Show da r 0 26 77 f zt 7 J J c coo Q 9 46 V 1 by elmo SCOTT WATSON drawing by ray walters ilio said that romance Iloma uco la Is denil dead in ili those these modern days in this year A D 1927 places pieces of eight doub loons 1 treasures of tile the spanish main I 1 P pirate I 1 1 I te gold I 1 D na r t URE i do choso words bring linck memories to you memories of if your boyhood days when yon first llast read Steven sons treasure island that was ana long ago 1190 perhaps and yet here are three dispatches which have tipp appeared eared in ili our newspapers within tile last few weeks head theril heni and see if they dont give you n sort ol 01 0 thrill NEW YORK of asbury park and nearby villages are warming up to a hunt for pirate treasure BS as tho result of tho the discovery ly by perc perciunl val nl 0 1111 ullman man jr of no 96 lake street asbury park in that city of a fossil lied boot of the type worn by swash bucklers buckless buc klers two centuries OKO ago embedded imbedded Im bedded in the rock encrusted boot ullman found a womans comans gold ring set met with a large pearl tho the boot was found nerr near the spot where it i flintlock carb carbine no was v a s picked ni ad up a month BRO ago A band of sea e a marauders ra led by a woman took refuse refuge lit t the spot the woman cut tier her hair hort and was it ft ruthless plunderer the original bobbed hair bandit NEW On ORLEANS LEANS mysterious lous bands of treasure hunters still range dicross the Loul louisiana sinne marshes ma rahea seak ing the burled buried spoils of the afie pirate jean anntte the buccaneer la Is said to have cached benched v vast t stores nr nf doubloons doub loons and pieces of e eight igil t along the great coastal stretch southwest louth west of new orleans reported na ported discovery dlo din covery of a burled buried trens treasure near vermillion bay a year ago caused considerable excitement one party of treasure seekers went to cofar far as to pull up a post set rot by government surveyors evidently believing that the stake was one of the markings made by lafitte it la in said that two members of la fittes band once lived in the vicinity of the city of luke lake charles Charl tB CLEVELAND OHIO doubloons Doub loons pi pieces aces of eight and other trea Burea of the spanish anin to the value ol of 60 lie buried on a south american island ready tor for the person who is 13 willing to dig die according to george finlay simmons curator of of alit cleveland Alus buscimi euni ot of natural history who has just returned from the isi aslund tind the cache includes include much solden golden plunder taken from the inca indiana by the spaniards who in turn were by the two who burled buried the loot a century ago on th the e island oft the coast of T traill off 0 one ne of the he hoards simmons rhys iam 0 unto to and was vas burled buried b by y the spanish pirate jose santos who v ho captured a ship laden with gold and silver In crots altar vestments and candelabra from the churches churchea of 0 lima peru more afore than more was burled buried on oil lie he siame island by an english it sh pirate who styled himself zul ill alro ro records Ite cords of this cache wern U ftp it api t anti and were in the possession of nt the lle ss ian quartermaster quarterma aier of tho the pirate ship until lo lie 10 died in the far east light expeditions were made to find ohp tajo I 1 treasure between 1800 and 1892 bat most of them never reached the desolate desolate coast ot ol tile the island inland those cht lid found that the landmarks m irked d on the map had been wiped tb by a landslide robert loula louis stevenson used tho the pi ice as the h 0 scene of treasure 1 la 1 and I d sa s1 alm r oo 00 n a says gays but tho the plunder found I 1 1 n fiction really IB still there such items lire are not tit nt nil unco uncommon nimon in our newspapers and probably will continue to appear therein for ninny many years to come for among our most cherished traditions Is the belief that every pirate who galled tit the main at some time in his career burled buried it a part of ills his loot somewhere and never recovered it and there wherever there Is it lids lie s to tills this day awaiting the 1 kucky bucky discoverer whom through blind chance or beef because luse lie he tins has come across some old document which 1 puts ats him bilm on oil tile the trail it will enrich bey beyond 0 lid ills his wildest dreams As 0 mattor matter of fact it Is much more likely