“WHY, here is all the charm of England and Scotland, and less than three hours from New York!”
The noted visitor, a traveler to many climes, stood high on a breeze-swept, green-clad hill at Montauk Beach, 125 miles out into the cool Atlantic on Long Island’s slender tip, and surveyed the alluring panorama before him.
What a perfect tribute to the New Life! To the south swelled the billowing Atlantic, a ship lane plied by giant steamships that join the old world with the new; to the north, the gentler Sound, swarming with smaller, busy craft; westward, amid virgin natural splendor, rolled the timbered Hither Hills, while on the eastern horizon, its graceful tapering column engraved upon a rich blue sky, was historic old Montauk Light, which for more than a hundred years has flashed to sea a friendly warning.
— An excerpt from Montauk Beach: A Distinguished Summer Colony on the Slender Tip of Long Island, NY published by the Montauk Beach Development Corporation.
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