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T McCutcheon l rust and Newspaper Newspaper- Ian fan t a Yearning for Just u uch ch h a Spot Whereon to His His His Boyhood ream Now Comes True tithe ilithe Acquisition of a avral oral Atoll in the Bahal Baha- Baha Las l tas S Where Once Pirates ill Their Ill Gotten Gotten inches And iches And hes-And And the New ner Is to Share His His' topical With I its fir to Bride-to-Be Miss Miss' lyn Shaw of Chicago Ian Of all the various various va va- va- va rious roles that Notice L ot- ot the the- omnipresent little Olympian W Eviction M r has ass assumed u m e d perhaps he has t never never b before e for e been called upon top notify the l shades of buccaneers buc buc- buccaneers t that hat h a t they are ing on private property L j jOne t r i One of the coves in the irregular shoreline of Sa Salt t Cay or Treasure l Island land in the Bahamas showing f flomo some lomo of the cocoanut palms planted by Mr McCutcheons McCutcheon's predecessor predo pre- pre do elor I INCE the time of Stevenson's edul edu orated tales it has been Gusto Gusto- Uy begin piratical accounts with ho ho ings and bottle of bottle of e for eft the e sake of variety If II e i no s o other reason this story etory of at buos buo buo- leers treasure and South Sea ids Binds is introduced with the an- an that John T. T n w soon soon to be married td the most moet a inning lady he has known There Thereto m claim to originality or vem ve- ve m In the revelation Where the relevancy between this of hymeneal news and piracy It Itt d out but t be Ibe said that Mr McCutcheon n ng a a. newspaper man has lived flag ong ng treasure Islands pirates and andrs velars shelors rs all his life me Moreover he encis ends to introduce his forthcoming n iee luse to this atmosphere The an- an Mb ment has in fact been made madet t irr 1 has t a piratical pi bay in the Ea- Ea a- a r 1 r J t I I 5 5 G a 55 f 5 5 5 55 N 5 M Miss Evelyn Shaw of L Lake F Forest rest III I 8 who ae as fiancee of ofIS J John oh n T M cC eo n is IS the mistress to mistress to b to toof of T Treasure Island eland c I I Io o o t U ego o L 5 c hamas and Wid intends intends' spending his honeymoon there among the stalking shades of such characters as Columbus Columbu and Blackboard B Blackbeard The popular local name of Mr Mr McCutcheons McCutcheon's Mc Mc- McCutcheons McCutcheon's McCutcheons Cutcheon's West Ind Indian an empire is Treasure Island ls The tradition goes that the doughty rum drinkers and Ship of the seventeenth century century cen cen- tury fold many a chest of captured treasure in its Us hospitable marl GeographicallY Geographically Geographically Geo Geo- graphically the place ds lis called Salt Cap from the tact fact that it possesses posse ses among other charms a a. workable salt I sink from which actual briny money time was Waa made in some Bome past To return to Mr McCatcheon l Not NotIcing l long Icing since the the Chicago Tapers papers pers An Announced an announced n- n the engagement of Mr Air McCutcheon Mc Ic i Cutcheon who is the the long long yea and celebrated cartoonist of of the Chi Chicago go Tribune with Miss Evelyn Shaw cj of Ragsdale Lake F Forest IlL III one of ot Chicago's Chicago's Chicago's Chi Chi- cagos cago's fashionable North Shore sub suU- suU I Her Her father is a wealthy architect archi archi- architect I and her family belongs socially td to the Lake Shore Drive set which is to say the top run in the ladder Chicagoan At the same time lime was announced Mr McCutcheons McCutcheon's purchase pur pUT cha chase e of Salt Cay Cay Discussing the natural deduction that he had bought the place because became of his impending marriage the cartoonist cartoonist car car- said My Ily engagement was only a contributory contributory contributory con con- reason We are planning to spend a honeymoon there and it will willbe willbe be the first visit foT both of us I have never on the island As a matter of or fact tact my purchase of the island is the realization of a adream adream adream dream I 1 have had since boyhood since I T read Stevenson's Treasure Island I have always wanted an Island of the kind For a a. long time it seemed an impossible dream but It has c come me metrue true in an au unexpected fashion I 1 paid about one fifth Its value ear ID Treasure Island is about three miles long and one and one one half half miles iles wide wid From its n houses can be seen Nassau capital of the Bahamas five miles aV away av ay Save where road road- 5 h have ve been laid raid this little world capital is covered with rich tropical sub-tropical verdure I S. 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I 1 j i ft S for tor or the place A guy i with one Just had to find a guy that wants one I suppose Salt BaIt Cay Cray was for years the property properly d the late Abraham Van Winkle who built a bungalow and guest t cottages on the place and servants' servants quarters and boat J landings and Improved the to property with the addition of cocoanut palms and considerable expanse expanse ex ex- ex- ex anse of permanent roadway The main house sitting sitting sit sU- ting on an the eminence dl 1 the low island is said to include feet of at veranda On the I t f d. d r 1 J 1 death of Mr Van Winkle some somei time I since his heirs rs decided to sell the place and so air Mr McCutcheon heon came to get got it Salt Galt Cay lifts its low head out atthe of at the gleaming ocean about five miles from the capital ot the Bahamas Nassau on the island nd of New Provi provi- provi de dence ce It Is a a. coral atoll a bout about three miles by one and one-half one miles in dimensions with an irregular shoreline shoreline shore shore- line several worthy coves coves and nd a glowing verdure Like Poes Poe's Ppe's green isle it- it itis it-Is' it is all decked with If fairy iry fruits and flowers It is fruitful fruit fruit- ful lul like all its sister atolls in this marvellous region and the the waters about It swarm with fis fish The famous fi 1 Sea Gardens of pf Nassau extend out toWard toward toward to to- ward it and the shallow seas about I are full of sponge sponger No closer approach to the mythical island of our dreams may be sought for For those to whom associations are dear Salt Cay must have an equal appeal It Jt was in this neighborhood probably on the larger Island that the far faring far aring Columbus first set his venturing foot upon inordinate inordinate inor inor- romance the New World Here he first found those gentle and affee- affee affectionate natives of whom he wrote td to Ferdinand there Is no better people In the world And again This country all aU others as day surpasses surpasses surpasses sur sur- passes th the night in splendor These r 5 i j 4 I If a P r same n natives natives were later to embark inthe in inthe inthe the gl gleaming aming ships of at Ovando for the heavenly shores only to wind up their miserable lives In the mines of iola Td these shores not long thereafter thereafter there there- after atter came de e Leon seeking Bimini and the Fountain of Youth This once magic spring exists to- to today day on South Bimini and has still a local repute for healing qualities albeit the true virtues virtues vir vir- vir tues are aTe only purgative And came next the buccaneers with their chests from the overpowered galleons and their extinction at the hands of our fighting ships These things have gone by with the centuries but the romance clings still 1 t ff J L t p I about these Islands an ancient radiance radiance radi radio ance an imperishable glory The fairy fruits and flowers are there a as of old when the worlds world's heart was lighter The fiery dart still trough through the whispering branches ol of the palms as aa in the days when they guided the doughty youth seeker on OIl his memorial quest What a Q place for a honeymoon John T T. T McCutcheon journalist pirate hunter cartoonist satirist war correspondent correspondent cor cor- respondent world wanderer Is likely to find there if anywhere a mead of at that which Juan Ponce bought in vain for himself but triumphantly for the imagination For what is more youth youthful youth youth-al ful II than the quest of youth S s II I r l 1 |
