Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association 1 9 0 5 Sixteenth Annual Report OF THE Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association OCTOBER 1905 RECORD PRINT SHOP OFFICERS FOR 1905-1906 President: LEONARD E. OPDYCKE. Vice-Presidents: L. B. DEASY, JOHN S. KENNEDY, RT. REV. WM. LAWRENCE. Secretary: H. M. CONNERS. Treasurer: F. C. LYNAM. STANDING COMMITTEES Finance Committee: L. A. Austin, Chairman. Morris K. Jesup, Fred C. Lynam, J. S. Kennedy, Thomas Searls. Sanitary Committee: Dr. J. Madison Taylor, Chairman. Dr. Robert Abbe, Dr. E. J. Morrison, Dr. H. D. Averill, Dr. Geo. A. Phillips, Dr. D. W. Bunker, Dr. John B. Shober, Dr. G. R. Hagerthy, Dr. F. Fremont-Smith, Dr. C. C. Morrison, Dr. Horace S. Stokes, Dr. R. W. Wakefield. 4 THE BAR HARBOR STANDING COMMITTEES-Continued Roads and Paths Committee: Waldron Bates, Chairman. Mrs. Robert Amory, George B. Dorr. Miss Mary R. Coles, John J. Emery, Mrs. Edgar Scott. Trees and Planting Committee: George B. Dorr, Chairman. Mrs. John Harrison, Rev. Angus MacDonald, Miss Beatrix Jones, Mrs. L. E. Opdycke, Mrs. J. S. Kennedy, Mrs. A. R. E. Pinchot, Mrs. Wm. B. Rice. Village Committee: Mrs. Edward B. Mears, Chairman. Mrs. A. L. Getchell, Miss Grace Haynes, Miss Sarah Lawrence. Glen Mary Park Committee: Dr. Robert Amory, Chairman. George B. Dorr, Mrs. John Harrison. VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 5 SPECIAL COMMITTEES Village Green Committee: George B. Dorr, Chairman. Waldron Bates, Mrs. John Harrison, Rev. S. L. Hanscom, Fred C. Lynam, Preservation of Wild Flowers Committee: Miss Louise S. Minot, Chairman. Mrs. John I. Kane, Edward E. Suminsby. 6 THE BAR HARBOR Sixteenth Annual Report The annual meeting of the Association was held in the Y. M. C. A. building, Tuesday morning, September 12th, 1905, and was at- tended by about fifty persons, including two of the Selectmen and the Road Commissioner. In the absence of Mr. Conners, Mr. Oliver L. Hall acted as Secretary. The reports of the Standing Committees (hereto annexed) were read and duly accepted. The report presented by the Village Green Committee at the August meeting has already been printed and circulated among the members of the Association. The report of the Treasurer includes a statement of the receipts and expenditures of this Committee down to the end of the fiscal year. Besides the special Village Green Fund of $2,842.. the Association's receipts from dona- tions and membership dues were larger, by $385.37, than during the fiscal year 1903-4. Since 1889, the Association has expended, in beautifying the village and neighborhood. the sum of $33,287.29, of which all but five per cent. was spent for labor and materials. VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 7 The following table shows the amount of the Association's outlay each year since its organ- ization : 189c, $387 66 1898, 2,616.30 1891, 1.634.11 1899, 2,477.24 1892, 1.873.38 1900, 2,163.10 1893, 1.688.44 1901, 2,342.49 1894, 1.701.79 1902, 2,348.06 1895, 2.142 13 1903, 1,604.40 1896, 2,361 12 1904, 1,300.66 1897, 3.130.40 1905, 3,546.01 For the fiscal year 1905-6, the following ap- propriations were voted: Roads and Paths Committee, $300 with an additional $100 if needed; Tiees and Planting Committee, $500, or SO much thereof as may be found necessary by the Chairman of the Committee; Village Committee, $500 in addition to its unexpended balance of $54.40; Glen Mary Park Commit- iee, $10 in addition to its unexpended balance of $18.07. The First Selectman, Mr. Bunker, and the Road Commissioner, Mr. Leland, answered various questions put to them regarding disfig- urements occasioned by road repairs and in the course of placing telephone and other poles 8 THE BAR HARBOR along the roadsides, and promised co-operation in trying to prevent such disfigurements in the future. On motion of Mr. Kennedy, duly seconded, it was Resolved, that hereafter every disburse- ment of the Association be made directly by the Treasurer upon the approval either of one of the officers specified in the second section of the fifth by-law, or of the Chairman of the Committee out of whose appropriation the dis- bursement is to be made. Regarding the Association's effort to ascer- tain the wishes of the community on the sub- ject of automobiles, the President reported that double or reply postal cards had been sent to the cottagers and hotel guests. Of these cards, one portion read as follows: AUTOMOBILES IN BAR HARBOR ? Maine towns have no general power to ex - clude automobiles, but in Mch. 1903 a statute was enacted (Chap. 420, Laws of Maine, 1903) permitting the Town of Eden,-whose bounda- ries include Bar Harbor and the northeasterly part of Mt. Desert Island- to "close to the use of automobiles the following streets within its VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 9 limits Ocean Drive, Bay View Drive from Duck Brook Bridge to Hulls Cove Bridge, the Eagle Lake road as far as Eagle Lake and the Green Mountain Drive." In July 1903 the Town accepted the provisions of this act and voted to exclude automobiles as therein speci- fied. The restriction is still in force, and is be- lieved to meet the wishes of by far the larger number of residents and visitors here. Some dissatisfaction has, however, recently begun to show itself, and efforts may be made to remove or relax the restriction. The Bar Harbor Village Improvement As- sociation has instructed its officers to ascertain what public sentiment on this subject now is, and we accordingly venture to ask the addressee of this communication, as well as any other adults residing in the same house, to sign the accompanying postal card and to post it as soon as convenient. The Bar Harbor Village Improvement Asso- ciation : L. E. Opdycke, President ; L. B. Deasy, John S. Kennedy, William Lawrence, Vice-Presidents ; Fred C. Lynam, Treasurer; H. M. Conners, Secretary. The other or reply portion of the card read as follows: We, the undersigned summer residents of Bar Harbor, and visitors, hereby express our IO THE BAR HARBOR earnest hope that the present restrictions upon the use of automobiles in the Town of Eden may not be relaxed. We are convinced I. That, while satisfactory for carriages, the roads of the Town are unsuited for auto- mobiles, in that they are too narrow, too curved, too hilly, and in places too heavy. To make them fit for automobiles would cost far more than the tax payers would consent to pay. 2. That the presence of automobiles upon such roads would seriously endanger life and property, and would restrict if not prevent the normal use of the roads by pedestrians, riders, and drivers. 3. That the introduction of automobiles would not contribute to the comfort, welfare or growth of the place. 4. That, on the contrary, the introduction of automobiles would occasion serious direct loss to the commercial interests of Bar Harbor, and would retard its growth. 5. That the attractions of this place, now almost unique as regards the safety, quiet, and beauty of its drives, would by the introduction of automobiles be largely spoiled for that ele- ment in the community which pays more than half the taxes of the Town, and whose sojourn here mainly supports the commerce of the vil- lage. VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 11 6. That the remoteness of Bar Harbor from large centres of population renders it available as a summer resort chiefly to those for whom a prolonged stay is possible. 7. That the admission of automobiles would for the most part attract a class of visitors who, by the use of such a rapid vehicle, show an in- tention not to tarry, and by whom every mile of road on the island of Mt. Desert could be traversed in a single day. Bar Harbor, 1905. Up to date of going to press (Oct. 20), the manifesto embodied in the second card has been signed by 542 persons, including the occupant, owners or tenants of all but one of the summer cottages occupied this season. In compliance with a vote taken at the Au- gust meeting of the Association, effort has been made to secure the co-operation of our sister so- cieties elsewhere on the Island of Mt. Desert. Manifestos similar to ours have been widely circulated and signed at Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor, and a joint Committee will prob- ably be formed for the purpose of securing more effective exclusion of automobiles from the whole island. H. M. CONNERS, Secretary. I2 THE BAR HARBOR Treasurer's Report For the Fiscal Year Ending September 12, 1905. RECEIPTS. Donations and members' dues, $1,514.37 Special donations to Village Green Fund, 2,842 0 Interest on bond, 75 00 $4.431 37 Balance on hand Sept. I3, 1904, 2,107 86 $6,539 23 DISBURSEMENTS. Village Green Com., $2,053.36 Village Committee, 500 OO Roads and Paths Com., 400 00 Glen Mary Park Com., 125 00 Trees and Planting Com., 279 87 Printing and postage, 123 20 Secretary's salary, 50 00 Canvassing, 40 OO Sundries, 1705 $3,588 48 Balance on hand Sept. I2, 1905, $2,950 75 Unexpended balance of Village Green Fund, 788 64 Unexpended balance of General Fund, $2,162 II VILLAGE (MPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 13 Treasurer's Report-Continued. Disbursements by Village Green Committee. For labor, $734 66 For Loan, 738 OO For work on band stand, 48 60 For water pipe and laying, 160 76 For seed and fertilizer, 33 50 For widening sidewalk, 165 87 For sundries, 69 97 $2,053 36 The Association owns a bond for which it paid $1, 156.65. FRED C. LYNAM, Treasurer. Accounts examined and found correct. Sept. 16th, 1905. JOHN