Secretary's copy Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association FOR THE YEAR ENDING September 14, 1916 Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association FOR THE YEAR ENDING September 14, 1916 OFFICERS FOR 1916-1917 PRESIDENT L.B. Deasy VICE PRESIDENTS Rt. Rev. William Lawrence Dr. A. F. Schauffler 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 M M D M 4 COMMITTEES GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE Miss Juliette Nickerson ROADSIDE COMMITTEE Mrs. John Markoe, Chairman George B. Dorr Mrs. John C. Livingston Mrs. John Harrison Miss Harriet V. Ogden Mrs. John S. Kennedy L. A. Austin Henry Lane Eno 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 ROADS AND PATHS COMMITTEE Dr. J. Madison Taylor Miss Mary R. Coles Miss Carpenter Albion P. Alley George B. Dorr Miss Eloise Derby Howard O. Sturgis Mrs. W. P. Draper L. E. Opdycke Mrs. Walter Damrosch Andrew E. Liscomb Richard W. Hale Miss Alice Bowler COMMITTEES 5 GLEN MARY PARK COMMITTEE Dr. Augustus Thorndike, Chairman George B. Dorr Mrs. John Harrison MILK COMMITTEE Dave Hennen Morris, Chairman Dr. Robert Abbe Dr. Nathaniel Gildersleeve Dr. C. C. Morrison Dr. R. W. Wakefield SPECIAL COMMITTEE WOODBURY PARK COMMITTEE A. C. Gurnee, Chairman L. A. Austin F. C. Lynam 6 TREASURER'S REPORT TREASURER'S REPORT Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association For the fiscal year ending September 14, 1916. RECEIPTS Dues and General Donations $1304.00 Special Donations: For Paths, Mrs. John I. Kane 155.27 Mr. Richard W. Hale 25.00 Mr. Rudolph E. Brunnow 26.52 Mrs. Wm. P. Draper 25.00 Miss Agnes Carpenter 50.00 Mr. F. Delano Weekes. 25.00 Mr. A. C. Gurnee 50.00 Miss Dorothy Sturges 25.00 Mr. A. P. Alley 5.00 Mr. Samuel T. Gilford.. 5.00 For Work on Ocean Drive: Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen. 50.00 Total Dues and Donations $1745.79 Mary F. Higgins Estate Trust Fund. 400.00 Interest on $2,000 Investment 73.68 Interest on $5,000 Investment 250.00 Interest on Bank Account 44.56 From Sale of Path Guides 10.00 $2524.03 Balance on hand Sept. 10, 1915 2141.50 $4665.53 TREASURER'S REPORT 7 PAYMENTS Roads and Paths Committee: General Paths $ 514.47 Beehive Path 3.00 Village Green Committee 275.15 Roadside Committee 67.12 Village Committee 528.65 Mary F. Higgins Trust Fund 9.80 Printing and Postage 85.60 Secretary's Salary 50.00 Canvassing, 1916 36.00 Miscellaneous 2.00 Investment of Mary F. Higgins Es- tate Trust Fund 400.00 1971.79 Balance on hand Sept. 14, 1916 $2693.74 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 inter- est $1,700. FRED C. LYNAM, Treasurer. 8 VILLAGE COMMITTEE Report of the Village Committee The work of this Committee started the last week in May when a man employed by us prepared the Churchyard as usual for Memorial Day. Another man began work early in July, and these two have since then trimmed the borders of all the streets and roads in the town, picked up papers, etc., once a week, going out as far as Mrs. Coles' Avenue on Main street, and to the further Highbrook Road on Eden street in the opposite direction. Six members of the Committee arranged to oversee the work of the men in special divisions of the district and to report to them upon any untidy places noticed in this section or in more distant parts of the town. The members of the Committee have done this as well as they could, but we feel sure that some untidy places escape our notice and we would be grateful if all the members of the Village Improvement Association would bear this in mind, and either speak to the men (who may now be known by their white canvas caps, on which are marked in green the letters VILLAGE COMMITTEE 9 V.I.A.) or notify our chairman of any places which should be improved or cleaned up. Our former chairman, Miss Norris, in her last report called attention to the fact that it was not good business for us to engage two men to pick up papers and rubbish if there was any way of preventing these from being thrown around the streets in the first place. We, therefore, wrote to Boston for Chapter 40 of the Revised Ordinances there, and in Section 41 found what seemed to us an excellent example of the kind of ordinance we should like to see passed for Bar Harbor. With the sanction of the whole association given us at our August meeting and with the approval of the Chief of Police, who felt it would be possible to enforce it if it should become