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the bitts, watchful of the command to 
 "slack off" when the proper time 
 comes. The idioms, the quaint say- 
 ings of the shore towns are strongly 
 flavored with the sea. 
 
 The chief business of the Cape to- 
 day, tiiough, is 7-;,^. ;jar,- Joy oj Sali- 
 ent ert a ining ni^ over Placid Bays 
 
 summer visitors. They come in greater 
 numbers every year, stay longer, and go away bet- 
 ter satisfied. All the way down to Provincetown 
 you will see the fine homes of the wealthy class 
 who spend the summer months there. Cottages of 
 every description are building each summer, and 
 hotels are also building at desirable points. 
 
 To-day sandy strips on the seashore that were 
 formerly considered as hardly worth taxing are held 
 at high prices. The town of Truro, where only a 
 few years ago was barrenness and seemingly utter 
 desolation, is rapidly developing as a cottage com- 
 munity. 
 
 This, then, seems to be the future of the Cape — a pleasure- 
 ground for people who want free winds, health-giving ozone and 
 good bathing far out into the very realm of old Neptune. 
 
 Highland Ligl't 
 
 CapeCodders 
 begin to realize 
 this and are 
 catering to 
 summer visi- 
 tors. State 
 roads have 
 penetrated 
 communities 
 that were 
 hitherto inac- 
 cessible. These 
 roads bring the 
 automobilists. 
 The Cape land- 
 scape has a 
 subtle charm 
 which makes 
 the automobile 
 visitors want to 
 see it again and 
 again and they 
 always return 
 to these quaint 
 towns and 
 ports. Cape Cod life is a life full of health- 
 j,. .'ing enjoyments and of novel surprises. If you 
 want relief from dyspeptic troubles, take the Cape Cod 
 You lead an outdoor life, a life that rarely gives a man 
 ' to find fault with his stomacii. 
 
 Out of the perplexing and trying intricacies of city life, you 
 pass into the quiet of woods, of streams, and lakes. A great 
 peace of soul falls upon you. You marvel at the ease with 
 which you forget worries and cares of the world you have left. 
 
 Irritability flies swiftly away in this atmosphere. The air is 
 full of healing. You are living hand in hand with Nature all 
 day long, watching her gradual changes — the birth of morn- 
 ing — the sunrise — the growth of storms — the loveliness of the 
 color of the woods — the fascination of the restless sea. 
 
 The most ardent golfer cannot help but be satisfied with the 
 
 splendid opportunities he will have for enjoying this sport down 
 
 on the Cape. Nowhere else may golf be played under more 
 
 ideal conditions than here. There are very good nine-hole courses 
 
 at Woods Hole, Osterville, Hyannisport and Yarmouth. Truro and 
 
 WelUleet will soon have golf links among their other attractions. 
 
/-/h Inviting Spot jor the Angler 
 
 If }ou ha\e read Thoreau's "Cape Cod" 3'ou will he l- — 
 disappointed to find that tilings on tlie Cape are not as 
 he described them. Of course you must tal\e into con- 
 sideration the fact that sixty years have elapsed since 
 Thoreau tramped along these shores. 
 
 His book on the Cape is one-sided. He walked along 
 the shore, keeping to the very edge of the water all 
 the way down the Cape. He did not 
 see the country inland and he had 
 a very erroneous idea of it. The won- 
 derful Cape country with its indehn- 
 ahle charm — the quaintness of its life 
 • — he ga\e but passing mention. But 
 he extolled the extraordinary purit\' 
 of the air and \ouched for the coolness 
 of its breezes. And it's always cool 
 down on the Cape. Every breeze is a sea breeze, no matter 
 from what quarter it blows. 
 
 Cape Cod roads offer perpetual varietv — now crossing 
 salt meadows and causeways over rippling arms of water, 
 now threading pine groves and thickets, then out on modest 
 elevations where suddenly you see a wide, azure expanse 
 of bay. 
 
 Now you pass haxfields and small fruit farms, and 
 again through miles of narrow roads where woods come 
 close to the carriage wheels and boughs 
 meet overhead so that they brush your 
 face. Here and there \'ou get fine, open 
 views of meadows and marshes bounded 
 by woodland or sea. It is a diversified 
 panorama of simple beauties. 
 
 There is alniost an entire absence of 
 signs of poverty down on the Cape, and 
 yet no indication of great wealth. The homes are comfortable, 
 well-kept, and cleanly. Crimson rambler roses grow riotously 
 
Quf^tat 
 
 here, and almost every home is em- 
 bowered with the vines and blossoms 
 of the beautiful rose. Old-fashioned 
 flower gardens ornament the front 
 lawns and during the summer give 
 forth sweet fragrance to the passing 
 wayfarer. Every aspect of these 
 homes is delightfully cheerful and at- 
 tractive. 
 
 All over the Cape are windmills 
 which ground the corn into meal, or 
 pumped sea water into wooden vats 
 for the purpose of making salt by 
 evaporation. 
 
 The salt works have disappeared 
 long ago and the mills no longer grind 
 the grist, but they linger to remind 
 you of Holland. 
 
 There are more than three hundred 
 lakes and ponds on the Cape. Inlets 
 
 the villages an e.xceedingly comfort- 
 able boarding place. Cape Cod folks 
 open their homes to summer visitors 
 and extend a most hospitable wel- 
 come to them. They will set be- 
 fore you dainty, appetizing meals and 
 you will not be charged exorbitant 
 rates. 
 
 For the man of family who seeks a 
 summer home on Cape Cod, there are 
 comfortable, old-fashioned cottages in 
 each town or hamlet that are offered 
 for rental at sums ranging from I150 
 to $300 for the season. For cot- 
 tages containing more modern con- 
 veniences and more luxurious fur- 
 nishings, rentals range up to |i,ooo 
 and even higher. 
 
 "I'ou and your family will enjoy 
 
 The Quiet of 
 
 rest, ease, and con- 
 
 Uikci and IVoodi tentment in one of 
 
 of the sea are numerous. The buffeting of the sea winds in 
 winter is evident in the shifting of the sand dunes all along the 
 shore. 
 
 While the summer visitors have added in great measure to 
 the prosperity of the Cape, they have not in any way changed 
 the ordinary course of life of Cape Cod folks. When autumn 
 comes and the summer boarder departs, life on the Cape goes on 
 undisturbed. The village does not change its plan of existence, 
 and the old ways go on just as they did before the summer 
 boarder came. 
 
 So it is that you will find to-day on the Cape the same 
 quaint characteristics and the same odd ways of living that the 
 Cape has always been accustomed to. 
 
 There are ample accommodations in this Summer Land for 
 vacationists, '^'ou will have no trouble in obtaining in any of 
 
 these homes, and your children will thrive and grow strong 
 amid these healthful surroundings. 
 
 There is a closer intimacy here on Cape Cod between the 
 visitor and the residents than you find at any other resort. 
 People often return to the same place season after season and 
 form strong attachments to the folks who dwell there, so that 
 the return of summer is anticipated with pleasure alike by resi- 
 dents and visitors. Thus much of the influence of the summer 
 life is made permanent and of lasting value. 
 
 But the life for the other six months in the year is not disturbed 
 or revolutionized nor does it lose its native flavor by this inter- 
 course. 
 
 One Cape Cod village may be described as typical of most of 
 the other villages on the Cape. A broad village street, above 
 which the branches of elm and .poplar trees interlace so that 
 
you look down on its straight length as 
 through an arched cathedral aisle. It 
 has its sunny ponds, sacred to the gamy 
 black bass, pickerel, and perch and 
 water-lilv. From every hilltop is a 
 lovely view of peaceful country. 
 
 It has its churches of every denomi- 
 nation; the post office Lone, Lake, 
 where residents and city CeiitcniUe 
 
 folks meet to wait for the mail; stores where 
 you can always find the things you don't want as 
 well as a few things which you must have; old 
 houses stored with curiouslv fashioned furniture, 
 rare ornaments and curios which would delight the 
 soul of an antiquarian. 
 
