125 Years Ago 1900
From The East Hampton Star, September 28
The Star Wonders
If East Hampton will have any campaign banners, parades or mass meetings this fall.
What has become of the Clinton Gas Company.
Where the dog is that belongs to the registered collar that was left at this office yesterday.
Where all the snappers go that are caught by East Hampton fishermen.
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The season at the beach will close tomorrow, after one of the finest summers for bathing that has been known in years. The Maidstone bath houses will have been open ninety-two days. Of those on two days only was there no bathing, and the red flag denoting dangerous bathing was hoisted ten days only.
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John Drew, the actor, who, with his family, has occupied B.H. Van Scoy's house this summer, is so much pleased with East Hampton that he has purchased, through B.M. Osborne, a piece of land, 250 feet by 261 feet on Lily Pond lane, a part of the old Mulford property. Plans will at once be drawn by Mr. James Brown Lord for a handsome and artistic cottage, which Mr. Drew will erect for his occupancy next summer, after his return from his annual European trip.
100 Years Ago 1925
From The East Hampton Star, September 25
This week the contract to sell the Sea Spray Hotel and sixteen acres of property, owned by Miss Anna Terbell, daughter of the late Edward D. Terbell, to the Sea Spray Realty Corporation was signed. The price paid is reported to be between $90,000 and $100,000.
The Sea Spray Hotel is a fourteen-room house fronting the ocean and just opposite Culver's Bathing Pavilion. The property has 1,200 feet of shore frontage and a large frontage on Hook Pond. The six Sea Spray bungalows are included in the sale.
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If predictions of Long Island Real Estate brokers hold true, Long Island will see a big development in the next few years. Unlike Florida, Long Island has always enjoyed a steady and healthy growth. It is known far and wide as the land of home builders.
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East Hampton wound up its baseball season last Saturday in a blaze of glory. The day was ideal, the crowd was there, and best of all we took the measure of Greenport to the tune of twelve to two.
Ed Wagner pitched a wonderful game up to the ninth inning, when he eased up, allowing the visitors to bunch their hits and score two runs, otherwise he would have had a shutout. The Greenport boys handled the ball as though it was made of wet soap. It went through their hands like a dollar bill in a grocery store, and as for hitting, they couldn't hit a flock of barns.
75 Years Ago 1950
From The East Hampton Star, September 28
W. Edward Boughton Jr., of Ossining, N.Y., and East Hampton, who heads the New York public relations work for Trans World Airlines, left yesterday for Europe on board a special TWA plane with a group of 35 press agents to attend ceremonies incident to TWA's inaugurating service to London and Frankfurt.
The party's schedule, from Sept. 27 to Oct. 14, is a crowded one, including entertainment and sightseeing in London, Frankfurt, Berlin, Wiesbaden, Bonn, Heidelberg and the Ruhr, Zurich, Geneva, Athens, Rome, and Paris.
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The newly formed Planning Board met in East Hampton Village Hall on Sept. 8, and will meet again shortly to discuss two problems which have troubled the Village for years — parking and management of the streets.
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Joseph R. Ramee has kindly consented to show his recently taken color slides of Europe, on Saturday, Oct. 7, at 8:30 p.m. in the Moran Gallery. All proceeds will be donated to Guild Hall.
Mrs. William C. Hall, chairman of arrangements for the program, urged Mr. Ramee to show the pictures taken on a recent trip, feeling that they are outstandingly beautiful both in color technique and subject. Included are views of some of Europe's finest private gardens which the tourist would never see.
50 Years Ago 1975
From The East Hampton Star, September 25
East Hampton Town's property owners are inching closer to being more generally required to purchase flood insurance and to being able to buy twice as much coverage as is now available. Federal officials, from the Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Insurance Administration to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, spent Friday afternoon in Town Hall trying to clarify the status of the current "emergency" Federal insurance program and explain the details of the "regular" program, which will probably go into effect here within the next five or six months.
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Sandra Breuer, Democratic candidate for East Hampton Town Supervisor, called for an investigation Tuesday of "the role of Mrs. Lona Rubenstein in the local East Hampton Republican campaign" and of the allegation that other members of Perry B. Duryea's State Assembly staff "are in East Hampton working on the Town campaigns."
At a press conference called at Town Democratic headquarters Tuesday morning, Mrs. Breuer, who works as an assistant to the present Democratic Town Supervisor, Judith Hope, said she had asked both the State Board of Elections and the State Commissioner of Investigations to determine whether Mrs. Rubenstein or others are working on the local campaign at State expense.
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Last week's auction of 90 paintings and sculptures by "Artists of the Hamptons," held at the Sotheby Parke Bernet Galleries in New York for the benefit of Guild Hall, netted $108,675 for the cultural center.
Based on Sotheby Parke Bernet's estimate of the value of the unusual collection, the amount was disappointing. The gallery had anticipated a take of between $186,250 and $250,000.
25 Years Ago 2000
From The East Hampton Star, September 28
East Hampton Village residents looked into their future on Friday night and agreed it needed work.
About 80 strong, they listened intently as a planner who has spent the past year studying the village's commercial buildings with an eye to limiting both their size and quantity presented her findings and recommendations.
"The challenge is to revise the laws to retain the village character," summed up Liz Clarke, the consultant. "There are serious impacts caused by your popularity and success."
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The mood was quiet and reverent over the last week at the American Legion Hall in Amagansett, where a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., was displayed, drawing visitors from across Long Island who came to honor memories and touch a loved one's name or simply to pay their respects to soldiers who had died while fighting their country's war in Vietnam.
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Again and again, experts and local officials speaking at an East Hampton and Southampton Town-sponsored Drinking Water Summit in Wainscott last week said water quality on the South Fork is "excellent" and that the towns, the county, and the Suffolk County Water Authority are working hard to keep it that way.
"I don't think anyone should go home tonight concerned that your drinking water supply is imperiled," said Lee E. Koppelman, executive director of the Long Island Regional Planning Board.
