1937 Part Transinest 1932 JD RFr. Loop loadPlan 4/2/08 -Completion of Cadilloc Mt. Summit Road (see 1925 file) Satterlee proposal to Create albright visit toANP(6/13) c ocean Adntuary for name JORFr. Cadellae Mt.Rd/ univers birds on ANP perimatee. bener central Charles E.Peterson visit and -Jr stouch c shingles(9/24) report m atterbury's designs. -Mr.yillrs R. meet c E BD Callellon Summit recom. albright at Horxans House (9/24) letter prouses P. (10/27) also Jrs. property aeq. Lynam uttents Jr. ri Trustee Communication letter to allright offer of lands to govt ex clusive (8/9) Nermeredy Asot.Pir Lynam as successort GBD.- to (8/27) better known part admin. - Master List of Jr. gifts to U.S. the CBD response to Jr. in Dorr's role in securing lands pear -Camerer (8/10) letter ne gateHaise - Lynam to Jr. (9/28) re HCTPR gent readors, Dorri memory contractor. Albright visit in Spring effort to write summary npt. of - Afterbury from (5/27) le last 30 years. gatehouses as a"hit to be donated to NPS. Lynam letter to Jr. (9/28) u HCTPR and the Eliats./history of org. -Jr. to Commerce (9/25) ie Jr. to Hale me HCTPR membership Mr/Mrs JDR7 meet c Dorr at Humans House. Also radio Jr. to Atterbury re Petarson's Report renoonl obstacles. on Trip to ANP (11/9) -VIAVIS fath work Summary (17731) BHTimes 11/25 anticle n Gate Lodges. - Cadilloe Sunnet Rd Opening(7/24) JDR Jr. to B 7assand (10/27) re plantings. - JORJr. to Littler's sale of land (1/4) -Name change far Mountains- for staff reordures propare of US geof alwe Board Con.c w.k rearchearse Nuseen -Olmsted - letter(1/25) letter to twitter re (6/20) TAX property and fittle's suggestia of field -Jr. to Ly ram re WGA and Shirt group in ANP separate from Don't adm. getting GBD to ext (11/7) -Jr. to Lynam (10/27) re his refusal t -Jr to Mayarrod (9/21) on upact Susarde mosts pumphouse! roof llay's letter of appreciation to Jr. owned b Jr. & leased to NPS. ad CBO - altrught to Jr. (10/28) on Peterson's - Jr.to See Wilbur (6/29)re visit to ANP. Credits CBD. enthusian for ANP + its landcaping -Into Llax Farrand (9/21) onllax's letter challenges, and with C GBD. and Jrs View of us Dorr -C Peterson to re gatehouse / Lodge additistrative -Jeeg Navy adamsaddum (7/14) ad style for ANP ie Alterbury model. 1 Asst see Dixon's speech (1/20 for Cadillae it- Road ceremony for Gullar it Road apaning A93 1932 - old or New ltt Names (1/9/31) -NYT article m Cadillacellt Rd. (7/24) W.K.K. Morehead (11/10) re publication $ Dedication of Cadillae it Road - for Messum. -Park concessions (1/31/46) (BHT 7/13 plans. - Mt. naming (1/2) = more dedication of Cadilla Summert - Gate Haves freet (11/14/68) Road (BHT. 7/20): lans. - Cammera teo to Bond (1/28)ria map name -Rainge dedocation (BHT. 7/27) of changes Cadillac let. Road -Seey Wilbur visits ANP, first visit -Bumpus + Little to Packard Since 1902 (BHT 6/29/32) Stayed at obstarm. (1/5) on MDIBL, Dorritation - Yord letter to Bryant (6/24) on elucatra in up. + JAX. Annual pt - -Bonepos -Pachard course - HCTPR History from Deasy to C.W.Eliot, 2nd; Don Station (1/9) also Dunhamis revision on drift. -HeTPR Minutes (6/22) conveying to US gout all HeTPR lands. Empt - 3 letter from GED(ids) to Wm. Santelle -GBD gets greenlate Hatchery trentered to Dept. of Inferior - BBD to Lynam (19/22) Siewrda Monts Spiny Hnee roof needs us shingling Fr. owns building Park has is funds to repoir even if NPS showed anthouyi. PATHMAKERS CULTURAL LANDSCAPE REPORT FOR THE HISTORIC HIKING TRAIL SYSTEM OF MOUNT DESERT ISLAND Acadia National Park, Maine History, Existing Conditions, & Analysis Prepared by Margaret Coffin Brown Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation Project Manager Jim Vekasi, Acadia National Park Contributors Karen Anderson Laura Hayes Christine Arato David Goodrich Sarah Baldyga Charlie Jacobi Christian Barter Keith Johnston Don Beal Lauren Meier Brooke Childrey J. Tracy Stakely Peter Colman Gary Stellpflug Mark Davison Stacie Van Wyk Paul Weinbaum Funding provided by National Park Service Cultural Resources Preservation Program National Park Service Fee Demonstration Program Friends of Acadia Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation National Park Service, Boston, Massachusetts, 2006 2006 PATHMAKERS 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF DRAWINGS iii LIST OF TABLES iv LIST OF FIGURES iv FOREWORD ix ACGNOWLEDGMENTS xi PRODUCTION I EARLY TRAILS II Carry Trails, Colonial Roads, and Paths, pre-1760s-1830s. I2 Mountain Scrambles by Artists and Rusticators, 1830s-60s 20 Rocking, Walking Guides, and Hiking Clubs, 1860s-1890 26 CREATION OF AN ISLAND-WIDE TRAIL SYSTEM 41 Founding of Village Improvement Associations, 1890-1899 42 Land Protection and Path System Expansion, 1900-1916 58 Creation of a National Park, 1916-1932 98 MANAGEMENT OF A NATIONAL PARK TRAIL SYSTEM 121 The New Deal and Park Trails, 1933-42 122 Fire Obliteration, Mission 66, and Park Trails Program, 1943-2003 149 EXISTING CONDITIONS 173 ASALYSIS OF SIGNIFICANCE AND INTEGRITY 179 Statement of Significance 183 Anaivsis of Landscape Integrity 188 Evaluation of Landscape Characteristics and Features 191 FERENCES 201 Recommendations for Further Research 202 Bibilography 203 Agpendix A Terminology 208 Appendix B. Joseph Allen's Path Chronology for Seal Harbor, 1900-1930 215 Appendix C. Individual Trail Descriptions 216 Agpendix D. Trail Chronology 272 Appendix E. Path Maps 284 317 DRAWINGS Study area for the Mount Desert Island historic hiking trail system, western part IFC Strawberry area for the Mount Desert Island historic hiking trail system, eastern part IBC Possible Native American carry trails that predate European settlement, pre-1762 13 Paths deriving from Mount Desert Island roads, 1762-1835 16 Popular walking paths on Mount Desert Island, 1836-66 24 5 Walking paths described in guidebooks, 1867-89 34 VIA/VIS path work, 1890-99 52 7a. VIA/VIS path work, 1900-1916, western side of island 88 iii PATHMAKERS 3. 7b. VIA/VIS path work, 1900-1916, eastern side of island 89 8a. VIA/VIS path work, 1917-32, western side of island II2 8b. VIA/VIS path work, 1917-32, eastern side of island 113 9a. Civilian Conservation Corps and VIA path work, 1933-42, western side of island 144 9b. Civilian Conservation Corps and VIA path work, 1933-42, eastern side of island 145 IOa. Existing conditions, 2003, western side of island 168 rob. Existing conditions, 2003, eastern side of island 169 LIST OF TABLES I. Possible Native American carry trails that predate European settlement, pre-1760 14 2. Paths deriving from Mount Desert Island roads of the 1700S 17 3. Popular walking paths on Mount Desert Island, 1836-65 25 4. Early travel guides for Mount Desert Island 26 5. Walking paths described in guidebooks, 1867-88 35 6. Individuals associated with Path Committees of Village Improvement Associations 43 7. VIA/VIS path work, 1890-99 53 8. VIA/VIS path work, 1900-1916 90 9. VIA/VIS path work, 1917 32 II4 IO. Civilian Conservation Corps and VIA path work, 1933-42 146 II. Paths added or modified, 1957 2003 170 12. Criteria for evaluation for the National Register of Historic Places 180 13. Summary of landscape integrity for Acadia's historic hiking trails 190 14. Summary of evaluation of landscape characteristics 197 LIST OF FIGURES CARRY TRAILS, COLONIAL ROADS AND PATHS, PRE-1760s-1830s I. Locator map 2 2. Four historic path districts of the village improvement associations 5 3. Tribal regions of the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy tribes, pre-1760s 12 4. Tracing of 1808 plan, western half of Mount Desert Island, showing roads that are now trails 18 5. Tracing of 1807 plan, eastern half of Mount Desert Island, showing place names and landowners 19 MOUNTAIN SCRAMBLES BY ARTISTS AND RUSTICATORS, 1830s-60s 6. Lynam homestead near Schooner Head, circa 1870 20 7. Sketch by Thomas Cole, Mount Desert looking south by east, 1844 21 8. Sketch by Frederic Edwin Church of Schooner Head and Lynam Farm, 1850-51 22 ROCKING, WALKING GUIDES, AND HIKING CLUBS, 1860s-89 9. Pen-and-ink sketch of "rocking" along the Mount Desert Island coast, 1873 27 IO. Green Mountain House, circa 1870 28 II. Hikers on the summit of Flying Mountain, 1875 28 12. Rustic bridge with roof along the Duck Brook Path, 1870S 29 13. Rustic bridge, 1870S 29 14. Rustic gazebo and bench, 1870s 30 15. Shore Path in Bar Harbor, circa 1890 30 16. Map of eastern half of Mount Desert Island, 1874 3I 328 pages iv FILE NO. 2682-A HALE AND DORR ORIGINAL FILE COPY R FILE NOT TO LEAVE THE OFFICE W, HALE Mail Dick Deck retainted yought like January 2, 1931 To the Editor Bar Harbor Times Bar Harbor, Maine Sir: At the last annual meeting of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations I proposed that at the coming Annual Meeting in 1931 we should vote upon the following motion: "That this corporation declare itself to be in favor of the use for the mountains and natural objects of Mount Desert Island of the well known names which have been used for the past thirty-seven years in the admirable maps of Messrs. Bates, Rand and Jacques and requests its officers to use these names in all of its affairs. If As the matter was only mentioned at the close of the meeting it was put over by a vote for the informal polling of the members of the corporation meanwhile. That poll has been taken and the following are lists of those in the corporation who are in favor of the old names for the mountains and my motion and also of those who prefer the new names and are against my motion in the informal ballot: FILE NO. HALE AND DORR ORIGINAL FILE COPY NOT TO LEAVE THE OFFICE To the Edi tor -2 January 2, 1931 Favoring the Old Names Charles F.Paine John A. Peters E.B.Mears Charles E.Sampson William Lawrence Stroud Rodick Dave Hennen Morris Wm. J. Schieffelin John S. Melcher Joseph P. Tunis Arnold Wood Robert B. Bowler B.H. Young Samuel S. Fels Roscoe C.E.Brown S. H. Milliken Van Adams Brown Carrie M. Robinson W.W. Vaughn. Arthur Train J. Archibald Murray E.S. Dana Fred C. Lynam James Murphy Helen Sears Bradley Samuel Henderson Richard W.Hale C.C. Little Opposed to the Motion. Wm. Draper Lewis Lincoln Cromwell L. B. Deasy Wm. Otis Sawtelle Samuel A. Eliot Clarence Dow F. J. Stinson Charles W. Eliot I suggest that you should do something with regard to obtaining the general public opinion of both the year-round residents and the summer people who have a stake in the island. Yours very truly, Richard W.Hale. Seal Harbor, Maine; January 2, 1931. Dear Mr. Rockefeller:- I have received your letter of December 30th in reference to the proposed outlet for the Paradise Hill roads at Hull's Cove. Although we had one line as shown on the tracing which I sent you the decision oa to the whole outlet question was postponed - as it did not seem likely at the time that this branch would be built in the neär future and it was your thoug' t that the matter could be considered late If we may disrecard the existing bridle path along the brook which the line shown on the tracing was made to enter and follow for a large part of the way - which is probably not used as much now as it was when we made the first surveys - I think we could get. a more direct line to Ede >treet as shown on the enclosed sketch. This line has not been surveyed but I cruised the country over and thought it could be made with a 5 01 6% grade. The entrance on Eden Street would be at about the same point as this shown for the Hull's Cove entrance of the possible extension of the proposed. motor road. You will remember that the extension of the proposed motor road to Hull's Cove was not decided upon and that it was thought that possibly, it would be better to make a. turn around the top of Corkscrew Hill to take in the good views and have only the one entra on Eden Street near Duck Brook. You did not have time last year to go over these Hull's Cove 11 go the study of the problems there have not been completed. For the horse road outlet I am inclined to think the shorter and more direct 1 shown on the enclosed sketch though of somewhat steeper grade would be preferred to the longer line through the valley, using the old bridle Very truly yours [Part Simpson 26 Broadway New York January 6, 1931 Dear Mr. Simpson: Your letter of January 2nd, further with reference to an outlet on Eden Street for the bridle path from Paradise Hill, is re- ceived. I think we should not do anything to prevent our making the proposed motor road loop over the old Corkscrew Hill country come out to the west on Eden Street as we talked. You remember we had it in mind to get Mr. Morris to let us have a road on the east side of his farm, thus getting an outlet for the proposed motor road instead of coming down on the Corkscrew Hill road to Eden Street. All of this I say because your recent proposal of a shorter horse road outlet to Eden Street crosses the Corkscrew Hill Road and might interfere with this motor road. Is it not possible to bring this shorter outlet down the Corkscrew Hill Road after it strikes it instead of crossing it as you indicate? When weather conditions are so that you can go into the matter, please go over the line of the proposed horse road outlet to Tulls Cove as originally planned and shown on the tracing which you sent me some weeks ago, with a view to seeing how much work would be needed to make it a safe horse trail simply for saddle horses. I presume hardly more would be necessary than to cut the brush, put in some drain pipes across the road and possibly fill some marshy places. It may be that for simply a horse trail, this proposed route could be made avai lable without much expense, and if so, the simplest thing to do would be to put it in shape for use the coming summer and then study the matter at our convenience. Very truly, Solin Mr. Paul D. Simpson, Seal Harbor, Maine. JLA, RCI, B.73,F-12 26 Broadway New York January 9, 1931 Dear Dr. Little: Mr. Olmsted has spoken to me of the desire of the Labora tory to obtain a portion of a certain piece of land which I own, across the highway from its main building, to make possible the erection of several residences for laboratory workers. When you have decided just how much land you would like, I shall be glad to give the matter consideration. Perhaps you will have sent me a little drawing showing the frontage, depth and general outline of the piece desired. At your convenience I shall be glad to take the matter up with you. Very sincerely, John D Dr. C. C. Little, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. Seal Harbor, aine, January 19, 1931. Dear "r. Rockefeller:- I have been studying further the bridge site on the Amphitchant.re road at the Little Harbor Brook crossing with a view to make more certain the saving of the two large trees at the site - a 20" herlook and a 20" pine. A # originally nlanned the bridge was to have a roadway clearance of '16' - like the other bridges we have built to date. with the 20' clearance between parapet walls which we are now planning for the bridges I find that on the old location we might have to lose the 20" pine below the bridge. I have accordingly made a revis location RE shown on the enclosed plan - which 18 probably the best we can do with the width of bridge considered. This location has the ad- vantage of a longer radius curve but the disa vantages of crossing the stream more obliquely and on a little steeper grade and of requiring a longe span for the bridge. Of course it would be desirable to have the small waterfall above the bridge in line with the axis of the arch but with this crossing the construction would be rather difficult. Wit a wide opening however, such 88 shown in green on the enclosed plan, a fairly wide view could be had both ways along the stream from the east ern side - where the trail should be located. As you remember , it is now on top of the western bank. By building the arch on a skew the spa could be somewhet reduced and the view uo the stream toward the water- fall made a little more direct. In either case I think it would be wel to hold the northeast corner of the arch at the point shown on the pla in order to save the roots of the hemlock and to make room for the tra If necessary to reduce the span it might be possible to arch over the month the tree - but it would be better not to do this if it can be avoided. If we could sacrifice the 20" nine we could CTORA the stream at approximately right angles and use a shorter apan for the bridge. A there are few large trees at the site however it would be well to save both henlock and pine if possible - even if we should have to reduce the width of the bridge somewhat. These are questions which you will discues with Mr. Stoughton. I furnished Mr. Stoughton a plan of this E site on A slightly different location last fall - but I do not know whether he has ever completed a design for the bridge or not. If so he can probably keep the general lines of his design and adjust them to this location. Very truly yours, [Paul Simpson] Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 26 Broadway, New York, N. Y. N.Y.TIMES 1/28/31. J.D.ROCKEFELLER JR DROPS PARK PROJECT To End Controversy He With- draws Offer to Build Roads Near Bar Harbor. COMMUNITY WAS DIVIDED Summer Residents Opposed Mount Desert Island Development as Inviting Tourists. Special to The New York Times. BAR HARBOR, Me., Jan. 28.-- John D. Rockefeller Jr. has asked the director of national parks to re- lease him from an offer made last June to construct in part more than twenty miles of motor and horse roads through lands in Acadia Na- tional Park and through lands which he personally owns. Mr. Rockefeller's engineers estimated the cost of this project in excess of $4,000,000. The Rockefeller offer was accepted by the government on Sept. 11, since which time there has been oriticiam, at times bitter, of the Rockefeller program by Mr. Rockefeller's neigh- bors in the fashionable Summer colonies of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor and other resorts bordering upon the national park. Mr. Rockefeller and his represents- tives remained silent in the face of this adverse criticism until today, when he replied to his critica and stated his desire to withdraw from the major portion of his construction offer in a letter to the editor and publisher of The Bar Harbor Times, Planned by Engineers. the newspaper that has in recent weeks carried a series of open let- There are two schools of thought ters from prominent members of the on the Island with regard to the Mount Desert Island Summer colo- Rocketeller development achemes, nies in protest against his program. which have been worked out with the Mr. Rockefeller said in this letter: "I have no desire to be put in aid of prominent engineers and land- scape architects. the 'position of forcing upon even a The great majority of the perma- small minority of the people who nent residents express a hearty ap- frequent Mount Desert Island some- proval of almost anything that is thing that they do not want, nor do proposed or done by Rockefeller. I care to be the continuing cause Opinion is divided among those who of the regrettably bitter criticism and spend but the Summer months here. comment which have been expressed. There is a group that believes that not only in some of the letters pub- in building so many motor and horse lished but in other ways as well." roads and lasking the scenic beauties of this magnificent island 80 easily Helped Conservation Work. accessible Mr. Hockefeller is de- The publication of the Rockefeller stroying the very wildness that is the letter today brings to a climax a divi- Island's chief charm. On the other sion of public opinion in Bar Harbor hand, there is a group, quite as large and quite as influential, that main- and Its neighboring resorts that has tains that in his purchase of these in recent years been constantly grow- lands, his careful forestry. his con- ing in intensity and that at times struction of well-planned roads and would have reached the stages of bit- other development work, he is giv- ter controversy had not Mr. Rocke- ing an inestimable service in pre- feller and his associates maintained serving these lands from the opera- a constant policy of never publicly tions of lumbarmen and their use in replying to their critics. other undesirable ways. John D. Rockefeller Jr. built his The severe criticism of the past Summer home, The Eyrie, at Seal few weeks has been brought on in Harbor more than twenty years ago. part by the refusal of Mrs. David His Interest in the development of B. Ogden of New York and Bar Har- Acadia National Park and his gen- bor to sell to Mr. Rockefeller a small erous support of the conservation tract of land at Otter Creek, over work directed by George B. Dorr, which the motor road had been sur- superintendent and chief sponsor of veyed, until she had assurance that Acadis National Park, dates back to a considerable majority of the rest- his earliest residence here. dents and Summer residents of the He has provided vast sums of mon- island wanted the road. Mrs. Ogden ey for the purchase of lands for the made her statement in an open letter park and has built scores of miles of to The Bar Harbor Times. horse roads and one magnificent scenic motor road on his own lands and in the park lands. He has con- today acres stantly national bordering owns added park upon thousands the of the lands until Han- of of to his acreage he several the and cock County Trustees of Public Res- ervations. He has already expended several millions of dollars in this de- velopment work. and was apparently only beginning his program when be made his $4,000,000 offer to the gov- ernment last June. In a word, this scheme proposes a Dr. Francis G. Peabody Discusses 2. colossal undertaking, which, like the magnificent road already built on the The Rockefeller Road Question Western slope of Green Mountain, must intrude somewhat on the seclu- sion of the hills, but which, like the An Eminent American, who Has Been a Summer Resident of mountain road, would open a practi- Mount Desert Island for Sixty Years, Views the Present cally unvisited area, and, as that road Situation in the Light of the Experience of Years Here. does, would safeguard many miles from depredation. The worst that can be said of this Dr. Francis G. Peabody, the emi- wishes to compare the security thus great proposition is that it represents nent theologian, author and former obtained with the chances of other one more step in what the economists Dean of Harvard Divinity School, ownership, let him first pause at the call the cost of progress. To those has been a summer resident of Mount south end of Long Pond, by the beach who have known the island in its Desert Island for more than sixty near Seal Harbor, and survey the ex- primitive days, the golden age will years, in more recent years making tensive view northward, where lovely always lie in those years of remoteness his summer home at Northeast Har- valleys and noble hills, unspoiled and and solitude when one had to disem- bor. The following expression of his uninhabited, make so beautiful a bark in Southwest Harbor and drive views regarding Mr. Rockefeller's picture. Then let him drive towards through a wilderness to the primitive road building offer was written under Southwest Harbor, or along the west- hamlet on Frenchman's Bay. After a date of January 20, before the publi- ern shore above Pretty Marsh Harbor, while, as the Indians are reported to cation of Mr. Rockefeller's letter in and observe the hideous desolation have said to Columbus, we were dis- THE TIMES of Wednesday, January wrought along the roads by commer- covered; and the invasion of luxury 28, and before Dr. Peabody had any cial lumbering. and ostentation began. Presently the knowledge of Mr. Rockefeller's de- Concerning the greater part of the telephone-threat appeared, and Bishop sire to withdraw any part of his offer proposed road, from the Ocean Drive Doane protested that the setting up of construction: round Otter Cliffs and across Otter of poles along our narrow lanes could Cambridge, Massachusetts Creek to the Hunter's Cove Beach, be compared with nothing less than January 20, 1931 there can be little debate. It would the wrongs of Poland. Soon followed Editor of the bring within reach of visitation the the audacious demand for automo+ Bar Harbor Times boldest shores on the island, now seen biles, and President Eliot went to Dear Sir: by a mere handful of adventurous Augusta to protest that such locomo- walkers, and would open a region of tion on the island was neither practi- Will you permit me to add one more extraordinary picturesqueness. The cable nor desired. Hard on the arrival letter to the voluminous correspon- protest most frequently offered con- of these conveniences came the era of dence which you have received con- cerns the northern portion of the road, luxurious living, with its clubs and cerning the new Rockefeller Road? and the apprehension that the heights casinos and lawns, and with even the There are probably few summer and trails of Newport Mountain are trails so smoothed down that a lady visitors who can report, as I can, a to be invaded. I must confess that, per- may walk from Asticou to Jordan's residence on the Island for sixty years, haps because I am not informed about Pond in kid slippers and high heels. or who can claim a more thorough details, it is not clear to me that this All this degeneracy is the cost of pro- acquaintance than I can with its be huge section of the road from Green gress, to which the old-timer must ad- loved hills and bays. Indeed, my Mountain to Otter Creek is essential just himself if he is to live in a chang- climbing days were before even trails as an approach to the Ocean Drive. ing world. Let him at least console existed, and when the ascent of Sar- This portion of the plan appears to himself with the reflection that, by the gent's Mountain was not an after- involve a motor-road parallel with establishment of the Acadia Park, noon excursion but an athletic adven- the county road for a considerable and by the munificent generosity of No one can care more for the distance, and as the county road is one neighbor, our hills and forests are preservation of natural beauty on the now widened and resurfaced, it would made reasonably secure from devas- and than I. seem to provide for the present a suf- tation, and that the rugged beauty of We must approach the proposal of ficient connection. On the other hand, the Island may be made more acces- Rockefeller by recognizing that the impression that Newport Moun- sible to all. has the same intense interest in tain is to be seriously invaded seems Francis G. Peabody feguarding the picturesqueness and to be unjustified. For some miles the arm of Mt. Desert. He has studied western face of the mountain is so whole subject with scrupulous precipitous that no trail on that side and has had the constant counsel exists or is practicable. Further on, of Mr. Olmsted, the leading land- where the new road follows the old scape architect in New England. As a pass from Otter Creek to Schooner result, Mr. Rockefeller has already Head, there is certainly an invasion become the chief benefactor of the of a beautiful walk; but with this Island, He has rescued great areas exception the slopes of Newport are rom the logger's axe and from squalid unmolested, and the familiar trails on attlements, and created what is in its northern and eastern sides are not ct a great reservation adjacent to approached. Acadia National Park. If one (Continued on page 3) ent of that locality gram. to make its natural ing Mr. Rockefeller's Road Pro- le to the greatest gram. Several Guests Heard seems to me to be at Tuesday Meeting portance. Sauletz hat Mr. Rockefeller's Great Majority Favor Construction 2. A large and enthusiastic gathering ch a system of roads of the business men of the town met the natural beauties The publication of Mr. Rockefeller's letter in THE TIMES of at the Mary Jane Cafe Tuesday noon it would on the other last Wednesday has brought forth a tremendous expression of for the regular weekly meeting of the lories of nature more public sentiment in favor of the continuation of the Acadia Luncheon Club of the Bar Harbor e reach of our citizens Board of Trade. Guests of the Club National Park road building program in which Mr. Rockefeller rs." were Colonel Pat Griffin, former De- has taken such a keen personal interest and which he has sup- partment Commander of the Ameri- I Comments ported SO generously. The reaction to Mr. Rockefeller's expressed can Legion, Oliver Hall, editor of the desire to withdraw his 1930 construction offer is to give voice to Bangor Daily Commercial, Wilfred ewspapers of New zed up the situation, a locally unanimous expression of approval of his projects for Hennessy, secretary of the Bangor Chamber of Commerce, and George B. importance of the the development of the park. Dorr, superintendent of Acadia Na- prosperity of the This newspaper has consistently expressed the belief that an tional Park. Nation. THE TIMES overwhelming majority of the island's permanent residents At the meeting, Prin. Rawson an- where in its columns favored the construction program and is not at all surprised at nounced that there will be a county Bangor, Portland and which unanimously the expressions of opinion heard on every hand today. THE ty basket ball tournament at the nuation of the road TIMES has as consistently held that a considerable majority of Casino February 23, in which the high schools of the county will compete n instituted by Mr. the island's summer residents approved of the continuation of ny years ago. This for county honors. the Rockefeller program and will be much surprised if this does iment is but another The matter of a Washington's not prove to be the case. le interest shown in Birthday celebration for the town was dd, and the consensus It is perhaps but natural that those who approve of any left in the hands of the directors of the ed in each editorial is worth while policy or project shall remain silent even in the face Board of Trade. good for the majority of adverse criticism of that policy or project on the part of an Oliver Hall, editor of the Bangor inuation of the road active minority and not give expression to their own opinions Commercial, spoke in a humorous n as outlined. vein, saying that as Sec. Hennessy until there is apparent danger of the cause being lost. THE was coming to deliver the main speech to THE TIMES TIMES has from the very beginning of the development of what is at the luncheon, he felt as though e of the controversy now Acadia National Park, consistently and whole-heartedly he were playing Boswell to Hennessy's gly large number of supported the conservation and development work that has been Johnson. Commenting on the situa- ave been received at carried on under the leadership of Mr. George B. Dorr and Mr. tion in regard to the proposed e during the last few Rockefeller roads, and speaking from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. It offers no apology for as consistently imer and permanent forty years intimate knowledge of endorsing the proposed maintaining the right to criticize on the part of those residents and Mt. Desert Island affairs, Mr. Hall ular, and approving summer residents of Mount Desert Island who agree neither with said he felt confident that the road ive road building pro- these distinguished gentlemen nor with us. would be built when Mr. Rockefeller servation plan in its There is neither time nor space today for the publication of was convinced that the majority of rous letters laud Mr. the residents favored the road. more than a mere fraction of the letters that we have received r and Mr. John D. Secretary Hennessy spoke of the rescuing the domain urging Mr. Rockefeller to go on with his road building program. cordial relations which have existed the lumbermen, and We have chosen to print today a telegram from Mr. Dave between Bangor and Bar Harbor for vast estate available Hennen Morris to Mr. George B. Dorr, in which this leader in many years, and commented on the everal of the adherents the life of the Bar Harbor summer colony and good friend of advertising efforts which are now lan also point out that bringing results. Mr. Hennessy stated every movement for the good of the town and island gives his not enough, but that that he believed that Eastern Maine be developed to the excellent reasons for urging the continuation of the Acadia should advertise the advantages of ter public usefulness National Park development program. The other communication the section as a unit, and carry on a that we have chosen to print is a letter to the editor of this more extensive campaign. In discuss- ing this matter of advertising, the Club Unanimous newspaper from one of Mount Desert Island's most distinguished speaker said that Acadia National and most beloved summer residents, Dr. Francis G. Peabody r luncheon club meet- Park was one of the outstanding at- ay noon, fifty promi- of Cambridge and Northeast Harbor. tractions of Maine, and that he favor- ten of the town unani- Dr. Peabody has been a summer resident of the island for ed playing it up more and more as a a resolution endorsing sixty years. He knows the island, loves and appreciates it as few factor in drawing in more summer t SO generously offered trade. men can or do. In his letter, written before the publication of the eller, and included a Archie L. Getchell presided over the Rockefeller letter, he views present conditions and problems lanks for the splendid meeting. Other members of the execu- nneeving and develop- from the viewpoint of a residence of sixty summers. Read Dr. tive committee having charge of the lomain. Peabody's letter not once, but several times. It is by far the luncheons are Fred L. Carter, Harold ing also, Oliver Hall, finest and fairest thing that has been written in this or any other F. Carter, and Tobias L. Roberts. Bangor Daily Com- newspaper on this subject. Dr. Peabody has said something that ed the program plan- has very much needed to be said and has said it in a way that from an intimate perhaps only he could have said it. Read it for what it can teach and conditions extend- us all, not only of the Rockefeller road matter, but of tolerance, alf a century. Wilfred cretary of the Bangor of breadth of viewpoint, of fairness and of unselfishness in ommerce also spoke, thought and in deed. enic and other advan- road. Mrs. John Markoe's Letter enabled many to enjoy what few had to us old residents, is fast becoming a Mrs. C. A. Watts' Letter seen before.