derr Timilie 1925 1926 it 12/28/07 Cadillan Summit Road -Ellotsdeath (8/22/26) in NakeanHHarbor LNP Rules Syulation -Other Cuch Campus est. I Fr./ early lestory of PMDI/NGA/Abhe Seal Harton VIS endorsed. Stebbins letter (5/29)ri HCTPR -Jr. give Farrand commission to membership by community. design Eyrie garden. CBD to Jr. (9/17) re photo -Commerce to Jr. il invite to stg (of JDRJr.) published after c Rereifellers. Train schedule removal for LNP office D.C. B (3/17). Successor to GBO and GOU. Brewster climb Mt. Katahdin (7/13)25) JOKEN to Abbe (4/16) se Dr Bumpus - - CBD Leaves for Super Cant. affiliations. Also Abbe to Jr. 14/9re in llesa Veeda Colorado(BITT Initial musum concept. 9/23/25) IMPT. - - Roscoe Jackson to Jr. (11/5) quoting - GBD hosts AMC (8/20/25) Little in 5pp. letter re fittles nicom for TAX Inpt. anticipate Abbe Musium - BHT acticle (10/250) on poor roads. 4 Jr. to Lynam (5/4) on Rontal of campland - Governor's Day Peoprem in B.H (7/8/25) -9th Sup Cent, Washington - BHT (7/22/25) on MDI BL 5th year. -CBD 9th Says on supto Couf. (11/22) Palisales Impt. Packag follows - CBD letter (12/28) to DrAbbe noting he departure fin B.H. on 23rd Booton. - Secy works Statement on V.P. Policy (3/11/25) Jr. to Dr. Elist (4/4) in road work. Ir. has shingles. Last letter to Eliot? -GBD letter @ ascent of Katshdin (7/7) -Dorr Breaster climb it Katahd. c. Echo fuh Camp Achee,1925. -Lyrameto Sv. (615) on Dorr's rental of Camp propertiss ad questions income from sand heutals. - AGD to llrs line (7/7) re acq of Bar Island in memory if John B. Pine (1857-1922). Also tup up Katahdin e prowster. Governors May at B.H. prior to Katahdin Ascent 8th Sup Conference, lesaVerde BHT 7/8/25 - Funds approved for Summit Road. C2 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT January 19, 1925. Dear Dr. Abbe: I think your drummer boy would make an admirable and gay center-piece to a book-plate, well fitted to Champlain's adventurous spirit as well as to his.period. What you say about your splendid enlargement in sepia of the remarkable portrait of Lafayette painted in 1824 is most interesting. I did not know that Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, was a painter too. That too is interesting. Take the book-plate that appeals to you. There is wisdom in following your leading. Better news than of your good health there could not be. It indeed rejoices me. With ever affectionate regard, Sincerely yours, this George R. Work any clearly whold hapm a trying took! Ingine A types lette but I hand at ama. Case III. Pre Nusure 1924-26 f. 9/10 Columbia University in the City of RemDork SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM 164 Hicks-st. m. ruge B. Mon Beraldyn my march 26. 1925 maine my dear In : them received a letter from m. findale Croundule, saying that than been appricated as president & the sealtherlon Village Improvement society a member & an adison committee on name waters relative 5th Park m. Commell aslud me A with you respecting my villingues to severe. 1 shale he my glad to atas a member l that and cooperate into you. r upret to he in seal Harbor at about the beginning l June. 1 shale he flood A drunutt with hi. Chrommele and Wh. Blain in New- yurk. if then is ad losin or counder any matters needing innoviate attention by louispundence Very tinty your BrewerProom June pg.1-of4 \ drain link states Cadillac Mountain Summit Road Many The road up Cadillac Mountain to its summit resulted was from the first a main object with me in the march Park's development. Such a road was no new feature but had existed in crude form from the earliest summer resort days. It was the only Vine one mountain up which a road could be built at all, so bold is the character of the whole range and its is also the highest; the motorist could ask no more. Funds for its construction were provided by Congression- 1975 al appropriation and work was commenced in April, 1925. At the start the surveys were made by local engineers and work supervised by the Park Office, no contract being let; then, discussion arising as to the best route to follow, the Federal Bureau of Roads, then first coming forward as the great authority in the country on good motor road construction, was called in and made for many weeks a thorough study of the routes that offered, reaching to the summit. Since then all road work in the Park has been done under its plans and supervision. 2. The course laid out by the Bureau was essentially what was intended from the first, save that, had funds allowed, I would have taken the road out over the mountain's eastern spur, the White Cap, with its bold outlook over Eagle Lake and its magnif- icent sunset views, which would have eliminated also the sharp curve opposite it which now exists, but this would have involved a longer course and funds did not permit. With this exception the route chosen takes full advantage of the wonderful opportunity the mountain offers for broad ocean views and the magnif- icent coastal scenery of Eastern Maine. The summit road rises from the motor road to Jordan Pond which Mr. Rockefeller contributed to the Park, some years before, running from the Bar Harbor-Somesville Road at Great Pond Hill to connection with the Town Road from Seal Harbor to the foot of Jordan Pond. Other appropriations following the first the road was finally completed and in the late summer of 1932, it was formally dedicated to the people's use. 3. The road ends in a round turn and parking ground in a broad hollow of the mountain, unseen from below, and from this paths ascend to great, commanding points. To the south, the view extends over a broad ocean plain, terminated only, fifty miles away by the curvature of the earth; nothing intervenes. To the east one looks up into the Bay of fundy, receiving over it the first rays of the morning sun as it illuminates our coast; to the west the view is bounded by the Camden Hills beyond Penobscot Bay, as we stand at the crowning summit of Maine's magnificent eastern coast. Seaward, the horizon is so far away that it merges with the sky and one may sometimes see ships sailing high -- apparent- ly among the clouds on the distant sea, with patches of fog banks between, resting on the ocean's surface. It gives one a sense of immensity few inland scenes can equal. Mount Desert Rock, twenty-five miles at sea, near which John Winthrop records in his journal that he lay to, to fish, on his way to Salem in 1630, seems clo e at hand, against the further sea, crowned by its light at dusk. Eagles and ospreys soar below, 4. watching for fish. In summer the whole scene is one that accords wonderfully with Wordsworth's description in "Morning in the Mountains, " from "The Excursion", of the Shepherd Boy growing up among his Gumberland hills. "Such was the boy -- but for the grow'ng Youth What soul was his, when from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the Sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light! He looked -- Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces did he read unutterable love." [G.B.DORR] OXFORD STANDARD EDITION THE POETICAL WORKS OF WORDSWORTH Edited by THOMAS HUTCHINSON And with Introduction and Notes By GEORGE McLEAN HARPER Professor of English, Emeritus, in Princeton University 1433 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH From a drawing by Hancock about 1798 NEW YORK OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS New Hampshire College Library MANCHESTER, N. H. over i. i JUA The Excursion. [Book I. Book L.] 758 The Wanderer. 759 With gracious smile, deliberately pleased, So vividly great objects that they lay Whate'er the minister's old shelf sup- Nor any voice of joy his spirit drank And listening Time reward with sacred Upon his mind like substances, whose plied The spectacle: sensation, soul, and form, The life and death of martyrs, who praise. presence All melted into him they swallowed up Perplexed the bodily sense. He had sustained, His animal being in them did he live, Among the hills of Athol he was born received With will inflexible, those fearful pangs And by them did he live they were his A precious gift; for, as he grew in years, Triumphantly displayed in records left life. Where, on a small hereditary farm, 210 An unproductive slip of rugged ground, With these impressions would he still Of persecution, and the Covenant-times In such access of mind, in such high hour His Parents, with their numerous off- 141 Whose echo rings through Scotland to compare Of visitation from the living God, III All his remembrances, thoughts, shapes, this hour spring, dweIt; 176 Thought was not; in enjoyment it ex- A virtuous household, though exceeding and forms; And there, by lucky hap, had been pre- pired. poor ! And, being still unsatisfied with aught served No thanks he breathed, he proffered no Pure livers were they all, austere and Of dimmer character, he thence attained A straggling volume, torn and incomplete, request That left half-told the preternatural tale, grave, An active power to fasten images 145 Rapt into still communion that trans- And fearing God; the very children Upon his brain; and on their pictured Romance of giants, chronicle of fiends, cends 215 taught lines Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts 181 The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, Stern self-respect, a reverence for God's Intensely brooded, even till they acquired Strange and uncouth; dire faces, figures His mind was a thanksgiving to the The liveliness of dreams. Nor did he dire, word, 115 power And an habitual piety, maintained fail, Sharp-kneed, sharp-elbowed, and lean- That made him it was blessedness and With strictness scarcely known on Eng- While yet a child, with a child's eager- ankled too, love ! With long and ghostly shanks-forms lish ground. ness Incessantly to turn his ear and eye which once seen 150 A Herdsman on the lonely mountain- From his sixth year, the Boy of whom On all things which the moving seasons Could never be forgotten tops, 219 I speak, brought In his heart, Such intercourse was his, and in this sort In summer, tended cattle on the hills To feed such appetite-nor this alone Where Fear sate thus, a cherished visit- Was his existence oftentimes possessed. But, through the inclement and the Appeased his yearning :-in the after-day ant, 186 o then how beautiful, how bright, ap- perilous days 120 Of boyhood, many an hour in caves Was wanting yet the pure delight of love peared Of long-continuing winter, he repaired, forlorn, By sound diffused, or by the breathing air, The written promise Early had he Equipped with satchel, to a school, that And 'mid the hollow depths of naked Or by the silent looks of happy things, learned stood crags 155 Or flowing from the universal face 190 To reverence the volume that displays Sole building on a mountain's dreary edge, He sate, and even in their fixed lineas Of earth and sky. But he had felt the The mystery, the life which cannot die Remote from view of city spire, or sound ments, power But in the mountains did he feel bis Of minster clock ! From that bleak tene- Or from the power of a peculiar eye, Of Nature, and already was prepared, faith. 226 ment 125 Or by creative feeling overborne, By his intense conceptions, to receive All things, responsive to the writing, He, many an evening, to his distant Or by predominance of thought op- Deeply the lesson deep of love which he, there home pressed, Whom Nature, by whatever means, has Breathed immortality, revolving life, In solitude returning, saw the hills Even in their fixed and steady linea- taught 195 And greatness still revolving infinite: Grow larger in the darkness; all alone ments 160 To feel intensely, cannot but receive. There littleness was not; the least of Beheld the stars come out above his head, He traced an ebbing and a flowing mind, things 230 And travelled through the wood, with no Expression ever varying ! Such was the Boy-but for the growing Seemed infinite; and there his spirit one near I30 Thus informed, Youth shaped To whom he might confess the things he He had small need of books for many a What soul was his, when, from the naked Her prospects, nor did he believe,-he saw. saw. tale top What wonder if his being thus became So the foundations of his mind were Traditionary round the mountains hung, Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Sublime and comprehensive! Low desires, laid. And many a legend, peopling the dark Rise up, and bathe the world in light Low thoughts had there no place; yet In such communion, not from terror free, woods, 165 He looked- 200 was his heart 235 While yet a child, and long before his Nourished Imagination in her growth, Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth Lowly; for he was meek in gratitude, time, And gave the Mind that apprehensive And ocean's liquid mass, in gladness lay Oft as he called those ecstasies to mind, Had he perceived the presence and the Beneath -Far and wide the clouds power And whence they flowed and from them By which she is made quick to recognise were touched, he acquired power I35 Of greatness; and deep feelings had The moral properties and scope of things And in their silent faces could he read Wisdom, which works thro' patience impressed But eagerly he read, and read again, 170 Unutterable love. Sound needed none, thence he learned Note: See G.D.Dorr, Cadillac Mountain Summit Road essay, final page. B.H.TIMES BAR HELPING OUR HOME STATE ANSWERS RAPID:CHANGES.ON MT DESERT To encourage use by Maine CRITICS OF PARK THE ROAD BOARD people of Maine articles, a alogan is "Know Coach Members of committee No Disfigurement and but One Leslie Hamor Resigns from Board are, without giving time Elect Officers, Make A Necessary Mótor Road Says Dis- and effort to and Transact All Arthur Brown Appointed-Les The week of selected Municipal Buain tinguished Summer lie Hamor Scheduled to Suc- RATED Resident ceed Millard Hamor as as an opener of with com- Day Session Superintendent munity display the State of local and Maine products. Other The annual meeting o as, Man. similar. demonstrations will be given, Mount Desert was held Maine Opponents of the road-building pro- Although there were no contests for from time to time with a view to better Sea- gram of Lafayette National Park have hood House on Monday office at the town meeting election acquainting the people of Maine with been writing letters to the New York with large attendance Monday, the town has not Jacked for the products of Maine factories and Herald-Tribune Several of these letters ome H. Knowles was ch swift changes of personnel in one depart- farms. If organi- have been re printed in THE TIMES. Dr. without opposition. The ment. That department is none other The Bar Robert Abbe of New York and Bar Are you intérested such an endeavor? one vote for William S. than the much fought-over road depart> has been Harbor has replied to two or three of ment. Even as many matters that were Are you willing as a believer for the ensuing year has been these letters. Dr. Abbe's most recent in Maine, its and opportunities officers were elected: Sel once fought out on the floor of the town :5 season. reply to the critica is printed below, and for development and as one who will Allen, 198, Ernest A: Atw meeting are now quietly handled in the coach and following is another reply from a per- warrant committee, so the matter of aid in 'Its progress favoring the use of ford T Herrick 188 has been manent resident of Bar Harbor now changing the personnel of the road com- Maine products of quality? Assessors, M. L: Allen here this sojourning in New York: mission was not settled by the voters but If you are, cut from this paper the fol- Atwood 188; Bradford: working Dr. Abbe's Reply to Critics by the selectmen in regular weekly lowing pledge, it and mail it to the (no opposition) Overseer Coach To The New York Herald-Tribune: State Chamber Commerce and Agri- Allen 192, Errest A: At meeting. cultural League, Room 49, City Hall, ford T. Herrick 188 icking his Replying to your correspondents who The first act took place last Thursday or on the claim thirty years' acquaintance with evening when Lealie R. Hamor resigned Portland, Me. treasurer, Merritt T. Obe e. Those this facinating island, may I express Believing in the spirit of loyalty that Burr 2; collector of taxes as a member of the road commission. u matters different view after an intimacy of forty The resignation was at once accepted by prompted the KNOW MAINE PRO- 131; Merritt T. Ober 91 edicting a five years? the selectment and they immediately DUCTS" movement, and deairing to school committee, H. the resort This unique bit of scenic beauty has appointed Arthur W. Brown to serve assist in a greater development of the (no opposition); audito been salvaged from the marauding aut the unexpired term. The second industrial and agricultural resources of Holmes 116 (no oppositi association hand of commercial ventures by a dis- act took place at the Casino Monday, Maine, I hereby Agree to favor, insofar John C. Pedier 161, be laws of tinguished group of nature worshipers, when Eugene R. Leland was elected as possible, products of Maine farms and This year, the voters ele through under the leadership of ex-President without opposition to serve a three year industries. road commissioners, as John H. Charles W. Eliott and a score of practical term on the board. The other member I will ever speak in praise, never in Somes for three years, Shaw is minded lovers of the island for a half of the board is Vasconie L. Higgins. disrespect, of our State, and I pledge Candage for two years, treasurer., century. The third and/final act is scheduled to courteous treatment of visitors in the Small for one year. as, are It was for the scientific preservation take place Thursday evening when State. Appropriations: S ins, Chas. of its beauty that the Reservation As- Millard L. Hamor, veteran road super- (Name) $4000; general school Bennett J1 sociation a generation ago acquired all intendent and veteran of many a political cleaning and repairing nd B. H possible non agricultural and non-res battle, is expected to resign as superin- (Address) $2,000; manual training adred $25 dential mountains, lakes and valley tendent of the roads; and, if all goes science, $2,500; high sch proached after years of patient acquisition according to the current political gossip, ion, $4,000; Otter Creek lent finan- his son, Lealie R. Hamor, late road com- CHURCH NOTICES offered our government the beautiful $3,117; school seats, $5 tracts now constituting Lafayette Nat- missioner, is to be appointed in his place. graduation, $50; health n of last ional Park, a large part of the island. The actors in the drama are: the 1924 Congregational sical director, $500; roa I be man- Its first efforts were spent in buying board of selectmen; Lealie+ R. Hamor, 10:30-In what manner may we expect $16,000; board of health, il contact up the disfiguring scenic railway, son of Millard Hamor and himself an a "Second Coming of Christ.' $5,600; treating streets, Mr. Hodg- funicular cogwheel rail running straight experienced road-builder; Arthur W. 11:45-Bible School You are espe- gartens, $200 Memoria resident of up the side of Green Mountain to a wood Brown, well-known business man, former cially invited to remain and join in the lighting streets, $2,300; n. There resort on the top. selectman and former representative to deliberations of the Bible Study Club. $1,500; fire departments ague: Bar It had failed commercially and was a the legislature; Eugene R. Leland, former Hon. B. E. Clark, President. Topic- inspection of schools, C. F. of rotting disfigurement. selectman, now duly elected road com- Lessons from the book of Exodus. cleaning sewers' $1,000; There may Since then a growingly large group missioner; and, last but not least, Millard 6:30-Christian Endeavor Service. $2,250; cutting trees e will be of thoughtful men, bent on promoting L. Hamor, road-builder and politician 7:30-Evening Worship. Illustrated dangerous turns on pub Hodgkins the best interests of the island, headed extraordinary. Lecture: 'Scars and Monuments of the clearing streets and side the Bar off one well-planned venture to extend American Revolution to be seen in the $1,500 under ground di al opinion branch of the Maine Central Rail- Hudson Valley Pictures collected by verts, $600; railing road ess of the road across the island and straight into always suggest memoriés of exquisite the pastor who spent his youth in that roads, in proportion tremend- Betown of Bar Harbor. views leading to the panorama at the section. received from the State He has Through the liberality and energy of top, which sweeps the blue horizon of Bowdoin men of vision like Mesars. John Stewart a hundred miles of indented coast, Methodist aseball fan Kennedy, Johnston Livingston, Blair, with glimpses of sunshine on bays here Morning worship at 10:30. Subject FRANK G. SMALL er fan. Bliss, Weir Mitchell, Butler Ducan, and there, and on a clear day Mount "The Spirit of Jesus." This is the ASSISTANT Herbert Satterlee, John D. Rocke- Katahdin, a hundred miles away. beginning of a series of Lenten Sermons. feller jr., Bates, Gurnee, Alessandro This permanent engineering feat will The others to follow are, "The Vision of Frank G. Small has RS TO Fabbri, Dr. Schauffler, Bishop Law- never be repeated in the park, and all Jesus,' The Motive of Jesus,' The assistant postmaster FRIDAY rence, Bishop Doane, Judge Deasey the other mountains and a hundred Choices of Jesus,' "The Victory of Howard C. Emery, Mr. Dorr and scores of other men and miles of trails will be left sacred to the Jesus/ master Young some ti women lovers of this resort have head- climbers. Miss Alice Louise Brown will speak ill be pre- mended Mr. Small and evening by ed off one disfigurement after another, No! The preservation of this beauti- at the evening service on "The Religious pointment has just com from summer camps on the water supply ful island is secure. No one could love atic Club. Education Program of the Church. Washington. Mr. Small sfully pro- lakes to pigsties, and now that organized it more reverently than Superintendent Miss Brown is an expert in Religious postal service since 1901 d at Town protection under government control George B. Dorr and his host of admirers. Education and has given some choice as carrier and clerk and r amateurs ventures to add one necessary motor ROBERT ABBE addresses in her previous visits. A ment of the local office road to the most beautiful vista on the New York, Feb. 9, 1925. welcome is extended to all. tation for as acting assistant postn actions and island, a limited number of mountain a host of friends who good play climbers desire to conserve for themselves To The New York Herald-Tribune: congratulations and the priviledge of viewing the unequaled I am a permanent resident on Mount correspondent in your issue of February pleasure at his appointme panorama from the top of the highest Desert sojourning in New York for 5. mountain, inaccessible to thousands who, a short time. A friend called my at- There are no 'gashes being cut in by age or circumstance, cannot climb, tention to the discussion in your col- the slopes, sides, flanks or shoulders of ENT but are just as anxious to enjoy the umns on the roads being built in Lafay- those grand oldshills. "The remote and DUNPHY WINS THE EVENING lovely offerings of nature as are the wistful charm of these byways is not FLORIDA CH ette National Park to give wider and young and vigorous. easier access along the mountain sides being "destroyed for everybody' No busins," the Whoever applied the word "Scarring to those who would delight to view the one is being robbed of "places of peace Chris J. Dunphy of ble Grands' to the necessary line on the wooded wondrous scenery nature spreads around and restfulness These road scratches C., won the South Florida dge will be slope of the mountain exaggerates the along the hillsides do not prevent me ship for 1925 at the Pa and about this lovely locality. 11 Thursday ultimate appearance of such a beauti- It would be hard to find any of the from finding sequestered, quiet spots Club last month. This aimment by ful road, which in time will be like where my soul can commune with nature successive year that D permanent residents against the build- ward to by delicate pencil line traced on the moun- and with nature's God. If some one tured the South Florid ing of these roads and not one, I venture 18 and the tain side, as in thousands of miles of to say, who would agree with the heated feels deep yearning, the great spirit of Washington golfer is wel e. Dancing similar roads here and in Europe. exaggerations of your Providence, R. I. (Continued on page 5) Harbor, spending each the play Viewed from a distance, this will Edward B. McLean He holds the course In his final round at defeated Donald Woodwa Eastman Cameras, Films and Supplies ton, 4 and 3. HEARS A RODICK Waterman and Wahl Pens and Pencils of COPY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR WASHINGTON May 18, 1925. Mr. Harold Peabody, 10 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts. My dear Mr. Peabody: On receipt of Mrs. Peabody's wire of the 13th, her telegram was repeated to Superintendent Dorr by the National Park Service with instructions to advise at once as to the status of the road construction. Your letter of May 13 was received today, and later the following telegram from Superintendent Dorr, which I am quoting for your information: "No road construction proceeding in Lafayette National Park except in strict accordance with authorization given last summer by Secretary Work and Director Mather whose instruc- tions are being strictly followed to the last detail nor is any road under construction bordering the park stop Refer to my letters to Director Mather dated July eighteen and July twenty-four nineteen twenty-four - stop Refer also to letter received from Secretary Work dated July twenty-five and answered August fourteen stop Road building now proceeding lies wholly over land belonging to trustees of public reservations and con- stitutes relocation of old roadway long determined on by trustees stop I am not in charge and neither as park super- intendent nor personally have control. This Department, of course, has no control over the road complained of, either directly or indirectly. Sincerely yours, (signed) Hubert Work Secretary. COPY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Washington May 20, 1925. Dear Mr. Dorr: I am acknowledging your letter of May 16, which Director Mather has noted. On receipt of your telegram of May 15, reply to Harold Peabody's letter and Mrs. Peabody's wire was prepared for the signature of the Secretary. Mr. Mather personally took this up to the Secretary who signed it. For your infor- mation, copy of the Secretary's letter to Mr. Peabody is inclosed. Mrs. Henry Parkman came into the office and called on the Secretary, who referred her to Mr. Mather. Mr Mather read her your telegram, which seemed to satisfy her. Several other letters have been received and they have been answered along the same lines as the Secretary's letter to Mr. Peabody. I think this covers the situation. Sincerely yours, (signed) A. E .Demaray Acting Assistant Director Inclosure 8071 Supt. George B. Dorr, Lafayette National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. COPY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR WASHINGTON Hay 18, 1925. Mr. Harold Peabody, 10 State St., Boston, Mass. My dear Mr. Peabody: On receipt of Mrs. Pasbody's wire of the 13th, her telogram was re- posted to Superintendent Dorr by the National Park Service with instruc- tions to advise at once as to the status of the road construction. Your letter of May 13 Was received today, and later the following telogram from Superintendent Dorr, which I am quoting for your information: "No road construction proceeding in Lafayette National Park except in strict accordance with authorization given last summer by Secretary Work and Director Mather whose instructions are being strictly followed to the last detail nor is any road under construction border- ing the park stop Refer to my letters to Director Mother dated July eighteen and July twenty four nineteen twenty four stop Refer also to letter received from Secretary Work dated July twenty five and August fourtean stop Road building now proceeding lies wholly over land belong- ing to trustees of public reservations and constitutes relocation of old roudway long dotermined on by trustees stop I am not in charge and neither as park superintendent nor personally have control This Department, of course, has no control over the road complained of, either directly or indirectly. Sincerely yours, signed HUBERT WORK Seoretary. P.10 a graded path acrus the northern end of Jordan's Pand from the 28th upper end of the east side path to the foot of the Deer brook trail page lof p.10 reconstr rath from first of Ice Halive ill to Fiddais Care pill * Summary