Official Newspaper East Hampton

Town and Village STAR 5cEvery Thursday Established 1885

VOLUME LIX EAST HAMPTON. N. Y.. THURSDAY. APRIL 13. 1944

B ed Cross Quotas Id A ll Villages Her# Over Top

SI 1.000 Town Mark Topped by $3,000 and Hampton Chapter 103%

Suffolk County has raised $295,- 663.90 for the American Red Cross to exceed its 1944 War Fund quota by more than $46,000, Ferdinand Eberstadt of Huntington, the Coun­ty Campaign Chairman, reported Monday at a meeting of Chapter officials and members of the Advis­ory Council in Babylon.

“Not only has the County as a whole gone far over the top, but each of the six chapters has surpassed its individual quota by a comfortable margin." Mr. Eberstadt declared, in paying tribute to the generosity and the responsiveness of the public and in complimenting Red Cross leaders and canvassers on the accomplish­ment of a goal $50,000 higher than

East Hampton village and town has gone well over the top. accord­ing to Frederick Yardley, chairman for East Hampton, with $13,958.36 in to date. The quota set for East Hampton township was $11,000 and every village exceeded their quota. The figures announced include spec­ial gifts made as a special tribute individuals serving in the armed forces. East Hampton's quota $6,450 and $8,143.01 was ra Amagansett, quota $750, raised $1,- 104.31; Montauk, quota $1,000, ed $1,821.50; Sag Harbor, quota $2,- 600, raised $2,507.89; Springs, quota $150, raised $192.65; Wainscott, quota $150. raised $189.

'The splendid response made by East Hampton people is greatly preciated by the American Red Cross,” said Chairman Yardley, ‘‘and without the cooperation of all the people and our fine committees at volunteer workers we would never have been able to exceed our quotas.”

Suffolk OCP Director Floyd D. Houston, who has acted as Public Relations Director in the drive, pre­dicted that viherv 'Ac- -fir.-I returns are tabulated and the books are cl ed a few days hence, the grand tal of contributions will reach $300,- 000.

Mr. Eberstadt announced gifts re­ported at noon Monday by the sev­eral chapters aggregated $269,572.28 and there was. in addition, $26,093.62 raised by the County Committe< remaining to be apportioned among the chapters.

Chapter figures, which do no elude the $26,093.62 yet to be pro­rated were announced as follows;

Babylon Chapter, $26,193.40 or 111 per cent of its quota of $32,500.

South Suffolk County Chapter, $81,060 or 105 per cent of its quota of $77,000.

Hampton Chapter. $35,690.86 or 103 per cent of its quota of $34,500.

North Suffolk County Chapter, $85,216.88 or 103 per cent of its quota of $82,500.

North Fork Chapter, $29,112 or 135 per cent of its quota of $21,500.

Shelter Island Chapter, $2,299.14 or 104 per cent of its quota of $2,200.

Girls W in Books in Star Coloring Contest

The first winners in the Jack Rab- t picture coloring contest are: elen Kinsler, 11, East Hampton,

first; Adelaide Finch, 8. Amagansett, second.

An Uncle Dave Corey Indian book ill go to Helen while Adelaide will ceive one of the Jack Rabbit books.

Other colored pictures were entered by Eleanor Osborne, Eugene Lester. David G. Rattray, Robert Amann. Mary Ella Parsons. Betsy Wadleigh.

Another contest is now open and ■e picture to be colored is on page

7 of this issue. Uncle Dave was pleased with the pictures sent in but hopes that many more children will show him what they can do

the crayons.

Lf. P. B. Duryea Jr., Elizabeth Weed, Married in Calif.

The wedding of Miss Elizabeth Ann Weed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Weed of Crestwood. N. Y.. and Lieut, (j. g.) Perry B. Duryea Jr., U. S. Naval Air Arm, son of State Senator and Mrs. Perry B. Duryea of Montauk, took place at 5 p. m. on April 4 at the Mem­orial Chapel, Naval Air Station, in Alameda, California. The cere­mony was performed by Navy Chap­lain Sheehe, in the presence of a small group of relatives and naval friends, and was followed by a recep­tion at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.

