125 Years Ago 1898
From The East Hampton Star, June 17
Pathmaster Dayton has been at work on the street again this week, filling in a low place near Clinton Hall. Mr. Dayton shows a healthy interest in his care of the street and in getting his end of Main street in good shape.
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Gangs of linemen employed by the New York and New Jersey Telephone Co. are at work extending the line on the east end. During the past week connections have been made with the post office and the Sea View House at Amagansett.
Phones have been placed in several of the railroad stations west of here, including Southampton. The line has been carried to the East Hampton station, where an instrument will be placed within a day or two.
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The daily trips to Block Island by the Montauk company’s line of steamboats will commence on Friday, July 1st. On this date, by invitation, the N.Y. State Press Association will make the excursion on the Shinnecock.
100 Years Ago 1923
From The East Hampton Star, June 15
The editor, in company with Paul Reutershan, assistant agent at the local railroad station, had the pleasure recently of being guests of Capt. E.J. Edwards aboard his fishing steamer, the “Ocean View,” and witnessed the entire operation of taking the day’s catch of eighty-three boxes of edible fish from the ocean waters off Amagansett beach, placed aboard the steamer, packed in boxes, iced, and finally hoisted from the hold of the steamer into the waiting baggage cars on the railroad dock at Fort Pond, Montauk.
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Of late some of the townspeople have taken it for granted that the sand and gravel pit on Bridgehampton road, near the creeks, was public property and sand and gravel could be carted away very freely, and in some cases used commercially. The town board, at its meeting last Saturday, decided that this should come to a stop. Some have even taken the gravel and sand from the adjoining private property.
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Last Sunday, Joseph Miller, who has gained quite a reputation as a mover of buildings, or in fact anything movable, undertook to move a seventy-five-foot mast off the wrecked schooner Northcliffe, just west of the Georgica Coast Guard station, to the East Hampton beach. He commandeered a dory, and a crew of able seamen gathered together by Capt. Tyson Dominy towed the heavy spar the distance of nearly four miles along the beach just back of the surf.
75 Years Ago 1948
From The East Hampton Star, June 17
In the most spirited village election East Hampton has ever had, Mayor Judson L. Banister was re-elected Mayor Tuesday over Willard B. Livingston 478 to 262, while on the People’s Party ticket with the mayor Trustees Chester M. Cloud and Kenneth Hedges were re-elected over Edward H. Tillinghast and Dudley Roberts Jr., who ran on the Economy Ticket with Mr. Livingston.
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An inspection is being made by the Post Office Department in East Hampton as to whether the public wants carrier service or whether they do not care to change the present system of getting mail at the local Post Office. In the editorial column, page 2, today, the question of carrier delivery is discussed. In order to get a cross section of the feeling here, the inspector has asked that a letter from the Chamber of Commerce be sent in no later than June 26th, 1948, advising the community feeling as represented to the Chamber.
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General Eisenhower was a surprise visitor to the Maidstone Club on Monday. He came by plane, with a party put up at the club as guests of Grantland Rice. They played golf, had lunch at the club, played some more and left around 7:30 p.m. With the General, now President of Columbia University, were William E. Robinson, Robert T. Jones Jr. (“Bobby” Jones), R.W. Woodruff, Joseph H. King, E.C. Slater, William A. Jones, Clifford Roberts, John Young, T.B. Butler, and Charles McAdam.
50 Years Ago 1973
From The East Hampton Star, June 14
The Southampton Town Democratic Committee is throwing itself a dinner dance June 23, but there’s one offended party who won’t attend the Party’s party.
He is Hermon L. Bishop, sometime chairman of the Southampton Democrats, who was ousted from his job earlier this month by County chairman Dominic Baranello in what Mr. Bishop angrily called “a rump convention.”
Mr. Baranello, who accused Mr. Bishop of absenteeism, ineffectual leadership, and opposition to the Party’s positions on issues such as offshore oil drilling and wetlands development, requested the Town leader’s resignation back in December and was turned down flat.
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Two hundred and forty people set out from Hook Mill last Saturday morning and all but seven of them made it all the way to Montauk, raising a very grand total of $6,500 for the benefit of Year Round Head Start and the Young Men’s Christian Association, in the third annual YHS-YMCA Walkathon.
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Montauk
“Environmental Activism: Politics and the Courts” will be discussed at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, in the Fire House, at an open meeting of the Concerned Citizens of Montauk. The speaker will be David Sive, of the law firm of Winer, Neuberger and Sive.
Mr. Sive has handled such environmental litigation as the “Scenic Hudson” case, the Hilton Head Island case, and the Amchitka, Alaska, case against the Atomic Energy Commission; and is an attorney for the Group for America’s South Fork, which he has advised on such local problems as the proposed Sunrise Highway Extension, the Montauk Improvement Company’s suit, the proposed moratorium on development of large tracts, and upzoning.
25 Years Ago 1998
From The East Hampton Star, June 18
Dr. Robert Thurman, the co-founder and president of Tibet House in New York City and the first westerner to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk, will speak at the Ross School on Monday at 7:30 p.m.
The lecture, the final program in this year’s series of Evenings at the Ross School, culminates a study of Tibet and is taking place in conjunction with an exhibit of Tibetan art, “Homage to Tibet,” which may be seen in the Ross High School gallery through Wednesday.
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Like it or not, East Enders will face nuclear power and its fallout — metaphorically, at least.
This week brought news that a reactor at the Millstone power station nearby in Connecticut can be restarted, and that plutonium from Brookhaven National Laboratory has been found in the Peconic River.
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Is this what it’s like to live in Seattle? Storm clouds march incessantly from the west. Rain comes in intense downpours. The sound of rattling windows from the rumble of distant thunder becomes so familiar it goes unnoticed. Mold is on the move.
In East Hampton this week, lightning struck a house, causing all its light bulbs to pop. The mast of a sailboat that was up on blocks at Montauk Harbor was hit by a bolt that blew eight holes in the hull and destroyed the vessel’s electronics. Georgica Pond, whose gut the Town Trustees purposely closed earlier this month, broke through again on Sunday.
