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Advocate Archives
This week’s trip back into the Advocate Archives takes us to 1940 when a fisherman is rescued in the harbor; to 1952 when undersized lobsters seized by the state were released near the canal, to 1963 when a fire burned a cabin near Evan’s field and to 1974 when a bank stepped in to foreclose on the Provincetown Inn.
April 25, 1940
Fishermen Save Man From Water
Four dragger fishermen, Captain Manuel Thomas, Joseph Thomas, Salvador Roderick and John Luce, rowing out to their boat Monday morning heard the cries of Louis Silva, lobster fisherman who lives at 485 Commercial Street, and reached him just in time to haul him to safety after he had clung for nearly half an hour to his overturned skiff, a quarter of a mile off the East End shore.
Silva said that he had rowed out to bring ashore a bag of sea clams that he had placed out in deep water to keep them fresh. As he was hauling them up he lost his balance and capsized his skiff when he went overboard. His rescuers got to him just in time as Silva said that he was so weak he thought he could hold on no longer. First aid was given aboard the dragger Evangeline D.
April 24, 1952
800 “Shorts” Freed In Cape Cod Waters
Francis W. Sargent of Orleans, Director of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, announced today that 800 short lobsters seized from international shipments have been tagged with metal tags and were released in the waters of the Cape Cod Canal at Bourne.
Mr. Sargent said, “These small Canadian lobsters will increase the lobster population in that section of the Cape and will also serve to strengthen the brood stock.”
Mr. Sargent appealed to all lobster fishermen to return the metal tags when the lobsters are taken to the Division of Marine Fisheries office at the State House.
“These metal medallions, or dog tags,” Mr. Sargent said, “are being used in our study of lobster migrations. The idea is similar to the banding of migratory birds, which has been practiced with great success by conservationists for many years.”
April 25, 1963
Luck Helps Avert Forest Fire
Danger of a serious forest fire was averted in last Thursday’s fire in a shack near Evans Field, Fire Chief Wilbur Cook said, by the good luck that there was no wind and that there had been some moisture the previous day. He said the cause of the fire is still being investigated.
Chief Cook reported that a number of children who have been known to play in the area have been questioned and it has been established that children were in the shack at 4:30 in the afternoon. But as yet no definite connection links them with the fire which was reported at 6:15 p.m.
The blaze destroyed the shack and burned a small area around it. It had been built by youngsters and was used by them for camping.
Chief Cook urges continued care in the woods. Open fires are allowed only with a permit from the Chief.
April 25, 1974
Creditors Seize Inn
Acting with little advance notice, a team of Bass River Savings Bank officials swooped down on the beleaguered Provincetown Inn Saturday afternoon, taking title to the property, and immediately installing two new managers.
Gerry Malloy, who with his wife and three others was indicted by a Barnstable Superior Court grand jury on larceny charges last Thursday, was served by a bank attorney with foreclosure papers on a $2,000,000 mortgage Malloy’s corporation — Pilgrim of Provincetown, Inc. — owed approximately $150,000 in arrears on.
In the lawyer’s pocket were what Barnstable County deputy sheriff Robert Morea termed “ejection papers,” which Morea was ready to serve on Malloy were he to contest the foreclosure.
And waiting outside, at Morea’s request, were three off-duty Provincetown police officers — in case there was to be a question over the second set of papers.
The sudden foreclosure left the future of the 100-room motel in doubt. The bank, which apparently made its decision to foreclose only 24 hours earlier, installed Peter Ryder, owner of the Boatslip Motor Inn, as the Inn’s new manager.
The Saturday afternoon takeover culminated a tough week for Malloy and his corporate associates.
Last Thursday, he and his wife Sheila, Richard Shay of Provincetown, Samuel Ashey of Boston, and John Hunter of Stoneham were all indicted by a Barnstable Superior Court grand jury on charges they, as the Pilgrim of Provincetown, Inc., had illegally collected group health insurance payments from at least 17 employees without sending those payments on to the Blue Cross-Blue Shield medical insurance company, which had written the group policy for the Inn employees.
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Apr 24th, 2008