TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association For the Year Ending September 12th 1918 Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association For the Year ending September 12, 1918 OFFICERS FOR 1918-1919 VICE-PRESIDE NTS Rt. Rev. William Lawrence Dr. Robert Abbe Dr. Augustus Thorndike SECRETARY H. M. Conners TREASURER F. 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 B. Gurnee Miss Sarah Lawrence Mrs. Fred C. Lynam Mrs. C.F. Ostrander Dr. Augustus Thorndike J. Alden Morse Miss Louise Deasy Miss Harriet V. Ogden Miss Augusta McCagg Miss Mary Opdycke Miss Fanny Norris GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE Mrs. Frank B. Rowell 4 COMMITTEES SANITARY COMMITTEE Dr. Robert Abbe, Chairman Dr. G. R. Hagerthy 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. E. J. Morrison Dr. George A. Phillips Dr. R. W. Wakefield ROADSIDE COMMITTEEE George B. Dorr Mrs. John C. Livingston Mrs. John S. Kennedy Henry Lane Eno Mrs. John Markoe Miss M. M. Ostrander L. A. Austin ROADS AND PATHS COMMITTEE Frederic Delano Weekes, Chairman A. M. Young Miss Mary R. Coles Dr. J. Madison Taylor Miss Eloise Derby Miss Agnes Carpenter Mrs. W. P. Draper George B. Dorr Courtland Palmer Howard O. Sturgis Miss Mary Palmer L. E. Opdycke Richard W. Hale Andrew E. Liscomb Miss Mary M. Ostrander Mrs. Frederick C. Fearing Miss Dabney VILLAGE GREEN COMMITTEE George B. Dorr Fred C. Lynam Miss Fanny Norris Mrs. William B. Rice Mrs. F. E. Sherman Miss Louisa Minot Miss Augusta McCagg Miss Opdycke COMMITTEES 5 MILK COMMITTEE Dave Hennen Morris, Chairman Dr. Robert Abbe Dr. Nathaniel Gildersleeve Dr. C. C. Morrison Dr. R. W. Wakefield GLEN MARY PARK COMMITTEE Dr. Augustus Thorndike George B. Dorr Mrs. John Harrison SPECIAL COMMITTEES WOODBURY PARK COMMITTEE Mrs. Frank B. Rowell, Chairman L. A. Austin Frank B. Rowell F. C. Lynam Mrs. A. Howard Hinkle COMMITTEE ON SURVEY OF TOWN Miss Charlotte S. Baker, Chairman Mrs. Max Farrand 6 TREASURER'S REPORT TREASURER'S REPORT Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association For the fiscal year ending September 12, 1918, RECEIPTS Dues and General Donations $1,119.00 Special Donations: For Paths, Mr. Frederic Delano Weekes 25.00 Lt. Col. Wm. Williams 25.00 Mr. S. T. Gilford 5.00 Total Dues and Donations $1,174.00 Interest on Bank Account 52.86 Interest on $2,000 Investment 73.68 Interest on $5,000 Investment 250.00 Interest on $400 Certificate of De- posit for Mary F. Higgins Est. Trust Fund 11.96 $1,562.50 Balance on hand Sept. 13, 1917 2,664.75 $4,227.25 PAYMENTS Roads and Paths Committee: General Paths $352.73 Village Green Committee 323.15 Village Committee 556.33 TREASURER'S REPORT 7 , Glen Mary Park Committee 15.98 Woodbury Park 15.00 Printing and Postage 69.50 Secretary's Salary 50.00 Box Rent, B. H. B. & T. Co 4.00 Mary F. Higgins Trust Fund 5.80 1,392.49 Balance on hand Sept. 12, 1918 $2,834.76 The Association owns $5,000 of Rodick Realty Company Bonds purchased with the legacy from the late Waldron Bates. The Association owns $300 par value Bar Harbor Water Company stock. The Association has on deposit bearing interest $1,700. FRED C. LYNAM, Treasurer. 8 VILLAGE COMMITTEE Report of the Village Committee There is little of interest to report about the Village Committee. It has employed as usual two persons during the summer months, a man and a boy, to pick up papers and weed the edges of the roads and paths in the Village. The workers have been super- intended by Mr. Arthur Higgins, but owing to the difficulty of procuring laborers, and the inexperience of those employed, the work has not been done as well as in former years. After much effort, the Shore Path on the Musgrave property has been partially re- paired by the owners, and the fence repainted by our Committee. Efforts have been made to interest the Selectmen in keeping the town lot on the Shore in better order, also through the School Board to induce the children of the Public Schools to aid in picking up papers and keep- ing the streets tidy. VILLAGE COMMITTEE 9 The Village Committee has asked for the same apportionment as last year, $504.10, and a balance remained. Thus far this year we have spent $538.88. ANNIE C. KANE, Chairman. 