- strange land. Mrs. John Markoe, who correctly am glad that Mrs. Ogden in her Yours truly, Mrs. C. A. Watts, of Allston, Mass., describes herself as one of the oldest admirable letter has given us the op- Effie A. Anthony writes to add her protest against the members of the community, writes a portunity to express our views. new names of Mt. Desert Island brief letter in which she expresses her (Mrs. J. F. Anthony) Having walked, ridden, driven and mountains and states that Green profound gratitude to Mr. Rockefeller motored over the Island for fifty years Mountain was known as such at least for the Mountain Road and expresses Mrs. Byron F. Horne's Letter I know it well. I should deeply forty-eight years ago. her fervent hope that he build no deplore the building of this proposed more roads. Mrs. Byron F. Horne, of Andover, Mrs. Watts' letter follows: road because I feel we wish to preserve Mass., and Southwest Harbor, is a Mrs. Markoe's letter follows: all that is left of wild beauty in that 1359 Commonwealth Ave native of Mt. Desert Island, who is 1630 Locust Street section. Allston, Mass. heartily in favor of the restoration of January 12, 1931 Philadelphia Most sincerely yours, the older names for mountains and To the Editor January 12, 1931 Mary Roberts Coles. other natural objects here. Mrs. Horne Bar Harbor Times, Dear Mr. Sherman: gives her reasons in the following Bar Harbor, Maine letter: As Mrs. Ogden has asked us all for Miss Mildred McCormick's Letter Dear Sir: 242 Main Street an expression of opinion, I feel obliged, Andover, Mass. "It may seem presuming in me to as one of the oldest members. of the Following is Miss Mildred McCor- community, to give mine. mick's letter in which she places her- January 17, 1931 mark the inclosed ballot, also to send this personal note, but my birthplace I am profoundly grateful to Mr. self on record as opposed to the con- Mr. Albion Sherman was Mt. Desert, as it was that of my Rockfeller for the Mountain Road, struction of the proposed new Acadia Bar Harbor, Maine father, mother, and two grandmothers, which enables me to enjoy almost daily National Park motor road: Dear Sir: and my last resting place will be in the beauties of that unequaled drive, 1035 Park Avenue I am pleased to see that some action Mt. Height Cemetery, in South- but I fervently hope that he will build New York is being taken to restore the original west Harbor. no more roads. Dear Mr. Sherman: Yours truly, names of our hills and mountains. It is Of course, we all know that the Matilda Markoe Please add my name to the list of most embarrassing during my visits in summer people have made certain those who are against the building summer to be approached by some sections of the Island financially, and Miss Mary Roberts Coles' Letter of Mr. Rockefeller's new road. guest asking the name of such and socially, but why should they not be willing to give the natives a break on Miss Mary Roberts Coles of Phila- Very truly yours, such a mountain. naming the dear old hills and vales of delphia and Bar Harbor writes to Mildred McCormick My only answer is; I am sorry, I am the island? I feel very strongly about express her appreciation of Mr. Jan. 18. a native of Mt. Desert, I can not Green Mountain being renamed 'Cadi- Rockefeller's generosity in giving Mt. answer your question. lac; to me it savors too strongly of Desert Island the road from Great Mrs. J. Franklin Anthony's Letter the automobile industry, and would Pond Hill to Jordan Pond and at the That mountain used to be Western indeed be a misnomer to apply to the same time to say that she would de- Mrs. J. Franklin Anthony, in the or Newport or which ever the case Everlasting Hill of Mt. Desert. plore the building of the proposed following letter, briefly states her may be. The well-known name of Green new motor road. preference for the older names for Mt. Miss Coles' letter follows: Desert Island mountains and other Since the government has taken Mountain was familiar to me 48 years 2010 DeLancey Place, natural objects: these places for a National Park I am ago, as Mr. Watts and I tramped to its summit July 15, 1882. There we met Philadelphia, Pa. "Great Head" a "stranger is a strange land." Give three residents of Bar Harbor, who January 5, 1931. Bar Harbor, Maine us our old names. Then we will all said they knew the route through the Dear Mr. Sherman: January 12, 1931. know what we are talking about. If Gorge, but they proved false prophets, I read with much interest the letters Mr. Albion Sherman these names are allowed to go on, soon with the result that we spent several Time Office you publish in "The Times" about we shall lose the name of Mt. Desert anxious hours scaling boulders, sink- the proposed road. Bar Harbor, Me. ing into moss covered holes and under- Island. Dear Mr. Sherman: brush before we discovered the right I thoroughly appreciate what Mr. Youts in the interest of Mt. Desert trail. Rockefeller' has done in giving us one of Naving lived here the greater part Island. of the most beautiful drives in the of my life, I naturally love the old Please pardon me for writing at this Mae Driscollo Horne world, which when completed will take names for the mountains and for all length, but I wish you to know that (Mrs. B. F. Horne) us to the summit of Green Mountain. other places of natural beauty, and the name of Green Mountain has To the building of this road he has scenery on our beautiful island, which (Continued on page 3) exceeded the thirty-seven years of the ballot by eleven years. Very respectfully, 26 Broadway New York January 31, 1931 Mr. Paul D. Simpson Scal Harbor Maine Dear Mr. Simpson: Your letter of January 19th regarding the two large trees near the proposed amphitheater bridge is received, also the sketch. I discussed this matter with Mr. Stoughton twice. I had forgotten that we were building bridges wider than the original sixteen feet. Mr. Stoughton justifies the increase in width because of the amount of curvature on the bridge, which I think is 3. compelling and convincing argument. If the bridge were straight, I should see no reason for increasing its width beyond sixteen feet, which I understand is the width of all the other bridges on this road. It is important to save the trees if we can It is also important to so locate the bridge that the waterfall will be pleasingly framed by it. The bridge should also be wide enough for comfortable use. Just what compromise may be necessary in order to give the fullest possible consideration to all these points can be determined only on the ground. It seems best to leave this matter until Mr. Stoughton is next in Seal Harbor, which will be in early March. He will then study the problem on the ground with you and make his recommendations to E. Since his detailed plans for the bridge as at present located have already been completely drawn, not more than a week's time will be lost, even if it is necessary to re-locate the bridge after his visit. Very truly, John JLA, R61, B73,f.12 OLMSTED BROTHERS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS the FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED JAMES FREDERICK DAWSON BROOKLINE+ MASSACHUSETTS PERCIVAL CALLACHER EDWARD CLARK WHITING HENRY VINCENT HUBBARD January 26, 1931. Dr. Clarence Little, Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Little: The suggestion, in your letter of January 23rd, of "squaring out" the northerly corner of the area I suggested as available for the Laboratory looks very reasonable on paper; but I question whether it is desirable in fact. The line I drew was intended to rep- resent the base of the very steep hill-escarpment. The line may be quite inaccurately sketched, but I am almost certain that you will find it inex- pedient to extend any building or roadway improve- ments up on to that steep escarpment. I am sure also that the land on the F. and S. H. Rodick par- cel which is flat enough to be conveniently usable for such purposes is very much wider in the region opposite the entrance to the present Laboratory land than it is at the boundary between the Rodick and Conners parcels, and has in fact a curving boundary of the general shape roughly indicated by my sketch. What you suggest would merely include in the Laboratory land an additional triangular piece of steep hillside. In general I have assumed that the Laboratory would have no use for this steep hill slope, but if it would be advantageous in any way to include some of it I see no fundamental objection to doing so. As I wrote, in effect, to Mr. Rockefeller, the most sensible procedure appears to be for you to have Mr. Hill "brush out" some lines, (say 100 feet apart), extending in from the Otter Creek Road as far as the land is topographically at all suitable Mr. Little -2- 1/26/31. for your purpose, and take some levels on these lines; then have a preliminary plan prepared for the ultimate maximum utilization of the land by the Laboratory; and then draw a boundary that will include the land you want to use, leaving the wooded slope above for ultimate inclusion in and maintenance by the Park. By the way I broached to Albright in Washington your suggestion about a small special group to be assigned to field study and inspection of the Acadia National Park, responsible directly to Washington and wholly distinct from the executive force, which is under the direction of the Superintendent. He thought very well of it, and believed he would have Government funds which could be used for that purpose. Sarah sends you her best regards and hopes to see you one of these days. Sincerely yours, Frederick Law Olustee ARIZONA INN TUCSON. ARIZONA March 2nd, 1931. Dear Mr. Simpson:- Your letter of February 8th is received. The suggested connection of the Paradise Hill horse road at Eden Street, using some of the old lane seems admirable. I shall want to go over these several routes with you when I come to Maine in May. In the meantime, when the snow goes off, you will have gone over them all and cut them out so that we can easily find them. I am proposing to spend a few weeks here in Arizona at the above address, and shall be in New York again in early April. Very truly, John 2. Rocefelling Mr. Paul D. Simpson Seal Harbor, Maine 641 UNITED STATES GEOGRAPHIC BOARD Adopted Porcupines, The Approved March 4, 1931 Thing named } group of four islands in French hman Bay, Percuping Porcuption Porcupino Me.. individually known as Long, Burnt Sheep and Porcupine island between Jordan and Iron- 3nd Aton Key Names bound islands on the east, and Bar Island x and town of Bar Harbor on the west. . Porcupines The 1911-Sherman-Mt. Desert Island 1930-Letter-Supt.-Acadia N.P. , 2-14-31 Four islands always shown on map as Long Porcupine Island, Burnt Porcupine Island, Local usage etc. Recommendation of Executive Committee Submitted by Supt.Acadia N.P. Porcupines : The J.I.C 2-14-31 RAP B Sub JAPAN Date J. J. Cameron This card prepared by U. a GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1929 Note : This memo was filed by Supt Don to insure Pg. lof5 mation it contains that the Board shall have available the infor CHAINMAN File MAR C 1931 RECEIVED For Memorandum On certain mountain names in the Mount Desert Island chain established by decisions of the United States Geographic Board at its meeting held October 2d, 1918, end later: Acedia, Bornard, Cadillic, Champlsin, Flying Squadron, luguenot Need, Mansell, Norumbega, Parkman, Penobscot, st. Sauveur. These names belong to a range of granite hills which traverses Mount Desert Island in a northeast-southwest direction and was originally, geologically speaking, a solid granite dike, uphonved, molton, into deep regional-rock deposits which have since been completely eroded away to near or below the present ocean level. This dike, exposed and standing athwart the seaward movement of successive ice-sheets, became deeply trenched across, creating a series of isolated peaks divided by transvorse gorges and deep, lake-filled valleys, or sea- flooded at the Island's center to create the single glacial fiord 02 our Atlantic const, Somes Sound. -l- It was these bold rock masses rising from the sea that led Champlain, sailing in 3 ptember, 1004, from the St. Croix colony on the Bay of Fundy, to name the Island: 'Isle des Monts deserts. 1 No names were given to the individual pools that compose the range by the early Fronch or laber English settlers, for whom they had no interest except in range as a beacon from the sea, or for the number to DE cut along their bases. Such names as the early voye ours and sottlers gave sprang from their life along the shore. The harbors, bays and waterways, the islands and the headlands they named. The lakes, of whatever size, were known is ponds and described by shape or size or geographical position; or by the name of someone Living and lumbering clans their shore. The mountains individually acquired names only from the summer visitors after railroads and steembost lines had brought the Island within reach, none roing beyond living memory when the Government acquired possession. -2- Acadia National Park was first established as the Sieur de Monts National Monument by presidential proclamation. It was established largely upon historic grounds, the interest of its region's early story, and it was felt that the bold, outstanding heights of the Island range, a famous landmark from the sea, should receive names that would help recall that history to the visiting public in the years to come. This was urged by the Secretary of the Interior, Franklin K. Lane, who prepared the proclamation signed by President Wilson. It was urged by President Eliot of Harvard, one of the earliest summer residents upon Mount Desert Island and president of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations fro whom as holding agent the United States received the gift. And it was in accord with a suggestion made in the History of Mount Desert compiled by the Rev. George E. Street, an early summer visitor, and edited upon his death by Dr. Semuel A. Eliot, s on of President Eliot, and familiar from boyhood with the Island, its mountains and its people. -3- The United States Geographic Board, on the matter being brought before it, asked for a report upon the names in use with suggestion for others appropriate to the dignity and historical purpose of the National Monument, which had itself been named in the same intent for the founder of Acadia, the Sieur de Monts, viceroy of Henry IV, to whom the coming of Champlain and first recorded exploration of the coast was due. The report was rendered and remains on file. In it, reasons were given for not wishing to perpetuate in the terri- tory given to the nation the names it was desired to change. Others, in replacement, were suggested and favorably acted on. The gift of one of the beautiful mountains in the chain, Acadia Mountain, fronting on Somes Sound, immediately followed, conditioned on the name. Others followed, giving entrance to Champlain Mountain, St. Sauveur Mountain and the Jesuit Field, all linked with the historic interest these names recalled. To Cadillac Mountain summit the United States is now building a wonderful road, the Cadillac Mountain road, whose name will tell to every visiting motorist of the Island's once earliest owner and feudal lord, and its link with the great city of Detroit he founded. -4- The Park itself, carrying out the thought, has been renamed by recent Act of Congress: Acadia National Park, while at the foot of Flying Squadron Mountain a now famous spring has been developed, commemorating in its name the Sieur de Monts and the founding of Acadia. Alongside of this, on land given for the purpose and conveyed recently in free gift to the Park, a museum of enduring material and fire-proof has been built and liberally endowed through the energy and interest of Dr. Robert Abbe of New York, who has since died, for the housing and ex- hibition of Indian relics of the stone age period found along these shores, where there were many and old settlements at the coming of the whi te man and numerous shell-heaps that remain. The entire Island range is now included in the Park as the plan intended, or is on its way to be so, and its noble granite masses, clear-cut against the sky as they front on that great ocean highway which brought the first discoverers and colonists to the land, have become true historic documents that will record forever to succeeding generations the human background to the Park. [G.B.DORR] - 5- Seal Harbor, Maine, Larch 13, 1931. Dear ur. Rockefeller:- You will remember that you had to defer the study of the alternative location through the valley which I had staked out for the outlet of the horse rond loop from the Eagle Lake bridge by Aunt Betty's Pond and Gllmore leadow uoon the Jordan - Sargent Mountain road near the triangle at the north end of Jordan Mountain, and that you planned to study the question further on the ground during the visit which you hoped to make in December. As the crading is completed to the triangle at the foot of Gilmore Meadow Mr. Falston plans to have the Par Harbor road crew work on the section extending from the foot of Gilmore Meadow to this outlet during the coming season. This section WAS cut out and cleared last yearsto the point where the first outlet survey leaves the valley - a distance of abou 3400 feet from the end of the completed triangle at the foot of Gilmore Meadow and ir. ralston has inquired about cutting out the 18 missing of the line so that the brush and stumps can be burnea the spring 19 too far advanced. While it may not be necessary for Mr. Ralston 71th a small force to do any construction work at this end during the coming season - unless It is planned to start an acditional crew here, which I assume is doubtful, I a.m. referring the matter to you, with a plan showing the three outlets which we have considered 80 you can study the question on paper if you wish. To refresh your memory - the grade on the first outlet was between 5 and 6 per went - on the second we had About 300 feet of 7 per cent and on the third about 1500 feet of 7 per cent. The relative lengths are shown by the plan. I am sorry to trouble you with this during your stay in Arizona - where I hone you are finding relaxation and rest. Probably there will be ample time to consider it after your return to New York. Yours very truly, Mr. John D. lockefellor, Jr., Arizona Inn, Tucson, Arixona. ARIZONA INN TUCSON, ARIZONA March 21st, 1931. Dear Mr. Simpson:- - Your letter of March 13th is received. As to the three routes proposed, it seems to me that the choice would lie between either One or Three; Two being the compromise that gives us the beauty of the valley but takes us so far North and out of the way before connect- ing with the Seal Harbor road. I fear the grade of Three is prohibitive, 7% for 1500 feet is bad. Have we any piece of horse road that is comparable to that? If so, where? Comparable in steep- ness of grade and in extent of grade? I much prefer Route Three for its location, its beauty, its point of arrival and its directness. If we turn to Route One, it would be because it is the shortest and the best grade, altho the most uninter- esting. Please write me at the above address about grades at your early convenience. Very truly. John D. Rockyeller Mr. Paul D. Simpson Seal Harbor, Maine Seal Harbor, Maine, March 27, *1931. Dear Mr. Rockefeller:- I have received your letter of March 21st relative to the three routes under consideration for the outlet of the road from Aunt Betty's Pond to the Jordan - Sargent Mountain Road nexr the north end of Jordan Mountain. With reference to route No.3 - the best example of a road comparable in extent and steepness of grade that I can think of at the moment is the road connecting the Jordan - Sargent Mountain Road with the County road on Shady Hill at the west end of Little Brown Mountain - which we have often referred to as"the work road". This road is on a 7% grade, but is several hundred feet longer than the piece of 7% road up the valley, which we are considering. Considering the nature of the country here it does not seem that this grade would be 80 very objectionable. Before reaching the steep part however we have a thousand feet of a little more than 5% grade. Perhaps the greater beauty of this line might offset the advantages of easier grade on the other. Very truly yours, Mr. John u. Rockefeller, Jr., [Paul Simpson] Ari-ona Inn, Tucson, Arizona. 641.5 See work card UNITED STATES GEOGRAPHIC BOARD Adopted Bubble name APPROVED pond, Hancock County, Maine, elevation APR 1 1931 Thing 325 feet, about 1/4 mile southeast of named Eagle Lake, in Acadia N.P., near lat. 44° 2IV, long. Names 68° 14'. Authorities Bubble Pond 1893-Rand Mt. Desert Island " " 1896-Bar Harbor Village Impr. Assn. 19 " it 1896-Bates, Rand, Jaques 11 It 1896-Mears " 1911-Sherman Turtle Lake 1881-Colby Atlas, Hancock Co. Docal usage " 1884-Colby Atlas John with n 18 " 189 -Eastern R. R. 11 11 1904-U.S.G.S. Bar Harbor Quad. / 18 1926-Higgins (Over) Recommendation of Executive Committee Submitted by Gea. B Dorr Supt for N.P.Serv. Bubble J.J.C. B SWB Date This card prepared by 9-2275 U. a. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1929 See work card 641.5 UNITED STATES GEOGRAPHIC BOARD Adopted 'Bald Porcupine name APPROVED one of the Porcupine Islands in French- near APR 1 1931 Thing named man Bay, Hancock County, Me. lat. 44° 23' N., long. 68° 11' W. Names Authorities Bald Porcupine See authorities listed on Round Island, decision Nov. 7, 1928. (Not Round.) Local usage Bald Porcupine Visit, Supt. Acadia N. P., 3-7-31 George B. Dorr, for N.P.Serv. Recommendation of Executive Committee Submitted by Supt. Acadia N. P. Bald Porcupine J.J.C. Date swep This card prepared by J. J. Cameron 9-2275 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1920 ARIZONA INN TUCSON. ARIZONA April 6th, 1931. Dear Mr. Simpson:- Your letter of March 22nd is received. You say that the 7% grade of the outlet road from Aunt Betty's Pond is about the same as the grade on the work road entrance from the Brown Mountain Road to the Little Brown Mountain road. You say, however, that the former 1500 feet of 7% grade is preceded by about 1000 feet of 5% grade. Going back to the Little Brown Mountain work road is there not even a longer, steeper grade prior to the 1500 feet of 7%, as one comes from the stone bridge on the bridle path near Hadlock Pond up to the work road? In other words, starting from the stone bridge under the pine trees, would there not be at least 1000 feet of 5% grade before one reached the service road, which you say is about 1500 : feet of 7% grade? I think it would be difficult for me to decide this question before coming to Seal Harbor. On the other hand, I shall be glad at your early convenience to have the further data asked for in this letter, for it will help me in making the comparison. Very truly, John D. Mr. Paul D. Simpson Seal Harbor, Maine address 26 (Groadway, n.y Senl Harbor, Maine, April 13, 1931. Dear Mr. Rockefeller:- Referring to your letter of April 6th relative to the outlet road from Aunt Betty's Pond - you are correct in your recollection of the grades on the Hadlock Pond bridle path below its junction with the work road leading to the road on Little Brown Mountain. This art of the bridle path for about 1500 feet is on a grade of 5 and 5% So these two pieces of road offer & close parallel to the condition that would be found on the outlet road referred to above. As construction work will not reach the portion of the road under consideration for A long time I think the decision can safely be left until your next visit. Although the legal time for burning brush nay then be over there will be no difficulty in getting permission from the town to burn on rainy days. Very truly yours, [Paul Simpson] Mr. John D. Rockfeller, Jr. 26 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Seal Harbor, Naine, May 5, 1931. Dear Mr. Rockefeller:- The plans for the Amphitheatre Road bridge on Little Harbor Brook show the inside face of the 4 foot rib formed by the ring stones of the arch as built on radial lines at the springing line - making the face of the rib form a curved warped surface between the springing line and the top of the arch. This makes the depth of the panel formed by the barrel of the arch and the ring stone rib have a variation in depth between the springing line and the top of the arch of about 5" on the lower side of the arch and about 10" on the upper side as shown by the plan. This was probably done to give the appearance of a right arch as viewed from above and below. As the bridge will be seen mostly at close range however I a.m wondering - since the inside faces of the ring stones will show anyway - if it would not be better to make the inside face of the rib parallal to the barrel or soffit of the arch. This would simplify the building of the forms and construction generally and would give a uniform depth of panel and do away with the crooked appearance shown. The enclosed sketch showing a section of the arch shows what I mean. This is just a suggestion which you might discuss with ur. Stough when you see him. Very truly yours, [Paul Simpson] ur. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 26 Broadway, New York, N. Y. ROCKEFELLER JR. IN MAINE. AVT New York Times (1857-Current file); May 5, 1931; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg.31 ROCKEFELLER JR. IN MAINE. Bar Harbor Looks for Conference on Highway Project. SEAL HARBOR, Me., May 4 (AP).- John D. Rockefeller Jr., whose offer to construct a $4,000,000 highway through Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island was withdrawn because of the opposition of a group of Summer residents, was here today as the guest of Irwin Clement, the Rockefeller Summer estate not yet being open. It was understood that Mr. Rocke- feller would confer with various per- sons regarding the proposed road. After the offer was withdrawn a committee of Bar Harbor citizens visited Washington and urged Secre- tary of Agriculture Hyde to prevail upon Mr. Rockefeller to reconsider the proposition, and the Legislature passed a resolution calling for sim- ilar action by Mr. Hyde. No word concerning Mr. Rocke- feller's decision has been made public. