Show ! — ! SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 2 1930 THE OGDEN STANDARD - EXAMIE PIRATES: AHOY! By CHARLES B WILL ROGERS SAYS-- DRISCOLL Strange Tale of a Harvard Cannibal Where Pirates Cast Anchor r - than hunting V & -- Engwas Lion Gardiner-fir- st lish settler of New York to whom the king of England granted Gardiner’s Island as a manor and lord-sh- ip had in 1639 Gardiner had some possession ofto the land for the grant however years prior having bought It from the Indians “Take this for his capture Poor Kidd strugsuch treasure gling homeward with to accumulate as he had been able and with a for his proprietors short-handcrew due to ’defection of some of his men to the pirates leard the news in the West Indies Most of the rest of his crew deserted upon hearing that they were all Dublished as pirates but Kidd regained enough men to work a small sloop which he bought- - in the Indies Here then was Captain Kidd in the sloop Antonio dropping anchor off Gardiner’s Island on a June : evening in 1699 Lord John Gard-ner who was then lord of the manor responsible for his island direct-- y to the king and to no one else saw the sloap and put off to it in a ed Such in brief Is the isle of romance at the east end of Long much treasIsland That there is sum and subure buried there is the some of of stance many legends hiswhich are backed up by much certorical data It is absolutelyburied tain that treasure has been verithere and it is further amply treasLORD RECEIVED fied by history that the only received Captain Kidd himself there ure ever actually buried by Captain were and board Is©n Lord John Gardiner’s on buried was Kidd courtesies The of exchanges fitting land went below Island Gardiner’s of lord at the island of the The location and was entertained with goodly it wine very gateway of New York niadefor in the captain’s cabin Little the logical first stopping aplace realize that he was taking did he market were seeking to one of pirates who Dart in the curtain-rais- er suprepairs for their stolen goods in hismost :he tragedies poignant plies for a voyage or crews for their tory! When they had had much wine TO BANK HIS LOOT had exchanged inquiries after and handy place for ofa the health of their respective fain-liIt was also a his loot or part pirate to “bank” Captain Kidd said to Gardto 'send a few little it before entering New Yorkto harner “I the souvenirs want our trip ashore to your bor to give an accounting of officials and merchants who shared good lady” And he selected cerin his enterprise tain bolts of fancy goods such as a temporary deposit that would delight the heart of any It was Kidd made there woman then or now He also proCaptain duced some cloth of gold that he was Dad taken from a pirate In Indian Kidd That was when Captain begged Lord John to on "his way to- Boston by way of waters and he to his lady which all and them take south New York and points to do was last John notorious now nothing loath ashore east after his for black this “Take girl cruise a “and Kidd said me” Captain Lord Bellamont Governor of New here have I black of exboys couple York was a partner in Kidds an to coming then pedition just ominous close The- other partners four were the king of England and lords of house the of members Col Livingston one of the most prominent citizens of New York These prominent gentlemen ofnaa an forced Kidd to take command and to pirates capture expedition ships of the enemies the merchant one of whom was By ISRAEL KLEIN of England Editor NEA Service Science France: the Kidd had accepted the command IITH cooling system of the poliautomobile cleaned out and W under protest The Powerful to threaten next ticians had not hesitated do as they prepared for the winter the to refused Kidd if that of kind turns toward the bade him Kidd’s own merchant ship thought anti-freewater use to with the would be held in New York harbor It for lack of clearance papers that may be much too early for this would not be issued at present particularly in the south The proprietors were in the enter-to but it is better to know- - what to expected prise for the profit they for do when freezing weather comes get out of it They knewa Kidd than to be caught unawares and mariner an intrepid fighter and forced into pouring any sort of be Kidd respect of anybody’s worthy anti-freeinto a rusty clogged he had because knew all the pirates in order cooling system had to keep track of them when he to avoid capture by them Choice of the proper anti-freewas commanding his own merchant depends largely upon the type of vessels upon the high seas weather that through the enterBut the proprietors of theabout a winter It is prevails of whea question much know simsome or to use prise did not ther glycerine man’s problems and they ilar substance and so no longer cranky leaky worry over the proper proportion of supplied Kidd with ahad made hard anti-freebadly built ship and solution through the rest had to of the winter conditions which Kidd hadcrew or to use denatured was accept For instance