THIRTIETH Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association for the year ending September 10 1919 THIRTIETH Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association for the year ending September 10 1919 OFFICERS FOR 1919-1920 PRESIDENT Miss Charlotte S. Baker VICE-PRESIDENTS Rt. Rev. William Lawrence Dr. Robert Abbe SECRETARY H. M. Conners TREASURER Fred C. Lynam Standing Committees FINANCE COMMITTEE L. A. Austin, Chairman Henry Lane Eno, Fred C. Lynam Thomas Searls VILLAGE COMMITTEE Mrs. John I. Kane, Chairman Miss Belle Gurnee Mrs. C. F. Ostrander Dr. Augustus Thorndike J. Alden Morse Miss Sarah Lawrence Miss Mary Opdycke GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE Mrs. Frank B. Rowell 4 COMMITTIES SANITARY COMMITTEE Dr. Robert Abbe, Chairman Dr. Stone Dr. J. H Patten Dr. F. Fremont-Smith Dr. R. G. Higgins Dr Horace S. Stokes Dr. C. C. Morrison Dr. J. Madison Taylor Dr. Charles C. Morrison Dr. George A. Phillips Dr. E. J. Morrison Dr. Ralph Wakefield Dave Hennen Morris ROADSIDES, ROADS AND PATHS COMMITTEE Frederic Delano Weekes, Chairman L. E. Opdycke A. Murray Young Everett Liscomb Miss Carpenter Mrs. W. P. Draper Miss Dorothy Sturges Dr J. Madison Taylor Howard O. Sturges Miss Dabney Andrew E. Liscomb Miss Mary Ostrander Mrs. F. Leonard Kellogg Miss Mary Opdycke Miss Mary Palmer Mrs. John B. Markoe Courtlandt Palmer Miss Alice Bowler VILLAGE GREEN COMMITTEE Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Chairman Fred C. Lynam Mrs. F. E. Sherman Frank McGouldrick COMMITTIES 5 COMMITTEE ON PARKS Mrs. Frank B. Rowell, Chairman Frank B. Rowell Mrs. Milton W. Stratton Dr. Augustus Thorndike Mrs. Edward B. Rodick Mrs. A. Howard Hinkle TOWN PLANNING COMMITTEE Mrs. Max Farrand, Chairman Mrs. W. E. Patterson Fred L. Savage John H. Stalford Clarence E. Dow Frank E. McGouldrick, Vice-Chairman 6 TREASURER'S REPORT TREASURER'S REPORT Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association For fiscal year ending September 10, 1919. RECEIPTS Interest on Bank Balances and In- vestments $ 359.35 Donations 1,348.70 Mary F. Higgins Trust Fund 19.87 Balance on hand Sept. 12, 1918 2,834.76 $4,562.68 PAYMENTS Investment acct. purchased liberty bond $1,000.00 Roads and Paths 416.15 Expense 265.75 Village Green 728.34 Glen Mary Park 263.90 Woodbury Park 80.50 Milk Committee 100.00 Village Committee 584.43 Town Planning Committee 632.98 Mary F. Higgins Trust Fund 5.80$4,077.85 Balance on hand September 10, 1919. $ 484.83 TREASURER'S REPORT 7 INVESTMENTS OF BAR HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION Liberty Bonds $1,000.00 Certificate of Deposit 800.00 Rodick Realty Company Bonds 5,000.00 Water Company Stock 300.00 Savings Department 900.00 $8,000.00 FRED C. LYNAM, Treasurer. 8 FINANCE COMMITTEE Report of Finance Committee As the report of the Treasurer covers fully not only the receipts and expenditures of the Association for the year ending Sept. 10, 1919, but a detailed statement of the investments of the Association, your committee deems it unnecessary to make an extended report, but will call to your attention a few facts as shown by the Treasurer's Report. The expenditures of various committees amount to $2,671. The total donations and interest for the year are $1,687. In other words, we have spent $964 more than we have received. The actual cash on hand Sept. 10, 1919, is $484.83. We have $8,000 invested, but as this yields reasonable interest, it would be as well not to encroach upon it at present. L. A. AUSTIN, Chairman. APPROPRIATIONS 9 Appropriations At the meeting of the V.I.A. of Bar Harbor, held September 11, 1919, it was resolved that the Chairmen of the various Committees should meet for the purpose of preparing a budget for the expenditures of the coming year, 1920. It was considered, that in order to continue to maintain a standard of neatness the follow- ing appropriations should be made: For the Village Committee. $ 600.00 For Paths 785.00 For Village Green 450.00 For Glen Mary Park 100.00 For General expense (amount expended last year) 265.75 For Woodbury Park 300.00 For Milk Committee 50.00 $2550.75 It is believed that this sum can easily be raised among those who appreciate the neces- sity of contributing to the attractiveness of the town, and the value of the real estate. More valuable than money, however, is an 10 APPROPRIATIONS awakening to the haphazard procedure, the neglect of practical sense in planning our towns and villages. Questions of neatness, indis- pensable as they are, do not touch the problem . to be faced if the village is to be a different thing. We need to preserve the individuality of Bar Harbor. We need to stop the financial waste involved in present methods in most towns. We need to petition the town to avoid injury and protect roadsides: to forbid dis- figuring signs. Most of all, we need a plan to make a special study of Bar Harbor toward which we could work, and which would ulti- mately greatly enhance its value. Such a plan would cost about $3,000. Would it not be worth it? VILLAGE COMMITTEE 11 Report of the Village Committee Your Committee would report that the customary routine of work has been followed this year, namely: Care of Cemetery: A man is employed about the middle of May to trim hedges and grass in the Cemetery, previous to Decoration Day, and one day a week during the summer. In the Spring about 20 headstones were reset and the lawns fertilized and re-seeded. Streets: One man has been employed the entire season, and an extra man for ten weeks, in cleaning and keeping tidy the sides of the streets. The district covered extends from Cromwells Harbor Road to the head of Mount Desert and Cottage Streets. The shorepath has been gone over twice a week: this is im- portant, as rubbish collects on Saturdays and Sundays. Rubbish: Twenty-six barrels are in use for rubbish, and contents are collected once a week. The barrels have been repainted this year and six new barrels have been provided. It has not been possible to provide a man to 12 VILLAGE COMMITTEE pick up papers and rubbish, but the Star Theatre kindly allowed a short notice to be placed upon the screen, asking for co-operation in keeping the streets neat, and the Bar Harbor TIMES several times courteously inserted a notice on this subject. The work of this Committee has cost $584.00 for the summer. This includes labor, barrels, new lawn mower, etc. The Committee begs to state its appreciation of the work by Mr. J. Alden Morse, who has generously given his services in attending to details. In order that the expense may be reduced, and the town kept reasonably neat, every possible method should be taken to encourage the use of the barrels for rubbish and insist that papers must not be thrown in the streets. ANNIE C. KANE, Chairman. SANITARY COMMITTEE 13 Report of Sanitary Committee The health of the community since oui last annual meeting has been exceptionally free from all contagious diseases, barring the influ- enza epidemic which spread over the country and invaded this section in about the same degree as elsewhere. Several deaths from influenza-pneumonia occurred among the win- ter residents, but the epidemic died out, as in other places. Public schools and dancing places were closed by order of Mr. Wadleigh, health officer of the town, whose injunctions are more carefully obeyed each year as his fearless enforcement of sanitary laws is better understood. No more marked improvement in this re- spect can be recorded than the annual "Clean- Up Week" of the town, which was conducted as elsewhere in New England, after the methods adopted in other places. Preliminary advertising in the public journal and street notices, with co-operation of