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FROM BARNSTABLE PATRIOT. MAR 6. 1986
FOLLOW THE LEADER - Cassandra Conlin (right) follows a friend who
follows her masked leader around the Kennedy Rink in one of this year's
clinics.
1836
Dear Mr. Phinney, "All hands
on deck , don't stop for your
clothes."Iwould liketo run down
'long side, and make use of your
"speaking trumpet," to remind
readers of the ship Patriot that
nextMondayisElection.And now
old shipmates, I want you should
prepare yourselves with votes for
CountyTreasurer before youleave
home and see that the name of
Josiah Hinckleyis onyour ticket.
He has always piloted the ship
safely over the shoals, and if you
go to the polls and put in a vote
for himyou may depend upon his
alwayscarryingher safeintoPort,
with a clean bill of health; and
we may find him ready to hand
over a plenty of Bounty Money,
with "Uncle Sam's" security, in
check if there is not enough in
his coffers.
1866
Those three precious scamps
Handy, Eldredge, and Cahoon,
whobroke out ofjailsomemonths
sinceand were but recently re-ar-
rested, againmade their escapein
company with two other prison-
ers, Thomas Crocker and Fuller
yesterday morning. It appears
that on entering the cell of the
former prisoners in the morning,
Mr.Easterbrooks,thekeeper,was
asked to fix the stove pipe which
was out of place. He proceeded
to do so when they allrushed out
of the cell simultaneouslyclosing
and bolting the door, thus make
Mr. E. a prisoner within the cell.
They all left the jail locking the
door behind them. No trace of
them hasyet been found. The key
of the outer jail door was found
on the ground in the vicinity. Mr.
Easterbrooks was not liberated
till late in the afternoon.
1896
Hyannis is sure to be a five
business town this summer. Ev-
erything points that way. Two
lotshave been sold off the Dunbar
place and some of our builders
are figuring on houses to be built
on the "Sound" front of the same
estate. A new house is being
built on the shore land between
the Dunbar place and Railroad
Wharf, and we hear of several vil-
lagehouses that are to be erected
the coming spring.Added to this,
the two new school buildings,and
those summer houses building
just across the line, which really
belong to our village, and we may
consider that we have a "boom."
Why shouldn't we? We have the
healthiest place on Cape Cod,
and Cape Cod is known all over
the world.
1906
Just as the scallop beds in
Nantucket harbor were becoming
exhausted, after yielding more
abundantly than ever before in
the island's history, word comes
from Tuckernuck that the fisher-
menthere discovered animmense
bed of shellfish along the north
shore of the island extending over
an area of several square miles,
and the Nantucket scallopers are
flocking to that island with their
outfits to take advantage of the
richharvest before theprohibitive
law goes into effect on April 1st.
1916
To mark which with a suitable
memorial$200hasbeen appropri-
atedto put aplaqueon Sacrament
Rock. Located two miles west of
the village there is well authenti-
cated tradition to the effect, that
whenRev.John Lothrop,together
withthemembersofhischurch ar-
rived in Mattacheese, afterwards
called Barnstable, they gathered
to worship, and partook of Sacra-
ment, and held their early town
meetings at a rock since called
Sacrament Rock.A portion of the
rock wasremoved afewyears ago,
being thought to overhang the
roadinadangerousmanner.Since
then other portions have been
removed,whenthe state highway
was built. Happily however it is
presumed that the fathers of the
townwilltake carethat it be never
molested again, except on some
extreme occasion.
1926
Workhasstarted onthe building
of five new shops and a dance pa-
viliononthe lot formerlyoccupied
byPilgrimMotors,ontheWestend
of Main street. The architecture
of this group of shops will be in
keeping with Cape Cod atmo-
sphere and will harmonize with
the architecture of the Queen's
Buyway on the corner opposite. A
windmilldesign has been worked
into the building and over each
store is one room.
1936
A peremptory demand was
received on March 4th, in a let-
ter from the State Registrar of
Motor Vehicles, Mr. Frank A.
Goodwin to the selectmen of the
town of Barnstable to dismissthe
Barnstable Chief of Police W H.
Pratt before the end ofthe month.