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission Explanatory note accompanying call for special meeting of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations to be held on the 22nd day of June 1931. ARTICLE 1. The two lots which would be conveyed to Mr. Dorr if the exchange offered by him is favor- ably acted on by the Trustees are narrow strips of land bordering Great Meadow Brook between its crossing of the Ledgelawn Avenue Extension road and its outlet from the Meadow, and separated by one of the playing courses of the second nine-hole golf links. These lots are remainder portions of an origin- ally continuous strip deeded by Mr. Dorr to the Trustees before the establishment of the Golf Club's second nine-hole course, with reference to a driving road and foot-path the plan for which was given up in favor of the links. The intended development which led to the conveyance having been abandoned, blocked by the links, this land has ceased to be potentially useful or appropriate to the Trustees' purposes. The land offered by Mr. Dorr in exchange, fronting on Ledgelawn Avenue Extension road, extends along the eastern side of the road between Cromwell Harbor Brook and Kebo Brook bridge-crossings and forms a necessary link in the opportunity for a continuous foot-path connecting the Village at the Athletic Field with the Great Meadow and Sieur de Monts Spring, together with the trails that start from them, in accordance with the plans proposed by Mr. Charles Eliot in his study for the future development of Mount Desert Island prepared for the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, and by Mr. Olm- sted in his work for Mr. Rockefeller. It is in the interest of this development that this exchange is pro- posed. ARTICLE 2. At a meeting of the Reservations held August 20, 1929, it was voted to convey to the United States all lands owned by the Corporation on Mount Desert Island except a strip of land one hundred fifty feet wide bordering the lakes and their tributaries furnishing water to the various towns and except also a lot containing approximately five acres on Barr Hill and a lot occupied by the Champlain Monu- ment on the Cooksey Drive. The reason for seeking a conveyance of this lake-shore property now is that portions of the system of constructed roads extending around these lakes lie over this land. The Reservations have no funds to maintain such portions and the Government, assuming the obligation now borne by the Trustees in con- nection with the protection of the water supply, will be able to keep the roads in proper condition. ARTICLE 3. The land referred to in this article was acquired after the vote had been passed authorizing the conveyance to the Government of all but certain specified lots. It therefore becomes necessary to obtain special authority from the Corporation to convey this lot. yard 1931 LETTER FROM DR. ROBERT STERLING YARD TO DR. H. C. BRYANT June 24, 1931. "I have read with keenest interest your report to the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial on educational activities in National Parks. While it contains few details of which I was unaware (having been secretary from the beginning of the National Park Educa- tional Committee, of the National Parks Association, and of the Museums Association's Outdoor Education Committee under both its titles) I find the achievement as a whole, as here presented, little short of astonishing. So lusty a growth from so small a start in so short a time is not only eloquent of the public need that inspired it, but highly dramatic also, and I am keen for the popular rewriting which you promise as a public document. "But do not think of confining a statement so valuable to outdoor education and the fame of the National Park Service merely to the Nature Guide System. The story of the whole should be available in the public and university libraries of the country. "The only criticism I have concerns the beginning of education in the National Parks Service which preceded by several years the Nature Guide System. Of course that was before your personal observation, but I can make the facts available and will be very glad to do so. Here they are in, I think, sufficient detail. "Unofficially, the use of the national parks by universities as class rooms began many years ago. The University of California probably began it, but I havent the record. In 1899, Doctor Rollin D. Salisbury began taking University of Chicago geological classes into what afterward became Glacier National Park, Doctor Thomas C. Chamberlin and Doctor J. Paul Goode following his example. Doctor William M. Davis took Harvard classes to the Grand Canyon at an early date. Doctor Douglas W. Johnson took Columbia University classes into several national parks. Doctor Frederick G. Pack took Utah State University classes into Yellowstone and the Zion country long before our time. Doctor Ernest Lehnert took University of Minnesota classes into Glacier for several consecutive years, and I have less definite notes in my 1916 files about several other state universities including Texas. "Mr. Mather caught the educational idea, and definitely determined upon educational development, as early as the summer of 1916; this was on his second 'Mather Mountain Party" in the Sierra, of which I was a member. We developed it together during our trail riding of many days. On our way back east we spent eight wonderful September days in Glacier where we met Dr. Ernest Lehnerts who had just dismissed his University of Minnesota geology class. During a stormy day in Lewis's hotel on Lake McDonald the three of us talked over many ideas, some of which afterward were realized. "We returned full of purpose, and sprung the educational idea officially at the fourth National Park Conference which was held in the Smithsonian during the first days of the following January, 1917. The second day of five was called Educational Day, and I presided at both sessions. Dr. Lehnerts, Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Dr. William H. Holmes and Dr. Arthur E. Bester, president of Chautauqua, were among eight or nine who spoke on education, but no one advanced any defined program. Dr. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education, offered to cooperate with the National Park Service in securing 'educational extension in the national parks', but his ideas were vague like those of all the rest of us. At that meeting, by the way, I predicted the National Parks Association which actuall appeared two and a half years later. "No definite plans were made either at this meeting or in the months that followed, though many were talked over. Mr. Mather assigned me to canvass opinion, but I found fe who took the idea seriously. In May, 1917, the question came up of a title to give my educational work more weight. I suggested (Educational Adviser to the National Park Service', but some one, I think Mr. Albright, thought that 'Chief of the Educational Division' would accord better with Interior Department usage. That was painted on my door (room 4133) in which, for two years, I carried on a vigorous composite of park publicity and educational promotion, writing, meantime, my 'Book of the National Parks'. The latter was built on an educational frame work which some of us had worked out as a basis for work in the Service. "Educational promotion wasn't much of a success at first. No one in Washington took any interest in it except Mr. Mather, spasmodically; Congressmen smiled over it; and, with a very few exceptions the concessioners opposed it. Somebody politically influential on the Pacific Coast slammed the whole idea of education in national parks by letter to his Senator, who called up Secretary Lane about it, and Lane phoned down to Mather that he'd better go slow on that unpopular kind of stuff. Thus the cause pass under a heavy cloud just as things were beginning to look hopeful. But I still kept my title, and hammered away as inconspicuously as possible. "Meantime Dr. Charles D. Walcott and a few Smithsonians, together with Mr. Matthes, Mr. Campbell, and others of the Geological Survey, had been getting enthusiastic over our ideas, and we had a number of good friends in several universities. Discouraged by Lane's opposition, Dr. Walcott suggested a study organization to determine what should be done in the circumstances. "On June 26, 1918, was organized, in the Smithsonian Institution, the National Parks Educational Committee, consisting largely of university presidents and professors as far west at Utah and California, together with representatives of leading conserva- tion organizations including the Camp Fire Club, the Audubon Society and the Sierra Club. The committee numbered, I think, about 72 members, nearly all much interested. With Mr. Mather's permission and considerable interest, I ran this committee, as secretary, from my desk in the Service. It was all to the ultimate good of this Service. "With $84 collected as postage money, I conducted a lively correspondence, as a result of which, on May 29, 1919, the educational committee merged into the National Parks Association, creating it, and I resigned from government service to take charge. "This brings us, you see, up to the point where you begin your Rockefeller report. In fact, nature guide work in California had already come to our attention, and Enos Mills had engaged in it in the Rockies. There was talk of applying it in the National parks, but I think nothing was done till the California Fish and Game people (doesn't that mean you?) took the initiative. "I have written this at length to go into the Service files. From it, I hope that you will find what you need for your popular account of educational beginnings in national parks." Sincerely yours, /s/ Robert Sterling Yard. 2 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON COPY June 24, 1931. Mr. George B. Dorr, Supt., Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Derri We have been delaying answering your letter of June 11 to Director Albright because we wanted to check up on the possibility of assigning some of the Acadia Park work that you mention to the landscape staff, We realize that matters are ready to be pushed at Acadia, but of course these all have to be fitted in with our other landscape problems here in the East. As it stands we have word from Mr. Peterson that he is programming his work se as to spend from three to four weeks in Acadia this summer during July and August, which of course is satis- factory to the Service. Work cannot go ahead until it has had this landscape supervision and planning and approval, Incidentally, you are in error when you say that you have $10,000 available for trail work, since our records show only $5,000 for the next year, There is no doubt, in my opinion, that what we need most for Acadia Park is a good topographic map as a basis for future planning, and I hope this may eventuate during the coming year. It is our plan while Mr. Peterson is in Acadia to have Assistant Director Wirth, in Charge of Lands, spend some time in the park to study the various questions falling within his bailiwick, Sincerely yours, Arno B. Cammerer Acting Director. CC Mr. Peterson. acadia National Park Thine ARK SERVICE Monthly Report RECEIVED duly. 1931 AUG -8 1931 000 General MAILS AND FILES 010 July saw a number of happenings outside the ordinary course of events, all of which served to create additional interest and acti- vity in the Park. First on the list was the customary bi-anual Fourth of July Celebration sponsored by the Bar Harbor Board of Trade. This event al- waye draws a large number of visitors from outside, a majority of whom take occasion to visit the Park. Among the events was an excellent civic and military parade, including decorated cars and trucks. Conspicuous among the trucks was one entered by the Park and decorated by the rangor force. The decoration was intended to contrast a bit of green forest with a burned area. Fire protection signs were displayed, the whole being intended to teach a lesson in care with fire in the woods. From the can- ment heard it would seen that the idea got across. Next in order came the visit in the harbor for one day of the famous old frigate Constitution. This event caused a lot of excitement in the town, oven though it did not directly concern the Park. Ranger Campbell secured several good photographs of the ship which will 60 into the records and will, in years to come, be of great in crest, if not of value. On July 21 the first section of the Cadillac Mountain sumit road was opened, the penolithic surface having been applied. This section is 3500 feet in length and terminates in a broad turn from which an exten- sive view of Frenchmans Bay, Islands and nearby mainland is obtained. Vis: tors at once availed themselves of the opportunity offered to use this piece of road, and expression of delight with the excellent surface and the beautiful view were heard on every hand. 020 General eather Conditions: Temperature recipitation loan maximum 77.3 Rainfall 3.95 Mean minimum 57.2 Mann 67.25 HERBERT L SATTERLEE 37 EAST 36TH STREET NEW YORK October 2nd, 1931 George B. Dorr, Esq., Bar Harbor, Maine: Dear Sieur des Monts: I thank you for your letter of the 26th. Please let me know whether you find the typewritten copy of Mr. Charles Tracy's diary. If not, I will look up the original in the Morgan Library, There is a matter that I meant to speak to you about Sacks before I left Mt. Desert, and it is this: When we were in San Francisco last summer we again went out to the Cliff House to see the seals on the seal rocks. There is nothing that has been a greater asset to San Francisco than those seals. People go again and again to see them and visitors from the interior go out there before they go anywhere else. Those seals have been worth a great deal of money to the proprietors of the Cliff House. 2 Now that the Acadia National Park has so much water front, I do not see why you do not get the seals back again on the rocks. In the old days we used to see a great many of them. Now I believe that the fishermen kill them. Dair Could you not get a bill through the Legislature and get an order from the Secretary of the Interior making the water front of a National Park, sanctuary for marine animals and birds. of course, such a description would frankly include seals. There would probably not be much objection to being in a position to stop shooting shore birds. I suppose the fishermen would object to giving the seals any refuge at all. As a matter of fact I do not know of any fishing in Newport Cove or on the Frenchman's Bay side of Great Head, or around Otter Cliffs, except the nets that Richard Hale puts out sometimes. If there should ever be a tea house or restaurant at Otter Cliffs or on the Homan property, the seals on the rocks would attract a vast number of visitors. The sale of fish for visitors to throw to the seals is really quite an item. If the fishermen could only realize it, there is more money to be taken in by having seals for visitors to see than there is to be saved by driving them away. Perhaps you have thought of all this before and know the George B. Dorr, Esq. -2- October 2nd, 1931 pros and cons of the situation. I will be very glad if you will let me know what you think about it. I think Richard Hale ought to also be consulted because he may have very definite ideas on the subject and it is well to know them before any time is spent on the matter. With all good wishes, I remain, Faithfully yours, Filit Caustile UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT October 5, 1931. Dear Mr. Sattelle: Mr. Satterlee wrote me about the Charles Tracy 1855 diary, telling me of your wish to have a CODY of it for your museum, The original was loaned me by Mrs. Morgan and her sister Mrs Hoppin, who was staying with her that fall at Schooner Head and told of the diary's existence. I had a copy made as oppor- tunity came. This was before the Park's establishment. I have been meaning to have a fair copy made from the copy taken then and could have one made at the same time for you if you desire. I would like to look it over with you. Where are you now? Yours sincerely, GBD-0 Mr. William Otis Sawtelle, Islesford, Maine. ANPA Sawtella Call. 349.F8 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT October 5, 1931. Dear Mr. Sattelle: Mr. Satterlee wrote me about the Charles Tracy 1855 diary, telling me of your wish to have a COPY of it for your museum, The original was loaned me by Hrs. Morgan and her sister Mrs, Hoppin, who was staying with her that fall at Schooner Head and told of the diary's existence. I had a copy made as oppor- tunity came. This was before the Park's establishment. I have been meaning to have a fair COPY made from the copy taken then and could have one made at the same time for you if you desire. I could like to look it over with you. Where are you now? Yours sincerely, CBD-0 Mr. William Otis Santelle, Islesford, Maire. ANPA Sautelle Call 849 f8 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT October 12, 1937. Dear Dr. Sawielle: Can't you run down to Bar Karbor so e day soon and have a talk ith me about the Tracy Journal and some other matters? There are various batters I should 00 glad of a chance to talk over with you. Yours sincerely, lr. Willim Otis Sentel e, Bangor Chamber of Connerce, Bangor, Maine. GBD-0 2 of 3 extact ANPA Sautclle Call. P49 +8 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT June 9, 1923. Prof. William Otis Saytelle, Eaverford, Pa. Dear Professor Sawtslle: Thank you warmly for your kind and interesting enclosure, which I shall read with greatest interest. I have long been planning to pay you a visit at Islesford in the summer but have had no boat. . This year I have a boat and hope to come. with thanks again Believe me Yours sincerely, Gemp B. Work 3 of 3 extant The Midtown Book - The University Club Page 1 of 3 The Midtown Book THE UNIVERSITY CLUB 1 West 54th Street (Northwest corner at Fifth Avenue) Developer: The University Club Architect: McKim, Mead & White Erected: 1899 By Carter B. Horsley While less spectacular than the six-year-older, white marble Metropolitan Club (see The City Review article) six blocks farther north on the avenue, designed by Stanford White of the same firm, on Fifth Avenue, this is the city's grandest clubhouse. With its deep rustication, grand proportions and superb craftsmanship, it is the city's finest Italian Renaissance palazzo-style structure [preferred by G.B.Dorr.] http://www.thecityreview.com/univ.html 2/15/2008 Seal Harbor, Maine, October 26, 1931. Dear Mr. Rockefeller:- Our original plans for carrying both sewer and water pipe lines by the Jordan Pond underpass are being followed. Thes are the same plans which I went over with you before you returned to New York. They provide for carrying the Bewer under the bridge and the water main around the cast and of the bridge in an inverted siphon with blow-out discharging into oatch basin of 12" drain under the bridge. In this way the main will be accessible and the bridge will not be endange ed in case of A break. 7e would have preferred to carry the main on the bridge but on account of limited head room and consequent small crown thickness of arch this was impossible. As the bridge takes up the full width of the town road right of way it will be necessary to give the water company an easement over the small piece of land east of the brid over which the new line passes. It may also be necessary to give the town 8. right of may for the Bewer over & short strip a few feet in len-th if the plans for the relocation of the Jordan Pond road are finally accepted - as I believe they already are. The temporary pipe which it is necessary to use during the excavation work for the underpass has been put in and the old pipe which comes within the construction lines has been taken up. Some of th excavation for the underpass has been done and drais installed and about 500 feet of the new sewer has been completed. The pipe line matters were taken up with Messrs. Dunham and Jordan renre enting the Seal Harbor Water Company. As Mr. Thorpe, Consulting Engineer for the Bar Harbor Water Company, happened to be in Bar Harbor Mr. Dunham called him in consultation. We went over the situation on the ground with him and he approved. our plans in full. The question has come up as to how best to handle the work con- nected with the water company's pipe line. It was my first thought that it would be well to have the company do the work itself 80 that every- thing would be done to its own satisfaction. I have just been talking with Mr. Halston about this and he thinks it would perhaps be better to have Mr. Jordan do the work and send him a bill which he can approve and forward to you with the explanation that the work was necessary in connection with the construction of the underpass. I am enclosing a blueprint which shows the general lay-out of the work which is Being done. Very truly yours, Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 26 Broadway, [Paul Simpson] New York, 2. The final conclusions to which we have come, therefore, and on the basis of which I authorize you to go ahead with the bridges, are as follows: For the first bridge, being a diagonal one, a split lintel the same width throughout its length; the width not to exceed 24" and to be less if you feel that from a structural point of view that is safe and wise. The lintel to rise on the side walls without brackets or corbels. No boulders to be used in the wall, only split stones. The lintel may be a stone split from some quarry, even if the color is not exactly the same as the other stones. Your estimate for this bridge was $2,585., which I hereby ap- prove. The second bridge, with the arch. Either you will build the bridge as per Mr. Stoughton's original design, if the conditions which it was designed to meet can be as well adopted as the new conditions on which you have designed the new arch, or, if the more rounded arch which Mr. Stoughton is designing, showing the improvements of your arch which he and I both felt could be made, is satisfactory to you and from your point of view preferable as to conditions to Mr. Stoughton's original arch bridge, I am willing you should substitute his new arch for the old. Your estimate on your revision of Mr. Stoughton's old arch is $1,703, which I approve and authorise, assuming that the revised arch will not cost substantially more. For his information and because it carries authorisations, I am sending a copy of this letter to Mr. Ralston. A copy is also being sent to Mr. Zach for his information. You need not await my return to go ahead with these two bridges. Very truly Mr. Paul D. Simpson, John Seal Harbor, M ine. 334-G DUNCAN CANDLER ARCHITECT 126 EAST 27TH STREET NEW YORK October 29, 1931. Paul D. Simpson Esq. Seal Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Simpson: Just before Mrs. Rockefeller left Seal Harbor in September, I asked Sam Candage to ask you to make a contour plan of the knoll at the end of the alley in the garden where a high stele is to be placed. As I have not heard from you and as Mrs. Rockefeller would like to have me do some work in con- nection with the placing of this stele and platform for same, will you kindly let me have at your earliest con- venience contour of this site. Sam Candage can tell you what I want. I need it large enough to include the pres- ent steps to it and the spruce tree in front of it; a width of about 201 on the axis of the alley and a depth from the spruce tree to the North to include the drop to the lower levels. Very truly yours, Duncan Caydel Page lof4. copy for Judge Deasy Phillips Academy Andover, Massachusetts 10 November 1931 George B. Dorr, Esq., Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine. My dear Mr. Dorr: I have your letter and thank you. I am leaving for Ohio, New York and Indiana, tomorrow and returning December 3. I have asked our mutual friend, Mr. Endicott, for an interview sometime between December 4 and 23, agreeable to his convenience. Obviously, I wish to do the right thing in this matter. I quite agree with you that we should hesitate be- fore we enter into this arrangement unless we are assured that there are sufficient funds available to produce a creditable volume. We have at Andover published both Indian and archaeo- logical books for many years. The Trustees appropriate the entire expense and in the course of a few years these volumes very nearly pay for cost of production. To oe exact, our first three volumes are out of print and selling at a premium. The next three covered three-fourths and two-thirds of the original cost and we have several hundred copies left. The last two volumes, due to the hard times, have sold as follows: Dr. Kid- der's book, about $300; mine about $500. The last book was more technical and "drier" than will be my account of the Indians of Mount Desert. Moreover, it is larger, being 224 pages. There folding maps which are expensive. The cost (1200 copies) was $2300 - including pic- tures. It is difficult to exactly estimate the cost of a work before the manuscript is prepared. Assuming the same size - which is opoular - as my Arkansas volume and that the work would be 130 pages, cloth bound, it is my opinion that a thous- and copies would cost $1600. Our publisher here at Andover does excellent work but he is rather expensive. Possibly the volume could be produced in Bar Harbor, Bangor, or Portland more cheaply. It is my candid opinion that if your fund allows $500, and Peabody Museum of Salem, $500, that you would be able to raise, say $600 among the people of Bar Harbor. My Merri- mack report, 79 pages, is not as well done as I would desire. It was necessary for us to economize. I am sending you a copy of it, also the Arkansas book. Twelve hundred copies of the Merrimack cost $800 or something like 70 d each. 2 I enclose letter from the Andover Press, which estimates the cost as 1300, without cuts. These un from 44 to $7 each. We should have all told about fifty illustra- tions. on the Merrimack report, the publisher knowing me for many years, carried the account. He has received about half the money. Our proposed ar Harbor publication is some- what different in that - if I understood Mr. Endicott correct- ly - the Peabody Museum of Salem would give $500, which with your money leaves but 00 secure. It seems to me you could raise that amount next spring or early summer. You do not need any money save for my expenses until the manuscript is ready and in the hands of the printer. That might be the first of next October - possibly September. Concerning the outline sketch which you requested, I would suggest this little work follow the late Francis Park- man's method of treatment. Mr. Allen Forbes, State Street Trust Company, 3oston, got out an excellent memoir of the French occupation of northern New England, a year or two ago. IIe handled the subject quite well. It would be my purpose to insert something concerning the prehistoric occupation. By the term, "Indians of the Mount Desert Region" I comprehend both the historic and the prehistoric. I shall be very glad to hand the manuscript - when the first draft is completed - next summer to Judge Deasy and yourself. I believe both of you might have some suggestions or criticisms to offer which would be ;ladly received. Yes, I heartily agree that there should be no inter- 1 ference with your present series. Mr. Smith has done a good job. I believe this covers your letter. If not, pray command me. I Shall be glad to hear from you by the middle of December. With best wishes, Very sincerely yours, Warren Kind Moorehead (signed). copy for Judge Deasy 3 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT copy November 16, 1931. Dear Dr. Moorehead: Though I know by your letter that you must have left for Ohio I write against your re- turn to acknowledge both your own letter and the mem- oranda you enclosed to me from the Andover Press, con- cerning the proposed Museum publication. As you know, I am warmly interested in having what you have proposed accomplished. Done under your auspices it would make a valuable contribution to the subject as well as an exceptionally interesting one for us here. Printed attractively, with good illustration not only of implements and other finds but of the region, 1 it certainly should make a book people will wish to own and should command a fair price that ultimately might bring back a substantial sum toward the cost of publica- tion. And I do not think it would be desirable to print it unless it can be printed in such form. To do this it will be necessary to raise $750, or thereabout, in addi- tion to what Judge Deasy says the Museum can safely under- take to pay. I understand you will confer with Mr. Endicott on this, and leave it in your hands. Yours sincerely, GBD-0 (signed) George B. Dorr Dr. Warren K. Moorehead, Andover, Mass. 4 copy Phillips Academy, Andover, Massa chusetts, December 14, 1931. Honorable George B. Dorr, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. My dear Mr. Dorr: Mrs. Moorehead and mys If had a very pleasant luncheon, Saturday, with Mr and Mrs. Endicott. He said that you were coming down for the Christmas holidays and he would have a long talk with you. He also agreed with me that we might as well prepare the manuscript this summer since I have that time free and shall probably (if possible) go abroad a year from next spring. He further said that he would write you. I gathered from his conversation that he understood that you could pay the expenses $732 or $750 (I have mislaid the carbon of my letter which gives the exact amount) out of your funds and $500 toward the publication, that the Peabody Museum, Salem, would give $500 and the remaining $600 he would contribute. Of course, he will take up this matter with you, but that was my understanding of the conversation. Meantime, during this winter I will have the references looked up in the Harvard Library, etc., and every- thing compiled so that all this material can be brought by me to Bar Harbor for the actual writing. I think it will cost between $60 and $75 for a library clerk to work on it I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Very sincerely yours, (signed) Warren King Moorehead *which come out of the $732 for my work. 26 Broadway New York December 23, 1931. Dear Mr. Simpson: Your letter of December 15th, showing two ways of bringing the Stanley Brook motor road into the Jordan Pond highway at the Wild- wood Farm road, is received. I feel with you that plan No. 1, which encroaches a trifle on the northwest dorner of Mr. Dane's property, is by far the better of the two. On the other hand, there is no pos- sible prospect of our acquiring any portion of Mr. Dane's property, unless ultimately by condemnation. That of course, should the Park be the eventual owner of my adjacent property, would be entirely possible and natural. It would be regrettable to have to adopt plan No. 2 as a temporary measure, and then later change the whole layout back to plan No. 1. As I study plan No. 1 I note that the reason for cutting a corner of the Dane property is simply to make room for a more natural turn from the Wildwood Farm road to the Jordan Pond road going north. It would appear to me to be possible to make this turn without diffi- culty without going onto Mr. Dane's property. To turn around the angle of his property would be hardly different from making any right angle turn. If the turn is physically possible - and it certainly must be, for the proposed road in plan No. 1 is 50 feet in width from the corner of the angle across - why should we not adopt plan No. 1, realizing that we may for a few years be obliged to make the turn around the Dane's angular corner but also believing that ultimately the corner can be cut off? If you can corroborate my belief that the corner can be turned safely without encroaching on Mr. Dane's property, even if the turn is not a desirable one, I authorize the adoption of plan No. 1, which seems to me in every respect pleasant, desirable and economical, in that it uses most parts of the present reconstructed surface of the Jordan Pond road? Very truly, Mr. Paul D. Simpson, John 2 Cockifiller Seal Harbor, Maine. "Acadia" pg. I of 4 Superintendent IRA,DI. NPS.SMR. 1931-1932 Notes Monthly Rpts.1928-1905 I "Asida fin the situation created by ur Like filler acqual to be role and from his offer to construction centro needs in ANI no incided working it special attach occurs day Form . 1931." of anthonyed " of Personal : 13 employees, 10 lond year Jan. NR 2.31 0.1 52 Dorr research IN pank with Feb. 26 left for DC. to enter E Service. All agencies intent in wood buildy in ANP are unity deligery to induce 11. hockfold to recorder in action." 2 ", growth to popular cabout in tava of the pack, particular circury its status is a game sancture. 3.3' Regard dear closed seem retricture bill passed. But fu 10 days they was hased and my staughtered. Anoth hill to make MDI a for sometry did not pass. Local oppositing tro strong. 