of mtg w/ George B. Dorr THE NORTHEAST HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE Professor Fair's report confirmed all of the COMMITTEE complaints made by Dr. Harte in such a con- At last year's annual meeting the late Dr. vincing way that the town meeting last March Richard H. Harte made a vigorous protest voted to engage a consulting engineer to pass against some unsanitary and unsightly con- on their general plans for public works and ditions in the water and along the shores of to engage a permanent engineer to supervise Northeast Harbor. Mr. A. K. McBride sug- construction and operation. Mr. Clifton gested the calling of a general village meeting Reeves was engaged as consulting engineer to discuss this complaint and other matters on town plans, and Mr. Arthur Mulliken as of interest to the permanent residents and permanent engineer. Before the summer the summer colony. This second meeting was season opened the sewage system had been held and Dr. Harte again expressed the radically changed and put in satisfactory opinion that our Society would do better for operation. We feel that the town, and es- the time to think more of removing certain pecially the new Board of Selectmen, are to nuisances than of planning changes in the be congratulated on their prompt and effi- cient action. village streets. Mr. C. D. Joy offered a motion that a competent engineer should be Professor Fair's report covered also the engaged to make a survey of sanitary con- disposal of garbage and rubbish. He found ditions in the town, and the Village Im- the present methods very unsatisfactory. provement Society through its representa- The collection of garbage was good as far as tives offered to pay the cost of securing it went, but collection was made only from such a report. Professor Gordon M. Fair of the houses where a contractor was paid. Harvard University was engaged for this Garbage in other places was left in back work. He spent a week in September yards, or thrown on rubbish dumps where rats fed on it and made it a menace to the making careful tests of the sewage system health of the community. Some forty offen- and of the disposal of garbage and rubbish. sive rubbish dumps were found in different Elaborate tests were made with floats in the harbor to determine the action of the parts of the township. Quoting from Profes- sor Fair's report, tides and winds on the discharge from sew- "Next to the danger to life and health ers and drains. incident to the present method of sewage 6 7 2. THE NORTHEAST HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY chance of its being a nuisance to adjacent change the roadway so as to take out the owners. awkward curve. We have kept the bridle The report of the committee was accepted paths in order and paid for sweeping the at the recent town meeting and money was village streets. But our main work in the voted to carry out its recommendations. last year has been the sanitary survey and We have not abandoned village planning. our interest in getting measures taken to This present summer we were called upon follow its suggestions. to help cottagers along the Harborside Road REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE appoint- when they were threatened with a gaso- ed at the Annual Meeting of the Village line filling station at its narrowest and Improvement Society at Northeast Harbor busiest point. With the help of Mr. Mulliken, 1925 to find out future plans of the Govern- the town engineer, and of Mr. L. E. Kimball, ment as regards development of the Park. a less objectionable site was found for the filling station. Meantime a study is being Mr. Dorr agreed to meet your committee on Tuesday, September 8th, but as neither made of a zoning law passed by the last legislature to see how far it can be used to Dean Lewis or Mrs. Sibley were able to go Mrs. Peabody had to represent the committee restrict the use of land in ways objectionable by herself. Mr. Dorr was most kind and to neighbors. took a great deal of pains to explain the policy Our Committee on Paths and Trails has which is being carried on in the park. The kept a watchful eye on them. We are again following facts were established. indebted to Mr. McIntyre of Seal Harbor for 1. No more roads are contemplated than superintending the repair work. We have are at present under construction, that is, contributed toward the building of a graded a - the automobile road from Bar Harbor path across the northern end of Jordan's to Jordan's Pond via Bubble Pond. Pond from the upper end of the east side b - the carriage road around Sargent and path to the foot of the Deer Brook rtail. Jordan's Mountains with a spur leading to We contributed half of the expense of the the Eagle Lake road which gives the Bar reconstructed path from the foot of Ice- Harbor people access to the driving park. house Hill to Pedder's Corner. We have contracted for land at Pedder's Corner to C - the automobile road up Green Moun- tain. 10 11 3. THE NORTHEAST HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY d - the two approach roads leading from enough carriage roads to make riding and the public highway to the foot of Newport driving features of the island, that danger Mountain on the Bar Harbor side 'on which would be obivated. The observation was made construction was commenced last year on land that only the well to do could afford carriages deeded to the Government for that purpose and that the network of roads made one by Mr. Dorr. think it was a formal park created for them. The hearing established the fact that there He replied that the increasing necessity of was a great deal of opposition to further so building motor roads as to meet the special roads and no more would be undertaken requirements of motor use and the cost of without preliminary publicity. doing so, would render the Government most 2. Mr. Dorr believes that the most im- averse to any extension of the motor road portant thing to do at this moment is to system not urgently required. What is plan- acquire land to prevent forest fires or lumber- ned is sufficient and no anxiety need be felt ing, to prevent the exploitation under private as to the future opening of any portion of ownership of lands that should be public or the roads built for use with horses. They are their objectionable use of them such as the intrincsically unsuitable for such use and the present motor camping on the Ocean Drive. cost of changing them could be prohibitive 3. Mr. Dorr was asked if it was part of even if desirable. the Park policy to open up every lovely spot 5. The road up Green Mountain is to be on the island. He answered "Not at all, but continued to the top. It may prove necessary if some of the obvious spots are made entire- to have a rest house on the summit, but if ly accessible, it will be only the people who SO it will be placed SO as not to appear on the really care who will penetrate to the others, sky line or to be noticeable in the landscape. so that these places will keep their very pre- 6. It was observed that those objecting cious quality of remoteness." carriage to the roads did so on three principal counts, 4. Mr. Dorr was asked if he didn't think roads? a - That they were SO wide that the great that great pressure would be brought to bear gashes they made along the mountains and on the Park to open these carriage roads to through the woods were SO unsightly. automobiles as their width, their careful b - that they were generally taken grading and their ponderous bridges suggest- through the most charming bits of the moun- this. Heanswered that he hoped by making tains, in some places over chasms where 12 13 4. THE NORTHEAST HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY heavy bridges of masonry absolutely ruined TREASURER'S STATEMENT all their charm. C - on account of their size they would be July 1st, 1926 a great temptation to the motorist. RECEIPTS 7. As for the trail along Jordon Pond which is more like a city walk, Mr. Dorr admitted Balance, June 30, 1925 $1,470.94 that it had not grown over and become Subscriptions 2,392.00 covered with pine needles as was expected. Interest on Bank Balance to He showed the committee some trails on his June 20th 1926 33.14 $3,896.08 own property which were most attractive. The committee feels that a great step for- EXPENDITURES ward in mutual understanding was made by Cleaning Streets 432.00 this interview formally arranged between Paths and Trails 789.47 representatives of the Village Improvement Post Cards and Printing 149.32 Society and the Superintendent of the Park. Gravel for Crossings 18.00 We feel confident that if the future plans of Salary, C. D. Joy, 12 Months 100.00 Lettering Iron Signs 6.00 the Park in which we as summer residents Sidewalks 23.18 who love the place are interested can be as Sanitary Survey of N. E. openly discussed, all possibility of misunder- Harbor 309.17 1,827.14 standing will be avoided. Balance, June 30, 1926 $2,068.94 (Signed) MARY E. PEABODY, Chairman. 14 15 Hm. John A Peters Papers. Dorr Estate. No. 399 COMMON SHARES One Shares NEW UNIVERSITY CLUB OF BOSTON REAL ESTATE TRUST PAR VALUE $100. EACH This is to Certify that long B. Dorr is the holder of Common Shares full paid and non-assessable and of the par value of One Hundred Dollars ($ 100) each of New University Club of Boston Real Estate Trust. which was established by a Declaration of Trust made the 15th day of April, 1924, and recorded in the Registry of Deeds of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Book 4561, Page 603. All the provisions of said Declaration of Trust as amended are hereby made a part of this certificate as if the same were herein set forth and the holder hereby expressly assents to all the provisions of said Trust and by acceptance of this certificate becomes a party to said Trust. The shares represented hereby are transferable only on the books of the Trustees in person or by attorney upon surren- der of this certificate properly endorsed. As provided in said Declaration of Trust no transfer (other than by operation of law) shall be made of any share unless the same shall have first been offered to the Trustees for purchase upon terms at least as favorable as those accepted or unless the Trustees have waived such right of purchase, and 80% of the shares issued are sub- ject to call in the discrection of the Trustees at par. In Witness Whereof, the Trustees of NEW UNIVERSITY CLUB OF BOSTON REAL ESTATE TRUST have caused this certificate be of this first to signed by two the Trustees, day of June 19 carbon association Trustees of New University Club of Boston Real Estate Trust. page \ of4. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT Copy July 7, 1925. Dear Mrs. Pine: I only got the Park boat launched in time to use for the meeting of the Governors here on July 3rd. Yesterday I visited your island and found it a place par Island: of infinite charm, full of imaginative appeal and wonderfully placed. Not a thing has been done to mar its natural beauty and its old pine trees are a delight to see. It is unique, and preserved unchanged should make a wonderful memorial to the love and appreciation that have kept it so long uns poiled and cast their atmosphere over it. I can conceive of no more interesting gift to the future than this, made under the guardianship of the nation, nor of one likely to be more enduring through our changing social order. If you and Mrs. Pryor con- tinue in your thought to give it to the National Park I shall take warm personal interest in the gift and do all in my power to establish it on a right footing as a feature of the Park, making it represent, like a monument , its unique contact with the sea. And the story of its ownershi p through the early years of summer resident life upon the Island should be em- 2 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT bodied with it, for the interest of those to whom it will give pleasure in the future and as establishing a link ,that they will value ,with the will to share of others which has brought that pleasure to them. I am leaving this morning for Millinocket, to connect with Governor Brewster in a trip up Mount Thuir Katahdin, whos e cohs ervation as a State park he is anxious to accomplish. I return at the end of the week and you then will write again, after another visit to the island. Believe me Sincerely yours, Dorr 11 copy 3. THE COSMOPOLITAN CLUB 133 East 40th Street July 29th, 1925. Dear Mr. Dorr: I am enclosing the signed deed of gift, and with it send these few inadequate lines to thank you for the sympathetic interest shown in your letter of the 27th of July. In thanking you also for all else you are doing, and will, I am sure, continue to do in connection with our wishes concerning Bar Island, I should like to say more were I not preparing for a long day's journey tomorrow. I shall be absent several weeks, but any mail sent here, or to 24 Gramercy Park (my per- manent address) will be promptly forwarded. My husband was always greatly interested in our National Parks, with some of which he was very familiar. This is one of several reasons why I am ready to give up the property. Sincerely yours, Caroline Pine. 4. To the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. Gentlemen: We are enclosing the deed to Bar Island in Somes Sound, giving it in free gift in memory of James Williamson Pryor and John Buckley Pine, late of New York. It is our wish, although we do not make it as a condition, that the property be held always as a bird and animal sanctuary; that the prohibition laws shall be observed and enforced; and that the house shall not be opened to the public unless a responsible care- taker is there. C AUGUSTA, MAINE, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1925. igitive MOVIES OF MOUNT 2000 BUSINESS AND b Driver KATAHDIN REGION PRO WOMEN TO MEET Opening Scene of Is Alleged TO BOOST MAINE IN PORTLAND TODAY and Where Tod of Scientifi Beauties of Spot Will Be Shown Religious Service Features Eve in Theatres All Over of Seventh Annual Con- Country vention National Body Cameraman Caught Many Scenes Formal Opening Due This Afternoon While Following Gov. Brewster -Many of Delegates Coming from and Party in Week's Trip- Remote Parts of Country-Grand- Monument Peak Reached By Way mother and Grandchild Arrive of Appalachian Troll-Marvelous from North Dakota-Oklahoma View Possible from Peak-Gover- Delegate Motors to Convention nor Speaks at Millinocket and with 20 months' Old Son-Many Milo See Salt Water for First Time The features of Governor and Mrs. Portland, Me July 12.-(AP)- Brewster's trip to Mount Katahdin Twelve hundred women already have and the beautiful scenery of the Kn- arrived for the seventh annual conven- tahdin region will be shown on the tion of the National Federation of motion picture screen In all parts of Business and Professional Women's the country and will prove a headliner Clubs, which formally opens tomor- H. KNAPP in the campaigh to boost Maine. row. Six special Pullman cars arriv- ed Slayer Governor Brewster, who returned ed tonight, bringing the Ohio delega- with Mrs. Brewster last evening, de- tion. clared that they had A delightful jour- A grandmother with R grandchild, July 12 (AI') ney and stated that the cameraman 12, has arrived from North Dakota. A it Mitchell Field for of Patho News who was a member delegate from Oklahoma motored to Y., by airplane today the party obtained some splen the convention with a 20-months-old ninly grittled foothills views of one of the most beautiful son. Many of the delegates saw salt V York for Philip K. sections of Maine which will serve in water for the time today. setter, who 14 charged 1110 small way to advertise Maine as There were many activities today. r of Louis Penella, A religious service was held AL 9.30 the playkround of the nation. nb driver. A. M. in the Congress Square church, The party drove by automobile five with Miss Mary Stewart of Washing- 111 be stationed Rt the miles beyond Togue Pond. From that ton, D. C., national chairman of the y barracks and, work- point the larlies of the party rodo on legislative committee, the speaker. u county detectives, saddle horses and the mj.n walked the In the afternoon a tea was given by remaining distance of about 10 milles, region where it is be- Mrs. John I: Thompson at her sum- going over the Appalachian trail from mer home At Brantwood, Blackstrap. y be hiding Chimney l'ond to the top of Monument Registration was active today and Lleutenants M. L. El- Peak, where they remained Thursday will continue tomorrow, and it is said r 11. Sargent, both night. From that height/they obtained more than 2000 women will be present DAYTON "HET UP" who WHS stationed At a marvelous view of the country for by tomorrow night. The convention miles around intil his disappearance opens at 2.45 P. M. The members of the party In addi- AS EPOCHAL TRIAI Penella's murder was tion to Governor and Mrs. Brewster were George B. Dorr. superintendent of Lafayette National Park at Bar Says Salvation Hensley, Jr., command- EVOLUTION OPE Harbor; Commissioner Willis E. Par- Field, under whose or- sons of the State department of Inland Not Dependent on Dayton, Tenn., July 12-(. rs are assisting in the fisheries and game, Mrs. L. C. Minor How God Created p. said that with the of Portland, Philip Ricker Shorey of Sunday in Dayton on the eve will be able to search Portland, State publicity director, and San Francisco, July 12.-(AP)- resumption of the Scopes trial than could be covered a Pathe News cameraman. Speaking on Evolution and the marked by almost everything ray. Governor Brewster Saturday After- Bible,' at the First Congregational or Knapp's arrest has noon spoke At n meeting lat Millingcket church here today, Secretary of the quiet. The storm in court was nd the Nassau county held under the auspices of the cham- Navy Curtis D. Wilbur declared that pected to break tomorrow but be asked to indict him her one commerce. There was dis- 'Salvation does not depend on our falled to bring the calm befor hurder. cussion of the proposition of Issuing bellet as to how God created the storm. The chronological ord nty authorities have pamphlets describing the natural universe. tives. Sergeants Harold "Salvation depends upon our be- events developed: beauty of the Katahdin section, and don Hurley. to Platts- the matter of Improving roads in that lief in God, and His Son. If we use Cancelling of a sermon on "I rate with the army of part of the State was also taken up. the theories or evolution as an ex- tion! at the Methodist Epi base in the man hunt Saturday evening the governor spoke cuse for getting rid of God and our church by the Rev. Charles is Private James B. at a development meeting held at Milo. obligation to Him, we can thus de- Potter, New York when a sect was n comrade of stroy our souls. But If we believe the congregation objected and ho was detached from that evolution was the process by sequent announcement by r Hensley and sent Mme. Caillaux, Wife which God created the universe and church's pastor, the Rev. H. G. tify the deserter If he operates it today, we are no better that he had "quit" as a result hould more airplane French Money Head and no worse than the man who be- action of his congregation. lieves that God instantly created all. Delivery of an address by W THE BAR HARBOR TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AGUSUT 5, 1925 SEACOAST MISSION GOV. BREWSTER TO WN ANNUAL MEETING BE HERE THIS WEEK LOCAL READERS will be Mr. Dorr's Guest at Oldfarm Held at Kenarden Lodge Last Wed- -Several Functions in Honor of Thesday---Reports of Workers Heard O State Chief Executive with Interest by Large Number ge T. Deavitt, publicity manager Brooklyn Record, Brooklyn, N.Y Governor Ralph O. Brewster and Mrs. At the annual meeting of the Maine ding a week at the home of Rev. Brewster will arrive in Bar Harbor by Sea Coast Missionary Society held at 8. John Simmons of the Methodist motor on Thursday afternoon and will go Kenarden Lodge last Wednesday, there at once to Oldfarm where they are to be SATURD was the usual large attendance. Each house guests during their stay here of Robert Helmshaw, who has re- year this annual meeting is one of the Mr. George B. Dorr. Col. Farnum and been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. outstanding features of interest. Mrs. Col. Marsh, the Governor's aides, Mrs. Scarls has returned to her sum- John S. Kennedy opens her beautiful Farnum and Mrs. Marsh and Philip me at South Bristol, Maine. home to members and all R. Shorey in charge of publicity, will BEST EQUIPI d Mrs. Edward Searis and son, friends interested in the work of this arrive by train and will join the Governor also spent the week end in Bar Maine society which has a membership at Oldfarm. and Northeast Harbor. list including the best people of On Friday noon Mr. Dorr is giving an STATION II nd Mrs. Natt Young of Milton, the country. informal luncheon for the Governor at and Mr. and Mrs. Leon Smith of Dr. Henry Van Dyke presided and Oldfarm. Mrs. Henry F. Dimock is 1, who have been at Salisbury those who have heard his splendid giving a dinner for twenty in honor of the past few weeks have return- tribute to the Maine Seacoast Mission Governor and Mrs. Brewster. Mr. Dorr their homes. Mr. and Mrs. and who look forward each/ye to hear- will entertain a large party at a picnic Palmer and sons are remaining ing him were in no way disappointed this for the Governor and his party at the days longer. year. island in Somes Sound recently given Afrer the opening prayer by Dr. Mona Mayo was the guest of the Park on Saturday noon. BAR HARBO William Schell of the Presbyterian t a small tea party given at In honor of the Governor and Mrs. Foreign Board of Missions, and scripture Inn Monday, by Miss Anna B. Brewster there will on Friday afternoon reading by Dr. Simmons of Clark Memo- and Miss Lillian Lawson. Other from four to six be a reception and tea rial Methodist Church, a series of most COT cre Mrs. Frank T. Stinson, Mrs. at Oldfarm for which Mr. Dorr has interesting reports were given by the isler, and the Misses Georgia issued about 500 cards. workers of the Mission Staff. Mrs. nd, Ruth Simpson, Eleanor Governor Brewster will speak on Alice M. Peasley whose work centers at Florence Fogel. Elizabeth Gott, South Gouldsboro described the splen- Saturday forenoon at Echo Lake, Lafay- e Stinson and Helen Cigler. did work of her week-day Religious ette National Park, before a meeting of S school which is held in connection with the Appalachian Monutain Club when Johnson of New York, a former all the people, summer and permanent of the United States Senate the day school sessions similarly to the resident alike, of Southwest Harbor are the on investigation of famine Bar Harbor plan. As the result of this invited to be present. IS in Russia, is spending some work, there were séveral decisions to Socony G n Mount Desert Island with unite with the church and lead Christian INDIAN POINT of as headquarters. Mr. John- lives. one time was chairman of the Mrs. Peasley has accomplished won- st Relief and was head of the A crew of painters have made recent ders in teaching the women of the com- PRICE 28 improvements on Uncle Tom's Cabih. commission. He is an agri- munity the art of making most beautiful expert and has travelled widely Mrs. C. D. Strout of Arlington, Mass. rugs which are in considerable demand .hat and other lines of work. He has been visiting her sister, Ethel by our summer visitors. As the result throughout his travels over the Fickett who is boarding at Belle Her- of her untiring pastoral work, a church has found no such wonderful lihy's. organizati has been formed in the Mrs. Victor Gooch entertained a and climatic conditions as those community known as the Union Evan- Desert Island. party of ladies at the Wigwam, her new gelical Church, which is undenominatio- bungalow, recently. Everythin nal and unites the people by a simple Mrs. C. E. Norris spent Sunday here. Y. W. C. A. NOTES covenant in Christian brotherhood and M. and Mrs. Deland of Massachu- a community religious life. setts were week end guests of Mr. and will be no swimming period for The Sigma Kappa Sorority maintains VISIBLE PUN Mrs. T. Carrol Higgins. and girls at the Y. M. C. A. a worker under the mission who for Mrs. C. II. Stover attended the Sea week Next week the schedule three years has worked at Head Harbor Coast Mission meeting at Bar Harbor sturned as usual with two plunge Island Miss Lucy King in reporting LADI last week. Tuesday and Friday evenings her work showed how substantial re- nd 8.30, u.r the Swimming Class sults had been accomplished by teaching in the public school. by maintaining Sure to Succeed H A. will appreciate gifts regular church services, also teaching Original men are not content to in ROOKS for ILM library at any time, gardening to the children and many granded by tradition they think enjoyment of its members and other useful occupations. for themselved and the result is Miss Adams and Miss Peasley re- that they succeed where others fall, wishing employment is asked ported interesting experiences during Now, a certain photographer never at the Y. W. C. A. as calls are a brief period of work on Outer Long says to a woman customer, "Look pleasant, madam, If you please." He y received for which there are Island. knows a formula infinitely better than For this day only ed applicants The Y. W. C. A. Miss Myrtice Cheney of Portland that, 3111 employment exchange so is who gives her vacations in educational In the most natural manner In the receive of those wishing work along the coast, reported much world he remarks: "It Is unnecessary progress in her work of finding and gas or : any kind of work. to ask you to look pleasant; I am sure ANTIS for the Finance Campaign assisting worthy young people who you could not look otherwise." y canvassing this week and wished to obtain an education beyond Then click goes the camera and the MORE PE never In E.1 THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 9. 1925 PRI t Newspaper's Bull Wealthy Chicago Beer Runn loose Law in Maine To Death in Renewal Gangl ne Department Tells a Favorite SEES LITTLE MERIT HILL WINS TITLE Tony Need Correcting Meml ress Herald's Story to Family on IN POSTERS URGING IN STATE SHOOT AT ect That Law Be Coming Season- His 86th Birthday DRY ENFORCEMENT WATERVILLE CLUB ture Continued Washington, July 8-(AP)-Dlsap- Waterville, Me., July 8 - (AP) - on Moose for proval by high prohibition officials of W. G. Hill of Portland was crowned Killing ( r Years the policy of building up sentiment Maine State champion as the out- for the dry laws by means of propa- lice D come of the annual State trapshoot ganda and speechmaking. has serious- held at the local country club today. Starte to the effect that ly threatened the prohibition unit's He was also the winner of the Maine ficers portunity legally to $50,000 poster campaign. Reports have distance handicap. Following is the Maine this fall, ap- been prevalent In official circles for Genna summary of the final outcome: front page of the several weeks that administration HP- Maine State champion, W. G. Hill Aligh lerald of July 8. is proval of plans to spend $50,000 on of Portland, with 292 out of 300; disappointment. if poster dry propaganda would be with- runner up, 8. A. Green of Waterville. Him inters who may fall held and these have been revived with with 291 out of 300. Maine distance Fourt ban on moose the announcement that the duties of handicap won by W. G. Hill of Port- land, with 94 out of 100 at 22 yards; Prote Miss Georgia Hopley, woman prohibi- is yet on and runner up, C. V. Blaimdell of Oak- tion agent, who has been speaking be- land, with 93 out of 100 at 20 yards. lightly. fore women's organizations on the Doubles championship won by John Chicago no legal hunting of benefits of prohibition, had been abol- B. Stoble of Waterville with 44 out this fall under any ished. of 50. All around championship won gangland Under the $11,000,000 prohibition ap unless succeeding by C. R. Blaisdell of Oakland with Tony Ger propriation for this fiscal year, $50,000 324 out of 350. Consolation handi- Runmen o what the 82d Leg- was set aside for the dissemination cap won by G. L. Osborne of Brook. tim of re will be no legal of information and appeals for ob- line. Mass. with 48 out of 50. High servance and enforcement of the dry over all for two days J. E. Sherman, member se in Maine for a law. For more than H month artist- West Boylaton, Maxs. with 375 out of the past years from July 7, Ically inclined/employes of the prohi- 400; second, G. 1. Osborne of Brook- Tony's bitton unit have been painting posters line. Maxe. with 373 out of 400. with catchy alogana appealing for law reientler Islature passed an Professionals championship was observance. wory by Rupert Berry of Portland CARO'S Chapter 83 of the The posters have been before Assist. with 276 out of 300. weeks R pproved March 28, ant Secretary Andrews of the treas- ni'r bro into effect when ap- ury for several weeks, however, and ntinued the ban on while he has not stated definitely President Shakes members he would approve the Idea he tle with in this State. which his indicated that he IN not heartily Hands with Group and wol rce for the previous In vor of 11. He belleves the money previous can the used more effectively In some Int' College Athletes other nummer. But whereas this could er, was of this act are as fol- be/done legally officials Ure not pre- Swampscott, Mass., Jul -(AP)- Tony, JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER pared to may, since the law specially Invigorating cool breezer and cooler test of ion thirty-seven of provides expenditure of the money weather aid President Coolldge in ently undred and nineteen Tarrytown, N. Y., July circulation or appears for law ob- spending real vacation hours today LWS of nineteen hun- John D. Rockefeller today cete at his summer home at White Court. an hou servance. teen, as amended by For the first time since coming down b brated. his 86th birthday at ndred and thirty-one here two weeks ago, the president friend aws of nineteen hun- Pocantico Hills estate, playing GOV. BREWSTER shook hands with a group of visitors Then, teen and by chapter In the morning, cutting a huge birth -members of the Oxford-Cambridge day cake at a dinner party to and Yale-Harvard track teams who the cur nd five of the public In hundred and twen- will meet on the field next Saturdan. tended by further amended son, daughter-in-law, and grand AND PARTY LEAVE Otherwise It was A day of rest. stepped the first paragraph children, and listening to a bank Some consideration was given this toward and by substituting concert and an organ concert In the ON OUTDOOR HIKE morning to mail, and this afternoon afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge made brief vis- As llowing paragraph: any time for a period It to the Marine camp nearby. other n from July seventh, In the morning Mr. Rockereller ed and twenty-five, read the New York newspapers Millinocket, Me., July 8.