The bride, who wore a long after­noon gown of light blue crepe, with a blue cap and veil, and carried gardenias and white orchids, was attended by her mother; and Senator Duryea was his son’s best Senator and Mrs. Duryea had gone to the West Coast for the ceremony; and returned here Tuesday night, April II.

The bride is a graduate of Skid­more College, where she majored in art. Lieut. Duryea graduated from the East Hampton High School, then from Colgate University in 1942, and was aviation instructor— one of the first—forX'ivil Aeronau­tics at Colgate 'before going into the Navy. He is now stationed in the Pacific, and only returned to the West Coast temporarily for the wed­ding.

WILLIAM HEDGESWilliam Hedges. 68 year old South­

ampton resident, who for many years was the Ford dealer in this locality and whose agency was among the original opes in the country,April 6 at his home in Southampton, after a long illness. Mr. Hedges sided in Wainscott before moving to Southampton.

Funeral services were held in Southampton on Sunday afternoon. Interment was at Wainscott.

Mr. Hedges leaves his widow, Mrs. Ella Edwards Hedges; a son. Pfc. Henry Hedges and a daughter, Miss Alberta Hedges.

Tiiberculosls is not inherited. It is caused by a germ that spreads from the sick to the welL

Red Cross Gifts Honor Those in ServiceAs the Red Cress War Fund drive

.comes to a close additional gifts are announced for the Honor Roll for the Home Folks, which included special gifts of not less than $5 honoring individual men and women with the armed forces. This week's Honor Roll gifts were from Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dipple for Webster J. McCue. Army; gt. Philomena's R.C. Church for Parish Members of the Armed Forces; Mrs. Rosalie M. Ba­ker Swezey for Frank W. Maxwell. Army, a prisoner in Germany: Mr. and Mrs. William A. Lockwood for Herbert King, Army, and William H. King, Army.

Other gifts have been from F. T. McGoldrick for Thomas Collum, Navy; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller for Arthur O. Miller, Navy Mr. and Mrs. Adam Wilhelm for Adam E. Wilhelm. Army; Clara H. and Har­vey Woodward tor Allen D. Wood­ward and Robert H. Woodward. Navy: Mrs. Edward Ockenfuss, for Edward Ockenfuss, Army; Mrs. Florence Boughton for Lewis H. Reutershan. Marines; Mrs. Leo Koe­nig for George K. King,*Army; Mrs. Ernest J. Cavagnaro for Ernest J. Cavagnaro. Army; Abe Katz for George E. Schaefer. Army: Abe Katz for Alfred King. Army; Miss Helen Marley for James . Marley. Navy: Mr and Mrs. LeRoy King for Mel­ville H King. Army; St. Peter's Church School for members of St. Peter's Chapel: St Luke's Church School for members of St. Luke's Church; Mrs. William O.

King for William O. King, Army;John C. Grimshaw for James

F. Farley, Navy; Mrs. Walter G. Kimball for Dexter H. Kimball, Marines; Mrs. Olive Flannery for Joseph D. Flannery, Navy; Frank H. Tillinghast Sr. for Edward H. Tillinghast, Army; Col. Charles Mil­ler Swezey for John C. Callaghan. Army; Col. Charles M. Swezey for Herbert A. Brown. Army.