4.51 2 Scheoder Suray completed. New contruction/Infreed in Park Approached Pennal 11 appt, 15 non-appt. 5.31 Arst. handreops Architact V. Roswell Ludgate can to pank to asst. 10 hundry construction to landscope Mobile assor. I rood writ. His visit "coust fulto the first puritical contact this pah has had E the Landscope Divisa of th NPS Willature to actual plan In contraction. Z of & AR 31 Charles E Petenson Asst badsage Archite l in 2 Change of landscupe wich in combone Dates, arrived for as months stay sinching road and trail sitnet on 0 d that the pla can be developed." Schoolic Penne la road developer also uder recrew it C.MRP. work on the latter greatly speaked up R8.31 Peterson left fn Yorkbom HDQ Aug. 25 3 R. M. Holmes, Chuf Clush do the Worly to office of the NPS t his brother & their wives arrived in AND ad were Dorr's guests Senata DI. Watsh of Massachusetts + funk got Dorr tour. 9.31 Seam Visitors: 162,238 us. 154, 734 last year (Montana Rd. surfacy completed at trant allowed. Dorr does not malu much to do @ this - odd ! $68K, Conrad L.Wirth (NPS) visited 9/10 9/14. Blister Pust Control Extensive Update MR 10.31 Road capletin described "event of importance". Traffic anson 1 Oct 11 (1st 800 cars web up, Oct 18 900 " " " Oct IT 100 " " " (fog,rain) Oct 30th I it fatality of pack provide Employee. Ralph Giles, 22 yrs laborer, fell itt lear of huck broke Li neck. Trust import : Eargle both Carry Tail , W.side Jorda Pood. U.S. factor for Daine Freduct 1200 initial I 3 of 4 ....K. 12.31 Dorr gave ANP a ford truck to h converted into & fini truch, a piec of equipment long needed. SMR 1.32 Dorr left for WDC on ta 23rd ford had not yet returned. Maps prepared showy Nord & haling Cadillacht. topo finseed. SMR. 2.3L Durr remand really in WDC all mate wrhy m may the paid "accessible to Noter visitors." ^ 1932 Nash auto purchase for un of Dorr. MR 3.32 Dorr continues has stay in WDC. 1932 New arrived in 3/24/32. MR & 32 Dorr return fn WDC 4/24/01. Hadley web to "Superintendent" Conference. at Hot spys" Return to BH Va WDC + Great Smokies NP. New tategory "Labor Situation." Candit in BH "are the same as in other parts of the country a laye nurhe of near unexployed and available. SPP replate re survey design funds. SMR 532 Much of Dorr's true take : visiting UPS officerti to see Schoolic, Homon House, misellaen trails, etc. Incl. Chaif Engineer Kittnedge, Asob. Chat Ladscop. Arch. Charles E. Peterson, & Director Albright-(5119-23). Ps 2 Director turned h tran to Carada = NPS work. Developms of approaches to th Pak. Fire started in Birch Harbor May 19 hurry to within 0.5 mi. of rach honds on Achoodic. Past too - 4 of EAFH, VI , UPS, SMR 6.32 pa 3 Homans residence corpleted ready for furnishings. Trant work to records rebblish to improve safety. ps. Capleted Cadella ut forgestation, Summit Rd. raggratation, & confort station. SMR 7.32 Asst. Sechety of th Interest Joseph M. Dixon arrived SEC. at to depid th lad Sumit D62 Edward S. Zimmer, NPS hadsayn Div, arme 7/15 Rd. (Path devel. on Cadellae) for 5 IX week stay. oliver G. Asst Chief Teylor arrived for month stay pg.5 The Educat mil a work of the particular tax duiet -' is gay nicely... nature walks, coup fires, talks,ek sme 8.32 Arice Director AmoB. Cammerer Stayed 3.days disalored Police Arst Dir Dr. H.C. bryant- 10day visit family Mr. A P. Miller, Sanitary Engencer, U.S.P.H. S. Solar eclapse, 8/31. Rough 3,000 people assembled stop Cadillae. Dorr still net in field 11.2 Bryats installed in Homans House, the fast official receparts for it. Boyal studen ANP educational program. Sand Beach party aua guded.? enlarged als at Fornald Point. Cadella 114. Party area Ranger, Natural & Guide Services (Educ. Program iMR 9.32 work cappleted I Pah hospital Y Taylor Zimmer 1 Peterson propers continues. Arst. Director Begant left pah 9/8. 932 Page 1 of2 FOR NEWS WANT ADS DIAL 6441 Mountain Road New Scenic Highway Proclaimed Maine's Greatest Attraction Motor Cars Now Climb 1,529 Feet Above Sea Level in High Gear Over Engineering Mar- vel-Construction Has Taken Six Years And Cost Approximately $350,000. Acclaimed by world-travelers as the with Eagle Lake in the immediate beauty spot of the Atlantic Coast, foreground. It is a rough country new vistas of rare and original beauty which is spread under one's eyes, have been opened to the public by the typical Maine scenery at its best and redent completion of the new Cadillac made available for the free use of Mountain Road, in Acadia National the motoring public by the Federal Park, Mount Desert Island. This government. magnificent motor highway, twenty- BRIEF HISTORY two feet wide, ascends to the summit of Cadillac Mountain, 1,529 feet above This wonderful scenic highway has sea level, winding in graceful curves come into being as a monument to from which can be seen a magnificent the foresight and hard work of one panorama of mountain peaks unriv- man,-George B. Dorr, superinten- alled in scenic beauty, of the chang- dent of Acadia National Park. For ing ocean which is never twice the years it has been his dream to see the same in coloring, and of lake regions wonders of his beloved island made which have been compared for beau- available for those whose stay is too ty with those of the Old World. short to encompass all of its wonders. Easy grades, averaging five per cent For that matter, any visit is only too and never more than seven per cent, brief, and to be fully appreciated the highway must be traveled in all sorts insure easy climbing of this peak by of weather and at all seasons of the motor, and a gradual descent on the year. Not one pilgrimage will suf- return trip. -many must be taken before the From the various vantage points inspiring beauty of Acadia can be ab- where the roadway has been widened sorbed. to permit parking, can be seen incom- After much planning and the lay- parable vistas of the rough, rugged ing of much ground work. in 1922 Maine coast on one side, of beautiful road plans for the Cadillac Mountain lakes and ponds on another. and with Road were approved in Washington. a vast section of the mainland laid This approval followed a visit to the out under one's gaze, on a third. Park by Stephen T. Mather, Director Other roads may ascend higher peaks, of the National Park Service, and the other National parks may boast more assistant director, Arno B. Cammerer. square miles, but none can compare It was not until three years later. in with Acadia in its variety of scenic 1925, that funds for the construction wonders. of the first section of the road were From its unofficial opening late last provided, Congress appropriating $50,- fall the Cadillac Mountain Road has 000 for the work. Bangor Daily News. Jan.1, 1932 visitors in a single Sunday motoring, AWESOME SPECTACLE to the top, the highest point of land In striking contrast with the Pa- 2 on the Atlantic Seaboard from the cific beauty of a summer sunset is the coast of Labrador to South America. rapid approach of a summer tempest More and more each year Mt. Deserv or a winter hurricane when tumul- and Acadia National Park has be- tuous clouds pile up hurriedly and come the playground of the Nation, the wind has a vicious roar. To one with unnumbered thousands coming who witnesses the approach of such a from far-flung corners of the globe to storm it is a spectacle never to be view the scenic wonders bestowed by forgotten, and the rapid advance of nature with such a lavish hand and the storm clouds, tumbling and toss- no greater incentive can be conceived ing in the firece gusts of wind which for a visit to Maine than this mag- tear them apart inspires a feeling of nificent $350,000 roadway which the awe in the beholder,-and perchance government made available for mo- a feeling of the frailty and insignifi- torists. cance of mere man. In storm or sun- shine this new roadway makes possi- UNRIVALLED SÜNSETS ble to everyone a conquest of the For those who love the beauties of highest peak on the Atlantic sea- nature, the exotic, ever-changing pan- board. orama of a sunset seen from the PANORAMA UNEQUALED glacier-rounded top of Cadillac Moun- tain is the thrill of a lifetime. There In clear weather an unequaled can be seen blended all of the colors panorama unrolled before the motor- of the rainbow. intensified and con- ist of the pedestrian as he climbs this densed into the very essence of beau- latest and best addition to the scenic tv undefiled. Far away can be seen attractions of New England. Winding Bluehill mountain, and Schoodic, on around Cadillac for a distance of 3.7 the mainland with the grey ribbon of (right) miles from the famous Eagle the cement highway winding away Lake road changing cistas of wooded towards Ellsworth with Bar Harbor mountains. forest-girt lakes. and nestling almost at the foot of Cadil- island-dotted ocean. Away to the east can be seen Bar Harbor Ghoup lac. Gradually the colors fade Beretinine Island Round Island. and solving of smaller islets dotting nae narrowing Away to the SOULE 810 east to the be seen Cramber Edismonth Islands THE adidasous mountain and there white Harbor out the ewel box South identifiering blue o the villages of the great resort section on the horizon can The entire breath takin discanned the trailing smoke beauty that denes description and steamer. half-down In be enjoyed best by awed silence the Immediate foreground gleam Away to the west can be discerned the white salls or tachts the other peaks of the island. On Friday, May 15. 1925 a small Brown Mountain, Dry Mountain and crew of men under the direction of the others, while at their feet can be Walters G HIIL of Bar Harbor as seen the silver sheen of the lakes, engineer in charge, started actual OFFICIAL OPENING construction of the first section of the road which was net to be com- OF THE MOUNTAIN pleted until late in 1934 The origin nal plan of having annua appropria tions made by Congress to carry on ROAD JULY 4, 1932 the work was carried out the last Congress appropriating $80,000 to sur- face the road from starting point to the summit completion of Plans for the official opening of the Cadillac Mountain this extensive protect is almost en Road are progressing rapidly under the charge of a special tirely due to the unremitting energy committee under the charge of Charles Shea, president of the broad vision and entertslasm on the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce, and the official date has part of Supt. George been set for July 4, 1932. According to the plans being made it is hoped to have President Hoover, Hon. Ray Lyman Wilbur. secretary of the interior, and other high government officials present at the opening. The large committee having this matter in charge has been working on the plans since late last fall and hope to have the opening one of the most impor: tant events to take place in the Park. It is hoped that Gov- C .0 P Y 26 Broadway New York February 9, 1932 Private and Confidential Dear Mr. Cammerer: Your letter of February 4th regarding your talk with Senator Hale and Congressman Nelson on the subject of the Otter Creek Radio Station removal, is received with appre- ciation. You are quite right in having told these gentle- men that I would not be interested to consider any of the compromise proposals which they presented. I appreciate your having saved me a personal conference with them. As to the removal of the redio station to a point somewhat west of the old radio station at Seawall, the piece of property I fear these gentlemen have in mind, perhaps at Mr. Dorr's suggestion, is a very beautiful point of land which I bought a year or two ago -- as beautiful in its way as the Otter Cliff point although not so high. When the removal of the present station to that general location was mentioned to me before by either Mr. Lynam or Mr. Dorr, the old radio station site was specifically mentioned. While I am not at this time saying Mr. Cammerer. Page 2. that I might not consider making available this beautiful point to the west to which I have just referred, the Otter Creek Radio Station to be removed thereto, quite frankly I would feel very reluctant to do so when a location at Schoodic Point, already determined by the experts to be as good or better than the Otter Creek location, is avail- able, now belongs to the park and has all the necessary qualifications, with the one exception of its being not quite as near to centers of amusement as is desired. These observations I make simply to keep you posted on the general subject and to have you know that probably the piece of land west of Seawell which these gentlemen have their eye on is the beautiful point which I acquired within the last year or two. Very truly, (Sgd) John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Mr. A. B. Cammerer, Associate Director, National Park Service, Washington, D. C. 2/4/1932 Albert to Jr. re meeting in Wholeygla D.C. betwee See. Wilbur, Sen. Hale, Rep. nelson, + llr. Darr. Subject: going ahead c road project Without ay reference to the other chiffs Radis State (hg-perry station or moving it to agreemented). Have San late, appropriation Comm. disapproved of fending reverseff Radistation Worthwhile Places, Pp 116-18. See also can. 10/28/32 (p. 129-30) 11/25/32 Garrison Hall Boston 17, Mass., , March 9, 1932 George B. Dorr, Esq., Superintendent, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorr: I am writing you to offer to the Hancock County Associates for the Acadia National Park the property which Mrs Inman and myself own on Seal Cove Pond. If you will r emember, Mrs Inman discussed this with you one day last summer at Bar Harbor. Our property consists of 150 acres, more or less. It extends between Seal Cove Road, Western Mt., and Seal Cove Pond. It in- cludes a brook, Oak Hill (2 200 ft. mountain), and a half mile of narrow automobile road up the mountain. The reason which leads us to wish to give the property to the Hancock County Associates is one of taxes. The selectment of the township have seen fit to double our taxes since we acquired the land, simply, as they frankly stated, because they 'liked the view' from Oak Hill. We understand that the property can be turned over to the Han- Cock County Associates with certain restrictions. We wish to deed our Seal Cove Pond property, lying in the town- ship of Tremont, to the Hancock County Associates, with the following restrictions- 1. We wish to be able to have the use of the property during the remainder of our lives. 2. As we have planted a hursery of trees, we wish to be able at any time to remove any small trees from said Seal Cove Pond pro- perty. 3. We wish to be allowed to erect any building, or buildings, during our lifetimes, on the Seal Cove Pond property, and if we so designate, to have a building, if it be made of stone, stand after our demise. 4. In case the Hancock County Associates are, for any reason, declared insolvent or out of function, we, Mrs. A. C. Inman and myself, A. C. Inman, or either of us, are to receive back said pro- perty, unless it be deeded to the Acadia National Park before, or at the time. 5. Our Seal Cove property, if we leave a fund upon our death sufficient to engage a forester, with his housing, supplies, and tools, is to be used for a station to experiment with the growing dead, those of various evergreens suitable for the climate. No trees, save injured, or grown too thick, are to be cut down, the determin- ation of the age-span of various specimens of evergreens and conifers being the chief purpose of the trust. 6. The property, after our death, is to be called 'Terror Mt', its name now, or 'The Inman Pinetum'. Very sincerely yours, (Sgd.) Arthur Crew Inman (Per E. I.) ACI/MDH national Park Service Sapit. Conference. Apl3-8-19 at [1933] Hot Lyring hats Park - Arkances. 8 Front Row Lef 8 8 Right of Supt Smith Petrified Forest hall Kion - Arizana. Supt. Soliucky Gater Lake latt Park - (' regard. Supt Tombinson nt. dainier hattPark - Wash Supt. Thompson Yosemite natt Park - Calif. asst. Wir. 3 Washington Office The Hon. Louis Gampton Former Congressman - Director Horace Malbright Washington office jmy judge mehicle Yellowstone leath. Park - Wgo. Sant Support Boles Pridney Cavere - - (Tiez new mexico a r. Collins Hot- spring Park - un. WO 2 Senton Washington D.C Supt Tom alien Hot Springs Park - Rile ant L.A. Peterson Colonial hate luon la. Dr. Wixon Supt Branch Platthall Wild Life furney ekid Calif I ast.C.E. O.g. Taylor Washington D.C Supt Patraw zion n.p. : Supt. Tillotson grand Camyon 1 1 Chief A. Torn Vint San Francisco : Sii, Eakin great Smoking / 00, fill Scoyen glacier N.P. : Supt Collins Lassen N.P. F.S.P. Coffman San Francisco E. Kittridge Sm Francisco. I Supt White Sequoia N.P. S.L. Rabinson Cal and N.I : miller P.H.S Sing Hough gWBPNM : ant Seyst Ex and Yellonstone 1 of ant Supt. Bottom Hot Skyo Park : I'm Bilhirt Wash Siffic Lapt. Toll Yellowstone N.P. : Mr He. mon P.H. 8. a.c.R. Hadley Acadia NP. : mr Blosson Santa Fe. N.Mex.: C.R. Wash. Office mr. hussbarm - Hot Spe Par mr. Chatelaine Wash. office : Supt. Rogers clocky not N.P. Supt. Freeland Wind lawp N.P. : Supt. Finan neza Verde Pa Supt. Leavest Howain N.P. : Pg 10F2 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ANNUAL REPORTS OF FIELD DIVISIONS OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1932 OF DEAR SECURITY SWITH THE N D ENGINEERING LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FIELD BRANCH OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FORESTRY SANITATION FISH CULTURE WILD LIFE to 1935 1810 Gatlinburg and Newfound Gap. The Chief Engineer and I reviewed on a smaller scale was made of the entire area between the Gorge portions of this work in April. Road and the Schooner Head Road in the region of Bear Brook Valley so that detailed studies of this important area can be made. After the middle of July Mr. White was again assigned to Location surveys, detailed plans, and grading construction was duty in the Great Smoky Mountains National He first super- done on three-quarters of a mile of the Bear Brook Valley Road vised the construction of a fire tower, rangers' cabins, and a which forms the entrance to the public camp ground. Parking telephone line for the fire lookout station on Barnetts Knob in areas were constructed at Fernalds Point and along the Ocean the Cherokee Indian Reservation. This work was carried on in co- Drive near the Sand Beach. operation with the Indian Reservation. Since that time Mr. White has, been engaged in locating trails and commencing construction Wakefield on a $20,000 trail-building program in the mountain country that until now has been difficult of access. During the year considerable mapping has been done at Washington's Birthplace National Monument by Mr. Lassiter and Mr. Shenandoah White. A map of the entire monument area is well along in its preparation on a scale of 100 feet to 1 inch. Larger scale maps In connection with the Shenandoah National Park project, I were made of special areas where intensive development work is made preliminary field studies and prepared estimates for 1934. planned. Under Mr. White's supervision the following work was The first year's developments will follow the lines laid down in completed last fall: Two parking areas, about two miles of new these estimates. road construction, three-quarters of a mile of paths, one-half mile of rail fencing and considerable road and trailside plant- Hot Springs ing. During a brief visit to Hot Springs National Park at the During the spring and summer of 1932 Mr. Lassiter had charge time of the park superintendents' conference, I gained a general of a rather large construction program at Wakefield. It included idea of the problems of this park. No particular work has been two new residences, two garages, one public comfort station, a done there by the Engineering Division, but a study for the re- new footbridge 400 feet long across an inlet of Pope's Creek alignment of park roads is contemplated in the near future. where piling was required, one mile of road surveys and con- struction for roads to the recreation area and to the new Acadia residential area, sewage disposal plants, sewer lines and water systems for the recreation area and the residential area, a small Early in May, Chief Engineer Kittredge and I made a brief amount of trail construction, and a complete water system for new study of the engineering problems at Acadia National Park. Later planting at the mansion area. The latter is independent of the in the season I spent two months there studying development domestic supply which is unsatisfactory for watering delicate problems and carrying on certain engineering work. plants. As the year closes contracts have been made and con- struction started on a utility building and a comfort station for Considerable mapping wqs done in order to facilitate stud- the picnic area. General supervision has been given by the ies. A large scale map was made of the Bar Harbor public camp Assistant Chief Engineer, who has also assisted the superinten- ground, and studies made for its improvement. A similar map was dent in the purchase of fire equipment. made of a proposed public camp ground on Echo Lake. Maps were made of the Lake Wood Road and a parking place near the lake. After the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Celebration in October, This road was improved and the parking place constructed. A map 1931, I made a report of the National Park Service participation 20 21 MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HIGHWAY READY FOR SUMMER MOTORISTS By ALFRED ELDEN. New York Times 1857-Current file); May 22, 1932; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. XX5 MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HIGHWAY READY FOR SUMMER MOTORISTS By ALFRED ELDEN. Not until three years later. however, PORTLAND. Me. were funds provided for constructing 1925 M OTORISTS who tour next Sum- the first section. Congress then ap- mer over the Atlantic Highway propriating $50,000. Subsequent ap- into Eastern Maine and Canada propriations brought the total outlay will have two interesting side trips practically to $350,000. available. A remarkable example of engineer- The Cadillac Mountain Road, in ing skill, the Cadillac Mountain Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Road is bound to take its place as Island, completed last Fall, is now one of the great scenic highways of open for traffic. This scenic high- the world. Three and seven-tenths way has come into being as a miles long, 22 feet wide, it winds its monument to the foresight and hard way in graceful curves to the sum- work of one man-George B. Dorr, mit of the mountain, 1,529 feet above superintendent of this only national sea level. The average grade is 5 park in the East. For years it was per cent and never more than 7-an his dream; once begun, his unremit- easy automobile ascent and a pleas- ting energy insured its completion. ant descent. Government officials approved the A View of the Sea. road plans in 1922, following a visit to Acadia by Stephen T. Mather, di- At many points of vantage the rector of the National Park Service. roadway has been widened to permit temporary parking for the enjoyment of the incomparable marine vista. The broad plateau on Cadillac's peak is the highest land on the Atlantic Seaboard from the coast of Labrador to South America. The exotic, ever changing panorama of a sunset from Cadillac's heights brings a rare thrill. In the vista of forest-bordered lakes and ponds. mountains, broad bays and the sil- very-surfaced Atlantic, dotted with myriads of big and little islands, are blended all the colors of the rainbow. As the shadows deepen the yellow eyes of the lighthouse towers begin winking their warnings. At the foot of the mountain glow the lights from Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Southwest Harbor, and to the north-Ellsworth. Here is a scenic jaunt which brings to the motorist a comprehensive view of Acadia National Park, hith- erto impossible. Surrounded by the sea, this paradise has for its nucleus and central feature the famous moun- tains which prompted Champlain. their discoverer in 1604, to give the island its name, "Isle des Monts Deserts." At Eastport, Me., adventure awaits the motorist who seeks novelty. There next Summer for the first time he may drive his car on to a picturesque, eight-car scow ferry, where a power- ful motor craft lashed alongside will convey him one mile across Passama- quoddy Bay to the southerly end of Deer Island, N. B. This is a beauti- ful spot, the largest of the West Isles archipelago. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. IN 1932 THE HOME GEOGRAPHIC MONTHLY (v. 2, # 1) PUB LISHED AN ARTICLE BY GEORGE B. DORR TITLED "ACADIA, THE SEACOAST PARK. PP. 43.48 This publication was established by Home Geographic Society of Worcester, Mass., an "educational institution" founded by a host of academics affiliated with Harvard, Columbia, and Clark University among others. Fairfield Osborne., President of the American Museum of Natural History, was an incorporator as well. Its purpose was "to create and promote interest in geography among achildren; to promote friendly and sympathetic relations among the children of the world; to assemble and distribute geographic materials, slides, films, specimens, etc...." " This article is not written strictly for a juvenile audience and the publication "is SO rich in interesting information and educational value that everyone, child or adult, fiinds it readable and engrossing." Model? National Geographic Magazine . Source: Frances LaCourse. Aunt of Ardra Tarbell, NPS park office employee of Mr. Dorr. May 2006 doence IM. acting Cr. The National lark Service may 23, 1932 Horace u.albught Copy from 6 B Dorr's O Hform guest book May 23, 1932. 6/13/32 Albregot to Jr. re allrights to ANP, one of the ml interesty Lags of y national pack career." Refer to "this Exquistel beautiful park," ad impactors of Cadellan Itt, Road - Beaver removal Worthwabile Places, Pp. 125-126. Ed. J.W. Ernst. The Bronx: Fordham U.P., 1991. Page 1 of2 PHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS 20 June 1932 DEPARTMENT OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY WARREN K.MOOREHEAD, DIRECTOR Mr. George B. Dorr, Acadia "ational Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. My dear Mr. Dorr: I have your letter and quite agree with the position which you have taken. Please do me the favor to give Judge Deasy this letter my I have communicated with the Peabody Was error Salem and they have agreed to give me for this important research a modest appropriation already voted. In addition, my own Department places at your disposal $200. These two funds provide me with sufficient to pay my room and board this summer in Bar Harbor and some secretarial work. Both Judge Deasy and yourself will understand that I have no claim upon you or your organization, and that the modest expense connected with preparation of this important manuscript has been vouchsafed by others. Mrs. Moorehead and myself will come to the Belmont Hotel, Bar Harbor, the evening of the 25th or 26th. I bring with me quite a library. After due reflection I have decided not to abandon my work for the following reasons: Since the expense money has been provided and does not, as stated, involve you either in the matter of cost or of publication, the task should be completed. Already one of my secretaries, Miss Show, has spent five or six weeks in copying various documents, extracts, reading and in libraries. Phillips Academy gladly paid for most of this. Mrs. Jump, my perianent secretary, has devoted nearly half of her time since the 1st of pril in the Massachusetts Historical Society, Widener Library and Boston Public Library. She has copied some 200 pages of important data, done research, etc., which our Academy has assumed. For my own part I have devoted many hours to reading Jesuit Relations, Winsor, Colonial documents, etc., etc. All of this material is before me. To set it aside for two or three years would mean the loss of the work already done. Moreover, next summer is to be spent elsewhere, and the following year Mrs. moorehead and myself will take our year's leave of absence and probably go abroad. There- fore, I can visualize no gain either to history and science, or to me personally, by abandoning the undertaking. Obviously, so long as it does not cost my good friends at Bar Harbor anything, I can't see any objection on your part. 2, There is one rather embarrassing factor which I shall state frankly and ask both Judge Deasy and yourself concerning. We have announced to our friends that we are coming to Bar Harbor, have made all plans, etc. Therefore I shall come as would any visiting historian or scientists, and the fact that you can not through your funds support the undertaking - which is right and proper - should be suppressed! In other words, my good friend, just help me out to that extent. The public need not know that the money for completion of my task is provided elsewhere. Finally, the main thing is to do the job! I have put my hand to the plow and I don't like to turn back, or to leave a furrow half plowed. I shall be glad to see both Judge Deasy and yourself, shall make no reference to the financial arrangement, shall be glad to inspect the splendid shell heap work and help in any possible way. I think this is far better than abandoning the entire project. Moreover, I have nothing else to do this summer. Sincerely yours, wancering moorlood Later: I have just returned from Salem where I held an interview with Professor Jenkins, familiar with New England history and science. Mr. Endicott is Vice President of the Peabody Museum of which Professor Jenkins is Director. I'ne entire matter was laid before Jenkins, in whose judgment I have great confidence. He said, "By all means, Moorehead, complete your task. The date of publication is immaterial. There will be no difficulty, when times are better, to secure a publisher." I have written my friend, Mr. Endicott, that I have no desire to em- barrass him in any way, that we have arranged for expense of manuscript COM- pletion. When I see Judge Deasy and yourself we can have a conversation. Jenkins points out further that the preparation will be "all to the good" and can not interfere with your regular plans in any way, since are not to provide me any funds you progrés leaps and bounds and ngor, the Harbor Post along with many Loyal other Eastern Maine Posts will fight Edge, hard to bring about the election of a ince, local man for the highest American Dr. Legion office in the State. :laire Since he announced himself as a 'ield, candidate for the post of Command- com- er last week, Mr. Cleaves has received and. much encouragement from various sec- ring tions of the State. Several ex-Com- the manders have written him wishing BURLEIGH MARTIN RALPH O. BREWSTER GEORGE him luck and prominent Legionnaires Guy from near and far have -pledged him Republican Candidate Republican Candidate Republica ers, their support. for GOVERNOR for CONGRESS for STAT arty Upon arrival in Houlton today the day Bar Harbor contingent marched ater through the streets of the up-State nost city bearing a "Vote for Cleaves" WILBUR ARRIVING GUIDE SERVICE WANT $1 ele- hanner and led by the Drum and ome Bugle Corps. Various other represen- yor tatives of Maine posts fell in line as ias- the procession stopped at the hotel. AT PARK TO-DAY OFFERED AT PARK A hey Houlton is to give the Legionnaires a real reception. Many interesting pic- events have been planned including Secretary of Interior and Mrs. Arthur Stupka to Have Charge of Clark Coal Co the night horseracing, athletic events and Wilbur to Inspect Park as This Work- Plans Interesting Ass'n. $200 I the a carnival. The town is gayly deco- Guests of Supt. Dorr Program of Activity R: an, rateds in flags and bunting and pre- 35 sents a holiday aspect. The Conven- Hon. Ray Lynam Wilbur, Secretary This summer, for the first time in The Bar Harb tion will wind up the last of the week. of the Interior, arrives in Bar Harbor its history, Acadia National Park is launching a ca he Wednesday night or Thursday morn- A great deal of effort was made by willinfter nature guide services to all sum of $1,000 ing and will inspect Acadia National visitors who are interested. As in all fuel fund for ne any members of the Bar Harbor Post to Park. The visit of President Hoovers' ing other National Parks where it has next winter. T assure a large and enthusiastic repres- the cabinet member is in line with the entation. Local folks are looking for- become an established project, this Clark Coal Compa of hopes and plans of early spring this ward to the result of the annual elec- government service is free to the ing voted to give esi- year when Director Horace M. Al tion and hope to see Mr. Cleaves come pub le. Arthur Stupka, of Columbus, tion $200 provide bright, of the Park Service, was in the Ohio, who last year served as ranger- tion will raise $80 home with the honor of having been Park elected Commander, a post which he naturalist at Yosemite National Park, Dr. Wilbur came to Hanover, Nature Guide wo of really deserves. California, and who has been nature the N. II., Monday to be given an honor- couscilor at private camps for boys in Daily nature W ith There are 300,000 adults in New ary degree and with Mrs. Wilbur he is the state of Maine during the two caravan trip, a York who can neither read nor write. 