Sealtharbors Origins the 1 Address of That Edward S. Dana To Hug not 12.1931 SHVIS Our honored friend, who has been our resident for the past year, has asked some of us to tell what we know of the history of our Summer Colony in Seal Harbor or Seal Cove as it was called on the early steamboat maps. It is a gratification to have a share in this work for one who alone can claim that this Earthly Paradise has been his home for thirty- geven consecutive summers. In years, however, he takes off his hat to our esteemed citizen, Captain Charles Clemont, now approaching eighty- nine. It was his ancestor, John Clement, who established the first home here in 1809. This notable fact was commemorated by our Society when the Village Fountain was dedicated one hundred years after. My part in this historical ensemble is much of it personal and has to do chiefly with the development which we owe to Mr. George B. Cooksey who first came here in 1891. He was attracted to Seal Harbor by what he then miss many our had heard of its charms from his sister-in-law, Mrs. Edward Dunham who spent the Summer here in 1890. Mr. Cooksey's appreciation of the beauty of Seal Harbor and the ossibilities of its future was immediate. His first step was to buy from the Clements, at whose then very medest hotel he was stopping, the rocky point and adjacent land at the opening of the harbor. This point had till then been called Clements Point and a line of rock cairns, along the hillside now dotted with cottages, guided the occasional summer visitor to it. On this land Mr. Cooksey soon built a charming cottage which stood there till the property was bought by Mr. Dang in 1910. It is worthwhile adding that the money paid by Mr. Cooksey was wisely expended by the Clement brothers, Amos and James, in building the attractive hotel which we now enjoy. 2 My coming with my family to Seal Harbor dates from July 1895. I had long known that this Island was the only place where it was possible to escape from the oppressively humid heat of the southern Now England summer when, as a College boy, in the 1860's, 1 was fishing for tro in the Rangeley Lakes of western Maine, Cousins were at Bar Harbor and they brough home enticing tales of the beauty, intense and invigorating air of Mt. Dese rt, also of the saleratus bread and cod or haddock they daily enjoyed. A college professor at Yale, Professor Sumner, who, with others, gav e the Glencove Hotel the reputation of being the home of the intellectuals, urged me in 1895 to take a cottage. To my reply that the expense on Lt. Desert Island was too great for a College Professor, he replied that an enterprising gentleman, Mr. Griswold, had acquired some small lots of land the taxes of which had been long unpaid, and had built simple cottages on them. I promptly obtained the list and chose the most expensive the Asq u $450 for the season and in this cottage we lived through the summer of 189 5. Here I must digress, for the benefit of those who know Seal Harbor only in very recent years, by explaning that the Glencove Hotel stood in what is now our Village Green. The hotel was not beautiful, without or wit h- in, consisting of two square wooden buildings connected across the present ravine by a long high bridge. This led to its being called the - Mr. Rockefeller, whose many and important gifts to our community are too well known to need mention, bought the Glencove in 1920, he had it pul ed down and gave the land to the town for a Village Green. It has receive d constant care ever since the beginning, trees and shrubs have been added, and this development, which makes it our joy and pride today we largely ow e to Mrs. Dunham. Across the road to the south is also the beautiful terrace enclosed by rose bushes. As a matter of history it may be added that in 1895 there as a small building in this spot where soft drinks were served. 3 A thirsty pedestrian today might request its disappearance as proving that the world sometimes progresses backwards. Connective digression takes us up Barr Hill to where Mr. Rockefeller' fine house now stands. Its predecessor was so homely that the gentleman W who built it was grieved to have his brother-in-law, who lived on the hill directly opposite, say, "You may call it the Kyrie, 1 call it the Eyesore" Later abandoned by its owner it was damaged by lightning. Perhaps because of this condemnation a year or two later it W.S rented to Mr. Gherickee, the then Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A clever gentlemen, full of humor and loved by us all, exclaimed at once, "how fortunate to have conductor provided for so dangerous a spot". Apoligizing for these digressions -though you will grant the history is nothing if not complete. I resume my narrative: A few days after my arrival in early July 1895, I met Mr. Cooksey, a friend of fifteen years back. He asked me to take a walk with him and learn of his plans for the development of his property. we walked along our eastern hillside, sat down on the rocks at one of the many view points and he told me of his larger purchases of land in Seal Harbor. The most important of these were the 800 acres extending from where we were along the ocean fromt to a point beyond Little Hunter's Beach. The place where we sat he said ne hoped to divide into saml1 lots, especially for the summ mer- College Professors. His plan unfolded, he asked me "will you tak a lot now?" 1 replied, "1 surely will"- this was after a residence of le SS than a week in Seal Harbor. Professor Rowland of Baltimore, who had already occupied a Griswold Cottage for a year or two joined me; and a little later my brother-in-law Mr. Bristol, also . Matters moved forward at first without delay. Expecting a rapid development, Cooksey had brought his architect here and in a few days 4 weeks the plan of the three cottages on the land chosen were practi ally complete. Mr. Cooksey's health had been seriously impaired at the time of the silver panic or 1893. His intense interest in the Seal Harbor development also taxed him. The climax, a tragic one not to be forgotten came with the formal meeting at the Seaside Casino in late August. The hall was crowded with those interested, presidents Eliot and Gilman and o others spoke warmly of the development plans, but dear Mr. Cooksey took no part, sitting on a front seat with his head bowed in nis nands. A charmin luncheon followed a the Cooksey house, all were merry except thos e who knew the situation. That night Mr. and hrs. Cooksey left for new York and the next day, or the day after , a teleg am announced that Mr. Cooksey's health had completely broken down and the ne, Mrs. Cooksey, and a physician had left for a y ar's absence. 1 will only add that Mr. Cooksey finally recovered in great measure. He was able to occupy his cottage again in 1902 and later made occasional visits to Seal Harbor until he died in 1922 The break down of the one who had made plans so wise, broad, and generous was a critical event in the development of Seal Harbor and par- - ticularly for us three. However, the situation was promptly saved by the arrival from New York 01 Mr. Cooksey's business partner. He dropped every- thing, came here at once and then and for many subsequent summers devoted himself to the many problems involved in the carrying our of Mr. Cooksey's plans and ever with rare energy and good judgment as will be shown in part later. Rowland, Bristol, and myself had special reason for gratitude to Mr. Stebbins. Although the plans for our cottages were complete, we had no legal hold on the land selected when Mr. Cooksey left us so suddenly. This difficulty, however, was adjusted and the building of our cottages went forward and they were completed in the winter of 1895-96. 5 In june 1896, as the boat carried me and my family along Suttons Island, we looked up to the hillside and saw our house finished. Also, all the furniture was in place 9 as directed, and the fire was burning in the kitchen stove. You smile at these details bu : they simply express the care and thoughtful from that time everyone who has settled here received from Mr. Stebbins as long as he was in charge, in fact, for know in how many ways he helps us even today. His official responsibilities, however, ceased when Mr. Rockefeller, in 1926, bought all the property, land and houses, of the Cooksey Realty Company, One minor incident, connected with the building of our three cottages is worth recording as showing the instinctive bravery of the Maine sailor. On December 6, 1895 the vessel from the mills at Bangor, carrying the cypress trim for the three houses, arrived one evening in the harbor, That night a violent wind from the north sprang up, the vessel dragged, or slipped her anchor and started for the open ocean. The two sailora sleeping below were awakened with the scraping against the Cooksey rocks, and remembering that the first duty of the sailor is to save life they sprang off to the shore and and were saved for their families but the Sea Pigeon flew on and she and he cargo were never heard from again. A duplicate order at Bangor was put here through at once and reached just before the river was closed by ice. A cherished plan of Mr. Cooksey's was also the building of the needed roads. The first on to be grappled with was the Sea Cliff Drive, long call ed the Cooksey Drive. At a point near the beginning of this a tablet in the rock at the side tells today of Mr. Cocksey and his work for as. The com- pletion of this road was promised for August 1, 1895 and on that date Mr. Cooksey did in fact drive over it with a horse and a pair of wheels, an im- provised sulky. building Mr. Stebbins carried on the road here and at other points, with the 6 situation as it is today. Seal Harbor is justly proud of the fact that it alone of the settlement on the "Island of the Desert Mountains" has the open ocean and the ragged cliffs above close at hand. TO these cliffs access has been secured to the general public for all time and not to be disturbed even if future cottages perch on the heights above. The path which most of you know, or should know, leads u and down the rocks, and across bridges when called for. It starts into the woods from a pointopposite the end of the Rowland Road, reaches the ingraham rocks and goes on to Hunter's Beach, a distance of a mile and a half This priceless privilege was secured when Lir. Stebbins obtained from some number of the then property owners the payment of three hundred do lars each Mr. Stebbins was as active, wise. and considerate in his dealing with the permanent residents as with the summer visitors. This was shown in man cases. One important step accomplished was the grouping of their homes, early scattered, near the beginning of the Jordan Pond Road. The community also o es to him the present location of the village cemetry, retired and most attractive. Its existence is hardly suspected by the many who whirl by on the Jordan Pond Road. The cemetery has been well laid out, planted with shrubs and flowers, and is well cared for. The world has few spots of this kind SO satisfying to all, and especially to those who have a personal interest in I should like to enlarge on what has been done for Seal Harbor by Nr. McIntire, who asto began his work here in the notable year of 1895. Every- - one knows what the Jordan Pond House is today and what it offers to the guest, but few have followed its wisely planned development year by year from the small building with a single scanty plazza on the west side to what it is t today. Mr. McIntire has shown from the start a rare appreciation of the needs of the summer visitors. He ministers their wants in more ways than with the ur society also one always excellent broiled lobsters. U owes much to him for the 7 work he has done in laying out and keeping in order the paths and trails through the woods and up the hills. In conclusion, you will allow me to boast a little about Seal Harbor-- knowing fairly well the only other , existing nations that may be considered similar in character, namelyvthe coast of Norway and British Columbia, I feel justified in claiming that no where elso in the country can be found a home so beautiful and inspiring in the variety of its scenery, the ocean, forest, hills, and lakes, so invigorating and health giving in its air, and offering so many forms or personal enjoyment on land and sea, as Seal Harbor. The most beautiful single out look out upon the ocean on our Atlantic coast is that from the point where the Champlain Monument stands. 1 hope that each of you may from Seal Harbor the game degree of pleasure and health that it nas given to one so favored as 1 have been. NO NO.2384 Of Seal Harbor Int The Times Pays Honor To A Community Of Charm, Beauty, Romantic History The June sun slid brightly off Continuing a custom of the wave parting smoothly before four years, the printers of the prow of a large open boat the Bar Harbor Times Pub- which turned about a finger of lishing company will have rock and headed into a quiet cove. their annual vacations at In this year of 1809 the pink one time - September 4 granite shores were walled by through 13. blue-green spruce filled with dark Consequently, there will be shadows. To the south the little no Times published Thurs. harbor opened toward a group of day. September 10. islands already called the Cran- The office will remain berries, and at the north was a open during the vacation broad sandy beach scored near period. the center by a brook tumbling down from the hills. The boat moved slowly, for it Hosp. Aux. Gains WH heavily loaded. In it were a man and woman, their three sons, and all their possessions. No doubt $2,500 From the boys jumped over the prow as it grated onto the sand of the beach, closely followed by the Auction, Sale father, eager to claim this spot of which they had dreamed all win- ter. The woman may have hesit- Nearly $2,500 represented net Camp by the village green. Seaside receipt. of the MDI hospital auc- in rated Inn is in the left back- tion and sale held at Southwest All of the research, wri- recopied ground. Harbor last month. according to ting and securing of pictures a report of the committee which for the three pages in this issue honoring the 150th Line' Art Exhibit stated that the auxiliary gained exactly $2,482.32 from the affair anniversary of Seal Harbor's The money will be used for the founding was done by the benefit of the local hospital and Times feature writer LaRue re Green, Bar Hbr for nursing scholarships. Spiker. The committee expressed thanks to those who contributed time and ated in the boat a few moments, Tues., Wednesday funds to make the auction and not yet ready to commit herself sale II success. completely to this land which would be home for the rest of Nearly 50 art exhibitors - and her years. lothing others are invited - will present Liscomb Tourney Whether the man and boys, in- their paintings and sketches at tent on the task ahead, began the "clothes line" art exhibition immediately to unload their east to be held on the Bar Harbor To Be Held At goods, or whether they stood for Village Green Monday, Tuesday a while listening to the wilderness quidated and Wednesday. and the wash of the waves, we do The first time that it has been Kebo, Weekend not know. It is hard now to mea- attempted in Bar Harbor, the out sure the feeling of the early set- and William of-door art exhibition will attract tlers toward the wilderness and Harbor an- thousands where the works of In memory of their devoted the sea which offered freedom they were service to the Kebo Valley Golf amateur and professional artists and new life on the one hand and of 1. Vilia wish the first annual Shirley handahin and possibly death on 2 Page Ten BAR HARBOR TIMESATHURS The Story Of A Century And A Half In Seal (Continued From Page 1) to Ellsworth, reaching there at (eenth century other families had P. Campbell bullt th. an early hour. He promptly on. moved into the neighborhood Hotel. The first summ was Clement. The father was tered his claim, and, as he came George N. Jordan and J. R. appeared that same John and his wife was Deborah down the steps of the title office. his brother. who had been lum. In a recent hist Burns Clement. They had three no doubt with R triumphant beeing up by Jordan Pond were written by Mrs. Lye sons James, Jacob, and Amos. gleam in his eye, he met neighbor burned out. and George built We get a final pieto In 1642 John's father had Bracy going up the steps with the home on the east shore of Bracy Jimmy. triumphant o come from England and helped same thing in mind. Cove between the present aite perity of the comm to settle Haverhill, Massachusetts. After John's death the three of the Harbor Club and the home helped to cut from th In the late 1700's they came to boys abandoned the cooperage of Mim Ina Jordan, his grandman in that year the no Maine and eventually landed near business. Amos eventually went ghter. Other names, still familiar, whart