Alarums and Excursions An Amusement Record of Mt. Desert Island Advertising Department The Publishers for Alarums and Excursions Photographic Tom Morgan, Gordon Torrey are not responsible for the opinions illustrations by Norman Torrey of its contributors Tom Kelley Tel. Bar Harbor 60 1935 Greetings to Maine Visitors Historical Procession of Three Centuries Feature of Maine Visitors' Day Bar Harbor, the magic island of North America, AUGUST 16, ATHLETIC FIELD, BAR HARBOR will greet thousands of eager visitors on Maine Day, August sixteenth. They will behold in their amaze- Governor Brann, Walter Damrosch, master of ment and joy, an island which nature has endowed ceremonies for the Visitors' Day Committee have com- with a beauty which cannot be adequately described missioned Leighton Rollins, Director of the Bar Harbor Drama Festival with the assistance of Mrs. John by mortal pen or word. DeWitt Peltz, to organize and direct the historical A lovely celebration with music, oratory and a procession showing the historical high lights at Bar Harbor and on Mt. Desert. Mr. Roll'ins' committee colorful pageant illustrated by groups of distinguished includes Carroll Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Tobias Roberts, people who have visited this island during the last Mrs. Ralph Masterman and Miss Rachel McKelvey. three hundred and thirty years, will greet his Excel- The episodes are as follows: lency the Governor of Maine. I-Indians and Squaws May brilliant Maine sunshine add its blessings on II-Champlain and Suite this great occasion! III-Jesuits and Indians Walter Damrosch IV-Cadillae and guide V-1820 Maine becomes a State. VI-1855-The first Rusticaters come to Bar Harbor, Charles Tracey and party. Greetings from a New VII-Gen. U.S. Grant with aides. VIII-The Parson rides to church. Bar Harbor Visitor IX-Two Buck-boards drawn by two horses 1888. X-Bar Harbor Sports, new and old, Bathing, To all fortunate Maine visitors I wi to ex- Tennis, Bicycling, Horse-back Riding, tend my congratulation that all of us my iey Yachting, Motoring. visitor are happy in the experience of sharing to- gether the invigorating air, the beautiful cry an Extractillary interest has been shown in the gram for Maine Visitors' Day. It is suggested to the comradely spirit of our sojourn here togethe d scals LO come early. The program MARY ROBERTS RINEHA is e of charge, as a hospitable g stare to all Maine Visitors and their friends. The xercises commence 3:00 in the afternoon. ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS Fred C. Lynam Guy E. Torrey SECRETARY'S LIST FOR AUGUST FRED C. LYNAM & CO. Thursday, August 15th Real Estate-Insurance Trust Company Building SUPPER PARTY BAR HARBOR, MAINE On the stage of the Casino in honor of Miss Edith Barrett on the opening night of "Much Ado About Nothing" on August 15th. HOTEL LORRAINE Friday, August 16th NEW MANAGEMENT American and European Plan Maine Visitors' Day. Exercises at 3:00 o'clock. Attractive Rates-Excellent Cuisine Matinee, "Much Ado About Nothing," with Edith DANCING AND ENTERTAINMENT WEDNESDAY AND Barrett, 2:30 at the Casino. SATURDAY EVENINGS Special Catering for Banquets and Parties Evening, "Much Ado About Nothing," 8:45 (Capacity 1,000) Casino. M. L. Peterson, Mgr. Saturday, August 17th Edith Barrett in "Much Ado About Nothing," at the Casino. Shere Dinners a Specialty Phone 359 HARBOR VIEW HOUSE AUG. 18, MID-SUMMER NIGHT'S BALL Rooms and Meals At Bar Harbor Club European Plan 40 MAIN STREET Monday, August 19th BAR HARBOR, MAINE There will be a grand march at mid-night when TOUT PRES you must wear a mask. Prizes will be awarded for NORTHEAST HARBOUR the most distinguished costumes. Dinner will preceed the ball. Jack Marshard will play and there will be TEA LUNCHEON or DINNER divertissements. The grounds of the club and the pool will be illuminated. If Ordered In Advance Telephone Northeast Harbour 16 Wednesday, August 27th SUMMER FROLIC WILLIAM QUIMBY A Vaudeville Show for Bar Harbor Relief and Painting and Paper Hanging Students fund of the Philadelphia orchestra. The Wall Papers committee is Mrs. Meyer Davis, Mary