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Pyrofax Real Estate & Insurance Come in or 'phone tion of this brand new, conveniences and Pyrofax econ- and Room 501, Transportation Bldg. spinner-dryer washer omies demand the serious at- Bar Harbor Washington, D.C. tubful demp-dry while ingl Here Indeed is a With about 65 or 10 votes still out For Sheriff The time of the funeral will be an- Brewster had 2042, Stetson 1547, Snow 484 and Blanchard, 486. It was In one of the closest and most in- nounced. Pg.1of2 DO ES all Stetson and Brewster. The latter's tensely interesting contests ever staged plurality was about 500. politically in Hancock County the late TORREY RETURNS Prop Bar Harbor gave Brewster real Ward Wescott triumphed over Harold FROM CONVENTION support with 383 votes to 276 for Hodgkins for Sheriff by 29 votes Stetson. In Mt. Desert he won by 217 without Long Island in. This town's (Continued from page 1) E to 187. Blanchard had 44 in Bar Har- vote will be small, probably 10 or 12 California on the right and Pennsyi- bor while Snow had but 19. Brewster and will not change the outcome if vania and Massachusetts just beyond. ran very strong on Cranberry Island Hodgkins gets every vote. Returning home, Mr. Torrey was at with 72 votes against 12 for Stetson. As the returns came in the lead see- York Beach, the guest of Hon. Joseph Deer Isle was with Stetson. In Frank- sawed back and forth and the out- Simpson, and reached Bar Harbor on (in they ran close with Brewster/lead- come was not definitely decided until Monday, after a five days trip, filled, ing 94 to 86. Southwest Harbor Tuesday noon. With a scant margin he says, with a renewed sense through- favored Brewster 77 to 70. Snow ran of 21 votes with about five towns to out of the magnitude of such an Amer- second to Brewster in Stonington. hear from Wescott led late Monday E ican gathering and with an inspira- Snow also carried Swan's Island. night. Mariaville, Otis and Amherst tion, he adds, which was a possession Stetson failed to poll a vote there. favored the Sheriff and gave him the he would wish to share with every- E Blanchard carried Winter/Harbor with victory despite a 62 to 12 vote for one. 64 to 16 for Stetson and/11 for Snow. Hodgkins in Trenton. Brewster only had 9. Ellsworth fa- Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert and/South- WILBUR ARRIVING vored Stetson by a narrow margin of west Harbor gave Hodgkins a wonder- AT PARK TODAY 282 to 278. Brewster ran two to one ful vote. In Bar Harbor he led 610 to in Bluehill. Snow ran second in 134 and in Mt. Desert 521 to 107. (Continued from page 1) Penobscot while Brewster had a big Southwest Harbor was Hodgkins lead in Lamoine. Snow led in Verona 76 to 58. He beat Norwood in the motoring through to Bar Harbor. latter's home town of Tremont, 51 to This is the third time that a Secre- and Stetson in Bucksport. 40. Wescott also at Norwood in tary of the Interior has visited the State/Senator Tremont. Park It was the late Hon. Franklin George Harmon and Carroll Blais- Wescott ran very strong in Ells K. Lane who was Secretary when dell carried the Senatorial vote with worth polling 478 votes to 239 Supt. George B. Dorr founded the Frederic Blodgett running close and Hodgkins' support there was consid Park and it was Hon. Hubert Work, Homer Dunbar a poor last. Harmon ered remarkable as Wescott has made who was Secretary in 1924, when the led the list with about 25 votes over Director of the Service, then the late T his home in Ellsworth for many years Blaisdell. The total with a few small In the eastern half of the county Stephen T. Mather, came down bring- towns out were Harmon 2227, Blais- Hodgkins had a lead of 1707 to 990 ing the Secretary with him for an offi- dell 2206, Blodgett, 1567 and Dun- but the western half, Wescott's cial visit in connection with road bar 962. stamping ground carried him through. work. Harmon got a big lead in Bar Har Bucksport gave him 276 to 77 and Dr. Wilbur is making a visit which bor, Southwest Harbor, Elisworth and Bluehill 199 to 33. Castine was 51 to is not entirely official and he and Mrs. Mt. Desert. Blaisdell did best in Bar 12 for Wescott and Orland 133 to 39. Wilbur will be guests, as was Director Harbor, Mt. Desert, Bucksport, Blue- Lamoine went for Hodgkins by 77 to Albright. of Supa George B. Dorr at hill and Franklin. Blodgett carried 61. Mariaville went 9 to 8 for Hodg his home. Oldfarm. Bucksport by a wide margin of 288 to 72 for Harmon and 78 for Blaisdell. kins and Sedgwick 53 to 31. Fred Gerry was nominated on the Demo- GUIDE SERVICE Dunbar ran second there. It was cratic ticket being written in by sev- OFFERED AT PARK Blaisdell and Harmon in practically eral voters. It is understood that S every town. In the eastern half of the county Harmon had 1621 votes to through this procedure the becomes a (Continued from page candidate f the Fall election. 438 for Blaisdell. Blaisdell and Har- nature-study day, a nature trail, and Brann and Utterback were the vic mon will be opposed by Ralph Bucks- occasional evening campfire programs tors in the Democratic voting with minster and Chandler Noyes, unop- are being planned as part of the Thurson and Stevens seconds. Brann posed Democrat candidates. nature-gui work. Exhibits of plant- carried practically every town. Utter- groups as well as of other natural his- County Commissioner back won out 3 to 1. No tabulation tory objects are being considered. Sim H, Mayo by virtue of big votes was made of the Democratic vote as Mimeographed programs will be avail- in Mt. Desert and Southwest Harbor the number was small and there were able at the Acadia National Park beat Mark Morrison of Bar Harbor for no county candidates." However, the office as well as at various ranger County Commissioner. The final vote Democratic vote was an enthusiastic stations ben the work gets under with few small towns missing showed one and showed that this party will way Suggestions as to what may be 2841 for Mayo and 1908 for Morrison. be fighting to the finish when the final included in the list of activities will be This was a close and interesting con- count comes in the fall. In Bar Har- appreciated by the ranger naturalist. test all bor Brann received 118 votes to 16 The nature column, appearing for Mr. Me was accorded splendid for Richardson his nearest rival the first time in this issue of THE apport Harbor polling 610 Utterback had 103 to 28 for Gallagher TIMES, will deal with some phase of to 120 for Mayo. In Mt. Desert who placed second. In Elleworth the natural history of Acadia National Southwest Harbor Mayo pulled Brann and Utterback led. Fortyethree Park and will appear regularly down He polled 410 to 181 Democratic votes were cast fs Mt. the summer. in the formet and 185 to Desert. ranger acturalist will be glad gave Mayo In the Fall election the line up schedule special nature walks for be: Martin against Brann for Govern Interveted groups: He should be nd. Cranberry Isle or Brewster against Utterback for the Park Office Pagelof7 Y JUNE 29, 1932 FIVE CENTS A COPY NUMBER SHOWS DOG SHOW IS ON WILBUR VISITS KIRK POST WIL TART JULY 6TH SAT., JULY 23 NATIONAL PARK HONOR CLEA and Southall to Run Week- Kemp to be Superintendent- Secretary of Interior Predicts Public Reception at Legion Wrestling --High Class Judges Chosen Many Tro- Great Future for Acadia Pro- quarters for New Comman Talent Coming phy Cups Offered ject Friday d wrestlers will groan and twist The date of the dog show to be A great future for the Acadia Na- The Bar Harbor boys broug other's anatomy weekly at held in Bar Harbor was announced tional Park project is predicted by Ray bacon back from the Houlton CA wood Stadium this season un- last week as Friday, July 22. This Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the In- tion and will celebrate with bl direction of Harold Harris of was an error. The dog show will be terior, who left with Mrs. Wilbur, lic reception at the George arbor and George Southall of held on Saturday, July 23, the same Saturday morning after a two day in- Kirk Post Headquarters of the igton, D. C. Messrs. Harris and day as the formal opening of the spection visit with Superintendent can Legion, Friday evening. 1 11 have taken over the stadium Cadillac Mountain Summit road. George B. Dorr. In an interview with put across their candidate. F. Y summer and plan to hold shows Officers of the Mt. Desert Kennel THE TIMES, Secretary Wilbur ex- Cleaves, as Department Comn /ednesday evening. The first club are receiving much encourage- pressed pleasure at the lay-out of for Maine and presented a bug f matches will take place next ment in making plans for the show. Acadia and was surprised to find so drum corp that won the second day, July 6th, and a real high Thomas E. L. Kemp of Bridgewater, much natural beauty and the unusual prize, they want to share their rd is being arranged. Mass., has been engaged as secretary combination of trees, sea and mount- ies with the general public whi promoters were in Boston Tues- and superintendent of the show and ains. operated with them in making aking arrangements for per- the following well-known judges will The Department of Interior is good showing at the Convention and secured some real talent. officiate: anxious to work out an inter-park The party will be in the form lan to have such well known Mr. Frank T. Eskrigge has been a highway connecting Acadia with the open house in bonor of Comm (Continued on page 2) licensed judge of the American Ken- great National parks of the East in Cleaves. and a fine program has nel club for more than twenty years. cluding Shenandoah, Everglades in arranged. At 7 o'clock a para RAILROAD He has judged all over the United Florida, Mammoth Cave in Ken- the prize winning bugle and States and Canada and is recognized tucky, Great Smoky Mountains and corps will be held and all 02 as an authority on sporting dogs. Mount Royal Island in Lake Superior, men are requested to be in time He is a breeder and exhibitor of according to Secretary Wilbur. This mediately after the parade SCHEDULE OUT cocker spaniels. highway he believes would promote congregate at the Headquarts Mrs. T. E. L. Kemp has bred and tourist traffic to the chain of parks honor Mr. Cleaves Refreshmen exhibited many breeds of dogs. At and would bring the Eastern beauty be served and the Lagionnaire the present time she owns and exhibits into prominence that would rival it expressly understood that the rbor and Ellsworth Service some of the finest St. Bernards in that of the Rosemite and Yellow al public is condially invited ted by Change to Sum- America. She has been a licensed stone and others in the West. Commande mer Service judge of the American Kennel club The gradual completion of improved Houlton by for over twenty years and is licensed highways is bringing the plans of the is remarkable due changes are announced in the to judge more breeds of dogs than Department to a reality. In the future there 170 passenger schedule released any other woman in America. as soon as the road building program ed by the Maine Central Railroad. Bar Mr. Wilmont R. Evans has been a is more advanced a special National tion of the and Eastern Maine are affect- breeder and exhibitor of terriers for a Park highway will be laid out over of the local e changes which are effective great many years and is considered special routes and tourists can take in From as follows: one of the best terrier judges in Ameri- the scenic wonders of the East over the ca. this one route. The plans are now be predomman! forth-Bar Harbor Service Mrs. John B. Hadaway has for many ing discussed and drawn up in the , Coach Service is maintained years been a breeder and exhibitor of Department of Interior offices. Ellsworth and Bar Harbor, toy dogs. She has owned and judged 'It is my second visit here ng to and from all trains. some of the finest Champion Pekin- Secretary Wilbur, though my ave Ellsworth, Monday and ese in America and is considered one Acadia, for I was on M: at 7.15, Wednesday, Thurs of America's most famous toy judges. Island the first time 30 iday and Saturday at 7.35 Mr. C. N. Grey was for many years am greatly impressed by the unday at 7.10 a. m., Monday secretary of the Boston Terrier club spirit of the community and there and Saturday at 4.15 p. m., of America and is a prominent exhibi- be a great future for this project day, Thursday and Friday at tor of Boston terriers, and has a li- Continuing he spoke of the m. In the reverse direction cense to judge all breeds of dogs and combination which Acade offers ave Bar Harbor, Maine Cen- has probably judged at more shows the comination of trees, mountaids Continued on page 6) (Contin ued on page 2) (Continued page Now the Famous S FORMULA ABC Spinner at ANOW AVID IS ANNOUNCED hington page 20F2 that an Eastern Maine and Bar Har- tion of "Tonight or Never" bot man has held this post. Mr. (Continued from page 1) Dancing Partners" h Cleaves had fine support from all of Sets will be designed by Rot the Legionnaires and received many T. Gay, Jonesboro, Grades 6 and 7; Redington Sharpe, who has come ork congratulatory messages and letters. Mrs. O. Y. Thompson, Bar Harbor, from the Pasadena Theatre in C Mr. Cleaves was regarded as the Grade 8. fornia. Mr. Sharpe, has spent most logical candidate due to his fine Heald School past five years study mg the thea record in Legion and Civic work. Miss Clara E. West, Bar Harbor, here and abroad. Miss Grace Ripl Telephone 580 Grade 1: Miss Katharine Shaw, Port- a member of the faculty in the Rh land, Grade 1; Miss Kathleen Kelley, Island School of Design, is with WILBUR VISITS Dennysville, Grade 2; Miss Hazel here this summer and has comp NATIONAL PARK Swan, Princeton, Grades 2 and 3; charge of costumes. (Continued from page 1) Miss Elizabeth Chadbourne, Dorches- g Company ter, Mass., Kindergarten Supervisor; DORR STATION the sea which he described as being Miss Vera G. Wright, Hyde Park, OPENS SEASO absolutely unique. Mass., Kindergarten Assistant. (Continued from page 1) "I think that as time goes on," he Miss Dorothy Bracy, Bar Harbor, Embroideries said, with 2 little more discreet Hulls Cove Primary; Miss Dorothy publicity the number of visitors here ornithological problems; Miss H Spurling, Cranberry Isle, Hulls Cove Smith, Howard University, Mamm rniture is going to greatly increase. The auto Grammar: Mrs. Pearl Salisbury, mobile roads are improving and we ian genetics; Miss Caroline Siler Bar Harbor, Forest Street; Mrs. anxious to work out an inter-park Howard University, Mammalian g Telephone 332 Myra A. Moon, Hancock, West Eden etics. highway. Starting here we can go Grammar; Mrs. Bertha A. Higgins, NE through to the other great parks of Dining Hall Staff Hulls Cove, West Eden Primary; the East. The Eastern parks have H Mrs. Helen W. Liscomb, Salisbury Mr. B. F. Gallagher, Philadelp great variety of scenic wonders to Pa., Chef; Mrs. Mattie L. Canda Cove, Emery: Miss Marjorie, Wor- offer and with a definite system map- cester, Bar Harbor, Central; Miss Bar Harbor, Acting Cook; Mr. R. ped out should measure up to the Thelma Hanson, Bar Harbor, Salis- Little, Dedham, Mass., Assistant. EBBA N. KIRK Western system which we hear so bury Cove; Miss Mary Aliberti, Courses much about. Trenton (Ellsworth R. F. D. No. 1), In addition to the research activ Secretary and Mrs. Wilbur were Jordah River; Miss Marion Allen, of its resident investigators, the D favored with two days of perfect Fox South Paris, Bayside, and Mrs. Ethel- Station will offer systematic and weather here and made H thorough yn J. Remick, Trenton, Narrows. fied instruction to summer and perri tour of the Park property and Schood nent residents of Mount Desert. Th ic Island. They stayed at Supt. Dorr's e Hair HANCOCK COUNTY courses will cover such aspects estate, Oldfarm, arriving and leaving LEAGUE FORMED biology and nature study as the ider by motor. Secretary and Mrs. Wilbur were de- (Continued from pgae 1) fication of plants, (plant taxonom BAR HARBOR lighted especially by the handsome insects (entomology), birds (ornit} Norman-French structures, nearing at Ellsworth as part of the holiday ogy), and both fresh water and mar completion, the gate houses being celebration. The games will start at. animals (zoology); and, additiona built by Mr. Rockefeller, and with 6 o'clock with the exception of the the relation of organisms to their the beautiful driving roads Mr. holiday when there will be a game vironment (ecology). These cour Rockefeller has constructed. at 2 and another at 4 o'clock. are so organized that they are flexi 1st From the mountain summit, where The schedule: and can be adapted readily to fit Secretary Wilbur and Supt. Dorr particular interests of a given grou July joined Chief Ranger B. L. Hadley Instruction is given as non-technical -Northeast Harbor at Bar Harbor ir Harbor and saw the new structures and where as possible, especially so to childr 1 -Ellsworth at Southwest Harbor the Secretary spent more than a few It is emphasized that no particu rt Operators. 4 -Bar Harbor VS. Ellsworth moments in enjoyment of the superb degree of previous training in biolo 4-Northeast Harbor vs. Southwest view, the party went over the Cadillac is required; about half of the regist (Double header to be played at Ells.) mountain road from Eagle Lake to tion last year was in children's grou 8-Southwest Harbor at Ellsworth Jordan Pond, the gift of Mr. Rocke- (8-14 years). No "grades" no Waving 8-Northeast Harbor at Bar Harbor. feller to the Park. quirements about the amount 11-Northeast Harbor at Ellsworth inger Waving Secretary and Mrs. Wilbur and collecting and an informality of pre 11-Southwest Harbor at Bar Harbor Supt. Dorr continued their inspection entation are special features of the ing 15--Ellsworth at Southwest Harbor by going to Somesville where they courses. 15-Bar Harbor at Northeast Har- larcel Waving were met by Chief Mechanic Ralph The aims of the Dorr Stati bor C. Douglas, in the Párk boat, and throughout may be summarized ing 18-Bar Harbor at Ellsworth were taken over to Pryor's Island follows: 18-Northeast Harbor at Southwest Facials, Etc. with its beautiful cabin home, a gift 1. To develop the scientific attitud Harbor to the Park some years ago. Secre- 2. 22- - Ellsworth at Northeast Harbor. To foster a capacity for origin tary Wilbur there expressed his agree- and individual work. 22-Bar Harbor at Southwest Harbor anent Waving ment with the opinion of Director Al- 3. To lay a foundation for possib 25-Northeast Harbor at Bar Harbor bright that Pryor's Island would be tion or Dis- 29-Ellsworth at Bar Harbor future work in biology. a wonderful place in which to spend 29-Southwest Harbor at Northeast This season the Dorr Station is u ive Scalp. much time, to study or to write. Harbor der the resident directorship of D R. L. Taylor, Assistant Professor August Earl Preparations Thor Electric Ironer Biology in the College of William an 1-Northeast Harbor at Ellsworth rie Earl Facials Mary, who was in charge of the in d French Perfumes Roll 48 in. long--Cost $215.00 1-Bar Harbor at Southwest Harbor structing staff last year. Previous t -Ellsworth at Bar Harbor sh. IS required; about nair O! one registra- DORR STATION tion last year was in children's groups (8-14 years). No "grades", no re- quirements about the amount of collecting and an informality of pres- OPENS SEASON entation are special features of these courses. 6/29/32 The aims of the Dorr Station throughout may be summarized as Biological Laboratory Has In- follows: creased Number of Students 1. To develop the scientific attitude. and Investigators 2. To foster a capacity for original and individual work. On June 26, the Dorr Station of the 3. To lay a foundation for possible Mount Desert Island Biologica Lab- future work in biology. oratory reopened for the seaso: 1932 under the direction of Dr. I: L This season the Dorr Station is un- Taylor with an increase over last der the resident directorship of Dr. year in the number of resident R. L. Taylor, Assistant Professor of dents and investigators. The Biology in the College of William and will be open and meals will be Mary, who was in charge of the in- for ten weeks, or up to and including structing staff last year. Previous t September 3, 1932. A list of those the season of 1931, Dr. Taylor spent who are present at this time is its fol- sixteen consecutive months on Mt. lows: Desert and is well acquainted with the island as a site for fruitful studies in Teaching and Research Staff field biology or nature study. Dr. R. L. Tayler, Ass't. Professor ei As the result of the experience of Biology, College of William and Mary: last season, it is planned to provide Mr. W. R. Spofford, Graduate School prepared check-lists of the plants, of Biology, Yale University; Mr. birds and other animals most likely to A. M. Green, Massachusetts State be encountered; to furnish regulation College. collecting equipment at cost; and to Investigators and Problems replace the "per-hour" basis of last Dr. H. B. Andervont, U. S. Public year with a simpler and still more in- Health Service, Induced immunity to expensive "lump-sum" arrangement. transplanted cancer; Dr. T. H. Individual instruction can be furnish- Werner, Harvard University, A prob- ed at higher than the group rate. lem in physiological chemistry under It may be added that it is possible to the direction of Dr. L. C. Strong; offer these courses at a very low rate Prof. Andrew Lester, H. C. Frick because of the generosity of the Training School for Teachers, Pitts- donors of the laboratory's endowment. burg, Pa., Problems in field natural All tuition fees are applied to the history; Mrs. Andrew Lester, Prob- work of the laboratory. lems in field natural history; Mr. S. G. The courses begin on Tuesday, July Warner, Harvard Univeristy, The 5 and will continue for eight weeks, or uterus in relation to cancer; Dr. J. F. until August 17. Each group will meet Mueller, New York State College of either once or twice per week. Each Forestry, Syracuse University; fresh session will last about two hours, water invertebrate zoology: ecology, which will be spent either indoors or parasitology; Dr. A. E. Brower, out-of-doors, or both, depending upon Maine Forest Service (cooperation the weather and upon the subject. with the Dorr Station); Mr. A. M. Anemone Cave, Otter Cliffs, the Gillespie, Maine Forest Service (co- Bowl, and Salisbury Cove, as well as operating with the Dorr Station): other interesting localities will be Mr. A. M. Rich, College of William visited by these class members who so and Mary, Algae of Mount Desert; desire. The Dorr Station is located on Mr. John Riesman, Harvard Universi- the grounds of the Jackson Memorial Laboratory. 2 ty, Mammalian genetics; Mr. K. W. Percival, University of Maine, Mam- For further information or for regis- malian genetics; Mr. B. W. McPhet- tration, call Dr. R. L. Taylor, or Miss ers, Bar Harbor, Bird banding and Mary E. Russeil at the Jackson ornithological problems; Miss Helen Memorial Laboratory, Telephone Bar Harbor 470. Smith, Howard University, Mammal- ian genetics; Miss Caroline Silence, (Special to The Bangor Daily News) Howard University, Mammalian gen- CALAIS, July 25-Neil Johnson of etics. New York, formerly of Robbinston, Dining Hall Staff who was held after the accident in Mr. B. F. Gallagher, Philadelphia which his car struck and killed Sam Smith of Eastport near Frost's Corner Pa., Chef; Mrs. Mattie L. Candage, on Route 1, was later released by the Bar Harbor, Acting Cock; Mr. R. A. authorities when the hearing revealed Little, Dedham, Mass., Assistant. that the accident was unavoidable. Johnson as he approached two Courses cars dimmed his lights, but the glare In addition to the research activity from the lights of the second cal of its resident investigators, the Dorr blinded him, so that he did not sec Smith. who was walking in the road- Station will offer systematic and uni- way. The accident occurred Friday fied instruction to summer and perma- night and was investigated by Office: nent residents of Mount Desert. These Billings. courses will cover such aspects of WASHINGTON EDUCATOR biology and nature study as the identi- HERE FOR CONFERENCE fication of plants, (plant taxonomy), ans 31-1-3922 Dr. H.O Bryant, assistant director insects (entomology), birds (arnithol- of the National Park Service, in ogy), and both fresh water and marine charge of the Service's educational animals (zoolegy): and, additionally, work, and Mrs. Bryant and four child- the relation of organisms to their en- ren are at the Homars House, Acadia vironment (ecology). These courses National Park Field Headquarters. are SO organized that they are flexible Dr. Bryant is here specially for con- and can be adapted readily to fit the ference with Supt. George B. Dorr and particular interests of a given group. Ranger Naturalist Arthur Stupka, Instruction is given as non-technically whose work in the Park this first sea- as possible. especially so to children. son is already well known. Dr. Bryant It is emphasized that no particular OF NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASPINGION July 6, 1952, 1doale for Jun PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL Mr. John D. Rocksfeller, Jr. Broadway City. Dear Mr. Rockefeller: I have just finished reading your several letters of June 29, one of them addressed to the Secretary of the Interior but to be held for delivery until further authorization from you, covering your possible donation during the next twelve months of 2,168.68 acres of land for the Acadia National Park. The point you make with respect to the occasional use of horse roads by non and nernlex- MOTOR cars, gene ing. As you point out, the pressure that the superintendent is under OC- casionally to show distinguished visitors over these roads by motor at times has been practically impossible to overcome. Just the other day Superinten- dent Dorr took the Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Wilbur by motor over some of these roads. Nevertheless such pressure can be resisted if that is to be the decision and all such partiesThereafter can be taken over the roads in horse-drawn vehicles. The public situation, however, can be controlled by regulation. The warmed and patrols not to use the roads under penalty of law and regulation, and can the roads contrary to those warnings. The real trouble would occur where the superintendent would occasi onally suspend the regulations in favor of occasional distinguished guests. The only alternate which occurs to us would be for you to handle this detail by restrictions in the deed of transfer to the effect that no use of the horse roads by motors within the area involved in the deed, except for repair or construction purposes, fire fighting purposes, accident, or prior consent of the donor, shell be made or permitted by the United States, in a period writing by the grantor or his heirs. Even under this procedure regulations would have to be adopted to support and enforce these conditions in the deed. NARA, R679CCF, Acadia Meschild Page 20F2 1052 e' yeas' SERVICE for DEBVBIWENT OE THE Such intendent manner of transferring this particular acreage would place our super- on notice to keep trespassers off, and himself too to honor the restrictions of the deed. Such a grant would also assure those who have fought ful your road projects for a number of years that your ideals for Teast park carriage drives on these horse roads, would be carried out for rest. at sion them to stop their opposition. The fact too that the area under discus- twenty five years. I think this might be helpful in influencing time strategically controls horse road access to park lands for the first instead of over lands you privately own would appear to make this a the Infractions of the restriction would then also be under your control with logical time and place to have such a provision written into the deed. otherwise. right to enforce the restriction at your discretion by injunction or important and of possible appeal to you. For repair purposes it will I have underlined above a number of exceptions to me doubtless be necessary occasionally to run light trucks or other cars over the road as you have in the past. In extreme emergencies caused by not fire, or, say, accidents caused by runaway horses, we doubtless would want to deny motor access to the location. Furthermore, should it happen the that, despite our vigilance, an occasional motor would get past stood warning signs or patrolling rangers, we should like to have it under- violation of the restriction. In other words, I think it would be in and agreed that the arrest of the offender would not operate as a line with your wishes and plane not to object when, despite rules and regulations and every other effort put forth by us, occasionally some- body would by chance get on to these roads. I submit the above for your consideration. The question still remains to be solved as to the most effective and satisfactory manner to patrol the roads, since motors and motorcycles are to be barred. you should see advantage in that. August, and would then be available to discuss this you TY I am planning to be in Acadda Park for two or three days in early Sincerely yours, (Sgd) ARNO B. CAMMEREE Acting Director. CC Director Albright ACADIA NATIONAL PARK MAINE MONTHLY REPORT FILES JULY, 1932. 