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THE EAST HAMPTON STAR, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 22. 1940

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Editor Arnold E. Rattray

Associate Editor JEANNETTE RATTRAY

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great many expenditures which are “vital" and "essential" but when hard times come these same expen­ditures have to be cut. Taxpayers, faced with greatly reduced incomes and mounting taxes, have been for­ced to regulate their private expen­ditures. Now, they are asking that the State of New York, show the same economy. When more and more

R elie f For Finland

Letters from Readers o f The Star

The Star welcomes letters for publication from all responsible per­sons, who may feel free to express iheir views on public matters, but reserves the right to rejoct letters wholly or in part The Star cannot assure the publication of lengthy letters.

Communications must bear the name and address of the w which will be withheld if the writer

Properly speaking, all true work

—Thomas Carlyle.

A Benefit For the Library

We were considerably interested an item of 25 years ago, which ap­pears on this page, concerning a bene­fit given for the Library in February, 1915. That was back in the days when Messrs. Cleaves & Strong conducted motion picture shows in Majestic Hall and it was through their gen­erosity that the proceeds of one show was given to the Library.

East Hampton has a great many benefit performances but it Is se that the public considers the Library as In need of funds. Serving the tire community and doing such excellent job with very limited funds the Library should be a very worthy •'cause." It might not be a bad idea to revive the public spirit of 25 years

Few communities are favored with a Library such as East Hampton joys. It is refreshing to read tha< years ago there was a public appre­ciation of this fine institution. Since that time our Library has greatly expanded until it is now one of Long Island's finest and one in which East Hampton may well take justifiable

W h y Don’t They Leave The Fishermen A lone?

Once again the Long Island fisher­men must band together to fight an­other Albany bill which would crip­ple the fishing industry. This time a bill would prohibit commercial fishing 1800 yards offshore Ambrose Channel to Jones Beach, one of the best menhaden or "bunker" fishing areas along the Atlantic Coast.

The East Hampton Town Board has registered a strong protest for such a bill would have a distraus ef­fect upon the "bunker” fishing indus­try here. Other protests are being made through the commercial fish­ing industry and it is expected that the bill, like so many others in the past, will be defeated.

In the best of times our fishermen have a tough time of making a liv­ing. They work long hours, have ex­pensive gear which is often destroyed by storms before they have had a chance to catch enough fish to pay for it They battle weather conditions and are up against fluctuating mar­kets which sometimes do not bring enough for a day’s hard work to pay the cost of shipping the fish to mar­ket.

Long Island's fishermen are used to these battles in Albany but they arc getting just a little bit tired of having to fight for their right to work for a living. Certainly, in these times, men who are willing to engage in the back-breaking job a fisherman has should be helped and not con­stantly hindered.

The Tax Battle

We have been reading a lot lately concerning the Battle of the Budget in Albany. Newspaper clippings and propaganda releases from both sides flood our desk. The taxpayers are op­posed to any tax increases and the school groups are fighting any cut in state aid for education.

When money is free there are a

The sympathy of the world goes out to Little Finland for their crack fighting men have won the admira­tion of all in their stand against the Big, Bad Wolf of Soviet Russia. Now, comes the call for aid to the Finnish people ... the young, the old, the sick

id the hungry.Appeals for aid are being made

throughout the nation and right here East Hampton we can all make

through the Osborne

LO O K IN G T H E M O VERHow good it w

again, after last week’s short but ifying storm! Our snowstorms

usually beautiful, gentle, something to rejoice over and not too hard on anyone. This one was different

Trust Company. Yesterday, ing of Long Island banks with George V. McLaughlin, i

Did you see in the New York pa­pers, almost two weeks ago now, a picture of Baron von Blixen, that friend of Winston Guest's who has been on Gardiner’s Island for a year

• two? The picture illustrated •tide about a meeting of the new rmed American Scandinavian

Field Hospital, Inc., of which Coun- Estelle Bernadotte is chairm: which will establish a complt

field hospital in March in Finland. Baron von Blixen, famous big-game hunter and writer.Field Marshal Baron Mannerheim, immander of the Finnish Army. He ill go to Finland as the hospital’:

blue sky for the L. V. I. S. Cook Book scrap­book. It is from a syndicated column, and says: “Down Long Island way, the local ladies put their heads to­gether recently and turned c cook book. It was published by the town’s Ladies’ Improvement Society. Here’s how the East Hampton perts like beans:" Then the ar quotes “Baked Bean Casserole" by Miss Betty Lynch; and “Texas Bean Pie" by Mrs. David Edwards, which is described as a “masterful dish.” (For further particulars, see your ni L. V. I. S. Cook Book).