was complete Bucksport. When he reached man- to California in search as gold which were early entered in the Jimmy celebrated th hood, John became a cooper and and wound up his days making Seal Harbor rostar were x T. Ing of the Steam was employed by Capt. Samuel sorghum in Kansas. The porgy Lynam, Daniel Brower, John Desert in August by Hadlock on the Cranberry Islands. business was flourishing at that Smallidge Abner Southard. and (las on the whare a: (This Sam Hadlock, apparently a time, and James and Jacob took others the following verse: stable and prospering citizen, was to fishing. Jacob died in his early By the late 1860's MDI was be the father of the dashing young forties having had two children coming known in other parte of This is a fine who wanderer of GOD'S POCKET The Clements in Seal Harbor to the country 14 became increas It stands in a (In fame by Rachel Field.) day are all the descendents of Ingly obvious that there was more God blem the 1 Seal Harbor is easily visible James, who became known in money in rusticators than in And all they have from Little Cranberry, and, while later years as "Uncle Jimmy porry. and the character of the working there, John had a good Edward ( Clement and his village began to change 11 hears a fine I' many times cast a covetous eye Charles Henry 11. Are fifth and An oxtra story was achial to And alamy in (ro in the direction of the sheltered sixth generation Clements to live Uncle Jinnmy' homestead al the The Steamers wi little cove cutting into the south in the village Edward in descend head of the harbor People from With their halma shore of the great island hump- ed through Uncle Jimmy's mon Now York Histon and Philadel ing up in the northern horizon. Amos, named for Uncle Jimmy's phia, Icea adventurous parhape When he returned to Bucks The may son, Charles Henry and his Krand than the early colliere but no lease port in the fall of 1808, he sug- Uncle Jimmy' imm son, Irving. Mrs. Louise Gray is appreciative of the little herbor's gested to his wife that they move meet, but he dues the daughter of Uncle Jimmy's ditractiveness began to vial' tur to the cove on Mount Desert Is- distinction all way son, Amon, named for Uncle Ing the summer land and establish a home on its readly earned a pla Jimmy's brother who went west In 18:5 the Clemen's build shores. She agreed, and he spent .. a pioneer 111.1 44 in search of gold what 13 now the west wing of the know the winter building a large open . good part Toward the middle of the mine boat to move them down Blue Sramile Inn and 111 144: one Hill Bay. If John paused to absorb the feel of the place the day they landed, he didn't waste much time doing so, for he soon had a bark tent built to serve as a temporary shelter while the log cabin was building. They selected a site near the east end of the beach for the cabin which is said to be about on the place the "Haven" was to be built by R. E. Campbell a good many years later. Nearby John built a large cooper shop. where he and the boys would carry on their trade of barrel making. According to Street's history of MDI: "The hoops were made from the yellow birch sprouts which sprung up quickly wherever the original growth of forest trees was cut away. Sometimes the father and one or another of the boys would make trips along the The stone fountain (rar village's founding The shore in the boat collecting the lier known as the Watering plaque on the sprouts, going as far as the head Tub") which today forms the montament of Frenchman's Bay." the hub of the village. was One autumn. the cabin burned placed and dedicated in and with it almost the whole of 1909 in celebration of the their winter supplies. They mana- 100th anniversary the by ged to find adequate shelter in the cooperage, but eating must have been more than 8 little alim History Of The Summer Colony is ed ged to find adequate shelter in M 3 the cooperage, but eating must History Of The Summer Colony Lamilel later taine have been more than a little glim Will at times that year. Later they Although the summer at Latin phress4 I., these years the ter, built a clap board house on the Seal Harbor now has is own guart list the Inn tend Non eastern hill above the place where the town dock now stands. particular flavor and haracter be drawis from among the Munter M its development over the course wealthy in the business 1.1 in Now By the time James had reach- of year has followed much the The first summer as ed manhood other families had same pattern as that her pearcal in 1441 Alimical moved into the area. John Bracy the 1s chesid Ja. built a home at Bracy's Cove just summer with & land a to the west. Gideon Dodge, a SCR captain, built a home on the south- In his history of M........ Please Island George H. Street makro The by Not both western point of the cove. His home home, which is probably the old- very interesting were est house in Seal Harbor today, He mys alily in is now known as Meadow Cottage. The development summer resorts on the New Kng the All of the land upon which The these people seitled was A part land coart has followed , I the eastern ally of the Bingham estate. William ly uniform law Some beautiful the Harbor began Bingham, you will remember, was place on the rugged shore has when George 11 an English gentleman who was the first been discovered by article in Y can hro the last big landholder on the eastern search of the picturesque or in outlerm Point oil part of the Island. He had obtain- spiring, or by adventurous sports from of James Clement people in ed his rights over the lands which mon or camper OF college all who once sheep there were originally a part of the dents The invelopment of In 1801 Mr Cooksay and a Dr personal French grant to the deGregoires the summer resort then begins by Penrose if Philadelphia some farmer or fisherman taking Neveral by a complicated series of con- ed and cave to the town the rued veyances, mortgages, and sales. these wanderers into his house to along the caolorn shore of the He did not, however, repeat the board He find that the Merber and he new year Mr Island mistake of the deGregoires by venture in highly profitable. and Cookney included the Cookary and active tion trying to make a home on the after A low seasons of very mo Drive Thereafter collage huibi new land himself. Evidently pre- doest and somewhat reluctant on ing the castarn side of the ferring the comforts and safety tertainment he begins to discover a' rapid pain of an established society, he TO the possibilities of the Inveinees Mr. The became the tired to England where he died In A low years the farmer or the firal home the many wholere and in 1804. fisherman grows into the proprie professional that the name His will was probated in Phila- tor of a summor hotel This might well been change, to delphia some years before the (No. stage of development usually las's This Arademy Haven had not the all ment family landed at Seal Har- for several years (and ia) . been 2111 410 atrone bor; and his heirs were therefore brought to a close by the appea Amount the wholes who the legal owners of this part of rance of the collager holding lical rasillance the Island. Since the hoirs too basis for The first written reference we were James Nowland Anyall Pres. were separated from their hold- Anailie have been abin in find to the of Yalo University (: M Overell ings by several thousand miles of the Triest possibilities of the Seal Harbor Professor of Philosophy at Har ocean, the people on the scene color of area as a BUTTINGT resort was who needed to earn a living seem- varil. Merbort Wair Amytha. Pro different that of Charles Eliot in IMHU leasor of 11 brow at Harvard Kit ed to have rights which super- who actyland his father. Dr ward 11 Dana. Proleen of Gave In his seded those recorded on a bit of Charles W. Ellot, than President logy at Yale and others no loan the comm paper in a distant city. -The first step was to move in of Harvard university. to find a omineal. Very n site for A summer home some and build a house. In the books Among the writers who early mails to where along the coast between this possession is called "squat- came to the community were Dr. years 101 ters' rights" a misnomer since "our camp ground on Somes Monry Van Dyko Winston at Seal Sound and Soal Harbor." Young the settlers seldom had time to Churchill (or THE CREDIT not liquire a Eliot had been camping that sum. squat and, when the push came to blood, sweat and toars), and Rx-hard y the ahove, had no inviolable mor on the Sound with a party of James Fund Rhodes. the historian than. Dr Harvard students. rights. Other artiate have included Frita. Christian Almost as soon as the Seal However, the area must have Kreialer, Leupoki Atabowaki. Stabbine, Harbor area became crowded been known to a good many sum Carlon site. equil enough that you could see the mer people prior to that, for the Two physicians, Dr Chalatian of over smoke of your neighbor's chim- sons of Uncle Jimmy Clement Morter and Dr. Edward X. Dun by i bani ney (if you climbed a tall tree), had built what is now the weat ham, had laboratories at their the boom anxiety began to arise concerning wing of the Seaside Inn in 1875. collages and became not only the treas * boundaries and legal title. and Lynam P. Campbell bullt the prominent members of the Mr. Door John Bracy had thoughtfully Glen Cove Hotel In 1833. Both of mar dolany but contributed con- over to b secured title to two hundred these Inns offered facilities for siderably to the health of the the dope acres, and rumor went out that good many guests. entire community by checking the Mountas be also wanted a title to the area In the beginning these two sanitation of the milk and water and made where the Clements were living. hotels seem to have attracted leas of ~ He probably would have got it somewhat different groupe of had a two if son James had been a slo- clientele. Glen Cove full wer traveler. have been the of James rowed himself up the sionals and intellectuals Sound to Someeville where he ob Its roster of guests sometimes tained a horse and rode the wind numbered such n large portion of were a Dane, trail to the Narrows. There be scholars that it is said that the of arried across and bied himself bell hope were wont to construe John D. Jr. who :09." A therefore bought the water sy- purchased the Eyrie from Dr. Samuel Clarke, a physicist, and y later enlarged it; Edward D. Bod- man, grain merchant of New York rs the City; Richard Hoe, produce bro- tend- ker of New York; Charles and D. g the Hunter MacAlpin, hotel owners rld. in New York City; Walter K. es ap- Shaw, a cotton manufacturer of wnin- Concord, Massachusetts; Roscoe from B. Jackson, car manufacturer of ottage Detroit; Edsel Ford, same place rage." and industry; and many others, Nel- both in the early years and since. Soon Summer colonies vary conside- were rably in character and in their d the relation to the local community. or. The one at Seal Harbor tradition- istern ally maintained an interest not began only in developing facilities for e B. its own use but in the welfare of 1 bro- the local community by organiz- Edward C. Clement and Point ed cooperation with the local Champlain Monument in Seal Harbor which commen son Charles Henry II, fifth ment, people through the Village Im- discovery and naming of Mount Desert Island by Samuel and sixth generation of there. provement Society and by their Clements at Seal Harbor - plain in 1604. The original site of the Champlain Monumer a Dr. personal relations. Descendants of the town's in 1904, was on Cooksey drive near Seal Harbor severa truct- road Several of the summer residents founder. yards south of its present location on State route 3. The f the contributed to the welfare of the acres of land on which it stood was the first acreage dona stem and franchise from Lynam Mr. Island as a whole by their early Hancock county Trustees of Public Reservations whose hole oksey and active interest in the preserva- P. Campbell, who had built the led to the establishment of the Acadia National Park. Th tion of MDI's natural beauty. Glen Cove Hotel. He had a sur- build- the stone reads: "In honor of Samuel de Champlain born f the George Stebbins, early summer vey made for the purpose of con- resident who was a partner of demnation at the outlet of Jor- 1567, died at Quebec 1635. A Soldier, Sailor, Explorer an pace. Mr. Cooksey in New York, was dan Pond where the present dam strator who gave this Island its name." the the first Treasurer of the Han- is located. This seemed to be the Pond and began digging a trench the Pond. 8 and cock County Trustees of Public only practical point for taking for laying it forthwith. The contest won, Mr name Reservations organized in 1901. water from the /pond, and Mr. The pipe was so old and inade- who might have served red to This was the citizens' organization Cooksey's lawyer, John A. Peters, quate that there was no chance of try well in the diplom le old set up to encourage the donation began condemnation proceedings its carrying water, but "pipe is approached the rival trong. and to otherwise acquire the land in Ellsworth. lected pipe," they declared. assured them that be holdings which later became the Such proceedings could of In the meantime, the fog had tentions of depriving dence basis for the establishment of the course not go unmarked in a small cleared to some extent, and Mr. munity of adequate Pres. Acadia National Park. Without community, and there probably verett Cooksey's pipe was on its way. rangements satisfacto the Trustees the face and char- seemed no need for secrecy any- were made, and over Har- Having no doubt kept a weather acter of the Island might be very way. However, the news did create eye out for the arrival of the happily over after. Pro- different than it is today. a stir in certain quarters. i: Ed- schooner from his home on the Geo- In his unpublished history of Whether Mr. Cooksey got wind point, he saw her approach the o less the community Stebbins notes: of the fact that he might have Harbor and went down on the "Very notable additions were some competition we do not rocks hoping to be of assistance early made to the reservations in the know. He seems to have been any- in her landing. re Dr. years 1910 and 1911when a group thing but timid in his conception He shouted something but his inston at Seal Harbor, composed of of projects anyway, and he pro- words were lost, and Captain Cox, 3, not George B. Oooksey, Tracy Dows, cooded unperturbed with his own whose ears were intent on the and Richard M. Hoe, Edward D. Bod- plans. He ordered the necessary sound of the waves on the rock, torian. man, Dr. Edward K. Dunham, Dr. pipe from Boston, exhausting the did not recognize him. Fritz, Christian Herter, and George L. supply available in that busy city, "Shut up, you damned fool," the owski, Stebbins, discovering that a good and had it shipped to the Mount Captain yelled and turned back to title could be obtained to a tract Desert Ferry by fast freight. He his own calculations. ristian of over 3600 acres once owned had chartered a steamboat with His ear for surf on rocks must Dun- by a bankrupt land company of Captain William Cox on board to have been a good one, for the their the boom days of 1887, bought supervise the navigation for pipe -landed safely and trans- only the tract and arrangement with transport on the last leg of the ported to the outlet of the Pond sum- Mr. Dorr of Harbor, turned journey to Seal Harbor. However, with a gang of workmen, where d con- over to him some 1600 acres on another summer) visitor to the Is' the rival company was already of the the slopes of Green (Cadillac) land, dense fog, delayed the final hard at it. ing the Mountan in (the Town of Eden arrival of the pipe. Therewith began a real dirty water and the reservat- This delay, acting as a sort of war of attrition. The dirt flow ions of Pemetic Mountain and the deus ex machina in the drama, up and the dirt flew down, one had In the précipitated the climax of the gang of men shoveling it back (John confider which was developing into the trench fast as the of had out concern- hers' could throw it out Before Mr. Cooksey's plans, any casualties occurred word in and near Northeast ved from Elisworth that Mr. A 1927 Harbor. who also held franchise Cooksey's condemnation suit bad Wood, well tracts for taking water from Jordan been completed, leaving no doubt Pond, decided the office of Bartlaibor TimesJuly12, 1956 C. 1: Seal Harbar colliled Page Six BAR Sermon By Rev. Henry Wilder Foote Honors One Of Mt. Desert Island's Early Summer Residents From a sermon preached by father's sloop, reaching Somes school. he preached his first ser- Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, D. D. Sound, and set up their camp at mons in some of the churches of -hurch of Northeast Wasgatt's Cove, inside Manches- this region. He was the first sec. ter's Point, so happily and succes- retary of the Union Church