New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-02
THE EARLY SEASON AT MT. DESERT.

ATTRACTIONS OF REMOTE RESORT-SOME EhhLi
ARRIVALS.
IFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
BAR HARBoR. Mt DESERT, Me-. July This
remote corner of the Eastern wds. which has so re-
Gently gained the favor of fashion, to-day. at last
assumed ITS summer gulse Until now the hotels
have been deserted, though during the past two
weeks the steamers have brought numbers of cot
tage owners. These dash gayly through the streets
in their light village carts, but the buckboards have
been standing unhlred, and melancholy has clamets
Bar HarbOr for her own until to-day which ushers
in The season. Now visitors will hear the cheerful
tinkle of the banjo at dewy eve and their eyes be
piaddened more than occasionally by the red para
sois which form part Of the livery OF the place
Many names hitherto only among the fire.
onenters OF Newport, down as having rented
cottages here for the season. Colonel Delaney
Kane has taken the cottage of the Rev. Mr. Letting
well OH Mt. Desert-st.. and his family Is ex-
pected soon. David Ogden of Ogden & Frost and
Gardiner Sherman have already arrived also,
j. Montgomery Sears and De Haskell Derby, of
BOSTON, The latter will occupy his new residence
on the bay shore near I. u. Mussrave's Birch
Forest.
Mrs r. b. Scott and Oscar Scott, of Baltimore,
have Just moved into their new house on Maiden
HILL This affords the most extensive view in the
village Water will be supplied from an enormous
tank seventy or eighty feet below the level OF the
house and pumped thence by means of steam.
Among other cottagers expected are Senator
Hale's wife and family and Mrs. Chandler Mr.. and
Mrs Walter Kane, Mrs. ID. Ii. Haight. Mrs. ID. Oily
phant Vail and daughters.
The Portland and Rockland steamers are now
running regularly, leaving Portland every week day
except Thursday at lilo p. m. Fer those who do
not mind hard travelling the journey of 500 miles
l.. ,,Ii oh in aho lOurS
BY leaving New-York or Philadelphia in the morn-
ing and Boston at p. H.. connecting with the
Lewiston or City Of Richmond at Portland Bar
tarbor may be reached at noon the next day. A
slower but less fatigung journey is by way OF Fall
River to Boston, thence by rail to Rockland Me-,
where second night is passed. and the connection
with the Portland boat made in the morning There
il also a little steamer called the Mt. Desert plying
between Rockland aud Bar liarbcr.
In Bar Harbor the march of Improvement is going
ON steadily The sound of the hammer and axe Is
Il, ard in the lard, and many old building is re-
ceiving "A new dress OF paint, for which the thrifty
owners will probably demand extra triile of rent
Prices have gone up since last summer. and In con-
sequence some graspng natures have been lett III
the Iurch with unrented cottages. New plank side
walks have been laid, and there are several new
stores with rooms above, to let Rodcks has bios
sou,ed out in new piazza along the north front of
the honse, twenty feet WIDE. The Rodick boasts OF
400 sleeping rooms i'll the hotel besides the cottages
en- dependence, and claims the proud title OF the
largest hotel in Maine. huge caravansary 1T is
indeed and those who remember he Babel OF voices
and crush of human kind on its plazzas during
the past season, find cause for humble thank
fitness to the fates who have cast their lot this
wear in a more tranquil spot. Other hotels
there are. as well kept, among which may be ill.,
stanced I,ynam's, and the Des lie. The West End
Hotel an imposing erection with fine view OF the
wafer impresses a new conner tayOrably II has
All the modern improvements" but has not yet
rancd the fancy of the old Mt Deserters. who with
siaunch fidelity remain true TO their hosts fol
old
lhe wagon road up Green Mountain has been
r,,Jr onlie impossible by ths spring torrents.
From The slow loisscrGlIr nature OF the children
of ne soil there l. no knowing wnen it will be re-
paiied The true son of Mt Desert is supremacy in
Iti.rout TO the lapse OF time. For him, tomorrow is
thc letter day. and there Is no use IN trying TO re-
deem the evil present. Neither Tor love nor
money will lac hasten MS leisurely movements and
ONE can no more PIN him down for chores mo
ul.ut before he chooses than pussy can catch the
tail winch whishs gayIy past her eyes