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The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-11-28

Joint Agent White and Conductor
c. II. Sanders returned Saturday
from Childress, where they have been
in attendance at court.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-11-28

Conductor Sam Higgins is enjoy
ing a short vacation.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16

L. FL. Hartman is having an additic Il
built to his house. A. o. Jacobson, OF
Somesville, is doing the work.
Congratulations are extended to Mr.
and Mrs. Stillman Joyce and Mr.. ana Mrs
William Morris both are boys.
Schools have reopened after the holiday
vacation. Sidney Young, OF Sheepscot,
teaches the grammar, and Miss Alice Ma
son the primary grade.
The dancing party and supper. given by
the granite cutters union in Granite hall
on the evening of Jan. 5, was attended by
a large assem- blage of cutters and their
wives and numerous invited guests, and
was in every way a brilliant and happy
event. An oyster supper was served from
to s o'clock, after which there was
dancing until midnight Music by Mona
ghans orchestra, of Ellsworth. The event
will be remembered as one OF the happiest
OF the season, all voting the granite cut
tiers jolly good fellows and royal enter
tainers. The committee having the affair
in charge were George Sturk, Walter
SweetIand, George Richardson and Still
man Joyce.
Jan. 10. PEBBLE.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16

the pressure being lateral, the molten
liquid would force itself along existing
cleavage planes and lines OF bedding Of
laminated and stratified rocks, for it must
not be overlooked that all sedimentary
strata upheaved above sea level are bent
and strained, dried and shrunk and in
fltrated everywhere, presenting lines Of
fracture and partings, like masonry on
Cyclopean scale.
On these the molten matter, capable Of
dissolying as well as penetrating, presses
with ever-increasing lnsistence, gathering
force perhaps for years, until resistance
suddenly yields and the fiery liquid is in
jected with terrific disruptive force along
the lines OF bedding. Thus the shocks OF
earthquake which startle civilization and
destroy opulent cities are produced at un-
certain intervals and without warning.
On the west coast of America we are wit
Messing his majestic action in full force
to-day, for the mighty Pacific is slowly
deepening along its eastern margin, and
raising its long shore line into colossal
ridges which now form almost continuous
chains Of mountains.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16
KITTERY TO CARIBOU.

Mrs. Lovisa Cox, Of Harrington, csls--
DRAFTED her 10sth birthday Saturday.
Dexter s. Bailey, one of Dover's oldssb
and best known citizens, died FridAK
aged eighty-three years.
The Fairfield Journal has been sold -
G. A. Lewis and A. F. Greenlief, ok
Waterville, and Chester Burrill, OF Fair
field. A. G. Ladd, the retiring ownezn
has published the paper fifteen years.
At Weeks Mills Friday, fire Destroyer
the building owned by A. r. Burrill ana
occupied by Boynton g. Merrill as a gcD-
eral store, and a storehouse and stake
attached, also belonging to Mr.. Burri1A
The loss is about %, 1000; insurance, $6,5s4.
Ralph Confont, an Italian laborer, w.
found dead on the. street in Rockland last
Thursday night, with two bullet wounda
in his head. He was evidently murdered
Two Italians who lived at the same houss
with Confront, have been arrested on suo-
picion.
Patents have been granted to Maine i'm
ventors as follows: Charles w. Berry,
Portland, apparatus and process for filling
rubber ties with viscous liquids; Edwas&
D. Libby, Westbrook, rolI-stand fnr
spinning frames; Clarence E. WhitmoFs,
Bar Harbor, seal.
The stable of John Watson, hardwaRs
dealer at Houlton, was burned Fridsy
night. The stable was located in the reaR
of the Opera house in the business section,
and for time other buildings were IN
danger. The horses and part of the stock
were saved. The loss is 5000.
Capt. David Fl. Rivers, prominent Ship
master, OF Thomaston, died Friday at San
Diego, Cal. Capt. Rivers went to Cali
fornia less than year ago to recover hi8
health, which was undermined by long
and trying voyage on which he broughe
the ship A. q. Ropes, which was wrecked
in typhoon two years ago near Hiogo,
Japan, from Hongkong to Baltimore, .
distance of about 10000 miles.
Fire at Vinalhaven Saturday morning
caused a loss of $4,000 1t started in tho
grocery store of G. B. Smith, and spread
to frame building owned by F. P. Pease.
The engine house adjoining caught fire.
but was saved. Mr.. Smiths loss on build
ing and stock is about $500; insurance,
8, 500. The Pease building was valued -
1920. The lower half was occupied as .
carriage repository by Xix & Clarke, Of
Rockland, whose loss of $1,000 was covered
by insurance. The upper part was tene-
ment occupied by FL. Y. Carver. His loss
was about $500, with no insurance.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16
PEBBLE.
PRETTY MARSH.
Jan. 49,.