I. KANE, } Auditors. LEA Mc I. LUQUER, 14 THE BAR HARBOR Report of Sanitary Committee. The Chairman of this Committee begs to re- port that few matters of urgent importance have claimed their attention during the past year. This is largely owing to the fact that the Board of Health, as recently constituted. have shown unusual zeal and efficiency. Mr. F. Loring Foster, who has resigned, will be a great loss. Several minor matters have presented them- selves, but a little urging has been followed by correction. Last year your Committee recommended the establishment of sewer connection and water supply in the region of Mountain Street, near the Kebo Golf House. This has been done. The question of disposal of garbage and ref- use is still a vexed one, and as yet is far from satisfactorily determined. Our recommenda- tions, made for several successive years, are still unrealized,-chiefly because of lack of concert- ed action on the part of non-resident people. Our suggestions as to the improvement of the milk supply, and as to the licensing of milk sel- lers, met slight er.couragement. Only three persons expressed a desire to secure certified VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 115 milk. We shall keep the subject before the public, and hope for wider support. The most serious matter presented this sea- son has been the condition of the water supply. In the early summer the odor and taste of the water were most offensive, by reason of an ex- traordinary development of the uroglena, a common fresh water alga. Your Committee urged the Water Company to install a sand fil- ter. This they decided to do. Contracts have been signed, the work has been begun, and it is expected that the filtration plant will be ready for use at the beginning of next season. J. MADISON Taylor, Chairman. 16 THE BAR HARBOR Report of Committee on Roads and Paths, It is impossible for the members of the Com- mittee personally to inspect often the many miles of paths-approximately 150 miles-; and users of the paths could help materially in the work if they would make notes of anything requiring attention and report by postal card or otherwise to the Chairman of the Committee. The paths and trails are in good condition ; one man, Horace Liscomb, has been employed on them since the middle of May and for sever- al days at different times an extra man has worked with him. The wet places on the Harden Farm Path have been bridged or the path changed to avoid them, and a new bridge has been built over the brook on this path. Much necessary and valuable work has been done, the larger part of it last autumn, on the Curren and Burnt Bubble Paths on the west- ern side of Eagle Lake; on the path skirting the head of the Lake. A new path, Eagles' Crag Path, has been made running from the spring near the lower end of the southern ridge of Green Monntain to the spring on the Pot Hole Path at the base of VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 17 the mountain. The path passes close under the ragged cliffs of Eagles' Crag, and a branch path has been carried along the top of the cliffs, commanding a beautiful view seaward over the pretty inlet at Otter Creek. A short cut off path is planned from the Pot Holes to Dike Peak on the southern ridge of Green Mountain. Another new path is under consideration to branch off from Half-Moon Pond Path and cross the Breakneck Road and meet the Fawn Pond Path. Many new signs- this year for the first time having the lettering burnt into the sign boards- and many new pointers have been put up along the paths, and a few varnished path maps on boards have been put up as an experiment at important places in the path system. The Seal Harbor Village Improvement As- sociation has intimated a willingness to put un- der the general supervision of our Association the mountain paths in the Seal Harbor District and to make an appropriation therefor. This Committee, although it is entitled Com- mittee on Roads and Paths, is essentially a 18 THE BAR HARBOR Committee on the Paths, the duty in regard to roads assigned to it by the By-Laws of the As- sociation being merely "To report as to the condition of the roads," and the Committee has seldom, if ever, made any such report, because the Village Committee and the Committee on Trees and Planting direct such work as is done by the Association on roadsides and village streets. - Your Committee, however, this year has a report to make on the condition of the roads, namely, that it thinks some steps should be taken to impress on the Selectmen, and on the Road Commissioners of the several towns on the Island the unsightliness of, and bring to their attention the numerous and justly adverse criti- cisms in regard to, the ugly scars on the road- sides -great wounds made with pick and shov- el to provide material wherewith easily and cheaply to repair the road bed, with utter dis- regard to the effect upon the landscape and the consequent injury to the island as a summer re- sort. The path appropriation for each of the past two years has been $300 and an additional ap- VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 19 propriation of $100 was made in each of these years. Your Committee thinks that $300 or $400 ought to be appropriated for the coming year. WALDRON BATES, Chairman. 