people; management continues this practice today. The kept a number of carriages of all sizes, from a four-in-hand brake to a small "basket phaeton", and the local children would watch the road to see them drive by. Each Sunday the drove to St. James' Presbyterian Church in West Covehead , to attend service, and Mr. MacDonald donated the hymn books used in this church at that time. The whole set-up at Dalvay was a source of wonderment to the people of Tracadie , Stanhope and Covehead ; a great contrast to then- own simple, even frugal, lives. There was never any problem getting extra help; people were anxious to work at Dalvay, and not only for the money, but to see how the other half lived. The had one daughter, Beatrice, who married Edmund K. Stallo , a lawyer and son of the American Ambassador to Italy under President Cleveland . After her death in 1895, her two little daughters were brought up by their grandparents, spending the summers at . Laura, the elder, married Prince Francesco Rospigliosi of Italy , and her sister Helena became the wife of Prince Michel Murat of France. Alexander MacDonald died in i910 in , California , leaving his fortune of $15 million, and Dalvay, to his granddaughters. Edmund Stallo was his executor; he was unfortunate in his investments, his second wife and daughters were extravagant, and practically all their fortune was lost. ( Stallo was committed in 1940 to a public State Hospital in California at age 78 and died 16 March 1948). The last visit to Dalvay by any of the family was in 1915 when Prince and Princess Rospigliosi were here. The house was then looked after by caretaker William Hughes and his wife Rose, formerly Princess Laura 's personal maid; they lived nearby, in the house now the Park administration office. With the family fortunes in eclipse, no one seemed interested in keeping up the property, and William Hughes eventually bought it very reasonably. After a few years he sold it to William O'Leary of Montreal, a brother of Bishop O'Leary . The new owner used it as a summer home and during this period most of the furniture was shipped to Montreal and elsewhere. Mr. O'Leary sold Dalvay to Captain Edward Dicks , a noted rum?? runner of the 1920s and 30s, who made various alterations and renovations, and in 1931 opened it as a summer hotel, with 30 bed?? rooms and 6 baths, and new access roads. Captain Dicks went bankrupt and Dalvay passed to the Hon. George DeBlois , Lt.- Governor at that time and one of Dicks' chief creditors. He in turn sold it to the Federal Government as part of the in 1937-38, and donated a further 15 acres in front of his summer home to the Park. James MacFadyen , President of the North Shore Hotel Com?? pany, leased and operated the resort hotel from 1939 to 1946, after 212