000 General The old order changeth! No longer is Acadia an isolated number of the national park system, having no contact with it except by corres- pondence, or by an occasional visit from officials from Washington and the field services. Acadia has established direct contact by the pres- ence in the park of Engineer Taylor and Landscape Architect Zimmer, both of whom are here for six weeks and who are engaged on engineering and landscape work in connection with development plans. It is good that such contact has been established. Much should come of it. In another way the park has taken its place in the sun. A ranger- naturalist has begun active work in the educational field and his pro- gram has attracted mich attention and a lot of favorable contment on it has been heard. The first Acadia Nature Notes, issued in July, proved a big hit. The outstanding event of the month should have been the dedication of the Cadillac Mountain Summit Road. A committee from the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce worked hard on it and planned well, but the weather nearly wrecked the works. Where thousands should have been in attend- ance, only a few hundred turned out to brave the fog and rain. Never- theless, the dedication was accomplished, but without the colorful throng which would have made the occasion a memorable one. The exercises, after the symbolic cutting by Superintendent Dorr of 8. satin ribbon stretched across the road at the mountain summit, were held at the Malvern Hotel in Bar Harbor, instead of on the mountain, as planned. The official party comprised: [G.B.DorR] Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of the Navy Joseph M. Dixon, Assistant Secretary of the Interior Frederick Hale, U. S. Senator from Maine Wallace White, " 11 " John E. Nelson, Congressman - 3d District of Maine William Tudor Gardiner, Governor of Maine John G. Winant, Governor of New Hampshire Norman Case, Governor of Rhode Island Halph 0. Brewster, Ex-Governor of Maine C. C. Stetson, Chairman, Maine Development Commission George B. Dorr, Superintendent, Acedia National Park John D. Rockefeller, 3d Charles W. Shea, Chairman, General Committee 3. H. C. of C. and about four hundred specially invited guests. -1- Page,10f2 Stephen Tyng Mather Memorial Plaque Identification: 7/4/1932 Preferred Structure Name: Stephen Tyng Mather Memorial Plaque Structure Number: MON27 Other Structure Name(s) Other Structure Name(s): 1. Mather Plaque Park: Acadia National Park Historic District Historic District: No records. Structure State: Maine Structure County: Hancock Region: Northeast Cluster: New England Administrative Unit: Acadia National Park LCS ID: 041156 Historical Significance: National Register Status: Ineligible - Managed as Resource National Register Date: 10/31/2007 National Historic Landmark?: No Significance Level: Not Significant Tyng was indirectly associated w/ cultural history of Acadia NP; plaques association w/ a listed NR resource not established & lacks individual Short Significance Description: significance. It will be managed as a cultural resource with concurrence by ME SHPO on 10/31/2007. Bronze plaque at the Cadillac Summit Loop Trail (#33), at the trailhead and near the parking lot of Cadillac Mountain, commemorates Stephen T. Mather. Plaque is described and illustrated on pages 260 and 265, Acadia Trails Pg. 2of2 Treatment Plan, Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Acadia National Park. This bronze memorial plaque recognizes Stephen Tyng Mather and was installed on July 4, , 1932. Mather was an influential, wealthy Chicago Long Significance Description: businessman and outdoorsman. Interior Secretary Franklin Lane invited Mather in 1914 to better manage the parks. With the assistance of another University of California (Berkely) graduate, Horace M. Albright, the two led a vigorous public relations lobying campaign that resulted in Congress supporting legislation to create the National Park Service. The intended result was the signing of a bill by President Woodrow Wilson on 08/25/1916 that established the National Park Service. Mather thus became the first Director of the National Park Service, and a similar plaque was installed in all 27 national parks and 33 national monuments up to that time. Construction Period: Construction Period: Historic Physical Begin Begin Year End End Year Designer Event Year CE/BCE Year CE/BCE Designer Occupation Chronology: 1. Built 1932 CE Baker, Sculptor Bryant Function and Use: Primary Historic Function: Monument (Marker, Plaque) Primary Current Use: Monument (Marker, Plaque) Structure Contains Museum No Collections?: Other Function(s) or Use(s) Historic or Current Other Functions or Uses: No records. Physical Description: Structure Type: Outdoor Sculpture Structural Component(s) Material(s) Material(s): 1. Substructure Granite 2. Superstructure Bronze Cast bronze plaque 34"w X 28 3/4"h w/ bas-relief portrait; attached to vertical Short Physical Description: face of granite bedrock, just below the summit of Cadillac Mountain, at the Cadillac Summit Loop Trail (#33), at the trailhead near the parking lot. Text says: "Stephen Tyng Mather July 4, 1867--Jan. 22, 1930 He laid the foundation of the ULY 13. 1932 FIVE CENTS A COPY CHORAL SOCIETY FIREWORKS AND BONFIRE Repeal ratic WILL BE ACTIVE TO CLOSE DEDICATION returned tending To Hold Programs at Building mittee of of rts-Dates to be Announc- Display on Cadillac Summit as Day Ends for Na- ed Later --Secretary Adams and Admiral Pratt in New contin- The Bar Harbor Choral Society, ----Program Announced. the 18th which charmed a large audience in a who is a concert of fine choral music given at The glorious spectacle of a bonfire It is expected that the mountain ommittee the Building of Arts late last season, 1600 feet in the air and fireworks top win be crowded with thousands of idacy of will again be heard this summer, both shooting into space from the summit persons as the voices of the speakers emocratic at the Casino and in the Building of of Cadiliac Mountain will be witnessed colorfully tell of the occasion and its Arts. by the thousands who will participate inception. TIMES, Mr Maurice C. Rumsey, conductor in the dedication of the Mountain Execu- To Superintendent George B. Dorr of the society, who delights in spend- Road on July 23. When night comes, unization of the Acadia National Park, who has ing his vacation months in carrying after Charles Francis Adams, Secre- gret that done SO much to bring the project on the work which he founded here so tary of the Navy; Admiral William B. oosevelt, into reality will go the honor of offici- many years ago, has already inaugur- Pratt, Chief of Naval Operations; for the ally opening the road. Before the offi- ated this season's rehearsals, and an- Joseph Dixon, Assistant Secretary of cial party goes to the summit Superin- ) nounces some beautiful and signifi- the Interior; Governor William Tudor tendent Dorr will cut a ribbon stret- cant music for the performances. Gardiner and others have completed ched across the road as it leaves the the official exercises on the mountain G CAR (Continued on page 2) Rockefeller road and points skyward. top, one of the most vivid displays ever seen in Maine will be touched off. After the exercises a luncheon will Desert GARDEN CLUB TO be held at the Malvern with a tea at Badly Persons many miles. away will the Kimball House at Northeast Har- watch the flames of the bonfire shoot bor from 4 to 6. A dinner and dance into the air and then will see the fire- will be held at the Bar Harbor club Harbor HOLD BIG SHOW works that will resemble a meteor in the evening. p and R shower of some astronomer's night- ning as mare. The committee in charge of the It is expected that three destroyers t at the dedication program announced today will be in the harbor for the week-end. A taxi Annual Exhibit at Building of that the day would be closed with the The committee headed by Charles I driven Arts on Thursday, July 28- fire and fireworks. Shea is doing everything possible to when it Many Entries It has been officially learned that make the dedication an outstanding walking Secretary Adams will be the principal affair and is receiving the support She was The Garden club of Mt. Desert will speaker and that Admiral Pratt will and encouragement of the businessmen mediate hold its annual flower show on Thurs- also speak. At first it was feared that and townfolks at the day, July 28th, from 3-8 o'clock, day- it would be impossible to arrange for Secretary Adams and Admiral is bad- light saving time at the Building of a cabinet member to be present but Pratt are expécted to arrive early ition is Arts, Bar Harbor. Admission will be the Secretary has changed his pro- Saturday by motor. It is possible that forseen small. gram SO that he may take part in the they may spend Friday night at Entries in various classes are not exercises. Admiral Pratt's summer home in Bel- ate that restricted to club members. Any The official program as now ar fast. Governor Gardiner has invited dge was amateur gardener desiring to submit ranged will have the day's activities the five New England Governors to struck material for the show may obtain an start at 12 o'clock, daylight saving be his guests at the Blaine Mansion il state- application blank from the chairma n. time. A speaker's stand will be erected Friday night and motor here with ication Mrs. James D. Heard. Professional on the mountain top and the Rt. Rev. him Saturday morning. known gardeners are invited to exhibit, William T. Manning, Bishop of New an una- phlox, aconite, delphi,nium and lilies. York, will give prayer. He will be Although flags will fly on the 23d. d to be. The flower arrangements are di- followed by the other speakers. A the committee has advised against xi Ser- band will be present to add color to and hopes to discourage decerating belong vided into the following classes. the occasion. In honor of Champlain by outside interests. It is believed im anyone Flower Arrangements the explorer of Mount Desert, French practical for the business houses to olved in All entries in these classes must be national airs will be played as well as profusely decorate with banners and the fact bunting for the day. (Continued on page 2) our own. SEE THE NEW HE BAR $2.00 A YEAR THE BAR HARBOR TIMES, WEDNESDA HOUSANDS WILL WITNESS CADILL BIG STEP MOST GLORIOUS OF ALL RK DEVELOPMENT ied Of For Many Years construction Started iment Project he stressed, would do much towards de veloping the only National Park in the Northeastern part of the country It he was a fundamentn) towards 11. future development of Acudia The first nection of the road was he surveyed in 1925 un the florts of the go boosters began to best frunt The work WHN under the direction of Waltern G. Hill, National Park Service engineer and required remarkable skill in and 11 lot of difficult engineering In cidentaliy Mr. Hill in a rative Maine and WHN greatly interested in the project from n patriotic standpoint as well HM commercial. Construction started after the ur vey and before 1929, 6,000 lineal feel of the highway had been graded This Id section brought cars to 11 reasonable of altitude and offered many scenic View of Bar Harbor and Frenchmans Bay taken from a typical S as (Continued on page 1) Summit Road. It would be difficult to estimate the number of p panorama of islands, the sea and the sky. Saturday. DAY PROGRAM t Casino. I guests assemble at Malvern V I.A. MEETING MISSION'S ANNUAL CHORAL SO ves for summit to arrive by cut ribbon as party enters HELD THURSDAY MEETING JULY 27 IN TWO CO nit starts with band and the asy will preside. ern for official party. Representative Group Hears Com- Kenarden Lodge WIII Be Opened Director Rumsey An etic Field. mittee Reports and Discusses For Session orful and Attractive ty at Kimball House. Season's Activities for Future 1 e at Bar Harbor Club for Kunarden Lodge closed for the last The Bar Harbor Villa Improve- ason continues its gracious tradi- Musical gaiety and a t display from summit with ment Association held it first meet- tion. Through the kind invitation of be lacking hore this sea. it display in harbor. ing of the season at the M. C. A. Mrs. John Dorrance the annual meet- to plans of the Bar I AVING TIME: building on Thursday morning. The ing of the Maine Sea Coast Mission Society. Two concerts H (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 4) (Continued on p JULY FIVE CENTS A COPY NUMBER 942 MOUNTA ROAD DEDICATION ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETE PANORAMAS FOR A BIG CELEBRATION Weather Only Thing In Doubt As Village Prepares For Eventful Day --- Special Traffic Rules Announced Bar Harbor will play host to Admiral and Mrs. Pratt will arrive thousands of visitors and entertain Friday evening and Saturday morning them well Saturday in an effort to the hilis of Mt. Decert will greet the make the dedication of the Cadillac Secretary of the Navy, Charles Francis Mountain Summit Road one of the Adam:, Governor William Tudor biggest events in the history of this Gardiner, Assistant Secretary of the section of the State. The stage is set Interior Joseph Dixon, Senator Fred- and the curtain ready to risc. All crick Hale, Congressman John Nelson, details for handling traffic end taking Governor Norman S. Case of Rhode care of official and non-official guests Island, Governor Stanley C. Wilson have been outlined. The program is of Vermont and Governor John C. arranged. Special rule3 and regula- Winant of New Hampshire. tions for the day have been made. Precording nd following there The Weather Man alone now holds official guests will be hundred of the magic wand that brings success or cars from every section of New Enz- failure. land with folk3 who will witness the Thursday morning the new Coast exercises. The dedication has had na- Guard cutter "Cayuga" will steam in- tionwide publicity and it is expected to port to be followed before Friday that the week-end population of Bar noon by three Navy destroyers, the Harbor will be much greater than pical section of the Cadillac Mountain Goof, Tillman and Bainbridge in usual. The committee has not ven- r of persons who will gaze upon this command of Captain R. A. White. (Continued on page 4) EDSEL FORD TO PRESENT PRIZE SOCIETY HOTEL MAN HAS Edsel Ford, son of the famous motor magnate who is at his Seal Harbor summer home, will personally pre- sent a $50 prize to the winner of one of the classes at the Dog Show to be held at the Casino, Saturday from CONCERTS RARE COLLECTION 10 o'clock in the morning until 10 o'clock in the even- ing. Mr. Ford has assured the committee that he would be on hand as the prizes are announced to make his award. nsey Announces Col- Mr. Severance, Newport Manager It is expected that over 200 highbred dogs will be on Attractive Programs Owns Library of Cook Books as display at the Show from many sections of the coun- uture Dates Unique Hobby try and in some instances from foreign countries. The committee has been working hard to make this first ty and activity will not List Mrs. Elizaboth Raffold, famous official show a big success. the season, according English culinary artist of the 18th The show will be 2 part of the official Dedication 10 Hair Hurbor Choral century as one of the World's busiest Day program and the visiting notables will attend. concerts are to be givan, women. Those who have many differ- lued on page 6) (Continued on page 6) benent to the community urge a greater and more hand work from the vacation schools widespread interest in the activities of the V. I. A. to the end thousand on display. The things that the child- that all Bar Harbor may benefit by intelligent discussion and that wh ren do always carry their appeal and constructive action on matters of community interest. dreaded the workmanship and artistry of those account who make "Maine So Coast Mission populati MUCH PRELIMINARY WORK PLANS ALL SET FOR DEDI- Rugs" is appreciated wherever they NECESSARY BEFORE ROAD are known. The meeting lasts but one Myth CATION PROGRAM HUGE snakes a BECAME REALITY CROWD EXPECTED hour. Its setting by the ocean is of wide beautiful. The service for which it these ar (Continued from page 1) (Continued from page 1) stands has an appeal than which there panoramas, but the bald top of is none more worthy. The attend- they per tured to estimate the number of visi- surdity. Cadillac off in the distance was in- tors who will be in town for the day. anco should be the largest in the his- question triguing to those who love nature The program will start Friday tory of the Society. acquaint and wanted to go the limit in their evening when a dance will be held st At eight p. m., there will be a creature inspection of the Park. the Casino for the men from the visit- demonstration of the work of the The In 1929 the National Park Service ing ships. Music will be furnished by Mission at the Congregational church farmers requested the Bureau of Public Holt's Melody Boys and the Com- to which all interested are invited. in the a Roads to lay out the highway to the mittce has requested as many ladies Among those expected to be present of their mountain top. This work was done as possible to attend to provide danc- as directors and sponsors are the fol- its past by the J. P. McCabe Company of ing partners for the visitors. lowing: Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D.D., of time, Boston, under contract. Saturday's program will commence Honorary President; Rev. Warren J. the milk The construction work was difficu.t with the opening of the Dog Show at Moulton, D.D., president of Bangor over bee and required a maximum of engineer- the Casino at 10 o'clock at which over Theological Seminary: Mrs. John servor. ing skill. Some of the work was car- 200 canines from every section of the Markoe of Philadelphia, Rev Wm. any riqu ried on in the winter months and this country will be on display. Edsel Adams Brown, D.D., of Union Theo- "milk" brought additional hardships. The Ford will make 11 personal presentation legical Seminary: Mrs. Frank B. a tables sturdy engineers kept on the job of his $50 prize to a winner of one of Rowell of New York, Col., Wm. Jay come ne however and blasted their way the classes. Schieffelin of New York, Miss Myrtice milk. T through great barriers of stone, At 11 o'clock the official party will D. Cheney, Chairman National Phil- snakes- around jagged cliffs onward to the assemble at the Malvern to be escerted anthorpy Sigma Kappa Sorority; their fav summit. Nothing stood in their way to the summit by Stato and National Mrs. Lea McI. Luquer, New York: There to reach the 1500 foot top of Cadillac Park police. As the party enters Miss Harriet V. C. Ogden, New York; take the with a small degree of grade on the the Summit Road. Superintendent and Mr. Edward K. Dunham, Jr., of mouths : road. In some instances many hun- George B. Dorr of the Park will New York. has beer dreds of feet of highway were built cut a ribbon that serves as a silken For 11 number of years the Congre- snake de across difficult places to eliminate a barrier across the highway and will gational church of Bar Harbor and in striking. high hili or rise. A minimum number officially open the road. To Superin more recent times others of the church- the ir you of men were injured in the construc- tendent Dorr the honor is given ns he 03 in town have given over their one rattl tion work. is considered one of the chief workers vicos the last Wednesday of July to skins, an The road cost $350,000 and is con- for the realization of the project. the Maine Sea Coast Mission. The twice a sidered one of America's finest scenic When the party arrives on the sum- staff of that society who remain over cannot b drives. It leaves the Rockefeller mit, the Bar Harbor Band will greet from the annual meetin are a group of its rat road which crosses the flank of Cadil- them with an inspiring air. The musi- of talented prople from whom m. y be To pull t lac, just above Echo Lake. cians will start playing at 11.30 and expected not only inspiration but orig- does not It was constructed by the Federal will play at intervals throughout the inal entertainment. time; ne Bureau of Public Roads, under the program. This year as usual-Wednesday old. Sna direction of Leo Grossman, Civil The official party will sit on a spe- evening, July 27, at 8 o'clock daylight down bef Engineer and except for a stretch of cially built platform and ex-Justice time-three will be a demonstration of the my 400 feet climbs continuously, The B. Deasy will preside. The Right worthy of their reputation. What will understoo grade at a maximum is seven percent Reverend William T. Manning, Bishop happen has not been disclosed by the and the average grade is five percent. of New York will offer prayer to be superintendent, Rev. Orville J. Gup- V. I. A. Ninety percent is rock elevation and followed by Senator Hale as the first till. He assures us that the talent one of the cuts is through a hundred speaker. Congressman Nelson, Gov. represented by his staff never was (C yards of slid ledge. The road is 22 Gardiner, Gov. Wilson, Gov. Winant, finer. feet wide and of bituminous macadam. Gov. Case, Secretary Adams, As- One year, tableaux and a pageant president The surface is very hard and durable sistant Secretary Dixon, will then of performance created an occasion Blair, ope and is designed to withstand the speak in the order named with Mr. that is still remembered. Last year a remarks i severest tests. Dixon giving the principal address. motion picture of the Sunbeam in ac- bers to ca Saturday afternoon the highway The visiting Governors will offer tion realistically presented the work former ye will officially become a part of the greetings from their respective States. of the Mission. The se National Park and the dreams of Taps will be sounded at the close of read the those who have done so much to see the program in respect to the memory Pond untir after four o'clock, d. 8. t. which was the development of Mt. Desert will of the late Dr. Charles Eliot who was No cars can turn on the summit tember, 19 come true. Thus at sunrise or sunset, one of the founders of the Park. road except at the round turn at the Richard by sunlight and moonlight motorists The official party will have lunch top. treasurer, may witness the ever changing panor- at the Malvern 2 o'clock and will The exercises on the summit start the associ rama from the skies. be escorted to places of interest on at noon and no cars will be allowed to quite satis From the summit, the variety of Mt. Desert in the afternoon, attend- enter the road until 1.45 p. m. Mr. Rov views are unequalled in many in- ing the Dog Show, a ball game and Traffic must be kept moving, unob- tion of Ha stances. The ocean, lakes, distant having tea at the Kimball House at structed. The speed limit will be of the Path peaks, islands, towns and streams are Northeast Harbor at 4.30. At 4 maximum 30 miles an hour and mini- will not be off in the distance to be seen. o'clock a ball game between Ells- mum 25 miles per hour. mer on acc may witness at the Malvern at o'clock and will at noon and no cars will be allowed to rama from the skies. be excorted to praces of interone on enter the road until 1.45 1. m. Mr From the summit the variety Mt Desert n the afternoon, attend Traffic must be kept moving. unob. tion of views are unequalled in many in ink the Dog Show. H ball game and structed. The speed limit will be of the stances. The ocean. lakes. distant having tea at the Kimball House at maximum 30 miles an hour and mini- will peaks, islands, towns and streams are Northeast Harber at 4.30 At 1 mum 25 miles per hour. mer on off in the distance to be seen wiclock a ball xame etween Ells No cars will be left on the summit worth and Bar Harbor will be herd 41 resigna Perhaps the most effective picture or summit road during the exercises. regret: can be obtained at sunrise As Old the Athletic Field. Drivers must take their families or Sol peeks his head over the eastern 180'clock in the evening a dinner meeting horizon, staging a beautiful show of and dance will be held at the Bar parties to the top and return to the Associa various parking places in town. Spe- which many colors, one watches the ur Harbor club for the official party and cial buses will transport the drivere several rounding country awaken from its their guests. free of charge to the Summit for the At slumbers. The day will close with one of the exercises for those who have tickets Benjan The lonely twinkle of Mt. Desert finest spectacles of all. From the which will be presented each driver. on the Rock lighthouse fades away. Slim summit of Cadillar, 1600 feet in the Each car will be numbered and af- tee sin streamers of smoke arise from the air a flaming Flag of France in the exercises parties must be ready continu chimney tops below." fluttering tri-color will sparkle in the to take their car as the loud speaker this sea And off on the northern horizon the darkness at 9 o'clock. This will be in announces that their number is com- meetin; peak of Old Squaw rising over the honor of the French discoverers of ing up the Mountain road. The drivers on the Moosehead Highlands appears while a Mt. Desert and will be followed by a will leave directly after the exetcises work d little to the right, rising between two grand display of rockets shooting out in the buses to get their cars in the with in hills and usually wreathed with over the crags and cliffs of the barren clouds one recognizes the hulking inking places. The mountain top into space. The ships in outline of Maine's longliest and finest the harbor will present a searchlight Evening Rules port fr written peak, rocky Mt. Katahdin. display as the ir part in the magnificent This order is by Benjamin L. Had- the exe show. No cars will be allowed on the ley, Chief Ranger: during MR. QUIMBY ATTENDS mountain during the display and chief In order that there may be no structiv CONVENTION IN WEST ranger Hadley suggests that the ideal danger of accident either to persons along place to see the fireworks will be from or automobiles, the Cadillac Moun- William Quimby, one of the town's the town or in the harbor. tain Summit Road will be closed at loading business men, is on his way to The visiting Governors will spend 8 p. m., daylight saving time, Satur- Los Angeles, California, where next the night with Governor Gardiner at day, July 23, and will remain closed To week he will attend the great Masonic Augusta and will motor here Satur- during the program of fireworks. Yuratn drilled gathering, the convention of the Su- day morning. While here Secretary After the program the road will again turned preme Councilo the Shrine of North Adams will be the guest of Poter be opened to motor traffic. Any auto- Insert America. Mr. Quimby represents Augustus Jay at the Broakwater on mobiles on the summit road at eight Anah Temple of Bangor, to which the Shore Path and Admiral and Mrs. o'clock must leave the mountain. Mr. Masons of this district belong, as a Pratt and aide will be guests of Mr. The fireworks display will be seen has beer delegate. He is one of the outstanding and Mrs. Murshall Langhorne at more effectively from the vinage of and that Masons of the section and has long Saltair. Mr. Dixon will be enter- Bar Harbor, or from the waters of the of the been one of the most interested and tained by Superintendent George harbor. The dispay win be put on in twenty active members of the order, in its B: Dorr. confunction with a searchright display Harbor various bodies, here. Mr. Quimby is from the nvvl veseela anchored in to preser Past Master of Bar Harbor Lodge, Special traffic regulations will be Frenchman's Bay. Points of vantage tion" ca all members of which have effective on the Mountain Road Satur- in Bar Harbor from which the fire- One expressed their satisfaction in having day. works can be seen are: Cromwell Har not cha him delogate to the great convention No cars will be anowed on the bor Road, at the Building of Arts; always a the west. Summit Road until 10 clock, a. m. Harden Farm Road near Red Rock however No care can park on the Summit Spring: the Athletic Field; Ledge more get THE Road or along the Mountain Road lawn Avenue Extension near the that bec from Eage Lake Road to Golf Linica 1932 MT. DESERT HIGHWAY OPENED TO TRAFFIC New York Times (1857-Current file); Jul 24, 1932; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2003) pg. 15 MT. DESERT HIGHWAY tional Park was severed at noon to- Florida were Secretary Adams, Jo- Cadillac by his government in Que- day, officially opening the road to seph M. Dixon, Assistant Secretary bec exactly 244 years ago. OPENED TO TRAFFIC travel. of the Interior; Senator Frederick "We come today," he said, "to dedicate what-many of us regard:as The dedication ceremonies were Hale, Representative John E. Nelson, one of the finest. scenic highways to held at the summit of Mount Desert, former Chief Justice L. B. Deasey of be found in our nation." Road 1,525 Feet Above Sea Level where the vast panorama of ocean, Maine, Governor Wilson of Vermont, Far below in Frenchman's Bay, at the foot of the mountain, three de- forest, mountain and lake which the Governor Case of Rhode Island and Leads to Panorama of Ocean, stroyers rode at anchor durinng the highway opens to motorists may be Admiral William B. Pratt. ceremonies. They were the Bain- Forest and Lakes. viewed on every side. Governor Winant of New Hamp- bridge, Tillman and Goff. Tonight George B. Dorr, superintendent of shire expected to attend but was pre- they will fire a salute opening a fire- works display commemorating the the park, cut the ribbon. Bishop vented by illness. French discoverers of Mount Desert BAR HARBOR, Me., July 23 (AP).- William T. Manning of New York Governor Gardiner of Maine spoke Island. , While a distinguished group of men City pronounced the invocation. briefly, recalling that the deed to The 22-foot road is 3.86 miles long, prominent in public life looked on, a hard surfaced, and was constructed Among those assembled for the cere- Mount Desert Island, on which the at a cost of $350,000. Its peak is silken ribbon across the new Cadillac mony on the highest peak on the At- park is located, was conveyed to the 1,525 feet above sea level. Nine years Mountain Highway in Acadia Na- lantic coast between Labrador and French nobleman Antoine de la Moth were required for its completion. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. MAINE I HWAYS Vol. I Augusta, Maine, August 1932 No. 5 FEATURES In This Issue Page Cover: ACADIA NATIONAL PARK-Photo by Bradley PARTICIPATING IN DEDICATION 6 EDITORIAL 7 CADILLAC MOUNTAIN ROAD OFFERS TOP o' THE WORLD VIEW-By Grace M. Oakes 8 ACADIA-A BOYHOOD DREAM COME TRUE-By B. Morton Havey 11 ROAD BUILDING PROGRESS ILLUSTRATED IN NEW SCENIC HIGHWAY-By Wm. A. Grover 12 THE HIGHWAY PROGRAM-By Lucius D. Barrows 13 AN ALLAGASH ADVENTURE-By Frederick Robie 14 BRIDGE DEPARTMENT-By Max L. Wilder 15 YOUR UNCLE SAM HELPS-By R. M. Page 16 MONTHLY TOURS OF THE STATE-By Vico C. Isola 17 GOOD HIGHWAYS SAFELY BUILT-By Walter J. Bren- nan 19 ODD SHOTS-By Hildreth G. Hawes 21 CLIPPINGS 23 HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN 28 RECENT LETTINGS 28 CARLTON BRIDGE SHOWS TRAFFIC INCREASE 33 BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN 33 PERSONNEL ACADIA NATIONAL PARK 34 Maine Highways is published each month under direction of the Maine State Highway Commission, State House, Augusta, Maine. Permission is granted to reprint any matter contained herein, if properly credited. Advertising rates furnished on request. Submitted material must be accompanied by adequate postage to insure return and all communications should be addressed to the Editor. This magazine is sent gratis to a limited list. Subscription rates, one dollar per annum; single copies, ten cents. Members of Maine State Highway Commission: Frank A. Peabody, Edward E. Farnsworth, Willis E. Swift. B. MORTON HAVEY, Editor. Source : Haire Highways V. 1,#5 (August, 1932). 2. Participating In Dedication Exercises, Cadillac Mountain Road JOSEPH M. DIXON CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS ADMIRAL WILLIAM V. PRATT First Assistant Secretary of the Secretary of the Nary Chief of Naval Operations Interior Department of Navy WALLACE H. WHITE. JR. FREDERICK HALE United States Senator United States Senator NORMAN S. CASE JUDGE LUERE B. DEASY JOHN C. WINANT Governor of Rhode Island Master of Ceremonies Governor of New Hampshire Pg. of 3 au Celegram The Weather Fair Today and Monday; Northwest Winds Portland Sunday Telegro Herald 7/24/32 DAY JULY 24, 1932 Issued by Portland Maine Publishing SEVEN CENTS Company Opening Notables Of State And Nation Attend Opening Of Cadillac Mountain Road Maine To Receive Dixon, Adams, Gardiner, Hale $1,067,079 From Join In Tribute To Superin- U.S. On Road Aid tendent Of Acadia Park Highway Commission Will Put Loan Into More Of Four Year Work OUTDOOR PROGRAM CURTAILED Maine will be entitled to $1,067,079 BECAUSE OF TORRENTIAL RAIN from the Federal Government for highway construction under the $120.