10 GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE Report of the Grievance Committee The only "grievance" reported during the summer has been with regard to the con- dition of the roadsides of Woodbury Park, which will be attended to early next spring. The Chair is unable to decide whether this lack of trouble is due to consideration for the Committee or lack of interest in noting any complaints. C.B. ROWELL, Chairman. SANITARY COMMITTEE 11 Report of Sanitary Committee The health conditions of a community of ten thousand people, half of which is perma- nent, and the other composed of visitors from everywhere, needs watch care. It concerns the Village Improvement Asso- ciation to know about and safeguard sanita- tion and conditions that promote health and happiness for the summer colony. Our water supply is exceptional for any community. Eagle Lake is two miles long and about three hundred feet altitude, and is almost at our doors. It has a mountain water shed of native forest and almost no farmland bordering on it. The purity of its water is assured by public and private control. Apart from its purity a large and excellent sand filter is available for use in any season when the fishlike taste comes from growth of a particular fungus- which all reservoirs occasionally have for a season or two, every few years. Ours has been free from that for three years past and 12 SANITARY COMMITTEE the filter is not constantly used, therefore, inasmuch as the force of water for the hy- drants is greatly diminished when the filter is used. In the recent hotel fires this might have been a serious matter. The milk supplied to the town is gathered from twenty or more dairies scattered over the Island and is under the inspection of your Committee, who have frequently made cor- rections in dairies. The main risks discovered have been from cleansing of bottles in water drawn from farmers' wells, which was not boiled, and from fly contamination in unscreened dairies. The law requires that all publicly sold milk shall be bottled at the dairy. Unclean milk, or milk not put on ice prompt- ly when bottled, and kept SO until delivered, is sure to sour easily and be dangerous to feeding infants. At the present time and for years the cleanness and liberal use of ice has been well carried out by the farm dairies. Only one complaint this year that the milk was not perfectly sweet has been reported- and on inspection it was found that ice had not been used enough. That was corrected. This Association has for years authorized its Committee to employ Dr. Gildersleeve, SANITARY COMMITTEE 13 who is a most expert pathologist, to examine milk purchased from time to time, from dealers, on their routes, and such samples have frequently been examined this summer. He is thus prepared to certify to any mem- ber the milk he is getting-and any one is at liberty without cost to telephone him at the hospital, and bring samples, or make inquiry. His report is appended. As illustrating the protection given by his laboratory-A sample of two sticks of nougat candy was taken to him recently in their waxed paper covers with a small paper in which were enclosed some hard grains of substance which the anxious enquirer be- lieved might be foreign and dangerous ma- terial put in to injure the sailors, to whom this was frequently sold on the streets. A very elaborate study of all the candy showed the hard granules to be bits of ground nut shell-and not glass or injurious matter, tho, curiously enough there happened to be one microscopic atom of glass, which could hurt no one and which might often be found from the stirring spoon in a porcelain lined cooker, where I have seen a good sized flake of the glazed lining chipped off at a cracked spot. 14 SANITARY COMMITTEE All such precautionary studies, neverthe- less, are welcomed. Inspection of cattle for tubercular cows is the duty of the health officer of the town and has received attention. The proportion of tuberculous patients on Mt. Desert Island is comparatively small. Among ten physicians, who do most of the practice hereabout, I find on inquiry, only seven cases are known. The law requires that they be reported to the health officer and watched. It is most gratifying to know that this disease is rare in this community, and growing less. It is probable that the campaign against flies, against the spitting nuisance, against rubbish and manure heaps, against tuberculous cattle, have all helped. Segregation and sanitary care of the afflicted must be watched if we would rid all communi- ties of the sequel of consumptive cases, which everyone now knows to be scrofulous gland of the neck, consumption of the intestines, tubercular meningitis, hip joint and spinal diseases-all of which are now rapidly dimin- ishing in every community. There used to be a great dread of periodic outbreaks of diphtheria. Now we have that disease SO well in hand that every suspected SANITARY COMMITTEE 15 case is immediately isolated and treated by antitoxins. The physicians of this commu- nity are very alert. Only one case occurred during the year, though several were suspected and proved to be simple sore throats. The one case was of a child of poor and ignorant persons not far from this town. Dr. Morri- son was called at the last moment and found a most desperately sick and neglected child. He took it at once in his motor to the health officer. The disease was identified and anti- toxin at once given, but the child died within a short time. No other cases occurred. During last winter some cases of small pox occurred near the Canadian Border and through woodsmen two cases were brought to this section, but were identified and isolated and extensive vaccination at once carried out by Mr. Wadleigh, our efficient health officer. No other cases occurred. The typhoid problem has always been the dread of summer colonies. Its control has been SO admirable for some years past that one rarely hears of an epidemic now. It is twenty-five or thirty years since any number were known here, though a dozen years ago several chauffeurs were afflicted, all eating at a restaurant on West street. 