He preferred no specific charges
but declared that Barnstable
wasaparadise for drunken driving
and intimated that the law had
not been enforced. The select-
men replied that they could do
nothing until after the annual
town meeting, at whichtime they
would decide which action they
would take. Thus the matter
stood until Tuesday when Chief
Pratt tendered his resignation
just before noon. Wordleaked out
and a newspaper containing the
information was on sale in front
of the Hyannis theater where the
town meeting was being held
that evening, needless to say the
Selectmen were surprised. Chief
Pratt said that ill health was the
cause of his action, his wounded
leg having troubled him much
of late.
1946
When former president Herbert
Hoover left La Guardia airport
for Europe, Sunday, he was ac-
companied by Maurice Pate of
Bay Lane,Centerville.Mr.Hoover
is heading a famine survey tour
abroad. The first destination of
the party willbe Paris. President
TrumanaskedMr.Hoover to make
this survey as the first step in the
work of the recently organized
Emergency Food Administration.
Mr. Pate had charge of food and
rehabilitation in Poland after
World War I.
1956
Barnstable High school was
honored by a speech delivered
by Solom Rizh, an immigrant
from Syria. A somewhat restless
group of senior high students
were quickly put at ease by Mr.
Rizh's big smile and ready sense
of humor. He held the students'
attention throughout his half-
hour speech,whichcovered many
aspects of his interesting life and
included many bright and witty
anecdotes.
Mr. Rizh told about the dif-
ficulty he had in entering the
United States and his immense
CONTINUED ON PAGE A:12
— EDITORIALS'
Cape commission needs an honest appraisal
The always-present question of
the Cape Cod Commission'svalue
to Cape Cod is again begging for
updated answers.
The commission , as pushed
by the Town of Barnstable, is
moving ahead with its growth
incentive zone opportunities for
towns. These zones allow towns
to lift the regulatory yoke of the
commissionoffnew development,
within certain thresholds, which
places better time and invest-
ment guarantees for developers
looking to invest in the area.
This can be looked at in two
ways.
One is to see the commission
as understanding that its review
is a burden to developers and
can stifle even what most would
consider good economic devel-
opment. The GIZ regulations
provide the relief sought bytowns
looking to revitalize.
The second isto simply saythat
towns should be able to do what
they want within their borders
without the commission's inter-
ference. Period.
There's a push for an outside
review of the commission with
a focus on its economic effect.
More specifically, its negative
economic effect.
Town Council President Hank
Farnham is among those who
question the value ofthe commis-
sion. In a letter to Farnham two
weeksago,commissionExecutive
Director Margo Fenn asked for
a session before the council to
detail just what the commission
has done and can do for the town.
No meeting has been set, but
Farnham is looking into dates.
With an external review as well
as aninternal release of authority
asrepresented inthe GIZ,nowisa
very good opportunityto examine
the commission's worth.
As was the case 10 years ago,
it's difficult to see communities
pulling out of the commission,
but it's also difficult to see the
commission not being improved
for the experience.
What's needed is an honest
review by people open to all
possibilities. That's all that can
be asked.
DS II
Treasuresin photo albums
We've had a lot of fun with the story
of the old wreck, locating references
in past volumes of the Patriot , talking
with town elders about their recol-
lections and discovering unique but
telling views of the wreck on Craigville
Beach.
While talking with Mrs. Priscilla
Stone Houston , whose family photo
can be seen on page A:2, she men-
tioned that there were others stored
away in boxes in the basement of her
Hyannis home.
Mrs. Houston was kind enough to
allow a browse-through of the other
photographs in the album that con-
tained the wreck photos, which were
mixed scenes from New Jersey and
Craigville, all from the 1910s.
We encouraged her to look at some
of the other photographsinher collec-
tion to see what other unique scenes
they may contain.
From that conversation,the thought
occurred that there are likely many
treasures to be found inphoto albums,
basement boxes and crates stuffed in
the eaves throughout Barnstable.
This isn't a request to send photos
to the paper, althoughwe'd love to see
them. It isarequest for thoseinposses-
sion of uniqueviewsof Barnstablefrom
any earlier time to take a fresh look at
them and consider donating them, or
good copies of them, to an appropri-
ate historical society, whether here or
somewhere across the bridge.
Take a look and see what you find.
