As the cott age era came into its own, the hotel age went into decline. In 1888, there were 18 hotels in Bar Harbor that could accommodate 2,500 guests. The local hotel moguls included the four Higgins brothers, Fountain Rodick, Captain James Hamor, and Tobias Roberts. Bar Harbor became the so-called “watering hole of the east,” with endless social events, parties and receptions. Many of the best-known families from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington and Baltimore, who had one of the 175 summer cottages here by 1890, had to make an appearance. Bar Harbor, without even trying, altered Maine's nickname from the “Pine Tree State” to “Vacationland.” No longer is fishing or forestry the largest industry in the state, it is now tourism.