 In the houses are rooms numerous and spacious, 
 closets and cupboards without number, brick ovens 
 and fireplaces with andirons. 
 
 Climb up to the garret and you will find ther-:- 
 the unused spinning wheels, the old loom, and 
 the old medicine chest with its deep drawers filled 
 with herbs of all kinds. 
 
 A Slate Road 
 
 t a 1 n m e n t is 
 provided al- 
 most every 
 evening. These 
 entertainments 
 range from a 
 pretentious 
 dramatic per- 
 formance by a 
 band of stroll- 
 ing players to a 
 moving-picture 
 show, or a local 
 concert by 
 amateurs for 
 the benefit of 
 the library or 
 some other 
 worthy object. 
 There are no 
 factories — no 
 whistles or 
 blaststodisturb 
 the morning 
 slumber of the 
 summer visitor. 
 All the villages have their odd characters, like 
 Sam Lawson in Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Old 
 Town Folks." There is the town oracle, who discourses 
 philosophy at the village grocery in the evening. And you 
 will find in each \'illage old-time sailors who went to sea 
 for sixty years and who now busy themselves with the 
 lighter duties of skipper of catboats that take parties to 
 the bathing beach or fishing grounds. 
 
 The summer visitor will find much interest in listening 
 to the tales of people and events that these sailors delight 
 in recountine;. 
 
 Perhaps the villages in the interior may differ in some 
 slight degree from the villages along the shore. They lack 
 the salty fiavor which is the chief charm of the shore towns; 
 hut thev have the charm of woods and lakes. 
 
 Then there is the little village library with its pleasantly fur- 
 nished reading-room, supported generously by the summer 
 visitors. There is the village hall, where some sort of enter- 
 
 Vacation life on Cape Cod is wholly different from the life at 
 the summer resort that the average man or woman knows abouf- 
 
It is a quiet, restful life and withal a healthful life. This 
 is its charm. It is good for fagged brains and tired 
 nerves. It will build up worn-out bodies. It will put 
 new energy into the over-worked business or professional 
 man. It will restore vim to the society woman, worn by 
 the exacting demands of the winter season. 
 
 But you would not want to live this life the year 
 round. You are glad to get down on 
 the Cape when summer time comes 
 and you are glad to get back home to 
 familiar places and faces when summer 
 is over. 
 
 Perhaps that is why the summer life 
 on Cape Cod never palls. You want to 
 go back there again and again. You 
 can't tell why. You only know that you want to go and that 
 you try to have your friends go, too. 
 
 The programme of a summer's day varies but little. 
 Suppose you are one who has escaped from the stress of 
 life in crowded streets. First of all, you don't rise with 
 the lark — the alluring pictures of country life to the con- 
 trary. \'ou have a late breakfast and then half-an-hour's 
 smoke while you pore over the daily papers. 
 
 About eleven o'clock, say, you get ready for a sail or 
 a visit to the bathing beach. 
 
 If )ou go bathing, you will find the 
 water deliciously warm and you will 
 want to stay in for an hour or more. 
 The water is free from impurities, the 
 beach is clean, and all the conditions 
 for bathing enjoyment are ideal. 
 
 Then comes a sail on the Bay or Sound. Perhaps you land on 
 shore to dig some quahogs. Then, hungry as hungry can be. 
 
you hurry liome to dinner. And how 
 you'll eat! Perhaps the first course 
 is a delicious clam or fish chow- 
 der. Nowhere else in the 
 world is chowder made that 
 can compare with Cape 
 Cod chowder. 
 
 .■\nd after you'\e 
 loafed an hour you'll 
 either want to play ten- 
 nis, or drive through the 
 woods, or make a round of 
 the links, or stroll along 
 the shore, or. perhaps, go 
 fishing. 
 
 You'll find that hours will 
 pass as minutes in this kind of a 
 life. Then in the evening comes 
 the walk to the postofike or the store 
 to meet the Cape Cod folks and hear 
 the latest hit of village news. \'ou go 
 
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 the average summer resort with its fashionable hotel, 
 its music, its dancing, and its rivalries and disappoint- 
 ments. You store up enough delicious, invigorating sea 
 air during a summer of this life to last you until you 
 come again. 
 
 One of the odd things about Cape Cod is the num- 
 ber of ponds of fresh water which you see, no mat- 
 ter in which direction you drive. You may travel 
 for miles and miles and never he out of sight of 
 these pools. Fed by cool springs, the water is 
 refreshing and very clear. 
 
 Cast a line in one of these ponds and you'll get 
 bass, pickerel, and perch to your heart's content. 
 
 There are 174 lakes on Cape Cod that have an 
 
 area of more than ten acres. In the town of Barn- 
 
 One Day's Catch Stable alone, are twenty-seven of these 
 
 at Barnstable ponds. No town on Cape Cod has less 
 
 Cape Cod Yacht Races 
 
 to bed early and get up very late, and you do the same thing 
 all over again the ne.xt day. 
 
 an five. Wakeby Lake in Mashpee is the largest 
 the Cape Cod lakes as well as the most pic- 
 turesque, and is probably the deepest. This beau- 
 tiful sheet of water is surrounded by bolder and higher 
 shores than the others. It is divided into two nearly 
 equal portions by a peninsula, across whose narrow neck, 
 as tradition says, the earlier Indian inhabitants drove the 
 deer and other game which are still to he found on the Cape. 
 Soundings show the lake to be over ten fathoms, or si.xty- 
 one feet deep. 
 
 This kind of a life is far better than the dawdling existence at 
 
 The climate of the southern shore of Cape Cod is generally 
 
milder than that of other portions of 
 the State, as is shown by the fact 
 that the lai<es and ponds of this region 
 rarely freeze in winter to a thickness 
 of more than five or six inches. 
 
 The most picturesque series of lakes 
 upon the Cape is that which extends 
 from Long Pond in Falmouth to Great 
 Pond in Barnstable. 
 
 Cape Cod. not so very long ago, had 
 a large Indian population. The only 
 Indian settlement now on the Cape 
 is in the town of Mashpee. It has 
 been incorporated as a town and the 
 iiihabitants enjoy the same rights and 
 privileges as other citizens of Mas- 
 sachusetts. 
 
 The village is at the southern end 
 of the town of Mashpee. The only 
 
 MOt ChJp€ 
 
 The ponds in the interior of the 
 Cape are the places where you will find 
 trout, pickerel, perch, and bass. Min- 
 nows, shrimp, and fat angleworms 
 are the kind of bait to tempt these 
 fellows. 
 
 Salt-water fishing off Cape Cod 
 sounds pretty good to the man who 
 is penned down to business ten months 
 in the year. Down here on the Cape 
 he may be sure of having all the sport 
 his heart can desire. 
 
 .At any of the shore villages he will 
 find old sea captains who will be glad 
 to take him out to the fishing grounds 
 in their catboats. Until you have 
 hooked a six-pound bkiefish or sea 
 bass or landed a big cod you haven't 
 Charming tasted of the full delights 
 Boiirnedale of a Cape Cod vacation. 
 
 church, a Baptist one, is largely supported by an ancient fund, 
 the expenditure of which is entrusted to the authorities of 
 Harvard University. The meeting-house is located a mile from 
 the village in a forest and there is an Indian graveyard nearby. 
 
 After an early morning fishing trip, what fun to go ashore for 
 a fish dinner or a real, old-fashioned clambake ! The shores 
 abound in clams and quahogs, and in the bays are found scallops, 
 ovsters, and lobsters. 
 
 Along the lake shore, traces of the earlier tribes are often 
 found in the shape of implements, arrowheads, and other 
 weapons which are ploughed up from the soil; while nearer the 
 sea, heaps of broken oyster, clam, scallop, and quahog shells are 
 found, showing that the Indians evidently appreciated sea food. 
 
 There is always good fishing down on Cape Cod. Nowhere 
 within easy reach of New York or Boston will the angler find 
 such abundant opportunity for the enjoyment of his favorite 
 sport as down here on the Cape. The coast line is cut every few 
 miles by the opening of some bay or harbor — just the right kind 
 of a place for the fish to spawn. 
 
