Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1912-08-28
QUEEN OF SUMMER RESORTS.
Newport Must Yield to Bar Harbor
in Comparison of Attractions.

I From the Bangor Commercial.
Newport is always before the public
in many. ways, and just now some OF the
residents there are finding it necessary
to come to the rescue of the resort in
view of many things that are being
written about it. In one article we note
that the writer refers to Newport as the
greatest of summer resorts because of its
natural advantages. To this we must take
exception. Newport may draw the great
est wealth, it may have the most expensive
cottages, but in the way OF natural advan-
tages it must yield to Bar Harbor by ma
ture the most attractive and beautiful OF
all.
The isle of Mt. Desert offers multiple
ity of advantages to the tourist and the
summer visitor and cannot be equalled.
Where else can one find the combination
of sea and mountain, of equable and de-
lightful climate, cooled in the heat of the
summer by the fresh breeze from the
ocean? Where else can one find SO beauti-
full drives with such enthraliing scenery?
Where else can one find such pure water,
such freedom from noise and turmoil,
such haven OF rest and yet affording all
modern entertainment for the seeker after
it?
In speaking of Mt. Desert island,
Former President Eliot, of Harvard. said:
1.-THE summer travel to LIT. Desert is
chiefly due to four things: The cool and
equable climate, the beautiful conforma-
ton OF the island, the liability for
sailing and fishing of the waters which
surround it, and the roughness and Wild
ness of its hills and shores. The island is
by far the handsomest piece of land on
the Atlantic coast of the United States
its hills being the highest on the whole
coast, and its valleys being cut low be-
tween the hills"
For more than thirty years the first peo-
Pile of the land, intellectually, politically
and socially, have been coming to Bar
Harbor and the other resorts on Mt.
Desert island. They have witnessed an
extraordinary transformation from the
little down-east fishing hamlet, but the
resort of to-day has the same attractions
of the little hamlet and more of them.
1t has the same towering mountains with
peak 800 feet above the sea; it has the
same pure air and water; the same stretch
of ocean dotted with its myriads of emer-
aid isles; the same turquoise surface or
restless rushing waves as the case may be;
the same lakes and ponds, the same woods
with their wild flowers and wild fruits.
These are not changed, for they are
changeless.
summer resorts. There is the Swimming
club, the Kebo club, with one of the most
picturesque and attractive golf links in
the country; the Building OF Arts, mag
nihcent in design and of q charming,
simple beauty where are heard the fore
most artists in the world of song; the
Mt. Desert reading room; the new Country
club, the Pot and Kettle; the beautiful
Robin Hood park, where the horse-show
| is held-a horse-show that for beauty of
surroundings yields to none; the athletic
| field; the delightful new public library
building; all these and many more are the
attractions OF Bar Harbor. There can be
added the water supply from one of the
purest of lakes; the up-to-date fire de-
partment; 800 miles of beautiful drives,
forests and over the mountains for
pedestrians.
Such is Bar Harbor, which, like no other
summer resort, has kept its pristine attrae-
tions while to them have been added the
modern means Of enjoyment. There is no
other Bar Harbor, no other isle OF Mt.
Desert, and it is not surprising that the
culture, wealth and intellect of the nation
continue to centre at Names famous resort.