Nineteenth AnnualReport of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association For the Year Ending September 8th 1908 1909 Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association for the year ending September 8th 1908 July 1909 Record Print OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 3 OFFICERS FOR 1908-1909. President: Leonard E. Opdycke. Vice-Presidents: L. B. Deasy, John S. Kennedy, Rt. Rev. Wm. Lawrence. Secretary: H. M. Conners. Treasurer: F. C. Lynam. COMMITTEES Finance Committee: L.A. Austin, Chairman, Henry Lane Eno, Fred C.Lynam, J. S. Kennedy, Thomas Searls. Village Committee: Mrs. J. Biddle Porter, Chairman, Miss Sarah Lawrence, Mrs. F. E. Sherman, Miss Juliett Nickerson, Mrs. J. Madison Taylor. Grievance Committee: Miss Juliett Nickerson, Chairman. Trees and Planting Committee: George B. Dorr, Chairman, Miss Mary R. Coles, Miss Beatrix Jones, Mrs. John Harrison, Mrs. John S. Kennedy. Mrs. J. C. Livingtson. 4 OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES Sanitary Committee: Dr. Robert Abbe, Dr. Geo. A. Phillips, Dr. H. D. Averill, Dr. John B. Shober, Dr. G. R. Hagerthy, 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. R. W. Wakefield. Roads and Paths Committee: Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Chairman, Miss Eloise Derby, Herbert Jaques, George B. Dorr, Edward L. Rand, Mrs. Wm. P. Draper, Clarence W. Watson. Village Green Committee: Mrs. John Harrison, Chairman, George B. Dorr, Mrs. L. E. Opdycke, Fred C. Lynam, Mrs. Wm. B. Rice, Miss Fanny Norris, Mrs. F. E. Sherman. COMMITTEES Glen Mary Park Committee: Dr. Robert Amory, Chairman. George B. Dorr, Mrs. John Harrison. Automobile Committee: Hon. E. S. Clark, Chairman, Arthur D. Addison, Hon. J.P. Bass, L. Artell Austin, Fred C. Lynam. ANNUAL REPORT 5 NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT Since the issue of its last report our association has lost from its roll of life members the names of Mr. Waldron Bates, our former president, Mrs. William E. Dodge, Mr. John J. Emery, Mr. John Harrison, Mr. Morris K. Jesup, Mr. Alexander Maitland, and Mr. Alanson Tucker, long known for their interest in Bar Harbor and their generous support of the V.I. A. It was at Mr. Jesup's wise suggestion that our Society was incorporated under the general laws of the State, amended for the purpose, and his was the plan by which we were enabled to lease the neglected and unsightly "town lot," to convert it into a beautiful Village Green and to maintain it as a pleasant resting place for all. The memory of his beneficence, both here and elsewhere, will prove enduring. While perhaps not the originator of our woodland paths and mountain trails, Mr Bates gave to the development of them as a system the time, energy, 6 ANNUAL REPORT care and intelligent love without which our island must have lacked one of its most delightful attractions. Touching proof of his interest in the paths is furnished by his legacy of five thousand dollars,-the first ever received by the Association,-bequeathed in trust for the purpose of securing the maintenance of the work that he had SO much at heart. He was born in Boston, November 26th, 1856; he died, as the result of a railway accident in Virginia, February 9th, 1909. Graduated at Harvard College, he practised law in Boston, but much of his time was spent at Bar Harbor, where, in the words of a near friend, "no face was better known, no voice more familiar than his, for he labored devotedly, unselfishly, vigorously, in his field, for the advancement of this Town and island." Once more we offer our hearty thanks to the Y. M. C. A. for kindly allowing us the use of its reading room as a place of meeting. The Association's work during the last fiscal year is described in the accompanying committee reports. Our work is never finished. Its continuance and growth are essential to the welfare of the place. For the current fiscal year ending September 14th, 1909, the following appropriations have been voted: Village Committee $550 Roads and Paths Committee 350 ANNUAL REPORT 7 Trees and Planting Committee: for general work 150 for Newport Mountain Road 50 Village Green Committee 300 Glen Mary Park Committee 175 It will be remembered that in the summer of 1905 the V.I.A. began a campaign against the introduction of motor vehicles upon the roads of Mount Desert Island. This effort was undertaken not from