1935 elivial 1936 - C.C.C. Camp Closure -fetter to Blus Perry is Haward + visiting Connettee - Energine operation -GBD & Trustees of Rever (MASS) -hand donatra letter (10/2) to 6BD - JDRYr. Deeds to NPS alleght visit to AND - Jr's pla to extend carriog road SecInt (6/1) Rept. to Jr. into Bar Harber area - Ir to fo dick (9/24), length letter a Tavern on Summit mysterion letter Lr @ + Tea House etc he Acad crap. hello see GBD - 8/24/35 - S.Rodich to Jr (8/14) on CBD's outcome ? Imp - JDRF efforts to map road land offer, Vint oppires Kebo Road offer development & extension ANP. -lluseen - Reports, llay Dec 36 - often cliffs Trail Proposal funtr. -Dorr on new Nuseum for ANe(1(18) -Parmits for auto use f carriage roads from UPS Recasell. for construct in am - - GBD's (6111) response to TOR request Cadellac lt. Road SdeMonto Spring for $. Maine is his focus! Connector and Oceanfrat (11/18/35) - Avery trea t in flue birth of Katahden N.P. via gov. Bastes, Rolde JDRJr. "given up on horse road - GBD to W.J. Scheetellin (7/12) ac expansion@ H. Albright(511425) me Porr's editing of his papers to be published. ((dor's) - GBD'S glaucoma fargery - Huscandualent (1/18-9) (Hist of Tract of Land) -letter to Mary Parker re famuly 1 H. albrights retirement, tunute fu FORK. letters (10/1) - Two letters (8/14) criticilor AND -Dorr to G O'Neill inform them that Dorr's cousin, Administrati z A. Commerce re visit. ume Endouth holdied (11/29) - Detailed account by Dir.albright of visit c to ANP 6/1/35 - Musium justification (Dckes) 7 1 Retirement of Albught promatia of Commerce (8910) 1 Letter fu Tremost Town only for Dorr's help in keeping ccc cans's (9/24) - Two C.C.C. Reports. - Atterbory article on "Lodge 'Sate". - Historic sites Act" of 1935 NPS -Park Naturalist Reports Advisory Board (8/21) Haskey organ pest added in Bangor (411) 1935 1936 -Jr. offers $15,000. to purchase HCTPR lands (2/28)-unusued -Albright to Free Dorr's health (5/5) -Hale letter (1/16/35) to Jr. is his purchnot Bingham Estate see 12/3/34 letter from Jr, -Jr (1/16) station stock in Acadin Coup + shareholders -Jr to Iches (3/14) Le historical essa on ANP ad accessibility nc roads and further upons, on. - Cammerer to CBD (8/14) highly critical of his admin, failure to secure Commerces etc. - 6BD to S. Rodich (12/30/35) is extension approval, overdney compreada, Road diograe at 82 yrs. A carrier road system into BH. GBO a - thale to Jr. (1/16) on Black House history (propert - With to Rev Sam Eliet (4/18) on history at Het RR (4/18) that Elent will use in 1939 history -Hadley's 11-page Lesprise to c.w. EliatII (2/27/51) "Boudhes of ANP," including land acq by Jr. -NYT article on park emargent (6/25) -580 on Discover of NDI ANP," BHT (8(16). Profile of staty of ANP. -Historic Sites Act Passel -Jr. nigits Bear -Valley) -Albright to GBD (5/7) re Jr's.offer of in road devel / Drrr's mortality all of his lands (except to U.S. Govt. Accepted by lecy Ickes. - Fr. visits GBD in late summer re GBDS health to rood though Bea Broul vally -Ickes to Jr (7/25) ne deeds for park Canl - Bege Report (4(21) on Acadialoudortigail -CCC - Hadley ( 1/3) in CCC firstry writal AND - Jr. to Commerce (10/1) ti fond donation Technotic. In donuted also 3/17 (3/14), up. Value (#) of lands 1935 (cont.) - Commerce to In in visit to MDI + park planning. (8/15) c Vint A a - Jr - - - - do Page 1 oF3 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT January 3, 1935. Mr. John D. Coffnan, Chief Forester, National Park Service, Washington, D. C. C.C.C. Dear Mr. Coffman: To start the New Year off properly I am sending you the following notes regarding forestry work now in progress at the Acadia National Park. Up to the first week in December we had had very little snow, and practically no fire hazard reduction work had been done by any of the three camps. Oz December 3rd, following a snowfall of a few inches, we began the winter program with crews from the Ellsworth camp on the highway at the head of Somes Sound. Since that time I have talked to Project Superintendents Conner and Ingalls, and have emphasized the importance of changing our practise in fire hazard reduction in accordance with our discussion at Washington, and your resulting letter of November 27th to Yr. Dorr. Ellsworth Carp. Fire hazard reduction and selective landscape cutting will be directly supervised by landscape forepar Stanley Yusk (a graduate forester). Since much of our work between Somesville Northeast arbor will be done on park lands along the highway, I have carefully planned the work to conform with your ideas. Mr. Yusk has my complete confidence, and I plan to give a maximum of my own time while in the field to work done by the two Island camps. Yusk has worked out the following system, with my approval, for cutting to be done on the rain highway. First, two crows are instructed to remove all dead and down material, burning unusable material at points selected by him for fires. Second, those trees which are actually in a dying condition are marked by him, to be removed in a second cutting of the area in question. This follow-up cutting is done by a elected crow of men who are able to fell trees without causing damage to reproduction, undergrowth, or telephone and power lines in the road. Finally, cutting for landscape effect is done; living trees which interfere with desirable views at selected points being marked after I have gone over the areas in question. l'e John I. Coffman, Page 2. At many points along the highway I have considered it unwise, and undesirable from a landscape viewpoint, to leave standing many trees which because of disease or suppression have dead tops for more than half of their height. Where they stand on north and west sides of a highway I particularly try to fell all taller tr es what are so unsound at the butt as to be a cerace to pursons using the road. During high winds of late we have had many wind thrown trees about the park. Even back from the roads it is, I believe, bad colley to allow tall trees to crash into MESSUS of fine younger growth with resulting breakage and damage and increased fire hazard in future years. Spruce particularly is dangerous, since many of the very finest nature trees are apt to be completely hollow because of heart rotting Punji. Only carefil "sounding out" with the hanner can determine whether such trees should be out. here they are otherwise healthy I expect the foremen to allow ne to pass upon their personally before they are fellod. The falling of hollow trees across highways and trails is usually considered an "act of Cod", but I do consider it our responsibility to locate important basards of this ind and dispose of them before roads are blocked or serious injury to persons or property occurs. from the same angle, heavy dead limbs on healthy trees should be removed from above roads and trails. Jamps MP-1 and NP-2. le and a ton inch 330mfail on anu by Lut, and following it both 01 the Island caupe will have the reat art 1 hoir crows doing fire hazard reduction work. den from cTarland ield Camp, D-1, have been doing some ground cleanup of old A. work near the Ocean Drive, since early in December. Most of their work from now on will be in the slash areas dear Aunt Betty's Pond. D NEWS have been working Bor larra wooles In the Canada Hollow section under Beech Mountain, where heavy clash was 1ert uffer cutting by former private owners on lands recently added to the work (1935). Possibly 200 seres of work is needed at this saint. Jonnor and 2° ugails are recoving only used and down material, and no healthy green fir is being out. In dense growth It is accessary for force so mark standing dead wees. "1" John D. Coffran, Page 3. I am inspecting this work on alternate days, and am emphasizing the proper location of brush fires and the leaving of snags at points where they will do no damage by falling. We are also emphasizing the lack of necessity of burning logs and heavy parts of tops which can be left flat upon the ground and will there soon decay. within sight of roads and trails we are, of course, cleaning up all down material except partly deenyed logs and stumps which do not add to the fire hazard. Incidentally, I am planning to have Mr. Stuples accompany no occasionally on my inspection trips, so that he may be satisfied that 100 are considering the 1138 Life angle of the problem. in areas where Hr. Dorr will be especially interested in the 6BD work I shall try to use my influence (such as it can be) to avoid some of the "city park effects" we had last winter. Altogether, I believe, we will be able to demonstrate considerable improvement in both quality and quantity of work this winter. I might add th to until April we shall probably do nothing but forestry work, except for occasional snow shovelling by all hands such as we had today with the personnel of all three camps. I would like to be able to attund the ashington pacting of the Society on January 28th, but although I have plenty of Annual leave 20% I'm afraid that the excheequer you'r stand it. I presented that is 10 possible my of justifying Coverment spouse allowung 100 in will of this bird, and so am resigned so dissing probably the aost interesting meeting of the Society of American Foresters since I "joined up" ten years ago. Xy very best regards to Shanklin, Arnold, Thompson and the ab hallington. Sincerely yours, (GOD B.Hadley George B. Dorr Again Designated S As Acadia Park Superintende 1/9/35 BHT Forty-S Thousand Dollars Is Recommended Acidi National Park In President's Budget Message The President's budget message terest to citizens of the island are specifically designates George B. $350,000 for the control of the Dorr as superintendent of the Japanese bettle; $159,015 for the Acadia National Park and $46,- eradication of insects affecting 000 is the total amount recom- forests and forest products mended for the park during the $400,000 for the control of the coming fiscal year. Last year gipsy moth; $250,000 for white the recommendation was for $41,- pine blister rust control; $261, 470. The I sum of $3,000 is re- 156 for Dutch elm disease work; commended for services in investi- $32,939 for European corn borer; as gating titles and preparing ab- $632,560 for the Bureau of fish- stracts in relation to lands donat eries for the propogation of food ed to the park. fishes and operation of fish hat Other recommendations of in- cheries. March 1925. Samuel A My dear Dr. Eliot:- Thanks for your very kind letter.I greatly fear, however, that your are 90 generously inclined that you overestimate. I am delighted at the prospect of seeing you on the fift- eenth of this month, and wish very much that you night t be able to run out to Haverford where we could talk Mount Des- ert here at my home. The bibliography is now occupying my attention, though I haven't had much time lately to put upon it,having been ab- sorbed in writing a paper for Sprague's Journal, entitled: Mount Degert:From Champlain to Bernard. It is rank propa- ganda, stressing the historical significance of the names of some of our mountains -Champlain, Saint Sauveur, Mansell, Acadia, Cadillac, and Bernard. I truet that it will result * in silencing the Green-Dog-Robinson bunch who do not hesi- tate to say that they see no rhyme or reason in the "new names. By the way, before I forget. In Street, p. 19, is the state- ment, in reference to Champlain - that he "was all his life a staunch Roman Catholic. = I find that this is questionable. Recent investigators seem to conclude, since no baptismal rec ord of the gentleman has ever beer. fund that he was not a Catholic by birth There ia Win O. Sawtelle Heylon copy New York, March 14, 1935. My dear Mr. Secretary: When Acadia National Park was established, it consisted only of mountain tops bought earlier by interest- ed summer an winter residents of Mount Deser Island as a protection against exploitation for cheap amusement purposes and held in a corporation known as the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations until they were turned over to the Government. Thus the Park area at the outset was not accessible to any highway and was traversed only by foot trails. Believing hhat it should ultimately extend to the ocean on one side and to Frenchmans Bay on the other and that access to it would be desirable not only for pedestrians, but, in carefully chosen areas, for 1 overs of horses as well as automobilists, I began years ago buing lands on the Island, having in mind to make possible the rounding out of the Park boundaries and its extension and development as above outlined. Since that time I have built many miles of roads on the lands which I own and on the Park lands adjacent there- to, in the latter instance with proper Government approval and consent and without obligation to the Park. Other roads both for motors and horses have been approved by the Government and are only awaiting public or private funds for their construction. There are still others which I have had laid out but which have not yet been officially brought to the attention of the National Park Service or made a part of its park development program. All of these roads have been planned and the lands necessary therefor acquired, in cooperation with the National Park Service and with the general knowledge of the successive Secre- taries of the Interior. Many of them have been studied and passed upon by Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect. Now that all the lands necessary to make possible the above development program have been acquired I am making the following proposal: If after careful review and approval by your Department you should be disposed to include these road , which have been planned but not yet built, inthe official program for the development of Acadia National Park with the understanding that they would be built as opportunity offered and as funds, either public or private, could be makde available, I am prepared to deed to theGovernment for includion in Acadia National Park all of the remainin; lands which I have acquired for that purpose. 2 This would include (1) lands making possible the extension of the present Park Motor Road across the Eagle Lake Road, to the high bluffs overlooking Frenchmans Bay with a Bar Harbor Park entrance on Eden Street at the site formerly occupied by Mrs. Henderson's house, also a horse road enter ing at the same pla ce and connecting with the existing horse roads in that HERBERT L. SATTERLEE 1 BEEKMAN PLACE NEW YORK March 21, 1935 Honorable George B. Dorr Bar Harbor, Maine Dear Sieur des Monts: The other day our dear friend Florence Holt got back from Boston where she had been to see Mrs. Bessie Evans, and told me that you were not in Boston, so I take it for granted that you must be in Bar Harbor. I feel sure that if you had gone down to Washington and passed through New York, you would have let us get a glimpse of you. I hope that you have had a healthy and happy Winter and that everything is going well with you. Let me particularly wish that the pains which bothered you last Summer have gone and you can now walk freely and get about as you used to do. We have not heard a word about the progress of the road under the Bee-Hive. There was a lot of blasting going on in there during September and I suppose that it will be completed and opened this Sum- mer, as well as the road around Otter Cliffs. Thus, the "March of Civi lization" brings the horseless carriage and the tourists nearer to the secluded haunts of the Satterlees! If these things bother us, we will get used to them, because, in our feelings, we are still young yet and consequently adaptable. The thing that concerned us a good deal when we were at Great Head last Autumn was the work that was going on in the huge gravel pit across the road from our place. I hope that you are going to leave a good belt of trees along the old Ocean Drive so as to make a screen against the "abomination of desolation" that is taking place a few hundred feet back from the road. I should think that you would make an opening from the new road into that pit so that if trucks went in one way, they could go out the other. Anyhow, please keep a lot of those beautiful old spruces along the roadside. We can give you, from our nursery, a number of well-grown Scotch Pines to fill up the chinks and hide the gravel pit. Please remember that if there are any little white spruces on the land that you are going to strip in order to take out gravel, we would like to move them over to Great Head to fill up gaps along the front line behind the beach. "The Public" has a way, when it wants to build a bon-fire, (if there are no Cops around) of cutting down little white burches near the beach, and there ought to be, more-or less, some automatic device of filling the bare spots. If you could tell us for our own information which month next Summer is going to have most of the blasting and noise of steam shovel: Honorable George B. Dorr -2- March 21, 1935 it would help us to make our plans as to the weeks during which we would keep the flag up on the topmast of the old schooner TAY, at the Sand Beach. I was sorry to learn during the Winter that Albert Lynam Death albert 434/35 of had passed away and do not know where you can get anyone to take his place, in connection with the work of titles to parcels of land that go into the Hancock County Trustee or Acadia National Park. With kindest regards and best wishes from both of us, I re- main, Faithfully yours, Page of DDA 1 9/18/35 2682 C O P Y April 18, 1935 Rev. Samuel A. Eliot 25 Reservoir St. Cambridge, Mass. Dear Sir: Today I am forwarding to you my report on the activities of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. I trust that in a measure, at least, it will meet requirements. An endeavor has been made to achieve a reasonable degree of accuracy. This has necessitated a considerable amount of checking, re-checking, tracing boundaries, maps and other data. It has been time consuming, hence the tardiness of the report. However, I have thoroughly en- joyed the project. The list of donors is disappointing and inade- - quate. Many of the transfers of land, if not a majority of them, were mode through parties not the real purchasers and donors, or by one person representing several. The result is that the registry of deeds has little to reveal on this important phase of the matter. The records of the secretary are concise and matter of fact and add but lit- tle. Some of the deeds do recite that the land was a gift, often a memorial. Mr. Dorr intends towrite up the GED human side of many of the transactions and the really illuminating side of the history must await until he is able to find leisure enough to devote to it. Rev. Samuel A. Eliot - 2 - There is involved the question as to which is the first piece of land given to the Reservations. The deed to the Homans lot which included the Bowl is dated May 6, 1908. The deed to the Champlain Monument lot was dated May 14, 1908 and recorded on June fifth of the same year. The deed to the Homans lot was not recorded until August 17, 1908. Both gifts were instrumental in starting the ball and the moot question need not be settled. On August 20, 1929 the Trustees voted toauthor- ize the transfer of, "All lands now standing in the name of the Reservations except a strip of land one hundred and fifty feet bordering the various lakes and their tributaries furnishing water to the various t owns, except also a lot containing approximately five acres on Barr Hill and a lot where the Champlain Monument is on the Cooksey Drive, be transferred to t he United States to form a part of Acadia National Park, at such time as the said United States may accept the same, and that the President or the First Vice- President be and is authorized and instructed to make and execute good and sufficient deeds to transfer said land to the United States of America without money consideration and only in consideration of any express or implied agree- ment assuring the best and fullest use of t he land in public interest as may seem to said officers executing said conveyances satisfactory and in harmony with the Corporation's public service aims." Rev. Samuel A. Eliot - 3 - On June 22, 1931 it was voted to convey the 150 foot strip above mentioned and reserved f rom the operation of the prior vote, subject to the interests of the various water companies, to the United States. All conveyances prior to August 28, 1930 were ratified by vote of the Corporation on that date. At present all lands which formerly belonged to the Reservations east of Somes Sound, with the exception of the Barr Hill lot and the Champlain Monument site, have been C conveyed to t he United States. On the western side of the Sound there remain several S izeable tracts as yet not conveyed to the Federal Government. Authority has been given the officers of the Corporation so to do when it shall become expedient. Mr. George L. Stebbins has shown a willingness to C ooperate and will doubtless be able to add to the list of donors as soon as he returns to Seal Harbor where his files on these matters are kept. I shall deem it a privilege if I can be of further assistance. With kindest personal regards, [G.B.Dorr? WYRACTL NEW ROCHELLE. May 7, 1935. Confidential My dear Mr. Dorr: In accordance with your request, I am sending you herewith to note and return to me certain papers which I am sure will give you the present status of matters in which you are intensely interested. Please note Mr. J. D. R. Jr. 's letter to the Secretary in which he offers all of his land holdings except the lands about his Seal Harbor estate. The letter was worked out with me and the maps that went with it were carefully checked by Mr. R. and me together. The lands tendered to the Secretary included everything except tracts adjoining his estate. Even the lands to the north down to Eden Street, the Henderson home site, etc. are included. The Secretary has answered this letter and has accepted the proposal, but I do not have a copy of this letter. Now look at Demaray's letter to me about the details of the program which is to be carried out con- tingent on allotment of funds from the new Works Relief Fund and the regular Park Service road program. Note the item for museum wing. I think it would be best for you to return these papers to me very soon and with them your comments in memorandum form. Mr. J. D. R. Jr. will be back here this month and will want to confer with me again. In regard to location of roads and policy regarding horse roads these matters are in the hands of the National Park Service. There is no string on the proposal by Mr. R. except that the motor roads shall be placed on he N.P.S. highway program. This has been done by the Secretary's answer. I am serry that we are not going to be in Maine again this summer. However, I have undertaken to speak at Boston on July 16th, and I may be able to run up and see you the week-end preceding that speech. Keep in touch with me, and take the best of care of yourself. All the family join in warmest regards and all good wishes. Faithfully yours, Mr. George B. Dorr, Bar Harbor, Maine. P.S. Your sub-marginal land project is most interesting. Heartiest congratulations on working this out. HMA HERBERT L. SATTERLEE 1 BEEKMAN PLACE thereal NEW YORK May 9, 1935 Honorable George B. Dorr Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine Dear "Sieur des Monts: I thank you for your good letter of March 25th. We are planning to try to spend at least a month at Great Head this Summer. I suppose as soon as the tourists season begins, the usual crowd will come down to the Sand Beach. I have never been able to finish the matter with Mr. Rockefeller about controlling the entrance to the Beach. My arrangement with him was (at least as I understood it) that when he had put the Ocean Drive up higher and back farther from the Beach and put in the Parking Space (as he did last Summer) he would sell to us that little irregular strip of land that he bought from Tobe Roberts that lies between the "old brush fence" (western boundary of the Great Head tract) and the easterly line of Occuse the old Ocean Drive prolonged past the new Parking Space and the new path out on to the point of rocks, so that we could protect it. Alber Lynam told me it was for this reason that that strip of land had never been conveyed to the Hancock County Trustees or the Park, but that he could do nothing about it until Mr. Rockefeller came up and looked at it with me. Perhaps, when Mr. Rockefeller returns from Europe and we are both up on Mount Desert Island, he will do this. That strip could never be of any use to anyone. It adds nothing to the Park and it logically ought to go with our tract. Furthermore, we can take care of it and own up to a definite, permanent line and not to the rapidly disappearing traces of an old rail fence. Apart from the foregoing considerations, I think we ought to have a Park Ranger on the Beach again this Summer from the time the season opens until it closes. I think last year you sent us a very good man and he was a Park employee and all we did was to give him a money present at the end of the season. Of course, we paid for the policeman who was on duty at night. I regard both of these men neces- sary to keep people from building fires in dangerous places and to keep tourists off those dangerous shelving rocks at the west end of the Beach, as well as from invading the privacy of the east end, which we reserve for ourselves. If you feel this way about it, will you let me know what can be done? I hope that you are in the best of health and that everything is going well with you. Louisa wants to join in affectionate messages to you. Faithfully yours, GARDENS NEW ROCHELLE. N. Y. May 12, 1935. My dear Mr. Dorr: Your letter of May 8th reached me a day or two ago. By tomorrow morning, at the latest, you will receive my letter to which is attached a number of papers which I hope will fully answer the questions that have arisen in your mind about roads, lands, etc. I will be glad to answer any other questions that arise. I think Mr. J.D.R.Jr. has pretty well given up the idea of any more horse roads, but he would like the National Park Service to so locate the motor roads that more horse roads can be built in the future if deemed advisable by the Service. In other words, he hopes that more horse roads will not be -recluded by deliberately building the motor roads in such a way as to destroy routes for horse roads or make their construc- tion cost prohibitive. I had a long talk with Mr. R. one day about horse and horse roads and trails, and we both came to the conclusion that at least for the present interest in riding and driving horses is at very low ebb, and we both thought that it might never again become important. Unfortunately, I must leave New York on the 15th for a trip of ten days or thereabouts into the south - Atlanta, Nashville, Louisville, etc. I will be in Washington one day. I do not know just when I will return. Mrs. Albright will be here and will send me any mail that looks as if it should have my attention while I am gone. Tell Miss Oakes I have also received her letter of the 8th. It was a very fine letter and I am glad she told me the little story. I'11 write her again when I get a little more time. I was delighted with her article about Oldfarm which she en- closed with her letter. Oldfarm has a big place in my heart. I wish I could visit it with you again this Spring. Miss Oakes reminds me that the rhodora will soon be blooming. Take the best of care of yourself. All members of my family send you our love and good wishes. Faithfully yours, Hon. George B. Dorr, Supt., Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. HERBERT L. SATTERLEE 1 BEEKMAN PLACE NEW YORK May 16, 1935 Honorable George B. Dorr Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine Dear "Sieur des Monts:" Thank you for your good letter of May 14th. We are keen to get up to Great Head and see all the nice things that have been accomplished. We are glad that Alfred Reed has been engaged again. I am going to send you a copy of my Annual Report as President of the Life Saving Benevolent Association, which contains men- tion of Reed's work in trying to rescue the girls that were swept off the rocks last Summer. I did not for a moment mean that I wanted you to suggest anything to Mr. Rockefeller. I hope that our visits to Mt. Desert this Summer will both be at the same time and then I can talk to him myself. I merely wanted you to know just what the situation was. With best wishes, As always, Faithfully yours, Hubuth Sathere it 6/7/1935 LEASES OLDFARM FOR w BA SEASON th d (Continued From Page One) be - EAR b The house has remarkable a guest book which shows the names of Oliver Wendell Holmes, the y great poet, of Julia Ward Howe, as Leases Oldfarm of Laura E. Richards, of James you t) For The Season G. Blaine, and of many who came th in the early days, while in more al recent years Governors, Army Clarence B. Mitchell Of Chi- and Navy officers, and men high et cago Will Occupy Beauti- in official life in Washington, in- T Bar ful Bar Harbor House cluding ex-Secretary Ray Lynam of Wilbur of the Department of the ha Interior, Secretary Harold L fi Oldfarm, one of the most beau Ickes, and many others, coming as th of the resurt as well most guests of Sept. Dorr. Director all as one of the olderl. built in the d has late Eighteen-seventies by the late tl Arno B. Cammerer of the Park A the Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hazen Derr to Service has been a guest at Old a idex of Buston, was leased Wednesday to farm, and before that the late us s of to Clarence B. Mitchell of Chicago H Hon. Stephen T. Mather, director we of the service until ill health th bles land Santa Barlara. California, a vom through the Fred c. Lynam Comp e which ended in his death several we ched any Mr. Mitchell will nevousy it u years ago, while two years ago of r of at once with his family, having S Director Horace M. Albright, now ing with bern in town this week looking P resigned, was there. to or-at varion places and being great S ding ly attracted by the house and la cn MAN SENIORS HEAR we the ground. with gardens tenni. S the rours and harbor. Mr. Mitchell P ried is a soll-in-law of Charles E. King who was a summer resident here E hich many year. agen Oldfarm is a find house which hax had unique his C huge tory and it. hospitality was known V sary through the year. with Mr. and M Mr. Durr E. heart. and since their - ning day. then w Supt. George B Dury of Aradha National Park ha P ma- the insure much of th an time. learing it at vari - time - in commer. vall. Continued or l'age Eight) If 6/23/96 ACADIA NATIONAL PARKHASBEENI ENLARGED New York Times 1857-Current file); Jun 23, 1935: ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg.XX6 ACADIA NATIONAL PARK HAS BEEN ENLARGED BOUT 820 acres of land have A been added to Acadia National Park, Maine, through an act of Congress recently approved by President Roosevelt. The territory- known as the Green Lake site-can be easily patrolled by Acadia's reg- ular rangers, and its transference from the Department of the In- terior to the Department of Com- merce thus involves no added ex- pense. Moose, bear and other wild life on the new land will receive the full protection given to Acadia's denizens. The tract was acquired as a fish culture station by the Federal Gov- ernment in 1890 along with another site at Craig's Brook. Now it is no longer needed as a hatchery, al- though Craig's Brook is still oper- ated by the Bureau of Fisheries. The land would have passed into private hands as an alternative to its inclusion in Acadia, the first Na- tional Park established east of the Mississippi. It is a unique preserve -2 precipitous island on the Atlan- tic Coast, combining the charm of mountain, forest and surf in close proximity. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Page I of 5 History of a Tract of Land When I laid out the Athletic Field as a gift to the Town and built Park Street through from Main Street to Ledgelawn Avenue, placing it to form a continuation west from Livingston Road, lots of varying depth were left upon its northern side. The corner lot, fronting upon Main Street, was reserved from the first for an office site in connection with the Public Reservations I was then already forming, with no thought of a Nation- al Park as yet in mind. The remainder of the land north of the new street I devoted, carrying out the thought that prompted the creation of the Athletic Field, to the establishment of three tennis courts, to be given, severally and jointly, to the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A. corporations of Bar Harbor, who gladly accepted them. Two of these lay lengthwise along Park Street, westward from the site reserved for the intended Public Reservations office, carrying my gift to School Street opposite the whole breadth of the Athletic Field; a third lot lay north of the westernmost of these, with entrance from School Street. This last I gave to the 2. Y.W.C.A.; the one below it to the Y.M.C.A., , and the third, continuing the last lot eastward along Park Road I arranged to be shared between the two organi- zations to make such common use of it as they could. These lots all were a hundred feet in length by fifty wide, and to save the Associations all expense in con- nection with the gift I built the courts myself and enclosed them with the necessary high wire nets. Turned over to the Organizations in free gift, they were warmly welcomed and much used during the next two or three years. Then, not being in close connection with their respective buildings on Mount Desert Street, with their showers and lockers, they came to be neglected and the prey of the small boys in the neighborhood who found in the fencing that kept them out a defiance they delighted in. This could not continue. I realized my mistake in thinking they would be used and cared for at a distance from their home buildings and sought some practical way out of the difficulty. 3. Our Public Reservations were now on their way to become a National Park, capable of absorbing not the corner upon Main Street only but the entire southward- facing frontage opposite the Athletic Field. But to this a difficulty now presented itself; the lands for the tennis courts had been legally deeded to their respective Associations, and I did not feel I could ask them to return them to me for other use without providing them with courts they could use, and would, in connection with their buildings. In the case of the Y.M.C.A., opportunity existed in land they owned behind their building; in that of the Y.W.C.A. no such opportunity existed. But back of its building and in direct continuation of its grounds there was a lot not built upon, just large enough for a court and the space about it which it needed. This land, acquired for investment, was held for sale by its owner, an old-time resident of the Town, whose stated price for it was $1200, but who, on my approach- ing him and telling him of the use I desired it for, offered to contribute $100 off the price, making the price to me $1100, the lot being one hundred by fifty feet in extent. Anxious alike for the future Park and 4. the V.W.C.A. in the good work for its members it was doing, I paid the owner's price and giving the land to the Y.W.C.A. got my land on Park Street back in full. Holding this land along with the rest until our Public Reservations had become a National Park and the Town had opened its roads to motor cars, I gave it to the Government for a much-needed garage and repair shop, with entrance upon School Street. The plan was good and the space abundant, as it seemed, for the Park's needs and I felt well satisfied when, the Government allott- ing funds for it, the building it provided for went up. So it continued for the next few years. Then, in 1935 1935, it became necessary for me to have an operation on my eyes for glaucoma, which, with the consultations involved, took me away to Boston during the spring and summer, and it was not till later, when I returned, that I discovered that our foreman-mechanic, an exceptionally competent and able man in his field, had, to meet the growing need, built on an addition to the Park garage, which, for want of other space, he built across the entrance onto School Street of the lot that I had given, 5. and extended yet further onto the land I had reserved next Park Street for what use I might need it for in the further development of the Park, thus shutting the Government out completely from entrance to its land from any public way except by courtesy, and it is by such courtesy only that it finds entrance now. [G.B.DORR] Page lof3 Copy Ice The Secretary of the Interior Washington. July 25, 1935. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Room 5600, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Rockefeller Center, New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Rockefeller: This letter is in further reply to your letter of March 14, which I acknowledged on March 25. Since that time, a complete review has been made of your generous proposal concerning the extension of Acadia Park territory and the future road program for that park, and If eel that now we can bring the proposition to a more definite conclusion. In your letter of March 14 you made the following statement: "Now that all the lands necessary to make possible the above development program have been acquired I am making the followin proposal. If after careful review and approval by your Department you should be disposed to include these roads, which have been planned but not yet built, in the official program for the development of Acadia National Park with the understanding that they would be built as opportunity offered and as funds, either public or private, could be made available, I am prepared to deed. to the Government for inclusion in Acadia National Park all of the remaining lands which I have acquired for that purpose. This would include (1) lands making possible the extension of the present Park Motor Road across the Eagle Lake Road, to the high bluffs overlooking French- mans Bay with a Bar Harbor Park entrance on Eden Street at the site formerly occupied by Mrs. Henderson's house, also a horse road entering at the same place and connecting with the existing horse roads in that area; (2) the right- of way of a motor road which I am now building and will complete, from the highway at Seal Harbor by the sea through the Stanley Brook valley and connecting with the present Park Motor JRoad rat'the Jordan Pond Road; (3) the Jordan Pond Gate Lodge, the existing Jordan Pond Tea House and the land surrounding them; (4) the Ea le Lake Tea House and Forse Center site at the north end of Eagle Lake. 2. "In brief, the lands which I am prepared to deed to the Government would make possible (1) A Park motor road from the sea on the south at Seal Harbor to Frenchmans Bay on the orth at Bar Harbor, connecting with the present Park Motor Road that goes to the top of Cadillac Mountain; also a connection with the Ocean Drive including an entrance by the sea at the Homans place then continuing around Otter Cliffs to the old Radio Station, across Otter Creek inlet, around the Black Woods and back to Jordan Pond. Of this connection, I have built the Ocean Drive and am now building the Otter Cliffs and Radio Station section, (2) a horse road Park entrance on Eden Street in Bar Harbor to connect with the existing horse road system in that area, (3) a horse road from Eagle Lake to the Siear de Monts Spring area and the high hill to the north, returning to Eagle Lake by a different route. I have had a map prepared which we believe makes a record of the lands proposed n the Park extension program, and shows the existing and proposed Acadia Park Road system. These maps have been carefully checked with the Master Plan of that park by the National Park Service. One copy of this approved map, which bears the signatures of the National Park Service. officials and my own, is enclosed. It is intended to represent a full acceptance and approval of your magnanimous proposal and with this letter will represent my final and formal approval in the mater, supplementing my letter of March 25, 1935, which favored the inclusion of the proposed roads. It is understood, of course, that the road program can be carried out only if and when the Congress makes appropriations available for such construction. It is also understood that you will be permitted to undertake such sections of the above road program as you may wish to build with your own construction organization, as you have done on so many sections of the road system already CO pleted. Furthermore, it is understood that the lands involved will be transferred to the Government at such time and under such conditions as may be agreed upon in accordance with your proposal not being contingent upon prior completion of the road program. 3. For your information, I have approved the construction, out of the Interior Department appropriation for the fiscal year of 1936 for the construction of roads and trails in all national parks, of the North End Mountain Road to Sieur de Monts Sprin;, grading and surfacing 3 1/3 miles. In the next road program it is planned to include $ $500,000.00 to build the road from Otter Cliff by way of the Black Woods to the Seal Harbor Road. If it should develop that allot- ments will be made from the current work relief program for the construction of roads in national parks this project could be included therein. May I suggest you check over the enclosed map with your maps and if you find it satisfactory and correct, and in accordance with our understanding, the filing of this man in your office, with a deuplicate in the records of the N ational Park Service, will constitute the completion of this t transaction. Sincerely yours, (Sgd) Harold L. Ickes Secretary of the Interior. Enc 626593. of pages Copy The Secretary of the Interior Washington. July 25, 1935. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Room 5600, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Rockefeller Center, New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Rockefeller: This letter is in further reply to your letter of March 14, which I acknowledged on March 25. Since that time, a complete review has been made of your generous proposal concerning the extension of Acadia Park territory and the future road program for that park, and If eel that now we can bring the proposition to a more definite conclusion. In your letter of March 14 you made the following statement: Now that all the lands necessary to make possible the above development program have been acquired I am making the followin proposal. If after careful review and approval by your Department you should be disposed to include these roads, which have been planned but not yet built, in the official program for the development of Acadia National Park with the understanding that they would be built as opportunity offered and as funds, either public or private, could be made available, I am prepared to deed to the Government for inclusion in Acadia National Park all of the remaining lands which I have acquired for that purpose. This would include (1) lands making possible the extension of the present Park Motor Road across the Eagle Lake Road, to the high bluffs overlooking French- mans Bay with a Bar Harbor Park entrance on Eden Street at the site formerly occupied by Mrs. Henderson's house, also a horse road entering at the same place and connecting with the existing horse roads in that area; (2) the right- of way of a motor road which I am now building and will complete, from the highway at Seal Harbor by the sea through the Stanley Brook valley and connecting with the present Park Motor Road at the Jordan Bond Road; (3) the Jordan Pond Gate Lodge, the existing Jordan Pond Tea House and the land surrounding them; (4) the Ea le Lake Tea House and Forse Center site at the north end of Eagle lake. 2. "In brief, the lands which I am prepared to deed to the Government would make possible (1) A Park motor road from the sea on the south at Seal Harbor to Frenchmans Bay or the orth at Bar Harbor, connecting with the present Paric Motor Road that goes to the top of Cadillac Mountain; also a connection with the Ocean Drive -- including an entrance by the sea at the Homans place -- then continuing around Otter Cliffs to the old Radio Station, across Obter Creek inlet, around the Black Woods and back to Jordan Pond. Of this connection, I have built the Ocean Drive and am now building the Otter Cliffs and Radio Station section, (2) a horse road Park entrance on Eden Street in Bar Harbor to connect with the existing horse road system in that area, (3) a horse road from Eagle Lake to the Sieur de Monts Spring area and the high hill to the north, returning to Eagle Lake by Ei different route. I have had a map prepared which we believe makes a record of the lands proposed in the Park extension program, and shows the existin and proposed Acadia Park Road system. These maps have been carefully checked with the Master Plan of that park by the National Park Service. One copy of this approved map, which bears the signatures of the National Park Service. officials and my own, is enclosed. It is intended to represent a full acceptance and approval of your magnanimous proposal and with this letter will represent my final and formal approval in the mater, supglementing my letter of March 25, 1935, which favored the inclusion of the proposed roads. It is understood, of course, that the road program can be carried out only if and when the Congress makes appropriations available for such construction. It is also understood that you will be permitted to undertake such sections of the above road program as you may wish to build with your own construction organization, as you have done on so many sections of the road system already CO pleted. Furthermore, it is understood that the lands involved will be transferred to the Government at such time and under such conditions as may be agreed upon in accordance with your proposal not being contingent upon prior completion of the road program. 3. For your information, I have approved the construction, out of the Interior Department appropriation for the fiscal year of 1936 for the construction of roads and trails in all national parks, of the North End Mountain Road to Sieur de Monts Sprin,, grading and surfacing 3 1/3 miles. In the next road program it is planned to include $500,000.00 to build the road from Otter Cliff by way of the Black Woods to the Seal Harbor Road. If it should develop that allot- ments will be made fro the current work relief program for the construction of roads in national parks this project could be included therein. May I su west you check over the enclosed map with your maps and if you find it satisfactory and correct, and in accordance with our understanding, the filing of this man in your office, with a deuplicate in the records of the N ational Park Service, will constitute the completion of this t transaction. Sincerely yours, (Sgd) Harold L. Ickes Secretary of the Interior. Enc 626593. SH - OFFICE OF natl Park low JOHN D. ROCHAFELLIA JM, August 2, 1933 Dear Mr. Dorrt I was glad to learn from Mr. Serenus Rodick yester- day that you were very much better. Dé take care of your- self and de not do any more imprudent things like sliding down Green Mountain on the snow drifts, as f saw you de some years ago. You are greatly needed in this world and particularly on this island. I would not know what to do without you here and you and I must both live at least to see the projected automobile read completed and then for a long time thereafter to plan other worthwhile develop- ments of the island. If there is anything Mrs. Rockefeller and title can do for your wellbeing or comfort, it will give us beth great pleasure to be given the opportunity. There are several things I have wanted to talk with you about, in fact I had planned to try to see you last week but other things prevented. When you are feeling up to it and a little fisit from me would be a diversion rather than a strain, I should be delighted to come and see you. In the meantime please know always of my very deep regard and warm affection for you, Very sincerely, 6 JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. Mr. George B. Dorr SEAL HARBOR, ME. Bar Harber Maine 8/21/1935 Historic Sites Act of 1935 P UBLIC-No. 292-74TH C ONGRESS] [s. 2073] AN ACT To provide for the preservation of historic American sites, buildings, ob jects, and antiquities of national significance and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it is hereby declared that it is a national policy to preserve for public use historic sites, buildings and objects of national significance for the inspiration and benefit of the people of the United States. SEC. 2. The Secretary or the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the Secretary), through the National Park Service, for the purposes of effectuating the policy expressed in section 1 hereo shall have the following powers and perform the following duties and functions: (a) Secure, collate, and preserve drawings, plans, photographs, and other data of historic and archaeolog ic sites, buildings, and objects. (b) Make a survey of historic and archaeologic sites, buildings, and objects for the purpose of determining which possess exceptional value as commemorating or illustrating the history of the United States. (c) Make necessary investigations and researches in the United States relating to particular sites, buildings, or objects to obtain true and accurate historical and archaeological facts and information concerning the same. (d) For the purpose of this Act, acquire in the name of the United States by gift, purchase, or otherwise any property, personal or real, or any interest or estate therein, title to any real property to be satisfactory to the Secretary: Provided, That no such property which is owned by any religious or educational institution, or which is owned or administered for the benefit of the public men be so acquired without the consent of the owner: Provided further, That no such property shall be acquired or contract or agreement for the acquisition thereof made which will obligate the general fund of the Treasury for the payment of such property, unless or until Congress has appropriated money which is available for that purpose. (e) Contract and make cooperative agreements with States, municipal subdivisions, corporations, associations, or individuals, with proper bond where deemed advisable, to protect, preserve, maintain, or operate any historic or archaeologic building, site, object, or property used in connection therewith for public use, regardless as to whether the title thereto is in the United States: Provided, That no contract or cooperative agreement shall be made or entered into which will obligate the general fund of the Treasury unless or until Congress has appropriated money for such purpose. (f) Restore, reconstruct, rehabilitate, preserve, and maintain historic or prehistoric sites, buildings, objects, and properties of national historical or archaeological significance and where deemed desirable establish and maintain museums in connection therewith. (g) Erect and maintain tablets to mark or commemorate historic or prehistoric places and events of national historical or archaeological significance. (h) Operate and manage historic and archaeologic sites, buildings, and properties acquired under the provisions of this Act together with lands and subordinate buildings for the benefit of the public, such authority to include the power to charge reasonable visitation fees and grant concessions, leases, or permits for the use of land, building space, roads, or trails when necessary or desirable either to accommodate the public or to facilitate administration: Provided, That such concessions, leases, or permits, shall be let at competitive bidding, to the person making the highest and best bid. (i) When the Secretary determines that it would be administratively burdensome to restore reconstruct, operate, or maintain any particular historic or archaeologic site, building, or property donated to the United States through the National Park Service, he may cause the same to be done by organizing a corporation for that purpose under the laws of the District of Columbia or any State. (j) develop an educational program and service for the purpose of making available to the public facts and information pertaining to American historic and archaeologic sites, buildings, and properties of national significance. Reasonable charges may be made for the dissemination of any such facts or information. (k) Perform any and all acts, and. make such rules and regulations not inconsistent with this Act as may be necessary and proper to carry out the provisions thereof. Any person violating any of the regulations authorized by this Act shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500 and be adjudged to pay all cost of the proceedings. SEC. 3. A general advisory board to be known as the "Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings, and Monuments is hereby established, to be composed of not to exceed eleven persons, citizens of the United States, to include representatives competent in the fields of history, archaeology, architecture, and human geography, who shall be appointed by the Secretary and serve at his pleasure. The members of such board shall receive no salary but may be paid expenses incidental to travel when en gaged in their duties as such members. It shall be the duty of such board to advise on any matters relating to national parks and to the administration of this Act submitted to it for consideration by the Secretary. It may also recommend policies to the Secretary from time to time pertaining to national parks and to the restoration, reconstruction. conservation, and general administration of historic and archaeo logic sites, buildings, and properties. SEC. 4. The Secretary, in administering this Act, is authorized to cooperate with and may seek and accept the assistance of any Federal, State, or municipal department or agency, or any educational or scientific institution, or any patriotic association, or any individual. (b) When deemed necessary, technical advisory committees may be established to act in an advisory capacity in connection with the restoration or reconstruction of any historic or prehistoric building or structure. (c) Such professional and technical assistance may be employed without regard to the civil-service laws, and such service may be established as may be required to accomplish the purposes of this Act and for which money may be appropriated by Congress or made available by gifts for such purpose. SEC. 5. Nothing in this Act shall be held to deprive any State, or political subdivision thereof, of its civil and criminal jurisdiction in and over lands acquired by the United States under this Act. SEC. 6. There is authorized to be appropriated for carrying out the purposes of this Act such sums as the Congress may from time to time determine. SEC. 7. The provisions of this Act shall control if any of them are in conflict with any other Act or Acts relating to the same subject matter. Approved, August 21, 1935. Page 1-of 6 [Draft of Dorr letter, undated, to unnamed NPS official] When Director Cammerer's letter of July 22d, concerning the closing of one of the two C. C. C. camps in the Park, reached the office here, I was in a hospital in Boston recovering from an emergency operation and Assistant Superintendent Hadley, con- sulting me by telephone, answered it for me. Had I been in Bar Harbor at the time I would have gone into the matter more fully than he did in making reply. But I got the impression that the closing of the camp was part of a general movement of the Administration toward economy in the set-up of these camps throughout the country and that Acadia was not alone in the pro- posed reduction. The grounds stated for the elimmination of one camp in the absence of work ahead during the winter period I did not learn of until later or I would have made clear in replying what work there was for that period which was actually intended in my plans the camp should do. When Mr. Peterson came here in August I learned from him, who volunteered the information, that the closing of the camp was due not as I had supposed to any general move of the Administration toward economy, 2. but to the Landscape Division of the Park Service, because he, as its eastern head, felt that work had been done by that camp beyond what he had authorized, the closing proposed being, in fact, though he did not put it directly in such words, a punishment. The work of this camp has been, beyond others, valuable and constructive and has been universally so regarded in this region, as well as by the Governor and the Federal Administrator for Maine, who have aided it at different times from E. C. W. funds. The work of this camp has been aided also by Mr. Rockefeller in connection with one of its most important projects, the rendering accessible again to the public of his early gift to the Park, one of the greatest points of view upon the coast, Beech Cliff. And the camp has been aided also variously at times by the Town of Mt. Desert, which includes Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor and Somesville, and by the Town of Southwest Harbor, interested in the work that it was doing. 3. Mr. Peterson has proved exceedingly difficult to work with on camp projects, not only in regard to this camp but all, owing to his rare visits here and lack of any intimate understanding of our problems, and also because of the great delays almost invariably exper- ienced in obtaining his attention and receiving answers in regard to work proposed as well as to the fact that the general tendency of his mind is to answer, when he does reply, "Project not approved", without discussion of the reasons or suggesting other solution of the problem. That this is the fact is universally recog- nized and that this camp and its personnel should be penalized upon such ground arouses strong feeling, Acadia National Park apart, among the people of the region, who have communicated, of their own initiative, on the subject with the Governor and his Council and with the Maine delegation to Congress. When the subject of closing the camp was brought up in Mr. Cammerer's letter of July 22d I understood from the report of it made me in Boston that the proposed closing was for the actual winter period only, 4. which would have carried the work on until December, the months of October and November being two of our best working months in the whole year, and that it would be set up again the first of April. No instruction in the matter, since the inquiry contained in Director Cammerer's letter, has been received, but rumors only which have caused much anxiety to the personnel of the camp, both military and field. To throw these men out of employment at this season would work great hardship, and would be looked upon widely over the State as an act of in- justice, not in accordance with the President's broad-minded policy for the relief of unemployment. Closing of the camp would cause great inconvenience to the Park as well because the field personnel of the two camps has been used interchangeably, ren- dering each of indispensable assistance to the other. This is particularly true with regard to work in our motor repair shop, Mr. George Goodrich, our irreplaceably 5. efficient assistant motor mechanic there, being among the personnel of the Great Pond Camp, which contains alsomone of the best foremen we have, Mr. J. T. Atwood of Bucksport, a brother of Mrs. Maulding, Chief of the Division of Appointments in the Department of the Interior, who first brought him to my attention, telling me that while competent and willing he had been unable to obtain work for two years previous to the setting up of the camps. And the only foreman also in either camp who has had training and experience in planting, indispensable to us in preparing the ground this fall for planting in the early spring ,is a member of the Great Pond Camp. Work for the Great Pond Camp on projects essential to Acadia National Park's development and on which in part it is now already actively engaged will supply its members with all they can do throughout both the fall and winter and will prepare the way for the always crowded period of spring. 