- er AN A IAN BAR HARBOR BURNS On a windy night last week a forest fire, roaring their shoulders and watch Bar Harbor's colony of out of control through the tinder-dry treetops on palatial estates go up in smoke. Burned to the Mt. Desert Island, Maine, encircled the famed ground in the $25 million fire were summer homes summer-resort town of Bar Harbor. In a few hectic of Walter Damrosch, Sumner Welles, Mary Rob- hours before the flames demolished most of the erts Rinehart and a score of other notables. Mean- town's residential district, volunteer rescuers evac- $25 million forest fire destroys the while in five other drought-ridden New England uated 3,500 residents, without serious casualty, states, New York and New Jersey more than 300 removing some by boat and others by car over a other fires swept over the parched countryside, rais- famed New England summer resort road hastily bulldozed through the blazing woods. ing pillars of smoke which could be seen in appre- As the refugees pulled out, they could look over hensive towns and cities from New York to Maine. WHILE HOUSE BLAZES LIKE CARDBOARD BOX (BELOW), FLAMES SPREAD THROUGH TREES TO CONTINUE MARCH DOWN BAR HARBOR'S "MILLIONAIRES'RO (OPPOSITE) FAMILY'S POSSESSIONS are piled in an open field as these two young men near obscures the setting sun. Luckier than most residents in this area, they watched the Hull Cove watch the fire approach them, sending up a cloud of smoke which nearly fire skirt their position and leave both their furniture and their house undamaged. 44 TOWN'S DESTRUCTION is shown in this aerial view after fire. The blaze cut a along the road at lower right, leaving the buildings at upper right untouched. Among diagonal swath across Bar Harbor from Hull Cove at upper left and was finally stopped buildings with only chimneys left standing are the big Belmont and Malvern Hotels.