Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-08-25
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
BAR HARBOR, August 22-Do
they flirt at Bar Harbor? Do fishes
natatoriate? It is perhaps regrettable,
in this age of missionary progress that
such deplorable things do happen, but
it is a stern reality at Bar Harbor.
Coy and furtive glances fill the air,
and a pair of speaking orbs are haDle
to greet you around every corner, and
sometimes right out on the street a
long ways from a corner.
Flirting peculiarly prevails at bar
Harbor, even more so, compared to the
size of the resort, than at Newport or
Saratoga. or that ELUSIVE resort, At
lantic City, with its off-trod board
walk; although, perhaps, not ahead,
but Just even with Old Orchard Beach.
The girls at Bar Harbor array them
selves very alluringly, and some OF the
symphonies in white and pink almost
stop the clouds. OF course these things
| don't prevail so much on the Wander
bilt and Astorian high-water mark OF
! society. although it is only kilometer
or two removed from the tOp-notch OF
swelldOm.
One of the busy sights at Bar Harbor
! IS down on the wharf in the evening,
where all degrees of society swarm
from the heraldic-emblazoned disciple
of the au fat to the blarney cOachman,
and the gaily-tOgged-out kitchen me-
chanic with an Scent box OF rouge on
each cheek, all Glowing and hoDnoD-
! bling together in one large jostling and
perspiring whole Steamboat wharfs
and railroad stations are great Jewelers.,
and nowhere is this more clearly eXem-
plified than at the down-east resort.
About the wharf, along the business
| section, and the more popular prone
nades. there is a swarm of people, and
the promenading is kept up until late
hour, the cessation not being Yerp ap-
parent until near midnight. The more
strictly society people hold the fort eY-
cry night, or rather morning, until
nearly two or three o'clock, and such
establishments as cater almost eXclu-
siyely to them have to strike the same
pace. Sleep don't figure in IT. very
much at Bar Harbor. The people wrap
themselves in things more material
than the figurative arms of Morpheus
And speaking of sleep, it is rather re-
markable that all through the sum-
mer season at Bar Harbor, there is
scarcely a warm night Overcoats and
heavy wraps have to be dOnned nearly
every evening, and in the minds Of
many it is really too cool for that free
dom and abandonment that should pre-
vail at a summer resort. There is no
economy on blankets at Bar HarbOr.
An occasional sea turn raises merry
havoc with the bangs.
The exclusiveness among the upper
circles is painfully apparent. a per-
son stopping at a hotel in the business
part of the resort sees little of Bar Har-
Dor. The cottages are long ways from
the business section, in some cases
three or four miles, and they are so nes-
tied in among trees, vines, hedges ana
shrubbery. that it almost takes guide
and a compass to find the house after
you reach the grounds. Some OF the
cottages are a full eighth of mile IN
from the gateway. And in riding along
the road it is often only the roof OF the
cottage YOU see. like beholding the tops
spears in a spectacular play behind
three-story hat, But you know they
are there and you guess at the rest.
In a few instances the cottages are
out in full view Of the passer-by, and
an excellent opportunity is afforded 10
study the intricate architecture. All
the latest and most ingenious conceits
of construction are here manifest, and
some of the cottages are maryels, those
OF Editor Pulitzer and Banker Kennedy
of New York, costing close to million.
The roads throughout Bar Harbor are
beautifully laid out, as are also the
tourists occasionally, and for fully
twenty-five miles you glide zlong as
smoothly as on a table, unde> an almost
continuous bower OF trees and archWay
of vines, with a diversity OF scenery IN
the distance, over which artists have
often rared.
Way I'D back, several miles from the
resort proper, nestled among the hills,
| is what is known as the kebo Valley
| Club Headquarters, where is located a
casino. race track, and all the tixings
together with their own band and
corps of caterers. None but members
are admitted and it costs them tall
sum. But then they think no more OF
a few hundreds than Sam Harrison
would of the loss of a ferry ticket over
to the Island.
Bar Harbor lacks one desideratum,
so DELIGHTFULLY."- characteristic of other
resorts You can't bathe. Not that
the people don't perform the usual alb
! lutionary exercises, but you can't, with
any degree OF comfort, plunge into ola
| ocean. Neptune rebels. The water is
electrically cold and strikes to the mar
row. And despite the pictures which
sometimes appear in the western pa
pers of the bathing suits seen at Bar
Harbor, the people stick to the old
! fashioned tub 1t is salter in case OF
cramps.
Even were the temperature OF the
Atlantic available for plunge, there
appears TO be no place from
which to make a plunge. The coast is
very craggy, and the picturesque spec
tacle of some nymph of the sea, clad in
a heavenly-tinted bathing suit, scaling
down some cliff, and clambering as
though on egg-shells over several rods
of sharp-pOinted rocks would be good
enough for any strongly constituted
Kodak.
Inc economical ldu appears W III" 9
struck Bar Harbor this season, and
merchants report that customers are
shaving prices down to the fraction OF
a cent It is reported, however, that
Mrs. Vanderbilt is paying the full
price for pepsin gum as she did last
season. five cents, and as yet has en-
tered no protest, although Mrs. DreXel
Morgan is said to be outstanding her
resources a little on ferry fares.
A phase Of social life here. particu-
larly noticeable in the yachting life,
| many of the imnortant amenities tax