, July 10 1914, at the postoffice/at Bar Harbor, Maine, under Act of March 1879. PARK HEARING AT No lover of horses the country over will be reluctant to see the horse given his chance, in these days of motors, to play his part in the WASHINGTON TODAY development of Lafayette National Park. While the most striking feature of the development program is the long desired motor road Six to summit of Cadillac Mountain, of hardly less interest is nesuperb Matters of Vital Importance Under horse-trail now under construction as a part of the Park's approved Discussion There Upon Which National Park Road Develop- plan. Nothing is taken from the motorist by this splendid gift for ment May Depend no motor road would ever be constructed at the tax payer's expense where this magnificent trail now runs or is to be built; the cost would nes As the TIMES goes to press, March be prohibitive. de- 26th, there is taking place in Washing- Maine has for generations been famed as a breeding ground for irls ton before the Secretary of the Depart- fine horses. For decades, and until a very few years ago, Bar Har- ias ment of the Interior, Dr. Hubert Work, bor was famed the summer home of the finest horses in America. he a hearing relative to the matter of don- o, tinuance of road development in Lafay- With the inevitable advent of the motor, the horse was almost at A. ette National Park. once driven from our streets and roads as he had largely been driven ye For the plan, which was approved in from The highways of the country. Just prior to the coming of in 1922 and on which work has been done motors, there was serious consideration, on the part of thought- h- in the road development since and is Id still continuing to be done, a host of ful men, of a plan that would open one or two public roads to mo- to Maine proponents will appear. tors and leave the horse in undisputed possession of the majority as Among them will be Fred C. Lynam of the highways. This is significant as showing the place that of Bar Harbor, vice-president of the the horse had in the hearts of our people' but a dozen years ago. be Bar Harbor Village Improvement So- Had the Lafayette National Park development program been ap- d, ciety; President C. |E. Dow of the Bar la proved and under way in those days, with what joy it would have Harbor Board of Trade, Dr. D. iy Phillips of Southwest Harbor, a state been hailed and what problems it would have solved! While Mt. senator; Chauncey D. Joy of Northeast Desert Island gained in business, it lost much of its picturesque- Harbor, prominent in all community ness with the march of progress that motorized our traffic. The wise in matters; Oliver L. Hall of Bangor, editor plans for Lafayette National Park development are designed to pre- and part owner of the Bangor Commer- serve for all. time the most charming features of summer life here and cial, who knows Mount Desert as few even provide for the return of some of the lost charms of this great newspaper men can: Sam E. Conner city editor of the Lewiston Journal, who last resort section. year wrote one of the best feature stories The opportunity for the return of the horse to something of his h of Lafayette National Park after several former glory made possible by the Lafayette National Park plan is days(exploring it; David O. Rodick, who unique and will be hailed warmly by lovers of horses everywhere. has been actively interested in Park matters since its beginning; Albion F. Men of means who find their chief pleasure in stables of finely bred Sherman of the Bar Harbor TIMES, who animals will find on Mt. Desert Island an unparalleled opportunity has handled much publicity for Island for the enjoyment of their horses without sacrificing any of the ad- h and Park. vantages of a motor age. Residents and visitors of lesser means will And in addition to the local men and create a demand for successor$ to the public stables of an earlier day the newspaper men, there are present supplying good riding and driving horses for hire at reasonable rates. at Washington, besides Supt. George B. or Dorr, his assistant, A. H. Lynam and Particularly will this be true In the case of saddle horses which as a his chief ranger, B. L. Hadley, Maine source of healthful and invigorating pleasure are perhaps more highly men who represent great interests. regarded today than ever before. The promised opportunity for the James Q. Gulnac, whose name is syn- enjoyment of riding and driving over excellent trails especially de- onymous with every forward movement signed for horses, and wending their ways through these marvelousth in Maine; Manager A. L. T. Cummings of the State Chamber of Commerce and parilands, is an opportunity without parallel in America. ay Industrial League; D. W. Hoegg, city One whose memories frequently go back to those gala days of the editor of the Portland Express who has old Bar Harbor Horse Show can not leave Morrell Park out from his put out some of the finest ;publicity for consideration of the equestrian possibilities of Mt. Desert Island her the Park and Island. He is reminded that this magnificent show ground with a backgroundm One woman will be present and she is of tradition comparable to its marvelous scenic background is, byod one of the most fortunate choices, Mrs. Roselle! Huddilston, a past president of the generous gift of Mrs. Edward Morrell, the property of the people the Maine Federation for troméno Clubs, of Bar Harbor and that it. directly adjoins the parklands. Here Might a member of the board of directors of the well be developed a veritable Mecca for lovers of horses the couritrylw national federation, president of the over. Here is a splendid setting for every activity of the horseman.ry Maine League of /Women Voters. Here is a track for the training and racing of horses. Arecent survey. Governor Percival P. Baxter, unable to be present personally, sent Hon. Willis proves that there is opportunity for polo. Horse shows and gym-* E. Parsons of Dover, who, being Com- Khanas follow as a natural result of a community of interest in and missioner of Inland Fisheries and Game, activity with horses. From this center there is easy access to miles has been in close touch with Supt. Dorr upon miles of horse trails now existing or under construction through- and his rangers in matters concerning 'fish. and Lafayette Park, trails that open up to the lover of horses and to the game. BHR 3/26/24 lover of nature recreational upportunities that are indeed boundless. Such are a few possibilities for development to be brought about by the completion of the horse-trails of the approved Lafayette Note See series III National Park plan. If the possibilities fail of realization and if the horse as an instrument of pleasure is doomed, the attempt to perpet- trate an intinite source of wholesome and invigorating pleasure is none under Road Hearing" the less a gallant attempt and one that in no way mortgages or binds for extended documen- the future. to which on the Vontrary it gives an added oportunity and is wider choice. tation. JENIOR RED CROSS HOW TO MEASURE A 1/16/2021 1 - 25 of 36 results . The History Trust Deasy Lot" 1941 -683-330 - Jesup Memorial Deasy Lot" 1941-683-330 ww Jesup Memorial Library Library Item im 4717 copy Ensorth, Maine, March 20th 1934. Hon. Hazbert Work, Beazetary of the Interior, Bachington, D. C. My dear Mr. Sagretary:- A court spasics will prevint my attanance at the Park herring March 26th. I are deeply interested in the Lafayette National Park. From my birth my home and always been within night of its hills. Under Dr. Charlas W. Eliot President, I will an officer of the public Corporation that through may gifts, devises and purchasea accured title to the Park and presented is to the Federal Government. I was much gratified when your producesses, the lite Sacretary Lane, visited and inspected the Park and again later chen I naw the 12nn of Park ronda approved, after careful comminsion, by the Park Service. These 0821 einlly approved rondo extend but N few all shrowah ten thousand norea of park Bind. They are however admirably planned 60 as to affort protection to the Park and to make nomi of isu beauties accessible to the grout unjor- ity of us who from necessity or choice are not mountain climbers. last I was enpecially pinneed when George B. Dorr wha appointed custolian of the Park and given charge of 1:08 roads. In public apirit, enthusians, anaxay and integrity Mr. Dorr 10 sated by all who know him at one hundred pez cont. Mr. Dorr wha givon explicit Authority by the Park Service to Trima money from privise yourgeal, and to proceed with the road construc- tion. This, without compensation oz possibility of parsunal benefit, he preoneded to do. From genezous and public spirited citizens he decurred large contributions and 1100 cursied on the work procisely, I believe, in accordance wish the officially approved plan. A abort time ago I learned with autonishment that there WBB opposition to the continunce of the work on the ronda FLU officially planned and from 3010 sourden opposition to all Park rondo. I believe that some part of all public parka should be middle accessible to this tablic. Thin the opposition any 1a an orroneous theory. Objectiona (2015 send Hourees 80 only to details, Whether in reapout to details any molificition WOUL improve the plan should of course be carefully considered, though to my mind no no ification that has been suggested in necessary or desirable. I the nuro that opposition to the road building pinn na B. whole 10 confined to a very, very small fractional part of the persona familier 1th, and interested In the Park, and while aindern 10 not in the internat of the public. Vocy sincerely yours, loust Im Ite Luere B. Deasy to Hubert Work Letter, March 20, 1924 Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association https://historytrust.net/digitalarchive/find?query=Deasy&view=4 2/5 THE BAR HARBOR WEDNESDAY MARCH 26, 1924 GOVERNMENT APPROVED PARI What Are the Wild Wa ROAD PLANS IN Report of Assistant Director of National Park PERKINS, WHAT ARE Service Approving Lafayette Park Plans DOING TUNING -Made Public for First Time Today IN ON ONE OF e Document of Timely THEN CABARETS e Interest ig d b The hearing that opened in Washington this morning is called d to see if the National Park Service shall be allowed to complete the road work in Lafayette National Park as outlined in plan approved or by the Department of the Interior in 1922. This plan was approved e d after a careful study of the park by Stephen T. Mather, Director of the National Park Service and his assistant, Arno B. Cammerer. Director Mather was here two days and left Assistant Director Cammerer to complete the inspection and to fully go over the plans on the ground with Superintendent Dorr. Mr. Cammerer's report of that inspection trip is a document of exceeeidngly great interest at this time and is made public for the first time today. Its reference to Exhibit A" and "Exhibit B" are references to blueprints showing road diagrams. These blueprints THE TIMES can not reproduce in this issue. The report says: Memorandum for Director Mather: or two days would e content with that You and I left Washington on the Fed- short space of time but will wish to re- eral Express at 7:30 o'clock on the even- main and extend it. This will not be a ing of June 1, 1922, arriving in Boston park for "trippers" but a place for visi- on the morning of the 2d. We left tors spending not less than a week or two. Boston on the evening of the 2d, arriving It is to be borne in mind that the great in Ellsworth, Maine, at 6:40 the next mass of visitors to national park do not morning, motoring from there to Bar desire walking trips over rugged territory Harbor, where we were put up by Super- or strenuous climbs; for such, youth and intendent Dorr at his home. Mr. Dorr activity, the habit and love of exercise, had met us in Boston and accompanied are necessary. For the older, the less us to the Park. strong and active, or less strenuously seen from either above or below and could have accomplished what has been inclined, who are the vast majority, along these rockslide sections boulders done and in being done and will be done, Saturday, the 3d, was raihy, with low- means must be provided making reason- and other weathered-rocks which are and that he has established for all time hanging fog clouds obscuring all except the immediate distance. With Super- ably accessible the features of special abundant along the route can be SO ar- the creation of Lafayette National Park, intendent Dorr and his assistant Mr. interest and beauty in the Park. Were ranged that the road will scarcely appear, as it eventually will leave his hands, a these, in