20 THE BAR HARBOR Report of Trees and Planting Committee The appropriation made last fall for the Com- mittee's work this year was $100, with oppor- unity given to ask for another $ 100 if it was needed. The only member of the Com,mittee present at Bar Harbor at the planting season was its Chairman, and $129.87 was expended under his direction, of which $100 was taken from the appropriation made and the balance contributed by himself as a subscription to the Association's work in this direction. The planting done was that of Ash trees principally, the Ash having proved upon the whole the best tree for street planting at Bar Harbor, though the Norway Maple, the White Willow, and the Carolina Poplar are valuable for special situa- tions, as is also the Balm of Gilead where strong, quick growth is needed. All these trees have been freely used in the village planting. No work was done upon the Bicycle Path and Newport Mountain Roadway at the begin- ning of the season, no special appropriation for it having been made, but later, at the request of the President to whom complaint of their VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 21 condition had been made, the second hundred dollars which the Committee had been author- ized to draw upon in case of need was obtained and used for putting them in order, $47.25 be- ing spent on this, and the balance used for clear- ing dead trees and brush from the roadside. The most important planting to be done this coming year is that upon the Village Green, and your Committee recommend that other plant- ing be postponed to that, if this should be neces- sary for carrying out effective planting on the Green. For the rest, there is little or no room for future planting at the present time upon Mt. Desert or Cottage Streets or Eden Street; nor any opportunity along the residential part of West Street on account of shutting out the view across the bay from the houses on its southern side. On Main Street more might be done, but the future character of the street down to Crom- well's Harbor Brook is too undetermined to make it possible to do much upon its western side at the present time; on the eastern side however a good deal of planting both by the Association and by owners has been already done, and should be extended as opportunity may come. 22 THE BAR HARBOR The eastern side of Ledgelawn Avenue also has now been quite fully planted. The west- ern side, which is valuable building land, should be planted by the owners as the land is de- veloped and lots sold ; the pleasantness of the sidewalk on that side, which could easily be shaded, will in summer time depend upon its being done. On the smaller streets running north and south throughout the town, a good deal of planting has been also done but more is needed, and a thorough study of these streets needs to be made in summer time with reference to it. And there are situations, where trees could not be planted, in which vines and even shrubs might be used to break the barreness of the streets and buildings. The most important matter, however, that relates to the work of this Committee, though it is rather one in which the Association as a whole should interest itself, is getting the elec- tric wires put under ground wherever this is possible. No thoroughly effective planting along our streets and roadsides can be made un- til this is done. The Bicycle Path will need two new bridges VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 23 of cedar poles across the two branches of the brook it crosses, in order to be used next year, otherwise no more than its usual repair in early summer. It is still used by a few for riding but now much more for walking, and it is for this that it will be mainly of importance in the future. To avoid misconception later it should be stated that the Bicycle Path itself begins at and returns to the Newport Mountain Road, lying wholly to the south of it, and does not in- clude as a part of itself any portion of the old roadway which is now usually used for reach- ing it and which runs down to the Newport Mountain Roadway from the top of the hill on the Schooner Head Road. This roadway was in no part built by the Association and is sim- ply used in connection with the Bicycle Path by courtesy, the permanent approach to the Path being through the Newport Mountain Road. The Newport Mountain Road, it should also be stated, is not a Town road, though used as one, and such repair as it receives is made by the Association. Having been built of solid material, however, the repair it needs is usually but slight. GEORGE B. DORR, Chairman. 