125 Years Ago 1897
From The East Hampton Star, March 5
One of the Montauk bakery wagons while en route on one of the back roads on Monday got capsized, and the driver had to crawl out of the scuttle on top and right up his conveyance. No damage other than a loss of time in re-arranging stock inside the wagon.
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The masquerade ball given by the Social Juniors was fully up to the recent dance given by the Seniors in point of success. There were twenty-four couples of dancers in costumes, many of which were rich and pretty. It seemed to be the opinion of all that the best make-up on the floor was that of Miss Grace Corwin, who appeared as an Indian maiden.
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Important
A meeting of the Ladies Village Improvement Society will be held in Clinton Hall annex on Saturday evening, Mar. 6. Every member of the society is earnestly urged to be present as important business is pending. Should Saturday evening be stormy the meeting will be held Monday evening.
100 Years Ago 1922
From The East Hampton Star, March 3
Three bills, which Fred Fletcher, fishing and hunting editor of the New York “Mail,” says have been drawn with the object of preserving amateur fishing and hunting, are in the legislature. Mr. Fletcher is back of them. He is urging everybody to write an approval for them to his assemblyman or senator.
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A radiogram was sent today to Her Royal Highness, Princess Mary of England, inviting her to spend part of her honeymoon in the United States. The invitation has been sent by radio through the Radio Corporation of America, whose offices are located in the Woolworth Building, at 2 p.m. February 24, by Frank G. Holly, President of the Long Island Hotel and Restaurant Association, who will extend the invitation in the name of that organization.
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The local newsdealers had rather a slow day of it Wednesday, when the New York morning papers failed to appear. The New York Herald was the only one to reach here in the afternoon. The cause was a strike by the Pressman’s Union, local 25. The men returned to work in time to get out the afternoon editions and the dispute is now left to arbitration.
75 Years Ago 1947
From The East Hampton Star, March 6
Further evidence of the rapid growth of Long Island is shown by the increased production of gas and electricity as compared with a year ago. This year, during February, the Long Island Lighting System Companies produced 1,076,810,000 cubic feet of gas, which is an increase of 46 percent over the same month last year, an all time record. A large amount of the additional gas production was supplied new house-heating consumers, which show an increase of more than 4,000 over last year.
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The Maidstone Club, of which Howard B. Dean is the President, is planning to hold a Spring Party in the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, on Wednesday evening, April 16. There will be music by Joe Carroll, who will have his orchestra again at the Club here this summer. It is expected that at least three hundred Club members and their families and friends will attend the party.
In the spring of 1941, the club celebrated its Fiftieth Anniversary with a dinner dance in the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf-Astoria. It was suggested that this Spring Party might be fashioned somewhat after that event, now that the war is over, spring will soon be here, and people will soon be returning to East Hampton for the summer.
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On Friday, March 7, the Everit Albert Herter Post No. 550, VFW, will present movies at Guild Hall at 8 p.m.
The pictures to be shown are: “Battle of Bismarck Sea” in technicolor, “Memphis Belle,” which is about the 8th Air Force over Germany, and “Chaplains Training in Combat,” a story of the Chaplains in the Army under combat training.
50 Years Ago 1972
From The East Hampton Star, March 2
The playwright Edward Albee and the producer Richard Barr, both summer residents of Montauk, will direct the John Drew Summer Theater at Guild Hall this year, it was announced this week by the East Hampton cultural center’s executive director, Mrs. Enez Whipple.
According to Mrs. Whipple, this will mark the first joint venture of Mr. Albee and Mr. Barr in directing summer theater. It came about, said Mr. Barr, “because we both have a vested home-town interest in the John Drew, and in creating the kind of theater that’s on a level with the intelligence of this community.”
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East Hampton
A retrospective exhibition of paintings by James Rosenquist of Floyd Street is currently being shown at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, Germany. Mr. Rosenquist flew to Cologne for the opening on Jan. 29. It will be on view until March 12.
Another retrospective, at the Whitney Museum in New York, is also being planned. It will open in April.
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The County Health Department will hold an eviction hearing in the case of Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale, 76 and her daughter, Edie, 54, who live in a home on Apaquogue Road, East Hampton, regarded by Health Department inspectors as “unfit for human habitation.” The Beales are countering with a million-dollar invasion-of-privacy suit.
A decision to hold the hearing followed a ruling by State Supreme Court Justice Thomas M. Stark on Feb. 23, which denied an application by Joseph LaGattuta, a Springs attorney, to prevent the County from proceeding further with actions that might lead to the eviction of the Beales, who are the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
25 Years Ago 1997
From The East Hampton Star, March 6
Parishioners of St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church spoke with one voice over the weekend when they told Bishop Emil Wcela of the Rockville Centre Diocese what they wanted for their parish.
Foremost on their minds was the fate of St. Therese church itself, a Tudor-style building that has been closed over a year and a half since it was deemed structurally unsound.
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East Hampton Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. has been workin’ on the railroad. He is looking for a way for the village to take possession of the former ticket office at the Long Island Rail Road’s East Hampton station, which its owner, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, wants to use as a revenue producer.
The L.I.R.R., an agency of the M.T.A., has put the building up for rent, along with stations in Southampton, Westhampton, Bay Shore, Glen Cove, Garden City, and Roslyn — none of which employs ticket agents any longer.
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The Coalition for Hither Woods is back.
Formed in 1982, the group killed the largest subdivision ever proposed in East Hampton Town and by 1989 had won preservation of 1,335 acres of Montauk wilderness. Its members, some of whom went on to work in town government, have joined forces once again, this time to fight a rumored proposal to build an 18-hole golf course in the adjacent Hither Hills State Park.
