Cape Cod, new & old . children — darkand foreign-looking — and with dogs that liein the sun, impeding traffic as unconcernedlyas do their venerated brothers in the land of theMussulman. To your left lie the rotting wharves whereonce the entire living of the community wasbrought. Under your feet are the remnants ofthe famous plankwalk, built after much wrang-ling from the towns share of a surplus revenuedistributed by Andrew Jackson and an ami-able Congress in 1837. It was regarded as sucha preposterous extravagance by some of theold inhabitants that they indignantly refusedto set foot upon it,
Cape Cod, new & old . children — darkand foreign-looking — and with dogs that liein the sun, impeding traffic as unconcernedlyas do their venerated brothers in the land of theMussulman. To your left lie the rotting wharves whereonce the entire living of the community wasbrought. Under your feet are the remnants ofthe famous plankwalk, built after much wrang-ling from the towns share of a surplus revenuedistributed by Andrew Jackson and an ami-able Congress in 1837. It was regarded as sucha preposterous extravagance by some of theold inhabitants that they indignantly refusedto set foot upon it, but plodded righteously inthe sandy middle of the road until the day oftheir deaths. Concrete is replacing it now, how-ever, and the many feet that tread it are quiteregardless of the old furor. Up on Town Hill to your right stands thefamous Pilgrim Memorial Monument, as stern / ^and impressive as the men whose lives it com-memorates. It is to this monument that wemust go first of all, to get the lay of the land,. PROVINCETOWN 153 and to recall the few historical facts, withoutwhich it is irapossible to understand the mean-ing of Provincetown. The granite shaft — two hundred and fifty- V^two feet Jugh, thirty feet higher than the oneon Bunker-Hill—^was dedicated in August,^1910, by the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial As-sociation, which received a grant from theGovernment on condition that the shaft mightbe used as an observation tower in case of is an almost exact reproduction of theTorre del Mangia in Sienna, and similar to thecampanile of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence— the sole reason for choosing this design be-ing that its austere beauty recommended itselfto the engineers and architects. The ascentis easy — an inclined plane copied from thatof the Campanile San Marco in Venice, upwhich Napoleon is supposed to have ridden onhorseback. Sailors, when they mount to the top, thecare-keeper tells us, insist upon clambering upto the very pinnacle, where they can b
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