125 Years Ago 1901
From The East Hampton Star, April 12
D.W. Robertson’s Edison Projectoscope Company moving picture show will be given again in Clinton Hall on Tuesday evening. An entire new program is promised, and many late and inspiring pictures will be shown.
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A.O. Jones has the frame raised for C. Schenck’s new store building next to the meat market. The structure will be two stories high, with a store on the first floor and living rooms on the second. The building has been rented by Mr. Matthews, who expects to move in May 1st.
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The Maidstone Inn will open this season on May 29, and remain open until October 7. Miss Mayo, the proprietor, will be in East Hampton after May 1st, in order to put the house in order.
100 Years Ago 1926
From The East Hampton Star, April 9
Every train brings in workmen and supplies to carry on the work for the Carl Fisher development here, known as the Montauk Beach Development Corporation. One hundred and thirty workmen are now housed in the newly built “bunkhouses,” where the aviation camp used to be in wartime; within a week their numbers will be increased to two hundred. Thirty-five men, the engineers and officials, are housed at the famous old Montauk Inn, on the hill overlooking the fishing village.
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The Huntting opened for the season on March 31, had an extremely busy Easter, and every indication points toward a busier summer than ever in its long history. Herbert Parsons, the proprietor, says he has never known such a flood of arrivals and applications for rooms so early in the season; in former years April and May saw mostly weekend guests here, whereas this year they are arriving daily and staying right along.
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Never before have Long Islanders been aroused as they have been over the organization movement of the Long Island association to “Tell the World About Long Island.” Men and women, large and small business enterprises, and all classes of organizations are rallying to the support of the movement. Everyone has offered his or her personal services to spread before the public and the home-seeker the advantages and opportunities awaiting on Long Island.
This unprecedented enthusiasm with which the movement has been greeted is due largely to the belief which the residents have in the communities in which they make their homes.
75 Years Ago 1951
From The East Hampton Star, April 12
Immigration authorities came to East Hampton on Monday and took with them when they returned to New York two Hollanders, Cornell Geldman and Peter Enveldt, who have been in East Hampton for the past year or two. They are being questioned as to their papers. It is thought that they may have been seamen who jumped ship in New York.
When they first came to East Hampton they went to work as painters for Andrew “Whitey” Husteck. Then in May 1950 they set up in business for themselves, as the “Dutch Painters.” They have been living on Newtown Lane, in an apartment over the Newtown Grocery. They were good workers and well liked here.
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The Village Board met at 10 a.m. on Saturday in the Village Building to consider an offer that had been made by an out of town party to rent the village-owned bathing beach this coming summer. Mayor Judson L. Banister informs The Star that the offer was turned down. The beach will be run by the village as usual.
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The Village Restaurant, on the west side of Newtown Lane, has been sold by Victor Barlato to Alfred (Speed) King of the Marmador Restaurant and Mrs. Florence Miller. The Village Restaurant has been closed all winter; it will be reopened under the new ownership the last week in April. Mr. King’s brother, Remington King, who has been with Bohack’s here for fourteen or fifteen years, will work with him in the Village Restaurant; he is leaving Bohack’s at the end of this week. Their sister, Mrs. Florence Miller, will run the Marmador, assisted by Donald King. Mrs. Miller and Alfred King will remain partners in the two restaurants.
50 Years Ago 1976
From The East Hampton Star, April 8
While, State-wide, the Democrats went for Henry Jackson in their primary on Tuesday, the First Congressional District preferred three delegates committed to Representative Morris Udall, and one, the District’s Congressman, Otis G. Pike, who, while running as an uncommitted delegate, was thought to favor Mr. Udall.
Mr. Udall, Jimmy Carter, and the organization’s uncommitted slates were reported yesterday as fighting for second place in the delegate race State-wide.
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Joseph Lopes, special assistant to the area director of the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, said yesterday that HUD had approved two “senior citizen” housing projects — one off Talmage Lane in East Hampton, the other behind the Amagansett Parking Lot — submitted by Wright Construction-Turnkey Proposals Inc. of Freeport.
Both applications call for 48 senior citizen units, and one unit for a manager.
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East Hampton has the second-lowest population density and the second-highest population growth of any Town on Long Island, according to the Long Island Lighting Company’s latest population survey. The Town is said to contain a total of 13,509 year-round residents, 193 per square mile, 3.5 per cent over last year’s reported total of 13,053.
Only Shelter Island is said to have a smaller population, 1,995, a lower density, 166 per square mile, and a higher growth rate, four per cent.
25 Years Ago 2001
From The East Hampton Star, April 12
Rep. Felix J. Grucci has a slew of questions for William Henderson, the United States postmaster general, and he wants him to come to Riverhead to answer them.
Mr. Grucci wants an answer, for instance, to why plans for five new post offices in his First Congressional District must be stopped in their tracks — and said he was hard pressed to figure out how a $150 million surplus the post office claimed in November could have devolved into a $2 billion to $3 billion shortfall by March.
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Three rehabilitated seals were set to be released back into the wild on Friday afternoon when the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation got a call about another seal stranded on Tiana Beach in Hampton Bays.
Every day, and often four or five times a day, people phone the foundation’s 24-hour hotline to report a stranded seal or sea turtle somewhere between Montauk Point and Staten Island. With a growing seal population and a dramatic increase in strandings, this winter has been the Riverhead Foundation’s busiest season ever.
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After six years of effort by ad hoc citizens groups and pleading by children, Sag Harbor will finally be getting a skate park.
At a public hearing last Thursday, the Sag Harbor Village Board approved the creation of the park on village-owned land on Bay Street. Greasing the wheels, the estimated $100,000 cost of construction will be footed by an anonymous donor or donors, officials said. The installation was designed by the architect Frederick Stelle, the father of a skateboarder, and Timothy Rumph, a landscape architect.
