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Advocate Archives
Old Trees, Late Long-Pointer, Ugly Boat
March 10, 1932
OLD TREES CUT DOWN BY TREE WARDEN
Four trees were cut down last week by Horace Watson, tree warden, and his working crew. These trees were situated at the west end of town.
The reason for their being selected was on account of their danger to life and property. It is said that this was due to the electric wiring passing through their branches which actually electrocuted them, thereby making them unsound and causing them to decay.
One old tree, at least a hundred years old, which stood near 52 Bradford Street, was cut down — the first of the group of four to go. This tree belonged to the town and was planted by some of the old settlers. It was used in the old days as a landmark which captains steering their vessels into the harbor might use as a guide.
Sara Cavanaugh of Atlantic Avenue saw her two 75-year-old trees taken down, victims of same. These were a silver poplar and willow.
The silver poplar owned by Mr. Souza of Central Street also came down as a menace to public safety.
This is the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington and his love of trees is well known by all. It seems most fitting this year that for every tree taken down a new one should be planted so that Provincetown will not be treeless in the years to come.
Horace Watson states that he is planning to make arrangements for such a project. In his opinion he declares that California catalpa trees would be the best. These are hardy trees and at the same time ornamental.
March 12, 1942
OLD RESIDENT DIES, BORN ON POINT
Mrs. Angelia Freeman Nickerson, one of the old-time residents of Provincetown and born in the now almost legendary Long Point settlement, died at midnight last night at her home at 93 Commercial Street after a long illness at the age of 88. Her next birthday would have been in July.
Mrs. Nickerson was born, lived her girlhood years and received her early education in the Long Point village which was once a small but flourishing fishing hamlet on what is now the barren hook of the end of Cape Cod. The large, barn-like school and the 30 or so houses were later moved across the bay to Provincetown where they still stand and serve. Mrs. Nickerson was the daughter of Prince and Eliza Horton Freeman. Her father engaged in seining and off-shore fishing.
March 12, 1959
‘NOT PRETTY,’ SAYS BOAT BUILDER SANTOS BUT CRAFT MAY AID TUNA FISHING
“It’s the dog-gondest craft ever built in this town and we are not keen to have the signature of Flyer’s Boatyard on it.”
So goes the opinion of Francis “Flyer” Santos on a boat recently completed in his West End boatyard. The new craft, twenty-one feet long and twelve feet wide, was modelled after a variety used on the West Coast for tuna fishing.
This boat, made of oak framing, plywood, 2 x 8 planking, glue and bolts, was built with the hope of aiding a new branch of fishing for the fleet of Provincetown, and will be launched tomorrow.
The success of this variation in fishing will depend greatly on the efforts of the enterprising captain, Manuel Phillips. Along with Laurence Meads, Captain Phillips drew plans and commissioned the construction of this curiously shaped boat after having successfully seined tuna during last summer.
Having studied and experienced the difficulties that go hand-in-hand with commercial tuna fishing, Captains Meads and Phillips came up with this fat three and a half foot deep package, awkward-looking but a functional combination of requirement and invention, small enough to be borne by the Silver Mink to the tuna grounds.
The boats will cast a large seine to net the tuna, and the smaller boat’s capacity and shape along with her many-ply rubber and canvas gunwales that girdle her flat shape will make the task of bringing the catch aboard easier. She will be brought about by four great seining oars and powered by a thirty-five horsepower outboard motor.
Commercial concentrations of bluefin tuna were found in the Gulf Stream area of western North Atlantic by the fisheries research vessel, Delaware, during a recent cruise, the first time tuna have been taken in such quantity in winter.
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Mar 8th, 2007