4 1927 3/1/08 1928 )or struch by car Xmas Eve. Congressma Cranston visits oldForm. master Lust t Jr. gifts to U.S. Secures Schoolic + name change JDR Jr lettents Abbe -laudatory. fm LNP ANP. Bumpus letter re JOR Jr. lequel (11/37 to consider nexts of consolidation - Ray -Jr. responds Work becomes (12/21) Sug. to Commeress f fatinion letter (12/8) of JAR + MUIBL us. Woods Hole GBD to Jr. (12/1) re poaching discussing green ut. Road, Dorr in D.C., ad new status for Dorr riretirement. Solicitation to Jr. (11/9) from Deff must have left Defa Borton It Budget Canpaign invoking when for was struck a card(xmas E GBD'S name. - Congressors Crameton visits ANP (10/10), Bumpus letter ( 1/26) to Appleget joinedly Commerce. Ratimile for LNP > ANP. w merging of MOIBL c Woods -Retirement Act Exception for GBD Hale or the MDIBL. for CBD. (10/10) Charle Elief II beans study for -Beneer control (6/22) BHUIS Future of MDI SAULS now regulay reports ANP stats. -Eyrie gardenbullt LNP reacher 12 pooacres. -Jr. to Jackson (6/18). re joining To or Abbe (4/8) is Multy c Architzct. (uniting MOIB L and maine 0 GBD to Jr. u land of Eliots (11/26) Biol. Station (EJAX). Jr. advocates - - Jr.to Communer (12/21) re Cameric - Jr. to Lynam is listury purchases ind. Karst Property in freed Cve (12/13) (MOIBR) Letter (1218) on GBD'S father Crantm legislation. mather/Allonget -Death of Goy howell. -Pooding directive to 680(3/17) Abbe to llso Danhan on his Walth from Act. Dr. NPSt initiate Nuseem project(9/18) federal prosecut on of poochers. - Nat. Parks as Universities by llather. - CBD to Jr. (3/7) re poaching CNUT 4/24) and Iris concer@ Darriorcidnt in Dec. 27[see 3/17] -H.V.neal to Jr. (10/1) re funding to Karst property for MOIBL. - 6B0 to Lynam ( 22/6) u Karat Land a Dr sumpus & us Neal (MOIBL) -Lynom to Jr. (9/27) re Karst pioperty -Three Commerce Sr. letters (12/8) re Cadillae lt.Rd, Shoodic, AND roads expenor to NPS roads, Cramtons solution to GBD's retirement Mothers health -BHT article (4/18/28) anDOK form Gardens -Dorr offers owferm as Coplidge Summer Whitehouse 1928 - C.W Eliot II (1950 acticle) on 1928 as benefinart for extension of part houndersis-refer to 4 key factors (in d. CBD) -Gov. Brusta visits B.H. governee -C. s tays Eliot at II oldform article m "Bandories (8/00) re 4 hey factors permetting para growth -Death of Dr. Alber March -Abhe there Opens, August Days attends Fungrail -Commerce to Jr. is Cadelbe it Road (12/6) and Dorr's /retirement States re Cramton's bill. to Jr. (10/10) se Creaton -Camnerer gist to Jr. m poach ing (3/17) -Foulds (1.171f) he naivite of public -Camner to Fr. (10/10) on his Crombon's planning for use of island re Jr. insit to LNP. New fends for Asst. HIGH Selp so GBD can have new role -Henry VanDyke (8/16) to GBD no, - ce Elict 2nd "Future of let. Desert" dinner + Virgi allusion - boundressof A we.by W W.Shist, 2nd (5/28) - George Nixon Black Jr. dies & leaves remains of his estate to HCTPR. -Camerer to Jr. (10/10)re nist of Cong. erompton to LNP + Canners our wit. Discuss Schoolic ri change in legislation lineting parkto MPI Dorr's new duties appt. of Assoc. Super TRANSCRIPTION OF G.B. DORR LETTER TO D.ROCKEFELLER JR. FEB. 14, 1927 Source: RAC III.2.I. B85. f. 839 What you said, incidentally, in your recent letter concerning the Arnold Arboretum, of having been laid up with a severe cold makes me think it worthwhile to write you of my own experience-starting some twenty odd years ago [during] one of the then prevalent influenza epidemics, I had a series of heavy and persistent 'cold' attacks, two of which- one in the winter in Boston; the other on a trip abroad-resulted in pneumonia. A third time, afterward, I narrowly escaped it. Bacterial infections apparently got into my system and I had a series of similar colds, staring from slight apparent cause and hanging on persistently, with tendency to temperature conditions, until a year ago at Mesa Verde, I caught a fresh infection which rapidly developed into an ear attack and absess, which later broke fortunately-for I was out of reach of surgical aid but was long in healing after I had returned to Boston and put myself under an aurist's care-owing to the constant recurrence of the cold infection which had brought it on. Finally, seeing this, my aurist aorist advised me to try an anti-vaccine treatment, giving me the address in Boston of a man whom he thought highly of and who had made a speciality of this. I tried it. I was found infected on examination with a number of influenzas, or cold producing species of bacteria-probably of gradual and long accumulation in my system. An anti-vaccine was prepared to treat the condition and I underwent [for] some weeks vaccination treatment, since then I have had no serious attack or development into the old conditions. I found a number of my friends in Boston including doctors, had been taking similar treatment, and with good result SO far as I had chance to learn. This treatment is relatively new but I believe it has come to stay and that it points the way to overcoming what in these days of indoor, city life and widespread contagions is linescapable-infections carried on the air [which] has become a serious threat. You, of course, have at hand the best of medical advice, but the best, because it has attained to that position, is apt to be conservative and this is new-still in ?????-so take my experience into consideration to use if you find yourself-as I at times have done-'up against it.' The limit to our knowledge yet is narrow, but it is widening. No need to answer this, it is just a friendly word, telling of my own experience. The name of the doctor in Boston making a speciality of this to whom aurist my aorist sent me-should you wish it-is George P. Sanborn (320 Commonwealth Ave. Boston). That is all! Yours Sincerely, George B. Dorr U UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON February 10. 1927 Wemorandian for Mr. Acher: Redeip & is acknowledged of your membrandum calling for # report. in accordance with the order of the Secretary, dated Feb- murry 4, 1927, on the physical condition and officiency of George B. Dorn, of Lafayette National Park and certain other appointoes. In the 0000 of Mile George 3. Dorr, whose length of service is only ben years, an exceptional situation presente itself. La Tayette is the only national park east of the All of the other national parks were cerved from the public domain but this pas) was started na a national monument from donations of land, or lend secured from donations of monoy. in a section of the coun- try where land values are comparatively high. When the national paric with established by Act of Fobruary 26. 2919, this unique situation was recognized by Congress, by granting authority under the iot to continue the enlargement of the park area by such donations. The park now covera more than eight thousand neros, the complete title of which is in the United States. Further- more, thousands of ecrea secured through Mar. Dorr's efforts are now in the hands of a holding company created to take over such lands and investigate the titles before they are transferred to the United 2 States, and one of the donors of certain lands proposed to be added to the park has placed title to thousands of acres additional in Nr. Dorr's name to be transferred to the park upon the happening of certain contingencies, this land involving upmards of $250,000. Only today Mr. Dorr has advised mG that he had secured the add1- tional donation of 2000 acres of valuable land for park purposes, which be has placed in the hands of the holding company prior to its transfer to the United States. He has Also shown me letters, confidentially, which pledge a large sun for an essential item in connection with the development of educational facilities in the park under the plans of the Department. Mr. Sorr is in the midst of the work of gathering important Lands for park purposes and be should not be interrupted. In fact, it is due to his untiring efforts and real alone and to the confidence and interest people of uesza have had in him and his work, and through his wide that the park has been made possible and the extension of the game continued to round out the ultimate park plan. The records above that for years he served as superintendent of this park at the nominal salary of $13 a year. A great deal of his patrimony has been used in the accomplishment of this work and he him- self has been the donor of hundreds of acres of exceptionally valuable land for park purposes at strategically important points. He is in 2 excellent health and good physical condition and from the above it is obvious that nothing can be said against his efficiency OF value as the park superintendent. The continuation of his services AS superintendent of the park is most important. (8gri) ARNO B. CAMMERJAN Acting Director. luning 40 WEST FIFTY-NINTH STREET Mch. 157927 Near Photoentello I have your valued letter, and the repaint on "WilliamBingham awhiilands waring the Patter from it's beginning - when once I started It was Extremely intreating am of information and complete form -That my wonder Non Excited at Every page, that you had the art gmaking history so readable and convincing - Estate on the Ocean driveway have The "Hare Forest and thingham The rabbit family - and with Some always with Connecticul Bingham of Windham, Come. where my father Fran born & where I spent my summers as a child. I am please t have a letter from In rilchient who welcomes the opportunity to Cooperite with us and will begin on plans adetails when he hear from me - I have prat written him that Imill how get my Committee to decide on the location- - If they Cannot immediately choose a definite spot, M. G. knows the lay of the land Which is flat- - and available for any suitable - tho he should know N. S.E.West which me Cars telt him I feel most qualeful for suggesting so good a mas as I know he will be for just our work. my Committee is chairman Mn ym C Endiesth Treasurer - Judge Luere Bocasy An. swadom Mr. & Harry Lynam 1 + Three other - with from ug w Smark Robut Able LITTORAL VEGETATION ON A HEADLAND OF MT. DESERT ISLAND, MAINE. I. SUBMERSIBLE OR STRICTLY LITTORAL VEGETATION 1 DUNCAN S. JOHNSON AND ALEXANDER F. SKUTCH Purpose In the present investigation we have undertaken to determine the precise limits of distribution, vertically and horizontally, of each littoral plant and plant association found on a high, rocky point of Mt. Desert Island, Maine, known as Otter Cliffs. Our object was the discovery of the external con- ditions limiting this distribution. Most of the observations to be recorded were made during July, August and early September of the years 1923 to 1925. In March 1927 the junior author spent three days studying the late winter flora of our area, and the senior author followed the seasonal development of the vegetation from June to September of the exceptionally cool and backward summer of 1927. Area and Methods Otter Cliffs are on the south side of the island, close by the Ogden Station of the Mt. Desert Island Biological Laboratory, and are completely exposed to the heavy surf of the open Atlantic. They lie near 44° 19' N. latitude and 68° II' W. longitude. Our work was carried on from the Weir Mitchell Station of this laboratory as a base. The area most carefully studied extends 150 feet north and south, and 300 feet east and west, and includes elevations from - 8 to + 50 feet (Chart I). It was selected because of the widely varied habitats provided by the rock surfaces of many different slopes and exposures, and by tide-pools of very different sizes at many different levels. It embraces some bottom at 4 to 8 feet below mean low water, of rocky or gravelly character, and a bit of coarse shingle and boulders between 7 and 13 feet above low water, while the rest of the littoral zone is of granite or schist cliffs and ledges, with some trap dikes. Not until the 20-foot level, IO feet above mean high tide, is reached do we find even minute pockets of soil in 1 Botanical Contribution No. 87 from the Johns Hopkins University. The authors gratefully acknowledge here the courtesy of the Trustees and of Director Ulric Dahl- gren of the Mt. Desert Island Biological Laboratory in affording them the facilities of the Laboratory for carrying on this work. They also here express their thanks to 482 Superintendent George B. Dorr of Lafayette National Park, for help in fastening our tide-stake to the ledges, and for transportation to the area in March 1027. They are indebted also to Doctor A. S. Hitchcock for naming the grasses and to Doctors M. A. Howe, Albert Mann, and W. R. Taylor and J. E. Tilden for identifying various algae collected in the area studied. 188 Ecology 9 (1928) 188-215 HAER ME HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD 5-BAHA.V, 6- CADILLAC MOUNTAIN ROAD HAER No. ME-58 I. INTRODUCTION LOCATION: Between Park Loop Road and Cadillac Mountain Summit, Bar Harbor vicinity, Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Hancock County, Maine Quad: Seal Harbor, ME UTMS: West end: Park Loop Road 19/560630/4912875 East end: Cadillac Mountain summit 19/561700/4911150 DATE OF CONSTRUCTION: 1929-1932 DESIGN: Bureau of Public Roads ENGINEER: Leo Grossman, Bureau of Public Roads, Resident Engineer CONTRACTORS: Joseph P. McCabe, Inc., Boston, MA, grading Green and Wilson, Waterville, ME, surfacing STRUCTURE TYPE: Park scenic highway FHwA STRUCTURE NO: NPS Route 1A OWNER : Acadia National Park, National Park Service 1 SIGNIFICANCE: The Cadillac Mountain summit, chief peak of Acadia National Park, is the highest point on the Atlantic Coast between Labrador and Brazil. The Cadillac Mountain Road makes the summit accessible to park motorists and is one of the chief attractions of the park. PROJECT INFORMATION: Documentation of the Cadillac Mountain Road is part of the Acadia National Park Roads and Bridges Recording Project, conducted in 1994- 95 by the Historic American Engineering Record. This is one in a series of project reports. HAER No. ME-11, ACADIA NATIONAL PARK MOTOR ROADS, contains an overview history of the park motor road system. Richard H. Quin, HAER Historian, 1994 2. CADILLAC MOUNTAIN ROAD HAER No. ME-58 (page 12) in the road project, he knew his employer would want the road situated on the best possible location, both from a scenic as well as an economic viewpoint. Rockefeller did not quote any specific recommendations that Simpson had made in his review, but forwarded the warning on to Cammerer, inferring that the Park Service might well reconsider the route. 