 Here are all the items of a most delicious menu. And things 
 taste so good out there on the shore! The early morning sail 
 has given you an appetite that a king might envy. You don't 
 have to bother about the fixings. 
 
 If Cape Cod be a fisherman's paradise, it is likewise a place of 
 supreme happiness for the yachtsman. Every shore town has 
 its little harbor and landing-place for sailing craft. The type 
 of craft most popular down on the Cape is known as the Cape 
 Cod catboat. They have a broad beam and one great sail, 
 large in proportion to the size of the hull. The Cape Cod catboat 
 is a stiff, safe and comfortable craft in a seaway, and you can 
 
School and Coltaga, Sagauiort: 
 
 take a great deal of pleasure in sailing one of them. 
 Must nf them nnwada>'s are equipped with a gasoline en- 
 gine, and the owner is thus able to mal\e sure of reach- 
 ing home against wind or tide. 
 
 Like a bent arm, Cape Cod stretches out into Atlantic 
 Ocean from the eastern side of Massachusetts. It com- 
 prises the whole of Barnstable County. On its west- 
 ward shore is Buzzards Bay. At its 
 easternmost point is Chatham — the 
 elbow of the Cape. 
 
 Twenty miles in width at Buzzards 
 Bay, the land narrows gradually until 
 at Provincetown the Cape is less 
 than a mile wide. From end to end 
 of the Cape, the distance is about si.xty 
 miles. Fifteen or more towns are comprised in this terri 
 tory. 
 
 The waters of Cape Cod Bay wash the north shore; 
 Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds lave the south shore, 
 and the Atlantic Ocean the easterly shore. Wherefore it 
 is always cool in summer on Cape Cod. 
 
 From New ^'ork it is a beautiful trip by steamer of the 
 New Bedford Line or the Fall River Line to the Cape 
 Cod country, ^'ou will be charmed with the voyage 
 through the East River and out on 
 Long Island Sound. If you go by 
 steamer of the New Bedford Line, 
 you land at New Bedford, the gate- 
 way to the Buzzards Bay and Cape 
 Cod resorts. You have only to step 
 from the steamer landing to a ferry 
 boat which takes you to Fairhaven, 
 just across the river from New Bed- 
 ford. There you will find trains with through cars waiting to 
 speed you on to your destination. 
 
If you choose the Fall River Line 
 as your route — the famous Fa 
 River Line — you will have equally 
 as delightful a voyage on Long 
 Island Sound in one of the 
 magnificent steamers for 
 which this Line is noted. 
 
 You step directly from 
 the steamer at the wharf 
 at Fall River to a train 
 of the New York, New 
 Haven & Hartford Rail- 
 road. 
 
 The train service for 
 points on Buzzards Bay and 
 Cape Cod will enable you to 
 make connections for any resort 
 in this territory. 
 
 For the purpose of description, 
 Cape Cod may be divided into three 
 
 north shore and extends to Chatham on the east. 
 
 Then it continues on down the Cape to the very tip 
 end at Provincetown. The towns of the south shore are 
 served by stage lines from Falmouth, West Barnstable 
 
 and Hyannis. 
 
 Let us take a little journey down on Cape Cod. 
 Suppose you have come on from New York by 
 steamer of the New Bedford Line. 
 
 Arriving at New Bedford, you take the ferry to 
 Fairhaven, the starting point of the rail journey. 
 The train that awaits you has a through car to 
 Hyannis by way of Buzzards Bay station. 
 
 |ust before you reach the station at Buzzards 
 
 Bay you will glimpse on your right the former home 
 
 The Surf Near ^'^ ^'""^ '^*^ President Cleveland, and 
 
 Sagamore on your left, through the treetops. 
 
 Cottages on the Bluj;, ^agaiiwrc Liidih 
 
 portions — the north shore, the south shore, and the Cape 
 proper. 
 
 The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad parallels the 
 
 will see the roof of Crow's Nest, the home of 
 te Joseph [efferson. At the next station, which 
 is Bourne, you leave the train. 
 
 Bourne 
 
 \ A /HEN you arrive at Bourne you are in the Cape country. 
 This is historic ground. Halfway between Buzzards Bay 
 station and Bourne you will see the remains of the old trading 
 station established by the Pilgrims in 1627. Thither came 
 Governor Bradford and his little band after the harvest to trade 
 
with the Dutch from New 'I'ork. Gover- 
 nor Bradford's history has this account 
 of it: 
 
 " For our greaterconvenienceof trade, 
 to protect our inhabitants and to main- 
 tain ourselves, we ha\e built a sma 
 pinnace at Manomet, a Boat-Hoiisi 
 phice (in the sea, twenty Scvuiwuh 
 
 miles to the south, to which by another 
 creek on this side ('Scusset') we transport our goods 
 by water until within four or five miles, and then 
 carry them overland to the vessel, thereby avoid- 
 ing the compassing of Cape Cod with those dan- 
 gerous shores and make our voyage to the south- 
 wartl with far less tire and hazard." 
 
 The town of Bourne stretches between the waters 
 of Buzzards Bay on the west and the waters of 
 Cape Cod on the east. 
 
 The temptiiis; narrowness of Cape Cod at this 
 
 ' r , , , ^ ' , • » ,- Old Mill. S,llhlXi:ti- 
 
 pomt suggested as far back as 1630 the project ot 
 building a ship canal here. An attempt was made 
 thirty years ago to dig the canal, but the enterprise collapsed. 
 Another company has undertaken the project and has already con- 
 structed a large part of the waterway. 
 
 Joseph Jefjenon'i Uruve 
 at Sandwich 
 
 It is to be a 
 ship canal for 
 ocean- going 
 vessels. The 
 digging of this 
 canal is second 
 only to the 
 Panama Canal 
 in its impor- 
 tance to the 
 merchant ma- 
 rine interests 
 of this country. 
 It will make an 
 island of Cape 
 (~od and almost 
 revolutionize 
 coastwise ma- 
 rine commerce 
 of theNew Eng- 
 land and Mid- 
 dle Atlantic 
 States. If you 
 go down on 
 Cape CoJ, you will be interested in observing the 
 progress of this great undertaking. 
 
 Bourne, formerly a part of Sandwich, takes its name 
 from Jonathan Bourne, a descendant of Richard Bourne, 
 who was a missionar)' to the Indians of Cape Cod. 
 
 A short distance from Bourne is Bournedale. once the 
 home of the Herring Pond Indians. 
 
 It lies nestled among the hills. Samuel Sewell, of Boston, 
 built a meeting-house here for the Indians in 1668. 
 
 Sagamore 
 
 CROM Bournedale the railroad takes us to Sagamore. 
 * '■ This is a thriving little ^•illage. A short distance from 
 
 the \illage is Sagamore Beach, a summering place, which 
 has gained much popularity within recent V'ears. The beach is 
 crescent shaped, witli a floor of white, hard sand, shelving out 
 gradually to deep water. This is an ideal spot for bathing. 
 
QpaSmit Ca.jp(E Cod 
 
 If you prefer fresh-water bathing, the waters of Lake 
 Manomet offer inviting opportunity. Fishing in this lai<e 
 or in Cape Cod Bay is always good. Cod, haddock, 
 mackerel, flounders, and sea-trout are very plentiful in 
 the Bay. 
 
 Here the Christian Endeavor Society has established a 
 summer institute. This is conducted under the auspices 
 of the .Massachusetts Christian En- 
 deavor Union. 
 
 Besides this institute, a sociological 
 conference, a Sunday-school institute, 
 and a summer school are interesting 
 features of the life at this resort. 
 
 A very attractive cottage colony has 
 been established at Sagamore Highlands in a sixty-acre park. 
 The view of Cape Cod Bay on one side and the vista of charm- 
 
 ing country on the other side makes Sagamore Highlands 
 a delightful summering place. 
 
 Sandwich 
 
 "THE first English settlement on Cape Cod was made 
 here in 1637. Tlie village lies at the north end of Barn- 
 stable Bay. With the bay on one side and rolling hills and 
 woodland on the other, Sandwich 
 offers to the summer visitor a delight- 
 ful combination of country and seashore 
 life. 
 
