TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BAR HARBOR VIL- LAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 1902 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BAR HARBOR Village Improvement Association. Charter, By-Laws and Roll of Members. SEPTEMBER, 1901. W. H. SHERMAN, PRINTER, 1901. OFFICERS FOR 1901-1902. President: PARKE GODWIN. Vice-Presidents: L. B. DEASY, JOHN S. KENNEDY, RIGHT REV. WM. LAWRENCE. Treasurer: F. C. LYNAM. Secretary: A. H. LYNAM. Board of Managers: Dr. Robert Amory. Dr. Morris Longstreth, Mrs. Robert Amory, Mrs. Longstreth, Mrs. A. C. Barney, F. C. Lynam, Waldron Bates, A. H. Lynam, Edward Coles, Mrs. John Markoe, L. B. Deasy, E. B. Mears, George B. Dorr, Miss L. S. Minot, Mrs. Charles H. Dorr, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Miss Draper, Dr. E. J. Morrison, Mrs. H. E. Drayton, Mrs. Clara Norris, Mrs. Frank Ellis, David B. Ogden, John J. Emery, Mrs. R. B. Potter, Wm. Fennelly, Mrs. Wm. B. Rice, Mrs. DeGrasse Fox, Wm. M. Roberts, Charles Fry, Dr. Wm. Rogers, Mrs. Charles Fry, Edgar Scott, Parke Godwin, J. M. Sears, Herbert Jaques, Mrs. J. M. Sears, Morris K. Jesup, Gardiner Sherman, Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, Dr. John B. Shober, Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Dr. F. Fremont-Smith, Miss Beatrix Jones, Dr. J. Madison Taylor, John S. Kennedy, George Vanderbilt. Rt. Rev. Wm. Lawrence, 4 STANDING COMMITTEES. Finance Committee : F. C. Lynam, Chairman. Morris K. Jesup, J. S. Kennedy. Entertainment Committee: Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Mrs. W. L. Green, Mrs. A. C. Barney, Mrs. Hall McCormick, Mrs. Frank Ellis, Mrs. W. W. Seely. Mrs. J. M. Taylor. Sanitary Committee: Dr. J. Madison Taylor, Chairman. Wm. Fennelly, Dr. E. J. Morrison. Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Mrs. Clara Norris, J.S. Kennedy, Mrs. Wm. B. Rice. Roads and Paths Committee: Waldron Bates, Chairman. Mrs. Robert Amory, John J. Emery, George B. Dorr, Charles Fry, Herbert Jaques, Miss Beatrix Jones. 5 Committee on Trees: Mrs. Charles H. Dorr, Chairman. George B. Dorr, Mrs. John Markoe, Charles Fry, Mrs. R. B. Potter, Miss Beatrix Jones, J. M. Sears. Village Committee: Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Chairman. Mrs. R. B. Potter, Mrs. J. M. Sears. 6 SPECIAL COMMITTEES. Committee on Bicycle Paths and Newport Mt. Road : George B. Dorr. Committee on Parks : Dr. J. Madison Taylor. Committee on Shannon Park: Dr. Robert Amory, Chairman. Charles Fry, George B. Dorr. 7 Twelfth Annual Report OF THE Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. The twelfth annual meeting of the Association was duly called and held at Lynam's on July 16, 1901, at which meeting the by-laws were amended SO that the annual meeting thereafter would be held on the second Tuesday of September, and on September 10, 1901 the thirteenth annual meeting was held at Lynam's. The interest in the Association and the work done by it was shown by the large and repre- sentative attendance at both meetings. The reports presented at those meetings are printed in this report in full. MEMBERSHIP. All visitors to Bar Harbor, as well as residents, are cordially invited to join the Association. No formal- ity is necessary to become a member. The handing in of a name accompanied by one dollar, to the Treasurer of the Association, Mr. F. C. Lynam, at his office, the Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co., constitutes membership. Life membership, $25. 8 TREASURER'S REPORT. FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING July 16, 1901. RECEIPTS. From Donations $1,633.00 66 Annual Members 90.00 Life Members 20.00 " Interest on Bonds 150.00 $1,968.00 Balance on hand July 19, 1900. 496.22 $2,464.22 EXPENDITURES. Village Committee $ 750.00 Committee on Roads and Paths 588.32 Committee on Trees and Roadside 700.00 Bicycle Path 200.00 Expenses 104.17 $2,342.49 Balance on hand July 16. 1901, $121.73 The Treasurer has in his hands bonds which cost the Association $2.166.65. Since July 16, 1901, the receipts of the Associa- tion to October 1 have been about $2000. 