29 That fall, Cammerer and NPS Chief Landscape Engineer Thomas C. 1977 Vint arrived in Acadia to study government policies regarding the park and the landscape problems involved in its development. The two drafted a general management plan for the park, which among other things, discussed potential concessionaire operations and the existing and planned roads. No concessions were operating within the park boundary. They took notice of the Jordan Pond House as an "attractive and popular teahouse, " but made the distinction that it was located on private land. However, they warned that once the Cadillac Mountain Road was completed, there would be demands to provide another tea-house or a hotel on the summit. While they agreed tea room service might be appropriate, as visitors coming to see the fabled sunrise were "entitled" to a good cup of coffee, they called the idea of a hotel "dangerous. " If accommodations with meal service were offered for a few, they argued, demands for expansion would inevitably occur, eventually resulting in the development of a "regular seashore resort" to the detriment of both the park and the community. They urged that no other concessions should be planned. 30 FOR ROCKEFELLER BRIDGE. Special to The New York Tice New York Times (1857-Current file): Apr 3, 1927; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times April 3, 1927. pg. E10 FOR ROCKEFELLER BRIDGE. Legislature Authorizes $500,000 Structure at Sea Harbor, Maine. Special to The New York Times. SEAL HARBOR, Me., April 2.-The Legislature has given to John D. Rockefeller Jr. permiss: in to erect a $500,000 bridge across tidewater at Otter Creek in the region that the late Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President Emer- itus of Harvard, loved so well. The suggestion is being pressed that the structure be named in memory of Dr. Eliot. This bridge, stretching from a small mountain across tidewater near the navy's radio station and a picturesque cluster of fishing shacks, will add to the beauty of the famous Ocean Drive over which President Eliot often rode in the days before automobiles were allowed on the island. Reproduced with permission of the copynght owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT April 8, 1927. Dear Dr. Abbe: Mr. Gilchrist will, I hope, have seen you yesterday morning, for such was his plan, and have given you his own account of his visit. He met me, as planned, on Sunday evening at the station in Boston and spent two full and profitable days with me here in which much ground was covered. The site we had in mind, on the right of the entrance to the Spring, he decided was too big for what is planned, dwarfing the building. I then showed him the one under the mountain which I had had earlier in mind and this he found ideal and felt that he could design a most attractive building for it. Looking the land over with him, I agreed entirely. By bringing it closer, also, into the Spring's vicinity the problem of its admini tration will be greatly simplified. A short flagged walk will lead to it across the lawn, and seen through a fringe of trees it will have just the suggestion of seclusion which will carry out, I think, your aim. The space is one I cleared with another purpose seven or eight years ago, opening a view to the cliff on the west and taking out the trees SO as to leave a good growth of hemlocks and birthes framing it around. The opening, which is roughly circular, is just of size for rightly framing a building such as planned, which would also have full light and show its beauty on all sides. The material which Mr. Gilchrist selected, after seeing everything that could be shown him, is a granite of a pale pink tinge of very pleasant tone, neither cold nor yet too strong in color, which we can get from a quarry in the Park off the new motor road, for use on which it has been opened. The roof Mr. Gilchrist would like to make of tile such as Egisto Fabbri selected for the neighboring spring octagon building and which were originally sent out for it from Italy but which, when repair was necessary owing to faulty construc- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 2. tion, Mr Whitaker, who did that work for me, had made at the brickyard near Bangor, at quite reasonable cost. Mr. Gilchrist went with me to your house and saw with great interest such portion of the collection which Robbins had on view, together with your map. He saw also everything I thought it might be useful for him to see in the way of new or earlier construction. He understands the need of making his plan without delay, and I believe that he will do it well and with right feeling. I showed the paper -- the extract from the letter you gave me to bring, to Mr. Lynam, who has put it in his safe. He tells me that in the event of the death of the writer it would not be of legal effect, though convincing as to intention. So before actually commencing construction, after the plan is finished it will be wise to wait till something putting the matter on a safe legal basis is secured. Ending in haste for a closing mail, I am Yours sincerely, was of OUR NATIONAL PARKS BECOME UNIVERSITIES New York Times (1857-Current file); Apr 24, 1927; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. X15 OUR NATIONAL PARKS BECOME UNIVERSITIES In the First Decade of Their Organization Public Atten- dance Has Increased Fivefold-Nature Is the Teacher And Textbook in the Great Laboratories 0 UR national parks may be con- common roadside rain-washed gully. give notice of a popular lecture for sidered among the few great un- is the Grand Canyon, from the rim the evening on the habits of Rocky changing things in America. of which, a mile down and many Mountain sheep or on glaciers and The processes whereby nature miles away, may be seen the tiny their origin. They advise a pag- shaped them 1 ntheir magnificence go sliver string of the Colorado, fashioner eant setting forth the message of on, but at a rate of change attuned to of these vast amphitheatres of ever- the giant trees or retelling some bit the universe and hence infinitesimal in changing hue, these myriad minarets of ancient Indian lore. Rangers chos- the experience of living men. and pinnacles and towers. Another That human hands should make no course in the same study is offered en for the parks are often naturalists, in Yosemite Valley, cut to a depth of perhaps college professors or univer- material alteration is the very reason 3,000 feet by the Merced River before sity students who have made special- for their preservation as national the ice age began and then quarried ties of the territory they cover; and parks. Their animals know no hunt- out by glaciers, leaving granite prect- scientists are engaged for lecture work er's gun; their trees no woodman's pices rising five or six times the and field courses. axe. Roads are threaded in and out height of the Woolworth Building Guides and Interpreters. so painstakingly that scenery is con- above the valley's wooded floor. Zion, served and buildings are designed and a Yosemite painted in fiery vermilion Interpretative guide service is now placed to harmonize or be inconspicu- and dazzling white, gives erosion's available in Yosemite, Yellowstone, ous against the background nature story yet another chapter. Glacier, Mount Rainier, Sequola, affords. Nevertheless, change has Yosemite has its Mariposa Grove of Grand Canyon. Zion, Crater Lake and come not in the revelations the big trees and Grand Canyon has its Mesa Verde National Parks and at guide as to how water collects in the the Petrified Forest National Monu- geyser crater at the bottom of a fis- parks have to offer, but in the man- ment and Casa Grande, the ruins or sure in the form of a constricted ner in which they have been brought STEPHEN T. MATHER great prehistoric dwellings built on tube connecting with the surface; how to offer them. The parks are still playgrounds. the Arizona desert probably before in the hot strata of earth it becomes the high Sierras still echo jazz strains the time of Columbus. In the Yel- sufficiently heated to expand, lifting and the careless laughter of city vaca- lowstone, at Grand Canyon, Yosemite the column of cooler water above it tionists who come to keep cool and to and Mount Rainier, natural trails, into the air; how the water later seeps entertain themselves. The Grand labeled with geological data and in- back through the rocks to the crater formation on the birds, flowers and and rhow the performance is repeated Canyon draws Summer campers who all over again. give the canyon Itself but a casual trees of the region, have been marked Visitors to Glacier National Park do look. Yet the national park system is out for those who prefer to do their more than sigh ecstatically over the evolving into something else. It has rambling by themselves. still depths of crystal lakes and the begun to be seen and accepted as a Here and there, largely through the giddy heights of mountains clawed and great out-of-doors university where interest of the American Association scarred by time. nature is the "supreme teacher as well of Museums and the donations of At the Petrifled Forest the wayfarer as the master textbook," in the words friends, museums have made their learns how water carrying silica in of Hubert Work, Secretary of the De- appearance at the parks and monu- solution seeped into living trees long partment of the Interior. ments. The museum may be a fine ago, filling their cells with deposit The Parks and Education. building with carefully displayed ex- and replacing their solid parts as they hibits and classroom equipment, or Appreciation of the educational decayed, until a fabric of stone was it may be a few handmade boxes of value of the parks and their general wrought to duplicate the fabric of specimens gathered under a tent. In use to that end have increased through wood. At Mesa Verde the visitor the first decade of the National Park any case it is a collection that acts learns the way of life, the building Service, a milestone passed this as an index to the large museum out- methods and the city planning ideas month. Before the organization of side; as a stimulus to interest and of America's ancient men. the service in April, 1917, the na- as an explanation of phenomena to Park Extension Courses. be seen as they occur in nature on tional parks and monuments under the spot. Yellowstone, Yosemite and The National Park Service In its the Department of the Interior were administered by a bureau charged Mesa Verde have full-fledged mu- lately found mission of ministering to seums, and lesser exhibits housed in the minds as well as to the bodies and with manifold activities. Their af- temporary structures are offered at the emotions of the traveling millions fairs were attended to if and when Herris & Ewing, From Times Wide other things left time. Before Frank- World. Mount Rainier, Zion Sequota, Recky has pursued its educational policy with lin K. Lane as Secretary of the De- Director of the National Park Mountain, Glacier and Lafayette. In a thought also for those who may Service. connection with some of these miu- never see the parks. The University partment of the Interior made a seums, libraries are being colleeted for of Nature is gradually building up an cause of national park work, the extension department designed to parks presented a conglomeration, it the convenience of the research stu- reach far afield. Schools, clubs and was said, rather than a system; and dent. fossil plant and animal remains. But organizations all over the country, even Secretary Lane's improvements the college of dendrology is Sequoia, Tourist Throngs Reached. says the director of the service, Ste- left many things to be improved. in California, where the 4,000-odd- One hundred and fifty thousand of phen T. Mather, are seeking informa- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 2. A new era began with the creation year-old General Sherman tree, al- the 275,000 visitors to Yosemite were tion on the parks in increasing num- of the service as a separate bureau of most as high as the Flatiron Building reached last year by the museum, na- bers; are asking for lecturers, lan- the Department of the Interior. The and thick enough to accommodate a ture guides, lectures and camp fire tern slides, photographs and moving first decade has witnessed physical driveway and two street car tracks talks; and in the Yellowstone some picture reels to bring the parks within expansion, three parks-the Grand through its heart. is but one of an SS.000 visitors came into contact with their reach. Canyon of the Colorado, Zion in enormous grove. The college of pale- the ranger naturalists. When the Whenever possible the service sends Southern Utah and Lafayette on the ontology is the Petrified Forests in other parks are taken in, hundreds a representative to them, but on ac- coast of Maine-having been added to Arizona, where an area of forty of thousands of persons are seen to count of its limited personnel it has the system, bringing the total to square miles is strewn with prostrate have availed themselves of the educa- had more generally to adopt the prac- nineteen. Four others have been tree stumps of stone. Mesa Verde, tional facilities offered where none tice of supplying the material and authorized, though not yet estab- where prehistoric people hung cities existed before. leaving the presentation to an out- lished: Utah in the West, and Great on the sheer sides of sandstone cliffs, Tourist curiosity as to the under- sider. Such assistance is extended so Smoky Mountains, Shenandoah and is an institution of anthropological ground workings that send geysers that as many as possible of those de- Mammoth Cave in the East. The studies. shooting into the air is not left to be nied the privilege of residence in na- boundaries of several of the older Laboratories of Science. diverted to other attractions or to sat- ture's university may nevertheless parks have been extended, and the isfy itself with their imaginings. Ex- learn at her knee something of crea- number of national monuments has Scientists have found the national planation is to be had from the nature tion's story. been increased from nineteen to parks, one after another, rich fields thirty-two. A national monument, for endeavor. whether with whisk generally speaking, is distinguished brooms among the habitations of cliff from a national park as a smaller area dwellers or with magnifying glasses reserved proclamation among twisted strata. More recently instead pro- schools and colleges have used them tect some his- been and even During the to of by scientific the automobile the Congressional more particular Presidential the concerted parks striking first value. year is in object largely act, of of to as laboratories. toric The National Park Service has em- An development barked on a more comprehensive edu- has movement of cational program, however, than is people season, for involved in cooperation with these which cred- groups. As visitors have tended to ited. the Na- extend their stay, often camping in tional Park Service's régime there the parks for weeks at a time, pop- were fewer than a half million visitors ular demand has arisen to know the to the parks and monuments; last whys of unusual formations; to learn year there were almost two and a half the names of flowers and animals and millions. birds. And in response the National New Park Problems. Park Service has undertaken to set forth nature's textbook in terms the These throngs have given rise to