Mrs. Edgar Wells is visiting her mother,
Mrs. Melinda Ober.
Mrs. Reuben Davis, of Trenton, has
been visiting at w. II. Freeman's.
Miss Nora Johnson is at home for the
winter, after protracted stay in Bar Har-
Dor. #
Mrs. r. L. Smith, who has been seri-
ously Ill for some time, is still confined to
her bed.
Miss Linda Smith, who has been visit
ing Miss Laura Haynes at Bass Head
light station, has returned home.
school is again in session, after three
weeks vacation, during which the teacher,
Miss Winnie Evans, visited friends in
Portland, Boston and vicinity.
Capt. w. Il. Freeman has been having
an annex built to his stabl in the form of
a large carriage house. He now has ample
room for his many horses and carriages.
Frost fish are being caught in large
quantities, one fisherman catching over a
bushel at single tide. Since there are
no CLANS left in the flats, frost fish will do
well for a substitute.
Ian IA Vi.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16
HANCOCK NEUROLOGY.
.pvEsT OF THE GRIM REAPER
nrrRING THE PAST YEAR.
-, p.rE ABOUT THE AVERAGE OF
PREVIOUS YEARS = THIRTEEN
NoNAaENARIANs PASS AWAY.

TUE AMERICAN prints below table
Lowing the number Of deaths occurring
- Hancock county during the year 1905.
This list is compiled from returns made to
.ho town clerks, and nearly all the deaths
20 reported in THE AMERICAN soon
after the occurrence
comparison of this years record with
those of the years 1902-3-4 is hardly fair,
- the records for those years were incom-
nlete. Going back Of those years, it is
,ound that the total number of deaths
mi. wear, 541, is 81 less than the aver
zoe Of the deaths in the county during the
,,sars 1895 to 1901 inclusive, and 46 less
than last year.
on the total number OF deaths this year,
,ss were of persons who had outlived their
allotted sthree score years and tenn. OF
.bs.e IS were between the ages Of 70 and
On wears; 6s between so and 80, and ID
were over 30.
The following table shows the number
n, deaths and the old age record for the
nast nine years:
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16
SEAWALL.

Amos Newman, who has beeniquite lame,
is much better.
Albert King went to Ellsworth to-day
to visit his brother.
Miss Lula Newman had birthday party
Jan. s, her twelfth birthday.
Capt. Andrew Wilson, who was ship
wrecked on Long ledge, and has been
stopping at Samuel Moore's, left Sunday
for st. John. Edible Bentley and Henry
Collins, cook and mate, started for ST.
John in another vessel which was in the
harbor.
Jan. IA. DOLLY.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16
DOLLY.
NORTH DEER ISLE.

Marsh Thompson is going steward on
schooner Susan N. Pickering to New
York.
There are eight cases of grip. Some
have been very i'll.
Friday, Jan. II, Capt. Charles Scott and
wife gave party on their son Maynard's
seventh birthday. Those present were
Oracle Lowe, Elletta Thompson, Louise
Gray, Edith Thompson, Louisa Gray,
Edith Thompson, Homer Thompson, Max
Gray, Lillian Jones and Elwyn Hardy.
Games and supper were enjoyed.
Jan, IA, II.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16
!, Returns incomplete.