 You will find many places of historic 
 interest in this old town — for Sandwich 
 is 270 years old. You will see the home 
 of the Tupper family, one of the oldest 
 houses on the Cape, and the houses of the Wings and the Nyes, 
 pioneer settlers of America. Three generations of the descend- 
 
ants of Tupper, the famous mission 
 ary to the Indians, li\ed here. 
 Lovers of things antiquarian 
 will delight in visiting this 
 place. 
 
 Nowhere else on Cape Cod 
 has the progress of the 
 times wrought fewer 
 changes than here in 
 Sandwich town. For 
 many, this is its greatest 
 charm. Its inhabitants 
 for more than two cen- 
 turies have been farmers. 
 
 Seventv-fi\'e years ago the 
 glass-making industry was es- 
 tablished here, but the plant 
 is now idle. 
 
 You will enjoy the drives from 
 Sandwich to East Sandwich, Spring 
 Hill, Scorton Hill, Wakeby, and Forest- 
 
 flock in this solitary spot during the days of the 
 Quaker persecution. In those days Quakers were 
 fined if they attended services of their own faith and 
 were also fined if they failed to attend the Sabbath meet- 
 ing established bv law. 
 
 When you tire of the country, there are the re- 
 creations of the sea at your front door — both 
 fishing and sailing. 
 
 There is excellent fishing in the lakes, pondsi 
 and bay. Anglers will find glorious sport here- 
 
 Barnstable 
 
 OING from Sandwich to Barnstable by railroad, the 
 
 train passes along reaches of marshland. These are 
 
 called "The Great Marshes." Farmers gather 
 
 salt hav here in the summer. In the autumn 
 
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 Bass River, South Yarmouth 
 
 dale — nearby hamlets that have a quaintness and charm all 
 their own. You will see, up among these hills, the place where 
 Christopher Ludlow, a Quaker preacher, gathered together his 
 
 Bass River Bridge at South Yarmouth 
 
 come the sportsmen to shoot the wild duck, geese. 
 plo\'er, coot, and snipe. 
 
 As you approach Barnstable village, the shire town 
 of the county incorporated in 1639, the aspect changes and you 
 look out upon meadows and upland. 
 
 West Barnstable and Barnstable villages are delightfully 
 situated on a natural harbor — Barnstable harbor, it is called. 
 A long stretch of beach-front, called Sandy Neck, is just across 
 the harbor. .At the extreme end of Sandy Neck, marking the 
 entrance to Barnstable harbor, is Sandy Neck light. In this 
 
harbor you will enjoy every aquatic 
 delight. There is very good fishing 
 both in the harbor and in the bay be- 
 yond. 
 
 If you like fresh-water fishing, you 
 have only to go back into the coun- 
 try a few miles to fish the waters of 
 Great Pond, or Automohde Road Near 
 the Nine Mile Brewster 
 
 Pond, as it is sometimes called. Gamy bass 
 
 lurk in the quiet depths of this pond; you will also 
 
 find perch and pickerel in plenty. 
 
 In Barnstable village lived James Otis, a graduate 
 of Harvard College in 1743 and a signer of the 
 Declaration of Independence. 
 
 Here also lived Miss Priscilla Mullens, a young 
 lady to whom John Alden, a magistrate of the 
 Plymouth Colony, was sent with a proposal of Sailing of! 
 
 marriage from Miles Standish, the story of which Harwich 
 
 is so prettily told in Longfellow's poem, "The 
 Courtship of Miles Standish." Miles Standish was a surveyor. 
 He made most of the original surveys of the land we are 
 now traversing. 
 
 Yarmouth 
 
 Crom Barn- 
 stable we 
 journey to Yar- 
 mouth. Yar- 
 mouth was 
 settled in 1639. 
 Its inhabitants 
 in the past have 
 been great sea- 
 faring folk. 
 
 In the days 
 of sailing ves- 
 sels, Yarmouth 
 men voyaged 
 the world over. 
 Most of them 
 were ship's 
 officers. Many 
 acquired wealth 
 in the India 
 and China 
 trade. This 
 many instances been handed 
 the descendants of these old 
 
 Perhaps this accounts for the town's air of easy- 
 going comfort. Fortunes are no longer drawn from 
 the fishing industry as they formerly were. 
 
 Yarmouth had quite a mackerel fleet about twenty 
 years ago, but these are all gone now. Straggling lines 
 of rotting piles mark where the wharves stood. 
 
 The town of Yarmouth comprises the villages of Yar- 
 mouth Port, Yarmouth, South Yarmouth, and West 
 Yarmouth. A fine macadam road, overhung by tow- 
 ering elm trees, connects these villages. 
 
 The houses elbow each other closely along this slender 
 
 roadway. Yarmouth has a pretty bit of common, where 
 
 trees and lawns make a most inviting place of refuge on a 
 
 summer's day. It was formerly a common field for making 
 
 brick for the early inhabitants. 
 
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 RAND, MCNALLYA CO., NEW YORK 
 
A quarter of a mile from Yarmouth 
 Station is the Cummaquid golf links. 
 This is a natural course of nine holes, 
 which was laid out in 1895. 
 
 The turf here is especiall\' suited 
 for golf. From any part of the course, 
 you get a superb view of the sur- 
 rounding country and Cape Cod Bay. 
 
 The clubhouse is the center of the 
 social life of the villages of Barn- 
 stable, Yarmouth, and Yarmouth 
 Port. 
 
 Tennis is a popular feature of the 
 summer life at the golf club. 
 
 From Dennis to Provincetown there 
 is a splendid road all the way. 
 Automobilists will find perfect delight 
 in touring this section of Cape Cod. 
 As you motor down the Cape, you 
 
 Qnj^tat C^p(E Cod 
 
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 About a mile from Y'armouth on 
 the road to Hyannis, is ^'armouth 
 camp ground — a fine oak park, where 
 meetings have been held for more 
 than twoscore years. 
 
 Here some of the ablest preachers 
 of the .Methodist Conference may be 
 heard. 
 
 Dennis 
 
 npHREE miles from 'I'armouth and 
 we come to North Dennis in the 
 town of Dennis. 
 
 Dennis was a part of the town of 
 Yarmouth until 1794. 
 
 The town was named after Rev- 
 erend Josiah Dennis, the first minis- 
 BnJge at ter to settle in the 
 Wat Hanvich town. 
 
 have spread before you a view of two seas. Cooling winds blow 
 constantly across this stretch of land and you will want to make 
 the journey often. 
 
 At ^'armouth Port, there are e.xceptionally good facilities for 
 bathing. 
 
 The temperature of the Bay averages about seventy- 
 two degrees during the season, sometimes reaching as high as 
 eighty-two degrees and seldom registering below si.xty-five de- 
 grees. 
 
 There is a large fleet of sailboats here that the summer 
 visitors may hire at moderate prices. 
 
 A good hotel and several small boarding houses furnish 
 ample accommodations for summer visitors. 
 
 There are graded schools, a high school, a public hall, and 
 a public library at ^'armouth. 
 
 In 1865, Dennis had a fishing fleet of forty-eight vessels and 
 nearly 1,200 seamen hailed from this one Cape Cod town. Not 
 a single ship hails from Dennis to-day. Some fast and famous 
 clippers were built in Dennis by the Shivericks, the foremost 
 shipbuilders on Cape Cod. Some of these vessels were especially 
 noted for their swift voyages to and from Calcutta and San 
 Francisco. The Civil War changed all this. 
 
 Dennis e.xtends from Cape Cod Bay to Nantucket Sound, and 
 is a town of ponds. 
 
 At North Dennis is a large, modern hotel and a summer col- 
 ony of cottagers from Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City and other 
 large cities of the West. 
 
 Dennis is a beautiful town, full of quiet, satisfying scenery. 
 You will want to visit the old whaling ground on the shore 
 and the old Indian cemetery among the hills. 
 