prejudice against the proper use of such vehicles in proper places, but in the belief that this is no proper place for them, and that their use here would endanger life and property, lessen the attractiveness of the place, and injure the welfare of the community. The soundness of this belief was shown by repeated votes at Town Meeting, and by repeated canvasses of opinion among the summer colony. For four years the town ordinance of 1903, pro- hibiting motor traffic upon certain roads and parts of roads (over which alone Bar Harbor could be reached by land), sufficed to discourage the bringing of automobiles to the island. In the summers of 1907 and 1908, however, a few cars came to Hull's Cove, and were used upon outlying roads where the ordinance did not prohibit them. Several alarming accidents occurred, and the behavior of the motorists was not such as to commend itself either to permanent residents or to summer visitors. 8 ANNUAL REPORT The Town itself having no power to adopt more stringent regulations, a movement was started last autumn among the voters to secure from the Legisla- ture an enactment excluding automobiles from all the roads of such of the four towns on the island as should accept the act. Petitions praying for this law were signed by a very large majority of the voters and by nearly all the cottagers, including the owners of more than three-quarters of all the taxable property in the town. Similar petitions were pre- sented on behalf of the other three towns. After an exhaustive hearing before the joint Judiciary Committee of the Legislature, in which members of the V. I. A. Automobile Committee took an active part, and after long consideration by both houses, an Act was unanimously passed as prayed for, and was signed by the Governor, March 12th, 1909. The text of the new law is as follows: Be it enacted by the people of the State of Maine, as follows: Section 1. No automobile or motor vehicle shall be set up, used, driven or opera- ted in or on any highway, townway, or public street within any of the towns of Eden, Mount Desert, Tremont and Southwest Har- bor, on the Island of Mount Desert, in the County of Hancock, State of Maine. Section 2. Whoever sets up, uses, drives or operates any automobile or motor vehicle ANNUAL REPORT 9 contrary to the provisions of Section 1 here~ of shall on first conviction be punished by a fine of twenty dollars and costs of prosecu- tion, and on second and every subsequent conviction shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars and costs of prosecution or by im- prisonment for not exceeding sixty days or by both fine and imprisonment. Section 3. The words motor vehicle, as herein used, shall not be construed to in- clude steam road rollers used by authority of the Town officers. Section 4. In such of the said towns as shall accept this act at any legal meeting called by a warrant containing an article for that purpose, this Act shall, subject to the provisions of the State constitution thereto applicable, take effect ten days after it shall be SO accepted. Owing to a recent amendment of the state con- stitution, the Act does not become operative, and therefore could not be submitted for acceptance by the four towns, until ninety days after the ad- journment of the Legislature, that is until July 2d, 1909, and if, within that period, there be filed a petition signed by 10,000 voters of the state praying that an act of the Legislature be referred to the people, such act further remains inoperative until ratified by a majority vote at a general or special state election. Petitions have been widely circulated for the purpose of thus suspending the operation of the 10 ANNUAL REPORT automobile exclusion law, but at the present writing it is not believed that they will have received the requisite number of signatures. In case, however, the Act be further suspended until submission to the people, it is confidently hoped that the voters of the State at large, as well as of the four Mount Desert towns, will promptly confirm the action of the Legislature in granting to this community what it so earnestly desires. No visitor to Bar Harbor fails to benefit by the activities of the V. I. A.; all owe it the duty of encouragement and support. To provide funds for its work, it needs and asks for increased contribu- tions from those who enjoy the beauty and are in- terested in the