Mrs. Hawkins’ aunt, who lives just outside of Rochester, but

intering in Ithaca, recognized M Edwards’ name and sent the article to her niece.

meet- liaison officer. In Finland the hospi- s held tal will come under the control of n East General Ernst Linder, command!

resident, and president of the Brooklyn Trust Com­pany, presiding, at which time the necessity for immediate relief to the people of Finland was urged by for­mer president Herbert Hoover.

Remember the people of Finland who are battling for their existence . . . and remember that they need your contribution.

Montauk’s Firemen

The Montauk Fire Department demonstrated last week that the fire­men there are out to give Montauk a crack department when they an swered their first call and had thi fire out in eight minutes. Montauk’: fire fighting equipment arrived tw< months ago but owing to weather conditions the firemen had little chance for drills but this did not them from doing an efficient job when the first call was made.

With such a well equipped depart­ment and efficient firemen Montauk residents may feel assured that their property will receive a maxi: amount of protection.

A Sad Blow

The fire loss sustained by the pub­lishers of the Southampton Press w;

sad blow but it takes more than re to stop the people of the country

day, the Southampton Press will be published as usual and while thi might surprise their subscribers it comes as no news to other weekly papers on Long Island. This business of putting out a weekly newspaper

full of ups and downs, hard knocks and boosts, so that a little hard luck,

?ss, can't stop a good paper. You just keep plugging along.

Southampton’s Press is a sort of forty-second cousin to the East Hampton Star for both papers started by the same family. The Star

established in 1885 by Walter Burling for his son, 'George Burling, who later founded the Southampton Times. Another son of Walter Bur­ling, Frank Burling, founded the Southampton Press in 1897, and con­tinued as publisher until his death

1935. Since that time his daughter, Mrs. Helen Burling Brown, has been owner and publisher.

The sympathy of all goes out to the publisher and staff of the Press, but

that with the spirit which is characteristic of the weekly news­paper business they will tackle the job of rebuilding and be back to nor­mal in very short order.

the Swedish volunteers.Dr. Carnes Weeks, who has

mered in East Hampton, is medical advisor of the new organization which will have four American doc-

and twelve nurses on active ser- abroad. There will be six am­

bulances. Mrs. Winston Guest is imong those who have made sub- itantial donations to the hospital

It delights me, the response to those paragraphs in this column weeks ago about samp mortars. A card came from Rev. Jesse Halsey of Cincinnati, who was brought up in Southampton and is the brother of Miss Abigail Fithian Halsey, auth-

■ly published “In Old Southampton.” Mr. Halsey says: “Greatly enjoyed the article on samp in February 8th number. I used

rtar in my boyhood as a chop- block. We get samp here called ‘hominy.’ Treated w

lye but not pounded. We have s>" t the Cook Book/’

Mrs. Raymond A. Smith asked me , and showed me the old Miller

family samp or spice mortar, used her mother's family on Cedar Street from time immemorial. It had smoothly-rounded, elongated stone for a pestle. Mrs. Carrie Vincent says that she remembers it being used

pound spices, but never samp; when she was a child they had samp,

always bought it at the store. ; made of a log, smoothed on the iide and hollowed on the inside,

three-quarters of the way. From the bottom it tapers into a rough vase shape, below the mortar part. It is very heavy.

Mrs. John Flannery has one that has been long in the Hedges family. That has a narrower, rather longer opening, and has an iron rod for pestla, flattened at the bottom.

Mrs. Vincent and Mrs. Smith also showed me an old-time chopping knife, to be used with a wooden chop-

bowl; it is evidently handmade, and heavy. They like to use it to prepare fruit for cake, on special oc­casions; it really does a much better job than the modern food-grinders.