24 THE BAR HARBOR Report of Village Committee. In accordance with a resolution passed at the last annual meeting of the V. I. A. September 13th, 1904, no street cleaning at all has been done by this Committee. The Town has as- sumed all of that work. The grass has been mowed and removed from the road edges, in the area bounded by Cromwell Harbor Road, Eden Street, Cottage Street and Main Street, also Main Street from Cromwell Harbor Road to Mount Desert Nurseries; Eagle Lake Road from Eden Street to the old Kebo Club en- trance; Eden Street to the Acadia Lane : High- brook Road to Cleftstone Road; West Street from Swimming Club to Eden Street; Rodick and Bridge Streets and Holland Avenue. The loose papers have been gathered every day during July and August, by a man with a team. Papers and rubbish have been removed from the shore path every day. The grass in the old Cemetery, has been cut and watered and the shrubs trimmed. The work has been in charge of our faithful and ef- ficient foreman, James C. Grant. VILLAGE (MPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 25 I herewith append the financial report to September 9th, 1905, which shows a balance on hand of $54.40. Balance on hand from Sept. 28, 1904, $14 78 Appropriation for 1905, 500 oo $514 78 EXPENDITURES. Paid James C. Grant, (Fore- man) wages from June Ist, to September 9th, inclusive, $209 50 Paid wages to Assistants, for time necessary dur- ing summer of 1905, 218 50 Paid out for tools and repairs on same, geraniums etc., 32 38 $460 38 - Balance on hand, $54 40 ESTHER F. MEARS, Chairman. 26 THE BAR HARBOR Report of Glen Mary Park Committee. There has been but little labor expended within the limits of the park grounds since the annual meeting of last year, your Committee desiring to learn the effect of cutting down some of the ugly fir and cedar trees which en- croached upon the growth of the better class of other and better shade trees. The use of the park by children of the neigh- borhood, living on Ledgelawn Avenue and ad- jacent streets, has much increased since the clearing of the overgrown bushes and small trees, which leaves open spaces between Spring and Glen Mary Streets. The sand boxes have been filled, and these have been used by the children who play in the park enclosure. During the season, when the water from Eagle Lake was objectionable on account of its smell and taste, many of the near-by families have taken water from the "Shannon Spring" on Spring Street, which is now owned by the Village Improvement Association and which we believe is a pure spring water, coming from under the high rock ledge on the opposite side VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 27 from Spring street and from a deep source, as it flows to a level of the surface of this street. There is no contamination from house drainage from the hill above, because all the houses there have iron sewer pipes which connect with the town sewer emptying into the sea below the Vanderbilt Point. The constant use of this spring by irresponsible children and careless persons resulted in the destruction of a wooden cover erected by Miss Shannon ; and persons have been throwing into the spring, thus unpro- tected, dirt and papers; this led your Commit- tee to build a new house of clear cedar poles and to fill in around the bottom of these poles a concrete curb, to prevent the entrance of foreign matter into the spring; a new cover of matched pine planking was also placed over the spring. Thus, we have protected the pur- ity of this water which has been largely used by people who live in the vicinity of this spring. Dr. Nathaniel Gildersleeve, pathologist to our local hospital, made a test of the water from the spring August 26th, and reported thereon as follows 28 THE BAR HARBOR Spring :-150 pr cc. No suspicious organ- isms. Spigot:-290 pr cc. No suspicious organ- isms. Temperature of water in spring :-46.4 degs. F. During the year, your Committee have spent : For sand in the children's sand box, $5 70 For building spring house over the Shannon Spring, 43 OO For cement base to spring house, to exclude surface water, 8 23 $56 93 At the last annual meeting your Committee were voted an appropriation of $25, and at the August meeting an additional $50 was ap- propiated to our use. Besides the unexpended balance of $18.07, we recommend an appropri- ation of $10 for use during the next fiscal year. ROBERT AMORY, Chairman. * NOTE- - The difference between the amount of these appropriations ($75) and the amount VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 29 ($125) debited to this Committee in the Treas- urer's Report, represents the sum appropriated for and spent by the Committee during the fis- cal year 1903-4, but not received from the Treasurer until August 1905. 