welfare of the place. L.E. Opdycke, President 1908-9. H. M. Conners, Secretary. Postscript: After the foregoing report was put in type, the referendum petition (praying that the automobile exclusion act be submitted to the voters of the state) failed to receive the necessary number of signatures, and the Selectmen of the Town of Eden issued a warrant for a special town meeting to be held July 15th in order that the Act might be sub- mitted for acceptance by the voters of the Town. The other three Towns on the island are to vote on the Act at special meetings to be held on or before July 17th. TREASURER'S REPORT II TREASURER'S REPORT For the Fiscal Year ending September 8, 1908. RECEIPTS Donations and Member's Dues $1,619.00 Special Donations: For Village Committee 20.00 For Trees and Planting Committee 50.00 For Flower Planting Committee 2.31 Profits of Winter Festival 302.37 Total Donations and Dues $1,993.68 Balance on Hand, September 10, 1907. 1,390.99 $3,384.67 PAYMENTS Village Committee $620.04 Trees and Planting Committee: General 150.00 Village Green Planting 200.00 Flower Planting, Sub-Com 15.00 Roads and Paths Committee 354.70 Bicycle Path 50.00 12 TREASURERS REPORT Newport Mountain Road 100.00 Village Green Committee 291.58 Village Green Walk 492.90 Glen Mary Park Committee 221.77 Printing and Postage 81.04 Secretary's Salary 50.00 Canvassing 1906-7, 32.00 Sundries 7.50 $2,666.53 Balance on Hand, September 8, 1908. $718.14 Besides which the Association has on deposit at interest 1,500,00 $2,218.14 FRED C. LYNAM, Treasurer. Accounts examined and found correct. L.A. AUSTIN, Auditor. COMMITTEE REPORTS I3 REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE Your committee regret to report that the Associa- tion's receipts from dues and donations are con- siderably less than for the past two years. Several regular supporters have given nothing this year, and many have reduced the amount of their donations. We have received two gifts of $100. against one gift of $100. last year. Six gifts or $50. each against eight last year. One gift of $35. last year, none of like amount this year. Two gifts of $30. last year, none of like amount this year. Twenty two gifts of $25. each this year, against twenty-nine gifts of $25. last year. Four gifts of $20 each this year, five gifts of the same amount last year. Two gifts of $15. this year, the same last year. Thirty-four gifts of $10. this year against forty-three last year. Thirty-one gifts of $5. each this year against forty- six last year. In smaller amounts $34. this year against $86 last year, making a total of $1689 this year against $2196 last year. 14 COMMITTEE REPORTS The balance to the credit of the Association as will be seen by the Treasurer's statement of Sep- tember 10, 1907 was about $1390. This year it is about $700. It will at once be seen that, unless special effort is made to secure additional contribu- tions, either the appropriations to the different com- mittees will need to be reduced or else the interest bearing fund of $1500. will have to be encroached upon. The same method has been pursued as usual of sending out books for contributions. The Finance Committee believe that a special appeal should at once be made to those of the summer residents who have not already contributed to the Association. We believe that the Finance Com- mittee should receive suggestions or instructions with reference to the soliciting of funds and the making of contributions. L.A. AUSTIN, Chairman of Finance Committee. COMMITTEE REPORTS 15 REPORT OF VILLAGE COMMITTEE The work planned for the summer has been faith- fully carried on under the supervision of Miss Nicker- son. One employee has attended to the shore path as far as Mr. Kennedy's gate and to the picking up of papers, etc., throughout the village, from Cleftstone Road to the Schooner Head Road. Another employee attends to the trimming and cutting of grass along the sidewalks, and to the cemetery. The shore path has been gone over daily, Sundays included, and oftener when necessary. Papers have been gathered along the principal streets every day, and sometimes oftener. The cemetery has been kept in order and watered, extra hours having been given to it during the drought. Along the streets, the grass has been cut, weeds taken out, and the sidewalks trimmed. The principal streets have been gone over twice and three times, and the smaller streets once. This work has been done by a young man trying to pay his way through college. The committee's operations began May 27, and will close September 12. 