Daniel Parsons told us. that the Parsons family, formerly of Fire­place, has put its ancient samp mor-

and pestle in Clinton Academy. He and his brothers never had to pound samp when they were boys, but their father did, before their

ibers his father pounding saltpeter in that mortar,

ing hams. Mr. Parsons thinks that his parents used to soak the

lye, to get the husks off for

A clipping sent us lately from Lon­don (The Daily Express, for January

id that London is no longer the biggest city in the world. From place it has dropped to third. Before

present war its population was ■ eight million. Now it is calcu­

lated that evacuation of mothers and :hildren, office staffs. Government officials, and private individuals, to­gether with mobilization, has reduced

population of London by than three million. New York and Tokio are now the world's largest and second-largcst cities.

Miss Mary Cooper of Sagaponack, ho is visiting in East Hampton, was

born in Stoke Pages, England, and hears from cousins across the

They wrote lately that three chil­dren from London, aged 8, 10 and 12,

billeted with them. ~~ re in their seventies; but

instead of finding the children a bur­den they find themselves growinf fond of them that it wijl be a i wrench to let them go when the ■

Miss Cooper's cousins lost their the last World War, and

daughter lives in India.

A good many of you I am sure have enjoyed Charles Hanson Towne's po­lite travel books; there was “Loafing Down Long Island" a i ber of years ago with sketches and descriptions of houses and historic spots here; and one during the past year was about New England. He has

book out called "Gentlemen Behave"—a book of etiquette for

I liked an expression in the New York Herald Tribune's review of this book, on February 11. Quot­ing: "As everyone familiar with the writings of Charles Hanson Towne

■, he prefers the rhythi society as it existed before it learned

i swing and swig.” __I doubt if very many men wi

down and study an etiquette book . But a good many people will ee with Mr. Towne that men, w n and children could do with r more manners. Manners rather

than mannerisms.

Perhaps you haven’t given the subject much thought. But it seems

early East Hampton ances­tors DID NOT live in log cabins. No­body here ever said they did, that I know of. Miss Abigail Halsey, in her brief Southampton Colonial history,

"The first shelters must have been dugouts—‘cellars’ they are called in the old records. To make a dugout the householder dug a square it in the ground, cased it in with mber> and lined it with the bark f trees to prevent the caving-in of

the earth. This cellar was floored with plank and roofed with bark green sod. These dugouts probably

le settlers through the firstwinter.”

l as they got around to it, Mrs. George Hawkins of Port the Southampton and East Hampton

Washington, L. I., sends me a clip-1 people built regular English houses, ping from the Ithaca, N. Y. Journal, or as nearly like them as possible.

The sides were shingled, the roofs thatched up to around 1665. At first chimneys were made with wooden frames, lathed and plastered inside and out. Miss Halsey says. Earliest bricks came from England; but bricks dated as early as 1C84 were made at Southampton. Over here, there was

brick kiln (I don’t know how long ago) on what is still called Brick Kiln Road, Amagansett. That is the

road off the Fresh Pond Road the woods, after you leave the

cleared land; it leads from the Fresh Pond Road to Barnes’ Hole Road,

id is on property now owned by r. D. M. Bell.Anyway, the subject was brought i mind, on Sunday, by reviews of a ;w book, “The Log Cabin Myth”

by the late Harold R. Shurtleff, an tect with the Williamsburg res­

toration, late in life turned historian. Ir. Shurtleff showed in his book : English settlers in this country e taught to build log houses by Pennsylvania Swedes, but these

houses did not become common until well along in the eighteenth century. Blockhouse fortifications were built

the early days out of logs; but the historian found only five references to log houses in seventeenth century English colonial records.

Reading news articles and editor- ls, last week, about that refusal to Imit a dying man at Bellevue Hos­

pital, New York, which resulted in dismissal of an employee there and

revision of hospital rules by the Health Commissioner, Dr. Gold- water, reminded me of an experience

ir own just four years ago last Saturday—the night our younger son

born at the Southampton Hos­pital. Don’t misunderstand—we

aren’t refused admittance or any- ing like it! But we arrived at the

wrong entrance, could raise nobody;s on the night of the Guild Hall

flood if you recollect that—and it quite a harrowing while before

my husband had floundered through x and snow and foot-deep water e front door, found somebody,

and had me rescued.After four years, and in such un­

certain weather as we’ve been hav- ;, may I make bold to suggest

something that might help others who are ill or in a hurry? There should be signs pointing the way to

