Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-09-03
May I Speak 2"

Another season at Bar Harbor is nearing
its end, and the restless pleasure seekers
are folding their wardrobes, packing their
trunks, and stealing away to new scenes.
but to the same restless seeking after ex-
element, sensation and not happiness, but
what is called pleasures not content, for
in the fashionable swim, petty jealouses
and envious wranglings are part Of the
life. and we are told that sort of thing has
run high at Bar Harbor this season; not
peace. for peace does not come with end
less flying from one diversion to another,
so, pleasure perhaps, but not happiness.
for 1t does not enter the soul without peace
and content.
One would be interested to know who
has really derived any satisfaction from
abiding through this summer In that love
~ place, which despite all that has been
done for and against it still has that which
God stamped it with from the first, grand
inspiring beauty. Some have scoded
about the weather because it was too cold
or too hot, others have found fault with
the wet when it was rainy or foggy; the
traders. with few exceptions and those the
TO the inner man, have shown dissppoint-
ed, discontinued faces. The hotel Keepers
have for the most part grnmbled at empty
rooms and short weeks. those who were
not in the fashionable kebo Valley Club
life have been Disguised with the sameness
and lack of excitement to " hich they have
felt doomed, and those who seemingly
have all things at their command still ind
among themselves food for discomfort.
When one looks back upon the old days
which are not so far back, only about
twenty years, one l. struck with sorrow
that the real life has gone out OF Eden.
In the days when intellectual. artistic, ed-
ncated people sought the lpyclineS- 81 that
Eden, the simple suitable. comfortable
gown was the correct one, the siAple
pleasures which every one could eujoy
without stint Or hinlraucc, each In BIZ
own Way, we're also the correct ones and
the partiCipatur were sent home re-
frc>hcd, heart, hrain and body where now
il is not -. Let " hope some real
faike" still frequent Bar Harbor, but their
voices are not heard 10 The din sud they
are not maxim. a show Of themsc selves, but
are, We hope, enjoying the natural beau
Ties Of the place, for Il would be \ pity
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When such desire a- The following, cot
rom Bal Harbor pal er, is expressed be-
ause felt a a public need. We are fam 20
cry ont, To " hat base uses -
What W. hope 10 see printed in Bar liar
Dor advertisement, of the future, let me
say in the near future:
Bar larbUr'> uhic garden i well known
- faNorite place Of Amusement. This seq
ION 1t has been rr>look ed " llh many rare aui-
mails. birds and plants. There are wings sud
living horses for thr children; chairs snd tables
under the shade trer-. From the observatory
most beautiful View rAu be obtained Of the
surrounding coast. There |, sl,oa -plendi
pavilion Tor dhncing. Two performances
every day at the theatre and two new shows
every ~ctA.
When netting like that can be an
nouuced a. experimenting the natural at
fractions of the place We may look for
crowded hotels ahd longer seasons.
And yet much more could We say but we
refrain because It makes u too sal for ut
terance and also because we wish to say a
WORD ABOUT the nava! arllI As one Of the
SIX hundred vino sailed on the steamer
'l'ette 70 witness the na'a1 dri!l orr cyl
Icncc docs not coincide with the reports
81 the various press correspondents winch
We ha'e seen some ~ them We know
were ny 'Aetc, one AZ least VINO No DOUBT
sem ~ detailed account of me ahAir oe-
i"fe u vas accomplished was seen "a
steam iAHhch gong HI al entirely opposite
directions perhaps 'he Wa me one whose
report SAID the eN'.utlpns ended With
sn"hi H1h' "ne' there Wa hol even an AZ
tempt al anything OF ne 'oFt, ana evident
~ There mad not been the 7Hghtest irten-
ton oi having sham night, Snch inten-
tIon advertised Ia the same way ~ some
one who did nos know was the means of a
Harbor on "Wednesday, for although to see
the ten "aTshlps sieanins over the bay
Was grand sight, Vet an interpreter WAS
uecded to understand the evoiutions at
short range it may be 4 better idea OF the
movement could have been obtained from
a longer distance. If one could have
known the meaning Of the signalling which
WAS CONSTANTLY gnins nm nv haos it wouId
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