Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-08-30

One Of the eunmsr Show Places Of
The Country.

One Of the sunnsr show Places Of
The Country.
rFtow ~ xssssseeu yeusNeJ.I
wAvunail habitasion ioe poor psssona."
That IL Aow ths diosisaAzy dsanss . cot
,.gs. In Bar Harbor they diner from the
hook which tails ~ ths meaning Of words
and how to spsll cosrsctly. Around this
n,.cs structures costing tens Of thousands
Of dollars, requiring scores Of servants and
surrounded BY many ACRES requiring
more servants. and owned by men who
-eckon their fortunes In millions- those
thsy designate ~ cottages.
why they do Il, after the late lamentsd
and much respected Noah Webster has de-
creed that cottage shall BE- small habit
alton for poor persons, passsth compre-
hension, but thsy do.
Possibly Webster IVES In error. May II
not be that what he said Of the cottage
was intended for what We usually term .
mansiou? II 90, then the term, ~ used
hsrea bouts, u fitting. Whether cottages
or mansions, however, viii have little Of
feet on those who inhabit them or the
people OF Bar Harbor whose living de-
pends much ON thsss same cottage man.
sions. To thses e matters little what
hey are termed - long q they all the re-
quiremsnts put upon them, 90 they will
continue to b. called cottages.
And this much being settled, lot 1t b
set down u this placs In the story that Bar
Harbor long sincs ceased TO b hotel
summer resort. Not that the hotel 10 mot
here, for II ID, bat the hotel life has gone
some hat out Of fashion. This 10 . cottage
resort, and has bssn for many ysars. To
the people OF tbs placs this 10, on the
whole, rserstabls. They would like to see
both the cottages hire and the nourishing
hotels. They hops the hotels will return,
but no one darss predict they will. In the
recent addition TO the Malvern hotel cost
ing 100000 many profess 10 sss the dawn
Of . new era, or rather the return Of an old
one.
In the carly days II was different. In
those times this was . place Of hotels.
There were many Of them. They were
great, ram-shackls old wooden atruct-
ures. At that time, they wVs considered
decidedly swell. Most Of them have been
RACED. 1t 10 sxtremsly difacult even to
find anyone who can show the old hotel
sites. In their places have been reared the
stately summer homes called cottages.
These cottages with the lands surround
ing them represent the expenditure of
millions, while each year it costs sddi-
tional millions 10 keep them up.
# has been said OF Mt. Desert Island, on
which Bar Harbor Is located, that 1t is q
great red rock rising out Of the Atlantic
Impressions gained OF the island tend to
confirm it. Its shores, for the greater part
and this 10 true OF every foot of the water
FRONTS great rocky promontory. The
rock has . peculiar reddish color, and Is
scanned and assured, broken and crum-
bled in . manner which makes it pic
turesque and attractive to the eye OF an
artist.
These rocks take on strange and weird
shapes, have odd markings and do queer
things. There's thumb rock, 20 called
because OF its fanoied resemblance to
human thumb; the spoutins horn, the
anemone cave, thunder cave and Schooner
Head. All of these gain their names from
something real or fancied which makes
the title appropriate.
But back ct these rocks are the noun
tains, showing their tops thousands OF
feet about the IsveI Of the zee. While
their submits are reached BY easy drives,
1t is possible for the person who delights
in mountain climbs to satisfy his ambition
by seeking new and untraveled routes to
their highest points. These mountains
are covered with . green and black
growth and are visible for miles and
miles inland and ct So.
While surf II not . daily visitor here, 1t
is frequent, and when 1t prevails, none
more beautiful or more terrific 10 to be
found on the Atlantic seaboard. On those
days when the great foaming pillows dash
upon the rocks, and break and swirl upon
the shore path, always great crowds are on
hand to witness the splendid display.
One Of the spots Of interest Is Schooner
Head. All like to visit it, because it is
great structure OF rock rising out OF the
ocean, showing the scars which centuries
Of beating and pounding BY old ocean,
both in its calm and angry moods have
produced. This alone would well repay
anyone for the drive to the Head, but the
best way to view It Ia from the sea. Then
1t IL that the SCHOONER head" 10 seen.
Sailing close in shore, that 10 to say, a.
close - the steamboats, 60, big white
stain 10 seen upon the lace OF the big
ledge. 1t is Of irregular shape, much -
though giant had thrown great bucket
Of whitewash at the rock, spsttering ifs
thers. Move out further and the
stain takes form. II II the rough outline
Of schooner under aail. Go further and
the roughness gives placs 70 symmetrical
liuAa and than vou - WhY thHv OnIl II