6. These projects I have listed with much care and study. The future development of the Park requires that they all be carried out, now or later, while the work next spring would be greatly delayed and handi- capped if the doing of what can now be done to the best advantage should be blocked by the closing of the camp during this next working period, while part of the work intended to be done during this period is such as cannot be done next spring or summer, involving as it does the burning of brush which c an only be safely done at this time. [GB.DORR] INDEX Page Brief History of Camp NP-I 1 Resume of Fifth Enrollment Period 3 Comments on Inspections 5 Aunt Betty's Pond Area 6 Included Young's Mountain Clean-up 6 Gorham Mountain 7 Moving and Planting Trees and Shrubs 7 Transplant Beds 9 Great Meadow "ature Trail 9 Ladder Trail 10 Ocean Drive 10 Cadillac Summit 11 Gypsy Moth Control 11 Homan Place 11 Blister Rust Control 12 Blister Rust Pruning 12 Landscaping Undifferentiated 13 Forest Fires 13 Park Office Lot Landscaping 14 Duck Brook Fishway 15 Type Maps 15 Transit Crew 15A Educational (Guides) 16 Maintenance Truck Trails 17 Minor Roads 18 Lak ewood Beach 18 Public Camp Ground 19 Camp Artist 19A Personnel- Work Charts 20 April May June July August September Breakdown of Costs and Man-days 21 Supplemental Report 21A Pictorial Section R G 79/150/35/23/4 Box 17, Entry 42 Report Covey fifth Emallst Period april 1,1935 - Sept 30,1935 mc Fouland field Camp N.P.1 AND, for Haebor, ME W.C.Hill, Carp Sup. 154th Co. CCC 14 7935 C.C.C. NARRATIVE REPORT SERVICE of OCT 1935 FIFTH ENROLLMENT PERIOD McFarland Field Camp - NP-1 AND FILES (Brief history of Camp) The establishment of the 154th Co. C.C.C. at McFarland Field Camp was authorized early in May 1933. The first contingent, a construction company, arrived and made camp on the site of the present camp area, about May 20, 1933. This construction company was followed a few days later by the present work company, and the usual construction of sanitary devices, the erection of pyram- idal tents and general organization contingent to settlement and occupation, proceeded apace. In the meantime, the supervisory force had been assembled, trained, and instructed so that on May 29, 1933, when a part of the enrolled personnel was first available for work, the super- vision was prepared to assume its responsibilities, and work def- initely began on that date ( May 29, 1933 ). The construction company began work immediately on the 0- rection of permanent barracks, aided by a substantial quota of the work company, so that by Aug. 15th, the 154th Co. was complete- ly housed in permanent barracks. The entire first period was marked by numerous interruptions of the work program, as men were drawn from field work to hasten the unfinished construction of the camp. Grounds were graded, roads and paths were excavated, rock filled and surfaced, and the en- tire camp area received a thorough policing. In spite of these interruptions, the field work kept 2- breast of the development of the camp. Starting from scratch and without benefit of presedant, men were instructed and trained; administration discovered its best methods; forms were vamped and revamped to find the best means of preserving vital data that would surely be asked for, and the standards of field work were set up and instilled in the enrollees. As a result, at the close of the First Enrollment Period, while the amount of field work done would probably not balance favorably against costs, yet it was felt that good progress had been made, and the camp was a credit to the C.C.C. organization and to the thought that fostered it. The three periods that have elapsed between those first formative six months and this present period, have shown steady progress in methods and morale. The camp has gradually clothed itself with that air of permanency that belongs to an established institution. This, in contrast to the experimental, trial com- plexion of the First Period. -1- is This change is reflected in the morale of the men. The enrollee is no longer one of the many individuals upon whose conduct the camp depends for its success or failure. On the con- trary, he has become submerged in a company whose course is chart- ed and whose progress wil continue with or without him. And this attitude cultivates unity of purpose and camp spirit- the great- est single aid to success in field work and company discipline. The numerous work projects allotted to the enrollees in the company have offered such a variety of experience to them, that the samp feels able to cope with any problem in Park devel- opment likely to occur. -2- 3008d3 RESUME of FIFTH ENROLLMENT PERIOD The Fifth Period, extending, as it does, from April 1 to September 30, 1935, has seen the usual progression of spring, summer and fall projects. During April, a large part of the camp personnel was till employed on woods work, completing the winter project of "Fire Hazard Reduction" on Aunt Betty's Pond Area. This pro ject Tinally abandoned for the season on April 29th. The spring opened with favorable planting weather, and as fast as crows were released from woods work, they were assigned to the extensive planting program outlined for the camp. This planting pro ject, which will be described in detail in the work narrative that follows, occupied nearly the entire camp for part of April and all of May. June ushered in all of the minor maintenance and policing work that preceeds the tourist and camping season: the Public Camp Ground to be policed; certain trails to be repaired; beaches to be cleaned and all such work, in addition to a number of re- gular cons truction projects that had been waiting for weather sui- table for continuation. The annual program of eradication for White Pine Blister Rust was launched the first of June, to continue throughout the summer till Sept.1. This project claimed about 25% of the company work strength during its season. During July and August, the camp was more thoroughly set- tled upon its major summer projects. These were largely trail cons- truction and repair, such as the Ocean Drive Trail, Great Meadow Nature Trail, the Ladder Trail up the precipitous side of Dry Moun- tain, and the Tarn Trails. There were also projects of landscaping carried on coin- cidently with some of the trail construction and also as separate projects, such as "Homan Place Landscaping", and "Park Office Lot Landscaping". September brought the near conclusion of a number of the foregoing projects, and a slight reorganization of crews to start work on ceratin jobs to be done this fall. One of these isthe in- teresting work of opening a fishway the entire length of Duck Brook, ( the outlet from Eagle Lake D, but more of that fin the fol- lowing narratives. September- and the Fifth Period- drew to a close with the prospect of fulfilling our quota of work on the various projects and the new and heartening vista of definitely completing some of them. There is a request for the outstanding achievement of this Period. To ignore the very real achievements in the process of building men and to confine ourselves entirely to the work, the success in the conduct and results of our planting program seems -3- to stand out conspicuously. The problem was this: the lifting, transporting, some twenty miles, and replanting of approximately sixty-five hundred ( 6500 ) small trees and shrubs. While the weather as a whole was favorable, yet a great deal of the truck- ing of these trees took place on sunny, dry days when careless exposure of the root system would have seriously threatened their survival. These trees and shrubs went, fromthe soil of a nursery bed, to situations and soils of all kinds. The fact that out of all these plants, the mortality was definitely less than twenty percent, indicates a commendable intelligence, interest and devo- tion to duty on the part of the enrollees, and an outstanding 2- chievement by the camp. -4- LA COMMENTS on NEED AND TYPE OF INSPECTIONS NP-1 welcomes and appreciates the new policy of more fre- quent inspections by the Service. Occasional contacts with informed Service Inspectors are bound to result in a better understanding in the fisad of the de- sires and policies of the National Park Service. And again, a first hand knowledge of the problems of the field will prove of some value when establishing the regulations that control that field. Pursuant to the request contained in Supplement No. 277, we submit herewith observations and suggestions prompted by our re- peated contact with the weaknesses of our structure. We recognize the need of: 1. Periodic inspections by two inspectors. One to inspect the field work and ascertain if it conforms to the author- izations granted in approved work program. The other, to check cost accounting of projects, and general integrity of the reports. 2. The organization of each camp as & unit; a) with a voice as to the details of its own program, such as classification and estimates of materials, labor and costs. b) with complete supervision of how the project is accomp- lished. c) with control, through the proper channels, of its own expenditures, and d) an obligation to maintain a simplified controllable cost accounting system. This system would necessitate the establishment of a figure to represent the cost of one man-day enrollee, and one work hour on various pieces of machinery, such as gas shovels, trucks, tractors, compressers, etc.. This figure could be actual or arb- itrary. With camps established on that basis, they would be an 0- pen book to inspectors and would indicate to camp superintendents just what his progress was. -5- BRIEF DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPHS on WORK PROJECTS of FIFTH PERIOD ECW7-605 Fire Hazard Reduction. Project No. 2 Aunt Betty's The Aunt Betty's Pond Area, as previously Pond Area. described, is a gently sloping area of some six hundred acres extending from the McFarland Field Camp Area in a south and southwesterly direction to Aunt Betty's Pond. It is covered with a fine stand of mixed conifers and hard woods. It contains seve- ral trails and woods that are destined to play an important part in the eventual development of this section of Acadia Park. The work done in this section in the Fifth Period, is merely the conclusion of the winter woods work of the Fourth Period. The project Carried on throughout April, definitely terminating for the season on April 29th. Approximately fifty acres were added to the total of 119 for the Fourth Period, bringing the total area treated up to 169 acres. The usual treatment was given, that of removal of all dead, down or hopelessly suppressed trees, and the collection and disposal of hazardous slash and brush. Some 150 cords of wood were manufactured and stacked in the process. Finally, when the season became advanced and the press of necessary spring work became great, this project was brought to a close for the season. It is expected that it will again continue in the com- ing winter of the Sixth Period. The following data summarizes the area cover- ed and labor expended. SUMMARY; Area treated. 50 acres. Wood manufactured 150 cords. Trucking removal of wood ) 1800 Truck hrs. C.C.C. labor 1289 Man Days. Supervision 102 Man Days. Project No. 2a. Young's Mountain so called, is, in reality, Young's Mountain a long, hard wood ridge, the continuation of Cleanup. McFarland Hill to the north. It is situated directly across the highway from this camp, and so is in the near vicinity of the Aunt Betty's Pond Area. For this reason, this project, a minor one, was conducted coincidently with the work in Aunt Betty's Pond Area. A ranger cabin had been built on this mountain and this pro ject was instituted -6- LA 030000003 to clean up the area surrounding said cabin. Much the same treatment as held in the Aunt Betty's Pond Area was accorded this little block, the dead and down trees, slash piles and all such potential fire menaces, being removed. The wood mandfactured on this project was cut to stove length and stored in the cabin for later use. The attached summary will in- dicate the saze of the project and amount of labor expended. SUMMARY: Area treated 5 acres. Wood manufactured 2 cords. C.C.C. labor 38 Man Days. Supervision 4 Man Days. Project No. 4 Gorham Mountain is a heavily wooded ridge Gorham Mountain. rising gradually from the coast in the area which contains the Ocean Drive. Several trails en- tering from different points on the Ocean Drive, cross this mountain and open this area for climbers. It is a popular section of the Park and justifies all the work expended on it. This project was originally launched to continue and complete woods work done in this area by other agencies. That phase of the pro ject having been completed, woods cleaning operations have been continued intermittently to further protect and improve the area and to utilize crews working in this locality when weather conditions have pre- cluded their working on the Ocean Drive Trails. In continuance of this policy, some ten acres were cleaned during April of this period by several crews that habitually worked on the Ocean Drive Trail. The same treatment was accorded this area as was given other woods work, the wood derived from the work being sent to camp. The attached summary will indicate comprehensively the extent of the project and the work done. SUMMARY: Area treated 10 acres. Wood manufactured 15 cords. Trucking & transportation 50 truck hours. C.C.C. labor 58 Man Days. Supervision 8 Man Days. ECW7-706 Moving and Planting Trees and Shrubs. As has been previously stated, April and May of this year favored us with unusually good planting weather. An extensive program had been vamped out and as a result, practically all of the work strength of the camp was assigned to this pro ject from as early as they were available in Rockefeller April till the last of May. As the result of a Nursery. decision to thin out their nursery beds, the Rockefeller estate informed the Park that there were some 5000 trees available for the lifting. -7- C LC.C.C. 0 PY John J. Brien 434 Grosse Pointe Boulevard Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan 2 "Sea Bench" Struke. Seal Harbor, Maine August 8th, 1935 Dear Mr. Early: You will recall me as of Grosse Pointe, Michigan. I have just accepted Lynn Pierson's invitation to act as local head of the Detroit Works Progress Administra- tion and will soon be on the job with him. In the mean- time, I have something to offer you which might be presented to the President. We had the (names of guests deleted) and some local celebrities for dinner several nights ago. The local lights were bitter opponents of the President. Among many things they criticised -- the chief emphasis was placed on the Civilian Conservation Coprs which have two or three camps in the Acadia National Park which is Mt. Desert Island on which are Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast Harbor and Southwest Harbor. All these places are noted social summer resorts and they are all only a endence? few miles apart. I must confess that poor judgment has been used in putting these boys to work immediately on paths and trails which place them in full sight of these summer residents daily as they go to and fro from these Town? towns. It does appear as though they were piddling their time away and accomplishing very little. But even that would be all right if other things were also right. A C. Little widely known educator who was at the table stated positive- ly that since these camps came to the island, illegitimate children have increased in numbers greatly, that drunken- ness has also increased and that the Bar Harbor police have had a lot of trouble with the members of the camps. He who? deplored the bringing to these camps of city boys who taught the country boys a lot of evil tricks they never knew. (He made many more charges -- none of which I could answer. I have believed in the camps because of seeing them in the western mountains where the boys were too far away from centers to get into trouble. I have felt a bit uneasy about them on this island. I have seen them for two summers as I drove between here and Bar Harbor and it is evident that a few men could have accomplished as much in a few weeks as whole truck loads of these boys have done in two summers.) Source Lonald Leacher 1/12/09 Mr. Early. Page 2. I was impelled to try and meet the commanding offi- cers of the local camps and go into these charges with them but felt that such officiousness might lead me into trouble. I cannot involve my dinner guests. I must say that (name deleted) did not join in the acclaim against the Administration nor the camps nor did the (name deleted). I feel that the leaders of the C.C.C. should do their process goods utmost to put in such prominent camps as these only the best behaved men and the best workers. It is exactly like a stage here and the setting and actors should be of the finest. We have leading citizens of many, many states here and they go away with a frightful impression of the camp movement. If it is possible to do so, I would like falley to see some effort made to check on the wild statements that illegitimacy has increased and that drunkenness and disorder has also increased in the town of Bar Harbor. Of course it is a Republican town and possibly the Chief of Police is glad to take a rap at the C.C.C. Give me your re-action to this letter and let me know if there is any way to make show camps of these. Sincerely yours, (Sgd) JOHN J. O'BRIEN. dow back BHT rook ck's lof2 par narbor From the Air (Sportsman Photo) raff dge, use, the also Superintendent George B. Dorr Tells 2) C.3 Of with par- :ing "The Discovery Of-Mt. Desert Island And TH T The Development of Acadia National Park the as Car Coa ose an Acadia National Park, placed calls the Norumbegue, Champlain feudal fief, by the Government to the grand-daughter of Cadillac fou bl- in old Acadian territory on the reached an Indian village at the of Quebec and Louis XIV to An- and her husband, M. and Mme. de C:a ent coast of Maine, has been for head of tidal water near the toine de la Mothe Cadillac, a sol- Gregoire, the eastern half, where- Har and several years the only National present city of Bangor, comment- dier of Acadia, who became its on the highest mounains are, and resi res, Park in the United States east of ing in his journal on the open, Seigneur. Later, joining Fron- the park headquarters at Bar une ur- Mississippi. It sprung from park-like beauty of its eastern tenac on the St. Lawrence, he Harbor; and the western half be. trip and state-incorporated public reserva- shore, the dark forest on its founded Detroit, the 'City on the yond Somes Sound to Bernard's jou ind tions, extending over the moun- western. Strait, but for a time he lived son. 7 or tain heights and wooded valleys Upon that trip he also named apparently upon the Island, on From these two grants the one bor im- of Mount Desert Island, which the Isle au Haut, outermost head- the shore of Frenchmans Bay recalling French Acadia and the who vey had been formed by President land of the submerged coast until in the warring of the period ancient grant to Cadillac, the hon the Charles W. Eliot of Harvard, by whose heights now form the his home was wrecked. other the passing of Acadia to in and the present superintendent of the islands and whose valleys are the The next act in the drama was England and the grant to Massa- bor tes, Park, and a few other early sum- thoroughfares and channels of carried out upon the battlefields chusetts, come, apart from a few J ept mer residents. By the commence- that uniquely picturesque sea- of Europe and ended in the early settlers' granted claims, the few ment of the Wilson Administration penetrated shore. Peace of Utrecht in 1713, by titles of the United States to its these reservations had assumed ers, which all Acadia, save only Cape importance enough, in view of the A few years later Henry IV was park possessions on Mount Desert Des ter killed by a fanatic in the streets Breton with the strong fortress Island, as yet its only ones within ed in wonderful coastal scenery they command, to be offered to the of Paris, and de Monts, a Hugue- of Louisberg was ceded to En- the eastern states. th ned not, returned to France, where gland. But the cession was a ard national government. Franklin fiction only and warfare still Congress Considers the Park in K. Lane, Secretary of the In- by King Henry's ealier appoint- her went on until the capture of When Congress gave the Sieur ment he was Governor of Pons, de Monts National Monument its or- terior, welcomed the gift, which an ancient city in southwestern Louisberg in 1758, after a long first appropriation, the Appro- mar his three years later, with lands in- creased and deeds perfected, be- France established as a place of siege by land and sea, and the priations Committee coupled it well came by presidential proclama- refuge for Huguenots; and there fall of Quebec in 1759, which with the statement that the Tract alm and marked the final downfall of the tion the Sieur de Monts National he passes out of sight, an inter- was by nature a national Bark reso and French Dominion in America. Monument. esting and gallant figure which area and should be made a Her and appears and vanishes. Colonization From Massachusetts park. bill to make it so was on The territory was that of the ancient French province of Aca- The Settlement In 1613 Then only began colonization was introduced accordingly by Ste bor dia, of which the Sieur de Monts In 1613 a Jesuit mission to con- from Massachusetts, by the ef- Senator Hale of Maine which duly and long was founder. De Monts was vert the Indians, financed by forts of whose last English Gov- passed and was signed by Presi- ties lar- un- commissioned by Henry IV, Henry Mme. de Guercheville, a wealthy ernor, Sir Francis Bernard, that dent Wilson on his first return the portion of Acadia which is eastern from France, on February 26, for Pro- of Navarre, Huguenot protector and pious lady of the Court, he and great king, to take posses- dropped anchor, after a long and Maine, including Mount Desert 1919. other 1 of sion as viceroy of the land for dangerous voyage, in the harbor and the National Park and all the The period when the bill was the France under the name of l'Ac- coast between to the Penobscot at the entrance to Somes Sound, introduced, in the summer of D use e of cadia, a name, the commission a glacial fiord which divides in River was granted to that Prov- 1918, was one when all men's hou states, with which he had become ince. The rest, with its French it two the Island's mountain chain, thoughts were turned to France ents familiar through accounts brought and, welcomed by Indians estab- peasantry, whose fate in part is and the youth of America on its cam back by fishermen and traders re- lished on the opposite shore, com- told by Longfellow in Evangeline, way to battle there and the name wh: his d a turning from its shores. menced a settlement on a grassy became Nova Scotia and New of Lafayette suggested itself for of Brunswick. the new park possession that once do mer That was in December, 1603; in meadow sloping to the sea which the March 1604. de Monts set sail, still bears the name of Jesuit For his services in securing to had been a portion of old France tier Field. Then, one fair summer Massachusetts the western portion and that looked out upon the and bringing Champlain as aide; and B day, an English vessel from Vir of Acadia that Province gave to ocean which our men were trav- while he was founding his first Elio was Eliot colony on an island in the tidal ginia, captained by Sir Samuel Governor Bernard the Island of ersing. Har Argall, came sailing in and with- Mount Desert, ignoring Cadillac's Ten years later, when another estuary of. the St. Croix River, Hou got where ouf national boundary now out pause or warning opened fire early claim, and King George con- bill was introduced by the Hon. scen Kim- the mission, which firmed the grant. He sailed to John E. Nelson of Maine, Repre- hore runs, he sent Champlain in an upon it pose e to wrecked, carrying off as prisoners visit it in 1763, from Fort William sentative from its district, to give open sailboat with a dozen sailors She Th to explore the western coast. One two Jesuit fahers, whose full ac- in Boston harbor, bringing with powers to the Secretary of the In- sum count is published in the Jesuit him surveyors and a considerable erior for the Park's enlargement long day's sail with favoring wind not noice the to of Narratives. suite, and laid out for settlement beyond the limits of Mount Desert brought the head quie the town of Southwest Harbor Island. opening new future to and Frenchman's Bay as the Bas- That, Parkman says, was the the with in-lots and out-lots, and kept it, it seemed wise to take for of tonnais- people of Boston and first act of overt warfare in the ture a journal, still extant, telling of name telling in A single word of e of the New England coast-later long century and a half struggle cow the trip. the long history that lay behind is from called it, when he discovered between France and England for men The Revolution with which it was so closely bound, whe p of Mount Desert Island and named the possession of North America, Then came the Revolution. and call it Acadia National Park, same it from the bare rock peaks he a struggle which ended only on the with Governor Bernard took the Eng which was approved and done. Bos. saw against the western sky, heights of Abraham in the cap- beau lish side. His lands were confis- The Park looks out upon a sub- e of l'Isle de) Monts deserts. ture of Quebec. catedand Mount Desert Island merged coast, a sunken land, the n on Two days later, guided by In- During this struggle French- again became the property of worn remnants of whose ancient T the dians dwelling on its shore, at mans Bay played its part as a Massachusetts, not Province now heights are islands and headlands made three Hull's Cove apparently where rendezvous for French vessels in but Commonwealth. whose stream-eroded valleys form Clar ancy many Indian relics have been attacks on the New England coast, After the Revolution was over bays and estuaries. The whole the built found, Champlain sailed on or as shelter when attacked. petitions for a grant of the Island coast of Maine from Portland east later ball's around or through the archipel- Two generations after the were received by the General has this submerged character, giv- He one- ago of lesser islands lying between wrecking of this settlement Court of Massachusetts from the ing it its extraordinary length of til eping it and Penobscot Bay. Mount Desert Island and two grand-daughter of Cadillac and shoreline and recreational impor- hous his Ascending the long estuary of square leagues the opposite the son of Bernard; and the Court tance. his The the Penobscot River, which he mainland were granted, as divided it between them, giving (Continued on Page Six) takes the from Rob- was 1890 mont ecade house Mid other questwater possing Mount Decert Island is the east .ng on him Page Three) and then It hrmost and largest in this archi- being to be amusing There i. various ac belago. Its mountain range, the original concerning of the egotist in Mr. Emery titlets for the benefit of the which forms the dominant land- their After organiza: very careful well as the summer cape of the National Park fronts tion and the report of their var- others and deeply residents developed, the Sex the sea across it from east to lous committees and annual meets all constructive movements vest. fhgs Harbor Library, being built is thestrical world of (today The Department will hold its Miss 1900 on land donated by THE DEVELOPMENT OF annual ball at the Casino Thurs NORTHEAST HARBOR George B. Cooksey and Mrs ACADIA NAT'L PARK day evening, August 22nd The Charles H Clement, a summer first ball was held more than fifty (Continued from Page and a winter resident. In 1900 (Continued from Page Two) years ago and they have become regular fixture of the summer the hunureds of families the Harbor Cliffs Tennis Club was Deeply trenched by glacial cro- program at Bar Ha bor. The there, both permadent established on the high land east sion dividing it into separate peaks first balls were held at the Rodick mer resident. have this of the harbor and continued its its highest summit, Cadillac Moun- House. which the carly summer member gratefully the tain, rises as a solid block of gran- residents activities with tournaments every will undbubtedly re- of the summer colony. Th. in ite to a broad-topped elevation member. ing memorial of Blahrin es of summer until 1927 when it WAS Ifteen hundred and twenty-eight the Church of St. first to superceded by the new Harbot feet above the ocean level, and NOTED FLIERS Sea. Mr. Curti left and descends, surf-swept, beneath ants and bequeather New Haven, a Club. The Seal Harbor Neigh lit. To this summit, from which borhood Hall was built in 191 (Continued from Page One) his estate "for the quiet es Track first one looks out over a vast expanse Colonel Chamberlin i3 best of the prople of the sticator will principally for the benefit of the of ocean to a far horizon and up their summer visitors known for his trans atlantic flight resident who permanent residents of the place and down the coast for fifty miles, to Germany and since that time aracter of an and from subscriptions made very a road has been built which in has been closely connected with generally from both the perma- sheer beauty will have few equals several major airlines. sisting sing nent and summer residents. This in the world. The other peaks Miss Nichols i3 the holder of maxie/ and hall was burned to the ground in that form the range, separated the second transport license in at 3:00 and 1919 and replaced by the present by deep wooded valleys and lakes sued to a woman in the United tely one hour building from the proceeds of the of glacial origin, are reserved for States and also holds the first will consume insurance with additional sub walkers. airplane and engine mechanic' me. scriptions, and fills a very im From far to sea and east and license granted by the U. S. De list of enter portant part in the social life of vest along the coast, these bold partment of Commerce and the ial portion of the place, particularly during the rock-masses dominate the land- first International Hydro-aero d. Wynn, Bill winter months The Seal Harbor scape. Eastward the sun rises plane license ganted by the Fed Morgenthau, Yacht Club was organized in from the Bay of Fundy, the "Deep deration Internationale Aeronau Dorothy Rob. 1923. its first Commodore being Bay" named by the Portuguese, tique to a woman. She is the melejPosselle, Mr. Roscoe B. Jackson of Detroit, out by the French, Baie Francoise. only woman to have held three who served until his death in Westward, it sinks behind the dis- worlds records at the same time Witkersham, 1929 He was succeeded by Mr tant Camden Hills over the archi- Edsel B. Ford. and in the present pelago with its mingled lands and Enter Mr. John Emery in Owen Davis, year by Mr. Edward K. Dunham, waters. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Gracen George, Jr. The Club affords landing to The greatest recreational ter- One night last winter your re h Barrett, Wil- visiting yuchts and holds an an ritory in the country is the New porter attended a new Broadway others. nual Regatta each year in CO England coast, reaching to the St. Show. In it was a young actor n Child operation with the Northeast Croix River, where de Monts'sfirst who died, As the story ran, in the of informinent Harbor Club. settlement of Acadia was made, second act, and some way or om er much else seemed to die with riven parts in In 1925 Mr. Ed3el B. Ford from Long Island Sound in the SEE THE SEACOAS Centuries, who had been going to Seal vicinity of New York. In early him. The play was John VanDri Harbor for stays of longer or times its waters formed the high- ten's "Flowers of the Forever John DeWitt shorter duration for many years, and the young actor, Mr. John FROM & road connecting the colonies with bought 75 acres on Ox Hill at the (MrskPeltz is each other and with the outside Emery And lo! today your same east side of the harbor and the direction) and world. Now it has become a reporter was asked to "interview LINER'S DICK next year occupied his present y Alid AMary source of infinite refreshment to Mr. Emery who has recently residence. In that year also, Mr the great |city and industrial pop- reached Bar Harbor to begin daughter of Roscoe B. Jackson bought the ulations of the East. hearsals for Much Ado About CS YOU TRAVEL Philidielphia; Penrose property on the east side Nothing, that comedy of comedies of New York, The character of this coast and of the harbor just above the given us by Mr. Shake enry B. Baker Yacht Club and built the resi its extraordinary fitness to great which will be seen at the Casino NEW YORK h of (Philadel- recreational needs are due to dence which now stands there Theatre. Aug. 15th. 16th. 17th Horsey of glacial action, the ice sheet invas- In the year 1926 Mr. Rocke under the auspices of the Studi riska de Hedry, ion extending to New York Har- feller. Mr. Ford, the late Mr of Acting Id of Washing- bor and there ceasing; and to the Jackson and the late Dr. D Mr. Emery entered the rs. Anne Arch- Hunter McAlpin seeing the de deep embayments of a sunken where he had been told and Pamela chore. York, staying sirability of a swimming as well the reporter. and it was good To Casco Bay, beyond Portland, ndmother, Mrs. as a tennis club bought property see that death hadn't horne; James bordering on Bracy Cove and beaches predominate; from there prived the stage of him cast is a coast of rocks, culminat- built the present Harbor Club night, in the second act of son of Mrs. ing in boldness at Mount Desert with its Club House, swimming ers of the Forest. No and Mr. James But deep embayments, islanded pool and tennis courts, the old quite alive-tall, good Antonio Y. C. tennis club being given up in that and giving wonderful opportuni- very real. There is about elphia, son of ties for summer life upon the year. charming modesty perhaps The Jordan Pond House water, are characteristic of great tle surprising when one Siter, daughter sections of the coast throughout; An account of Seul Harbor his successes in the Thest of_Philade) and the most beautiful of these would hardly be complete with was courteously tolerant uncle, Llew- and most richly islanded is that of ou mention of two other items. usual boring, dull and Mrs. John First the Jordan Pond House the old Acadian region of the Na. always start an hiladelphia and tional Park which has played a large part in his answer to the first John and Ed- the life of the summer residents From the dawn of history the after those relative to birth, Gerard 2nd of and which has been conducted sea, on islanded and harbored riage and how be happened ephen Cook of since the year 1895 by Mr. Mc- coasts, has moulded human char on the stage,-save Mr. and Mrs. Intire who built it up from a vdry acter, arousing its energies, stimu- joy to the interviewer Miss Joy Ham- small beginning to its present at lating the imagination and awak then knew a delightful tractive condition. The other ening the sense of beauty sym ARES TO NEW barn, daughter is was in prospect. Villiam Pierson bolized by the Greeks of Homer's the network of woodland paths dith Clark of radiating from this spot for, as time in the birth of Aphrodite of Mrs. James from the sea-foam off the Isle of stated by Baedecker in his guide. granddaughter book of the United States, is Cyprus. That the National Park Fabbri; Adrian for its convenience as a center Service should take part in prc- A. F. ORR rk, son of Mr. for walkers that Seal Harbor serving to the people in free con- is Sepville Moore. tact this great influence and very favored." There trails, hid N. D. D. c. source of health is the purpose of rence of Provi- out and mapped mostly in the NATUROPATH Acadia National Park, Situated Rev. and Mrs. PHYSIOTHERAPIST years 1895 and 1896 by the late in a region where no public hold and Lawrence and Waldron Bates of Bar Harbor ings have existed since colonial CHIROPRACTOR Bishop William with assistance. from our side of days, it has been wholly formed athalle Munson the Island, are kept up by the Acute and Chronic Diseases hughter of Mr VIIIARC Improvement by gift; and TO 18 by further Respond to Modern Drugless The Eyrie Seal Harbor, Maine August 16, 1935 Dear Mr. Dorr: In the large gravel pit which you are excavating on the Derby property, at the northwest end of the pit trees are already cut within fifty or sixty feet of the line of the governmentally approved motor road which crosses the mountain near the Beehive and con- nects with the Ocean Drive. Gravel is at present being taken out in this northwest corner within per- haps one hundred feet of the proposed road line. I am venturing to raise the question as to whether this is wise or desirable. At our mutual convenience I shall be glad of the opportunity of exchanging views with you as to the use which is being made of this piece of the Derby property which I gave the Park. Mrs. Rockefeller and I went to Schoodic yesterday and drove all around the roads, finished and unfin- ished. We were thrilled with their beauty and the great possibilities which their completion will de- velop. My heartiest congratulations. Very sincerely, John's Mr. George B. Dorr Bar Harbor Maine The Eyrie Seal Harbor, Maine August 21, 1935 Dear Mr. Dorr: The other day Mrs. Rockefeller and I walked along the Ocean Drive paths from the north to the south, in- cluding the detours to the rocks. We were charmed with the system and both agreed that it is a very great addi- tion to the Ocean Drive development. The northern sec- tion is beautifully designed and constructed, the rocks along the path being placed in a way to make it seem as though they had always been there. The paths from the several parking places to the road are also admirable, well located and most tastefully constructed. The northern end of the path system seems not to have been completed. This is regrettable and I am won- dering why it is. Since the Ocean Drive frontage is one of the most popular points for tourists to visit, is there any other work more important to complete at an early date? I noticed that no drainage has been arranged in con- nection with the paths and that the water in various places has cut through them and washed down them. Ought there not to be drain pipes from the road under the paths wherever it is found that water naturally runs, so as to prevent the washing out of the paths and the attendant additional upkeep thus involved? My experience in road building has been that the greatest economy in maintenance is obtained by the greatest care and thoroughness in designing and constructing the drainage system. This I am sure you have also found to be true. Very sincerely, John Mr. George B. Dorr Bar Harbor Maine The Eyrie Seal Harbor, Maine August 24, 1935 Dear Mr. Dorr: Sometime next week, if convenient for you, I should be glad to come and see you for a few minutes about a matter which you and I have never discussed but about which you probably know as much or more than I do. I will telephone you early in the week to make an appointment. Very sincerely, Mr. George B. Dorr Bar Harbor Maine 897 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT August 24, 1935. Dear Mr. Rockefeller: It gives me great pleasure that you and Mrs. Rocke- feller found the work along the trails between the Ocean Drive and the shore so good, as far as done. An un- believable amount of labor and material has gone into it but it has been a delight to see it grow. I agree with you entirely in regard to the importance of that strip of shore, that it should be kept as natural, made as beautiful and as accessible as possible. The part that remains unfinished was held up for lack of loan, of which a great deal as well as of other material has been required, but a fresh supply has recently become available and I am now starting work again upon it. The Schoodic lands apart, this strip of shore is as yet the only contact the Park has in its eastern section with the sea, which will always be the most abiding source of pleasure to its visitors from near and far. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR. MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT Mr. Rockefeller. Page 2. At the present moment official visitors are here from Washington, but I look forward to our meeting soon as you suggest our doing in your recent letter. Yours sincerely, [G.B.DoRR] Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., The Eyrie, Seal Harbor, Maine. F 8 3 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT August 26, 1935 Dear Mr. Rockefeller, With regard to the gravel pit on the former Derby back-land: When the land was cleared two years ago last spring for the purpose of obtain- ing gravel the man in charge exceeded, by mistake, directions given and cut nearer the eastern line of your road survey than I intended. I was sorry when I found it out soon after but I saw it could be easily remedied by planting when the road was built and I have trees now growing that will quickly make a screen. But it seemed to me wiser, in view of the work to be done on your road there, not to do such planting until the road was built as I thought the cleared space would make a valuable burning ground for clearing on the road and tem- porary work entrance for trucks. I did not open the pit till I had assured myself from Mr. Ralston that there was no intention UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR. MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 2. on your part of using the material on your neighboring work, for which he said he had examined it and not found it suitable. Since my own gravel pits became exhausted the Park has had no gravel available east of Somes Sound and the supply from the Derby pit, coming when it did, has been most valuable. It has been used from Cadillae Mountain top and the McFarland Field Camp to the paths and grading on the ocean-front, Much was taken for covering, in accordance with the advice of Dr. Meinecke, sent from Washington, the feeding rootlets of the trees in the motor campground and at the Spring, trampled by visitors, and other for the fire-lanes by the brookside through the Gorge. Yours sincerely, [G.B.Dorr] GBD-0 The Eyrie Seal Harbor, Maine August 27, 1935 Dear Mr. Dorr: Thank you for your two letters in reply to mine of the 16th, 21st and 24th.I am delighted to know that you are able to resume work on the Ocean Drive walk and that it is in your mind to make this area between the Drive and the shore as beautiful, as natural and as accessible to the public as possible. who? If your official guests have departed by Thursday morning of this week, would it be convenient for me to come to see you for a few minutes around half past ten or eleven? I am going to New York this Friday night to be gone about two weeks. Very sincerely, John D. Mr. George B. Dorr Bar Harbor Maine note: Orpt. 2 week exchange of documents re UNITED STATES frequing t tont. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR. MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT August 28, 1935. [wed]] Dear Mr. Rockefeller, I shall be glad to see you at my house here on Thursday morning at half past ten or eleven, accord- ing to your suggestion. will you kindly let your secretary telephone which time would suit you best. Yours sincerely, [G. B.DORR] Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Seal Harbor, Maine. ( of 2 0 P Y Bar Harbor, Maine, August 29, 1935. Dear Mr. Dorr: with regard to the matters taken up in the letter of Mr. J. J. O'Brien: I have the following statement to make concerning the C. C. C. men of the 154th Camp on McFerland's Hill in the Town of Ber Harbor. Such complaints as were received by the Police Department with regard to the men in camp on McFarland's Ancidest Hill had reference to a construction force occupying the site, in addition to the 154th, which was made up of men from Messachusetts, who proved unruly. That WELS in June, 1933. At that time we had complaints and criticism from the summer residents and from the permanent residents of the town. Since then, with the cooperation of the Cremp Super- intendent end the several camp commanders that have been here, the morale of the boys, both in town and out, has improved to such an extent that during the past few months there has been no complaint to me or to the Board of Selectmen concerning activities of these boys. I also wish to state that the conduct of the boys of the 154th in and about our streets has been excellent. During the past several months this has been commented upon by several of our local business men. With regard to drunkenness of these boys on the street: Our court records go to show that for the num- ber of boys in this camp and the fact that changes are made in the personnel every six months, drunkenness is at e minimum. In the past year there has been very little drunkenness among the men at camp. I would like to call your attention to the fact that there have been several arrests made of members of the 2104th, which is at Ells- worth, and my opinion is that the general public, merely knowing that boys they see are C.C.C. men, often attri- bute their activities to the men of the Ber Harbor camp. of2 Mr. Dorr. Page 2. The men of the camp at Southwest Harbor, since its found- ing, have given the police very little trouble. I would sey, with regard to the situation generally that to the best of my knowledge and from my official cooperation with the Town Clerk, the Red Cross, and the Overseer of the Poor, also a welfare officer, who is in touch with all people, there have been only two cases of illegitimacy during the period of the camp's founding here and this is, considering the number of new men coming into town, a very smell percentage, And to this I would add that in neither of these cases is the man involved an enrollee. In each case the man was a member of the super- visory force. One of them has been discharged and the other case has not been settled. The men of this camp, as I see them, conduct them- selves as Maine boys from towns and cities of this State might be expected to do. In regard to the teaching of bad tricks or habits to the Bar Harbor resident boys by the men of the C.C.C. # My official records will go to prove that this is not so. The fullest cooperation has been given me in all matters pertaining to the C. C. C. boys and their activi- ties in the town when off duty by Supt. Conner and a good deal of the credit for the good behaviour of these boys is due in large measure to him. Yours sincerely, George C. Abbott, Chief of Police, Bar Harbor, Maine. Page lof 3 C O P UNITED STATES Y DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR. MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT September 23, 1935. Mr. A. E. Demaray, Assistant Director, National Park Service, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Demaray: I enclose copy of a letter referring to the matter brought up in your letter of August 24, concerning the C. C. C. camps on Mount Desert Island, their members and their work, which I can state without qualification to have been excellent, both in the spirit in which it has been done and in the accomplishment brought about. The copy sent me of the letter from Mr. O'Brien, a summer resident at Seal Harbor, seems to me to need a word of comment to you which you will please keep confidential. The letter takes me back to the days of 1924 and 1929 when Mr. Rockefeller's road programs were so bitterly attacked. When the copy of Mr. O'Brien's letter came, I could not for the moment place him; later I did. He is not one of our older summer residents. The "distinguished educator" whom he quotes in attack upon the camps is our old friend, Dr. Clarence C. Little. Mr. ''Brien turned up here, a new-comer, in the time of the Florida land boom, in which I was told he reaped large gain. He and his wife had been truck-farmers previously in that section, growing vegetables for the northern market, an experience of which I remember his telling me in 2013 Mr. Demaray. Page 2. much detail. A year or so later, the bottom dropped out of the boom, his house at Bar Harbor was sold and he returned to Florida, where his wife, I heard, died soon after. I lost sight of him after he left here, but heard lately of his having married, meet- ing her in Florida, the widow of Roscoe B. Jackson of Detroit, president of the Hudson-Essex Automobile Company, with a summer home at Seal Harbor. Shortly before Mr. Jackson died he had joined with Edsel Ford, a summer resident also at Seal Harbor, in pledging to Dr. Little funds for a cancer research laboratory, conditioned on his securing from me the further gift of a certain favorable tract of land on which, on my placing it at his disposal, he had previously conducted for the University of Maine, of which he was then president, a summer school of biology. I was in Washington at the time and he tele- graphed me there that he wanted to come on to see me. He came and told me of his having the con- ditional promise of funds for building, equipping, and operating for a term of years, a cancer research laboratory on the land previously used for the University of Maine summer school. After hearing his story I agreed to give the land and funds were provided and building began. This Laboratory has provided him since with an income and an occupation. Mr. Jackson died soon after and the Laboratory, not completed at the time, was named in his memory the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research, which tied his family up closely with it. The time for which funds for operating the Laboratory were pledged has since expired and while 3 of3 Mr. Demaray. Page 3. I know nothing of Dr. Little's affairs, I imagine that Edsel Ford, with only a chance interest in the undertaking, has probably dropped out and that the sole or chief contributors now keeping the Laboratory going are the former Mrs. Jackson and her family. This explains the tie between Dr. Little and Mr. O'Brien, who has returned, with his wife, the former Mrs. Jackson, to Mr. Jackson's Seal Harbor home. Dr. Little was one of the group whom I brought on in 1924 to Washington to defend Mr. Rockefeller's road construction before Secretary Work, when attack had been made on it by Senator Pepper, Harold Peabody and others. Six years later, in 1930, when Mr. Rockefeller had made his second offer, when I was again at Washington, I was given a copy of a letter, sent down from the Secretary's office to be filed, which Dr. Little had written Secretary Wilbur in attack upon Mr. Rockefeller's project. In this letter Dr. Little said that as he was under ohligation to me he would esteem it a favor if the Secretary would regard his letter as confidential and keep it private. Just what has actuated Dr. Little in his change of attitude toward Mr. Rockefeller's work and the Park in general, which, however, has not come out in the open here, I do not know; but from facts that have come to me, I do not think the underlying motives far to seek. I mention this only to give you the background of the attack, thinking it worth while that you should have it. Dr. Little and I remain on friendly terms, though we meet but rarely. No question of his changed attitude has ever been raised between us. Yours sincerely, GEORGE B. DORR. Page 3 of 6 Cc: Don Lenahan Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:41 AM Subject: Re: 1935 Letters Dear Don & Jack, Thanks for sending me the 1935 correspondence. I had apparently overlooked it at the park archives and would appreciate Don sending me the box and folder number at his convenience. I've attached some paragraphs from the Dorr biography that I wrote prior to "discovery" of the 1935 O'Brien-Dorr--Abbott correspondence.. I wonder if this contextual information alters your views? I've also got in hand a copy of the "Narrative report of the Fifth Enrollment Period, McFarland Field Camp-NP-1." This eight page report from The National Archives (which I can send either or you if you like) details the work done which in my judgment belies the claims of O'Brien. As I read his letter I kept making marginal notations to the effect" what is his evidence? What specific persons find the work of the CCC boys "in full sight of summer residents" to be offensive? In my judgment, the offensive behavior lies with the summer resident. What sort of person in their leisurely enjoyment of the Island finds the work of others to improve the landscape "offensive"? O"Brien's unattributed claims are all the more egregious since he tries to milk the "laziness" theme to such an extent. As a former ethics professor, I'm especially drawn to his morality theme, attributing to the CCC "boys" the fathering of several children while not providing evidence for the same--for example, testimony from one of the pregnant young women-- nor consideration that the illegitimate children may have been sired by residents--or as the police chief Abbott explains, by a member of the supervisory force. My overall impression is one of admiration--behavior both within and outside the CCC camps were of a higher order of discipline and self- discipline than one might expect, all things considered. As Jack so wisely points out, Dorr takes the high road but does offer me so new evidence of the fact that Dr. Little is still harboring negative views about both himself and Mr. Rockefeller Jr. I've gone through the JAX archives and cannot find any explanation for this disfavor shown toward Dorr, given all that Dorr did to bring the JAX into being. Were you aware that the Little and others had agreed to Dorr's suggestion that the laboratory be named the Charles Hazen Dorr Laboratory? That was until Jackson waved $$$ and Dorr tactfully withdrew his suggestion in the interest of what the lab might bring to the Island. https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/hwebmail/mail/message.php?index=173 7/10/2010 Page 4 of 6 Hope this helps clarify the significance that all of us should attach to O'Brien's letter. In my view, that on the basis of his incidental experience he should attack the CCC program, its energetic enroillees, and the administration of this national park is inexcusable. That others may have held similar views would not surprise me, but they fortunately never elevated the trashing of the CCC program to the extent that Demaray and his superiors became involved. A man of Dorr's stature, would have arranged for a lunch with the park superintendent to discuss these concerns. Enough about this! Best to both of you. Ron Ronald H. Epp , Ph.D. 47 Pond View Drive Merrimack, NH 03054 (603) 424-6149 eppster2@verizon.net On Sat, 1/10/09, Jack Russell wrote: From: Jack Russell Subject: 1935 Letters To: dplenah@roadrunner.com Cc: "eppster2" Date: Saturday, January 10, 2009, 10:40 PM Don, The letters you kindly sent arrived today and i have, indeed, enjoyed them. The man you are tracking, John O'Brien, may have a proud name but seems to have allowed his head to swell in his real-estate-driven rise from Florida truck-farmer to Seal Harborite -- albeit a shifty one able to woo the Jackson widow has his lunch hook back to society after the Florida land bust. But perhaps I do him injustice. As for Prexy's (C.C. Little's) change from seeming supporter to covert opponent of JDRII's roads, a disappointment, perhaps motivated, as Mr. Dorr suggests, but the difficulties of funding the Jackson Lab. https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/hwebmail/mail/message.php?index=173 7/10/2010 Southwest Harbor, Maine September 1935. Be It Voted That; The Town of Southwest Harbor in special meeting requests His Excellency the Governor of Maine, Hon. Louis J. Brann, and the delegation to Congress from the State, in so far as it lies within their province, to interest themselves in the continuing of the C. C. C. Camp at Great Pond, the 158th, which is a part of the Pr sident's E. C. W. program and which is under the direction of the National Park Service. Rumors have come that the c amp is to be discontinued for the now ensuing period at least. The citizens of the Town have taken great interest in the excellent work performed by this camp, work which they regard as of high permanent value to the recreational interests of the State and which they believe to be in full accordance with the intention of the President in the establishment of these camps. C 7 o TOWN OF BAR HARBOR P. Y Office of BOARD OF SELECTMEN Bar Harbor, Maine September 23, 1935. Superintendent George B. Dorr, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorr: We, the Selectmen of the Town of Bar Harbor, represent- ing the citizens thereof, respectfully request that you do everything in your power to retain for the Island the con- tinuation of the camp on McFarlands Field, NP-1, 154th C. C. C. and the Great Pond Camp, at Southwest Harbor, NP-2, the 158th C. C. C. The citizens of this Town have taken a great deal of interest and pride in both these camps and feel that it would be a calamity to interrupt their work, which has been done with efficiency, has made a distinct contribution to the public interest and has been, we feel, a benefit to the morale and physical condition of the boys performing it. Yours truly, (Signed) L. LEE ABBOTT D. W. MacLEOD L. SHERMAN CLEAVES ASA V. WASGATT Selectmen of Bar Harbor. So ANPA, B 32,F37. SELECTMEN, ASSESSORS AND OSCAR A. TOLMAN, Collector of Taxes OVERSEERS OF POOR: LEITA LOPAUS, Treasurer COLSON J. ROBBINS EUGENE M. STANLEY, Clerk C.M.RICH EDWIN INGALLS, Road Commiesioner MILTON POMROY OFFICE OF BOARD OF SELECTMEN TOWN OF TREMONT MAINE BERNARD, MAINE, Sept. 24, 1935 Mr. George B. Dorr Supt. of Acadia Nat'1 Park Bar Harbor, Maine Dear Sir: The Selectmen of the Town of Tremont representing the citizens of this torm, request you to assist in every way possible to secure the continuation of the CCC Camp at Great Pond, the 158th, which is a part of the President's E. C. W. program and which is under the direction of the National Park Service. Rumers have come that the camp is to be discontinued for the now ensuing period at least. The citizens of the Town have taken great interest in the excellent work performed by this camp, work which they regard as of high permanent value to the recreational interests of the State and which they believe to be in full accordance with the intention of the President in the establishment of these camps. Yours respectfully, c.g. Rabbins. chairman. GB Continuation of the Mountain-to-Cceanfront Road through Bear Brook Valley In the late summer of 1935 Mr. John D. Rockefeller, 1935 Jr. drove over from his home at Seal Harbor to talk with me concerning the continuation of the Park road then building over Great Pond Hill and round the Great Meadow, on its northern and eastern sides, for which an allotment of $350,000 had recently been made and for which surveys were in process. The matter he wished to discuss with me was that of taking the continuation of the road past the northern base of Champlain Mountain instead of through the Gorge as originally planned. I told him he might count upon my cooperation but I did not take up with him, nor he with me, the question of upon what terms or conditions the Government might acquire the necessary lands. Mr. Rockefeller then asked, referring to my state- ment that I would cooperate: Health "How about your executors?" Upon this I laughed and said: "You think it then so immediate?" He replied that he closed up his affairs every night; and I asked, humourously, whether he did not really think that once a week would do. 2. From speaking of my land he passed on, after looking around to make sure that no one was within hearing as we sat on my porch together in the late summer sunshine, to talk of the difficulties he was encountering in regard to the Livingston and Palmer lands beyond my Bear Brook quarry. I told him I Arthur thought he might get help on this from my neighbor, Mr. Arthur Train, who had lately spoken to me of the Train matter. Mr. Rockefeller had no knowledge, I found, of what I had already given; it was his road only that he was interested in. He did, however, bring up the question of whether I had not lost my control of the situation by permitting the Government to build across my land the present road connecting that which I had given the Government previously to give the public access to the Champlain Mountain trails, with the land which I had obtained for it from the Morrell estate, where it had built its campground. I told him the information given him in regard to this was wrong; that though left open to the public I had built the road at my own expense and, lest the question should at any time come up, had kept my cancelled checks in record. 