such a system as Superintend- at all, in evidence. splendid example for the American people Lynam, I made an automobile circuit of the eastern section of the Island and ent Dorr has now planned, to be added The roads, with the exception of a of what a public spirited man, supported walked over a path of new construction to the Park's already extensive foot-trail small section of the system flanking by n group of public spirited citizens, in- along the eastern side of Jordan Pond. system, I venture to predict that Lafay- Bubble Pond which will run close to the spired by his initiative and ideals, can do It was impossible even to see the further ette National Park will become the most shore of the Pond are surveyed at ele- to reserve for all time a great scenic area shore of the pond on account of the fog, popular place of resort for lovers of nature vations sufficiently high to be out of for the health, recreation and pleasure of which, however, enabled me to give and landscape to the eastward of the sight from the trails and planned to bring the American people. IIe has done this more attention that day to the path con- Great Lakes and Mississippi. out to the utmost beautiful reflection and modestly and inconspicuously, with struction and the beauty of the natural Before proceeding to a discussion of the light effects of the lower-lying ponds. as wholehearted endeavor toward one end. ground covering. road projects I wish to state that the they are termed locally but which are In conclusion, I feel that no element The next two days were bright and trail work carried on from early times and true lakes. Not until these roads have entering into a thoughtful consideration been built, affording the general public sunny, and you and I were occupied from recently with fresh energy since the of these road projects seems to have been morning until evening folowing woodland Park's creation has resulted in something such a view as this of these exquisite, overlooked. The plan shown in Exhibit very fine. There are two hundred miles clear, and beautifully shaped bodies of trails and climbing the mountains On B, in my opinion, shows the reasonable of well-kept trails, carefully marked so water will it get a true appreciation of the 4th we circuited the Amphitheatre solution of handling the practical prob- that a boy venturing forth for the first their great charm and beauty. I am head to Jordan Mountain, passing Sar- lems of traffic control and distribution of gent Mountain Pond upon the way time into the Park area would have no confident that the future will de visitors, coupled with fire and game pro- The next day we climbed Champlain trouble to find hie way, Locations have mand rather for the cutting of vistas at tection, and is imperative to meet the been carefully chosen for the THIL well-chosen places to open the views to Mountain by the Precipice Path, descend- inflowing hosts of visitors the coming bring out the greatest scenic value in the than for vegetation to hide the ing by the Beehive to Sand Beach, where years will bring. The Park is one that areas traversed, and exquisite taste is road CORRFUCE personally verified we bathed and lunched. We then must be enjoyed at leisure. It is small y motored over to Beech Cliff. apparent alike in the selection of routes this in following the surve the uro- in comparison with our other major and the care of waysides posed motor road running along the and is rich in its offerings. and the caré flank of Pemetic Mountain, and also the You had to leave on the evening of the Eventually licensed operators will have 5th; I remained, to continue my inapec- The original plan for motor roads and flank of Pemetic Mountain, and also the to be installed to furnish! saddle horses tion and to make preparation of this re- trail roads tentatively suggested by section of the road trail system or the and light buggy service at reasonable Superintendent Dorr is shown, as stated, side of Jordan Pond. Neither you nor I port, until the evening of June 8th, when prices. by Exhibit A. We come to Exhibit had time to follow the route of pro- I left for Boston on the 9 'clock ferry B. which is a revision of Exhibit A with posed motor road to the top of Cadillac I therefore recommend that the plan The special purpose of my inspection Mountain, or to climb that mountain, receive your approval as basic for a motor was to study the road and trail system elimination, which you considered ad- visable, of certain extensions or duplica- but anyone who has climbed any one of road and road-trail communication sys- laid before us in Washington recently by the major mountain masses will come to Superintendent Dorr on a tentative pro- tions of the road trails. This map shows the sure conviction that a road for motor- tem for Lafayette National Park ject-map which he had prepared and one main, park line for motor travel from ists should lead to the top of at least one the town road now ending blindly near I may add that the demand for a devel- which was the result of long study on his of the mountains so that those who can part directed to securing a basic com- the Jordan Pond House to the Bar Har- opment such as Superintendent Dogr pro- bor-Somesville road, with a road to the not climb may get opportunity to receive munication system for the Park. This poses to be strong in the State the inspiration and feel the exaltation of accorded happily with our recent in- summit of Cadillac Mountain springing not only in the immediate structions to the superintendents to pre- from it opposite Eagle Lake. Road spirit that come with an hour spent on Park, but throughout the whole exten- pare maps, estimates, and other data trails available for foot, horseback, or the breeze-swept hills with their superb sive resort section of Maine which has covering road projects to be submitted horse-drawn vehicle, but closed to motors views over sea and island, losing them- come to regard the Park as an important and constituting a separate park system selves in far distance. If one good asset. motor road to the top of Cadillac Moun- 3/26/24. page 2 e road program. enclose in two great, connecting tain is not provided in this plan, 16 1wm Superintendent Dorr has been study- Penobscot-Sargent Mountain mass and 3 inevitably come through popular insis- ing for years the needs of the Park in that of Pemetic Mountain, The Triad tence in the future. In fact, every one regard to roads and paths, to link it with and The Bubbles, passing four lakes- of the roads now shown on Exhibit B, the residential sections of the Island and Eagle Lake, Jordan Pond, Hadlock Pond in my opinion, is essential and should be to afford interesting ways of travel and Bubble Pond-upon its course, safely established on this basic plan. In through it, his study including also that Northward it is linked with road-trails of similar character already constructed my opinion a road up Cadillac Mountain R of means to efficient fire control and game protection. Superintendent Dorr's orig- in the Paradise Hill and Witch Hole Pond will not be equalled anywhere in the United States for its combination of inal plan, tentatively laid out, is attached section above the Bluffs on Frenchman's mountain massing, valleys, inland lakes, hereto as Exhibit A. It shows two - Bay. These road-trails have been plan- it and ocean and should be given when terns of ways, one of which, marked in ned along easy grades, affording, when n built a distinctive name that will identify 1, red on the attached blue print, is plan- constructed, to the splendidly wooded it as a national scenic road and give it 2) ned for motor roads; the other, shown in slopes of half a dozen mountains absol- individuality throughout the world, even yellow, for a system of road-trails for utely necessary lanes for fire and game e as the Corniche and other old-world is use on foot or by horse, motors being protection. drives are world famous. excluded from them. it I think it impressed you as it did me, Exhibit B has been prepared as the t, Before referring to Exhibit B, which and as was emphasized by Superintend- result of an hour's conference between fe shows conclusions arrived at in confer- ent Dorr, that these sections of the Park Mr. Dorr, you and myself, shortly before ence between you, Superintendent Dorr covered not only by yellow lines showing p- your leaving. Comparison with Exhibit in and myself, I want briefly to register road trails, but by the red lines showing A shows that road details have been d certain impressions that the Park and motor roads, are practically inaccessible Island have made on me. eliminated. The map as now altered he except under the most strenuous exer- I had not been in Lafayette Park be- shows a simple communicating and feeder e tions for such protection work or for en- fore and was surprised at the large scale system laid out 80 as to serve the most joyment. I personally traversed the of the Island. From the point where one important administrative requirements thickly forested western slope of Pemetic es enters it from the mainland; by the bridge Mountain with great difficulty, and from of fire fighting and game protection pa- is at the Narrows, to Seal Harbor, is six- trols while at the same time affording the fire protection standpoint, roads of t. views of the best scenic exhibits of the teen miles by road, while from the head such * character, properly located, are re of Somes Sound to Schooner Head is 1 an absolute necessity. The great value. Park without invading other and exten- sive sections which can be reserved to nineteen miles. This constitutes only of a road for fire protection was obvious re the eastern half of the Island which is the walker. in the Beech Hill section of the Park, rs more compact and less extended than am returning from this inspection trip d where an old, rough road served not only the western half and is the section that as a. patrol lane for a forest fire that with a true realization of the wonderful t, d you and I covered in such portion as we burned over Beech Mountain two years work Superintendent Dorr has done and had opportunity. This extent of the ago, creating scar hundreds of acres in I am confident I can speak for you sim- g- Island is increased further and empha- extent that will be many years in healing, ilarly in putting this on official record. y, ix sized |by the bold, abrupt character of but acted as a barrier to that fire when No one can appreciate, until he has been the mountain masses, while the wonder- it reached the road; on one side we now on the ground and viewed the immense be ful views of the ocean dotted here and see the native tree growth and plant life tracts of valuable lands turned over to TB there with islands, give a sense of vast- W in all its freshness, while on the other side the Government through his efforts, and ill ness that eliminates all feeling of narrow- the charred trunks of trees covering the detailed construction work already ness or restriction. One |may, indeed, hundreds of acres were in horrible con- done, what a stupendous undertaking it ry regard the broad expanse of water, 15- trast. has been. This achievement is quite gle th landed and stretching away into the In order to ascertain to what extent without parallel elsewhere. In his splen- horizon, as an extension of the Park. the roads would be visible from the did accomplishment, Superintendent Dorr available for recreational uses. has been ably supported by many other m mountains tops when built special atten- oll It would be difficult to say which of tion was paid to the proposed locations public spirited men in the free and gen- the rémarkable opportunities the Park erous donation of lands and money; and I of those along Pemetic and Jordan offers for enjoyment and recreation are Mountains. On Tuesday I circled Jor- in fact, as soon as the road projects om the more attractive-woodland walks ty- dan Pondi partly by the new survey and shown on Exhibit B are approved, dona- and rides, walks along well-planned, well- partly where such existed-by foot tions of large sums not from one but a at kept trails that lead over the mountains ine trails followed motor road number of public-spirited individuals and up the precipitous cliffs, affording through the woods along the western will be available, not only to build the per constant succession of grand and besu- slope of Pemetia Mountain from the foot motor road from the Bar Harbor-Somes- by tiful, views, or motor trips, or boating ike of Jordan Pond to the northern end of ville road to the Jordan Pond road but and salling, or bathing. To the lover Bubble Pond, distance de about three for the. acquisition of thousands of acres use nature the appeal of the woods is