average man can understand. questions of water supply, sanitation, Bulletin boards at the various stop- housing, transportation, food and fuel ping places speak to the tourists in that have assumed metropolitan pro- a different manner than that of ten portions. In some of the parks it is years ago. They invite him to hike necessary even to have United States marshals on duty to try cases of with the nature guide and learn from him the full story of the trail. They speeding and reckless driving. Yet the administration, with great and growing problems on its hands, has not been content merely to see the crowds safely and comfortably in, through and out, but has charged it- self as well with teaching them some- thing as they go. In the conception of the national park system as a super-university of the natural sciences, each college presents a personality of its own, spe- cializing on some particular natural endowment. For the study of glacier action the public may turn to Glacier National Park, in Montana, with its ruggedly carved mountains, its twisted, scooped-out valleys, its doz- ens of small glaciers and its mirror tains like tinted and frosted birthday lakes. Or one may take the glacier cakes. Obsidian Cliff exhibits the course to equal advantage at the black volcanic glass used for arrow- more accessible Rocky Mountain Park heads by Indians who dared not brave of Colorado, in the most magnificent section of the Great Continental Di- the already hissing deities by ventur- vide. Again, he may elect Mount ing further into their vaporous do- Rätnier, in Washington, capped by a main, and Specimen Ridge shows fos- frozen giant octopus stretching its ice sil forests alternating with layers of tentacles down twenty-eight grooves lava to a height of 2,000 feet. at the rate of sixteen inches a day- the greatest single peak glacier system A college of stream erosion, of in the United States. which the kindergarten form is the A vast geophysical laboratory lies in the Yellowstone. Here volcanic ac tion of the past has left its trace on plains that steam from pools of rain- bow tint and silvery sheen; geysers like "monstrous dancing ghosts" dis- play their waterworks and hot springs ooze over terraces built up into moun- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Seal Harbor, Maine, June 11, 1927. Dear Mr. Rockefeller:- I an looking up the weights, dimensions, etc., of the eight seeing busses used in this part of the country, and will report more fully in a couple of days in regard tb the effect of their une on A surface treated road almilar to our new automobile road. ihile many or the large busses used in and about the cities on hard surfaced roads are equipped with hard rubber tires most of the buse lines running over country rands equip their busses with presidatio tires n.id in name cases use the double trend on the rear wheels. A busis of reasonable welnit and eize traveling within eighteen miles per hour would probably not injure the surface if it traveled near the center or the rond. Most of the eight seeing busses are quits wide however and I fear they would have to travel pretty well out on the aide of the road In passing other care - and that their heavy weight would have a destruc- , Ive effect on the shoulders in their present condition. If we could pave the sides of the shoulders and ditches - as should like to do none tile the dancer would not be so great. But at the present time a heavy land near the edge of the shoulder might at certain points crowd the material or the shoulder into the ditch and make the maintenana and repair costs high. Heavy vehicles are of course iore destructive to any surface than are light onea - unless their speed can be controlled and kept within a 10# 11mlt. the chief danzer is caused by the jush of the wheels In starting and stopping and travelin at excessive speeds. These actions tend to cause rollows and bunchen In the surface, especially in hot weather - and when once R bunch or a hollow is forned levery our passing over he3 the effect or a. heavy weight striking the surface - and the greater the speed the heavier the blow. I think 1t would be well to establish and enforce n speed limit of any eighteen miles per hour on this road - as it is not to be used commercially. ) Rapidly moving light vehicles are very destructive to untreated surfaces on account of the suction of the rubber tires - which draws out the binding material and causes the surface to disintegrate. 10 are protected against this danger by our bituninous aurface treatment. I will report later on the weights and sizes of the sight seeing busses used on the Maine roads. Very truly yours, Cir. John D. Hockefeller, Jr., Brondway, York, N. Y. r. Dorr. Brook End BAR HARBOR MAINE 30 June 1927. Mr. William Otis Sawtello, Haveford, Pa. My dear Mr. Sawtelle: I am extremely sorry to hear of your wife's continued illness, and that you will not come with her before the last of July. I hear that your building is progressing and that the interesting shell heap finds, which you considered giving me, are laid out ready to be seen. I am more than ever anxious to secure them for my collection, to which I am sure they will be a needed addition. Professor Moorehead has let Mrs. Salta help me during the summer in arranging my collection. It will not I fear be quite sufficient to fill the cases I have space for. The Lafayette National Park Museum building is assured finan- cially and the foundations are laid, and the work going on rapidly. It ought to be finished before the end of the summer. Such an unique collection as I propose I am adhering to, but I am leaving he space for more material while weeding out process makes it what I have designed. Would it be possible for me to have Mrs. Salta come over before you arrive and bring over the stone implements for study and arrangement. She can come any day. I am very much pleased with Mr. Gilchrist's work for me and most thankful that you directed me to him. Accept my best wishes for Mrs. Sawtelle's recovery. Sincerely yours, RA-S 1427 V.I.S. 28 SEAL HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY 29 Committees of the four Village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, North- THE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK : east and Southwest Harbor. on Mount Desert Island, Me. The motor road commenced in the fall of includes 12,000 acres of mountains, woods and 1922 leading from Great Pond Hill, on the Bar : lakes Harbor Road to Somesville, to the Jordan Office, Corner Park Road and Main Street Pond House is now completed and will be open for use in early July. Work is proceeding on Bar Harbor, Maine the road leading from this to the summit of Superintendent George B. Dorr Green or Cadillac Mountain and is open to the Assistant Superintendent A. H. Lynam public as far as to a striking point of view over- Chief Ranger Benjamin L. Hadley looking Bar Harbor and Frenchman's Bay. Clerk Carl G. Nowack The lakes within and bordering the Park Clerk Typist Grace M. Oakes have been extensively stocked with fish sup- Publications: "Rules and Regulations," in- plied by the State Fish and Game Commis- cluding a brief history and description of the sion, about 150,000 fry and 100,000 fingerling Park, Free. salmon and trout being planted annually. Deer have steadily increased in number Map of the United States Geological Survey Lafayette National Park sheet with geological in the Park, as have Ruffed Grouse and other description compiled from the Shaler and other birds, taking advantage of the sanctuary accounts, 10 cents. given them. The beavers presented to the The Acadian Forest by George B. Dorr, Park by the State Fish and Game Commission in 1921 and 1922 have increased to an extent 25 cents. where control measures have become necessary The Park is interlaced with many miles of to prevent their spread. There is now a well wood and mountain trails. These are de- established colony at New Mill Meadow on veloped and maintained through the Path Duck Brook, where a lake which is a feature in 1927 30 SEAL HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY 31 the landscape from the mountains has been created by them, and another on the outlet from Aunt Betty's Pond. These colonies form in- BY-LAWS teresting features of the Island's native and original life. Those which have wandered No. 1-NAME Name. elsewhere are being trapped by the park rangers 1 by a method devised by the United States The Society shall be known as Biological Survey which does not injure them the Seal Harbor Village Improve- and are being shipped away to points where ment Society. beaver are desired. No. 2-BOARD OF DIRECTORS Number of members. Additional publications of interest: The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than ten nor Trail map of the Eastern Part of Mt. Desert Island. more than twenty members, all of whom shall be elected at the Monograph of the Geology of Mt. Desert, illustrated: F. Bascomb. annual meeting of the members of History of Mt. Desert: by Dr. George Street. the Society by ballot or other The Flora of Mt. Desert: by Edward Rand. method provided by vote of the members of the Society, and shall hold office until their successors are elected. In addition to the elected directors, the President, the Vice-Presidents, the Secretary, the Treasurer and the members of the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Mount Desert shall be ex-officio members of the Board of Directors. The regular annual meeting 01 the Village Improvement Association of Bar Harber was hold at the Y. M. C. A. Builling on Thursday morning, this ac Sept. 1, 1927, at eleven o'slock, forty-four being present. maintai claim c Mr. Blair presided. To As the secretary's report of the last annual meeting had been ing and read at a previous meeting and had been sent out in printed form, it was voted accepted without again being presented. secured The secretary's report for the meeting of Aug. 11, 1927, was vot- isnal ed accepted. was in Mr. El The Treasurer's report, showing a balance on hand of $1,182.76, possib. was approved as read and ordered to be placed on file. purpos points A statement from a public auditor, verifying the accounts of the ized. Treasurer, was voted approved and ordered placed on file. A Reports 01 untouch serve & Major Barnett, for the Finance Committee It mus Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, for the Village Committee ure, a: Mr. Dave H. Morris, for the Sanitary Committee Mr. Harold Peabody, for the Paths Committee M Mr. Fred c. Lynan for the Reads Committee, and ing. Mr. Albiea T. Sherman ( verbal ) for the Parks Committee A were voted approved as read and ordered placed on file. There was no repert from the Committee on Publisity. This being the moting for the annual election, it was Voted that the same officers be retained for the year 1927-1928, the President to appoint the chairman of the various standing committees and each chair- man to appoint the members of his committee. Mr. Blair resuming his chair as president for the ensuing year continued with the new business of the meeting; and, after discussion, 1927 the following RESOLUTIONS were passed : A Harbor That the complaints in regard to the truck nuisance and the buildir untidiness in Albert Meadow be referred to the Village Con- mittee with power to act; That the guidebook to be published by Mr. Harold Peabody is is- sued with the approval of the Village Improvement Association Th That the salary of Mr. H. M. Conners for the coming fiscal year Village shall be raised from Fifty dollars to One hundred dollars; was not and seal to That, WHEREAS the path extending along the Bay Drive from near Duck Brook to Hulls Cove and known as the Gurnee Path has been By constructed by this Association by permission of the owners of the land over which the path extends, and WHEREAS it is desired that a permanent record be made to is the effect that such construction and the maintainence and use As: of said path be clearly shown to be by permission of the owners and not under a claim of right and that the owners thereof have By the right at any time to cancel the privilege of maintaining and the atte using said path, Albert M UPON MOTION it is unanimously VOTED to place upon the records Mrs secure b very bad due to t. mentione No I Adjo 2. 31 at Association this acknowledgement that said path has been constructed and is ursday morning, maintained and used by permission of the owners and not under a mt. claim of right. To the pleasure of all, Dr. Abbe was present at the meet- ing and responded to an invitation to make a brief speech. s had been ted form, it W. Mr. Charles Eliot, the landscape architect who had been secured to make a study of the problem of developing the nat- isnal park and, in particular, of the plans for road building, 1927, was vot- was introduced to the meeting and asked to make his report. Mr. Eliot, after stating that definite recommendations were im- possible at that time, gave a general explanation of the diverse 1 $1,182.76, purposes that a national park must serve and of the different points of view in regard to these purposes that must be harmon- ised. counts of the A national park, for example, must have certain regions untouched by the inroads of modern civilization and must pre- serve areas of wilderness important for scientific reasons. It must also be used, on the other hand, for the health, pleas- ure, and recreation of the public. ... Mr. Eliot made no specific recommendations to the meet- ing. nd Committee Adjourned at 12.10. Respectfully submitted, Frank B. Rowell, Sec. was Voted that President to and each chair- insuing year IT discussion, 1927 A special meeting of the Village Improvement Association of Bar Harber was hold, upon call, on September 15th, 1927, in the Y. M. C. A. and the building, at 11.00 o'clock 4. K.. age Com- Tourteen were present. sbody is is- Mr. Blair presided. vociation The Treasurer reported that a seal for the corporation of the fiscal year Village Improvement Looceistics, although required by the Sy-Lers, 11ers; was net known to be if existence; asi be exhibited the treeing of a seal to be made at cace for efficial purposes. free near has been By motion daly made, seconded, and passed, it was TOTED owners That the seal as represented by Mr. Conners be, and hereby made to is, approved as the official seal of the Village Improvement Association. i and use the owners ereef have By way of further business, Mrs. Cadwalader Jones again called taining and the attention of the meeting to the unsatisfactory conditions in Albert Meadow. in the records Mrs. Markoe asked if the Association might not do something to secure better housing in one or two sections where conditions were very bad. Upon discussion, these conditions were declared to be due to the incapacity and degeneracy of a few families in the places mentioned, and the problem too complex for a hasty solution. No action was taken. Adjourned at 11.30. Frank B. Rowell THE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK MUSEUM OF