Fell Jordan, and Josephine Munson. Meyer Davis will conduct the 109 COTTAGE STREET BAR HARBOR, MAINE orchestra. SUPPER PARTY Kioto New York Osaka London On the stage of the Casino in honor of Miss Pekin YAMANAKA & CO. Shanghai Margaret Anglin on the opening night of "Fresh" Art Objects from China and Japan Fields"-August 29th. 456 Boylston Street Main Street, Opp. Mt. Desert Friday, August 30th Boston Bar Harbor, Maine Arrival H. M. : S. "York." THE F. E. SHERMAN COMPANY WHERE TO SWIM 14-22 Cottage Street Sand Beach: Salt water, opened to the public by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee BAR HARBOR'S MOST POPULAR SHOPPING PLACE on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of each week. BEFORE LEAVING, VISIT Closed on Saturday and Sunday. Un- dertow: Enter from Shore Drive before NASON'S reaching Thunder Hole: marked. Lakewood: Enter from Hulls Cove on back road; Modern Sportswear for Modern People diving board etc., fresh water. Tennis, Sailing and Beachwear for Men and Women SOUVENIR NECKWEAR Bar Harbor Club Pool (Private) 110 Main St. Tel. 213W Bar Harbor, Me. Sandy Beach: At Seal Harbor, near the Seaside Hotel. FORTY-FIRST YEAR The Swimming Pool: Northeast Harbor (Private). JORDAN POND HOUSE The Causeway Club Pool Mt. Desert Boys Club: LUNCHEON DINNER Enter from Southwest Harbor road AFTERNOON TEA after leaving Somesville. ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS Bar Harbor Drama Festival From Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor, or Southwest Harbor public wharfs, or on mail Presents boat. Professor William Otis Sawtelle has collected there a unique series of prints and Margaret Anglin documents relating to the settlement and early history of the Island. In a New Comedy"Fresh Fields" by Ivor Novello Public Motor Camp: August 29, 30, 31 at the Bar Harbor Casino Public camp in Park Grounds; no charge, super- vised. Horses: Thirty miles of roads through the Park. "Fresh Fields" is a particularly amusing and de- Horses and buckboards may be hired from Mr. lightful farcial comedy. Miss Anglin presented it last Vignoles at Jordan Pond and Alfred James, summer in Chicago and this summer has already pre- Eagle Lake Road. sented it at the Cape Playhouse at Dennis and at the Casino at Newport. Movies: In Bar Harbor: Many of the cast when they leave Bar Harbor George McKay's Criterion, showing the best will go direct to New York with Miss Anglin where of the new pictures and also the Star. the play will be given its New York Premier in the At Northeast: The Pastime. early fall under the management of Raymond Moore. At Southwest: The Dirigo. One of the Chicago Reviewers of the play wrote as follows of Miss Anglin's performance: "Last night Margaret Anglin came back to show CRITERIO! GRO. C. McKAY'S the modern generation what the theatre used to be N like. A feat of sheer skill in the actor's art in Welcomes you to Bar Harbor her hands the play becomes a character comedy so Don't leave town until you have visited richly does this actor invest it with personal detail Maine's Most Beautiful Theatre and dramatic intelligence. THE BEST IN ENTERTAINMENT AT ALL TIMES The scene wherein Lady Mary played by Miss Anglin, moulds the rich Wyoming sheep baron to her will is as funny and plausible as the local stage has THE MALVERN HOTEL AND COTTAGES seen in many a season, and it is so because Miss An- Combines every convenience and home comfort and glin has a great actress' insight into human nature." -Lloyd Lewis (Chicago Daily News). commends itself to persons of refinement desiring the "Miss Anglin gives a superb performance in the best of accommodations, highest standards of cuisine vein of high comedy." and service at Moderate Prices. Delicious food that (New York Times correspondent.) you'll enjoy. EXCURSIONS 10:30 In the morning-2:30 and 4:30 in the afternoon $1.00 per person per trip. From Bar Harbor-Captain Jordan Benson Captain Charles Parker Captain Fred Hayes Dirigo Boat Company From Seal Harbor at Public Wharf. From Northeast Harbor at Public Wharf. From Southwest Harbor at Public Wharf. Nature Guide Service: From