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EARLYFILES COMPILED BYJOHN WATTERS
EARLYF1LES@BARNS1ABLEPATR10T.COM
THE LUCK OF THE IRISH - At the Irish fair to benefit the selectman campaign
of Ellen McDonough-Flynn (how Irish can /ou get?) were, from left, Catherine
McDonough, Rita Egan and, at far right, Eva McManus. The candidate issecond
from the right. The affair celebrated St. Patrick's Day at the K. of C. Hall in
Hyannis on Sunday.
1836
While Capt. Thomas Atkins was
engaged in digging with another
man, under the bottom of his ves-
sel, (which had been run on shore
to winter) a few days since at
Provincetown, the sand suddenly
caved, and caused the vessel to
keel over, and buried him between
the plankshire and the earth
before he had time to extricate
himself. In less than five minutes
from the time of the accident, the
body of Mr. A was removed, but
the life was wholly extinct.
1866
At themeeting ofthe Committee
chosenbythe townto purchase and
locate a Monument commemora-
tive of our heroic dead , it was
voted to erect the Monument at
Centreville, near the store of F.G.
Kelley, Esq. It is to be of Concord
Granite, fifteen feet in height, four
feet and six inches wide at the
base. On one side will be engraved
plain shield, enclosed in which are
to be the words "They died for
their country."The names of those
whose memories the Monument is
intended to commemorate,twenty-
nineinnumber,willbe inscribed on
the four sides of the base.
1896
The schooner Carrie Easier,
which was floated from Sandy
Neck March 2nd, and taken to
BostonviaProvincetown, finished
repairs Friday.Duringeleven days
she was floated , taken to Boston,
received an entire new shoe,about
one-third of a new keel, had its
keel re-bolted fore and aft,besides
being re-caulked , re-trenailed ,
cemented and painted.
1906
Old Lady (compassionately):
Poor fellow! I suppose your blind-
ness is incurable. Have you ever
been treated? Blind Man (sigh-
ing) : Yes, mum, but not often.
'Taint's many as likes to be seen
goin' into a public house with a
blind beggar.
1916
The body of an unknown man
was found Tuesday morning by
members of the freight train crew
on the spur track at Yarmouth.He
was probably run over Monday
evening by the Hyannis branch
passenger train which runs onto
the spur to turn the engine. From
papers in his pockets he wasiden-
tified as an employee of T.A. Scott
Wrecking Co. at Buzzards Bay,
Peter West, a Dane about age 55.
1926
Tuesday evening the Shooting
Stars of Hyannis played their last
gamefor thisseason.They defeated
the Woods Hole Town Team by the
score of 49 to 19. It brings their
record to 16 and one. The game
wasrough but the superior work of
the Stars enabled them to roll up
a large score. The Shooting Stars
have played together for three
years, and people all over the Cape
have heard of them. The Stars will
lose "Hakie Murphy" the flashy
guard as he isgoingaway to school
next season; but on the whole the
prospects are bright with Butler,
Crocker,Krook,Makeyand Pesolan
left to carry on the honors.
1936
"Rowdy " the little black dog
belonging to Charles H. Hinckley
known asthe most enthusiastic fire-
man in Hyannis as for year he had
made apractice of riding to fires on
the apparatus , is dead. He was the
victim of his habit of boarding the
apparatus when inmotion,trying it
once too often. He left the scene on
the hose wagon from aNorth street
fire ,but seeing his master about to
drive the pumper he quit the hose
wagon and tried to jump on the
running board of the pumper. He
either miscalculated,or hisstrength
failed, as he went under the wheels
and was badly mangled.
1946
Sale of the old Barnstable
Inn in Barnstable Village and of
Osterville Manor and the impend-
ing sale of another large hostelry
inthe Townof Barnstable featured
several large real estate deals on
the Cape during the last week,
involving thousands of dollars.
Joseph Turpin who operated the
Barnstable Inn from 1921 until
1942 sold the Barnstable hotel
to Lewis Bornstein of Brookline.
Albert Gavoni, owner of the fa-
mous Daniel Webster Inn bought
the Osterville Manor from Frank
Howe. Bassett Lane Cabins, the
first overnight cabins to be built
in the Town of Barnstable and lo-
cated on Stevens street,have been
sold by Mrs. Olive Lariviere to Mr.
and Mrs. Ovide A. Dumas.
1956
Fluoridation of the water sup-
ply,anissue which has set brother
against brother inbitter argument
in other communities, reached
the level of public discussion in
any of the Barnstable villages for
the first time Monday at the Fire
District meeting in Barnstable.