 Comprised in the town of Dennis are the villages of North 
 
Den 
 
 Dennis, East Dennis, West 
 South Dennis, and Dennis 
 In ail tliese villages you wil 
 comfortable accommodation; 
 Summer life here is restful 
 and satisfying. 
 
 At North Dennis are 
 fine golf links. There 
 are abundant opportuni- 
 ties for fishing here. Cod, 
 bluefish, and striped bass 
 are taken in great quan- 
 tities about a mile from 
 shore, and lobsters are plen- 
 tiful. 
 
 There is a mile of beach- 
 front — firm, clean, white sand 
 that is just ideal for bathing. 
 
 From the bluff, back of the bathing 
 beach, on clear days, you have a fine view 
 
 from this lofty point the view of Cape Cod and the 
 sea is even more magnificent This hill is the highest 
 
 point of land on Cape Cod. An observatory has been 
 
 built here. 
 
 On a clear day you can see Marthas Vineyard away 
 across the Sound. At the foot of the hill is Scargo 
 Lake, a picture of tranquil beauty 
 
 Bass River and Chase Garden River form part of 
 the boundary between the towns of Yarmouth and 
 Dennis. Bass River is navigable for canoes and 
 other small craft for a distance of five miles from its 
 mouth on the south shore. 
 
 Harwich 
 
 A S you go from Yarmouth to Harwich you will see that 
 
 much of the land is covered with dense pine woods. 
 
 Sired Only here and there are occasional farm 
 
 rewiler, clearings. Unlike the other Cape towns. 
 
 Chatham Light 
 
 I of Provincetown to the north — nearly twenty miles distant. 
 I On the left, Plymouth coast is visible; to the southwest is the 
 I Yarmouth shore. Inland a short distance is Scargo Hill, and 
 
 h front on both the bay and the ocean, Harwich 
 s only on the ocean. The town of Brewster com- 
 prises the northerly or bay shore. 
 The villages of Harwich Port, West Harwich, South Harwich, 
 Harwich, Harwich Centre, and Pleasant Lake are comprised in 
 the town of Harwich. At Harwich Port and West Harwich 
 are splendid bathing beaches. There are two large hotels on 
 the beach. These as well as several smaller hotels and board- 
 ing houses, are patronized by an increasing number of visi- 
 tors each summer. 
 
 There is a fine harbor here for yachts and summer craft. 
 
Experienced boatmen will take out 
 fishing and sailing parties. There are 
 a dozen fresh-water ponds where the 
 man who is fond of fresh-water fishing 
 will find ample sport. 
 
 Harwich boasts of having the largest 
 and finest town j„„j 1/,,^,. RvJer's 
 hall and theater Lake at 'n\Ufl,d 
 
 m^^m 
 
 Beach Front, Orleans 
 
 on Cape Cod. It also has the finest village 
 
 park — Brooks Park. This is a beautiful green of 
 
 perhaps an acre and a half in e.xtent. 
 
 The town ends at Herring River, which is about 
 six miles long. It fiows from Long Fond t(j the 
 ocean. 
 
 Harwich roads are a delight to the automobilist 
 and horseman. Radiating in every direction from 
 the town are smooth, macadam highways, which 
 are kept in perfect repair. 
 
 Brewster 
 
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 the Cape. It 
 has no ade- 
 quate harbor, 
 but it has al- 
 ways been a 
 town of sea- 
 men. 
 
 In i8i 3 it 
 was said that 
 there were 
 more masters 
 and mates of 
 vessels from 
 ISrewster in 
 proportion to 
 its population 
 than from any 
 other town in 
 the State. 
 
 Brewster has 
 
 about it the 
 
 stamp and 
 
 color of a town 
 
 of sea captains. City visitors would be delighted 
 
 if they could step inside one of these Brewster homes 
 
 and see the store of old china, quaint armor, rare 
 
 Canton crepe shawls, India silk, and foreign curios which 
 
 the captains and sailor men of Brewster brought home 
 
 from their voyages to foreign lands. 
 
 The aspect of the villages of Brewster Port, Brewster, 
 East Brewster, West Brewster, and Factory X'illage differ 
 but httle in detail. 
 
 There is a prettv little green in Brewster village, which 
 is a gathering place in the evening for the summer visi- 
 tors and villagers. There is a town landing on Cape Cod 
 Bay. 
 
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 Street Scene, Orleans 
 
 A Cap,, Cod Trout 
 
 DREWSTFR was named after William Brewster, a member of 
 
 the Mayflower band. It was formerly known as the first or 
 
 north parish of the town of Flarwich. It forms the bend of 
 
 The town owns a herring brook and appoints a com- 
 mittee at the annual town meeting to catch the fish and 
 dispose of them. The fish were abundant in former years 
 and the >ield was often as much as three hundred barrels 
 a year. 
 
Chatham 
 
 /^HATHAM occupies the elbow of 
 Cape Cod. The ocean forms its 
 eastern and southern boundary and 
 the town of Harwich its western 
 boundary. 
 
 Its shore is broken up by bays, 
 creei<s, harbors, and inlets, niaiving 
 an irregular and tortuous coastline 
 of nearly twenty miles. 
 
 Here the water is often on the same 
 day nineteen degrees warmer than on 
 the north shore. 
 
 The islands south of it modif}' both 
 the winds and the waves and serve 
 as breakwaters. Chatham is the 
 most easterly point in the state of 
 Massachusetts. Champlain was here 
 in 1606. 
 
 doorstep. One of the great chart 
 makers of the world lives here. He 
 knows the coastlines of the American 
 continent as few men know them. 
 
 The Cape Proper 
 
 CROM Chatham you verge north- 
 ward for the journey down the 
 Cape proper to Provincetown, the 
 terminus of the railroad. Going north 
 as the crow flies we come to Orleans. 
 
 Orleans 
 
 /'~\RLEANS is a town of beautiful 
 
 landscapes. It rambles over 
 
 breezy uplands. It was formerly part 
 
 of the town of Eastham. From 
 
 n- ., Eastham were carved 
 
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 y-l^y; three towns, Chatham, 
 
 ll'ellfleet Orleans, and Wellfleet. 
 
 It is a joy to tramp along the sandy, twisting shores. Every 
 few steps opens up some new vista of delight. The depth of the 
 water along this part of the coast is constantly changing and 
 the most careful navigators often meet with surprises. The sea, 
 with the resistless force of three thousand miles of water, is 
 constantly changing the contour of the coastline. 
 
 Every little while some new harbor is cut through the 
 beaches or some old harbor is closed from the sea by a bar 
 of sand thrown up by the storm tides. It is this infinite 
 variety of shore front that perhaps accounts in great measure 
 for its attraction as a summering place. 
 
 Summer visitors are crowding on these shores in increasing 
 numbers each season. There is a large, modern hotel here — 
 perched on a slope as close to the sea as it is possible to get with- 
 out being in danger of having the waves roll up on the front 
 
 Orleans has no paupers. The almshouse has been leased as a 
 dwelling. Think of living in a town where the almshouse brings 
 in annual rent! There are three windmills in Orleans, each of 
 which is about 150 years old. There is a valuable public library 
 here. An early chart of the New England coast, which was 
 deposited in the Public Record Office in London, shows that 
 there was a passage through the towns of Eastham, Orleans, 
 and Chatham which was used in the early colonial days by 
 small vessels and pinnaces making voyages between the Bay 
 of Maine and Virginia. 
 
 In 1865 the bones of an ancient ship were disclosed by the 
 action of the sea in the town of Orleans. Professor Agassiz 
 made an investigation, which gave specific evidence of the 
 now closed passage. 
 
 From Taylor's Hill, a short distance back from the sea, there 
 is a grand view of the Atlantic Ocean and Cape Cod Bay. 
 
Eastham 
 
 /^WING to its corn, Eastham 
 ^^^ was a favorite place for the 
 Pilgrims. Hither they came 
 with their sacks to be filled 
 from Eastham's great 
 store of corn. 
 