the Park Office, Main Street, at the Ath- letic Field. The Rock End Totel and Cottages NORTHEAST HARBOR, MAINE Museums: Situated on a bluff, overlooking the water at entrance of Abbe Museum: At Sieur de Monts Spring en- Somes Sound. Has an excellent view of the mountains and sur- trance to the Park; contains relics of Stone rounding islands. Age period of Indian culture. An archaeo- Hotel accommodates one hundred and fifty guests. Rooms with private baths, balconies and open fire-places. logist is in charge. American Plan Moderate Prices Attractvie New Cocktail Lounge. Islesford Museum: Little Cranberry Island. MRS. STERLING R. CROWE, PROP. ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS SHERMAN'S BOOK & STATIONERY STORE, THEY ALL COME TO MAINE Inc. (By a Tourist) 11 Cottage Street Distinctive Stationery Latest Books They say there is a highly specialized reason for Magazines Newspapers each one of the twelve months activities! Who will Office Supplies Novelties argue with me that August exists for the tourists? WEST END DRUG CO. If you want to get an idea of the number of Gordon & Gilfillan people who start out in every make of automobile, PHARMACISTS of every vintage, style and type-sit for about two hours in front of the Claypoole Hotel in Indianapolis, MAIN STREET BAR HARBOR, MAINE Indiana, and watch the licenses on the cars as they pass in determined regalia before you, you wonder Southampton, L. I. New York Palm Beach,, Fla. where they are going and why. Fords 80 filled with E. SCHMIDT & CO. families that you marvel at the capacity-Father, hot and perspiring on the front seat, usually with the MAIN STREET BAR HARBOR, MAINE dog and two or three squirming progeny-Mother, Old English Silver rather dreary and disheveled, swamped on the back Antique China Fine Glass seat with the several other hopefuls-and the same condition in the dozens and dozens of vehicles of WELD COTTAGE motor type which hold you spell bound as on they go. Yellow Cottage Then you, yourself, suddenly-well not so sud- In-The-Field (off Main Street at Bar Harbor Bank) Used by Studio of Acting denly-are in the midst of Maine-and there bursts Under from your satisfied curiosity "Ah! They ALL come to Maddocks Management Maine". Watch and see. During June, July and August will be available for week-end guests or parties The other day we drove up Cadillac Mountain beginning September first this you must do on your first day's arrival in the Excellent table beautiful Bar Harbor, if only to avoid everyone tell- Reasonable Rates These lovely cottages are on the water ing you about it. It is easier to say, "Yes-I've been front commanding a view of up there," than to listen to the other tourists tell you Frenchman's Bay you should go and then describe it, in slow and linger- For reservations, telephone Dana Maddocks, Bar Harbor, 367 ing detail. I've got just one complaint to make against the State of Maine; then I'll use adjectives, even obsolete, VISIT "THE FUR SHOP" in my endeavor to tell you why it is the Tourtists Mecca. Maine's Oldest and Largest My complaint, or perhaps I should call it a ques- tion, is this "Why didn't the early settlers of Mt. De- FURRIERS sert Island employ the greatest of all geniuses, the man who named the Pullman sleeping cars, to name their towns? Instead of calling upon Greek Gods and Egyptian Kings, asking permission to become their namesakes, the primeval Fathers secured a com- LYFORD-WOODWARD CO. pass. I think several compasses, then became possess- ed of a spy glass, and the combination resulted in an (Est. 1859) obsession for harbors. Instead of musical, romantic names designating these charming spots, we are con- BANGOR BAR HARBOR seious only of a harbor and its accompanying direc- tion. It's all right with me-I don't mind being in Northeast, Southwest, East by East, or what have The Newport House you, I merely regret that Mr. Pullman wasn't consult- ed, for I feel sure he would have given the services ONLY HOTEL ON THE SHORE of his wizard. At BAR HARBOR Be that as it may, I promised you the low down on "Why Maine!" Why Mt. Desert. Why Bar Harbor? And to all I