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Show I GO AFTER TREASURE H ENGLISH COMPANY IS 8EEKING H $2,500,000 IN GOLD. H Novel Machine Perfected by Which B It It Hoped to Recover Vast Sum Known to Be In B Ocean't Deptht. B London. To tho mouth of tho Illvor B "olnc, off IlrlghtlliiKBCa an extraor- B Unary ronchlno has boon towed and B tnchored. It Is to ba used in a final B attempt to recover tho $2,600,000 treat- B tire of gold, In coins and bars, which B Is said to havo gono down In II. M. B S. Lutlne In 1797 near tho Island of B Terschelllng. off tho coast of Holland. B A portion of tho treasure has been B recovered, but any ordinary dredging B plant Is now useless, as tho vessel B bat sunk Into tho sand. Tho now B dovlce Is a great, steel tubo, nearly B 100 feet In length and wide enough B to allow a man to walk erect down B Us center. At one end Is a metal B chamber provided with windows and B doors and at tho other a medley of B giant nooks and other tackle. B The apparatus has Just been com- B pleted, after years of work by Forrest B &. Co., shipbuilders, In their Wyven- B hoe yard. B "One end of tho tubo," explained a B member of the firm, "will bo clamped B to the sldo of a steamship or barge. B The other end, by means of wutor-bal- B last tanks, will bo sunk until it B touches tho bottom. Thon, by means B of compressed air, all the water will B ho forced from tho tubo and also from B tho chamber nt tho bottom of it, which B will ho Hush upon tho bed of tho sea. B "Divers will walk down a stairway B in tho center of tho tubo until they B reach the submerged chamber. Hero B they will don their diving costumes, B and opening a scries of water-tight B doors will step straight out Into tho B water. Engineers will be stationed in B the chamber, and following thoinstruc- B tlons of tho divers, who will communl- B cate with thorn by means of portublo B telephones, they will 'operate tho me- B chanlam of two powerful suction B pumps or dredgers which nro fitted to B the sides of tho tubo. B "Thcso drodgors, It Is hoped, will B tuck away tho sand around the sides B of the heavy chamber until it gradual- B ly sinks by its' own weight right down B on to the deck of tho wrecked ship. B "Then tho divers, making their way B from tho chamhor to the deck of the B ship and thence to tho hold, will bo B able to transfer tho treasuro from the B ship to tho chambor by easy stages." B "In connection with the attempted B tatvage," an ofllclat at Lloyd's ex- B plained, "an arrangement exists whore- B by the salvors, if they do bring up B the sunken treasure, will recelvo an B adequate reward for their arduous B work. B "Unlike many talcs of treasure upon B the sea bed, there Is no doubt at all B that tho gold coins and Ingots are In B tho hold of tho Lutlno. Before the B iblp sailed upon her ill-fated voyage B i list was complied of tho bullion sho contained. Tho work of salvage, how-over, how-over, promises to bo a tremendous task." |