18 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. February 25th, 1915. Mr A. H. Lynam, Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr Lynam, with regard to the Spring Street matter concerning which you telephoned me, what has been planned is this: that the owners on the eastern side, Mears, Morrison and Deasy -- who control also an easement for such purpose over the Bridgham property / give up a ten foot strip from Mt Desert Street to the Children's Park for a walk. The understeading is that the best of the trees now within that strip shall be saved in laying out this walk, which would not be more than five feet wide of course, so as to make a shady and attractive walk of it at once and leave a pleasant border to the land and road. The owners on the other side, correspondingly, have all agreed to a five foot widening of the driving road, which now is only twenty feet. The usual construction width of State-built roads now is twenty one feet -- practically never more, for the travelled way, outside of city neighborhoods. This will involve a widening of butua single foot over the existing road-right for the travelled way, leaving a four-foot border on that side for roadside ditch, shade trees, etc., and preventing any building from being thrust hereafter directly out upon the roadway. No sidewalk will be 2 needed on that side 01 course where there will be so ample and pleasant a one upon the other side Spring Street when this is done will constitute an important link in the town's road system, forming the Mt Desert end of a road running in a general way diagonally across the southern portion of the town, connecting with the Gorge road, continuing on to Main Street, and bordering in its course both the Children's Park and the Athletic Field. In its present condition, with a twenty-foot right of way narrowed by electric light and telephone poles and by the necessity 01 a narrow walk within it's bounds, it is a hindrance to free movement and good road-connection within the town and a can- plete block to the full development of property values within the district to which it opens from Mt Desert Street southward. The walk now offered on the eastern side will similarly consti- tute part of a through-walk from Mt Desert Street to the Athletic Field and Lower Main Street, opening up the Children's Park upon the way. For the town not to accept this layout now when everything has been SO favorably prepared for it to do so TO uld be most short- sighted and unwise, nor can I imagine that anyone would suggest it who had taken the requisite time to study out its meaning and impor- tance. It is precisely the kind of removal of obstruction to free movement, and development of values by good road and path connection, that every wide-awake town and city in the land is striving to ac- complish at the present time by systematic planning. Yours truly, P. S. When I telephonedto Dr Taylor regarding this, at your 3 suggestion, I told him, on the strength of my own careful study of the matter, that giving the town this added width 01 way WO uld not involve removal of the attractive row of trees by which their land is bordered on this side. It would simply mean giving up the whole width 01 the existing road to its legitimate driving use - - with possibly a foot additional. To lose either these trees or those upon the other side would, on the contrary, be a misfortune to the public, they being precisely what the Village Improvement Society has for a generation now been seeking to establish at large cost on the town road-sides. Spring Street, leading straight down as it now does to the enlarged Children's Park with its pleasant walks and shading trees coming to the roadside edge, is capable of being made one of the most attractive short sections of road within the town, its ni th the planting spa ce now planned for it on either side and already well-grown trees. I am mailing as Yayfor also a alamy letter that all Ma, be clearly understand