The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-16
SEAL HARBoR CELEBRATES.
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Seal Harbor celebrated, September
End, the founding of the resort and its
first settlement hundred years ago by
James Clement, who came down from
Mattawamkeag in a batteau with his
family and household goods, and settled
in the sheltered cove which has grown
into SO prominent summer resort.
Seal Harbor is an ideal spot for sum-
mer resort, but it was many years before
it reached its present standard. The ven-
cradle pioneer settled at the head of the
charming cove, just above handsome
sand beach which is now the pride of the
place. His descendants have been leading
citizens of the resort and own valuable
property there.
The red letter day for the resort was in
1882, when the steamboat Mount Desert
made her first stop at the little wharf.
She was welcomed by the aged pioneer
with an original poem and basket of wild
flowers for the officers, and the raising of
the American flag on the pier. Mr..
to wealth and prosperity of his snug little
settlement, whose beginnings he was per-
mitted to see.
Both hotel and cottage life grew, and
during the last half dozen years the resort
has numbered some of the foremost names
of the country among its summer resi-
dents.
Mrs. Marcus A. Hanna was one of the
leading spirits in the celebration. She
gave ner yacht for the day, and band
concert was enjoyed from the water, the
yacht, handsomely decorated, sailing
around a myriad of decorated boats, the
band playing all the time. There were
fireworks galore, and Seal Harbor cele-
brated its hundredth anniversary in blaze
of glory.
Exercises were held in the afternoon at
the handsome new fountain which is to
commemorate the centennial. A good
sized gathering of summer and permanent
residents surrounded the fountain, and it
was unveiled. The fountain is natural
boulder, set close to the Glencove hotel,
where the road turns to run around the
head of the cove, forming central
square. The Seal Harbor fire company
gave an exhibition drill and run.
Brief speeches were made by Prof.
William Adams Brown, Of the Union
theological seminary, New York, and
Charles Clement, grandson of the orig
inal settler and founder of Seal Harbor,
and an original poem by Prof. C. H. Toy.
Then the gathering Joined in singing
America the fountain was unveiled
and the water turned on. A band con-
cert by the Bar Harbor cadet band was
rendered on the Glencove lawn for an
hour.
The evening celebration was hand
some one. Practically all the cottages,
wharves aud points Of vantage on the
shore were decorated with Japanese Ian
terms, the two hotels were ablaze with
lights and lanterns, and every craft in
the harbor was decorated with strings of
flags and lanterns from stem to stern.
The band, in large motor boat gaily
decorated with lights, led long process
sion of decorated boats round and round
the harbor, and gave concert of nearly
two hours at various points in the har-
bor. Quantities of fireworks were sent
off from float in the harbor and the
various cottages along the shore.