The bomb exploded when Frank
Hinckley of Cummaquid arose at
the end of the session and moved
that the district appoint a com-
mittee to investigate fluoridation
and report at the next annual
meeting. Herbert M. Lovell of the
Water Commissioners pulled no
punches. "The way to keep that
stuff out of your water is to vote
this motion down right now."
Harry L. Jones joined the party
with the statement that "this
fluoride is a poison" and that at
some previoustime "Dr.Nilestried
to ram it down our throat."
1966
By our clever remarks, our long
winded speeches, and our obvi-
ous lack of knowledge on town
meeting articles, we the citizens
of Barnstable have asked for a
change in the form of our town
meeting. Barnstable has grown
far too big to maintain the inti-
mate atmosphere of yesteryears
meeting. With an auditorium
filled to the scuppers and their
rafters of the high school crawl-
ing with people "piped" into the
main meeting hall, town meeting
this year was a cumbersome and
unsatisfactory affair. And with all
this little more than one-ninth of
our voters were there. The horse
and buggy days are over, and so
is the heyday of the open town
meeting in Barnstable.
1976
Barnstable 's Independence
Park ownsabout halfthe 600 Route
132 acres takenby eminent domain
by Barnstable Housing Authority
in 1971, has only a few parcels of
which are still being contested in
the courts for additional land dam-
ages. Ultimately, directors of the
park aimto lease or sellasmanylot
as possible to private companies,
and all such companies with the
perimeter of the park will have to
comply with a "land development
plan." Last week, park directors
asked the BHA for permission to
conduct a land swap in lieu of a
cash sale as means to deed over
some 23 acres of park property
to Boston landowners John C.
Sterge and C. Charles Todis for
their use "within the limitations"
of the park plan.
1986
The water board of the district
that Leo Coveney first proposed
fluoridatingissued astrong state-
CONTINUED ON PAGE A:11
IEDITORIALSI
FIRE STUDY:What'sthe commitment?
What are you prepared to do?
That's the first question that
the town council will need to
ask of itself and its elected col-
leagues in the five fire districts
with regard to the study to be
recommended.
The answers should guide the
council's decision regarding
such a study.
The committee working on
the question of whether there
should be a study has found
that there's a lot of information
available about the districts
and their operations , but also
that there's a lot more to be
known. Enough so that the
threshold of whether a study of
the districts is warranted has
been exceeded.
The study to be recommend-
ed appears to be an extension
on that theme, seeking to an-
swer the question: "Is a reor-
ganization of the fire districts
advisable?"
If that's the question, the
town council should be pre-
pared to accept whatever
answer is returned. As this is
a town-sponsored initiative,
there's nothing to compel the
fire districts to accept the
conclusions of such a study. It
would be wise of the council
to query the intentions of the
fire districts, as represented by
their elected executive boards ,
on that score.
From the outset , the Fire Dis-
trict Study Preparation Com-
mittee has sought to include,
not offend. Just look at the
name. The committee's charge
emphasizes that the committee
itself will not make any deci-
sions regarding consolidation.
Time after time, the impetus
for a fire district study started
with the town, not out of the
districts themselves. Only in
West Barnstable , where resi-
dents pay the least and receive
the least in comparison to other
districts, have residents taken
a favorable vote to investigate
consolidation.
Elected officials tend to listen
to what their constituents tell
them, although we've had re-
cent examples in both the town
and state to suggest otherwise.
Among the consistent criti-
cisms of the fire districts is that
low voter turnout at the polls
and at annual meetings make
them easily run by insiders and
district employees.
If that's the case, then it
would seem an easy task to
simply petition an article at a
district meeting directing the
district's officers to pursue a
course of consolidation. That
such a route has not been taken
suggests that it may not be as
easy a system to manipulate as
thought.
Stated simply, the districts
have had no internal mandate
or impetus to participate , all
the while saying a comprehen-
sive and independent study
would be welcome.
As was the case for past coun-
cils where bold decisions have
been made, there needs to be a
willingness to offend if there's
support for the desired out-
come. If that's a consolidation
of the districts, then the council
should be willing to act on the
results of the study, whether
there's agreement from the five
fire districts or not.
If that's not a commitment
councilors are willing to make,
then they shouldn't waste
money on the study.
If there is no clear commit-
ment to follow the conclusions
of such a study, the result will
be an expensive middle step
back to where the town and
districts stand today.