THE STONE AGE PERIOD TRUSTEES OFFICERS ROBERT ABBE WILLIAM C. ENDICOTT LUERE B. DEASY PRESIDENT GEORGE B. DORR LUERE B. DEASY WILLIAM C. ENDICOTT TREASURER A. ATWATER KENT WILLIAM LAWRENCE DAVE HENNEN MORRIS CHARLES H. WOOD Left 15/27 BAR HARBOR, MAINE Dear Mrs. Dunham Your tender and channing letter brings bach memories of Past yay when Ims abbe loved to Call on you for long and Earnest and looked forward to Calh- and when 1 sat at doctor Dhunhams feet It pleases me to know that hey Part four years of En forced quiet have left me free to accomplish a new work which is to be of use and beauty to our whole island Not Summer I will have installed in ournewmusum a unique collection of maps and stone implements which I hat to s how you - and which you have [emenously Thanks helped me to perfect accept my devoted - It 20 a forrow to hearthat your loved daughter has not been well. with Warm remembered to her & Corrial Thanks to you Lincency RobertAble 9/12/27 Arro MEMORANDUL! OIL A DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK A review of the files of the Department and of the National Pari: Service in Washington shows that, since the establishment of the Lafayette National Far: in Maine, on several occasion when motor or carriage roads were planned whose location and construction involved the use of national park land, opposition to such projects was shown by a few of the sumer residents on the Island of Mount Desert. This oppo- sition was mainly evidenced of letters to the Department asking that the Secretary stop this construction of withholding his formal approval for the use of such of the part lands as are involved. Special inspection trips for studying these particular proj ects were made at various times by executive officers 02 the Department and of the National Park Service and by the landscape architects of the Service; and an open public hearing was held in Washin ton in 1924 nar ticularly on the road building plans for the tark. During the past year the necessity of a general development clan for the par% has been urged upon the Service, 23 will be shown later, to include essential extensions 02 the park, plans for roads and trails, utility sites and other developments. These will be discussed later, and it is believed important at the start briefly to review the early [See "Roads"for complete 36-page Amo Cammerer report.] POLICE RECORD OF ACCIDENT to Mr. George B. Derr City of Boston Police Department LaGrange Street Station Eve Saturday, Dec. 24, 1927. Xmas About 1.30 in the afternoon of Dec. 24, 1927, Mr. George B. Dorr, 74 years, single, of the Somerset Club, 42 Beacon Street, City, while crossing Charles Street from the Common side, at the center gate, stopped and then walked in front of a Willys-Inight sedan, Virginia registration 9 -778, Engine Number 332308 - W - 1, owner's name and address unknown but left in charge of Max Bornstein, No. 36 Claremont Street, Boston, and operated by Harry W. Pertney, 47 Walther Street, City, operator's license number Massachusetts 468200, which was pro- ceeding northerly on Charles Street at the time of the accident. Mr. Derr was taken to the Massachusetts General Hospital in the same automobile and upon examination by Dr. Neptune was found to be suffering from a five-inch laceration on the center of the scalp, shock and questionable fracture of the skull and his name was placed on the danger list. His cousin, William C. Endicott of 163 Marlborough Street, was notified by Division 16, also his club was notified by Patrolman Daniel T. Lynch of Division 3. Witnesses: Elwym Bonney, 395 Cherry Street, West Newton, Mass; Alfred Goodman, 17 Allen Street, Boston, Patrolmen Sullivan and J. L. Marphy arrested at the time Harry W. Pertney, 24 years of age, 47 Waltham Street, for violation of the automobile laws, to wit: operating an unregistered car on Charles Street this afternoon. This automobile was put up in the Eliot Street Garage this afternoon. Portney was bailed by Commissioner Fahey in the sum of $100, cash furnished by himself this afternoon. Captain says car is not to be delivered until properly registered. Bornstein said this car was left (Daniel T. Lyneh, Div. 3) in his garage on Jan. 4, 1927. (Driscell, to Sergt. Newell) 1926 Willys-Knight Sedan--Grey & Black Page 1 of 1 Discount Willys Parts Willys Pickup Prices 2008 New Years 10% Off Special Online We Have Millions of Products Willys Pickup Shopping and Free Catalog for Sale. Reviews 1926 Willys-Knight Sedan--Grey & Black Image Copyright Serious Wheels A medium priced car from one of the major American car manufacturers (Willys-Overland) of the 1920s, the Willys-Knight was built from 1914-1933. Willys was known primarily for Jeep production after the war, forming the Jeep brand that is now owned by DaimlerChrysler. Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942 (3rd Ed) AMERICAN CARS Our review: I believe this book to be the finest achievement in the history of automotive journalism Author Beverly Rae Kimes has put together the work of a lifetime in nearly 1600 pages and over 5,000 photos. The completeness of this book is breathtaking-it includes car manufacturers that never got past the stage of announcements for cars that were never built! For the larger manufacturers, there are specs, stats, options, and even a contemporary (if sometimes guesstimate) priceguide. You can get lost for hours in this exceedingly well-written book Very highly recommended Price: $38.50 8 1/2 X 11. 1598 pages. 5000+ b&w photos Our rating: Serious Wheels Classic & Exotic Car Pictures PreWar American European Custom Note: An example of the automable which streech G. B Dorr on Charles street, Boston, Dec. 24, 1927 http://www.seriouswheels.com/1920-1929/1926-Willys-Knight-Sedan-Grey-Black.htm 12/29/2007 Verizon Yahoo! 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Search Shortcuts Presently I've been working on 1927 (still 17 years to go) and was reminded of My Photos a fateful event in Boston on eighty years ago on Christmas Eve, 1927 that My Attachments almost shortened the scope of my Dorr biography. I have before me a police record of Dorr being severely injured while crossing Charles Street when he was struck by a Willys-Knight sedan from Virginia. The event was witnessed and the 24 year old driver was arrested for operating an unregistered car. Mr. Dorr was taken to MGH with a five-inch laceration on the center of his scalp, suffering from shock and a questionable fracture of the skull.l suspect that he stayed several days in the hospital before returning to his residence at the Somerset Club. How was your Christmas? Do you have plans for New Years Eve? We'll likely be in bed by 9 p.m. since Liz has to work New Years. I've largely mended from the severe back pain that kept me in bed for about ten days immediately prior to Xmas. I'm having an MRI on Monday to make sure the problem is not a pinched nerve or something more severe. Isn't aging fun ! Hope you are well and prospering. Has Anne returned from Colorado? Best ! Ron Delete Reply Forward Move Previous Next Back to Messages Save Message Text I Full Headers http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=9904_1232874_8172_653_969_0_ 1/19/2008 928 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK LIBRARY MINUTES OF THE TENTH NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE HELD IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA FEBRUARY 15, TC 21, 1928, INCLUSIVE YEAR BAR HARBOR MAINE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1928 ND HEADS APLETING PARICS Male Werk Services WILL ATTEND OF 1928 STONE AGE MUSEUM the STATE CONV That Harbot Churches Ellasbeth Directors to Carry Out Plans Made Bar Harbor Republic: --Other Hon- With Late Dr. Robert Abbe Last At. St. Saviour's Episcopal Church, Delegates and Town C n Commence- Summer Dr. William E. Patterson, rector, the for 1923 Campa Parts Holy Week services consist of Evening Work was begun this week by a crew Prayer at 7.30 each evening. On Maun- At a Republican caucus h d is the highest of men from Shes Brothers, under the dy Thursday there will be celebration of day evening at the Muni Bar Harbor High personal direction of Charles Shea, on the Holy> Communion at 7.30. Good room, Milton S. Arey, ch are and will be the the completion of the Museum near Friday services are as follows: Matins, sided. Serenus B. Rodick commencement Sieur de Monts Spring, which in June 10 in the morning; The Three Hours, clerk. iss Elizabeth Smith will house the collection of Indian relies 12 to 3; Evening prayer at 7.30. Delegates to the State C will be salutatori- made by the late Dr. Robert Abbe and At the Church of the Holy Redeemer Bangor the 29th were chose the class of 1928 upon which he spent many years. The (Catholic) Rev. Fr. Edward Fitzpatrick, Guy E. Torrey, Mrs. C. them picers on cases will be placed in June under the P. R. announces the services as follows: Harris L. McLean, Mrs. Harry Gor- direction of Oliver Applegate of the Beginning on Monday April 2, masses M. S. Arey, Mrs. Walters Miss Anna Lyon West and Rand Company. will be held at 8 in the morning for three man Shaw; alternates, Th These facts The work will go forward in the hands mornings. On Holy Thursday there will Mrs. C. E. Marcyes, Dr. E. Superintendent of the directors of the Lafayette National be mass at 7 in the morning and on Good Mrs. D. G. Hall, B. H. Y details of Park Museum of Stone Age Antiquities, Friday there will be a special service at 7 M. Conners, A. D. Smith. will carrying out in all details the work as in the evening, The Way of the Cross, Delegates to the District planned with them by Dr. Abbe last and sermon by the pastor. On Holy vacation. also held in Bangor on th summer. Saturday the service will be held at 7 in unusual features chosen as follows: Harry C. The work now going on is that of the morning with the blessing of the cement program Maurice Lymburner, Seth Augustus () plastering and laying brick floors, all in Easter Water, the Baptismal Water G. F. Alley Roy Hamor, the interior of the building. Mr. Shea and the Paschal Candle. that the programs West, A. B. Hodgkins: more of R demon- says this will take about a month, em- On Thursday and Friday evenings, Serenus B Rodick, Mrs. Ch It is under- ploying a crew of six men. The brick (the 5th and 6th) Holy Week services David 0. Rodick, Mrs. Ma with Dr. Thomas' used is like that in the body of the build- will be held in the Congregational Mrs. J. Adden Morse, Mrs. V will be given ing and is bought in Penobscot, the usual Church at 7.30 in the evening, with the D. G. Hall. eastern brick, of fine tone and finish. Methodist church uniting. Chaplain The Town Committee W2 The trustees of the Lafayette National Hayes will speak on Thursday evening follows: Mrs. Calvert H2 FINAL Park Museum of Stone Age Antiquities, and Rev. J. Homer Nelson on Friday Brown, Asa Hodgkins, Vi the association is named, are Judge evening. Mrs. Grace Fogg, J. Al ROM CATS Libere B. Deasy, Supt. George B. Dorr of Easter Services will be announced in Mrs J. M. Milliken, Mrs. Lifayette National Park, William C. next Wednesday's TIMES. ners, Thomas Searls, Mrs. Endicott. Esq. of Boston and Bar Har- H M. Conners, Guy E. T bor, A. Atwater Kent of Philadelphia and LEGION RECEIVES REMINDER Charles Keucher, Harris M lead for Three Bar Harbor, Rt. Rev. William Lawrence OF GERMANY'S WAR PLANS Seth Libby, M. S. Arey, Mrs. tiels Stronger of Hoston and Bar Harbor, DaveHennen Norman Shaw, Mark Mor Morris of New York and Bar Harbor, George Edwin Kirk Post, American C. E. Marcyés, Mrs. Cha: Mon. Charles H. Wood of Bar Harbor. Legion has recently received an inter- David O. Rodick, Mrs. Mal Mr. Endicott IS president and Judge esting addition to its growing collection of Mrs. J. Alden Morse, Mrs. Vi Heany is treasurer. war curios. Miss Agnes Miles Carpenter D. G. Hall, B. H. Young, Anso of New York and Bar Harbor has sent to Harry C. Copp, Mrs. Mauric MR. WOOD RESTING MORE E. Malcolm Brewer for presentation to er, Seth Libby, Mrs. G. F. COMFORTABLY TODAY his post, a copy of the authentic medal Hamor, Miss Esther West, A struck by the German Kaiser and in- kins, Serenus B. Rodick. Hon Charles H. Wood, who has been tended to commemorate the entry of the titically ill for the past week, is resting Huns into Paris. By order of the Kaiser W. C.A. TO HOLD VESI and his condition to- on July 16. 1918, these medals were to SERVICE NEXT good as can be expected, says be meited down immediately and every was The Lenten Vesper Serv PRESIDENT COOLIDGE CONSIDERING Pg. BAR HARBOR AS A SUMMER HOME Oldfarm, Estate of George B. Dorr, May be Summer White House--- Governor Brewster Calls on Chief Executive and Extends Invita- tion---President Expresses a Lively Interest in Coming to Bar Harbor for Summer Vacation This Year Oldfarm, George B. Dorr's Bar Harbor estate, has been offered to President Coolidge as a summer White House. The invitation to Maine and Bar Harbor was extended by Governor Brewster who was a caller at the White House Tuesday. President Coolidge is seriously considering coming to Bar Harbor and has expressed a desire to see photographs and a detailed description of the estate offered him by Mr. Dorr. Oldfarm Manor, Facing the Shore The first news of the invitation ex- for Bar Harbor. said to culminate in a sort of beautiful tended by Governor Brewster was re- Oldfarm, one of the Island's most beau- isolation, for the great extent of the ceived here over the radio at four o'clock tiful summer residences, is located about lands about it, its beautiful old flower Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Dorr was at a mile from the village of Bar Harbor, garden and the final merging of the home- Oldfarm when interviewed and told The its broad avenue leading off lower Main stead lands into the surpassing beauty of TIMES that he had discussed the matter street a short distance from where the the great growing gardens of the Mount with Governor Brewster and had told the road forks, to the right going toward Desert Nurseries' flowers, plants and Governor that he would be highly Seal Harbor and to the left leading out trees that give the estate charm that is lhonored to have the President make use to the Ocean Drive. peculiar to its location, unparalleled (of Oldfarm as a summer White House. The house sets far in from the Main upon the Island. Mr. Coolidge was much interested, street, reached by a tree-lined avenue of The house itself, built something like a Governor Brewster said, and asked many unique beauty, which sweeps up to half century ago, by the late Charles H. questions about facilities at Old Farm, broaden and curve before the front porch Dorr of Boston, is one of the oldest on rail and water communications and re- flanked by handsome lawns and beauti- the Island and one of the first to be creation provisions. Governor Brewster ful shrubs. built for practical winter as well as sum- promised that these details would be for- At the opposite side of the house from mer residence here. warded to the White House immediately. where the