9 REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. REPORT OF THE TREE AND ROADSIDE COMMITTEE. The work of this Committee has extended out in various and quite different directions during the past year. It has in the first place carried on its usual work of tree-planting in the village it has, next, made the experiment of planting trees for future shade along the narrow strip of grass between the road and side- walk along a good part of that portion of Main street which extends out from the village toward the be- ginning of the Schooner Head Road. If this experi- ment succeeds, as there is good reason to think it will, it will prove an important one as it will within a few years, as the work is carried on, lead to connect- ing the shady path systems that lie outside the village upon either side with the village itself by more or less continuously shaded walks. Another matter to which this committee has given thought and work, as it also did last year, is the establishment of an efficient system of surface drainage for the broad, flat piece of low-lying ground in the town which extends from Cromwell's Harbor Brook to the South Street region, and westward; it regards this drainage as of great 10 importance for the present and still more for the future health of the town, an opinion in which it is strongly supported by the town's health officers who have stated it as their opinion that the accomplish- ment of this work is of the first and vital importance. The sum of $2,500 was accordingly appropriated last March by the town for initiating the work and was placed in the hands of the road commissioner, by whom it will be begun during the present year. Yet another piece of work accomplished this year by the committee is the opening of a piece of new road in continuation of Ledgelawn Avenue, running through the valley of Cromwell's Harbor Brook to connect with the Harden Farm Road, built two years ago, which will materially shorten the distance as well as lessen grade for people driving out from the cen- tral and western portions of the village over the Otter Creek Road, and also give the village a shorter and more easy access to the bicycle path and the fair ground. Your committee has also been instru- mental during the past year, in obtaining the removal of the town's stone crusher from the Schooner Head Road, where it was a source of much annoyance to some of the owners of valuable property lying opposite to it upon the shore, as well as a disfigurement to the roadside and an injury to the salable value of the valuable land that adjoined it upon Strawberry Hill. The town has now acquired land of its own for this 11 purpose from which a practically indefinite supply of stone can be obtained at a decidedly lessened cost, SO that the change will tend materially to the gradual improvement of the roads about the town. A foot path has also been opened up through the woods by this committee, from the Otter Creek Gorge to near the commencement of the new road built by the town at Otter Creek last year, a distance of from two and a half to three miles in length, and running on the western side of the water-shed to the creek, where remarkably level grade can be obtained throughout, and it is hoped that. with the consent of the owners of the woodlands that it passes through, and the sup- port of those interested in horseback riding, that an easy and attractive bridle path, the only one that seems at present to offer itself in the neighborhood of Bar Harbor, may erelong be built. Work of the usual nature for the improvement of our more important roadsides near the town, such as the removal of dead trees and broken limbs and other similar work, has been carried on by your committee so far as its funds would permit; and steps were also taken by it in the fall looking to the establishment of a continuous and pleasant sidewalk leading along Eden street and connecting the town with the system of foot paths beginning at Duck Brook, an important link which remains to be completed in our path sys- tem, but the narrowness of the roadway and the 12 unwillingness on the part of some of the owners along the line of it to co-operate in the work made its im- mediate postponement necessary. Respectfully submitted, GEORGE B. DORR, for Committee. REPORT OF ROADS AND PATHS COMMITTEE. All of the paths and trails had more or less work done on them last autumn and again this spring, special at- tention being given to the path along Duck Brook, the Canyon Path, and the path running by Aunt Betty's Pond. A new path has been laid out from the road in the Gorge, near the base of Picket Mountain, to the Dry Mountain Path back of Otter Creek. Also a new path has been bushed out up Jordan Stream to the pond, and one from Lower Hadlock's Pond to Upper Hadlock's Pond, to connect at one end with the Hadlock's Brook Path up Sargent Mountain, and at the other end with the paths leading to Northeast Harbor, and to the Northeast Harbor golf links. The matter of the care of the paths, now