assoc- ARCHIVAL July 8 at the unveiling of a tablet sfully that the Champlain Society iation and its earliest records are Francis G. Peahody of Dr. Samuel Atkins continued there for several sum- in his handw. ting. He took part Eliot and his wife, Frances Hop- mers. The immediate result for in the dedication service in 1889, kinson Eliot by their sons Samuel the Eliots was that Charles advis- and was the sole survivor of those uncle of A. Eliot, Jr. and Charles W. Eliot. ed his father to purchase land and who had part in it, when. in 1939, Rev. Samuel A. Eliot build a summer home on the he gave the fiftieth anniversary The subject of the sermon was "A Desert Place Apart". shore between Northeast Harbor address. He followed his father On this island, and along the and Seal Harbor He did so, and and his uncle. Prof. Francis G. coast to the east and west, small in the summer of 1881 first occup- Peabody of beloved memory, in 1881 communities whose folk lived by ied the house on Asticou Foreside the happy task of inviting disting- fishing and farming had been in which he died in 1926. It was uished preachers to speak from well established before the earliest one of the two or three earliest this pulpit on summer Sundays, residences here and he himself preached her. in summer visitors put in an appear- Northeast Harbor was then a almost every summer of his .ong ance, about one hundred years ago. Those visitors, when they very small community. There was professional career came, were seeking a quiet place no village street lined with shops, This is not the occasion re- apart where they could rest only a road through the woods count his outstanding services to awhile from the noise and tumult from the head of the harbor to religion and to the nation which of the great cities and the press- Squire Kimball's boarding house. marked his career elsewhere. He ings burdens of their busy lives. The mailman drove to Somesville was a persuasive and eloquent Their story is well illustrated in twice a week to fetch and carry preacher: one of the committee the record of a single family which mail, or one could drive an all- which prepared the hymn-book we has been for many years closely day round trip over rough roads are using here today; a very cap- associated with this place and this to Bar Harbor to mail a letter, or able administrator of church bus- Eliot church. send a telegram. or consult a doc- iness at the head of his denomina- Dr. I recall vividly Dr. Charles W. tor. In those days Mount Desert tion, yet always concerned to pro- Eliot's account of his first exped- was accessible only by boat, and mote interdenominational cooper- ition to these shores It must have the voyage from Rockland throu- ation as exemplified in the sum, been in the summer of 1857 when gh the channels among the islands mer services of this Union Church he, a young man not long out of was a beautiful way of reaching and in the Mount Desert Larger 1857 college, and his friend Moorfield it. It was indeed "8 quiet place Parish. He was a promoter of pri- Storey, and probably two or three apart" for those who came to find son reform and was the friend and others, travelled to Rockland relief from "the madding crowds' helper of the American Indians where they chartered a small fish- ignoble strife." who, in many parts of our country ing schooner which they were able Before 1883 there seem to have have suffered much at our hands. to handle themselves. They scud- been no regular religious services Today I must limit myself to re- Elist ded across Penobscot Bay before in Northeast Harbor and the near- minding you of how much he did a strong west wind, one man steer- est church, at Southwest Harbor, for this church and this commun- Family ing, another holding the then very was accessible by boat in fair wea- ity so dear to his own and to his inadequate chart, trying to loc- ther. But in 1883 summer services wife's heart. She too had spent ate reefs ahead and the channel were begun in the village's one- her summers here since 1883 between the islands There were room schoolhouse. This led to the when, in her girlhood, her par- very few lighthouses and almost organization in 1886 of the Union ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hopkin- no navigation marks, but they church association on an interden- son, had first boarded at Squire came through safely, and had ominational basis, with member- Kimball's. They built their sum- their first sight of these hills and ship open to summer visitors as mer cottage, and entered into the harbours. well as to permanent residents. life of this church. In her writ- In the early 1870's Dr. Eliot, by Samuel N. Gilpatrick gave the ing and in painting Mrs. Eliot has that time the youthful president land on which this church stands. recorded some of the charm of of Harvard, came again, this The building committee consisted this island. It had for them both a time to camp for a few weeks in of Dr Eliot and Messrs Danforth sacred quality, as a quiet place several successive summers on and Ansel Manchester: and a apart, where men and women Calf Island, in Frenchman's Bay money-raising campaign was start- wearied with the stress and strain opposite Bar Harbor, then in its ed to erect the structure in which of life elsewhere, could come and early days as a summer resort. It we meet today. The building was rest awhile, refreshed by the sil- was their early acquaintance with completed and dedicated in the ence of these steadfast granite this region which, in 1880, led Dr. summer of 1889. hills, and by the cool sea-winds Eliot's two sons, the elder one, President Eliot and his wife are which drive the surf upon our Charles aged 20, a sophomore in Frightly commemorated in a tab- rocky shores It was a place not college, the younger one Sam, let here. only for fun and amusement, but then 17, to organize a group of It was thus that Dr. Eliot's also for quiet meditation on the college friends into what they younger son, Samuel Atkins Eliot deeper problems of the human called the "Champlain Society" grew so familiar with this island spirit, that those who came to stay to camp out on Mount Desert and and it became a greatly beloved for a few weeks might return to study the hitherto unexamined second home to him. In the sum- their tasks elsewhere with fresh natural history of the island. They mer of 1888. when he was still a strength and courage, faith. and sailed from ;Boston in their student in the Harvard Divinity hope. And their love for this place has been transmitted to the third generation of their child- Henri Hairdresser ren. That is why our service today culminates in the dedication of a Northeast Harbor is Now Open for the Season E tablet in this church in memory of Samuel Atkins Eliot as "a leader Featuring the newest in permanent waving of this Union Church" and of this "BODY WAVE" wife, Frances Hopkinson Eliot, as "a vivid portrayer of times past" Miss Elise and Mr. Henri Jr. who together for more than "sev- enty summers rejoiced in God's have joined our staff this season goodness on this Island". Such memorials bid us Telephone BRowning 6-3659 "call to remembrance the great and good, Those who were leaders of the people by their judge- ment, 1938 974.1(c) 10 c. 2 RANDOM NOTES ON THE TARLY HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT AS A SUMMER RESORT OF MOUNT DESERT ISLAND ..NN particularly SEAL HARBOR BY GEORGE L. STEBBINS -- LUGUST 1938 Note: See B.H.TIMES (8/26/59)for historical essay on Seal Harbor-on its 150th anniversary. 1 Random notes on the early history and development as a summer resort of Mount Desert Island and particularly Seal Harbor. By George L. Stebbins August 1938 The discovery of Mount Desert Island by Samuel de Champlain in 1604 and the various attempts at settlement in those early times are so well known through the accounts of Francis Parkman and others that I shall not deseribe them but commence with the first permanent settlers who established themselves about the year 1768. The Somes Family and others at Somerville, now Somesville, John Hamor, Captain Samuel Hull and others at Hulls Cove and the Manchesters, Clements and others at Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor. The Town of Mount Desert was incorporated in the year 1789 and included all of the Island, Bear Island, the Cran- berry Isles, and other small islands. The Town of Eden, now Bar Harbor was set off in the year 1796, the Cranberry Isles in 1830, and the Town of Tremont, now Southwest Harbor and Tremont, in 1848. In the year 1840 when the town included Southwest Harbor and Tremont as well as the town of Mount Desert, the taxable valuation of the town was as follows: Real Estate $109,290. Personal 59,801. Total $169,091. and it is interesting to note that of the Personal Estate, $37, 850, was represented by shipping, indicating that almost all of the inhabitants got their living by following the sea. The total valuation of the present Town of Mount Desert for the year 1930 was $3,787,000. In 1840 there were in the town: 213 Oxen Now 0 382 cows " 71 52 horses "42 19 pleasure carriages From about 1797 to 1807 the land in the vicinity of Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor was surveyed by John Peters of Bluehill who had moved from Massachusetts to Bluehill, Manne, and had been engaged in "running out" settlers' lots in various parts of Hancock County under the authority of the General Court of Massachusetts. It may be interesting to note that this John Peters became the ancestor of many men later prominent in the affairs of Maine, including two chief justices of the Supreme Court of Maine, the present Judge of the United States district court and the donor to the Trustees of Public Reservations of the Black Mansion and its contents at Ellsworth. John Peters and a son James ran an east and west line starting on Asticou Hill and running eastward to a point on Day Mountain, crossing th Long Pond Meadows north of Long Pond and the Jordan Pond road near the house now owned by James McDrae. North and south lines from this back line to the shore divided the land into settler lots, but when Peters 1 Random notes on the early history and development as a summer resort of Mo nt Desert Island and particularly Seal Harbor. By George I.. Stebbins august 1938 The discovery of Mount Desert Island by Samuel de Champlain in 1604 and the various attempts at settlement in those early times are so well known through the accounts of Francis Parkman and others that I shall not describe them but CO mence with the first permanent settlers who established thenselves about the year 1768. The Somes Family and others at Somerville, now Somesville, John Hamor, Captain Samu 1 Hull und others at Hulls Cove and the Menchesters, Clements and others at Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor. The Town of Mount esert was incorporated in the year 1789 and included all of the Island, Bear Island, the Cran- berry Isles, and other smil islands. The Town of Eden, now Bar Harbor was set off in the year 1796, the Crenberry Isles in 1830, and the Town of Tremont, ow Southwest Harbor and Tremont, in 1848. In the year 1840 when the town included Southwest Harbor and Tremont as well as the town of Mo nt Desert, the taxable valuation of the town was as follows: Real Estate 109,290. Personal 59,801. Total 169,091. and it is interesting to note that of the Personal Estate, 37,850. was represented by shipping, indicating that almost all of the inhabitants got their living by following the sea. The total valuation of the present Town o Mount Desert for the year 1930 was 3,787,000. In 1840 there were in the town: 213 Oxen Now o 383 COWS 11 71 52 horses "42 19 pleasure carriages From about 1797 to 1807 the land in the vicinity of Seal Tarbor and Northeast Harbor was surveyed by John Peters of Bluehill who had moved from Nassachusetts to Bluehill, Mafne, and had been engaged in "running out" settlews' lots in various parts of lancock County under the authority of the General Court of Massachusetts. It may be interesting to note that this John Peters became the oncestor of many men later prominent in the affairs of Maine, including two chief justices of the Supreme Court or Maine, the present Judge of the United `tates district court and the donor to the Trustees of Public Reservations o the Black Mansion and its contents at Ellsworth. John Peters and a son James run an cast and west line starting on Asticou ill and running eastward to point on Day Countain, crossing th Long Pond headows north or Long Fond and the Jordan ond ro d near she house now owned by Jumes cCrue. North and south lines from this back line to the store divided the land into settler lots, us when Peters came to u point on the cust side of Seal Harbor just back o the present residence of rthur Clement, 2 he stopped and made a note in his book that the land east of that point was not worth surveying, "that it was lazy land". That worth- less land now comprises the sites of the Dane, Dunham, Hoe, Ford, and other houses. About 1866 or 1867 a large tract of this land was owned by a man named Porter Brewer who said he wanted to sell it. There were two buyers, James Clement, son of the founder of Seal Harbor, and John Bracy, and Brewer said that he would sell it to the high- est bidder so they sat on the ledge and commenced to bid against each other, starting at 10c an acre and bidding up tuntil finally Clement bid 31.00 an acre and Bracy told him he could have it, it was not worth that. When I made this statement at the Village Improvement Society Meeting at the Seaside Inn, August 12th, 1931, Mr. Charles H. Clement, the son of James Clement said that he re- membered the incident and was there at the time. Mr. Clement died in 1932 at the age of 91. The town assessors recently told me that the square half mile included in this tract is now the most valuable square half mile in the town, including, of course, the buildings on it. When this sale at $1.00 an acre was made, the land was surveyed by Eben Hamor of Town Hill and I was told by my friend, Judge Peters that the next time Hamor came to survey land in that vicinity, it had sold for $2000. an acre, this of course was many years after. The Town of Eden, now Bar Harbor, was set off from the Town of Mount Desert in 1796 and the first town meeting was held at the residence of Captain Samuel Hull of Derby, Connecticut who settled at Hulls Cove prior to 1789 and in this connection it is possible that I may claim to belong to one of the oldest families of the Island for my great, great grand-father was Captain Samuel Hull of Derby, Conn. At first I thought this Captain Hull might be my ancestor but upon consulting "uncle" Eben Hamor who was the sage of the Island at the time I arrived and knew all of the families, I found they were not the same person but probably my ancestor was an uncle of the settler of Hulls Cove. The records show that John Manchester settled in Northeast Harbor in 1775 while the first settler at Seal Harbor was John Clement who came in 1809. In 1796 William Bingham of Philadelphia purchased most of the eastern half of the Island (it being a part of the tract owned by de Gregoire family up to 1792). Mr. Bingham died in England leaving this property in trust for his childre two of his daughters marrying members of the Baring family, and this trust has continued until the present day most of the titles running back to that ownership. At first the early settlers were only squatters but as they became established, they went over to Ellsworth and got deeds for their lots from the Trustees of the Bingham estate paying a few dollars for the titles. The deeds described the conveyances as when to the shore which was considered sufficient until a eew years ago some lawyers searching titles raised the point that they did not convey to low water mark o the sea and we were therefore ob- liged to get deeds from the Bingham Trustees for the property be- tween low and high water mark which were given for a nominal con- sideration. In lookin at the old maps, one of which I have dated 3 1868, it is interesting to note the shift in population from the west to the east side of the Island, at that time the most populous location being around Pretty Marsh, Center, Seal Cove and Bass Harbor which now is the most sparsely settled part of the Island. The Island was brought to the attention of the eastern city dwellers by artists who cruised this way before the Civil War, but very few people came until after that was over, when the residents of Bar Harbor commenced to take boarders, and the first summer cottage, which still stands near the Newport Hotel, now in process of demolition, was built in 1867 by Alphous Hardy of Boston who was followed the next year by Mr. Dorr, father of George B. Dorr, who has done so much for the Island. The attractions of the climate and scenery soon became known to the fashionable world and gradually the boarding houses were