entrance drive reaches it, the The house is built with an eye to land slopes away in a terraced declivity, spaciousness and comfort. There is the Mr. Coolidge questioned Gov. Brews- granite stepped, reaching down at last gracious charm of old New England in ter about the fishing in Maine. Mr. to a broad grass land extending straight its simple arrangement of rooms, the Coolidge also was pleased that a summer over and down to the point which, needle wide hall, with its broad staircase, having ome at Bar Harbor would enable him like, extends into the sea. It is this the four larger rooms of the first floor o have the Presidential yacht, the May- somewhat curious formation of rocky opening off it directly. The largest room lower, at his disposal all summer. Mr. shore, like a compass needle, which, it is of the first floor, the parlor, looks out to- Coolidge is very fond of yachting and said, gave the harbor its name, Compass nissed the trips last summer when he Harbor, and the cottage also, which was vent to of South nalrate original farmhouse or the estate The Maine Congressional delegation when the Conners farm as it then was alled on Mr. Coolidge today and further known, was purchased by the late Charles urged him to spend his vacation in Maine. Hazen Dorr of Boston, father of Supt. Cyrus K. Curtis, who has a summer Dorr, and one of the earliest of Bar Har- place at Camden, will lunch with the bor's summer residents. President today and put in a good word Oldfarm's great attractions may be and enhanced window, from : which seascape and landscape is at any hour or any season a The practicallity of the house is as- bit of the most superb scenery Maine can sured too, by its fine heating equipment, the furnaces and heaters in the cellar offer. which the rock foundation ensures in Complete simplicity, the supreme at- lasting solidity. Steam and hot air keep traction of fine lighting, and the some- the great house comfortable in winter and thing of the house's atmosphere which its many beautiful fireplaces are admir- speaks the dignity and hospitality of the ably constructed for either winter aug- finest type of old New England manor menting or for chilly days which come to house, is predominant. The special places by the sea in a Maine summer. charm must naturally be felt by this or And there are fine bathrooms, linen that individual as reaching the greatest closets, clothes presses, and lavatories height in this or that room. A host of throughout the house. people have loved and admired the big The kitchen, laundry, small dining dining room where, for many, the glori- room, pantry, various closets, the two ous sweep of sky and sea, spreading in outside cottages and the outer laundry, surpassing beauty from the leaded glass all constructed and planned with a view door which lights the room and gives to convenience have delighted the heart upon a big brick and granite porch, un- of many a housewife who has seen Old- roofed, is the finest view from the lower farm's beautiful interior. floor. In the corner opposite the parlor is the library, a room giving upon drive and woods with a glimpse of Champlain Mountain, rising, through the trees, against the sky. And to this room one might say the great lilacs outside belong. Purple lilacs and white, the rose glory of the rhododenrons, the roses, and many other delightful old time flowers can be found in the Oldfarm estate, from the time the daffodils poke golden heads through the pine needle carpets beneath the trees of the garden paths to the very last golden gleam of marigolds, frost de- fying. One would find it difficult to choose one's quarters in the big house above- stairs, for both the second and third floors are equally attractive. On the third floor is a bookcase-lined room known as the sea room, with its great fire- place, huge window seat and charming expanse of small paned, swinging doored windows, looking out over landscape and seascape incomparable in loveliness with anything else about the house. From the great side porch, the top or third story, one may stand facing the woods with the sea at the left and Champlain Mountain, in Lafayette National Park, at the right. Two large and attractive bedrooms back of the sea room face the mountains also. Steps ascending just above the winding staircase to the sea room give upon the roof of the rear portion of the house and form a beautiful vantage point for looking off in the town's direc- tion, over sea and land. On the second floor, the rooms have the same charm, spaciousness and sim- plicity. The great front chamber with tiful old Famil its windows and long glass doors opening and oldform's bea upon the vine clad porches is of unusual beauty. enhanced by it, ie Because of the fact that Supt. Door must turn timite some years ago, when he was the only books ad pictures surviving member of his family, made Bar Harbor the place of his permanent resi- old necs the whole dence, he brought from the old Common- ensemble in who wealth avenue home in Boston, his beau- keynote is beaut enhanced by SINOP 3. The possibility of President Coolidge spending his summer vaca- tion at Bar Harbor is naturally the one topic of conversation here to- day and the most interesting news of the day throughout Maine. The President, of course, receives many invitations to spend his vaca- tions in many sections of the country. The majority of these invita- tions are extended without much hope of their being accepted, and, in fact, with little reason why they should be. Not so the invitation extended yesterday by Governor Brewster to President Coolidge to spend his vacation at Oldfarm, the Bar Harbor estate of Mr. George B. Dorr, founder and superintendent of Lafayette National Park. President Coolidge might quite naturally desire to spend his last Presidential summer vacation in his own New England. This being the case, it is certain that no place could offer him more than Mt. Desert Island in the way of climate and scenery. Here Mr. Coolidge would find a combination of ocean and mountain scenery unsurpassed in the world. He would, appropriately enough, be living at the very gate- way of the first National Park in the East. At Oldfarm, he would be the guest of a gentleman whose life and fortune have been devoted to the public welfare, through the conservation and development of the lands in Lafayette National Park. At Oldfarm, Bar Harbor, on in- vitation of Governor Brewster and Mr. Dorr, President Coolidge would in a sense, be the guest of the people of Maine and of the nation. These Mount Desert Island Resorts, bordering upon Lafayette National Park, have throughout the years attracted the most dis- criminating summer colonies of the world,-colonies made up largely of persons who have seen the whole world and yet who return year after year to these resorts for rest and recreation. Bar Harbor is generally recognized as the world's most distinguished. summer re- sort. Here President and Mrs. Coolidge would find a congenial so- ciety. Great wealth is here, it is true, but these Mt. Desert Island Resorts have always attracted many persons distinguished for many things aside from mere wealth. These resorts have always had a tremendous appeal for truly eminent Americans, men and women who have won national and international recognition in widely vary- ing lines of human endeavor. Here the President of the United Sates would spend his vacation with the real aristocracy of America, the aristocracy of brains and genuine achievement. Oldfarm would lend itself admirably to its suggested use as a sum- mer White House. Its very name suggests the mellow atmosphere of an earlier New England, a New England that built spacious, rambling houses and furnished them with the best that its ships brought home across the seven seas. Oldfarm Manor is such a house and is so furnished. Its balconies and many windows command the most inspiring views of mountains and sea. Its grounds are spacious and its broad lawns and lovely old gardens would assure the President of being always protected from the gaze of the merely curious. Bar Harbor has many great estates and scores of beautiful summer homes; but none of them appeals to us as being to strikingly suited to use as the summer home of a New England President of the United States as does Oldfarm. aprus 1928. her old Fashioned gardens contribute Much To Unique Charm of Old farm." B.H.Times. 4/18/28 692 noon. THE GARDEN AT OLDFARM MANOR A border of old-fashioned Hardy Perennials teah- con- ring- of Ed- In the rdens at Oldfarm which date at Oldfarm that one comes to restful Nurseries a scant quarter of a mile away. Spiraea. One may admire a bit earlier E. back more century to other owners realization of that security from intrusion, Gardens and sea make a beautiful picture the drooping pendant slender leaves of of the land and which have been culti- even of noise. A summer afternoon in for the mind from the mere words, and in the great fronds of the False Solomon's vated and cared for by the Dorr family the old garden may be spent in silence the garden at Oldfarm there comes a Seal with its exquisite cream wax, green ster, lled ever since the present owner's father, the and solitude. For the silence cannot be quickening realization of what an oldfa- tipped, of the blossoms, pendant, half she late Charles Hazen Dorr. of Boston, pur- said to be broken by the hum of bees shioned garden by the sea can mean. hidden on the stem beneath the foliage. chased the land in 1868, there is a verita- about a yellow rose bush which is prob- Many of the blooms of today are those tof Apple blossom time is a glory in the ble host of oldfashioned flowers. To ably one of New England's oldest and from plants the original roots of which old garden, and the superb flower show one time, enumerate them one would need to run which blooms with innumerable blos- came down from Boston. Mrs. Dorr, given without assistance by the lilacs in nges through the catalog of oldtime blooms. soms, a myriad of golden nodding heads. mother of the present owner, came from all their loveliness of 'purple or white or uring And then the chief charm of the garden Nor is that silence broken by the sound an old Boston family whose traditions lavender surpasses all knowledge of any- would be out of the writing, for the of the wind in the huge trees which were interlinked with the homes, the thing quite so rare. Erect in brilliancy charm is it its seclusion as it is the charm guard the garden, the flowers homes lying gardens, the music, the literature of a the gladioli comes in the old-fashioned of the whole estate. in and around their trunks and under New England which has stood for culture garden, pale lemon stalks of beautiful ORT Something like 30 acres are comprised their shadow for trees were never cut down the centuries. And an old New flowers vying with the more goregous in the old home grounds, it may be down or uprooted for any but imperative England garden typifies all that with a types of scarlet or crimson splashed stated; and when one remembers that reasons at Oldfarm. surety and a beauty which is indescrib- rose. Then there are huge beds of golden two plan, adjoining estates on either side are equally One might enter the garden with a able. The gardens at Oldfarm have, lilies, heavily scented and showing amidst fund secluded, one knows that Oldfarm offers favorite flower but come out disloyal to it. even to the untrained flower lover, the dark, deep bluish purples of the the privacy unparelleled in the list of summer For if one favors the phlox, in their dain- proved quite as potent an attraction as monkshood. homes. summer estate of Lea McI. tiness of pink Havender or crimson or have the other attributes of the gracious And as one follows the paths in the be Luquer is set in woods, white or purple or shadings of every lovely and fine old house, built almost a half Oldfarm garden with one's feet leaving the and its apacious ground running down to tone between, one would never turn away century ago. bed of pine needles to step upon the earth of meet Oldfarm's The next point is that from the other flowers there, SO lovely are One may stand in the old garden in or gravel one comes to the enclosing will of the estate of Mrs. David B. Ogden, they. Peony blooms are found to be as midsummer and find something to fit the beauty of a huge cedar hedge, thru and the quiet and seclusion of that estate exquisite there in the oldtime garden as taste of any flower lover. It may be which, at the height of a man's head, one a again augments that of Oldfarm. they arein the ranks of market prepared the gorgeous red of a peony or it may be may pass into the vegetable gardens it in the oldfashioned flower garden blooms down at the Mount Desert the creamy, lacey featheriness of the where also are flowers intermingled. LATEST HAROLD LLOYD plies. Lloyd, in the breezy character of worthy of the sturdiest pioneer, yet have COMMENCEMENT PLANS FOR COMEDY SETS FAST PACE New York boy, whose principal voca- Lloyd finds plenty for his humorous ad- Glar- BUCKSPORT SATURDAY tion is losing jobs, gives one of his most ventures, and in "Speedy" he covers "Fast and furious" is an expression likeable characterizations, and in addi- territory that as far as motion picture Bucksport April plans for the Commencement exercises at Bucks- that carries little weight any longer, tion has a story that is appealing, as comedy is-concerned, virginal. port Seminary were announced today owing to its misuse by motion picture well as based on fact. "Speedy" is the kind of universal pic- press agents, but nothing more aptly Lloyd has a variety of positions in ture that will make the whole world by Headmanter Ralph E Peck, The describes Harold Lloyd's newest produc- "Speedy" ranging from soda jerker, to laugh. Its comedy is the kind that know's Trustees annual meeting will be held at Seminary June That evening, the tion "Speedy" which comes to the Star the chauffeur of a horse car, with a no nationality, and while typically Theatre Friday and Saturday taxicab pilot, and several others sand- American, and New York in particular, Annual Montgomery Prize Speaking From start to finish it is literally a wiched in between. will be just as popular in London as it he in Manhattan. 