30 THE BAR HARBOR Life Members Auchincloss, Mrs. J. W. Kingsland, Mrs. Wm. M. Banks, Mr. A. Bleecker Leeds, Mrs. M. E. Barney, Mrs. A. C. Livingston, Mrs. John C. Bass, Mrs. E. W. Livingston, Mr. Johnston Bass, Hon. J. P. Longstreth, Dr. Morris Biddle, Miss Christine W. McCormick, Mrs. R. Hall Blair, Mr. D. C. Maitland, Mr. and Mrs. Bowdoin, Mr. George S. Markoe, Dr. James W. Bowen, Mrs. Joseph T: Matthews. Mrs. Nathan Canfield, Mrs. A. Cass Minturn, Mrs. John W. Carpenter, Mrs. Miles B. Mitchell, Dr. and Mrs. Cassatt, Mr. A. J. Morgan, Mrs. J. Pierpont Clarke, Miss Anna M. Morrell, Mrs. Edward Coles, Mr. Edward Newbold, Mr. Clement B. Condon, Mrs. Thomas G. Norris, Mrs. Joseph P. Crafts, Miss Mary E. Ogden, Mr. David B. Crocker, Mrs. Uriel H. Opdycke, Mr. Leonard E. Davis, Mrs. Andrew J. Peabody, Mrs. A. P. Derby, Dr. Hasket Peabody, Mr. F. H. Dickson., Mr. L. Taylor Pendleton, Mr. Edmund Dodge, Mrs. William E. Place, Mrs. George Dorr, Mr. George B. Platt, Mrs. A. E. Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. Price, Mrs. J. M. P. Emery, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Pulitzer, Mr. Joseph Emmons, Mr. R. W. Rice, Mrs. William B. French, Mrs. C. L. W. Robbins, Mrs. George A. Fry, Mrs. Charles Schieffelin, Mrs. Wm. Jay Gurnee, Mr. Augustus C. Schiff, Mr. Jacob H. Gurnee, Miss Delia E. Scott, Mr. Eugar Gurnee, Mr. Walter S. Sears, Miss Helen Harrison, Mrs. John Sears, Mrs. J. M. Hart, Mrs. H. C. Seely, Mrs. W. W. How, Mr. Charles T. Shapley, Mr. Rufus E. Jackson, Mrs. C. C. Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. Jaques, Mr. Herbert , Smith, Mr. C. Morton Jesup, Mr. and Mrs. M.K. Smith, Mrs. Edward A. Jones, Miss Beatrix Smith, Miss Josephine Jones, Mrs. Cadwalader Thompson, Miss Anne Kane, Mr. John Innes Trevor, Mrs. John B. Kennedy, Mr. John S. Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 31 Membership Dues and Donations Amounts appearing under the head " V. G." were specially subscribed for the improvement of the Village Green. Amounts appearing under the head "G. F." were either membership dues or unrestricted donations to the General Fund of the Association. V. G. G. F. Abbe, Mrs. Robert $10 OO Abercrombie, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. 00 Addison, Mr. A. D 5 OO Addison, Mrs. A. D $10. Allen, Mr. Charles F I OO Amory, Dr. and Mrs. Robert 15. 5 oo Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Larz 5 OO Anderson, Mrs. Nicholas L. 10 OO Anonymous 20. 21 OO Archbold, Miss Anne M IO. Auchincloss, Mrs. John W. 15. IO OO Baker, Mrs. Henry M 5 00 Banks, Mr. A. Bleecker 25 00 Bass, Mrs. Edgar W 25. IO OO Bass, Hon. J. P 25 OO Bates, Mr. Waldron I OO Baylies, Mrs. N. E I OO Beale, Mrs. Harriet Blaine 5 OO Berry, Miss K. V. R I. Betten, Mr. S. I OO Biddle, Miss Christine W IO. 6 OO Blair, Mr. D. C 50. 25 OO Bowdoin, Mr. George S IOO. 50 00 Carried forward, $256. $223 OO 32 THE BAR HARBOR V. G. G. F. Brought forward $256 $223 OO Bowen, Mrs. Joseph IO OO Bowler, Mrs. Robert B IO. IO 00 Bowler, Mr. Robert P 20 IO 00 Bridgham, Mr. S. W 25 IO OO Brimmer, Mrs. Martin L 15 00 Brown, Miss Sally E 5 OO Burrill, Mr. Middleton S IO. Bush, Capt. Thomas J IO. Campbell, Miss Rosalie I 00 Canfield, Mrs. A. Cass 25 OO Carpenter, Mrs. Miles B 25 Carpenters' Union 25. Cassatt, Mr. A. ] 50. 25 OO Clark, Hon. E. S. I oo Clarke, Miss Anna M 25 OO Coles, Mr. and Mrs. Edward 20. IO OO Crafts, Miss Mary E 5. Crocker, Mrs. Uriel H 5. 5 OO Cushman, Miss Violet I OO Dabney, Mrs. Walter I oo Davis, Mrs. Andrew J 50. IO OO Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Charles 4 50 Deasy., Hon. L. B I OO Dehon, Mrs. Theodore 25. Derby, Dr. Hasket 5 OO Dimock, Mrs. H. F 50. Dorr, Mr. George B 29 87 Draper, Mr. and Mrs. George A IO oo Draper, Mr. and Mrs. W. P 5. 2 OO Carried forward $591. $439 37 VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 33 V. G. G. F. Brought forward $591. $439 37 Duncan, Mr. William Butl r 25. 