16 COMMITTEE REPORTS We acknowledge, with thanks, a special gift of $20 from one of the summer colony, to assist the work on the shore path. The appropriation of $600 is insufficient to do the committee's work as both its members and the summer visitors generally would like to have it done. We need three employees for the entire season. We have done our best, and we believe that the results are appreciated and deserve general support. The details of our expenses are as follows.: Wages: two men, 15 weeks $372.00 Helper, 7 weeks 84.00 Extra time 16.00 $472.00 Repairs to Cemetery, wall, etc 26.50 Emptying rubbish barrels 50.00 New barrels, and painting barrels 9.45 Removing grass and rubbish 30.00 Tools 14.00 Sundries 19.00 $620.95 ELIZABETH RUSH PORTER, Chairman. COMMITTEE REPORTS 17 REPORT OF TREES AND PLANTING COMMITTEE. The appropriation of $200 made at the last annual meeting for the planting and the care of trees and plants upon the Village Green has been expended with the exception of $41.32, for which amount a contract has been made covering the fall work upon the Green in caring for its trees and shrubs and adding to its soil where necessary. A few additional trees may be planted with advantage in the spring but these can be planted out of the general planting fund, and no special appropriaton is needed for planting on the Green this coming year. The appropriation of $150 for general planting made at the last annual meeting has been in major part expended upon various work about the Village and outside, and the remainder is contracted for in work laid out to do this fall. Planting in the spring is needed in front of the hospital, as well as the plant- ing referred to on and about the Village Green, and for these and general street planting and the care of trees an appropriation of $200 for the ensuing year will be required. 18 COMMITTEE REPORTS The appropriation of $150 made at the last annual meeting for the repair of the Newport Mountain Roadway and the Bicycle Path is being expended upon them under contract. The Bicycle Path is now used mainly as a walk, and no appropriation need be made for it for the ensuing year. For the Newport Mountain Road, which is much used in driving, an appropriation of $50 is needed for the ensuing year to complete the work now being done upon it, much repair being necessary on its western portion, where it has been washed by rains and not repaired since built. GEO. B. DORR, Chairman. COMMITTEE REPORTS 19 REPORT OF ROADS AND PATHS COM- MITTEE. Substantially all of the paths and trails in the Bar Harbor section, and some of the paths in the Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor sections, have been inspected by the chairman of the committee, and were found to be in good condition, with the exception of the White Path. The bridges on this path are old and orders have been given to rebuild them. Two good men are at work. In the first part of the summer but one man was employed. The men were hired by Andrew E. Liscomb, and were under his general direction. While no new paths have been opened, one has been suggested to run from the top of Green Mountain to the foot of Bubble Pond. $75 of our Fawn Pond appropriation has been deposited in bank to the credit of the special paths account, to be applied to the cost of the inscription to be placed at Fawn Pond. 20 COMMITTEE REPORTS Our appropriation of $400 for general work has not been exhausted because bills for about $50 have not been presented. An appropriation not smaller than that of the past year is suggested for the coming year. WALDRON BATES, Chairman. COMMITTEE REPORTS 21 REPORT OF VILLAGE GREEN COM- MITTEE. While we have had few purchases to make save of pipe, hose, etc., and close the fiscal year with an unexpended balance of $8.42, we have been com- pelled by the drought to spend more than usual for sprinkling the grass. The destruction of the cement seat given by Mr. C. Norris was a cause of great regret, but we are glad to know that it was accidental and not caused by mischevious desire to destroy something both useful and ornamental. The breaking down of the wooden bench around the old tree was occasioned by overcrowding on band nights, as many as twenty men having been seen sitting and standing on it at one time. Mr. Moore kindly made the necessary repairs and put up two signs as a donation to the Green. These signs were requested by the police, to be placed at each end of the long path, forbidding the riding or bringing of bicycles on the Green. More seats are asked for, and it is hoped that they may be provided by friends of the Green. 