The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-03

The Massachusetts, Bureau Of Labor Sta
tistics has been trying to earn Its money
by investigating Cape Cod, a portion Of the
world which has endured much and will
not be permanently disabled, wen by a
Bureau Of Labor Statistics. It Is not known
what the cape thinks of the bureau, but the
bureau thinks i'll of the cape. II the statis-
tics hunters are right, the cape Is in a bad
way. The main object of the sea used to be
TO let the Coddcrs catch fish In 1t. They
fish no more. Somewhere in the dark back
ward and abysm of time a native Of this
town met a man Of Provincetown In Har-
witch, or was 1t Hyannis7 "If you van to
see a real live place." said he Of Province.
town, "come to Provincetown." Alas, Prov
incetown, like Rome, is not what 1t was.
The marine railways are rotting. Popula-
ton decreases. All over the cape tho
natives are getting out and immi-
grants are coming in. Which shows that
the immigrants have more sense than the
natives. Let us not blame the latter, how
ever. Most Of them are Presidents of
banks, or monopolists of some sort or other
in Boston. The SAND of Cape Cod is
s%prinkled over the highest.pointed escutch-
cons in the city of the three hills and the
crown of brass.
There is nothing in the report OF the Blu
reau of Labo Statistics about the retired
sea captains of the cape, a set Of gentlemen
outclassing in variety and interest any
other known variety of a%rticulate speaking
men. If they are all dead, who is alive7
What tales they had to tell and how subtle
were their nostrils to the impending
changes of the wind. Some of them used to
patrol their little yard as If it were a quar-.
ter deck. Some of them, in front of houses
bristling with the skeletons of whales,
searched sea and land with telescopes.
No man has seen what wrath Ia unless
he has seen a retired Cape Cod cap.
tain, whaler, or sweeper of the China seas
give a candid opinion of steamers and the
fellows who run them. Ask the Archbishop
of Canterbury for his private opinion about
d~issenters, and you might hear something
of stately disapproval. Ask n Cape Cod cap
tain for his opinion of steamers, and you
would get "A hurricane.
Personally WI don't care a rap for the
Bureau of Labor Statistics. So long as
one sea captain survives on Cape Cod
it will not be depopulated. 1t may be
that the salt sheds have fallen in and
that there is no windmill left unit,
you come to Canton and the Hon. ELIJAH
ADAMS MORSE, but the cape Is all right
All the people in it are related, except the
Indians and the Portugees, and there art
not more han six names of gentes in each
town. Elderberry wine, Good Templars
lodges. and sound Republicanism prevail
And the people know a thing or two abou,
sailing boats. and have many valuable idea.
about fish.
Various m%onopolists are making or los
ing money in the cranberry bog line OF
Cape Cod, and the farming business is no
bad there; and IL the place is really LOSING
inhabitants, we advise folks in these partl
who want to live in IN original and at
t~ractive community to go right to Barnsta
BILE county, Mass. There must be some o
the captains left, and there is a very goot
sea and there is a lot Of genuine American
citizens who fear GoD and never heard O
the Goo Goo movement in politics.