The Pine-tree coast . ount Desert, New York six hundred miles away from NewYork. You meet again with the rustling of dresses, the confused hum ofconversations and steps, the offensive splendor of artificial lights, the obsequious BIT OP BAK ISLANI) 30G TUK IINE-TREE COAST. and wearied features of traffic, the skilful display of the shops, and all th(»sensations you wanted to leave behind. A i)erson who had not visited Bar Harbor for fifteen 3ears 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
The Pine-tree coast . ount Desert, New York six hundred miles away from NewYork. You meet again with the rustling of dresses, the confused hum ofconversations and steps, the offensive splendor of artificial lights, the obsequious BIT OP BAK ISLANI) 30G TUK IINE-TREE COAST. and wearied features of traffic, the skilful display of the shops, and all th(»sensations you wanted to leave behind. A i)erson who had not visited Bar Harbor for fifteen 3ears 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 tlie most notable example of rapid growth New England can showin this direction, and unless all sighs 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 {Vishi(»nal)l< ])eople came hereto get away from the crowd, they have drawn the crowd after BAR HAKHOli, FROM BAR ISLAND. But wliat 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 of 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 Avay of Somesville, at first; for there was then nowharf at Bar Harbor at which a steamer could land. Tobias Roberts, 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 Rodick, the owner of Bar Island, built soon after Roberts; andso late as 1874 there were, perhaps, twenty buildings all told, strung out atintervals along the lane then leading down to the landing-plac
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