16 SANITARY COMMITTEE The cause was found to be a broken drain and a contaminated drinking water supply for that house. It was quickly remedied. Every year however a few cases drift into our hospitals from nearby towns or islands where the travelling vessels, or visitors, bring infection from outside. All cases are followed to their source and rigid correction affected. The past year has seen one series of six cases last fall-which were three on one farm in a distant town on this island, followed by three scattered ones in Bar Harbor outskirts. Quick recognition and a visit from the State Health Inspector from Augusta, with the co-operation of our own people, showed this case. A man who had had typhoid several years ago in the army, set up a little farm, in a poor way, and supplied milk to three or four families to eke out his living. His sanitary conditions were bad and he proved to be what is known as a "carrier" of typhoid-though apparently in good health. His outhouse was near his well and his well water on examination by the state patholo- gist was found unfit for drink. Heavy rain had flooded the farm more than usual and SANITARY COMMITTEE 17 his use of unboiled well water in the milk bottles was the source of the series of his cases. The well was condemned and he was for- bidden to serve milk hereafter, SO that he gave that up-and his well being cleaned and other sanitary measures installed, a later examination of the well water was pronounced all right. It is impossible to eliminate all "carriers" of this disease from any community, except by death, as far as science has shown. But the rapid decrease in the disease, and almost complete miracle of its elimination from the army and from communities by the simple and safe expedient of antityphon innocula- tions has reduced the carriers to a negligible quantity. One case has recently been sent to our hos- pital from Seal Harbor, but no others have occurred and it is probable that this patient is what is known as a sporadic case and that she has harbored the germs for weeks, until a slight inflammation or cold of the intestines lighted up the typhoid germ. This is a fair inference because she had been a resident of Seal Harbor for nine weeks and no other cases have occurred. 18 SANITARY COMMITTEE Authorities on typhoid have agreed that while the latent period of infection is two or three weeks there are occasional cases show- ing sickness after two or three months occur- ing subsequent to exposure. It is comforting to know that a quick anti- typhoid innoculation, even after the disease shows, reduces the severity and danger of the disease to the patient. It is practically true that the very few cases occurring here in recent years are imported, and annually growing less. A recent discussion of the sanitary con- dition of the Island with many of the physi- cians reassures me that they were never better. The time has never been as propitious for developing a spotless town, salubrious and beautiful. The united watchcare of all citizens as well as the doctors will insure a greater future for Bar Harbor. The community is more wide awake than ever and receptive of all ideas of improve- ment. For the Committee on Health, ROBERT ABBE, M. D., Chairman. ROADSIDE COMMITTEE 19 Report of the Roadsides Committee The roadsides have been kept in very good condition by the Town SO there has been little work for your Committee to do. The ques- tion of the large advertising signs which have been erected on the roadsides in certain places has been taken up with the head Selectman, but as these signs are erected on private property, and the companies advertised on them pay the owners of the land large rents, there seems to be no way for us to do away with them. On the Breakneck Road there is an unsightly spot which appears to have been used as a public dump. This has been brought to the attention of the proper au- thorities and they have promised to remedy it. HARRIET V. C. OGDEN, Chairman. 