that the system is substantially complete, was considered last autumn by the path committees of the three Village Improvement Associations on the Island, with the re- sult that the Seal Harbor Association agreed to keep in repair the paths in the neighborhood of Seal 13 Harbor and Jordan Pond, and the Northeast Harbor Association the paths in the neighborhood of Northeast Harbor including the paths in that section leading to and up Sargent and Jordan Mountains. The rest of the path work, much the largest part of the work, is to be done by the Bar Harbor Association. A new path map has been published this summer, a small special print of which has been made for distribution with the reports of the Village Improve- ment Associations. Your committee is of the opinion that although an appropriation as large as that made last year, $500, could be spent to advantage on the paths, SO large an appropriation is not absolutely necessary this year ; that $350 should be appropriated for this year, in addition to which an appropriation of $50 should be made for the small path maps above referred to. WALDRON BATES, Chairman. August, 1901. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON BICYCLE PATH. Extensive planting has been carried out this year along the sides of the open portion of the path, to give them beauty and to give shade to the path in the near future. The trees used were mainly ash trees, which seemed well suited to the soil and to the 14 end in view; they were planted thickly and irregularly, in order to obtain rapid growth and to get an effect in harmony with the naturally wooded character of the rest of the path; these trees were all planted in the fall, except where a number were broken by a winter storm and had to be replaced this spring, and they are all now making good growth and doing well. Portions of the path from which striking views of the mountain are obtained have been left unplanted with trees, however, and along these as well as along the whole length of the bank that covers a drain upon the western side and protects the path from overflow by surface water from the higher ground above, the ground has been prepared with fresh loamy material and seeds of wild flowering plants of low growth have been sown to give the wayside beauty. Vines of wild effect have also been planted along the fence that separates the path from Robin Hood Park, wherever opportunity offered and where it was not hidden by the growth of trees. The opening of the extension of Ledgelawn Avenue to connect it with Harden Farm road which has been brought about this year by the Association's Tree and Roadside Committee with which this committee is practically associated, will shorten the distance from the central and western portions of the village to the path decidedly, giving them an almost straight road leading to it with easy grade throughout, besides . 15 offering an alternative route for those who wish it. Your committee also reports the path as in good con- dition and, save in these respects, unchanged since previous years. Respectfully submitted, GEORGE B. DORR, for Committee. July 9, 1901. REPORT OF VILLAGE COMMITTEE. This committee began its work early in the spring by putting the village graveyard in good order, leveling up some of the graves that had settled, straightening headstones that threatened to fall, and enriching the turf with fertilizer and grass seed. On June 3rd the regular work of keeping the streets tidy was begun, and is still going on. Mount Desert street has been thoroughly gone over six times; Main street, from the Mount Desert Nurseries to Mount Desert street, three times ; Wayman Lane, Hancock street and Atlantic Avenue, three times; Eden street, twice as far as Duck Brook, and once more to Mr. Gurnee's east line, Eagle Lake road, as far as the entrance to the old Club house, twice, also Cottage, West, High and Bridge streets and Holland Avenue, each twice. The smaller streets have been gone over at least once, and oftener in parts which needed especial care. The 16 grass was mown once along the path which runs beside the Schooner Head road, as far as the path extends; the path leading from the Field to the shore was re-gravelled and mown, and part of the shore path repaired and re-gravelled. $15 was again paid to the lessee of the base ball ground, to insure that no disfiguring posters should be put upon the fence sur- rounding it. The Hospital grounds and those of the Grammar school were also put in order, the gate-posts of the graveyard filled with plants, and the yard itself kept close