125 Years Ago 1897
From The East Hampton Star, October 29
On Monday or Tuesday next an expedition will start from East Hampton to Maine to hunt deer. The party will consist of Messrs. Fred McCann, Chase and George Filer, Felix Dominy, Max Williams and Fred Ernest, of East Hampton, and W.H. Edwards and W.D. Conklin of Amagansett. It will be a jolly party, and there should be lots of fun in store for its members. But alas, the poor deer.
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The Long Island Railroad Co. announces that a special rate will be allowed all ministers on Long Island for travel on the road. By getting a certificate from Traffic Manager Smith they can travel for half the regular fare.
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Don’t forget East Hampton’s 250th anniversary next June! We have interviewed many of the people on the subject and find all heartily in favor of the idea. If the thing is to be done the citizens should get together and appoint a committee of arrangements. It is a big undertaking and there is none too much time. One feature which would properly weave into the program for the day would be the raising of a new liberty pole in our street.
100 Years Ago 1922
From The East Hampton Star, October 27
Capt. Martin J. Maran and Capt. Burt Edwards, with whom the former is stopping at Amagansett, were in Sag Harbor on Saturday last. Capt. Maran has commanded the past season the fishing steamer Sterling. He is one of the oldest and most successful fishermen of the menhaden fleet, has spent a lifetime in the business, and went fishing in the time when steam was first beginning to succeed sailing gear.
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Within the past week the firemen have been called out three times to put out minor fires in the community. The first one occurred last week in the James E. Gay & Company building in the Hook, when the chimney caught fire. This was extinguished with little difficulty and small loss of property.
Monday evening about 5 o’clock an alarm sounded calling the firemen to S.J. Leonard’s large summer home, formerly the Gallatin house on Main street. It was reported that something happened to an oil burner used in the cooking range, causing it to blaze up and frighten the inmates of the home.
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A story comes from Albany that Superintendent Mammon of the Long Island Railroad police has notified Superintendent Colonel Chandler of the State constabulary that one of the railroad detectives has been approached with an offer of $200 a month to impersonate a State trooper in company with bootleggers bringing liquor over the Canadian border.
75 Years Ago 1947
From The East Hampton Star, October 30
The New York Historical Society’s Quarterly for October contains a very fine review by George A. Zabriskie, Honorary President of the Society, of Miss Sarah Diodati Gardiner’s “Early Memories of Gardiner’s Island” and its Chronology by the late Miss Abigail Fithian Halsey. The book has gone into a second edition. Both editions have been given by Miss Gardiner to the East Hampton Free Library, where the book is on sale; Mr. Zabriskie says that it “could go to no worthier cause.”
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From catches piled up along the shore to Montauk it appears that the fall run of striped bass is now underway. This has been especially true for surfcasters as most of the fish have been working in close to the shore, in many cases too close for some of the boats to reach them, right underneath the surfcasters jigs.
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East Hampton swamped South Huntington by an overwhelming score of 33-0 here Saturday with the second string playing all of the third quarter.
In the first quarter Harry O’Rourke scored on a quarterback sneak with 4 yards to go. Ed Ecker made the extra point. Then South Huntington got the ball, but lost it on a fumble. Then on the second down Conway went through tackle and guard for a touchdown. Again Ecker made the extra point.
50 Years Ago 1972
From The East Hampton Star, October 26
Three of the four candidates for Congress in the First District debated Friday in the East Hampton High School auditorium. Before the evening was over, the sponsoring East Hampton Branch of the American Association of University Women had expressed its displeasure with one of the three for leaving early, and the other two were reduced to arguing the state of the holly trees in Fire Island’s Sunken Forest.
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A water resources management survey of the South Fork, which would involve the Federal, Suffolk County, East Hampton, and Southampton Town governments, has been proposed by John Flynn, Commissioner of the County’s Department of Environmental Control, acting on a suggestion by East Hampton Supervisor Eugene E. Lester Jr.
It has been estimated that it would take between three to four years to complete. The comprehensive joint study would lead, Mr. Flynn said, to construction of a sophisticated “model” of the aquifer system able to predict the effects of water use on the ground water table, stream and pond levels, fresh water and salt water interface, and marine plant and animal life.
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The East Hampton Village Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association will again sponsor its annual block party at the Reutershan parking lot on Halloween night, beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
The Village Police Chief, Carl Dordelman, has recommended that small children out for “trick-or-treat” should be accompanied by their parents, if possible, and that they should in any event carry flashlights and wear light-colored clothing so as to be visible to motorists.
25 Years Ago 1997
From The East Hampton Star, October 30
The voters in East Hampton and Southampton Towns will go to the polls on Election Day, Tuesday, having been witness to unusually aggressive and negative campaign advertising. Even though the number of civil debates held by community organizations was greater than usual this year, animosity got the upper hand.
In East Hampton, the campaign season is ending on a particularly sour note, with the town Democratic leader threatening to sue his opponents for libel.
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Improvements to the Long Island Rail Road are right on track, according to an L.I.R.R. spokesman. Bridge “rehabilitation” on the East End will be completed, as scheduled, by tomorrow, work has begun on the area’s new raised platforms, and the railroad’s new fleet of double-decker trains and new locomotives is still expected to begin hitting the tracks next spring.
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The Long Island Community Foundation, which has supported the good works of nearly 40 East End nonprofit organizations, marked its 20th anniversary at a party in Amagansett on Oct. 18, where officials announced a $20,000 grant to a newly formed land preservation coalition here.
The Community Foundation’s officials also outlined plans to expand its East End presence — plans they expect will be aided by news that a Bridgehampton resident for 32 years, who is determined to remain anonymous, has created a “charitable remainder trust,” which will put “millions” of dollars in the foundation’s hands after his death for “things that are important to him and to the future of the East End.”