Following is the list OF nonagenarians
in Hancock county who have died during
the year, given in the order OF their ages:
Mrs. Mary W. Brown, Surry, July Is. aged e5
years, months.
Mrs Betsy Manchester, Bar Harbor, April 0,
aged e5 years, 8 months, is days.
Noah Rideout, Bucksport, July 10, aged s5
years, . months, days.
Mrs. Maria Byard. sedgwick, Jan. ., aged o.
years, IL months, IS days.
Mrs. susan NJ. Dexte-, Orland, Oct. is, aged
20 years. 9 months. IA days.
Alpheus Herrick, Penobscot, Aug. IL, aged
% years, 8 months, Il days.
Moses Abbott, orland, May l, aged 81 years,
"a days.
Mrs. Eliza S. Bunker. Gouldsboro, Jan. 20,
aged 81 years, IL months.
Samuel Gilley, Cranberry Isles, May 81, aged
81 years, 70 days.
Mrs. Polly Frost. Ellsworth, May %, aged 90
years, s months, 3days.
James L. Nary, OF Revere, Mass, at surry
Oct. 81, aged 90 years.
James Kenney, Bucksport, March 10, aged
30 years,
Lucy E. cIosson, Sedgwick, Oct. 8, aged 90
years.
Following is a record OF deaths in Han
cock county during the year 1906, by
towns, with the record for last year given
Cor comparison. The record is approx
mately correct, care having been taken to
verify the deaths as printed from week to
week in The AMERICAN with records as
returned 1t the close OF the year by the
town clerks:
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16
SORRENTO.

C. W. Sargent, w. o. Johnson, l. W
Nash and F. L. Trundy attended the j. O.
U. A. M. at Ellsworth last week.
NJ. H. Mason recently purchased three
valuable lots of land here from Mrs. Del
phine Hopper, of Philadelphia, Pa.
Kenneth Bragdon, of East Sullivan,
who has taught several terms of school
here, will leave in few days for
Porto Rico to teach. He has many friends
in this and surrounding towns who wish
him success.
Jam IA L.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16
BOUNTY NEWS.
ATLANTIC.

Capt. Leslie Joyce has recently sold
wood lot to Otis Albee.
Howard Staples house is finished ready
for occupancy. He has fine little home.
Herbert Joyce arrived home last Tues
day night, he having been away on BUSH
ness.
The steamer Gov. Bodwell is taking the
place of steamer Vinal Haven while the
latter is being overhauled for winter
service.
In the squall last Wednesday, Otis Albee
came very near losing his little tow boat.
Coming in by the bell buoy off North
point she turned over. He lost his jumbo
jib.
Jan. H. S.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16
CENTER.
Jan. IA.
Mrs. e. X. ODER is quite ill.

Mrs. e. X. ODER is quite i'll.
frankie Hodgdon, who was hurt while
skating, is about again.
Mrs. Myra Hodgdon, who has been
visiting her son Frank, has returned 10
her home in Rockland.
Capt. E. C. Harper has returned from
Franklin in the schooner Bloomer, when
has been frozen in there for the past
month.
Mrs. Ina Higgins has received word
that her little nephew, Clifford Robbins,
is very ill with diphtheria at Rockiand
Breakwater light station.
Jan. ID. n
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16

n ltsa pleasure to tell our readers about a
SSnsn cure like DR.. Shoop's. For years DR..
S Sh1op mas fought against the use of Opium,
ran'. otorm, or other unsafe ingredients com
II aay round In Cough remedies. DR.. Shoop,
nr seems, has welcomed the Pure Food and
alons Law recently enacted, for he has worked
nsa.s 81 similar lines for many years. For
tsinay y years DR.. Shops Cough Cure con-
aoaian. nave had warning printed on them
H. at h opium and other Iarcotic poisons.
nrot nas tnus made 1t possible for mothers to
bav;noa. Sheir children by simply insisting on
A ATp5ng Dr. Shops Cough Cure. Sold BY G.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16
Wise Counsel from the South.