re- placed by large, barnlike hotels which of ered very little in the way of conveniences but were mot popular, particularly with the young people. The heyday of hotel life at Bar Harbor was from 1875 to 1885 when the Rodick House was the center of social life, It was situated in the main street extending with its grounds from Higgin's Grocery store down to Cottage Street, the tennis courts being on the low end of the lot. While life was very simple, Bar Harbor was a very fashionable resort and it was consider d quite the thing for a debutante of Boston, New York or Philadelphia, to spend at least part of the summer there. Sproul's restaurant catered to the fashionables and the races of the Kebo Valley Club were gala affairs. When the hotel dwellers commenced to build cottages there was very rapid development and there was an active and rising real estate market from the middle 70's up to the boom year of 1887. The first cottage builders took up the shore property but later the possibilities of the hillsides were seen and farseeing men from the cities planned their development. Charl S T. How of Boston, was the leader of those and did more than anyone else to promote the best development of Bar Harbor, buying large tracts of land and building the Highbrook, Cleftstone and other roads on the hillside. Although the first residents landed at Southwest Harbor, that being the largest village, the development of the west side of the Island came later, and that of Northeast Harbor dates from the year 1880 when President Eliot of Harvard Unitersi bought land and built his cottage and Bisho Doane of Albany stopped at Squire Kimball's boarding house situated on the site of the present Kimball House and also bought land. It is stated that Deacon Kimball was very much puzzled b his new boarder and stated to a friend that he did not know what to call him because he had registered in the style of an English Bilho as William of Albany". It was almost an accident that President Eliot did not settle where Sorrento no v is for his son told me that in 1877 or 1878 he cruised down this way with his tow sons then in collage and made an offer to the Widow Bean for her farm comprising the point at forrento, quite a large 4 tract of land. It was a good offer for that time but was re- fused because the widow thought it so high that there might be some hidden value that she did not know about. It seems that a short time previous silver ore had been discovered at Sullivan Falls and the widow thought that this college professor who was a scientific man had discovered silver ore on her property and that was why he made such a high offer. Dr. Semuel Eliot also tells me that he and his brother camped at Northeast Harbor in 1880 and advised their father to buy land there for a summer home, whereupon he drove along the shore front from Manchester's Point to Seal Harbor and selected the point where the house now stands as the best there was. The development of Northeast Harbor as a hotel and cottage colony was very rapid for the next 12 years and has continued steadily up to the present day. The first settler in Seal Harbor was John Clement who came in 1809 and set up a bark tent until a log cabin could be built. lie was a cooper and made barrels for the Hadlocks of Cranberry Isles. During the next year he settled on the east side of the harbor on land of the Bingham Land Purchase. His sons took to fishing and went to the Magdalen Islands in the springs for herring to smoke for the Boston Market. They succeeded in this business and accumulated enough money to buy some real estate where the Seaside Inn now stands. One of the brothers, James Clement built what is now known as the Homestead Cottage which still stands and in 1869 they sold all interest in the fish busin- ess and commenced to rebuild the old house into a summer hotel which was a success from the start although for a number of years in a small way. In 1884 the Glen Cove Hotel was built on the site of the present Village Green and later an annex was built to this hotel connected with the main buildin by a passage way known as the "Hyphen". In its early days Seal Harbor was noted for the number of literary and scientific men and college professors who made their homes there either at the hotels or in cottages. Among them being Professors Rowland of John Hopkins, Dana and Summer of Yale, Toy and Theyer of Harvard, besides Doctors Edward K. Dunham, Christian A. Herter and Simon Flexner, the authors James Ford Rhodes, Hamilton W. Mabie, Winston Churchill, Dr. Henry van Dyke and others. In fact at the old Glen Cove Hotel the scholarly atmosphere was such that the bell boys were sometimes wont to construe latin prose with the guests. Up to the year 1894 there was very little cottage develop- ment at Seal Harbor, the principal summer residence being that built in 1891 by Mr. and Mrs. George B. Cooksey on the point at the east side of the harbor now occupied by the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest B. Dane. Previous to this Admiral Crowninshield, Mr. R. R. Thomas and Messrs. Boggs and Barr had bought on the west side of the harbor but there was not road to enable people to get to the shore front beyond the Cooksey point and the real develop- ment of the place commenced when the Cookseys bought 800 acres of land with the shore front from their point to beyond Little Hunter's Beach, a distance of about two miles and Mr. Cooksey in 5 1895 built the Sea Cliff Drive and provided an adequate water supply for the place from Jordan Pond. Development followed rapidly and summer cottages were built by Professors Rowland and Dana besides Messrs. Hoe and Bodman and others, and also Doctors Edward K. Dunham and Christian A. Herter who had besides, well equipped laboratories and took and active interest in the sanitary conditions of the place, the milk and water being regul- arly inspected commencing with the year 1902. After the death of Dr. Herter, work in his laboratory was continued by Dr. Henry D. Dakin developer with Dr. Carrell of the Dakin solution which saved many lives during the World War and in 1921 the place was bought by Dr. James B. Murphy of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research making a contin- uous line of scientific men in the same location interested in the welfare of the place. Speaking of these laboratories, there is rather an amusing story in connection with Dr. Herter's. Dr. Herter had a number of monkeys for his spinal meningitis experiments and one day the laboratory attendant was careless and left the door of the cage open, whereupon the monkeys escaped and sought their home in the woods of Mount Desert Island. But finding its natural food scarce, one of them was tempted by the smell of cooking from a cottage occupied by an old gentleman whose cook was broiling a steak for his noonday meal. She wasza good cook and had been in his employ for a long time but unfortunately was inclined to indulge a little too much in the cup that cheers and also inebriates. The kitchen window was open and the monkey seeing and smelling the food, jumped through it onto the shoulder of the cook, who, not knowing what had happened to her, rushed into her master who was equally surprised but soon recovered his composure and drove out the animal. When I came to Seal Harbor in the year 1892 for a visit to my cousin, Mrs. George B. Cooksey, who had recently built her house on the point where the Dane house now stands, there was not a house on the Jordan Pond Road. There were two hotels and only five cottages which had been built for summer residents, although there were a few other houses owned by the permanent residents, which were rented in the summer time. The water supply was from a dam in the brook about half way up the Jordan Pond Road, and was very fitful Mr. Cooksey soon saw that a better supply was needed and he bought the plant and franchise of the water company from Mr. Campbell of the Glen Cove Hotel and planned to bring the water from Jordan Pond down the Jordan Brook valley to the foot of Long Pond. He thereupon had a survey made for condemnation purposes at the outlet of Jordan Pond where the present dam now is, the only point where a water supply could be taken from the pond, had his lawyer, John A. Peters now Judge Peters of Ellsworth, commence condemnation proceedings at Ellsworth, went to Boston, and ordered the necessary pipe, the order bein so large that it took all the available pipe there was in Boston, had it shipped by 6 fast freight to Mount Desert Ferry and chartered a steamboat with Captain William Cox of Seal Harbor, an experienced navigator, on board to transport it from there to Seal Harbor. At this point the officers of the Northeast Harbor Water Company and the resi- dents along the Asticou Road got wind of the proceedings and con- cluded that they would like to have control of the supply of water from Jordan Pond. They had possession of another charter whi was outstanding and which contained the right to take water from Jordan Pond and under the impressi on that the first company that laid pipe from the pond would have the prior right, telegraphed to Boston for pipe and received word back that there was not pipe in Boston. In the meantime, Mr. Cooksey's pipe had reached Mount Desert Ferry but its arrival at Seal Harbor was delayed because of a dense fog, so they thought of some old rusty discarded pipe which they had in stock and rushed it up to Jordan Pond with a gang of men to dig a trench and put their pipe in it, although there was not possibility of its carrying any water. Mr. Cooksey's men with their pipe arrived soon after and there was then some trouble up by the outlet of the pond. one gang throwing dirt out of the trench and the other throwing it in. But soon Mr. Gardner of the Northeast Harbor Water Company got word from Ellsworth that Mr. Cooksey's condemnation proceedings were completed and that he had therefore the prior right. As soon as Mr. Cooksey had won the contest, he, with his usual liberality, approached Mr. Gardiner and his associates, told them that he wished to give them an adequate supply or water and made arrangements which were perfectly satisfactory to them. I was not here at that time but I got this account from Judge Peters, who attended to the legal matters, from Mr. Gardiner, who in his usual humorous way expressed it by saying, "I was like Davy Crockett's coon who said "don't shoot, I will come down", and from Mr. Alanson Clement who, although a close friend of Mr. Cooksey, was President of the comp ny sponsored by the Northeast Harbor people. An amusing side light occurred when the schooner arrived off Cookseys (now Danes) point. Mr. Cooksey whishing to help went out on the point and shouted and Captain Cox wishing to hear the waves on the rocks and not recognizing the voice, shouted back, "Shut up you damned fool". The four inch water main down the Jordan Brook Valley served the place for a few years but the growth was so rapid that in 1901 Mr. Cooksey's company laid a ten inch main below frost down the Jordan Pond Road to the Village, this, giving a winter supply of water, created a rapid growth along the Jordan Pond Road which had continued until this day. 7 An important element in the development of these villages was the establishment of the Village Improvement Societies, the Northeast Harbor Society being founded in the year 1898 and the Seal Harbor Society in 1900, the basic reason for their establishment being the system of Town Government characteristic of New England. The towns comprise large areas outside of the villages and there are no local villagegovernments to take care of immediate and local wants such as the sprinkling of street, removal of garbage, etc. and in these early days, the town finances did not admit of their being taken over by the town, therefore for a number of years at Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor the sprinkling of the streets and the removal of the garbage and refuse and the raking of the village streets were done by those societies, the funds being provided by voluntary contribution or entertainments gotten up by the summer people. Later as the towns grew larger and the jobs became too big to be handled by the societies, they were taken over by the town. The most important development in the history of the island was the establishment of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. This was organized by President Eliot in 1901 on the model of the Massachusetts organization of which he had been an officer for a long time. The officers were: President - Charles W. Eliot, Vice-president - George B. Dorr, Secretary - L. B. Deasy, Treasurer - George L. Stebbins. This organization was empowered to receive lands to be held for the public benefit but no lands were rec ived until the year 1908 when my associate, Mr. Cooksey, suggested that we might start things by presenting, the trustees with a very small bit of land on which the Champlain Monument had been erected in 1904 and the first dood recorded by the trustees was June 5th, 1908 of this little bit of land compris- ing a few square yards. The first substantial gift however, was from Mrs. Homans of Bar Harbor, by deed dated prior, but recorded subsequent to the Cooksey deed of a considerable tract of land on the Bee Hive Mountain back of Schooner Head. Very notable additions were made to the reservations in the years 1910 and 1911 when a group at Seal Harbor, composed of George B. Cooksey, Tracy Dows, Richard M. Hoe, EdwardC. Bodman, Dr. Edward K. Dunham, Dr. Christian Herter, and George L. Stebbins, discovering that a good title could be obtained to a tract of over 3600 acres once owned by a bankrupt land company of the boom days of 1887, bought the tract and by arrangement with Mr. Dorr of Bar Harbor, turned over to him some 1600 aores on the slopes of Green Mountain in the Town of Eden and made a gift to the reservations of Pemetic Mountain and the Triads, some 1000 acres. Soon after that the Charles T. How property, comprising about 1700 acros, including Jordan and Sargent Mountains and most of the Bubbles, came on the market and was bought and presented to the reservation by a 8 group from Northeast Harbor headed by Pres. Eliot and assisted by contributions from the Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor Water Companies. At that time other purchases were made in the Bar Harbor district largely through the generosity of the late John S. Kennedy, resulting in a tract of 5000 acres being held in the reservations more than half of which came from the Town of Mount Desert. In the late summer of 1910, Mr. Rockefeller who had rented a cottage in Seal Harbor that and the previous season, bought and made large additions to his present residence, The Eyrie, built in the winter of 1900-1901 by Professor Samuel F. Clarke of Williamstown, Massachusetts and immediately became interested in the reservations, and later the National Park, rescuing large tracts of land from the lumbermen. Few people realize, except those immediately concerned, that these acquisitions were made just in time to save our forests from being devastated by the wood cutters. In the old days the deep woods were safe because it cost too much to transport the logs to the sawmills, which were 10- cated at the outlets of the ponds, but soon after the beginning of this century, the portable gasoline sawmill came into general use and that, together with a great increase in the price of lumber, made it profitable to cut any of the soft wood growths on the island. In acquiring these tracts for the reservations, thus saving the forests, we in some cases got ahead of the speculators and lumbermen by a few hours only One of the lively episodes of what are now old times was the fight to keep automobiles from the roads of Mount Desert Island. In the year 1903 a Bar Harbor lawyer got a bill through the Maine State Legislature permitting towns on Mount Desert Island to prohibit the use of automobiles on their roads and all of the towns immediately voted for that prohibition. Conditions remained very satisfactory until about the year 1911 when a strong sentiment in favor of admitting automobiles grew up part- icularly among the permanent residents of the town of Bar Harbor, resulting in that town voting in July 1913 to admit the automobiles. This was soon followed by Southwest Harbor, but the Town of Mt. Desert held out with a solid opposition to the admission of auto- mobiles, expressed by the summer residents and backed up by an over-whelming vote in August 1913 by the voters of the town and it was not until action was taken by the State Legislature in the winter of 1914-18 that the automobiles were admitted. Th next event of great importance in the development of Seal Harbor, was the presentation by Mr. Rockefeller in the year 1920 of the property comprising about six acres on which the old Glen Cove Hotel, which had been closed for years