BURE Athletic Field the $2.00 A YEAR BAR HARBOR, MAINE, WEDNESDAY WATERSPORTSDRAW WILL BUY LAND FOR WOULD-HAVE ANNUAL FLY FROM A LARGE GALLERY RECREATION CENTER MEETING IN AUGUST TO BA fundreds at Swimming Funds Will Be Raised By Big Public Meeting Thought Much CurtisPlan Worth While. First Meet- Club Friday Morning Popular Subscription ing Thursday Evening bor Mond The committee appointed at the IANY ENTRIES IN SPORTS TO COST ABOUT $4,000 A.P PILLOT citizens' meeting of last Thursday to consider the advisability of changing econd Day of Aquatic Sports Even Public Meeting Thursday Evening Sécond Visitor of the time of Bar Harbor's annual town Decided to Buy and Develop Land Enjoy Flig More Successful Than meeting from March to September, has Adjoining Athletic Field tropolis Was the First met and will recommend that the change be not made. In place of a town meet- The sentiment unanimously expressed A. P. Pillot of N The weather was ideal for the water ing an annual public mass meeting at at the citizens' meeting at the municipal summer visitor to >orts at the Swimming Club Friday which residents and summer residents offices Thursday evening was that the o Bar Harbor. orning. The largest number of entries may discuss matters of policy in municipal five acres of land adjoining Athletic Field the harbor Mond the different events and the unusually affairs has been suggested. The first hydro-aeroplane rge gallery made this another gala day should be secured for the use of the meeting will be held tomorrow (Thursday public. It was voted to buy this land having stopped a season of unusual success at this evening.) The report of the chairman pular club. This was the second day and to raise the necessary funds by public head and York on follows: subscription. The price is to be not Pillot had an ex the present season set apart or water The committee that was called for orts and its success more than justifies more than four thousand dollars. No him. While here August 23, 1920, to discuss the advisa- ejjudgment of the officers of the club subscription of more than $25 will be Mr. and Mrs. P bility of petitioning the legislature to accepted from an individual. It is Devon Cottage, E reviving the custom of staging two change the date of the town meeting hoped by the committee in charge that flew to Northeast lys of these sports in a season. The from March to September, reports that fice reports an even larger sale of there will be a very large number of lunched with frie such a change does not seem feasible, ckets than in the previous event and subscribers for sums ranging from five to Bar Harbor la in view of the fact that the majority entries were as numerous and the cents to twenty-five dollars. Any He left on the retu of the residents have no legal impetitions as interesting as in any amount over and above the actual cost and Mrs. Edward status and that where the experiment of the land will be used in its develop- who came here ea milar event in previous years. was tried elsewhere in the state it proved C. P. Barnett was chairman of the ment as a recreational center for the a Curtis flying b to be impracticable. make the air trip immittee that so successfully staged resort. The committee begs to recommend Charles F. Paine was chairman of the Bar Harbor. e event. The judges were: Col. as a substitute for this proposed change assatt, Dr. James F. Mitchell and meeting. George B. Dorr was the first Reports from al that a meeting be called for Thursday dward Browning. Col. DeWitt Clin- speaker. Mr. Dorr outlined the propo- cate that the popu night, August 26th, 1920, at eight Falls was referee. Arthur D. Addi- sition and emphasized its importance travel is rapidly o'clock at the Assessors' Office to dis- n was starter. The time-keepers were: as the one natural gateway connecting each season will cuss/ the practicability of holding annu- ol. Reginald S. Huidekoper and Capt. the town |with the Lafayette National people traveling b ally a mass meeting, in which the summer Park. Mrs. Max Farrand told of her Pillot left New Y hn H. Potter. Edgar Scott was the residents and towns people may discuss inouncer who kept contestants and desire to see the whole tract developed the Cape the first the policies of common interest for the allery well informed of the progress as a center for athletics and for all sorts Saturday morning ensuing year. the events. of recreation. Others spoke briefly in land at Marblehe FRANK B. ROWELL. Following are the results of the com- favor of the purchase. After a general heavy fog. The etitions: discussion of the matter it was unani- Sunday in a sou Beginners' race, 10 yards,: Carlo mously voted to purchase the land by away during the winter and consequently plane getting as on Stumm, Philip Livingston, Natica public subscription and that the follow- had no voice in the meeting. A com- The flight from Y eAcosta, Peggy McKittrick, Cummins ing committee take charge of raising mittee, consisting of Mr. Clark, Mrs. completed Monda atherwood, Eliza Mitchell andReginald the funds: George B. Dorr, Mrs. Max R. B. Bowler, Frank B. Rowell, Charles The plane was a Shea and L. A. Austin, was appointed Ving; won by Carlo von Stumm in Farrand, Louis B. McCagg, Jr., John J. est during its sta 3 seconds, Natica DeAcosta, second and Emery and E. A. Graham. This com- by the chair to consider this matter and may be quite con mittee has power to enlarge. It was to call a public meeting at a later date. liza Mitchell third. people here still also voted that the land, when acquired them as curiositi Boys' race (12 years and under) 0 yards: A. Zantsinger, E. C. Williams, be held by the same trustees who hold The last of the regular Wednesday Athletic Field. evening hops at the Malvern hotel will attended and enj mos Eno, H. Garret, Conway Olm- tead, Robert Ayer, J. Espey; won by At the close of this business, E. S. be held this evening. These dances, portion of the Bar Zantzinger in 18 seconds, J. Espey Clark was asked to address the meeting which are held Wednesday evenings in as well as by many July and August are always among the the nearby resorts. econd and E. C. Williams third. and spoke of the proposition of asking Girls' race (16 years and under), the Maine Legislature to change the date enjoyable features of a Bar Harbor which plays for th season. This year has been no exception at the Malvern 5 yards: Mary Baker, Mary Steichen of Bar Harbor's annual town meeting and these pleasant affairs have been popular with the nd L. Stewart; won by L. Stewart in to August or September instead of March seconds, Mary Baker second and as at present. Mr. Clark said that the 0 reason for this was that all of the summer Mary Steichen third. residents and many of the residents were Films and Boys' diving (16 years and under), Supplies Kodaks dives of contestant's own choice: 'ratt, Thomson, C. C. Zantsinger, Only authorized agents in Bar Harbor for Eastman / cap 1935 History of a Tract of Land 1908 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 field 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, A Y.M.C.M C. YWAA A 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 Y.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. Diotaphone - transcribed October 15, 1941. I acquired the lands west of the Athletic Field and secured the Park Office site at the beginning of my work for a major group of Public Reservations with the thought clearly in view of such an approach to them as I am now offering the National Park which presently sprang out of my undertaking. The Athletic Field, the fundamental feature of the whole undertaking, I made safe for all time, ae long as Bar Harbor will endure, by giving it to the Town with restrictions against any building being placed upon it; the land west of it, held personally for a time, I placed in the hands of the Dorr Foundation, created for the express purpose of holding it, to insure its safety, independent of myself, as a n essential feature In the approach I planned to the Great Meadow, central to my scheme of the Reservations. Those ohosen to constitute the Foundation were people I felt would understand and be in sympathy with the spirtt of my work and the end I had in view, and it is that corporation, hot I, that controls it now and has the duty to see that my original plan for a beautiful and undisfigured entrance from the Town to the group of Public Reservations lands which I was gathering is worthy of the whole and of what it leads to. The traot of land which the Dorr Foundation corporation has reserved in its gift of the entranco to the Park, the Park has no need of or use for at the present time nor in the future 80 far as oan be seen; all that the Park Service officials at Washington desire it for, as I understand it, is to make sure that no use will be made of it in the future alien to what I now propose for the unique character of the whole as an entrance to 2. thoimportant National Park area. The members of the corporation and I with them, most gladly agree to Lifthing whatever can best secure this purpose without sacrificing the purpose for which the reservation was made, important also to the Park in my judgment and in theirs. This land did not enter into the question when bill for the taking over by the Government of the National Park headquarters site and its buildings was entered, not necessary to it, but was held in teserve with the intention of offering it to the Government later in free gift, when such plans as have now been adopted, plans with which I am more than content, had been worked out. All that I or the Foundation want is to make permanent so far as is humanly possible the opportunities secured. It has great opportunities and should be as enduring . int the accomplishment, if rightly done, as the Park itself. I oan see now danger ahead in the Park-Foundation control, nor what I control myself which lies immediately beyond it. But beyond that, between it and the actual entrance on the Park there is a good bit to be done to make the opportunity that offers there secure and developed to its best and fullest.