Acknowledged previously are Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Dominy for Harold Dominy. Army; Mr. and Mrs. FrankB. Smith for A. Victor Amman, Navy; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Price for Gladys Hitchcock, Ar­my; Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Yardley for Samuel Wikander Army; Mrs. George H. Hand for George B. Hand. Navy; Peggy Nugent for Richard Damon. Army Paul Nugent Jr. for Walter Hackett American Field Services; Mr. ; Mrs. Edwin L Sherrill for Edi L. Sherrill, Army; Rev. Vincent J Brady for Joseph Morrissey, Army; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Davis for Morley Schaeffer, Army; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Flynn for Robert Fly Navy; Mr. and Mrs. Arnold E. Rat­tray for Frank T. Sherman, Navy; Mr. and Mrs. William LeVesconte for Francis Landry. Army; Mr. an* Mrs. Ross Fanning for Rev. Ernest Eells, Army; Mr. and Mrs. Percy C. Schenck for Courtland Schenck. Ar­my: Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Tucker for Ernest J. Dayton, Navy: Troop 27. East Hampton Boy Scouts of America, for Scout William Collum, Navy.

Children in Spring Show on April 22

group of fifteen children, the Junior Drama and Reading Circle,

to present on April 22. at 3:00 o’clock sharp, in the Presbyterian Session House, a "Springtime Revue" arranged and directed by Mrs. Thomas Robinson, with songs and music under the personal supervis-

. of Mrs. H. Lewis Edwards. This the first • full-lenth show to be •en by the group. 'Invitations are ng sent out to about 125 people;

others who wish to attend are asked •lephone Mrs. Edwards at E. H. A silver collection will be taken,

to defray some small expenses and balance going to the Red Cross, pisode from “Alice in Wonder­

land" with Katherine Ingalls as Alice; Gerry Gould as The Duchess; Charlie Gould as the Cat; Peter Edwards as the Frog Footman; Jean Lester as the Fish Footman; Arthur Kinsler as the Cook.

Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhap­sody No. 2, with Peter Edwards the piano.

Guest singer—Miss Evelyn Loris, i a group of old songs; 1. ‘ ‘Mighty

Lak a Rose." with an ensemble of young ladies including Kay Luther,

King, Carol Mason, Averill Dayton, and Peggy Nugent and Peg-

Mulford as Flower Girls 2. ‘Trees" by Joyce Kilmer.

David Mulford, in a dramatic read- g from Rudyard Kipling: "When arth's Last Picture is Painted."

With music accompaniment by Mrs. H. Lewis Edwards'.

Kay Luther, reading, an old Irish poem by Padraic Colum, “O, to Have i Little House."

Special feature for the childrei Darktown Follies,” with the Min­

strel Boys, Jean Lester as Chicken Bones. Peter Edwards as Scratch Feed; also Edith Brooks as Lily BeUe.

Finale, entire company in songs; Milne, Changing the Guard at Buck- ngham Palace, French Gypsy Songs

with bells and tambourines.David Mulford will act as Master Ceremonies for the Junior Drama

and Reading Circle for this per­formance.

The following are ladies and gentlemen who have donated time out of their busy days to help make

program possible, thanked by Mrs. Robinson Mrs. Carl Mason, Mrs. E. J. Edwards, Mrs. Nat Smitht Mrs. Nelson OSborne, Mrs. H. Lewis Edwards, Warren Whipple (who made the masks for 'Alice in Wonderland” ; Louis R.

Vetault (who is taking care of floral decorations in “Alice”); S. Stanlea

taking care of all wigs and coiffures); James Grimshaw, CharlesO. Gould, and Frank Dayton.

In the annual contest for the best ;ws stories, feature stories and ed­

itorials published in New York state weekly newspapers during the past year the East Hampton Star has been awarded first prize in the fea-

story contest for the story pub­lished November 4, 1943. "Fighter

ilot Reutershan Home After Year of Action with British 8th Army. The contest is sponsored by the

York State College of Agri­culture at Cornell University. In 1938 and 1939 the Star won first rize and in 1943 second priz

There were 39 entries in the fea- jre story contest. Other awards

being: Tupper Lake Free Press.2nd; Penn Yan Chronicle Express. 3rd; Waverly Sun and Liberty Reg-

:, honorable mention, i announcing the winners the

judges gave summaries of the first three stories and quoted the paragraph of The Star story:

Star Siory 1st Prize in State Contest"A year ago last summer a fast

flying army pursuit plane piloted by a young 2nd lieutenant, JamesH. Reutershan, clipped the trees on Newtown lane, scared the livin’ day­lights out of the goldfish in Town Pond and in general gave East Hampton its nearest thing to an air raid since war broke out Well, to­day most of East Hampton knows what Jim and his Flying Bonacker were up to then, for he is home now from Italy and over a year of flying as close infantry support with the British 8th Army and he brought with him his captain's bars, the Dis­tinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart medal and the Air Medal, squadron also received a number of citations from General Montgomery for their work on the long hard pull across Africa to Tunis, and to Italy by way of Malta and Sicily. 'We were Monty's pets, I guess,' Captain Jim recalled, 'for he liked our work and cited our outfit several tim

Gen. George C. Marshall's Message to Women

The Army's need for women is < pressing that Gen. George C. Marshall makes this statement: "Aside from urgent family obli­

gations, enlistment in the military ■s takes precedence over any

other responsibility. I am confi­dent that American women will

iswer this call to duty."Army officials say that 10 times ; many WACs could be used by

the Army as are available now.ou are interested in any of

the 239 types of Army jobs open to i, contact Control Room or

Miss Louise Mulford, Amagansett 3553.

Summer Rentals Announced by J. E. Gay Agency

Among the rentals made by J. Ed- ard Gay Jr. for the coming season :re is the Whiting Hollister Stucco >use to William Fahnestock; the

Wallace Reid house on Further lane to Kneeland Green; the Eugene Les­ter house to Mrs. Robert Hoguet; “Gayland" on David lane to W. Dickinson Wilson; the George Ro-

house on Apaquogue road to John Whitney; E. Ritzema Perry's Apaquogue road place to Samuel H. Greer; Gerald Murphy's "Swan Cove" to Mrs. William Hale Hark-

i; Frederick Behrens Ryan's dune house to Ernest T. Weit of Pitts­burgh.

Also the Juan Trippe house on Dunemore lane to Lieut. Samuel Mil- bank; Frank Tillinghast’s on Woods lane to Nicholas Danforth; Earl W. Sinclair's house on Lee avenue to Walter B. Duryea; the Juan Trippe “Gate House" to Mrs. Tuckerman Draper; the Wilfred Wood house (formerly Donoho & to Paul Dubon-

:t of the Savoy-Plaza, New York. Mrs. I. M. Snow of 277 Park ave- je. New York, will have Dr. Stuart

Craig's house overlooking Hook Pond. Mrs. B. M. Osborne has rent­ed her Main. street house to I. B. Brooks of 375 Park avenue. Mrs. W. Tyson Dominy’s house on Lily Pond lane has been taken by Arnold

MRS. ALBERTA R. SPENCERMrs. Alberta Rebecca Spencer,

wife of William E. Spencer, died April 9 at her -home on Osborne lane. She had been shut

ter; about Christmas time she critically ill at the Southamp-

Hospital. but later was able return home.

She was born April 20, 1882, Chateaugay, N Y., the daughter of

late Charles and Elizabeth Sleeper' Silver. With her husband

parents, she came to East Hampton 32 years ago. Mr. and: Mrs. Silver bought the house on Dunemere lane now occupied in winter by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lynch. Mrs. Spencer's sister, Mrs. Stephen J. Lynch, survives her, as well as her husband and their daughter, Betty.

Mr. and Mrs. Spencer have lived in East Hampton continuously for 32 years, except for four or five years in Massachusetts; they re­turned from there eight years ago.

Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Rev. Samuel Davis of St. Luke's Episco­pal Church officiating. Burial was in Cedar Lawn Cemetery.

HNAT HLYWAHnat Hlywa, more familiarly

known as Mike Leo in East Hampton, died ft the Southampton Hospital

Classes For Gray Ladies Held at Camp Upton

A class of instruction for Gray Ladies will start May 2 at Camp Upton, according to Mrs. C. E. Di- mon, chairman of the Red Cross Gray Ladies committee. The classes will be held all day Tuesday and Friday during each week in May

o 3:30 p The

tery.Mr. Hlywa was bom in Poland 52

years ago. but was a United States citizen. He came to East Hampton30 years ago to work in B. M. Os­borne's livery stable. He continued working there for some years, then became a general handyman. He had a home on Floyd street, which burned down some time ago, but he built another house on the property.