stood, to the town for use as a Village Green and public park. The buildings which housed th Whitmore store and Billings market 9 were moved northward, giving the open space which we now see and which adds SO much to the beauty of the village and to the pleasure of its inhabitants. The Mountain Road and other developments by Mr. Rocke- feller, which are of so much benefit to Seal Harbor and Mount Desert Island, are matters of recent and not old times and, therefore, I shall do no more than to refer to them. As the place grew, various activities for the benefit of the winter as well as the summer residents developed, the Seal Harbor Library being built in the year 1900 on land donated by George B. Cooksey and Mrs. Charles H. Clement, a summer and a winter resident. In 1906 the Harbor Cliffs Tennis Club was established on the high land east of the harbor and continued its activities with tournaments every summer until 1927 when it was superceded by the new Harbor Club. The Seal Harbor Neigh- borhood Hall was built in 1914 principally for the benefit of the permanent residents of the place and from subscriptions made very generally from both the permanent and summer residents. This hall was burned to the ground in 1919 and replaced by the present building from the proceeds of the insurance with additional subscriptions, and fills a very important part in the social life of the place, particularly during the winter months. The Seal Harbor Yacht Club was organized in 1923, its first Commodore being Mr. Roscoe B. Jackson of Detroit, who served until his death in 1929, he was succeeded by Mr. Edsel B. Ford, and in 1935 by Mr. Edward K. Dunham, Jr. The Club affords landing to visit- ing yachts and holds an annual Regatta each year in cooperation with the Northeast Harbor Fleet, which organization sponsors the July and August series of races participated in by the racing members of the Seal Harbor Club. In 1910 Mr. and Mrs. Ernest B. Dane bought the Cooksey point on the east side of the harbor and built their present house on the site of the old one and Mrs. Marcus A. Hanna occup- ied her new house built on the point adjoining it on the east. In 1925 Mr. Edsel B. Ford who had been coming to Seal Harbor for stays of longer or shorter duration for many years bought 75 acres on Ox Hill at the vast of the harbor and the next year occupied his present residence. In that year also Mr. Roscoe B. Jackson bought the Penrose property on the east side of the harbor just above the Yacht Club and built the residence which now stands there. In the year 1926 Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Ford, the late Mr. Jackson and the late Dr. D. Hunter McAlpin, seeing the desirab- ility of a swimming as well as a tennis club, bought property bordering on Bracy Cove and built the present Harbor Club with its Club House, swimming pool, and tennis courts, the old tennis club being given up in that year. An account of Seal Harbor would hardly be complete without mention of two otheritems. First the Jordan Pond Hous which has played a large part in the life of the summer residents and has been donducted since the year 1895 by Mr. McIntire who built it up from a very small beginning to its present attractive con- dition. The other is the network of woodland paths radiating from 10 this spot, for, as stated by Baedecker in his guide-book of the United States, "it is for its convenience as a center for walkers that Seal Harbor is very favored". These trails, laid out and mapped mostly in the years 1895 and 1896 by the late Waldron Bates of Bar Harbor with assistance from our side of the Island, are kept up by the Village Improvement Society and can offer a variety of seashore, mountain and valley walks such as can be had in f ew places. In speaking of old times, I recall various incidents which perhaps are not familiar to the present generation. When I attended my first Town Meeting in March 1896, the seat of the town government was at Somesville, and we all drove there to the meeting. It often happened that there was good sleighing and a : old time custom still prevailed of the men from the other villages as soon as the meeting was over, to hitch up their horses and race home, making it sort of a local Derby day, and I remember a week or two before the meeting seeing various men ou: at dusk with their fastest horses, getting them into condition for the race, but when one spoke to them about it, they always allowed that they were not going to race this year because their horses were not in good "ruddin" condition. During the years in which I spent a great part of the year at Seal Harbor, I made many close friends among the pe manent residents and I well remember a drive to Somesville with the late James Clement, when, in his relation of old time stories regard- ing the residents along the road, he displayed his keen sense of humor. As we came to one place he said a man named Richardson once lived there who had three sons not noted for their industrial habits. Once day he undertook a journey to Ellsworth and before leaving, gave each son a hoe and told them to hoe the corn patch during his absence; but when he return he found the three sons leaning on the handles of their hoes, gossiping, with very little of the patch hoed. A few days after, he again went to Ellsworth but before going he took a saw and sawed the hoe handles half way down to the blade so that they could not lean upon them but upon returning a little early, he found the three sons with the hoes reversed, sitting on the bludes and talking. At another house, he said an old fool lived there who had a rooster that crowed very early in the morning, thereby disturbing the next door neighbor, whose house was near the barn. The neighbor conceived a plot to rid himself of this nuisance and went and told the man that it was very bad luck to have a rooster that crowed at midnight, and that night he got up at midnight and went into his neighbor's barn ith a lantern and waked the rooster up so that it crowed. The next day the owner of the rooster told his neighbor that he was much alarmed, that the rooster had crowed at midnight and he was assured that it was a very bad sign. The next night the neighbor repeated in trick which resulted in the rooster being killed the next day. LIBRARY Historer PARK END NATURAL ACADIA BAR Edward K. Dunham (August 1980) Early Years of the Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society It is fitting as we go forward from one decade into another to look back. I am going to look back briefly with you at the first fifty years of our Society. Why the first fifty years and not the whole eighty? A practical reason is that I have in my study all the annual reports of the first fifty years which my father, a great collector of such documents, had kept together. For the years since his death in 1951 I have only a few scattered reports. But there is a less trivial reason. Many of our Society's activities in its early years were quite different from its activities today, while for the last thirty years its work has remained pretty much the same. A look back at the early days will remind us that the Society was not always mainly concerned with the upkeep of the beach, the Village Green, and the trails and may encourage us to conceive new ideas for our Society's future. The recorded story begins with a meeting of "citizens and residents" of Seal Harbor held on the 30th of June in the year 1900. The meeting may well have been at the office of George L. Stebbins, for whose vision in developing Seal Harbor as a summer resort we may all feel much gratitude, and who served our Society tirelessly as an officer and a director for more than fifty years. The Society was incorporated on the 23rd of July the same year. Its first Board of Directors consisted of C. F. Batchelder, C. C. Bogart (Secretary), E. S. Bristol, the Reverend W. A. Brown, R. E. Campbell, S. F. Clarke (Vice President), Amos Clement, Edward S. Dana (Vice President), Edward K. Dunham (Vice President), Theodore Dunham, Richard M. Hoe (President), F. H. Macomber, the Reverend J. S. Penman, George L. Stebbins (Treasurer), Mrs. E. V. Douglas, Mrs. Edward K. Dunham, and Miss Emma Tilge. That is the order in which the directors were listed in the printed report: the ladies come last in their own alphabetical order after the gentlemen. The By-Laws specifically provided that half of the Directors might be women--but no more than half! The first summer was marked by a "Grand Kindersymphonie Concert" for the Society's benefit conducted by Mr. Frank Damrosch. The original By-Laws provided for six standing committees: Finance, Entertainment, Sanitary, Roads and Paths, Trees and Planting, and an executive committee. Rather than following a single chronological path in my account and skipping back and forth from one committee to another, I am going to look at the work of various committees one by one. The original concerns which the Society was intended to address are well defined in the duties which the By-Laws assign to the several committees. The Sanitary Committee's charge was as follows: It shall be the duty of this committee to examine into the condition of the water supply, water front, sewer, drains, and localities generally likely to become sources of injury or contagion and report to the Board of Directors, and if necessary to consult with the town officers. It shall be the duty of this committee to propose some plan for the removal of garbage (collection and disposal) and to act thereon as instructed by the Board of Directors. This committee originally consisted of Dr. Theodore Dunham, William Cox, Edward S. Dana, and George L. Stebbins. The Society's membership always afforded one or -2- two physicians able to guide the efforts of the Sanitary Committee, including Dr. Donald Clement, Dr. Christian A. Herter, Dr. D. Hunter McAlpin, Dr. James B. Murphy, and Dr. Edward K. Dunham. Its first interest was the construction of a sewer, which was built by the Town in the fall of 1901 for five thousand dollars. The work of garbage removal was also begun in 1901, the householders being charged for its cost, and was continued by the Society until it was taken up by the Town in 1927. The water supply was subjected to careful chemical and bacteriological analysis and was found to meet the highest standards. In 1903 the committee began the work of periodic bacteriological examination of the milk and inspection of the then several dairies on the island. This work was continued into the 1930's. Campaigns against flies were begun in 1911 and continued in succeeding years. In 1920 the sorting of garbage into three classes--one for feeding to pigs, one to be burnt, and one to be buried--was instituted and found to ameliorate the fly problem considerably. 2. The 1900 By-Laws charge the Committee on Roads and Paths as follows: It shall be the duty of this committee to improve, so far as the funds permit, the condition of the roads, paths, sidewalks and signposts, and to attend to the preservation of trees and plants. In fact, the Society's first act, on the 16th of July in 1900, was the purchase of a six hundred gallon Studebaker sprinkler for sprinkling the roads, which were then unpaved. Our Society cooperated with its counterpart in Northeast Harbor and with the residents on the road between the two villages to have the whole of that road sprinkled. This work accounted for the greater part of the Society's budget in those days, and in 1905 the Town of Mount Desert began to make an annual contribution toward the cost of this service. With the introduction of automobiles onto the island, road conditions were markedly changed, and in 1917 the two Village Improvement Societies thought it best to turn this work over to the Town and to that end gave the Town their sprinkling wagons. The introduction of the automobile is a story in itself. In 1907 Mr. Stebbins, as Chairman on the Executive Committee, reported with satisfaction the 1907 passage by the Maine Legislature of a law giving the Town authority to so restrict the use of automobiles as to protect us from all danger from them. This was accomplished in co-operation with the Northeast Harbor Village Improvement Society, special committees being appointed who attended the hearing on the bill at Augusta on January 24th when incidentally the thermometer registered 40 degrees below zero. The best efforts of the two Societies, which are chronicled in a po em reprinted in this year's town report, were however insufficient to prevent repeal of that law less than a decade later. The Society continued to concern itself with the menace of the automobile, however, and in 1924 it and the Northeast Harbor society presented the Town with a motorcycle for use by the police to curb speeding. The Committee on Roads and Paths in those days expended very considerable personal work by its members in the laying-out and clearing of paths and trails. The trails they constructed included not only those nearby ones still under the Society's care but many of those farther afield and now in the national park. Henry Stebbins, who with his brother Ledyard carried out much of this work, could tell you about it first-hand. An extensive path guide, running to fifty-odd pages, was published by the Village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal -3- Harbor, Northeast Harbor, and Southwest Harbor in 1915. In January of 1906, an alarming number of nests of the Brown Tail Moth had been detected. The Northeast Harbor Board of Trade enlisted the advice of the State Entomologist and the support of the several Village Improvement Societies. The matter was explained to the children in the schools, and they were offered a ten-cent bonus for each nest brought in, funded by a Town appropriation. After the children had done their work, the Society sent out men to make a thorough and systematic search, and Mr. Stebbins traveled to Seal Harbor in March to make sure that the work was properly carried out before the caterpillars left their nests in the spring. In 1912 the appearance of vast numbers of the spruce-bud moth Tortrix fumiferana led the Society to bring the Chief Entomologist of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station to Seal Harbor to give a public address on the parasite and the best measures available for its control. What these measures were is not recorded, but if the pest is the same as the spruce budworm which is at the bottom of so much controversy today I imagine that they were less than fully effective. Also in 1912 it is recorded that An interesting experiment was made for the extermination of rats by the use of Danyz Virus which resulted in ridding our Village of these pests which had become very numerous. What that virus is I do not know, but perhaps our Society was an early practitioner of the biological methods of pest control which are thought to hold SO much promise today. In 1933 the Society began annual campaigns to eradicate ragweed from the island. 