all the forces for good, provided ample supply of wagons and trucks for free removal or rubbish 14 SANITARY COMMITTEE and annual accumulations of litter from back yards and cellars, which, if left unswept, would breed flies and pestilence in our town, as in every town in the world. This was taken to the public dump, where, during one day only of that week, three hundred loads of rubbish were deposited for cremation or other usual methods of disposal. Certified statement of the actual work done was sent to the official bureau in Boston by the health officer and town clerk, as was done by other New Eng- land cities of over five thousand inhabitants, and to the great surprise of all, the silver prize cup for the best work of cleaning up was awarded to Bar Harbor. It is interesting to note the great scarcity of flies this summer, due to many sanitary measures in the past season and probably also to the cool weather. No typhoid cases have occurred on the island, though two were brought to the hospital from elsewhere and recovered. The milk problem, which is almost the most important of your Committee's work, has undergone such improvement in the past five years under the assiduous and skillful watch of Dr. Gildersleeve at our hospital laboratory, that examinations of milk served by many SANITARY COMMITTEE 15 dealers, from time to time, as well as the in- spection of producers' dairies about the island, has resulted in clean sweet milk of a high grade of fat content, being almost universally sold. It is the opinion of your Committee, expressed at a general meeting of all the doctors recently, that the complete annihilation of summer diarrhea and dysentery from the entire island population during the past few years is due to the pure milk service-whereas in former years that was one of the scourges of this, as well as other summer resorts. This association will be glad to know that by State and local law Mr. Wadleigh has recently been put in charge of this inspection and frequent examination of milk and dairies will be made and published. Your Committee will continue to co-operate in the matter. Bar Harbor can be endorsed as one of the most sanitary resorts for children and adults in New England. ROBERT ABBE, M. D. Chairman for the Committee on Health. 16 VILLAGE GREEN COMMITTEE Report of the Village Green Committee Since its last annual report this Committee has suffered a severe loss by the death of its faithful and devoted chairman, Mrs. John Harrison. Ever since the lease of the Green by the Association she was untiring in her interest and her generosity, which was also extended to Glen Mary Park, and she was always ready to listen to any appeal having for its object the improvement of these spots, which will therefore be considered henceforth, in the minds of her old friends, as in some degree memorials of her devotion to our com- munity. In May the Green was gone over and put in order as usual and as it was found later that the paths needed re-surfacing and rolling, being badly worn down by constant footsteps to and fro, they were re-surfaced throughout, partly by the generosity of Mr. Blanchfield, who, at considerable expense to himself, made a thorough job of it, although his contract with the Committee covered only the main broad path. VILLAGE GREEN COMMITTEE I7 The band concerts given three times a week add greatly to the wear and tear of the Green and, consequently, to the cost of keeping it tidy;but they give pleasure to SO many that no one could wish them discontinued, and, in order to accommodate the crowd twenty- four new benches were added to the twenty- seven already on the Green, a gift to the public that was greatly appreciated. The Committee wishes to express its thanks to the Bar Harbor and Union River Power Company who, through its chairman, Mr. Austin, kindly furnished two extra electric lights, free of charge, for corners of the Green which were rather too dark. During the summer the Green received the full time of the caretaker, Mr. Harriman, for five days in the week, the sixth having been given to Glen Mary. The trees and shrubs were trimmed and the boughs which threatened to hide the face of the large clock cut back; the old wooden bench around the big willow tree was repaired and repainted and additional barrels provided for rubbish; a lawn-sweeper was purchased and has been of great use in the collection of peanut shell, of which the grass bears a plentiful crop after each band concert. Altogether the expenditures of this Com- 18 VILLAGE GREEN COMMITTEE mittee have been larger than usual, as is shown by the Treasurer's account, but the Green is in such a conspicuous part of the village, and seen daily by SO many people, that it has seemed necessary to keep it neat and attractive. Respectfully submitted, (Signed) MARY CADWALADER JONES, Chairman. ROADSIDE AND PATH COMMITTEE 19 Report of Roadsides, Roads and Paths Committee The Committee begs to report that during the season of 1919 and from April 1st until the middle of September, work was maintained on 125 miles of the trails now included within our Bar Harbor District. In view, however, of this extent of our present path system, it was decided that those comprising the Path Committee should be divided into sub-com- mittees and each be assigned a certain number of trails to visit and inspect in order that such additional work as might be found necessary should be immediately referred to the Com- mittee's superintendent for his attention. In this way it was found a personal interest was established, any needed improvements being immediately reported and carried out under Mr. Liscomb's supervision. It is believed, therefore, that this co-operation on the part of the Committee has resulted in much benefit and that the trails in consequence were main- tained in a more satisfactory manner than would otherwise have been possible. The 20 ROADSIDE AND PATH COMMITTEE work in detail may be noted as follows: During April all fallen trees with a large amount of brush were removed in the Northern Section and around Fawn Pond, the Witch Hole and Half Moon Pond, including also Great Hill, Duck Brook and adjoining trails. In this same District one 12 foot bridge was built and new signs and pointers replaced where required. In May work was carried on in the Southwest Valley District around Bubble Mountains, Jordan Pond and Eagle Lake, fallen trees were removed, brush cut out and one 16 foot bridge built at the Lake's head. One handrail was fastened in the Bubble Mountain climb and 48 old signs stained and re-lettered, while 15 pointers and 11 new signs were put in place. The North and South Ridge trails on Green Mountain leading to Eagle's Crag were re- paired, including also the Canon Brook trail. Work continued in June in the vicinity of Dry, Newport and Picket Mountains, including also the Beehive and Gorham, fallen trees and brush being cut out in this neighborhood and in the Otter Creek section also. Handrails and lad- ders were examined and tested on Newport and Dry Mountains, 10 new signs and 11 pointers put up and 32 old signs stained and re-lettered. July was entirely occupied in ROADSIDE AND PATH COMMITTEE 21 trimming and mowing the paths over the whole section. In August the Kane Path was cleared of brush and sundry obstructing rocks removed. On the Beach Croft path signs were erected directing pedestrians to Picket Mountain sum- mit, brush being cut out and rocks also re- moved. The Canon Brook path in addition was cleared and general improvements made in that trail. The Duck Brook path was rendered more passable by replacing logs along the bank for the purpose of retaining it, and new stepping stones near the brook were put