22 COMMITTEE REPORTS We are sorry to record the continued carelessness, both of children and of adults, in dropping papers, nut shells, etc., and thus occasioning much expenditure of labor and money to keep the Green in decent order. This abuse of what is intended to be a pleasure garden for public enjoyment is especially grievous on band nights, but occurs at other times as well. We urge all who use the Green to exercise a little self-restraint in this matter, and we especially ask parents to teach their children to take a pride in keeping the place neat. Our Committee request an appropriation of $300 for the coming year. EMILY L. HARRISON, Chairman. COMMITTEE REPORTS 23 REPORT OF GLEN MARY PARK COM- MITTEE Your committee report that a wire fence has been placed around the park except upon the line of Spring street. There is a low stone wall along the line of this street which your committee would like to raise to a suitable height with loose stones to be taken from the hillside on the north of this street. A rough shelter built of cedar, shingled on the roof, has been erected at the south-eastern corner of the Park to protect the children who may be caught by showers while playing therein. A level spot of ground has been laid out for a croquet ground, but was seeded with grass SO late this summer that the drought prevented its growth. To prevent the entrance of COWS into the enclosure, we planted two posts at the gateways on Glen Mary Road and on Cedar Avenue; these prevented some of the larger baby-carriages from entering into the Park; consequently we placed a turn-stile at the gate-way on Glen Mary Road, which now allows the wheeling in of these carriages. 24 COMMITTEE REPORTS The Park is used by many children in the day time, and at night by adults. Your committee advise that an arc lamp should be placed in the centre of the Park, only to be lighted during the absence of the moonlight and during absence of rain; this action is recommended on the complaint of neighbors who live around the Park, complaining of unnecessary noise from frequenters during late evening hours on pleasant nights, and as a police measure. Your committee has never had a sufficient sum of money to expend on building convenient paths winding up the hillside on the west side of Spring street. Many would like to pass up this hill, which is now too difficult on account of loose rocks and steep grade; these rocks could be utilized in building the stone wall above mentioned, and at the same time paths could be cleared and facilitate the construction of easy, gradual approach up the hill. Many of the dead limbs ot trees and dead trees have been removed, which has improved the appearance of growth of foliage and brought to view graceful and attractive timber. This work has been done during the autumn season at comparatively low cost, because laborers are willing to clean off scrubby growth for the value of it as firewood. COMMITTEE REPORTS 25 If the plans of the committee are approved by the Association, your committee would like to have an appropriation or $175 for the coming autumn and winter season, when the price of labor is at lower rates than during the summer season, or at least a better class of work can be secured. The pruning and care of the trees was carried out under advice of an expert forester, Mr. Appleton of Bangor. ROBERT AMORY, Chairman. 26 LIFE MEMBERS LIFE MEMBERS. Givers of $25 in one sum, $10 annually for three years, or $5 annually for seven years. (By-Laws, Article I, Sec. 3) Abbe, Dr. and Mrs Robert Laugier-Villars, the Countess Anderson, Mrs. Nicholas L. Leeds, Mrs. M. E. Auchincloss, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Leeds, Mr. and Mrs. Warner Babcock, Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Livingston, Mrs. John C. Banks, Mr. and Mrs. A. Bleecker Livingstone, Mr. Johnston Barney, Mrs. A. C. Longstreth, Dr. Morris Bass, Mrs. E. W. McCagg, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Bass, Hon. J. P. McCormick, Mrs. R. Hall Biddle, Miss Christine W. Maitland, Mrs. Alexander Blair, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Markoe, Mrs. John Bowdoin, Mr. and Mrs. George S. May, Mrs. J. Frederic Bowen, Mrs. Joseph T. Minturn, Mrs. John W. Brigham, Mr. L. F. Mitchell, Dr. and Mrs. Canfield, Mrs. A. Cass Morgan, Miss C. L. Carpenter, Mrs. Miles B. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cassatt, Mrs. A. J. Morrell, Mrs. Edward Clarke, Miss Anna M. Morrill, the Misses Coats, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Newbold, Mr. Clement B. Condon, Mrs Thomas G. Ogden, Mr. David B. Coxe, Mrs. Alexander B. Opdycke, Mrs. Emerson Crafts, Miss Mary E. Opdycke, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Crocker, Mrs. Uriel H. Parsons, Mrs. Herbert Davis, Mrs. Andrew J. Peabody, Mrs. A. P. Dehon, Miss M. H. Peabody, Mr. F. H. Derby, Dr. Hasket Pearson, Mrs. Frederick Dimock, Mrs. H. F. Pendleton, Mr. Edmund LIFE MEMBERS 27 Dorr, Mr. George B. Phelps. Mrs. Austin. Duncan, Mr. W. Butler Place, Mrs. George Emery, Mrs. J. J. Platt, Mrs. A. E. Emmons, Mr. R. W. Price, Mrs. J. M. P. Fahnestock, Mr. Harris C. Pulitzer, Mr. Joseph French, Miss C. L. W. Rice, Mrs. William B. Gurnee, Mr. Augustus C. Robbins, Mrs. George A. Gurnee, Miss Delia E. Schieffelin, Mr. and Mrs. W.J Gurnee, Mr. Walter S. Schiff, Mr. Jacob H. Harrison, Mr. F. B. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. E. Harrison, Mrs. John Sears, Miss Helen Hoffman, Mrs. William B. Sears, Mrs. J.M. How, Mr. Charles T. Seeley, Mrs. W. W. Hubbard, Gen and Mrs. T. H. Shepard, Mrs. Elliott F. Ingraham, Hon. George L. Sherman, Mrs. Gardiner Jackson, Mrs. C. C. Smith Mr. and Mrs. C. Morton Jaques, Mr. Herbert Smith, Miss Josephine Jesup, Mrs. M. K. Stewart, Mr. Wm. R. Jones, Miss Beatrix Thompson, Miss Anne Jones, Mrs. Cadwalader Thorndike, Mrs. G. Quincy Kane, Mr. John Innes Trevor, Mrs. John B., Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Tucker, Mrs. Alanson Kingsland, Mrs. Wm. M. Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. G. 28 EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS. (By-Laws, Article I, Sec. 4) Averill, Dr. H. D. Bunker, Mr. John E., Jr., Selectman. Carter, Mr. Alton E., Selectman. Eddy, Mr. Roscoe A., Inspector of Buildings. Ellingwood, Mr. W. H. S., Superintendent of Schools. Garland, Rev. C.N. Graham, Mr. E. A., Sewer Commissioner. Green, Rev. Stephen H. Hagerthy, Dr. G. R. Hamor, Mr. Millard L., Road Commissioner. Higgins, Mr. Ezra H., Road Commissioner. Higgins, Dr. R. G. MacDonald, Rev. Angus M. McKoy, Rev. Charles F. Madden, Mr. Clarence, Health Officer. Morrison, Dr. C. C. Morrison, Dr. E. J. Morse, Mr. Alden, Health Officer. EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS 24 O'Brien, Rev. James S. Paine, Mr. Charles F., Town Treasurer. Phillips, Dr. George A. Rich, Mr. Gilman N., Health Officer. Sherman, Mr. William H., Town Clerk. Shober, Dr. John B. Smith, Dr. Frank Fremont. Stokes, Dr. Horace S. Suminsby, Mr. John, Selectman. Taylor, Dr. J. Madison. Thorndike, Dr. Augustus. Wakefield, Dr. R. W. 30 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES. Acknowledged in 18th Annual Report $192 Abbe, Dr. and Mrs. Robert 10 Amory, Dr. and Mrs. Robert 10 Anderson, Mrs. Nicholas L 10 Austin, Mr. L. A 1 Bass, Col. and Mrs. Edgar W 10 Bass, Hon. Joseph P 25 Baylies, Mrs. N. E. 2 Beale, Mrs. Harriet Blaine 5 Biddle, Miss Christine W 6 Blair, Mr. and Mrs. D. C 25 Bowdoin, Mr. and Mrs. George S 50 Bowen, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T 10 Bridgham, Mr. and Mrs. S. W 10 Brigham, Mr. Lincoln F 5 Bush, Capt. Thomas J 5 Callender, Miss Mary R 5 Cassatt, Mrs. Alexander J 50 Coles, Mrs. Edward 10 Conrad, Mrs. Thomas K 5 Crocker, Mrs. Uriel H 5 Dabney, Mrs. Walter 1 Davis, Mrs. A. J 10 De Forest, Miss Caroline 5 Derby, Dr. and Mrs. Hasket 5 Draper, Mr. and Mrs. George A 5 Carried forward $477 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES 3I Brought forward $477 Draper, Mrs. William P 5 Duncan, Mr. William Butler 25 Dutilh, Miss Emily 2 Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. J. Pierpont 5 Emery, Mrs. John J 50 Fabbri, Mr. and Mrs. Ernesto G 10 Fahnestock, Mr. Harris C 25 French, Miss Caroline L. W 5 Fry, Mr. Charles 10 Furfey, Dr. J. Austin 2 Gourlie, Miss 1 Gourlie, Miss Elizabeth 1 Gregerson, Miss 1 Gurnee, Mr. Augustus C 25 Gurnee, Mr. and Mrs. Walter S 10 Harrison, Mr. George L 