20 VILLAGE GREEN COMMITTEE Report of the Village Green Committee The general appearance of the Green is very attractive this season, due greatly to the floods of rain, SO beneficial to trees, shrub- bery and grass, but upon close investigation one can find much to be desired in the way of improvements and repairs. Notably the grass is very much worn away, caused by the constant moving of benches to positions under the trees, the result of which is of course the entire wearing away of the grass down to the bare earth in a short time. This is, of course, inevitable in a public garden where the rule against the removal of benches is totally disregarded. Some of the narrow paths have been worn down to the rock bed, all gravel having disappeared. The Care- taker gives four hours each day, from 7 a. m. to 11 a. m., and endeavors to keep the Green looking as it should,-cared for and attrac- tive, picking up (as advised by your chairman) as soon as he begins work, every scrap of paper. The seat around the Old Tree has VILLAGE GREEN COMMITTEE 21 been thoroughly repaired, but many of the benches have been broken, and all need re- painting. The bare places in the grass, al- luded to above, should be spaded up as early in the spring as possible and seeded; but the labor would of course be expensive and must be left to the discretion of our Treasurer. The employment of a Caretaker was formerly about $22.00 per month for the four hours each day. As it is now about $39.00 for four weeks, of course the expense is nearly double and with the spring improvements and other incidental expenses your Chairman feels ob- liged to ask for the sum of $350.00 for the ex- pense of keeping up the Green next season from May 1st to Nov. 1st-six months. Respectfully submitted, EMILY L. HARRISON, Chairman. 22 MILK COMMITTEE Report of Milk Committee Your Committee reports that the condi- tions surrounding the approved dairies con- tinue to improve. This fact is evidenced by the general appearance of the barns and milk rooms and also the lowering of the average bacterial content of the milk. The amount of butter fat averages over 4 per cent and we have found absolutely no evidence of adulteration. There are still a number of dairymen who apparently do not desire to be placed on the approved list, as they resent any attempt on the part of the Committee to regulate con- ditions. Some have discontinued the pro- duction of milk. Some few of the summer residents purchase from men not on the approved list; apparently for the reason that they can purchase such milk for a few cents per quart less than the regular price: There has been some objec- tion made to the market price of milk at Bar Harbor. Taking everything into considera- MILK COMMITTEE 23 tion, local prices compare very favorably with the rates in our large cities-the milk is much higher in butter fat. In some places the legal limit is as low as 3 per cent, in others 3.5 per cent. So far this season there have been no cases of infectious diseases which could be traced either directly, or indirectly, to the milk supply. Last year your Committee failed to make other than a verbal report; no expenditures were made excepting an item of $11.00 for automobile hire, Dr. Gildersleeve refusing under existing conditions to make any charge for laboratory examinations. This left a bal- ance of the old fund on deposit with the Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. of $0.09. So far this season no bills have been con- tracted, the inspection trips having been made in automobiles belonging to members of the Committee. D. H. MORRIS, Chairman. 24 GLEN MARY PARK COMMITTEE Report of Glen Mary Park Committee The Park is slowly being improved and gradually getting into a better condition. While Dr. Thorndike was here he kindly had the water in the Pool drawn off in order to prevent the mosquitoes from becoming a danger and a nuisance under all circum- stances. The four benches, which were badly broken, have been thoroughly repaired. One of the neighbors has proposed to plant some lilacs and other shrubbery on one side of the Park facing her house, which offer was most gratefully received and it is hoped that other neighbors will take a similar interest, and influence children to take care of the beauti- ful playgrounds and not break or destroy the trees and any blooming shrubs. The great need, however, for the welfare of this natural Park is a Caretaker, who will give three hours every day to watch over the interests of the Park and do as much work in clearing up the unattracitve weeds, while preserving as much of the wild and beautiful GLEN MARY PARK COMMITTEE 25 shrubbery as possible. Two strong electric lights are very much needed and it is to be hoped that these may be given to the Park by the town as undoubtedly the use and pleasure of this Natural Park is much enjoyed by the young people, particularly of Bar Harbor. Respectfully submitted, EMILY L. HARRISON, Chairman, pro tem. 26 WOODBURY PARK COMMITTEE Report of Woodbury Park Committee Woodbury Park has been neglected of late years and much needs to be done to make it a place of real beauty. The need of food production during the war made it advisable to lend much of the land for gardens. Four men grew about forty bushels of potatoes last summer-a year's supply