3. I have not talked about the Committee on Trees and Plantings because they reported little activity in the early years. We had no village green in those days. What is now the Village Green was the site of the Glen Cove Hotel, where my grandmother had stayed when she first visited Seal Harbor in 1890. The hotel burned after the First World War--I am not sure of the exact year--and in 1920 Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who had acquired the site, deeded it to the Town to be used as a village green, its care to be exercised by our Society. Of course all who live on Mount Desert Island have much to be grateful to Mr. Rockefeller for. But as an increasing number of members will not remember him, I want to record that he, like Mr. Stebbins, was a prime mover of the Society for more than fifty years. I don't want anyone to think that his contributions were chiefly of money. He had a very clear vision of what Seal Harbor and the island ought to be and worked unceasingly to fulfill it. He was an imaginative problem solver and gave freely of his wisdom and his efforts in furtherance of the Society's work. Like the laying out of the trails, the creation of the Village Green was a work in which the members of the responsible committee invested very considerable personal thought and effort. Besides Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Stebbins, Mrs. Edward C. Bodman, Mr. Samuel W. Candage, Miss Emma Whitmore, and Mrs. Edward K. Dunham were particularly active in landscaping the green and subsequently in having the Comfort Station built. Many of our Society's early functions were subsequently taken over by government. To some it may seem anomalous for a private group like ours, rather than the Town, to have charge of the beach and Village Green. But I am proud that our predecessors eighty years ago identified the community needs they did and set about to supply them by their own efforts rather than passively assuming them to -4- be the responsibility of government. Our Society has always enjoyed the most cordial cooperation of the Selectmen of the Town of Mount Desert, who indeed for a number of years sat as ex officio members of our Board of Directors, and for more than 30 years the Town has annually appropriated a sum in support of our work at the beach and Village Green. This kind of cooperation between government and a voluntary organization of citizens has yielded much that is good in our village and I think is an example worthy of emulation. Edward K. Dunham 20 August 1980 9/23/2020 Home :: Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society A SEAL HARBOR LEGACY Summer and year-round residents founded the Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society in 1900 to ensure a healthy, pleasurable, high quality of life for their community. In 1919, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the SHVIS saw the need to have a public park for visitors and residents alike. Rockefeller purchased the Glen Cove Inn with its five acres of land, tore down the inn, razed or relocated other buildings, and then donated the space to the town. Beatrix Farrand, the first woman named to the American Association of Landscape Architects, worked with the VIS on a new community space. They replaced the inn with a sweeping lawn-framed by shade trees-that afforded panoramic views of the harbor. Across the street, Farrand created a small park encircled with beach roses in memory of Dr. Edward K. Dunham, one of the founders of the VIS. Through the dedication and contributions of generations of VIS members, the work of the visionary founders remains for all of us to enjoy: eight miles of paths through scenic woodlands, a pristine beach, and the Village Green. The Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society is organized as a public charity under 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and is qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under section 2055, 2106, or 2522 of the Internal Revenue Code. https://www.sealharborvis.org 2/4 SEAL HARBOR MOUNT DESERT ISLAND MAINE GEORGE L. STEBBINS REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE ADDRESS November First to May First May First to November First 102 PRODUCE EXCHANGE SEAL HARBOR NEW YORK MAINE SEAL HARBOR SITUATION-Seal Harbor is on the South side of Mount Desert Island, nine miles from Bar Harbor and four miles from Northeast Harbor. ACCESS-It is reached by through trains from New York and Boston, the Maine Central Railroad Ferry steamers connecting to and from Seal Harbor, and by the Eastern Steamship Company's night boat from Boston. HOTELS-The two hotels, the Seaside Inn and the Glen Cove, are noted for their good cheer, homelike accommodations, and refined and pleasant social life. They are supplied with electric lights, call bells and baths, and have unusually good tennis courts. WATER SUPPLY-The water supply is from Jordan Pond, a beautiful lake set in the hills two miles away from the village, at an elevation of 270 feet above the sea, which furnishes an abundance of pure, clear and soft water. It is analyzed by the State Chemist regularly every three months and he reports it "one of the best supplies in the State." SANITATION-The - drainage system is complete and modern, having been doors. A favorite walk is through the woods over a particularly installed in 1901 under competent engineering advice and supervision. beautiful and well kept path to Jordan Pond, with luncheon, tea, or In caring for the general sanitary welfare of the place the local dinner, at the Jordan Pond House, noted for its good fare. Another is board of health gladly avails itself of the assistance and advice of the along the rocky shore to Hunter's Beach and its headland, often with trained experts on the Sanitary Committee of the Village Improvement fine effects of dashing surf; or at low tide, interesting treasures of sea Society who have at their disposal the facilities of well equipped life in the pools, anemones, sea-urchins, starfish, or perhaps a live laboratories in the place. Under the auspices of this Committee the sponge clinging to the rock. principal milk supplies are subject to frequent bacteriological examina- tions, and sanitary conditions in general are kept under observation. BOATING-The opportunities for rowing and sailing are unusually good, not only the harbor but the channels between the islands, which lie DIVERSIONS-Tho chief diversions are driving, walking, mountain climbing, between it and the sea, being as little dangerous as salt water can be. rowing, sailing and tennis The accessibility to the open sea is especially appreciated by persons fond of deep sea fishing. Many interesting excursions may be taken to DRIVES - The village streets, and the roads to and beyond Northeast Harbor the neighboring islands. Boats are rented at moderate prices. and to Jordan Pond are sprinkled, giving a twelve mile drive along the shores of the ocean and Somes Sound, and back, free from dust. The TENNIS-In addition to the courts at the hotels, there is a tennis club with Sea Cliff Drive, two miles long, built by private enterprise is considered five good courts well kept up; where during the season, tournaments as fine as any on the Island, and the roads to Jordan and Bubble ponds and team matches with the neighboring places are held. afford beautiful bits of woodland scenery. BEACH-At the head of the cove of Seal Harbor is a sand beach, the play WALKS-It is, however, as remarked by Bacdecker in his latest, "United ground of the children. It and the village streets, and the paths, are States," for its convenience as a center for walkers, that Seal Harbor is cared for and kept clean by a well organized Village Improvement best favored. The trains from Sargent, Jordan, Pemetic, Green and Society supported by the people of the place, both permanent and Dry mountains, The Triads and The Bubbles, converge almost at its summer residents. TTAGES-Scal Harbor possesses a good number of large and handsome summer residences, and attractive and well furnished cottages may be had for rent. OPS-The shops and markets are stocked to supply all household needs, and there is telephone exchange at moderate rates. URCHES-There are three churches, the Protestant Episcopal, the Congregational, and the Roman Catholic. BRARY-The library, open daily during the summer, is attractively situated, overlooking the harbor, and has an increasing stock of well selected volumes and the leading periodicals. VILLAGE OF SEAL HARBOR JORDAN POND Description of Panorama of West Side of Seal Harbor FROM LEFT TO RIGHT ON the point is the Crowninshield place "The Anchorage." The next group near the shore comprises "Oversea," "Meadow" and "Winsor" cottages. Over the black launch is the Douglas cottage "Firwood" and the next group over the last small sloop shows the location of "Fieldwood," "Sylvanora" and "Bracy" cottages. The Seaside Inn with its cottages stands at the head of the harbor, and on the slopes of Barr Hill above it are "The Eyric," Prof. Allen's two cottages and Prof. Sedgwick's cottage. At the extreme right is seen the Glen Cove Hotel and the village. WEST SIDE OF SEAL HARBOR 3 "The Binnacle Seaside Inn Glen Cove Hotel "Lookout' "Wayside" "Wallover "Asqu" "Hillside' "Graywood' "Birchcroft" "McIntire" Henshaw "McIntire" "Henshaw" "Everett" "The Haven" "A. M. Clement" Windybrow" "Bay Ridge" "Hillcrest" "Cliff" "The Perch" ("Wabenaki" and "Upland" over the hill here) Description of Panorama of East Side of Seal Harbor FROM RIGHT TO LEFT ON the point is the Dane residence 'Glengariff." To the north of the wharf, over the sailing boat, are "The Perch" and Cliff Cottage, and on the crest of the hill above them are "Hillcrest," "Bay Ridge," "Wabenaki," and "Windy- brow" (over the second sailing boat.) North of this come the two Clement cot- tages, Stebbins Office and Campbell cottage and still farther North and half way up the hill are the Henshaw and Everett cottages with the long white Clement homestead below. At the head of the harbor is the Glen Cove Hotel (main house and annex) with Gray- wood, Birchcroft and McIntire cottages near by. Still farther North are seen Hill- side, Asqu, Wallover, Wayside and Lookout. LONG POND HUNTER'S BEACH HEAD OFFICE OF G.L. STEBBINS 'WABENAKI" OR "WAYSIDE" VIEW FROM "WAYSIDE" COTTAGE TRAIN AND BOAT SERVICE PREVAILING SUMMER SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE FROM NEW YORK-Through - Express FROM BOSTON-Through - Expresses Leaves New York - 8.00 p. m. Leave Boston - 8.00 a.m. Arrives Bar Harbor 10 00 p. m. - 1.00 p.m. Arrives Bar Harbor 5.45 p.m. Seal Harbor 7.40 a. m. - 1.50 p. m. Seal Harbor 6.35 p.m. 8.30 a.m The Maine Central R. R. Ferry Steamers connect to and from Seal Harbor with all through trains EASTERN STEAMSHIP CO. Leaves Boston 5 p.m. daily Arrives Seal Harbor 10 a.m. "HILLSIDE" [Compiled by Lance Funderburk, 2014] Page of 17. Index of Photos on the Seal Harbor Library Web Site (Print dimensions are given in parentheses, height X width, in inches) WS001/P022 S.S. Mount Desert (7.2x9.2) WS002/P001 Jordan Homestead on Road to Northeast Harbor; Bracy's Cove (5.8x8.1) WS003/P002 Site of Jordan Pond House (8.0x9.9) WS004/P003 Beach Path to Seaside Inn (7.4x9.1) WS005/P004 Rowland Road (7.5x9.2) WS006/P005 "Confusion Corners"-Cooksey Drive and Upland Road (7.3x9.2) WS007/P006 Cooksey Drive, Old Site of Champlain Monument (7.3x9.3) WS008/P007 Schooner, Possibly That of Captain Clarence Lynum (6.9x8.6) WS009P008 Simon Pinkham Dock; Seal Harbor (7.9x9.9) WS010/P009 Wildwood Farm of E.B. Dane Estate (5.4x9.7) WS011/P010 Old Callahan House, Long Pond (7.2x9.1) WS012/P011 Ingraham Rocks from "Ravenscleft" (8x10) WS013/P012 Seal Harbor, Rocky Shore (6x8) WS014/P013 Jordan Pond, About 1900 (7x9) WS015/P014 Seaside Inn and Cottages from Ox Ledge (7.2x9.1) WS016/P015 Jordan Pond Road and Bar Harbor Road about 1890 (5.7sx7.7) WS017/P016 The McKay Smith House-Wildcliff - (7.1x9.8) WS018/P017 Sutton Island East to Dane Point (7.2x9.0) WS019/P018 Duck Islands from Great Cranberry (5.9x7.7) WS020/P019 Glencove Hotel and Seaside Inn (7.2x9.2) WS021/P020 George L. Stebbins and Water Company (7.2x9.1) WS022/P021 "Glengariff"-E.B. Dane Estate 7.2x9.5) WS023/P023 Rowland Road 7.2x9.2) WS024/P024 View From East Side of Harbor Toward Sutton (8x9.9) WS025/P025 Sunrise, Blue Hill Bay 5.8x7.6) WS026/P026 Seal Harbor, Approaching Storm (7.2x9.3) WS027P027 Seal Harbor From the Beach (7.2x9.3) WS028/P028 Sutton Island, North Side, Near West End (9.9x8) WS029/P029 View Across To Mansett and Southwest Harbor From The Roland Porch (8x9.8) WS030/P030 View From ? Area of Northeast Harbor? Charles Jarvis Boat Shed, Isleford? (7.1x9) WS031/P031 Ravenscleft (7.3x9) WS032/P032 Sutton Island? (8x9.8) WS033/P033 Young Boy--David Rowland? (5.9x8.3) 2 WS034/P034 Seal Harbor Store (7.7x5.8) WS035/P035 Seal Harbor Fountain, 1909 (8x10) WS036/P036 Road At Foot of Jordan Pond (7.3x9) WS037/P037 Upland Road? (7.2x9) WS038/P038 From Ravenscleft, looking west (6.9x9) WS039/P039 Seal Cove, about 1900 (7.3x9.2) WS040/P040 Mount Desert from Great Cranberry (9.1x7.3) WS041/P041 Islesford from Ravenscleft (9x7.3) WS042/P042 On Cooksey Drive (8x10) WS043/P043 Unidentified (5.9x8.1) WS044/P044 S.S. Mt. Desert from Dane's Point (7.2x9) WS045/P045 NW Corner of Sutton Island (7.7x5.9) WS046/P046 J.B. Burke service station (4.4x6.4) WS047/P047 Cave, Day Mountain; in the park (7.2x9) WS048/P048 Jordan Pond; in the park (5.3x7.9) WS049/P049 Unidentified (5.8x8.1) WS050/P050 Stone and Pebble Beach, Great Cranberry Island Near Dead Man's Point? (5.7x7.6) WS051/P051 Great Cranberry, looking east toward Baker Island (5.8x8.1) WS052/P052 Old Bear Island Light (5.7x7.8) WS053/P053 Great Cranberry Looking Toward Baker Island (5.8x7.7) WS054/P054 "The Ovens", North Shore of Sutton (5.9x7.7) WS055/P055 Beach on Somes Sound looking toward Sargent Mountain? Beach near Otter Creek looking toward Cadillac Mountain? (6x8) WS056/P056 Sutton Island, North Shore (5.6x7.7) WS057/P057 Deep Cove? Long Cove? Western Side of MDI? (7.2x9.3) WS058/P058 Unidentified (7.1x9.2) WS059/P059 Unidentified (7.3x9.2) WS060/P060 Pemetic and the Triad from Day Mountain; in the park (7.3x9.1) WS061/P061 Sargent from Day Mountain; in the park (7.1x9.2) WS062/P062 Sutton Island, North Shore (5.8x7.7) WS063/P063 Unidentified (5.8x8.1) WS064/P064 Unidentified (5.8x7.7) WS065/P065 Seal Harbor, Rocky Shore (Hunter's Beach?) (6x7.7) WS066/P066 Northeast Harbor from Sutton (7.3x9) WS067/P067 Seal Harbor, Rocky Shore (7.4x9) WS068/P068 "The Ovens", Sutton Island (5.8x7.6) WS069/P069 From Ox Hill (7.2x9) WS070/P070 Seal Harbor, 1894 (9.2x6.4) WS071/P071 View from Seaside Inn meadow (7.3x9.1) 3 WS072/P072 Schooner "Clinton", Maypole Point, Islesford (7.2x9.1) WS073/P073 Seal Harbor from Sutton Island (6.9x9) WS074/P074 Jordan Pond; in the park (8x10) WS075/P075 Baker's Island from Great Cranberry (6.4x9) WS076/P094 Baker Island Light (6.4x8) WS077/P096 Eastern Steamship Line pier, ca. 1920 (6.3x8.4) WS078/P106 Baker Island from Great Cranberry Island (6.9x9) WS079/P107 Rocky Coast, Seal Harbor (7.7x9.1) WS080/P108 Unidentified (5.6x8) WS081/P109 Unidentified (6.4x9.5) WS082/P110 Unidentified (4.8x6.8) WS083/P111 Unidentified (9x7.4) WS084/P200 View from east end of beach, 4 3/8 X 5/8, from Terry Johnson (4.4x7.7) WS085/P201 View from east end of beach, 65/8x911/4, from Terry Johnson (6.6x9.3) WS086/P202 Way Back Ball, donated by Jackie Davidson (4.4x7.7) WS087/P204 Seal Harbor Livery, donated by Mrs. Jane Smith (6.8x9.8) WS088/N054.Bubbles, Jordan Pond, horse and wagon WS089/N055.Long Pond, doctor in foreground WS090/N056.Seal Harbor, looking east WS091/N057.Somes Sound, looking south from head of Sound WS092/N058.Long Pond, looking north, showing the Bubbles and a boy fishing WS093/N059.Long Pond and farm from Barr Hill, looking west WS094/N060.Seal Harbor, looking east from Dodge Landing. Showing an old Pinkey boat WS095/N061. Golf links and Meenaga Ledge from Bracey's Cove WS096/N062. Seal Harbor from Dodge Landing, showing the Thrumcap and lobster pots WS097/N063.Seal Harbor from Ox Hill WS098/N064.Jordan Pond and Bubbles WS099/N065.Seal Harbor and Cranberry Islands, from Ox Hill WS100/N066.Seaside Inn from new road to Bar Harbor WS101/N067.Seal Harbor from Crowninshield Point WS102/N068.Store, Northeast Harbor, now a clothing store WS103/N069.Seal Harbor, the Dodge yacht WS104/N070.From Barr Hill, looking west WS105/N071.From Barr Hill, looking east WS106/N072.From Barr Hill, looking east toward the Cleft WS107/N073.From Barr Hill, looking west 4 WS108/N074.From Barr Hill, looking north, showing the Bubbles WS109/N075.From Barr Hill, looking northwest, Sargent Mt. WS110/N076.From Barr Hill, looking southeast WS111/N077.From Barr Hill, Long Pond and Sargent Mt. WS112/N078.From Barr Hill, looking south WS113/N079.From Barr Hill, looking northwest WS114/N080.From Barr Hill, looking north WS115/N081. From Barr Hill, looking northeast, showing Pemetic Mt. and Wildwood Farm WS116/N082. Devil's Arch, looking east WS117/N083. Cooksey Road near Blue Head WS118/N084.Rocks near Blue Head, Hunters Beach Head in distance WS119/N085.Rocks near Blue Head WS120/N086.Meenaga Rock WS121/N087.Looking west from Meenaga Ledge across Bracey's Cove WS122/N088.Barnacl-covered rock near Blue Head WS123/N089.Mr Boggs and Chipmunk WS124/N090. Wildwood farm house WS125/N091.Shore near Blue Head, man fishing WS126/N092.Meenaga Ledge from Crowninshield Cottage WS127N093. Seal Harbor, looking out from Seaside Inn WS128/N094.Somes Sound WS129/N095.Somes Sound, showing narrows WS130/N096.Road to Meenaga Lodge WS131/N098. View west from the golf links. Fish house and old house WS132/N099. Old house and fish house, Bracey's Cove, near golf links WS133/N100.Rocks on trail from Jordan Pond to Wildwood Farm WS134/N101.Seal Harbor from Seaside Inn piazza WS135/N102. Cooksey Road near old road WS136/N103.Seal Harbor from hotel piazza WS137/N104.Jordan Pond Road and Old Bar Harbor Road Intersection WS138/N105.Bridge on Hunters Beach Brook WS139/N106. Cooksey Road, old birch tree WS140/N107.Mr. Boggs and chipmunks WS141/N108.Seal Harbor, looking south, showing Thrumcap WS142/N109. The Bubbles WS143/N110. View from Ox Hill, looking northwest WS144/N111. View from Barr Hill, looking southeast WS145/N003 Seal Harbor from Ox Hill WS146/N004 Seal Harbor from Ox Hill 5 WS147/N005 Seal Harbor from Ox Hill WS148/N007 Seal Harbor from Ox Hill WS149/N008 Seal Harbor from Ox Hill WS150/N010 Seal Harbor from Crowninshield Point WS151/N011 Seal Harbor from Crowninshield Point WS152/N012 Little Long Pond from Route 3 WS153/N013 Little Long Pond from Route 3 WS154/N014 Little Long Pond from Route 3 WS155/N015 Little Long Pond from Route 3 WS156/N016 Little Long Pond from Route 3 WS157/N017 Jordan Pond and the Bubbles WS158/N019 Seaside Inn from Seal Harbor Beach WS159/N020 Seal Harbor and the