125 Years Ago 1901
From The East Hampton Star, October 4
A person who will deliberately hitch his horse and leave his wagon standing across the bicycle path on a dark night is guilty of criminal carelessness, just as much so as one who throws an obstruction on a railroad track, and should be treated accordingly.
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The entertainment given by the East Hampton Cornet band in Clinton hall furnished a couple of hours of real enjoyment to the audience, which, unfortunately, was small. The selections by the band were well rendered, and showed a marked improvement in the band’s playing. All the numbers on the program were well received, but the solos by Mrs. Wilmot Smith, of Patchogue, and the vocal duet by Norman Barns and Miss Piercy were particularly pleasing and the performers were heartily encored. A recitation by Miss Beaman was excellent, and furnished a pleasing variety to the program.
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Nine East Hampton boys have been camping at Montauk for the past ten days, and are expected to arrive home today. The camp, called Camp Wyandance, is located directly on Montauk Point, and the boys have lived on seafood fresh from the water. The campers are John Dayton, Ralph Dayton, Joseph Flannery, John Flannery, George Schenck, Howard Hedges, Gardner Osborn, Charles Everest and Jere Huntting.
100 Years Ago 1926
From The East Hampton Star, October 1
As was first thought, the news of the damage done in Miami and other Florida cities was slightly exaggerated; this idea being expressed by men on eastern Long Island that were in position to check over reported damage with actual damage. Undoubtedly a great many reports that appeared in the press grew from hearsay and unreliable rumors.
When Carl G. Fisher left Montauk for Miami last week with a party of eight, he and the rest of the party were confident that it would be possible to continue Miami and Miami Beach as winter resorts this winter in spite of the hurricane.
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The Home Water Company has just had installed a new fifty horsepower turbine pump that will greatly assist them in pumping water during fire or any other emergency. The new pump, which will be operated about eight or nine hours a day, produces about seven hundred gallons of water per minute, as compared with the two gasoline pumps that now pump five hundred gallons each per minute.
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East Hampton overwhelmed Greenport 28 to 0 last Saturday at the Sag Harbor park.
The locals showed as fast a backfield as they have ever boasted. They saw many spectacular wins, mostly end runs.
Tiffany, of last year’s backfield, tallied two touchdowns and a point after touchdown by a pass. Tiffany is playing left halfback this year.
Raymond Smith, starting his first game at right halfback, pierced the opposing line many times. He also added six points to the score by running a wide left end run for thirty yards.
75 Years Ago 1951
From The East Hampton Star, October 4
The Coast Guard announced this week that it has forwarded recommendations to Congress to change the 1940 motorboat act to provide stricter regulation of the operation of small party fishing boats. The changes are being urged as a result of the disaster on Sept. 1 off Montauk Point when the Pelican capsized, taking forty-five lives.
The recommendations were made by the motorboat and yacht panel of the Merchant Marine Council of the Coast Guard, which is made up of designers, builders, manufacturers, owners, boat underwriters and Coast Guard officers.
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Doctor Doris Zenger, East Hampton pediatrician, will speak at the next monthly meeting of the Mother’s Club. Her talk will include home safety for small children. Everyone is welcome to attend.
This event will take place in the Music Room of the High School (located on the ground floor) at eight o’clock, Thursday evening, October 11. Refreshments will be served following the discussion period.
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Edward Hedges of Wainscott celebrated his ninetieth birthday last weekend with an airplane ride, a family dinner for twenty, and an “open house” for eighty-seven relatives and friends. The birthday party was given by his granddaughter, Mrs. James Sanford, and Mr. Sanford at their home on Post Crossing, Southampton, on Sunday afternoon and evening.
Mr. Hedges, who looks a spry seventy rather than ninety, had his first plane ride last year as a present for his birthday — then his 89th. Mel Lamb took him from the East Hampton Airport.
50 Years Ago 1976
From The East Hampton Star, September 30
Fundraising for the campaign and registration of young voters topped the list of business this week at both Democratic and Republican headquarters. The four candidates for Town office continued their efforts to meet voters, Perry B. Duryea Jr., seeking re-election to the State Assembly, made today his day in East Hampton, and the calendar for the month ahead began to fill up.
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The Spindrift Players will present Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” beginning Oct. 15 as its principal fall production at the Bridgehampton Community House.
Seven East Hampton residents have major roles in the cast. They are Barbara Johnson, Richard LaFrance, Francesco Bologna, Johnny Angel, Kelly Johnson, George Caldwell, and Patricia Thayer Hope.
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Fifty picketers solemnly carrying placards warning against nuclear power plants, looming behind them one truck containing 400 chattering ducks, another full to the brim with locally grown potatoes, and still two others loaded with cauliflower crated and on its way to the auction block. A tractor symbolic of East End farming.
“They’re making their point,” commented Assemblyman Perry B. Duryea of Montauk, a bystander outside Riverhead’s Holiday Inn Monday morning at the resumption of the Public Service Commission siting hearings on Long Island Lighting Company’s bid to build two nuclear power plants at Jamesport.
25 Years Ago 2001
From The East Hampton Star, October 4
Helping children cope with the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon will be the subject of a free parenting seminar on Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Parish Hall of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on James Lane.
The program will include presentations by Rebecca Di Sunno, Susan Griffith, Christina Lindstrom, Carole Symer, and Bettina Volz, all professional therapists who specialize in children’s issues. Child care is available by a reservation at the St. Luke’s office.
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Three days of northeast winds, high surf, and strong east-to-west ocean currents have caused dramatic erosion along Montauk’s south-facing beaches. The damage is worst at the 100-room Royal Atlantic cooperative in the center of the hamlet.
Beach and dunes have disappeared. The cooperative’s staircase to the beach and the snow fence intended to slow erosion were both wiped away. One wing had to be evacuated on Sunday night as the waters rose, and daylight revealed a steep cliff undercutting the building’s foundation.
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In light of recent events in New York City, the Montauk Chamber of Commerce has toned down its annual fall festival. Instead of a clam chowder contest on Saturday, a chowder sale will be held with the proceeds benefiting various relief organizations, beginning at noon.