law, we brought it to the attention of Mr. Emery, the chairman of the Selectmen. He was immediately interested, brought it before the next meeting of the Select- men and it is hoped that such an ordinance will be passed at the next Town Meeting. We also brought to the attention of Mr. Whitmore, chairman of the Superintending School Committee, the work of the Women's Municipal League in Boston in interesting the children in the Public Schools there in keeping the streets and alleys clean and neat. This 10 VILLAGE COMMITTEE cannot be done here in just the same way, but with certain changes adapted to the circum- stances Mr. Whitmore seemed to feel it might be a help in arousing the interest of the future citizens of the town in "better house-keeping" for Bar Harbor, and in an appreciation of the importance of this in the future growth of the place. We are again grateful to John W. Silk who kindly stored the water pipes, tools, etc., free of charge during the winter and to John H. Stalford for ivy and geraniums growing in the church yard. Six new barrels for waste paper and rubbish have been bought and the amount expended in all by this Committee from September 10, 1915, to September 7, 1916, was $528.65. ROADS AND PATHS COMMITTEE 11 Report of Roads and Paths Committee The work of your Committee during the past year has been almost entirely confined to keep- ing the existing paths in order and putting up new signs. The only new path that was built is the one on the steep southern face of the Bee- hive, the cost of which was defrayed by the joint contributions of Mrs. Draper, Miss Car- penter, Mr. Hale, and your Chairman. I may add that the system of Memorial Paths con- structed by Mr. Dorr on Dry and Pickett Mountains has been enriched by the Emery Memorial Path, the gift of Mrs. Alfred Anson, leading from the Sieur de Monts Spring to the Crag above, where it connects with Kurt Diederich's Climb and the Homans Path. Our expenditure since my last report amounts to $366.05, and the balance to our credit is $114.15. Miss Carpenter and Mr. Weekes each contributed $25, SO that the amount ap- propriated by the Finance Committee is $430.20. On Wednesday, August 30th, the annual meeting of the four Paths Committees of the 12 ROADS AND PATHS COMMITTEE Island was held at Jordan Pond House. It was well attended, and a number of important questions were discussed. Our share in the printing of the Path Guide was $46.90, of which $30 was covered by a special appropriation last year. 128 copies have been sold, yielding a net return of $25.60, or $8.70 more than is needed to make up the deficit. RUDOLPH E. BRUNNOW, Chairman. September 14, 1916. ROADSIDE COMMITTEE 13 Report of Roadside Committee The Roadside Committee has comparatively little to report. The town cleared away the overhanging branches SO your committee was relieved of that work. Thanks to Mrs. Bowen's generosity the Ocean Drive was cleared last fall of the brush and small growth which shut out the views of the water. A very dangerous point in the Schooner Head Road, opposite Mr. Satterlee's land, was SO cleared as to prevent the danger of collision between motor cars coming from opposite directions. The worst feature of our roadsides is the scars made by the road makers in scraping out fill from the banks, leaving the roots of the trees SO exposed that they soon die. It seems hopeless to impress on the Commissioners what mischief they are doing. By going in a few feet behind the edging trees they could get the needed fill and not disfigure the drives. Your committee would like to recommend, though it may be outside of their province, that the selectmen should set a speed limit for 14 ROADSIDE COMMITTEE motor cars on our roads, and exact the obser- vance of such a regulation. MATILDA MARKOE, Chairman. VILLAGE GREEN COMMITTEE 15 Report of the Village Green Committee There is but little to report since the 10th of August, the last meeting of the V.I.A. We all remember how beautiful the Green looked owing to the constant rains of the early sum- mer, but at present it does not present the same attractive look, owing to several causes-the dry weather, the inability of the present care- taker to make as good use of the hose and sprinkler as his predecessor, who has resigned owing to ill health, and other causes; but also principally because it is utterly impossible to keep the grass and little protecting hedges in good condition