DS II
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CHOWDAH BOWL: Cross-
town Puzzle: The Town of
Chatham may be recognized
as Cape Cod' s well-known
"elbow town ," but it also
has a reputation of being
a crosstown geographical
puzzle. Andrew Buckley ex-
plains why. The Cap e Cod
Chronicle columnist writes:
"I'm from Chatham where
South Chatham is west of
West Chatham , and not south
of Chatham: Nort h Chatham
is southeast of Chathamport
and east of Chatham is North
Beach."Buckley also explains
that couples who get married
at spiffy Wequasset Inn boast
they were wed in beautiful
Chatham. No way, he says.
Despite brochures that state
the inn islocated at the "elbow
of Cape Cod," the town clerk
tells them they were married
- in Harwich!... She has been
hailed as one of Nantucket 's
finest athletes , winning world
recognition as a member of
the USA's hockey team that
won the gold medal in the
1998 Olympics in Japan and a
silver four years later at Salt
Lake City. A.J. Mleczko was
back in the Olympics thisyear
in Turin, this time as a color
commentator on women 's
hockey for NBC. Today she
is Mrs. A.J. Mleczko Griswald
and the mother of a 2-year-old
daughter.Shemakesher home
in Boston... Ding-Dong: Just
when it appeared the long-
running Truro Town Hall Bell
brouhaha had quieted down,
another problem rang out
late last month: How to direct
the bells' sounds, upwards or
downwards. (Now that'sa cri-
sisproblem.) Truro selectmen
lost little time,however,inbit-
ing the bullet,and decided the
ding-donging sounds should
be directed toward the heav-
ens. Ahh! The angels willlove
that, and so will neighbors
of town hall... Home Sweet
Home: The history-making
Coast Guard motor lifeboat
has returned home - to stay !
The Chatham Station boat
sent out to rescue 32 seamen
fromthe stricken tankerPend-
leton during araging storm off
Chatham in 1952 will spend
its remaining years tied up
at the Chatham Gish Pier. A
monument in its honor was
dedicated late last month at
Lighthouse Beach. The Cape
Cod Chronicle reported aCha-
tham resident , who declined
to be identified, donated the
monument for the gold medal
lifeboat that had been at the
Orleans Yacht Club... Nancy
Finley, who grew up in the
Town of Barnstable, is now a
Great SmokeyMountainlady.
Finleyhas been transferred to
the nationalparkinTennessee
after having served as direc-
tor of the Cape Cod National
Seashore in Wellfleet. Ac-
cording to the Provincetown
Banner ,Finley said one of her
first assignments will be re-
introducing Rocky Mountain
elk to the Smokies. Beats
chasingnudies from Seashore
beaches on the Outer Cape...
CC hasn't learned yet how
the Cape's legislators voted
on the crucial bills to make
the garter snake the offi-
cial state reptile, the double
fudge brownie the official ice
cream and squash the official
vegetable... Whack! Whack!
That'swhat the FalmouthEn-
terprise did to County Com-
missioner BillDohertyin are-
cent editorial.Thenewspaper
rapped Doherty for "politiz-
ing" the proposed review of
the Cape Cod Commission,
and "eager to score points
in his run for re-election."
Then camethe second whack!
- "making a political football
for the grandstanding Mr.
Doherty."... Supporters of
the Cape Wind proposal are
no longer merely advocates.
One newspaper labeled them
"breeze merchants"...Sudden
Thought:Whatever happened
to former Cape Cod Standard-
Times editor Milt Stewart?
• • •
You're up there, Morris, if
you remember when the Army
AmphibiousEngineerstrained
at "Camp-Can-Do-It" inLittle
River, Cotuit, and practiced
landingsonWashburnIslandin
Waquoit...Townof Barnstable
historybuffs should be able to
identify the two areas where
Portugueseimmigrantssettled
andclusteredduringtheperiod
of the great immigration. An-
swers below.
• • •
Newsquote: "It'sthe people
and the sense of place. I love
the connection withthe read-
ers and how much they care
about this place and this pa-
per." -Editor-in-Chief Mark
Skala of The Cape Codder on
returning for a second stint
as the newspaper celebrates
its 60th birthday.
• • •
Answer to query: Santu-
it and Yarmouth Road in
Hyannis.
• • •
Quotebook:"Politiciansand
roosters crow about whatthey
intend to do. The roosters
deliver what is promised."
(Dorfman Book of Quota-
tions.)
Cape Comment
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