125 Years Ago 1900
From The East Hampton Star, September 7
The Christian Endeavorers of East Hampton will hold a party at the Georgica Life Saving beach this evening. The start will be made from the Session House. The refreshments will consist of sandwiches and fruit; gentlemen are expected to furnish the latter. Those wishing to ride or have provisions carried can be accommodated by being on hand at place and time mentioned.
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A large number of people left East Hampton on Sunday and Monday last, returning to their homes in the city. Only two cottage families have left town as yet.
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It is evident, from the action of the Ladies’ Village Improvement Society at its meeting on Monday evening, that another good roads campaign is to be carried on during the coming fall and winter.
Everybody must be convinced that the work done by the improvement society, so liberally assisted by the whole community, in improving Main street last winter was of great importance and value, and the condition of the street now, after the summer’s travel, shows that the material used was of the right sort and that the supervision of the work was good.
100 Years Ago 1925
From The East Hampton Star, September 4
The annual coal hold-up is again in effect, and, as usual, the public is the goat. We believe that sometime before the strike we read that President Coolidge was going to take a firm hand in the situation before a strike became effective. His grasp must have weakened. It may be a socialistic statement but we believe that sometime the people of this country will demand a say in the handling of public resources, but this is not apt to happen under the present administration.
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Four Prohibition agents, dressed in evening clothes and riding in an expensive motorcar, raided the Canoe Place Inn, one of the best-known roadhouses on Long Island, early Sunday morning, seized four cases of alleged whiskey and arrested the manager and a man said to have been a bartender.
The agents were sent into the district as a result of the recent shakeup ordered by General Lincoln C. Andrews. They came to the exclusive summer colony here a few weeks ago, took good lodgings and were always dressed in fashionable attire.
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J. Ferris Halsey, who for the past seven years has successfully conducted the house furnishing store in the Grimshaw building on Main street, has announced that, starting next Wednesday, he will sell out his complete stock.
He has engaged the T.K. Kelly Sales System, Minneapolis, Minn., to conduct the sale and Mr. Sickles, their representative, is here now taking a list of the stock and preparing for the big sale.
75 Years Ago 1950
From The East Hampton Star, September 7
Lieut. Murray S. Goodman, 29, of 52 Bedell Place, Amityville, L.I., was pictured and mentioned in the New York Daily News on Tuesday. Lieut. Goodman formerly lived in East Hampton. He is now with the U.S. forces in Korea. The News correspondent, Frank Holeman, described flying “with a couple of great guys from Long Island today” (Sept. 4) “to drop food, ammunition, medical supplies and water to our troops cut off by Reds along the Nam River front.”
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On Friday, September 4, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Hulse on Egypt Lane was struck by lightning. The bolt came in through the kitchen roof, pulled out the overhead light fixture, and ripped out the chimney. Mr. Hulse was sitting in his easy chair when the flash came, knocking him across the room.
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The eighth annual U.S. Atlantic Tuna Tournament got under way yesterday for three days of fishing expeditions. The tournament covers a wide area, from Montauk Point to Watch Hill, R.I., and over as far as Block Island. Some 300 fishermen, from all parts of the East, have convened at Montauk for the event. Eighty-two boats are entered for the contest, berthed at Fishangri-la and the Montauk Yacht Club docks.
50 Years Ago 1975
From The East Hampton Star, September 4
It looked for a while at last Wednesday’s long and heated public meeting on the proposed Sag Harbor to New London ferry as if the Sag Harbor Village Board were going to vote on the ferry proposal on the spot. It did vote — after adjourning to executive session — but only to table it.
Much of the meeting was a deja vu performance of the August 5 ferry meeting, with many of the same speakers, same themes, and same summer-people-versus-local-people bickering. But if anything the comments were more intense, and bitter, this time around as the vote seemed more imminent.
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The Preservation Society of the East End, Inc., the oldest ecological watchdog group in the area, has decided to merge with the Group for America’s South Fork, according to the PSEE’s recent newsletter. It cited the multiplicity of organizations dedicated to the same objectives.
The merger was approved unanimously by the directors last May and is virtually in effect, according to Arthur Roth, president of the PSEE.
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A galaxy of notables who shine in various spheres of the arts, but have a common interest in the well-being of Guild Hall, will grace Sotheby Parke-Bernet’s preview party for the forthcoming “Artists of the Hamptons” auction.
The party, to be held at the Manhattan gallery from 5 to 8 p.m. on Sept. 11, will be followed by five days of viewing — Sept. 12, 13, 16, 17 and 18 — before the works are auctioned, at 8 p.m. Sept. 18, for the benefit of the cultural center.
25 Years Ago 2000
From The East Hampton Star, September 7
Demonstrating his facility at taking stands that the major party candidates for the presidency have not, Ralph Nader, the Green Party presidential nominee, denounced corporate control of the United States and disparaged the major party candidates, George W. Bush and Al Gore, as no better than D students.
Speaking at Southampton College on Aug. 30, Mr. Nader said the Republican and Democratic Parties had “morphed into . . . the Corporate Party, with two heads beholden to corporate interests.”
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Tuesday’s primary election will be the first in at least half a century in which Democrats registered in East Hampton Town outnumber Republicans.
G.O.P voter registration began falling behind here in December and the trend continued through this week. As of Friday, according to figures provided by the Suffolk County Board of Elections, 4,902 East Hampton residents are registered as Democrats and 4,808 are Republicans.
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For years, Robert David Lion Gardiner, the self-proclaimed 16th Lord of the Manor, has urged the East Hampton Town Board to upzone Gardiner’s Island to save it from future development.
On Tuesday, after Mr. Gardiner and his attorney, Joseph Attonito, repeated that request, and also urged the town to make the island a historic district, the board heard another side of the story.
Making a rare public appearance, Alexandra Creel Goelet, Mr. Gardiner’s estranged niece, along with her husband, Robert Goelet, son, Robert, and attorney, Arthur Field, asked the board to leave the 3,350-acre island — which the Gardiner family has controlled since 1639 — alone.