while hundreds of people tramp over both, not only when large meetings are frequently held, but also when the usual visitors walk there every evening. This is, of course, quite discouraging, but as the good purposes of the Green are best carried out by these large attendances, one must sacrifice (be it said with some reluctance) the fair looks of a well preserved park to the "better part"-its influence for good to many and the pleasure and comfort for all. 16 VILLAGE GREEN COMMITTEE Your chairman suggests that an extra amount of a fertilizer should be applied to the ground at the proper time and with greater diligence in the use of the hose, the clippers, etc., it is hoped that by next summer the grass will again be abundant, and the Village Green prove worthy of its name. EMILY L. HARRISON, Chairman. September 14th, 1916. GLEN MARY PARK COMMITTEE 17 Report of Glen Mary Park Committee Upon the completion of Harrison Pond much remained to be done to remove the waste of desolation left after clearing away the cedar trees. Again the Association became indebted to Mrs. John Harrison for grading and very generous planting of trees and grass. Maples, willows, balm of Gilead and poplar trees were planted around the pond and along Waldron road, and a shrubbery of viburnum beside the entrance from Park Road. These withstood their first winter successfully and are well es- tablished. Only a few were cut for hockey sticks, for as soon as the boys discovered that saplings had been planted to beautify the park they were manly enough to undertake that this accident would never be repeated. Notices were posted warning the public not to injure trees. Thanks to the generous contribution of loam, sand and gravel by Mr. Dorr, paths were made and considerable grading was completed in accordance with the plan of park improvements given by Mr. Savage in 1913. Special atten- 18 GLEN MARY PARK COMMITTEE tion was paid this year to the vicinity of the pond. This already presents a pleasing aspect which will become with the growth of your trees more beautiful year by year. The committee intends to place benches in the Park as soon as it can be lighted at night, believing that light is the safest form of protec- tion the public can have. Although the town does not feel that it should provide lighting for the whole park, it has for two years maintained a light on Waldron Road for the benefit of skaters on the pond for which they are most grateful. It is hoped that in the near future the whole park will be lighted every night. Then with benches, paths and lights the people will realize at last that Glen Mary Park is theirs to enjoy and to use. Although the task of enlarging the park has been costly, yet the committee feels that a great town improvement has been accomplish- ed by converting this swamp into Harrison Pond with its beautiful borders of trees and grass land, and they confidently report to the Association that the necessary care of the whole park can be provided by the Association for a moderate sum per annum and that no further expensive improvements are contemplated for the immediate future. GLEN MARY PARK COMMITTEE 19 It would, of course, be desirable to have the formal park entrance opposite Park Road beautified by more planting, to extend unfinished paths, to label native trees with metal plates bearing botanical and popular names and to finish the children's sand garden; but all these things will come in time. In the portion of the park west of Spring street, the wild, steep, wooded hillside, there is a miniature mountain trail which continues daily to charm the little children who trudge merrily up and down imagining it a real moun- tain climb. For the Committee, AUGUSTUS THORNDIKE. 20 EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS (By-Laws, Article 2, Section 4) Berry, Mr. George F., Selectman Bird, Mr. Walter L., Health Officer Butterfield, Mr. John H., Road Commissioner Carter, Mr. L. P., Road Commissioner Dorr, Mr. George B., Selectman Emery, Mr. Julien, Selectman Fabbri, Mr. Ernesto G., Selectman Green, Mr. Charles S., Selectman Guptill, Mr. George H., Building Inspector 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 McClain, Rev. D. S. Morrison, Dr. C. C. Morrison, Dr. E. J. O'Brien, Rev. James D. Paine, Mr. Charles F., Town Treasurer EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS 21 Patten, Dr. J. H. Phillips, Dr. George A. Preble, Mr. John K., Road Commissioner Sherman, Mr. W. H., Town Clerk. 