125 Years Ago 1901
From The East Hampton Star, March 29
The Tiddlywink club met at Clinton Hall on Wednesday evening. There was a large attendance and twenty-one games were played. Mrs. LeRoy Edwards and Miss Grace Corwin furnished refreshments. Fred Dayton and Miss Anna McTernan proved to be the champions and were awarded a gold stick pin and a solid silver thimble. Miss McTernan and Mrs. Samuel Field will furnish refreshments for the next meeting of the club at Clinton Hall on April 10.
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Mrs. George Harrison, of Brooklyn, has been spending the week with her brothers, the Messrs. Talmage.
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Mrs. J.P. Newman, widow of the late Bishop Newman, for whom Frank Grimshaw is building a handsome cottage in this village, is now on a journey which will end in Palestine on Easter morning, where she will meet Mrs. Leland Stanford, her friend for many years. Mrs. Newman sailed on the steamship Graf Waldersee, of the Hamburg-America line. Bishop Newman preached the funeral sermon of Leland Stanford Jr., a son of Senator Stanford, in whose memory Leland Stanford University was founded. He also preached the funeral sermon of General Grant. Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Stanford and Mrs. Newman have long been close friends.
100 Years Ago 1926
From The East Hampton Star, March 26
Brokers, bankers and lawyers aren’t the only men putting in overtime since the big real estate doings started on eastern Long Island. Historian Harry Dering Sleight of Sag Harbor is working twelve to sixteen hours a day digging up facts necessary to the clearing of titles on land that has sat still for generations, and now is changing ownership rapidly. Mr. Sleight’s knowledge of local history is unique; there is no one, especially since the death of Joseph S. Osborne, who has gone so deeply into it.
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The Thirteenth Annual International Flower Show was held at the Grand Central Palace in New York, from March 15 to 20. The Palace was a fairyland of color and beauty, with the masses of cut flowers everywhere, and the special gardens made with perfection of detail by individual and professional growers.
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The work of housing and feeding the laborers who will do the heavy work at Montauk, on the Carl Fisher development, is one that can be likened to the tasks that the Army and Navy were confronted with in 1917 and 1918. The first of a series of bunk houses was opened on Thursday morning and breakfast was served to about fifty men, who are the forerunners of what will be here later on this summer. It is expected that many more bunk houses will be needed to house and feed the labor that will be at Montauk this summer.
75 Years Ago 1951
From The East Hampton Star, March 29
Letter From Paris
Everything seemed to be in conspiracy against Easter travelers, this past week. The weather couldn’t have been worse. Planes were grounded, terrible storms at sea, and for those going to England the Channel seemed to be kicking up more than usual. Even getting to one of the railway stations in Paris was a problem because of the transportation strike which, when I left, looked as if it might never end.
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Just what will happen tonight at 7:30 at the Montauk Public School when a representative of the Army Corps of Engineers will preside at a public hearing on the establishment of an anti-aircraft artillery range in the Atlantic Ocean, off Fort Hero, is anybody’s guess. On Monday at the Board of Supervisors’ meeting, East Hampton Town Supervisor Herbert L. Mulford Jr. was authorized to appear at tonight’s meeting as spokesman for the County Board. The Board protested three weeks ago against the proposed target area as detrimental to the eastern Long Island fishing industry, and on Monday adopted another and longer resolution condemning the whole idea.
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By popular request the members of the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage chapter of the Presbyterian Church will sponsor a Silver tea on Saturday, April 7, from 2 to 5 o’clock at the ladies parlors in the Session House. The entire community is cordially invited to attend this event.
50 Years Ago 1976
From The East Hampton Star, March 25
Turnkey Proposals Inc. has received preliminary approval from the Federal government for a “senior citizen” housing project just outside the East Hampton Village limits in the North Main Street area, it was learned this week. Turnkey will build 49 housing units on the Talmage Lane site if final approval is granted.
Town Councilwoman Mary Fallon has returned enthusiastic from a March 16 tour of five housing projects built by the firm.
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East Hampton Town Board members, for the first time publicly, said there was evidence last Friday of strained relations in the Town’s Police Department. They appointed a committee of three retired New York City policemen and an active one “to review operations and personnel performance” of the Department.
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The Montauk Improvement Company announced this week that it had agreed to open its Golf and Racquet Club this season, with its 18-hole golf course, tennis courts, and snack bar, to the East Hampton public. Frank Tuma, vice president, made the announcement, explaining that the decision to open the Club had been made in response to pressure from many Montauk business people and the East Hampton Town Board. All of the facilities, with the exception of the Club’s swimming pools, locker rooms, and formal dining room, will open for the season on April 10.
25 Years Ago 2001
From The East Hampton Star, March 29
A powerful speaker with an ability to connect to his listeners across backgrounds and generations, Dr. Calvin O. Butts demonstrated broad cultural savvy on Friday when, in response to an East Hampton High School teacher’s question, he launched into a rhyme by the rap pioneer Grandmaster Flash.
Asked what teachers can do to motivate bright students who are not interested in book learning, Dr. Butts, the president of the State University College at Old Westbury, recalled a time in the not too distant past when New York City students were no longer permitted to take musical instruments off school grounds.
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It won’t quite equal Denver’s Mile High Stadium, but the end plan for East Hampton’s Springs-Fireplace Road landfill could include a sports spot with a view — a playing field atop a mountain of garbage sealed forevermore and planted with greenery.
East Hampton Town, which closed its construction-debris and garbage landfills to further dumping in 1990 and 1993, is under a State Department of Environmental Conservation mandate to close the landfill permanently by 2005.
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The event was steeped in noncompetitive scientific lingo.
But, no matter how you cut it, the side-by-side towing of dragnets two weeks ago off Montauk was, if not quite a grudge match, a serious duel between the fishing boat Jason and Danielle and the Albatross, a government survey dragger, to see which could net the largest catch.
The Jason and Danielle won by many thousands of fish, a victory that may already have begun to make an impact in fishery management circles.