-(AP)- Otherwise it was a day of rest. both fi Some consideration WAR given this Garbed in the picturesque Habill- Tony d or kills any moose, which contained stories about morning to mail. and this afternoon session any part or birthday. At an early hour ments of woods hikers, Governor Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge made brief pital. whenever or wherever and Mrs. Ralph O. Brewster and visit to the Marine camp nearby. Two or killed, shall pay grams from friends in many pilrts as than two hundred of the country began to arrive and party of 10, Including Supt. George Starting his third week of rest. broke dence here tomorrow. the president prevail sts for each offense, continued to come In F. Dorr of the Lafayette National has no xéments for the day. It men 11 not exceeding four With some friends from Taris Park At Bar Harbor: Willis E. l'ar- is likely, however, that in a short their f be subject to both towa Mr. Rockefeller went out sons, commissioner of inland fish while he will again resume consider- imprisonment." so that eries and game; Philip R. Shorey, ation of government and business "You amended, shall read 10.30 and played his regular round the recently appointed Maine public- affairs that may demand his atten- few of golf. hoever at any time, ity agent. game wardens and official tion told h four-years from July Dinner, at one n'clock was photographers, left here early today Ton, en hundred and twen- liveliest event of the day The last by automobile for Togue Pond, pursues, or kills any course was the birthday crike, where they will take the trail up Plummer Too Ill "I'll he sa! Mr. Rockefeller cut and distributed Mt. Katahdin. They will return Fri- is his possession any thereof, whenever or day night. Governor Brewster hav- To Vote on Bids ing the to his grandchildren. caught or killed, Shortly after dinner a band ing speaking engagement at Milo, For Scrapping Ships ed, "C of not less than two ed. and as It was raining hard Saturday. his col nor more than concert was held in the mansion, (Special to the Kennebec Journal) Tonl dollars and costs for Rockefeller enjoyed the music, Bath, Me., July 8-Although Vice combir be Imprisoned not a little later a second concerti Believe Baroness Chairman Edward C. Plummer of the name Board has have a THE BAR HARBOR TIMES, WEDNESDAY JULY 8, SUP'T DORR AND GOV. GOVERNORS' DAY PROGRAM was a delight Never has the famous BREWSTER AT KATAHDIN PERFECTLY CARRIED OUT Jordan Pond House and its surroundings appeared to finer advantage and Mr. and Superintendent George B. Dorr left (Continued from page 1) Mrs. MeIntire did everything possible Tuesday morning for a several days trip met their hosts for the motor trips, the for their guests. Tea was served out of with Governor Ralph E. Brewster to owners of the cars assigned to them, and doors, on verandahs or beneath the trees Mount Katahdin. They will climb the procession swept triumphantly on the lawns which slope to the sparkling the mountain and study the region in through an army of cheering people, little inland water with the Bubbles ughter relation to its State park possibilities. amid waving flags and brilliant music, beautiful in the distance. Mrs. Accompanied by Chief Ranger B. L. on through the town to the Malvern. The drive from the Jordan Pond House Hadley, Supt. Dorr made the trip to The camera and newspaper men soon obbins around the Island to various points of Millinocket being joined there by the made themselves at home in their interest was one which brought forth Governor to spend the night at the Great headquarters in the Lyford-Woodward many expressions of delight from every- rrived Northern and planning to continue the building and the wires began to be hot one. The motor road over Cadillac awyer journey on Wednesday morning. with news flashed to various papers, New above Eagle Lake was the final point of /herry York, Chicago, Boston, etc. interest visited in the town and from in his In Governor and Mrs. Brewster's there the party went back to the Malvern. minent party were: Col. and Mrs. Farnum, Col. FY MRS. FRANCIS P. MARSTON Dinner at the Malvern was one of the thori- and Mrs. Dustin, Col. and Mrs. Marsh, most brilliant affairs which has ever n the Friends in Bar Harbor have learned Mr. and Mrs. Guy Gannett, Miss Gan- taken place there and the attention to eu of with deep regret of the death in Auburn nett, Miss Viles, Arthur G. Staples, detail, the superb finish and care with on June 8, of Mrs. Adelaide B. Marston. Hiram Ricker, James Ricker, Captain which every part of the affair was carried y for Mrs. Murston was the daughter of C. M. Adams, Sergeant Osborne, Lieut- out, the seating arrangements, the table dau- Edward Everett and Adelaide Mc- Commander and Mrs. Porter Adams. BY decorations, and the menu were each k to Farland and spent much of her earlier Governor and Mrs. F. Lee Trinkle of and all a credit to Manager Grob and ;mith life in Bar Harbor, having attended the Virginia were accompanied by Governor his staff. grade schools here and graduating from Trinkle's secretary, Park Deans. Gover- FY music Mr. Grob had from the first planning and Bar Harbor High School as valedictorian nor Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming was of the entertainment given the heartiest iends of her class. Mrs. Marston has made her accompanied by her young son, Master of co-operation and his entertainment home in Auburn for the past fifteen years. Bradford Ross. Governor and Mrs. of the distinguished guests at the Mal- Mrs. Marston was an active member Robert P. Robinson of Delaware were Dush- vern was perfection in every detail of St. Saviour's Church in Bar Harbor, accompanied by their son and daughter, back Dodge's orchestra played some fine music was organist of the church during one Robert Robinson, Jr., and Miss Frances for the dinner and received much favora- strict winter and prominent in the work of Robinson. Governor and Mrs. Thomas the ble comment. the Girls Friendly Society. She was G. McLeod of South Carolina were It was a brilliant scene which greeted Mrs. for a time assistant director of the Bar unaccompanied. Governor and Mrs. lown the party from the Malvern when they Harbor Kindergarten. Mrs. Marston Franklin S. Billings of Vermont had 'I reached the Swimming Club for the ball slers had un'usual musical ability and was with them General Johnson and Captain A which closed an eventful day The big fter- prominent in musical circles here and at Richmond handsome ball room was H perfect her, home in Auburn Governor and Mrs. Edward Jackson to picture of light and life and color Flags rties Besides her husband, Francis P. of Indiana were not accompanied by from the destroyers and from the y of Marston, she leaves her mother, one any official guests. Governor and Mrs. Patoka had been used 11% conjunction 2 to brother Reuel B. McFarland of Melrose, Martin of Florida had in their party with other banners to transform the his Mass. and the following sisters: Mrs. Commander Gamble. Col. Wideman, Wil- room into a more that usually wed Frank E. Walls and Mrs. Stanley Green- liam Bradley and C. A. West. Governor beautiful MUMI which 11. nd a lay of Melrose Mass. Mrs. George M and Mrs. John Hammill of Iowa and played by ( erri Haskins of Hyannis, Mass., and Mrs. Governor and Mrs. Adam McMullen of orchestra, 11 it in Guy Lovell of Auburn, also several nieces Nebraska did not bring any members of Bunday Mrs. state, were At the De. and and her yours of State late yesterday All. Hearings were also held before the in KAHNAR ellent health This measure would change Commission senterday on the 1.011. in the corn t the crop WAR lifiv. IS. Hindbury of Illina of John M. Allen of Vienna requirement of Grade Ink. velyn Day, were to operate n bill line between Vienna and Mrs. 8. and provide that In deter. and Headfield: W. 11. Mekin 12.000,000 birthell Grade A milk thn the score (Continued on Page 9-Col. 6) of limited made Reed and fami unday lon Mrs. and of. the United States Bureau of for this and Mrs. Arthur sesmal Industry must be used. The Navy Seaplanes Winter 3,000,000 bushale durink the when time of the petitions suspentis the Detained at Poland simple 22,000,000 bumbels. BOKES and, operation of the law and the matter Production whent in 11 countries visited their. pe Ajdanus Trank will procably not go to the people Ready for Departure (if 11/10 hemisphere. Including for determination until the regular the which producer State election in September, 1926. Poland Spring. Mr. July -(AP) of the northern alled recently at One other measure has been held The navy acappanes, 11.16 from cent. of her cousin is at through the filing of petitions, the Washington and C'8:1 from Nor- the of and alid. bill making It unlawful for an munt- folk, which have been mayooned " on the Intest yn that Mrs. A cipality to use any other time than Thompson's Pond since the depart. department recovered from standard time. ure last week of the Governors for bushels to,have Sunday The time for filing petitions 10 whose benefit the planes were less than last family. stay the operation of any act passed brought here. are now ready for of of Camden by the legislature will expire at mid. their return flights would lie eat of her aunt, sight tonight and there is a possi. Engine troubles. which developed 105,000,000 the Nitty that enough petitions?wil be during the Governors' Conference A In spent Sunday we to suspend the act providing for while making flights over the pond alno Above, left hter. Mrs. Aften 1 yearly limit of one deer In all the necessitated A prompt landing and was to Dr. John counties of the State the Installation of new engines. exult of the heavy production ago Jenning Mrs. Ver Mer. The has unfavorable onn. arrived Fri. View Maine Beautiful for fruit production throughout most the summer with of the country. except the Pacific Merrill: coast. The gain in reaches. pearn and 1 daughters are grapes last year In that rekion has been sufficient in offers has Fritz Tyler. son the in the 18 the coun. ter Eather from From Top of Mt. Katahdin try, and in heir cousins. Mrs. the The Mrs. L. Dear- total it and Mrs. Elmer than hibus (r) and Miss MII- last visitors, also at A Production of rice. awert over the week. Governor and Party Reach President Inspects tatees promised of Montment Peak Pigeon he but small on the John Merrill re. - Defenses at Fort and hay hipment of Flem- court me eed rabbits for Carries Back Message-80 Andrews in Harbor Supar at from Tittn, Ohio. Mile Flight in 1 Hour, 15 the condition of imum d friend, Wesley Swampscott. Mass., July 9.--(AP) of normal. with Mass. were call- Minutes - Motion and Still -Taking his first cruise on the May. the production Harry Boynton. Pictures Taken From Moun- flower since beginning his vacation. last alm and sons, Le Rival Mrst Alice Pierce President Coolldge visited Foru An days at New Har- tain Top drews today. Inspecting there link liminary m of the Boston Harbor defences ohn Pinkham and Gov. Smith and-Ex- who " p. usta were visiters Houlton, Maine, July (AP)- The President. accompanied by July 4 Governor and Mrs. Ralph O. Brew- Mrs. Coolldge. motored from the Gov. Miller Debate case are to summer White House to Marblehead or the C urt Valter Wilson set ne today viewed a part of Maine of Jackman with Neck taken out the yacht on Question of Highways er of Manches from the top of Monument Peak, it bar: and devoted afternoon York. July 9 (AP) The to two in ilson is sister. MILL Mt. Katahdin, to the uise and inspection. The bond issue for dav. lay. Word to this effect was received weather ideal. permanent state improvements was 11 and family here by the carrier pigeon, Jean, At Fort Andrews, which iffon an debated tonight by New York Saturday Island south and east of Boston Har- present executive, Governor Alfred from owned by Leigh P. Cleveland of bor, the President was greeted by Smith. and his predecessor Nathan lv followed who has Houlton, who was with the gover- Colonel Charles E. Killborne who Miller. before an audience which and Arthur VN with her sisters- which left Augusta early has charge of the coastal defenses Jammed Carnegie ball. Despite the rned home Friday about Hoston. First the President oppressive heat standing room was defense w/ yearday morning. looked over an 1898 model 12-inch at a premium. to complete 1 and son Clarency pigeon. which covered the dis. mortar, the fort's largest gun. Later Governor Smith based him en William d in this place tance of 80 miles by airplane In one he Inspected A later type of 12-Inch dorsement of the block issue of $100. mortar, was taken through powder 000.000 to he spent over It period of came ter Arnold. Fred Merciar aid fifteen minutes, brought a ten years. on the ground that a pay afternoon magazines and visited the fort store. Amos, passed the manage from Governor Brewster, house. polley was false economy the coursel ids here. on arrival at the top at Miller contended the . T. New The fort was In A stand-by condi- Charles Hallowell 12.45 this afternoon, in which he policy to be set up by the bond the Highte tion. the only troops on the Island Hallowell's, Sunday, sue meant abnegation of one of circuit. offi being a caretaking force. Axband the checks held by the people the state HFIELD George B. Dorr, superintendent and color guard had been brought "against legislative extravagance. as night in Lalayette National Park at Bar from Fort Banks in honor of the The atalience was attentive, ap. The first Elmer Blyth Harbor, Willis E. Parmons, state President's visit. plause being frequent, but apparent- fense lawy and Margaret commissioner of Inland Fisheries As the Mayflower approached Fort ly equally divided. noon. ave been the guests and Game, and Mrs. Brewster were Andrews the two masted schooner Ex-Governor Charles E. Hughes The first Sowley. returned first the top. Nearly perfect Mayflower, which several years ago who presided. came in for hearty Sunday. day and marvelous view of 25,000 witnesses competed in the International fish- recognition from the crowd. George Blume and mears miles of wonderfully beauti- ermen's race, losing n memorable professor o to Lexington, Mass. ful territory, with 300 likes. See III match with the Bluenose, passed At Mainefrom Katahdin and live. Came a short distance. It saluted and In Effect-Compromise was. to be H. Newell, Application Trailfro: Chimney ncknowledgment the colors at the My Mr. ( ley and son Frank stern of the President's vessel were With Plasterers tion is Poni and will spend tonight on top. and Harry Staits which the Sixteen In party. dipped. wley were the guests Governor Brewster added that Standing on deck in a circle of In N. Y. Trade War plex condi In Richmond Bal- developed many the pictures. both still and newspa/permen whom he had asked New York, July 9--(AI)-A par- to accompany him, the President simpler motion, were obtained tial solution of the building trades Dorothy Blumohave spied/A house on the south shore at "I will nds for the summer. war, which had Imperilled $25,000,000 Pemberton in which he And Mrx. in construction in mix leading cities. with the thish Brann and son Quarter Billion Coolldge lived in 1916 while he was was effected today by A conference of are taking laughter Irene. were lleutenant governor of Massachu- or Mr. and Mrs. contractors and representatives of the verse and Jump in Trade setts. Operative Plasterers' and Cement Fin- the monk isherm International Association. the unfold n was caller at Power's Friday With Europeans A working agreement was signed It neither Washington, D. C., July 9.-In- Fleet Corporation under which the plastererm will return teach tha Veston and creased to work pending arbitration of their keys.' been visiting sales and purchases of merchandise characterized United Head and Ship Board dispute with the Brick- A signi Bids which Over pre- that the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT Extract from letter from Governor Ralph O. Brewster of Maine witten from the Blaine Mansion, Augusta, August 21st, 1925. y "Our final call on the Doctor was quite the crowning event of the trip. I was profoundly impressed. I shall carry for a very long time the inspiration of his vision and his first words. A few incidents like that are more than sufficient compensaion for all the !weariness, the fever, and the fret. I ii T.W. Higginson BULLETIN Appalachian Mountain Club VOL. XVIII BOSTON, JUNE, 1925 No. 12 APPALACHIA lp.101-129. (Volume XVI, Number 2.) Going to Mount Katahdin 1 LAST night I dreamed of Katahdin. Masculine tyranny had kept me, as a woman, in the house all day, on pretense of storms, which looked really worse from inside than outside. It was a wild, cold night, and the little comfortable fire, that smoul- in dered on the hearth, was dying away as I went to sleep. The railroads were choked with snow; but in five minutes I had traveled the three hundred miles, and was in those happy woods again. It was September once more, and we were in our camp by the lake. Breezes from the monarch of eastern mountains stirred the tall tree-tops above our heads; the soft plash of the water came faintly through the white birch trees; and was it a moose's slender feet upon the twigs, or some crackling artillery among the green bushes on the fire? I felt the softness of the hemlock couch beneath me-freshest and most fragrant of beds, where I never sought sleep in vain. Half awake, I raised myself, leaning against the tent stakes, as I had done SO often. There was the little cleared circle amid the woods, lighted and limited by the smouldering fire. One great log, that hissed with a sooth- ing sound of slow burning, sent sometimes a shower of sparks into the night air, and sometimes dropped its tribute of brilliants into the pit of intenser light beneath it. The embers before the tent of our masculine companions were low and dim, and, This account of a trip to Katahdin in the summer of 1855 was printed anonymously in Putnam's Magazine for September, 1856. Not many years before his death Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson confessed that he was the author of the story, having de- liberately adopted a style that would mystify his companions of the excursion and cause them to suspect that some one of the five ladies of the party had written it. At that time he was the minister of a Unitarian church in Worcester. His subsequent career as soldier and author needs no comment here. In 1885 he was President of the Appalachian Mountain Club; and on more than one occasion he rendered splendid service as Chairman of its Com- mittee on Publications. See the Boston Evening Transcript (July 14, 1923) for an article by Allen Chamberlain, entitled "When Colonel T. W. Higginson was a Guide to Ktaadn in 1885 and Now.' ED. 101 APPALACHIA, VOL. XVI, NO. II. BAR HARBOR, MAINE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1925 FIVI WAS A. ONLY 25 VOTERS GOV. BREWSTER HAS B. H. CONTINUES TO HORSE NT EVENT AT TOWN MEETING THREE BUSY DAYS LEAD THE LEAGUE and Most Success- Recent Assessors Elected for Short State's Chief Executive and Members Many Years in erm-Firement Get Back Pay- P. C. F. Wins Tuesday and is Giving of Party Attend Many Functions Fight for First Place arbor No Action on Parking in Bar Harbor Show Cle the Swimming Club A special town meeting on Tuesday The Bar Harbor baseball team con- Prog attended by more was attended by less than 25 voters. For the purpose of examining the tinues to lead the Maine League but ad was by far the Fred L. Hadley, Osmond Emery and wonderful relief map of the Island now both P. C.F. and Bangor winning more liant gathering that John Suminsby, the assessors' of taxes being completed by Dr. Robert Abbe, and more games and there is no certainty wn in more than a who were legislated out of office with the Governor Brewster finished his visit in as to which team will head the league at 3 concluding featurd repeal of the Special Act of 1905 were Bar Harbor by calling at Brookend, the the close of the season. Good baseball is summer home for 40 years of the famous Last week it he success of which elected to serve until the annual meeting the rule rather than the exception in this marred by incle- in March, 1926. New York surgeon, on Sunday forenoon, Maine League and the fans are enjoying is yachting. A of attraction V. vy Ball brought to a The Town voted to instruct the select- accompanied by his staff and by Supt. the best season ever. The present men to pay the permanent firemen the Dorr of Lafayette National Park whose where on Thurs tertaining in honor standing of the teams of the British and house guest he had been since Thursday Won gymkhana und balance due them for wages according Lost Pc. Morrell Park almost unprece- to vote of the Town at a special town Bar Harbor 17 8 .680 at this resort. meeting held on June 16, 1919. This P. C. F. nearly everyone 15 12 .556 from the surro oms, verandas and means that the permanent firemen will Bangor 12 15 444 ning Club present a receive back pay for one day in each Easterns 9 already a great 18 333 reserved seats one than that of month having 31 days since June, 1919. Bar Harbor lost to P. C. -F. here will be complet ere were flags and They have been paid on the basis of a yesterday, by a score of 5 to 7. Bar This stand cont: itish and American thirty4dny month. The amount involved Harbor plays the Easterns at South each and 80 de flags from the is approximately $500. Brewer today and plays Bangor at Isabel Thorndi} hts in ball room and The matter of an ordinance relating Easterns Park Thursday. The Easterns committee on the setting for a to parking in the streets of Bar Harbor come here Friday and Bangor comes here the entire first membered. was referred to the annual meeting in next Tuesday. second row. T vely gowns and the March. the new stand he uniforms added picture. Nearly SHIPS LEAVE BAR than were those in the opinion prominence in and COSTUME BALL WAS committee, quit ded the Navy Ball HARBOR TUESDAY first row boxes. crent that everyone Russell's Swim- A BRILLIANT SUCCESS Reservations was at its best for made with Town Regrets Departure and Com ythm, melody and and Trust Com manders Express Appreciation thined in every Attendance of 500 at Gay and Festive for Hospitality Here Among those was delicious and Affair for Benefit of Bar Harbor for the show are Navy Ball was Hospital Chester P. Bar m every viewpoint. Bar Harbor thoroughly enjoyed the Mrs. H. F. Din Navy Ball Com- visit of the British and American havies The costume dance beld at the Swim- Miss Mary U. here during Tennis Week and the whole ming Club for the benefit of the Bar Clinton Falls, town deeply regretted their departure brndike, Chester P. Harbor Hospital, last Wednesday night, Mrs. K. Howa: Governor Ralph O. Brewster Tuesday, their leaving having been de- S. DeWitt Clinton was a gay and festive fair attended by Livingston Mr. layed a day on account of the thick fog Frederick Fearing, nearly 500, and a good sum was netted night at Oldfarm. Governor Brewster also II. I. Miller, Mrs of Monday. The United States Ships appin. F. Hamilton for the hospital. visited on Saturday President Charles Mrs. Robert H: Detroit. Raleigh and Milwaukee and George McMur- Mrs. F. B. McMories, wife of Lt. W. Eliot at his Northeast Harbor sum- S. Moore. Mr His Majesty's Ships Wistaria and William Procter McMories of the S. S. Detroit, won mer home, visited Kenarden Lodge and Mrs. William Valerian had been in the harbor for ten mas Bell Sweeney the first prize for her Hawaiian costume. was welcomed by Mrs. John S. Kennedy Taylor Pyne, M days. The ships with their gray paint Miss Helen Thorndike who was charm- and called upon Mrs. William C. Endi- John D. Rocke loomed up in the lower harbor making a dinners for the ing in an old fashioned costume. won cott. The three days of the stay of the L. Satterice, M picture that is always welcomed here. Navy Ball were: second prize /and Miss Katherine Tod state's chief executive here were full, Edward T. Ste The officers and men of the two services Mrs. Harry Hill received honorable mention for her but the program in spite of bad weather added much to the gayety of the resort Thorndike, Mr. 1. 1. V. Hoppin, Turkish costume the greater part of the time went through during their visit and made many friends Mrs. Frederick V Club Mrs. Walter Mr. Henry Schieffelin won the first perfectly. while here. The committe ed McConnick at prize for the men in a Colonial costume The party included Governor and Frederick C. Fearing, Chairman of Mr. and Mrs. and Alr. Robert Ryle, dressed as a Mrs. Brewster, Col. and Mrs. Farnum, the Tennis Week committee addressed page 12 pignte won second prize. Mr. Ernest Col. and Mrs. Marsh and Philip Shorey. Hurton received honorable mention for The Governor was photographed at the following wireless message to Rear his costume of Italian rag picker. The Pryor's Island on Saturday as the Admiral, Willard, Commanding Light Cruise Division 3, U. S., Scouting Fleet. judges were Mr. Philip Livingston, Col. party was leaving there after a pienie and to Commander-in-Command P. W. De Witt Clinton Falls and Col. F. L. V. lunch by Ranger W. B. Campbell. He Hoppin. King, D. S. O., R. N., of H. M. S. visited the war ships in the harbor and Rodick Wistaria: (Continued on page 12) (Continued on page 12) "The hosts of friends which you and the officers and men under your command (Continued on page 12) Eastman Cameras, Films and Supplies Waterman and Wahl Pens and Pencils A Superior Line of Leather Goods 110 U-DRIVE The We hat Continued ring behind this morning wish the fleet left. From noon neriously and is putting God-speed, health and happiness, every night the sailors kept them rolling. work with his partner, Maurice dePau. forward to welcoming you here The building was open all day Sunday An extra added attraction will be the The worst fire that Bar R ext year." for the boys and the swimming pool and moving picture of the championship had in years broke out in the ral Willard sent the following pool tables were used all day except wrestling match between Strangler Lewis of the Mount Desert Inn, form essage in reply to Mr. Fearing: during the morning church hour. and Big Wayne Munn. Lynam House, on Thursday al 1. S. S. Detroit, Flagship Light The Y. M. C. A. was letter writing burning the Inn to the ground ;ruiser Division 3, U. S. Scouting headquarters, too, and stamps and GOV. BREWSTER HAS aging the St. Sauveur Hotel next leet, Via Seawall Radio Station. mailing service were furnished. The BUSY THREE DAYS an extend conservatively estiro august 10, 2 P. M. regular magazines on the reading table (Continued from page 1) $10,000, the entire property lo C. Fearing, were liberally supplemented by additional received in turn Admiral Willard and fire being about $40,000, partial bor, Maine. ones brought in by Mrs. Sutton, of the other officers at Oldfarm. ed by insurance. ommander, the officers, and the Navy League, who also distributed One of the largest receptions ever Though the department Light Cruiser Division 3, thank candy and other treats to the men. ever held in Bar Harbor was that of promptly the fire had gaine all their friends in Bar Harbor Basket ball men, boxers and wrestlers Friday afternoon at Oldfarm when Mr. headway that the fight was cordial welcome and generous from the American ships did daily Dorr invited about 700 people, to greet surrounding property and the ty extended to them. We are work-outs in the gymnasium. There Governor Brewster at his home, where of Chief Hamor and his men, with regret, but carry away with was no need this year to provide any for many years distinguished guests have gular and volunteer, was the y happy memories and cherish beds, as the liberty periods ended at been entertained. The house was sim- of most favorable comment. that we may return next year. midnight. ply but tastefully decorated. The guests narrow driveway separated (Signed) Willard It would be difficult to over+stimate were received by the governor and his Sauveur from the nearest of in King replied as follows: the part the Y. M. C. A. and its social party and Mr. Dorr. Tea and punch cottages and time and time again [. M. S. Wistaria advantages to the sailors played in were served, Mrs. R. W. Wakefield, Mrs. Sauveur caught fire, the flames in Seawall Radio Station. Aug. making the stay of the men of the two Harry Lynam. Mrs. Fred C. Lynam, by the prompt action of the fire 0, 2.45. P. M. fleets SO pleasant and friendly. The Mrs. T. L. Roberts, Mrs. Harry M. while in the neighborhood several F. C. Fearing, national and international services ren- Conners, Mrs. Mark Morrison, Mrs. A. residences took fire on the roofs, bor, Maine. dered each year in this way give the Stroud Rodick, Mrs. John Preble, pour- no headway however, because you please convey to all the Association a rightful claim to the sup- ing and being assisted by Miss Cathleen vigilance of various volunteers. 