Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-20
bar Elarbor.

Hay find, ready market here at so
per ton.
Our communication with the outside
world by way of boat has now been reduced
to once week. The boat is we'll loaded
with freight each week.
The sleighing has been very good for
the past few days. and has been well en-
ployed both for pleasure and business. One
day last week there were counted over TWEEN
" teams, most of which were double. hauling
ice
The Berry Brothers are having their
hay stored in their stable here to be used
next season.
Mr. c. +. Howe of Boston and Mr.
Sherman and wife are spending the winter
here The latter are stopping at their sum
mer residence at Crom wells Harbor.
Mr. Dorr has six men employed in re-
moving trees from the forest TO his farm for
shade trees. Holes We're dug to place them
in before the ground froze. They tried the
same experiment last winter with very good
succe SIS.
The week of pray er was abseryed here
last week by hold NJ meetings in the Union
church each night. Although the church is
without settled pastor the members, with
the aid of those who have come into the
place to work, have for the past two months
sustained a PRAYER meeting twice week.
Jan. 10. y.
NJ. Editor In your paper of last week,
| noticed an article on the Bar Har-
Dor Water Co. should like to say a few
words through your paper in reply to the
same. We are perfectly willing to admit
all of the first part of that letter, in regard
to the growth of this place, and We are also
willing to admit, that the Company has
| been very great help towards making this
place what it now is. We also honor the
push and energy of those few MEN who
founded this Co. or what was supposed to be
stock Co. when a charter was granted it a
few years ago. But it is now the property
of one person and is controlled by the same.
And any sound minded person, who stopped
| in Bar Harbor last season can rot fail TO see
| that new Co. is needed, unless a great i'm
provement is at once made in the manage
ment of the old one. For many reasons.
One is the pipes that bring the water here
are not of sufficient size to furnish water
enough for use during the summer months !;
another, that the fountain head is not high
enough to bring water here with sufficient
force to carry it to the hight that is needed.
| In the summer it cannot be carried above
| the second floor, excepting in few Of our
| hotels that are located very low, and as the
| hotel keepers have to pay so much for each
room in their house fol this water, any one
can at once see that they have to pay for
what they do not have. There were times
during the last season that the flow of water
stopped altogether. THIS places the hotel
keepers in a very hard position, with two or
three hundred boarders, whose rooms must
| be supplied with water, some of which
must be carried up four flights Of stairs,
beside the supply for bath tubs and water
closets. Your correspondent would have
! YOU understand that nothing has been said
to the controller of the old Co, that any ima
provements are needed. But this is not the
case, almost every man that signed the petit
ton for new Co. has been to the above
mentioned individual with complaints that
there was not enough water to supply them.
Should the new Co. be successful in obtain
ing charter they intend to bring water
from Eagle Lake in an entirely different
way than that in which it is now brought.
They intend to make the Lake, or near there,
| the fountain head which is by actual survey
two hundred and seventy feet above sea
level The starting points now only eighty
feet above the level of the sea. The new
Company intend to bring the water direct