in place. Brush was also cut out of the Pipe Line trail and two new flights of steps were put up on the trail from Duck Brook leading to the Witch Hole and new bridges erected along the Fawn Pond trail, a member of the committee having most generously defrayed the expense of this most needed improvement. Inspection was again made, by request, of the iron ladders on Dry Mountain that their safety and good condition might be assured. During September further work was carried on along the Canon Brook path and stone cairns erected on Green Mountain in the vicinity of the Gorge trail. Aunt Betty's Pond path was cleared of obstructing brush 22 ROADSIDE AND PATH COMMITTEE and the North Ridge trail of Green near the summit improved by the introduction of stone steps in several places. The Jordan Pond carry trail and the trail on Bubble Mountains were also worked on and improved. Your Committee is of the opinion that the amount expended, $475.00, in the conduct of the work as stated, during the season, which includes also the salary of our Superintendent, is a moderate charge in view of the labor in- volved and the time given in the superintend- ence of our path system, with the rebuilding also of foot bridges and the replacing and re- lettering of over 140 signs and pointers. During the past season two new trails have been marked out on Green Mountain, one starting from a point on the North Ridge near the sum- mit, and running down the western side of Green to the foot of Bubble Pond, and the second also from the summit but proceeding to the south along the Eastern Slope to Feather Bed. The former will be found a desirable approach to the Jordan Pond district in prefer- ence to the old path by way of Dykes Peak, while the latter re-opens a long forgotten trail that has been in existence for many years and affords an opportunity of enjoying the extended and beautiful view over the Otter Creek Valley. ROADSIDE AND PATH COMMITTEE 23 In this connection your Committee calls attention to a new trail of rare beauty and interest in the Seal Harbor District and ex- tending from the Wildwood Farm Road to Hunter's Beach Cove that has recently been completed under the able direction of the Chairman, Professor Joseph H. Allen, and also the development of additional trails by Mr. Walter H. Buell at Southwest Harbor, whose activity has been instrumental in open- ing up during recent years the various points of interest around and over the Western Mountain. This almost unknown part of the island is now entirely accessible as the trail system has been most successfully de- veloped there, indicating a careful and thorough study on Mr. Buell's part. During the past season a circular trail was added running around the north summit of the West Peak of Western Mountain, from which unsurpassed views in a northerly and westerly direction can now be obtained, and in addition the Razor Back trail over the ridge between the East and West Peaks has been extended; this opens up a view of the gorge between those Peaks and towards the ocean on the south, of wonderful charm and interest. In the Northeast Harbor Section the trails 24 ROADSIDE AND PATH COMMITTEE have been maintained with every care and up to their usual standard of excellence by the Chairman of that District, Dr. Joseph P. Tunis. Few changes may be noted affecting the present system, and only one of any importance, this being in the "Water Fall" trail to Sargent Mountain, and starting from a point north of Upper Hadlock Pond from Brown's Moun- tain Notch Road. Various important subjects were considered and certain recommendations offered by the Committee during the season, one being the placing of iron and steel signs on the Mountains within our Bar Harbor District, including Green, Dry and Newport. These appear more desirable and better calculated to withstand the winter gales than the customary wooden signs, as iron supports firmly cemented in an excavation will probably last for some years and prove, in the end, a more modern and economical method than the one now practiced. The question of the lack of path guides was also discussed, as this is considered a serious obstacle to many who otherwise might make, if properly directed, frequent excursions over the mountains to distant points. It was thought that guides would be invaluable during the walking season and these, if recommended ROADSIDE AND PATH COMMITTEE 25 by the Path Committees and registered as competent, might find a considerable demand for their services. The publicity given to this recommendation of the Committee re- sulted in the establishment of a guide school, with an enrollment of a considerable number of young men for whose benefit a teacher was selected by one of the Committee, and courses of instruction and lectures covering the early history of the Island, its glacial formation, points of interest and the paths and mountain trails, given during the past winter. It is too early yet to judge of the success of this venture, but it is believed that competent guides will soon be found an absolute necessity for many who require their services and their co-operation will certainly insure a greater protection in maintaining the trails and in the preservation also of the signs and pointers that often have to be replaced or repaired. Several meetings have been held at which all the Chairmen of the different Path Com- mittees were present and when the need of a more systematic unification of the path work of Mount Desert Island and means for its realization were discussed; the opinion being unanimous that an earnest and close co-opera- tion on the part of the various path com- 26 ROADSIDE AND PATH COMMITTEE mittees would insure in every way an extensive and important development of the path system throughout the entire Island. The appointment of a Map Committee has been one of the results of these conferences, whose duty will be to supply any changes or corrections in every new issue, and also under- take to provide an abundance of maps in every locality where there may be a demand for them. The new working map of the Island, pre- pared by our Bar Harbor Committee, was completed last Fall and all the existing trails and roads being outlined upon it and photog- raphic copies were delivered to the representa- tive of each one of the other Path Committees. This map will be kept up to date and any change will be at once reported to the members of our Association, and your Committee considers that this enlarged map will serve a most useful purpose and in every way aid those for whose benefit it was undertaken. The Committee still has in mind the extension of the Gorge Path between Green (re-named Cadillac) and Dry Mountains from its present termination until it joins the Canon Brook trail and several conferences have already been held with the representative of the Lafay- ette National Park on the subject. ROADSIDE AND PATH COMMITTEE 27 A general inspection of the roads appears to show that they are kept in fair repair and even with the increased use of the motor car there is but little cause for criticism as the direct routes between Bar Harbor and other Districts are now being improved rapidly, thus making the Island more accessible. For this reason, however, it would seem feasible to indicate such roads as are now in condition for the use of the automobile, in order that those unsuited as yet for such heavy traffic might not be damaged, to the detriment and incon- venience of many who prefer driving to motor- ing and seem, therefore, to be justly entitled to some consideration in order to enjoy what the use of the automobile has to a considerable extent interfered with. There are certain private roads, however, over