- 086,000 special fund provided in the relief bill signed recently by President Walter Damrosch Leads Cheering As Silver Hoqver, according to an Associated Press despatch from Washington, Band Is Severed; John D. Rockefeller, Saturday night. This allotment will be made use of Jr., Ill, Represented By Son immediately for completion of Maine's four year building program and for special road projects already planned Special Despatch to The Sunday Telexram by the State Highway Commission Bar Harbor, (July 23-Here on the loftiest headland of the This Information was given the Tele- entire Atlantic coast, commanding & view in any direction gram by col. Edward E. Farnsworth unsurpassed beauty and magnificence, and overlooking a regio of South Portland, member of the commission. rich in historical lore, distinguished representatives of State an To Be Used Within Year Nation assembled today to participate in a simple ceremony d Col Farnsworth said the commis- great significance not only to the present generation of Ameri that Especial caps, but those to follow. With the severing of a narrow silver- band by Superintez Centinent on Page 2A; 2nd Column dent George B. Dorr of Acadia National Park, the wonderful Find Philadelphia new highway to the summit of Cadillac Mountain constructed the at a cost, of $350.000 and opening Staff Photographer up & new vista to the pleasure seeking public was formally Navy Charles Woman Slain In opened, and fitting recognition of this event was voiced by sex eral of the noted men who came here to "witness its Arcadia Speakers Lead Summer Home Those who apone paid splendid Threat To Minneapolis Man tributes to the part which Mr. Dorr and his associates have played in the consummation of this plan evolvad in Day Concert Announces August several years ago, and Joseph M. Signs Of Struggle Found Dixon, assistant secretary of the In- terior, who delivered the principal By Husband But dress of the day. suggested that ets Dr. Chapman- Transatlantic Hop time should be lost in erecting Weapon Missing bronce plaque setting forth the gond work done by Mr. Dorr )f Maine Take Other speakers, Charles Francis Goesan City: TWT July 23. (AP) Balchen To Pilot. Plane Adams, Secretary of the Navy; Gov. With her throat blanned from ear to William Tudor Gardiner, Clov. NSH sar and her head nearly severed, the With 20 Passengers And man 8. Case of Rhode Island; United States Senator Frederick Hale and body of Mrs. Catherine Reynolds, 35, es Hoover Directs Crew Of Six Representative John E. Nelson, also of Philadelphia, was found today in lauded Mr. Dorr. urvey Of Question a bungalow at Strathmere by her hits- Unfortunately tiot all of the exer- band, Robert C. Reynolds, and his Minneapolis, July 23.-(AP)-Plans cises could be carried out in the open. Of Five Day Week brother. for a mid-August transatiantic flight oving to a torrential downpour of Furniture in the bungalow was up- from Minneapolis via Montreal, rain and the dense fog which hung set and the front room where the Greenland and Iceland, to Bergen, over the mountain, but the ribhon ructs Departments Of Labor body lay was spattered with blood. Norway, were announced tonight by was cut in the presence of a gather. indicating police said, there had been L. B. Clark, Minneapolis business man. ing of about 1,000, including many. nd Commerce To Study terrific struggle. In a preliminary who said Bernt Balchen has been newspapermen, photographers and Possibilities Of, Plan search of the structure and its imme- engaged as chief pilot. diate vicinity, investigators could find Twenty passengers, R crew of Continued on Page 2A: 1st Column six, no trace of & knife or other capon. in addition to mall, supplies and first sshipgion. July 23.-(AP-Presi- Reynolds and his brother went Rug Shop Senter, Randall Dep'ts Owen, Moore's Great Basement 7/24/1932 Lof 3, ULEQ rigures Attend rind r-huladelphia ladillac Road Opening Woman Murdered Companed From Page One Continued Front Page One ation-sipture operators, and then the week-and. The bungalow. amail he enough week to the Hotel Maivers structure, was completed .for the there the addresses were delivered-in blast month. 1 x ballroom through the courtest of found the place looked and haries A. Wesper the proprietor. strolled beach you two hours, Standing j MD. Defr expecting to Zua Reynolds there. se band marking the format deflice Pailing to Bodies thin they returned on of the highway chief and broke-in the hons unger. Reynolds left his from at the array, forming bungalow and ran to of a re Council: neighbor to Bergeant the United States within of police, who cretary Adams, took charge investigation, -hn Rockefeller, sidest questioned neighbors as to Rocketetist Jr. who built the road Mrs. the foot is the from One seen uch the to yesterday camit. appeared Later in father. who her Miss Jen- Led by waiger Damroch world- into in Phila- and a delipida; had gone Harbor. ago to red the cerentony simmer usé. 2d Rev. William her par- of New York. The ents and younger Harbor Band played selection then Justice Leure in. Dessy of to go there in August Barbor enhounced that, owing to starts, the rest of the program # be given in the hotel. Maine To Get Over the official party were ST offi- from four warships sent here for Million From U.S. occasion, Secretary Adams and side. Capt. Harold R. Stark, As- Continued From Page One ant Secretary Dixon Admiral WH- 3 Veszie Pratt and Mrs. Pratt Ad- Federal aid money must be used on at Pratt's side -Commander projects to be completed by next July W. A. Campbell, Governor Gardi- and Mrs. Gardiner. Gov. John G. 1 and according to special require ant of New Hampshire Governor ments as to hours of labor and wage of Rhade Island and Mrs. Case, scales fixed by the Federal Govern- stor Hale Senator Wallace H ment. The money may be used/ by lite and Mrs. White, Represents Nelson and Mrs. Nalson, Ex-Gov- states to match other Federal aid . Heigh a Brewster of Deater money but in Maine's case, Col. Mrs. Brewster, Representative Parasworth said, all regular Federal aid F. Snow of Bangor and Mrs. aid funds have been matched/t this Mr. and Mrs. Blaine a. Viles, and Mrs. William Viles of year and the special fund probably Superintendent Dorr, Bishop will be used as a direct loan. ning and Mrs. Manning. Louis 1 Under original plans Maine's four m of Lawision, John a. Ulter- of Bangor, Mr. and Mrs. Loren year highway program will not be Jimball Miss Margaret Kim- completed until next yyar. However, Mr. and Mrs. George L Stebbins the Highway Department already is Relation: for Mr. reteiler, and Mrs. Raiston Chain- slightly ahead of its schedule and the a Joy and Mr. and Mrs. Robert special Federal funds now promised svere Heal Harbor and New will enable It to expedite that program shop Benjamin Brewster of the atili more this year Such projects as Jopal Diocene of Maine, who is have been surveyed already or can ex-end guest at Northeast Har- be surveyed and bullt before next was also present sistant Secretary Dixon, in his July will be built, Col. Parnsworth - at the hotel brought great- said. and other projects not included from President Hoover, who in the four year program also will be ratulated the people of Maine done by the did of the new fund. costplation of the highway sater spoke briefly, The special Federal fund must be the part which he and Judge repaid by the states over a period of then a member of the National five years beginning in 1938. Repay- had in handling of the nient way be made by the deduction Mouthing is the establishment of Park, where the new of one-fifth br the- amount alloped located and Governer each state in regular Federal aid Rhoden Island brought the funds for each of the five years after of dr state Nelson said: "We 1938. Maine last year obtained special and from the Federal Government and here today & wonderful highway the federal government to is to repay that amount in live year- by deductions from its regular Federal available to all men the match- f beginning next year. beauty of this spot. We stand to tall of early vockigers, 'ancient settlements and the long and of th east, supreme in struggle between the French and Ent- ape Interest lish for the possession of North measurably old. this mountain America. Here the old Acadian for- ich we stand is in Itself- won- est, made famous by: Longfellow is geologic exhibit. Heal the con- preserved in all its digital bility first emairaed from the pre- and diversity. is sea. Here these mountains "It is an appropriate destiny that 7 old burst up in molten tury this spot, of supreme scenic, scien- a the earth's eattlest crust. title and historic interest should be IS cape and sculptured these preserved unimpaired. uncommercial which ones looked out across bed and unscarred for future gen- allays to the distant age orations. of sa age old commis travall "It seems filling to me." said Gov- earth's agony. out of the flood ernor Gardiner, "that this rugged . from and the fire, this Island beauty spot of nature, located in to a beauty and land rich in historic traditions, com- manding a sweep of sky, sea and for there takkown and in est. of -landscape and shore, unsur to all the world. pleased should be the scene of such i officests appts: has a fas- work Lands Superintedent "And while many hands and minds have holned 3of3 Prominent At Cadillac Road Opening Governor William Tudor Gardiner and Secretary of the Navy Charles Upper, left to right, Walter Damrosch of New York, Mrs. Damrosch, By Staff Photographer Francis Adams. Lower, Superintendent George B. Dorr of Arcadia National Park cutting the ribbon for the opening of the road. John D. Rockefeller, Portland Sunday I 3rd, is standing with Mr. Dorr. July 24. 193. Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of the Navy. Remarks reported in Bar Harbor Times, 7/27/1932 Cadillac Summit Road dedication ceremony. "Few more brilliant speakers than Secretary Adams ever held an audience in closest attention; and kit was ringing applause which broke the instant's silence of tribute when his voice had ceased Secretary Adams' first words were tribute to Supt. Dorr, his friend, referring to a day 15 years gone by [c. 1917?] when he had stood with him on Schooner Head and was fascinated by Mr. Dorr's great dreams, which have now come true...." " MT. DESERT HIGHWAY OPENED TO TRAFFIC New York Times (1857-Current file); Jul 24, 1932; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. 15 MT. DESERT HIGHWAY tional Park was severed at noon to- Florida were Secretary Adams, Jo- Cadillac by his government in Que- day, officially opening the road to seph M. Dixon, Assistant Secretary bec exactly 244 years ago. OPENED TO TRAFFIC "We come today." he said, "to travel. of the Interior; Senator Frederick dedicate what-many of us regard as The dedication ceremonies were Hale, Representative John E. Nelson, one of the finest. scenic highways to held at the summit of Mount Desert, former Chief Justice L. B. Deasey of be found in our nation." Road 1,525 Feet Above Sea Level where the vast panorama of ocean, Maine, Governor Wilson of Vermont, Far below in Frenchman's Bay, at the foot of the mountain, three de- forest, mountain and lake which the Governor Case of Rhode Island and Leads to Panorama of Ocean, stroyers rode at anchor durinng the highway opens to motorists may be Admiral William B. Pratt. ceremonies. They were the Bain- Forest and Lakes. viewed on every side. Governor Winant of New Hamp- bridge, Tillman and Goff. Tonight George B. Dorr, superintendent of shire expected to attend but was pre- they will fire a salute opening a fire- works display commemorating the the park, cut the ribbon. Bishop vented by illness. French discoverers of Mount Desert BAR HARBOR. Me., July 23 (/P). William T. Manning of New York Governor Gardiner of Maine spoke Island. While a distinguished group of men City pronounced the invocation. briefly, recalling that the deed to The 22-foot road is 3.86 miles long, hard surfaced, and was constructed prominent in public life looked on, a Among those assembled for the cere- Mount Desert Island, on which the at a cost of $350,000. Its peak is silken ribbon across the new Cadillac mony on the highest peak on the At- park is located, was conveyed to the 1,525 feet'above sea level. Nine years Mountain Highway in Acadia Na- lantic coast between Labrador and French nobleman Antoine de la Moth were required for its completion. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 7/27/1982 roye 1017 CENTS A COPY ON TO FIREWORKS FRIDAY OLD CADILLAC STORE The Committee has announce ISTRUCTED ed that the display of fireworks from the summit of Cadillac AS ROAD IS DEDICATI Mountain scheduled for last Saturday evening as a part of aucus Chooses 17 the dedication program and Supt. Dorr Cuts Ribbon to Officially Open County Conven- postponed on account of rain, Instructions to will be held Friday night at 9 SummitHighway---Speeches of Many Hodgkins o'clock. The spectacular show 1600 feet in the air will be Notables Heard at The Malvern M. Conners, chair- touched off to serve as the ublican Town Com- town's welcome to the British Cadillac Mount: in Summit Road, 8. tional Park, extend my cordial greet- at a Republican ships Dragon and Danxe which great scenic highway to the highest ings to all present and my congratu- he Municipal Court will arrive on that date for the Point of the Atlantic coast, in Acadia lations to the people of Maine upon y evening. There Tennis Week festivities. National Park, was dedicated Satur- the completion of this road." ixty members of the No cars will be allowed on the day; and even the fog and rain which mountain during the program. Leaves Under Cloudy Skies 10 elected seventeen descended upon the Island at the County convention The display will be the same us hour of the exercises failed to dampen Undaunted by lowering clouds the rrow and instructed planned for Saturday. the enthusiasm of the large group official party lined up at the Malvern to vote for Harold which, gathered for the occasion. Hotel and motored directly to the Harbor for the nom- This "group included the official summit, where hundreds of people as- fl. so long as Mr. sembled for the program. be a candidate for RELIEF BALL IS party and many of America's dis- tinguished citizens. The Official Party ation. President Hoover sent a message by whether or not in- Acting Secretary of the Interior, The official party, other than the NEXT TUESDAY 37 naval officers were: Hon. Charles should be sent to Joseph M. Dixon and the President was represented by Hon. Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of the d on page 7) Francis Adams, Secretary of the Navy, his aide, Capt. Harold R. Navy, whose brilliant address was the Stark; Hon. Josepb M. Dixon, Acting COMPETE Members of Bar Harbor Relief feature of the occasion, Admiral Secretary of the Interior: Admiral William V. Pratt, Mrs. Pratt. side. Association Working for Social William V. Pratt, U. S. N., was an- Lieutenant Commander C. W. A. and Financial Success of other notable guest. NO SHOW The President's message follows: Campbell; Hon. William Tudor Gar- Annual Event diner, Governor of Maine: Mrs. "I will be obliged if you will upon Gardiner; Hon. Norman S. Case. The annual concert and ball of the this occasion, the dedication of the Governor. of Rhode Island; Mrs. Exhibition Bar Harbor Relief Association will be Cadillac Summit Road in Acadia Na- Case, Hon. Frederick Hale, United --Many held at Dreamwood next Tuesday States Senator from Maine: U. S. warded evening, August 2. The artists to be J. L. KETTERLINUS Senator Wallece H. White: Mrs DIED FRIDAY White, Hot. John E. Nelson. repre- featured on the entertainment pro- sentative from the Third Maine I'm ed being so close to gram are Edward MacHugh, re- Was For Many Years Leader in trict; Mrs. Nelson, Hon Halph (1) of these wonderful nowned Scottish radio-baritone and Summer Life of Bar Harbor Brewster, ex-Goverror of Maine 1. Helen C. Place, well known Scottish Republican candidate, representative y classes and prizes Mr. J. Louis Ketterlinus died at his ributed at the close dramatic soprano. to Congress: Mrs. Brewster, Congress home in St. Augustine, Florida, on man and Mrs. Donald F Sn of day evening. John Members of the Bar Harbor Relief Friday morning at the age of 80. Bangor; Hon. and Mrs. Blaine S arbor received the Association are working hard to The death of Mr. Ketterlinus marks Vites, Miss Viles, Mrs. William Viles his dogs and was make the 1932 ball as successful as the passing of one of Ba: Harbor's Mrs. Johnston, Supt. George R 14057 offered to the win- have been its predecessors durirg the oldest and most prominent summer of Acadia National Park; Mr 11 R. ophies. Edsel Ford past sixteen years. During these residents. Mr. Ketterlinus had made Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. John D to be on hand to sixteen years, the Relief Association his summer home in Bar Harbor for Rockefeller, Jr., Miss Harris, Kt his prize was un- has earned and disbursed more than thirty-five years. He built Bide-a- Rev. William T. Manning Hishop of $27,000 for relief work in Bar Harbor. While, his summer home on the New York, Mrs. Manning tion John the various classes The Association has one hundred and Shore Path in 1893. Mrs. Ketter- A. Peters, Judge of the Federal 14 thirty members who pay $5.00 each linus died here in August, 1930. triet Court. Mrs leters Judge 19, Judge, Frank T. per year, and all expenses for the ball Mr. Ketterlirus was a rative Richard S. Shaley of the I S Court 5 lbs. dog food by are paid from this fund, and every Philadelphia and was long prominent .:-Winner, A. O. dollar donated from the sale of tickets in the business and social life of the of Claims, Hon. La'urs Brann, Item 1 on page 8) goes to the relief fund. (Continued on page 8) (Continued on part S) Pq. 20f4 2 RAIN FORCES NOTABLES GATHER FOR the ribbon parted. Cadiliac Mountain They Son Jocus Christ, Who livethy DEDICATION PROGRAM Road was formally opened and migneth with Thee and the Hoty Hon. Luere B. Deasy Ghost, God forever and over. Ameni" H: (Continued from page 1) tice of the Supreme Judicial Count of Movie and still cumeres clicked. col cratic candidite for Governor, Hon. Maine, Master of cotemotti intro- The bard wert on playing n.rd the John T. Utterback, Bangor; Mr. rrd duced Rt. Rev. William T. Marring exerciser would have in another mo- My3. Loren Kimball, St Mrs Loren Bishop of New York, who had come mert been well under way. But the Kimball, Sr., Miss Mirgaret Kim- from his summer home in & mesville, main descerded st this point and to ball, Mr. and Mrs. George> L. Seeb- and Bishop Manning gave the iavo- Judge Deary announced edjourn- firs 3, chair- birs, S. F. Ralaton, Luperintender.u cation C9 follows: ment to the Malvern Hotel. There, Se wn Com- for John D. Rockefe.ler, Jr., Mrs "O God Our Frither, Whose glory with but a moment's notice Ches- of rpublican Ralsten, Chauncey D. Joy, Mr. and is declared to us in the heavens and ir ter A. Wescott hest throw his beau- tio al Court Mrs. Robert DeRevere of Seal Hi.r the earth, and Whose footpaths am in tiful hotel open to the rain-suaked do There bor and New York. the great waters; we thank Thee for hundreds who hed been gethered or ree ors of the Rair had begun and fog hed long the benefits which the opening of this the mountain top for the exercises of COT eventeen since obscured 'the magnificer.t scenic highway will bring to many, for the the day. do invention panorama when the silken barrier AIS vision of those who planned this un- At the Malvern the program went instructed cut. The Bar Harbor Band under the dertaking. and for the skill and labour on as without interruption. Governor he Harold direction of Frederick Wescott had which have brought 11 in completion Gardiner, introduced by Judge Deery St the nom- played some spirited marches. May those who press over this who WRS at his best in hishappy man. tio as Mr. R The strains of the National Emblem road see with new clearnets the wonder ner of presenting the speakers, re- idate for Co march died away. Supt. George B. of Thy hardlwork and feel the ner.r. crived & cordial welcome of applause for Dorr stepped forward to the road's ness of Thy Presence. Open but he spoke only 11 low words. His I not in- barrier, a length of broad white rilk eyes in see the beauty that in in the prepared address, however, will be R sent to ribbon. Someone hunded him n pair world, and to use our opportunities found in another column of of brand new; gleaming seisure as we should. Ard grant that in this Hon. Joseph M. Dixon, first resist. M Walter Damrosch, the celebrated time of difficultyour people may turn ant secretary to Dr. Ray Lyman ETE conductor led the cheering. Beside to Thee and mry learn clresh th Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, M Supt. Dorr WCS John D. Rockefeller, our life corriss no: in the tburderce and acting sectetary in his absomer, mi A 3d, representing his father, who was of the things that we posses but ir WHY the next speaker He spoke nt Di HOW ill. There was : sripping sound crd follo the Truth reverled to us in lengthupon the Park Service, general. WE ly, the western parks, etc., grd in bl closing paid there should be 2 plaque The annual conc. of HENRI de PARIS erected for Mr. Dorr during his life to tion Bar Harbor Relief Associa time Mr. Dixon's address in ar held at Dreamwood next other column. y CO RT ST. evening, August 2. The artists to Hair Stylist BAR HARBOR, ME. 'President Harding," said Judge 07 Deasy, "swid he liked to go to his featured on the entertainment pro- be to give you a satisfactory lasting own home town to be called Warren close to gram are Edward MacHugh, re- ap Was Formanent wave. and our United States Senator says he vonderful CO nowned Scottish radio-baritone and Summer likes to be called 'Fred' and I intro- Helen C. Place, well known Scottish "achineless duce Senator Fred Hale." nd prizes Se dramatic soprano. Mr. J. Louis Ketterlin Senator Hale spoke briefly but the close UIGNOLE en gracefully and appropriately, 28 LI g. John home in St. Augustine, rin Members of the Bar Harbor Relief Friday morning at the age of Bar Harbor ways. He paid tribute to Sund Dorr lived the st Association are working hard to The death of Mr. Ketterlinus n.rks and congratulated the people of and was make the 1932 ball as successful as the win- the passing of one of Ba: Harbor's Mrs. Jo. D sel Ford have been its predecessors durirg the oldest and most prominent summer of Acadia of hand to past sixteen years. During these residents. Mr. Ketterlinus had made Thomas, Mr. and Mrs John D sixteen years, the Relief Association his summer home in Bar Harbor for was un- Rockefeller, Jr., Miss Harros Kt has earned and disbursed more than thirty-five years. He built Bide-a- Rev. William T. Manning Hishop of $27,000 for relief work in Bar Harbor. While, his summer home on the S classes New York, Mrs. Manning tion John The Association has one hundred and Shore Path in 1893. Mrs. Ketter A. Peters, Judge of the Federal the thirty members who pay $5.00 each linus died here in August, 1930. Frank T. per year and all expenses for the ball triet Court. Mrs leters Judge Mr. Ketterlirus was a native of food by are paid from this fund, and every Philadelphia and was long prominent Richard S. Shaley of the I S Court fe A. O. dollar donated from the sale of tickets in the business and social life of tha of Claims, Hon. Lauus Brann, Dean. h. goes to the relief fund. (Continued on page 8) (Continued pas S) Col. 49.3014 Who livetby Millie upon the nation seeboard Park employees cooperated in ri nd the Hoty superb food. Senator rangement for traffic and SPEAKERS:TELL OF rer. Ameni" Hile's address found in another fire protection The Ber Herbor res clicked. column Chrpter America Red Cross had LAUD EFFORTS OF ing n.rd the Judge Deasy then Introduced Con fine tent up road, ready another mo- gressman John E. "Nelson of Maine for any emergency. Members of y But the who paid tribute in his opening Words George Edwin Kirk Post, 'American Assistant Secretary Dixon said in appreciation point, and to. the late Stephen T. Mother the Legion, Harold R. Hodgkins com- part: zens. d edjourn- first diréctor of the National Park manding were posted 41 zlong the "When plans for the dedication of It see tel. There, Service and who laid the foundations road and made 2 fine appearance. the Cadillac Mountain Road were first rügged b tice Ches- of it. He quoted from the inscrip- Men of the Headqu rters Britery and considered, it was my understanding in a la in his beau- tion on a bronze plaque outside the Combet Train, 152d Field Artillery, that the Sécretary of the Interior comm rain-baked dodr of Mr. Mather's old office which Capt. E. V. Cleaves, helped in mary would be present and take an active forest gethered or reads, in part: There will never ways. Bar Harbor police under Chief part in the ceremonies. Instead of surp exercises of come an end to the good that he had Abbott were in hand to aid. that Dr. Wilbur made his visit to a V done," Supt. Dorr had his whole Park Acedia National Park more than a m oxtam went Congressmen Nelson and that as 'family' he calls it, about him. month ago. At the time, I was at a Governor he read thrt he thought thit what At the other end of the broad silk rib. loss to understand the procedure, but Judge Dezyy Stephen Mother had been to the Ne- bon. the superirtendent cut. was his now that I have made my first visit happy man. tional Pr.k Service so Gcorge/Buck Chief Ranger. Berjamin L. Hadley, his to the park to represent the Secretary peakers, re- nem Dorr is to Acadia National/Park insignia of gold star and black stripes on this oecasion, the matter is entire- of applause, Congressman Nelson's address will be showing his 13 years in the service. ly clear. Dr. Wilbur began to hear found in another column. words His Assisting Chief Ranger Hadley were so mueh about this park that he just ver, will be Governor Norman S. Case of Ranger o. Y. Thompson, Chief Clerk could not wait until July 23 to get Rhode Island, bringing the greetings Carl G: Noweck and Chief Mccheric here and see it for himself. I and glad of all the New England states, except R C. Dougles. he couldn't, because otherwise I first paint- Maine, spoke extemporaneously and Ray Lyman At the junction of the road was might have missed an opportunity to said that elthough Rhode Island had he Interior, Ranger W. B. Campbell, serior of the visit one of the most beautiful places not sufficient territory to be Park- motorcycle men of the park, while I have ever seen. his abrance, He spoke at minded with great areas, as Secretary Rangers Vernen A. McQuirn and "I come from the State of Montans, Dixon of Montana had sa'd of the vice, general. Louis R. Foxler, in charge of moter- where Glacier National Park and part western states, yet Rhode Island was cycle patrol of the motor roads of the of Yeilowstone are located. I have etc., and in blessed with ability to pay the biggest Park, were about their usual duties also visited many of the other great be a plaque of Federal taxes 2nd so assist the west ring his life Supt. Dorr made the mountain's western parks 80 I have a good be to be Park-minded. ess in ar- escent in the administr. car of the for comparison, and I believe that you He spoke with pride of the Atlantic Park, driven by Ranger Dana H. have here the most urique memb. coast's greatest harbor, Rhode Island's said Judge Young. Miss Grace M. Orkes. his the national park system that I have own Narragansett Bay, and he won all secretary and Miss Ardra E. Terbell, seen. For one thing, it is the fir to go to his hearts by his manner of speaking, hip junior clerk, were with him. Only national park to have been establish led Warren appreciativeness, his enthuriasm, his Ranger Charles Hazs, whose duties cast of the Mississippi Rivor and nator says he cordial good will. kept him at Sieur de Ments spring, the only national park in the system and I intro- Few more brilliant speakers than was absent which is entirely the gift of privat Secretary Adams ever held an audi briefly, but Representing the Federal Govern- citizens to the people of the Nation ende in closest attention: and it was ment in the Park was Kirk K. Stirr- Acadia National Park also has the itely, 28 JI ringing applause which broke the in- Sund Dorr son, of Boston, who is in charge here unique distinction of being the stant's silence of tribute which came for the Government of pine blister member of the system in the people of hen his voice had ceased. Judge rust control. States proper with an oct.in boundry Deasy introduced him as a Secretary Hon. Guy E. Torrey smilirgly If the proposed Cup# Sable Everglade of the Navy who knows the navy and handed the sharp seissors to Supt. region in Florida becomes it national its needs, who steers a racing yacht Derr. Assistant Supt. Lynam stand- park, this exclusive dist as well as he guides the destinies of a ing near. Mr. Torrey was referred to be taken away from Acadia but great Governmental Department, and as a member of the Park "family ally it will make no differ. who belongs to America's most dis- like David O. Rodick and Serenus B the two regions are so entirely diffe tinguished family. Rodick, who have beer much con ent. Now here else on our Secretary Adams' first words were nected with Park work the Atlantic Coast ill you find tribute to Supt. Dorr. his friend. re A distinguished guest always rat. mountains rearing their heads ferring to a day 15 years gone by when ing membership in the Park "famil directly out of the seit. The mag! he had stood with him on Schooner Ix" was near Mr. Derr at the barrier cent occan lired which Held and was fascinated by Mr cutting Judge John A. Peters of Mr Dorr's great dreams, which have now Ellsworth, who was representative be found on any coastal boundary of come true. Secretary Adams' address from this district "at the time the the United States outside of Alaska When Secretary Wilbur returned was Dorr's great dreams, which have now Ellsworth, who was representative be found on any coastal boundary of come true. Secretary Adams' address the United States outside of Alaska. Pg. from this district "at the time the is printed in full in another column. When Secretary Wilbur returned 4 of 4 district at the time the Park was Judge Deasy then asked for 2 mo- founded and who, with Senator Hale, to Washington after his visit to Acadia ment of silence in tribute to the late handled much of the work connected he spoke enthusiastically of the popu- Charles W. Eliot, president emeritús with it at Washington. larity which he believes this National of Harvard. President Eliot cmae here Last mention is not least mention park will enjoy in the future, and the as a summer resident shortly after the end in this case two of the most im- short time that I have been here con- Civil War. He it was who organized portent men on the mountain Satur- vinces me that his prophecy was not the Hancock County Trustees cf day wer eLeo Grossmar, C.E., of idle one. Until recently the people Public Reservations, a corporation to Malden. Mass. in charge for the of the East wave not been national- which then; as non, was given the Federal Burezu of Public Roads of the park conscious in the manner that We tracts which went tc the formation of Cadillac Mountain project and Wal- in the West are. With the exception the Park. President Eliot was ters G. Hill, C.E., chief.engineer of the of this park, there were none last of through many years closely associated National Park Service, who built the the Mississippi River. But, in a very with Supt. Dorr in this p. rt of the first section. quiet and gradual way, this situation Hon Charles Francis Adams, Sec- has changed almost entirely in the Park work as with his assistant super- last féw years; I might even say in intendent, A. H. Lynam, Esq. retary of the Navy, arrived in Bar Social Affairs Harbor Saturday and was the guest the past two years, Back in 1925 or at Breakwater, of Hon. ard Mrs. thereabouts, when Congress had more At the close of the exercises a buffet Peter Augustus Jay of Washington. time for such things, it authorized the lunch was served to more than 200, establishment