Seaside Inn from Ox Hill WS160/N021 Seaside Inn from Seal Harbor Beach WS161/N022 Seaside Inn from Danes Point WS162/N023 Seal Harbor and Seaside Inn from Ox Hill WS163/N024 Seaside Inn from Seal Harbor Beach WS164/N025 Baby Carriage on ? Road WS165/N026 Somes Sound from Greening Island WS166/N027 Unidentified WS167/N028 Unidentified WS168/N029 Unidentified WS169/N030 Unidentified WS170/N031 MDI from Great Cranberry Island WS171/N032 Unidentified WS172/N034 Baker Island from Great Cranberry Island WS173/N035 Cooksie Drive at Ravenscleft WS174/N037 Unidentified WS175/P079 Seaside Inn from the Beach, with two children WS176/N040 Unidentified WS177/N042 Somes Sound from Greening Island WS178/N047 Unidentified WS179/N048 Some Sound from Greening Island WS180/N049 Seal Harbor and the Pinkham Pier WS181/N051 Unidentified WS182/P076 Seal Harbor Village Green (4.4x6.4) WS183/P077 Seal Harbor Village Green, Curb (4.4x6.4) WS184/P078 Unidentified quarry (4.4x6.4) WS185/P080 Village green and fountain (4.2x2.6) WS186/P081 Harbor Club (3.6x5.3) WS187/P082 Glencove Hotel (3.5x4.5) WS188/P083 The Eyrie (3.3x5.1) WS189/P084 Unidentified (3.1x4.2) WS190/P085 Unidentified (3.1x5.2) WS191/P086 Glengariff (3.1x5.1) 6 WS192/P087 Glengariff (3.7x4.8) WS193/P088 Pruning trees on the village green (3.3x5.5) WS194/P089 Unidentified (4x6) WS195/P090 Unidentified (4.2x6.1) WS196/P091 Glencove Hotel and path along beach (3.5x5.5) WS197/P092 Boy on beach; Glencove Hotel in background (4.8x6.8) WS198/P093 John Burke service station (4.3x6.7) WS199/P095 John Burke service station (4.8x7.1) WS200/P097 Seaside Inn (3x4.3) WS201/P098 The Eyrie (3.5x5.5) WS202/P099 Little Long Pond (3.4x5.6) WS203/P100 Ravenscleft (3.4x5.3) WS204/P101 Seaside Inn from village green (3.6x6.5) WS205/P102 Harbor and Seaside Inn; Fish House Pier? (3.5x5.5) WS206P103 Main Street, early 20th century (3.6x5.5) WS207P104 Harbor from Steamboat Wharf; Seaside Inn and Glencove Hotel in background (3.6x5.5) WS208P105 John Burke service station and employees (4.5x6.4) WS209/P112 Unidentified (3.2x5.2) WS210/P113 Wreck of the J.T Morse (2.7x3.8) WS211/P114 Jordan Pond from South Bubble (3.3x5.3) WS212/P115 Steamship at the wharf (3.4x5.4) WS213/P116 Little Long Pond from Redfield Hill carriage road (?) (3.4x5.4) WS214/P117 Sargent Drive looking north (3.9x5.4) WS215/P118 Jordan Pond and the Bubbles (3x5) WS216/P119 Wreck of the J.T. Morse (3x5) WS217/P120 Unidentified (3x5) WS218/P121 The J.T. Morse (3.3x5.4) WS219/P122 Seal Harbor from west side of beach (3.2x5.4) WS220/P123 Seal Harbor Neighborhood House (3.2x4.8) WS221/P124 Seal Harbor and Sea Side Inn (3.7x5.4) WS222/P125 View from a building overlooking the Village Green and Harbor (4.1x2.4) WS223/P126 Fountain and village green in snow (3.2x5.1) WS224/P127 Seal Harbor from the steamboat wharf (3.6x5.6) WS225/P128 Little Long Pond (3.5x3.5) WS226/P129 Sargent Drive (3.3x5.4) WS227/P130 The Old Mill (3.4x5.4) WS228/P131 Little Long Pond 3.4x5.3) WS229/P132 Jordan Pond and the Bubbles (3.3x5.4) 7 WS230/P133 Sand Beach from Ocean Drive (3.4x5.3) WS231/P134 Seal Harbor from the yacht club (3.3x5.3) WS232/P135 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS233/P136 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS234/P137 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS235/P138 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS236/P139 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS237/P140 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS238/P141 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS239/P142 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS240/P143 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS241/P144 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS242/P145 Sign on Village Green (3x5.2) WS243/P146 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS244/P147 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS245/P148 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS246/P149 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS247/P150 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS248/P151 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS249/P152 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS250/P153 Building the bridge on the beach path (3x5.2) WS251/P154 Building the bridge on the beach path (3x5.2) 8 WS252/P155 Landscaping the "Village Green" before buildings were removed (3x5.2) WS253/P156 Landscaping Dunham Park (3x5.2) WS254/P157 Landscaping Dunham Park (3x5.2) WS255/P158 Landscaping the beach path (3x5.2) WS256P159 Dunham Park (3x5.2) WS257/P160 Watering Dunham Park (3x5.2) WS258/P161 Seaside Inn 3.1x5.5 WS259/P162 Seal Harbor looking northwest from Ox Hill (3.3x5.8) WS260/P163 Seaside Inn from the harbor (3.3x4.3) WS261/P164 Unidentified (3.9x5.9) WS262/P165 Seal Harbor from west side of harbor (3.8x5.8) WS263/P166 The J.T. Morse at the steamboat wharf (3.4x5.7) WS264/P167 Planting the Dunham Tree (3.4x5.3) WS265/P168 Planting the Dunham Tree (3.4x5.3) WS266/P169 Planting the Dunham Tree (3.4x5.3) WS267/P170 Planting the Dunham Tree (3.4x5.3) WS268/P171 Planting the Dunham Tree (3.4x5.3) WS269/P172 Planting the Dunham Tree (3.4x5.3) WS270/P173 Planting the Dunham Tree (3.4x5.3) WS271/P174 Building the beach parking lot (3x5.1) WS272/P175 Building the beach parking lot (3x5.1) WS273/P176 Building the beach parking lot (3x5.1) WS274/P177 Building the beach parking lot (3x5.1) WS275/P178 The Comfort Station (3.3x5.1) WS276/P179 Schooner in Seal Harbor (3.4x5) WS277/P180 The J.T. Morse in Seal Harbor, 1928 (3.1x4.7) WS278/P181 Large yacht in Seal Harbor (3x4) WS279/P182 Workers on a ? vehicle (2.4x4.1) WS280/P183 Landscaping in winter (2.4x4.1) WS281/P184 Landscaping in winter (2.4x4.1) WS282/P185 Fire truck by Upper Hadlock Pond (2.4x4.1) WS283/P186 Workers and ? vehicles (2.4x4.1) WS284/P187 Testing a fire truck on Upper Hadlock Pond (2.4x4.1) WS285/P188 Testing a fire truck on Upper Hadlock Pond (2.4x4.1) WS286/P189 Unidentified garden (3x4) WS287/P190 Testing a fire truck on Upper Hadlock Pond (2.4x4.1) WS288/P191 Two Ladies (2x3.1) WS289/P192 Winter scene, Seal Harbor (2.1x3.1) WS290/P193 Eastern Steamship Lines wharf (2.1x3.5) 9 WS291/P194 Man and woman in winter (3x2) WS292/P195 Man and woman in winter (3x2) WS293/P196 Children, Dunham School (2.9x4.5) WS294/P197 Building, east side of main street (4.2x7.1) WS295/P198aDedication of the Seal Harbor community tree (3.3x6.7) WS296/P198bInvitation to dedication of community tree (3.3x6.7) WS297/P199 ? on Library steps (5.8x4) WS298/P203 Seal Harbor Library, scanned from a Postcard from Peggy Simpson's collection (3.4x5.3) WS299/P205 Mrs. Rosko P. Jackson/J. J. Obrien in The Dunham Garden (3.2x5.4) WS300/P206 Mrs.Jackson/O'Brien's Chauffeur in The Dunham Garden (3.2x5.4) WS301/P207 The Dunham Garden (3.2x5.4) WS302/P208 The Dunham Garden (3.2x5.4) WS303/P209 The Dunham Garden (3.2x5.4) WS304/P210 Way Back Ball, Seal Harbor Neighborhood House WS305/P210 bNames of people in WS304/P210 WS306/P211 The Eyrie WS307/P212 The Eyrie WS308/P213 Seal Harbor basketball team WS309/P213bNames of people in WS309/P213 WS310/P214 The Candage Homestead WS311/P215 The Candage Homestead WS312/P216 The Candage Homestead WS313/P217 The Bracy Reed House WS314/P218 The Bracy Reed House WS315/P219 Smallidges WS316/P220 Unidentified WS317/P221 Unidentified WS318/P222 Seal Harbor village green WS319/P223 Keewaydin (Dunham Cottage) WS320/P224 Seaside Inn from beach parking lot WS321/P225 Dunham Garden WS322/P226 Unidentified WS323/P227 Unidentified WS324/P228 Beach path and Captain Berry's house WS325/P229 "The Anchorage" WS326/P230 "The Anchorage" WS327/P231 "The Anchorage" WS328/P232 "The Anchorage" WS329/P233 "The Anchorage" 10 WS330/P234 "The Anchorage" WS331/P235 "The Anchorage" WS332/P236 "The Anchorage" WS333/P237 "The Anchorage" WS334/P238 "The Anchorage" WS335/P239 "The Anchorage" WS336/P240 "The Anchorage" WS337/P241 "The Anchorage" WS338/P242 "The Anchorage" WS339/P243 "The Anchorage" WS340/P244 "The Anchorage" WS341/P245 "The Anchorage" WS342/P246 "The Anchorage" WS343/P247 "The Anchorage" WS344/P248 "The Anchorage" WS345/P249 "The Anchorage" WS346/P250 "The Anchorage" WS347P251 "The Anchorage" WS348/P252 "The Anchorage" WS349/P253 "The Anchorage" WS350/P254 "The Anchorage" WS351/P255 "The Anchorage" WS352/P256 "The Anchorage" WS353/P257 "The Anchorage" WS354/P258 "The Anchorage" WS355/P259 "The Anchorage" WS356/P260 Ludders 16 race WS357/P260aNotes on back of photo WS356/P260 WS358/P261 Zephyr, Steamboat owned by Dr. Henry Stebbins, 1963 WS359/P261aNotes from back of photo WS358P261 WS360/P262 Steam Boat "J. T. Morse" WS361/Dunham001 View from Keewaydin about 1906 WS362/Dunham002 View from Keewaydin about 1906 WS363/Dunham003 Keewaydin from Glengariff Driveway WS364/Dunham004 Dr. Edward K. Dunham's Laboratory WS365/Dunham005 Keewaydin Livingroom WS366/Dunham006 WS367/Dunham007 WS368/Dunham008 WS369/Dunham009 WS370/Dunham010 11 WS371/Dunham011 Tracy Dows and Dr. E. K. Dunham WS372/Dunham012 Ledyard, Henry and Marcia Stebbins WS373/Dunham013 WS374/Dunham014 Theo, Tito and Edward WS375/Dunham015 Theo and Edward WS376/Dunham016 WS377Dunham017 WS378/Dunham018 WS379/Dunham019 Sea Cliff Drive WS380/Dunham020 View from Keewaydin, Northwest WS381/Dunham021 View from Kitchen Rocks, Keewaydin WS382/Dunham022 Theo Dunham on "King", Maskell on Topsy WS383/Dunham023 View of Seal Harbor WS384/Dunham024 Kitchen Rocks, Keewaydin WS385/Dunham025 Dan Dana's "Ingomar" WS386/Dunham026 Looking North from Throm Cap WS387/Dunham027 View Looking East from Crowningshield Point WS388/Dunham028 Sea Cliff Drive WS389/Dunham029 Sea Cliff Drive Looking Toward Hunter's Beach Head WS390/Dunham030 Ravenscleft WS391/Dunham031 Sea Cliff Drive WS392/Dunham032 Long Pond WS393/Dunham033 Long Pond WS394/Dunham034 Mary Dows Dunham WS395/Dunham035 Keewaydin Garden WS396/Dunham036 Keewaydin Garden WS397/Dunham037 Edward K. Dunham, Jr.; Tito; Mary Dows Dunham WS398/Dunham038 Aileen Tone, Edward K. Dunham, Violet Wetscott WS399/Dunham039 Keewaydin Garden WS400/Dunham040 Edward K.Dunham, Jr. WS401/Dunham041 Aileen Tone and Mary Dows Dunham WS402/Dunham042 Aileen Tone and Dr. Edward K. Dunham WS403/Dunham043 Edward K. Dunham, Jr. WS404/Dunham044 Dr. Edward K. Dunham, Aileen Tone and the J. T. Morse, Seal Harbor WS405/Dunham045 " " WS406/Dunham046 Edward K. Dunham, Jr. WS407/Dunham047 Dr. Edward K. Dunham and Aileen Tone WS408/Dunham048 " WS409/Dunham049 Theo Dunham and "Rama" WS410/Dunham050 Violet Westcott on "Topsy" WS411/Dunham051 " " WS412/Dunham052 Violet Westcott and Aileen Tone at Bubble Pond WS413/Dunham053 Edward K. Dunham, Jr. at Bubble Pond WS414/Dunham054 " " 12 WS415/Dunham055 Sue Herter, Peggy Hoe, Theo Dunham, Edward K. Dunham, Jr.; at Bubble Pond WS416/Dunham056 " WS417/Dunham057 " WS418/Dunham058 " WS419/Dunham059 Violet Westcott, Aileen Tone and Edward K. Dunham, Jr. WS420/Dunham060 Sue Herter, Theo Dunham, Dr. E. K. Dunham, Christian Herter, Mr. Hall, E.K. Dunham, Jr., Peggy Hoe, Violet Westcott WS421/Dunham061 Aileen Tone, Mary Dows Dunham, Dr. E. K. Dunham and ? WS422/Dunham062 Aileen Tone, Dr. E.K. Dunham and ? WS423/Dunham063 Frank Damrosh, Mrs. R. M. Hoe, Fred Strauss, Mrs. Davis Dows, Eunice WS424/Dunham064 Dane, George Stebbins, Aileen Tone, Richard M. Hoe, Hetty Damrosh at Jordan Pond House WS425/Dunham065 Sitting: Eunice and Charlton Cooksey, Kitty & ? Herter, Phylis Da Kay WS426/Dunham066 Charlton Cooksey, Christine Herter, Violet Westcott, Betty Cooksey, Dr. H. D. Da Kin, Edith Stebbins WS427/Dunham067 "Suzatta", Dr. Herter's Sloop WS428/Dunham068 View from Miradero WS429/Dunham069 Miradero, Built by Dr. and Mrs. Christian Herter WS430/Dunham070 Miradero WS431/Dunham071 View from Miradero WS432/Dunham072 "Neith", sloop owned by Dr. E. K. Dunham and Mr. R.M. Hoe WS433/Dunham073 Theo and "Rama" WS434/Dunham074 Peggy Hoe, Theo and "King" WS435/Dunham075 Theo and ? WS436/Dunham076 Theo, Mary Dows Dunham, "Noqie" WS437/Dunham077 Theo and "Noqie" WS438/Dunham078 Theo and Edward WS439/Dunham079 ? WS440/Dunham080 Dr. E. K. Dunham WS441/Dunham081 Edward K. Dunham Jr. WS442/Dunham082 Edward K. Dunham, Jr. and cats WS443/Dunham083 " WS444/Dunham084 Edward K. Dunham, Jr., Theo and cats WS445/Dunham085 " WS446/Dunham086 Theo and Edward WS447/Dunham087 "Kruskin" and "Calamel" WS448/Dunham088 ? WS449/Dunham089 Theo, "Buckner" and "Rama" WS450/Dunham090 Edward Jr. WS451/Dunham091 Theo, "Buckner" and "Rama" WS542/Dunham092 Edward Jr. WS453/Dunham093 Peggy Hoe, Sue Herter, Theo Dunham WS454/Dunham094 Peggy, Sue, Edward and Theo 13 WS455/Dunham095 Sue, Edward, Theo WS456/Dunham096 Sue, Edward, Theo WS457/Dunham097 WS458/Dunham098 WS459/Dunham099 WS460/Dunham100 Kitty Herter, Miss Melville, Sue, Peggy, Polly Herter, Theo WS461/Dunham101 Mary Dows Dunham, Sam Chapin at Stanley's Farm, Otter Creek WS462/Dunham102 " WS463/Dunham103 " WS464/Dunham104 " WS465/Dunham10 " WS466/Dunham10 " WS467/Dunham107 Theo and Sue WS468/Dunham108 " WS469/Dunham109 " WS470/Dunham110 " WS471/Dunham111 Theo Dunham, Sue Herter and Peggy Hoe WS472/Dunham112 " WS473/Dunham113 " WS474/Dunham114 Sue Herter with "Beauty", Peggy Hoe, Edward, with Shetland Pony, "Andrew Mac", Theo WS475/Dunham115 Peggy Hoe WS476/Dunham116 WS477/Dunham117 Edward WS478/Dunham118 Katherine Hoe, 2 Suecamoka's (?), Sue Herter, Edward, Theo, Helen Lambert WS479/Dunham119 Christian Herter, Dave Milton, Theodore Dunham Jr. WS480/Dunham120 Christian A. Herter WS481/Dunham121 Aileen Tone, Theo, Mary Dows Dunham; Otter Cliffs WS482/Dunham122 " WS483/Dunham123 Theo, "Nogie", Aileen Tone WS484/Dunham124 Aileen Tone and Joseph B. Warner WS485/Dunham125 Dr. Sam W. Lambert and Dr. Edward K. Dunham WS486/Dunham126 Dr. Edward K. Dunham WS487/Dunham127 Peggy Hoe and Theo WS488/Dunham128 Sue Herter with "Tony", "Shamy", "Dooley", "Nogie", "Pedro" WS489/Dunham129 Theo on "Robinetta" and Edward on "Brighteyes" WS490/Dunham130 Patrick on "Black Bess", Theo on "Brighteyes", Dr. E. K. Dunham on "Topsey" WS491/Dunham131 Theo on "Topsey" WS492/Dunham132 Theo and Edward WS493/Dunham133 Helen Dane, Mary Dows Dunham, Mary Phelps, Beatrice Dunham WS494/Dunham134 Ernest B. Dane on the "Cone" WS495/Dunham135 Ernest Dane and Dr. Edward K. Dunham WS496/Dunham136 Dan Hanna's "Ingomar" WS497/Dunham137 Mrs. Marcus A Hanna, Mary Phelps and Ed Dodge 14 WS498/Dunham138 Mrs. Hanna WS499/Dunham139 Mrs. Hanna and Miss Phelps WS500/Dunham140 Christening of "Marcana" (1908) WS501/Dunham141 Sam Chapin, Prof. Toy, Richard Hoe, Dr. E. K. Dunham on "Neith" WS502/Dunham142 "Marcana"? WS503/Dunham143 Dr. E. K. Dunham and Mrs. Christian Herter WS504/Dunham144 Theo, Mary Dows Dunham, Dr. E. K. Dunham, Peggy hoe, on "Neith" WS505/Dunham145 Edward K. Dunham, Jr WS506/Dunham146 Theo, ?, ?, "Andrew Mac" WS507/Dunham147 Peggy Hoe, Theo, Margaret Penman, Edward, Edith Penman WS508/Dunham148 Edward, George L. Stebbins, Marcia Stebbins WS509/Dunham149 Edward WS510/Dunham150 George L. Stebbins as Chantecler WS511/Dunham151 Chantecler at Cedar Cliff WS512/Dunham152 Edith Stebbins WS513/Dunham153 Chantecler, Edith Stebbins, ? WS514/Dunham154 Mrs. Marcus A. Hanna's House WS515/Dunham155 " WS516/Dunham156 " WS517/Dunham157 " WS518/Dunham158 " WS519/Dunham159 " WS520/Dunham160 " WS521/Dunham161 " WS522/Dunham162 " WS523/Dunham163 " WS524/Dunham164 Mrs. Hanna WS525/Dunham165 View from Mrs. Hanna's House WS526/Dunham166 "Neith", "Sugatta", "Vision" WS527/Dunham167 Tracy Dows off fishing WS528/Dunham168 "Cone" WS529/Dunham169 ? WS530/Dunham170 ? WS531/Dunham171 ? WS532/Dunham172 Margaret Baker, Katherine Arnell, Theo, Duncan Fuller, "Roy" WS533/Dunham173 Alice Dows, Margaret Baker, Edward, K. Arnold, Theo, Duncan, Margaret Dows WS534/Dunham174 Duncan, Mary Dows Dunham, Will Marcus, Alice Margaret Dows WS535/Dunham175 Olin Dows WS536/Dunham176 Margaret, Alice, Olin Dows WS537/Dunham177 Livermore girl, Alice Dows, Theo, K. Arnold, Duncan Fuller, Olin Dows WS538/Dunham178 ? WS539/Dunham179 ? WS540/Dunham180 Livermore girl, ?, Margaret Dows, ? 