that tho the average squandered ered more inore of ill his ill gotten gains than lie e over ever burled buried that not one in ton 0 of f till nil I 1 11 lie to stories of buried treasure havo the slightest foundation in fact itald that diore money tins lina been alic spent lit in the efforts to find tilts tills hidden wealth tanil nil all tile lie treasure which nil all the pirates in history ever burled buried Is worth nut but these facts even if they could 1 be definitely established probably would fall to jim dim the lure of the posed sed buried tr treasure ensure nor dampen the enthusiasm of those who go out to seek gi ek it that lure and eliat en entrust acini a in nrc are bused based upon it universal human 1 a lW w akness the get rich alch quick bulck desire perhaps edgar allen alien poe ioe Is as much responsible its as any one for nourishing the burled buried treasure angle of HIM desi re so 80 long as the tradition of bild lild d n treasure on our coasts persists anti B s i long as ills his gold hug bug Is rood read by s si cees sIve generations of americans M 0 long will we have the grent great anderl gan all sport of hunting pirate gold j only a year or so ago a canadian announced his invention of the phone till an electrical electric til gold hug which could detect the presence of burled buried Ille tills even though they were concealed beneath more lhnn 50 feet of solid rock immediately the word went out that the was it tn bo used to thid the burled buried treasure on oil the historic bi cocos island which lies in tin the pacific about GOO miles of costa rica and which was it favorite lair of pirates lit in the old days lit in net cocos I 1 land tins lias bron beell a magnot for treasure seekers ekers st fret kera for intine years because there V X ia la Is nn an apparently well authenticated atory ory that the crew of the british ship mary dear hid on oil the island treasure valued at biln somo rI ln accounts put it nt at ind others tit at CO GO more than a B hundred years ngo soon afterwards the secret leaked out and scarcely a year has haa passed since that time that lint someone tins has not tried to uncover tills this vast wealth As late inte as ag 1025 1925 a party of british scientists rot bot out for that hint purpose but if they or anyone else cle have been successful the world la Is yot yet to tn henr hear of 0 it the treasure which tho the famous captain nidd Is supposed to have burled somewhere along tho the new K angland coast Is nearly tta as famous and ng aa much sought after us a tile cocos island wealth it Is true that lie he lid did bury a part of his loot on Gar gardinere gardiners diners island off montauk point on long island N Y when lie he returned from ills his trip a pirating but tit that tit was recovered soun sonn after ills his arrest and hint Is nil all of captain kidds gold that ha lias 4 ever been recovered the ramous blackboard blackbeard Is said to liae have burled buried part of his piratical i ivelith in new jersey wherefore i gold diggers have made the dirt fly at various vil rious places in new jersey but more particularly at burlington legend says that sir henry morgan hid purt part of ills his loot beneath tile lie soli soil of oak island oft off the lie const coast of maine till and more than liaa has been spent front from time to time digging on oak island to recover it so far the net result hits has been nothing the gold of jenn jean lafitte tins has kept treasure seel seekers cers husy busy tit at various places along the coast of Loul louisiana sinna and texas this legend Is almost a perfect burled treasure yarn there Is a document bequeathed by a father about to lie die to lit his son soil bearing th tho e title date of 1813 which tolls tells of tile the burial iby by lafatte and his men of doub loons and a bar of silver it 1 Is 9 signed by a number of the pirates followers anti and hits has its as its seal the usual pirate murk the and crossbones and a dagger there occur also the words mutiny cruelty and inquisition ind and on oil tile the other side Is a rude mp map which Is tile key to to location of tho the lioard board there Is it a story of it a party of men who stumbled upon tile lie place where they were sure that the treasure ure was buried then went hack back to tn get spades f to dig arid could not find tile place again so there wherever there Is 14 lies iles buried treasure worth for so someone j but in III the lie argot of the duy try and get it |