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. 22 LIFE MEMBERS LIFE MEMBERS Givers of $25 in one sum, $10 annually for three years, or $5 annually for seven years (By-Laws, Article 11, Section 3) Abbe, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Anderson, Mrs. Nicholas L. Anson, Mrs. Alfred Auchincloss, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Babcock, Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Banks, Mrs. A. Bleecker Barney, Mrs. A. C. Bass, Col. and Mrs. E. W. Bass, Hon. J. P. Biddle, Miss Christine W. Bowdoin, Miss Edith G. Bowen, Mrs. Joseph T. Bowler, Mrs. Robert B. Brigham, Mrs. S. W. Bridgham, Mr. L. F. Brooks, Mr. H. Mortimer Brunnow, Mr. R. E. Burrill, Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Carnegie, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew LIFE MEMBERS 23 Carpenter, Miss Agnes Carpenter, Mrs. Miles B. Cassatt, Mrs. A. J. Clarke, Miss Anna M. 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. de G. Cuyler, Mr. and Mrs. T. De Witt Davis, Mrs. A. H. Dehon, Miss M. H. Derby, Mrs. Hasket Dimock, Mrs. H. F. Dodge, Mrs. George E. Dorr, Mr. George B. Draper, Mr. George A. Draper, Mr. and Mrs. William P. Duncan, Mr. W. Butler Du Pont, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred I. Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Eno, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Fabbri, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Fahnestock, Mr. Harris C. French, Miss C. L. W. 24 LIFE MEMBERS Gray, Mrs. H. W. Green, Mr. William L. Griswold, Mrs. F. G. Gurnee, Mr. A. C. Gurnee, Miss D. E. Gurnee, Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Hale, Mr. Richard W. Harrison, Mrs. Charles C. Harrison, Hon. and Mrs. F. B. Harrison, Mrs. John Hatfield, Mr. Henry R. Hinkle, Mrs. A. H. Hoffman, Miss Mary U. Howard, Mr. Edgar B. Hubbard, Mrs. T. H. Hunt, Mrs. Platt Ingraham, Hon. George L. Jaques, Mr. Herbert Jesup, Mrs. Morris K. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Jones, Miss Beatrix Jones, Mrs. Cadwalader Kahn, Mr. and Mrs. Otto H. Kane, Mrs. John I. Kennedy, Mrs. John S. Ketterlinus, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. King, Mr. David James Kingsland, Mrs. William M. LIFE MEMBERS 25 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. Johnston Livingston, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Luquer, Mr. and Mrs. Lea McI. McCagg, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Maitland, Mrs. Alexander Manning, Miss A. F. Markoe, Mrs. John May, Mrs. J. Frederick Minot, The Misses Morgan, Miss C. L. Morgan, Mrs. J. P. Morrell, Hon. and 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, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. 26 LIFE MEMBERS Parsons, Mrs. Herbert Peabody, Mrs. A. P. Peabody, Mr. F. H. Pearson, Mrs. Frederick Phelps, Mrs. Austin Place, Mrs. George Platt, Mrs. A. E. Pratt, Mr. John T. Pulitzer, Mrs. Joseph Rhinelander, Miss Serena Rice, Mrs. W. B. Robbins, Mrs. George A. Satterlee, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Savage, Mr. and Mrs. W. Littleton Schauffler, Dr. A. F. Schieffelin, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Schiff, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sears, Miss Helen 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. LIFE MEMBERS 27 Stewart, Mr. W. R. Stokes, Dr. Horace S. Sturges, Miss Sturges, Mrs. Howard O. Thacher, Dr. John S. Thompson, Miss Anne Thompson, Mrs. George L. Thorndike, Dr. and Mrs. Augustus Thorndike, Mrs. G. Quincy 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. F. Delano Winthrop, Miss Marie Wright, Mrs. C. K. Young, Mrs. Murray 28 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES Dues and General Donations Previously reported $ 141.00 Abbe, Dr. and Mrs. Robert 10.00 Addison, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. 5.00 Anderson, Mrs. Nicholas 10.00 Anson, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred 25.00 Baker, Miss C. S. 5.00 Bass, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. 5.00 Bates, Mr. S. W 5.00 Benedict, Mr. James A. 10.00 Bowdoin, Miss Edith G. 25.00 Bowen, Mrs. Joseph T. 10.00 Bowler, Mrs. Robert B. 10.00 Bridgham, Mrs. S. W 10.00 Brunnow, Mr. Rudolph E 10.00 Camac, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Masters.. 