 The great missionary, 
 Reverend Samuel Treat, 
 whose labors among the 
 Indians have brought his 
 name down through cen- 
 turies, settled here in 1672. 
 
 He served the town as 
 pastor for forty-five years. He 
 learned to speak and write the 
 Indian language. He was a father to -^ 
 the Indians, as were those noble French- 
 men who ministered to the Indian 
 along the shores of the Great Lakes. 
 
 A ride of half a mile from the town of Eastham 
 
 takes us across Nauset Plains to the Nauset Lights. 
 
 On our right are low, various-hued sandhills divided 
 
 by narrow inlets of salt water. Let us tarry awhile on 
 
 his sand ridge and view the landscape extending 
 
 through Eastham and beyond to Wellfleet and Truro. 
 
 ■^'ou see a wide plain between the low ranges of 
 sand bluffs. These bluffs seem to be propped up, 
 much like a sheltering fence — a breakwater to ward 
 off the intrusions of the sea, the ever-restless, lurch- 
 ing sea. 
 
 Some of them are covered with pine trees, but 
 for the most they are bare of vegetation. This 
 plain seems as level as a floor. 
 
 And so, through thickening sand, we reach the 
 Surf at Nauset Lights. They are built among the sand 
 
 hollow 
 
 North Truro 
 
 We are now at the heart of the East Cape. This is a land of 
 sea and sand. The inhabitants must live partly by the sea 
 and partly by the land. 
 
 the rear. Uncle Sam's lighthouse builders used 
 build these beacons close to the sea bluffs, but 
 sea, in perpetual motion, wasted away the sand 
 about them and submerged them. 
 
 Now they build these lighthouses farther inland and build 
 them of wood, so that if the sea starts to wash away the sand 
 bluffs they can move them back. Sometimes they put them on 
 rollers and move them around in that way. The lighthouse 
 keeper has built a bench on the summit of one of these sandhills 
 and from this eminence you can look down 100 feet or more into 
 the sea. There is a life-saving station close by. The keeper 
 
mnt C^K Cod 
 
 Shore Collage, Provtncelown 
 
 and crews of the life-saving stations are always pleased 
 to give exhibition drills with the lifeboat and breeches 
 buoy for the summer visitors. 
 
 Wellfleet 
 
 CROM Easthani we continue on across the plain to 
 Wellfleet. At Wellfleet this level plain reaches an 
 elevation of 140 feet above the sea 
 level. 
 
 Farmers of Eastham and Wellfleet 
 have grown prosperous from the cul- 
 ture of asparagus. These sandy fields, 
 that were formerly considered of little 
 worth, now bring in a large income. 
 The soil seems peculiarly adapted to 
 the culture of this vegetable. While at Wellfleet you wi 
 surely want to visit Cape Cod's famous Highland Light,. 
 
 At Wellfleet is located a wireless telegraph station, from 
 which messages are flashed thousands of miles over the 
 sea. Visitors to Wellfleet will find enjoyment in visit- 
 ing this station — one of the largest and most important on 
 the American continent. 
 
 Wellfleet was a part of the town of Eastham until 1763, 
 when it became a town by itself. There are fifteen fresh- 
 water ponds in Wellfleet. 
 
 It shores on the west side, where the 
 village is all indented with bays, forming 
 shallow harbors that are fit only for small 
 craft. Its inhabitants were the origina- 
 tors of whaling expeditions to the Falkland 
 Inlands. 
 The Wellfleet man is first of all a sea- 
 man and next a landsman and he is never a countryman. He 
 knows how to hold fast to the ropes when the waves are sweeping 
 
the decks and he learns to hold fast to 
 principles in his business, his politics, 
 his friendship, and his religion. 
 
 Truro 
 
 /^OING from W'ellfleet to Truro you 
 ^-^ will travel over the prpvincetcmn 
 same level plain. The Harbor 
 
 quoit Bav 
 
 woe betide the 
 sailing ship 
 that gets en- 
 trapped. 
 
 From Truro 
 we journey to 
 Provincetown, 
 the terminus of 
 the railroad. 
 
 Province- 
 town 
 
 A I the \'ery 
 tip end of 
 Cape Cod, with 
 a steep pro- 
 tecting hill of 
 sand at its 
 back, is Prov- 
 incetown. 
 
 Truro plain stretches from High Head 
 southward to about half a mile beyond North 
 Truro \illage and eastward to Highland Light. 
 
 The sandv strips on both sides of the town, 
 which were formerly considered as not worth 
 the taxes, now bring in good prices when cut 
 up into cottage lots. 
 
 Truro is now developing rapidly as a summer- 
 cottage community. The same feature has 
 brought prosperity to W'ellfleet, Eastham, and 
 Chatham. 
 
 .-/ /( oodland Road, 
 near Cotiiit 
 
 The old-time inhabitants of Truro called Truro 
 "Danger-field." It was indeed a field of danger for the 
 hardy" seamen. Let a north or northeast wind rise — and 
 they" rise very constantly and frequently here— and then 
 
 To the ocean 
 traveler approaching the port of Boston, this 
 beckoning finger of Cape Cod, as Thoreau described 
 it, is the first bit of land that greets his eye. 
 
 If the traseler arrives off the Cape at nightfall, the 
 Long Puint lighthouse, which marks the entrance to Prov- 
 incctiiwn harbor, flashes out a welcome to him. Province- 
 town and its famous beacon are familiar to hundreds of 
 ocean voyagers. 
 
 It is a quaint old place, rich in historic interest. Of 
 late years it has gained much renown as a summering 
 place. 
 
 The fame of it as a summer resort has been spread 
 by those who have visited the place during the heated 
 term and reveled in the charms of the old-fashioned 
 life of the place. Business men and professional men 
 tired of the hurly-burly life of the city, found here a 
 place of soothing rest — a place abounding in healthful and 
 sirpple pleasures. 
 
The harbor of Provincetown is al- 
 most circular in form. It is a beauti- 
 ful sheet of water and affords a safe 
 anchorage for vessels of any size and 
 draught. 
 
 The fleet of United States warships 
 assembles here every summer. Here 
 is a glorious place for the yachtsman 
 and fisherman from the city to idle 
 away the summer. 
 
 There is no end to the fishing — you 
 simply have to drop a line overboard 
 and you'll get your till of sport — and 
 fish. Cod, haddock, bluefish, mack- 
 erel, and sea-bass — the waters of 
 Provincetown harbor fairly teem with 
 these. 
 
 Nearly the whole town is engaged 
 in the catching and shipping of fish. 
 The sea continues to yield up its 
 
 the first real democratic government 
 was established. A monument to the 
 memory of the Pilgrims stands on 
 "High Pole Hill" and towers 250 feet 
 above the town. 
 
 The lighthouses and life-saving 
 stations in and about Provincetown 
 are points of interest for the summer 
 visitor. 
 
 Upon Long Point, at the very tip 
 end of the Cape, is the light whicii 
 guards Ihe entrance to Provincetown 
 harbor. 
 
 Two miles westward from Long 
 Point is Wood End Station, the first 
 of a string of life-saving stations that 
 extend along the Cape. Highland 
 Station and the famous Highland 
 Cw^eandWharj Light stand upon a 
 
 at Coliiit high bluff at North 
 
 bounty to Provincetown folks — enough to afford them a com- 
 fortable livelihood. The fisheries are not what they were — 
 the rotting wharves where most of the fishing vessels landed 
 in days gone by are evidence of that. But there is still quite 
 a fleet of "bankers" and "mackerelers" that start out from 
 Provincetown. 
 
 Every foot of this Provincetown region is historic ground. 
 It was in the harbor of Provincetown that the May/Jonvr first 
 dropped anchor. After the good ship had anchored, the Pil- 
 grims explored the coast while the women folks busied them- 
 selves washing clothing. It was on board the Mayflower in this 
 harbor that Peregrine White was born. 
 
 While the Mayflower was at Provincetown the compact of 
 government was drawn up and signed. In this quiet harbor 
 was the birthplace of the American Republic — the spot where 
 
 Truro but a short distance from Provincetown. From this 
 bluff you get a line view of Wellfleet, Orleans, and Chatham. 
 