unreservedly answer, "Beauty". There Organized 1887 are those who will tell you that Maine offers stranger BAR HARBOR BANKING & TRUST CO. combinations of Nature's generosity than any other With Offices state, and that is true. Where else will you find the at sea, the mountains, the fresh water lakes, the fields, BAR HARBOR and oh! we romantic souls who used to sing the old NORTHEAST HARBOR SOUTHWEST HARBOR song, "In the WOODS of Maine," all within walking ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS distances of each other. No-not even in the North- THE BOOK SHOP ern part of the boasted California-though Maine re- minds us continually of that exploited state. Cali- Offers a unique collection of Rare fornia has the sea, the mountains-perhaps that added glory of the fields of yellow poppies, but no lakes and Books, Colour Plate Books, Sport- no tradition. From the days of our earliest remem- ing Books. First. Editions of brance Bar Harbor and some of these other compass American Classics, the Latest named harbors have lured the elect to make their summer homes in the midst of the perfect beauty of French. English and American this most blessed state-and the "Elect" have with Publications, Novels -Travel - wisdom and foresight, kept it beautiful. The "picnic" Biography -astonishing values element is encouragingly absent. In some way or other even the Tourists from Nebraska, Iowa and Ohio, in standard editions feel the beauty and don't want to desecrate it by throwing sardine cans, or peanut brittle wrappers on HIMEBAUGH & BROWNE its sandy surface. Every tourist seems to scent the desire of the Traditionists to keep it all just the way 134 Main Street, Bar Harbor God gave it to the world, and of course you know that was long before the days of sardine cans and peanut HOME INDUSTRY SHOP brittle! NORTHEAST HARBOR, MAINE As I drive through the various spots of almost Conducted By unearthly beauty in Maine, I become conscious of an MRS. EDWIN TRACY uplifted sense of optimism-I feel that many a search- Articles Made by the Village People on Sale Grenfell Rugs ing eye would love to get behind the sentinel hedges Imported Tweed and Knitted Wools of the homes of celebrities, that perhaps it would be fun to peer into the garage of the Atwater Kents', REMINGTON P. FAIRLAMB that it would be good to\go back and brag to the Incorporated "Folks at home" that you ate lunch on Edsel Ford's 717 Madison Avenue 136 Main Street lawn-yet when you find that the way is barred-that New York City Bar Harbor, Maine Swiss Monogram Handkerchiefs after all celebrities should be allowed the privacy of Fine Banquet Cloths 21/6 to 5 yards long a home-you do turn in reconciled satisfaction and EXCLUSIVE LINENS AND LACES watch the surf endlessly and forever beating on the rocks-you follow trails through the woods-you fish J. H. BUTTERFIELD CO. in crystal clear lakes-you go. to lobster pounds, fasten MEATS AND FANCY GROCERIES your appetite's affection on a very particular lobster- Imported and Domestic Beverages you get the obliging attendant to pull out that lobster, 416 S. Palm Beach Ave. 152 Main St. you watch him put the victim in a net and dip it into Palm Beach, Fla. Bar Harbor, Me. a fire hidden in a stove, of much service, wherein is Phones 7186-7187 Phones 40-41 also hidden a kettle-you take the precious food, and drive a little way to a rock almost in the sea-you Telephone 680 make a fire to melt the butter you have brought-and PAUL then, to the song of the waves, ever, ever lapping, HAIRDRESSER lapping, the very rock on which you sit, you urge 21 Mount Desert Street Bar Harbor, Ma. the lobster of your choice to become a part of you! O Tourists as I thus recount, I become ashamed of my man-suggestion. No-no indeed. In mem- Asticou Inn ory of all the beauty Maine has to offer and so freely NORTHEAST HARBOR gives, I salute her, and thank her. Let's love the fog, the dirge of its warning horn-the welcome of its sweetest pine trees-the gentleness of its fields, the OPEN FOR OUR 24th SEASON dignity of its mountains. Let's never miss it should we desire to be satisfied Tourists. Murch's Cafe