the but was alcohol which is cheap and does not to be paid any wages loot as not require much attention to the to have its pay out of such handi- connections in the cooling system this might be taken Despite The matter of the prevailing wearecruit a ther to Kidd managed cap however is imporand as tant conditions fairly good crew of seamenfound choice in the out soon as the British navy For 'instance in the north where about It the crew was impressed cold weather prevails practically for service on & British warship over the entire winter season and Kidd then had to ship such a crew even beyond there Is less chance of of wharf rats as he could gather losing alcohol by evaporation thanr in an English port in the southern and more varying CREW MUTINIED climes Therefore alcohol would be The crew mutinied frequently on cheaper But in the south where winter Kidd and the old hulk finally went taken is interspersed with warm snatches down Kidd meantime had transis glycerine a ship from a pirate and men to the best anti-freeThe reason is obvious If a warm ferred his gear goods and a spell overtook an alcohol-fille- d radiit He had succeeded in taking ator the alcohol would quickly either of them all few good prizes evaporate known pirates or merchantmen ausailing under French flags and In rc 1 cold climate as in Canada thority boiling and even in some of the more northBut the political pot wasEast In- erly parts of the United States —in London The powerful beglycerine would have another disaddies company had complained saila As it gets colder vessel this taken vantage had Kidd cause papers but some- anti -- freeze solution tends to grow ing with French how having East India company thick and sluggish therefore retardThe four lords of ing the flow of cooling liquid goods aboard "through the radiator pump and 'parliament and the king were harassed by political enemies water jacket Although it would keep the enfor their part in Kidd’s Inexpedition the land gine block from cracking due to and scandal was abroad Lord Bellamont was under suspicion freezing glycerine might tend to of dealing with pirates anyway and clog the radiator and water pump rather a shady and as a result produce the oppoit was considered move for him to be backing an antt site effect The motor would sudfor private gain denly get very hot before the liquid prrarical expedition So Eeliamont wrote to the king could thin down enough to be efand the king wrote to Bellamont fective Alcohol on the other hand mainand finally the king proclaimed Kidd a pirate and offered a reward tains a - steady consistency from es - -- - 1 I I j'ts ' I"- - T--1 T want to tell you illiteracy Is a blessing” Packer was afraid they would come he would eat up some more Demoback and find another Lawyer so crats before November 4th he just went along with em But Then they brought up that the aint that strange that a Lawyer is Judge Judge (originally of never allowed out with 'Prospec- the Arkansaw Gerry and a Democrat by tors? birth and breeding) had been biased Well it seems there was dissen- in the trial That no Democratic sion from the start over allowing Judge should sit in a case where it him along and in his trial was Democrats that had been eat afterwards he said that he heard The Editorials of the Denver Pa them plotting to kill and eat him pers of that time all brought out But that dident go with Judge and this That it was a blot injustice Jury They knew no men could ever on the fair name of Colorado that so so hungry that they would eat a Harvard man shouldent be able a Lawyer to eat what he liked Well anyhow FROTECT DEMOCRATS the papers got him out and the Now I was wrong in one little fair' name of Colorado was saved con misstatement about the case I had and since then they have never murheard that he was hung He was victed or even tried a man for not Colorado was then a Terri- dering robbing or otherwise maimtory and the game laws did not pro- ing a Democrat Viva Democracy!retect Democrats Even to this day in After this Packer fellow was some States it would not be con- leased from the Jail he went to sidered illegal to eat one So they Cripple Creek and inserted an adgive him forty years in Canyon City vertisement in the local papers askJail That was a little over six ing for men with means to accomon a prospecting trip Not years for each one he ate You pany him would have to eat at least ten or a Soul went Oh yes! I forgot to more to get life according to Colo- tell you he was the Son of A missionary and in his youth had spent rado 'Justice He dident stay in some time in the South Sea Islands there that long Along in 99 when Civilization and the Denver Post Thats how he acquired this taste A a Harvard hit us why them and other papers Missionary a Lawyer started a campaign to release him Graduate I want to tell you IlliterThere was a tight election coming acy is a blessing on and them being Republicans (Copyright 1930 by the McNaught Syndicate Inc) they wanted to let him out hoping I ac-la- i CHARGE BOOKS SLIGHT STATE AUSTIN