Photo by Bradley POT AND KETTLE CLUB HOUSE Fred L. Savage, Architect MOUNT DESERT READING ROOM. EPISCOPAL CHURCH CATHOLIC - CHURCH, CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH "MOSLEY HALL," OWNED BY MRS. W.B. HOWARD, OF CHICAGO Photo by Bradley "REVERIE COVE," OWNED BY MRS. MAY C. JONES. OF WASHINGTON Fred L. Savage, Architect HALLWAY IN J.J. EMERY'S COTTAGE-"THE TURRETS" THE NEWPORT HOUSE, W.M. ROBERTS, PROPRIETOR "LLANGOLLEN," EAGLE LAKE ROAD, SUMMER RESIDENCE OF MRS. CHARLES CARROLL JACKSON, OF NEW YORK ANEMONE CAVE, ON THE OCEAN DRIVE A VIEW FROM RODICK'S ISLAND Indiana Fern Puritan Iowa HARBOR VIEW-NORTH ATLANTIC SQUADRON AT ANCHOR Dolphin New York Photo by Bradley DINING ROOM IN A BAR HARBOR COTTAGE Fred L. Savage, Architect BELMONT HOTEL, MT. DESERT STREET. J.C. MANCHESTER, PROPRIETOR A BAR HARBOR GARDEN FETE Photo by Bradley VIEW ON THE OCEAN DRIVE SCENE ON THE SCHOONER HEAD ROAD LOUISBURG HOTEL, M. L. BALCH, PROPRIETOR. MAIN ENTRANCE. EAST END OF THE LOUISBURG VIEW OF HARBOR FROM NEWPORT AVENUE NEWPORT HOUSE CAMP AT EAGLE LAKE 'BIDE-A-WHILE." OWNED BY J.L. KETTERLINUS OF PHILADELPHIA "STANWOOD." SUMMER RESIDENCE OF THE LATE JAMES G. BLAINE Winter Sport at Eagle Lake Balance Rock u.s.s. Dolphin firing Eagle Lake Pot and Kettle Club EDEN'S SONS WHO WERE DEFENDERS OF THEUNION W.H. SHERMAN. PRINTER AND STATIONER. 1861 - 1865 CLOTHISM SOLDIERS' MONUMENT OFFICE AND STORE OF W H. SHERMAN. PRINTER AND STATIONER AND PUBLISHER OF BAR HARBOR SOUVENIRS Cluftstone Road Reception at Mrs. Burton Harrison's. Bar Harbor Canoe Parade at Bar Harbor SOUTHERN END OF MAIN STREET-NEWPORT MOUNTAIN IN THE DISTANCE Mt Desent BAR HARBOR FROM MALDEN HILL IN SURF VIEW ON THE SHORE PATH BALANCE ROCK AND H.M.S. INDEFATIGABLE A MORNING'S SHOOTING NEAR BAR HARBOR-252 DUCKS IN THREE HOURS BAR HARBOR. FROM BURNT PORCUPINE ISLAND THE GORGE DRIVE BETWEEN NEWPORT AND DRY MOUNTAINS TENNIS COURT AND PUTTINC GREEN OF THE KEBO VALLEY CLUB Photo by Bradley WAY NEW STEEL PIER OF MT. DESERT READING ROOM, AND HARBOR VIEW TENNIS COURT AND PUTTINC GREEN OF THE KEBO VALLEY CLUB Photo by Bradley "HONFLEUR HOUSE," SUMMER HOME OF MR. AND MRS. HERBERT PARSONS, OF NEW YORK. SUNSET FROM THE BAR "DEVILSTONE." SUMMER RESIDENCE OF CLEMENT B. NEWBOLD OF PHILADELPHIA CROMWELL'S HARBOR BAR HARBOR, FROM BAR ISLAND RECEPTION DAY AT MT. DESERT READING ROOM THE OVENS, ON THE BAY DRIVE MALVERN HOTEL, KEBO STREET ST. SAUVEUR HOTEL, ALLEY BROS., MANAGERS Knockabouts being inspected by Designer Crowning shield CL Race Day or Bar Karbor BRITISH VICE-ADMIRAL SIR F.G.D. BEDFORD, K.C.B. LEAVING THE FLAGSHIP NEW YORK LEAVING MT. DESERT READING ROOM Canyon Brook SIISt. Desert Island The largest island on the coast of New England was discovered in 1604 by Champlain, who named it "L'Isle des Monts Desert," or the isle of the desert mountains. In its comparatively small area of about one hundred square miles are fifteen mountain peaks varying in height from 700 to 1,500 feet above sea level, fifteen ponds and lakes from a few acres to several square miles in area, deep gorges and picturesque glens, bold promontories and broad stretches of forest, sparkling streams, bays, harbors, coves and indentations of every variety and form. Its mountains can be seen sixty miles at sea, the highest of them, Green Mountain, forming a stately background to Bar Harbor, the Queen of American Summer Resorts, which nestles on a wooden plateau at its foot, where the waters of Frenchmans Bay mingle with the broad Atlantic, Bar Harbor, in the town of Eden, takes its name from the sand bar which connects the main island with Bar Island, and forms an inner and outer harbor, in one or the other of which vessels can find shelter from any gale that blows. There are twelve hotels in the village, and a large number of elegant and costly summer residences. Among the owners and summer occupants of these beautiful homes are many of the most distinguished people in the country. Each year sees one or more additions to this cottage community, already one of the wealthiest for its size in the United States. Bar Harbor owes its popularity as a summer resort to the natural advantages and attractions it possesses, including magnificent mountain and ocean scenery, beau- tiful lakes and streams, enchanting woodland vistas, delightful drives amid ever-varying