for their families-and the yield this year has been greater. A new sign, stating that the Village Im- provement Association has lent the land for the War Gardens, has been placed in the park to explain the presence there of corn and po- tatoes, the result in food being enough to warrant this sacrifice in beauty while present conditions last. Mrs. Hinckle has given large and com- fortable benches which have been placed under the trees this year, and the paths have had a much needed hoeing and raking. When the food consideration is no longer pressing, we hope that tree planting may take the WOODBURY PARK COMMITTEE 27 place of the vegetable gardens and that the Park may be made a beautiful connecting link between the village and the mountain walks. C.B. ROWELL, Chairman. Financial Statement To making Sign $15.00 To putting Paths in order 80.00 $95.00 28 SURVEY OF TOWN COMMITTEE Report of Committee on Survey of Town Your Committee on Suggestions for Im- provements begs to report that since the last meeting of the Village Improvement Association, 250 invitations were sent to residents of Bar Harbor asking them to be- come associate members, and 40 people have accepted. We would also report that on the afternoon of September 9th a small exhibition of photo- graphs of Bar Harbor was held at the Y. W. C. A., which generously gave the use of its rooms for the occasion. The exhibition was attended by more than sixty people, all of whom expressed much interest in the photo- graphs and the suggestions for improvement. In the evening an informal talk was given by the President, Dr. Schauffler, and by the Chairman of your Committee, who tried to show the many advantages to be gained by well considered planning for beautification. Mrs. Farrand showed some well-chosen slides and gave a talk on town planning. Over a SURVEY OF TOWN COMMITTEE 29 hundred people were in the audience and all were most appreciative and interested. As a result of the exhibition two of the summer residents have suggested that they will be willing to erect the archway to The Field, provided satisfactory estimates can be ob- tained as well as the consent of the property owners. Letters have been received from some of the influential residents and property owners expressing their interest and willingness to co-operate with the suggestions made by your Committee. The Committee feels greatly pleased at the success of the exhibition and hopes that the interest SO generously shown will bear fruit by next season. The following books and monographs have been presented to the Library, as directed at a former meeting of the Village Improve- ment Association: SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE, July 1912, containing views of residential towns and English city and village material. FOREST HILLS GARDENS-3 reports and a pamphlet, "A Forward Movement in Suburban Development." BOSTON DWELLING HOUSE Co.-Descriptive booklet of Woodbourne, 30 SURVEY OF TOWN COMMITTEE CHARLES S. BIRD-Town Planning for Small Communities. THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW-April 1917. THE HOUSING PROBLEM IN WAR AND PEACE- A publication of the American Institute of Architects. PARRIS T. FARWELL-Village Improvement, 1913. The Chairman begs to acknowledge the gift of $25.00 kindly sent by Mrs. John Har- rison, to be used in some definite way, and to be placed in our general fund until used by the Committee. The expense of your Committee isas follows: Professional services, Beatrix Farrand $150.00 George R. King, photographs, en- largements and 20 lantern slides. 79.50 Solar print enlargements 10.00 M. Goldberg, mounting 18.50 Horace McFarland Co., lantern slides. 23.28 Office expenses, including carting, carriage hire, telegrams, type- writing, bookkeeping, sundries, etc 30.00 Draftsman's time making map and coloring drawings 150.00 Books, pamphlets, etc 10.00 $471.28 SURVEY OF TOWN COMMITTEE 31 We would further report that we propose to print a few short articles in the Bar Harbor TIMES, with the kind permission of the editor, and that we hope to place the drawings and photographs, with further additional pictures, on exhibition for a week some time during the winter or early spring at some convenient and conspicuous place, when it will be pos- sible for more of the residents to see the vari- ous suggestions. We would also report that we hope to re- peat and enlarge the exhibition next summer as well as to have another lecture. We would respectfully ask that the balance of our appropriation be left in the hands of the Committee with permission to use the remaining sum as may seem best. Would the Committee be considered too greedy if it should ask that, in case of emergency, it be empowered to call upon the Treasurer for a further sum of $250.00, should its expendi- ture be considered advisable for some specific object in furthering the work? The Com- mittee hopes not to draw upon this fund, but would like to know that in case of need it might have a further sum to make use of. Respectfully submitted, C.S. BAKER, Chairman. 