THOMAS EWING 

 Attorney at Law 



1 60 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 

 April I, 191 8. 



Hon. Swagar Sherley, 

 Chairman, Committee of the House 

 Upon Appropriations, 

 Washington, D.C. 



Dear Sir: 



I am very much interested in the plans of the Interior De- 

 partment for the development of the Sieur de Monts National 

 Monument for which an appropriation is asked from Congress. 

 I have been going to a place bordering it on Frenchman's Bay 

 for many years. No section of the country is better suited to 

 giving opportunity for rest and recreation in the summer to large 

 numbers of people of moderate means than Mt. Desert Island. 



It lies within easy boat and motor reach from great business 

 and industrial centers as far south at least as New York, and 

 easy railroad reach from many states. What is needed is to make 

 its points of interest and beauty readily accessible and to fit it to 

 be a place of residence of a simple kind for the multitudes of 

 people who live where they can come to it. 



It also seems to me that this is a time when it is peculiarly 

 desirable to develop our home resources for recreation and the 

 upbuilding of the vitality of the people, particularly of the peo- 

 ple whose lives are cast along somewhat narrow lines and who 

 need to be assisted to get out of the ruts and obtain the uplift 

 and inspiration of a spot like this. 



Respectfully yours 

 (Signed) Thomas Ewing 