2 hage I of3 Biary [author unknown Cadillae Mountain Project, acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine april 19,1928 - July 31, 1929 Summary There are only two national Parks east of the Mississippi River - the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in Jennessee and the Acadia national Park (Formerly called Lafayette National Parle) in Mame. In the Acadia national Park, the Cadillac Mountain reaches an elevation of 15 32 feet and is said to he the highest mountain within twenty miles of the Atlantic Seacoast from Maine to Florida. The beautiful and varied panorama of ocean, inland lakes, mountains and forest which may be seen from this mountain attracts many visitors and tourists. The tope of this mountain and the many other vantage points may be reached only by foot trails at present. To afford an opportunity for the increasing number of visitors to more readily reach these points, if is proposed to construct a bituminous macadam road owan easy grade to the top. 2of 3 after having graded approximately 6,000 feet of this road, the U.S. Department of the Interior requested the Bureau of Public Roads under am interdepartmental agreement to complete the survey for the road to the top of the mountain and to supervise the construction of the project. Mr. me Kelvey, highway engineer of the Burean of Public Roads made a reconnais sance survey of the project on april 19-23, 1928 in company with Mr. George B. Dorr Superintenet ent of the Park; B.L. Hadley, Chief Ranger; W.G. Hill, Engineer, and others. She Shortly after this, Mr. w.g anderson, senior highway engineer, was appointed chief of survey following were assigned as assistants Leo Grossman, party by District Engineer Guy H. Miller The assistant highway engineer and R.J. Zeglen, junior highway engineer. J.M. Lawrance and K.B. Faster later joined the survey party to expedite the work, of the project at station a- 91.3 to the top a line was laid out from the beginning of the mountain station 188+38.90; a total 38 of 3 grade foreman in placing his stakes. construction activities: Excavation Sta. 60 to 65 rulling ta 71+00 Placing shoulders Sta. 49-5/ Remarks: Mr. Lour, Park Supt. requested me to make a survey of a road at Schoolic Wt. in the Park. I advised that I could not do this without an authority from Mr. We lev. He then requested that I attend a luncheon to be eignen-by Mr. Frank noyes President of the associated Picss in order to meet some of the interested parties in having such a road cons tructide. This huncheon was to be given Sept.5th and I advised him that I would go. sept. 5,1929 Weather: Clear Cool Party: Grossman, Pierce, Eaton activities-Engineering : Supervising and was truy construction and assisting grash foremer in placing his stakes. Pipe was delivered in truck loads - about 14 pipe arrived and was inspected J left about noon in order to go to the lunction with Mr. Dorr In Memoriam DR. ROBERT ABBE [4/13/1851. 3/7/1928 Dr. Abbe, through his distinction as 2 great physician, belonged to the larger world in which he rendered his help to humanity; but, in a special, intimate sense he made us individually aware that he belonged to us here in Bar Harbor, since to every cause and to every person in the community he gave a genuine, sympathetic, never-failing interest. He was identified with the Village Improvement As- sociation from its earliest days and was for many years its vice president. He was responsible for the formation of the Sanitary Committee and was till within a few years the active head of it and always a moving spirit in it. The eagerness of his interest in the Association was ;hown last September, when, on one of the few times that he was able to leave his house, he delighted us by appear- ng at the annual meeting. We are indeed conscious of his personal touch on all rides; not only in the Village Improvement Association, but in houses that possess the relief maps of the island that he so carefully worked out, at "Brookend" with its lovely surroundings of his creating, at the Bar Harbor Hospital, and at the Sieur de Monts Spring, in the nuseum just erected to keep intact his collection of implements of the Stone Age. Best of all, he will long tbide in the affection of everybody whose life he touched -as a lover of nature, a man of artistic sensitiveness, a cientist, a surgeon, a gentleman of distinguished attain- nents, and a rarely lovable friend. Frank B. Rowell Secretary OFFICE OF JOHN ROCKEFELLER. JR. Maine June 18th 1928 Biog Lab. My dear Mr Jacksons You have been interested for several years in the Maine Biological Station which President Little organ- ized and conducted on Mt Desert Island for two or three successive Summers. At your instance I was happy to join with you in making a small contribution towards this work. You and I have had some conversation in regard to the pos- sibility of the combining of this enterprise with the Mt Desert Laboratory, which has also been conducted on its Desert Island for some years. I have caused quite a full and careful study of thése undertakings to be made by com- petent persons and received late Last year a comprehensive report on the situation which, although somewhat belated, I Em sending on to you feeling sure it will interest you. This I do for no other reason than that you be informed of the situation as it exists today. In view of Dector Little's transfer to the West I am told that the work of the Maine Biological Station has been seriously hampered end ourtailed, If not practically abandoned. The Mt Desert Laboratory in the meantime has undergone a reorganization. Mr Proctor who was for some years the dominating factor having dropped out, Doctor Bumpus a scientist of national standing and reputation has taken the presidency of the Laboratory which is being operated in closest cooperation with Weeds Hole. The report, dated December, 1927, which I an enclosing, is signed by Mr Appleget, one of my associates. There is attached to the report a letter dated November 30th, 1927, from Doctor Bumpus to Mr Appleget. These papers you are welcome to keep, if you so desire. My impression is the Mt Desert Laboratory as reorgan- ized is now on a sound basis and that it is worthy of the gen- erous support of all those interested in the premotion of bio- logical research and teaching. I am expecting to continue my contribution to the work and probably increase it. It may be that you and Mr Ford will find the enterprise one justifying your support. With cordial regards and looking forward to seeing you soon at Seal Harbor, I am, Very sincerely, [John D Rockefeller Jr.] Mr Roscoe B Jackson, Detroit, Michigan. III 2 I. 83, 824 CP 1990 June 22, 1928 Private and Confidential. Dear Sr. Cannerer: The matter OF the continue depredations of heavers on Mount Desert Contract Island is one which it seems to me may need your ttention before it is cor- rected. is -ou know it. Corr brought a pair of seavers to the Isl nd probably eight or ten 560, the first that had ever been on the Island. Their operations at the outset, when in one or two 100 tions, and on a limited scale, 7070 watched with muc interest by us all, but shortly they multiplied and spread all over the Island. The result has been that they have ?looded many mooded sections, thereby killin- considerable areas of trees, not to mention the large number which they have themselves cut down. Chese dead trees either stand as 3 const. nt blot on the landscape or if cut down at the surface or the water, show stumps when the water is low. The frightful conditio. along the east side of Eagle Lake not far from the north end of Bubble Pond, you have already seen on several occasions with me. There cary large trees were killed by flooded waters resulting from the beaver dam. Ultimately, because they looked so badly, I gave Mr. orr the money them out and with which to cut the trees down. Now the beaver |am has been ovened and this whole area shows ghastly stumps. The cost of pulling restoring the appearance of the landscape will be very consi derable. On many tracts of land which I own, probably at least half a dozen, the beavers have done damage. I try to trap themwherever I can, but it is hopeless to fight them in certain sections when they are permitted to propagate in others. Hr. Dorr has partially agreed to having them trapped alive and given away off the Island, but never has pushed the policy, and the nuisance continues. If you feel as I do about the matter and as I know a good many others feel, might it not be possible for you some time to make a definit sugges- tion that beavers be eliminated from the Island. Please understand I am riting this letter in no spirit of criticisc of Dorr, and with no desire or intention to interfere with the manage- men or the park. I speak only as a large procerty owner on the Island, who realizes better than most people the growing extent of the damage which beavers are doing. Very truly, Mr. 3. Tamperer, Care Director National Parks, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. Pg.1 of4 OF A Challenge to the Mencock County Trustees of Public Reservations By Charles W. Eliot, 2nc August 1950 A visit early this summer to what in our family is called "God's Country", gave me a chance to review the wonderful work of those who creates the Acsele National Park. Because I am a member of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations and made a report on "the Future of Mt. Desert Island in 1928 for the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, I was especially inter- ested to compare the proposals and purposes of the Founders of the Trustees and of my previous study with the accomplishments towards those objectives. Since 1928 extraordinary progress has been see in the extension of the park boundaries to include the primary features of the "Beautiful Island of Mt. Desert". In these extensions, the chief factors have been the Trustees of Public Reservations, the untiring personal efforts of Mr. George 3. DOFF right up to his death, the great generosity of Mr. John D. Rockerfeller, Jr. and the Federal project for purchase of Sub-Marginal Lands. A. The Trustees still hold large tracts which presunably are destined for eventual inclusion in the Park. As I understand the situation from Mr. Hadley, the Park Superintendent, some funds and work are needed to clear the titles to some of these tracts. A comparison of my may -- prepared in 1928 with the help of Mr. Dorr and Mr. Lynem, and checking with the Record of Holdings published in 1939, the Trustoes may still own -- 1. Some 30 acres at the south end of Bubble Pond, one 2. The top of Youngs Mountain -- both east of Somes Sound; and 3. Lots 98, 101, 105, 106, 107, 113, 118 (in the Record of Holdings) including Zeech Mountain and the east shore and south end of Long Pone. 4. Lots 117 and 119 on the opposite or west abore of Long Pond on the northeast slope of Mansell Mountain. 5. A huge area on Western Mountain including the tops of Bernare and Mansell and a wide connection to Seel Love I Pone. 6. Two properties - Lots 101 are 102 on the east sico of Seal Cove Pone. 2. This list is probably insecurate and incomplete, but the data in the map one descriptions included in the Record of Holdings of 1939 13 inconsistent and does not correspond with the Topographic Map of Acade National Part (1942). In segition to these properties 11 is not at all clear as to what happened in the exchange of the Trustees property at the Champlain Honu- ment for the new site on the main Highway on Day Mountain. Perhaps the Trustees can be helpful sa agent OF so- between for transfer to the Park of other proporties. I have in mind particularly: B. The Ser Barbor Village Improvement Association which still owns 1. Town Pond and the northeast shore of Lake and has some interest in 2. Sheen Porcupine Islane, and perhaps also in 3. Bale Poroupine Island; as vell as other properties, which might be most appropriately consolicated under Park Management. 4. The Approach to the Paric from Bar Harbor should be a major concern of the Village Improvement Association. This is the valley vest of Strawberry and Great Meedow Hills (see pp 14-16 my report on "Future of Mt. Desert Island 2928), and the immediate need is for public ownership of the vest slope of those hilla and the strip between the cenetory and Cromwell Brook. C. Mr. John D. Rockerfeller, Jr. is believed to own several properties which aejoin or are closely related to the park, including:- 1. A large trect between the Park Line and Breakmack Road including Grower Mountain and Half Moon Pond 2. Two lots on the South Side of Eagle Lake loae a) at the Lake and b) a triangle opposite Broak Neck Road 3. Land north of Aunt Betty's Pond 4. it strip along the old Hunters Brook Road and & quarry or gravel pit lot nearby, 5. Lay Mountain and the portion of the Cooksey Estate between -ay Mountain and the Ocean front. 6. lot between the Paris and Wilevood Vare on the Jorson Pone Rose, 3= 7. Rosfield 0222, Jordon Streem, Barbor roos one the Ridge betwoon Long Four one Harbor Brook, apf 8. Wonderland - between Seawall and Ship lactor. L. Under the Sub-Margine] Land Purchase Program of the early days of the lieu Desl, large areas or march and woodland wore do- quired by the Federal Government in Southwest Harbor and Tremont. These lanes were incorporated in the Park. The boundaries are quite illogical -- because the holdings pur-- chased happener to fall this way and that, and because the "project" was never completed. A number of holes should be filled, and the boundaries rounded out to include the whole of the natural topographical units involved -- as for example 1. the rest of the March vest of Mt. Gelboa and Chine Hill, 2. the rest of those two hills, 3. the rest of the 31g death, westware to line between Bass Harbor Head and Adams Budge, and 4. the rest of the Marshall Brook Irainage to a line along Freemen Ridge. A review of the maps shows that the major objective of the Trustees - to safeguam the Mountain Rango -- has almost been realized. The big missing link in the chain 113 Normabaga (Brown) Mountain and the watershee to protect lower Hedlock ond. Loren Kimbell, who owned much of that area, was one of the original incorporators of the Trustees. Somoone must try again to bring that mountain into the Park. West of Somes Sound, a) the north slopes of Acadis, b) Canado Hollow between St. Sauveur and Beech Hill, c) the south ridge of Beech Mountain, d) a north spur of Western and e) a piece on the southeast slope of the same mountain 3000 to be still in private ownership. Hast of Somes Sound, besides the mass of Norumbega Mountain, hill and mountain pieces of interest for futuro inclusion in the park, include: a) the northeast slope of Champiain above the Schooner Head Road, b) the south tip of Flying Squadron, c) tay Mountain and A) Regfield Hill as noted in connection with Mr. Bockerfeller's properties, and e) whatever portions of Eliot (Asticon Hill) are not safeguarded by inclusion in Asticon Terraces. of to the Park than was ever contemplatee by the original founders Along the Shores much more property has been turned over out the Trustees, but some of the pieces they proposed are still further consigeration sean to me to be -- in offer: or their status is not clear. The most important items for E. More of Femela's Point - where the Jesuito sottled. 4. b. Co of domoo Sawar is gateway. C. Cessoon Sargent Trive and the Sound. e. the showes of Spal Cove and along the brook the 0. 