Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-03-25
MAINE DISPATCHES.
BAR HARBOR PROSPECTS.
A Very Prosperous Season Confidently
Expected.
5ome OF the Changes and Improve
ments on tho Tapis.
BAR HAKBOR, March "a.

BAR HABBoR, March "a.
Bar Harbor is waking up into activity as
the spring opens. Predictions are hardly in
order as yet, but there is general feeling
that If the weather permits, Bar Harbor is to
have, the coming summer the most success
full season in its history.
This view is no, confined to Bar Harbor
people either, but is freely expressed by
Boston, Philadelph and other outside par
ties, whose opportunities for learning the
tendency Of popular feeling are the best. so
in anticipation the hotels are beginning to
get ready.
Inquiry for cottages is better than it has
ever been before so early in the season. Of
course not every inquiry results Immediately
in lease, but several cottages are already
leased for term of years, some at very good
rates. At the hotels the booking clerks are
just beginning to let rooms. In some there
is a great demand, and at others the rush has
not yet begun. Probably everybody viii be
gla to know that Col. f.. F Shepard Of
New York has really leased the Howard
place, "Mossley Hall" for a term of years.
The most expensive cottage built this sea-
son belongs to A. C. Barney of New York,
/
of the hill overlooking Eden street. This
cottage, now nearing completion, will cost
$50, 900 or S35 900 probably. The other
cottage is n far less costly b5ildlng. for Mr.
NAV cf Washington, ID. c., and is situated
| on STRAW berry Hill. 1t will cost $4,000 or
$1,000 II il the first building on the
beautiful and desirable tract of land forming
the top of Straw berry Hill. This cottage is
now completed,
In church building there has been a sort
of boom during the past two years Now
the ConSrcgauonalists and Initarians are
each getting ready for summer occupancy,
handsome houses of worship. The Congre-
gationalist church is large, low granite
building with vestry connected. 1t is to be
handsomely flushed, will seat comfortably
SIX hundred pc pie, and will probably cost
$4,000 when complete. The Unitarian
church is building that will cost about hslf
as much as the stone church but will be
very attractive little building, with its novel
front ard odd tower.
In the way of new business enterprises
The most Important is probably the extension
of Roberts wharf. 1t is intended to double
its capacity by carrying it out so as to give
it $40 foot lead and aud reach point where
! tn, re is twelve feet of water at low tide.
! This will enable the larger steamers to land
/ passengers and freight safely and easily.
4 The Plant Steamship Company that gave
/ such general satisfaction with the direct Bos
ton boat last summer expects TO put a
steamer on the line about the middle of
June. There is also talk of line from
New York to St John, consisting of 1900
ton steamers that will touch only at the larg
er places along the coast.
The Consolidated Electrical Association of
Maine will make a great improvement n the
/ line of electric lighting as well as motive
power by the Introduction of storage batter
/ les. The bait, ries will enable the Bar Har
Dor Illuminating Company to furnish lights
to cogtagers at Hull's Cove, five miles dis
TAFT The association already has the bat
teries doing satisfactory work two and half
miles from their plant in Ellsworth. The
Bar Harbor Record will be printed after
April st by the aid of a motor. There is
some talk of electric moters in the West
End and st Sauveur to operate the eleva-
tors. This same company intends to put in
q plant at Sorrento this season. There will
be an arc machine to run the street lamps
and an incandescent machine for house =
lighting
The Bar Harbor Illuminating Company
now has in more than two thousand incan-
descent lamps. and will probably increase
the number to twenty-five hundred before
/ the current year passes.
Several of the hotels are undergoing re-
pairs. The West End is being repainted
and the same is promised regarding the
Rodick. The Bar Harbor Water Co. will
extend its mains and add more hydrants.
An improvement that will add much to the
best interests of the place is the proposed
breakwater to extend from High Porcupine
Island to the shore
With the change of administration there is
a revival of the hope that the present incon'
venient post office will give place to some
room more suitable in size and arrangement
for the heavy summer business of the place