Show I SARGASSO SEA What a n practical idea that advanced by a distinguished dietetic expert to to provide pro cheap food for the tho poor noor by utilizing tho sea grass of th the Sar Sargasso asso sea sen This Thi vast tract of or water w-ater surface inthe in inthe inthe the Atlantic mid c. c scarcely four da days days' s' s steaming from Sand Sandy Hook contains millions of pounds of succulent gulf gult grass srn's that can be converted into food much resembling tapioca The Tho area aroa ot of the Sar Sargasso sea is about square I miles or about that of tho thio state of Texas As S the writer has bas been informed by hy sailing masters mateis who have 0 visited 1 he herc rc region ion this mat of or green sod is is fifty feet feel in in depth at some omo places There is nothing fanciful about the tho i idea ea m indeed it is is not new but has bas been f suggested by previous writers upon tho the I subject i To all students of or the physical geog Jeo geography geography geog- geog raphy of of the sea rca tt the tho o s on swirl extending from a point loO miles south of the Azores J to tho the equator has long been heen r regarded as a n re region ion of peculiar attract attractiveness 9 an and wonderment The commissioner of navigation estimates tho the number of vessels floating there at atone atone atone one A speculative 3 en would do well to fit out an au Hion to gather cather salvage sal in in the forms I of abandoned chronometers chronometer silverware I i and other oIlier articles Of df commercial I to be found aboard ships p abandoned in in 1 No license is 13 required Property abandoned on tho the hi high h sea is is fair e to f 3 s finder linder There Thero isn't any law in lD the Sargasso ar sea Ben that compels the thu return of valuable goods found there v 10 cv every cry c r week work we read about bout U tho the organization of expeditions to seek buried luried or sunken treasure A Why hy would it not bo be more reasonable to seek tho the lost wealth held M afloat in ill in the tho oceans ocean's kc keeping pi II J 1 And think of t the e curiosity to which such an nn undertaking would appeal Through this vast tract of or floating meadow mcadow in in an almost region broad canals penetrate enabling the tho b hardy r y captain of or a small steamer to traverse r c its entire extent e Of course coure caro caru would be he rel required t to 10 prevent tho the I Amazon I and n Or Orinoco n noco which I n abounds in vast quantities i from entangling en en- tangling the tho vessels vessel's propeller In that event the tile fate fato of ship and men would woul I bo be as terrible as that of Sir John Frank Frank- lin has ha's s party in the Arctic regions regions of North America Dot But imagine the secrets se fiC crets of lost ships that would be cleared up In c every cry ry grassy y covo cove a 1 romance The Tho Sar Sargasso asso sea lea is today tho the only I unexplored portion of the tho earths earth's sur sur- sur face Brooklyn Ea Eagle lo |