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...murder of a famed courtesan. He pried into the doings of the top social set, which never accepted him. The Herald's stories rollicked with color. He treated religion as news?a fact which annoyed clergymen. He published the first ship news, had a sailboat go out to Montauk Point to meet incoming ships. He had correspondents in Washington, D. C., who did not stop at handouts...
...Governor Smith, who thereupon equally loudly demanded that the Gambling be stopped, together with the Vice that was reported in conjunction. A Manhattan newspaper (Evening Post) soon reported more Gambling and Vice in another New York county (Suffolk). It described a discreet, highly expensive casino on an island near Montauk Point, L.I. The games were said to be "fourth largest in the U.S.," smaller only than the games at three unnamed places in Florida. The casino, named the Montauk Island Club and operated by the hotel syndicate which is glorifying Long Island's cool tip, promptly closed its doors...
...five days, three & one-third hours has never been bettered. Before the Mauretania, new speed champions were built at the rate of twelve every 50 years. But there has been talk, which had become more specific by last week, that great wharves were about to be built at Montauk Point (at the easternmost tip of Long Island) for U. S. transatlantic steamships, that the Pennsylvania R. R. was to extend its fastest service to such wharves, that U. S. transatlantic ship service would gain a day thereby...
Swimming, gulls' egging, clamming, spearing eels through the bay ice, are more in his line than schoolbooks. He gravely swaps yarns with the bearded herdsmen of Montauk Point. The sea's spell is on him early...
...leading figure-bought 3,000 acres in Suffolk County with several miles of frontage on the Atlantic Ocean and Shinnecock Bay. The Phipps estates have also an option on another large tract. A month ago Carl G. Fisher, Miami real estate man, bought 9,-000 acres near Montauk Point. And Otto H. Kahn last week leased for 15 years, with option to purchase, 678 acres at Easthampton -for purposes unmentioned. Shore property is reported to have risen from $30 to $100 a front foot. Various Florida real estate men were reported to be going...