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There are no garbage collectors on Cape Cod and one either burns refuse ...or else one buries it in a hole.
I was unable to find out when Cape Cod got its waste management system, but this is an interesting article from June 30, the Cape Cod Times.
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110630/NEWS/106300323/-1/rss02
BARNSTABLE — A group formed to study where most Cape Cod towns will send their trash once existing disposal contracts expire has narrowed a list of possible contenders down to five.
During a meeting Wednesday of the Cape Cod Solid Waste Advisory Committee at the Cape Cod Commission's offices in Barnstable, members reviewed nine responses to a request for expressions of interest from various companies seeking to take the region's garbage.
Representatives from towns on and off Cape Cod killed several options because they did not meet certain criteria such as specifying where the trash would go. In one case concerns were raised about reliance on a facility that doesn't yet exist.
"The word speculation was applied to another one and I think that applies here," said Orleans Selectman Sims McGrath of a proposal by Integrated Waste Technologies to haul trash to a Taunton facility that has faced difficulties getting permitted.
In the end, five responses were selected for further consideration, including some familiar names such as Covanta SEMASS, the waste-to-energy facility where most Cape towns currently send their trash for incineration, and the Bourne landfill. Also on the short list are Waste Management, E.L. Harvey and Sons, and Massachusetts Coastal Railroad.
The last two are primarily haulers and members of the committee wanted more information on what the ultimate destination would be for the trash. Others raised concerns about the amount of trash the Bourne landfill could handle.
Robert Angell, superintendent of the Yarmouth-Barnstable Regional Transfer Station, and officials from the Bourne landfill warned that the figures being used for trash produced on the Cape are higher than they should be.
"It doesn't exist now," Angell said of the 150,000 to 200,000 tons per year figure being used. "It's a bad number to be shopping around."
With some towns, such as Sandwich, moving toward pay-as-you-throw models to encourage recycling and to pay for expected increases in tipping fees, the amount of trash being produced on the Cape could drop even further, Angell and others argued.
The committee agreed to do a survey of Cape towns to get a more up-to-date figure for how much trash is produced and to find out how towns are recycling in anticipation of new contracts to do that as well.
A tentative meeting date of Aug. 3 was set to meet with E.L. Harvey, Waste Management and possibly railroad officials to discuss more specifics.
Contracts with SEMASS for most Cape towns expire in 2015 and local officials are exploring options for trash disposal over the next 20 years. Brewster has already agreed to a new contract with SEMASS.
The typical $37 per ton that most Cape towns pay now is expected to at least double under any new contract.
In white linen knickerbockers and a tweed coat he looked more like a banker at the nineteenth hole than a country practitioner.
The "19th hole" is the clubhouse, to which golfers go after finishing their 18 holes on the course, in order to have drinks and talk with their friends.
The name "Knickerbocker" first acquired meaning with Washington Irving's History of New York, which featured the fictional author Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old-fashioned Dutch New Yorker in Irving's satire of chatty and officious local history.[2] In fact, Washington Irving had a real friend named Herman Knickerbocker (1779–1855), whose name he borrowed. Herman Knickerbocker, in turn, was of the upstate Knickerbocker clan, which descended from a single immigrant ancestor, Harmen Jansen van Wijhe Knickerbocker. Jansen van Wijhe invented the name upon arriving in New Amsterdam and signed a document with a variant of it in 1682. After Irving's History, by 1831, "Knickerbocker" had become a local bye-word for an imagined old Dutch-descended New York aristocracy, their old-fashioned ways, their long-stemmed pipes, and knee-breeches long after the fashion had turned to trousers. (Such cultural heritage sprang almost entirely from Irving's imagination and became a well-known example of an invented tradition.) "Knickerbocker" became a byword for a New York patrician, comparable to a "Boston Brahmin.
Knickerbockers are men's or boys' breeches or baggy-kneed trousers particularly popular in the early twentieth century USA. Golfers' plus twos and plus fours were breeches of this type. Before World War II, skiers often wore knickerbockers too, usually ankle-length.
Until after World War I, in many anglophone countries, boys customarily wore short pants in summer and knickerbockers or "knickers" (or "knee pants") in winter. At the onset of puberty, they graduated to long trousers. In that era, the transition to "long pants" was a major rite of passage. See, for example, the classic song Blues in the Night by Johnny Mercer: "My mammy done told me, when I was in knee-pants, my mammy done told me, son...".
Baseball players wear a stylized form of knickerbockers, although the pants have become snugger in recent decades and some modern ballplayers opt to pull the trousers close to the ankles. The white trousers worn by American football officials are knickerbockers, and while they have become snugger, they are still worn ending shortly below the knee. In recent years, the NFL has equipped its officials with long trousers rather than knickers in cold weather.
"I am rarely mistaken in the matter of names."
"You and Addison Simms of Seattle."
Addison Simms of Seattle is a fictional character created for an advertisement in about 1919, for a company attempting to sell a course in how ti improve one's memory.
HOW I IMPROVED MY MEMORY IN ONE EVENING
This is the famous ‘Addison Sims of Seattle’ ad, which coined that household phrase.
"Why doesn't Kurth's wife sign her full name?'
"Lucy Stone League."
The Lucy Stone League is a women’s rights organization founded in 1921. Its motto is "My name is the symbol of my identity and must not be lost".[1] It was the first group to fight for women to be allowed to keep their own maiden name, or birth name, after marriage—and to use it legally.
It was among the first feminist groups to arise from the suffrage movement, and gained attention for seeking and preserving women's own-name rights.
The group took its name from Lucy Stone (1818–1893), the first woman in the United States to carry her birth name through life, despite her marriage in 1855. The New York Times called the group the "Maiden Namers". The group held its first meetings, debates and functions at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City, including its founding meeting on 17 May 1921.
The founder of the Lucy Stone League was Ruth Hale, a New York City journalist and critic. The wife of New York World columnist Heywood Broun, Ruth Hale challenged in federal court any government edict that would not recognize a married woman, such as herself, by the name she chose to use. The only one in her household called Mrs Heywood Broun was the cat.
The League became so well-known "that a new phrase was invented for a person who believes a wife should keep her name – a Lucy Stoner, a phrase that eventually got into the dictionaries.
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