DS II
editor@barnstablepatnot.com
By Ed Semprini
CHOWDAH BOWL: St.Pat-
rick Bogeyman: That weird-
looking spaceman who will be
seen in Boston 's St. Patrick's
Day Parade willnot have land-
ed from a planet light years
away. In fact, he merely drove
from Cape Cod. He'sFalmouth
Police Officer James Rogers,
an enthusiast of Star Wars and
amember of the 501s' Legion of
Star Wars. Rogers will march
in the parade wearing a storm
trooper uniform that report-
edly cost him $1,000 to design.
Asked by a Falmouth Enter-
pr ise reporter if he will wear
the uniform at his wedding
next fall, Rogers answered ,
"No," but said he may have a
surprise guest. From way, way
out there?.... Three-pointer:
Forget the NCAA' s March
Madness; for pure basketball
fun,take in the "Biggest Little
Basketball Tourney"this side
of Peach Basket, Mont. It's
the Billingsgate event for
hundreds of Outer Cape kids
in Wellfleet. And what other
basketball tournament can
boast of being sponsored to
support the - Mustard Seed
Kitchen!.... Plucky Plunging:
Should you be impatient and
giddy enough to plunge into
the bay as early as April 1,
then do it for a good cause.
Take part in the annual Pamet
Plunge at Corn Hill Beach
in Truro to support one of
the Cape 's smallest schools
- Truro Central.... Mention
"Lipton" and the well-known
brand of tea usually comes to
mind. Mention "Lipton Cup, "
and only sailing enthusiasts
would relate it to schooner
racing except , perhaps , in
Provincetown , Ninety-nin e
years ago, the Provincetown
fishing schooner Rose Doro-
thea made history by win-
ning the Fishermen'sRegatta
off Boston. The reward was
the two-foot high Edwardian
Lipton Cup made in London.
The cup, stashed away, kind
of "disappeared" for decades
until recently when it was
located in a town hall vault.
The Cape Codder report s the
cup has been restored and
"the prize and pride" of the
town is now the centerpiece
of the entrance to the public
library....YarmouthYawning?
What'sgoing on inYarmouth?
Bob Dubois, executive direc-
tor of the Yarmouth Chamber
of Commerce , reports the
town's resort business is on a
slippery slope, and he's wor-
ried. Dubois told The Register
the declines are"double-digit"
in the numbers of beach use,
golf play and motel use, and
the business community is
troubled. "That should be of
concern to the people," he
added , considering Yarmouth
has been arobust touristcom-
munity for 75years.... Down at
the end of the Cape, similar
concerns are being voiced.
In his report on "What'sHap-
pening in Downtown Provinc-
etown," The Cape Codder 's
Steve Desroches writes:
"Provincetown is starting to
resemble a Wild West ghost
town." The pity is that the
charm and character of the
one-time art and fishing town
has disappeared , never to be
regained.... Sudden Thought:
Whatever happened to one-
time star Barnstable town
athlete Dwight Coggeshall?....
Corned j^eef-Cabbage Bowl:
A toast today to the Irish and
the Irish Wannabes: "May you
never make an enemy when
you can make a friend unless
you meet a fox among your
chickens." (Freixnet Book).
And only to an Irishman
named Stan McDougal would
come up with this chuckler:
"Father, is it a sin in the eye
of the Lord to play golf on
Sunday?" "The way you play,
my son, it's a sin any day."
• • •
You're way up there, Morris,
ifyou remember when the Cape
Cod Colonial newspaper was
published inHyannis....Townof
Barnstable historybuffsshould
be able to identify the old loca-
tions of (a) CoalDock, (b) Brick
Yard. Answers below.
• • •
Newsquotes: "I'm sure we
will do whatever we will do
not to lose any market share
on that route, and I remain
hopeful that Nantucketers
will remain supportive of us."
- Michelle Haynes, Cape Air-
Nantucket Airlines commu-
nications director on the new
Nantucket Shuttle challenge
on flights between Barnstable
Airport and the island. (In
Nantucket Independent ) .
I
.... "It's certainly less ex-
pensive to prevent it (youth
obesity) than to treat it."
- Newly-appointed Bourne
High Athletic Director Sa-
mantha Ziehl. (in The Upper
Cape Codder) .
"Business that likes
Bourne goes to East Wareham
and South Plymouth so that
they will not deal with the
(Cape Cod) Commission."
- Bourne Planning Board
Chairman Chris Farrell, after
board voted 7-1 to withdraw
from commission. (In The Up-
per Cape Codder) .
• • •
Answers to query:
(a) Hyannis; (b) West
Barnstable.
• 0 #
Quotebook: "The manisthe
richest whose pleasures are
the cheapest."
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