PAGE 8 BAR HARBOR LIFE Victory Road The Proposed New Approach to Bar Harbor The accompanying plan is for a proposed new and suitable ap- inside of the oval outline of the dressing rooms and office is a tile proach from the Maine Central R. R. and Eastern S. S. Companies form 10 feet wide which borders the pool and only slightly higher wharves to the center of Bar Harbor village, beginning at these landing the water within the pool. Two entrances are provided one from places and skirting the shorefront around Birch Point to the town lot hotel side down a brick staircase from the lawn and the other thro near Balance Rock and curving gracefully by the south of Albert Mead- an archway directly opposite the landings. The platform surroun ow to Main street and leading directly into Mt. Desert street. The the pool and the sidewalk on the roadside are on about the same plan calls for a driveway 35 feet wide bordered by a planting strip or Provision is also made for a music pavillion on the roof of the office green on each side 12 feet wide and outside of this the sidewalks each dressing rooms so that on special occasions music and exhibition 8 feet wide, making a total width of 75 feet. The sidewalk on the water could be staged on arrival of trains steamers warships or yacht cl side of this road would take the place of the present shore path and If Bar Harbor is to hold its place as the leading Maine summer re would follow approximately the present line of the old walk for the we must wake up and make improvements of this character. If greater part of the distance. decide to progress in o Mr. Savage, having To to hold first place then worked out this suggestive plan, approach to the town is has consulted with several of most important factor. If the large property owners and one has a better plan le has affixed the name, "Victory hear about it; if not Road," at the suggestion of one kindly lend your aid to of the largest tax payers, as an carrying out of this appropriate name. It is also practical scheme because suggested to recommend that need is great and an of the trees to be planted in the tunity now exists which borders be named for and dedi- not long remain open. cated to the honor of the boys Never before has the who have served in the late terest in town improver World War from this town one been so great as just at pre R.R Bank for each boy, with an appro- and nothing would more priate nameplate for each tree. prove the town as would The method of procedure such an approach as is as outlined by Mr. Savage is shown. as follows: That the town A summer resident vote to enter upon condemna- PROPOSED New APPROACH To BAR HARBOR. West street which as e FROM THE SHORE' tion proceedings in order to one knows is at one appr As SUGGESTED Be FRED L. SAVAGE. acquire the necessary land for one of the ugliest and at this road and parkway and also to take control of enough of the abutting other one of the most beautiful in the town was shown this plan property to enable the town to restrict the land near this roadway to said in effect: "By all means put it through. When such an imp hotel or residential uses only. The roadway itself should also be re- ment is made on one part of the shore front it will follow asa na stricted so that it would be used only for pedestrians and pleasure driving. sequence that it will be extended SO that the approach to our beau It is proposed that the town may after having acquired the right little neighborhood may not be such a mortification to us as of way issue its negotiable notes or bonds to raise money for the purpose friends drive from the landing to visit us." of paying land damages as may be appraised by the County Commissioner There need only to be a start made in the right direction an and for such further sum as will be required for the construction work the ideals for Bar Harbor improvement may become realities for extending the payment of the notes or bonds over a period of several the hand is put to the plough there will be no turning back. years to avoid any excessive increase in the annual tax rate. Let everyone who has the interest of Bar Harbor at heart The plan as shown by Mr. Savage also calls for a public sea water this project constantly in his mind and before the people till it bec swimming pool which in size is about twice as large as the present private an assured fact. pool on the Bar. This plan has been formulating in Mr. Savage's mind for the The location of the pool is near the landings and would occupy space eight years and many drawings have been made before he put out where the pebbly beach now is in front of the Newport Hotel. This one that accompanies this article. pool would be walled in by a continuous line of dressing rooms with flat If this long devotion to one subject should culminate in a Vi roof and brick walls 10 feet high on the side facing the roadway and Road it would indeed be a victory for its promoter, well worth meeting the level of the lawn on the side nearest the hotel. On the effort it has cost him.