irreals l of miles Surveybr Simpson who made of land, not yet in the Park, but to tible: Along the 'trails on every, side the survey, and Lynapi accompan- stragetically located as to be absolutely objects of interest in plant and an- led Superintendent Dort essential for the complete rounding out and me: fimal arising The road the Park and its enjoyment by the lakes are filled with fish and the odean reviewing achieve conclusion is inevitable Dorr University of Minnesota Copy Archives Thomas S. Roberts HERBERT W. GLEASON Natural History Correspondence 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 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 photographic, 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 feasible this year. Sincerely yours, Herbert If Eleason Dr. Thos. S. Roberts, Minneapolis, Minn. HOUSE No. 1080 FINAL REPORT OF THE JOINT SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC RESERVATIONS APPOINTED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF AN ORDER ADOPTED BY THE SENATE ON MAY 27 AND BY THE HOUSE ON MAY 28, 1924 BOSTON WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., LEGISLATIVE PRINTERS 32 DERNE STREET 1925 19.20f3 REPORT OF THE JOINT SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC RESERVATIONS. The foregoing Order was reported by the Committee on Harbors and Public Lands as the result of the bill, Senate No. 221, introduced by Senator Walter Shuebruk of Cohasset in the Legislature of 1924. I. ORGANIZATION. Under the foregoing Order the President of the Senate appointed Hon. George M. Webber of East Bridgewater and the Speaker of the House appointed Repre- sentatives Arthur W. Jones of Nantucket, Edward C. Hinckley of Hyannis and Thomas H. Nickerson of Harwich. The Committee met on September 25, 1924, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and organized, electing George M. Webber as Chairman and Thomas H. Nickerson as Secretary. II. PROCEEDINGS. The Joint Special Committee on Public Reservations was established under the The Committee held public hearings in the state house and elsewhere, cor- following Order: responded with officials of all the other states relative to the manner in which this question had been handled elsewhere and visited various undeveloped stretches Ordered, That a joint special committee, to consist of one senator and three representatives, of seashore frontage north and south of Boston and on Cape Cod. to be designated respectively by the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives, shall sit during the recess of the general court for the purpose of investigating the question of the establishment in the commonwealth of public reservations and of ac- III. CONCLUSIONS. quiring by purchase, gift or eminent domain, on the part of the commonwealth, such tracts of land bordering upon the ocean suitable for recreational purposes or for the establishment The Committee, as the result of its investigation and consideration of the of camping facilities for motor tourists as may be expedient. The committee shall also subject, is unanimously of the opinion that the situation is one that warrants consider the subject matter of current senate bill number two hundred and twenty-one. The the careful consideration by public authorities as well as by all who are interested committee shall have quarters in the state house, may hold public hearings, may require in conserving the public resources. the attendance and testimony of witnesses, may administer oaths, and may expend, from such appropriation as the general court may make, such sums, not exceeding twelve hundred Judicial decisions have made it clear that the owner of the upland bordering the dollars, as the governor and council may approve. The committee shall report its recom- ocean in general has title to the fee of the land as far as low water mark and is mendations to the general court not later than December fifteenth in the current year, ac- therefore able to exclude the general public from the seashore, except possibly companied by such drafts of legislation as may be necessary to carry the same into effect. for the purposes of "navigation, fishing and fowling". In other words, the general public has no right to bathe or to use any beaches for recreation where the upland is privately owned. The result has been that private owners have in a great many instances excluded the general public from the beaches, either by posting signs or by the adoption of other methods and this policy is apparently on the increase and has become almost universal along certain parts of the shore which have been developed by private owners. It seems perfectly reasonable to antici- pate that within a very short time the general public will be excluded from prac- tically all of the beaches except those owned by the public or by public spirited citizens or organizations who are willing to keep them open for general use. The present condition has led to another very serious situation because during the summer months there is apparently an irresistible tendency for the people to go to the seashore in automobiles. The result has been that the roads leading to and running along the seashore, in many instances merely country roads, have become crowded with traffic, producing disorderly and obnoxious conditions which the local authorities have been unable to control. Traffic has become seriously congested and automobilists and others have made a practice of tres- passing on private land, causing serious inconvenience and annoyance to travelers and property owners. Even if the small towns along the seashore were financially able to cope with this situation, it appears hardly fair that the burden should be imposed upon them, since the situation is one created by automobilists and others from all parts of our state and from other states. HOUSE-No. 1080. [Feb. 1925.] HOUSE No. 1080. Page 7 6 There are, of course, certain public reservations, such as Revere Beach and mobile and tourists' camps, and the development of properly supervised comfort Nantasket Beach, maintained by the Metropolitan District Commission, but stations, therefore, demand careful and immediate attention. they are already overcrowded on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays and are wholly It appears to the committee that no time should be lost in taking definite steps inadequate to accommodate the still larger throngs of tourists, many of whom, toward acquiring and preserving for the people of the commonwealth some parts moreover, would prefer more remote and more quiet places for bathing and other of the seashore frontage. Various plans for taking definite action along these lines have been suggested and undoubtedly other methods than those suggested could forms of recreation. Some towns have established reservations open to the general public and it was be devised by further consideration of the subject. It seems to the committee that brought to the attention of the committee that in particular the municipal reser- it certainly is a state problem and that the state should not expect the small sea- vations at Gloucester and Plymouth have been used by hundreds and thousands shore towns to bear the financial burden of solving this problem for the benefit of of tourists. There was considerable evidence also that these reservations had all the people. Unquestionably there are many objections to any plan which would been greatly appreciated by the public, that the privileges had not been abused centralize full authority in the state. Possibly, however, there could be devised and that the maintenance of these reservations had proved beneficial in many some method of joint acquisition and control, either by counties and towns, or by the state and towns or possibly by all three. It has been suggested to the Com- ways to the municipalities. Many other small reservations or parks on the seashore are maintained by mittee that some law could be drafted along lines similar to chapter eighty-one of certain towns and there are also associations and private owners who have main- the General Laws, providing for state aid in the construction of roads, which would tained seashore parks for the benefit of the general public. In many instances, authorize the state to assist the towns in maintaining reservations for the benefit however, these reservations are restricted to the inhabitants of the particular of the general public. town in which they are located and the privileges are limited or restricted in IV. RECOMMENDATIONS. various ways. Furthermore, and most important of all, there can be no guarantee This Committee did not have the time, money or other facilities for acquiring of the permanency of any of these reservations and in the aggregate they appear sufficient knowledge of the problem in all its details or to make an exhaustive study to be wholly inadequate to accommodate even a small part of the people who are of the situation. Enough was learned, however, to convince the members of the attracted to the seashore during the summer months. Few, if any of them, more- Committee that further study of this problem should be made forthwith and they over, have accommodations for the parking of automobiles or bathing facilities believe that some of the state commissions which are already acquainted with many or comfort stations. of the facts and conditions affecting the situation and with locations which might The policy of preserving for public use and enjoyment of some of the natural be available for reservations, should carry on this work. The Committee therefore resources of our country has been universally recognized, and in Massachusetts recommends that the Department of Public Works, the Department of Public we have examples, such as Greylock State Reservation, Wachusett Mountain Safety, the Department of Conservation and the Department of Public Health be State Reservation, Mount Tom State Reservation, Mount Sugar Loaf State instructed to study the question jointly and to make specific reports to the Legisla- Reservation, Deer Hill State Reservation, Mount Everett State Reservation, ture on or before December 15, 1925, as to what sites are available, both for seashore Mount Toby State Demonstration Forest, Walden Pond State Reservation, and inland reservations, the approximate cost of acquiring the same by purchase, Purgatory Chasm State Reservation, Standish Monument Reservation, Virginia the likelihood of acquiring by gift, and to make recommendations as to the best Wood, Goodwill Park, Rocky Narrows, Mount Ann Park, Governor Hutchinson's method of handling the whole problem in the future. A draft of proposed legisla- Field, Monument Mountain Reservation, Pine Knoll, Petticoat Hill, and many tion is appended, see Appendix "A". parcels of land devoted to fish and game propagation, in addition to thirty-five state forest reservations. We have recognized the public interest in preserving for all the people the APPENDIX "A". mountain tops, the ponds and the woodland trails, but we are allowing the ocean RESOLVE PROVIDING FOR AN INVESTIGATION BY A SPECIAL COMMISSION RELATIVE frontage, the real and crowning glory of the old Bay State, to fall into private TO PUBLIC RESERVATIONS. ownership SO that shortly the citizen of Massachusetts who cannot afford to own ocean front property will be deprived of the opportunity of bathing in the ocean, Resolved, That an unpaid commission, consisting of the Commissioner of Public of playing on our beaches, or even of looking out upon the sea, except from such Works, the Commissioner of Public Safety, the Commissioner of Conservation and limited areas as those already provided by the state at Revere and Nantasket. the Commissioner of Public Health, be established for the purpose of studying and The question can be considered from many angles, among others, the possible investigating the availability of sites for public reservations, both along the sea- commercial advantage to the state and to various communities by attracting shore and in the interior of the commonwealth, and the approximate cost of ac- tourists from other states and the opportunities for recreation for our own citizens; quiring the same by purchase or otherwise or the likelihood of acquiring the same but of supreme importance is the consideration of the tremendous value to the by gift. The commission may expend from such amount, not exceeding five thou- health of our people in which the state as a whole is vitally interested and is each sand dollars, as may be appropriated by the General Court, such sums as may be year taking a larger part in promoting. approved by the governor and council, and shall report to the General Court its The increased appreciation of the