Tex— (UP) — School text books fail to give Texas a square deal according to oficials of the Texas chambers of commerce and the American Legion i Protests are being made against both geographies and histories used in the public schools The state -' purchases the books on lump contracts for all the schools and distributes them free Regional chambers of commerce headed by the organization for West Texas were first to complain: A schoolboy found that his section of the state was not included in a chart showing cotton counties That started an investigation Other alleged omissions were uncovered Texas produces 85 per cent of the world’s sulphur supply and about 98 per cent of that In the United States Its sulphur was not men- - mSSE THOM A FARMER TXXOfO JU’ ROAt TOR ONUS’ I2ST-toO- ri'T A TWEV (0 ICE nTS5 OF CRAPE YOO THIMk YOU RE 60WWA PUT THAT BASKET OF- 600EY 6PAPES IN OUR AlEUJCAR (F OtKE - YooVe 3 err rnMuJK TW0U6A? FATTENS HOGS I LAWRENCE Kans (UP)— Thirty tons of luscious watermelons and your all you had to do was to eat anxfill and feed the rinds to 70 ious hogs! That was ing unusual for Snook It is nual affair to which hundreds look forward with anticipation On the day of the feast the highwere ways leading to Snook’s farm hunpacked with the autos of melon estigry Kansans This year it isadvanmated that SCO persons took tage of his hospitality and ate themselves into a near stupor But Snook’s interest in the feast is not wholly philanthropic as he says “The free feed isn’t entirelya a total loss Pork’s bringing pretty fair price now and those hogs sure do get fattened ut” I i t 7 Police Force Op'en Fund For Needy 7? I LOSCDf? ' ( DETROIT— (UP) — Members of the' Detroit police force are contribfrom their pay b uting $5000 a month to a special fund to aid unfortunates and the needy The fund will be administered by the department at-in cases which come to the personal V tention of the members ' Donations will range from $35 a month given 'by Commissioner Thomas E Wilcox to $1 from the K detectives and patrolmen pd) CP U ffi Sr 05 V V v $ rpark ifeg ' poor tarting slow lou of power A new et of Alii will insure easy starting? fast brilliant pczfacnescd pick-u- p Worn-ou- t I-- y u £ :V l3 ££ o 0 £ ' 53 ge (yv(vrV 4 tioned as a state resource The chambers of commerce objected that the book failed to teach that Texas is the largest state and leads m and cattle agricultural production Sectional objection was made to Red” “Watermelon treat to any and all com ers recently on his farm near this nothcity But the melon' feast wasan an- Snook’s statements about climate f Robert Whitaker adjutant of the J state American Legion criticizes a It fails to h Tydil history in school use Texas’ part in to portray adequately the World war he charges ) j -- m- j £' © -- toffiyii MAN’S VAY—WOMAN’S SAY GOT FREE FEAST to-co- me 1 he j e KtVuM Bjwil— I another tmink- aWMDM h 66o 4-D- Sedan oor Delivered ze 877 1024 4-D- Sedan oor 1146 Delivered 880 4-D- oor Delivered Sedan ' 1507 890 Sedan 4-D- oor Delivered 1811 FULLY EQUIPPED- - ze dealers are doing a great thing for motor car buyers We are initiating a national movement calculated to save them millions We are destroying price camouflage we are advertising delivered prices The above prices are for cars de- - N sea-fari- ng ze ze portant highway " in the United States will soon be equipped with Red Cross emergency first aid stations for treating Injured motorists’ according to a plan of the national organization ' The" project of aiding motorists injured in automobile accidents was announced several months ago and already many of the most traveled highways are so protected accord- ing to a statement from national Gross headquarters here The Red program contemplates only the services of a volunteer in first aid ' and such treatment as can be rendered from a first aid kit The service will be free of charge The Red Cross on entering this new field stated that it was doing so because of the fact that no previous method had ever been worked out for aiding the million persons injured annually in highway automobile accidents in the United States Heavily traveled roads now protected by the Red Gross units include the White Horse Pike in New WestchesJersey the Parkway in Valter county New York and-thley Forge highways in Pennsyl' j vania L ze be-in- WASHINGTON— (UP)—Every im- - “WE- - Ar-kansa- w) TRAFFIC CUT OFF However there Is no traffic to and from Gardiner’s Island any more Clarance H Mackay the cable magnate has telegraph and the entire area under lease until 1940 and for many years has used a hunting preserve the island-fofor himself and his friends It is not possible to visit the spot without specific permission of Mr Macis kay and naturally the lessee careful whom he permits to visit there since he is anxious to preserve the wild state of the forest Mr Mackay’s- own private boats are the only means of communication with Long Island and they are used only for the convenience of the procaretakers prietor andrarefriends the guests as are invited and