He is survived by his wife, the former Ferdina Pronak; by three children. Miss Rose Hlywa, who a teacher at Portage. Penn.; and two sons, John, who is in the Army and stationed in South Dakota, and Mischa, who is working in New

nineteen required lectures many topics such as psychology of the sick, hospital ethics, social vice, psychiatry, and occupational therapy and are terminated by examination.

Upon completion of the course of instruction, the Gray Lady is r quired to give at least 50 hours year of volunteer service, but she is usually asked to, and desires to, give more than 50 hours of service. Her duties may require her at the .reception desk, accompany patients to operating rooms, find flowers /or patients, write and read letters for patients, conduct visitors, work in clinics, keep records, give library service, arrange parties, sist in making supplies, and t to shop for the patients occasionally.

Persons interested in taking the course should call Mrs. Dimon, Southampton 955, immediately, for application blanks. Requirements include three letters of recommen­dation; two from general sources and one from a clergyman. A state­ment from a doctor establishing "general good health" (not a physical examination) of the applicant is also required- An interview, scheduled for the last week in April will .be arranged with Miss Constance Craw­ford. director of the Hospital and Recreation Corps at Camp Upton.

Transportation to Camp Upton for the classes should not be a serious problem as the members of the class can share rides on Tuesday and the Red Cross Motor Corps will help out on Fridays. After the course is completed, arrangements will be made with the Motor Corps to trans­port the Gray Ladies for their reg­ular hours of duty.

The demand for Gray Ladies is steadily increasing and to be 'a Gray Lady requires personal sacrifice, but the personal satisfaction gained from work with military and naval pa­tients is tremendous.

Over 100 Offer To Give Blood Here April 25

Mrs. N. C. Osborne, chairman of le East Hampton Blood Donor's >mmittee for the Red Cross,-

ports fine progress in the campaign •ecruit donors for April

Guild Hall. She has received pledges m 126—including 18 n Naval Radio Station

Amagansett; and has the assurance

various branches stationed in this ighborhood will be on hand al

Guild Hall on that day. Mrs. Os­borne feels that to be on the safe ide, about 20 more names should be

secured before April 25. Mrs. Walter Dippel and Mrs. Stephen Palmer se­cured 20 pledges from prospective donors at Edwards Theater on Sun­day evening; and other ladies will be there for that purpose this ing Sunday and Monday night, if necessary.

Names of prospective donors, listed last week, include;

Mrs. Robert Hedges, Mrs. Florence K. Miller, Burton Parker, Kennell Schenck, Rev. Harry Robinson, Mrs. Rose Lester, Reynold Vail, Alberta Avery, Louis Bennett, Mrs. Marga

O’Rourke, Ralph Dayton, M' Alice Peele, Mrs. Samuel Davis, Miss Suzanne Steele. Mrs. Leonard Ed­wards, Mrs. Amy Anderson. James H. Mulford, Miss Helen Palms Florence Stone, Mrs. Dorothy Mil­ler. Jessie Adams. George Simon-

1, Emil Wessberg, Norma T< Walter Dippel, Martha McClain, Mrs. Mae Schaefer, Carl Schaefer, Remington King, Mrs. Fannie Gard­iner, Annabelle Stockwell, Congetta Field.