country, which has gone hand in hand with recommendations and estimate, with drafts of any proposed legislation, and a copy increased ease of transportation and which prompts people in continually increasing thereof with the governor and the budget commissioner, on or before December numbers during the vacation season and in fact at almost any opportunity during fifteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-five. the year to seek the out-of-doors, is of undoubted great health benefit particularly to those engaged in sedentary occupations. On the other hand there is present in this large and rapid dissemination of persons throughout the country districts a distinct element of hazard in the spread of communicable diseases from contact of campers with one another and from contamination of water supplies and camping places, not to mention the always present possibility of infection through insects, being aggravated by decaying refuse improperly disposed of. Control of auto- Confidential June 24, 1924. Dear Mr. Lynam After conference with Mr. Rockefeller on Friday, June 20th, I telegraphed that he had approved the committee arrangement and had also authorized additional funds. In discussing the matter with him further we were greatly concerned about the manner in which this change in the conduct and control of the road building work should be brought about. Obviously, the control of any road building in the Park must remain in Mr. Dorr's hands, and both Mr. Dorr and Mr. Rockefeller would be rather in a better position to meet any possible criticisms were the suggestion of the committee arrangement and conduct of the work to come from Mr. Dorr. Naturally, I feel somewhat embarrassed to make this suggestion direct to Mr. Dorr since I have already talked with him about it. However, I think you will understand the situation and the reasons for dealing with the matter through Mr. Dorr. Do you suppose Mr. Dorr would be willing to write Mr. Rockefeller a letter something along the lines in the accompanying draft? If this draft covers Mr. Dorr's ideas, the letter could be sent to Mr. Rockefeller simply that Mr. Rockefeller might be advised of the proposed change in the method of conducting work and control of the expenditure of funds for road building, which were contributed by friends of the Park. I will, thereupon, act on the authority given me by Mr. Rockefeller to subscribe up to $55,000 to complete the road to Bubble Pond, of which 5,000 has already been sent you, and another $5,000 is being sent to you today. I could, perhaps, enlarge on the whole matter but I think you will understand the situation sufficiently from this letter and the accompanying draft, as you already know Mr. Rockefeller's attitude toward Park matters and the necessity which he is under of proceeding most carefully SO as not to place himself in a wrong light before the public. [ArmoCammerer" ?] Please consider the matter and advise me if this method of handling the change to the committee, meets with your approval. In any case please make any changes or criticisms which occur to you. I hope to be at Bar Harbor again in a couple of weeks but should be glad to hear from you promptly on the above. Very truly, p.2of2 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR. MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT June 25th, 1924. Dear Mr. Rockefeller: Mr. Heydt's coming to Bar Harbor to advise with us with reference to methods of accounting and conducting the construction of the Eagle Lake -- Jordan Pond Automobile Road has been most helpful to us all. While any road building that is done in Lafayette National Park must be under my ultimate supervision as Superintendent of the Park, it would be a relief to me and I think a real advantage to the work if the current control of construction, when I have passed upon the alignment of the road were put in the hands of a committee consisting of Mr. Lynam, Assistant Superintendent of the Park, as Chairman, Mr. Dow, who is always in close touch with me, Mr. Simpson as chief engineer, and Mr. Higl, park engineer, immediately in charge of the work. Because you were kind enough to put Mr. Heydt's services at our disposal, I am writing to tell you of this new form of control of the work which is being set up and to thank you for the assistance which you have rendered the Park through Mr. Heydt. In accordance with my instructions as Superinten- dent from the National Park Service all road construction in the Park involves elements of a landscape nature for the beauty of the roadsides and to remove the disfigurements resulting from construction. This work which is not of an engineering nature but forms an essential element in the permission for construction given by the Go ernment will need to be more especially under my own supervision and should be dealt with under saparate and distinct appropriation. Sincerely yours, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Esq., [G.BDORR] 26 Broadway, New York City. GBD-0 Pg.lof5 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT Motor tourists come always to Bar Harbor first. It is the resort center of the Island, of which all have heard. They often arrive late and regard it as their journey's end. One site not too distant from the Par office and the Village needs to be provided for them. To meet this need was what I had in mind in providing the campground on the meadow near Bar Harbor, half a mile from the Park office on the road to Otter Creek. The one choree were. (1) That it is wholly removed from the neighborhood of any summer residential land. (2) That the ground occupied for camping can be completely screened from view from road or trail. (3) That an unlimited supply of pure water is available, immediately at hand; and that electric lighting no (4) That close control can be economically main- tained owing to its vicinity to administrative quarters. (5) That it adjoins what will henceforth constitute the Park's nearest entrance from Bar Harbor and hence will easily be directed to from the Park office and the Information Bureau. (6) That it lies at a central spot for the camp tourist for nood and +most N.A.R.A. RG 79 NPS Gentral Class Files, 1907-49 1907 - 32 Titled Seawall Naval Podic Nahad Par : Acudia station 1928-32. 601-604 Donations Ber Hastory 1930-32" Box 201 Entry 7. - Indeed. 13 oldfarm Photos, encandin cardhoard. / - File # 604 J.D. - Lochefeller Jr. Lobs Build's food and Trails Donations SEAL MON EHI 2. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT with regard to the proposed campground at Otter Creek, the statement made by Mr. Peabody in his third paragraph needs correction. The actual history is this: In the summer of 1924, canvassing the whole available territory in the eastern section of the Park for a good permanent camp site that would be at once attractive to motorists and without objection to summer residents it the Black Woods, would make an excellent site. I consulted Mr. George 1. Stebbings, representing the Seal Harbor Realty Company, the then owner of the tract, as to its availability for acquisi- tion for that purpose. He approved the purpose and brought the matter to Mr. Rockefeller's attention. Mr. Rockefeller in turn approved the site and negotiations were entored into between him and the Realty Company for the purchase of the tract, which were concluded in the following summer. In the meantime, when I next came to Washington, it occurred to me, following the line the Secretary had indicated, to invite the presidents of the three village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal and Northeast Harbors to constitute themselves a committee to consider and pass upon the site; and should they not approve it, to state their objection before further steps were taken. This committee was formed and met the following summer and approved the site. Mr. Rockefeller purchased it the following winter; then, becoming interested in the landscape features of the tract, which has more than is mile of rocky ocean front besides a long frontage on the Creek, ended by purchasing this fall the remainder of the Companyls district. Last spring he put some acres of this tract above the Creek in order for motor camping, spending in the neighborhood of $1,000 on clearing and levelling, on supplying it with electric light and sanitary conveniences. He then leased this to the Service at a nominal rental and paid the wages of a man to look after it through the summer, considering it as an experiment to be tried out. 3HL LA adidas 3. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT The part prepared was not extensive and lying on LL slope descending steeply to the Creek cave room for a few cars only. But for those few it made a decidedly attractive site, though lacking as yet an adequate supply of water. This land, which can readily be extended to provide for camping on a greater scale, Mr. Rockefeller has offered to rent the Park again next summer, such rental being still regarded by him as experimental, to try out the success of a campground on that site. As an illustration of why publicity, in advance of plans, cannot unreservedly be looked on as desirable, Mr. Blair, though a member of a committee formed with the approval of the National Park Service to pass upon the question of desirability of the site for Park campground, and obtaining his knowledge of the matter on that basis, made an endeavor -- as he has since frankly told me -- to get Mr. Rockefeller to place the site in the hands of a summer-resident committee, instead of conveying it to the Park. Mr. Rockefeller took no interest in his proposal. I quote his paragraph: "A year ago a committee was formed of which Mr. Gist Blair, of Washington (President of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association) was a member. This committee chose as a camping site in what is known as the Black Woods, near Otter Creek, where Mr. Rockefeller was intending to buy a large tract of land and turn it over to this committee to run as a camp. AS a result, the general opinion, as I know it, was that this was to be the only camp site on the island, and that all organiza- tions or towns were to cooperate with it to the best of their ability." 11 THE 14 4 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT To take up the question of the approa ch road to Champlain Mountain; The Park lands way private lands over which no public rights existed neede to be IO reach them from the public high- crossed. Those lands I owned, inherited. It is essential to the Park that i t should control for its entrances and I have only waited since the Park's establishment assurance that my plan, long formed, for its approaches from Bar Harbor, here and across the meadow, would be carried out, to convey the tracts. Last year, for the first time, funds for these entrances became available along with those to commence construction on the IL makes a noble and beautiful approach and has given gave I the Park for the first time a legal entrance to its land on Champlain Mountain, in the approach to it from Bar Harbor. The road across the meadow which provides the campground provides also a singularly beautiful entrance to the Park 1 nd at the foot of the Flying Squadron this, Cadillac, and Champlain being the three mountains in the Bar Harbor section of the Park. beautiful, one of the most beautiful features, in point of fact, Feabody rightly states, is in the Bar Harbor region. Sieur de Monts Spring lies at its further end and its brook winds picturesquely through it. The effect, opens this feature to the public; it in no way mars it. road, which has been thoughtfully planned with a view to landscape From the town highway little is seen of it, and that little may be lost; and no trail has crossed it. The land I save the Park last winter for the purpose of this entrance and for the motor camp site will carry not only the oad but a path alongside it people to reach them from the Village pleasantly affot. connecting Bar Harbor directly with parklands and enabling 3HL 14 5 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT reature, as Mr. Peabody suggests, it is I -- to give a bit of personal history in connection with the tract -- who saved it when, sixteen or seventeen years ago, I discovered that negotiations were on foot to secure a high bank clothed with beautiful old pines bordering it on the Bar Harbor side, with the meadow below, for a land- disposal town garbage dump, which would have absolutely ruined the meadow and been offensive words. I stppt in and personally secured the tract -- buying finally the whole meadow to protect it, since pig yards and shanties ere creeping out upon it from the town. That it should be opened in its