which automobiles cannot be operated and if it is possible to somewhat increase this restriction it may prove beneficial to many and leave the direct and improved thoroughfares more for the use of the motor owner. In this connection, the Map Committee recommended that whatever roads were practically abandoned by the different town authorities, and owing to lack of repair no longer safe for public use, should be designated as woodroads, as apparently 28 ROADSIDE AND PATH COMMITTEE some are not intended to be travelled over except by pedestrians. Two of these may be mentioned, one leading to Long Pond from Southwest Harbor, and the other on the west of Beach Cliff. Both of these last season appeared to be impassable and there may be other roads elsewhere that at present are not cared for or intended for the public to pass over except on foot. In conclusion the Chairman desires to ex- press his gratitude and thanks to the members of his Committee for their zealous and earnest co-operation during the past season, and for the valuable assistance and advice he has re- ceived from those who were associated with him in the further development and mainten- ance of our path work. All of which is respectfully submitted, FREDERIC DELANO WEEKES, Chairman. PARKS COMMITTEE 29 Report of Committee on Parks WOODBURY PARK Owing to the continued high prices for food the Committee has again allowed the use of Woodbury Park for war gardens, and the result has been more encouraging to the men this past summer. It seems proper, however, to restore the Park to its original use, in the summer of 1920, and it is proposed to plow and seed down the garden plots, trim the trees and, if possible, plant a few new trees. As the Park has suffered somewhat during the years of the war, it is hoped that a generous appropriation may be made, in order to make this fine site as attractive as possible. (Signed) C. B. ROWELL, Chairman. GLEN MARY PARK During the winter of 1918-19 the pond at Glen Mary Park was used for skating whenever possible and was much enjoyed. During the summer the paths have been 30 PARKS COMMITTEE kept free from under brush and the services of one man were provided for two afternoons a week. The sidewalks on Glen Mary and Waldron Road were mended and the grass path on Spring Street mowed. The Y. W. C.A. Recreational teacher held daily classes for children from six to ten years of age; partly in G. M. P. and Athletic Field. This work, we trust, may be continued and should be encouraged in every way. It is most necessary that the Park be lighted at night and it is hoped that the growth of the town will soon produce an insistent demand for lights. Additional benches are needed, but light should be provided first. The thanks of the Committee are due to Mr. C. H. Norris and other neighbors, who have SO generously and freely given their time to remove rubbish, trim paths, and care for trees. (Signed) AUGUSTUS THORNDIKE, Chairman. GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE 31 Report of the Grievance Committee The Committee on Grievances begs to re- port the following items: During the summer a bad fire trap was complained of, and referred to the Fire Chief. Careless motor driving, in some instances dangerous, has been referred to the Chief of Police. Paper and rubbish on Cottage Street has been noticed, and the Chairman of the Village Committee notified. Serious complaints were made about the unpleasant rubbish left by picnic parties, especially at the Ovens and Schooner Head Rocks. It is urged that all possible measures be taken to modify this nuisance another year. The Ocean Drive should have birch saplings cut down, as the view is greatly obstructed; also several old trees, blown over last winter, should be removed. The same is true of the drive to Hulls Cove where the view of the bay is impaired. Ju- dicious cutting is necessary on both drives. (Signed) C. B. ROWELL, Chairman. 32 TOWN PLANNING COMMITTEE Report of Town Planning Committee Your Committee begs to report that during the past year interest has been shown in the better development and appearance of the town, though it is evident that very much more could easily be accomplished. Through the courtesy of Mr. McGouldrick, several talks have been given in the schools. A series of meetings were held in Bar Harbor in the last week of March, which included an illustrated lecture attended by 180 people, Mr. Gilley and Mr. Lymburner kindly contributing their services toward its success. A meeting of the property owners, and several meetings of the town planning committee were also held, at which the membership of the Committee was in- creased by the addition of Mr. Frank Mc- Gouldrick as Vice-Chairman, Mr. Clarence E. Dow, Secretary, Mrs. William E. Patterson and Mr. Fred L. Savage. Thanks to the energy of the committee and the co-operation of everyone interested in the present and future of Bar Harbor, clean-up week was highly successful; and it is a pleasure to announce that TOWN PLANNING COMMITTEE 33 the town of Bar Harbor won the first prize and a silver cup for the best clean-up week of the State of Maine. Mr. John Nolen, one of the best known town planners, kindly gave the town planning com- mittee his valuable advice and suggestions during a two days' visit during the summer. Your Committee urges that a complete survey be made of Bar Harbor, which can be done at a cost of about $3,000. It is only by a compre- hensive plan that developments can be worked out; proper development will save money, add to the value of real estate and increase the prosperity of the town. Unless there is an intelligent effort made and a well thought out plan followed, Bar Harbor must face the fact that it will lose ground in the race with com- petitive summer resorts which are alive to the value of charm in attracting tourists. An effort was made to eliminate unnecessarily large signs, and thanks to the co-operation of Messrs. Searls, Wadleigh and Emery, large bill-boards were removed. Your Committee would urge that every effort be made to elimi- nate bill-boards from the island. Roadside advertising requires a new law and will have one when the public demands protection from these disfigurements. 34 TOWN PLANNING COMMITTEE The associate membership in the V. I. A. has been increased by about 400 members and a cordial spirit of co-operation is shown. Frontage on Main Street where disfigured by fire has been improved by planting of shrubs and placing of screens. The Town Planning Committee begs to emphasize the fact that Bar Harbor needs a plan to develop: Better approach to wharf path; Better sidewalks (possibly from Bar Harbor to Hulls Cove); Better planning for small houses; Some shore front open to all; also Law to prevent roadside advertising; Judicious trimming of trees on Ocean Drive and road to Hulls Cove. All these matters are entirely feasible and will be done when the public realizes the wis- dom and economy in SO doing. (Signed) BEATRIX FARRAND, Chairman. EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS 35 EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS (By-Laws, Article 2, Section 4) Alley, Mr. Gerard, Selectman Bird, Mr. Walter L., Health Officer Brewer, Mr. Orient, Building Inspector Brewer, Mr. Orient, Road Commissioner Butterfield, Mr. John H., Road Commissioner Carter, Mr. L. P., Road Commissioner Copp, Mr. H. C., Selectman Dow, Mr. Clarence E., Selectman Eno, Mr. Henry Lane, Selectman Fabbri, Mr. Ernesto G., Selectman Fairchild, Rev. T. E. Hagerthy, Dr. George R. Higgins, Dr. R. G. Leland, Mr. E. R., Selectman MacDonald, Rev. A. M. McGouldrick, Mr. Frank E., Supt. of Schools Morrison, Dr. C. C. Morrison, Dr. Charles