10 Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. John 20 Hewitt, Mrs. Abram R 10 Hinkle, Mr. and Mrs. A. Howard 10 Hobson, Mrs. E. C 5 Hoffman, Mrs 10 Hoffman. Miss Mary U 10 Holt, Mr. Rowland 1 How, Mr. Charles T 25 Hubbard, Gen. and Mrs. Thomas H 25 Huguenin, Miss Sophie 2 Ingraham, Hon. George L 10 Johnson, Mr and Mrs. Francis Howe 10 Carried forward $802 32 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES Brought forward $802 Kane, Mr. and Mrs. John I 25 Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. John S 100 Kingsland, Mrs. William M 20 Larkin, The Misses 2 Laugier-Villars, The Countess 10 Lawrence, Rt. Rev. and Mrs. William 15 Leeds, Mr. and Mrs. Warner M 25 Linzee, Miss Elizabeth 1 Livingston, Mr. and Mrs. John C. 10 Livingston, Mr. Johnston 25 Loeb, Mr. Morris 5 Lynam, Mr. Fred C 1 McCagg, Mr. and Mrs. Louis B 50 Major, Miss Maria T 1 May, Mrs. J. Frederic 10 Minot, The Misses 10 Mitchell, Dr. and Mrs. S. Weir 25 Morrell, Hon. Edward 25 Morrill, The Misses 25 Newbold, Mr. Clement B 25 Norcross, Mr. and Mrs. Otis 5 Opdycke, Mrs. Emerson 10 Opdycke, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. 30 Opdycke, Master and Miss 1 Osgood, Miss Elizabeth 5 Ostrander, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F 5 Parsons, Mrs. Herbert 10 Pearson, Mrs. Frederick 25 Carried forward $1,303 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES 33 Brought forward $1,303 Phelps, Mrs. Austin 5 Platt, Mrs. A. E 5 Potter, Mrs. Robert B 11 Price, Mrs. J. M. G 5 Rice, Mrs. William B 10 Schieffelin, Mr. and Mrs. William Jay 10 Schiff, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H 25 Scott, Mr. and Mr. Edgar 50 Sears, Mr. Franciss P 5 Seely, Mrs. W. W 10 Shepard, Mrs. Elliot F 25 Sherman, Mrs. Gardiner 25 Smith, Mr. and Mrs. C. Morton 25 Stevens, Miss Julia C. 5 Stewart, Mr. William R 25 Thacher, Dr. and Mrs. John S 15 Thomas, Miss 1 Thorndike, Dr. and Mrs. Augustus 5 Thorndike, Mrs. Charles 5 Torrey, Miss A. S 1 Torrey and Linzee, The Misses 5 Townsend, Mrs. R. H 10 Train, Mrs. Charles R 5 Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. Alanson 10 Unknown 1 Unknown 1 Weld, Mrs. C. Minot 5 Winsor, Mrs. H 1 Carried forward $1,609 34 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES Brought forward $1,609 Winthrop, Miss Marie 10 Total for general purposes $1,619. SPECIAL DONATIONS For Village Committee: Mrs. J. I. Kane $20.00 For Trees and Planting Committee: Mrs. Jesup. 50.00 For Flower Planting: Mrs. J. C. Livingston. 2.31 For Village Green: Profits of Winter Festival 1907 302.37 Total all donations and dues $1,993.68 ADDITIONAL RECEIPTS 35 ADDITIONAL RECEIPTS September 8th, 1908-February 10th, 1909 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES Addison, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D $ 5 Auchincloss, Mr. and Mrs. John W 25 Baker, Mrs. Henry M 5 Bridgham, Mr. and Mrs. S. W 25 Brigham, Mr. Lincoln F 10 Carpenter, Mrs. Miles B 5 Chandler, Mr. F. W 1 Coats, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M 25 Cochrane, Mr. and Mrs. William F., Jr 10 Davis, Mr. and Mrs. W. H 2 Deasy, Hon. L. B 1 Evans, Mr. W. J 1 Green, Mr. C. S 1 Guthrie, Mr. Thomas 1 Higgins, Mr. B. S 1 Hinkle, Mrs. A. Howard 5 Hone, Mrs. John 5 Knapp, Mrs. E. S 5 Ladd, Mr. C. C 1 Leffingwell, Miss M. M 1 Leland, Mr. A. B 1 Livingston, Mr. and Mrs. Philip 5 36 ADDITIONAL RECEIPTS McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hall 25 Markoe, Mrs. John 35 Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Casimir de R 10 Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Dave H 10 Norris, The Misses 5 Paine, Mr. Charles F 1 Rand, Mr. Edward L 1 Rowland, Mr. John C 2 Searls, Mr. Thomas 1 Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. F. E 2 Washington, Miss Elizabeth 1 Wells, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver J 10 Wright, Mrs. C. K 5 $249 CHARTER 37 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 Repre~ sentatives in Legislature Assembled as follows: Section 1. Parke Godwin, Fred C. Lynam, Wil- liam H. Sherman, Morris K. Jesup, Robert Amory, Charles T. How, De Grasse Fox, Luere B. Deasy, Edward Cole, 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, Iphigenia Z. Place, Frances 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 improve- ments in the village of Bar Harbor, and other parts of Mount Desert Island. Sec. 2. For the purpose of its incorporation this Association may receive and hold real and personal 38 CHARTER property not exceeding fifty thousand dollars in amount; make contracts to be binding upon itself but none upon its individual members; and to make by-laws not inconsistent with law for the regulation of its membership and its government. Sec. 3. The first meeting of this corporation 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 at Bar Harbor. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. BY-LAWS 39 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 attrac- tions of the village; therefore we have formed our- selves 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 Association shall consist of two classes: Annual and Life. Sec. 2. Any person over fourteen years of age by the payment or one dollar annually, and any child under fourteen years of age who shall pay the sum of fifty cents annually, shall be a member or this Asso- ciation for the current fiscal year which shall end on the second Tuesday of September. 40 BY-LAWS Sec. 3. The payment of five dollars annually for seven years or ten dollars annually for three years or twenty-five dollars in one sum, shall constitute a per- son a life member of the Association. Sec. 4. Irrespective of payment of dues the fol- lowing 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 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 Tuesday of June and on the second Tuesday of July, August and September, of which the September meeting shall be the annual meeting of the Association. Said meetings shall be held at some convenient place in the village of Bar Harbor of which due notice shall be given by the Secretary. Other meetings of the Association may be called by the President and shall be called on written request of five members of the Association. BY-LAWS 4I 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 suc- cessors 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 members of the follow- ing Standing Committees: Finance, Village, Griev- ance, Sanitary, Roads, and Paths, Trees and Planting, Village Greeen, and Glen Mary Park. Special Committees may be appointed by a vote of the Association at any time. No. 5-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 perform the duties of his office. Sec. 2. The Treasurer shall have charge of all money and other property of the Association, and shall report at each of its regular meetings. The report presented by him at the annual meeting shall be in writing accompanied 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 42 BY-LAWS 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 correct and careful record of all the proceedings of the Associa- tion in a suitable book, have charge of the books, records, and seal of the Association and give notice of all meetings. No. 6-DUTIES OF COMMITTEES 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 ex- tending 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, cut- ting 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 relating to matters connected with the BY-LAWS 43 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 com- mittee. Committee on Trees and Planting. It shall be the duty of this committee to secure the removal of dead wood and underbrush and to plant trees, shrubs and vines, and to care for the bicycle path and New~ port 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 or 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 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 or Miss Mary Shannon's deeds of conveyance of the Park land especially that concerned with the care of the pine trees, and the setting out and caring for the settees, conveyed to this Association under said deeds, and in 44 BY-LAWS other ways to improve the appearance and attractions of this 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 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. 10-AMENDMENTS These By-laws as a whole, or any part thereof may be repealed or amended by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at any regular or official meeting of the Association, but a notice of any poposed change shall be given in the call for the meeting. BY-LAWS 45 No. 11-ORDER OF BUSINESS Reading minutes of the preceding meeting, and action thereon. Report of Treasurer. Report of Standing Committees. Report of Special Committees. New Business. 0617 HIA