002 Parbor Beach. f. Bracy cove - Shinyle. C. Detween Hustons Spool and Ingraham Polat. G. Jennet Cove of vote like to renov the recomed dations are 1928 a) the outside half of Palcers Island are the Call Room Floor, 5) the Forcupines, and perhaps c) the Seath and Dunicers load on Grout Granberry, a) Boer énlone (if it is ever abandones as a Lighthouse) be added to the ark. Tee Lettos and Ponds of the Island were of special interest to the Trustees from the beginning -- to safeguard water supplies as well an scenery. Private properties still touch on Subble Porc south on', on Eagle Lake north end, a corner on Junt Betty's Pone, and as already noted all around Lower Bodlook Pond. West of the Sound, similar pieces are missing from the Park at the south enes of Echo Lake and Great Pond and the whole vest banico of Seal Covo Pond and Bodgeon Pone. In my 1928 Report, at the suggestion of Mr. LOST, I pro- posod that a large aree in the north part of the Islane, including McFarland und Youngs Mountains, the Health and the Mesdow, should be set 08180 as a Vilderness Area. The Great Fire svspt through much or this territory and I have not had an opportunity to as- certain whether that disester permanently destroyes the wilderness character or Whether the proponal should still stand. In any event the east alopes of the two countains, Paradise Hill and the area over to Lake Wood from Breakmack Brook should be part of the park. on the accompanying map I have attempted to show the properties referral to in this statement. The errore and inaccur- acica are due to lack of consistent data and the 3000 ailos between my draiting table and the areas in question. There is shich the Trustees of Public Recervations can still do for the project, 30 well started and already ao far advanced. ope this may help to arouse interest and financial support to carry on the work. 2. any other features of the Island, within or without the Park, I will gladly furnish the Geographic Board with all local or other information available. "Mr. Lynam and I are making now a study of the Island's history in land ownership titles". Sincerely yours, TE Cumanay A. E. Demaray Acting Director. Inclosure 233083. page I of November 12, 1928. ST Maine Mount Desert Island Dodge Point Postmaster, Seal Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Dear Sir: The U. S. Geographic Board is attempting to clear up a number of names of places, harbors, points, etc., on Mount Desert Island and adjacent islands. Among those is the name Dodge, which appears in two separate places as Dodge Point. One is at the western entrance to Seal Harbor, near lat. 44° 17', long. 68° 15'. The other is some distance to the west on the southwest coast of the Island, in Tremont Township, near lat. 44° 16', long. 68e 25'. It is located at the southern entrance to Seal Cove. Thus we have a situation where the same name is applied to two separate points, one on Seal Cove, and the other on Seal Harbor. Inasmuch as the records show that the point in Tremont Township, near Seal Cove, was named after John S. Dodge, who was elected Selectman at Bass Harbor, August 9, 1848, and the page 2 of : - 2 - majority of the maps show this point as located there, the Board deems it advisable, at the request of several man-maring authorities, to endeavor to secure a better name for the point at the western entrance to Seal Harbor, near lat. 44° 17', long. 58° 15'. . This is immediately adjacent to a town and the Board, therefore, hopes you can make a suggestion as to a name for this point, which will meet with the approval of the local residents and thus enable us to droy one of the two. Very sincerely yours, will C. Barnes, Secretary. Seal Harbor. mance wm C Barnes Sic. nor 20 be 19a Washing ton D.C. Dear Sir: a portion of this point of land that was formerly Replying to above letter will say that owned by blodge and went by the name of and for several years back and I been by rodges Point was sold to admiral think Cowninshieed Crownincluseds Paint unless there io one by the Summer Colony mostly t has called this name I think t would be very satis factory Very truly yours. Cynthia P Clement Pho, Bodye. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT November 18, 1928. Mr. Will C. Barnes, Secretary, United States Geographic Board, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Barnes: Mr. Demaray has referred to me copy of your letter dated November 12th in reference to the point at Seal Harbor entered on the map as Dodge Point, this being a duplicate name and more appropriately applied, as your letter says, to Dodge Point at Seal Cove. I have never heard, myself, the point at Seal Harbor called Dodge Point and it would suggest itself to me that it was SO entered on the map by error in confusion with that at Seal Cove. There is no question, it seems to me, as to the name that shoul ld be given the point at Seal Harbor: Crowninshield Point, after Comman- der Crowninshield of the United States Navy, tho built upon it one of the first summer residences on that shore and owned and occupied it till he died, when it passed to his widow. (Rearad as) Commander Crowninshield's house was built in the early eighties of last century. This was soon after the house I now occupy was built by my father and I remember Commander Crowninshield and Mrs Crowninshield as visitors at it in those days. What Commander Crowinshieldis initials were or what rank in the Navy he finally attained I do not know but these can be easily ascertained from the Navy Department. Whether there was any earlier local name for the point I do not know but I have always heard it spoken of since that time as what I suggest: Crowinshield Point. Any assistance I can give please do not hesitate to ask for, but believe me Yours sincerely, GBD-0 George B. WAST page 396 SCIENCE [VOL. LXVIII, No. 1765 He was called to the University of North Carolina in liberal terms his desire to aid in promoting the as professor of physics in 1908 and was appointed research work of The Wistar Institute, as established dean of the School of Applied Science in 1911. and conducted under the deeds of gift of General Dr. Patterson's training and experience were broad Isaac J. Wistar, who was his kinsman. and his interests were many. He wrote many essays The necessary laboratory facilities for experimental on cultural, educational and scientific subjects. He work with mammals and other organisms will be pro- was an acute thinker and a most delightful teacher. vided. Colonies of several species of small mammals His gentleness and sincerity, his readiness to give aid, for research purposes will be maintained on the farm. his sympathetic and appreciative nature endeared him Studies will probably be extended to other animals, to his colleagues and students. especially such domestic animals as cattle, horses, He was a fellow of the American Association for sheep, hogs, dogs and poultry. the Advancement of Science, the American Physical By the provisions of Mr. Morris's deed of gift, the Society and a member of the North Carolina Academy study of living forms will not be confined to animal of Science. He served at various times as president life; but, following the modern trend of biological of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society and of the research, opportunities will be afforded for the study North Carolina Academy of Science (1919). of both animal and plant life. Facilities for the The University of Georgia conferred the doctorate study of fresh-water aquatic forms will be unusual. of science on him pro honoris causa in recognition of While the initial equipment for work will not be his educational and scientific work. pretentious, at the same time it will be modern in His best known contributions covered the fields of every respect and subject to such growth and develop- X-rays, high tension phenomena, lightning discharges ment as the work may indicate. Mr. Morris has made and atomic structure. a cash contribution toward these initial expenditures. He is survived by his wife, Eleanor Alexander This farm will be known as "The Effingham B. Morris Patterson; his daughter, Mrs. Samuel J. Fisher, of Biological Farm of The Wistar Institute of Anatomy Asheville, and his son, Dr. Howard Alexander Patter- and Biology." son, just entering the practice of surgery in New One of the advantages of the location is the isola- York, and four brothers-Frank Patterson, editor of tion from noise and other physical disturbances. the Baltimore Sun; Rufus L. Patterson and Edmund Living accommodations for investigators with fami- V. Patterson, of New York, and John L. Patterson, lies can be arranged for in the neighborhood; and it of Richmond, Virginia. OTTO STUHLMAN, JR. is hoped that in due course the old Colonial red-and- THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA black-brick farmhouse on the property can be ar- ranged for use as a residence club house for men who wish to remain on the farm continuously during the SCIENTIFIC EVENTS periods of their investigations. It is expected that the farm will be ready for initial use early in the BIOLOGICAL FARM OF THE WISTAR spring of 1929. INSTITUTE FACILITIES for biological research at The Wistar THE ABBE MEMORIAL MUSEUM AT Institute have been recently increased by the acquisi- BAR HARBOR tion of an additional research foundation consisting ON Tuesday, August 14, 1928, the Abbe Memorial of a farm of 150 acres, situated in a quiet region of Museum was dedicated in the presence of some hun- the country in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, between dreds of persons. There were three short addresses. Philadelphia and Trenton, twenty-seven miles from The Honorable L. B. Deasy, lifetime friend of Dr. the institute's present museum and laboratory build- Abbe and treasurer of the museum corporation, a per- ings in Philadelphia. manent resident of Bar Harbor, accepted the museum This farm, with a modern equipment of farm build- on behalf of the citizens of Mount Desert Island. The ings, machinery, live stock and other essentials, is the Right Reverend William Lawrence, Bishop of Massa- gift of Effingham B. Morris, LL.D., president of The chusetts, paid high tribute to the life and character Wistar Institute. It comprises about one third of an of Dr. Robert Abbe. Dr. Warren K. Moorehead de- original grant under patent from William Penn. Mr. scribed briefly the life of the aboriginal inhabitants of Morris now represents the seventh generation in the Mount Desert, contrasting the past with the present. course of its inherited ownership, and he will continue At the conclusion of the speeches a bugler stationed to farm the two thirds of the acreage retained by him. by the famous Sieur de Monts spring sounded taps, In the deed of gift, dated August 11, 1928, estab- and another bugler far up on the mountainside echoed lishing the Farm Foundation, Mr. Morris expresses taps. This content downloaded from 137.49.1.13 on Mon, 22 May 2017 14:32:09 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms page 2 OCTOBER 26, 1928] SCIENCE 397 The late Dr. Robert Abbe was a famous surgeon of THE BOND ASTRONOMICAL CLUB New York City. The last three or four years of his AN opportunity for any one seriously interested in life he became much interested in the American In- astronomy to take part in scientific investigations is dian, particularly of the Mount Desert region. opened through plans developed at the recent meet- Dr. Abbe cooperated with Mr. George B. Dorr, ing of the Bond Astronomical Club at the Harvard superintendent of the Lafayette National Park, Mr. Observatory. The would-be investigators will be able John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. to work under competent leadership in one or more Ladd, Miss Carpenter, Miss Moon and many other of five different research groups, dealing with the summer residents of Bar Harbor in making possible study of meteors, the photography of stars and other the museum. It was first called the Lafayette Na- celestial phenomena, the investigation of variable tional Park Museum of Stone Age Antiquities, but by stars on plates in the Harvard collection, the compu- common consent the title has been changed to the tation of the position and motion of the moon, and Robert Abbe Memorial Museum. certain historical and bibliographic studies. The setting is at the foot of Flying Squadron The Bond Astronomical Club, founded four years Mountain, and is distant five hundred feet from Sieur ago to bring together the professional and amateur de Monts spring. The style of architecture is a astronomers of the community, as well as the astro- modification of the Italian. The building is stucco nomically interested public, has in the past confined and white stone, with red tile roof. From the build- its activities mainly to monthly meetings at the ob- ing radiate various trails, and above towers the moun- servatory and to the conducting of two series of tain. When the building was dedicated in August, "Open Nights," one for Cambridge school children it was the consensus of opinion that the site selected and the other for the public. A meeting place and by Dr. Abbe and his associates was unequaled in scenic telescopic facilities have been placed at the disposal beauty. of the club by the Harvard Observatory. More than The interior of the museum itself is of great sim- a thousand pupils of the seventh and eighth grades plicity and dignity, the space enclosed not more than of the Cambridge public. schools visited the observa- twenty by thirty-five feet, since it was the purpose of tory last year under the guidance of their teachers to the directors to establish what might be termed a hear short illustrated talks on astronomy and to look trailside museum. at moon, stars or planets through some of the ob- On the walls are hung relief maps made by Dr. servatory's telescopes. Abbe himself, who was not merely a surgeon, but a To assist in the new club activity, members of the sculptor and artist as well. These maps present the observatory staff now volunteer to act as leaders of topography and geology of the Mount Desert region, study groups so that volunteer workers with scientific the voyage of Champlain and the early settlements. interests may have an opportunity to develop a useful Later there is to be added the chief Indian villages. scientific hobby and do practical and scientific in- The collections are restricted to some three thou- vestigation on one or two or more evenings a month. sand objects illustrating the life of the prehistorie Membership in the Bond Club and in the study rather than the later Indians, and are confined to groups is open to any one seriously interested in the objects found within fifty miles of Bar Harbor. work. The museum is to be open from the first of June The group of workers on variable stars will have until the first of October each year, and will be access to the great Harvard collection of stellar photo- guarded during the winter by the Park Service. graphs and will study the variations and discover the From the day of opening until the end of Sep- nature of the remarkable reddish stars that appear to tember the average attendance has been over two stand at the very dawn of stellar evolution. For hundred persons during week-days, and from five many years amateur astronomers all over the world, hundred to eight hundred on Sundays. under the guidance of the Harvard Observatory, have The writer had charge of the installation and field successfully observed these stars visually, with their work the past summer, and eight miles north of the own telescopes; but this is the first opportunity ever museum discovered a large kitchen midden very rich offered for the amateur to learn the art of making in bone harpoons, knife handles, knives and various the still /more useful photographic observations. stone objects. Eight hundred of these specimens One of the subjects to which the club will devote were placed in a case by themselves as a special ex- particular attention for the next month will be the hibit illustrating the life of the people of one site. coming annual shower of shooting stars in the middle WARREN K. MOOREHEAD of November. The most important and spectacular PHILLIPS ACADEMY, meteor displays of this generation will probably be ANDOVER, MASS. these November showers during the next few years. This content downloaded from 137.49.1.13 on Mon, 22 May 2017 14:32:09 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms THE FUTURE OF MOUNT DESERT ISLAND of A REPORT TO THE PLAN COMMITTEE BAR HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION BY CHARLES W. ELIOT 2ND, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT COPYRIGHTED BAR HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 1928 711 2. 