beauty to the public the land. I have Elways meant and it WLS for this principally that I gave I trust that, this will make all clear, and so trusting I remain Yours cordially, (signed) George B. Dorr Superintendent. GBD-0 enclosure. Mr. Stephen T. Mather, National Park Service, Dept. of the Interior, Washington, D. C. 3HL to adidas DATE CENTS A COPY NUMBER SENA OR FERNALD WORK AND MATHER HERE TO VISITS THE PARK Senator Thinks People of STUDY LAFAYETTE PARK Best How To De: Lafavette National Secretary of Interior and Director of National John States Senator Bert M. Fernald m alayette Parks See Park Roads and Hear Opimons Mon. the guest of Fed of Those Interested in Development con- and one of Hubert Work Sec tary of the briefy? but in well itspearliest and appreciative Onard tred Allacher an una th US and Judge Peters Ho was the Director Paric Bar Harbor uesday morn- office by great Chief Langer ephen great to anied them an thinks id and avne Salaverte Natural State consented to talks had Which Dr. Work came to Mount Desert formal way taking the lunchtoon Beach inspects Aficial art of inspection to Lafayette given the TIMES whene party Grove to the Park Office National Park We shall himself being met at the wharf by the car sent listen for as long as he will consent with the develop- an from Washington and in which talk to the about the National or the pans He has always been 3 Director Mather accompanied by Mr. present to wither time most enthusiast about the scenery of and Mrs. II. W Gleason of Boston, his Stephen E Mather D'eser consistently personal friends and guests came down upported the park development both Mather responded.ru the appliuse from Boston and gre ting un Maine and ate Washington. Senator At the Park office, Chief Renger "When get an bere.to Bar Harbo than ever inter enjamin La. Hadley awarted them with the the of this RED getfonte aver speedy rischedule reation area and amemuch interested Kien, Henry Smith herevuntil the seem the plan approved by the De Clerk Cart Nowack ISEATI be busier in this relative small partment of the Interior in 1922 carried summer J. For Anthony They were than I am in some of the arks of outLas soon as possible. The work al introduced turn to Dr. Work and them eady accomplished on the of Green square miles more Perhaps the teto to cough the Park beran. the spirit of dent Mountain Road is marvelous piece of Director Marker left for kus summer layette Part which lets engineering and openshup some of the estate Omrena onn. Saturday ROOD schedule and some most views to be found where. I firmly convinced that Secretar V Wor remained Saturday and people of Mt Desert Island and of Saturday meeting Senator er tead Dr. hald in Ellsworth be being a guest there And LUMIS hotton State of line generally best know if Judge John Peters Secretar Date hings roper met development Work also bad areas terestime conference Washington abbe Robert Albe, an-old there one am colleagu from the heartily continuing the good sion. the practice of which them work already take-up this present Members of the Bar Harbor Board of OAR LAN COSTOME BALL FOR BENEFIT OF HOSPIT Trade had the opportunity reeeung morsday A costume ball the benefits when he addresse the Assessors Rooman Mather State Jame. Harbor Hospital will be held at the NPS Swimming Clubs Tuesday August smeeting under the auspices the west Mrsal THE Sugar father said your summer Mr. Johns D Continued page 8) DISTINGUISHED SPECIALISTS REMOVE 0 1 nearly the entire mountainous section of A Plan to Devise Roadways Which the Island. and a considerable area hesides, the World Possess the Greatest Amount all the land having been ionated to United States Government by the private of Accessibility and Yet Which owner The mountain summits, while not loar (the highery being only a little over would Not Deface the find feet above afford surfries ingly extensive and Varied years the out- Natural Grandeur of look in every difection being wonderfully appealing and full of rare beauty Laray- Mt. Desert ette ParkMissthe only member of the entire National park family which combines in S1C close association the charms of mountain, By Herbert W. Gleasaon forest. like and seashore : and the oppor- [Herbert W 9 tunities fol physical recreation. In the way HE extreme motherly solicitude of woodland tramps, mountain Nimbing. T for her offspring on the part of fishing. yachting. motor-boating. etc., this are a hen with one chicken has been exceedingly abundant Because of of unique scenic interest. and also because Mt. the subject of amusing comment its delight fully cool summer climate from time Immemorial There Deser! Island has been for many years A is no discredit to the hen involved : certain famous summer resort. Previous in the establishment of the ly none to the chicken. It simply affords park. the mountain summits and the wilder 'suitable basis for comparison when con- portions of the island were reached by a sidering certain human relations. few foot t-trails which had been constructed The six States of New England, with ali and were maintained by a voluntary asso- ciation of summer residents But with the their wealth of natural beauty. possess creation of the park It became apparent only one National park: between them, Oifford Pinshot to George B. Dorr COMMON ALTH OF PRNNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR'S OFFICE Harrisburg August 15, 1924. Mr. George B. Dorr, 18 Commonwealth Avenue, Beston, Mass. Dear Georges This morning I discovered a handkerchief of yours in my drawer. It has evidently been with me a good while, for I notice it is pretty well worn out, but at any rate 1t gives no a chance to write and ask how you are, how things are going with you, and what you are doing and thinking. You are busy, I imagine, with your great contribution to outdoor life, for which the American people ought to remember you always. We are doing some things along the same line here in Pennsylvania, and w have made the State Forests more useful for recreation than they have ever been before, but we still have a long ways to go. We are all well and flourishing, and I personally am having more fun out of this job than any I over held. Yours as always, G. P. Enclosure. [Gifford Pinchot] page lof3 copy September 6, 1924. Dear Mr. Satterlee: I write to furnish you with a memo- randum of our recent talk concerning the purchase of the Homans property, and the shares of the Bowl Aqueduct Com- pany held by the trustees of Mrs. Homans' estate. The trustees made me through Lr. W. H. Sherman, in whose hands as real estate agent they placed the property for sale a year ago, an offer of $7,500 for the entire property with the exception of the Water Company stock which latter they offered at its last quoted price of $75 per share, there being thirteen shares held by the estate. This price was made specially to me, it was stated, in case of the purchase of the property for the benefit of the Public Reservations or the Park, one of the trustees, M. Robert Homans, desiring especially in memory of his aunt such disposition of the property. The Homans' land extends unbrokenly, except for the public road which crosses it, from the shore to the mountain tract containing the Bowl and Beehive which MISS. Homans gave the Trustees of Public Reservations 1985 through President Eliot in the summer of 1908, it con- 2. stituting their first possession. The tract lying be- tween the road and shore is stated to contain twenty- five (25) acres; that lying between the road and Mrs. Homans' Bowl and Beehive gift is stated to contain thirty-three and one-half acres, but probably would be found to exceed this upon exact survey. This tract con- tains the old Bowl and Beehive trail and only oppor- tunity to reach the southern end of Newport Mountain from the East; the shore lot contains Anemone Cave. I took an option on the property at the stated price six weeks ago, after consulting with President Eliot; he and I have raised since then, as I stated to you, $3,500 toward its purchase. In addition to this you offered me $2,00 and, since the option was expiring and there was danger of the property's passing to other purchasers through Mr. Sherman, you offered in addition to guarantee the purchase of the property at its offered price, taking personally six shares of the Bowl Aqueduct Company's stock out of the thirteen held by the Estate. The total amount, including the price of seven shares of the Water Company's stock, to be raised for the purchase of the property is $8,025. Deducting from this the $5,300 now subscribed leaves a balance of $2, 725 which constitutes what you offered to guarantee in order to en- able me to secure the property, which I did through Mr. 3. Mr. A. H. Lynam has made a careful study of the title since I took the option and has found it good. The tract will constitute one of the most important ever secured by the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reser- vations and must prove of value without price to the public in the years to come. I thank you and Mrs. Satterlee most warmly for your generous and helpful interest in securing it, and with regards remain Sincerely yours, [GBDORe] SATTERLEE AND CANFIELD COUNSELLORS AT LAW HERBERT L.SATTERLEE UPTOWN OFFICE GEORGE F. CANFIELD 24 EAST 63 00 STREET 27 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK R. RANDOLPH HICKS HUGER W.JERVEY CABLE ADDRESS SATCAN NEW YORK" FREDERICK C. BANGS ELLERY C. HUNTINGTON, JR. F. MORSE HUBBARD MERRILL N. GATES 27 WILLIAM STREET September 11th, 1924. George B. Dorr, Esq., Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorr:- Upon my return to the office on Monday, I found your letter of September 6th, which is entirely satisfactory. I confirm the arrangement made on the CORSAIR, as stated by you. If you want the $2000. which we subscribed to the purchase of the Homan's place, please speak to Mrs. Satterlee about it. I will send her your letter and a copy of this SO that she will be fully informed. When you get the Bowl Aqueduct stock transferred, please have the six shares put in the name of "Louisa P. Satterlee" as she is the owner of "Great Head" and I want the water rights to be associated with that property and to go with it. If, for the purpose of closing the title before you complete the subscription to the fund to buy the place, you have to call upon me to make my guaranty good, please ive me ample notice. I trust that our transaction can be kept confidential and that you will have success in getting some more subscriptions. I hope that you may get an opportunity of calling on Mrs. Satterlee and keep her posted with regard to these matters. She will be at "Great lead' for two or three weeks longer. I may be able to run up for a few days before she comes down. It was a great pleasure to see you again. trust that you will succeed in getting the money to finish the road up to the top of Green ountain and to build is stone rest house or inn up there, well below the sky line. I think if this could be done it could be rented during the sumer season and run under restrictions which wou d benefit the public and result in some income to the Par When this Green Mountain road is completed, it seems to me that we will have all the roads on Mt. Desert Island that we can possibly need for many years to come and that then the great fight should be made to keep the re- mainder of the forest lands as wild and secluded as possible and to prevent advertising signs from being put on any of the roads on the Island. I also hope that no more "ladder" trails will be built. I do not think they are very highly thought of by expert mountain climbers and are a danger to the inexperienced; and more than all, they minimize the possibility of getting the eagles back on the Island. We all enjoyed the ea/ les at their eyre on the Bee Hive, but ladder trails frightened them away nd as far as I know they have never re- turned. [Herbert L. Satterlee With best wishes, I am, 1/s Faithfully Page I of 3 copy September 6, 1924. Dear Mr. Satterlee: I write to furnish you with a memo- randum of our recent talk concerning the purchase of the Homans property, and the shares of the Bowl Aqueduct Com- pany held by the trustees of Mrs. Homans' estate. The trustees made me through Mr. W. H. Sherman, in whose hands as real estate agent they placed the property for sale a year ago, an offer of $7,500 for the entire property with the exception of the Water Company stock which latter they offered at its last quoted price of $75 per share, there being thirteen shares held by the estate. This price was made specially to me, it was stated, in case of the purchase of the property for the benefit of the Public Reservations or the Park, one of the trustees, M. Robert