32 ROADS AND PATHS COMMITTEE Report of Roads and Paths Committee During the season of 1918 the Committee begs to report that under the Supervision of Mr. Andrew Liscomb work was maintained on the paths from May 1st until the end of September,-the trails were cleared of all obstruction caused by fallen trees and brush and kept in as good order as was possible under the almost unprecedented rainfall, al- though some of the favored walks on the Fawn Pond tract in the vicinity of the Witch Hole and Half Moon Pond were rendered im- passable, and these apparently require some little change and improvement which the Committee will probably consider later. Under the Committee's direction some 200 pointers or arrows were installed; 56 new signs erected, and 50 stained and re-lettered. The walks on Newport Mountain, indicated by different colored signs, were all repainted, and such repairs carried out as were necessary. 177 stone steps were constructed on the North Ridge path of Green Mountain, a new foot ROADS AND PATHS COMMITTEE 33 rail made for the Ladder path down Dry, about 150 feet of corduroy bridges built and all iron railings and ladders down and along Cliff, Ladder and Beehive trails carefully inspected and painted. The Kane Memorial Path during the Summer was connected with the Canon Brook trail and the one leading in the direction of Otter Creek and the Pot Hole path, thus making the path system in that locality a complete and satisfactory one. It has been suggested that other connec- tions may be advantageously carried out, including the extension of the Gorge Path from its present termination between Green and Dry Mountains until this also joins the Canon Brook trail-while others have recom- mended a trail bordering Bubble Pond on the east side, and ascending Green to join the South Ridge path, the present approach to this Mountain by way of Dyke's Peak not being a popular one. The Paths Committee, however, with the exception of the paths in the Fawn Pond tract, has worked during the past under the tacit, and often the generously expressed, consent of the owners. The same condition now exists with regard to the National Park Reser- vation-No doubt in the future the Govern- 34 ROADS AND PATHS COMMITTEE ment will provide funds, we are informed, to undertake path construction, but this is hardly likely for some years to come. All work, therefore, that can be done by this Associa- tion, will be most welcome, it is found, but after some consultation with the Govern- ment's representative, before any new trails are considered, that all may be worked out in accordance with some general plan. No extensive new work during the past season was undertaken by the Committee except one privately donated memorial path; but during the ensuing Summer various mem- bers of the Committee will be assigned a cer- tain number of trails to visit and report upon to our Superintendent, Mr. Liscomb, and in this way probably a more personal interest in the trails may be established. An inspection of the roads would indicate that their general condition was fair. Some have been extensively repaired and during the Fall work was commenced in the vicinity of Eagle Lake where the traffic is always heavy owing to the cartage of ice. This much needed improvement will be greatly appreciated by the public. The presence, however, of slash and dry branches left in the woods near the roads after the cutting of trees, is a source of ROADS AND PATHS COMMITTEE 35 considerable danger owing to fire, and apart from its unsightliness it is a constant menace. Your Committee is doubtful what policy to pursue in regard to its removal by the town, but this matter will be taken up with the authorities at the proper time. It was decided by the Committee, at a meet- ing held in the late Fall, to order and have prepared a map of the entire Island of Mount Desert drawn on a scale of 3 inches to the mile, that all the trails with the roads should be more clearly defined, and to also enable the distances from one point to another to be accurately determined. The object of the Paths Committee in this enlargement is to possess a better and clearer map of the entire trail system, and by photographing separately each one of the four districts of Bar, Seal, Northeast and Southwest Harbors to furnish copies to those who may desire them. With an accurate map containing all the more re- cently constructed trails, particularly those in the Southwest Harbor District over the Eastern and Western Mountains and neigh- boring districts, it will certainly give a better opportunity and incentive to many in follow- ing the trails and thus enjoy the unrivalled views over sea and land that can be obtained 36 ROADS AND PATHS COMMITTEE perhaps in no other place to greater