of several national Governor Case of Rhode Island Was members cf the official party and in- the guest of Governor and Mr parks in the East with the idea of ex- vited guests, including 37 officers from Gardiner at the Blaine Mansion on tending the Nation's great system of the U. S. Destroyers Bainbridge, National parks to include some of the Friday night. Tillman and Goff, lying in the harbor. Judge Richard S. Whaley, of the wonder areas of the East, and to bring This affair was successful in every de- Federal Court of Claims arrived with the benefits of the system within tail in the manner characteristic of easier reach of a densely populated Senator Frederick Hale. the Malvern. Congressman John E. Nelson and section of the country. At the Kimball House in the after- Mrs. Nelson and their two daughters, 'Already the nucleous of the great noon the official party was delight- Eastern Park-to-Park Highway has motored from Augusta, and went to fully entertained at tea by Mrs. Storm Beach cottage to greet Supt. been officially designated and when it L. E. Kimball, Sr., Mrs. Loren Kim- Dorr and this guest, Acting Secretary is finally worked out, Acadia National ball and Miss Margaret Kimbin Park will be one of the best loved Dixon. A dinner and dance at the Bar Har- Admiral Pratt arrived Saturday Parks on the route. When the people bor club made a brilliant and appropri- and was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. of the densely populated eastern ate close of the day's program. Marshall Langhorne of Washington section of this country become fully Cooperation with Bar Harbor's and Bar Harbor it their summer home national-park conscious as WE now are hard-working, able and notably sur- in the West, people search of peace, here. cessful committee was complete. Not Hon. and Mrs. Ralph O. Brewster of tranquillity will come to Acadia one det ail Wis missing for the brilliant were among the guests here for the National Park in great numbers success of the occasion and only the There is something about the sea that day. cooperation of the weather gods was clears tired heads and unravels ex- Among other well known men pres- lacking. ent were Clarence C. Stetson, Wingate hausted nerves. The beauty that they Supt. Dorr's entire Park family as- Cram, Bangor, Hon. Byron Boyd, drink in from the magnificent scentry sisted him in responding to the efforts Augusta, and Hon. J. Frederick spread before them through the medi- of the committee in charge which was um of the Cadillac Mountain road will Burns, county attorney of Arocstook, made up as follows: who was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. bring visitors back year after year, and Directors of the Bar Harbor Cham- make Acadia National Purk on the David o. Rodick. ber of Commerce: George F. Berry, coast of Maine famous the world Among courtesies extended Supt John B. Ells, Charles W. Shea, Har- Dorr, with which he was much pleased old F. Carter, Archie L. Getchell, were the Lincoln lcars with drivers, John H. Stalford, Clarence E Dow, the use of them being given by the Gov. Gardiner said: Tobias L. Roberts, Guy E. Torrey. Morang-Robinson Co.'s Bar Harbor Selectmen of Bar Harbor: Alvah 'Two centuries and forty-four branch. Abbott. Jilien Emery, Everett W. years ago today July 23 1665 Johnson, Donald W. MacLeod, Eu- deed was recorded at Quahael MT. DESERT RED CROSS gene H. Page. that province, the seat then of the MEETING IS FRIDAY 1. F. L. Brewer, Gilbert H. Montague, French Government in America, Seal Harbor L. B., Deasy, John D. granted Antcine della Moth Cadillac. The twelfth annual meeting of the Rockefeller, Jr., Seal Harbor George a gentleman of noble family in France, Mt. Desert Chapter of the American B. Dorr, William Endicott, George the Island of Mt. Descri Red Cross will be held at the Neigh- W. Pepper, Northeast Harbor, H. L. "History has passed: time has borhood House at Northeast Harbor Graham Lincoln Cromwell, North- wrought its works; man has achieved, on Friday evening, July 29th, at east Harbor, H. M. Hodgkins, Vance and with startling diamissal of this C. MoCormick, Northeast Harbor, A. 8.80 p. in: The speaker will be Mr. vast space of years, we come today Eliot Wadsworth, member of the Cen- Atwater Kent Seth EXLibby D. this July 23d of 1938-00 dedicate tral Committee of the American Red Phillips, Southwest Harbor, A. H. what many of us regard as one of the Lynam, W. J. Miller, Southwest Cross. Reports of the nurse and of finest sornic highways to be found in Harbor, George G. McMurtry, W. H. local committees covering the work of our Nation. We are honored upon Thurston, Tremont, C. C. Morrison, the Chapter during the past year will this occasion with the previous of Donald Snow, Bangor, William Mc- presented, and directors and officers noted assembly of representative N for the coming year will be chosen. Nair. Clarence C. Stetson, Dave H. our Federal Government: with Chlor individual in n' REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES NARA CP, 2679 CCF, Acadia. Mebc. Rpts. 5 ADDRESS ONLY the Commerce THE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON D. C. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON August 9, 1932. Personal and Confidential Memorandum for Director Albright: A matter that I consider important is that should it occur that Mr. Dorr, Superintendent of Acadia National Park, relinquish that position by death, or otherwise, to have Mr. Albert H. Lynam, now Assistant Super- intendent, appointed as superintendent, if for a period no longer than six months. He is one of Mr. Rockefeller's close confidants, and a man who has a better knowledge of the park's administration requirements than Mr. Dorr, or anyone else up there. There are a lot of matters in Acadia National Park that under ordinary circumstances would need immediate correction, but which it is not prac- ticable, or perhaps possible, to correct at this time. Accounts, however, are in far better shape than they ever have been. I think we need have no fear that r. Dorr will get into trouble going counter to accounting practice, because of the fact that Mr. Lynam is in control of the accounts and Mr. Nowak is fully conversant with them. It is possible, of course, that Mr. Dorr will far outlive Mr. Lynam, since the latter has angina pectoris, but I felt this memorandum should be made to bring this suggestion to your attention. are A. commerce Acting Director. Keven M MED See sew draft Draft My dear Mr. Secretary: If it is your judgment that the property colored green on the enclosed pencil drawing, being 2,168.68 acres, would be a desir- able addition to Acadia National Park, it would be my pleasure to deed the same to the United States Government at my convenience during the next twelve months. This property is generally speaking bounded on the east by Acadia National Park (colored red), on the west by the Brown Moun- tain Road, which is one of the Island's highways, and at two points on the north by the Eagle Lake Road, another highway. The property affords the only access from the west to park horse roads. At its southeast corner, where the horse road enters from the highway, I have erected and am prepared to turn over as a part of this gift a lodge house with its garage, also a gate, all for the purpose of affording control of the entrance to the Park. As you will recall, all of the horse roads in Acadia National Park, built with the Government's sanction and wholly at my expense, have been offered and accepted with the understanding that they are #for horses, horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians only, but not for motor-propelled vehicles". If my offer of this land is accepted, I feel it should be with the understanding clearly set forth in the deed that (for a period of twenty-five years from the date of the gift the horse roads on this land, as well as those in Acadia/Park to which they give access, will be open only for the use of horses, horse drawn vehicles and pedestrians and not for motor traffic except with my consent (or that of by heirs or assigns given on the recommendation and at the request of the National Park Service. X While it would be ary hope that these roads would continue for the long future to justify themselves as horse roads only, I should not be willing, nor would it be in the public interest were it possible, to seek to impose my views in this matter for all time. Acceptance of this gift would also carry with it the right on my part to complete such roads on the property involved as have already been approved by the Department and are well along. Very truly, [JDR].] The Honorable Ray Lyman Wilbur Secretary of the Interied Washington, D. C. 1/12/2016 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Jacobson Plaque From : Ronald Epp Tue, Jan 12, 2016 11:41 AM Subject : Jacobson Plaque To : Rebecca Cole-Will Cc : Marie Yarborough Bcc : Maureen Fournier Dear Becky, Not to belabor the point, I found a signed letter from GBD in the HCTPR archives that may relate to the location of the proposed Jacobson plaque. It is dated 8.14.1932 and may be in your archive as well though it was sent to Richard W. Hale, Esq. who had asked about placing HCTPR & Black House placards within the park. "I am laying down a principle in regard to the mountain top [Cadillac] that no notices or placards, no monuments, plaques or memorials shall be placed there out-of-doors whether on the summit or along the roadside leading to it to distract people's attention from the one purpose of the road: To exhibit the landscape. The whole mountain I feel, now opened by the road, should remain as wild as the foot-paths have left it heretofor with the single exception of what good administration makes necessary in the way of ranger shelter and a few simply designed rock tables on the summit, indicating what one is looking at as he turns toward the different points of the compass." A concluding paragraph spells out additional concerns which might have been foremost in his mind since the July 4, 1932 installation of the Mather Memorial had just taken place. Yet local park policies might now deviate from this norm. Let me know if you want a copy sent. Ronald Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=346983&tz=America/New_York&xim 1/1 2 261293 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT Amoust 16, 1932. Dear Richard: I will take care of your three placards about the Black House, placing one in the Par office. onein the pump-house at Sieur de Mento Spring, and the third in our ran- per station on top of the mountain. I have spoken to Mr. Hed- ley about it and he will attend to it. this brings up a point which I went to bring before you while it is in my mind. I am laying down a principle in re- card to the mountain to- that no notices or placeros, no monu- ments, plaques or memorials shall be placed there out-of-doors whether or the summit or along the rondside leaRing to it to distract peo leis attention fro the one purpose of the road: To exhibit the landscane.> The whole mounta's I feel, now opened by the road, should remain 9.3 wild as the foot-paths have left it heretofore with the single exception of what good cdminlstration maices necessary for the way of ranger shelter and a fow simply designed rock tables on the summit, indicating what one is looking at as he turns toward the dies erent points of the compass. Some low building where bea may be served or simple meals be had and visitors if they wish may rest will be needed but my plan is that any such development shall be kept wholly to the west of the little ravine that runs across the mountain top, north and south, dividing it into two portions of which the western one, slightly lower but with 3. superb sunset view, is wholly unused in our present layout. This can have its own semarate entrance and parking ground and not be visible either on the sky-line from below or conspicuous from the road. Have the placards left at the Park office. with regards, Yours sincerely, GBD-0 Richard 1. Hele, Esq., Box 638 Bar Harbor, Maine. COPY August 16, 1932. My dear Mr. Secretary: If it is your judgment that the property colored green on the enclosed pencil drawing, being 2, 168.68 acres, would be a desirable addition to Acadia National Park, it would be my pleasure to deed the same to the United States at my con- venience during the next twelve months. This property is generally speaking bounded on the east by Acadia National Park (colored red), on the west by the Brown Mountain Road, which is one of the Island's highways, and at two points on the north by the Eagle Lake Road, a nother highway. The property affords the only access from the west to park horse roads. At its southwest corner, where the horse road enters from the highway, I have erected and am pre- pared to turn over as a part of this gift a lodge house with its garage, also a gate, all for the purpose of affording con- trol of the entrance to the Park. As you will recall, all of the horse roads in Acadia National Park, built with the Government's sanction and wholly at my expense, have been offered and accepted with the under- standing that they are "for horses, horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians only, but not for motor-propelled vehicles". If my offer of this land is accepted, I feel it should be with the understanding clearly set forth in the deed that for a period of at least twenty five years from the date of the gift the horse roads now on this land or which may hereafter be built thereon will be open only for the use of horses, horse- drawn vehicles and medestrians and not for motor traffic, excent with my consent or that of my heirs and assigns given on the recommendation and at the request of the National Park Service, and except also when necessary for general road and roadside maintenance, repair and construction purposes, fire fighting and in case of accident. While it would be my home that these roads would continue for the long future to justify themselves as horse roads only, I would not be willing nor would it be in the public interest were it possible, to seek to impose my views in this matter for all time. Acceptance of this gift would also carry with it the right on my part to complete such roads on the property incolved as have already been approved by the Department and are well along, as well as the right to clear and make available for horse use any abandoned horse roads thereon. Very truly, Honorable Ray Lyman Wilbur, J.D.R.JR. Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D.C. The Eyrie Seal Harbor, Maine August 28g 1933. Dear Mr. Lynam: Your letter of August 5th with its enclosure I am sending you herewith together with a draft of a proposed letter from me to Secretary Ickes. This I shall be glad to discuss with you when we meet within the next few days. I shall also be interested to know if the Eno property purchase has been closed. If not, I am wondering whether on the basis of the correspondence which you dug up and the practical contract delivered to the park under which Mr. Eno bought the property, Arthur Train could not be again approached in the matter and be influenced as an executor to take some decided position. This we can also discuss. You have already received Mr. Potter Palmer's reply to Mr. Cammerer. Of course there is the power of condemnation in the background; one hates, however, to use it. I am wondering whether the next step might not be to get someone to write a letter to the Bar Harbor Times to the general effect that recalling the opposition t. the new motor road, which largely centered on the crossing of the mountains by the Beehive, the writer has wondered why the route might not be changed to go around the north end of the mountain, which seems to offer no engineering difficulties but rather to be an infinitely more natural and desirable route from every point of view and not nearly so defacing to the country through which it would go, and in addition avoiding the much used path area in the vicinity of the Beehive. If this suggestion could be thrown into the arena now while the summer people are here, might not those who are opposed to the Beehive crossing see in it an opportunity to get the road changed and they themselves become proponents of the new route? Please think this over and we will speak of it together. Very sincerely, John's Mr. A. H. Lynam, Hull's Cove, Maine. enc FILE NO. 2 HALE AND DORR ORIGINAL FILE COPY NOT TO LEAVE THE OFFICE August 30, 1933 Seremus 3. Rodick, Esq., Bar Harbor, Mai no. Dear Mr. Rodrick: will you Kindly supply me with some information, or get it from the Secretary of the Hancock County Trustees for me? Mr. Samuel d. Eliott said at the last meeting that the younger generation of visitors to the Island used new names for the mountains. You have recently elected in the Hancock County Trustees, I am quite sure, the only ones who could be described as the younger generation. May I have a list of them at your reasonably early convenience? Yours very truly, Rieland wither Richard V. Hale. M.K.7. 8-20-73 2682-A FILE NO. $ HALE AND DORR File ORIGINAL FILE COPY NOT TO LEAVE THE OFFICE HomeolicT September 5, 1933 Edward K. Dunham, Jr.: Esq., Seal Harbor, Maine. My dear Mr. Dunham: At the last meeting of the Hancock County Trustees a question was raised as to the names for the mountains that are in actual use. Can you tell me, on the enclosed postcard, what you call the mountain that has a road up it? I should be grateful. Yours sincerely, Richard T. Hale, Jr. 1/5/15 National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Finding Aid Arthur Stupka Maine Papers, 1932-1961 CATALOG No. ACAD 58815 ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE NORTIEAST MUSEUM SERVICES CENTER Administrative History Narrative: Arthur Stupka (1906?-1999) received bachelor's and master's degrees in zoology from Ohio State University and attended the Yosemite Field School. He was the first Ranger-Naturalist at Acadia National Park where he began in the summer of 1932 as the first NPS naturalist at an eastern park. Stupka continued to work at Acadia until 1935 when he became the first naturalist at Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM) where he continued to work until his retirement in 1964. While at GRSM he served as a naturalist and a biologist. After his retirement he continued to work at GRSM as a volunteer. 1 Although the majority of his NPS career was at GRSM, Stupka's interest in the flora and fauna of Maine did not end when he left Acadia; he continued to receive the Maine Audubon Society's "Bulletin" and other publications about flora and fauna in Maine. This collection is due to Stupka's continued interest in Acadia. The Maine Audubon Society stopped printing its "Bulletin" in 1956 and began printing the "Maine Field Naturalist" in conjuction with the Portland Society of Natural History. At the same time the Portland Society of Natural History, in collaboration with the Maine Audubon Society, began printing the "Maine Field Observer". The final issue of the "Maine Field Observer" was November 1961. 2 1 Ellison, George. Mountain passages: natural and cultural history of western North Carolina. The History Press, 2005, 41.Lewis, Ralph H. Museum Curatorship in the National Park Service 1904-1982, 1993, 259. Ohio Historical Society online: p://web2.ohiohistory.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=T2X9739550K45.2094&profile=allsoc&uri=link=3100009~!32 1590~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=basic_search&menu=search&ri=1&source=~!horizon&term=Stupka%2C+Arth ur+--+Slide+collections.&index=#focus accessed 05/07/2010 2 Maine Field Observer, Jan 1956, vol 1, no 1, p 1; Maine Field Observer, Nov 1961, vol 6, no 11, 125. Arthur Stupka Maine Research Collection - 5 23 noer UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR art NATIONAL PARK SERVICE THE REMOVAL 03 THE PRESENT all OTTER CLIFFS RADIO SMATION HANCOCK COUNTY MATNE G October 1932 0 Getter to Surve future Dept Thing ton agondo The Removal of the Present Otter Cliffs Radio Station This report is made for the purpose of showing that the present Otter Cliffs Radio Station or any station located on the present Radio Station Reservation is objectionable to the establishment of the scenic motor road which has been proposed following near the shore line around Otter Point, thence cross- ing Otter Creek Cove and continuing near the shore below the Black Woods as shown by the map on the following page. A site on Little Cranberry Island is proposed as a location to which this station can be moved and pertinent information is furnished regarding it. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., at one time offered to construct approximately eleven miles of scenic motor road on Mt. Desert Island for public use at a cost of approximately $4,000,000 under certain conditions. One condition was that the present Otter Cliff Radio Station be moved to another location where it would not inter- fere with the purpose of the scenic motor road THE ME XVHI $2.00 A YEAR 10/26/32 HARBOR ERAN MAIL PARK ATTENDANCE BELIEVED SE CARRIER DIES TO HAVE TOPPED YELLOWSTONE IN FULL Estimated Total Of 237,000 Visitors Within 23,000 Higgins Stricken at Of Great Western Park's Peak Year-- Odd Follows. Mason Northbay- In Postal Acadia Made Best Showing Of All in Initial Victori Nearly 30 Years Score Hung Attendance at Acadia National for Eugene H. With lot of enthur Park this year is believed to have ex- Ruddenly last Fri- ceeded that of the Yellowstone Na- NEXT ! ! bowling the 1932 lea, Boothbay, were tional Park and was within 23,000 Wednesday with the amily residence on visitors (f equalling the best year the What's this. summer again? turning in a win over at 2 o'clock, the great Western wonderland ever had. First F. E. Davis of Otter by n score of 141 pir Ison of the Congre- By a system of estimates, considered Creek picks a cluster of big Carter with n perfect helating. reliable by Park officials, they have healthy raspberries on Oct. 15, five strings turned in postal service, a figured conservatively that the 1932 and now our Isleaford corres. the evening. Henry the Bar Harbor total of visitors at Acadia until Oct. pondent sends the news that Tribou, and Morris liggins would have 1st was 237,000 while published Arthur Fernald picked a wild starred for the Odd birthday on July Government figures give 1929 the peak strawberry last week. We alo Davis, Norman She then have retired year at Yellowstone when 260,607 per- the evidence Alley were high men " sons enjoyed its beauties. And to make the week com- On Thursday ever if the late Alonzo Although not official statements plete your correspondent while thony's Y. M. C. A. irds Higgins, and, hunting (in vain) for partridge win over the Clark ( regarding the number of visitors at was born in Bar the Western Park which is many years over Indian Point last Nature new leam in this yea ried Miss Anna older than Acadia and a thousand day picked is perfect violet! thony. with 469. an Boothbay who sur- times more advertised, has been made Who's next! with 472 were the N son, Ernest, who this Fall it is generally admitted that (Continued o pharmacist, in practically every park in America Another son, Fran- with the exception of Acadia has 18 years ago. A MRS. GANNETT WILL Lobsters V shown great decreases. Figuring on Higgins of Han- this basis there is every reason to be- lster, Mrs. George lieve that Yellowstone must bow in GIVE ADDRESS HERE Carlo him. 1932 at least to the "little Park on the before entering Coast of Maine." Wobber Was Press carpenter. During Republican National Committee- Last week THE TIMES published Nation Argued a man who was the announcement of a 46% increase Woman to Discuss the Preal- knew him and his at Acadia and stated that the total dential Situation BY MRA. Sarth discharge of the exceeded 150,000. This was in some Mail Carrier won for Southweat Marber respects right but was certainly mis- Mrs. Guy P. Gannett. of Portland, and admiration of an old film of the Mt leading. The Park employes who take National Republican Committeewu- and fellow carriers Bar Harbor's first no take great pride in the record set this man from Maine, will make an address dence and goodwill dated 18Ms. we and year (of all years) took exceptions to at the Assessors' Rooms, Wednesday his routes. He had The road around the figures and produced the more im- evening, Nov. 2, at 8 o'clock. under many postmasters, in 1882 for the sum o pressive amount carefully figured and the auspices of the Hoover club of Bar grow from a small Harbor. sponsored by the women of An English venuel checked. apple quarters to the the Republican Town Committee on Band Harbor 11. Although Yellowstone is somewhat handsome Federal IMMA removed from thickly populated cen- Water and summer, Mrs. Gannett in a fine speaker and Mention in made ters and not SO easily accessible to has been prominent in National years on foot or in discussion over the Acadia it has many great centers to political affairs for some time She occasion required, to United States draw from and has the advantage of his work untiringly, will discuss the institute of the day from extensive advertising campaigns by Liberty Diarration competently. the standpoint of the present adminis. railroads and transportation compa- of antling for the tration. though he had suffered nies, age and fame. To see Acadia finally doculated that pressure in recent It is announced that the public in be built for 11 The run ahead of this spot which has been owledge of any dan- invited to the meeting and Mrs. C. K. regarded as one of the Wonders of tal cause expressions indition, nor had his the World is gratifying to all of Marcyes, vice-chairman of the Repub- against in the papers Mrs. Higgins went to whom have worked so hard to see the lican Town Committee will give fur James Home was b ther details to those who may want on page 2) gragational church (Continued on page 6). them. T. Richardso RONRITE MODEL XI 26 Broadway New York November 7, 1932. Dear Mr. Lynam: Your letter of November 4th about Mr. Dorr's holdings and the Wild Gardens of Acadia is received. As you of course know, I have no interest in either of these matters except as they may ultimately affect the Park interests. Again, both you and I know that Mr. Dorr really in the bottom of his heart wants to do the thing that will make the lands which he has taken such pleasure in acquiring and which he has so enjoyed owning most useful to the public in the years to come. On the basis of these two premises, I feel you and I will only be showing the genuineness of our friendship for Mr. Dorr in seeking in any way we wisely can to help him to reach a satisfactory solution of these two problems. To know just what lands are involved in each ownership, namely, Mr. Dorr's and the Wild Gardens of Acadia, is the first step. That Mr. Hill can plot for you if you can get the neces- sary data. To know who are the present directors or trustees of the Wild Gardens and the terms of incorporation, also the purpose for which the corporation was created, would help in the study of the problem. I recognize the difficulty of getting the informationn necessary without seeming to be inquiring into Mr. Dorr's affairs in an unwarranted way. Your own judgment will guide you as to how far you can wisely go and I would not have you take any step that you do not fully approve. John Very D. truly, Mr. A. H. Lynam, Bar Harbor, Maine. SH rate Park Dav LAW OFFICES WERE a. DEAS LBERT H. LYNAM DEASY, LYNAM, RODICK & RODICK AVID O. RODICK SERENUS 5. RODICK BAR HARBOR BANKING & TRUST BUILDING BAR HARBOR, MAINE November 28, 1932. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 26 Broadway, New York City. Dear Mr. Rockefeller: I have brought up to Mr. Dorr the matter of the land holdings of the Wild Gardens of Acadia and also of Mr. Darr's lands, other than his home property, suggesting that the Wild Gardens Incorporation is not satisfactory and also suggesting that so me arrangement be made whereby the lands could be transferred to the Government, under similar conditions as to their use as now designed for them with the Wild Gardens of Acadia, and as a memorial to himself, his father and mother. He did not take kindly to the suggestion. At present it would be unwise, I think, to try to push it. I can, however, keep it before him and he may later feel differently. In the meantime I will prepare a copy of the terms of the incorporation of the Wild Gardens and the officers and members for you. Yours truly, [A.H.Lynam] COPY Pg. I of 3 Last Will, G.B.D. -- Witnessed October 28th, 1918. I, George Bucknam Dorr, of the Town of Bar Harbor, Hancock County, State of Maine, do make and publish this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all wills by me at any time heretofore made: I devise and bequeath all my estate, real and personal, including all property over which I may have any power of testamentary appointment, Last Will, Witnessed October 28, 1917, G.B.D. to the Wild Gardens of Acadia, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maine and having location and its municipal office in the town of Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine, to hold and employ for the purpose of the corporation as stated in its act of incorporation and as its directors may interpret my Last Will, Witnessed October 28, 1918--G.B.D.- wishes as to the manner and direction of the property's employment within the stated limits of these purposes- In case of my marriage, this will remaining unrevoked, I give, devise and bequeath all of my property, real and personal, free from all restrictions, to my wife should she survive me- In witness whereof I hereunto Last Will, Witnessed October 28th, 1918, G.B.D. set my hand and seal this thirtieth day of September in the year one thousand nine hundred and eighteen- George Bucknam Dorr Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said George Bucknam Dorr, as and for his last will, in the presence of us, who at his request, in his presence and in the presence I, George B. Dorr of Bar Harbor, Hancock County, State of Maine, make and publish this my last will and testament, intending hereby to revoke all former wills by me made and to disnose of all property of every kind wherever situated that I may own or be possessed of at the time of my decease. FIRST: I direct my executors to pay my just debts and funeral expenses as soon as may be after my decease. SECOND: I give, devise and bequeath to the Wild Gardens of Acadia, a corporation organized for educational and scientific purposes, all of my estate, both real, personal and mixed, to be used by the said corporation for the purposes now provided in its incorporation and purposes that may be authorized by any alteration of said purposes in the future. THIRD: I hereby nominate and appoint Luere B. Deasy, Clarence E.Dow and Albert H. Lynam, all of Bar Har- bor, Maine, as executors of this my last will and testa- ment, a majority of them to act if any shall die before my decease or after my decease decline to act. I also direct that said executors be allowed to serve as such without giving bond. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand this indules 9th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one. (sgd) George B.Dorr Signed, published and declared by the said George B. Dorr, to be his last will and testament in the presence of us Pg. 30F3 C who at his request, in his presence, and in the presence of one another have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto, this ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one. Natalie C.Small Bar Harbor, Maine. Isabelle M. Stover Bar Harbor,Maine. Ruth L. Sleeper Bar Harbor Maine.