Homans, desiring especially in memory of his aunt such disposition of the property. The Homans land extends unbrokenly, except for the public road which crosses it, from the shore to the mountain tract containing the Bowl and Beehive which Mrs. Homans gave the Trustees of Public Reservations through President Eliot in the summer of 1908, it con- 2. stituting their first possession. The tract lying be- tween the road and shore is stated to contain twenty- five (25) acres; that lying between the road and Mrs. Homans' Bowl and Beehive gift is stated to contain thirty-three and one-half acres, but probably would be found to exceed this upon exact survey. This tract con- tains the old Bowl and Beehive trail and only oppor- tunity to reach the southern end of Newport Mountain from the East; the shore lot contains Anemone Cave. I took an option on the property at the stated price six weeks ago, after consulting with President Eliot; he and I have raised since then, as I stated to you, $3,500 toward its purchase. In addition to this you offered me $2,00 and, since the option was expiring and there was danger of the property's passing to other purchasers through Mr. Sherman, you offered in addition to guarantee the purchase of the property at its offered price, taking personally six shares of the Bowl Aqueduct Company's stock out of the thirteen held by the Estate. The total amount, including the price of seven shares of the Water Company's stock, to be raised for the purchase of the property is $8,025. Deducting from this the $5,300 now subscribed leaves a balance of $2, 725 which constitutes what you offered to guarantee in order to en- able me to secure the property, which I did through Mr. Sherman, as agent, the day following our talk. 3. Mr. A. H. Lynam has made a careful study of the title since I took the option and has found it good. The tract will constitute one of the most important ever secured by the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reser- vations and must prove of value without price to the public in the years to come. I thank you and Mrs. Satterlee most warmly for your generous and helpful interest in securing it, and with regards remain Sincerely yours, [6. B. Dorr] Charles W. Eliot to George B. Dorr Esq. Cambridge, Mass., 20 October 1924 My dear Dorr: I have sent to Dr. Stillman your letter to me of October 17th. The acquisition of the Homans estate is cer- tainly a good job well done. I am hoping to hear from you about the Wild Gardens of Acadia. Sincerely yours, Charles W. Eliot. Mr. George B. Dorr. NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION PUBLICATIONS ILLUSTRATED REPORT, FEBRUARY, 1924 AN ANALYSIS OF LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK A REPORT BY ROBERT STERLING YARD Executive Secretary Photograph by Herbert W. Gleason 1924 THE NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION 1512 H STREET N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT November 11, 1924. SA. Dear Dr. Eliot: I am sorry there should have been delay in sending you the publications. There are only two or three that might be of use to you. The Park is still in the making and its full story is not written. What I enclose is: (1) A Government publication, issued three years ago and entitled Rules and Regulations but contain- ing as its main contents a paper by myself, on the region and the Park; (2) A publication written by Mr. Robert Sterling Yard executive secretary of the National Parks Association, who spent the summer of 1923 at Southwest Harbor and wrote the paper on his return to Washington. Certain others, of E historical or descriptive nature, were issued earlier, under the title of The Sieur de Monts Publications, at my own expense but I cannot at the moment put my hand on copies of them. The Park had its inception in the meeting called by your father in 1901 at Seal Harbor to discuss the formation of a corporation for acquiring and holding in the public interest scenically important lands upon Mount Desert Island. It was attended by less than a dozen people, whose names I do not all recall but which could be recovered doubtless from the Harry. Coll.Popen & Charles W Eliot. II. File 3077. c.3 2. records of the Corporation. That Corporation was modelled, as you know, on the one founded by your brother in the State of Massachusetts. The year previous, 1900, I had endeavored to get a tept forestry association started on the Island with a similar aim, 1900 but had got no further than some promises of subscription and a forestry survey of the Island by the then recently established United States Forest Service, which approved the. project. This was dropped on the formation of the Public Reservations Cor- poration, which was granted freedom from taxation by the Legislature at its next ensuing meeting. The Trustees' first gift of land came from Mrs. Charles D. Homans, consisting of the Bowl and Beehive tract at the southern end of Newport Mountain which she had purchased in connection with her home below upon the shore by Schooner Head. This was not till the summer of 1908, seven years after organization. 1908 My own active work in connection with the Corporation resulted from this gift and the encouragement it gave. The following autumn and winter I secured with the aid of Mr. John S. Kennedy the summit of Green Mountain, which I held to be the one spot on the Island most liable to disfigurement, having had two hotels upon it in my memory and a cog railroad up its side from Eagle Lake to supply the second. 3. Newport, Pickett and Dry Mountains followed, secured through individual gifts; Pemetic, Jordan, and Sargent through subscription. Dondemnation rights granted the Trustees for the protection of the Eagle Lake and Jordan Pond water supplies, after a campaign of education, resulted in acquiring the entire drainage basins of these lakes, linking the mountain tracts to- gether. At the end of four years, in the autumn of 1912, reservations so extensive had been secured as to endanger the 1910 Trustees' charter rights and freedom from taxation, our counsel, Judge Deasy, told me, unless development of the tract in the public interest -- more than its mere holding -- could be shown. It was necessary, in fact, to defend it that winter before the State Legislature, which I did. In consequence of this, it was de- - cided, after consultation with President Eliot, president of the Corporation, to offer its major holdings to the National Government for a Federal reserve. President Wilson's administration was inaugurated the following March. I went to Washington and had a talk on 1913 the subject with his Secretary of the Interior, Hon. Franklin K. Lane, who received the plan encouragingly. A year later I went again carrying deeds which were submitted to the Public Lands Commission, who examined them and reported favorably on a cceptance but required perfected titles and that the tract to be thus accepted by the Government should be bounded by a single line. 4. Two years later, in the spring of 1916, I returned to Washington with deeds that were passed upon as satisfactory, conveying a tract bounded by a single line and free from any and all rights or easements -- leaving outside the tract to be accepted by the Government lands held by the Trustees that could not be connected with it physically or over which private or corporate rights of one kind or another still existed. After conference with the Biological Survey and other friends of the pro ject at Washington, and with the approval of Secretary Lane, it was decided to offer the tract to form a national monument under the Monument Act passed under President Roosevelt in 1906. This required action only by the President and the Secretary of the Interior. No funds were involved, the lands being conveyed to the Government in free gift. After various obstacles that threatened the pro ject had been overcome, and a delay of some months, the tract was finally proclaimed by the President as the Sieur de Monts National Monument, in a proclamation drawn up by the Secretary of the Interior, on the 8th of July, 1916. Two years later it received its first appropriation for protection, maintenance and develop- ment from the Government, accompanied by the statement that its status should be changed to that of a national park, in which class it belonged. That fall a bill, making it a 5. Lafayette National Pady, National Park, was approved by the Public Lands Committees of Congress and passed by both Houses. This bill was signed by the President in February, 1919, during his brief return from France. [George B. Dorr ] Page lof4 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT city plobe November 14, 1924. Dear Mr. Mather: I have been working out plans for the per- manent development of the Park -- not yet completed -- which I hope to bring with me to Washington this winter for your approval. One thing I desire to do which should be left to me. I wish to name the woods through which the new motor road will pass on its way from Eagle Lake to Jordan Pond: The Mather Woods, commemorating your name in connection with our enterprise and the national park development of the last eight years which has given new meaning to its units. These woods are beautiful, springing from good soil, well-watered, and everyone who visits the Park or Island will pass through them, by road and trail. They will be a feature on a road of remarkable beauty, lying between two open portions with wide-extended views. The forest is one of the oldest, of extent, existing on the coast, where lumbering was early practiced; but it is not primeval. It is composed of over-shadowing hard-wood trees -- beech, sugar maple, canoe and yellow birch, oak and ash. Among them, one still finds the stumps of early lumbered, primeval pines, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 2. giants of the eastern forest that time must in the end restore, while every year will add to the interest and beauty of the woods. Years ago I established a similar feature with a personal touch in the Eliot woods, associated alike with President Eliot and with his son, the landscape architect, who devised the Massachusetts Trustees of Public Reservations Corporation on which ours was molded. These occupy the valley and gorge the County road passes through in going from Bar Harbor to Seal and Northeast Harbors, land similarly well-watered and deep-soiled, a site for great trees hereafter. The new motor road, completed now to Bubble Pond. Program new except for some roadside work and planting left till spring, is alvancing rapidly from either end, in the section from Lood Bubble Pond to the foot of Jordan Pond. Over a mile of this is already built and there is no disfigurement, nor has it been necessary to cut important trees to find a way. The whole indeed is working out beyond my expectation and you will be well content with it, I know, when next you come. BHLT DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 3. I have recently completed in the interest of the Park the purchase of a beautiful tract upon the shore, near Schooner Head, our first of such character in the Bar Harbor section. It belonged formerly to Mrs. Charles D. Homans of Homais Boston, the donor of our first reservation -- the Bowl and Property Beehive lot on Champlain Mountain- and gives us unbroken access to that lot from the public highway, which we have lacked till now, and the land opposite from the highway to the shore, where Mrs. Homans' summer home was at a point of magnificent view -- seaward., bayward, and mountainwood. This lot must enter importantly into future plans for the development of the Park, there being no more beautiful site than it upon the shore nor any land upon it connecting better with the existing parklands. With the purchase of this Mr. Rockefeller has had no connection; I secured it independently. My old friend, Dr. Robert Abbe, of New York, has Rabut become deeply interested during the past summer in the abbe. establishment of an Indian museum in connection with the Park and has gathered together a unique collection of Indian implements and other relics found along this shore, which DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR. MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 4. he hopes to establish as the nucleus of a permenent exhibition in the Park next season; but it lacks as yet a building. With regards as ever, Sincerely yours, Grunge B. Worr Mr. Stephen T. Mather, Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C. GBD-0 Rockefeller Archive Center. III. L I. 85, 839 OFFICE OF Page (of 6 JOHN D. ROCKEFELLEP; in DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT December 8, 1924. Dear Mr. Rockefeller: President Eliot, who