11 friends we have made in Bar port of all who know of its work. Sherman, Miss Aileen Lenhart, who is Mrs. J N. Kondazian of our "sincere thanks for their Miss Sherman's guest. and Miss Dorothy trapped in her room by th of God-speed. We thank you WILL HOLDIMEETINGS HERE Higgins. Mrs. G. Prescott Cleaves and progress of the flames was resc it heartily for the wonderful AND AT NORTHEAST HARBOR Mrs. William Sawyer also assisted. Daniel H. Hamilton of the Bar ity and kindness you have show- Motor Company, who climb Continued from page 1 On Friday noon Mr. Dorr gave an us during our never-to-be-for- The patronesses are: Mrs. Robert Bacon, informal luncheon when about 25 were swaying ladder and brought her week at Bar Harbor. We are all though unconscious, to the Mrs. John A. Brown. Jr., Miss Coles, present. forward to meeting you again. Mrs. T. DeWitt Cuyler. Mrs. M. L. his courage and sure-footedne Governor Brewster and Mrs. Brewster (Signed) Captain P. W. King doubtedly averting a tragedy. Fearey, Mrs. Philip Livingston. Mrs. and Mr. Dorr were guests on Friday John Markoe, Mrs. R. A. Parrock, Mrs. The fire was discovered by BUILD TWO HOUSES night for dinner at the home of Mrs. McCaffery, manager of the Inn. as Harold Peabody, Mrs. Lansing Reed, AT DeGREGOIRE PARK Henry F. Dimock of Washington and going up the back stairs from th Mrs. John S. Rogers, Mrs. Charles R. Bar Harbor. The same evening his ment to the first floor and hea Scott, Mrs. H. O. Sturges, Mrs. Augustus [. Sherman has this week sold staff, Col. Farnum and Col. Marsh, Thorndike, Mrs. II. H. Thorndike, Miss crackling, and the fire swept up Mrs. Farnum and Mrs. Marsh and Mr. at DeGregoire Park. No. 34 the wooden building in an inc. Trevor, Mrs. A. Murray Young. Avenue has been purchased by Shorey, Miss Grace Oakes, and Captain short space of time. Another meeting will be held at the Bunker and Son of Northeast C. W. DeMoleyns were entertained at The Mount Desert Inn, Bar H home of Mr. and Mrs. Harper Sibley who plan grading and other dinner by Hon. and Mrs. Guy 10. Torrey oldest hotel, was a large wooden b: at Northeast Harbor on Tueseay after- ements on the lot now and durin at the Jordan Pond House. noon, August 18, at five o'clock. There Saturday morning was busy one and (Continued on page 4) ter to build a handsome bun- will be singing by a quartet from the Lot No. 80 has been sold to in addition to various calls Governor Institute and tea will be served. The ichards and Lucy A. McCabe of Brewster addressed the Appalachain patronesses are Mrs. Stephen Baker, m, N. Y. who will also build a Camp at Echo Lake, Lafayette National Mrs. Charles D. Dickey, Mrs. William Park. Many Southwest Harbor people W. Draper Lewis, Mrs. Fitz Eugene New were present. Saturday noon Supt. bold, Mrs. George Wharton Pepper. AL ESTATE TRANSFERS Dorr gave a picnic to 40 summer resi- Edward B. Mea Mrs. Charlton Yarnali. dents of the Island in honor of the Gov- The American Church Institute for ed in Hancock County For ernor and his staff on Pryor's Island, the Attorney at Law Negros makes appropriations to nine ck Ending August 8, 1925 recently acquired Park property, given Industrial Schools. the Bishop Payne in memory of James W. Pryor and John 26 Mt. Desert St.. Divinity School for the training of A. Doyle to Earl L. Gray, B. Pine by Mrs. Pryor and Mrs. Pine. Bar Ha Negro men for the ministry, St. warranty deed, recorded Aug. A delicious chowder was served under Agnes' Hospital and the Training School 254 South Fifteenth St. the direction of Chief Ranger Hadley for Nursés at St. Augustine's The A. Carr to D. E. Hurley, and Ranger Rich, assisted by Ranger Philadeli number of students enrolled in these lle; release deed, recorded Aug. 3. Thompson and Chief Mechanic Ralph schools during the last regular school P. Carr to D. E. Hurley, Douglas. Saturday afternoon Governor term was 3,673. lle; warranty deed, recorded and Mrs. Brewster were guests of Mrs. Three thousand five hundred and Henry F. Dimock at the Building of ninety-five attended the Summer Schools Harbor Banking & Trust Co. Arts at the concert and Supt. Dorr had and Farmers' Conferences held for the VICTOR to Isaac M. Tripp, Bar Harbor; a box in which were seated the Mrs. improvement of rural life, better farming feed, recorded August 3. Farnum, Col. and Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. methods and better homes. Thus, REAL ESTATH A. Lawrence to Zettie M. Mary G. McBride, Mr. Dorr, and his more than 7,000 Negroes receive an- will, recorded August 3. secretary, Miss Oakes. Col. Farnum Bar Harbor and 806 Se nually definite instruction in the schools E. Spurling to Emma F. played golf on Kebo with Mr. Torrey. under the supervision of the Institute. will, recorded August 3. Saturday evening the Governor and his or R. Perkins to Caroline P. party were entertained at dinner at the U. S. OFFICERS WIN will, recorded August 3. Pot and Kettle by Mrs. Harry Hill TENNIS MATCHES rd L. Spencer to Emma F. Thorndike and they attended the Navy Continued from page 1 GEORG will, recorded Aug. 3. Ball at the Swimming Club. F. Smith to Alta E. Frisbee Third Round, Men's Singles Real Estate and Ins vill, recorded August 3. In the third round of the men's singles, COSTUME BALL IS New York Office, Ca: A. Young to Sprague Cousins, H. B. Shaw defeated H. Vonhemert, MOST SUCCESSFUL mit-claim deed. recorded 6-0. 6-5: W. A. Lawrence defeated R. M. Continued 1 The DeWitt Clinton Falls referee: Col. Double your money in two .1. W. Kilbreth Dr. Louis Lehr, Robert Stafford: Fluton : Redman. time-keepers 1 nless you buy now you will F. C. DeVeau. starter: 1. : Jude think of it! I sold this land only to announcer: A. F. Sherman clerkoff $80,000. We know this to our course. SUPT. DORR HOST TO THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB We Have Some Rar Supt. George B. Borr of Lafayette National Park entertained the member Summer Homes of the Class who the Record section now at Mehr Lavio for the fortnight at Prior's Island I'm One of the largest and best locate Wednesday The affair took the form wold with the purchaser will of a delightul provide The parts made lden Hall on the Short Path the trip by motor and motor boat - their camp at Echo Lake and WI. unnatural. mist the place for a small every detail one of the most successful Product than cost of furnishing of the tripson calendar there Mare Vista a muel better how 60 were present The special greate . honor were Dr. and Mrs Allen of P.12 out in good condition Price only Mrs. Allen was Miss Laura Kelsey who and funishings. They greatest barg has been here the past four seasons with One of the finest cottages on in the camp. Dr and Mr. Allen Were married in July Lanch i friditonable residence at a fair price at the beautiful log cabin which part Another good Collage on Eden S of the fine gift of the island and Soxiy five actus of land with low buildings to the National Park from Mrs. John B. Pine and Mrs James W made near this property. Pryor. Seventy-four aeres on Bartlett farme Mount Desert Island. Old PFLAPPER-VAMP NEW property TYPE FOR PICTURES Don't forget about DeGregoire anson "Any man over 30 years old can Your can buy lots here for less 1 understand the Happer vamp. declares Plans for a Casino are being ma Constance Talmadge The flapper vamp. by the way, 11 the Vhree best business lots. latest characterization in Hollywood Five small houses. film circles. Constance has introduced FOLLY her to the sepeen in her latent First Three and one-half acres on Edi National comedy. "Learning to Love In this fun film, the star as is pretty sub-deb. tries out her wilen on men from SEE US BEFORE Y ADOLPH ZUKOR JESSE L LASKY 16 to 40. She "fapper-vamps" them all. But am she programm from one sweet. heart to another in the age male, her troubles multiply. W. H. Sher ENINGS 7 and 9 She finds that only the youth of 20 can understand the feminine machina- tions of the flapper-vamp of 20, while the man-about-town in inclined to Real Estate and is 25c and 50c "misunderstand." And of course such misunderstandings lead to trouble. 9 COTTAGE STREET The comedy was written for Joseph M. Schenck Productions by John Emerson and Anita Loos. It will be shown at the Star theatre next Wednesday. Antonio Moreno is Constance's leading man.-Adv. FirstSearch: WorldCat Detailed Record Page 1 of 2 PRINT FirstSearch SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIV WorldCat Detailed Record Click on a checkbox to mark a record to be e-mailed or printed in Marked Records. 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Language: English Contents: Mount Desert: Champlain to Bernard by William Otis Sawtelle. -- Genealogy of Hinckley family.--The King monument of Scarborough.- "School Department".- Editorial comment. SUBJECT(S) Geographic: Mount Desert (Me.) http://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSFETCH?fetchtype=fullrecord:sessionid=sp0ls...: numrecs= 1/9/2004 Pg. lofs, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HUBERT WORK, SECRETARY (1923-28) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (1917-29) STEPHEN T. MATHER. DIRECTOR @ No RULES AND REGULATIONS LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK SIEUR DE MONTS SPRING Open all the Year but that office can not fill mail O. Summer Season June 15 to October 15 WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT DRINTING LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK A HISTORICAL SKETCH Our national parks are areas of superlative scenery which are set apart and maintained by the Federal Government for the The use and enjoyment of the people. They are the people's prop- erty; the Government, the people's agent and trustee. Few as yet in number, but covering an extraordinary range of National Parks Portfolio landscape interest, they have all, with a single exception, been formed by setting aside for park purposes lands already held (FOURTH EDITION) in ownership by the United States and lie in the nationally younger regions of the country to the westward of the Mississippi. The single exception is Lafayette National Park, occupying old French territory on the coast of Maine and created in 1919 from A presentation of the national lands collected during the previous decade and presented to the Bound securely parks and national monu- in cloth Government. The name it bears commemorates the great events ments in picture. The selection is and splendid spirit-the spirit of humanity transcending national One dollar from the best work of many pho- bounds-that marked inspiringly the period of its creation. The tographers, professional and amateur. park is unique as a member of the national system in its contact It contains nine chapters descriptive with the ocean and inclusion of nationally owned coastal waters in each of a national park, and one its recreational territory. larger chapter devoted to other parks Lafayette National Park lies surrounded by the sea, occupying and monuments. 270 pages, includ- as its nucleus and central feature the bold range of the Mount Desert ing 310 illustrations. Mountains, whose ancient uplift, worn by immeasurable time and recent ice erosion, remains to form the largest rock-built island Sent postpaid, upon receipt of price in cash or money order, by the Superintendent on our Atlantic coast; " I'Isle des Monts deserts," as Champlain of Documents, Government Printing Office, named it, with the keen descriptive sense of the early French ex- Washington, D. C. plorers. The coast of Maine, like every other boldly beautiful coast region in the world whose origin is nonvolcanic, has been formed by the II flooding of an old and water-worn land surface, which has turned its heights into islands and headlands, its stream courses into arms and reaches of the sea, its broader valleys into bays and gulfs. The Gulf of Maine itself is such an ancient valley, the deep-cut outlet of whose gathered waters may still be traced by soundings between Georges Bank and Nova Scotia, and whose broken and strangely indented coast, 2,500 miles in length from Portland to St. Croix- a straight line distance of less than 200 miles-is simply an ocean- drawn contour line marked on its once bordering upland. 1 4 LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK 5 in the "great harbor of Mount Desert," just off the present town ment's present title to its park lands spring. History is written of Southwest Harbor, which he laid out with his surveyors; he into its deeds. explored the island, noting its fine timber, its water power for During the first half of the nineteenth century Mount Desert Island sawmills, its good harbors, its abundance of wild meadow grass still remained remote and inaccessible, except to coasting vessels, but "high as a man," and of wild peas "-beach peas, perhaps-for fishing hamlets gradually sprang up along its shore, the giant pines fodder, and its wealth of fish in the sea. He had himself rowed whose slowly rotting stumps one comes upon to-day among the lesser up Somes Sound, a glacial fiord which deeply penetrates the island, trees were cut and shipped away, town government was established, cutting its mountain range in two, and which he calls the river, as in that region other inlets of the sea are called to-day, follow- ing the custom of the early French. And he visited Somes, one odd roads of a rough sort were built, and the island connected with the mainland by a bridge and causeway. Then came steam, and all took on a different aspect. The Boston & Bangor Steamship Line was of the earliest settlers from the Massachusetts shore, then build- established ; a local steamer connected Southwest Harbor with it ing his log cabin at the sound's head where Somesville is to-day, through Eggemoggin Reach and Penobscot Bay, a sail of remarkable and walked across to see a beaver's dam nearby, whose "artificial- beauty; and summer life at Mount Desert began. The first account ness he wonders at. of it we have is contained in a delightful journal kept during a Then came the Revolution. Bernard's stately mansion on the month's stay at Somesville in 1855 by Mr. Charles Tracy, of New shore of Jamaica Pond and his far-off island on the coast of Maine York, the father of Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, sr., who came with him both were confiscated, he taking the King's side and sailing away as a girl, and which is still preserved. The party was large-26 from Boston Harbor while the bells were rung in jubilation. And in all-and filled Somes's Tavern full to overflowing. In it, besides Mount Desert Island, once the property of the Crown of France, Mr. Tracy and his family, were the Rev. Dr. Stone, of Brookline, once of that of England, and twice granted privately, became again Mass., with his family; Frederick Church, the artist, and his sister; the property of Massachusetts. But after the war was over and the and Theodore Winthrop, killed afterward in the Civil War, who Bernard had died in England, his son, John Bernard, petitioned to wrote John Brent, with its once famous description of a horse. They have his father's ownership of the island restored to him, claiming climbed the mountains, tramped through the woods, lost themselves to have been loyal himself to the colony, and a one-half undivided at night-half a dozen of them-and slept by a campfire in the wild; interest in it was given him. Then, shortly after, came the grand- drove over to Bar Harbor, then on to Schooner Head, where they daughter of Cadillac-Marie de Cadillac, as she signed herself-and slept at the old farmhouse, climbing the then nameless " mountain her husband, French refugees of the period, bringing letters from with the cliff that shadowed it at sundown, and drinking by the Lafayette, and petitioned in turn the General Court of Massachusetts pitcherful such milk as New York could not supply; and then, like to grant them her grandfather's possession of the island-asking it Hans Breitman, in climax to their stay they gave a party, importing not as of legal right but on a ground of sentiment, the gratitude of by the boat to Southwest Harbor the first piano the island had ever the colonies to France for assistance given in their- War for Inde- seen and inviting to it the islanders and fisherfolk from far and pendence. And the General Court, honoring their claim, gave them near. It was a great success. They danced, they sang songs, they the other undivided half. Then it sent surveyors down and divided played games, and had a lobster salad such as only millionaires can the island, giving the western portion, including the town of South- have to-day, keeping up their gayety until 2 o'clock in the morning, west Harbor his father had laid out, to John Bernard, who promptly when their last guests-two girls from Bar Harbor who had driven sold it and went out to England and died governor of one of the themselves over for it-hitched up their horse and left for home in West Indies, being also knighted; and the eastern half, where spite of remonstrance and the offer of a bed. Such was the beginning Cadillac once had lived and where Bar Harbor, Seal, and Northeast of Mount Desert social life. Harbors are to-day, to Marie de Cadillac and her husband-M. and Ten years later, when the Civil War had swept over like a storm, Mme. de Gregoire-who came to Hulls Cove, on Frenchmans Bay, summer life began in earnest at Bar Harbor, compelled by the sheer and lived and died there, selling, piece by piece, their lands to beauty of the spot. No steamer came to it till 1868; then, for another settlers. It is from these two grants made by the Commonwealth season, only once a week. No train came nearer than Bangor, 50 of Massachusetts to the granddaughter of Cadillac and the son of miles away, with a rough road between. But still it grew by leaps Bernard, each holding originally by a royal grant, that the Govern- and bounds, overflowing the native cottages and fishermen's huts, sleeping in tents, feeding on fish and doughnuts and the abundant 6 LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK 7 lobster. The native cottages expanded and became hotels, simple, lachian forest which at the landing of De Monts stretched without bare, and rough, but always full. The life was gay and free and a break from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf and is the oldest, by wholly out of doors-boating, climbing, picnicking, buckboarding, the record of the rocks, and richest in existing species of any min- and sitting on the rocks with book or friend. All was open to gled hardwood and coniferous forest in the temperate zone. And wander over or picnic on; the summer visitor possessed the island. it possesses, also, a rich biologic field in the neighboring ocean, the Then lands were bought, summer homes were made, and life of a parent habitat of life. Deeper waters apart, the sea beach and new kind began. tidal pools alone form an infinite source of interest and study, while It was from the impulse of that early summer life that the move- the ocean climate, like the land one, is profoundly different from ment for public reservations and the national park arose, springing that to the southward, off the Cape Cod shore. from memory of its pleasantness and the desire to preserve in largest To take advantage of this opportunity an association has been measure possible the beauty and freedom of the island for the people's formed, incorporated under the name of the Wild Gardens of Acadia, need in years to come. The park, as a park, is still in its beginning. to cooperate with the Government in the development of the educa- When first accepted by the President as a national monument it con- tional and scientific features of the park and its environment. By tained, by estimate, 5,000 acres; now what it contains and what has means of it a marine biological laboratory has been established on been secured in recent years for its extension and the Government's the shore, material has been gathered for a book upon the wild flowers acceptance, taken together, amount fully to three times that acreage, of the park and wild gardens for their exhibition started, entomolog- and stretch across Somes Sound to include the western peaks and a ical collections have been made, and studies in the bird life and geol- wide frontage on the shore. Its lands have been throughout a gift ogy of the region. Plans are in the making for a museum to house to the Government, coming from many sources, and much personal collections, already made in part, of Indian implements found along, association is linked, closely and inseparably, with its formation. the shore, of maps and early charts and various historical material, It is still growing, and with the contiguous, landlocked ocean waters, of marine and other faunal specimens, and plant herbaria. The beautiful as lakes and nationally owned like it, to extend out onto, park itself is a living natural history museum, a geological and his- there is no limit to the number to whom it may give rest and pleasure toric area explained by the nature guide and lecture service which is in the future, coming from our crowded eastern cities, from which rapidly becoming a feature in our national parks. it is accessible by land or water, rail or motor car. Botanically Lafayette National Park forms an exceedingly inter- esting area. Champlain's term "deserts" in description of the A WILD-LIFE SANCTUARY mountains meant, in accordance with the original significance of the word, "wild and solitary " not "devoid of vegetation." Vege- One important aspect of our national parks and monuments is that they-unlike the forests, devised to follow economic lines-are tation, on the contrary, grows upon the island with exceptional absolute sanctuaries, islands of shelter for the native life in all vigor, and in wide range of form. The native forest must-before but noxious forms. Like the monasteries in the Middle Ages that it was invaded by the axe-have been superb, and superb it will sheltered-all too fragmentarily-the literature and learning of again become under the Government's protection. Wild flowers are the classic period, they are a means of incalculable value for pre- abundant in their season, among them a number of species of con- serving in this destructive time the wealth of forms and species spicuous beauty, because of their loveliness in danger of extermina- we have inherited from the past and have a duty to hand on un- tion until the national park was formed and its lands became a diminished to the future, SO far as that be possible. sanctuary. The rocks, frost split and lichen-clad, with granite In this aspect of a wild-life sanctuary, plant and animal, La- sands between, are of a character that makes the mountain tops, fayette National Park is remarkable. Land and sea, woodland, with their bearberries and blueberries and broad ocean outlook, lake, and mountain all are represented in it in wonderful concen- wild rock gardens of inspiring beauty, while both mountain tops tration. In it, too, the northern and temperate zone floras meet and woods are made accessible by over a hundred miles of trails and overlap, and land climate meets sea climate, each tempering built by successive generations of nature-loving summer visitors. the other. It lies directly in the coast migration route of birds In addition to ocean, rocks, and mountain heights, to woods and and exhibits at its fullest the Acadian forest, made famous by wild flowers, and to trails trodden by the feet of generations, Evangeline, and the northernmost extension of that great Appa- 8 LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK 9 LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK INFORMATION Lafayette National Park has a rich possession in an inexhaustible spring source of pure, delicious water rising-cool and constant- The office of Lafayette National Park is situated at Bar Harbor, from beneath the mountain at the entrance from Bar Harbor, and Me., on the corner of Main Street and Park Road, opposite the made, with its free gift of water to the passing public, a memorial Athletic Field. It is open daily except Sundays from 9 o'clock a. m. to the Sieur de Monts, the founder of Acadia. to 5 o'clock p. m. during the summer season, from June 15 to ROADS October 15; at other seasons, until 4 o'clock. The Bar Harbor Information Bureau immediately adjoins it upon A road of great beauty through the lake district of the park, con- Main Street, and is prepared to furnish visitors with all information necting Bar Harbor with the resorts upon the southern shore, Seal concerning train service and boat service, motor routes, fares, hotels and Northeast Harbors, has been opened to travel. Rising from this, and boarding houses, objects of interest, trails, and excursions, or to another road upon which work has lately been commenced is planned answer correspondence. Maps of Mount Desert Island, issued by to reach the summit of Cadillac Mountain, the highest point in the the United States Geological Survey and literature relating to the park range or on our eastern coast, replacing an early buckboard road park and to the history and natural history of its region may be ob- now washed away. Roads giving entrance to the park upon the tained from the office or the information bureau. northern or Bar Harbor side, with parking space for those who wish The superintendent of the park is George B. Dorr, to whom all to use the mountain trails, are under construction, as is also a system correspondence relating to the park should be addressed. of roads for use with horses which, when complete, will open other and wide sections of the park to a use that will recall the past, HOW TO REACH THE PARK preserving what the motor road has lost. Lafayette National Park may be reached by automobile, by rail- MOTOR TRAVEL road, or by steamship. Visitors coming by rail are taken to Mount No place in the East offers an objective point of greater interest Desert Ferry, at the head of Frenchmans Bay, and thence across for motor travel than Lafayette National Park and its surrounding the bay, an 8-mile sail over beautiful and quiet waters, to Bar Harbor. For the motorist, Mount Desert Island is connected with the main- coast resorts, which provide accommodations for its visitors. This travel is already great, coming from all eastern and central sections land by a recently constructed steel and concrete drawbridge, termi- nus of the Lafayette Highway connecting Bangor on the Atlantic of the country. Opportunity for motor camping is provided in the Highway with Bar Harbor and the National Park. The road is park, and there are excellent stores, repair shops, and garages within excellent. One may also motor to Rockland, at the entrance to easy reach. FISHING Penobscot Bay, and take the sail thence to Bar Harbor or to North- east or Southwest Harbors, with car aboard. Lafayette National Park combines the opportunity for excellent The trip to the park may be made also by sea from Boston, by the fishing in fresh waters, of lake and