mown and well waterea. If more work seems to have been done in the part of the village which lies next the sea, rather than that which is on the bay, the reason is that in the latter neighborhood there are many large places kept in good order by their owners, whereas the village is more crowded, and there is always rubbish scattered in the ways which lead to the shore. Up to September 7th, two hundred and forty days work for men had been paid for by this committee, and fifty one and a quarter days for a one-horse cart. For seven weeks a boy was employed to go about on a bicycle all day, and collect the loose papers which are SO unsightly, but at the end of that time he grew tired of what would have been a pleasure if there had been no idea of work connected with it, and he refused to go on, nor could the committee fill his place. The committee feels that it has been fortunate in having still the 17 same foreman, James C. Grant, who has been de- voted to its work, and zealous for its interests. Through his efforts $31.70 has been collected, in small sums, for work done on the grounds of residents. which is more than ever before. Beginning the season with a balance in bank of $656.00, the com- mittee has spent $565.24, and has a balance in hand of $90.76 with which to finish the work of the year. 18 APPROPRIATIONS. The following amounts were appropriated to the various committees for the year 1902: Committee on Roads and Paths, $400.00 Committee on Trees and Roadsides, 700.00 Village Committee, 700.00 Bicycle Path and Newport Mountain Road Committee, 200.00 Shannon Park Committee, 75.00 Suggestion having been made that the amounts appropriated for the use of the various committees amounting in the aggregate to the sum of $2075. might be more than the amount in the treasury avail- able for distribution it was therefore on motion duly seconded. Resolved:-That in the event of the amount in the Treasury as on October 1, 1901, falling short of the aggregate amounts appropriated as above that they shall abate proportionately. The Association desires to express its thanks to the proprietor of Lynam's, to whom it is indebted for the use of his parlor for their monthly meetings. All of which is respectfully submitted. A. H. LYNAM, Secretary. 19 ANNUAL MEMBERS. For year ending July 19, 1901. Alley, Mr. Albion P. Dennison, Miss Jane P. Anderson, Dr. A. Derby, Dr, Anderson, Mrs. A. Derby, Mrs. Hasket Baker, Rev. W. O. Dorr, Geo. B. Baker, Mrs. W. O. Dorr, Mrs. Chas. Berry, Miss Draper, Miss Lucy How Biddle, Mrs. Henry J. Drayton, Mrs. Biddle, Miss Christine Edwards. Mrs. J. P. Bowen, Mr. T. J. Fry, Mr. Chas. Bowen, Mrs. T. J. Fry, Mrs. Chas. Bridgham, S. W. Green, Mr. Chas. S. Bridgham, Mrs. S. W. Hale, Mrs. Geo. S. Brigham, Mrs. Hodgkins, Mr. Asa. Bunker, Dr. D. W. How, Mr. Chas. T. Campbell, Miss Rosalie C. Ketterlinus, J. L. Carpenter, Mrs. Miles Ketterlinus, Mrs. J. L. Cary, Miss J. M. Kittredge, Mr. R. H. Chapman. Dr. H. C. Linzee, Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. H. C. Linzee, Miss Clark, Mrs. Wm. Luquer. L. McI. Cushman, Mrs. E. C. Luquer, Mrs. L. McI. Davis, W. H. Lynam. Mr. Fred C. Davis, Mrs. W. H. Maitland, Mr. Alex. Deasy, L. B. Maitland, Mrs. Alex. Dennison. Mrs. Wm. E. May. Mrs. J. F. 20 Mears, Mr. E. B. Potter, Mr. Austin Meserole, Mrs. J. B. Prime, Miss Cornelia Meserole, Mr. A. Reynolds, Mr. B. C Miller, Mrs. Fanny M. Sanders, Miss Annie N. Minot, the Misses Sanders, Miss H. W. Morrison, Mr. M. C. Schauffler, Dr. A. F. Norris, Miss Dorothea Schauffler, Mrs. A. F. Norris, Miss Fanny Stevens, Julia C. Norris, Dr. Chas. Thorndike, Dr. A. Norris, Mrs. Frances A. Thorndike, Mrs. A. Norris, Mrs. J. Parker Torrey, Miss A. D. Opdycke, Mr. L. E. Washington, Miss E. C. Opdycke, Mrs. L. E. Washington, Mrs. Herbert Opdycke, Mrs. Emerson Watson, Mrs. H. M. Paine, Mr. R. H. Wescott, Mr. Geo. L. Parsons, Mr. Herbert Whitney, Mrs. B. E. Parsons, Mrs. Herbert Wilkins, Miss M. L. Potter, Mrs. R. B. ANNUAL MEMBERS. For year ending July 19, 1902. Bates, Waldron Norris, Mrs. Frances A. Bowen, Mrs. Joseph T. Opdycke, Mr. L. E. Bowen, Mr. Joseph T. Opdycke, Mrs. L. E. Hale, Mrs. Geo S. Opdycke, Mrs. Emerson Keyser. Miss Potter, Mrs. R. B. Meserole, Mrs. J. B. Stevens, Miss Julia C. Meserole, Mr. A. Weld, Mrs. C. M. Norris, Miss Dorothy Wild, Miss Norris, Miss Fannie Wilkins, Miss H. C. Norris, Dr. Chas. Wilkins, Miss Maria S. 21 LIFE MEMBERS. ($25.00) Barney, Mrs. A. C. Gurnee, A. C. Bergner, C. William Goddard, F. N. Biddle, Mrs. H. J. Godwin, Parke Biddle, Miss Christine Gurnee, Miss Delie