C. Morrison, Dr. E. J. O'Brien, Rev. James D. Paine, Mr. Charles F., Town Treasurer Patten, Dr. J. H. 36 EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS Phillips, Dr. George A. Smith, Dr. Frank Fremont Stanley, Mr. Robert E. Health Officer Stokes, Dr. Horace S. Taylor, Dr. J. Madison Thorndike, Dr. Augustus Wadleigh, Mr. W. P., Health Officer Wadleigh, Mr. W. P., Town Clerk. Wakefield, Dr. R. W. Young, Mr. B. H., Selectman LIFE MEMBERS 37 LIFE MEMBERS Givers of $25 in one sum, $10 annually for three years, or $5 an- nually for seven years (By-Laws, Article II, Section 3) Abbe, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Anson, Mrs. Alfred Auchincloss, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Babcock, Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Banks, Mrs. A. Bleecker Bass, Mrs. E. W. Biddle, Miss Christine W. Bowdoin, Miss Edith G. Bowen, Mrs. Joseph T. Bowler, Mrs. Robert B. Bradley, Mrs. J. D. C. Brooks, Mr. H. Mortimer Burrill, Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Carnegie, Mrs. Andrew Carpenter, Miss Agnes Cassatt, Mrs. A. J. Clark, Mrs. Anna M. Chew, Mrs. Benj. Coats, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. 38 LIFE MEMBERS Cochran, Miss Mary N. Coles, Mrs. Edward Coles, Miss Mary R. Coxe, Mrs. Alexander B. Crafts, Miss Mary E. Crocker, Mrs. U. H. Cuyler, Miss E. deG. Cuyler, Mr. and Mrs. T. DeWitt Davis, Mrs. A. H. Derby, Mrs. Haskett Dimock, Mrs. H. F. Dorr, Mr. George B. Draper, Mr. George A. Draper, Mr. and Mrs. William P. Du Pont, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred I. Edwards, Mrs. J. P. Eno, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Fabbri, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Farrand, Mrs. Max Gould, Mr. and Mrs. E.S. Gray, Mrs. H. W. Green, Mr. William L. Griswold, Mrs. F. G. Gurnee, Mr. A. C. Gurnee, Mrs. W. S. Hale, Mr. Richard W. Harrison, Mrs. Charles C. Harrison, Hon. and Mrs. F. B. LIFE MEMBERS 39 Hatfield, Mr. Henry R. Hemmick, Mrs. Christian Hinkle, Mrs. A. H. Hoffman, Miss Mary U. Howard, Mr. Edgar B. Hubbard, Mrs. T. H. Hunt, Mrs. Platt Ingraham, Hon. George L. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Jones, Mrs. Cadwalader Kahn, Mr. and Mrs. Otto H. Kane, Mrs. John I. Kennedy, Mrs. John S. Ketterlinus, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Kingsland, Mrs. William M. Kierman, Miss Isabel Ladd, Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Laugier-Villars, the Countess Lawrence, Miss Sarah Lawrence, Rt. Rev. and Mrs. William Leeds, Mr. and Mrs. Warner M. Linzee, Miss Elizabeth Livingston, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Livingston, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Luquer, Mr. and Mrs. Lea McI. Macy, Mr. and Mrs. V. Everett McCagg, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. McCormick, Mrs. R. H. 40 LIFE MEMBERS Manning, Miss A. F. Markoe, Mrs. John Minot, The Misses Morgan, Miss C. L. Morgan, Mrs. J.P. Morrell, Mrs. Edward Morrill, The Misses Morris, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Newbold, Mr. Clement B. Norcross, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Ogden, Mr. David B. Opdycke, Mrs. Emerson Opdycke, Mrs. L. E. Ostrander, Mrs. C. F. Palmer, Mr. Courtlandt Parsons, Mrs. Herbert Peabody, Mr. F. H. Pearson, Mrs. Frederick Place, Mrs. George Platt, Mrs. A. E. Polk, Mrs. William Pratt, Mr. John T. Pulitzer, Mrs. Joseph Rice, Mrs. W. B. Robbins, Mrs. George A. Satterlee, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Savage Mrs. W. Lyttleton LIFE MEMBERS 41 Schauffler, Mrs. A. F. Schieffelin, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Schiff, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H. Scott, Mrs. Edgar Sears, Mrs. J. M. Seely, Mrs. W. W. Shepard, Mrs. Elliott F. Sherman, Mrs. Gardiner Smith, Mrs. C. Morton Smith, Mrs. Edward A. Smith, Miss Josephine C. Speyer, Mr. and Mrs. James Stevens, Miss Julia C. Stewart, Mr. W. R. Stokes, Dr. Horace S. Sturgis, Miss Sturgis, Mrs. Howard O. Thacher, Dr. John S. Thompson, Mrs. George L. Thorndike, Dr. and Mrs. Augustus Townsend, Mrs. R. H. Trevor, Miss Emily Trevor, Mrs. John B. Tucker, Mrs. Alanson Tuckerman, Mrs. Leverett S. Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt, Mrs. George W. Walcott, Mrs. F. C. 42 LIFE MEMBERS Weekes, Mr. Frederic Delano Winthrop, Miss Marie Wright, Mrs. C. K. Young, Mrs. Murray ASSOCIATE MEMBERS 43 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Summer, 1919 Allen, Mrs. William Alley, Mrs. Agnes Ash, Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Alley, Mrs. Albion Alley, Miss Marjorie Alley, Lieut. Gerard F. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. George Abbott, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. B. LeV. Adair, Mr. and Mrs. William Bartlett, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Boier, Mr. Tullio Buckhard, Mr. and Mrs. H. Butterfield, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Brewer, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Brewer, Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Brown, H. A. & Son Brewer Ice Company Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bird, Mrs. W. L. Blanchfield, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. 44 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Burns, Mr. and Mrs. Galen Burke, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bradley, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Clement, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Clark, Judge and Mrs. B. E. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. George Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Conners, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Conners, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Coffin, Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Chaney, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Carter, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Coady, Mr. and Mrs. James Card, Mrs. Florence Cranaford, Mr. James Cough, Mr. E. R. Conners, Mrs. John Cleaves, Mrs. George Coombs, Mrs. Merton Carroll, Mr. T. C. Carroll, Miss Eva Conners, Mr. and Mrs. William D. Cleaves, Mr. and Mrs. L. Sherman Cleaves, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Cunningham, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Copp, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Carter, Mrs. Dora ASSOCIATE MEMBERS 45 Cleaves, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Cunningham, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Davis, Mrs. John Davis, Mrs. Ethel Davis, Mrs. Charles Davis, Mrs. W. Howard Dorr, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Dickings, Mr. and Mrs. George Douglass, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Daney, Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dow, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Dolliver, Mrs. George W. Dow, Miss Mary Hope Ensor, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Emery, Mrs. George Emery, Mrs. Anna Emery, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Ells, Dr. and Mrs. John B. Etter, Mr. and Mrs. John Emery, Mr. H. F. Falkenstrom, Mr. and Mrs. John Fowler, Mrs. Charles Fairchild, Rev. and Mrs. T. E. Farrar, Mrs. Guy Frost, Mr. Irving Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Judson 46 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Farley, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Gray, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Gott, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Goss, Mrs. William Grant, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gilley, Mr. and Mrs. Graham, Mrs. W. F. Gabrielson, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Angus