Opposite New Water Front Park, 39 Main Street, Bar Harbor Once upon a time a Mother took a little boy to SPECIALISTS IN ALL KINDS OF SEA FOOD Europe. Every summer until that year he had spent Phone 614 his vacations in Maine-he was part of its beauty. When he came back in the Fall, some one asked him, Phone 107 what he loved most in Europe-and he said "Do you FRED A. GONYA AND SON mean in all the world?" and the questioner said "Yes", Prescription Specialists and the child replied, "Maine and Venice." DRUGS M.S. Main and Cottage Sts. Bar Harbor, Maine ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS HOTELS AND CAFES Among the many who have been invited by Gov- Bar Harbor: ernor Brann to sit with him at the Maine Visitors' Day Exercises are: The Sunset-cocktail room and music. Mrs. A. Mansfield Patterson, New York. The Malvern-cocktail lounge. Rev. and Mrs. William E. Patterson, Bar Harbor. The Newport House. Mr. and Mrs. John de Witt Peltz, New York The Lorraine Hotel-roof garden. Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Pike, Chicago. Murch's. Mr. and Mrs. William Procter, New York. Millie's. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, St. Louis. Testa's. Mr. and Mrs. Arden Robbins, New York. Mr. and Mrs. George S. Robbins, Haverford, Pennsyl- Northeast Harbor: vania. Rock End-overlooking cove-cocktail room. Mr. Leighton Rollins, New York. Asticou Inn-Tea on the Terrace. Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Rowell, New York. Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart, Washington. Mrs. J. West Roosevelt, Northeast Harbor. SUMMER THEATRES IN MAINE Mr. and Mrs. Frederic J. Stimson, Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stotesbury, Philadelphia. Bar Harbor: Bar Harbor Drama Festival, Mt. Desert Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney, Washington. Playhouse. Leighton Rollins, director. Casino, Mrs. J. Madison Taylor, Philadelphia. Cottage Street. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Wickersham, New York. Mrs. Paul Warburg, Seal Harbor, New York. August 15, 16, 17 Mr. and Mrs. Wholean, Washington. Edith Barrett, in Shakespeare's immortal comedy, Mr. and Mrs. Charlton Yarnall, Northeast Harbor, De- "Much Ado About Nothing." Matinee on Friday, von, Penn. August 2 at 2:30. Mr. and Mrs. Vance McCormick, Northeast Harbor, Harrisburg, Penn. August 29, 30, 31 Margaret Anglin in a new comedy, "Fresh Fields" Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Roosevelt, Northeast Harbor, New York. by Ivor Novello. Matinee on Friday, August 30. Mrs. J. West Roosevelt, New York. Extra matinee, Saturday, August 31. Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, Washington. Boothbay Harbor: Theatre in the Woods. Manager, Mrs. Walter Damrosch, New York. A. B. Oberteuffer. Director, Paul A. Foley. Pro- Mrs. Reginald De Koven, Bar Harbor. duction schedule: performances Thursday, Fri- Mrs. Gilbert Montague. day and Saturday of each week until August 17th. Theodore Marburg, Northeast Harbor, Baltimore. Pres. Ellen Pendleton of Wellesley. Kennebunkport: The Garrick Players. Robert C. Cur- Mrs. Emily Loring, Bluehill. rier, chairman; Dorothy Manners, Manager; Rob- Miss Mary Ellen Chase, Bluehill. ert R. Reed, Director. Performances five nights a Pres. James Rowland Angell, Yale, Seal Harbor. week. Pres. Earnest Hopkins, Dartmouth, Southwest Harbor. Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, New York. Ogunquit: Ogunquit Playhouse. Manhattan Theatre Rt. Rev. William A. Lawrence, Massachusetts. Colony. Walter Hartwig, Director. Perform- Mrs. Ethelbert Nevin ances every evening except Sunday, with a mati- Meyer Davis. nee on Friday. L. E. Phillips, Portland, Maine. Phillip Peboleum. Skowhegan: The Lakewood Theatre. Melville Burke, Director. Performaces every evening except Sun- SUMMER FROLIC day. MAMMOTH VAUDEVILLE SHOW Aug. 27th, Mat., 3:00; Evenings, 8:45 BAR HARBOR CASINO LUCERNE-IN-MAINE Meyer Davis Conducting Large Society Orchestra Plan to have your next dinner party at the Log Lodge, specializ- NEW ACTS AND SKITS ing in Lobster, Steak and Chicken Dinners. Dancing every