faces things frankly, asked me last summer to set down in writing my ideas and plans for the development of the Park and for my work's continuance. And he asked, also, that I take up the work of perfecting the organization of the Wild Gardens of Acadia whom he and I have planned to succeed me in its furtherance and direction. I have been at work on this since people left and plan to continue until it be done. One of the things that I have most in mind is the development and right future use of the magnificent system of bridle paths and roads for use with horses which you are forming and which I believe can be made a feature so important that when we both are gone, in years to come, it will still continue devoted to such use, gathering about itself a sentiment that will perpetuate it. In studying the situation over, I have re- visited old haunts and seen them with new vision. An oppor- tunity which the more I have studied it becomes more interest- 2. ing is that of extending your road system for use with horses eastward to encircle Newport Mountain, as the roads now building do, upon a more extensive scale, the combined masses of DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR. MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 2. Sargent and its associated mountains. Mr. Hill has examined this for me in detail and tells me it presents no difficulties that cannot readily be over-come. The grades would be easy, the views of the sea superb, the road overhanging the shore, while the eastern view, to Schoodic Head and over Frenchman's Bay, would make a wonderful contrast to the western one obtained from the road now under construction on Little Brown's and Sargent mountains. This fall I succeeded in obtaining the first tract 3. of land upon the ocean front the Park as yet possesses -- HOMANS TRACT taken temporarily, till plans shall be worked out for its development, in the name of the Trustees of Public Reserva- tions. This is the Homans tract, bordering on the southern 1908 side ,and overlooking, Schooner Head. It was the summer home of the donor of our first Reservation tract, given through President Eliot in 1908, the Bowl and Beehive tract at the south end of Newport Mountain. Mrs. Homans' early gift carried with it no access from the public road except by courtesy, the trail to the mountains and across a low pass in them to Otter Creek, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 3. which dated back beyond my memory, lying across the Homans pasture, the pasture of an early farm. The public road divides this new property into two portions, the one extending westward to the mountain receive foot where it joins the Bowl and Beehive tract; the other, containing twenty-five acres on the shore between Schooner Head and Great Head, having a magnificent view up Frenchman's Bay and across its entrence to Schoodic Head and to the open sea. Mrs. Homans' house, a simple bungalow of the early type, still stands, and will probably, until better can replace it, be put in order by the Government for public use, making the land at once available. The mountain portion of the Homans land, passing beneath the Beehive, has beautiful woods upon it that have been preserved by summer resident ownership for fifty year and that extend into similar woods that came to the Reserva- tions through Mrs. Homans' gift in 1908. Beyond this the 4 road would pass at an elevation of from 250 to 300 feet above the sea close below the Cadillac Cliff path, with Gorham Mountain which is the nearest to the sea of any in the Island chain, rising immediately above. The road would be approxi- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 4. mately level, running parallel to the Ocean Drive but high above, and the course not difficult for road construction. The woods which clothed this land have recently been cut, SO that no obstacle exists to an unbroken ocean view similar to but finer than, owing to its elevation, that afforded by the Ocean Drive. Around the turn above the Radio Station at Otter Cliffs the road would pass, still at approximately level grade and with a similar wide view south-westward, to close beyond the junction of the Ocean Drive and the Seal Harbor- Bar Harbor road, where there is good opportunity to cross beneath in a deep bed of glacial gravel, bringing it quickly into land already owned. This section of the suggested road stands by itself. The Homans site will make undoubtedly a Park center on the eastern side important for a road system that would fully serve the Park to reach and that, like Jordan Pond, will become a terminus of drives and expeditions. The road beyond this to Bar Harbor, should it seem desirable to extend it, would pass first through other and old woods; then through an open meadow beneath the 829 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR. MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 5. east cliff of Newport Mountain, the grandest on the Island and hidden from the motor road by woods of oak not likely to be cut; then would slightly rise again, where the Town road dips, to another splendid stretch of view across the Bay, overhanging the resident shore, which would bring it to the valley of Bear Brook and the existing Park and Reservation land where old roads of wood-road character would carry it to the Morrell Park property which the Town maintains, and will doubtless maintain permanently since it received it as a trust, as a riding school and horse-show center, from which Bar Harbor can be reached easily across Great Meadow by direct and grassy ways. The connection from Morrell Park through the Gorge, made on the eastern side of the Otter Creek - Seal Harbor road, to the underneath road-crossing would complete the circuit of the mountain. In large and in detail, the whole road would be one of beauty not surpassed by the one under construction, yet not duplicating this since the views it opens and the territory are entirely different, as well as the climbs and various excursions it would give access to. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR. MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 6. The distance along the suggested course from the Otter Creek road crossing to the Homans site would be not far from three miles, estimated by the map, the circuit of the mountain as a whole not over eight; and in general the construction would present no difficulty. With this road built, the Park would have a horse-road system crossing the motor one at level grade only at Jordan Pond, and twice by tunnel, at Eagle Lake and at the place I speak of, and that would be complete in itself, linked up with all resort portions of the Island eastward of Somes Sound and extensive enough and varied enough to make a permanent and unique feature in its offering to the public. Yours sincerely, George B. Dor John D. Rockefeller, Jr., , Esq., 26 Broadway, New York City, RBOR TIMES CEMBER 17, 1924 FIVE CENTS A (COPY NUMBER 546 PLAN FARM BUREAU $20,000 FOR THE EEK SERVICES WORK FOR THE YEAR MOUNTAIN ROAD OR CHURCHES Nearly 100 Present at Meeting with Deficiency Bill Provides $20,000 and Bayview Grange, Salisbury Cove: Interior Bill Will Have $30,000 Men and Women's Branches program given by the Sunday School of More for Lafayette Park Elect t is King, School; the Methodist Church, the following will ong, Merry Christ- be the program: prelude, Nazareth, Washington, D. C., Dec. 15-The e, Harris McLean, Gounod; Christmas anthem, Hancock County is not resting on its deficiency bill left over from the last Christmas Starlight de Armond: Address laurels though it is the champion county feeting, Benjamin session of Congress, but passed by the by pastor, The Shepherds of Life; in Farm Bureau work thus far and on as Greeting, Agnes Senate last week, and recently signed by Friday evening a big impetus was given Miss Harriman's violin solo, Gerald Kinney; song by class the President, carries an item of $1,000,- Manger, Llewellyn of girls, Under the Stars; hymn There's the Farm Bureau work by the planning 000 for road construction work in Na- a Song in the Air; showing of beautiful meeting held with Bayview Grange at tional Parks. This matter is of interest ng, School; Seeking ittredge; My Wish, colored slides on the First Christmas, Salisbury Cove when despite the storm to Maine people in view of the fact that with description of scenes in the Advent nearly a hundred people were present, $20,000 of this amount is to be allocated y Garlands, George of Christ; hymn, Silent Night, Holy and when a joint meeting the men's to the building of an automobile road Branches, primary le Christmas Gift, Night; offering, for World Service; and women's branches was /held, with up Cadillac Mountain in Lafayette Christmas Wish, postlude, o Come All ye Faithful, meetings of the men and women held National Park at Bar Harbor, Maine. Whiting. separately for the election of officers. Christmas Wishes, The Interior Bill, recently passed by the In the absence of the Master, Fred House, contains another item of $1,500,- y Christmas, Har- Sawyer, a delegate to the state grange 000 for similar road work, of which the Desert Sands, Roman Catholic Church in Portland during last week, Julian st Time, Frances $30,000 additional will be allocated to Rev. Fr. J. D. 'Brien, pastor Emery presided in a most capable man- and, Carroll Moore Lafayette Park for the continuance of ner. County Agent Bickford and Miss rederick Roberts; At, the Church of the Holy Redeemer, the motor road, which, when constructed, Beckett, Home Demonstration work Earth, Harold Saw- the services for Sunday are as usual, at will afford easy access to the summit of agent were present. the highest mountain on the Atlantic exercise by Helen 10.30 in the morning and 4 in the after- The outstanding feature of the evening coast, and afford a matchless view of Geraldine Mann; noon with special and appropriate hymns was the showing of moving pictures. and music. The program for the Christ- mountain, lake and ocean. Congress- ng, John Rodick; The big picture showed a big, fine and man Nelson of the Third Maine District, st, Haynes Leland; mas Day special services will be announc- profitable farm, Hillcrest in New Jersey. within whose district this park is situated, I, Long, Long Ago, ed. The various phases of farm life were has been untiring in his efforts to see that brought out in an interesting and also in this wonderful National Park of ours llence has been ar- Christian Science Church an entertaining and/ instructive manner. should receive due recognition and sup- itto for the morning And the picture pointed out emphatically port from the Government. ons by the choir, On Sunday the serviçes of the Christ- the lesson of care and safeguarding in the evens, solo by Miss ian Science Church on Mt. Desert Street matter of the terrible plague, tuberculo- violin obligato by at 10.30 will be of special interest and sis. For the daughter of the proud iman. the program will be enriched by special owner of Hillcrest was a victim; and the FREE CHRISTMAS and appropriate music. picture went on to show causes, the work of cure, the work of prevention. Other reels were shown which were of great SHOW AT STAR [ethodist Church St. Saviour's Church nney, pastor Rev. W E. Patterson interest in this type of work. Then came the joint meeting of the Fourth Sunday in Advent Farm Bureau branches, men and women, Mr. Emery Announces Extra Show ing service will be Holy Communion, 7.30 a. m. and Charles L. Shand was elected chair- Christmas Morning; All Who on by the pastor on Morning Prayer, 10.30 a. m. man; Mrs. Florence Alley, secretary; Can Not Afford to See Church School, 12.00 m. Miss Elinor Emery, boys and girls "America" at Regular hristmas Quest." ic service will be: Evening Prayer, 7.30 p. m. club leader. Shows Invited the Night, Bohm; Christmas Day The women then left the hall to attend agels Sing; anthem, Holy Communion, 7.30 a. m. to supper preparations and during their In order that everyone in town, both Matins and Holy Communion, 10.00 absence the held their Farm Bureau children and grown-ups, may have an hymn, Come and ere's a Song in the a. m. meeting. opportunity to see the great patriotic na, Wachs. Christmas tree for Church School The men elected the following project picture, 'America' that is to be shown leaders: Crops, Clarence Alley; at the Star Theatre on Wednesday and vening concert the Saturday, St. John's Day, 4.00 p. m. Stock, Howard Russell; Orcharding, Thursday, December 24 and 25, Mr. M. Arey. Plans for the year were dis- Emery has asked THE TIMES to announce cussed and formulated. a special free show on Christmas morn- K DIES GRADE PUPILS ARE READY FOR THE ANNUAL EXHIBITION Supper was served and was a distinct ing at ten o'clock. Every man, woman credit, even in view of their fame as and child in Bar Harbor who feels that For some weeks the grade pupils of cooks, to the women of Salisbury Cove. he or she can not, for any reason, afford ADELPHIA At the close of the supper hour the to attend one of the other showings, is the Heald building have been actively women/ while the men cleared away and most cordially invited to attend the working for the exhibition which takes washed the dishes, held their meeting Christmas morning show as the guest of place on Thursday, beginning with a and elected the following: Mrs. Susie Fogg the management. his Morning Re- program at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. It is the earnest request of Supt. George chairman; Mrs. Jennie Bowden, secre- The special show on Christmas morn- Here; Funeral ary; Mrs. Lilla Hall, food project ing will identical with the afternoon at Battle H. Beard and of the grade principal, Mrs. Ethel Conners, that the fine record leader; Mrs. H. W. Jellison, clothing and evening performances on the same ichigan of Education Week may be repeated, so project leader; Mrs. Lelia Gray, house- day.