25 oo Dulith, Miss Emily 2. I 00 Edwards, Mr. J. Pierpont 10. Emery, Mr. John J 50. IOO 00 Eno, Mrs. Henry Lane IO. Fabbri, Mr. and Mrs. Ernesto G IO. IO oo Fennelly, Mr. William 4. I OO Fillietaz, Mr. Henry L I OO French, Miss Caroline L. W IO 5 oo Furfey, Dr. J. Austin. I OO Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Winthrop, IO OO Green, Mr. Charles S I OO Green, Rev. Stephen H I OO Gurnee, Mr. Walter S 25 OO Guthrie, Miss M. H 15. IO OO Guthrie, Mr. Thomas I OO Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. John IOO. 25 OO Hatfield, Mr. and Mrs. Henry R IO oo Hinkle, Mr. A. Howard 25 IO 00 Hoffman, Mrs. William B IO IO OO Homans, Mrs. Charles D. 5 Hone, Mrs. John 25. How, Mr. Charles T 25 IO OO Hubbard, Gen. and Mrs. Thomas H. IO OO Huguenin, Miss S I OO Jackson, Mrs. Charles Carroll IOO. Jesup, Mr. and Mrs. Morris K IOO. 50 OO Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Francis How, 25. IO OO Carried forward $1,142. $767 37 34 THE BAR HARBOR V. G. G. F. Brought forward $1,142 $767 37 Jones, Miss Frances 5 00 Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. A. F 2 OO Kane, Mr. John Innes 100. 25 OO Kennedy, Mr. John S IOO, IOO OO Ketterlinus, Mr. J. L 20. Larkin, The Misses 2 OO Laugier-Villars, Count and Countess, 25. IO 00 Lawrence, Hon. Abraham R 5. Lawrence, Miss Sarah 5 OO Lawrence, The Rt. Rev. William 20. Leffingwell, Mrs. Christopher S 5. Linzee, Miss Elizabeth 5. I OO Linzee, Mr. John T 5. Livingston, Mrs. John € 25. 25 OO Livingston, Mr. Johnston 25 OO Livingston, Mr. Philip 5 OO Longstreth. Dr. Morris 5. Luquer, Mr. rnd Mrs. Lea McI 15. Lynam, Mr. Fred C I OO Mc Cagg, Mrs. Louis B 25. Mc Michael, Mrs. Walter I OO Maitland, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander 50. 25 00 Markoe, Mrs. John 20. IO OO May, Mrs. I. Frederic IO OO Meserole, Mr. A 5 OO Minot, The Misses 15. 5 OO Mitchell, Dr. S. Weir 50. 25 OO Moore, Mr. Casimir de Rham 5 OO Carried forward $1,637. $1,054 37 VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 35 V. G. G. F. Brought forward $1,637. $1,054 37 Morrell, Mrs. Edward 25. Morrill, The Misses 75. 25 00 Morrison, Dr. C. C I OO Norris, Miss Dorothea C I OO Norris, Miss Fanny I OO Norris, Mrs. Joseph P 25. 5 oo Opdycke, Mrs. Emerson IO. Opdycke, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard E IOO. 30 00 Osgood, Miss E. A I OO Parsons, Mrs. Herbert 25. I OO Peabody, Mrs. A. P IOO. Pearson, Mfs. Frederick 25. Phelps, Mrs. Austin 5 00 Pinchot, Mr. Amos R. E 50. Place, Mrs. George 15. Platt, Mrs. A. E 40. IO 00 Porter, Mr. H. K 20 OO Potter, Mr. Austin I 00 Potter, Mrs. Robert I OO Price, Mrs. J. M. P IO. IO OO Prime, Miss Cornelia IO. I 00 Pulitzer, Mr. Joseph 100 OO Rand, Mrs. J. L. I OO Rand, Miss Margaret A I OO Reed, IMr. and Mrs. J. Sanders 2 OO Reynolds, Mr. B, C. I OO Rice, Mrs. William B 50. Rives, Dr. and Mrs. William C IO. Carried forward $2,207. $1,282 3 36 THE BAR HARBOR V. G. G. F Brought forward $2,207 $1.282 37 Robbins, Mrs. George A 20. Rotch, Dr. T. M 5 Sanders, Miss Henrietta 5 2 00 Schieffelin, Mrs. William Jay 10. 10 00 Schiff, Mr. Jacob H 50. 25 , 00 Scott, Mrs. Edgar 75. Sears, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M IO 00 Sears, Mrs. J. Montgomery 100. Seely, Mrs. W. W 50. IO OO Sharswood, Miss Mary IO oo Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. F. E 2 00 Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner 50. Shope, Mr. Julien B. I 00 Smith, Mr. C. Morton 25 25 OO Smith, Mrs. Edward A IO OO Smith, Miss Josephine. IO. Smith, Miss S. R 5. Sprague, Miss H B IO OO Stewart, Mr. William R [O 00 Stokes, Dr. Horace S. (dues to 1910) IO OO Thompson, Miss Anne 50 OO Thorndike, Dr. and Mrs. Augustus 5 Torrey, Miss A D 5. 2 OO Train, Mrs. Charles R 5 OO Train, Miss Grace T 5 OO Trevor, Mrs. John B ICO. Tacker, Mr. Alanson 25. Van Buren, Mrs. S. T 5 I OO Carried forward $2.752. $1.480 37 VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 37 V. G. G.F. Brought forward $2.752. $1,480 37 Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. 50. 25 00 Washington, Miss Elizabeth C I OO Weld, Mrs. C. Minot 5. I. OO Welman, Mrs. Arthur 5 00 Wilkins, Miss Maria S. IO. I OO Winthrop, Miss Marie 25. Young, Miss Fanny I OO Total for the fiscal year $2,842. $1,514 37 38 THE BAR HARBOR Additional Receipts Since Sept. 12th, 1905. V. G G. F Abbe, Dr. and Mrs. Robert $10 $25 00 Ash, Miss Olie Maria I OO Averill, Dr. H. D. I 00 Clark, Hon. B. E I OO Condon, Mrs. T. G 5 00 Cushman, Mrs. E C 5 Davis, Mr. and Mrs. W. H 2 oo Hone, Mrs. John 5 00 Hubbard, Gen. and Mrs. T. H 40. Kettle, Mrs. L. N 5. Lawrence, Rt. Rev. William 10 00 Leeds, Warner M 25 00 Luquer, Mr. and Mrs. Lea McI IC OO Mc Cagg, Mr. Louis B 10 00 Mears, Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. 2 00 Mellon, Miss M. F I' 00 Ogden, Mrs. Gouverneur M 500 Ostrander, Mr. and Mrs. C. F 5 00 Pinchot, Mrs. Amos R. E 5 00 Sanders, Miss Henrietta 2 OO Schofield, Gen. and Mrs. J. M 5 5 00 Scott, Mrs. Edgar 25 00 Smith, Dr. and Mrs. F. Fremont 2 oo Tucker, Mr. Alanson IO OO Wilkins, Miss Maria S I OO Total since Sept. 12th, 1905 $65. $158 00 VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 39 CHARTER. CHAPTER CLXXXVI. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BAR HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. Be it enacted by the Senate aud House of Representatives in Legislature As- sembled as follows: SECTION I. Parke Godwin, Fred C. Lynam, William H. Sherman, Morris K. Jesup, Robert Amory, Charles T. How, DeGrasse 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. Mor- rill, 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 associaies and successors, are hereby in- corporated under the name of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, for the pur- pose of instituting and maintaining public im- provements in the village of Bar Harbor, and other parts of Mount Desert Island. 40 THE BAR HARBOR SECT. 2. For the purpose of its incorpora- tion this Association may receive and hold real and personal property not exceeding fifty thou- sand dollars in amount; make contracts to be binding upon itself but none upon its individual members; and to make by-laws not inconsist- ent with law for the regulation of its member- ship and its government. SECT. 3 The first meeting of this corpo- ration may be called by any one of the above associates, by a notice published two weeks successively before the time of said meeting in any newspaper published at Bar Harbor. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. VILLAGE IMPROV EMENT ASSOCIATION 41 BY-LAWS. PREAMBLE. Whereas, it is evident to all who are interest- ed 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. I. -NAME. The Society shall be known as the Bar Har- bor Village Improvement Association. No. -MEMBERSHIP. SECTION I. The members of this Associa- tion shall consist of two classes : Annual and Life. SECT. 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 42 THE BAR HARBOR be a member of this Association for the current fiscal year which shall end on the second Tues- day of September. SECT. 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. No. 3. -MEETINGS. There shall be meetings of the Association held on the second Tuesday of the months of June, July and August, and the Annual meet- ing shall be held on the second Tuesday of September in each year. Said meetings shall be held at some conven- ient 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 Associa- tion. VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 43 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 appoint, by the newly elect- ed President, the Chairman and Members of the following Standing Committees : Finance. Sanitary. Roads and Paths. Trees and Planting. Village. Glen Mary Park. Special Committees may be appointed by a vote of the Association at any time. No. 5.- - DUTIES OF OFFICERS. SECTION I. 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. 44 THE BAR HARBOR SECT. 2. The Treasurer shall have charge of all money and other property of the Associa- tion and shall make a report at each meeting and a formal written report at the Annual Meeting. He shall pav the bills which shall be approved by the President or one of the Vice-Presidents or the Secretary, or by a mem- ber of the Finance Committee. SECT. 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. 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 As- sociation, by extending the membership, pro- curing subscriptions and donations or by any other means. This Committee shall also audit the accounts of the Treasurer, on or about the first day of September in each year. 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 IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 45 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 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 the 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 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 point- ers paths and trails over the mcuntains, and through the woods on the eastern part of the Island. 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. 46 THE BAR HARBOR 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 Land, especially that concerned with the care of the pine trees, and the setting out and caring for the settees conveyed to this As- sociation under said deeds, and in 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 An- nual Meeting shall be in writing. No money shall be spent until appropriations are made by the Association. 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-Pres- idents. No member shall be personally liable for any contract or debt of the Corporation. VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 47 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. IO. -AMENDMENTS. These By-laws as a whole, or any part there- of, may be repealed or amended by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at any regu- lar or official meeting of the Association, but a notice of any proposed change shall be given in the call for the meeting. No. II.-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. VIA I 30