81 want to give some valua BILE advice to
those who suffer with lame back and kid
ney trouble" says j. r. Blankenship, Gf
Beck, Tenn. 81 have proved to an absa-
Lutte certainty that Electric Bitters will
positively cure this distressing condition.
the first bottle gave me great relief, snf
after taking a few more bottles, / vaG
completely cured; so completely that i
becomes pleasure to recommend thin
great remedy" Sold under guarantee -
E. G. MooRE's drug store. Price SOC.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16
Nominated by the Governor,

Among nominations by Gov. Cobb re-
Gently announced are the following II
Hancock county:
Dedimus justice, A. B Crabtree, Ham
cock. Coroners, d. l.. Fields, Ellsworth
Levi K. Stinson, Stonington. Notariea
public, George P. Colson, North sullivan :
Fl. e. Havey, North Sullivan.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16
DEATHS IN ELLSWORTH.


O. IN the town reporting.
DEATHS IN ELLSWORTH.
Inc total number of deaths in Ellsworth
ior 1905 was Sole less than last year, and
nearly 20 less than the average for the
preceding ten years, which is 50 $40.
There was one death of person over 90
years OF age, seven between so and 80 and
six between 70 and so.
vi the 90 deaths, eleven were of children
less than years of age, three were be-
tween and Fl years of age, and 36 were
adults.
VI the months, April shows the largest
mortality, with seven deaths, while June
ana November each have six. There were
no deaths in July, and only two in Febru-
ary' which showed the largest NOR
.anty last year, there being len deaths
during the month.
Inc following table shows the number
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16

To stop Cold with "Preventics" is safer
than to let it run and cure it afterwards
Taken at the 'sneeze stage" Preventics will
save you from Pneumonia or Bronchitis.
Preventics are little toothsome candy cold
cure tablets selling in cent and % cent boxes.
If you are chilly, II you begin to sneeze try
Preventics. They will surely check the cold,
nd.please you. Sold BY G. A. PARcHER.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16

Askitt-l wonder why it is that Wise
man has so many friends. Noitt-Oh, he
manages to make others think that he
thinks they know more than he does.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16

Following IS complete list OF deaths
occurring in Ellsworth during the year of
lso6, with the age given at the nearest
birthday:
jan, 8, Stephen Monaghan, rs.
]. Benjamin Milliken, 81
n, Mrs Susan J Whiting, So.
Feb. IA, Mrs. Harriet S. Libby, Sc,
81. Lewis f. Hooper. 50.
March 5, Mrs. Frank Fits So
8, John II. Mcdonald, Al.
II, Nancy A. starkey, %.
10. James Lord, 80.
30, Miss Frances Il. Hall, 81.
April 4, Muriel H. Hamilton, 8.
y, Mrs. Phoebe NJ. Cunningham, "a.
10, David A. Lake. 8.
IL, Capt. Andrew j. Higgins, SO.
Is, Charles F. Rollins, 50.
3D. Mary f. Jellison, So.
%, Frederick L. Frazier, 70.
May 8, Erwin A. Hart, 81.
%, Mrs. Polly Frost, 81.
"a, Infant child Charles C Gambler
and wife.
49, Miss Margaret Mullan, %.
30, Mrs. James Clough, 81.
June 5, Orrin S. Burnham, Is
TO- Benjamin b. Giles, 81.
TO- Herbert $. Staples, 20.
IS, Lena NJ. Higgins, 10 months.
81. Mrs. John G.. Davis, So.
Is, William B. Campbell. 81.
Aug. %, Orrin r. Burnham, SO.
%, John Green Jordan, 70.
u, idyleue F. Haynes, 8.
"a. Edward II. Lord, IL months.
Sept. l, Hester Haynes, 1.
s, Florence Lunt, 2.
8, Miss Hattie E. Clark, 10.
II, Mrs Mary Rowe, 81.
IS, Helena NJ Echenaguoia, months.
Oct. l5 Mrs George o Hanscom, q.
81, Mrs Rebekah NJ Avery, S.
n, Arthur NJ Quinn, ~
Is, William Cochrane, rs.
Nov. s. Albert Spies, months.
IL, James Barbour, So.
is, Albert P Hopkins, 10.
90, Ivory Hall, SO.
81. Jesse Durham, IS.
IS, Benjamin Sadler. 81
Dec. is, Mrs Helen NJ Perkins 81.
26, Infant OF Lewis f Jordan and wife.
81, Mrs Sarah A Reynolds. 81.
The following Ellsworth people died
away from home during the year:
Feb. IL, o. II. Bradbury. 80, at Portland
II, Charles c. Newhall, 81, at Orland.
Dec. T. Andrew p. wiswell 81, at Boston.
%, Henry A. Pierce, 70, at Lamoine.
81. Joseph Luchini, at Bangor.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16
MANSET.