such to visit the Island for other purposes It vJtfEEE il'W mm and boat The island is the only bit of land in the United States so far 'as I know that is still owned by the male descendants of an ancestor who received his grant directly from an owner English king The present whom the is Jonathan Gardiner toLion Gardtitle was transferred by iner in 1926 Lion Gardiner retains a life inteerst and the title is to revert to his nephew Winthrop Gar diner j eventually By WILL ROGERS TJTELL all I know is Just what I in the papers or what I If read one find out way or another Here a couple of weeks ago V wrote a Sunday Article and it mentioned the Donner Party at Dormers Lake as being our only case of Cannibalism ever practiced In our abundant i Country Well then some man wrote yhi' w me 5 Ji’ and told me of a case of a i is man named Packer in Colorado and so I wrote a Daily prescription about him stating the Judge’s Charge to the Jury and admonishing him for in the eating up all the Democrats County If he had just eatCa up a fine Republican why! the Judge old high type Democrat from would have perhaps given the man a pension instead of a sentence Well now we got that much straight wrote of the Donner ParWe first read ty by the waysoif you havent its the most draits history do matic piece of life ever lived by a band of our brave Countrymen and Women Well then comes this other case of this fiend eating the Democrats and these two cases must be all there is or1 otherwise I would have heard of any others for people love to write letters and tell you of any other cases even of can: nibalism INTERESTING LETTERS Well now comes a long and very a man naminteresting letter from ed N E Guyot whose letterhead says Kingman Arizona and he gives me the exact details of this last case It seems he was in Colorado at the time Now a lot of folks I was just kidding when I thought wrote of this Packer and the story of the Democrats but it was the gospel truth I certainlysowouldent serious make light of a thing are as eating a Democrat We existence reaching a time in our when we need’ every one we can muster We got to get some prosin our National perity mixed up existence and as the coming November reaches the election day we are coining out in numbers that will astonish the Natives So I cer' and was relating tainly was serious But wait let Mr a historical fact black girl ashore for me” said Captain Kidd Guyot tell you was in from one 0ta msery of “ItColorado Sn'Xan SS&SS They are servants taken no of my prizes and I have present story might tiyit the Town of Lake miles from ten need of them” And again Lord tnrkt 4e I City on a plateau that is called on John consented Cannibal m1® Government survey oSdmer Some of the cloth of gold and cfnic It QeatiAver7POifi9S9 Plateau” It was here that Packer a severe snow storm mur-an- d dress goods and through fragments of the contents of the itemizes the dered and devoured his Prospector various other mementoes of this companions” Now those are some famous visit are still preserved in three of gold dust one of I "'"g but here is the things the Gardiner family But we hear gold bags coins one of silver coinsvou to eet Its the history no more of the black girl or the and prebag of silver ring boys cious stones of several kinds a I cubsistinsr on the minority of unpolished gems a bag of I Harvard Grad- Kidd explained that he was on bag of and silver buttons fragments ’66 He was grlduated in Bellaand to Lord his way to report two sates L Law Student and started prac- mont in Boston but that he wished broken silver objects I Sv-ninticta M Boston What l am get to lease on the island some personal bI?sCYnveranbSarsr° a e °at is that the only case of a to ventured he before put things stones in bulk person willfully devouring human himself into the governor’s power precious the Alumni of the great flesh was Lord John consented and Kidd went Kidd was railroaded through a Harvard by So Harvard has not only ashore with his men who buried a series of mock trials and hanged produced the least understandable box of gold a chest of treasure of for piracy and murder in London in our fair land but produc-B- ut various sorts and several bales of the lords of the manor at Gard- - Engu ed the oniy living Cannibal goods iner’s Island had not seen the last he was a Lawyer that of Then KIDD ARRESTED of pirate loot and treasure trove- course seems natural their proffes-Man- y a bloodstained ship cast an- sion Kidd was arrested in Boston upan offshoot of the cannibal imwas the island after Kidd had- proffession they generally skin em off chor on Bellamont’s orders and the London gib- anve packer did have the good mediately questioned about hisof loot ceased to swing on often landed on taste to the bet The pirates em and get em out He gave the governor a list Island and met of their destroy Most Lawyers de-tgoods buried on Gardiner's Island neighboring Long misery “fences" who carried their loot iight in seeing their victims suffer but insisted that all of this was his and sold it for