 To get to these life-saving stations and lighthouses you 
 trudge or ride over miles of sand dunes. The dunes have never 
 been advertised as one of the attractions of Provincetown. but 
 they should be. Only along the coast of Scotland will you find 
 anything to compare with them. 
 
 If you stand on the beach with your back to the sea and 
 gaze over these vast billows of sand you can almost imagine 
 yourself set down in the midst of a desert. 
 
 Patches of beach grass which cattle cannot be induced 
 to eat — a sprig of golden-rod here and there, and an occa- 
 sional thorn-apple bush are the only evidences of vegeta- 
 tion you'll see. But there is grandeur in the very desolation 
 of it. 
 
mnt C^fd 
 
 Crutstng off Point Pleasant, Cotuit 
 
 The South Shore 
 
 YOU have traversed tlie north shore of the Cape and 
 also the Cape proper. 
 
 You shall now be told of the attractions that the south 
 shore of the Cape holds for summer visitors. 
 
 Let Falmouth be our starting point. 
 Buzzards Bay branch of the railroad. 
 
 We shall accomplish much of the 
 journey by stage, as most of the resorts 
 in this section of the Cape are distant 
 from the railroad. 
 
 Nor has the trolley car invaded its 
 peace and quiet. For many, this is one of 
 the attractions of this particular section. 
 
 As you drive from Falmouth, you travel over roads that are 
 a perfect delight — smooth, well-kept highways in which the 
 
 towns take much pride. Cool breezes, laden with the 
 aroma of the sea, bring out the color in your cheeks. 
 
 Falmouth Heights 
 
 UROM Falmoutli it is but a short distance to Falmouth 
 Heights. It is delightfully situated on a bluff o\er- 
 <ing Vineyard Sound. There is a splendid beach here — 
 a grand place for children to romp. The 
 rise and fall of the tide is very slight and 
 there is no undertow. Because of its fine 
 harbor, Falmouth Heights is a favorite 
 gathering place for yachtsmen. 
 
 of Falmouth, 
 front door. 
 
 lylenahaunt 
 
 ROM Falmouth Heights >-ou drive to 
 Menahaunt, which is also in the town 
 It is a hamlet by the sea, for it has the ocean at its 
 
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This is a colony of comfortable cot- 
 tages. 
 
 It is a care-free life that the folks 
 at Menahaunt lead during the sum- 
 mertime, and they do not bother 
 themselves with the restrictions of 
 superficial society. The waters round 
 about Mena- Highway Leading 
 
 haunt offer the jrom OsUrvilU 
 
 Summer Villa at Oitervtll 
 
 very best of fishing and there is a splendid 
 
 bathing beach here. 
 
 Teaticket.Hatchville, Ashumet,and East Falmouth 
 are quaint pl.ices in the town of Falmouth that the 
 summer visitor will delight to view. 
 
 Waquoit 
 
 \A/AQUOIT is the pretty Indian name of that part 
 of the town of Falmouth which borders on the 
 waters of Vineyard Sound. It is a lovely, old- idlaie Street 
 
 fashioned village with beautiful drives through Centerville 
 
 forests along the ocean front. It was here that 
 Daniel Webster, ardent sportsman and great statesman, devoted 
 much of his leisure to hunting and fishing. 
 Grover Cleveland and Joseph Jefferson always visited 
 
 Waquoit in the 
 summer season. 
 
 Waquoit Bay, 
 which washes 
 the shores of 
 the village, is 
 noted for its 
 oysters and 
 other shellfish, 
 and is a feed- 
 ing ground for 
 the sea bass, 
 sea trout, and 
 weakfish. 
 
 There is a 
 beach of clean, 
 white sand, 
 affording safe 
 tacilities for 
 bathing. 
 
 Cotuit 
 
 ^OTUIT is also an Indian name. It is most prettily 
 situated on an inlet of the sea, at the south- 
 west extremity of the township of Barnstable. It has 
 a magnificent harbor. 
 
 This is the home of the Cotuit oyster, whose flavor 
 is much esteemed by epicures. This is the place to 
 revel in the lu.xury of sea food — here the reluctant 
 oyster and scallop, clams and the luscious lobster thrive 
 at their best. The harbor is a mecca for yachtsmen and 
 fishermen. 
 
 Cotuit folks live on the water and in the water. Sailing 
 is the great recreation for the summer visitors and the sur- 
 face of the bay is dotted with sailboats, motor boats, and 
 rowboats, and every now and then a splendid steam yacht 
 drops anchor off the beach. 
 
 The angler who has not fished the incomparable waters of the 
 lakes and bay near Cotuit has an experience in store. The 
 
golfer, too, will find splendid oppor- 
 tunity here to enjoy his favorite pas- 
 time. 
 
 There are splendid drives to the 
 back country. These roads take you 
 through such pretty spots as Alars- 
 tons Mills, Newtown, Santuit, and 
 Mashpee. 
 
 Cotuit is served by a stage line from 
 West Barnstable. 
 
 Osterville 
 
 There is a rural atmosphere about 
 Osterville that is indescribably pleas- 
 ing. It is reached by stage from 
 West Barnstable station and also 
 from Hyannis. The cottagers have 
 steadfastly opposed the invasion of the 
 trolley car, and they prefer their quiet 
 isolation rather than accessibility. 
 
 ^Amt C^pe Cod 
 
 *-.2^'' , 
 
 built over the public balances and al- 
 together it presents a most artistic 
 appearance. 
 
 Osterville is exceedingly proud of 
 its golf course. It is a fact that golf 
 may be played here with much com- 
 fort throughout the year. In winter 
 the course is rarely covered with 
 snow, and there are more playing 
 days during the year than at many 
 of the winter courses farther south. 
 The links are laid out over rolling 
 country, and from every part of the 
 course you get a superb view of the 
 sea. 
 
 Just over the way from Osterville 
 is the charming summer colony of 
 Wianno Beach. It was named for an 
 Indian sachem. Here are the summer 
 "H''e Ltve at homes of many wealthy 
 
 Osterville" families of Boston. 
 
 ft is surrounded on three sides by balsamic pines, whose 
 odor, mingled with the salty breath of the sea, is a treat to 
 lungs that have breathed the dusty, smoke-laden atmosphere of 
 city streets. The roads here, as at Cotuit and, in fact, every- 
 where on Cape Cod, are so good that you wonder if roadmaking 
 has not been the chief business of Cape Cod folks since the time 
 Cape Cod was known. The village streets and the highways 
 leading out from Osterville are hard and smooth — a delight to 
 the motorist. There are two good hotels here, with cottages 
 connected. 
 
 Osterville has a public library which was built largely through 
 the generosity of William Lloyd Garrison, who, years ago, sum- 
 mered in the town and loved it. 
 
 As a rule the public scales of a town are not noted for their 
 beautv, but Osterville is an exception. A rustic bower has been 
 
 Hyannis 
 
 UROM Osterville there is a splendid road along the shore to 
 Hyannis and Hyannis Port, 'i'ou pass through a most attrac- 
 tive section of the town of Barnstable. There is beautv in this 
 south-shore scenery and you do not wonder that those who 
 come here for the first time become so enthusiastic o\er its 
 charms. 
 
 South-shore residents claim that there is a larger proportion 
 of sunny days along this section than anywhere else in the East. 
 
 On the way you come to Centreville and Craigville, favorite 
 resorts that have had a remarkable growth within the last few 
 years. Lovely bays indent the shore line and they are sur- 
 rounded by groves of oak and fragrant pines. 
 
QpaSint C^fe Cod 
 
 We reach Hyannis, a progressive town, which is sur- 
 rounded by flourishing summer colonies. The railroad 
 stretches down here from \'armouth. 
 
 Hyannis is a scene of busy activity on the arrival and 
 departure of trains, especially in the afternoon, when the 
 place is thronged with automobiles and carriages. Special 
 stage lines connect the principal south-shore colonies 
 with Hyannis. 
 