Wed- Benefiting Bar Harbor Relief Fund nesday and Saturday nights. Student Fund Philadelphia Orchestra MUSIC BY PHILADELPHIA MIDSHIPMEN Tickets, $2.50, $1.50, $1.00 Country Club privileges to Hotel Guests At Brewer's Electrical Shop ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS THE BEGINNING OF THE SUMMER COLONIES a few families tried to wrest a scanty living from the It is of great interest, particularly at this time rocky soil of the point opposite. Between Duck Brook when we are privileged to welcome SO many out of and Eddy's Brook there were only two houses. Below town guests, to trace the beginnings of the summer the bar Tobias Roberts had a boat landing and kept a colonies on Mt. Desert Island. Consequently we are small store, and in the sixties he began to take board- quoting for you excerpts from MOUNT DESERT-A ers, most of them artists or explorers, who, like Mr. History, by George E. Street, edited by Samuel A. Eliot Carter, wandered over from Southwest Harbor. and published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company. The greater part of the present village north of Main Dr. Street wrote as follows: "The first allusion Street is built on what was Captain James Hamor's in literature to the possibilities of Mount Desert as a farm. The Higgins homestead, where Church, the ar- summer resort is in Robert Carter's 'Summer Cruise on tist, boarded, stood near what is now the corner of the Coast of New England,' which is the record of a Main and Cottage streets, and the present Mount De- trip made in a fishing smack in the summer of 1858 sert Block covers the site of the barn. Another Hig- from Boston to Bar Harbor." gins family lived in what is now the Wayman Lane Mr. Carter wrote: "The approach to Mount Desert district near Cromwell's Harbor. by sea is magnificent. It is difficult to conceive of any In twenty years, from a desolate tract of rough finer combination of land and water None of us pasture land, bearing a few humble farm dwellings, knew anything of the localities of Mount Desert, and Bar Harbor grew to be one of the most popular resorts we therefore put into the first harbor, which proved on the New England coast. Gradually the exquisite to be Bass Harbor. We landed about sunset and, not beauty of the position of Bar Harbor, backed by the finding the village very attractive, started for South- great hills and looking out on the island-gemmed bay west Harbor We could not obtain at Bass Harbor and across to the Gouldsboro hills, began to be talked any conveyance, so we walked through the forest for about. In Tobias Roberts built a primitive little several miles after dark, and for the last hour of the hotel called the Agamont, and the next year, backed way had a fine night view of the mountains." The by Captain Deering and the steamboat company, built party found entertainment at the house of Deacon a wharf, and Captain Deering, who had heretofore Clark, and the next morning hired the deacon's wagon called only at Southwest Harbor, began to make land- and drove to Somesville, and later, with some adven- ings with steamer Lewiston at Bar Harbor, too, and the tures that need not be here recorded, to Bar Harbor. village began to grow. The wharf was later acquir- It is interesting to note that on the Bar Harbor road, ed by the railroad company, and, greatly enlarged, is "we drove through a forest where nothing living was still the principal landing place. visible but squirrels, rabbits, partridges, and an OC- Daniel Rodick, whose ancestors had settled on casional eagle soaring overhead. We passed no house Bar Island a hundred years before, built the nucleus nor sign of human handiwork except a ruined mill." of the later Rodick House very early. The Bay View At Bar Harbor "we found excellent quarters in the House followed in 1869. This was later vastly en- house of Mr. Roberts, the postmaster and principal larged into the Grand Central and finally removed. trader of the village." After spending two days at The Atlantic was built in 1870, burned and rebuilt in Bar Harbor the party rode back to Somesville and re- 1873, and later became the