low was the winter of 72 and 73 personal property and should ex-be into New ‘York and they was’ six sent to his wife to defray the prices but at prodigious profits There the were au wen Companions with proLegend says that not a few ofNew equipped penses of his trial got Bellamont sent out to Lord John pirates who were headed for visions But in the snow of host from their Burros Mrthey a demand for surrender of the loot York landed upon some part Guyot Island and buried treas- in his letter says that it was the and Gardiner brought the box the Gardiner’s so as to have an anchor floret time and perhaps the last that chest and the bales in to Boston ure there case of ill winds of I a Lawyer was ever permitted to w in to windward and received the governor’s receipt one that might disturb their plans J company a band of Prospectors into for the same He did salvage ac"out for further lot of the diamond piratical activities And the mountain He always waits till large course the legend adds that many I they go out and find it and then cording to a tradition of the island of by showing em and this he gave to his daughter of these pirates never returned to he getstohis share But sien i their name where who became Mrs Thomas Green of claim their booty No authenticated story of treasure-pShe passed the diamond Boston involves any of the on to her descendants who became lanting and the Cop- Gardiners in guilty participation the Gardiner-Green- s pirates didn’t need any help leys og Boston The Gardiners have The so many aristocratic connections from the lords of the manor and permission and descendants direct and indi they didn’t ask 1930 Charles B im(Copyright it probably would be diarectthatnow Driscoll) Kidd trace the to possible ! FOR AUTOISTS V ' ISLAND is one of GARDINER’S interesting islands in America although you will search many an American history without finding mention of its name and you could study geography in any American school for the length and breadth of the course without being asked by the teacher to locate it It is small like so many other historic and significant spots on the maps of America It is only seven miles long measured from point to its widest measurement point and is about a mile It contains thirty-thre- e hundred acres of land much of it barren or taken up by ponds It is east of Long Island New York and is a part of New York state It is three and a half miles from the Long Island shore at the nearest point You can find it on It is any map of New York state New York from away far enough City to give it a totally detached at-to mosphere although it is possiblenow reach the island from the city in about four or five hours by train PLAN FIRST AID ASH livered fully equipped with nothing more to buy - freezing to boiling and has even a lower freezing point than It should be remembered that what is wanted is an engine heated up to the proper operating temperature That’s pretty close to the boiling point of water An anti-freethat is too efficient that would tend to keep this operating temperature down is bad for the engine In this case either there is too much anti-freein the itcooling system or the anti-freeself is inefficient for the climate ze ze ze In real cold weather where it stays consistently cold all winter alcohol permits the engine to warm up to proper operating temperature much faster than glycerine and it keeps the engine at this temperature more evenly Of course more alcohol has to be used in proportion to water the more northerly the climate But right proportions have been worked out by engineers for various degrees of winter temperature Britten Protests Whisky Curtailment WASHINGTON D Recently the Nash factory astounded the world with an announcement of Nash quality at sensationally low factory list prices Nash dealers now take the next' great step by making the delivered price the lowest that it is possible to charge Demand the delivered price when you inspect a car Then comthe similar pare that car and its delivered price with model Nash car at the Nash delivered price and yotdll buy the Nash The new Nash models are the fastest the most powerful the finest performing cars that have ’ ever borne the Nash emblem M j C— (DP)— Protest against possible curtailment of whisky rations to reputable physicians has been filed with Attorney General William D Mitchell by Congressman Fred A Britten Republican Chicago as a result of many letters of complaint from Chicago doctors Britten chairman of the house committee on naval affairs and is whose candidacy for unopposed wrote Mitchell declaring he had received reports from many reputable physicians ofobjecting to their presfurther curtailment ent allowance of six quarts of whisky a year for office use M RUBBER IN AUTOS Rubber is used for 65 different purposes in the modern automobile accordin gto Walter C Keys chief engineer of the automotive department of a Detroit rubber manufacturing concern re-elect- ion -- NEW DEAL FOR WOOD-WAR- D ' 2805 WASHINGTON PHONE 443 1 LA today MOTOR GO D 6 L R AVENUE A U f |