stream, with that for deep-sea and boats of the Eastern Steamship Line running to Bangor, with coastal fishing in waters identical in life and character with those of change at Rockland. the famous banks which lie offshore from it, across the Gulf of Maine. Power boats, sail boats, canoes, and camping outfits can all be rented, with competent guides. MOTOR AND BOAT TRIPS From the park as center a wide variety of interesting motor trips, along the coast as far as to the Maritime Provinces and inland to Moosehead Lake and Mount Katahdin, can readily be made, and excellent cars for the purpose can be hired by visitors not coming in their own. From it also delightful trips by water can be made over island-sheltered reaches of the sea, extending from Frenchmans Bay to Penobscot Bay and River along the most beautiful section of our Atlantic coast. TIMES AR HARBOR, MAINE, WEDNESDAY; SEPTEMBER 23, 1925 FIVE CENTS A COPY FOR THE WESCOTT LEASES SUPT. DORR LEAVES POSTPONED EDEN RS FRIDAY DAYTONA HOTELS FOR CONFERENCE ats Invite Public Well+Known Bar Harbor Hotel Man Will Represent Lafayette at Super- WEEK USUA chers at High Takes Leases of Osceola-Grama intendents Conference) Mesa bilding tan and Prince George at Verde, Colorado Florida Resort Rain Fails to Dampen Enthusi evinced in the Superintendent George B. Dorr of be held at the High Chester A. Wescott of the Newport Lafayette National Park leaves Wednes- ment or Crowds and Thirty riday evening. In Hotel, Bar Harbor, and the Osceola- Gramatan of Daytona, Florida, has just day night, the 23rd, for Boston, on his tween 8 and 9 the Fair Enjoyed by all Fr returned from a week's business trip to way to Mesa Verde National Park, in the High and the Mancos, Colorado, where he will attend Saturday e separate places Florida where he was in conference with ocially, the parents W. V. Lawrence, owner of the Osceola- the conference of superintendents to be held there under the direction of Ste- Gramatan from whom Mr. Wescott Eden Fair, after postponement of two Lorraine oils. At 9 o'clock phen T. Mather, Director of the National has just taken a three-year lease of this days because of rain, took place on Fri- and Mrs. n begins in the affair is being splendid Florida Hotel. Park Service, beginning October and day and Saturday, with the races and the prize. While in Florida, Mr. Lawrence and lasting one week. Mr. Dorr expects to of the High School baby show the outstanding features of The jud be back in Bar Harbor within three interest. and his faculty Mr. Wescott looked at the Prince set for th George, another well-known Daytona weeks from the time of leaving. Supt. There was a very good attendance on loveliest b very large number Dorr will be the only eastern man at will encourage hotel with the Idea of buying it. Mr. both days and the display of fruits, been impos Lawrence has since bought the Prince the big conference. Lafayette National of the students vegetables, canned goods, and fancy weight, siz George and Mr. Wescott has taken a Park is the only eastern representative of work, was excellent. The races drew first social affair to make de the Nation's great system of recreational Principal West lease of that as well as of the Osceola- the usual crowd of veteran horsemen of was, as alw e High school as Gramatan, which, with the Newport areas. Already Washington has re- the Island and there was some hot excite- There W Hotel at Bar Harbor, make three large quested Supt. Dorr to be prepared to ment over the close finishes of the various vers of the faculty farm mach eryone a cordial houses which the Bar Harbor hotel man tell the gathering something about this contests for purses. models and has under lease. absolutely unique area on Mount Desert tion which is for The Friday races were won by Fox attracted a bools of the town Mr. Wescott is most enthusiastic in Island, the only park with sea frontage, Trot, owned by Freddy/ York, in the favorable C the only park which has been the nation's regard to the outlook for Florida this 2.30 class; with Earl Jr/, owned by Asa The poul winter and will leave here the first of wholly by free gift, and the only park Grant, second; and Ruth S., owned by good. The with colonial history. ISTS TO next week to arrange for the early A. W. McKusick, 3d This purse was Sawyer Pc $150. CENTENNIAL opening of the Prince George and later Blacks, Gia DEAN BEEKMAN TALKS TO In the 2.24 class Ambassador owned helopening of the Osceola-Gramatan. worth: Do LEGION AND FRIENDS no of Hancock (Continued on page 4) by E. S. Grindle took first money, with White Plym congregational Madam Arlington owned by Freddy Walter Ki Head of American Church in Paris finisters in York, second: and with Little Wonder, Rocks, hen Week TEACHERS TO MEET Tells of Work of American Le- owned by Chaney Sadler and Nanny White Legh gion in France Silk, owned by Alec Gray, splitting for 1st and 2d: third. Meeting of the HERE TUESDAY rel and pull Dean F. W. Beekman. Departmental The Saturday pacesy were the 2.01 and Congregational Rhode Island Chaplain of the American Legion in the Free-for All. In the 2.21 Double C will be held Sawyer Po timel Church in France, spoke to a group of George owned by Will Pomeroy, took first and Hancock County Association Con- Black Leg! Edwin Kirk Post members and a few Madam Arlington 2d with Little Won- day and Wednes Black Mis vention in Bar Harbor, State The Can friends at the Legion Post headquarters der and Service Flag, the latter owned Rhode Island Sup't. Thomas Coming on Sunday evening. The meeting was by Alec Gray, splitting for third. 1. J. Mek. arranged for by Mrs. A. Murray Young, In the Free-for-All, E. S. Grindle's chicks. Geor The Hancock County Teachers Miss F. M. Cottenet and Miss MacCul- Tena Lakeview won 1st and Am Geese, C. will be held in Bar Harbor loch Miller and it was one which takes bassado owned by Mr. Grindle King. 1st: whool building on Tuesday its place among the most interesting also took second. with Will Harrington's Reginald Kin the September 29. beginning at 9.30 in the gatherings that have ever taken place Prince Dell in third place. The new fareton and closing in the afternoon at Kirk Post headquarters. The dean There were three classes in the Baby herd of five Dr. Augustus O. Thomas, State Con- was introduced by Commander Norman Show and Christine Lorraine Thompson. were four missime of Education at Augusta, will Shaw of Kirk Post. A feature of great daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shirley follows: willi principal speaker. Chief Ranger interest. too, was the presentation by Thompson took the first prize in the Russell. 2d: Benjamin 1. Hillley of Lafayette Na- Miss Miller of a silver heart. a French Class A. habjus, 3 months to 6 months Rain and tional Park will tell the teachers about votive offering, from Dr. Robert Abbe, In Class B. 7 to 10 months, Harriet Downs. Charl the only eastern representative of the a beloved member of the Post. This was Hodgkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. winner on th nation's great recreational areas. a gift to the Doctor from a friend who Dallas Hodgkins, took the prize. shire Downs Bar The is as follows: In Class 10 months to 13 months, MINUTES OF THE EIGHTH NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE HELD IN NES. VERDE NATION L P.RK. COLORADO OCTOBER 1, TO 5, 1925, INCLUSIVE 8/30/2021 mesa verde national park 1925 & superintendent conference - Google Search G.B.D. December 28 Somerset Club, Boston. 1925 Dear as Abbe. I/m splm did may reached you here / as the best of gifts on huar them It ust only 4 a pleasure behicle study but with be indicd most valuable in illustration 2. of the Parkin Sland's as a sea- Coast temiling- and it tills the Story of its his- tone N discount Do that he who hour may read It Value Can of have, for for nothe Can replace it, Do problem Thank in you Stept Rue Harbo the natural History 1925? St. Anseln's llicro. NOTES 653 veridgii, which in pace. or t of the he adult perhaps hage we S is this ted area African, it a cer- platelike resemble corres- dulis or ation of hes the it repre- n inter- escribed udo. meridgii. \\ ( shape. is more ret here Picturesque rock formation in the tidal zone just below the Harpswell Laboratory. Formations of this kind are char acteristic of Mount Desert Island cly flat. rs of the that wedge themselves into the crevices of rocks ity of the Wild Gardens of Arcadia Association, the have they inhabit by inflating the body in much the of which Mr. George B. Dorr is president. The petology same way. coasts of the island are bold and rocky, with supplied here and there typical examples of sandy beach overidge. LOWER INVERTEBR.VTES or mud flat. Huge caverns, carved by wave d. One action. overarch sea pools where at low tide stage. in MR. Ros W. MINER, associate curator of may be seen displayed beautifully tinted sea ion; the lower invertebrates, spent part of the month of anemones, sponges. corallines, and other marine bird. the September on Mt. Desert Island, where he invertebrates in great abundance. The new inches in visited the newly established Weir Mitchell laboratory, situated at Salisbury Cove village Station of the Harpswell Laboratory. Through on the northern shore of the island, about six ne pecu:- the courtesy of the director. Prof. Ulric Dahl- miles from Bar Harbor. stands on a picturesque .ny, does gren. and other members of the laboratory staff. promontory between two sheltered coves. The iy should Mr. Miner was enabled to examine the possi- tide rises here a distance of twelve feet. The hich one bilities of the island as a site for future studies animal and plant life is profuse. not only in the value in of the marine invertebrates characteristic of shallow waters but in the deeper channels which soft parts the rocky coast. from the viewpoints of exhibi- run close to the shore in many places, affording enemies tion work and scientific, ecological investigations. unusual opportunities for dredging. The flora of IS to be Mt. Desert Island is unusually diversified for the island is as di-tinctive as the fauna, boreal den. the an island of its size. Though only about fifteen forms growing side by side with plants character- id stones miles long and twelve miles wide, it possesses istic of more southern climes. The alpine its. The eight mountain peaks from 1000 to 1500 feet Empetrum, generally found at high altitudes, 1. sandy. in height. and many others of smaller elevation. here grows just above the tide limit. iny kind. There are several beautiful mountain lakes and During his stay Mr Miner made collections 10 turtle the only typical "Norwegian" fiord on the at ten different points in ten days, and took it has the American coast. The latter extends ten miles many photographs. He then visited the Marine ering the into the body of the island. The mountainous Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, where he its lungs parts of the island are largely comprised within was joined by Mr. W. 11. Southwick, the artist trate into the limits of the new Mt. Desert National Park, of his modeling staff. and with the cooperation om which obtained for the government through the activ- of the laboratory officials, obtained additional There uromalus, 926 [First] Chief Rangers' Conference, 1926. Back row, L-R: Chief Clerk R. M. Holmes (now Assistant Personnel Officer); Acting Superintendent Walter Ruesch of Zion (now Foreman, Maintenance and Construction, at Zion); Ranger Z. N. Marcott of Pinnacles National Monument (now out of the Service); Chief Ranger B. L. Hadley of Lafayette (now Assistant Superintendent of Acadia); Acting Chief Ranger L. W. Collins of Lassen Volcanic (now out of the Serv- ice); Acting Chief Ranger R. P. Welles of Crater Lake (now out of the Service) Chief Ranger F. S. Townsley of Yosemite (now in same position) Chief Park Naturalist A. F. Hall (now General Manager of the Mesa Verde Company) ; and Chief Ranger M. S. Decker of General Grant (deceased). Front Row, L-R: Ranger R. B. Clapp of Sequoia (now out of the Service); Chief Ranger H. G. Barnett of Mount Rainier (still there): Chief Ranger E. T. Scoyen of Grand Canyon (now Superintendent of Sequoia) ; Chief Ranger S. T. Woodring of Yellowstone (deceased); Superintendent John R. White of Sequoia (now Chief of Operations); Chief Ranger Guy Hopping of Sequoia (now Super- intendent of General Grant) ; Assistant Superintendent T. J. Allen, Jr. , of Rocky Mountain (now Regional Director, Region II); Chief Ranger F. L. Carter of Glacier (now out of the Service). Not shown are Custodian Hawkins of Pinnacles National Monument, Ranger Lloyd of Yosemite, Chief Landscape Engineer Hull, Supervisor Cunningham of Sequoia National Forest, and Emanuel Fritz, Instructor in Forestry, University of California. Woodring was Chairman of the Conference, and Scoyen the Secretary. The photograph was taken by James V. Lloyd, at the time a Ranger in Yosemite and now Acting Superintendent of Grand Canyon. -11- * Seguola National fark, Jan. 15-19,1926. Page lof5 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT February 5, 1926. Mr. George B.Dorr, Comerset Club, Boston, Mass. Dear Mr. Dorr: Tr. Hadley upon his return told me that it was your desire that I take over the accounts at the Park office. This I shell be glad to do assuming of course that my suggestions will have sufficient weight to keep the expenditures within the various classifications. I have, therefore, given then quite a study since he returned and have gone over the matters with Mr. Hadley and r Dow. hen Towack male up the statement 01 the outstanding obligations against the Park on December 31st, he did not know that ir. Hadley had become responsible for and paid various bills amounting to $727.00. He did know that Mr. Hadley had taken care of some of the accounts but dia not but know/that it was done out of Park money, and because it. Hadley was away we thought it best to say nothing about it until we could get into communication with Mr. Madley. This amount added to the statement he gave you would bring DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT -2- the total to 31986.01. Since that time the outstanding obligations instead of being reduced have been increased EO that they now amount to $2324 25. Some of these items cannot be vouchered, having been stending so long. The total allotment available for the Park up to April 1st was $26,580. There had been expended up to February 1st, $22,286.07 leaving a balance available for the various expenses to April 1st of ¥4293. 93. Out of this smount the administration payroll is 1946.74; the laboror's payroll is $1200.00; the rant, gasoline, tele- phone and lights bring the total to April 1st to $3765.99, leaving a balance of 3527.94 to pay the outstanding obliga- tions of 3224. 25. I do not see how WG can let any 01 the laborers go. They are men that must be had in the Spring I plan on tying up all the cars except the one to haul the logs for the lumber. By this method I am in hopes to save $200. on gasoline bills. Douglass' is to devote his time to over- hauling the machinery for the `Countain Road. His payroll has not been included in the above figures because it is to DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT -3- be pasd out of the Mountain Road appropriation. I plan on living direction that no supplies or pur- chases of any sort shnll be made except the supplies nec- essary to put the Mountain apparatos in condition, your car having already been put in condition. iven with this we can pay no more than 800. or (900. on the $2324.25. There will be the special fund paid to Mr. Dow as before but this and will be very small, not over $300. or 3350. The next quarterly allotient will be $6430. plus $500. for some item I did not quite understand, making the total 6930. It will take all of this allotment to pay the usual edministration expenses and such necessities as are absolutely required. so far as I can see from April 1st until July 1st no extra mon can be hired in any capacity whatever and no new work undertaken. Before the beginning of the fiscal year you and I in consultation with Mr. Dow should moice an out- line 01 work that will onable us to keep the allotmont for the first quarter to as low an expenditure as possible so that we may avoid any future difficultios such as we are now facing DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT The only other saving that I can 800 is in Derems Rodick's salary. He is paid $50.00 a month. His work is so necessary that I think it would be unwice to discontinue it. If anything should happen to me he i.B the only one who knows where the papers are and the records, titles, etc relating to the Park. The Department has also reported approving the deeds of the White Lot, the Ogden Lot at Otter Creek, land west of Ragle Take and the damp Lot. We have been working on the Camp Lot but the title to the other lots must be done and will take 8 long time. For the next two months I can personally pay his salary, thus a saving of $100. The only thing that I can see to do is to pay what we can now, and let the remainder of the payments wait until after the first of April, and possibly some of them after the first of July, when the new allotment odines into force. If this is allowable and can Le done the expenditures, the emloyment of labor, the handling of the funds, and the accounts will have to be carefully considered in order to save out 01 the ellotments enough to carry the work through for the next yoar without being in a worse position than we now are. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT -5- If there was some way that this $2324.25 could be paid and we then live up to a hard and fast rule to keep within the allotments and within the classifications it would be a pleasure to look after the accounts. I am writing this now in order that you may have the fullest information. In the consultation with Mr. Hadley and Mr. Dow we could see no other solution. We are to consider the matter and meet again tomorrow or next day. If the above is acce stable and my suggestions will have weight I feel quite confident that we can get everything straightened out before April 1st, other than Hadley's expensitures which should be disposed of early in the sumer. Yours very truly, [A.H.Lynam?] P.S. In addition to the above there has been ordered tires and tubes amounting to $368.26. This bill is not yet due, the tires and tipes have not been received. More than half of the bill will be paid the Mountain payroll, the material being for the Mountain machinery. Form 1206A CLASS OF SERVICE DESIRED Telegram WESTERN UNION Receiver's No. Day Letter WESTERNUNION Check Night Message Night Letter Patrons should mark an X oppo- TEL ECRAM Time Fifed site the class of service desired: OTHERWISE THE MESSAGE WILL BE TRANSMITTED AS A FULL-RATE TELEGRAM NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. E. ATKINS, FIRST VICE-PREBIDENT Send the following message, subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to Bar arbor, Maine. Feb. 10,1926. Mr. George B. Dorr, The University Club 2 West 54th Street, New York City. No answer to letter of fifth about accounts Shall I proceed as outlined. Page ( of 4. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT February 16,1926. Mr. George B. Dorr The University Club, Fifth Ave. and 54th St. New York City. Dear Tr. Dorr:- I ara pleased to get your letter of February 13th. It is good to know that you approve our calculations. I will at once get in touch with Mr. Kuiley and Mr. now and ascertain what can be done for Arthur Hadley. I do not see how Ur. Ben Hadley can curry out his plan with reference to Graffum. The accounts for the noxt your will not allow it paperial 18 1 C is possible some additional clorion1 help night be necessary for assistance to both Hadley and Nownel in caue of rush or in case Hadley is away. To thought perhaps three months night be S ficient. I have gone over the classification 01 the appro- pristion for the next year showing the amount that can be spent on each project. This classification, the long shoot, BOOS in black ink the vario 8 overhead expenses which seen to be I boolutely necessary. The rod DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT -2 ink shows the balance available, viz. 2,000. more can be spent on the Auto Camp Ground. 1500. for the purchase of equipment. 100. for Insect control. 200. for the repairs of buildings. The remaining balances are available only for their various hoadings. You will 800 by this list that I have as o Mr. Rodick's amount C800, 200. more than usual to reimburse no for what will pay him for the next two months. The travel item of 400. will probably not be suffi- oient and some of the other balances will have to be need. The item of gasoline 21950. will probally be largor us a great deal of graveling will lie done on the road be- tween the Harden Farm Rond and the Otter Creek Hond and the approach road to `ewport Mountain. Otherwise this item should this year be materially reduced. You will notice that I have added 535. for the labor of an extra man which may be necessary. It will be Been that we must do the best we can to keep the expenses down. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT -3 We have also prepared clastifigstion showing the amount necessary for enuh quarter. The unexpended amount available being the DE BLOWN 011 the long clancification sheet. Figuring on the basis of 33,900. to which has been added the available balances and the additional 200. to bring the appropriation up to $34,000. the amount necesuary for asch quirter le as follows: the first quarter we will need $11,335.75. For the second 9,103.25. For the third, $6,485.25, and for the to rth, €6,316.25 1. review a two por cent reserve in Warrington of 680. and retirement deduction of $79.50. T. Dow to have efficiently should have the selection of xill men employed on the Mountain Road as he des on the ,Automobile Road. le have put upon the Mountain Road all that it will stand. As to the expense of this Mountain Road and the Approah Road we are preparing similar cost sheets to the other mountain rouds In order that we may figure the number of aen that can be employed and the tine when the money will DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT and be exhausted as well as the amount of work that can be completed. These statements we will forward to you as soon as may be. Yours very truly, [A.H.Lynam] Page I of 3. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT February 16,1926. Mr. George B. Dorr, The University Club, Fifth Avenue 3 54th St. New York City. Dear Mr. Dorr: Dow has given the matter of the Mountain Road very careful consideration and has consulted me about it. to find that there has been contracted, which should be charged to roads and trails, including necessary material for repairs to apparatus and gasolino, etc, $3,605.50. We need to purchase one ton of drill stool, coal, tools, etc. amounting to 01,600. and if we got the 301 ressor, that and the necessary drills will be approximately $3,700. making a total of $8,905.50. The balance available under the original appropriation is $12,046.39, under the New appropriation $25,000. making a total of 137, 046.39, de- d eting the above items of $8,905.50 leaves a balance avail- able for roads and trails of $28,140.89 If we get the new compressor the daily payroll for the Toun nin Road which we have designated "Rond To. 1" will be 117.00 and for 10. 2, which is the Approach DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT -2 Road to Newport Mountain, 338.00. The payrollSfor these two roads are the shallest that can ie worked to advantage. For Road No. 1 we have figured on the following:- One Coronan: two tractor drivers; one comp esnor man, handling both compressors; one blacksmith; two truck drivers; one blaster; a time- keeper who should do additional work as may DO found for him; four drillers and thirteen common laborers. For Road No. 2 -two truck drivers; one tractor driver; one compressor man for a short time; and five common laborers. The above work on Road No. 1 will make stondy work from the time work can be economically begun to about the first of December. The amount estimated on 8. basis of the work on the Automobile Road to complete Section A which is the first 2,000 feet of the Mountain Road is 3,500. The amount estimated on the same basis to complete Section B the second 2,000 feet is $18,000, making a total of $21,500. or a balance of $6,640.89. The above estimates do not DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT -3 include coping or gravel and the estinctes are made very close, the cost will probably overrun. Setting aside 4,140.89 for Road No. in which probably will shape the road up, gravel it, and put it in a fair condition for ULT, other than putting it in a Park -like condition, leaves a balance of 2,500. to be used on either road as necessity may require. to are enclosing a COPY of the estámates in detail for completion of Section A and also of Dection 3. Yours very truly, [A.H.Lynem] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT May 18, 1926. Professor II. L. Fernald, Gray Herbarium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Dear Professor Fernald: I have just returned to Bar Harbor and found your kind enclosure of two publications telling of the Gray Herbarium Empedition to Nova Scotia and of the persistence of plants in un- glaciated areas. Accept my most cordial thanks and believe me Yours vincersly, 82-0 George R. Wor GEORGE A. RUST EARL W. TAYLOR PRESIDENT RECORDING SECRETARY CHARLES A. NEWHALL MARGARET W. THACHER VICE PRESIDENT MOUNTAIN CORRESPONDING SECRETARY HENRY R. BUCK WILLIAM O. WITHERELL VICE PRESIDENT TREASURER FIVE JOY STREET BOSTON, MASS. At a regular meeting of the Council of the Appalachian Mountain Club held June 8, 1926 at 4.00 P. M., , with quorum present, the following vote was passed: "That the President, George A. Rust, be and hereby is authorized to execute in the name and behalf of the Appalachian Mountain Club a lease from the Wild Gardens of Acadia to said Club of certain premises in the Town of Mt. Desert in the State of Maine containing approximately ten acres more or less and lying between Echo Lake and the highway running from Southwest Harbor to Bar Harbor, for the term of ten years; and said lease may contain such other terms and provisions and be subject to such conditions as said President shall deem wise, and his execution of said lease shall be deemed a sufficient determination thereof, and that the Recording Secretary, William P. Dickey, be and hereby is authorized to attest said lease and affix the corporate seal thereto.' Attest: Earl w Taylor Recording Secretary, 1927. This is to certify that at the annual election of the Appalachian Mountain Club held January 12, 1927, Earl W. Taylor was elected Recording Secretary to succeed William P. Dickey. Attest: Earl way lor [3] for example, we forget the eminent musical name and see only the struggling boy, writing his masterpieces for a pittance, appearing on the concert stage ere he had reached his teens, and filling an untimely and unmarked grave. The life-stories begin with Palestrina, now little more than a name to many, yet an Italian prince of music in his day, and include Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Haydn, Rossini, Glinka, and others. The chapter on Wagner illustrates forcibly the fallacy and prejudice of contemporary judg- ment. Chapters not in the earlier edition are devoted to Verdi, Tchaikowsky, Franck, Gounod, Saint-Saens, Rubin- stein, Brahms, Grieg, Debussy, Dvorak, MacDowell, and finally Puccini, whose recent death saddened the musical world. The stories are enlivened by a vein of humor, pathos, and wit by turns. They succeed in presenting very human portraits of men who are too often viewed only as musical- traditions." DORR: The Class well remembers Dorr's interest in, and devotion to, Lafayette National Park, which he founded in 1916, and to which he since has given much of his time. In, 1925 he gave an additional tract of land, on Mt. Desert Island, acquired by his father in 1868 and 1872, to be in- corporated in the Park. This added land gives free access from the public road, known ás the Schooner Head road, to the Champlain Mountain section of the Park. + JOHN WHEELOCK ELLIOT JOHN WHEELOCK ELLIOT died at his summer home in Needham, Massachusetts, September 17, 1925, three weeks before his seventy-third birthday. After leaving the Harvard Medical School in 1877, he had the good fortune to be a surgical house officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital when the surgical staff in- cluded Dr. Samuel Cabot, Dr. Henry J. Bigelow, Dr. Richard M. Hodges, Dr. Charles B. Porter and Dr. J., UNIVERSITY OF MAINE BIOLOGICAL STATION Program for the Summer of 1926 Staff of Instructors C.C. Little, S. D. University of Michigan Director C.F. Batchelder, Ph. D., U. of Maine Assistant Director E. Bartlett, Ph. 6., Wellesley In charge of Botany D.