The Pine-tree coast (1891) (14782244872)

Identifier: pinetreecoastdra00drak (find matches)
Title: The Pine-tree coast
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905
Subjects: Maine -- Description and travel Atlantic Coast (North America)
Publisher: Boston. estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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ot 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 1867.Roberts 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-place—those for thepublic being flimsy, hastily built structures, half furnished and half finished,kept by fishermen or farmers turned landlords for better profit; because, as oneof them very honestly said, he could make more money out of one summer
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