New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-08
THE BAR HARBOR SEASON.

HOTEL FEATUREs-cO1IAGE RESIDENTS.
frRos AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
BAR HARBoR, Mt. Desert, Aug. 5.-The
march OF improvement has neglected Bar Harbor;
many things there is still holding on TO the old
customs and early habits that Il trne pathetic This
Ia most apparent In the hotels The majority owned
by their propetor and raised here who are slow TO
adopt new notions and fashionable follies. For ex
ample the Marlboro, house having for Its ancestor
the old Deering Hotel has aesthetic exterior with
tower and gablesa Is Altogether pretty
There Is appearance Of early English
In the makeup OF the Marlboro intensified by the name
itself it is hing to the maid come 10 the
front door and ring the big bell for dinner The MARI
boro about 100 guests The West End has
gone 30 far adopt 5 o'clock dinner against the
oldlme MONDAY meal, and printed bill OF fare. and
has electric BELLE gas and elevator II Is very Queen
Anne In architecture and the interior Is aesthetic In
cooring The clerks dignity has city exclusiveness
lropetors formerly kept the Falmouth the lar
gest hotel In Portland. popular house Is the Rodick
and managed by the Rodick family natives Of the
island II Ia the largest hotel IN Maine, having grown
from time 10 time little Inn with capacity for
forty persons to the present honse accommodating 100
The duing IeLed last year VIII seat 1000
guests comfortably. This communicates with music
dancing hall 100 feet long. this In turn
opens into drawngroom seventy five fectlong andtns
into the Office with broad main stairway and halls. AL
these rooms except the dining open on piszzas
But there electric Ill IN the house. Gentle
hammered, owvoceo girls render quiet agreeable ser
vice at table They New-Engand girls speaking tue
English language correctly, and by belonging
TO the class commonly known 4 servants.
Oscar Wilde would feel much encouraged could he see
the numbers yo1ng here wearing knee treecheS
This is the rule hereknee breeches stockings
and blouse coat OF wo0lleD goods In grays and
bues 30 far,bowever, Bar Harbor Ia without dude
the town Is yet too small for him Nov and then one
the very fashionable young who dresses for
breakfast again for dinner aud again for IL evening
But she brought trunks full of clothes and must wear
them She would hardly be observed at Saratoga but
she Is conspicuous here No resort. however
small escapes travelled family. Ia after
they sit down 10 dinner every guest within hearing
knows they have been TO Europe. I'VE couldn't hnd
this you know IL Rome y or IL was much bstter In
London = or Paris Is the only oSm w.srs ,ney xno
mgnty dollar crops ont rs larger part OF their pos
There arc seyety cottages here the majority OF
Them real cottages But dozen or more are as
natural beauty OF the grounds ias been retained ana
ssfe Is LITTLE artificial oinanentatIon - NJ.
Dsserl-sl. called the Ash cottage.
otner on tnis are Mrs Lawrence
pufj OF sew-York Mrs. j. PendiefOD aud MISS Omar.
otte Pendleton, OF Phadelpbs Quincy Thorndike and
iamy OF Boston, and DR. Robert Awory. OF Brookiine
Mrs. ueDerai sherman, Win her daughter and tao
cLneh
Among the cottsger on the Bay shore Mr.. and
BODY, OF Cambridge Mass.
Iho.ias Is. Musgrave and family OF EewYork, are al
cottage one OF the most elegant residences
nere bowling alley with stone tower overlooking
ths sea has llsl been completed BY Mr. Musgraye.
pr; ana Mrs William r.. Cochran, OF Yonkers are at
sao fefneest cottage; and II. A. Grant, jr OF Fairy
town y slG on the bay Shore.
On Edrfl-st. DIR. William Tod Helmuth and family
neye the Hiuce cottage.
Ma Eawsrd l. shuIon and family, and Mrs. d. Il.
aekse q Washington, have cottages Tor the season
M and Mrs.. Edmund IL. Pendleton. Of Cincinnati
ere NJ the isagatelle cottage.
p5 Mrs Henry Winter Dsvi& Of Baltimore has tia
hodlck cottage No. /.
John Dc koven nnd family, Of Chicago are 1T the Man
ing c0eg<, and Gardner Sherman. .eW- YORK; has ths
oisngord0n cottage ~ ogd MS Point
Among tho cottxgcrs on Wayaan Lane are Professor