What’s New in New YorkBy DOROTHY QUICK

•w York shop windows com­pletely fascinate me. I could keep track of the seasons and even the holidays without a calendar, or even leaving my room, just by looking

i at the window of the shop across the street, and I marvel at /hat lengths the stores go to in set- ing forth their wares.The other day I looked over and

gasped with amazement for there n the show window, quite brazen ind bold, stood Aphrodite, without ;ven so much as one of her seven strings of pearls. It took only a sec­ond to realize it wasn’t an exhibi­tionist. Obviously an impatient cus­tomer had wanted to try on the dress the mannequin had been show­ing. One second more and a new dress had covered up the flesh tints and natural curves which were so realistic that I now understand per­fectly why window dressers i on having the curtains shut while they are doing their work and why, ordinarily, the dummy is lifted out of the window into the privacy of a

g room before Jhe garments are ived. Mannequins nowadays are

not the waxen dummies they used to e. Not at all. They are moulded •om life by prominent sculptors. ;’s no wonder they exhibit clothes > well.The change of windows in the ma­

jor stores is an event and often there will be a crowd clustered around waiting for the curtains to be opened even though the change takes place late at night And dress­

ing windows is a competitive art nowadays. Fifth Avenue is the mod­em Madame Tussaud’s, and infinitely more exciting.

This week, between Valentine's Day and the Dog Show, the effects have been especially titivating. Bon- wit Teller glorified the canine world with reproductions of famous dogs done in Linton Tweeds by Ruth Vollmer. Each dog had a window to itself, with the companion model wearing a poat and suit done in the same tweed that reproduced the ani­mal. These life-sized replicas were amazingly realistic and reminded me of children’s toys done on a beauti­ful and extravagant scale.

Mr. and Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke's English setter, Champion Prune's Own Priscilla, wrs copied in hound's tooth check of brown and orange tweed, which material was also utcd for the box coat with patch pockets shown over a two-piece suit of identical material on one of those superb mannequins I've already talked about.

Mrs. Sherman R. Hoyt's champion Blakeen Eiger was particularly fas­cinating with his intricate hair cut imitated in aquamarine, mustard and white tweed, standing sturdily on his padded legs looking out at the crowd with a most superior man-

Along with those already men­tioned were Mrs. Consuelo Davis' Skye terrier champion, Brocadale Henry, an Afghan hound, a Sealyham and a smooth fox terrier. These "Hounds of Spring" windows cele­brated the opening of the Westmin-

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familiar with them. Of course we now the way to the hospital itself; nt some do not.That was a terrible night, and it

. ist so happened that the last time my husband had taken me there him-

' ' >n a similar errand was the timt •e the last, when our first baby

was born. The hospital had been re­built in the interim. What he took to be the doctors' entrance is now the freight, or morgue, entrance. There are three ways to get in, and I think it would be safer if all three were plainly marked. Also, if the Montauk Highway comer leading to the hospi­tal had a sign pointing the way.

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F ifty Y e a r s A g o[From The Star, Feb. 22, 1890]The Social Club are to have :

hop at the Hall next Tuesday eve­ning. A good time is expected.

The Junior Baseball Club ar< to play the Academy nine, ol Bridgehampton at that place this Saturday afternoon, weather per­mitting.

Large quantities of soft clams are being caught at Napeague by parties from this place. They a of large size—a dozen of whi when opened would more than fill a quart measure.

An exchange says the pri winter somewhat resembles that of 1858. There was hardly a show of ice until about the middle of February, when severe cold weather set in and continued for more than a month, with plenty of ice for filling ice houses.

The appearance of Professor Smith's summer residence on Ocean Avenue has been greatly changed during the past few weeks by the taking down of the wide veranda around the house and a porch erected at the front entrance. A large addition is also being built on the rear of the house. Boss Stafford Tillinghast is in charge of the work.

BOY WANTED—A bright, ac­tive boy who wishes to learn the printer’s trade. Apply at the of­fice of this paper.