5.00 Chapman, Mrs. H. C. 5.00 Coles, Mrs. Edward 10.00 Coles, Miss Mary Roberts 10.00 Cuyler, Mr. Thomas De Witt 50.00 Derby, Mrs. Hasket 5.00 Draper, Mrs. George A 10.00 Draper, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. P. 10.00 Endicott, Mrs. William C. 10.00 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES 29 Eno, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lane 10.00 Farrand, Mr. and Mrs. Max 10.00 Gurnee, Mr. A. C. 50.00 Gurnee, Mr. and Mrs. Walter S 10.00 Harrison, Mrs. John 10.00 Hatfield, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reed. 10.00 Hinkle, Mrs. A. Howard 10.00 Hoffman, Miss Mary U 10.00 Hunt, Mrs. Platt 5.00 Ingraham, Mr. George L 10.00 Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. 10.00 Jones, Mrs. Cadwalader 5.00 Kane, Mrs. John I. 25.00 Kennedy, Mrs. John S 100.00 Ketterlinus, Mrs. J. L. 10.00 Ladd, Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. 25.00 Lawrence, Miss Sarah 5.00 Lawrence, Rt. Rev. William 10.00 Leeds, Mr. and Mrs. Warner M 25.00 Leffingwell, Miss M. M. 3.00 Levi, Mrs. Albert A. 10.00 Linzee, Miss Elizabeth 5.00 Livingston, Mr. and Mrs. John C. 10.00 Livingston, Mr. and Mrs. Philip 10.00 Luquer, Mr. and Mrs. Lea McI 10.00 Markoe, Mrs. John 10.00 Mears, Mrs. Edward B. 5.00 Miller, Miss Maculloch 5.00 30 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES Minot, The Misses 5.00 Mitchell, Dr. James F 5.00 Morrell, Gen. Edward 25.00 Morrill, The Misses 25.00 Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Dave H 10.00 Norcross, Mr. and Mrs. Otis 5.00 Norris, Miss Dorothea C 5.00 Norris, Miss Fanny 5.00 Ogden, Miss Harriet V. C. 5.00 Opdycke, Mrs. Emerson 5.00 Opdycke, Mrs. L. E 5.00 Ostrander, Mrs. Charles F 10.00 Parsons, Mrs. Herbert 10.00 Phelps, Mrs. Austin 5.00 Pulitzer, Mrs. Joseph 25.00 Rice, Mrs. William B. 10.00 Robbins, Mrs. George A 10.00 Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. George S 5.00 Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. John S 10.00 Schauffler, Dr. and Mrs. A. F 25.00 Schiff, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob 25.00 Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar 25.00 Sherman, Mrs. Gardiner 35.00 Simpson, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. 5.00 Simpson, Mrs. Ernest L 5.00 Smith, Mrs. C. Morton 25.00 Spence, Miss Clara B 5.00 Speyer, Mr. and Mrs. James 25.00 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES 31 Stevens, Miss Julia C 5.00 Sturges, Mrs. Howard O 25.00 Thorndike, Dr. and Mrs. Augustus. 25.00 Thorndike, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. 5.00 Tucker, Mrs. Alanson 10.00 Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. Fred'k 25.00 Wells, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver J. 5.00 Wright, Mrs. C. K. 5.00 Young, Mr. and Mrs. A. Murray 25.00 Dues and General Donations $1304.00 Special Donations Previously reported $ 356.79 Alley, Mr. A. P., for paths 5.00 Gifford, Mr. Samuel T., for paths 5.00 Gurnee, Mr. A. C., for paths 50.00 Sturges, Miss Dorothy, for paths 25.00 Special Donations $ 441.79 Total Dues and Donations $1745.79 Additional Receipts since Sept. 14, 1916 Dues and General Donations Addams, Miss Jane $ 5.00 Auchincloss, Mrs. John W 10.00 32 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES Cochran, Miss Mary N 10.00 Fabbri, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. 20.00 Green, Mr. Charles S. 1.00 Kendall, Mr. Lyman B. 20.00 Ladd, Mr. C. C 1.00 Paine, Mr. Charles F 1.00 Smith, Miss Mary Rozet 5.00 Weld, Mrs. C. Minot 5.00 Wood, Mr. Charles H 1.00 $ 79.00 Special Donations Carpenter, Miss Agnes, for paths $ 25.00 Weekes, Mr. F. Delano, for paths 25.00 $ 50.00 Total additional receipts 129.00 CHARTER 33 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 Rep- resentatives 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. Conners, 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 Improvement Association, for the purpose of instituting and maintaining public improvements in the village 34 CHARTER 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 indivi- dual members; and make by-laws not incon- sistent with the law for the regulation of its membership and its government. SEC. 3. The first meeting of this corpora- tion may be called by any of the above asso- ciates, by a notice published two weeks suc- cessively before the time of said meeting in any newspaper published in Bar Harbor. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. BY-LAWS 35 BY-LAWS PREAMBLE. Whereas, it is evident to all who are inter- ested 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 culti- vating trees and doing such other acts as shall tend to beautify, adorn and increase the attrac- tions of the village; therefore we have formed ourselves into an Association and agree to be governed by the following by-laws: No. 1-NAME This Society shall be known as the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. No. 2-MEMBERSHIP SECTION 1. The members of this Associa- tion shall consist of two classes: Annual and Life. SEC. 2. Any person over fourteen years 36 BY-LAWS 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 Thurs- day of September. SEC. 3. The payment of five dollars an- nually for seven years or ten dollars annually 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 In- spector of Buildings of the Town of Eden; the pastors and rectors of all Christian Churches in the village of Bar Harbor, and all physicians licensed to practice in the said village. No. 3-MEETINGS There shall be meetings of the Association held each year on the third Thursday of June and on the second Thursday of July, August and September, of which the September meeting shall be the annual meeting of the Association. BY-LAWS 37 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 Secre- tary. Other meetings of the Association may be called by the President and shall be called on written request of five members of the Asso- ciation. 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 Association shall elect or shall empower the newly elected President to appoint, the chairman and mem- bers of the following Standing Committees: Finance, Village, Grievance, Sanitary, Roads and Paths, Trees and Planting, Village Green and Glen Mary Park. Special Committees may be appointed by a vote of the Association at any time. 38 BY-LAWS No. -DUTIES OF OFFICERS SECTION 1. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Association and in his ab- sence one of the Vice Presidents shall perform the duties of his office. SEC. 2. The Treasurer shall have charge of all money and other property of the Associa- tion, 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 foraudit. 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 Finance 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 Associa- tion, and give notice of all meetings. No. DUTIES OF COMMITTEE FINANCE COMMITTEE. It shall be the BY-LAWS 39 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 surplus of money beyond estimated disbursements, such surplus may be invested in marketable 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 graveyard, etc. GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE. It shall be the duty of this committee, to invite, to receive, to examine into and if possible to secure the remov- al of just grounds for complaints relating to matters connected with the purposes of the Association. In case any complaints received by this committee shall seem to lie within the province of any other committee, they shall at once be brought to the attention of such other committee. COMMITTEE ON TREES AND PLANTING. It shall be the duty of this committee to secure the removal of dead wood and underbrush and 40 BY-LAWS 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 disposal of garbage, sewers, drains, tenement houses and localities generally likely to become sources of injury to contagion, and to report to the Asso- ciation. 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 mountains, 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 the settees, conveyed to this Associa- tion under said deed, and in other ways to im- prove the appearance and attractions of this BY-LAWS 41 Park, and to provide such police regulations 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 bearing 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 personally liable for any contract or debt of the Corpora- tion. 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. 10-AMENDMENTS These By-Laws as a whole, or any part thereof, may be repealed or amended by a vote 42 BY-LAWS of two-thirds of the members present at any regular or official meeting of the Association, 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 preceeding meet- ing, and action thereon. Report of Treasurer. Report of Standing Committees. Report of Special Committees. New Business. Bar_Harbor Historical Society < From Faild C, Lynam & C