Show I a ak Iv ii iii 4 i ia p a t. t ar v o 1 Vv V A C Ia Iatt 1 tt i R f 1 W ti rF j f. f t v. v l t. t t 1 By ELMO EtMO SC SCOTT TT WATS WATSON Ni Drawing by Ray Walters Walter JIO Ill wj said that Romance Is ts deli dead ll In these modern In du M Iii In this thU year A D. D 1027 1927 lI Pieces ts t.'s of eight l ht I loons l Treasures of ot the Maui Main I I. I Pirate gold I l BURIED AS- AS um 1 Do Uj those 1 words word bring buck hurk memories memo memo- ties ries to yon of lit your our boyhood days when you first nt rend ll Stevenson's n Treasure ure ur I That was was Vas long ago perhaps and yet et- et ethere here lire arc three di patches dispatches which tune hate In out our newspapers the In last t few few weeks Head them mid end w sea I If It they dont don't give g. you ou a n sort sorto o J tin thrill NEW EW Residents of Asbury ARbury bark and nur nearby y villages are warming Cl op ep to a II hurt hUilt for or te treasure us RS tho result of or tho the discovery by Percival O. O tilman Jr of ot N Ko No 96 98 Lake tre street t. t A Asbury Albury lury PArk In that t city of a 1 fossil fossil- liti boot loot of ot the type vvo worn n by wash swash t two t centuries ago Embedded let In n the rock rock encrusted boot Ullman found ouM a R womans woman's gold Bold ring set lilt with a l tare large pearl The boot hoot was waR found near the spot where a R carbine was picked J Cl ep tip a month KO ngo A band of sea lIeR marauders ma ma- lel by a woman took refuge refuse t t th the spot The woman cut her hair hall short hort and wal a ruthless plunderer the In original hair bobbed bandit NEW OT LE Mysterious bands ot of it treasure hunters still till range across I the tin marshes They are seek seek- tog Ing ne the burled buried spoils of the pirate Jean I The Is 1 said aid to I have cached II seat vt n stores toru of doubloons and pieces of ot eight ism along the great Brest coastal stretch southwest t lit of f New Orleans n imported of a burled tr treasure treas treas- treas a ure near bay baT a year ago caused o ed considerable ble excitement One n party parly of ot treasure seekers o went ns to pull e e i f tar r r as to pull tes to up a po set post t by JOY JOY- J surveyors e evidently hl nUy believing lust it the stake taki w was M ns the one of mark mark- tn tnt made mad hy by It is II Paid lair that two members member of nt Lafitte La La- fitte bard once lived in fn the vicinity c of I the h city of nI Lake Charles D Ol on Doubloons 10 Doubloons ot K and other treasures of of Jj tb It onnon Paul sn Man to o the value of 50 lie IK t on a B South Bouth American willing ready y for th the person who Is II v Inlay Finlay J to IKi according to George decree Simmons curator of orni- orni Vi of nt the h Cleveland veland Museum of Tr from om m ik history 7 ory who has hal Ju just l returned th the l nd The each cache Includes touch fUCh lore golden len plunder taken fr tram from m the IndIanA by the Spaniards who In turn hS were ere robbed r 1 by br the Ibo ho U tuned H d two pirates the lb ii 1 Wand bland land the loot lont a century II e O on d rr rf the thc One On f const coast of ot BrailL ot of the Iho hoards Simmons says amounts to 10 and arl l kr bf th ar- ar was Wal burled buried the R Mho I ko 0 pirate Jo Jose JOlle Santos Santo P Ul d 1 a slut u ship laa laden n with gold Bold silver Lh ingot altar vestments and i. i Lime J rn Peru r from Irom m the th churches ot of urle th Ih u II 0 more ore wan wal 11 h on nn the ht same ame Island by an En In ro 8 i v I ho tyM t ltd himself Zul lul Ite of cache wore were f. f I V W II kept and aDd were In the possession of the luul n quartermaster of th the pirate until he died In the tho Far tear Last East Eight expeditions were made to find and the treasure between 1800 and aad 1892 1891 but most of them never reached the desolate coast o of the Island Those Thole that did found that the landmarks marked on the map bad had been wiped out by a landslide Robert Louis Loul Stevenson used the place as the scene of ot Treasure Island Simmons the plunder plunder der found Mound lit In notion fiction really Is la still UIl there Such Items are ore not nt ot all uncommon In n our ne newspapers and probably will continue to appear therein for many years 1118 to come For among our most cherished traditions Is the belief that every pirate who sailed the main at some fomo time In his career buried a part of his loot somewhere and ond never ne recovered recovered re re- covered ered It And there thre wherever this awaiting awaiting await await- there Is III It lies to day ing the he the lucky discoverer whom through blind chance or ur because he has hns come conie across some old document which puts him on the trail It will enrich I beyond his wildest dreams As o D matter mat mat- lor ter of ot fact tact It Is much more