The Pine-tree coast . tains of Mount Desert, New York six hundred miles away from NewYork. You meet again with the rustling of dresses, the contused hum ofconversations and steps, the offensive splendor of artificial lights, the obsequious A BIT OF BAR ISLAND. 30G THE PINE-TREE COAST. and wearied features of traffic, the skilful display of the shops, and all thesensations you wanted to leave behind. A person who had not visited Bar Harbor for fifteen years would have toturn often to the mountains, the sea, and the islands to convince himself thathe was really standing on the site of the puny v
The Pine-tree coast . tains of Mount Desert, New York six hundred miles away from NewYork. You meet again with the rustling of dresses, the contused hum ofconversations and steps, the offensive splendor of artificial lights, the obsequious A BIT OF BAR ISLAND. 30G THE PINE-TREE COAST. and wearied features of traffic, the skilful display of the shops, and all thesensations you wanted to leave behind. A person who had not visited Bar Harbor for fifteen years would have toturn often to the mountains, the sea, and the islands to convince himself thathe was really standing on the site of the puny village of that day. Withoutdoubt, it is the most notable example of rapid growth New England can showin this direction, and unless all signs fail, it bids fair to hold a proud pre-eminence as the capital of polite life, the mustering-place of the pleasures ofthe world of fashion.* It is curious to observe, however, that while fashionable people came hereto get away from the crowd, they have drawn the crowd after BAR HARBOR, FROM BAR ISLAND. But what was it that first drew these fashionable people here, — the peopleof cultivated taste, travelled people, refined people, who know Nice and Naples,and Monte Carlo and Venice, and are not easily carried off their feet by thenoisy applause,pf the claque? Twenty-two years ago Bar Harbor began to draw to it a little of the travelthat, before that time, had centred wholly about Southwest Harbor and thatshore. It came overland, by way of Somesville, at first; for there was then nowharf at Bar Harbor at which a steamer could land. Tobias Koberts, who wasthe pioneer landlord here, built the first public house, the Agamont, in was also the storekeeper and general factotum of this out-of-the-way littlehamlet. Daniel Bodick, the owner of Bar Island, built soon after Boberts; andso late as 1874 there were, perhaps, twenty buildings all told, strung out atintervals along the lane then leading down to the landing-place—thos
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