E. Bowen, Mrs. Joseph T. Hardy, Mrs. Alpheus Bowler, Mrs. Geo. P. Hart, Mrs. H.C. Carpenter, Mrs. Miles B. How, Charles T. Coles, Edward Hoyt, Reuben Condon, Mrs. T. G. Jackson. Mrs. C.C. Crafts, Miss Mary Jaques, Herbert Derby, Dr. Hasket Jesup, Morris K. Dickson, L. Taylor Johnson, Samuel Dorr, Mrs. C. H. Jones, Mrs. Cadwalader Dodge. Wm. E. Jones, Miss Beatrix Dodge, Mrs. Wm. E. Jesup. Mrs. Morris K. Dorr, Mr. Geo. B. Kennedy, John S. Duncan, W. Butler Kingsland, Mrs. Mary I. Duncan, Mrs. W. Butler Leeds, Mrs. M. E. Emmons, R. W. Livingston, Johnston Emery. John J. Longstreth. Dr. Morris Emery, Mrs. John J. McMillan, Hugh Fox, De Grasse Macy, Mrs. Caroline L. French, Miss C. L. W. Matthews, Mrs. Nathan Fry, Mrs. Chas. Minturn, Miss Louisa Gurnee, Mr. W.S. Mitchell, Mrs. S. Weir 22 Markoe, Mrs. James B. Sears, J. M. Newbold, Clement B. Sears, Mrs. J. M. Newbold, Mrs. Clement B. Sears, J. M. Jr. Norris, Mrs. Joseph P. Sears, Miss Helen Ogden, David B. Seely, Mrs. W. W. Peabody, F. H. Sharpley, Rufus E. Peabody, Mrs. Annie P. Sherman, Gardiner Pendleton, Edmund Sherman, Mrs. Place, Mrs. George Smith, C. Morton Price, Mrs. Emily M. Smith, Mrs. E. A. Pulitzer, Joseph Smith. Miss Josephine Rice, Mrs. W. B. Vanderbilt, George Robbins, Mrs. Geo. A. Vanderbilt, Mrs. George Scott, Mrs. Thomas A. Whitney, W. C. 23 DONATIONS. Ketterlinus, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. - $ 25.00 Newbold, Mr. and Mrs. Clement B. - 50.00 Emery, Mr. and Mrs. John J. - 100.00 Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. John S. - 100.00 A friend - 25.00 Norris, Mrs. Frances A. - - 5.00 Jesup, Mr. and Mrs. Morris K. - - 50.00 Bass, Col. E. W. - - 10.00 Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. S. - - 5.00 Livingston, Mr. Johnston - - 25.00 de Laugier Villars, Count and Countess 10.00 Dorr, Mrs. Chas. H. - 25.00 Dorr, Mr. Geo. B. - - - 25.00 How. Mr. Chas. T. - - - - 10.00 Draper, Mrs. W. P. - - - - 5.00 Draper, Miss Lucie How - - - 5.00 Fry, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. - - - 25.00 Cushman, Mr. E. C. - - 5.00 Coles, Mr. and Mrs. Edward - - 25.00 Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. - - 100.00 Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. - - 25.00 Smith, Mr. and Mrs. C. Morton - - 25.00 May, Mr. Frederick - - 5.00 Wright, Mrs. C. K. - - - - 10.00 Collected from hotels, - - - 29.00 Opdycke, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. - - 10.00 Opdycke, Mrs. Emerson - - 5.00 24 Luquer, Mr. and Mrs. Mcllvane - $10.00 Mitchell, Dr. and Mrs. S. Weir - 25.00 Lee, Mr. W. H. L. for 1900 & 1901 - 20.00 Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Burton - - 5.00 Carpenter, Mrs. Miles B. - - 25.00 Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar - - 25.00 Sears, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. - - 100.00 Hewitt, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. - - 10.00 Dodge, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. E. - - 50.00 Jones, Mrs. Cadwalader - - - 10.00 Trevor, Mrs. - - - - 20.00 Gurnee, Mrs. W.S. - - - - 25.00 Gurnee, Mrs. A. C. - - - - 10.00 Gurnee, Mr. and Mrs. Walter - - 5.00 Fabbri, Mr. and Mrs. E. - - 10.00 Gibson, Mrs. H. D. - - - 5.00 Robbins, Mrs. Geo. A. - - - 10.00 Jackson, Mrs. Chas. Carroll - - 50.00 Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. W. Butler - 50.00 Schieffelin, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. - - 10.00 Hardy, Mrs. Alpheus - - 25.00 Thorndike, Dr. and Mrs. Augustus - 10.00 Amory, Dr. and Mrs. Robert - - 5.00 Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. John - - 25.00 Biddle, Miss Christine - - - 5.00 Van Nest, Mrs. Alexander, - - 15.00 Banks, Mr. and Mrs. A. Bleecker - 25.00 Gray, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. - 25.00 Maitland, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander - 25.00 Morrill, The Misses - - - 25.00 Markoe, Mrs. John - - - - 10.00 Markoe, Mrs. James B. - - - 25.00 Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Burton 25.00 25 McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hall - $25.00 Thorndike, Mrs. Quincy - - - 15.00 Crocker, Mr. and Mrs. Uriel H. - - 25.00 Minot, The Misses - - 5.00 Derby, Dr. and Mrs. Hasket - - 5.00 Lawrence, Bishop and Mrs. - - 10.00 Seely, Dr. and Mrs. W. W. - - 25.00 Smith, Mrs. E. A. - - 10.00 Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. J. Pierpont - 10.00 Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hennen - 10.00 Fox, Mr. and Mrs. DeGrasse - - 5.00 Hone, Mr. and Mrs. John - - 10.00 Jones, Miss Frances - - 10.00 Rensselaer, Mrs. A. Van - - 5.00 Gerard, Mrs. - - - 5.00 Hinkle, Mr. and Mrs. Howard - - 10.00 Auchincloss, Mr. and Mrs John W. - 10.00 Matthews. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan - - 5.00 Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. - 10.00 Patterson, Judge and Mrs. - 5.00 Livingston, Mr. and Mrs. John C. - 25.00 Addison, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. - - 5.00 Carr, Mr. and Mrs. Lucien - - 5.00 Joy, Mrs. Frederick - - 5.00 Rice, Mrs. William B. - - - 10.00 Pulitzer, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph - - 100.00 Green, Mr. and Mrs. W. Lawrence - 25.00 Wright, Mr. and Mrs. S. Megargee - 5.00 Collected from Louisburg - - 1.00 Collected from Marlborough - 2.00 26 CHARTER. CHAPTER CLXXXVI. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BAR HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- tives in Legislature Assembled as follows: SECTION I. Parke Godwin, Fred C. Lynam, Wil- liam 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. 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 Har- bor Village Improvement Association, for the purpose of instituting and maintaining public improvements in the village of Bar Harbor and other parts of Mount Desert Island. 27 SECT. 2. For the purpose of its incorporation 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 none upon its individual members; and to make by- laws not inconsistent with law for the regulation of its membership and its government. SECT. 3. The first meeting of this corporation 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 ap- proved. 28 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 and to encourage artificial improvements by the ornamentation of the streets and the public grounds or the village, by plant- ing and cultivating trees, erecting tasteful buildings, clearing and reparing sidewalks, lighting streets, and doing such other acts as shall tend to beautify, adorn and be for the convenience of the village therefore we, the undersigned, have formed ourselves into an association and agree to be governed by the following By-Laws No. 1. NAME. The Society shall be known as the BAR HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. No. 2. BOARD OF MANAGERS. The Board of Managers shall consist of not less than thirty nor more than fifty members, of whom 29 one-half may be ladies. and all of whom shall be elected by ballot or other method provided by vote of the corporation at the annual meeting, and shall hold office until their successors are elected. They shall hold a regular meeting on the second Tuesday in July, August and September of each year, at which meeting reports shall be presented by the Treasurer and by the Standing Committees. Special meetings may be called by the Chairman or by one of the Vice-Presidents. The President and Secretary of the Association shall act as Chairman and Secretary of the Board of Managers, and shall be ex-officio members of all standing committees. The Board shall have power to fill vacancies in its own number or of officers occuring during the year. This Board shall, except as herein provided, exercise all the powers of the corporation and may delegate its powers to any committee or officer. It shall annually ap- point from its members six Standing Committees, i. e.: Finance. Entertainment. Sanitary. Roads and Paths. Trees and Planting. Village. These committees shall consist of not less than three nor more than seven members of the Board; 30 but the Entertainment Committee shall have power to add to its numbers from the managers or from the Annual Members of the Association. No. 3. 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, and by any other means not conflicting with the duties of the Entertainment Committee. This committee shall also audit the accounts of the Treasurer, on or about the first day of September in each year. If at that time there shall be found in the hands of the Treasurer a surplus of money beyond the estimated disbursements for the ensuing winter, such surplus shall be invested at that time in market- able and interest-paying securities. Such securities shall be bought and sold subject to the approval of a majority in number of the Finance Committee. Entertainment Committee. It shall be the duty of this committee to arrange and provide for any festivi- ties or entertainments that may be thought advisable for raising funds for the use of the Association. Committee on Trees and Planting. It shall be the duty of this committee, under the authority of the Board, to secure