advantage than from the Island of Mount Desert. The completed map will contain small circles in different localities, each being numbered. These numbers will be identical with the marking on a sign or guide post erected in that neigh- borhood, SO that a comparison with the map will not only easily determine one's position, but also be useful in directing and establish- ing the locality where certain repairs or im- provements in the trails are required. It is hoped that the work on this map may be en- tirely completed during the coming summer and will serve its useful purpose to those for whose benefit it is undertaken. In conclusion the Committee desires to express its thanks and appreciation to Miss Opdycke for her valuable co-operation and assistance during the past season and her conscientious work of inspecting and reporting on the roads and paths. All of which is respectfully submitted, FREDERIC DELANO WEEKES, Chairman. EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS 37 EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS (By-Laws, Article 2, Section 4) Bird, Mr. Walter L., Health Officer Brewer, Mr. Orient, Building Inspector Brewer, Mr. Orient, Road Commissioner Butterfield, Mr. John H., Road Commissioner Copp, Mr. H. C., Selectman Eno, Mr. Henry Lane, Selectman Fabbri, Mr. Ernesto G., Selectman Hagerthy, Dr. George R. Higgins, Dr. R. G. Lawford, Mr. Henry A., Selectman Leland, Mr. E. R., Selectman MacDonald, Rev. A. M. McGouldrick, Mr. Frank E., Supt. of Schools Morrison, Dr. C. C. Morrison, Dr. E. J. O'Brien, Rev. James D. Paine, Mr. Charles F., Town Treasurer Patten, Dr. J. H. Phillips, Dr. George A. Preble, Mr. John K., Road Commissioner Sherman, Mr. W. H., Town Clerk 38 EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS 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 Wakefield, Dr. R. W. Whitaker, Mr. E. K., Selectman Young, Mr. B. H., Selectman LIFE MEMBERS 39 LIFE MEMBERS Givers of $25 in one sum, $10 annually for three years, or $5 annually 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. Bridgham, Mrs. S. W. Brooks, Mr. H. Mortimer Burrill, Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Carnegie, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carpenter, Miss Agnes Cassatt, Mrs. A. J. 40 LIFE MEMBERS Clark, Mrs. Anna M. Chew, Mrs. Benj. Coats, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. 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. De Witt 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 Gray, Mrs. H. W. Green, Mr. William L. Griswold, Mrs. F. G. Gurnee, Mr. A. C. Gurnee, Mrs. W. S. Hale, Mr. Richard W. LIFE MEMBERS 41 Harrison, Mrs. Charles C. Harrison, Hon. and Mrs. F. B Harrison, Mrs. John 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. 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. McCagg, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. 42 LIFE MEMBERS McCormick, Mrs. R. H. Manning, Miss A. F. Markoe, Mrs. John May, Mrs. J. Frederick Minct, 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. 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 43 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. Jchn S. Thompson, Mrs. George L. Thorndike, Dr. and Mrs. Augustus Townsend, Mrs. R. H. Trevor, Miss Emily Trevor, Mrs. John B. Tucker, Mrs. Alanson Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt, Mrs. George W. Walcott, Mrs. F. C. Weekes, Mr. Frederic Delano 44 LIFE MEMBERS Winthrop, Miss Marie Wright, Mrs. C. K. Young, Mrs. Murray DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES 45 Dues and General Donations Previously reported $ 250.00 Abbe, Dr. and Mrs. Robert 25.00 Anson, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred 25.00 Bass, Mr. J. P. 5.00 Bass., Mrs. E. W. 5.00 Bowdoin, Miss Edith G. 25.00 Bowen, Mrs. Joseph T. 5.00 Bridgham, Mrs. S. W. 10.00 Burnham, Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. 5.00 Carpenter, Mrs. Miles B. 10.00 Chapman, Mrs. Henry C. 5.00 Clark, Mr. and Mrs. William B 10.00 Coles, Miss Mary Roberts 10.00 Crafts, Miss Elizabeth 10.00 Cushman, Mrs. E. C. 3.00 Cuyler, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas DeW. 50.00 Davis, Mrs. A. J 10.00 Derby, Mrs. Haskett 5.00 Du Bois, Mr. Willis G. 5.00 Ellinger, Mr. Ludwig 10.00 Endicott, Mrs. W. C. 10.00 Fabbri, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. 