 ■^'achting is the popular pastime here 
 and a large number of racing craft are 
 owned along the shore. Racing events 
 make lively dix'ersion for the summer 
 residents. 
 
 There is a splendid beach for bath- 
 ing, and it makes a delightful play- 
 ground for children. They may wade and paddle here to 
 their heart's content with entire safety. 
 
 Liiki- III the Hoods at South Yarmoitih 
 
 Throughout the town there are many interesting relics 
 of Colonial days. Hard and perfectly drained roads lead 
 through interesting and delightful scenery to the summer 
 colonies on the north shore. 
 
 Hyannis is famous for its schools. It is the educational 
 
 center of the Cape. It has a State Normal and Model 
 
 school and a fine high school. For the high school, stages 
 
 gather the pupils who live beyond walking 
 
 dist.ince. 
 
 West Yarmouth 
 
 CROM Hyannis it is a pleasant drive 
 along the shore to West Yarmouth 
 and thence to South Yarmouth. You 
 will see here the quaint houses, typical 
 of the old New England villages, and in 
 contrast to these is the new villa of the most modern archi- 
 tecture, which has been built by one of the summer residents. 
 
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 In these towns )'ou will find complete 
 rest and an opportunity for the enjo)'- 
 ment of country and seashore re- 
 creations. 
 
 There are grand facih"ties for bathing 
 and boating here. In Bass River, near- 
 by, the angler will find 5(,,„v„ „, 
 the kind of sport he most Hvamiis 
 
 Yacht Landing at Hyannis Port 
 
 desires. Farther along this south shore 
 are the villages of West Dennis, Dennis Port, West 
 Harwich, and Harwich Port, each of which is an 
 ideal summering place. 
 
 The railroad parallels this section of the south 
 shore to Chatham, which is the elbow of the Cape. 
 This is the end of the journey along the south 
 shore. 
 
 These villages are rich in memories of bygone 
 days. Whaling was a vastly profitable industry 
 in these shore towns in the old days. And the 
 making of salt likewise brought much wealth. 
 
 A resident of Yarmouth contrived a method for 
 recovering salt from the ocean and these shores 
 were dotted with salt works for more than half a 
 When the duty on foreign salt was, abolished, the 
 
 H'indmill, IV est 
 Yarmouth 
 
 century, 
 business 
 
 quick!)' de- 
 clined. The 
 old windmills 
 that were used 
 to pump the 
 salt water into 
 the vats are 
 all that remain 
 to tell the 
 story. 
 
 A. sail in one 
 of the big cat- 
 boats over to 
 Monomoy is 
 one of the 
 many pleasant 
 little excur- 
 sions that 
 the summer 
 dwellers in 
 these villages 
 do much en- 
 joy. The skip- 
 pers of most 
 of these craft are old-time sea captains and if 
 you can get one of them to recount some of his ex- 
 periences, you will hear tales of the sea that are more 
 thrilling than those of the magazine story-tellers. 
 
 These old captains can tell you of visits to Pitcairn Island, 
 of travels in the Holy Land, of adventures in Chinese 
 ports, of shipwrecks, of pirates, of mutinies and of other 
 exciting experiences. 
 
 But e\'en if your skipper doesn't entertain you with sea 
 \arns the sail to Monomoy is indeed a delightful way to 
 spend a day. And you will surely enjoy the clambake on 
 the shore at Monomoy, which is always a feature of these 
 excursions. 
 
 Monomoy is the lean elbow of Cape Cod, formerly known 
 as Cape Mallebarre. Upon its sands the sea is always try- 
 ing its white-edged teeth. For Monomoy is a shifting ridge 
 of dunes, loosely thrown together. As the swift currents 
 
 go racing by, they are ever shearing off part of the land and 
 
 adding it to the banks and shoals. 
 
 Looking Toward Hyannis 
 Yacht Club 
 
It is not the Cape Cod of song and 
 storv; it is no longer the nursery of 
 the finest seamen the world has ever 
 seen or probably ever will see. 
 
 The one thing that Cape Cod did 
 better than anything else was to train 
 hardy seamen. 
 
 Half a century ago, American sea- 
 men were the pride of the world. 
 To-day few are left. Not all came 
 from Cape Cod, but a good proportion 
 of them did and wherever they trod 
 a deck they were a pattern and a 
 guide for their shipmates. 
 
 The seven seas know the wander- 
 ings of the Cape Cod men. You will 
 find them in business all over the 
 world — sturdy, self-reliant, keen, and 
 honorable sailor-men. But the Cape 
 
 In September and October of 
 each year, the Cape Codder gathers 
 in his harvest from the cranberry 
 bog. Cape Cod supplies the world 
 with its best cranberries. 
 
 The business of growing this fruit 
 has transformed many hitherto worth- 
 less bogs in this region into land 
 worth $1,000 an acre and upwards. 
 The bogs make pictures of rare at- 
 tractiveness at all seasons and partic- 
 ularly at harvest time. 
 
 Asparagus culture also brings in a 
 large income. The soil seems pecu- 
 liarly adapted to this vegetable, and 
 now there is a large acreage on the 
 Cape and many Cape Cod folks have 
 found prosperity in sandy fields that 
 .4 ir,de Aiiire '^ere formerly con- 
 E.xpanse oj Day sideredof little worth. 
 
 is no longer a school for sea captains, nor will it ever be 
 again. 
 
 The old family names still remain in the districts they once 
 made populous — the Howes, the Bakers, the Snows and the 
 Kelleys in one part of the Cape; the Searses, the Crowells, the 
 Nickersons in another and the Thachers, the Doanes, the Otises, 
 the Princes and the Nyes in another. They no longer sail the 
 seas. 
 
 They were and are the pioneers in many enterprises in the 
 West, a notable instance being the inception and construction 
 of the first railroad across the continent. 
 
 The ancestral acres have been sold and divided into house 
 lots on which the summer visitors build cottages. The chief 
 signs of prosperity on Cape Cod to-day are in the communities 
 frequented by summer visitors. 
 
 .Much of the enjoyment of Cape Cod life comes of contact 
 with the manly, sturdy folks who live there — sincere, honest 
 people, who live near to Nature. The life will have a variety 
 of charm for you and you can pass the summer there very 
 pleasantly. You have the charm of air and water and sky. 
 
 Cape Cod mannerisms and sayings will delight the visitor. 
 The traits of character, habits and quaint forms of speech of the 
 early settlers of the Cape are retained by their descendants. 
 They say of a man who finds his expenses threatening to exceed 
 his income that "he is sailing close to the wind." A load of 
 fish is called "a good fare." 
 
 If you ask one of the old sea captains who have turned store- 
 keepers and run curiosity shops and notion stores, what he does 
 in the winter to occupy himself, he will answer: "Oh, we just 
 hold the turn." He means by this that he holds fast and 
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 motoring o\'er faultless roads, between fragrant hedges, 
 through old-fashioned villages and past shimmering 
 "akes and bays with the sea ever over your shoulder? 
 
 Come down on Cape Cod. 
 
 Would you know a summer land that is absolutely 
 different from the average sunmier refuge — where 
 you may enjoy yourself with the maximum de- 
 gree of comfort at a minimum of expense? 
 
 Come down on Cape Cod. 
 
 Would you know a healthful place for your 
 children — where they may enjoy the delights of 
 country and seashore life? 
 
 Come down on Cape Cod. 
 
 Would you know an ideal place to loaf in summer — a 
 .4 Cape Cod P'ace where you may do pretty much as you 
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 Come down on Cape Cod. 
 
 Would you see phases of life and character that are far more 
 interesting than anvlliing vou have read in a novel? 
 
 Yachling on Cape Cod — .Manccuvring jor Ihc Slarl 
 
 in water free of sea weed and undertow, anti tempered just 
 to the right degree by the soft inlluence of the Gulf Stream? 
 
 Come down on Cape Cod. 
 
 Come down on Cape Cod. 
 
 For the automohilist, for the golfer, for the angler, for those who 
 love to linger on sunny sands, for those who love to bathe in blue 
 waters, Cape Cud is an ideal summering place. 
 
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