-F. Twitchell, M. A. U. of Maine Assistant in Zoology A.M. Cloudman, MES., U. of Maine Assistant in Zoology E.G. Twitchell, A.B., U. of Maine Assistant in Botany The work of the Station will be divided under three headings. ( a) Research - Dealing especially with the factors influencing the migration of certain insects (identified and trapped by especially devised methods) and with the factors involved in the distribution and life history of fresh water fish. Opportunity will also be given to anyone interested in botany or zoology to carry on special work at the Laboratories at low expense. L This especially applies to summer residents who have been engaged in study of local plant or animal life. (b) Field trips conducted for summer residents within a convenient radius of Seal Harbor. Collection of some type of plant or animal life will be encouraged for younger members of these classes. These trips will be held weekly under supervision of members of the staff. (c) Lectures - A course of evening lectures will obe conducted at Seal Harbor for those interested. They will probably be given by Dr. Little and will deal with certain of the broader phases of biology in relation to human behavior. DEPARTMENTOR DEPARTMENTOR U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Office of Information Press Service Release - Immediate. July 2, 1926. FRANK BOND GOES TO BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 1907 1926 Frank Bond, chief clerk of the General Land Office of the Department of the Interior for the past nineteen years, has been trans- ferred to the Bureau of Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture, ef- fective June 29. He will make special investigations of Federal lands in con- nection with the establishment of the Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge. Mr. Bond's long experience and service in the General Land Office have given him exceptional qualifications for this work, and in addition he is well known as an ornithologist and has long been interested in the conservation of the wild life of the country. As an official of the Biological Survey he will represent the Department of Agriculture on the United States Geographic Board, of which he has been chairman since the resignation of Dr. C. Hart Merriam, former chief of the Biological Survey: Mr. Bond began his government career in 1882 as a surveyor in Wyoming, and for a short time after coming to Washington served under the Department of Agriculture in connection with drainage investi- gations. # # # 7-27 Pg. 1 of3 NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OUTDOOR RECREATION THE PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2034 NAVY BUILDING HON. DWIGHT F. DAVIS, CHAIRMAN TELEPHONE MAIN 2520, BRANCH 213 CHAUNCEY J. HAMLIN, CHAIRMAN SECRETARY OF WAR WASHINGTON, D.C. VERNON KELLOGG, VICE-CHAIRMAN JOHN C. MERRIAM, VICE-CHAIRMAN HON. HUBERT WORK GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL. HONORARY SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR ARTHUR RINGLAND VICE-CHAIRMAN EXECUTIVE SECRETARY THEODORE ROOSEVELT. HONORARY HON. W. M. JARDINE VICE-CHAIRMAN SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE GEORGE SHIRAS, 3D. TREASURER RODNEY L. GLISAN HON. HERBERT HOOVER H.H. GRAVES SECRETARY OF COMMERCE MRS. HERBERT HOOVER GUSTAVUS T. KIRBY HON. JAMES J. DAVIS C. MILLAR BARRINGTON MOORE SECRETARY OF LABOR FRANK B. OASTLER, M.D. July 12, 1926 JOHN BARTON PAYNE HON. HANFORD MACNIDER, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY GEORGE E. SCOTT ASSISTANTSECRETARY OF WAR CHARLES SHELDON MRS. JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN FREDERIC C. WALCOTT TOM WALLACE HENRY BALDWIN WARD WILLIAM A. WELCH My dear Mr. Eliot: The National Conference on Outdoor Recreation had, as you know, for its main objective the coordination of the efforts of the various organizations interested in this problem the country over. Not only that but we felt that through the general interchange of ideas a broader and more practical program would be fostered among all. The National Conference has done much, but there are very definite limits to the action it can take, because necessarily its contacts are mainly national, while most of the practical outdoor recreation work must be done through the states. In this connection I am going to ask you to read a memorandum and chart issued by the Conference. It brings out the very evident conc- lusion that the way to extend our usefulness towards developing a practical program is to organize and develop state conferences. Each state government is to a certain extent merely the national government on a smaller scale. Paralleling this, I believe there should be organized state outdoor recrea- tion conferences patterned on the national. The benefits are self-evident. By such conferences we would get - (a) more direct action on local and state problems; (b) a very much more effective weanon when nation-wide action is necessary, - for senators and congressmen will listen to the opinions of those in their district when they will pay no attention to the actions of a national body; (c) intelligent cooperation with the state, which it is now very difficult to develop merely through national contact; (d) a much more effective education in the ideals and aims of the movement, which could be handled through the state committees. The Conference's original plan of coordination through the various governors has only been partially successful. In the final analysis, the governors' committees correspond to the President's Committee on Outdoor Recreation. It must be our work to furnish in the states a body that corresponds to the National Executive Committee. We won't get satisfactory action in the vast majority of states as long as we depend purely on the political officers of the states, for they will 2. Mr. Charles Eliot, 3d, #2 change from year to year, and whereas one may be favorable, his successor may not. We must have the other, and to my mind more important half of our scheme, - an independent civilian body prepared to represent matters to the state officials and back up their representations. Chauncey J. Hamlin, at the last Executive Committee meeting, asked me to accept the chairmanship of a committee with this idea in view. What we are looking for now is key men in the various states to handle the matter. Like everything else in the world, it is largely one man's work, at least in its initial stages. If you think the idea is sound, will you undertake it in your state? As I see It, this would necessitate getting in touch with those organizations interested in our problem. They could be, where they had representation in the state, members of the National Conference. They should, in addition, however, include organizations which were not touched in the National Conference because they were state organizations, - such as state park associations, state conservation associations, etc. My suggestion would be when you call your conference to have it composed in general of the leading outdoor organizations in the state, all state and federal officials in charge of departments interested in the outdoor field, and all affiliated interests that you feel can properly be included. From there you could proceed to organize much along the way the National Conference did. Out of the permanent organization should be developed a number of standing committees representing each phase of outdoor life and the common interests of the state and the various state organizations, as well as policies and programs of national application where federal action is necessary. The chairmen of these standing committees should make up the executive committee, and represent the state conference as a whole. This executive committee can work with the state officials and the governor's committee in much the same manner that our Executive Committee works with the President's Committee. It can cooperate with the corresponding executive committees in the neighbor- ing states and with the National Executive Committee. in organization of this sort is in accord with our government, - namely, the individual states and the federal government, and therefore, I am sure will be most effective. The National Committee desiring to dramatize the whole recreation movement and the conservation of our outdoor resources, is considering holding the next National Conference on Outdoor Recreation in Chicago next spring. A number of the big national organizations have agreed to hold their national conferences at the same time and at the same place, the idea being to gather from all parts of the country the greatest number possible of those really interested in this problem. In addition, and for the same purpose, there would be held at the same time a great national outdoor show. At this Conference, we should have an ideal opportunity to perfect and coordinate the various state conferences that grow ag in the meantime. I know it is asking a great deal to suggest that you take the matter up in your state as temporary chairman, but I do think the work is very well 3 Mr. Charles Eliot, 3d, #3 worth while, and I am sure that we never can realize our full powers for use- fulness until the movement is organized from the ground up. Merely incidentally, I don't see why a state organization need cost more than a very small amount of money. Its headquarters could be in the offices of some one of the interested organizations. Stenographic work would pretty nearly comprise all that had to be done other than the committee reports, meetings, etc. Won't you please write me and tell me just what you think of this plan in detail, and, if you think it sound, whether you will be willing to take it up? Believe me, Yours very truly, [Theodore Roosevelt TII] Mr. Charles Eliot 3d. 9 Park Street, Boston, Massachusetts TR/meh MOUNTAINS MEET SEA IN LAFAYETTE PARK By ALFRED ELDEN New York Times (1857-Current) file), Jul 18, 1926; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 2003) pg. SM10 MOUNTAINS MEET SEA IN LAFAYETTE PARK Forests, Hills and Lakes Charm Visi- tors in the Nation's Playground on Mount Desert Island key to the park's entire treasure ing is permitted in the park's water- chest of beauties for Cadillac is the ways In accordance with State laws. highest peak of all the twenty-odd Down the slope of Penobscot. in a mountains of the eastern and west. fertile valley. lie the Hadlock Ponds, ern ranges, lifting its proud head and west and north of them are 1,532 feet above sea lavel. Norembega and Parkman Mountains, The nucleus and dominating fea. ture of Lafayette is this bold, sea- which rise abruptly nearly a thou- fronting range of granite mountains sand feet and form the easterly wall that brought to Mount Desert Island of famous Somes Sound, the only its name and its fame. From their true glacial flord we have on our summits what a vista of sea and North Atlantic coast. The villages shore! This is a sunken coast, a of Northeast Harbor and Northwest drowned coast, as the geologista term Harbor guard the approach from the it. rich in bays and islands formed sea. Entrance to this remarkable by the flooding of the ancient sur- estuary Is through a deep channel face. known as the Narrows, It almost Most easterly of the mountains splits Mount Desert Island in two. of the island chain is Champlain. stretching inland seven miles. with an altitude of 1,060 feet, and Flanked on the east by Norembega two connecting elevations, Huguenot and Parkman and on the west by Eagle Lake, Lying Within Lafayette Park. By ALFRED ELDEN the Arctic to that of Florida. Here. bor, close by the famed Sieur de ATE afternoon of a golden Sep- too, is highly romantic history in- Monts Spring. but elsewhere the L tember day in 1604. An open volving dramatic incidents in the reservation may be entered afoot vessel. lateen salls occasion- struggles of two great nations from the encircling highways which ally wrinkling in the dimin- France and England, before the birth define Its boundarles, or by motor of our own. over already completed roads and for ishing breeze, forges slowly through Hard gravel motor roads make the some distance over those still in con- the darkening waters of French- wonders of this region easily acces- struction. man's Bay. Bearded men gazing sible. While one may marvel at the awesomely at the towering heights of Shady Woodland Parks magnificent Summer mansions along the Mount Desert Mountain range. these broad boulevards, there still re- In addition to the motor and car- One of them. a dominant figure, the main the humbler homes of farmer riage roads there are nearly 300 French navigator. Samuel de Cham- and fisherman. The highways wind miles of trails, well defined. caim plain. extending outstretched arms through thick forests and skirt marked and trodden by the feet of toward the shore. exclaims: "L'Isle towering cliffs, wave-washed at their generations. Shady woodland paths des Monts Deserts. or "The Island bases They pass over broad moors through the gorges and along the of the Wild and Solttary Moun- and close to the shores of fresh water mountain bases are now being built tains. Thus the christening. takes and inlets of the ocean. The to connect them. It is easy to believe that the early visitor is always aware of the gran- A magnificently planned highway explorer's emotions as he approached deur both of mountain and of sea. four miles in length makes its sin- this new land from the sea were The balsam breath of the conifers uous way toward the summit of those of mingled awe and admira- mingles with the salty tang from the Mount Cadillac: at no point along tion. These mountains are beautiful, sparkling Atlantic its route will a grade of more than ever changing their groupings as a The one formal entrance to the 6 per cent. be met. This road will vessel nears. and their colorings with park is two miles south of Bar Har- bring within easy reach the master the moods of sun and atmosphere. At times they are faintly blue: again dark and positive. Beneath the vagaries of an alternately clear and cloudy sky they pass in a twinkling from umber silhouette to marvel- ously modeled relief. As Champlain Saw Them When the lengthening shadows of a dying day reveal their contours one may identify Heventeen of the twenty-one summits in the range. Against the setting sun they are fairyland. It was at such a moment that Champlain first looked upon them. Although be could not have foreseen it. coming events were then casting their shadows before as be drifted slowly past the lofty cliffs of Schooner Head. A chapter of American history began there sixleen years before the An Alluring Woodland Path coming of the Pilgrim Fathers to Cape Cod. And now. on the lovely Head and the Beehive A deep and spot that Champlain discovered, the the lofty bulk of st. SRUVEUR and Lafayette National Park has been narrow pass enclosing a tiny spring. Acadin Mountains, Somes Sound is established as a war memorial to fed pond called the Tarn separates majestically beautiful. France. Mount Desert's earliest pos- the Champlain group from Cadillac There is deep water its entire Mountain, the Flying Squadron, the sessor amone European peoples, and length and close to either shore. The White Cap and Great Pond Hill. To to our sons who died across the sea Navy Department has sent a de- the west a wondrous mountain lake stroyer to Its very head and turned in her defense and for the cause of known as Bubble Pond nestles at It on a single circuit without revers- freedom. the foot of Pemetic Mountain ing the propeller. As a submarine Mount Desert Island contains 105 Between this point and the next base It would be as impregnable us square miles. The area at present westerly group. consisting of Sar- that one on the Dalmatian coast at accepted by the United States Gov- gent and Penobscot Mountains. lies Cattaro which the Austrians used in ernment is about twelve square miles, Jordan Pond. one of Lafayette's the World War. but more than thirty in all have been stellar attractions. Just north is This whole wonderful flord la an acquired and will be transferred to Eagle Lake, another sizable sheet of impressive exhibit of ancient vol- national ownership In time it is water Here a man might fancy canism and me .S recent glacial ero- not improbable that the park boun- himself a thousand miles from the alon. The precipitous heights that darles may include half the Island. sea. Girdled by mountains, forest. surround It are crowned with green Although one of our smallest na- bordered around the shores to the forests, while nestling at the moun- tional parks, Lafayeue in unique in water's edge, the cold crystal lake tain bases, skirting the very shores that it combines mountain. lake. sea abounds in trout and land-locked are smooth. hard roads unsurpassed and extuary Here we find the salmon, while no more than a flg. for motoring or horseback riding typical Eastern coaRt landscape and urative stone's throw back toward Somes Sound is thought by many forest: also multitudinous examples Frenchman's Bay sturdy fisher folk are hauling cod from the sea. Fish. ( Continued on Page 19 of plant life. ranging from that of Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. IOUNTAINS MEET THE OCEAN 2. Continued from Page 10 And everywhere is a springy carpet of soft mosses and brown needles. to be Lafayette's most extraordinary The entire park is a garden. Many scenic feature. species of wild flowers, in danger of Across the sound is Acadia Moun- extermination before this land be- tain, another locale rich in natural came a sanctuary, are now preserved charm and teeming with tradition. to present and future generations. It was once called Robinson's Moun- The outcropping rocks, split by the tain, after an early settler with a frost and lichen-painted, with gran- penchant for seeking buried pirate ite sands sifted into the clefts, afford plunder. This is one of the many holding ground for the roots of mis- spots which Kidd is credited with cellaneous vegetation. These color- having selected for the inhumation ful growths remind of vast areas of of his ill-gotten ingots. natural rock gardens of great charm. West of St. Sauveur and Acadia Lafayette National Park lies di- Mountains nestles Echo Lake. Then rectly in the coast migration route comes Beech Cliff. separated from of all bird life and has already be- Beech Mountain by a gorge. Just come a haven of refuge. What beyond is Long Pond, the largest more fitting than that the American body of fresh water on the Island. bald eagle should make its home in The extreme western end of Lafay- this national sanctuary? The ever ette Park encloses a splendid double increasing numbers of feathered in- mountain, known as the Western habitants and of deer and all small Mountain. Its summits have been wild animals, including a colony of named Mansell Peak and Bernard busy beavers are by no means the Mountain to perpetuate names im- least of the park's many delights. portant in the island's early history. Here is a paradise for campers. While the mountains and lakes Last Summer thousands of visitors mentioned constitute the principal availed themselves of the privileges ones within the park boundarles, afforded by this only national park there are many smaller elevations in the East: thousands more will and lakelets, all of which contribute revel in its beauties this season. their share toward the perfect beauty Unrivaled Crown of Rock of the whole. Lafayette's forest is a luxuriant The walks and climbs in Lafayette growth enriched by its position at seem almost endless. Those who the meeting point of zones of vege- would WOO the solitudes of the wil- tation.. More than 225 species of derness should skirt Eagle Lake, the plants common to the Arctic mingle Bubbles, Bubble Pond and Jordan here with those common to Georgia Pond. From the summit of Acadia and Florida. Red spruce predomi- Mountain unfolds the greatest va- nates, although white spruce is riety of mountain, sound and inland found in the open places and skirt- waters. The pilgrim who makes the ing the forest edges. No more ma- .seent of Cadillac will be rewarded jestic tree is to be noted than the by a horizon panorama of, sea and white pine, which gave Maine the shore. Sargent's rocky crown is name of the Pine Tree State. Be- probably unrivaled as a point of cause It was the tree mainly sought vantage from which to command a by the lumbermen it was well-nigh view of the sparkling bay and out- exterminated. Vigorous new growth lying Islands. The Western Moun- is noted in the park, and in years to tain may well be selected for broad come the white pine forest of Lafay- sweeps of land, lake, sea and distant ette will be famous. headlands. Balsam firs and graceful hemlocks Lafayette National Park is the are plentiful. Although conifers pre- outcome of a work that George B. dominate, there is a profuse and Door of Bar Harbor began a quar- varied growth of deciduous trees, ter of a century ago. At first it was which impart a richness of coloring. his thought only to preserve a small particularly in the Autumn, that is area of beauty on the Island that unknown in any other national park. The red oak is the most stalwart should be open and free to all. In among the hardwoods, while the 1901. with the assistance of Dr. familiar "scrub oak" of New Jersey Charlès W. Ellot of Harvard Uni- and Pennsylvania grows in a single versity, Mr. Door formed an organi- locale-the southern slope of Acadia zation for holding gifts of land. Mountain. Tracts were accumulated until, by The undergrowth is similarly rich. 1914, thousands of acres had been Shad bush, sweet fern and bayberry, acquired. Under the provisions of elder, hazel, viburnum, black alder the Monuments act the new park with its bright autumnal berries, was turned over to the nation in wild rose, goldenrod, aster. arbutus, partridge berry and wild lily-these President Wilson's Administra- and many other plants are found. tion. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Two gifts made to the Government in 1926 and 1927 Until the spring of 1926 Acadia National Park had no legal access to its magnificent scenic possession in Champlain Mountain other than from the highway through the Gorge upon its western side. The old Bar Harbor trail led up the northern ridge, precipitous on either side, and entrance to it was made over a wood road opening from the public way to Schooner Head. This answered well in early days, when all was free and open and people went afoot, but times had changed and such an arrangement, dependent on the courtesy of owners, furnished no fitting entrance to a great national possession. I owned the land across which this entrance was obtained, part of an early farmland purchased by my father in 1868, one of the first tracts on the Island to be acquired for summer residence, and I offered the Government an adequate approach in its own right, connect- ing unbrokenly with the early mountain trail. 2. In making the offer, I made clear its purpose: The construction of a road and footpath from the public highway by which to reach the mountain foot and I anticipated prompt action to follow. The gift was accepted but no action followed. All construction- al activity at that time was centered in the west, and, important as the entrance was I had difficulty in ob- taining the small amount required to make it. A year later I again made the Government an offer of land for road construction, this time on the Great Meadow, for a direct approach to the group of mountain trails rising from the Gorge over Picket Mountain and the Flying Squadron. And with this I included a considerable tract upon the Meadow, giving the Park a distinct and striking entrance from the public highway. The land was accepted, the project approved and appropriation made for commencing construction. Work upon the road began and for a time all went well, but presently word came to halt construction: Secretary Work had promised Harold Peabody that no further road construction should be made in Acadia National Park. 3. This was an aftermath of the attack made two years before on Mr. . Rockefeller's horse-road and motor-road construction in the Park, to meet which I had to organize the whole State of Maine in its defense. It is this unfinished entrance that, in making my recent gift of the Long Field, giving approach to Bar Harbor from the Park's new motor road around the Meadow -- the Town road formerly to whose surrender by it to the Park this approach was a prerequisite, I ask the Government to make into a wild gardens path in remembrance of my earlier project. B. DORR] 9/5/2018 Xfinity Connect Inbox Sam clemens & william james RONALD 9/4/2018 10:15 PM To rwh051009@gmail.com, eppster2@comcast.net Following your. lead, I watched the final PBS installment on Mark Twain. Refreshed my memory from its original broadcast. Spent the day with William James. Was reminded that James asked Dorr to be one of his pallbearers at Harvard's Appleton Chapel. But what I had not uncovered earlier was that on the occasion of James's 68th birthday--eight months before his death--his family invited to his Irving Street home 22 of what his biographer calls his "eminent colleagues and close friends" to mark his retirement. A moment of celebration for those seated around the dining room table: Charles William Eliot, A. Lawrence Lowell (Eliot's sucessor), Henry Higginson, George Dorr and the senior members of the philosophy department. And overlooking the gathering was the just completed Bay Emmet portrait of James to be presented to the university, its subject looking "kindly, wise, and benign." That Dorr was included in this gathering elevates his standing, don't you think? I have found anew more evidence of James and his first psychology grad student and PhD recipient, G. Stanley Hall. Need to look at my Clark U. Archival files tomorrow. Spent most of the afternoon reading James's 1898 letters to his wife for the two month trip to Stanford and Berkeley. What sensitivity! How did you spend the day recovering from my visit? I sent in nine new ILL requests. Sleep well. Ron THE BAR HARBOR TIMES: WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25. SENATOR FERNALD MADAME STAN CHARLES W. ELIOT DELIGHTFUL One of the great figures of the DIED ON MONDAY Madame Helen world, measured by character and soprano, with Edwa influence, has passed this week up- nist, gave a delig lter and Manager Took Keen Interest in Development on Mount Desert Island, in the Building of Arts of of Lafayette National Park- ripeness of years. For over half a Mme. Stanley's on Application Had Warm Friends and Ad- century President Eliot has made many numbers, nd Maine, under mirers Here this Island, visited still earlier, his all with individual summer home, the place where he variation of style United States Senator Bert M. Fer- rested and drew strength and in- vantage her mast has along and nald died at his home in West Poland spiration for his work. First sail- chosen. Mme. S functioned for Monday after an illness of ten days. He ing hither in his boat and camping in every sense of th was in his 69th year r. The Village on Calf Island in Frenchman's of Saturday aftern The news brings to Bar Harbor and Bay, then leading the way in es- which was well des E roadsides, the vicinity as well as to all Maine the tablishing a home upon the Is- an accompanist, is m of paths and deepest sorrow. He was always keenly land's southern shore, he took keen is of the highest o association has interested in Lafayette National Park interest in all relating to it and its Mme. Stanley's as one of Maine's possessions and was al- organizations, people. To him was due the first is second only to ways ready and willing to aid in whatever suggestion of the establishment of beautiful voice was an others and movement went forward for its purposes. vhole record of the Public Reservations Corpora- Bert M. Fernald was born in West tion from which the National Park Poland on April 3, 1858. Though crip- and the biological study of the fare of this re- Island and its waters both have pled from babyhood, taking his first step at the age of 6, he overcame the ob- n today as has come, and he remained to the end stacles of physical imperfection and be- appeal is being its president. came a skilled athlete. nancial support To preserve in openness and free- Mr. Fernald prepared for college at dom' to the public the landscape but one dollar. Hebron Academy and then took a busi- that had so entered into the happi- han doubled by ness course in Boston, the death of his of his life was his desire. His father when he was 17 preventing him dents and sum- place in the world will be recorded from going to college. He took over the ope that a per- in the nation's history. His life join. Having here is written in the hearts of management of the home farm carved out of a wilderness by his great-great grand- friends. the work of the father in 1795 and built it into one of the GEORGE