Getchell, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Gooch, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Grant, Mr. Frank H. Graham, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Graham Gonya, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Googins, Mr. and Mrs. George George, Mr. and Mrs. John Guthrie, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Green, Mr. Charles S. Gonya, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. George, Mr. and Mrs. James Garland, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Harmon, Mr. and Mrs. George Hagerthy, Dr. and Mrs. G. R. Hosmer, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Hodgkins, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Harraden, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. ASSOCIATE MEMBERS 47 Hodgkins, Mrs. H. M. Hass, Mr. and Mrs. Char!es Hadley, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hadley, Mrs. Granville Higgins, Mr. Harry Harriman, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Higgins, Mrs. C. M. Hapworth, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Hamor, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hodgkins, Mr. and Mrs. Almon Higgins, Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hinch, Dr. and Mrs. John T. Higgins, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hayward, Mr. and Mrs. George Hodgkins, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hodgkins, Mr. and Mrs. Irving Hayward, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Hatt, Mr. and Mrs. George Harriman, Mr. and Mrs. John Herlihy, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Hayward, Mr. and Mrs. David Higgins, Mr. and Mrs. Conie Higgins, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Higgins, Mrs. Clinton Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hanson, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Haley, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis 48 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Heath, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Higgins, Mrs. Charles Holt, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Higgins, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Holmes, Mrs. Myra Ingalls, Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Ingalls, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Joy, Mrs. Raymond Jellison, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jellison, Mrs. Martha Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. Arno Jordan, Mr. E. F. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. John Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. William Joyce, Mrs. C. A. Kirk, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kirk, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kane, Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Keene, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Kittredge, Mr. Richard Kingsley, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kelley, Mr. and Mrs. James F. Lawford, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lymburner, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Liscomb, Mr. Arthur ASSOCIATE MEMBERS 49 Leffingwell, Mr. Douglass Leffingwell, Miss Mary Loring, Mrs. George Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Leland, Mr. and Mrs. E. Y. Lynam, Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Leland, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Liscomb, Mr. and Mrs. Everett G. Ladd, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Maddocks, Mrs. Marie K. Milliken, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Milliken, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. McGilivray, Mr. Hugh McLean, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth McGouldrick, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Milliken, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Murch, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Murray, Mrs. Charles McCarthy, Mr. and Mrs. John McGrath, Mrs. Martin Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. McQuinn, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Morse, Mr. Alden Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. A. Moran, Mrs. Thomas Marcyes, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Moon, Mrs. R. H. Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Alton 50 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS McClain, Mr. and Mrs. Dayton Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Morrison, Dr. and Mrs. E. J. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Arno Morrison, Dr. C. C. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Madden, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. McIsaac, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Norwood, Mrs. Nason, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Norris, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Norwood, Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Nolan, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Nickerson, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. O'Hearn, Mr. and Mrs. Edward O'Neill, Mrs. Edith O'Brien, Miss Mary Ober, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Parritt, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Perlinsky, Mr. and Mrs. M. Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. William L. Paine, Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Paine, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Peach, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Paine, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Parker, Mrs. Olivia Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo ASSOCIATE MEMBERS 51 Perkins, Mrs. Luella Prescott, Miss S. H. Prescott, Mr. J. H. Partridge, Mrs. Alma Perry, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Phillips, Dr. and Mrs. George Pond, Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Quimby, Mr. and Mrs. William Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Rodick, Mrs. Phebe Rider, Mr. and Mrs. George Rodick, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Redding, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Roberts, Mr. Fred L. Richards, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ryder, Mrs. Alice J. Ryder, Mrs. Edith Rodick, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Rodick, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rodick, Mrs. E. B. Read, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. David Rich, Miss Lona A. Sargent, Mrs. Frank Suminsby, Mr. and Mrs. John 52 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sherman, Mr. Albion F. Small, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Silk, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Shand, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Simpson, Mrs. Ernest L. Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Sullivan, Mrs. Lucy Spratt, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Snelley, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. James Stover, Mrs. Mary E. Silk, Mr. and Mrs. John Small, Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Stevens, Mr. Joseph Stearns, Mrs. H. E. Sawyer, Mr. J. H. Smith, Mrs. H. V. Scanlon, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Smith, Mr. and Mrs. James Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Suminsby, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. George Strout, Mr. and Mrs. Colin Salisbury, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Smith, Miss Susie ASSOCIATE MEMBERS 53 Soper, Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Sawyer, Mr. and Mrs. William Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Schneier, Mr. Irving Savage, Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Stalford, Mr. John H. Tripp, Mrs. J. E. Tripp Tabbut, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tripp, Mrs. Blanche Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Torrey, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Tredic, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Watt, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel West, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Wasgatt, Mr. and Mrs. V. G. Whitmore, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Wilson, Mrs. Helen Woodbury, Mrs. Elsie B. Wadsworth, Mrs. Clarence Wakefield, Dr. and Mrs. R. W. Wescott, Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Whitaker, Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Wakefield, Mr. and Mrs. Woodworth, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Woodworth, Mr. and Mrs. Linwood 54 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Willey, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Willey, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Foster Walls, Mrs. Ralph Webber, Mr. and Mrs. B. H., Sr. Young, Mrs. James Young, Mrs. Tullia Augusta Young, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Young, Mr. and Mrs. M. Young, Mrs. James L. DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES 55 Dues and General Donations Previously reported $ 105.00 Abbe, Dr. and Mrs. Robert 25.00 Auchincloss, Mrs. John W 10.00 Bass, Mrs. A. E 5.00 Bass, Mrs. E. W. 5.00 Barry, Mr. Llewellyn 10.00 Barnett, Katherine 5.00 Beale, William G 20.00 Baker, Miss Charlotte 10.00 Bates, Mr. and Mrs. S. W 5.00 Biddle, Miss Christine W 5.00 Bowler, Mrs. R. B 10.00 Bowen, Mrs. J. T. 10.00 Bowdoin, Miss Edith 25.00 Bridgham, Mrs. A. W 10.00 Burnham, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. 5.00 Carpenter, Miss Agnes 10.00 Cary, Miss Jane M 2.00 Chapman, Mrs. H. C. 5.00 Coles, Mrs. Edward 10.00 Coles, Miss Mary R. 10.00 Cuyler, Thomas DeWitt 50.00 Davis, Mrs. A. J. 5.00 56 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES Derby, Mrs. Hasket 5.00 Dickson, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. 10.00 Dulles, Mr. and Mrs. L. Harrison 5.00 Ellinger, Mr. Ludwig 5.00 Emmett, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. 5.00 Endicott, Mrs. W. C. 10.00 Farrand, Prof. and Mrs. Max 10.00 Fabbri, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. 10.00 Gurnee, A. C. 25.00 Guthrie, Mrs. George 5.00 Hadden, Miss A. E. 5.00 Hastings, Miss Edith 3.00 Hartshorne, Mr. and Mrs. James N.. 10.00 Hinkle, Mrs. A. Howard 10.00 Hoffman, Miss Mary 10.00 Hubbard, Mrs. Thomas 10.00 Hunt, Mrs. Platt 5.00 Ingraham, Judge George 10.00 Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. 10.00 Jones, Mrs. Cadwalader 10.00 Jordan, Mrs. E. B 5.00 Kane, Mrs. John I. 25.00 Kast, Dr. Ludwig 10.00 Keim, Mrs. George deB 5.00 Kennedy, Mrs. John S. 25.00 Ketterlinus, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. 10.00 Kellogg, Mr. and Mrs. F. Leonard 5.00 Kierman, Miss Isabel 25.00 Ladd, Mr. and Mrs. Walter G 100.00 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES 57 Levi, Henriette M 10.00 Lawrence, Rt. Rev. William 10.00 Lawrence, Mrs. William 5.00 Linzee, Miss Elizabeth 5.00 Livingston, Mr. and Mrs. Philip 5.00 Livingston, Miss Anglica 5.00 Luquer, Mr. and Mrs. Lea McI. 10.00 Macy, Mr. and Mrs. V. Everett 50.00 Manning, Miss Abby F. 5.00 Markoe, Mrs. John 10.00 McNair, William 10.00 Mears, Mrs. E. B. 5.00 Miller, Miss Edith Macculloch 5.00 Mitchell, Dr. and Mrs. J. F 5.00 Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Dave H. 10.00 Norcross, Mr. and Mrs. Otis 5.00 Ogden, Mr. and Mrs. John B. 5.00 Opdycke, Mrs. Emerson 5.00 Opdycke, Mrs. Leonard 5.00 Ostrander, Mrs. Charles 5.00 Parsons, Mrs. Herbert 10.00 Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. A. M 5.00 Rice, Mrs. Gertrude S. 10.00 Ridgeway, Mrs. Thomas 5.00 Robbins, Mrs. George A. 10.00 Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. John S 10.00 Rowell, Mr. and Mrs. Frank 10.00 Savage, Mrs. W. L 5.00 58 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES Schauffler, Mrs. A. F. 10.00 Selfridge, Mrs. George L. 5.00 Scott, Mrs. Edgar 25.00 Simpson, Mr. and Mrs. E. L 2.00 Smith, Mrs. C. Morton 25.00 Smith, Dr. Fremont 5.00 Stevens, Miss Julia 5.00 Taylor, Mrs. William A. 10.00 Tucker, Mrs. Katherine S. 25.00 Villars, Countess de Laugier 10.00 Wadsworth, Col. and Mrs. C. S. 10.00 Wells, Mr. and Mrs. O. J 5.00 Weld, Mr. and Mrs. C. Minot 5.00 Whitfield, Miss Estelle 5.00 Wright, Mrs. C. K 5.00 Wurtz, Mr. and Mrs. A. J 5.00 Young, Mr. and Mrs. A. Murray 25.00 Dues and General Donations $1162.00 Special Donations Previously reported $ 156.70 Gilford, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. 5.00 Weekes, Frederic Delano, for paths 25.00 186.70 Total Dues and Donations $1348.70 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES 59 Additional Receipts Since Sept. 12, 1919 Anson, Hon. and Mrs. Alfred $ 100.00 Draper, Mrs. W. P. 10.00 Emmons, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton 5.00 Eno, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lane 10.00 Gould, Mr. and Mrs. E. S 25.00 Gurnee, Miss Bell 5.00 Gurnee, Mrs. W. S. 5.00 Hoyt, Mrs. Henry 5.00 Howard, E. B 10.00 Hatfield, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. 10.00 Livingston, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. 10.00 Ludwig, Miss Mina 5.00 Morrill, Miss A. 5.00 Palmer, Courtlandt 100.00 Polk, Mrs. William 10.00 Pulitzer, Mrs. Joseph 10.00 Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. George S 5.00 Ryle, Mrs. Arthur 10.00 Satterlee, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. 50.00 Sanderson, Mrs. Amar 10.00 Schiff, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob 25.00 Smith, Miss Mary Rozet 5.00 Sturges, Mr. and Mrs. H. O 25.00 Thorndike, Dr. and Mrs. Augustus 25.00 $ 480.00 60 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES Special Donations Hinkle, Mrs. A. Howard, for Nolen pamphlets $ 100.00 Tuckerman, Mrs. Leverett S., for paths 100.00 Weekes, Frederic Delano, for Nolen pamphlets 25.00 Subscriber, for paths 25.00 Total additional receipts $ 730.00 CHARTER 61 CHARTER LAWS OF 1891. CHAPTER 186: An Act to Incorporate the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature Assembled as follows: SECTION 1. Parke Goodwin, Fred C. Lynam, William H. Sherman, Morris K. Jesup, Robert Amory, Charles T. How, De Grasse Fox, Luere B. Deasy, Edward Coles, Serenus H. Rodick, Henry Sayles, William B. Rice, David A. Bunker, Elihu T. Hamor, Addie B. Higgins, Mary G. Dorr, Augustus Gurnee, A. W. Morrill, Ephigenia Z. Place, Francis E. Wood, George W. Vanderbilt, Gertrude S. Rice, Louisa S. Minot, F. G. Peabody, Abby A. Potter, Francis M. Con- ners, John E. Clark, George M. Wheeler, Eugene B. Richards and their associates and successors are hereby incorporated under the name of the Bar Harbor Village Improve- ment Association, for the purpose of institut- ing and maintaining public improvements 62 CHARTER in the village of Bar Harbor and other parts of Mount Desert Island. SEC. 2. For the purpose of its incorpora- tion this Association may receive and hold real and personal property not exceeding fifty thousand dollars in amount; make contracts to be binding upon itself but not upon its individual members; and make by-laws not inconsistent with the law for the regulation of its membership and its government. SEC. 3. The first meeting of this cor- poration may be called by any of the above associates, by a notice published two weeks successively before the time of said meeting in any newspaper published in Bar Harbor. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. BY-LAWS 63 By-Laws PREAMBLE Whereas, it is evident to all who are interested in the village of Bar Harbor that some method of united action is needed in order to preserve the natural beauties of the place by the ornamentation of the streets and public grounds of the village, by planting and cultivating trees and doing such other acts as shall tend to beautify, adorn and increase the attractions of the village; therefore we have formed ourselves into an Association and agree to be governed by the following by-laws: No. I-NAME. This Society shall be known as the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. No. 2-MEMBERSHIP. SECTION 1. The members of this Asso- ciation shall consist of two classes: Annual and Life. 64 BY-LAWS SEC. 2. Any person over fourteen years of age, by the payment of one dollar annually, and any child under fourteen years of age who shall pay the sum of fifty cents annually, shall be a member of this Association for the current fiscal year which shall end on the second Thursday of September. SEC. 3. The payment of five dollars annually for seven years or ten dollars an- nually for three years or twenty-five dollars in one sum shall constitute a person a life member of the Association. SEC. 4. Irrespective of payment of dues the following persons shall be members of the Association: The Selectmen, the Town Clerk, the Treasurer, the Road Commissioners, the Superintendent of Schools, the Board of Health, the Sewer Commissioner, and the Inspector of Buildings of the Town of Bar Harbor; the pastors and rectors of all Chris- tian Churches in the village of Bar Harbor and all physicians licensed to practice in said village. No. 3-MEETINGS. There shall be meetings of the Associa- tion held each year on the third Thursday of June and on the second Thursday of July, BY-LAWS 65 August and September, of which the Septem- ber meeting shall be the annual meeting of the Association. Said meetings shall be held at some con- venient place in the village of Bar Harbor, of which due notice shall be given by the Sec- retary. Other meetings of the Association may be called by the president and shall be called on written request of five members of the Association. No. 4-OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. At the annual meeting the Association shall elect by ballot the following officers:- President, Three Vice Presidents, Treasurer, Secretary, who shall hold office for one year and until their successors are duly elected. At the same time and place the Associa- tion shall elect or shall empower the newly elected President to appoint the chairman and members of the following Standing Com- mittees: Finance, Village, Grievance, Sani- tary, Roads and Paths, Trees and Planting, Village Green and Glen Mary Park. 66 BY-LAWS Special Committees may be appointed by a vote of the Association at any time. No. -DUTIES OF OFFICERS SECTION 1. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Association and in his absence one of the Vice Presidents shall per- form the duties of his office. SEC. 2. The Treasurer shall have charge of all money and other property of the Asso- ciation, and shall report at each of its regular meetings. The report presented by him at the annual meeting shall be in writing accom- panied by an account and vouchers for audit. He shall be the sole disbursing officer of the Association and shall pay out the moneys of the Association only upon written approval either of the chairman of the committee from whose appropriation the disbursement is made, or of the President, or a member of the Fi- nance Committee. Except for usual office expenses, he shall pay out no money until the same shall have been appropriated by the Association. SEC. 3. The Secretary shall keep a cor- rect and careful record of all the proceedings of the Association, in a suitable book, have charge of the books, records, and seal of the Association, and give notice of all meetings. BY-LAWS 67 No. S.-DUTIES OF COMMITTEE. FINANCE COMMITTEE. It shall be the duty of the Finance Committee to devise ways and means to procure funds for the use of the Association, by extending the membership, procuring subscriptions and donat ons or by any other means. If at any time there shall be found in the hands of the Treasurer a sur- plus of money beyond estimated disburse- ments, such surplus may be invested in mar- ketable and interest paying securities. VILLAGE COMMITTEE. It shall be the duty of this committee to make the streets attractive by trimming the borders between the sidewalks and roadways, cutting grass, weeding, and to care for the village grave- yard, etc. GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE. It shall be the duty of this committee to invite, to receive, to examine into and if possible to secure the removal of just grounds for complaints re- lating to matters connected with the pur- poses of the Association. In case any com- plaints received by this Committee shall seem to lie within the province of any other Com- mittee, they shall at once be brought to the attention of such other Committee. 68 BY-LAWS COMMITTEE ON TREES AND PLANTING. It shall be the duty of this Committee to secure the removal of dead wood and under- brush and to plant trees," shrubs, and vines, and to care for the bicycle path and Newport Mountain Road. SANITARY COMMITTEE. It shall be the duty of this Committee to keep itself informed as to the condition and care of Eagle Lake, both in winter and summer, into condition of the water, to examine the stables, the dis- posal of garbage, sewers, drains, tenement houses and localities generally likely to be- come sources of injury to contagion, and to report to the Association. COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND PATHS. It shall be the duty of this Committee to report as to the condition of the roads and to lay out, keep in repair and mark with signs, cairns and pointers paths and trails over the moun- tains, and through the woods on the eastern part of the island. GLEN MARY PARK. It shall be the duty of this Committee to observe the conditions of Miss Mary Shannon's deeds of conveyance of the Park lands especially that concerned with the care of the pine trees, and setting out and caring for settees, conveyed to this Associa- BY-LAWS 69 tion under said deed, and in other ways to improve the appearance and attractions of this Park. and to provide such police regula- tions as shall prevent injury to trees, land or other property thereon. Each Standing Committee shall make a monthly report to the Association during the summer and the reports prepared for the annual meeting shall be in writing. No. 7-SEAL. The corporation shall have a seal bear- ing its name and date "1891." No. 8-DEEDS AND CONTRACTS. Deeds and contracts shall be executed by the President, Treasurer and one of the Vice Presidents. No member shall be per- sonally liable for any contract or debt of the Corporation. No. 9-QUORUM. Eleven members of the Corporation or a majority of the members of any committee shall constitute a quorum, and a quorum being present, a majority thereof shall control. No. -AMENDMENTS. These By-Laws as a whole, or any part thereof, may be repealed or amended by a 70 BY-LAWS vote of two-thirds of the members present at any regular or official meeting of the Associa- tion, but a notice of any proposed change shall be given in the call for the meeting. No. 11-ORDER OF BUSINESS. Reading minutes of the preceding meet- ing, and action thereon. Report of Treasurer. Report of Standing Committees. Report of Special Committees. New Business. L129 Bar Harbor Historical Society Hom Daed C Lynam & a