surroundings, charming walks, fishing, boating, and fresh, bracing air. Among its public conveniences and improvements are a pure and adequate water supply, a perfect system of drainage, electric lighting, excellent postal, telephone and telegraph service, good roads and a comprehensive system of bridle paths. The Kebo golf links are second to none in New England. Of the many good roads which traverse the length and breadth of the island it were difficult to say which opens up the most beautiful scenery. In extent of territory covered by the view the Green Mountain Drive naturally leads. This road leaves the Eagle Lake road about a mile from the village, and climbs the long spur of the mountain in a zigzag trail, opening up new stretches of hill, lake and ocean scenery at every turn. At one's feet are the silvery waters of Eagle Lake, while the hoary head of Katahdin marks the limit of the view. To the summit and back occupies about three hours, and the time could not be better spent. The Atlantic or Ocean drive skirts the base of Newport Mountain and follows the shore southward, past Schooner Head and the Spouting Horn, Anemone Cave, Thunder Cave, Newport Beach and Great Head to Otter Cliffs. The road in many places is cut out of the solid ledge, and winds along the edge of precipices or by the brink of the restless sea, which stretches away from the horses' feet to the dim horizon line. Turning inland again by the placid waters of Otter Creek the road makes homeward through the grand and rugged scenery of the Gorge, between the wooded battlements of Newport and the steep bare cliffs of Dry Mountain. The Cornice or Bay Drive is a continuation of Eden street, beginning at the dell which shelters the outlet of picturesque Duck Brook and climbing along the beetling face of the cliffs, high above the blue waters of the bay, to the historic little hamlet of Hulls Cove, in whose rustic graveyard repose the ashes of the De Gregoires, the heirs of Sieur de la Motte Cadillac, and grantees under the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the whole island of Mount Desert. From this point the Breakneck and Norway Drives strke inland, opening up an endless variety of woodland and lake scenery. The Twenty-two Mile Drive takes the visitor by the Ocean Drive to Otter Creek, thence by the new and attractive Sea View Drive along the surf-beaten shore to Seal Harbor: through that pretty little village and along the Sea Wall to North- east Harbor, the picturesque summer home of the literati of Cambridge and Andover on by the deep blue waters of Somes Sound, an inland sea that would shelter the navies of the world, to the quiet and sleepy little hamlet of Somesville. After one of the famous chicken dinners the drive is resumed through the woods and by Eagle Lake homeward. The bridal paths which have been laid out and are kept in good condition through the tireless energy of the committee of the V. I. A., open up a variety of scenery which can be reached in no other way. The Shore Path is a feature in itself. This promenade skirts the shore from the wharves to Cromwells Harbor, and is kept open and in order through the courtesy and good will of the adjacent proprietors. By moonlight it is the most romantic and beautiful of promenades, and in daylight it is an unending source of joy and pleasure to the children. It is convenient, open at all hours, and always cool and refreshing a charming place of resort within a few minutes' walk of one's hotel. The harbor is an ideal sheet of water for boating, and all kinds of craft from the birch-bark canoe to the sloop and the steam launch can be found at the boat wharves. Fishing gear and bait are supplied when desired, and a competent sailor and fisherman to take charge. Well-fitted steamers ply on the bay and call at neighboring resorts, and one who is fond of the water can spend all the time thereon that he chooses. A swimming pool, on the West street shore, is a new and valuable addition to Bar Harbor's many attractions. To those who would hold communion with Nature in her wildest and grandest moods, Bar Harbor offers such facilities as are presented nowhere else and the lover who would woo her in her gentle guise will find here also richest opportunity. To the wearied man of business and to the tired votary of fashion Nature extends a welcoming hand.