B. DORR. the conduct of finest in the state. He sensed the possi- bilities of the sweet corn industry in representative SOUTHWEST HBR. DISTRICT Maine and the firm he established. now unity. LIST OF TEACHERS FILLED operates various canneries. In 1910 he was president of the National Carmers' NS AGAINST W. E. Clark, superintendent of the Association. He became part owner of FIRE DANGER schools in Cranberry Isles, Mt. Desert, the Poland Dairy Company and the Tremont and Southwest Harbor, an- Poland Telephone Company, and a di- helped matters to nounces the following list of teachers for rector of the Fidelity Trust Co., of Port- oods fire danger on the coming year: land. Mount Desert: Gilman High, Carl E. His entry into politics came with his aturday afternoon Kelley, Principal, Science and Mathe- election to the legislature in 1897. Later to drift down over matics; Madeline Fogg, Latin and he served two terms in the state Senate and the vicinity French; Grace Fox Herrick, English and and in 1909 he was elected governor ed, particularly to History; Douglas Driscoll, Commercial; Maintaining an active part in republi- of Arts when at the Carroll Goodwin, Industrial Arts; Irene can affairs he was first elected to the the source of the Packard, Home Economics. United States Senate in 1916 to complete ce was discovered. Mount Desert High, Rolf B. Motz, the unexpired term of Edwin C. Bur- d air currents had Principal; Doris Motz, Assistant; Grades: leigh. He was reelected in 1918 and moke in from the Otter Creek Primary, Adelia Ames, 1924. In the Senate he served as chair- d on Saturday af Nasson Institute; Grammar, Grace man of the committee on public buildings nd part of the day Walls, Castine Normal. and grounds and as a member of the Ar- VOLUME is BAK HAKE DR. ELIOT DIES AT MRS. VANDERBILT YACHT ALERT SOLD TO GEORGE E. COLEMAN NORTHEAST HARBOR DIES IN PARIS The 75-foot cabin cruiser "Alert" has been sold by Mrs. Edward Browning of Philadelphia and Bar Harbor to Mr. Simple Services for President-emeri- Bar Harbor Loses Good Friend in George E. Coleman of New York and tus of Harvard are Held in Union Sudden Death of Mrs. Frederick Bar Harbor. Mr. Coleman, who is now Church on Monday W. Vanderbilt at the Newport House, has taken pos- session of the boat. Capt. A. I. Foss Charles W. Eliot, President-emperitus Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt died in will continue in command of the yacht Harvard, for 40 years its active head, the Hotel Ritz in Paris on Saturday and will keep the same crew with him: and for nearly half a century a summer morning after a short illness caused by The Alert is one of the best known resident of Mt. Desert Island, died at his complications setting in from a slight yachts on the Maine coast. She was cottage at Northeast Harbor on Sunday throat infection from which she had been built by Lawley and was for some years afterncon at 2.30. Members of the suffering for ometime. Mr. Vanderbilt owned by the late Mr. Thomas DeWitt family present when death came in- was present during her illness and at her Cuyler. After Mr. Cuyler's death the cluded the widow of his son, Charles, last moments. Alert was sold to the late Edward Brown- who died 30 years ago, and his grand- Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt had been ing, then Commodore of the Bar Harbor son, Charles Eliot, 2d. His son, Rev. spending the summer in Europe and had Yacht Club. Mrs. Browning has kept 1926 Samuel Eliot arrived from Boston on been in Paris for about two months. the boat in commission since Mr. Monday. Though Dr. Fraley and Dr. This is the first summer that they had Browning's death. Grindle had prepared the family to spent away from Bar Harbor since 1920 The Alert was sold through the offices expect the end very soon because of when they bought Sonogee, the former of Fred C. Lynam and Company, Yacht President Eliot's rapidly weakening condi- Eno estate on Eden Street. The news of Brokers. tion in the fortnight before his death, an- Mrs. Vanderbilt's sudden death was nouncement of it was a shock and sur- received with most sincere regret in Bar LAMBERT MURPHY TO SING prise to the village generally Harbor. Here she had spent many hap- AT BUILDING SATURDAY President Eliot built in 1880 the first py summers and in spite of the demands summer cottage on Mount Desert Island of the social life always found time to Lambert Murphy, tenor, is the soloist and for three years before he had camped take a personal interest in every charit- at the Building of Arts on Saturday the on Calf Island. Through the years he able and philanthropic movement of con- concert being the final one of the series came to his cottage in Northeast in very sequence here. She was recognized by there. early spring, leaving it as late as possible summer residents and townspeople as Mr. Murphy has sung with the Boston each autumn. And in the declining one of the resort's staunchest friends and and Haydn Society, the New York Ora- years of his life he had often expressed one of the most generous supporters of torio Society, the Worcester Festival, his desire that for him the close of life worth while institutions here. the Springfield festival, the Toronto and might come while he rested here on his Funeral services were held Sunday other well known musical festivals. Mr. beloved Mount Desert Island. from the American Procathedral, the Murphy is best known as a recitalist. The funeral services in the Union Church of the Holy Trinity. The body The New York Tribune says of him: Church of Northeast Harbor on Tuesday was placed in the crypt and will later be "The warmth of his voice, the clarity of noon were very simple. Garden flowers brought to America for burial in the his diction and the finish of his phrasing made beautiful the chancel. Golden rod, family vault. are beyond praise." Mr. Murphy has deep purple monkshood, pale pink sweet The New York TIMES says of Mrs. won distinction in the three fields, opera, peas, beautiful branches in leaf and snow Vanderbilt: oratorio and recital. He has for some white phlox were among the flowers used Mrs. Vanderbilt was Miss Louise years been under exclusive contract with in and about the pulpit. The service was Anthony before her first marriage to the Victor Talking Machine Company that of a simple church order, organ pre- Albert Torrence. She was married to through which medium of records his lude, the prayer, the favorite hymns, Frederick W. Vanderbilt in 1880. Her name has been made familiar to millions the scripture reading and the benediction. chief interest was philanthropy, and of people. The service was in charge of Dr. Francis she contributed a great deal of time and G. Peabody, a brother-in-law, and Dr. care, as well as large sums of money, to John D. Whiting of Jerusalem, Pales- Henry W. Foote, a nephew. small and great benefactions. tine, will speak at the Congregational At the funeral were men and women, Her great interest was in young Church on Sunday evening at 8.15. Mr. young and old, from all walks of life, Whiting has made a life study of the d people. Her outstanding benevolence in from both summer and permanent. resi- this direction was her foundation, a language and customs of the people of dent people. When Dr. Peabody had number of years ago, of the St. Anthony Palestine and is an expert in all the c pronounced the benediction, Rev. Samuel Home for Girls. It originally was in affairs of the country. His theme is W Eliot rose and spoketo those assembled, said to be one of great interest, a new n East Sixteenth Street, but in 1913 the new thanking them and paying brief and light on the Psalms by one who has h building with rooms for 100 young simple tribute to the friend they gathered working women was erected in East reached eminence in the study. h to honor for the last time. The little Twenty-ninth Street between Lexington church where last year as each year for a and Fourth Avenues. long time, President Eliot had occupied (Continued on page 10) (Continued on page 10) Eastman Cameras, Filn Waterman and Wah A Superior Line The Store of Edward B. Mears A. Stroud Rodick WEST END DRU arold Trundy and little daugh- (Cont liked from page 1) ka left Saturday by boat for Daughter of Mark Twain and-Compa- Former Ambassador Gives Address at the pulpit or ast with his family to listen ocoppactor Mean. where they will make ny at Casino Monday Evening Bar Harbor Congregational Church to eminent men who each year in summer e. Mr. Trundy is employed have preached there, was crowded. 2 bing firm in that place. Mrs. Joan of Arc, for centuries past an Before audience which packed the Long before the hour set for the service Norwici and little daughter honored member of the band of immor- Congregational Church, Hon. Henry the long line of people, walking or driving, also of Arlington, who have tals, perhape has never received more Morgenthau, former Ambassador from came up the bill and climbed the long ing relatives at McKinley, re- beautiful and masterful homage than the United States to Turkey, gave an steep path to the church door. the same bont. that which has been lavished upon her by address on his work in the Far East, An outstanding detail of President Mrs. A. P. Butler of Atlanta, a fellow immortal, Mark Twain, and his Sunday evening. Eliot's activities here was the organiza- ave been spending a week at family. There is perhaps no account of Mr. Morgenthau, though he spoke a tion of the Hancock County Trustees of sert. They started on their the Maid of Orleans so well recorded, as comparatively brief time, outlined for Public Reservations Corporation whose journey cn Wednesday. this masterpiece of Samuel Clemens- his hearers in vívid, simple and appealing president he was to the end. It was to cople have taken advantage of known and loved as Mark Twain. All, fashion, the conditions of those countries this organization that the land holdings, (ul weather of the past ten days through Mark Twain's life Joan of Are where he has been so closely connected many of them now forming Lafayette lesford to attend the exhibit of was his ido). Although Mark Twain with relief work. Mr. Morgenthau is a National Park, were protected for the painters and to inspect the himself was the idol of the entire world, he speaker whose choice of words is abso- public benefit. President Eliot took an resting historical collection never ceased to be H reverent follower lutely unique, whose phrasés simple and active part in association with his Prof. William Ctis Sawtelle and worshiper at the shrine of this direct are yet such as to bring home to friend George B. Dorr, in the establish- mer home is at Islesford. The martyred maid. his hearers, the very pictures he so suc- ment of the Sieur de Monts National especially beautiful this year Fortunately for us, this great love for cessfully places before them in the fine- Monument, which was the first step to- ursion is well worth taking. Joan of Are has been handed down to his ness of langunge which in clarity and ward Governmentownership and which ition of the History of Mount daughter, Clara Clemens, with equal forcefulness so well expresses his thought. led to the establishment of Lafayette and by the late George E. enthusiasm. No lovelier tribute has The address on Sunday evening may National Park. ed by Dr. Samuel Eliot has been paid the maid in recent years than well rank as an outstanding event of im- Man of letters, chemist, mathema- e from the press and is on Mme. Clemens' sincere and beautiful portance in this season and Mr. Mor- tician, orator, athlete, educator, adminis- bookstores on the island. interpretation of this character on the genthau won a host of new friends and trator, author and University president, lition waslong ago exhausted dramatic stage Mmc. Clemens has admirers who will look forward to hear- Dr. Eliot combined in the 92 years of Miss Adore oks have been repeatedly been playing a series of special matinees ing him again. his life the attainments of the scholar one of the Levers of Mount Desert will the Hampden Theatre, New York, with and talented The soloist of Sunday evening was with a practical grasp of public affairs known In th interest of the opportunity to the Walter Hampden Players. The New Miss Helen Thomas of New York City. that brought his election at 35 as the actress and of these books. York crities as well as those of other cities Miss Thomas has a mezzo-soprano voice head of Harvard. Interpretative Pashby of Lynn, Mass., Wil where Mme. Clemens has played, ne- of unusual beauty which she uses with Born in Boston in 1834, he lived to sur- man and Ray Doran of Rox- claim the production to be an unusually taste and her singing of Sunday evening vive all but two of the 28 presidents of S. and W. H. Crowell of fine and beautiful tribute to both the delighted everyone. the United States who were his contem- Mass. were Sunday guests of sainted Joan and to America's own im- poraries. rs. F. W. mortal, Mark Twain. STONINGTON PEOPLE HEAR Dr. Eliot came of a family already Jesse James' will be pre- Through Mme. Clemens manager this CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE distinguished. His father, Samuel A. Park Theatre at Southwist company has been secured to give a Eliot, had been treasurer of Harvard N Friday evening, September 3. performance at the Casino in Bar Har- while his grandfather was an influential to be given by a traveling bor on next Monday evening. À very able lecture was given in merchant and a Harvard graduate. company and is said to portray Stonington Opera House, last Thursday A great-grandfather, Samuel Eliot, had C of the noted outlaw. The RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION evening, under the auspices of Christian been a bookseller and was one of the laying this claims to have the TO MEET IN BAR HARBOR Science Society of Stonington, by Wil- publishers of the first magazine published (Continued from page 1) liam D. Kilpatrick, C.B.S., of Detroit, G EORGE the outlaw's death. in that city. last of with special secnery. Chief Civilian Aid A the Secretary of Michigan, Member of the Board of At ten young Eliot entered Boston the Inst War. Dwight F. Davis, Secretary of Lectureship of The Mother Church, Latin school where he demonstrated an they chose War, has been invited but will probably The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in early precocity by winning the prized or public be unable to attend. Franklin Medal for scholarship. generations ANTED Boston, Massachusetts. The lecturer was The entertainment program will be ex- introduced by Allston M. Hatch, who and extrava Five years later he was a freshman at said: matters of tensive, including dances Friday and Harvard and a student in science His Georke IV's Saturday nights and a banquet Saturday "The Bible states that there is only interest in sports had earlier been shown greut unpopu evening, automobile drives about the one true God, then there can be only one by his zealous participation in games on He was Island and boat excursions up the Bay true religion. The world has long be- the Boston Common. At Harvard he III, was born and other features. lieved that God is Love, and the many entered the crew and its victory in 1858 James pulace tenographer The Bar Harbor Board of Trade is theories formulated to bring this more over all contenders on the Charles River er gifted. H ccoperating with the local reserve officers fully into human experience show that was one of the proudest recollections of either the me in preparing for the entertainment of the humanity has long desired a scientific the worst later years. convention. knowledge of Christianity. Only a re- Chosen to the presidency at Harvard he was both In everything arbor Motor Co. ligion that is scientific enough to prove in his 35th year, he was the youngest Identie at CH The Mosquito is the most cowardly of facts will satisfy mankind. Christian college president in the country. He had, all insect tormentors. They attack in the up because of night when we are asleep and defense- Science fulfills this need. It explains when he resigned in his 75th year, held stantly havin less. Their bite causes that religion is governed by Principle the office longer than the combined terms or Sale sums to squa and pain. Little children are most sus- and fixed rules as certainly as is maths- of his five predecessors -Hill, Felton, tors. ceptable. Fly-Tox the rooms and the matics. It shows how to work out hu- Walker, Sparks and Everett. There way screens. Scientific research developed Fly-Tox for the benefit of mankind. Get man problems correctly with the same He was the son of Samuel A. Eliot of life: the bea Passenger Buick Fly-Tox from your retailer, always in certainty that mathematical problems Cambridge, Mass. who was treasurer of n widow at ing bottles with blue label. may be solved. In either case the results Harvard. He was born in Boston, the prince. hileage. New paint are according to the students understand- March' 20, 1834, and graduated from voted to her Tires Fly-Tox your kitchen, Serve appetizing Harvard in 1553. In college he stood Impossible or ing and practice. It is this understand. food untouched by filthy flies. Catholle best ing of God as Love and Principle which among the first in his class and was an her this her for selling: Going makes Christian Science practical for oarsman in the varsity crew in the days Fly-Tox the cows before milking. almost ten 1y new car solving every day problems." when college crews rowed in heavy cedar mostly at Br The full r port the lecture may be barges beautifully fitted up with cushions. caused her ORGE BROWN Restaurants should be sprayed with Fly- Tox regularly. found en page two. His predilection was for chemistry and Then be east Harbor, Maine inathematics and he was 90 successful in man princes the former that at the age of 24 he be- treated SO hru came a professor chemistry at Harvard in forced to sepu preference to accepting $5,000 a year as live years HIL and died nite chemist for a manufacturing concern in treatment of Lowell. He was rapidly advanced until unpopularity. the overseers offered him the highest chair was not so BAR in the institution. (c) by HORSE As president, young Eliot set afoot so many reforms that Dr. Oliver Wendall Holmes exclaimed: "He is turning the University over like a flapjack." WHE President for 40 Years TWE Forty 'he resigne. his Newyork October 171916 40 WEST FIFTY-NINTH STREET you can imagine how Exected I have been by reading the account This weeks Barttacho Times of your unharthing many Stone age indian implements. work in satraging Every historic item my interest in your commanding recording the post Columbias Emigrants, work fitted into my own intensive on our fascinating coast, - sape feety, in isolating the stone age History that I at once feard your fine Board of thesties would at once lisin and Trbranch out into a general unwality combination limit- rather than accept your my own vision intended has been To Confirm will be to subject what I believe and unique One as yours has become with ing fine Jerin of whif maps which 2013 I have been years in making and thousand now coming Thafayeth Nather Scheme and appeal increasing which will round of my End ofthis Small Inuseuform will ultimatity form two clarcic but The hope I have is, as wehave both fil, I believe, that me should play into Each others hand. So that whatever Comes to my knowle If -which you would like, I shall not Covet but turn over to you. & nice verta Both fields are too large to be combined - Except in the Present hange and unwieldy musaums, hick few visitors get time to comprehend more perfect Specialists fewar department Stores! l long to hear what you have really turned up - and Can say now, I have one card of quantinterest which does nothelon French settles - which Expehange in my Slone age but to findings of the Early if my Committee approve. than a good Committee me! my Increase plan ayound naturing and always sincerel your RoburtAble [Robert Abbe] 3of3 Return Setier chippings to Robert Abbe W.5g NYC October 21,1926. Iy deer Doctor Abbe:- I have your letter. I knew you would be interest- ed in my find, and was going to send you a clipping from the Bangor Commercial in regard to it when I saw that Al- bion Sherman had reprinted most of it in the Bar Harbor Times. You need have no fear that I shall continue this "Red Paint Indian" section now occupying several tables in the front room of the Islesford Collection. Any thing that I have unearthed you shall have, if you want it. I well know what hobbies are, and am more than sympathetic with you and yours. You are doing a great work for the Mount Desert Re- gion and I am trying my best to do so. Some day I too may "arrive" but I feel that the time is a long way off. I am more than pleased to hear that your museum plans are maturing, and that you have a good committee behind you. As for me, I feel very much alone in what I am trying so hard to accomplish - a fire proof building for my lot of stuff. Nevertheless, I am going ahead, spending what little money I have, working as a day laborer unloading brick, wielding pickaxe and shovel, wheeling dirt and keeping busy as the day is long, beginning at daylight and continuing until dusk. This sort of thing possesses health giving qualities and I am gaining by it,I am sure. But I must tell you about some of the finds. It is of interest to note that everything was found on the site of the new building. No shell heaps nor graves any where near. When the sod was stripped there was a layer of clam shells so extensive that the place appeared to be covered with snow. This layer of shells and black dirt was no more than 6 - C inches in depth, and here the stuff was found Here too, liberally scattered over the area were numerous "fire pots" made of flat rock approximating so many small stone floors. The rocks were all calcined and quantities of ashes were near by. In one spot we unearthed quite a patch of red ochre, which together with the character of the impli- ments found, shows beyond a doubt that the "Red Paint Indian was an early summer visitor; that he had his clam bakes and worked on his stone weapons with his stone impliments. Mr. Walter B. Smith, of Bangor, to whom T described the finds told mc that this was one of the most important bits of ex- cavating that has been done in Maine for some time. Smith, by the way, I believe to be one of the best authorities on the Red Paint people whom we have. He is a far more care- ful worker than Moorhead, the has spread out too much. on another sheet I list some of the material. Thanking you for your letter, With kindest regards, Sincerely yours, William Olis Paweella lof4. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service Washington October 26, 1926. Dear Mr. Dorr: There is inclosed herewith copy of a letter addressed to Secretary Work by Mr. Harold Peabody and dated October 23, commenting on memorandum prepared by Acting Director Cammerer and transmitted Mr. Peabody by the Secretary with letter of October 6. I do not know if Mr. Cammerer has sent you a copy of the memorandum prepared by him, but there is a copy of it inclosed. In order that I may be fully advised of the situation, it is requested that you write me in detail on the matters mentioned in Mr. Peabody's letter. Sincerely yours, Inclosure 6042, (signed) Stephen T. Mather supt. George B. Dorr, Lafayette National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. 3HL LA 2 Harold Peabody 10 State Street Boston, Mass. October 23, 1926. Hon. Hubert Work, Secy. of the Interior, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Secretary: I have your letter of October 6 with enclosures, and delayed answering it because I could not exactly under- stand the remarks of Mr. Cammerer, the Acting Director, but so many people have spoken to me regarding these spur roads and camps that I felt that I must take the liberty of writing you again. The towns on Mount Desert Island have not prohibited camping in their limits, nor can they, according to the opinion of the best legal authorities I can find. They can forbid camping in a park or in any open places actually owned by the town. Camping on all other property is entire- ly at the discretion of the individuals who own the property. The only way the local towns can prevent camping in the township is by making the sewerage laws, etc. BO severe that people will not be willing to camp on anybody's property. In Bar Harbor, for instance, where I live, and where the concerned about this camping problem, the local Board of Trade and the Village Improvement Association have appointed committees to study into this very vexing problem. The Board of Selectmen, I know, are very much concerned about it as I have had long talks with a number of them who are very good friends of mine. 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 a camping site in what Otter Creek, where Mr. Rockefeller was intending to buy a large tract of land and turn it over to this CO mmittee to run as a camp. As a result, the general opinion, as I know it, was that this W..S to be the only camp site on the island, and that all organizations or towns were to cooperate with it to the best of their ability. 3. 