likely that the average overage pirate squandered more of ot his Ill gotten galas gains than he ho ever er burled buried that lint not one In ten of all nil tho the stories of burled buried treasure have the slightest foundation In fact and mul that i imore j more money has hns been spent In the tho I efforts to find this hidden wealth than I nil all the treasure which all oil the tho pirates i In history eier e ever burled Is worth I But nut these facts even If they could bo he definitely established probably would fall fail to dim the lure of the supposed supposed sup sup- posed burled treasure nor dampen the enthusiasm of those who go out to seek It That lure and that enthusiasm are ore based upon a 0 universal human weakness weakness the the rich rich quIck desire Perhaps Edgar Allen Toe Poe Is as much responsible ns as any ony one for nourishing the burled buried treasure angle of that de de- sire So long as the tradition of hidden hidden hid hid- den dpn treasure on our coasts persists and to yo 0 long aa as as his Gold Bug Is read by successive e generations of Americans w so co long will wall we have the great American American Ameri Amerl can sport of hunting pirate gold Only a year or so ago ngo a Canadian announced his Invention of the phone plume an nn electrical Gold Cold Bug which could detect the prel presence of burled metals even en though I hey they were concealed concealed con con- beneath more than SO 0 0 feet felt of solid rock Immediately the word went vent out that the was fill to tu tobe tobe tube be u wd u-wd ned to find the burled treasure on the historic Cocos COCO Island which lies lie In the I ocean about miles southwest of Costa and which was n R o favorite lair loll of pirates In III the theold theold theold old days In fact CO Cocos magnet t for Cor treasure tre Island Ins has been a seekers for many cars aIs because there J ii ii W I to Kil I ih I. I r. d N 4 Is la an apparently well authenticated story t gnat nt the crew of the British ship Mary Dear hid on the island is- is land treasure valued d at some accounts put lut It at nt and others at a a hundred years ears ago ngo Soon afterwards afterwards after atter wards words tho the secret leaked out and scarcely a year tar has passed since that I time Ume that someone has hns not tried to uncover unco this vast ast wealth A As late lote as ILl 1025 a party of British scientists letout set let setout setout out for that purpose but If It they or anyone anone el else e have hove been successful the world Is yet et to hear of ot It The treasure width the famous Captain Kidd Is supposed to have bue burled somewhere alon along alons the New England coast Is nearly as 08 famous and ond andas andas as much sought after as us time the Cocos island wealth It Is true th that t he be did bury a part of ot his loot on Gardiners Gardiner's Island off ort Montauk l point on Long Island N N. Y when he returned from his trip pirating n but that was recovered re re- covered co soon SHun after otter his arrest orrest And AndI that Is all of ot Captain gold that I lias hns' ever been recovered The fn famous Blackboard Blackbeard Is said sold to tn have burled part of his Ills piratical wealth In New Jersey Wherefore gold diggers have ha made mado the dirt fly flyat at various places In New Jersey but butI butmore butmore more particularly nt at Burlington I Legend says that Sir Henry Morgan hid part of his loot beneath the soil soli of Oak Ou Island off ocr the tho coast coust t of ot Maine 1 and ond more than has been beer spent from time to 10 time digging oa on Oak Island to recover It It So far the thenet thenet net result has hus been nothing I The gold of ot Jean Jeon LIl Lafitte tle has kept treasure seekers busy bURY at various various' places along the coast of ot Louisiana 1 and Texas This legend Is almost s a perfect treasure burled yarn arn There Is a document document bequeathed by a father about to die to his his' son bearing hearing the tho I date of of 1813 which tells of the burial i by La Lafitte tte his this men men of doubloons doubloons doub doub- i loons loom and a 0 bar of silver Oliver Ins ItIs signed by a number of the pirates pirate's followers and has as Its seal the usual pirate marks the skull and crossbones and anda and ando n o dagger daSler There occur also the words and ond mutiny cruelty Inquisition and on the other side Is a n rude map which Is the key to the location of the tho hoard There Is 19 n a story of a 0 party of or ormen men who stumbled upon ulon the place where t they thoy were sure that the treasure was burled then went hack back to get spades to dig and could not find the place Iaco again So there wherever there Is lies Iles Lafitte's burled treas trena treasure ure worth 11 OOOO for someone I h lint But In n the argot of the day try I and get It |