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any Of them.
ITO hell with the mountain" said
one stubbled fire-flghter on the line
above Seal Harbor. Even If it all
burns, the only way it can burn is
up"
North of here, $500 feet down, you
can see the dim moonlit outlines Of
Bar Harbor. AS elsewhere on the
island, the fire crept through the
brush and the grass there, burning
houses in its path-leaving the
trees standing.
Passed Plants in Garden.
When 1t got to Miss Helen Jones
summer place, for instance, 1t passed
up the plants in her garden, and its
only effect on the big whispering
pines seems to have been to make
the needles smell sweeter. But 1t
crept across the lawn and up to the
house-now there Is only patch OF
white ashes around chimney.
Miss Jones lives in Mclean, Va,
during the winter.
DR.. James F. Mitchell, 1874 Nine
teenth street NV, lives next door
to Miss Jones in the summer. His
house suffered the same fate.
So did Glynhill, the Har Harbor
home OF Ralph w. Snowden Hill,
who lives at $500 Branch road NV,
in winter. Other Washingtonians
who have lost their Bar Harbor
homes include Mrs. Anna Arch
bold, 1905 Reservoir road NV, and
Mrs. Draper Boncompagni. who is
staying at the Mayflower Hotel.
Many Summer Homes Spared.
Not all those who came here year
after year from Washington have
Jared so badly. Pentunia Cottage,
on West street, which belongs to
Thomas Bell Sweeney of 1918 @
street NV, was spared. So were
the summer homes of Mrs. Marshall
Langhorne, 2211 r street NV; Mrs.
Chandler Hale, 2310 r street NV,
and Mrs. Nancy Jerome, 32l7
Klingle road NV.
Mrs. Peter A. Jay. 1911 Twenty
ninth street NV, has a place IN
Bar Harbor called "Breakwater'
which she rented last summer to
Mrs. Dwight F. Davis, 1901 Foxhall
road NV. That place, too, is un-
damaged.
There are a lot more Washing
tonians around today than Is usual
at this season. Up here on top OF
the mountain, talking hurriedly
into the radio microphone in his
squad car. is Maine State Trooper
George Mansell, who lived at Rhode
Island and Fifteenth street IN
washington while working for the
FBI during the war.
With communications disrupted
on the island, he is receiving mes
sages from police cars down below
and relaying them all over the
State.
ID. C. Man Helping Firefighters.
In a little hut beside the base
ball park, in the outskirts OF Bar
Harbor, Is Lawrence F. Cook, 1924
Sixteenth street NV, assistant
chief forester of the Interior De-
partment's National Park Service,
who flew up Thursday to help CO.
ordinate firefighting on the island.
At the moment he probably is
catching a badly needed nap. An
hour ago he was hunched over a
map with Maj. Gen. Robert M.
Webster, commander of the 1st Air
Force, figuring out the best way of
deploying 1000 Army firefighters
from Dow Field, in Bangor. For
esters Robert B. Moore and WILDER
I. Savage, both Of Richmond, Va,
were helping them.
So was 1t. A. Abbott, pilot at
Dow Field whose mother, Mrs.
Adeline Abbott, lives at I'll Upshur
street NV.
Red Cross Workers From d. C.
Red Gross workers from the
Washington area include:
Colin Herrle, 10 Aspen street,
Chevy Chase. Md, national admin
istrator of the Red Cross Disaster
Service, in charge of overall opera
tions, who is surveying the fire areas
in Maine.
Albert Evans, BOIL North Third
street, Arlington, working at Au-
gusta; Clarence Rowland, 1904
Sixty third avenue, Cheverly, Nd.
at Ellsworth; Walter Wesselius, 1921
Beechwood circle, Arlington, at
Portland; Ray Schaeffer. Brandy
wine, Md, and Dan Riordan, Alex
andria, Va, both at Biddeford: Miss
Jane Kicker, 201S I street NV. at
Bangor, and Henry Baker, Coral
Hills, Md, Red Cross disaster direc-
tor for Maine fire areas, at Bidde-
| ford.
| Mr.. Cook confirmed the fears Of
native Mount Desert Islanders that
the fire already has done more DAM
age to the wild scenic beauty OF this
place-a part OF Acadia National
Park-than is now apparent to the
eye.
Most Of Trees VIII Die.
Spruce trees In burned areas still
look healthy, but Mr.. Cook says al