2. as mentioned in Mr. Cammerer's letter, together with camp the sites the roads, one of which, so far as I can see, cannot be called spur Bar spur road as it connects the Ocean Drive with the main road a from Harbor to Northeast Harbor through the Gorge. I cannot agree with the statement as made in Mr. to purpose on the rocky structure of the island". This Cammerer's the letter "that there being little ground naturally suited ment question has been gone over many times in the Village Improve- Association and amongst places that can be used for camping. It seems to me that many tire open, and we feel that there are beautiful two sites as chosen are poor, and the opening up of some quite the meadows was not at all necess ry. upset you could about have a talk with Mr. Gist Blair, whom I know is much I wish, Mr. Secretary, that sometime this comming winter problem I know of on the island has been willing to organiza- settle the tion that this whole problem of camping. No other very of camping alone. They want to cooperate. in leaves me in a very deep quandary as to what your meaning Mr. C a mmerer's last paragraph regarding publicity also ments your and letter to me in 1924 regarding publicity of the develop- was or under operation. so-called improvements on park land whether tentative to and for writing you any of my past letters, has been My only reason, Mr. Secretary, for writing you as above, their see all organizatio S on the island cooperate together, my desire laying carus on the table, and discussing were, this and are a sore spot to many people, but even spot. worse Roads than or this the is this camping problem. The committee chosen to that Rockefeller site did it after much serious study, believing develop good bathing possibilities, good drainage, and if forest views, fires they had a site that was out of the way, had good In ever started the trees destroyed would not be very serious. fro the these two sites chosen on park land, if a forest fire developed most campers the trees destroyed would be amongst the beautiful ones we have on the island. Thanking you for your kindness, I am Yurs very truly, (signed) Harold Peabody ANNOLLAN 341 14 adidas 4. National Park Service Washington October 4, 1926. Memorandum for the Secretary. When Mr. Burlew mentioned the receipt of the attached letter of inquiry from Mr. Peabody, I could not identify the roads he describes, but since receipt of your official reference of I our records and find the following: These two short cuts are not among those in dispute several years ago, nor within the park areas under discussion at that time, They are primarily service roads to make two new camp ground sites, acquired by donation, accessible to the motoring public. The needs for adequate campgrounds in that park have been and are acute. The towns on the island have prohibited camping by the public roadside, and the park itself had no organized provision for such campion facilities which visitors expect to find on arrival national park. The selection of campgrounds is a difficult problem, there being little ground naturally suited to the purpose on the rocky structure of th e island, and the Service considered it ex- ceedingly fortunate that these two desirable sites could be secured by public-spirited donation. Naturally short spur roads to provide access were also needed, and when donation of the lands was accepted an allotment of $5,000 for available funds was made to provide the needed service roads. Pesbody there we S no publicity, though it as generally supposed that further developments and so-called improvements on the rklands would be made public, and "whether tentative or under operation" I found that in a letter of July 18th to him, in Department files, you told him that you had urged the superintendent, on the occasion of your visit to the park in July, 1924, to take the residents at Bar Harbor into his confidence and make public all of his plans, tentative and under operation. The Service has no record here as to what publicity was given locally to the plans for these campgrounds and roads, but (sgd) Arno B. Cammerer Acting Director. Inclosure 6008. TONOLLAN DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Legal need LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE 12 incorporation OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT meeting October 21, 1926. Dear Dr. Abbe: I intended to write you when Campboll's plate - negative of the Indian implements went forward but I was called away and it passed out of my mind. If you want him to try again, please let me know; we will try until we get what satisfies you. Mr. Lynam has found that seven members are needed to form the corporation, under the so-called "Charitable" Act which relieves the corporation, 23 designed for public service, from taxation. The seven members also should attend the incorporation meeting. Therefore WO have taken on in temporary membership for the purpose of incorporation, in addition to Judge Deasy and myself and Serenus Rodick, clerk of corporation, Clarence E. Dow, Guy E. Torrey, B. L. Hadley, and Harry Lynam. They will resign and their places will be taken by the new members as they accept and are voted in. These new members are William C. Endicott and Bishop Lawrence, who have accepted, Dave I. Morris, and Atwater Kent who are still to ask, and a seventh mamber who I think would best be Dr. Clarence C. Little, formerly pre ident of the University of Main , now OI that of Michigan, to plans to COLLE hore regularly to carry on his bioloxical work, who is greatly interested and is influential with the new Sell Harbor group. I do not think th. t Potter Palmer would be actively helpful U.S E member of the board end that Dr. Little would. Please let me lotor 11 you think well of it. In haste for e. closing moil, I an Sincerely yours, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT November 1, 1926. Dear Dr. Abbe: I have your two letters, and the enclosures in the first, which I will return by another mail. I write now to enclose a letter and copy I received in this morning's mail from Mr. Harry Lynam with regard to organization of the museum. I think the title excellent. With regard to the formation of the committee, the only question to be considered with regard to agement is that of efficiency, and this brings up the question of what your plan is concerning membership -- whether to make it general and ex- tensive or to keep it small and make of it an interested and working body. In that case would it be necessary to have an executive committee at all, or could The make the whole body of members take part and be "executive"? The two Wood brothers have shown such helpful interest in your enterprise that I certainly think one of them should go on the committee, or, if a small, selected membership should replace the committee, both could be included in that membership. I think Mrs. Browning would be an excellent choice, and I think that Mrs. Byrne would be another, as she is said to be unusually executive and would be a better choice for this than her husband. They have just bought the old Cushman place from the O'Briens. I do not think Mrs. Murray Young would make an actively working member on a committee or organization of this kind but that she would give equally, according to her interest, whether member or not; the others you mention need consideration, too, from the same angle, whether it would be any help to have them on, or whether to get those on who would not take active hold might not lessen the personal interest and feeling of responsibility in those who might. Yours as ever, C 0 & P Welles Bosworth Y 1471 East 51st Street October 26, 1926. Dear Mr. Rockefeller: Acknowledging your letter of the 21st referring to Eagle Lake road bridge. We have made a study and think it is an improvement to have more space around the arch. I have wired you to this effect. We are changing the drawings and will send usual points. As to the terminal posts and walls, I have shown the walls carried, without openings, to a point not determined above the bridge, but at the top of the slope and terminating in a simple rectangle. A similar rectangular post at the lower end will look perfectly well. The lat forms in the buttress were shown as you have noted, but being principally a vehicle bridge and the slope 80 nearly level I agree with you that there will be no harm in letting the platforms follow the slope of the road. It will of course look finer not to have the boulders if possible. Do not hesitate to suggest any further changes if they occur to you. We all enjoy the evolutions which you have produced in studying this problem and are happy that the first idea is now being realized in practical form. Ever sincerely yours, (Signed) Welles Bosworth P. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Esq., Seal Harbor, Maine. Page I of 3 LEASE between THE WILD GARDENS OF ACADIA and THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1. This LEASE, made and entered into this day of twonty-sifth June in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-siz by and between The #11d Gardens of Acedia whose address is Bar Harbor, Maine. for heirs, executors, administrators, successors and its assigns, hereinafter called the Lessor, and the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, hereinafter called the Government: WITNESSETH: The parties hereto for the considerations hereinafter mentioned covenant and agree as follows: 2. The Lessor hereby leases to the Government the following described premises, viz: The building used as office end headquarters of the Lafayette National Park, situated on the northwest corner of Park Road and Main Street, and a building on the same lot used as a garage for the housing of automobiles owned and operated by the government in the work about the Park; also one small building used as a storage shed for tools and a building used as e carpenter shop; also one building on the adjoining lot used as a machine and repair shop for park equipment. to be used exclusively for the following purposes: 2-12858 The first mentioned building SLB Paris Administrative offices; the second building as Park garage; the third for tool storage; the fourth as a workshop: and the fifth as a mechine and repair shop. 3. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said premises with their appurtenances for the term beginning July 1, 1926 and ending with June 30, 1927 4. The Government shall not assign this lease in any event, and shall not sublet the demised premises except to a desirable tenant, and for a similar purpose, and will not permit the use of said premises by any one other than the Government, such sublessee, and the agents and servants of the Government, or of such sublessee. 5. This lease may, at the option of the Government, be renewed at a rental of one thousand three hundred thirty dollars and otherwise upon the terms and conditions herein specified, provided notice be given in writing to the lessor at least months GETO before this lease would expire: Provided that no renewal thereof shall extend the period of occupancy of the premises beyond the day of June 1930 6. The Lessor shall furnish to the Government, during the occupancy of said premises, under the terms of this lease, as part of the rental consideration, the following: 7. The Lessor shall, unless herein specified to the contrary, maintain the said premises in good repair and tenantable condition during the continuance of this lease, except in case of damage arising from the act or the negligence of the Government's agents or employees. For the purpose of so maintaining the premises, the Lessor reserves the right at reasonable times to enter and inspect the premises and to make any necessary repairs to the building. 8. The Government shall have the right, during the existence of this lease, to make alterations, attach fixtures, and erect additions, structures, or signs, in or upon the premises hereby leased (provided such alterations, additions, structures, or signs shall not be detri- mental to or inconsistent with the rights granted to other tenants on the property or in the building in which said premises are located) which fixtures, additions, or structures so placed in or upon or attached to the said premises shall be and remain the property of the 2-12858 3. Government and may be removed therefrom by the Government prior to the termination of this lease, and the Government, if required by the Lessor, shall, before the expiration of this lease or renewal thereof, restore the premises to the same condition as that existing at the time of entering upon the same under this lease, reasonable and ordinary wear and tear and damages by the elements or by circumstances over which the Government has no control, excepted: Provided, however, that if the Lessor requires such restoration, the Lessor shall give written notice thereof to the Government ninety days before the termination of the lease. 9. The Government shall pay the Lessor for the premises rent at the following rate: One thousand three hundred thirty dollars per annum Payment shall be made at the end of each quarter 10. Whenever the said premises or any essential part thereof shall be destroyed by fire or other casualty, this lease shall, in case of total destruction, immediately terminate and, in case of partial destruction or injury, shall terminate at the option of the Government upon giving notice in writing to the Lessor within fifteen days after such fire or casualty, and no rent shall accrue to the Lessor after such termination. 11. No member of or delegate to Congress or Resident Commissioner shall be admitted to any share or part of this lease or to any benefit to arise therefrom. Nothing, however, herein contained shall be construed to extend to any incorporated company, if the lease be for the general benefit of such corporation or company. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have hereunto subscribed their names as of the date first above written. THE WILD GARDENS OF ACADIA By Mary Treasurer R. WHI Lessor. OF INTERIOR SEORETARY Wassington, D. O. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, JUL 12 926 Obtime By Acting GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 2-12558 Director (Official National title.) Park Service gary [Great Meadow] The Government receives the Great Meadow where the course of the road to the Spring is now under study not alone from Mr. Rockefeller but in good part, too, from me, who deeded such part to the Government in person- al sift on the clear understanding that a road across it over the land I gave and in accordance with plans I sub- - mitted should be built. The gift was accepted and work in accordance with my plan was begun, but was held up presently by the promise given Harold Peabody and his friends, antagonistic to Mr. Rockefeller's work, that no further road construction of any kind should be made in the Park. The road has remained, since then, in the condition it was in when work on it was halted. The plan I then had now gives way rightly to the larger scheme which Mr. Rockefeller's purchase and gift of the Harden Farm land and other properties on Great Pond Hill makes possible, but the road I planned provides certain features to which I strongly hold. The first of these is that any road across the meadow should be led out clearly into the open meadow where the magnificent 2. amphitheatre of mountains and hills surrounding it shall be given full effect and not be lost by being taken below its eastern rim, whose lands I secured for this very pur- pose over twenty years ago in 8. dramatic contest for its possession with local land speculators of the period, guessing at the Government's future need. A second purpose that I had in mind when I made my gift was the utilization of the northeastern corner of the meadow as it bays into Strawberry Hill with flow- inc springs and peat deposits for a Wild Cardens develop- mont beneath the sheltering woods above on Strawberry Hill, spared by the great fire that, starting in the meadow, swept the whole hill besides in the 1880s. To this plan also I will strongly hold, connected with the plans I have in mind, and recalling as it does the larger Wild Gardens of Acadia' scheme I failed for lack of support to carry out, but which led me to secure and preserve at personal sacrifice the whole meadow basin. As Mr. Rockefeller's interest, represented by Vr. Climated, is consulted rightly in regard to the development in the public interest of the land he gives, 3. SO I feel that my interest over the lands it has received from me should be consulted also, though not in either case to sacrifice the best result. [G.B.DORR] 26 Broadway New York November 8, 1926. Dear Mr. Simpson: Your telegram of November 5th, reading as follows, is received: "Adoption of first plan would add about three thousand dollars to cost of bridge and embankment. Widening same to twentyseven feet clear would add about twenty three hundred dollars more. Widening second plan to twenty seven feet clear would add about two thousand dollars to cost. Clearance second plan seems all right except for tallyhos. Might widen part of distance suggested." I had a few words with Mr. Ralston about this matter when he was in New York the other day. It seems to me that the final decision on both of the questions involved will have to be made by you and Mr. Ralston and possibly Mr. Lynam in conference. If there is any possibility of the 13 ft 6 in. clearance bridge not giving entirely adequate head room for people on a coach, I would prefer to err on the safe side and use the 16 ft. clearance height, other tures appearing in the last blueprint which I sent you a few days ago being retained. As to widening the bridge to 27 Lt., I do not find myself at all enthusiastic. As I said to you in a recent telegram, if the have Bar Harbor people were paying for this bridge themselves, I do not for a moment believe they would dream of suggesting widening it at the additional cost of several thousand dollars. Since the Cry bridge onto the Island is only 20 ft. wide, it seems to me that it stands to reason Dahly, that there is no possible ground for urging that this bridge ve made wider than 21 It. However, I leave the decision of this question as well to you three men, having thus clearly stated my views. I am sending a copy of this letter to Mr. Ralston. I take it that the other changes made by Mr. Bosworth in the final blueprint at my request and upon your suggestion are now all satisfactory to you. Very truly, Mr. Paul D. Simpson, John D. Packsfulling Seal Harbor, Maine. Page 1 of 1 the LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK OF STONE AGE ANTIQUITIES Will C.ENDICOTT. President Judge Ruer ReRRi William Lawrence TR GEO 13 DORR Dave H.M ROBERT AB3B Chas H.V my Work tp://sz0122.wc.mail.comcast.net/service/home/~/?id=3287&part=2&auth=co&disp 9/7/2011 Page 1 - of 7 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HUBERT WORK, Secretary NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STEPHEN T. MATHER, Director NINTH CONFERENCE of the FIELD REPRESENTATIVES of the NATIONAL PARK SERVICE HELD AT THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON, D.C. NOVEMBER 15 to 20, 1926 2. FIELD REPRESENTATIVES ATTENDING NINTH NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE H.M. ALBRIGHT, Assistant Director (Field) and Superintendent Yellowstone National Park JOSEPH BOLTEN, Superintendent Hot Springs National Park A. W. BURNEY, Maintenance Engineer BERT H. BURRELL, Acting Chief Civil Engineer L. W. COLLINS, Acting Superintendent Lassen Volcanic National Park GEORGE B. DORR, Superintendent, Lafayette National Park J. Ross EAKIN, Superintendent Grand Canyon National Park R. T. EVANS, Acting Superintendent Zion National Park ANSEL F. HALL, Chief Park Naturalist DANIEL R. HULL, Chief Landscape Engineer H. P. KARSTENS, Superintendent Mt. McKinley National Park C. J. KRAEBEL, Superintendent Glacier National Park E. P. LEAVITT, Acting Superintendent Yosemite National Park W. B. LEWIS, Superintendent Yosemite National Park FRANK PINKLEY, Superintendent Southwestern Monuments J. T. NEEDHAM, Custodian Muir Woods National Monument J. L. NUSBAUM, Superintendent Mesa Verde National Park C. G. THOMSON, Superintendent Crater Lake National Park ROGER W. TOLL, Superintendent Rocky Mountain National Park O. A. TOMLINSON, Superintendent Mt. Rainier National Park THOS. C. VINT, Associate Landscape Engineer JOHN R. WHITE, Superintendent Sequoia and General Grant National Parks e All official meetings will be held in the Board Room of the National Commission of Fine Arts, Room 3307, Interior Department Building. All morning meetings will convene promptly at 9 a. m. and afternoon meetings promptly at 1.30 p. m. ) 0/15-21,1920 George B. Dorr HIC NATIONAL PARK SUPERINTENDENTS CONFERENCE Washington, D. C., Nov. 15, 1926 (Ninth Conference) Left to right: George B. Dorr, Supt., Lafayette National Park Roger W. Toll, Supt., Rocky Lountain National Ste hen T. Mather, Director Park J. Ross Eakin, Supt., Grand Canyon National Park Arthur W. Burney, Maintenance Engineer Horace M. Albright, Asst. Director, (Field) and Bert H. Burrell, Acting Chief Civil Engineer Supt, Yellowstone National Park J. T. Needham, Custodian, Muir Woods National Arthur E. Demaray, Asst. in Operations and Monument Public Relations R. T. Evans, Acting Supt., Zion National Park E. T. Scryen, Chief Ranger, Grand Canyon Ansel F. Hall, Chief Park Naturalist National Park E. P. Leavitt, Asst. Supt., , Yosemite National Thos. C. Vint, Associate Landscape Engineer Park Arno B. Cammerer, Asst. Director O. A. Tomlinson, Supt., , Mount Rainier National C. G. Thompson, Supt., Crater Lake National Park Park Dr. Joseph Bolten, Supt., Hot Springs Wm. E. Branch, formerly Supt., , Platt National National Park Park H. B. Hommon, Sanitary Engineer, Public Health Service Transportation Daniel R. Hull, Chief Landscape Engineer Dept., Yosemite Park Co. Harry : Karstens, Supt., Mount McKinley Nat- ioral Park L. W. Collins, Acting Supt., , Lassen Volcanic National Park Chas. J. Kraebel, Supt., , Glacier National Park W. 3. Lewis, Cupt., Yosemite National Park Jesse L. Kusbaum, Supt., , Mesa Verde National Pkr Col. John R. White, Supt., Sequoia and General Grant National Parks Photograph taken on the White House Grounds 1 Enlarged 1 / 926 Sup. Conf. Washington DC. HFC.DIV.CONS mtl Enlarged 1926 Superintendents Conference, Washington, DC NATIONAL PARK MEN PRAISE OUR SYSTEM Special to The New York Times. New York (1857-Current file); Nov 22, 1926; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. 24 NATIONAL PARK MEN park system they seemed to be as- tounded. Mr. Albright, who is Assistant Direc- tor of the entire National Park Ser- PRAISE OUR SYSTEM vice, in addition to being Yellowstone's superintendent, said the entire annual appropriation for national parks seemed palty compared to what West- 22 Superintendents Make Tour chester had poured out for its park- way development. From Here Up Hudson to He explained that while the great Western parks were larger in size and See Reservations. more impressive in their scenery, the architectural development of the West- chester Parkway was the most remark- able he had seen. UNEQUALED IN THE WEST At Kensico the aerating plant seemed to remind Mr. Albright of the Yellow- stone geysers, and he told his col- leagues that here were sixty Old Faith- Come From Washington Meeting to fuls. all spouting at once. From Ken- sico the road took them to Peekskill Make Inspection-Enthusiastic and thence over the highway leading at Bear Mountain. to ,the Bear Mountain Bridge. See Review at West Point. After luncheon the park tourists jour- Special to The New York Times. neyed north on the west bank of the river, traversing the picturesque Storm HIGHLAND FALLS. N. Y., Nov. 21. King Highway and watching a review -Twenty-two officials of national of the Cadet Corps at West Point af- parks, from the Grand Canyon and terward. In the evening they sat in Mesa Verde in the South to Mount front of a roaring fire in the Bear McKinley Park in Alaska, made a tour Mountain Inn, hearing a talk on the Interstate Park trails by Raymond H. of New York's parkway system and Torrey, who has explored almost every the Palisades Interstate Park today. one, and witnessing a moving picture When they returned to the Bear Moun- film of the Interstate Park and its de- tain Inn for dinner in the evening, velopment. Throughout their trip the visitors they expressed their amazement at watched for evidence of vandalism or what New York had done to set aside carelessness by New York motorists outlying park space for its millions, and campers. They found surprisingly and said the West could not duplicate few signs of littered grass, even along the Bronx River Parkway, where it it. Earlier in the afternoon they had pássed through crowded residential dis- tricts. stood on the highest point of the Storm Elbert W. King, Assistant Secretary King Highway, on the Drow of a grim of the Palisades Interstate Park Com- mountain peak, 387 feet above the Hud- mission, told them that in his opinion son River. H. M. Albright, Superin- New Yorkers were learning gradually tendent of Yellowstone National Park, how to respect their park property. albight a domain larger than Delaware and Mr. King said that there was less de- Rhode Island together, stood there liberate vandalism now than before, looking down the river in admiration. and that a younger generation of H. P. Karstens, one of the only two hikers and campers was growing up living men who have cilmbed Mount with more orderly outdoor habits than McKinley, the highest peak in North their parents. America, grinned with pleasure at the Tonight the park officials are staying automobile highway, cut into solid at the eBar Mountain Inn, and are rock so high above the river. planning a brief tour of the lower Pali- sades region tomorrow, from Nyack to Equal to Any in West. Englewood. C. J. Kraebel, youthful superinten- Those who went on the trip included Joseph Bolton, Hot Springs National dent of Glacier National Park in Mon- Park; L. W. Collins, Lassen Volcanic tana, said flatly that New York could National Park; George B. Dorr. La- hold its own with the West, even if fayette National Park; J. Ross Eakin, Grand Canyon National Park; R. T. its mountains were not so high or so Evans, Zion National Park; E. P. impressive as his own snow-capped Leavitt and W. B. Lewis, Yosemite ranges in Montana. National Park: Frank Pinkley of the "We Westerners love to boast, and Southwestern Monuments: J. T. Need- we do it frequently," said Mr. Kraebel. ham, Muir Woods National Monument: "But after what we have seen today J. L. Nusbaum, Mesa Verde National we are going to have to tone down our Park; C. G. Thompson, Crater Lake boasting. This work shows vision and National Park; Roger Toll, Rocky foresight which New York can pride Mountain National Park; O. A. Tom- itself upon." linson, Mount Rainier National Park, The Ntaional Park officials had come and John R. White, Sequoia and Gen- to New York from Washington, where eral Grant National Parks. they had just completed the ninth con- ference of field representatives in the National Park Service. Early this morning they left in automobiles from the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York, accompanied by Major William Welch, general manager of the Palisades In- terstate Park, and Stephen Mather, di- rector of the National Park Service. Their route took them through Cen- tral Park, up the Grand Concourse and through Mosholu Parkway to the be- ginning of the Bronx River Parkway, just north of the Botanical Gardens in Bronx Park. Their automobiles sped Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 26 Broadway New York December 22, 1926. Dear Mr. Simpson: I want a dozen copies of a blueprint made, based on the enclosed blueprint No. 1, but with certain changes. The purpose of this new blueprint is to have something which will show accurate- ly the line of the proposed horse road from my Jordan Fond gate around the Triads to the south end of Bubble Pond, and also the horse road from the north end of Bubble Pond crossing the automobile road, going around to the south end of Eagle Lake end connecting with the horse road on the west side of Eagle Lake. The existing bridle path along the west side of Bubble Pond should show on the blueprint. The two projected roads north and south of Bubble Pond might well be shown with a broken line. This will differentiate them from the roads completed or authorized and under construction. There should be on this blueprint all of the roads which have been constructed, including the horse road around the north side of Sargent Mountain, the automobile road from Jordan Pond to the Eagle Lake Road - which might well be put in with a solid line - and the proposed automobile road to the top of Green Mountain - which could be a solid line to the turn-around place and a broken line from there on up. The blueprint marked II will be suggestive of other roads to be included. The new blueprint should not show any proposed roads to the north of Eagle Lake Road, nor is it neces- sary that it should extend beyond that road. The value of the blueprint No. 1 is that it shows the park lands in a different color. Can you shade the lands owned by the Trustees of Public Reservations in so far as the two roads under discussion pass through them, in another color so that they will be equally evident? Tracings III, IV and V may be helpful toward that end. The balance of the distance of these two roads it will be understood pass through my lands. Please send me a memorandum of and mark on the blueprints the approximate number of feet in park or reservation land that these new alignments cover; that is, giving the approximate length of each section as it occurs, whether in the park or in the reserva- tion. It will be well also to have the total length of each of the two pieces of road, so that we shall be able to state what proportion of each is through private land and what exact footage of each is in the park or the reservations. 2. It is my purpose to send one of these blueprints to Mr. Cammerer with a letter advising him that I am prepared to finance the construction of these added two pieces of road and the bridge involved. Mr. Cammerer will in turn ask Mr. Dorr for his recom- GRD mendation in the matter. He will also, in line with informal assurance given by the Secretary of the Interior, ask Mr. Dorr to send copies of these blueprints to the presidents of the several village improvement societies on Mount Desert Island, so that these societies, or other interested friends through them, may be fully advised of what is under consideration and have ample opportunity to express any views in regard thereto. Mr. Cammerer in writing to Mr. Dorr will indicate some date on which the whole matter will be brought to the Secretary of the Interior for consideration and VIR/VIS. action and prior to which any expressions of opinion pro or con should be received. I make this explanation so that youmwill understand for wat purpose I want those blueprints and that you may further understand that no projected roads other than the two specified should appear thereon. I am sending a copy of this letter to Mr. Ralston and to Mr. Lynam, of whom, with yourself, I am making the request that its contents be regarded as entirely confidential, unless the matter comes to them from some other authoritative source. Very truly, Cofice 2 [John D. Rockefeller, Jr.] Mr. Paul D. Simpson, Seal Harbor, Maine. Enc ISLAND MAINE COMPILED BY WALDRON BATES, EDWARD L. RAND AND HERBERT JAQUES. REVISED 1926 Scale 1: 29.000 o 2 1/2 2 Miles Kilometers Topography and hydrography adapted from the Map of Mount Desert Island issued by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, June, 1882. Nomenclature-revised - and corrected - adapted from the map dated June, 1893, compiled for the Flora of Mount Desert Island. The curves of equal elevation are given for every forty feet difference of level. These curves are shown by brown lines: where close together they indicate cliffs or steep slopes. The area of Lafayette National Park and other Reservations (so far as disclosed) shown thus Bar Island Sheep Porcupine Bar Harbor Mt. Desert Reuding Room Abbies PULPIT ROCK Retreat BirchPt BALANCE St. ROCK Park St. Road Desert Bald BAR Schoolhouse Porcupine HARBOR Road 7 par childrens CONVAT'S PARK OFFICE Ryefield Park Hill Kebo Valley Cromwell Harbor Golf Club Bidgof Arts -Links Road Ogden Pt. Cramwell 200 St wberry Hill Compass Harbor Dorr Pt. and Kebo Great Bear Brook Meadow Hill Hill Brook Stew deMont$ Robin Hood Spring Park WHITE The Thrumcap Beaks