Frances Swallers, William Field, Stephen Marley, Mrs. Stephen Mar­ley, Mrs. Annie Collins, Agnes Les-

Margaret £. Loper, Mrs. Rose Leek, Mrs. Dorothy A. Miller, Mi Gertrude McGarva, Mrs. Gladys S. Dayton, Robert Dayton, Ferdinand J. De Amario. Thomas C. McLeod, Mrs. Carl Mason, Charles R<

And, from the Naval Radio Sta­tion, Amagansett:

C. G. Newell. C. D. Frey. J. With­ers. T. F. Masterson. C. J. Tomel- leo, W. C. Lea, J. A. Gaffney, D. C. Jennings, J. Haislip, W. H. Schoffeld.D. P. Ivins. G. E. Kline, F. H. White- horn. G. C. Lacey, J. R. McGrilles,G. J. Romann, A. W. Mathews, J.E. Boyd.

READING CLUB NOTESThe regular meeting of the Read­

ing Club will be held next Monday evening, April 17, at 8 p.Library under the leadership of Mrs. John Mahoney.

Among the books to be •e the following: 'The Pictorial

History of the Movies” by Deems Taylor; the autobiographies of Grace Moore and Geraldine Farrar; "Per­sons and Places" by George Santay­ana; and “Liberal Education" by Mark Van Doren. Mrs. Mahoney will also review plays and ope: which she has attended this winter in New York.

MRS. LENA LAYDENThe body of Mrs. Lena Layden,

78. a widow, who disappeared fro: her home in Greenport on Friday morning, was found floating late Sunday in Peconic Bay off Ori Point, about six miles from Green­port.

She was last seen at 11:30 on April 6 as she walked toward the waterfront. A son, Capt George Layden, master of an oyster boat said his mother had been suffering from melancholia for the past two

The Only War Bond you'll ever regret is the one you didn't buy!

Cane Collection to Be Featured at Academy Museum

The special exhibit at Clinton Academy Museum this season will feature canes. Walking sticks car-

the hand to assist in walk- as an article of fashionable

attire have been in use many cen- ley have been made from

glass, ivory, whalebone, marble, onyx, and wood from many lands including mahogany. teakwood, ebony, ash, oak, ironwood, rosewood, hickory, orangewood, lemonwood, olivewood, cherry, blackthorn, par­tridge wood, snakewood, malacca, and penang wood. The woody hol-

stems of certain palms and plants such as bamboo, sugar rattan, etc., were used and

.he name of cane adopted gen­erally for walking sticks. Some were covered with leather, others had a secret compartment for carry­ing documents, snuff, perfume, money, secret dispatches or trinkets and some even Concealed slender swords and firearms.

Many cane-heads were turned carved from the same piece of n

the shank, others were namented by combining different materials. The whalers, long sea voyages, carved many beau­tiful handles from ivory which they

lounted on a staff when they re­turned home.

Probably eve.y family in East Hampton has at least o handed down through the years, which they would like to loan for this exhibit. If so notify Miss Mary Eldredge, East Hampton 725.

Canes used by those who w formerly students or teachers Clinton Academy would be an teresting addition to this collection.

Pfc. Ed. McDonald Killed in Action On Italian Front

Montauk Man in Coast Artillery Three Years And Overseas 10 Months

Mr. and Mrs. Louis McDonald of Montauk. were notified this week by the War Department that their son. Pfc. Edward McDonald. 28. had been killed in action March 10 at Cassino, Italy, while serving with the Coast Artillery. Pfc. McDonald entered the service February 24,

11941, and had been overseas 10 months. He was killed four days after he had returned to duty, on March 6, after he had been wounded on March 2. At that time he re­ceived an injury to his left arm but he had written home to a friend on March 7 that he was feeling fine and

ick on active duty again.Pfc. McDonald lived at Montauk

with his parents for a number of years, attending school there and

year at East Hampton High School. A few years ago he went

Lynn. Mass., and had been living with an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sparks. He worked In one of Hunt's Restaurants at Lynn, Mass. He entered the service three years ago from Lynn.

The soldier is survived by his par- its and four sisters, Eleanor,

Blanche. Marie and Mildred. Two brothers died a number of years

First shipment of empty* Army Ordnance caliber .50 cartridge

-scrap brass from the firing range —have arrived at a U. S. mint

Ited with zinc and copper for i copper one-cent pieces.