15 WS541/Dunham181 Margaret Dows WS542/Dunham182 Duncan Fuller, Olin Dows, Edward WS543/Dunham183 " WS544/Dunham184 Edward and Olin Dows WS545/Dunham185 ? WS546/Dunham186 ?, Margaret Dows, ? WS547/Dunham187 Margaret Dows WS548/Dunham188 ?, ?, ?, Edward, Duncan, ? WS549/Dunham189 Priscilla Bartlett, Theo, Mary Tweed, Edward, Louise Herrick, Duncan WS550/Dunham190 Priscilla Bartlett, Mary Tweed, Louise Herrick, Edward, Duncan Fuller WS551/Dunham191 Duncan, Priscilla Bartlett, Theo, Louise Herrick, Mary Tweed, Edward WS552/Dunham192 The Burton Harrison children WS553/Dunham193 " WS554/Dunham194 " WS555/Dunham195 " WS556/Dunham196 Theo WS557/Dunham197 Tracy Dows, Duncan Fuller, Edward, Margaret and Alice Dows, Olin WS558/Dunham198 Sylvia Hyde WS559/Dunham199 Mary Dows Dunham, Pretty Marsh WS560/Dunham200 Edward, Dr. Edward K. Dunham, Theo WS561/Dunham201 Theo, Edward WS562/Dunham202 Dr. Edward K. Dunham, Mary Dows Dunham WS563/Dunham203 Duncan Fuller and Edward WS564/Dunham204 Dr. Edward K. Duham WS565/Dunham205 Duncan Fuller WS566/Dunham206 Duncan Fuller and Edward, on the Keewaydin terrace WS567/Dunham207 Edward, Theo, Mary Dows Dunham, Dr. E. K. Dunham WS568/Dunham208 Duncan Fuller, ? WS569/Dunham209 Theo, Duncan, Dr. E.K. Dunham, Edward WS570/Dunham210 Theo, Duncan, Dr. E. K. Dunham, Edward WS571/Dunham211 Theo, Mary Dows Dunham, Dr. Edward K. Dunham, Edward WS572/Dunham212 Theo and Duncan WS573/Dunham213 Theo, Dr. E. K. Dunham, Edward, Duncan WS574/Dunham214 Alice Dows WS575/Dunham215 Alice Dows and Dr. E. K. Dunham WS576/Dunham216 Seal Harbor Yacht Club WS577/Dunham217 Mrs. Marcus A. Hanna and Dr. E. K. Dunham WS578/Dunham218 Alice Dows on the Shore Path WS579/Dunham219 " WS580/Dunham220 South Porch of "Eastholme" WS581/Dunham221 Olin Dows, Mr. & Mrs. Olin Dows, Alice and Margaret Dows, Duncan Fuller, Mary Dows Dunham, Edward 16 WS582/Dunham222 Dr. E. K. Dunham WS583/Dunham223 Wm. Jay Schieffelin, Jr. and young brother, Ashville, Maine WS584/Dunham224 Margaret Dows WS585/Dunham225 Duncan Fuller WS586/Dunham226 Edward WS587/Dunham227 Keewaydin WS588/Dunham228 " WS589/Dunham229 " WS590/Dunham230 " WS591/Dunham231 View of Seal Harbor from driveway WS592/Dunham232 Keewaydin WS593/Dunham233 View of side porch WS594/Dunham234 Keewaydin WS595/Dunham235 " WS596/Dunham236 " WS597/Dunham237 " WS598/Dunham238 " WS599/Dunham239 " WS600/Dunham240 " WS601/Dunham241 " WS602/Dunham242 " WS603/Dunham243 " WS604/Dunham244 " WS605/Dunham245 " WS606/Dunham246 " WS607/Dunham247 " WS608/Dunham248 " WS609/Dunham249 " WS610/Dunham250 " WS611/Dunham251 " WS612/Dunham252 " WS613/Dunham253 " WS614/Dunham254 " WS615/Dunham255 " WS616/Dunham256 " WS617/Dunham257 " WS618/Dunham258 " WS619/Dunham259 " WS620/Dunham260 " WS621/Dunham261 " WS622/Dunham262 " WS623/Dunham263 " WS624/Dunham264 " WS625/Dunham265 " WS626/Dunham266 " WS627/Dunham267 " 17 WS628/Dunham268 " WS629/Dunham269 " WS630/Dunham270 " WS631/Dunham271 " WS632/Dunham272 " WS633/Dunham273 " WS634/Dunham274 " WS635/Dunham275 " WS636/Dunham276 " WS637/Dunham277 " WS638/Dunham278 " WS639/Dunham279 " WS640/Dunham280 WS641/Dunham281 WS642/Dunham282 WS643/Dunham283 WS644/Dunham284 WS645/Dunham285 WS646/Dunham286 WS647/Dunham287 WS648/Dunham288 WS649/Dunham289 WS650/Dunham290 WS651/Dunham291 WS652/Dunham292 WS653/Dunham293 WS654/Dunham294 WS655/Dunham295 WS656/Dunham296 WS657/Dunham297 WS658/Dunham298 WS659/Dunham299 WS660/Dunham300 WS661/Dunham301 WS662/Dunham302 WS663/Dunham303 WS664/Dunham304 WS665/Dunham305 WS666/Dunham306 WS667/Dunham307 WS668/Dunham308 11/20/06 F.L.Omsted card file. Sources needed by Ron Epp for November 20th appointment [at the Rockefeller Archive Center] 9.20.1929 Seal Harbor National Park-Dorr envelope box 85 f 839,840 9.18.1929 Seal Harbor file-Auto road 1929 env. boxio9 110 9.30.1929 Seal Harbor Auto Road 1929 10.14.1929 Seal Harbor Auto Road 1929 +10/2/29 Hubbard lette. 10.21.1929 Seal Harbor National Park-Dorr envelope 11.14.1929 Report & plans for Seal Harbor roads. See S.H. Auto Road, 1929 env. Maps are in cabinet #6 - S.H.O. 12.13.1929 1929 auto road file-S.H. 12.23.1929 Seal Harbor Roads-Olmsted envelope - box119 2.24.1930 Seal Harbor Roads-Olmsted env. 3/4/16/1930 3.18-22,.1930 Seal Harbor-Olmsted corr.- Roads 3.19.1930 See fd. - Maine Biological Laboratory - box 75 couldit (reta sep. 6.2.1930 See S.H. roads - Olmsted env. 6.20.1930 See S.H. roads - Olmsted env. 6.19.1930 See 1930 envelope in S.H. Roads - HE 0 6.14.1930 See Seal Harbor Olmsted env. Roads - sep. fd. 8.27.1930 See S.H. 1930 prop. - box90 couldn't locate 7.11 & 14. 1930. S.H. Roads - Olmsted env. Dec. 1930 See Olmsted Bros. env. S.H. Roads 5.21.1931 S.H. Surveys - Hill env. - box1270 5.12.1933 S.H. Roads - Olmsted. 0 6. 7 & 11.1934 S.H. Roads - Olmsted 758385 90 109 110 113 119123127 8.11.1934 Seal Harbor Otter Cliff Road box 119 9.12.1934 S.H. Otter Cliff Road 9.26.1934 S.H. Otter Creek Road 7.3.1935 S.H. Auto Road - 1935 - sep. - fd. - 110? 7.3.1935 Seal Harbor - Olmsted 7.8.1935 S.H. - Roads - - Olmsted 10.17.1935 S.H. Auto Road - 1935 Gov. - box 113 or(114?) Not relwat 10.23.1935 S.H. Auto Road 1935 2.26.1936 S.H. Olmsted Roads 2.24.1937 S.H. Otter Creek Bridge- box123 Not here! 5.4 & 13.1937 Seal Harbor - - 1937 -box83? 9.15.1939 S.H. Roads - Otter Creek Road Ron Epp Manky W 20 pla AND BAR VOLUME IV $1.50 A YEAR BAR HARBOR MAI APPALACHIAN CLUB WILL OF LATE R. B. BOWLER HOTELS OPEN FOR SEASON FILED FOR PROBATE GOL AT SEAL HARBOR The will of the late Robert Pendleton Many Early Arrivals at Bar Harbor This Year-Hotels Rapidly Bowler has been filed for probate at Filling PO Ellsworth. With if is the request of all Mountain Club Spending interested as heirs and next of kin that With the opening of the Malvern on it be allowed and proved. Saturday the Bar Harbor hotels are New Week at Seaside Inn Mr. Bowler gave legacies to his secre- ready for the summer season. With a tary and to Edward Harris of Bar Har- good number registered at the present bor, who is described an the will as "My PARTY OF FIFTY HERE time the bookings for the balance of the faithful friend and worker on my estate season point to a large attendance at MAN at Bar Harbor. the resort for the summer. The reser- Wonders of New National Park a The will provides that the estate be vations for the coming week will double Golfer Revelation- Grandeur Un- kept together for a time if needed for the number of guests now registered. surpassed," Says Mr. Perkins the protection of iron mines in Cuba Among the guests registered to date in which he was interested. at the St. Sauveur are: Llewellyn Fifty members of the Appalachian After legacies to various relatives the Barry, Philadelphia; Mrs. R. W. Gaw, Ther Mountain Club arrived from Boston at residue of the estate goes to an aunt, Miss Gaw, H. L. Gaw, Philadelphia; at the the Seaside Inn, Seal Harbor, Saturday Mrs. Alice B. Bowler, and to a cousin, Mrs. Eads Hazard, New York; Miss has bees morning. The members of this party Mrs. Jane Bowler Gilman. Elizabeth Randolph, Savannah, Ga.: It seer have spent their time thus far in tramp- Mrs. C. Vanderbilt Cross, Mrs. Joseph popula ing through the many wonderful moun- around Bar Harbor. While here they W. Burden, Miss Leila Burden, Mrs. so ma tain trails of Mount Desert Island. were the guests of Mr. George B. Dorr George Thatcher, New York; Mrs. numbe They will remain here until Saturday of The party arrived on the J. T. Morse Emma Grima, New Orlea ns. the K this week and will continue their climbs at noon from Seal Harbor where they Among those expected at the St. to offer and tramps through the Lafayette are making their headquarters. Sauveur in the next week are: Dr. and Desert National Park. This is the first ex- At the wharf they were met with auto- Mrs. Harold Williams and Miss Williams course cursion that this well-known club has mobiles and took a short trip around the of Boston; Mrs. Melville Post, Phila- On eve made to Mount Desert Island, but it town, going out to the Building of Arts. delphia; Miss DuBois, DuBois, Penn.; able CO will by no means be the last, for the They stopped at the National Park Mrs. Rhett, New York; Mr. and Mrs. of the members of the club are exceedingly office to see the fine photographs of the A. M. Coates, Providence, R. I.; Col. natura mthusiastie over the beauties of the park on exhibition there and then went and Mrs. DeWitt C. Falls, Mr. and Mrs. The ne new National Park and without doubt- to Old Farm, Mr. Dorr's residence. Courtland S. Van Rensselaer, Miss have be they will return from year to year in The next stop was at the Sieur de Wynne Pyle, New York. as goo increased numbers. Monts Spring where lunch was eaten, The early arrivals at the Malvern for certain Mr. Frederick H. Perkins of Boston, preparatory to the trip to Seal Harbor the season are Mr. and Mrs. Henry may b. who is chairman of the committee on over the mountains The party went C. Emmet, New York at Kebo Cottage; ciated arrangements, said to the TIMES man, over Dry Mountain down into Green Albert Eugene Gallatin, New York, play o "This trip has been a revelation to many Mountain Gorge and then over Green Richardson Cottage; L. Edward Frith, The of us who had not heretofore realized Mountain to the Boyd Road where the New York, Kebo Cottage; Mrs. B. C. will be the unsurpassed grandeur, the wonderful party was met by autos to take them Tilghman, Philadelphia, Cornersmeet; compet beauty of scenery and the wonders of to Seal Harbor. Miss M. F. Mellon and Miss M. Mellon, bers, this Lafayette National Park. There The party was enthusiastic over the Washington, Geranium Cottage; An- tickets, is nothing to compare with it on the scenery of the new national park and toine Lefebure, Amsterdam, Holland; out Ju. Atlantic coast. The members of our were very grateful to Mr. Dorr for his Mrs. Clinton Ogilvie, New York; Mrs. as foll club are most enthusiastic in regard to kindness to them. Mason Campbell, Philadelphia, Talley- bogey, the beauties of this island park. We The Appalachian Club has a mem- rand Cottage; Mrs. George W. Forsythe, score, cannot say enough good things about it. bership of 2100 from all over the world New York. winner Its beauties are beyond words." Mr. Parties are arranged to visit all the well Among those expected during the points Perkins' enthusiasm is no greater than known mountain regions of this country week are: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scrib- Season that of the average member of the club. as well as Europe. Several trips have ner, Mr. and Mrs. John Sloane, Mrs. a prize Without exception they are delighted been made to the Alps. Needless to Benjamin Nicoll, Miss Eleanor de Graff least m with their trip and plan to return another say, the membership includes some of Cuyler, Mr. W. MacNeal Rodewald, have tli year. the best mountain climbers in the coun- Mr. Chandler Robbins, Miss Marion player The party is stopping at the Seaside try. A party of 100 has recently re- C. Bourne, Mrs. Albert Flake, Miss have C Inn, from. which point all trips are made. turned to Boston from the mountains Helen Flake, Mrs. Flake-Manning, Mr. least. Among the trails covered and the points of North Carolina. Another party of and Mrs. William A. Burnham and The of interest visited are: Beech Cliff, 100 will leave soon for the Moosehead Mrs. Charles G. Peters of New York; Men Cadillac Mountain, Otter Cliffs, Jordan region. The Appalachian Club has Mrs. Eben Sutton, Baltimore; Mrs. morning Pond, Pemetic Mountain, The Bubbles, done as much as if not more than any J. P. Richardson, New Orleans; and Kebo Champlain Mountain, Cranberry Isles, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) Mr. James McCosh Magie. Handica Somes Sound, Sargent Mountain, Brown's Among the guests at the Newport Waldron Mountain and Bakers Island. The Why is the House are: Mrs. Persifor Frazer, Phila- nesday, itinerary for the remainder of the week delphia; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gerndt, includes many other points of interest Harmon Piano Co. only; A New York; Mrs. H. L. Horton, Boston; tition in the National Park and about the (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) prize, S island. doing the most of the business of Hancock County? The members of the club spent Tues- "There's a Reason" day afternoon in seeing the country Honest Pianoa. Honest Treatment. Honest Prices EDWARD B. MEARS A. STROUD RODICK Jordan Pond EDWARD B. MEARS & CO. Seal Harbor, M: 2 WEDNESDAY. JULY 2, 1919 Walter APPALACHIAN CLUB OPENING BA Mnc:PheipaHarryHoward, AT SEAL HARBOR MrtKR-Howard,George (CONTINUED FROM PAGE I) Newball Dr. Coshman, Mr. and other organization in America for the Mr. Moore, Mms Mary Ostrander, preservation of the mountain forests. WOODLAND G. H. Milliken, Allen Forbes, Miss The dub really had no conception of Alida Livingston and H. L Bradley what Mount Desert Island has to offer Out Door Dancing Pa until this trip was made. It is highly probable that in the future the trip to FRIDAY EVENING, BATTING AVERAGES the Lafayette National Park will be RADIO-BALL CLUB made an annual event. Music by Ladies' Orch The excursions are planned and carried GENTS 55 CENTS The following is a complete list of LA the Radio Station baseball club's batting out in a most interesting manner. The Refreshments trip is always in the hands of a com- average for one or the whole six games they have paken part in. mittee that makes all arrangements for Dancing Tuesday. and Friday The Radio team has won three and hotels, baggage, itinerary, etc. It is run Throughout the Seaso lost three games this season. They almost as a Cook's Tour. The days are spent in tramping and the evenings LEWIS LELAND, Manager took both games of the series from Seal Harbor defeating them 32 to 12 in the are spent at the Inn. Whist and danc- first contest and 13 to 10 last Saturday. ing are always in order during the even- They have won one and lost one with ings. About two thirds of this party B. S. HIGGINS CO. $250. are women but they are no less enthu- 21 foot plea Ell.worth. Ellsworth won the first siastic than are their husbands and Dealers in gratings. sea game 15 to 13, in which game catcher Sturtevant of Ellsworth broke his left brothers, and the ladies of the Appala- engine. all chian Club never fall behind in the long painted. arm. The Radio team captured the hikes over the mountains. Groceries and Provisions next game at Ellsworth 15 to 7. The $150 f Bar Harbor town team has scalped the The entire party enjoyed one of those excellent Jordan Pond House chicken Rad boys twice, the never-to-be- forgotten Memorial Day game, when the dinners Monday evening. The excel- South Go town team won in the last half of the lent dinner at the picturesque Jordan P. E. Sharpless and Vermont phone W ninth 14 to 13. Again the town team Pond House, followed by dancing, was Butter with Twombley in the box won 11 to 3. one of the features of the outing that S. L. K This game will be remembered for the will be long remembered. The party Imported and Domestic Canned Bar will also have a Fourth of July celebra- Goods and Condiments strikeouts Twombley had. No less than 22 fanned the air during the contest. tion on the lawn of the Seaside Inn. A French II huge bonfire will be built. An orchestra has been engaged. There will be one MARKET The Radio batting average: F Name Games At Runs Hits Per or two suitable addresses and many other features in the way of entertain- Beef, Lamb, Veal, Poultry, Game, Played Bat THOROU ctg Siegel, p, 2b, of 13 10 9 ment and amusement. They will also Fruits, Vegetables, Eggs, 4 692 weighs nine Berry, rf 1 5 1 3 600 give an entertainment during the week Cheese, etc. 1 2 for the benefit of the Fatherless Children weighs sever Murphy, se 1 1 500 of France Fund. pies are ten Larberg, 1b 6 33 12 12 363 Mr. Perkins stated to the TIMES man PROPRIETORS OF Marshall, 2b, of 4 16 4 5 312 ready to ship Ragan, 3b, 2b 5 25 7 7 280 that the entire party was very much Bar Harbor Hardware Store 6 28 9 7 250 pleased with the hospitality of the MRS. G Enie, If Gibson, rg 1 2 management of the Seaside Inn and with 4 1 250 131, 133. 135 Main St. 10 Park the cordial treatment received. He Brunner, 2b, ss, 3b 6 33 12 7 213 Agatstein, 2b, rf 2 10 3 2 200 said that the people of Seal Harbor had There is more Colarch in this section Storer, 38, rf 6 35 7 7 200 made them feel very welcome and very of the country than an other diseases Kent, e 1 much at home and everything possible put together. are for years 11 was sup- RC 2 10 2 200 posed to be accurable Doctors prescribe! Glasser, p 3 11 5 2 181 had been done to make the trip most local remedies. and by constantly failing Ope Steelen, If 3 12 5 2 167 enjoyable. The general air of refine- to cure with kcal treatment prosounced it incurable Catarra is a local cream Bannister, c 4 12 4 2 167 ment found on Mount Desert Island is greatly influenced by constitutional coc- Greeley He Davis, c 14 5 2 in pleasing contrast to that found in ditions and therefore requires constito- 5 143 tional treatment Hall's Catarro Mech- many resort centers. The members 3 7 0 1 cine. manufactured by F. J. Cheses & Under ne Miller, P .143 Co. Toledo, Ohio. is a constitutional Shrouse, p 1 1 0 0 000 of the Appalachian Club are thoroughly enjoying their trip to Mount Desert remedy. is taken internally and acts base hits: Enie 5, Siegel 5, thru the Blood on the Mccoos Surfaces Clean, com Two 3, Brunner 3, Larberg 2, Mur- Island. The people of the Island are of the System One Hundred Dollars re- Ragan reasona delighted to have them here and to ward is offered for any case that Hairs hy 1, Marshall 1. Three base hits: Catarrh Medicine fails to cure Send for day know that the members of the club have circulars and testimonials arberg 1, Storer 1, Gibson 1. been so favorably impressed with all F. J. CHENEY & CO., Tokedo. Ohia Sold by Druggists. ic. MRS. NEL have seen Hall's Family Pills for constipation