3. Mr. Rockefeller left soon after, having an engage- ment to keep at home. I understood at the time that he would come over again to talk further on the matter, but he never did so, though coming more than once, I later learned from Mr. Train, to talk with him, on my suggestion, concerning the further continuation of the road through the Livingston and Potter Palmer properties. I made a study of the matter myself, however, as to how the necessary crossing -- at other than surface grade -- of the County highway through the Gorge might be made, without objection from the Town, and obtained its consent at its next annual meeting to make the crossing, it being the only way in which it could be done without injury to the highway. [GBDORR] loF 2 pages COPY October 1, 1935. The Eyrie Seal Harbor, Maine. My dear Mr. Secretary: (HL Dches) On July 25th, 1935, you wrote me supplementing your letter of March 25th, both being in reply to my letter to you of March 14th. Your letter was accompanied by a map, which you had caused to be prepared, showing generally the lands which I had ac- quired and had in mind to give the Government for the extension program of Acadia National Park also showing the existing and proposed Acadia National Park road system. In the last paragraph of your letter you said "May I suggest that you check over the enclosed map with your maps and if you find it satisfactory and correct and in accordance with our understanding, the filing of this map in your office, with a duplicate in the records of the National Park Service, will constitute the com- pletion of this transaction. In checking over this map I find that partly because of its scale and partly because the map which I sent you and from which your map was prepared was sug- gestive and illustrative of my general purpose rather than accurate in its details, there are certain changes which ought to be made. Some of these changes would include certain additional areas which I am prepared to give; some would exclude cer- tain small and unimportant areas, which, because their usefulness to the Park is questionable or because I have not reached a final conclusion as to their disposition, should be held in abeyance for future consideration; some would make more accurate the boundary lines given. I have been trying to make these corrections on pasters that could be incorporated on a copy of the original map without undertakin to completely re- draw it. 2. However, after discussin the matter first with Mr. Cammerer and recently with Messrs. Vint and Taylor, who have been here for several days, it has seemed more satisfactory to have a new map made which will be & S nearly accurate as possible in so far as its scale permits. This Mr. Vint has done here as best he could, with the cooperation of my representetives, On his return to Washington he will have his office make a better copy. If you find this new map satisfactory end correct and according to our understanding, as I do, perhaps you will sign it and have it substituted for the map you sent me. I am sending this letter to you through the Director of the National Park Service to whom Mr. Vint willhand the new map that it may be delivered to you with this letter. Very sincerely, (SGS) John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D.C. Pg.10f2 Rockefeller Center New York Room 5600 30 Rockefeller Plaza October 23, 1935 Dear Mr. Dorr: The use of the horse roads both in Acadia Park and on my own land by automobiles with work car signs, other than the automobiles of my superintendent, engineers and employees to whom I have issued work car signs, is increasing and is adding to the difficulty and cost of maintaining these roads as they should be maintained. Please have someone write me as to whom you or your subordinates have issued work car signs and the reasons for which each sign has been issued. If the roads thus used by motors authorized otherwise than by me were only Park roads or were kept up by the Park, the situation would be different and I would not feel free to make these specific inquiries or thus to volunteer my cooperation with you in devising a proper control and material reduction of such use. As you will recall, the terms upon which I have given these lands to the Govern- ment are the following: "The horse roads now in existence and any here- after constructed on the land herein conveyed will be open only for the use of horses, horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians and not for motor traffic. except for general road and roadside maintenance, repair and con- struction purposes, fire-fighting and in case of accident". I am sure you are pleased with the continuation of the Southwest Harbor c.c.c. Camp and am glad that was the outcome. John A Very sincerely, Mr. George B. Dorr, Superintendent Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine Rockefeller Center New York Room 5600 30 Rockefeller Plaza October 23, 1935 Dear Mr. Dorr: I am just deeding to the Government for addition to Acadia National Park the land which I own on Otter Cliffs and Otter Point and which is traversed by the motor road which I have been building there. When the motor road is open for use next summer as it will be, would it not be well to have the foot path along the Ocean Drive continued through this area at least to the Point? As you know, there is at present a foot path which starts where my new road begins, goes up over the cliffs and reaches the foot path which I have built below the road on the cliffs by some stone steps. But this path is only the old trail and should perhaps now be improved and possibly re- aligned. To the south, where the path which I have built com- manding the view on the cliffs ends, Mr. Olmsted has always expected and I have hoped that the Park would continue this path as a trail down toward the shore and along the edge of the sea to the Point. It occurs to me that now that you know of my gift of this land to the Park you may be able to arrange to have the Park landscape people who are working for you in Acadia Park develop with you such a path as I have outlined and possibly construct it this fall and in the early spring. I am making this suggestion for what it is worth and am sending a copy of this letter to Mr. Ralston that he may coop- erate with you in the matter by giving such information as he has in regard to the general line of the path which Mr. Olmsted has in mind. Very sincerely, John I Mr. George B. Dorr, Superintendent Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE October 26, 1935. Dear Mr. Rockefeller: The morning mail brought me your two letters, in a single enclosures The one regarding con- timation of the present path along the shore to Otter Cliffs and beyond, following the old trail's general line, with such improvements as may suggest themselves as the work goes on, the other regarding the use by motor cars or trucks of your horse-roads. The desirability of continuing as for as to the Cliffs the path, now completed, alongside the former Ocean Drive I have had in mind from the beginning and entered it this fall as a project for the McFarland Field Camp in laying out the work for the enrollment period entered on October first. It will take time to build, for there is no way beyond its entrance to reach it by truck. Where the path is planned to rise from the Cliffs up, construction of a different type will be required, and for it men will be needed with training and experience in rock work. But this is a matter not necessary to deal with at this time; with winter so near, it will be the beginning of another summer before, at best, the path to the Cliffs can be completed by the camp boys' work. With regard to the use of your horse-roads by car or truck, no permission for use of the roads at all has been issued from the Park Office this year [Note: Partial correspondence from park archives See Nov. 13, 1935 reply received from J.D.R.Jr.] Rockefeller Center New York Room 5600 30 Rockefeller Plaza November 13, 1935 Dear Mr. Dorr: Your letter of October 26th in answer to mine of the 23rd is received. I am glad to note that you have in mind the continuation of the Ocean Drive path along the shore and the cliffs adjacent to the prolongation of the Drive itself. As to the use of the horse roads by cars or trucks, you say no permission for their use has been issued from the Park office this year except during recent weeks to take the camp workers back and forth to Mitchell Hill where they have been working on the blister rust infection and for the occasional light truck use of them in the control of poaching. What I was anxious to know was the technique established in your office of issuing permits for any use of these roads. You yourself, of course, have a work car sign. Was this originally issued by Mr. Ralston and kept since then or have you put out new work car signs? How and to whom have work car signs been issued in connection with the blister rust work and the use of the roads in control of poaching? We have found it necessary to issue colored work car signs so that they can be changed every year and the old and dis- carded signs quickly recognized as no longer effective. We also keep a very strict record of each man to whom the sign is issued and for what purpose. Please have sent me this definite, specific information as to how and to whom and by whom your signs are issued. Very sincerely, John Cockyum Mr. George B. Dorr Bar Harbor Maine C Pg loF3 0 P Y UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE November 18, 1935. Dear Mr. Rodick: Allotment of funds has been made by the Federal Government for connecting the Park road on Cadillac Mountain with the entrance road to Sieur de Monts Spring, and studies by the Federal Bureau of Roads engineers are now in process for the alignment of the the road. is 2 The next step in the plan for a continuous Park why self info Rodick road connecting the mountain with the oceanfront and beyond will, according to present plans, be the cause- way across Otter Creek built along the line of the existing bar with a lock at its western end for tidal flow, and a road along the shore beyond, below what are known as the Black Woods, to connect with the County Road to Seal Harbor near the bridge over Hunter's Brook. For the construction of this section no funds have been as yet provided, but request for them has been made by the Department of the Interior. Studies for the connecting section between Sieur de Monts Spring and the oceanfront have been made, but nothing definite as to what is best or possible has been arrived at or can be at this time. Two routes for this are physically possible: The one, along the western side of the mountain and around its southern end to make at the Homans pasture on its eastern side a quick reversal of direction and proceed thence to connection, at its eastern end, with the re- constructed Ocean Drive. The other route, passing below the mountain's northern, wooded face and along its eastern side, would continue southward to the same point as the western route in the Homans pasture, and thence continuing on in direct course, and along the same route as the other after making its reversal, to the Ocean Drive. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE Mr. David O. Rodick. Page 2. This latter course would open up successively views of great interest and beauty; the course around the western side and southern end of the mountain dis- closes no feature of interest along its course, passing through woods continuously from the Tarn to the Homans pasture. To this route, when proposed five years ago, strong antagonism immediately developed, on account, especially, of its course closely paralleling the State highway past the Tarn and of its passage at the moun- tain's southern end through the Gorham-Beehive Pass, carrying one of the oldest footways on the Island connecting the early farming community at Schooner Head and back of the Sand Beach with the farming and fishing community at Otter Creek. The route below the mountain's northern face and along its eastern side would pass necessarily through private property -- my own land first, and that which I deeded years ago to the Wild Gardens of Acadia Corp- oration; next, the rocky, upper corner of the Livingston property; then, the Hare Forest mountain land, acquired from the Bowler Estate by Mr. Potter Palmer. Beyond this comes the tract acquired from the Bingham Heirs Estate by Mr. Rockefeller, who now offers it to the Government for the purpose of this road, beyond which the Government owns property, acquired long since through gifts of Dr. Brunnow and Mrs. William Bliss, extending to the meadow level and past the foot of the mountain's high eastern cliff, whence the way lies open ahead in direct course to the Homans pasture. An alternate route to this which has been proposed would, after leaving my land at Bear Brook Quarry, issue onto the Schooner Head Road and, skirting around Mrs. Livingston's land and Mr. Palmer's Hare Forest mountain tract, would ascend closely beyond the latter, where a favorable opportunity offers, to join the route above, surveyed for a continuous Park road. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR. MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT Mr. David O. Rodick. Page 3. To this latter course the Government ob jects on the ground that it would break the desired continuous progression of the road as a Park road, and I -- though no decision rests with me, but with the Government alone -- because of the break which an ascent at this point would make in the now continuous woodland cover of that steeply mounting hillside, visible from high points of view along the shore to the north and east and from the waters of the Bay. These all are to be looked on at this time as studies only which may aid discussion in the future. Believe me, Sincerely yours, GBD/S (Sgd) GEORGE B. DORR, Superintendent. Mr. David O. Rodick, Bar Harbor, Maine. UNITED STATES C DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR O NATIONAL PARK SERVICE P Y Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine. November 18, 1935. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. , 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, New York. Dear Mr. Rockefeller: I write in answer to your letter of the 13th in regard to permits for the use of the horse roads. It is more than a year, two years perhaps, since I have driven over any portion of these roads myself. I have asked Assistant Superintendent Hadley to make me a statement concerning the use of them by members of our Park office staff or others in the Park employ and I enclose a copy. Ranger Thompson, referred to in this statement, is the only permanent ranger concerned with wild life protec- tion in the eastern section of the Park, where he cooperates with the State Warden, Lyle T. Smith, who frequently accompanies him on his trips, the State never having ceded or been asked to cede to the Federal Govern- ment its criminal jurisdiction over the Park lands. Both Ranger Thompson and State Warden Smith are faithful and trustworthy, older men who attend strictly to their work; better could not be found. That the horse roads in the Park and those on your land connecting with them have been used by motorists during the past season I do not doubt; reports of it have come to me. But such use has been entirely unauthorized, and I frankly do not see how it can be controlled where gates leading onto public highways remain open even for a portion of the time unless by stationing at each entrance a guardian acting, like Clerk Maxwell's UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine. John D. Rockefeller, Jr , Page 2. hypothetical demon, admitting through his wicket certain atoms from an impinging stream and closing it to others. Thinking the matter over, it has occurred to me that gates might be set at the various horse road entrances from the highway that would not close them completely but let riders through, keys being given to the relatively few who drive, or the stablemen who let out teams for driving, on their assuming responsibility for the keys' safe-keeping and use only in right hands. None of the summer residents at Bar Harbor I am told keep stables now or horses and equipment for driv- ing and I doubt if there has been any driving over the horse roads lately from this section. The case, I imagine, may be different on your side, but all there who keep horses would be glad to cooperate unquestion- ably in guarding these roads from motors. Yours sincerely, Sgd: GEORGE B. DORR Superintendent. GBD-M Rockefeller Center copy from sunt Redect to New York My cause hor21 Room 5600 30 Rockefeller Plaza November 19, 1935 Dear Mr. Dorr: Your letter of November 13th is received. While it is, of course, proper that a copy of this map, which has become a matter of record between the Secretary of the Interior and myself, should be lodged with you as Superintendent of Acadia National Park, I agree with you that the interests of the Park will best be served by the map being regarded as a private document, as well as any correspondence which accompanies it, until some situation develops which makes it seem necessary and desirable to have it given even limited publicity. In lodging with Mr. Serenus Rodick all this material you have insured in the best possible way just the result that you and I are in agreement should be sought. Very sincerely, John a Rocking Mr. George B. Dorr, Superintendent Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine UNITED STATES C DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR O NATIONAL PARK SERVICE P Y Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine. November 18, 1935. Memorandum for Mr. Dorr: In accordance with your request I have made a care- ful check of the number of "WORK CAR" signs in possession of employees and officials of the Park. The signs are in the possession of the following: George B. Dorr, Park Superintendent 1 Orient Y. Thompson, Park Ranger, 1 Park Office 1 W. G. Hill, Supt. 154th C.C.C. 3 These si ns are used only when it is necessary for a Park official to use the carriage roads on legitimate business. Mr. Thompson enters the roads for purposes of game protection. The sign at the Park office is used only when the Director of the National Park Service, or other recognized official from Washington, is in the Park on an inspection trip. It has been used once the past season. Mr. Hill has used his three signs only during the recent blister rust pruning project in the Amphitheater, when three trucks were needed to transport the crews. There is no indiscriminate use made of these signs. B. L. Hadley, Assistant Superintendent. THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SOUTHWEST HARBOR MAINE Alton H. Trundy Abram W. Harris, Jr. C.W. Marion Secretary Treasurer President Vice-President December 5.1935 Ur. George 3. Dorr, Bar Earbor aine. My dear Mr. Dorr,- On Tuesday, December ten, the Southwest Marbor Chamber of Commerce will hold it's annual dinner and meeting in the cdd Tellow's building in Southwest Tarborgat six-thirty in the evening. The directors of the Chamber have asked me to extend to you a cardial invitation to be present, as our guest. If hossible, won't you advise us ac to whether or not you can give us the Pleasure of your company at the time mentioned? I trust T do not need to sar that your absence will be a distinct loss to us all. Cordially yours, Abram Harris Jr. fr. The Old Corner Book Store "The book center of New England since 1828" 50 Bromfield Street, Boston Important Branch Stores: Hotel Statler, Boston, and 1346 Beacon Street at Coolidge Corner, Brookline New England Books of 1935 TEACH December 16th,1935. Mr. George B. Dorr, National Park Service, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorr: Thank you for your order of December 14th. We are sending you to-day a copy of ENGLAND SPEAKS, and are ordering from the publishers and will send shortly a copy of MAZZINI by Barr and DESERTS ON THE MARCH, by Sears. We will try secure the information requested regarding THE FEDERALIST PARTY IN MASSACHUSETTS and advise you later. Very truly yours, wasilfent THE OLD CORNER BOOK STORE. WAG. BT RACHER C o P Y THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR Washington December 21, 1935. copy Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., , Rockefeller Center, New York City. Dear Mr. Rockefeller: In Secretary Ickes' absence, I have received your letter of December 5, referring to twenty- five deeds, executed by yourself, proposing to convey cer- tain lands to the United States as additions to Acadia National Park, and asking whether you should forward other deeds and abstracts to this Department before the title to these lands has been examined by the Solicitor and the deeds accepted. Your kind consideration of the over-burdened condition of this Department is appreciated. It is hoped that the examination of the remaining deeds and abstracts, which you have submitted, will soon be completed. It is suggested, therefore, that you submit your additional deeds and abstracts as soon as they are prepared because this will place them in line for examination by the Solicitor's office sooner than with-holding them until all of your other deeds are accepted. The Department is grateful for your generous cooperation. Sincerely yours, (signed) Charles West Acting Secretary of the Interior cc Supt. Acadia National Park Mr. Brooks Page I of3 C UNITED STATES O DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR P Y NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE December 30, 1935 [Radick] Dear Serenus, I have been interested from the beginning in Mr. Rockefeller's plan for the extension of his horse-road system into the Bar Harbor area, in- corporating into it my old Hemlock Road along the mountain foot with its primeval trees, unique upon the Island now except for the similar group at the northern foot of Newport Mountain where Bear Brook comes down, to a hitching ground at Sieur de Monts Spring, and thence to the summit of Great Meadow Hill, with its wide, sweeping views, to terminate. When the suggestion of taking it there was made five years ago, I showed Mr. Olmsted, skep- tical at first as to the possibility of reaching it with easy grade, how -- and how alone -- it could be done, starting from the wooded valley beyond the meadow to the north whose trees escaped the fire that, starting on the meadow, swept the whole ridge else back in the eighteen-eighties; and rising thence along a hunters' trail of early days with which I was familiar. With the Park road on the meadow level, the only way to reach this starting point and keep the horse-road system separate was by circling the long slope that bounds the meadow on the south, under- passing on it three successive motor roads two town roads and the intended Park road -- and ex- cavating valleys where none exist to obtain the necessary depth for underpassing; and then by cutting out a way along the rocky hillside to the east, above the town road, to the starting point -- a circuitous and costly route. Thinking over how the change of the Park road to the town road's higher level, the Town consenting, would affect this plan, there came into my mind a path UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE Page 2. I planned many years ago, and built in part, from north to south across the meadow's eastern edge leading toward the Gorge and Spring alongside a channel that I dug to take the water from the Tarn and keep it separate from the winding brook across the open meadow that takes the water from the Spring. This path, laid out with reference to the beauty of the view approaching from Bar Harbor, extends in direct course to where the hitching ground for horses is proposed among the old maple trees bor- dering the Spring area and reached from the Hemlock Road. Going north, in the reverse direction, the line of the intended path heads directly into the high earth bank along whose top, with a steep drop of twenty feet or more to the meadow level, the town road runs as it makes its turn toward the south, providing the best opportunity that could be asked for an underpass, leading straight to the starting point for the ascent to the hill. When the thought came to me, I took the Federal Bureau of Roads engineer, Mr. Grossman, out and showed him the opportunity as I saw it. He acclaimed it at once as a solution of the problem that would eliminate all difficulties the former route presented, halve the distance to be travelled from the Spring to the start- ing point for the ascent, and, built at little cost across the level margin of the meadow, would save, he thought at first conjecture, some seventy-five or eighty thousand dollars at a minimum over the route that would be necessary with the motor road built upon the meadow level with the town road above. Should the Town consent to turn over to the Park its Harden Farm road from the old Harden Farm entrance on, this opportunity will be provided, but before any suggestion gets abroad of Mr. Rockefeller's intention to continue with his plan if he does so intend -- for reaching the summit of Great Meadow Hill, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE Page 3. it would be wise that arrangement be made to acquire from Martin Roberts' heirs the tract they own upon the hill. The line between the property upon Great Meadow Hill which Mr. Rockefeller took over from me and this Roberts land lies directly along the course which any road to the summit must needs follow. Would it not be well to take the matter up with Mr. Rockefeller? Yours sincerely, (Sgd) GEORGE B. DORR. Mr. Serenus B. Rodick, Bar Harbor, Maine. 936 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE January 7, 1936. Dear Mr. Stupka: I write this line to thank you for your interesting gift of a paper cutter, composite of the regional hard woods, which came as a pleasant greeting of the Christmas season. I trust that all is going well with you in your new field of work and am Yours sincerely, GBD-0 Mr. Arthur Stupka, Park Naturalist, Great Smokies National Park, Gatlenburg, Tenn. INTRODUCTION This report begins where the 1933 Report left off, (September 11, 1933) and discusses a period of time extending over 15g months or to the aloso of December, 1934. Reference should be made to the 1932 and 1933 Ranger-lieturalist's Reports for detailed information of the earlier endeavors of the nature-guide service. luch credit for whatever success has been enjoyed goes to Mrs. Arthur Stupka for hor constant assistance with various phases of the work. Section VII serves to show, in brief, some of her accomplishmente. Credit is also due to Superintondont George B. Dorr through whose influence a room in the basement of the Jesup Menorial Library became the temporary museum and Park Naturalist's headquarters beginning November 24, 1935. To date this remaine the nature-guide headquarters. To is. Vernon lami goes considerable credit for the donation of many specimens of the local faune. To Dr. A. 8. Brower of the Maine Forest Service oredit is likewise due for cooperation and for the donation of several splendid insect exhibits. Dr. M. 4 Branin of John Carroll University, Cleveland, and Theodore Savioh, Chicago, served in the capacity of ranger-naturalist and temporary compground ranger, respectively, during the sumer season of 1934, and the high quality of service which they rendered deserves praise. engineer It may here be stated that Dr. Byanin became the first paid assistant which the Park Naturalist had. 130 served from July 1 to September 25, 1934. Although his status was that of temporary ranger, he in reality served in the capacity of ranger-naturalist. The rangeressuralist, Arthur Strupke, who started the nature guide work in June, 1932, and who was recalled. on May 1, 1933, became acting junior park naturalist in August, 1933. A Civil Service examination for the position was hold early in October, 1933, and on June 1, 1936, the acting park naturalist because junior park naturalist under Civil Service. This was the first junior park naturalist position created in a national park east of the Missiesippi River. A now Chevrolet two-door sedan, received by Acadia National Park on Juno 6. 1934, was immediately put into uso as the park naturalist's car for his official duties. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON January 18, 1936. The Superintendent, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorr: PTA funds have been made available "ith which to make a. beginning in filling Acadia museum needs. $4,500 has been allotted for use in develoging your plans and progress. I expect to have opportunity to talk with Mr. Sullivan, your New park naturalist, sometime soone but since he is not intimately ac- quainted with your problems I hope to have your advice. After talking with it. B. L. Hadley I conclude that some assistant curator should be employed to work with Mr. Sullivan in drafting a plan for the large central museum which you propose to build. This assistant curator should be a local man who is familiar ith the natural history of the Acadia region. His salary should be $1.00 per annum, I presune. Te are not free to appoint men who are known to be especially desirable but are limited in our choice by the eligible list submitted to us by the Secretary of the Interior. If you know a prospective appointee for this osition please ask him to make application for employment to the Secretary of the Interior. Wen we request a list of eligibles we will hope that your local man is certified. Mr. Hadley is supplied -ith a PWL a emplication form upon which the rroposed appointee will eke re uest for em loyment. The balance of your allotment probably should be expended in preparing graphic devices, labels and other exhibit items that will be specified by Mr. Sullivan and his assistant for use in existing and proposed museums in your park. This preparation work will be done by staff members already employed at our Field Laboratories, Morristown, N.J. Your allotment will be drawn u on to pay the salary of one or more of these epcointees. to I shall be pleased to have your advice regarding the proposed em loyment of a curator, and your excression as to what you regard to be an adequate museum program for Acadia. I understand that there is a prospect of obtaining funds very soon :ith which to launch an adequate program. If I may have your reply prior to the arrival of Mr. Sullivan I shall be especially grateful. Sincerely yours, C. P. Russell, Chief, Museum Division. CC Dr. Bryant Mr. Vint Copy for UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON January 18, 1936. The Superintendent, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorr: PWA funds have been made available with which to make a beginning in filling Acadia museum needs. $4,500 has been allotted for use in developing your plans and progress. I expect to have opportunity to talk with Mr. Sullivan, your new park naturalist, some time soon but since he is not intimately ac- quainted with your problems I hope to have your advice. After talking with Mr. B. L. Hadley I conclude that some assistant curator should be employed to work with Mr. Sullivan in drafting a plan for the large central museum which you propose to build. This assistant curator should be a local man who is familiar with the natural history of the Acadia region. His salary should be $1800 per annum, I presume. We are not free to appoint men who are known to be especially desirable but are limited in our choice by the eligible list submitted to us by the Secretary of the Interior. If you know a prospective appointee for this position please ask him to make application for employment to the Secretary of the Interior. When we request a list of eligibles we will hope that your local man is certified. Mr. Hadley is supplied with a PWA application form upon which the proposed appointee will make request for employment. The balance of your allotment probably should be expended in preparing graphic devices, labels and other exhibit items that will be specified by Mr. Sullivan and his assistant for use in existing and proposed museums in your park. This preparation work will be done by staff members already employed at our Field Laboratories, Morristown, N.J. Your allotment will be drawn upon to pay the salary of one or more of these appointees. I shall be pleased to have your advice regarding the proposed employment of a curator, and your expression as to what you regard to be an adequate museum program for Acadia. I understand that there is a prospect of obtaining funds very soon with which to launch an adequate program. If I may have your reply prior to the arrival of Mr. Sullivan I shall be especially grateful. Sincerely yours, (Signed) C. P. RUSSELL CC Dr. Bryant Chief, Museum Division. Mr. Vint 2 The Ritz-Carlton Boston, Massachusetts Cable Address Telephone RIZCARLTON,BOSTON KENMORE 5700 Overlooking one of the World's most beautiful parks.the Public Garden January 20, 1936. Mr. Paul D. Simpson, Seal Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Simpson:- Four or five years ago Miss Sturges desired to buy a piece of land from me immediately back of her mother's house on Eden Street. I offered to exchange the piece of land she wanted for land on the slope which I owned above her house. She declined to trade. Miss Sturges has since died, also her mother. Her brother, Rush Sturges, now owns the property. I understand he wants to sell it. It occurs to me that I might write him and see if he would make the trade which I sugges- ted to his sister. I am sending you herewith the tracing which you sent me at the time, with, I think, with your letter of June 2nd, 1930. Please therefrom make me a tracing which I could send Mr. Sturges, and which would give clearly the facts which he would need to know. In writing Miss Sturges on August 19th, 1930 describing the tracing which I sent her with my letter, I said; "The area surrounded by the red line I take it is the property you would like. The area surrounded by the blue line rectangular at the left end sharply pointed at the right would be the natural boundary line for my property to the north. The dotted line within the blue enclosure indicates approximately the top of the slope of the rather steep hill which occurs on that side of your property. The dotted line below the blue enclosure indicates approximately the foot of the slope. You will see, therefore, that roughly speaking the blue bound tract would bring my proper- ty to the edge of the declevity which seems a natural boundary. Please send the tracing in duplicate to me at the above address, on receipt of which I will at once communicate with Mr. Sturges. John Very D. truly, Thompson UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Y NATIONAL PARK SERVICE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK GATLINBURG, TENNESSEE January 24, 1936 Mr. B.L. Hadley, Assistant Superintendent, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Hadley: I was delighted to learn, upon receipt of your recent let- ter, that a sum of $4,500 is to be expended in work preparatory to construction of the Acadia National Park museum building. As you stated, Mr. Wendall Hadlock is your man for the Islesford Historical Museum when that building comes under the wing of the Park Service, but he is not the man to assist Sullivan in plans preliminary to construction of the natural history museum. Had- lock is a keen student of your local history who, next to Dr. Sawtelle, knows by far the most about the Islesford collection. By all means there should be a place for him as Park Historian. He delivers a fine lecture, has a pleasing personality, and is greatly interested in furthering the historical research of Aca- dia - all are admirable qualifications for the position. As to Mr. Paul Favour of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, I likewise feel that he is not the man to be assigned to the job of museum planning. Mr. Favour, as a Student Enrollee, practi- cally did the work which would have been assigned to a Ranger- Naturalist in Acadia last summer, and he did it well; I would rec- ommend that he be considered for the position of Ranger-Naturalist this coming summer to assist Sullivan in the regular intensive summer program. He has had no training in museum planning - that job should go to still another individual, but I am sorry I have no one to recommend. If Dr. Russell has no one for this assignment you might do well to write to The American Museum of Natural His- tory, 77th Street and Central Park West, New York City, N.Y. In so doing I would recommend you state that the exhibits which will make up the story of Acadia are primarily of marine fauna and ge- ology, and therefore the services of a: person whose museum train- ing is along those lines would be most desirable. In the long run it will be better to hire an expert for a shorter time than a less experienced man for several months. Mr. B.L. Hadley, January 24, Page #2 In my last annual report of the naturalist service in Acadia - one copy in my former library office in Bar Harbor (or did I hand it in to Mr. Nowack) and another in the hands of Dr. H.C. Bryant - there is a list (pp. 24 - 27) of a num- ber of exhibits which I feel should be considered in planning the museum. Other museum items are also discussed in that section of the report, and whoever is chosen to do the prelim- inary museum planning should refer to that write-up. I will be glad to keep in tlose touch with this and all other phases of the educational program in Acadia. Acquisition of the Islesford museum and construction of a natural history museum building are undertakings of prime importance. You have my best wishes for a realization of both. Yours very sincerely, arthur t Arthur Stupka, cc Dr. Russell Park Naturalist. Dr. Bryant UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE January 25, 1936. Mr. C. P. Russell, Chief, Museum Division, National Park Service, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Russell: I have received with great pleasure your letter concerning the Museum. I have long been deeply interested in the thought of 1+. and have a won- derful site chosen, to which Mr. Vint has given his ap- proval, alongside the Park road, the survey for which is in process, which will connect for all time out highest mountain summit with the ocean front, where all who visit the Park must pass. Surrounded by the ocean, with a twelve-foot sweep of tide along a sunkon coast whose hilltops have turned to islands and atream valleys to deeply-penetrating bays and estuaries, we have a wonderful opportunity to tell, with the wealth of marine forms wehave at hand the whole history, so far as man yet knows it, of life's develop ment -- from the early ocean-dwelling protozoa on - from the amoeba to the vertebrate; and I hope that in this, which, presented rightly, cannot but arouse great interest, you may concur with me in planning to give it a front place in the life story our Museum shall tell, supplemented with tidal pools and biologic trips along the shore and over off- shore waters. All that can be done in the way of preliminary study under the initial appropriation of 4,500, of which your letter tells, will be done, but what I count on and shall look forward to is your own coming here next spring to study our opportunity at first hand and make us a good visit. I, We have had no word as yet from Mr. Sullivan but he yours should turn up soon. Mr. Hadley, our assistant superin- nieid tendent, has in mind for Mr. Sullivan's assistant a young keish biologist, just finishing his course at Bowdoin College, who has twice made vacation trips to Labrador in pursuance of his aim and whose work with our former Park Naturalist, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE 2. Mr. Stupka, last year was thought highly of. The Park lies at a point upon our coast where far northern and temperate regional forms of life, both fauna and flora, meet; and it lies along the ancient coast migration route of birds, of which such wonderful accounts come down to us from the early settlers and explorers. This gives it an unusually wide range of life in different latitudes for exhibitinn and brings up for study, as Professor Fernald of Harvard and others in our New England field have shown, deeply interesting ques- tions of localized survivals along the coast, from Labra- from dor south, /pre-glacial period. of I do not think a better spot could be found for a broad and comprehensive study of the plant life history especially along our eastern coast. Yours sincerely, GBD-0 George B.Dorr Superintendent 1936/1935 The Ritz-Carlton Boston, Massachusetts Cable Address Telephone RIZCARLTON BOSTON KENMORE 5700 Overlooking one of the World's most beautiful parks. the Public Garden January 27, 1936. Mr. George B. Dorr, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorr:- As a result of the letter which I wrote you on October 23rd last in regard to the issuance by the Park of work car signs per- mitting automobiles to traverse the horse roads, you sent me with your letter of November 18th a memorandum to you of that date from Mr. Hadley in regard to the matter. This memorandum did not cover all of the ques- tions that were in my mind, and I, therefore, ventured to write Mr. Hadley direct. After conference with you, Mr. Hadley has written me under date of January 24th giving the information I asked insofar as he was able. When Mr. Ralston returns to Maine, early in March, I will send him this correspondence and ask him to talk the matter over with Mr. Hadley Thompson 90 that there may be a common program in the issuance and use of these work car signs. While the Park office has evidently sought fully to guard the use of these signs, and has been completely conscientious in the matter, the situation is such that only as Mr. Hadley and Mr. Ralston keep closely in touch will the best results be obtained. The correspondence with you and Mr. Hadley calls atten- tion to the fact that the horse roads have been used in connection with use to prevent poaching and in distributing fish to the various waters on the Island. That I may not lose my standing or rights with the Gov- ernment so far as the protection of the horse roads is concerned by seeming to acquiesce in the use of these roads for these two purposes, which were not intended or covered by my agreement with the Park, I am as a matter of record entering this informal protest against such use. The phraseology of the agreement as quoted in my letter to you of Octo- ber 23, '35 is the following: "The horse roads now in existence, and any hereafter constructed on the land herein conveyed, will be opened only to the use of horses, horse drawn vehicles and pedestrians, and not for motor traffic ex- cept for general road and roadside maintenance, repair and construction purposes, fire-fighting and in case of accident." Very sincerely, Join The Ritz-Carlton Boston, Massachusetts Cable Address Telephone RIZCARLTON. BOSTON KENMORE 5700 Overlooking one of the World's most beautiful parks, the Public Garden January 27, 1936. Mr. George B. Dorr, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorry- As I tried to make it clear in the letter I have just written you, I am not protesting at the use of the horse roads by Park official motors to prevent poaching or to distribute fish to the various Park waters, at the same time I am not approving of such use or surrendering my rights under my agreement with the Government. I am making this friendly protest simply to protect my rights and not to establish a precedent of acquiescence which would prevent my seek- ing to enforce my rights at any time I might so desire. My attitude is an entirely friendly one, and not one of criticism or complaint. All I am seeking to do is to preserve my right so that I will be in a position to ask you to observe it in these two respects if and when I should feel that it was in the interest of the general- situation for me so to do. I sincerely hope that I have made my position perfectly clear, and am relying on your confidence in me not to allow you to mis- understand what I have said. Very sincerely, John I Cocking Also on Ritz Carlton (Boston) paper copy Boston, Massachusetts, January 27, 1936. Mr. George B. Dorr, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorr: As I tried to make it clear in the letter I have just written you, I am not protesting at the use of the horse roads by Park official motors to prevent poaching or to distribute fish to the various Park waters; at the time I am not approving of such use or surrendering my rights under my agreement with the Government. I am making this friendly protest simply to protect my rights and ot to establish a precedent of acquiescence which would prevent my seeking to enforce my rights at any time I might so desire. My attitude is an entirely friendly one, and not one of criticism or complaint. All I am seeking to do is to preserve my right so that I will be a position to ask you to observe 1t inthese tow respects if and when I should feel that it was in the interest of the general situation for me so to do. I sincerely hope that I have made my position perfectly clear, and am relying on your confidence in me not to allow you to misunderstand what I have said. Yours sincerely (signed) John D. Rockefeller, Jr UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON February 7, 1936. The Superintendent, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorr: I greatly appreciate your cordial invitation to visit Acadia and you may rest assured I shall make the trip at the first opportunity given me. Some days ago I enjoyed a visit with Mr. Hadley and more recently I talked with Mr. Sullivan who is on his way to Bar Harbar. I trust that Mr. Sullivan will identify the proposed Public Works employee and that we may find this proposed employee on the Secretary's eligible list. It is of course necessary that we make selection from the lists of appli- cants who are certified by the Secretary of the Interior. As I have told Mr. Sullivan I believe we should make every effort to establish a secure working plan for the permanent museum of biology which will eventually be built at Acadia. I shall depend upon you and Mr. Sullivan to keep me informed regarding your needs and you may depend upon us to give full cooperation in spending the Public Works allotment now available to the Acadia Museum Project. I trust Mr. Sullivan will supply me with his proposed plan of action as seon as he has reached a good understanding with you and Mr. Hadley. Sincerely yours, C. P. Russell, Chief, Museum Division. CC Dr. Bryant UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE February 14, 1936. Dear Judge Pineo: I was glad to hear from you and am much interested in t he matter you bring forward: con- neeting Bar Island with the Bar Harbor shore by a motor causeway. It has great possibilities. Mr. Torrey had already said something to me about the matter as a plan to be discussed at a hearing in he spring. His interest centers on steadying the waters of the bay above the bar as a harbor for yachts. My interest lies rather in the extended shore-line and the beauty of the views one gets from the island. The dangers are: first, the impairment of a beautiful feature in the Ber Harbor landscape if much building -- or any build- ing of the wrong sort -- should follow; second, if a cause- way should be built, according to Mr. Torrey's plan, lest essentially important tidal scouring of both harbors -- above and below the bar -- which now takes place should be checked. The waters above the bar form a circling, practically land-locked basin now when the tide is out and receives, and must always receive, a great discharge of sewage from all that neighboring shore, while the waters are contaminated on either side of the bar by the visiting yachts in summer-time, which only a strong tidal scouring can overcome. The connection of Bar Island with Sheep Porcupine is an interesting thought but you do not tell me what is in your mind as to its purpose. Both islands are wonder- fully placed for views and are great landscape features also, both from the mountains and the sea. I understand your thought to be, as Mr. Torrey's also, that Federal funds for the development might be obtained. This in turn may hinge upon the issue of the 1936 campaign. With kind regards, I am Sincerely yours, GBD-0 Peterson 2501 Calvert St. N.W. Washington, D. C. February 17, 1936 Dear Mr. Dorr: Thank you for your letter of Januqary 13 about the pictures of the parking areas. They came later with a note from Miss Oakes and they are just what I wanted. My itinerary in europe was: Plymouth, Bath, Broadway, chip- ping Campden, Stratford- on- Avon, London, Peterborough, Lincoln, York, Durham, Edinborough, Blairgowrie (Perthshire), Oxford, can- terbury, Cambridge, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Malmo, Stockholm, Copen- hagen, Berlin, Cologne, Paris, versailles, Chartres, and Cherbourg. In some ways the trip was more hurried than I would have liked it, but there was time for a month in the British Isles, and a month on the Continent. Taking fast boats- the Ile de France going over and the Bremen coming back- I was able to get in a great deal before getting home for christmas. The season of the year and the unfavorable rate of exchange seemed to have closed off the regular American tourist trade, and I did not meet another of that description. I found that if one likes the Europeans and is interested in what they are doing, they will take you in and treat you as if you were one of the family. Without knowing many people there in advance, I was well received and entertained everywhere. Even the smallest villages have enough of interest in them to keep an architect busy for a year. I would like to go back and spend a summer sketching. England and Sweden were the most interesting to me. England because of its relation to American history and art, and Sweden because of my family connection, and because of the advanced state architecture and the interest of its mediaeval crafts. Germany I did not find as bad as our anti-Nazi press would have it. It seems to me after having heard the other side of their story that many of the drastic moves made by their government may well have been justified. Certainly they have had a hard time keep- ing their heads above water. The notorious gaiety of post-war Berlin is now a thing of the past, and the sober attitude of the man on the street is notable. in the 20's of the 40,000 Americans in Paris after the War/only 3,000 remain. the cost of the franc has done that. To me Paris is the most beautiful city I have ever seen, with stockholm co ming along next, and Washington third. All in all, I had a delightful as well as instructive ex- perience, and would welcome a chance to go right back for a couple of years. 2. The Forest Service job about which I wrote you fell through while I was away, in spite of the assurances which made it seem like a sure thing. Right now I am marking time waiting for the special Park Service assignment which I am going to take up next. I am getting an opportunity to do some writing which will help me professionally. I have never had any time to myself yet but what there was not some highly valuable way of storing up for the future. I did not see Mr. Hadley when he was down here; when I in- quired about him they said he had gone back to Acadia. I hope this letter finds you in good health and spirits. we have been having a good old-fashioned winter here, and I imagine you are getting the same thing in big doses. With best wishes, I am Sincerely yours, Charles E. Peterson PS. Have first read that John Quiney adams as a young wan sheet six week us Stockboles and wrote that he befored Sweden to any store country he had yet found in Enrobe. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE March 17, 1936. Old Corner Bookstore, Boston, Mass. Dear Sirs: GBD I note in the New York Sunday Times (March 15) an editorial article entitled "Socrates at Cambridge", yerd mention of an article by Daniel Gregory Mason, "Harvard in the Nineties" in the New England Quarterly which refers ny to Josiah Royce, the philosopher and others of his time. The writer in the Times does not refer to the date of this issue of the New England Quarterly but I would assume it to be the current, or latest number, probably January. Will you kindly look this up and obtain for me the issue of the New England Quarterly in which this article appears and mail it to me? Yours sincerely, George 3.Dou GBD-0 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Bar Harbor, Maine April 15, 1936 The Old Corner Book Store, Boston, Mass. Gentlemen: will you kindly send the following books, and charge same to my account: "The League of Nations and the Rule of Law, 1918-1935", by Alfred Zimmern. "George Eliot", by Blenche Colton Williams. "The Eve of 1914", by Theodor Wolff. will you also kindly quote me on Richard H. Dana's book, "Two Years Before the Mast," and tell me what you have in the way of different copies of this book. Very truly yours, George B. Dorr. PARK SERVICE BULLETIN UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON Arno B. Cammerer, Isabelle F. Story Director. Editor-in-Chief. Mary C. Ryan, Bulletin Editor April, 1936 Vol. VI No. 3 NOT FOR PUBLICATION PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PLACES CORNERSTONE FOR NEW INTERIOR BUILDING On April 16 President Roosevelt in sity of America, who offered the bene- the presence of several thousand persons diction. Music for the occasion was fur- set in place the cornerstone for the nished by the United States Marine Corps new Interior Building, using the same Band, and CCC enrollees acted as ushers. trowel that George Washington used in laying the cornerstone of the United The new building, now being con- States Capitol in 1793. This trowel structed as a PWA project, represents vas loaned by the Alexandria Washington the first major Federal Government struc- jodge Number 22, A. F. E A. M. ture in Washington authorized, designed, and constructed under the present admin- In addition to President Roosevelt istration. It will be a simple utili- and Secretary Ickes, other speakers tarian structure of large dimensions and participating in the cornerstone exer- so designed as to offer the maximum in :ises, which began at 11:00 a. m. were convenience and light for the 5,000 work- ;he Rev. Joseph R. Sizoo, D.D., pastor ers it will accommodate. Occupying a of the New York Avenue Presbyterian ground area of 51/20 acres, extending from hurch, who offered the invocation; Hon. 18th to 19th and E to C Streets, North- rederic A. Delano, chairman of the west, it will have one of the largest lational Capital Park and Planning Com- cafeterias in the Capital and a large ission, who served as master of cere- basement parking space for employees. onies; and Rt. Rev. P. J. McCormick, Waddy B. Wood of Washington is the archi- acting rector of the Catholic Univer- tect for the structure. A modern museum ... TOTE: By direction of the Secretary of the Interior the matter contained herein is published as administrative information and is required for the proper transaction of public business. -1- Oredered on the 24th April GMO The Old Corner Book Store "The book center of New England since 1828" 50 Bromfield Street, Boston Important Branch Stores: Hotel Statler, Boston, and 1346 Beacon Street at Coolidge Corner, Brookline New England Books of 1935 April 17th, 1936. OBLY Mr. George B. Dorr, National Park Service, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorr: Thank you for your order of April 15th. We are sending you t - day the three books request - - ed. We can supply from stock at the present time the following editions of TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST,- by Richard H. Dana, Jr.,- David McKay edition, with eight colored places by Charles Pears, green cloth binding, size 5 1/2 X 7 1/2 inches, $1.00 In the Children's Classics, Introduction by Sir Wilfred Grenfel, illustrations by Charles Pears, size 5 1/2 inches X 7 1/2 inches, green cloth binding, $1.00 Riverside Bookshelf edition, Illustrations in color, and black and white by E. Boyd Smith, size 6 X 8 1/2 inches, black cloth binding with gold lettering, $2.00 We trust you will be able to make a selection from the above editions. Very truly yours wasillest BY RACNER THE OLD CORNER BOOK STORE. Silas WAG. Crecken Brown mountain Gateway Lodge april 27, 1936 Dear Mr. Llow Living at the Brown mountain Dateway Lodge is such a pleasure I wish to thank you for the privilege The house is lovely, and I appreciate the beautiful surroundings. Birds are plentiful and the carriage roads make it quite lary for me to take the baby out for fairings while at the same time I can enjoy the birde sguinels or whatever nature may choose to offer. l appreciate your having had the house all cleaned before we moved ant here and even the curtains up, 6 told Mauriel when we came and found it all so nice it didn't seem like moving into a strange place, but juit like coming home) Sincerely yours Edith Sullivan UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine May 2, 1936. Dear Mrs. Sullivan: It gives me great pleasure that you find yourself so pleasantly placed in the lodge at Asticou. It is a very interesting building in its architecture and construction and I hope, as funds and labor opportunity may come along, to create a real bird garden where birds can nest in peace -- such peace as birds may have - and feed on berry-bearing shrubs and seed-bearing plants such as have occasionally been made abroad, making it a true naturalist's home, planting a few apple trees to attrect deer. with appreciation of your letter and kind regards, I am Sincerely yours, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Acadia National Pork, Bar Harbor, Maine, May 26, 1936. Old Corner Sools Store, Reston, Mass. Dear firs: Some weeks ago my secretary wrote, agking for a copy of the New England Magazine issued this winter or spring, containing an article entitled "Socrates at Harvard" a paper written by an old pupil of Professor Josiah Royce, telling of him and his COURSOL in philosophy at Harvard in the early years of this century. It has just occurred to me that I here not received the paper. At the time I wrote I was able to give, from some mention of it that I read, the exact date but not it has gone from me and my secretary kept no copy of the order, which was addressed to you and duly mailed, she tells me. Will you be so kind as to look up the article for me in the New England Magazine and forward me the copy? This magazine is a quarterly, as I recall it. The issue containing the article should not be difficult to find and you could easily ascertain it by communicating with the publishers should you not find it readily. Should there be any reason for delay in this matter, will you kindly let me know about it? Yours sincerely, George B. Dorr GBD-0 D64ET to MUSEUM REPORT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK May 1 to June 1, 1936 Exhibit Plan There is nothing to report concerning our exhibit plan. Equipment The new glass museum aisle case has arrived, is assembled and in use. Also, our stereopticon has arrived, but the vouchers are being held up because the lantern does not quite fit our needs, due probably to the focal length of the lenses, because the machine seems to be in perfect condition. Size of screen and projecting distances were care- fully measured before ordering the machine, but there is a mistake somewhere. A Weston photographic exposure meter has been ordered per instructions. Prices and descriptions on beaded screens are being collected and reviewed, preparatory to ordering such a screen. A metal case for storing study skins and fumigating mounted specimens is still badly needed. Collections Study skins of Northern Yellowthroat, Woodland Jumping Mouse, Ruby-throated Hummingbird and Leach's Petrel have been prepared. A birch bark basket exhibit was prepared by Joseph Ranco, Penobscot Indian, at my request. It consists of a completed basket or bucket, old style, one partly assembled bucket and materials for a third. All are the same size and tell the story of manufacture by illustrating the various stages. Exhibit A shows the bark cut to shape, spruce roots for sewing, a bone awl for punching holes, a hoop for the top and a bail. Exhibit B shows the basket partly sewed and the hoop temporarily pegged in with wooden pegs. The third is finished and decorated with some scenes of his own choosing. Of course, the bark is used with the brown side out, in true aboriginal style. Eighteen mice and shrews have been trapped by Louis Fowler and measured and preserved in formalin by myself. -2- Graphic Devices Twenty-eight - lantern slides have been received and several others are ordered for our supply here. Several good pictures have been secured - a movie of birch bark canoe manufacture and some others not yet printed. Branch Museums The Abbe Museum of Archeology has secured for the summer, the services of Wendall Hadlock, for the past several years assistant to Dr. Sawtelle, Historian at the Islesford Museum. Already we have worked out some schemes for exhibits whereby we hope to reincarnate some specimens and make them tell a story. He has also promised to appear on our campfire programs. Photographs of Buildings The Abbe Museum has only recently opened and the Islesford Museum is not yet open. Therefore, pictures have been impossible. One almost needs an exposure meter for interiors, and I have been waiting for mine to arrive. Maurice Sullivan Park Naturalist. [See Museumfile for additional Reports UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine June 11, 1936. Mr. John S. Ames, Treasurer, The Trustees of Public Reservations, 96 Ames Building, Boston, Massachusetts. Dear Mr. Amos: Acknowledging the committee's letter with regard to contribution to the work of the Trustees, I write to say that I have now for many years regarded myself as no longer an active or contributing member, my work in Maine, of which state I long ago became a citizen, demanding all that I can give to wild life and landscape conservation. Yours sincerely, George B. Dorr GBD-0 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine, July 12, 1936. Dear William: I have drawn out, these last two or three years of all activities not connected with my National Park work and the reviewing and editing of certain oldtime papers I have long intended should sometime be publish- ed. It seems as though some younger man more in contact with the present social life at Bar Harbor would be better than one whose name would bothingme and nothing more. But you are welcome to use my name in your discretion if you think it appropriate or might help. With kindest regular to you and all, believe me ever Yours sincerely, Colonel William Jay Schiefellin, Tranquility Farm, Ashville, Maine. GBD-0 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine July 29, 1936. Mr. Arno B. Cammerer, Director, National Park Service, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Cammerer: I have your telegram regarding the deed for the lands I am to give, enabling construction to be made of the road in replacement of the Town's Harden Farm road and for the approach road toward Bar Harbor, associated with it, and have telephoned Mr. Serenus Rodick to arrange a meeting with him this forenoon to review it. These lands were gathered from various sources of local ownership and obstacles of one kind or another had to be overcome to acquire them, involving consider- able study now in deeding to the Government. I received a letter about this matter some weeks since from Mr. Tolson in which he said that no contract could bo let until all lands required for the road had been deeded to the Government. In answering this, I called to his and your attention the fact that Mr. Rocke- feller also owns lands necessary, in continuation of mine, for the road's construction, which though of less extent are equally essential; so that deeds for these, too, must be secured before contract can be let, when both could be offered to the Government together. In presenting the mattor to the Town, your letter, addressed to it, to which I added my signature as super- intendent, and the survey-map exhibiting the route con- struction would follow were made a basic part of the Town's UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE 2. action in the suprender of the road and I mode myself personally as well as officielly responsible to the Town that what was laid before it would be adhered to, both in the and the survey. The Intention at that time was that the whole construction, so for as the Towns action wes involved, should be included under a single contract. When Vint was here in the spring he desired to have the survey preliminery to contracting the further portionoof the road left open till ho could return and moke some further study in detail of this partion of the routo, without altering the general line on which the action of the Town was tellen, to be made the subject of a separate contract; and to have the various bridges necessary over the entire route made subject to a third contract. I have wished to have the entire matter definitely lined up so that there may be no POOM for difference in view between the Town, the Service and myself as to what will be done and had hoped to have Mr. Vint return in time to complete his study prelininory to contrecting. If this is not possible the assurence which I wrote Mrs. Tolson I felt should be given in order to keep my position in the matter clear will need to be Included as a condition in the deed. This, which I have previously discussed with Mr. Rodick, I will ask him now to proceed to do that we may not need to wait for Mr. Vint's return. CED- Sincerely yours, George B. Dors Superintendent. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE August 1, 1936. Dear Professor Perry: I am mailing you under separate enclosure your delightful book: Amd Gladly Teach, that it may receive your autograph and come back to its place with other chosen volumes in my library, I have read it with great interest, for it deals with people I have known and matters I have been curious about which you tell of with resealing intimacy. At the turn of the dentury and for some years after, I was chairman of the Harvard Alumni Visiting Committee on Philosophy and William James and Royce were intimate friends. All this and much besides comes back to me as I read your book. Visualizing you against the background of the home at Greensbaro, of which you tell so pleasantly, in its wild, early charm, I am Yours sincerely, Professor 3liss Perty, Greensbore, Vermont. GBD-0 letter penal nates sent taken from copy UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Branch of Plans and Design Washington August 25, 1936. Mr. George B. Dorr, Superintendent, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Sir: I returned to the office Monday morning and gave Acting Director Demaray a verbal summary of things I did on my trip to Acadia National Park, and I think it wise that I write you a summary of the important points, in order to be sure that we are in agreement. (1). The ncessary lands for the Kebo Mountain road project belonging to both yourself and Mr. Rockefeller are now being abstracted and deeds being prepared by Mr. Rodick. It is expected that this will be accomplished wi thin a week or ten days. On the strength of this statement Mr. Demaray has authorized the Bureau of Public Roads to advertise the project, having a statement in the adverti sement that the project may be shortened to Station 56, if the title is when? not cleared by the United States beyond that point in sufficient time. This action on Mr. Demaray's part will expedite the date when construction can begin, and makes it vitally important that the deeds be submitted as early as possible. It is my understanding that you were going to Exactly deed, without restrictions, the lands you own adjacent to what? the road including the Bar Harbor approach road to the point where it joins Ledgelawn Avenue extension near the two brooks. Also that Mr. Rockefeller isto deed a strip Incrime of land 125 ft. wide along the abandoned Harden Farm Road of sufficient length to include the work for this contract ahead (2). The assurance that Mr. Hyde and myself gave you that you can include in the ECW program a project to construct a path along the Bar Harbor approach to the gorge beyond Sieur- de-Monts Springs; also a nursery project in connection with what the planting development along the Bar Harbor approach road has the concurrence of Mr. Demaray as Acting Director. (3). Mr. Hyde promised you the long-wanted power shovel which he could transfer from another project in about what for a month's time. 2. where (4). Studies for a campground project in the vicinity of Otter Creek will be undertaken imne diately by Mr. Breeze with the hope that such a project can be set up for construction this fall and winter, in order that some additionalcamping space will be available for next S eason. (5). Some preliminary work on the Otter Creek Causeway will be done under the direction of Mr. Grossman, the Bureau of Public Roads Engineer, and he will n otify the War Department that the work has begun. (6) The survey for the Black Woods project which will good include the Otter Creek Causeway is underway and it is expected that the survey and plans can be comple ted, in order that this project can be advertised in the fall. (7) Mr. Lee and I have an appointment today with Mr. Huppoch to review the Acadia Park extensi on project and to take up the specific points Mr. Dow requested, and I will write you the outcome of this as soon as I have something definite to report. I did not return to Washington until late Saturday and found that Mr. Lee reached here the same day. Therefore, I am a little later in being able to take up this question than I anticipated when I last saw you. The above summarizes the important points taken up on my recent trip to your Park, and I should like to have a note from you to know if your conclusions are the same as mine. Sincerely yours, Thos. C. Vint Chie f Architect Reviewed and Approved. (signed) A. E. Demaray, Acting Director. The Eyrie Seal Harbor, Maine September 1, 1936 Dear Mr. Dorr: You and I were speaking the other day of the Stanley Brook Road and of its being taken over by the Government. You were under the impression that the de- lay in taking it over was due to the fact that the Government had not yet passed on the deeds to the property. I stated that I thought the Otter Cliffs Road was in the same situation as regards the acceptance of the deeds, in spite of which fact that road was taken over by the Govern- ment in the early summer. My query was as to why in one instance the Government had taken over the road and had not in the other. In looking over some recent letters I find in a letter from Secretary Ickes to me under date of June 17th, in which he is speaking of the Stanley Brook Road, the following quotation: "I am desirous of having this road taken over for operation and maintenance as quickly as possible and will turn your letter over to the National Park Service to have this effected". I am calling your attention to this quotation simply for your information and not with any desire to hasten the taking over of the road until you are ready to do so. John Very sincerely, Mr. George B. Dorr, Superintendent Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine THE HANCOCK COUNTY TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC RESERVATIONS 4 I Note: 31-page pamplet indeedes a An Historical Sketch (1) list of Incorporators and a Record of the Holdings of the Trustees (2) officers (3) members and dates of joining 1901-1938 (4) Samuel A. Eliot's historical sketch, written 9/10/1936. (5) a record of the derivation and transfer of Trustees 1 holdings. (6) a map Bar Harbor, Maine R.H.E. 1939 Mr. Melcher then deeded the property to the Trustees. 30 "They started something', which has already The movement thus started steadily gathered headway. It is not possible gone from the coast of Maine to the Shenandoah to mention all the gifts for no less than 129 separate transactions were re- corded. They varied in size and importance from an acre or two to preserve Valley; over the Great Smokies; as far west as Cali- a glen or brookside or some favorite point of view to large tracts of wild fornia, and is now calling for a dominion of two land. There were a score or more of deals with the Water Companies with a thousand square miles in my home state-the so- view to protecting the purity of Eagle Lake and Jordan's and Hadlock's Ponds. called Land of Flowers. For my part, I can recall In 1909 Mr. John S. Kennedy gave 138 acres on Pickett (Huguenot Head) and 50 acres on the north ridge of Newport (Champlain), while Mr. and Mrs. influence no such triumphant march of an idea (whether John I. Kane and Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Bridgham transferred to the Trustees good or bad) in the history of this country since the the title to 467 acres including the south slope of Kebo and part of the Armistice.' Gorge. Then 1000 acres were acquired on the north ridge of Green (Cadil- -EDWARD P. MOSES lac) and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Bliss gave 210 acres on the south ridge 45mmp. of Newport (Champlain). Title was taken to 30 acres at the Sieur de Monts Extract from a letter, dated Dec. 29, 1933, to the Secretary Spring and that locality, with the Abbe Museum later established there. has become a place of resort on the Island second only to the summit of Cadillac. of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations from In 1917 Mrs. George G. Hayward conveyed to the Trustees 190 acres on the Mr. Edward P. Moses, Chapel Hill, N. C., historian of the western side of Sargent Mountain with a "corridor" running down to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Sound and the holdings of the Trustees on the western half of the Island were begun by the gift by Dean William Draper Lewis and Mr. Charlton Yar- nall of 100 acres at Valley Cove. Title was taken soon after to tracts on the east side of Long Pond, at Seal Cove Pond and on the western slope of A BRIEF RECORD OF THE ORIGIN AND ACTIVITIES Robinson (Acadia) Mountain. OF THE HANCOCK COUNTY TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC RESERVATIONS In 1919 Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., began his benefactions by the gift For thirty-five years the residents of Mount Desert Island, the summer to the Trustees of Beech Hill and the cliff on the western shore of Echo visitors there and the tourists who traverse the roads and trails, have profited Lake. He has since purchased a number of tracts of wild land some of by the disinterested and unassuming activities of a company of citizens associ- which he has deeded to the Trustees, or later to the Park, and some he holds ated in an endeaver to preserve for public enjoyment and scenic and historic and administers with a generous regard to the public interests. Over these sites of Mount Desert. The origins and achievements of this organization need lands he has constructed many carriage roads and bridle paths and it is through to be recorded, its activities extend, its endowments enlarged, its methods his generous cooperation that the "Mountain Road" was constructed in 1932. elsewhere adopted. It is owing not only to the good sense of the townspeople but also to the In the summer of 1901 Charles W. Eliot, who had been for twenty years large holdings of the Trustees and of Mr. Rockefeller that the island has thus a summer resident of Northeast Harbor, suggested to some of his neighbors far been so well protected from unsightly advertising, unnecessary and ugly and friends that they might form an organization to conserve and maintain filling stations, undesirable resorts and from the constant danger of the for- the unique natural beauties of Mount Desert. During the preceding winter est fires which might in a few hours do a damage which it would take a quar- Dr. Eliot had been engaged in putting together the papers of his son, Charles ter century to repair. Eliot. Here he came across an article printed in 1889 in "Garden and For- In spite of the care of the Trustees in declining to take title to any areas est" describing the wild charm of the coast of Maine and pointing out how available for houses the withdrawal from taxation of so much of the wild the increase of private ownership might soon deprive the public of access to land in the interior of the island provoked a certain amount of criticism and many of the beautiful hills, points and beaches. It further suggested how the at the 1913 session of the Maine Legislature an effort was made to revoke peril might be averted by action of the State or by the organization of incor- the clause in the Charter of the Trustees which provided for the exemption of porated bodies to secure and maintain reservations for public use. "It is time their property from taxation. This was defeated but it was evident that some decisive action was taken, and if the State of Maine should by suitable legis other method of holding the lands, for public enjoyment should be discovered. lation encourage the formation of associations for the purpose of preserving In the spring of that year Mr. George B, Dorr went to Washington and sug- chosen parts of her coast scenery, she would not only do herself honor, but gested that the holdings of the Trustees might be consolidated in a national would secure for the future an important element in her material prosperity.' monument or park. This idea he continued to press with great patience and It was in the following year (1890) that Charles Eliot had put this idea to public spirit through prolonged negotiations. In 1914 Mr. Dorr, Mr. Ernest practical test. He devised a plan for the organization of a body of substan- H. Forbush, Professor M. L. Fernald and President Eliot contributed to the tial citizens of Massachusetts to be known as the Trustees of Public Reserva- National Geographic Magazine certain illustrated articles describing Mount tions who would be empowered to acquire parcels of real estate possessing Desert and advocating the establishment there of a National Park. These arti- natural beauty or historical interest and to hold them for public use and en- cles were issued by the Trustees in a special pamphlet under the title of "The joyment. This Board was incorporated by act of the Massachusetts Legisla- Unique Island of Mount Desrt" which had a noticeable influence in forming ture May 21, 1891, and has rendered conspicuous public service for more public opinion. than forty-five years. This was the precedent that President Eliot had in mind It was not, however, until the summer of 1916 that the negotiations at when he inaugurated a similar movement at his summer home. Washington bore fruit. On July 8th President Wilson signed an executive The first step was to enlist the interest of the Village Improvement Socie- order establishing the Sieur de Monts National Monument. As no money ap- ties of Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor which included lead- propriation was required this could be done without act of Congress. It meant ers among the permanent and the summer residents. Each of these Societies just the acceptance by the Government of the offer of the Trustees to turn appointed a Committee and on August 13, 1901, these Committees met at over certain of their lands to the perpetual care of the Federal authorities. Seal Harbor and enthusiastically endorsed the plan. An organization com- This proved to be the first step in the larger plan advocated with resolute per- mittee was chosen and this committee on August 29, applied to Bertrand E. sistence by Mr. Dorr and finally an Act establishing the Lafayette National Clark, J. P., to call a meeting of those desiring to be incorporated, as pro- Park was passed by Congress on February 26, 1919. The national monu- vided by Chapter 55 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Maine, for the ment, together with further lands transferred by the Trustees, was merged purpose of "acquiring, owning and holding lands and other property in Han- into the Park and Mr. Dorr was appointed Superintendent, Ten years later cock County for free public use." This meeting was held at the office of Mr. on January 20, 1929, an additional bill was approved by President Coolidge Edward B. Mears in Bar Harbor on September 12. 1901. The Hancock Coun- which changed the name to Acadia National Park and authorized the inclu- ty Trustees of Public Reservations were there duly organized and By laws sion in the Park holdings of lands beyond the boundaries of the island. adopted. The Incorporators were Luere B. Deasy, George B. Dorr, Charles Since the establishment of the Park generous friends have continued to W. Eliot, John S. Kennedy, Loren E Kimball, Lea McI. Luquer, Edward B. make gifts both of real estate and of money to the Trustees. Mr. and Mrs. Mears and George L. Stebbins. Charles V.Eliot was elected President, George Lincoln Cromwell gave 185 acres on Robinson (Acadia) Mountain as a mem- B. Dorr and Edward S. Dana, Vice-Presidents, Lea McI. Luquer, Secretary, orial for Mrs. Cromwell's parents, Reverend and Mrs. Cornelius Smith who 29, applied to Bertrand E. Clark, J. P., to call a meeting of those desiring to be incorporated, as pro- Park was passed by Congress on February 26, 1919. The national monu- vided by Chapter 55 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Maine, for the ment, together with further lands transferred by-the Trustees, was merged 3 purpose of "acquiring, owning and holding lands and other property in Han- into the Park and Mr. Dorr was appointed Superintendent. Ten years later cock County for free public use." This meeting was held at the office of Mr. on January 20, 1929, an additional bill was approved by President Coolidge Edward B. Mears in Bar Harbor on September 12, 1901. The Hancock Coun- which changed the name to Acadia National Park and authorized the inclu- ty Trustees of Public Reservations were there duly organized and By laws sion in the Park holdings of lands beyond the boundaries of the island. adopted. The Incorporators were Luere B. Deasy, George B. Dorr, Charles Since the establishment of the Park generous friends have continued to W. Eliot, John S. Kennedy, Loren E. Kimball, Lea McI. Luquer, Edward B. make gifts both of real estate and of money to the Trustees. Mr. and Mrs. Mears and George L. Stebbins. Charles Eliot was elected President, George Lincoln Cromwell gave 185 acres on Robinson (Acadia) Mountain as a mem- B. Dorr and Edward S. Dana, Vice-Presidents, Lea McI. Luquer, Secretary, orial for Mrs. Cromwell's parents, Reverend and Mrs. Cornelius Smith who and George L. Stebbins, Treasurer. Luere B. Deasy and Edward B. Mears had been among the earliest of the summer cottagers at Northeast Harbor. were appointed additional members of the Executive Committee. The incor- Dr. Abbe, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Henderson and other friends presented the Val- poration of the Trustees was confirmed by special act of the Legislature in ey of Duck Brook and Mrs. John Markoe added to her earlier gift a piece of 1903, giving the Corporation power "to acquire, hold and maintain and im property on the north side of Bear Brook. Mr. T. W. Lawson gave the Val- prove for free public use lands in Hancock County which by reason of scenic ey of Man-of-War Brook in 1922 and the next year Archibald Murray and beauty, historical interest, sanitary advantage or for other reasons may be Charlton Yarnall contributed another 300 acre lot on the western shore of available for the purpose." This Act also provided for the exemption of Somes Sound. In 1925 the heirs of Mrs. Homans added 62 acres to her such lands from state, county or town taxation. original gift bringing the holdings of the Trustees to the ocean front south Gradually interest in the purposes of the corporation was aroused and of Schooner Head. A unique donation was that of beautiful Bar Island at confidence established. A pamphlet written by President Eliot and issued in the head of Somes Sound-the gift of Edith Pryor and Caroline Pryor Pine in 1904 with the title "The Right Development of Mount Desert" had a wide memory of James W. Pryor and John B. Pine. In 1925 also the activities of circulation and was for many years a sort of guide for both the town officers the Trustees were extended to the mainland by the conveyance of a large and private citizens in efforts to prevent forest fires, improve the roads and tract at the end of Schoodic Point-the eastern bound of Frenchman's Bay, the roadsides, open trails, avert undesirable developments and incite public This gift, which included the Moose Islands and Welch Island, came from spirit. In the summer of 1908 gifts to the Trustees began to be made. Eliza Faith Moore and Ruth Moore Lee in honor of their father, John G. Moore, L. Homans (Mrs. Charles D. Homans) gave to the Trustees a considerable who had been the founder of the summer colony at Grindstone Neck. In 1929 tract above the Ocean Drive and including the Beehive and the pond called the Trustees received under the will of George Nixon Black of Boston the "The Bow!." The Trustees of the Estate of Linda Dows Cooksey conveyed a noble old Black Mansion (Woodlawn) at Ellsworth. The bequest includes piece of land on the Sea Cliff Drive near Seal Harbor on which the Cham- the house with its unique collection of old time furnishings and pictures, the plain Monument stands. Mr. George B. Cooksey gave title to some five acres carriage house and its ancient vehicles, the well-kept gardens and grounds, at the top of Barr Hill and a gift of money from Mr. John S. Kennedy en- the remarkable woodlands accessible by the roads built by Colonel Black more abled the Trustees to buy two tracts on the ridge and top of Green (Cad- than a century ago, and a modest fund for insurance, repairs and upkeep. illac) Mountain thus preserving the summit from exploitation and conserving The Estate is administered by a special committee of the Trustees of which for the enjoyment of the public the highest point on the Atlantic coast of the Mr. Richard W. Hale has been the efficient chairman ever since the trust was United States. In former years two small but unsightly hotels had successive- accepted. Mr. and Mrs. Ellison and their daughters are the courteous and ly occupied that summit and at one time a cog railroad had been operated capable custodians on the premises. The Black Estate is the largest and most to carry people up the western slope from Eagle Lake. important unit now under the care of the Trustees. In 1910 Mr. George L. Stebbins, the alert and diligent Treasurer of the Dr. Eliot continued to serve as President of the Corporation until his Corporation, discovered that a good title could be obtained to some large death in 1926 and he was succeeded by Mr. Justice Deasy of the Maine Sup- tracts in the centre of the eastern half of the island. There was need of reme Court, who had been associated with the enterprise from its inception. prompt action because there was imminent danger that lumber companies would Mr. Luquer, Mr. Albert H. Lynam, Mr. Serenus B. Rodick and Mr. Richard C. get control and cut off the woods. Two new factors made this peril an in- McKown have successively served as Secretaries, and Mr. Stebbins, Mr. Ed- stant one. There had been a sudden increase in the market for lumber and ward B. Mears and Honorable Guy E. Torrey as Treasurers. The often com- the introduction of the portable sawmill had made profitable the cutting of plicated task of searching titles and passing deeds was long under the diligent timber in places hitherto inaccessible. Mr. Stebbins promptly organized a care of Mr. Albert H. Lynam and similar work on the western side of the group of summer residents at Seal Harbor (George B. Cooksey, Richard M. Island has been done by Mr. Schuyler R. Clark. Hoe, Dr. Christian A. Herter, Dr. Edward K. Dunham, Edward C. Bodman, The Trustees of Public Reservations continue to administer their trust with Tracy Dows and George L. Stebbins) and, each taking equal shares, they undiminished fidelity and disinterestedness. They serve the public good re- bought a tract of some 3600 acres including the western slope of Green (Cad- liably and without ostentation or reward. Since 1930 they have been steadily illac) Mountain and all of Pemetic Mountain and the Southern Bubble. This transferring their larger holdings to the Acadia National Park but they are tract had been the property of a promoting company known as the Mount ready to accept and administer additional gifts of either land or money. All Desert and Eastern Shore Land Company which had long been bankrupt and who are interested in one of the most beautiful regions in North America the land had been bought in by one of the creditors at sheriff's sale with will recognize that it is exceedingly desirable that certain areas still held in twenty-two years back taxes unpaid. The new owners took title in the name private ownership should be included either in the Park or in the lands held of Mr. Stebbins and then sold for $3000 to Mr. George B. Dorr the 1600 by the Trustees. As illustrations of properties that are needed to round acres which were within the limits of the town of Eden (Bar Harbor) with out the Park or to protect the views from the hilltops there may be men- the understanding that he would give the land to the Trustees, and they tioned the ridge and top of Brown (Norumbega) Mountain, a strip of land themselves deeded to the Trustees some 1000 acres including Pemetic and the on the northern ridge of Newport (Champlain) which cuts through and severs Bubble. They retained the lowlands for it was the desire of the Trustees Park holdings, and the Porcupine Islands in Frenchman's Bay. Funds are not to withdraw from taxation land that could be used for houses or farms. needed to provide for the better protection of the Black House from fire and In 1912 the executors of the estate of Mr. Charles T. How of Boston for the care and maintenance of the Estate. While all the towns have now and Bar Harbor offered for sale a tract of some 2000 acres including Jordan established public landings there is still need of more access to the shores and Sargent Mountains. To save this important area Mr. Suebbins, with the and for the preservation for public enjoyment of some of the fine headlands aid of Mr. Cooksey, took title to it and then suggested to President Eliot that, and beaches. For historical reasons as well as for beauty of outlook Fernalds as residents of Seal Harbor had given Pemetic Mountain to the Trustees, the Point, the site of the Jesuit Settlement of 1613, should be included in the people at Northeast Harbor might like to contribute Sargent Mountain. This public lands and appropriately marked by a commemorative tablet. The idea was adopted and the $7000 needed was promptly raised. Of this sum, Trustees offer their services as experienced and disinterested custodians of and in view of the protection of the water sheds, the Water Companies of gifts of land or money which will help to carry out the purpose of the trust Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor contributed each $1000. Mr. Stebbins "to acquire. and to hold for public use and enjoyment lands in Hancock County transferred the western half of the tract to Mr. John S. Melcher in order which have scenic beauty or historical interest. that the easements in favor of the Water Company might be established and September 10, 1936. S. A. E. The Hancack County Trustees of Pubic Reservations, An Historical Sketch, 2nd edition. 