PLANE LOST OFF MONTAUKShips and planes, both Army and

Navy, were scouring the Atlantic April 8 for an Army heavy

bomber which was reported missing with a crew of 11 men since last re­ported off Montauk Friday night.

The Eastern Defense Command, announcing that the search was be­ing carried over an extensive •area, said the plane left the Westover, Mass., air base Friday afternoon on

combat training mission. Other participating planes have returned

OBADIAH HODDERObadiah Hodder of Maidstone

Park died there on April 7, follow­ing a long illness. He came to East Hampton township 13 years ago; was a carpenter and contractor, but of late years had devoted himself to his chicken farm on the shores of Gardiner's Bay.

Mr. Hodder was born December 14. 1877, in 'Newfoundland, the son of James and Susan Linfield Hodder. He is survived by his wife, Mary Snoderly Hodder. They had no children. Funeral services were held on Monday afternoon at the Yardley Funeral Home on Newtown lane.

Banding Ospreys on Long Island" Article in March School Bulletin

The Bulletin to the Schools for March, published by the University of the State of New York, has a fascinating article on "Banding Os­preys on Long Island” by Leroy Wilcox. This Long Island bird-lover, writing from Speonk, says that of the 85 species of birds he has band-

one has given him quite the thrill that he still experiences in banding the osprey, or fish-hawk.

Quoting, in part;“Nesting fish hawks are cinfined

i the eastern half of Long Island. There are about 494 nests on Long

id with the •westernmost where young are reared at East Moriches, some 70 miles east of New York City.

'About 745 eggs were laid in the I nests that I have examined dur­

ing banding operations. The young not banded until nearly half

grown. . . . "(He goes into detail about th>

weight of the eggs at various ages."I have banded 641 young and 1

adults, which I understand is th largest number of fish hawks banded by one bander. To date I have 51 recoveries, or about eight per cent of those banded. Since the fish hawk is protected in most eastern states, probably other banded dividuals have been shot and band numbers not reported . .

“I had always been fascinated by the stories I had read about the largest colony of fish hawks ir world which was reported ti located on Gardiner’s Island off Eastern Long Island. It was until July 20. 1928. that I made my first trip to Gardiner’s Island and since then I have spent some pleas­ant days on this island noted for its bird life. In 1941 I made a com­plete trip around its 15 miles of

"It is rather easy to follow the increase or decrease of nests on Cartwright island which is a part

shoreline with an outboard motor l order to count all ground nests rithin 200 to 300 feet of shore. I

counted 69 nests on rocks or on the ground, only four of which were

the eastern shore. Roy Latham of Orient advised me that he cov­ered the whole interior of Gardiner's Island in studying its plant life and found about 30 ground nests in that section. This would make the total number of ground nests for the Is­land about 100. In 1930 Latham estimated 295 nests on Gardiner's Island.

“On the mainland of Long IslandI know of only three ground nosU. Gardiner’s Island probably has many more ground nests of this species than all the states on the Atlantic

of Gardiner’s Island; it is about one- half mile long and approximately one-half mile south of Gardiner's Island. There are no trees on Cart­wright. It has the southernmost colony of nesting herring gulls on the Atlantic coast as well as the first pair of black-backed gulls to nest in New York State.

'The first count of fish hawk ncsU on Cartwright that I can find Is that of Latham, who found nine nests on his first visit there in 1010. In 1915 he found 11 nests. My trips to Cartwright show the following number of nests: In 1938, 18 nests and 34 young; in 1939, 24 nests and 42 young; in 1940, 18 nests and 28 young; and in 1942, 14 nests and31 young.

“I believe that fish hawks do not rest until they are at least two years old. The only recoveries I have for one-year-old birds are one young banded July 3, 1941, on Gardiner's Island and killed May 5. 1942 at Matanzas Bay. Cuba, and another young banded June 20. 1936, at Orient and found dead August 12.

Continued on Ftgt Eight