1325 Copay I REPORT OF COMMITTEE W ILL the Island of Mt. Desert become more beautiful and attractive or less so as the years pass? The answer depends upon us who, whether for twelve months or two, live upon the Island; and everyone who lives on it loves it and would do much to conserve its beauties. Last year the Village Improvement Society of Bar Harbor, con- vinced that some definite action should be taken towards the study of the conservation of the Island as a whole, appointed a committee- Messrs. Gist Blair, Parker Corning, Fred C. Lynam, Dave H. Morris, Charles B. Pike and the Chairman,-who engaged Mr. Charles W. Eliot 2nd, City Planner to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission in Washington, to make such a study. Mr. Eliot's intimate knowledge of the Island throughout his life, and his broad experience insure the value of his survey. This report with its maps and suggestions is a challenge to every person upon the Island to take part in a United Movement for its con- servation. The people of Mount Desert living throughout the year in the vil- lages and farms, the keepers of shops and garages joining with those who come here for the summer can if we all will make this Island a unit of rare beauty. The future Island of Mt. Desert may be found in this Report if we will read it carefully and if each and all of us will take our part in acting upon its suggestions. The carrying out of the program will take years; perhaps a century; the beginning of its execu- tion is today. The Committee has set forth the Ideal but has been restrained in making definite suggestions, for we believe that when public opinion is aroused, leaders and groups will come forward in the several localities and from various interests who will by their devotion conserve and enhance the Glories of Mt. Desert. WILLIAM LAWRENCE, Chairman. Note: Full Report inJesup Memoral Library, Special Collections. Three copt. as with large colored maps. IN REPLYING REFER TO INITIALS AND DATE ENTS Post Office Department FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL AF Washington November 30, 1928. Hon. Will C. Barnes, Secretary, U. S. Geographic Board, Congressional Library. Dear Captain Barnes: At the last meeting there was a decision on the name of the place where we have the post office of Salisbury Cove in Hancock County, Maine. I did not make very much of a note about it at the time and overlooked attending to the matter here for so long that I have for- gotten what the facts were on which the change of name was approved by the Board. The post office name is spelled Salisbury Cove. I think you had evidence that the legal spelling of the name of the place is different. I wish you would give me just briefly the facts so that I can give attention to the name of the post office. Sincerely yours, Superintendent. M9 me.) December 3, 1923. ST Maine Mount Desert Island Mr. L. H. Morgan, Superintendent, Division of Postmasters' Appointments, Post Office Department, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Morgan: Referring to your letter LF November 30. The decision made by the Board as to the proper spelling of the name Salsbury, a town and cove in Hencock County, Maine, on the northern coast of Mount Desert Island, was based upon old records running bast to the early sottlement of the island. Walling's man of Rancock County, 1860, Street's History of Mount Desart Island, also Walling's List of Family Names, scells the name Salsbury. The change in the spelling from this to Salisbury seems to appear on modern maps, the first one being that of Colby and Staurt in 1887. In all the old records, which were available, the family which evidently was quite a large one spelled the name. Salsbury. Very sincerely yours, will C. Barnes, Secretary. A 12/12/1928 article in the Bar Harbor Times titled "Supt. Dorr to Continue Work" reported on the issue of mandatory civil service retirement relative to George B. Dorr. An appropriations bill named Dorr's annual salary at $2,900 given to "insure Mr. Dorr against retirement on the grounds of age." Now that he is just shy of his 75th year. This most unusual recognition of his past and future possible contributions is best explained in the attached article. The bill frees Dorr to do development work and provides funds for an assistant superintendent to oversee day to day operations-while continuing the support Dorr's work with Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr. SUPT. DORR TO CONTINUE WORK THE BAR HARBOR DORR TO Receives Unusual Recognition in Be- CONTINUE WORK Mentioned in Interior Depart- page Appropriation Bill. Insuring Him Against Dorr Sleur which [4]- How these native powers, fortified by unremitting indus- that his health is much improved, and that he has been free try, made him useful in varied fields our Fiftieth Anniver from asthma for several months. sary Class Book quite convincingly shows. We see him teaching various languages both at Harvard and at Yale; DANA, R. H., spent some time in the winter of 1926-27 giving excellent service in the department of history; writ- at Santa Barbara, California, to the great benefit of his health. ing reviews and editorials for The New York Sun through On March 10, 1927, he addressed the Harvard Club of many years; and serving the Government in posts that called Santa Barbara, and spoke about the technique of rowing: his for unending patience and wide fämiliarity with foreign words were reported in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin of tongues. Few men could have given such a wide-ranging May 5, 1927. service to the world. Now that he is gone, we gladly recognize his rare abilities: DOLE reports the birth of another granddaughter, Doro- we think happily of the man himself. He was sweet- thy Freaner McCall, born March 3, 1927, to his only tempered, kindly, true, and above reproach. E. H. S. daughter, Margaret Aliona. He now has three grand- daughters and three grandsons, and the Class is glad of his BRINSMADE: his eldest son, Frederick Gunn, has re- good fortune. signed his position in the Fessenden School, West Newton, On August 31, 1927, Dole reached three score years and and accepted a call to the Hopkins Grammar School, New fifteen. In a letter to the Boston Herald of September I, Haven, Connecticut. This school has been reorganized into Dole says that he has never worn spectacles, can hear a pin a country day school, on a new site overlooking the city from drop, and has lost but one tooth. He is rarely conscious of the West. Chapin Brinsmade also teaches in the Hopkins being hungry, thirsty, sleepy, or tired. He goes to bed at 12 School besides being an instructor at Yale. and rises at six. Before breakfast he goes through setting-up exercises, and up to the end of October takes a dip in the CATE, G. H.: his daughter, Miss Olivia Cate, studied ocean and walks or runs a mile or more on the beach he never during her early years in Leipzig, Germany, and in her home suffers from heat or from cold. Moreover, he has developed city, Boston. More recently she spent two years with Tobias a philosophy of life, - to be modest, unruffled, cheerful Matthay in London. She has appeared in recital in Leicester under all circumstances, devoid of self-pity, free from any and Manchester, England, twice in Jordan Hall, Boston, fear, and willing to face whatever may befall. And as a means winning praise from the press on both occasions, and has to keeping young, Dole believes in retaining interest in played with more than ordinary success in the Middle West. everything in this most marvelous of ages - in literature, A competent technique, imagination, and sound musician- music, the stage, in science, in all great causes. And may ship go far toward making Miss Cate one of the most inter- Dole long continue, guided by the philosophy of his versatile esting and able young artists of Greater Boston." life, as author, poet, editor, literary adviser, biographer, lin- The Class rejoice in the artistic success of their classmate's guist, translator, and critic! daughter. DORR, the day before last Christmas, in crossing Charles CUTTER, who has much enjoyed the Class monthly Street, was struck by an automobile, and suffered a consider- luncheons, writes on his seventy-fifth birthday anniversary able scalp wound and concussion. He was taken unconscious [6] [[]] to the Phillips House, Massachusetts General Hospital, January. It is hoped that his plans of t where he made a good convalescence. December 29th was to our reunion next June., his birthday anniversary, and the Class Secretary visited him in hospital in behalf of the Class, and took him some roses HAYNIE writes (February I5 in their name, with their congratulations on his miraculous Florida. Soon after his acknowledgme escape from more serious injuries. Later Dorr visited friends ing on his birthday anniversary, he s: in Boston, and in February was able to go to Washington, the right to the street (in Chicago) and take up certain official duties relating to Lafayette stopped it; but a policeman took me National Park. tal, and the truck went about its wor worst of that foolish venture. Fort ELLIOT: his son, John Morse, affiliated with the Class broken, nor was I unconscious or lace of 1914, on Monday, January 30, 1928, at Chicago, Illinois, after sick, sore, lame, and disordere married Miss Janet Pauling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. weeks - lay on my back four weeks. Edward George Pauling. At the end of that time I got around While I was improving, on the 28 FARLOW was unable to be with the Class last Com- on a case of bronchial influenza. On mencement because of his sailing for Genoa on May 28th. my way from the cab to the train, ar He passed most of the summer in Switzerland. While miss- town, on January 13th." He furth ing the silver wedding of their daughter, Margaret Castle, old as he is, and is in daily need o June 3, Dr. and Mrs. Farlow were happily able to celebrate tancy to set him to work. However. their golden wedding, informally, last September. In Jan- and a half, and to direct the care C uary (1928) Farlow resigned the office of librarian of the the Class is not to allow the " mici Boston Medical Library, a position he had most ably filled their heads. So he is leading a 1 for twenty-three years. Indeed, he had been associated with and we hope he will be enabled 1 the Library for nearly fifty years, and became a member of June. the executive committee in 1892. An oil portrait of Dr. Far- low, thought to be an excellent likeness, has recently been HILL has bought a house in ] presented to the Medical Library, and now hangs in Holmes and may make it his permanen Hall. In January, however, he went for a time, with a probabilit GRANT wrote the Secretary in June and in August, for the remainder of the Win 1927, while in Paris and in London. He sailed from San Petersham. Francisco to Marseilles, and his letters give an interesting account of his subsequent travels, - in Egypt, Germany, HODGES, A. G.: the Secre Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Great Britain. He is now gret the death of Amory Hodge at home in improved health, and Sears passed an evening of John King Hodges, A. B. Ha with him in San Diego on his brief visit there the last of of our beloved classmate. Boston, December 28, 1928 163 Marlbrist SH Endicott residence Roads Dear Mr. Rockefeller: gaing Your letter of the 20th with regard to the foot- path north from Bubble Pond was delayed in reaching me. We should have no difficulty in arriving at what is best when we can get together on the spot. The plan I proposed, and got Mr. Ralston's aid in staking out, closed at both ends the Roberts Road between the motor parking ground and the crossing of its line by the new horse road to the north. It uses, narrowed to foot trail need, the middle portion only. Coming from Bubble Pond the course I staked circles the motor parking ground, not crossing it, and gets an excellent view at its head of the brook ravine; then crossing the driving road passes through trees to Eagle Lake, removed from close sight or near contact with any road, The last portion of the way to Eagle Lake, leaving the Roberts Road entirely, it follows the old foot trail to the lake-shore which was the early carry trail over which canoes were taken to Bubble Pond for fishing. This should be in any case preserved. This route offers much the shortest course from lake to pond, the most direct, the pleasantest and most secluded. To follow the brook valley further than my plan proposes, alongside the carriage road, would seem to me desirable neither from the point of view of preserving to -2- fall brook those using the road the wildness and beauty of the valley nor the pleasure of walking to those who walk, which is the greater the more completely one can get away from the sight or close vicinity of roads. Mrs. Farrand spoke to me of the matter when she returned briefly to Bar Harbor in the fall, and I went out and looked it over. This was the first time mention of it or came to me, of closing the Roberts road except to motor use. ( I made appointment to meet her there, that we might study it together but she was kept away when the time came and after waiting half an hour I did not stay. Later I studied it again alone and gave considerable time to it. What Mrs. Farrand might have thought if she had had time to study it similarly I do not know. We might not agree. I have unlimited admiration for her knowledge and skill in the whole field of landscape gardening art but this, belonging to the woods and trails, seems different. Wishing you a happy and successful trip abroad, I am Sincerely yours, hurr B. Dor Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. New York.