New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-07-27
read the date-1Sl5-and realize that you have been

read the date-lSi5-and realize that you have been
fretting a relic of the past.
Finally the widow decides that you can have the
accompany her down the narrow street narrow
on the port side-to the little cottage You find
that she has locked up every other room.
But We need all the rooms to accommodate
friends who are coming later you protest
Yes" says the widow, handy but I've always
You reach compromise on that eyentq bn ana ana
the parlor and points to the beautiful ingram
we never walk on this carpet with our shoes
she says. land I'll have TO ask you to spread
papers around when you want to walk or else use
Provincetown is divided the question of sum
rooms to let want the boarders to come; the other
half mostly the Portuguese fishermen. would IKE IKE
TO see a fish factory erected the beach-the
smell from which would make the old town I'M
Last year a company talked Of erecting factory
on the Cape and O: those most alarmed was
'Old Man. Lewis. who has a bathhouse on the
beach. ..,..
and make em keep that factory OFF the beach, ne
said to his friends .,,- o,., ,,o,,,rg,n tbev
''Well" says he. Il lowed if the factory stays
away I'll keep on making money out of the sum
mer complaint, an if it comes III want to sell hsh
typical it of Provincetown thrift and craftiness.
The village people have new name Ior une
and tremendous appetite. They call them the
summer boarders-al mouths and st9 9 ems IN the
Down on the wharves where tney airy zoo aebing
fall and where the fishermen loaf when the nsh.ts
-
Il caught goOsefsh onct drawled man vs wno
before he settled down a quiet life as bayman,
Il caught a goosefsh onct an from him | took
cod that was big the g9osefsh what n had
swallowed him For fart t t the SGg weighed
The captain OF a Provincetown schooner mas as.
well developed sense Of dramatic effect according
They We're sailing toward Boston in big storm.
bunk below and all sails set. She got keeling oyer
so far that the mate was frightened and cahed
Suppose we'd better take in some Of the rags"
The captain squnted at the straining canvas and
went back INTO the cabin He re eb dec Win
when the water gets up TO this here mark pun
down the topsails," he said and went pack 10
sleep. They were at last forced to anchor on a
beach covered with summer houses, ana inns 10
Didn't mind long as shingles came blowing
up along our way nut %meh tsey 60 70 near lime
to move. Might well be drowned on shore as at
old girl got the top of big wave and held on We
landed in the middle of some farmer potaso Pa1c
an it was the deuce gettin' her off when the storm
TbeW neTsr battle in it, and wonder that
the city folks insist on a dip in the ocean.
"You couldn't get me into the ocean, said one
oi I'd have rheumatics down sure" They never
say sure the Cape without using the other
A man said that chiIls and fever the sure
effect of bathin'. His cousins wife, who Was
city woman herownself" died from them; Not
much; you don't catch me takin' no bath, ne SAID
as he walked away from the beach.
Although artists
dence and Philadelphia have been swarming to this
quaint old Cape town for years, the natives are not
not believe that finished work be done in the
open air and wonder that the painters waste so
t to%n. time over INT '''i''l''' 60 -,
Charles w. Hawthorne. Of New,York: has con con
Quoted an art school mere tST enn1ce OF
1--WE got fine chair up to my house that maze
all myself" said one Of the Cape carpenters. I've
sanded her down until she's as smooth as glass.
I'd like to have you her"
The artist called day or two later and was
'All she needs now" said the native, us fne
coat Of varnish. But I'm goin' to get an expert to
AS Hawthorne was leaving the man again re-
ferred to the chair by asking: say you De a
painter maybe you could sort of recommend some
one 10 varnish the chair" - IL, -.
perhaps. maybe you sometimes 90 something
along that line yourself, was the native next re-
mark, but the painter did not take the commits
day boat from Boston brings several HI. hundred d
excursionists to Provincetown each me gay ana
one the first things they ask TO see is the Ishu-
ing place of the Pilgrim Fathers II Is marked oy
a memorial stone erected py the Ooh IIp Vi
Massachusetts in front of the Town Han.
movement is under way to buld larger AM, ana
organized OF those who contribute large sign
on one the little stores near the present memo,
rial tells that subscriptions are received there aHu
certificates membership to the cape COO fIleIiIn
Association issued Anv person OF go8a character
who pays into the treasury not less IMAM q may
become life member ~. ,.ss ~ =
A tourist perty from the west heaoed oy q, "a
wealthy German brewer and his VIE, came TO
Provincetown last week for a day Inc wie sa"
the sign and went INTO the store ,,,,o,,o, >. ant.
she and here is $40. Make me member"
With beamIng face she came out d le" minutes
LAT waving certificate.
I'm a Cape Cod Pilgrim Daughter, she cried
Just wait till get back 70 i;f fc we Mil
whether those snoppish Noioh''i Dai''e9 WIN
we fix EN- said her husband in decidedly Ger,
man accent. and they returned 10 the eAculsioh
boat happiest of pilgrims