New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
Sag Harbor, Oyster
Bay and Amityville
Give Up Regattas

A feet Of pleasure turned overnight
into a feet of patriotism, the yachts
and motor boats Of Long Island have
answered the call TO coast defence.
Scores OF them have already been
accepted for government service, and
! have become a part OF various mos
quito fleets. Others are being in
spected at present to make sure that
they conform to requirements, and
hundreds of others are awaiting in
spection. With guns up fore by the
steering wheels, and guns to aft where
holiday-mood men and women used to
sit in the wicker chairs, these boats
will soon patrol the coast. their light
hearted past forgotten in the countrys
need. There IS not a Stacker yacht
among them.
So many Of the members Of several
yacht clubs Of Long Island have an
swered the call TO service that there
are no more club meetings except for
the discussion Of coast defence. Sew
eral other clubs will hold their regat-
tas as usual, but with no award OF
silver cups or other prizes, the money
that these would have cost going in
stead to the Red Cross fund and other
war organizations.
The Sag Harbor Yacht Club is one
OF those that stand high IN patriotism.
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lust of GARDENERS Bay, and guarding
a side door entrance TO the Atlantic,
old Sag Harbor has gone back to her
Revolutionary task of defending her
coasts. A placid village with spacious
homes and white church spires rising
out of her green trees, there is no hint
of her wsr-like past upon her face.
But just up the street from the sag
Harbor Yacht Club iss Turkey Hill,
where a fearless little battery stood
in Revolutionary days, TO save the vii
lage from British invasion. And where
the yacht club dock is now, a little,
badly armed boatfull of the men OF
Sag Harbor struggled with a loaded
battery from the English war boats,
and drove them away. Behind the
docklogs of the very spot where the
clubhouse now stands rang out the
shots OF the men from the fields and
the women from the kitchens where
they had been getting dinner, till the
British fed. and were glad 70 fee.
There is a monument or Slate Hall that
tells the story to-day.
So. TO one who understands the spirit
of the place. it is not surprising that
the Sag Harbor Yacht Club should
stand a solid phalanx of patriots bent
on keeping intact the traditional pa
triotism Of the village. Half a dozen
yachts and motor boats anchored az the
club dock or in the waters OF the bay
pull impatiently at their moorings.
eager 20 be at the government service
for which they have offered themselves.
Just as eager 20 meet wartime emery
ences are the hundred members of the
club.
THE government can accept or re-
fuse our yachts just as seems best 20
her; we only want to help the country
in every way we can" declared William
S. Eaton, commodore Of the club.
I'VE love this fat little island Of
ours and We want 20 protect her. Some
of US have travelled pretty much all
over the world, but straight as a needle
70 its magnet We always come back
here, and say, Well, b. George. Long
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