The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-03
.BRIDGEHAMPTON'S 25OTH
TOWNS a. AFTER MILLENNIiL
BEGINS TO-DAf.


BRIDdEHAMPToN, L. l.. July 2.-When
Jedge Henry =. Hedges gets through
talking on Monday well all understand
why IL is that Bridgehamptnn is fuller 10
visitors and old time Long Islanders than
IL ever was before The ledge will spin
a yarn about BridgehamptOn and il will
take him hack 25O years. which II about
three times ~ old as the ledge ~. Jedge
Hedges Is the oldest living graduate 81
Yale. " the only man of his class now alive
and he left college only five years Cft"r
the graduation of Alonzo Taft. father Of
the President
BridgehAmpton u $50 years old. That
puts the year Of its founding back into the
days when ths Dutch were still in pu~-
session Of Manhattan Island -Four years
after the community was started out
there near the end of Long Island the
English dropped in on Ne~ Amsterdam
end chnng~d the name with small Formally
u Now Y1rk And IL was IN the same year
that the dispute was settled As To the
ownership 81 Long Island. The folks of
Connecticut. good Englishmen. had laid
claim to the whole eastern end of the
island as aga inst the Dutch. and the claim
was still maintained after the change
in ownership 81 the reRipn along the
Hudson. But a commission 81 the two
colonies got together and figured that all
Long Island ought to belong to the same
province and that New York had the
better claim despite its Dutchness.
That il how the little community az
Bridg-hampton found Itself governed by
tine laws - the colony Of New York rather
than by those 81 Connecticut. To-murrow
/ they beRin 10 celebrate the .nniversary
II its founding with union services in the
churches On Monday there wall In the
biggest pGr he they've ever had in this
villa e.. th. unveI.ing - monument on
Main street near the fiIgpple and speeches
10y the ledge and others. And in the
afternoon they'll have one ~ the greatest
athletic meets ever held thereabouts
sag Harbpr will contend with Bridge.
hampton and what more could you want
It's an old rivalry that be' wc.n Bridga-
hampton and sag Harhpr In the old
days when whales used 20 grow Some
where offshore like poppies n the gar
den BrIdgehampton and sag Harbur
were the greAt whaling villages on this
Tart % tn. coss, sag Harbnr at one time
stood mex, to New BEDFORD in tho bigne@-
" its cat cheS and nobody could expect
more than tha; Bridgehanpton WASH
much l"hlnd They are saving here
to-day thar the Ion" whale which has
teen sc'n nfsrore ~" past w'eX hAs
come hack TO C"iebr4.e The 2So wears thnt
have passed sinCS' BridcoTa'ln;nn started
~ 10 make waSierry candies ard catch
whales
Jed = Ucdg,@ will review the history Il
Brdgehamptpn when ne makes hi speech
IN Monday. The JcdC. always s;~ ka
u. or.ehraii'nS IN this district TIE" say
ina they dom know how tu have Fourth
4. "A. q
- Au authority ~ the history II the
region. a4a " can t"g, yDI where u was
tnl' Tom haIgnt and JIC> sloan" landed.
whittier tr"g went and who u wa- thai
found 'h"ir gold
Tom Rngh; and jack sloane were
pirates and the story has IL that they
s..' we'd under Can Kidd They weren't
Mira - ~ tnc ;rst order. B-idRehamton
IL sur" To tell Won h'i JEey were mover
THESES pirafcs ard had goa to lIry.
Oua Ia - :li evening wpeu the uIsts of
m" sea were DIT ing IA over he iow tnds
on! TN" sI-f Wa NJ onIng "a IN" oute-
.,tr- IA 5 "a" way "a s'ory runs Tom
E0igG' ard Ji"s Sloan" cI-ne ashore.
N.er,' iu"F can" from nor dy knew.
and "a r"r.' vu'.rs l'd .h' very Old
whisr'-"i o. abroad TIA tHsr cIue 31
-idiug re mi s'd 'hIf their snip was
wing N ~hpr". gTa" ~ me fog
j"HE a.. q ioi1. iTiti.- from hou-"
o. .p.l-". *" fur t'pt Bat the SOot
i" Hfl' - E.l !R"lr IuptoT s"'i ( the VIII
L.i.ous cc : OF their coIrte'F 90 told
them 20 F'r =" o~a'IIns the folSs uf
this rc'rpH hri t"'. know for their
hU~pltHiii PTd ;. took Iir.tv' "a r~ckH
i.cfn balls Away wont Jr'd and Ion
own 10 the ~frr" 81 "a. yra Ia" va .
l'Sc-- SnN them ia the Iusk Aslkir ur"k
. 4 forth Flo..g N" l"-ch. ZrTv hgl.I"'
a. a gray mist n the InoriI. = thcy ere
gore. hu' b"hiud thorn I"r-I-t" the .
story thst they hal !cft sofneihi' < "hind.
al th" rroof Il " cam" d"cs g.. We a
century, later
Va did -al captain IIallpcI or may"
kgynpr . nan Who came lac, from
ms wages tired IT the SCI and ready
u settle Il an, got q thinking of Jack
~i0an- aud Tom knight and ~ what
perhHgs they had left there On IN" beach
The old captain who wore rings in hts
ears and was wis. ~ m. wlVs Of nature
and III" world waited fI- a torn which
should take the sands - IN" teach and
throw them hi'hsr and away IL came at
last, booming NJ ont ~ the southeast.
a storm the like of which hadn -nIften
the shore II l,Ong Island ia years
When II was over down to the shor"
went the old captain. who wore rings ~
HE ears and followed the line ~ tho
beach. The srs where " curled at his
feet was washing wh"r. the beach had
been before. feet thick with sand And
not far down the strand was what looked
To -. pot Of Jam
tn. old sea captain made for IT, turned
sand and found that II was heavy. Then
he took II home When he oJanad II a
blue mist rose from the pot which smeled
strangely ia wa. difcr"n, smell than
the old S@a captain hal ever -ineIled
before IN any part 81 this great world
And when ha turned the pot upside down
out cam" Spanish doIhloon- ne fresh and
yellow as II they were newly nintsd.
And then the old man knew what the
mist was for
He looked other years after other
storms tut whether or no; he found other
pots - gold with Spanish dpubioon-
parked ia pale blue mist one doesn't
know Anyhow. when the pirate ship
came ashore AZ Southampton, IL was
bTidg"harnpton folks Who had the hardI-
hood To- 60 aboard Of her and II vas
Bridgshnfnpt"n man, too. who poked a
hole ia ia" C"iiinE 81 the captains cabin
and let ont yellow stream % pieces 81
eight
All Of which You ran hear about next
Monday when this town is so years old
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