10.00 46 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES Farrand, Mrs. Max 10.00 Flake, Mrs. Albert 1.00 Gurnee, Mr. A. C 25.00 Guthrie, Mrs. George 5.00 Hadden, Miss Anna E 5.00 Hale, Mrs. Chandler 5.00 Harrison, Mrs. John 10.00 Hastings, Miss Edith N 3.00 Hinkle, Mrs. A. Howard 10.00 Hoffman, Miss Mary U 10.00 Hoyt, Mrs. Henry M 5.00 Hunt, Mrs. Platt 5.00 Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Howe 10.00 Jones, Mrs. Cadwalader 5.00 Jordan, Mrs. Eben 5.00 Kane, Mrs. John I 25.00 Kast, Dr. Ludwig 10.00 Keim, Mrs. George deB. 5.00 Kellogg, Mr. and Mrs. F. Leonard 5.00 Kennedy, Mrs. John S. 25.00 Ladd, Mr. and Mrs. Walter G 25.00 Leeds, Mr. and Mrs. Warner M. 25.00 Linzee, Miss Elizabeth 5.00 Manning, Miss Abby 5.00 McClinthun, Mr. W. A 5.00 McDonald, Mrs. C. Eric J 10.00 Norcross, Mr. and Mrs. Otis 5.00 Opdycke, Mrs. Emerson 5.00 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES 47 Opdycke, Mrs. L. E. 5.00 Ostrander, Mrs. Charles 5.00 Parsons, Mrs. Herbert 10.00 Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. Albert 3.00 Phelps, Miss Eleanor 5.00 Phelps, Mrs. Sheffield 10.00 Porter, Mrs. John Biddle 3.00 Rice, Mrs. W. B. 10.00 Robbins, Mrs. George A 10.00 Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. John S. 5.00 Ryle, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur 10.00 Schauffler, Dr. and Mrs. A. F. 10.00 Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar 25.00 Selfridge, Mr. and Mrs. G. L 5.00 Smith, Mrs. C. Morton 25.00 Smith, Dr. and Mrs. F. Fremont 5.00 Spence, Miss Clara B. 100.00 Stevens, Miss Julia C. 5.00 Taylor, Mrs. W. A 25.00 Tucker, Mrs. Alanson 25.00 Washington, Mrs. W. H 1.00 Wells, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver J 5.00 Weld, Mrs. C. Minot 5.00 Wheeler, Mrs. Susan 10.00 Dues and General Donations $1,119.00 48 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES Special Donations Previously reported $ 25.00 Gifford, Mr. S. T., for paths 5.00 Williams, Lt. Col. Wm., for paths 25.00 Special Donations $ 52.00 Total Dues and Donations $1,174.00 Additional Receipts Since Sept. 12, 1918 Dues and General Donations Auchincloss, Mrs. J. W $ 10.00 Bates, Mr. and Mrs. S. W 5.00 Coles, Mrs. Edward 10.00 King, Mr. David James 10.00 Lorillard, Mrs. Pierre 10.00 Luquer, Mrs. Lea McI. 10.00 Markoe, Mrs. John 10.00 Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Dave H 10.00 Ogden, Miss Harriet V. C. 5.00 Polk, Mrs. William K 5.00 Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. George S. 5.00 Rowell, Mr. and Mrs. Frank 5.00 Sherman, Mrs. Gardiner 10.00 $105.00 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES 49 Special Donations Brigham, Mrs. Clifford, for Brigham Memorial Park $131.70 Weekes, Mr. Frederic Delano, for paths 25.00 Total additional receipts $261.70 50 IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM REV. ADOLPH FREDERICK SCHAUFFLER, D.D. 1846-1919 The officers and members of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association de- sire to place on record their high apprecia- tion of the worth and merit of their late Presi- dent, Rev. Adolph Frederick Schauffler, D. D., who died at his residence in New York City on February 18th, 1919, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. The death of Dr. Schauffler is deeply felt and causes great sorrow to all those as- sociated with him in the work of this Associa- tion where he has faithfully and conscientiously performed the various duties of his office and shown every energy and zeal in furthering the objects for which the Association was formed. His life was useful and honorable and his death a calamity to all who knew him and especially to those who for many years have recognized his great service in church and missionary work and his untiring labors for the benefit of those whom he served and saved. RESOLVED, That the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, by reason of the IN MEMORIAM 51 death of Dr. Schauffler has suffered a great and irreparable loss and desires not only to express its sincere sorrow but to also bear testimony to his high character and the value and importance of his advice and counsel in every work connected with the advancement of our community where he SO willingly de- voted his best efforts and where he has left a record that will not be forgotten. By order of the Board, H. M. CONNERS, Secretary. 52 CHARTER 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 Godwin, 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- CHARTER 53 ing and maintaining public improvements 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. 54 BY-LAWS 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. BY-LAWS 55 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. -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, 56 BY-LAWS 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. BY-LAWS 57 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. 58 BY-LAWS No. 6. -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 donations 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. BY-LAWS 59 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- 60 BY-LAWS 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. -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. 0-AMENDMENTS. These By-Laws as a whole, or any part thereof, may be repealed or amended by a BY-LAWS 61 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. Bar Harbor Historical Society L129 From Find C, Lynoon to co.