PART I. SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGES IN THE COUNTY OF BARNSTABLE - Continued. Reasons that have attracted immigrants to "the Cape," Large percentage above the industrially productive age County aggregates, and comparisons of length of resi dence in Massachusetts and the United States, Town aggregates and comparisons, Page 30 30 30, 31 31 31 32-36 35 35, 36 36-44 36 36, 37 37 37, 38 38 38 39 39 39, 40 Provincetown, Sandwich, Truro, Wellfleet, 40 40, 41 41 41, 42 42 Total amount of capital invested (1885 and 1895), Value of stock used (1885 and 1895),. The Fisheries: capital invested (1885 and 1895), . Total value of goods made and work done (1885 and 1895), 49 49 48 49,50 50, 51 51, 52 Marked and serious decline in the fisheries in ten years, 52 PART I. SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGES IN THE COUNTY OF BARNSTABLE - Continued. DETAILED TOWN STATEMENTS (in geographical order), Details which cannot be tabulated collected by special agents Page 52-56 52 52, 53 53 53 53, 54 54 54 54 54 54, 55 55 55 55 55 55, 56 56 56-60 56 Condition of the vessel fisheries, Condition of the small boat fisheries, Fish traps, Nativities of the fishermen, 56, 57 57 57 57 PART I. SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGES IN THE COUNTY OF BARNSTABLE - Continued. Arrivals at the Port of New Bedford from the Western Islands by years, age periods, and sex, Departures from the Port of New Bedford for the Western The Portuguese are law-abiding, industrious, and thrifty, the Commission on the Unemployed, Testimony of the probation officer at New Bedford, The Azores as a health resort, . Primitive habits of the Azorean at home, 66, 67 67 . THE PROVINCE LANDS, Purchased from the Indians in 1654, 72-77 72 A portion under the jurisdiction of the Board of Harbor and Private ownership impossible in the tract belonging to the 72 A portion under the jurisdiction of the town of Provincetown, 72, 73 73 Ultimate use, 2222 72 73 Reports of the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners in PART I. SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGES IN THE COUNTY OF BARNSTABLE - Concluded. POSSIBILITIES OF IRRIGATION —Con. Irrigation in Australia and France, Feasibility of improving the fertility of the Cape lands by irrigation,. Letter from Charles D. Walcott, Director of the United States STATE AID TO LAND OCCUPANTS,. Swedish colonization in Aroostook County, Maine, . The English Small Holding's Act, . The Victoria (Australia) Settlement of Lands Act, "The functions of the State can be exercised in the aid of the people in the reclamation and adaptation of land,” Attempts, under private initiative, to promote agricultural occupancy, Page 85-87 87 87,88 88 89-99 89-91 91, 92 92-95 95-97 98 98 Money has been spent for objects less worthy and not more promising, Reasons that have led to the changed social and industrial 99 99-104 Lack of profitable employment for women, Leading agricultural crops of Barnstable County, This report merely one of inquiry, . Any plan of State aid must be preceded by legislation, The rehabilitation of the Cape towns, 102 102 102, 103 103 103 103 103, 104 Mr. Brice's remarks on rural New England, 104 The difficulty in diverting the current of population by artificial means, 104 Organized effort may relieve congestion or draw the population into other channels, . The workingman's ideal condition, . Earnings should afford comfortable maintenance, "Purchase-power of money," Standard gold dollar used in comparisons, Explanation of graded weekly wage table, Summary of the past Reports of the Bureau, Number of wage quotations, Number of price quotations, Impossible to state number of employés represented, Method of presentation simple, Page 108 108 108 108 108 108 108 108 108 108, 109 109, 110 109 109 110 110 110 110 110 110 110 110 110 Wages expressed in dollars and cents (foreign quotations Branches of occupations, the names of which commence 112 |