The villages in this Town seem to be thronged with petty swind­

lers, offering extraordinary bar­gains under plausible pleas induce people to part with small amounts of money in advanc< from ten to seventy-five cents— for whicTi they" are to receive goods of four-fold the amount paying fifty cents to one dollar when the goods are delivered. Whenever one of these rascals ap­pears show him the door at o

Amagansett Notes Ellsworth Tuttle & Co. have

commenccd the manufacture of fertilizer at their Fish Factory at Promised Land. The fertilizer is made from fish scrap and other

George B. Conklin has had bam moved from above Town Lane to his home and is having it fixed up as a carriage-house. Boss H. H. Schellinger is doing the

We called on “Uncle Nat” a few days ago and in conversation with

im he informed us that he had, first-class cistern, in perfect re- lir—warranted sound in every

particular, which he would sell reasonable price, as he wished

to have it removed. This is a good opportunity for any one wishing

* procure a ready-made cistern.Southampton

During the past week the North End School has been changed to

graded school and now has three departments: grammar, intcrmedi-

and primary. The school, un- the direction of Trustee Payne

A subscription paper was cir­culated last week by E. Horten- back, undci*the direction of Aga­wam Fire Co., for the purpose of purchasing a bell in place of the old one which is cracked. The amount raised was $132.50, which will, we understand, procure a first class bell, much superior to the old one.

County Line The Supervisors of Queens and

Suffolk have re-established the boundary line between the two counties. Heretofore, there has been a dispute as to the line, and by common consent it was a wag-

track running through the scrub oak so narrow that but one

on could traverse it The new crosses the Long Island Rail­

road track just west of the Amity- ■ille Depot. Each County has con­

tributed some land for the widen­ing of the roadway and proper monuments will be set to define the boundaries.

Sag Harbor Rev. Dr. McDonald and wife

started for California last Mon-

William Buck, who is connected with the Railway Mail Service, and been stationed at St. George, Staten Island, for some time past,

been notified of his transfer he Montauk Division of the

Long Island Railroad.

T w e n ty -f iv e Y e a rs A g o[From The Star, Feb. 26, 1915]Elmer Smith has announced his

candidacy for overseer of the poor.Cornelius Edwards has pur­

chased several cars and will run a taxi service in connection with his livery business.

I. Y. Halsey has opened his auto accessories store, the large front room in his garage being fitted up for the purpose.

The dance given by Hopper & Grilling at the Sea Spray last Monday night was well attended. A large number from Southamp­ton and Bridgehampton were present.

A number of friends of Miss Helen Reutershan gathered i home on Monday evening a guests of Miss Reutershan very delightful dinner party. Covers were laid for twelve and an appetizing menu was served.

Miss Edith Robertson of Sum­mit N. J., is visitiing Miss Mar­guerite Osborne.

H. G. Stephens has added an­other room to his office suite in the Hand building by renting the offico vacated by J. G. Thorpe.

Miss Edith Dominy, the Misses Ruth and Marcia Stratton and Miss Clara Talmage and Ned Gay spent Washington’s Birthday at their homes in this village.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Mulford have gone to housekeeping in their home on Huntting Lane..

Library Benefit The managers of the East

Hampton Free Library wish to thank all those who in any way helped to make the entertainment given Tuesday evening, for the benefit of our library, such cess. Messrs. Cleaves & Strong, who conduct the moving picture shows in Majestic Hall, kindly of­fered to give to the library the net proceeds of an entire evening and to present any film the agers desired. They gave Augustus Thomas' play "The Nightingali with Ethel Barrymore as the sta The net proceeds from this ei tertainment were $30.25 for which the managers of the library arc very grateful.

Amagansett News Jerry Conklin started for Al­

bany last Monday where he has a position at the capitol.

The Boys Chorus was out in ill force and volume last Sunday

evening, assisted by S. S. Edwards the comet.Jrnest Parsons starts in the first

of March at Montauk to take charge of Captain Frank Parsons’ pound fishing business.

Clement Eichhorn lost his cos­set heifer week before last. It was believed to be a case of poisoning and young Clement is quite dis- consulate.

S. S. Babcock has sold his barn on the old Babcock homestead to James Gay, who has hired Mr. Hopping to move the same to his hog farm near Stony Hill.

A floating mine was picked up at Napeague by three men last week. Max Ollswang was the first one to discover it lying in the water. They said it resembled a tangled network of wires.

The pastor of the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Horace Hall Leavitt Jr., read his

ignation at the close of the morning service, last Sabbath, the

in reason being the opportunity afforded him for a larger work nt

Bay Ridge Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, to which he has received a call.

Wain tt and Sagaponack.. meeting of the Village Im­

provement Society was held in the chapel on Monday evening to de­cide whether we want cement sidewalks in the main street of Wainscott and to look into the