Louisburg. The first part joined their sloop, sailed round to Bar Harbor, and of the Newport was built in 1871, the Saint Sauveur there parted at the end of their cruise. Mr. Carter was rébuilt after being burned in 1873, the Rockaway apparently was the first to call attention to the island in 1873, the Deering, afterwards enlarged into the as a "resort for artists and for seaside summer loung- Malborough, in 1873, the Ocean House in 1874, the ers," and his prophecies in regard to the future devel- Belmont in 1879, the West End in 1888, and so on. opment of the place have been more than realized. The decade from 1875 to 1885 was the period of The charm of Mount Desert as a summer resort is the prosperity of the hotel life, the "Fish Pond" at chiefly due to four things: the natural beauty of the Rodick's was famous all over the country, and the island, the cool summer climate, the facilities for sail- name of Bar Harbor was synonymous with a gay, ing and fishing alike on the smooth waters inside the unconventional, out-of-door existence, with merry sheltering islands or on the open sea, and the lure of courtships and happy, irresponsible days. The first the wild rocky hills, which are the highest on the At- "cottage" was built in 1867 when Mr. Alpheus Hardy lantic coast of the United States and deeply cut by bought Birch Point of Stephen Higgins for $300, and picturesque valleys, ponds and streams. The artists other simple homes for summer occupancy followed, who were the earliest visitors did much to make the but not till about 1880 did the rapid change from hotel island famous. Church, Fisher, Cole, Gifford, Hart, to cottage life began. Then the value of land rose by Parsons, Warren, Bierstadt, and others of the older the hundred per cent, superb houses began to be built, generation renowned in American art, painted the streets were laid out, sewers constructed, water and crags and the shining waters and gave fanciful names electric lights introduced, beautiful estates painfully to some of the picturesque places, such as Eagle Lake, developed from the rocky pastures, clubs and churches the Beehive, Echo Lake, and the Porcupine Islands. organized, and in ten years the whole social life and The leading people at or near Bar Harbor in the atmosphere of the rapidly increasing summer colony days before the Civil War were the Higgins, Hamor, was transformed. Rodick, and Roberts families. The land was thin and poor, the harbor was open to the roll of the sea, and An agreeable luxury, for the most part refined, the comparatively flat brush-clad point on which the though occasionally ostentations, has replaced the earl- ier rudeness of board and lodging, and "the season" town afterwards grew was not attractive to people looking primarily for a livelihood. The Rodicks had is a matter of dinner dances, musicales, yachting par- ties, and balls, in the place of "hops," "buckboard a good farm and fishing stand on Bar Island, but only rides, and picnics." ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS BEAUTIFUL BAR HARBOR and Acadia National Park Are worth visiting any time. But, if you can come only once, or stay only a day, plan on FRIDAY, AUGUST 16 MAINE SUMMER VISITORS' DAY This annual State of Maine party for its out-of- State friends, held for the first time away from Au- gusta, will be Bar Harbor's big day of the 1935 season. With Gov. Louis J. Brann presiding and Dr. Wal- ter Damrosch as master of ceremonies an afternoon program will introduce to you distinguished guests and guest artists. Come early enough to see the lovely Ocean Drive and to make the unsurpassed scenic motor run up Cad- illac Mountain. And, if you possibly can, stay over. For list of accommodations and tourist folder write INFORMATION AND PUBLICITY OFFICE BAR HARBOR, ME. Margaret Anglin (By arrangement with Raymond Moore) in FRESH FIELDS A New Comedy by Ivor Novello Prior to New York Engagement August 29th, 30th, 31st Eves. 8:45. Fri. Mat. 2:30 Extra Matinee by Popular Demand, Saturday 2:30 Bar Harbor Casino, Cottage Street Box Office Telephone, 416-W RESERVATIONS MADE BY TELEPHONE WILL BE HELD