Captain Sterling Wallace returned from Miami, Florida, whereby order of Col. Robert M. Thompson, he hurriedly went to superintend the salvage and raising of the wrecked houseboat Everglades. The boat was driven on pier and stove her bottom during the great September hurricane. Alfred Prax, who owned extensive property at Cocoanut Grove, suffered a loss of about $7,000 in the hurricane. His houses were unroofed and greatly damaged by falling trees. The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 was a Category 4 storm that devastated southern Florida. As one of the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history, it helped bring the Florida land boom of the 1920s to an end.

Unable to secure a lease renewal for Cedar Beach, the Sag Harbor Gun Club was disbanded. Cedar Beach and Sammy’s Beach were subsequently leased to private individuals for shooting purposes and posted against trespassers. Public highways ran the entire length, both of Cedar Beach and Sammy’s Beach, in the Town of East Hampton.

It was reported that during the summer of 1926, Dr. William F. Foshag, formerly of the village of Sag Harbor, made a survey of Mexican mines for metallic ore deposits. Foshag was Assistant Curator of mineralogy of the United States National Museum under the Smithsonian Institute.