the removal of dead wood and under- 31 brush, and to give directions for planting trees, shrubs and vines. Sanitary Committee. It shall be the duty of this committee to examine into the condition of the water the disposal of garbage, the sewers, drains, tenement houses and localities generally likely to become sources of injury or contagion, and to report to the Board of Managers, and if necessary to consult with the town officers. Committee on Roads and Paths. It shall be the duty of this committee to examine into the roads, and to report upon the same, whenever it deems a report thereon to be necessary; and to lay out, keep in repair and mark with signs, cairns and pointers the paths and trails over the mountains, and through the woods on the Eastern part of the Island, or such of them as it shall deem expedient, and SO far as it has funds for the purpose. Village Committee. It shall be the duty of this com- mittee to keep the streets tidy, by trimming the borders between the sidewalks and roadways, cut- ting grass and weeding, and removing such loose paper and rubbish as is not collected by town officials. It shall also have the care of the village graveyard. The Standing Committees shall meet at least once a month during the summer and shall elect their 32 Chairman yearly at the first meeting after the annual meeting. No. 4. OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. The officers of the Association shall consist of a President, three Vice-Presidents, Treasurer and Secretary. They shall be chosen from the Board of Managers and shall be elected by ballot or other method provided by vote of the corporation at the annual meeting. and shall hold office until their suc- cessors are elected. (A provisional election may be held of a Board of Managers and officers to serve until the annual meeting in 1891.) No. 5. DUTIES OF OFFICERS. SECTION 1. The President shall preside at all of the meetings of the Association, and in his absence one of the Vice-Presidents shall perform the duties of the office. SECTION 2. The Secretary shall keep a correct and careful record of all the proceedings of the Association in a suitable book, have charge of the books, accounts and seal of the Association, and give notice of all meetings. SECTION 3. The Treasurer shall have charge of all money and other property of the Association, and 33 shall make a report at each meeting of the Board of Managers, and an annual report to the Association at its annual meeting, pay the bills which shall be approved by the President, one of the Vice-Presidents. the Secretary, or by a member of the Finance Com- mittee. No. 6. MEMBERSHIP. SECTION 1. The members of this Association shall consist of three classes : Annual, Life and Honorary. SECTION 2. Any person over fourteen years of age by the payment of one dollar annually, and any child under fourteen years of .age who shall pay the sum of fifty cents annually, shall be a member of this Association for the current fiscal year, which shall end the third Tuesday of July. SECTION 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 person a life member of the Association. SECTION 4. Honorary members may be constitut- ed by a vote of the Association. SECTION 5. All members of this Association under its former organization shall be members of this Association. 34 No. 7. MEETINGS. The annual meetings of the Association shall be. held at some convenient place in the village of Bar Harbor, on the second Tuesday in September in each year. Notices of said meetings shall be given by posting in two places in Bar Harbor, and by advertising in any newspaper published in Bar Harbor, the previous week. Other meetings of the Association may be called by the President and shall be called on written request of five members of the Board of Managers. No. 8. SEAL. The corporation shall have a seal bearing its name and date. "1891." No. 9. 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 con- tract or debt of the corporation. No. 10. QUORUM. Eleven members of the corporation, seven mem- bers of the Board of Managers, or three of the members of any committee, shall constitute a quorum, and a quorum being present a majority thereof shall control. 35 No. 11. 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 proposed change shall be given in the call for the meeting. No. 12. ORDER OF BUSINESS. Reading minutes of preceding meeting, and action thereon. Report of Treasurer. Reports of Standing Committees. Report of Special Committee. New business. Bar / Harbor Historical Society L129 from Ked C Lynami Cu