MANSET.
Miss Cora Stanley is visiting friends in
Amherst.
Ed. Childs and wife have returned from
visit to Mr.. Childs' home in Canton,
Conn.
Jan. IA. MAD.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16
Jan. ID.

To Cure a Cold in One Day
TAKE LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets y.
Druggists refund money If II fails TO cure L. "
GRoyE,s signature is on each box.2ec.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-16
SOUND.

Mrs. Clara Murphy spent Tuesday with
Mrs. E. NJ. Higgins.
Sidney Higgins and wife, of Bar Harbor,
were here Thursday.
Miss Mary Leonard, of Bartlett's Island,
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Nellie Golf.
Arthur A. Murphy recently killed hog
which tipped the scales at $40 pounds.
Mrs. Susan Murphy, who has been con-
fined to the house with rheumatism for
two months, is out again.
Jan. ID. ii.
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COUNTY NEW y
HALL QUARRY.

- sdd,tso~at County Mems ses o,he, pog,
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The above list does not include residents
Oh the county dying at sea or away from
nome, but only those actually occurring
In the town reporting.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-11-09
SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES.
Taking a Prominent Part In Develop.
ment Of British Nation.

The prince of Wales's visit to Glas.
gov to inaugurate the university sex.
tension buildings once more appro.
priately emphasizes the important
part which Scottish universities are
taking in the development Of the ma
tional life. This Is the second en-.
largement which Glasgow has been
compelled to make within half cen
fury. The university, too, has behind
it quite a venerabl, air of antiquity,
as we'll as the hallmark Of modern
utility. Its foundation dates back four
centuries and half, and. like, all the
Scottish universities except Edin.
burgh, which is post-reformation
royal foundation, 1t owes its existence
to ancient ecclesiastical authority. In
point of age, however Glasgow holds
only second place in Scotland's hon.
orable academic record. Aberdeen
following is a good third. Edinburgh
came into being about a century later.
But the oldest of the Scottish univer-
stiles is two centuries younger than
Cambridge. AS for Oxford. her aca-
demic beginnings are quite lost in the
haze Of Anglo-Saxon antiquity. The
town was known as a seat Of learning
in the year S02.-London Globe.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-11-09

headlines YEARLY, thrust It aside, re
marking: Nothing in the paper to
day" Did you ever stop to think what
that phrase-"nothing In the paper to
day" means? II means that in the
day or week just passed that no mis-
fortune has befallen any one in our
city; that no fire has wiped out a
neiehbor's worldly goods; that the
grim angel of death has crossed no
threshold Of friend; that no man
driven by liquor. hatred or fear has
taken the life Of fellowman; that
no poor devil, haunted by the past OF
the misdeeds of some other, has
crossed the great divide by his owr
hand. So the next time you pick up o
paper that doesn't announce tragedy
give little thanks instead of grunt,
ing because there Is no news.-,Ne,
vada Mall.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-11-09
HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD

these negotiations with no small profit
to himself as we'll as to his house.
Mayer Amschel's five sons were
Amschel, Solomon, Nathan, Mayer.
Charles and James, each Of whom in
turn was the founder Of a Rothschild
house-family and bank-respective
ly In Frankfort, Vienna, London. Ma
pies and Paris; the Naples house was
closed in 1871.
Nathan was sent by his father in
1897 first of all to Manchester to buy
cotton goods for the German market,
and there he remained till the end OF
1906, having in the meanwhile become
naturalized British subject. Early
in 1907 he moved to London and set
tied in New Court-which has ever
since been the headquarters of the
London Rothschilds-first as gen
eral merchant and next as banker
and broker.
The Jewish financier was, however
not wholly engrossed by the love OF
riches"-that of woman interviewed
Hannah Cohen, the lovely daughter o.,
Levi Cohen. in Throgmorton street
bewitched him, and after brief court
ship in Angel court, the happy day
was fixed for Oct. 81, ls0G-a day fol
ever memorable from the abject col
lapse of Prussia upon the stricken
field of lena.
Within u fortnight after the wed
ding Nathan Mayer Rotschlld received
L., g.. %
rost.package-no less sum tina
100000 in British eXchequer blli
| and other securities-with letter
saying that the Landgrave of Hesse
| Cassel had fled before BOnaparte. bu
that all was well with them in Frank
| fort.
Nathan Mayer ROthschild died ii
, 1886, leaving several children, his cid
est son being Lionel Nathan, born il
| 1908, who brilliantly retained the re
nown of his family, A very success
| full enterprise--to name one anon.
many-was the purchase OF Spanisl
quicksilver, whereby the Rothschlld
secured a monopoly for the sale o
| mercury.
Lionel Nathan Rothschild-who. b,
the way, was Sidonia in Disraellt
"Coningsby''-died in 1879, and wa!
succeeded in the headship of the fam
lly by his eldest son, Nathan Mayer
born in 1910, the present most worth,
bearer of the honors of the British
barony OF Rothschild-the first peer o
the realm of the Jewish race.
Lord Rothschild, who takes a grea
interest in all that concerns the vel
fare of the Jewish community, is con
nected by marriage with Lord Rose
berry. and the Rothschilds' mansion
at Hyde Park Corner are as sig
nificant of their wealth and social DC
sition as are their beautiful countr,
seats in the Aylesbury and Tring dis
tricts, where Lord Rothschild and hi
brothers Leopold and Alfred are thor
oughly well known as good landlord
and most liospitable and kindly neigh
bors. EDGCUMBE STALEY.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-11-09
BATTLE FoF TWO CENTURIES
ENDS IN VICTORY.
All Devicss of Man Failed w Cheek.
Ing Encroachment Of Sand on
Cape God and Then Beach
! Grass Was Tried.

Which is stronger? Man and the
devices which a keen and resourceful
BARN can create. or Nature? For two
centuries the ingenuity and skill of
man have been taxed In an effort to
hold in check the shifting sands on
the lower end of Cape Cod, hbut always
without success, and now after re-
peated failures man has turned to gen.
tie Nature and sought Incorporation,
and. 10 and behold, the sands rest
obedient before her, for beach grass
has been planted. and while each
blade is weak and insignificant It Is
found that unitedly the multitude Of
blades present a barrier before which
the erstwhile all-conquering sands are
tmpotent
Strange to say, the fact that beach
grass can withstand the shifting of
the sands is not of recent discovery,
for back in the last century the town
'crier used every spring to add to his
other admonitions about letting the
cows run loose, cutting forest trees
and paying the taxes this important
anu NJ" yc WIZ hcdi
are admonished by the authorities
that 1t is the time to plant beach
grass, and all those good citizens.
therefore, who respect the law and
fear for the penalty of its neglect will
forthwith proceed to the planting of
said grass"
Even in those early days the value
OF beach grass was appreciated, but
the various efforts to have it planted
do not seem to have been effective
until a few years ago, when the state
Of Massachusetts itself took over the
sand dune desert that lies back OF
Provincetown and began a systematic
process of reclamation.
The dunes extend over an area Of
some 5000 acres and have long been
menace to farms and roads. Al
times, when high winds have pre-
vailed, they have threatened the de
struction of villages and homes.
The harbor, which has sheltered In
time of storm as many as 1000 yes
sells, is even more In danger. for 1t II
surrounded on three sides by sane
accumulations that have washed
around the head of the Cape. 1t wa.
this menace to coastwise shipping
and the fishing industry more thar