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Advocate Archives
This week we go back into the Advocate Archives to 1936 when a fireworks display turned out to be a big dud; to 1951 the local civic association raised their own fireworks over the beach concession permit at New Beach (now Herring Cove) and to 1960 when a man was beaten and robbed in the cemetery. He got his cane back but not his money for new winter shoes.
July 16, 1936
Fireworks Company Vindicates Fourth Of July Committee
Dissatisfied with the display of fireworks on the Fourth of July, the Board of Trade’s Committee which sponsored the celebration forwarded a letter of complaint to the manufacturers and received a reply this week which admitted that the merchandise sold the committee was not according to the original order.
Marsten and Wells Fireworks Manufacturing Company of Newton Upper Falls said in part, “We started to return check to you owing to the conditions of the stock, but thinking you would be sadly dissappointed, finally decided to send what we had.” The letter was signed by the treasurer of the company.
The letter of complaint followed the fireworks display on the evening of the fourth. The hundreds of spectators that gathered to witness the pyrotechnics were disappointed when the rockets failed to explode without any appreciable amount of noise and color. Many disgruntled persons voiced their feelings to the committee which prompted them to vindicate themselves.
July 12, 1951
Civic Group Flays Beach Concession
Hot dog stands and the administration of the Province Lands came up for heated discussion at last night’s meeting of the Provincetown Civic Association, with members solidly opposed, with the exception of one vote, to the issuance of a license for a refreshment stand at the New Beach and to the manner in which the matter was handled by Commissioner of Public Works William F. Callahan, to whom a letter stating the stand of the Association will be sent.
S. Osborn Ball, Secretary of the Association, whose letters to Commissioner Callahan voicing the objections of the group to the issuance of the permit, following the Commissioner’s statement that no such permits would be granted, have brought on only evasive answers, pointed out that the refreshment stand now in operation at the New Beach cannot be “physically stopped.”
“The Civic Association has long been in favor of a bathhouse at the New Beach, and also favored a concession which would be confined within the bathhouse, subject to state regulations,” Mr. Ball said. “However, there have been 42 applications for such a concession, many of them from veterans,” he pointed out, “and the petition circulated by Judge Robert A. Welsh, only to justify something already granted, is a very grave abuse of judicial power.” He added that only $100 fee had been charged for the permit worth at least $1,500, and said he felt that the Civic Association should have been consulted about the concession.
July 14, 1960
Joe DeCosta Back From Hospital
Joseph DeCosta of Conwell Street returned Tuesday night from the Cape Cod Hospital still bearing the cuts and bruises he received when he was beaten and robbed last Thursday night in the Provincetown Cemetery.
A 16-year-old Warwick, R.I. youth, Thomas F. Butler of 71 King Street, Warwick, was ordered held in $20,000 cash bail, two sureties, by Judge Robert A. Welsh in Second District Court in Harwich Friday morning after being arraigned on a charge of assault with intent to rob.
“The court is of the opinion,” the judge said, “that public necessity requires that you be tried as an adult and not as a juvenile because of the seriousness of the crime involved.”
Provincetown Patrolman George St. Amand asked for a continuance and told the court the victim of the beating was in serious condition at the Cape Cod Hospital and that there was at the time some question as to whether he might live because of complications arising from his injuries.
Joe, a well known figure along Commercial Street here, was delighted when acting Chief of Police, Francis H. Marshall, returned his cane to him, but he still felt badly about the $17 dollars of which he was robbed. It seems his assailant in trying to get away through the woods near the Texaco storage tanks on Brewster Street removed his pants in order to run better, and neither the pants nor Joe’s $17 have been found. Joe had worked hard to save this money with which he planned to buy winter shoes and other winter clothing.
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Jul 12th, 2007