The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-21
LONG ISLAND RE TREATS
The Ride Over a Hop-Skip-
and-Jump Railroad.
EIMOOMS OF DUST AND SAND.
A New but True Type Of CaSariSm
on Long Island
THE ANCIENT VILLAGE OF SAG.
Its Population, "reminiscences
of Former Glory and
Cemetery.
A PAGE FROM HISTORY
A PACE FROM HISTORY
Chief Justice Daily and His House and
Grounds -WOuld He Not Make Good
Chief Justice Of the United States?
a POPULATION OF SHIPPERS

SAG dARBOR l.. l., august 10, 1873.
Long Island Is curious tract-curiOus in its his
tory, topography and population-yet withal, q
delightful country for Summer wanderings. Ar.
irving at Sag Harbor concluded that had accom-
plished the most extraordinary feat performed
by HERALD correspondent l had come over the
Long Island Railroad and its connections from
oyster Bay without being killed or mortally
wounded. As volumes have already been written
On this attenuated nuisance Il mean the railroad)
shall not trouble the reader with any extended
account OF the sins OF its manager, man, believe,
rs thoroughly despised on Long Island as Nero ever
was In Rome. But fancy knOck-Kneed, grooming,
Bwaying and thirsty caravan, mounted on wheels.
moving along at the will OF an evil genius called o
conductor, who takes your tickets and besides does
the duty OF a brakeman, and you have fair idea
of the cher d ducre OF the management The con-
temptation OF this
HOP-sKIPAND-JuMP RAILROAD
Is not improved as you are joted eastward through
6imoom Of dust and sand, occasionally drawing up
before novels where you are at liberty to extricate
yourself from the insect world about your seat.
You naturally enough turn to your con,pa2eon de
poyage, who may be thrifty Long Islander
who has seen the better part OF a century, and al
ways living in the hope that the manager OF the
railroad might cease to be the Caesar Of Long
Island, and ask him.
rolling stock9 Are they in any way accountable for
D railroad of this character2n
mo; the manager of the railroad is despot. Some
people call him q stern man, others mean man;
but the truth Is he Is splte1ul man. Long Island
has been at his mercy, and his mercy has been Of
no tender kind. Through him, and through him
Rlone, the island has lost prestige. People have
heard what a break.neck uneven concern this
railroad is, and they naturally conclude that 1t Is
typical of the country 1t lives upon and the people
who employ it. In all OF Long Island east Of
Brooklyn it has become part OF the religion Of
zach inhabltant to utter daily curse upon his
head"
1t is reported on good authority here that nego-
nations have been going on for the transfer OF the
Long Island Railroad, with all its branches, to the
Eouth Side Company ior a consideration named as
100000 in cash, the contract to take effect on
Beptember /. The mere report that negotiations
Of this character are going on has spread feeling
Of soulagen1ent among the population interested,
and devout prayers are offered up that the con-
tract may 60 into effect as soon as possible. At
fhis writing am not able to authenticate the ru-
NOR though Ihave had 1t confirmed by many we'll
Informed people. The immediate effect OF such q
movement would hardly be appreciated, as the sea-
son is lar advanced and as 1t would be next to
Impossible to inaugurate those reforms for which
season the island would undergo transformation
which believe would astonish the Islanders them
selves This end OF the island offers advantages
for Summer retreats which few can understand or
appreciate who have not made themselves familiar
with the delightful atmosphere the picturesque
scenery and the network OF seaside villages. alive
with gavety and summer tourists.
think it may be said that the want OF knowl-
edge concerning this end OF the island Is due en-
tirely to the fact that there has never been what
might be called respectable means Of locomotion
from New YORK. Sag Harbor, Greenport, Orient
Point, Shelter Island and the Hamptons are com.
paratively isolated from the continent. The ma.
rine attractions, the geniality Of the quiet, nde-
pendent population, the quaint old country air per-
vading every phase OF life, have been ignored by
those who have gone to Newport to build castles
and mansions by the sea- ONLY to find that, after all,
they own houses in a city but little more rural
than the metropolis.
In order that the east end may be fairly under
stood let us take retrospect OF some two hundred
years or more.
PRIOR TO 1910
there appeared at the west end OF the island body
OF those hardy New Englanders who settled Mas
Bachusetts. The irate Dutch did not view this In,
cursion on what they considered theirs py more
than divine right with compacent satisfaction,
Dutch being more numerous and belligerent, the
New Engianders set out from the North Sea and
with heavy hearts moved against the sun and finally
settled al southampton, few miles from this viii
iage. Thence they went to Sag, and their lineal
descendants stall inhabit that somnolent village
In company with a distinguished gentleman, who
has taken great interest in the early history of the
Island, rode over to Sag the other day, and we
wandered through the streets OF the sleepy vii
lage-perhaps the only one remaining in America
which has preserved It's primitive habits and the
null tnanity Of an original Puritan town.
THE VILLAGE or SAG
is situated on the ocean and the heavy roar OF the
ana the Growing OF its cocks and the piping OF It's
crickets, are about the only sounds you hear and 1t
was always 3d. The village Itself Is built On either
side OF broad road, running In q northery direc.
ton. The houses old-lsshioned, singled on
exterior. 1t seems as If the doors and windows
were sealed on the dead within and to the curious
traveller wt1ou In fact these h9I ses p
venanted by living men and women. The grave
Sound OF the sur furnishes You the best directory
10 the village, as Greenwood or Pere Ia Chdtse,
Of all that has been Industrious Of New York or
Paris. There ID nothing more symbohcal OF
iwn or city hs'Oy or pShp 'e "e Changes 81
Or private virtues. as the recognized cemeterythe
% aCSTes e s ts
dwelling in their earthly homes with no mark but
an humble slab. The graveyard OF sag tells the
story OF few quiet honest frugal New Eng
tanders, who went to that village, and instead Of
aespcling the Indians Of all their lands and chat
tes treated with them, and thus peaceably &C
CURED territory and set about TO develop
w. TIE GARDEN OF LONG ISLAND.
I'M consequence OF this line OF action was that the
remnant Of the Montauks is to-day dwelling near
thf POINT on reservation OF their own and they
nave been practically Americans for above two
hunoieu years. We examined the graveyard and
Iouno on one OF the Oldest headstones executed IN
red granite, but now crumbling away the record
Qi iuatlce OF the paacn vino d,ed An 'iiaaa TSoaa