2016.50 PP. Preface In 1901, forward thinking residents of Mount Desert Island, Maine formed the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations to acquire lands for free public use. Empowered by the Maine Legislature in 1903, over the next decade the Trustees aquired 5,000 acres of land of "scenic beauty, historical significance, scientific study or sanitary value." After negotiating with the federal government for three years, the Trustees First Vice-President George B. Dorr was instrumental in these lands becoming a national momument in 1916, just seven weeks before the establishment of the National Park Service. Three years later the landscape we know as Acadia National Park became the first national park east of the Mississippi River. During the first decade of the Park, land acquisition by the Trustees expanded and transfers to the National Park Service more than doubled its size. In 1928, the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations were bequeathed the Woodlawn estate, the Black House, in Ellsworth prompting consideration of the future role of the Trustees. What motivated such precient actions? How did the Trustees define their role after the creation of Acadia National Park? An Historical Sketch and a Record of the Holdings of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, orginally written by the Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, is published here again, a gift of the Trustees, as part of the celebration of the 2016 Acadia National Park Centennial. This new edition includes two new essays and list of lands, totaling 1,200 acres, donated by the Trustees since 1939. Along with an historical monument on the Blue Hill Overlook on Cadillac Mountain in Acadia honoring the essential role of the Trustees in the formation of the Park, the Trustees also donated to Acadia a last remaining two acre parcel of land near Seawall on the western side of Mount Desert Island. In "The Triumphant March of an Idea," George B. Dorr biographer Ronald H. Epp chronicles the conservation efforts of the Trustees from 1901 to the present day and in "Beyond Acadia" executive director Joshua Campbell Torrance details the Trustees oversight of Woodlawn as both a public park and historic house museum. Photographs by Walter Smalling, Jr., of both Acadia and Woodlawn, enrich the narrative by providing readers with a visual context. With this republication of An Historical Sketch, we hope to tell the story of the hundred year partnership between the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations and the National Park Service, and their common concern for land conservation and historic preservation. Joshua Campbell Torrance Ronald Harry Epp, Ph.D Previous page- Cadillac Mountain at sunrise i. To left- Sunset along Sargeant Drive UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK Lewis, GBD. BAR HARBOR, MAINE S-have Held Ralph t September 17, 1936. by ray 11/18/36. Museum Development in Acadia National Park Education in a national park is carried on essentially by the museum method. The park itself is a museum, in a very real sense; and the educational officers act as curators, explaining the exhibits nature and history have provided. In such a situation the function of a formal museum becomes supplementary. Museum development does not replace the naturalist or historian leading his parties into the field, but gives him another tool for making the park story clear. The park museum is equipped by its nature to serve the park educational program in several ways. In the first place, the museum can explain those park features which are too complicated for verbal treatment. This is, perhaps, its primary function. Secondly, the museum can summarize in one place and in brief time the park story. In the third place, it can reach effectively many of the visitors who do not remain long enough to engage in the scheduled educational events. I. The Need for a Park Museum at Acadia. The need for a park museum at Acadia has been felt for so long and by so many Park Service officials that it seems scarcely necessary to justify it further. However, recent studies (reported in Sections II, III and IV, following) make this need so evident that the reasons for establishing a park museum may be stated with renewed emphasis. Acadia National Park receives over 300,000 visitors each year. The great majority of them are in the Park fewer than twenty-four hours. Less than 5% of these visitors obtain any help in understanding the Park. This situation constitutes the problem of education - of inter- preting the Park to the public. The present educational program is taxed in reaching the fraction of visitors now contacted. The schedule of educational activities leaves barely enough free time to maintain the tonus of the staff, and many of the groups participating already are too large for effective handling. If four men can reach less than 5% of park visitors, it is obvious that expansion of the personnel (while important) can never solve the problem. Furthermore, [full 18-page Report in UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HAR BOR, MAINE September 17, 1936. The Superintendent, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorr: Submitted herewith is Part I of the Acadia Mus eum Plan. This part is devoted to a study of the local situation and to plans for museum development based on this study. Much of the material will be obvious to anyone well acquainted with the Park. However, it was felt that the formulation of a definite foundation was necessary for sound progress in museum development. Your criticism is solicited. Two additional reports will follow to complete the Museum Plan. Work is now in progress on a study of the Park story. The analysis of subject matter will result in a summary and rationale of the Park story which may be interpreted by museum methods. This will comprise Part II of the plan. The third section will consist of the Exhibit Plan, detailed plans and specifications for the exhibits to be constructed. Respectfully yours, (Signed) RALPH H. LEWIS Field Curator. Enclosure, ROBERT M.McBRIDE & COMPANY TRAVEL Publishers 116 EAST SIXTEENTH STREET e NEW YORK Published CABLE ADDRESS Monthly BRIDECO, N. Y. September 28, 1936 Dear Mr. Dorr This is a voice from your long distant past and you misht as well look at the signature at the end and try to recall me before you go any further! I've thought of you often and asked for you when I was in Bar Harbor in the summer of 1935 but we had little time and no one knew just where you might be found. I had visions of you still climbing Schoodic Point - or is it Head?- or taking the footpath to the top of Cadillac instead of that marvellous road which they had only just started to build the summer I spent in your sea-room in 1925. A long while ago. Ever since I've been with this publishing house - almost two years - I've thought of that very interesting material which you let me read and copy that summer, under the delusion that I was "editing" it and won- dered if you have ever done anything since about it. I asked one of our editors here this morning about it and he leaped at the idea. Possibly some other editor has leaped at the same idea since the summer of 1925 and they are already on the way to being published. Won't you let me know? After all, you gave me my editorial start! Actually here I am with "Travel" and not with the book publishing end of it but they occasionally inveigle me into reading book manuscripts, especially when they are in French or German. I saw Mr. Nelson this summer when I was home and hear occasionally from Tudor Gardiner. And met for the first time only this summer our old opponent in the famous "elson campaign - Blaine Viles. And made one political speech while I was home, but came away a little discouraged at the state of the nation, even in my home town. Do you come to New York winters? I should love to see you again if you do. You can always reach me here daytimes and my home address is 15 West 12th Street. Won't you let me know about the old letters - both the Ward correspondende and the later letters to ?? your mother? And how is my little "Tireur d'Epine"?and the Piranesi prints? With kindest regards, believe me Sincerely yours Mary Gosline McBride Parker! 2 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine October 1, 1936. Dear Mrs. Parker: I am glad to hear from you and learn that you have turned your hand again to literary work; the field is endless. I am interested that you recall the oldtime letters you helped me sort and copy. They are all copied now and put away, and I have no plan for publishing them at this time. Whatever may be done with them hereafter, they should be kept together and tied up with the period and its personalities. With kind regards, believe me Yours sincerely, Mrs. Mary Gosline Parker, 15 West 112th Street, New York City. GED-0 Orleans, Vt., Sept. 59th, 1936 Mr. George B. Dorr, Bar Harbor, Maine My dear Mr. Dorr; Net hearing from you, since my call the first of July, in regard to our Hulls Cove property, I wish to inquire if you called at Mr. Graham's office to talk over the plan of the property. I went to see Mr. Graham, after I talked with you and he was going out of town, but said that he would call you when he returned that afternoon. Now, the more I think of it, I am convinced that our Hulls Cove property, should be included in the Park, it is 80 centrally located and the Breakneck Road has always been one of the prettiest drives, and used by many people. The road is very narrow, hardly allowing two cars, or carriages to pass. If the park owned the property, they could make a nice wide drive, and clear the sides of the road under the trees. If the Park had an entrance at Halls Cove, it would be within easy access of people going to Bar Harbor to see Lafayette National Park. I wish that you would take this up with the Park Association, or anyone interested in improving the park. We would consider a fair offer at this time. Yours very truly, Delia Snow Mason, Admr., Snow Retate (Mrs. Hale Mason) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine October 2, 1936. Mrs. Hale Mason 38 School Street, Orleans, Vermont. Dear Mrs. Masons I handed your previous letter to Mr. Clarence B. Dow and Mr. Schuyle R. Clark, who were conducting the submarginal land purchases for the Government, under President Roosevelt's land-purchase scheme, on t be western side of the Island. But, as I recall it, the price you mentioned would n of permit the inclusion of your land in their optioning for the Govern- ment; and later, restriction was placed upon the amount of funds available for such purchasing which limited it to the western area. I agree with you entirely that your and above the Breakneck Road would be appropriate and desirable for the Government to acquire in defining the Park land in that section on the north, but there is no one but the Government itself to purchase it. No funds for this are available from a private source. It may be that further funds for purchase by the Government mayidba e made available later and if they are, I shall gladly bear your land in mind, if it still remain unsold. Yours sincerely, George B. Deer Superintendent OBD-0 Page lof4 Circa 1936 Points of Interest to Visit in Acadia National Park Notes by the Superintendent The Ocean Drive along the shore from Sand Beach to Otter Creek extending around Otter Cliffs Point in the site of the former wartime radio station. The central feature on the Drive is Thunder Hole, from whose cavernous depths the surf comes booming back with tremendous sound when the tide serves and billows come rolling in. There is a wide parkin space off the travelled way opposite this point and a ranner cabin where informa- tion or ranger service may be secured. Along the whole length of the ocean front upon this Drive a beautiful walk extends from which people may -0 down onto the rocks to sit and watch the sea. Beyond, at the eastern end of the Drive is the Sand Beach which is private property but kept open to the public by the courtesy of the owners. To reach this beach a well-marked path descends from a parking ground built by the Government opposite its western end. . The beach, set between bold and rugged headlands, is one of the most attractive features on the coast and widely visited. 2. the summit of Cadillac Mountain, the highest mountrinous elevation fronting the sea on the entire Atlantic coast of the United States. From it one looks out over a vast ocean plain to a far horizon limited to vision only by the curvature of the earth. This summit is the crowning height in Mount Desert Island's mountain chain which forms the nucleus and central feature of Acadia National Park and was itself the first tract to be acquired in the long series of acquisitions that have gone successively to make up its present territory. The ascent to it from Bar Harbor is a masterpiece of engineering, easy of grade and openin; out in its course wonderful views over lake and forest, the sea and distant reaches of a once mountainous land. 3 Sieur de Monts Sprinz at the northern entrance to the deep, forested Otter Creek Corme through which the county road (State Highway No. 3) passes on its way Irom Bar Harbor to the summer residential colonies of seal and Northeaut Harbors, which lie outside the Park. This spring rising from deep, hidden sources and unfailing in temporature and volume, is one of the most widely sought features of the Park, to which people are drawn alike by the cool purity of the water and the beautiful scenery in which it is set. Interesting mountain climbs and woodland trails lead from it and it has become a favorite spot for visitors motoring from a distance to bring their lunch and cat it in the open grove beside it at tables which the Park provides. Close by the Spring is Acadia National Park's Indian museum, set at the mountain's foot and containing only objects found on Mount Desert Island or the neighbor- ing Acadian shore. (This museum was built and endowed through the enthusiasm, the public spirit and antiquarian interest of Dr. Robert Abbe of New York,) long a summer resident on the Island, and, with its story of ancient occupation and a by-gone period, it is well worth visiting. 4 Schoodic Head and Point, a later addition to the Park, where the Government has built a wonderful shore drive, culminating in a magnificently placed parking space amid great rocks against which, after storms at sea, the waves break, flincing high great sheets of spray. : short way back from this, on the best location on the coast for far communications, the Federal Govern- ment has built one of its most important radio stations in replacement of that which was erected at Otter Cliffs during the World War and proved SO excellent in reception that during President Wilson's stays abroad at the war's end it was used exclusively for communicating with him. Back from this by half a mile or SO rises, boldly cliffed, Schoodic Head, 400 and odd feet in height above the sea, from which there is one of the grandest views the world can offer: southward over a vast. expanse of sea, unbroken to the far Antarctic; eastward, to greet the sunrise, down the famous Bay of Fundy, where the first settlement of Acadia was made by France; and west- ward, across the entrance to Frenchmans Bay to the Mount Desert mountains and sunset over the distant Gamden Hills. GeorgeBBoth City y I Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maire Sunday, November 29, 1936. Dear Grover: You and Catherine will be interested to know that I received a telegram today from my cousin, Mrs. William C. Endicott - in Boston -- telling me that William died yesterday afternoon of a sudden heart attack. I am taking the train up tomorrow to see my cousin and be present at the service. I saw by the paper the other day that your friend Von Swerigen, on straightening out whose affairs you told me you had done much helpful work last year, had suddenly died. I trust that, in whatever reorganization this may involve your work will be duly placed and recognized. With kindest regards to Catherine and to the children, one and all, I am Sincerely yours, [G.B.DORR] GBD-0 Mr. Grover O'Neill Oyster Bay, L.I. New York. (1 of % F. MANCHES SHIBHA S o when I G.B.DO a 12 Acr bor F. MANCHESTER 17 Acres GEORGE B. DORR former Wilson Lot. GEORGE 36. 5 Acres RIGHT OF WAY- OLD ROAD SHIP HARBOR 76.7 Area at High Tide 23 Acres WILD GARDENS OF ACADIA GEORGE B. DORR former Cobb Lot former Richardson Lot. 37 Acres 41.4 Acres N. E W CHESTER UNITED DORR 2 Acres STATES GOV. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR. RGE B. DORR 76.7 Acres PLAN SHOWING PROPERTY OF GEORGE B. DORR. AT SHIP HARBOR , HANCOCK COUNTY, ME. SCALE : 1" = 600' 20 EXCHANGE PLACE NEW YORK December 4, 1936, Dear Cousin George: I felt very sad to hear of Mr. Endicott's death. I take it that you will have returned from Boston. I am sorry that you had to go down on such a sorrowful errand. Catharine was ready to join you in Boston had you wished to have her. I have always had a particularly warm spot for Mr. Endicott, because, during my early days in the security business, I took it into my head to try to do business in Boston. I was told that it would probably be fruitless. But Mr. Endicott and a number of others did business with me, and on my return to New York the work was very nicely recognized. Mr. Endicott helped me very much. You asked the other day what the attitude of business is towards the election. For the most part, the financial district was completely flabbergasted by the great size of the electoral vote. And it has been remarkable to see how little the election is talked about. Also, criticism of Roosevelt, which used to be continual on all meetings and occasions, has pretty well dried up. I was very much in an in-between position, because it didn't seem to me, judging by what Landon had to say, that he offered anything different from Roosevelt's program; and that, in any event, he would not be able to effect more than a 5% or 10% change therein. The opinion seems to be general that business is going to go ahead no matter who is president, providing the government does not actually place obstructions in its path. This I feel the govern- ment is less likely to do now than it has been in the past. I went out to Cleveland to attend Mr. Van Sweringen's funeral. I don't know just what the future holds for the organi- zation or for me. But I am keeping my ear to the ground. You may be interested to know that Jimmie Robbins of Bar Harbor is now associated with me. With warm regards, I am Very sincerely yours, Green Ohisin George B. Dorr, Esq., Bar Harbor. Maine. Dorr visits Biltmore "in old days UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE COLONIAL NATIONAL MONUMENT YORKTOWN, VIRGINIA Dec 12-1921 Dan the Don Today light a copy of a letter but you by Mr Helines relative to the by ing kip that I made to 4 ok from last summer. l turned your personal check over to the clerk here, and it was subsequently lost somebow. They are now asking for only a re-issue of the same check. I and earry that you are being troubled So much about the matter a week ago I took the little penal sheteh of to a fucture Lawners, and you will get it toon. Last Saturday thiss Guruse winted we to lunch with lee is Washington also present were the (parist) and thas John Parll of Richmond it was very pleasant 2 Last month I oristed the Betwas Estate at Ashuille and was greatly impressed by the magnificance of the house and the beauty of the landrabing the Beadle (ap ) shaved us through the place We remembers your insiting Biltinors in the old days. what pleased me as much as anything else was to see the two brick and budge. from Clustead's Hice. WE had a good tup in the Smakeis The weather was lovely But the visiblity very per Lots of usel in the office - Ignor we will always be busy Best regards to you and you administrative family Charles Rituson UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON December 18, 1936 Mr. George B. Dorr, Superintendent, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorr: The plan for museum development in Acadia National Park, for- warded with your letter of November 14, has been studied by officials of the technical branches concerned. With their concurrence I am approving it. In accepting this plan, I note particularly the urgent need for museum development in Acadia National Park. We sincerely hope that funds may be found to provide for such development. It is noted that you have selected a site for the central museum. We trust that it may be reserved until the museum building can be erected. Sincerely yours, A. E. Demaray, Acting Director. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR December 19, 1936. Mr. George B. Dorr, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorr, Your friendship has meant so much to me, both personally and officially, that I cannot let the Holiday Season come without specially wishing you and those close and dear to you the merriest of all Christmases and the fullest measure of good health, contentment and happiness during the coming year. Sincerely, Commun Arno B. Cammerer, Director. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine. December 19, 1936. Old Corner Book Store, Boston, Mass. Gentlemen: will you kindly send to Mr. George B. Dorr the following books: Peary William Herbert Hobbs Elizabeth Fry Janet Whitney Brookings Hagedorn In the Steps of St. Paul Morton The Higher Learning in America. Hutchins America's Heritage from John Stuar Mill Morlan Yours truly, G. M. Okkes clerk. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine December 21, 1936. Miss Mabel Harlow, Interior Decorator, 164 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass. Dear Miss Harlow: I thank you very much for your kind interest in my old China chair problem kindly brought to you for me by Miss Bullard. The chair was sent out to my grandmother by my uncle, then in China, near ninety years ago and I see how difficult it has become to replace the old damask seat. The damask on the chair's high back shows little wear and my feeling is, on getting your letter, that it may be best to depart wholly from the damask-covered seat, with its fragile character in use, and substitute for it, the chair seat being well finished in its teakwood beneath it, a cushion of some suitable material -- leather possibly that will attempt to be no more. So I write to ask you to give up the quest you have so kindly undertaken, bearing it in mind, however, should chance throw in your way some such material as you were questing for, and to send me back the worn damask of the original seat. Please let me have your own account for service rendered. I shall keep your firm address in case other problems shall come along that I will be glad to consult you on, and remain, Sincerely yours, George B. Dorr. C O P Y Dear Tom, [Ward J.] I drove out with Bessie to Salem with Fanny Mason in her car for the service for William Endicott, and on the way she told me much of you, of whom I was most glad to hear. I write this line to take you, and convey to her as well, the best of Christmas Greetings. You and I are the last of our generation in our Grandfather Ward's family with tts old Salem tradi- tions and recollections of the Park Street home. Bessie told me of your going, an honored guest, to the Harvard Tercentenary and of the interest you took in it. They tell me it was a great occasion with its gowned and hooded representatives from the great universities of the world, but that Jupiter was too 'pluvius' for the full beauty and pleasantness of the closing scene. My sight went back on me some four years since and I go nowhere now where people congregate, but my mind is as active still and in- terested as ever and with others to read to me my 1932. days are full. You have, as you always did have, a marvellous vitality, body and mind alike, with which my thought of you is associated always. Most affectionately, Your cousin, (Sgd) George B. Dorr. December 23, 1936. Page lof5 [Draft] THIS INDENTURE etc WHEREAS the said property hereinafter described consisting of lands and easements is all held in private ownership by the said George B. Dorr, and WHEREAS the said George B. Dorr is desirous of enabling the Federal Government to continue its road development through Long Field, so-called, in the Town of Bar Harbor, and along those portions of the Harden Farm Road, and Ledgelawn Avenue Extension, which were discon- tinued at the annual town meeting of the town of Bar Harbor, in 1936, as said proposed road development was shown on plans presented at said meeting, NOW THEREFORE, etc (description) Excepting and reserving to the grantor herein, his heirs and assigns the right of ingress and egress for the benefit of the remaining land of said grantor known a S Long Field, over the land herein granted, and any roads which may be constructed thereon. 2 2. Excepting and reserving to the grantor herein, his heirs and assigns, the right to cross the lands hereinabove conveyed, by foot-path crossing, together also with the right of taking pipes or conduits for any or all purposes, as need may arise, through any or all culverts or bridges laid out or constructed across the land hereinabove described as conveyed. Provided however that the grantee herein, its successors or assigns, shall keep the land hereinabove described as conveyed, open and free from obstruction between it and the lands retained by the grantor by fence, hedge or other barriers but excepting from the above SO much of Lot No. One as Lies between the east side of said lot and the center line of the proposed road to be buNt al ong Long Field. mhats or Pail Provided also that any road built over, part or whole, the Harden Farm Road as discontinued from the Gorge Road to a point near Kebo Spring (the dis- continuance of the road above referred to being made by the Town of Bar Harbor, at its annual meeting in 1936) or any road built in accordance with the plans submitted to the annual town meeting for 1936, concerning the 3 3. discontinuance of the Harden Farm Road, shall have access to the not discontinued, northern portion of the Harden Farm Road with which it connects near Kebo or Burrill Spring, substantially in the manner as shown by plan has the tants attached hereto and made a part hereof; and shall be maintained and administered under the gener al Park road regulations, having always in mind the interests and desires of the public; and it |is further provided that all roads built shall be built generally in the same location as shown on said plan as submitted to said town, and on which action by said Town was based. Reha Red #4 TO INCLUDE IN DEED l. The right to retain in use and to maintain the five- foot foot-path built by me, twenty years ago down the length of the Long Field, between it and the former Ledgelawn Avenue Extension Road. 2. The gift of this land is made and the favorable action of the Town of Bar Harbor on the Federal Government's request for the surrender to it of its Harden Farm Road System around the Great Meadow was secured on the basis of the Government's adherence to the plan exhibited under instruction from the National Park Service at the Town's annual meeting, with such minor modifications only as further engineering study may show to be desirable. 3. Contrary to the original intention as understood by the donor and by the Town of Bar Harbor before and at the time of its annual meeting, the construction of the new road replacing the road system surrendered by the Town is now planned to be dealt with not under a single but under three separate contracts, the surveys for one of which only is drawn up, leaving open still the details of the other two. 5 Ju Include Dard page 2 Assurance is asked the the general intention of the entire system as shown in the map prepared for exhibition at Town meeting and conversations with Chief Landscape Architect Vint will be carried out in the contracts yet to be drawn. Pg-309 Maine's Second National Park P. 310. of Hollingsworth and Whitney. To Chisholm, he wrote: "Our objec- and Governor Brann had been to Washington, seeing, as Avery tion is not a national forest as such, but to the wide-open provi- wrote, "about the possibility of enlarging the Katahdin Park-pri- sions of the law which completely surrenders sovereignly to the marily, I suppose, through acquiring Ross's lands." The next week, Federal government." Wardwell's other nightmare was the loss of Avery, back in D.C., received a letter from Ross, asking him to meet timber that, in his words, would "be sterilized." He expressed his Governor Brann at the Mayflower Hotel and lobby him hard. fear to William Hilton that the 1933 proposal would take out 1 mil- Avery's willingness to intervene seems due, in constant refer- lion acres "and drive us to New Brunswick for at least part of our ences in his letters, solely to his concern about conditions at Baxter supply." Hilton agreed, writing back that it might jeopardize 40,000 Park, which he found "disorganized." cords to be hauled over "King" Lacroix's railroad from Umbazook- He wanted facilities for visitors to obtain lodging and meals of sus to Eagle Lakes. ample quality. The closing of a camp annoyed him. He fulminated This flurry of national forest proposals, despite support from against "the haphazard laissez-faire system at Katahdin" and felt the such powerful individuals as Walter Powers and Curtis Hutchins of need for regulation, supervision, and authority. Otherwise, he the Passamaquoddy Land Company, never came to any fruition. wrote, "Katahdin, instead of the pride of Maine, will become the [Then, in 1936, the idea of a national park to be centered in the symbol of a state and a people which either have not the inclination Katahdin area, subsuming Baxter Park, was born. or the ability to preserve their priceless treasure." In the light of the current push for a 3-million-acre national On January 12, 1937, Avery sent a letter directly to Baxter park in the same vicinity, its story is worth telling in some detail, expressing his concerns. No direct reply from Baxter is included in especially now that the Myron Avery papers have been made avail- Avery's meticulously chronologically kept correspondence, and a able at the Maine State Library. week later, he wrote to Ross: "What do you think of undertaking a Myron Avery, the key figure here, was in 1936 an admiralty campaign to have the federal government create a national park in lawyer working for the U.S. Maritime Commission in Washington. the Katahdin region?" Until then, neither he nor Ross had specifi- Avery, who considered himself a Maine man from Lubec, also cally mentioned a national park. Another letter at this juncture in was said to be the country's leading expert on Katahdin and held Avery's collection is most puzzling. It is a copy of a confidential let- the prestigious position in the hiking world of president of the ter from Baxter, mailed six months earlier to a Dr. E. A. Pritchard Appalachian Trail Conference (not to be confused with the of the National Park Service, and there is no explanation of how it Appalachian Mountain Club). came into Avery's possession. Among Avery's letters is one sent to Percival Baxter on March In this possibly purloined letter, Baxter is absolutely scathing 1931 13, 1931, expressing his delight in reading about Baxter's "gift of a toward unnamed "landed interests" desirous of selling their holdings three-eighth interest in T3 R9, the Katahdin Township" to the state. to the Feds and "posing as being interested in parks," adding "For Included with this missive was a gift of his own to Baxter, a supple- twenty and more years, these very people were the bitterest oppo- ment to a bibliography on Katahdin and two articles on the region nents of the Park idea in any form." Then, having cited his own park immediately north of the mountain. His ending could not have been accomplishment "only after a long and tiresome contest, absolutely more cordial. "As a citizen of the state, I wish to be one of many to single-handed and in the face of abuse and bitterness that you would express an appreciation of your very generous and far-sighted act." not believe possible," he sounds two themes he would use again and Why, then, five years later, did Avery listen to Harry F. Ross again in the ensuing debate on the national park idea: 1) that he had and then cooperate with him on a plan to enlarge the Katahdin state plans for "a large and suitable state park," which he couldn't yet park into a national park? They met in New York and Ross said he reveal; and 2) that if the Park Service wanted a national park in