-D. W. Griffith's masterpiece, hold/ management project leader. It "America; there will be two comedies Esq., for many far as visitors are concerned. Every was voted to hold a meeting every and other short subjects. "America" is st prominent attor- parent and friend and all interested in the month except in July and August. considered by many critics to be greater unty, died at three good of the schools are invited cordially to be present on Thursday afternoon. The meeting of Friday night was one than 'The Birth of a Nation, in fact, g at the Jefferson The work of 119 children will be on of the most successful in the annals several of the leading critics have called elphia, following a of the organization and augurs well for it the greatest picture ever made. ews of Mr. Clark's exhibition, each child of the grades rep- continued success in Farm Bureau work Mr. Emery is giving this free show as a by telegraph by his resented having some part. The ages of the pupils whose work will then be in this section. contribution toward making Christmas :afford. Mr. Clark, a little happier for some of the less for- dent of Bar Harbor, seen is from 5 to 11 years. The grades tunate people of the community. He practiced his prófes- and teachers of the four rooms taking MT. KEBO CHAPTER ELECTS sincerely hopes that his invitation to /part are: Grade 1, Miss West and Mrs. OFFICERS FOR YEAR D. C. It is under- the Thursday morning show will be Cumming; Grade 2 and 3, Miss Linda services and inter- accepted in the spirit in which it is ex- Leland: Grade 2, Mrs. Liscomb; Grade 3, At the annual election of Mt. Kebo rs. Clark's home in tended by little children, boys and girls, Miss Mabel Chase. Chapter, Royal Arch Chapter, the fol- fathers and mothers, grandfathers and gan. lowing were chosen: F. J. Haskell, grandmothers, in fact by all who, for Subscribe for THE TIMES E. W. Johnson, K.: D. W. MacLeod, any reason at all can not afford to see THE TIMES Scribe: John Suminsby, treasurer; Ben- 'America' at one of the regular perform- The Whispering Pines: An American Idol Tour Page 1 of 6 HOME PRESIDENT'S COLUMN WHISPERING PINES ALUMNI FACULTY STUDENTS SPORTS ARTS & CULTURE You are here: Home / Bowdoin / Alumni / Whispering Pines: An American Idol Tour Search Whispering Pines: An American Idol Tour Search this website SEARCH August 8, 2012 By John R. Cross '76 9 Comments Featured Post Barry Mills: A Reunion Mill and a Farewell In his latest column, John Cross '76 uncovers a great hoax played on the College community and the town of Brunswick surrounding a visit by Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette. Featured Post In 1824, nearly a half-century after the beginning of the American Revolution and a quarter-century after the death of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette Whispering Pines: Opening Act: accepted the invitation of President James Monroe to tour the United States as an Charles W. honored guest. As you may have guessed, there were connections to Bowdoin Morse-Ice King, College in Lafayette's travels. Prince of Financiers, and Steamship Magnate Lafayette's story was well known to the American people at the time. A French Featured Post aristocrat, he spent his own fortune to come to America at age 19 and fight in the American Revolution. He became a close friend of George Washington, who 'What is Bowdoin?' is thought of him as an adopted son. Commissioned a major general (without pay) by The Question to a Congress in 1777, Lafayette was wounded at Brandywine, recruited the Oneida as 'Jeopardy!' Answer - allies, returned to France to raise support for the American cause, and soon Again returned to the battlefield. Later in the war, American forces under his command pinned down Cornwallis's troops at Yorktown, leading to the British surrender. Bowdoin Delivered Daily Back in France, Lafayette became a member of the National Assembly, and with Sign up today-it's free! help from his friend Thomas Jefferson, wrote "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" in 1789, a foundational document for the French Revolution. As Your email GO commander-in-chief of the National Guard in France at the outbreak of the revolution, Lafayette tried to maintain order and still advance the cause of democracy. As radical elements gained control in France, Lafayette attempted to Bowdoin Athletics flee to the Dutch Republic; he and his family were captured by Austrian forces, and they were imprisoned for five years. Napoleon Bonaparte eventually secured Schedule Scoreboard Headlines Lafayette's release, but the French Revolution had cost the marquis land, fortune, No items. and status in his native land. The invitation for the 1824-25 tour of America included a Congressional appropriation for $200,000 (to reimburse Lafayette for his Bowdoin News financial contributions to the American Revolution), land in Florida, and back pay for his service as a general in the Continental Army. 'American Artists Look at the Night': Museum of Art's 'Night Vision' in The Wall Street Journal p://www.bowdoindailysun.com/2012/08/whispering-pines-an-american-idol-tour/ 6/18/2015 Whispering Pines: An American Idol Tour Page 2 of 6 Larayette 'What is Bowdoin?' is The Question to a 'Jeopardy!' Answer - Again Record-Breaking Reunion Weekend 2015 Captured in Photos Kent Island Life: Investigating the Decline of Herring Gulls Bowdoin in the 1830s, by 1977 U.S. postage stamp. Portrait of Lafayette at the T. Moore's Lithography, time of his American tour. Round-UpiFellowships, Scholarships Take Students Studies Boston. IJ From his arrival on Staten Island on August 15, 1824, until his departure from Bowdoir Socia Media Washington, DC, on September 7, 1825, Lafayette was in the public eye and the public consciousness. He visited all 24 states, and wherever he went he was met by f huge crowds, long lines of local dignitaries, feasts, parades, speeches, and tributes. It was a defining moment for many Americans - they would always remember the Bowdoin Tal Lectures, day that they saw Lafayette. Discussions and Events 2015 Honorand Till Lepore, Educator and Wanting to be part of this historic event, and acting on the news that his travel Writer itinerary might bring him to Maine, Bowdoin's Governing Boards voted on September 1, 1824, to confer upon Lafayette an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Bowdoin Chorus and Mozart Mentors However, Lafayette's schedule did not include Brunswick in early September of Orchestra with Conductor Anthony Antolini '63 1824 he got as far as Portsmouth, New Hampshire. There he was greeted by cheering crowds, including prominent citizens and war veterans like Benjamin A Mind of Winter: Photographs by Pierce, who chose to see Lafayette rather than travel to Brunswick for the Abelardo Morell graduation of his own son, Franklin Pierce of the Class of 1824, the future 14th President of the United States. On This Day 1954 The Harvey Dow Gibson Hall of Meanwhile, back in Brunswick, word of an honorary degree for Lafayette spread Music is dedicated. like wildfire; the news that he was unable to attend, however, did not. John Cleaveland of the Class of 1826 (and a cousin of Professor Parker Cleaveland) recognized that when a door closes a window of opportunity often opens. The Bowdoin Obituaries Reverend Ephraim Peabody [1827] later wrote" of the reception of Lafayette in Rodney A. Tulonen '69 May 30, 2015 Brunswick, a mock reception in which the town's people were entirely taken in, in which Cleaveland played the part of Lafayette even to the most tender salutation David H. Caldwell '54 May 30, 2015 of the ladies beginning with bells ringing; the circulation of the rumor of his Thomas A. DeGray G'67 May 24, 2015 coming; cannon firing; shutting down of the saw-mills; procession formed, headed Clifford A. Clark '52 May 12, 2015 by such music as could be got; cheering; the flocking of the citizens; the marching down [one side of] Maine St. and up the other; the ladies at the windows and in the William E. Pfau III '73 May 11, 2015 yards waving their handkerchiefs, and in an agony of enthusiasm; Cleaveland in Richard O. Card '54 May 7, 2015 old regimentals and with his aid[e] in an open chaise, and actually getting out at Robert E. Cetlin '54 May 6, 2015 one house where a bevy of fair ladies stood at the gate, their eyes dim with Richard C. Wilsey '58 May 3, 2015 excitement and enthusiasm, and kissing them " There is no other written account of the incident, to my knowledge, SO we are left to imagine what happened after the hoax was discovered. The above is a list of deaths recently reported to us with links to outside obituaries full Bowdoin obituaries will I thank you for the opportunity you have afforded me of a personal appear at bowdoinobituaries.com soon acquaintance with you, Gentlemen of that College, where young republicans, the hope of the Country, are instructed in every literary This Week at Bowdoin and scientific branch, and above all in the first of all sciences, the science of freedom, equal rights, and self-government. Lectures, performances, and other campus events. http://www.bowdoindailysun.com/2012/08/whispering-pines-an-american-idol-tour/ 6/18/2015 Whispering Pines: An American Idol Tour Page 3 of 6 Bowdoin Daily Sun Mobile App Lafayette finally reached Maine in June 24, 1825, arriving in Portland to great Bowdoin Daily Sun Mobile App fanfare. The Brunswick Light Infantry had marched the 26 miles to Portland in Now Available in iTunes Store uniform to be one of three military escorts present. The crowd of 15,000 included (free) Bowdoin Trustees, Overseers, and students, who heard Stephen Longfellow (the poet's father), deliver greetings from the city. In presenting the honorary degree, Bowdoin President William Allen called the last surviving general of the Revolutionary War ...an enlightened and unshaken friend of regulated liberty." Ever gracious, Lafayette responded, "While I much regret not to be able to offer these sentiments at the seat of your SO interesting institution, I thank you for the opportunity you have afforded me of a personal acquaintance with you, Gentlemen of that College, where young republicans, the hope of the Country, are instructed in every literary and scientific branch, and above all in the first of all sciences, the science of freedom, equal rights, and self-government... After returning to France, his fortunes replenished and his fame renewed, Lafayette retired to his country estate at Château de la Grange-Bléneau, where a constant stream of Americans - both invited and unannounced - found him to be a gracious host, including a young Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1826. Until his death in 1834, Lafayette remained a champion of French-American relations. On August 7, 2002, the United States Congress made Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, an honorary citizen of the United States, more than 175 years after he joined the Bowdoin family. With Best Wishes, John R. Cross '76 Secretary of Development and College Relations Other Posts In This Category: 1. Whispering Pines: Night of the Great Revolution 2. Whispering Pines: Whispers 3. Whispering Pines: Common Ground 4. Whispering Pines: Bowdoin at Gettysburg Filed Under: Alumni, Bowdoin, History Law, Government & Politics, Maine, Whispering Pines Previous post Next post Comments Erl Hardy '70 says: August 8, 2012 at 1:27 pm Once again, John, thank you for a fascinating column! http://www.bowdoindailysun.com/2012/08/whispering-pines-an-american-idol-tour/ 6/18/2015