125 Years Ago 1900
From The East Hampton Star, August 10
A forceful reminder of camp days at Montauk is a sign upon a little wooden building, which you cannot help but see as you alight from the cars, bearing these words: “No horses allowed to stand here, per order Gen. Youngs.”
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We notice that several newspapers have given the figures of the last census for their towns. The question is, how did they get them? The census law lays stress on the fact that census enumerators, when asked questions about the census, shall give no information on the subject. We know of one enumerator, in this town, who is obeying that law, and that is the reason why The Star has not given the census figures of East Hampton.
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The Maidstone Fire Department will not take part in the firemen’s tournament at Lindenhurst, but East Hampton will be represented. The hook and ladder truck, newly fitted and painted, has been loaned to the Sag Harbor department to take to the tournament.
100 Years Ago 1925
From The East Hampton Star, August 7
The Village fathers have gained the consent of Rev. Matthew Flannagan of St. Philomena’s R.C. church to use the vacant lot opposite the church, on the north side of the road, as a parking space. Considerable congestion has resulted this season in parking cars on each side of the road, in front of the church, and from now on the space in front of the church will be designated as a non-parking space.
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Plans are being made for a horse show to be held at the Riding Club of East Hampton on the Amagansett road, Friday, September 4, at 2:30 p.m. This is for the benefit of the East Hampton Settlement House and the Gun Club of East Hampton, and promises to be a brilliant affair. Entries are free and applications for entry blanks should be made to the Riding Club of East Hampton, Box 581, not later than August 25.
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The annual church fair will be held as usual on the lawn of the manse next Thursday afternoon and evening, August 13. Extra effort is being spent to make this the most attractive and successful fair ever held in Amagansett. Each committee is confident that its table will hold more beautiful articles than have been displayed in other years. The amusements have been well planned, also; everyone is sure to enjoy oneself to the utmost. The supper will be served in a shaded and cool spot under the apple trees, commencing at 5 o’clock.
75 Years Ago 1950
From The East Hampton Star, August 10
Mrs. I.Y. Halsey is chairman for East Hampton Day at the Water Mill Shop for the Blind, now in its thirtieth summer. East Hampton Day is Thursday, August 17. Mrs. Victor Harris, Mrs. Scott McLanahan and Miss Edna Nash are on the hostess committee with Mrs. Halsey for East Hampton Day.
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Thanks to the fine pilotage of 1st Lt. Elmer Hosking, U.S.M.C. Air Reserve, and the quick thinking of Joseph Plum of Monkton, Md., a Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter plane was brought to earth and saved from fire, at a few minutes to 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon, at the East Hampton Airport.
Hosking, engaged on a practice bombing mission over Gardiner’s Bay, decided to try for a landing at the airport, rather than bail out and lose the ship, when he discovered his engine was aflame.
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Big fish are running off Montauk these days, with record catches of striped bass, broadbill swordfish and tuna reported daily.
Montauk’s “Fishangri-la” reports fine catches by boats from the dock. One boat with one fisherman, fishing out of the Montauk fishermen’s paradise last week, took 1,467 1/2 lbs. of tuna in two hours and fifty minutes.
50 Years Ago 1975
From The East Hampton Star, August 7
The East Hampton Town Board voted last Friday to legislate “grouper” subtenants away, but a group of “groupers” and their sympathizers, who deem the legislation unconstitutional, are planning to strike back in court.
Groupers are unrelated adults who rent houses together. Under the present grouper law, which has been in effect for several years, and which the new law will succeed in October, a house in a single-family residential neighborhood may be rented to as many as three unrelated adults together, and the head of this group, who is called a proprietor-tenant, may rent rooms to four more.
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Some 300 proponents and opponents of the proposed Sag Harbor to New London ferry went back and forth unloading facts, comments and even a few hoary summer-people-versus-local-people slurs at a meeting Tuesday called by the Village Board to take on ferry “input.”
The one hour and 45 minute meeting in the American Legion may be the last chance Sag Harbor residents get to vent their collective feelings about the ferry to the Board before it acts.
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Without fanfare the East Hampton Town Board on July 3 “disengaged” a consultant who for three months had helped make preliminary plans for a 100-unit senior citizens housing project that the Board hopes will be subsidized by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.
At the same time, the Board announced that it was inviting proposals from prospective developers for sites that the developers had picked which would be measured against certain Town and HUD criteria.
25 Years Ago 2000
From The East Hampton Star, August 10
Vice President Al Gore brought his campaign for the presidency to the South Fork over the weekend. He retraced the fund-raising steps of his boss in summers past, but observers saw differences between the two Democratic leaders.
Like President Clinton last year, Mr. Gore raised about $1.5 million in less than 36 hours from parties in East Hampton, Water Mill, and Southampton.
Unlike President Clinton, however, who was the overnight guest of top donors and celebrities, Mr. Gore spent Saturday night in a suite at Southampton’s Village Latch Inn on five acres off Hill Street, where a “command post” of security and communications personnel had been holed up for more than a week, according to its owner, Martha White.
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East Hampton Town’s docks and jetties are in need of nearly $1.5 million in repairs, according to a report by Savick and Murray, an engineering firm whose investigation, which included underwater inspections, began in April.
The town docks at Three Mile Harbor and Gann Road in East Hampton are in the worst shape, said the engineers. The report, which cost $16,825, was distributed to town board members this week.
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In an effort to showcase her candidacy by doing what her backers say she does best — articulating her message in an intimate setting — Hillary Rodham Clinton spent more than an hour last Thursday with reporters from nine Suffolk County weekly newspapers, including The Star.
Hillary 2000 campaign officials arranged the roundtable discussion on a day’s notice. It was aimed at “building a strong relationship with the local press,” the candidate said, one she promised to maintain if she wins a United States Senate seat in November.
