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Show 8 (SOW VISIONS. "leam Before the Eves of the "el8ute Hunter. -Searching the Ocean's Depths. $ Or TABULOUS WEALTH. tion Becently Pitted Out in New ,k to Recover an Enormous SmnrrointheSea'sBottom. - HE auest of treasure, from the l Jits of Json t0 tll0S0 of lhe ierritt Wrecking organization organiza-tion has always been one of tie 'most absorbing pursuits r mankind. The latest of all the expeditions that have been titled out to seearch for lost , millions is iu many ways a nn of lhe others, and although '7t is going on now in a sb spent) had teen put" at interest it. 5rUt oA thSfa-mous thSfa-mous robber over stole No story of stolen ' treasure, however seems to be too absurd to enlist the efforts' toward Us recovery. Only a few day, asa a scandal arose in St. Louis involving the the wife of a third, together with many thousands of stolen dollars, and the mi tive leading to it is said to have been the desire to recover 11(1,000,000 in gold th.it robbers had taken from a train in IBM nd hidden in a cave lu Illinois. Anvbody who reflects for a moment on tho abundance abun-dance of robbers' caves in Illinois, and tho frequency with which such sums as 16 000 -000 are stolen from railway trains in this country, will seo at once how rational this particular party proved themselves to be. Two or three years ago a syndicate was formed in New York for a search off the hore of British Honduras, and such men as Thomas C. Piatt, Congressman J. Floyd King, ex-Judgo A. J. Davidson, Professor Barker of Washington; E. B. Richards, of Pittsburg, and Charles S. Beardsley and Alfred A. Home, of New York, were alleged al-leged to havo invested targe sums In the enterprise. They sent out two expeditions for the gold supposed to hare been hidden on a reef off the Honduras shore by a pirate who was chased thither by a British cruiser. No news has vet been nnhiuhwi however, of the recovery of any of this particular gold, though Consul General Booker said that he remembered hearing about twenty years ago of the finding of some treasure in the neighborhood mentioned. men-tioned. A still more preposterous yarn than any of these, excepting the Illinois one, resulted re-sulted tour or five years ago in an order from the park commission to arrest anybody any-body who should enter Central park carrying car-rying pick or shovel. According to this really capablo flight of somebody's fancy a Spaniard of noble birth and revolutionary instincts was mixed up in a Cuban conspiracy con-spiracy and fled to Egypt, In the bombardment bom-bardment of Alexandria he managed to steal from a merchant who had befriended him about $130,000, with which he hd to New York. He buried his treasure in the Central park and sailed for Cuba, where he was arrested and died iu prison. No diagram was found among bis papers indicating indi-cating what part of the park he had so- EJECTING CENTRAL PARK GOLD HUNTERS. lected for a cache, and if the story be true it is not likely that the Turkish merchant's wealth will ever be found. These are only a few of the more recent instances of treasure seeking, but they are fairly illustrative of the many that might be told. Probably as long as men want money they will be repeated in various forms. David A. Cubtis. THE STKAMER EKSOUE. scientific fashion tFan usual, with muipmeat than most similar quests, attached is of the good old type well known to all readers. Onie it is the steamer Rescue, be-t be-t to the company named, and A by a large party of that oom- eipert divers and workmen, that is t in Delaware bay. It started from orkinJune, and will doubtless re-through re-through the summer, exploring the of the bay, unless the $10,000,000 hich is sought for shall be f onnd vis necessary for the prosecution wireh for money, as it is for almost lung else, and in this case it is pro-b pro-b a syndicate formed in Phila-i Phila-i by the late Dr. Seth Pancoast. bjoctive point is the recovery of re that was sunk in the year 1798 off lenlopen, in the sloop Braak. This iginally a Dutch vessel. The French alter, and the British government i took her from the French and ember em-ber as a sloop-of-war. Early in e captured a Spanish vessel laden peat treasure, and within a month orset by a sudden squall when about anchor in Delaware bay. British government made one or tempts to recover the treasure, but m days the appliances used were far Scacious. It is said that they used attaching one end of a rope to the i vessel and loading the other end stone. A number of these ropes bs placed in position and then the rould be thrown over, in the hope ir sinking it would pull the vessel didn't The search party, however, een encouraged by finding a heap of i itone, some sixty by fonr by eight i size. They haven't found the the unsuccessful attempts men-the men-the American government prohib-ny prohib-ny farther efforts and none are i to have been made until within a ears. Dr. Paneoast then obtained, ;h a submarine company already 1, the right from the government to ir the treasure, and in two years he omt 112,000 in futile efforts to locate idiscouraged, he formed the syndi-hioh syndi-hioh survives him, and now the very lethods and the most skillful men business are employed in what is to be a final effort, whether it bs stiu or not. Uncle Sam is to get 10 it. of what is recovered, besides all ns and munitions of war that may 0 the surface. nilar search was carried on at inter-jr inter-jr many years in the harbor of New The British frigate Hussar was sd off Port Morris in the Revolution-ir, Revolution-ir, and it appeared from the records le had something over a million dol-specie dol-specie on board when she sank. It is slievedthat this treasure has been and taken away, though nobody (except the Anders) who recovered : all events, the Merritt company Into In-to wreck and recovered a few trifles, b cannon balls and the like, without 1 the money. necessary, as a general thing, to pirate vessel in one of these stories treasure. Without the pirates there ot teem to be the proper glamour to mance. Pirates and all are included series of alleged facts that recently party to Trinidad Island on such a as those described. It was a secret tion and was accidentally discovered scientific party sent out by the Brit-vernment Brit-vernment to witness the last total 'of the sun. This expedition, pass-arthe pass-arthe coast of Brazil, saw on the Wand (not the West Indian Trini-number Trini-number of tents. It being supposed hipwrecked people were on shore 1 island is net inhabited a boat was com the governmeat vessel tp the ' A landing was made with great I'y, for the surf is high and the is rocky, and the people were found digging for pirates' gold. Their was that in 1829 a band of twen-ates twen-ates looted a church in Peru and ' off a million pounds' worth of gold Irer. noticeable that pirates always used "ure their booty in round numbers, yever heard of 970,000 dollars Or s. for instance, in this connection, twenty were wrecked on Trinidad A VISW OT TRIHIBAJ) ISLAND. hot managed to get their treasure 'and bury it before they were found, n and hauged. In the hanging one ""as spared. He was a youth who a afterward, and who before dying a8 told the secret of the treasure to captain. It was on the strength old sea captain's story that the party "king. They had found the spot, also found that an enormous land-ad land-ad eovered it When the British ex-Ja ex-Ja visited them they had been work-o work-o months and had moved some 8,000 dirt, but had not yet reached the re. !eking for treasure a great many per- guided by alleged clairvoyant ?uit mediums. Probably none of "ous departed beings who are snp-w snp-w communkata with tho living has 'aard from so often as Capt Kidd, u wfe to say that he has not re-1 re-1 morally since his death, judging various statements made by his Jn regard to the buried treasure he ""fd. Xo oomputaUon has ever "joe, for there are no data at com-nt com-nt a conservative estimate might ""ed that if all the money that has Pent in searching for hie treasures ng. the jneney value cfcjthe hvber |