Show lights of newyork new york by L L STEVENSON lets letts forget about the roar ot of limes linies square and the so called great white way for a little tittle and take a jump over to tape cape od there s the quiet village of harwich port which figured so largely in the news because of the of the little girl there are several Hir Har east harwich harwich center etc since the town of harwich which correl ands to a township in many states covers a large area the his tory of harwich goes back a long way there are of course the old families whose history Is entwined with that of the cape and those who come thre there summers no matter bow how many sea sons chev may have spent there they are still fore eners and in the oarn ion ton of many old timers who make a year a allvin in a few weel q in sur mer iner because of the r presence the foreigners have sp led the cape a desp te the presence of foreigners harwich Is a most pleasant locality but away back in the middle of the it in have been different in f Ms Is book ape lod cod hoi ho I 1 arthur wilson tarbell wrote of rev edward pell who crossed the great divide in 1751 the request of rev mr pel pell was that he be buried in brewster be cause if left among the pines of har chic hi I 1 might be overlooked at the resurrection for the lord would hard ly think of looking in such an ly place for a righteous man a speaking of crossing the great dl DI vide there was the cipe cape who male ma ie preparation for such an estrem I 1 y he ile built a beautiful tomb and chiq hl neighbors came to congratulate him well he said swelling just a bit with pride shell stand forever and blie sleeps six in the lobby of the harwich port rote at which travel ng men stop a number of salesmen were discussing rape ape coddens and their kics tics one told the story of the cape cod merchant who wouldn t handle a certain brand of cigars because people were always coming in and buying them that may be an old story remarked one of the group but the same thing actually happened to me in one of the cape towns last week the old fellow coulden couldn I 1 be both ered with customers coming in all the time so he threw out my line 0 a just a bit sot in their ways are the cape cod natives for instance there are the clam sellers during tha days of prosperity they got toi goeth eth e er r and set the price at 70 cents a pall for little necks now while they may sell them to the boston fish wharf for 50 cents a pall and that a 9 quite a piece to transport them if a customer drives right up to the shanty he cant can t buy them for less than 70 cents reverting Kevert lug to those foreigners who have sailed the cape there was the old captain who was asked whether or not a certain family were cape cod ders they might be called that he said but they ain t been allvin here more it forty years then there was the harwich port police officer who when asked his name by a reporter replied I 1 im in not bein paid for tellin you that sir and that ended the matter as far as he was concerned 0 only space enough now for a flash back to broadway for a height of optimism note A six piece german band playing in front of a midtown mid town hotel where the guests are mostly anem aloyed actors and musicians 0 1933 bell cate service |