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Show II TV f-i- y n ArtltTP All w . 1 ' da -ou WUI see. ana mai win part of the day, it will not be a Greek race Is remarkable, as well uuii'ims y m JETU ?JNawsqEMcMSWP for Caribbean cruise to recover $1,000,000 treasure from island & Mn I rlbbean Sea, with her timbers slow- mmBi rotting or petnfving in the heat 9H and tho sand piling higher and high- er over her year by year, is the wreck of an old-fashioned, hkgh-poop hkgh-poop sailing vessel of the type In uso 2 00 years ago. Packed neatly BM and compactly on top of each other. HHj from the top of the fore hatch to the bottom of the fore hold, are l v,ar of solid gold weighing 100 pounds each. In a small, six-foot cabin, opening jB ft- stand four Iron-bound chests, two feet square. Three of these chests contain Jewelry of all sorts, thrown Into them with no attempt at order. The fourth contnlns noth-irg noth-irg but unset diamonds, some of them as large as hickory nuts. H! stlH further aft. in the main hold, J are stacked countless hales of filmy. H, uncertain stuff that crumbles and ft vanishes at your touch. It was once J priceless .Ilk. but the 150 years It ''aa remained in the stifling h. tl jH; under those vvorm-eaten decks that I I always smoko n the slare of tho MM tropic sun, has robbed It of tta value. to set foot on the Island since the ship was beached there. Is In New York organizing an expedition to go back to that uncharted West Indian island and recover the treasure a million dollars pf it. he thinks, at least from tho bones of ono of the Spanish galleons lost late in the fifteenth fif-teenth century. Down in the Erie Basin of South Tirookln. where he was negotiating for the charter of a small, two-masted two-masted schooner to take him and two companions back to th6 treasure treas-ure Island, he squared his shoulders shoul-ders and his face grew grim as he told the remarkable story of how ho happened to find what he calls the only treasure, s,hip ever discovered. discov-ered. The man to whom these adventures adven-tures belong is Carl Hartlgcr, a native na-tive of Glenwood, Minn., who went to the West Indies as a prospector, and remained to follow the eea for a living. He Is 37 years old. and an expert navigator. November 8. last, he sailed as mate of a small coasting schooner from Havanu for Fort de France on "ell until In the vicinity of the Leeward Lee-ward Islands, when Are was discovered dis-covered in the schooner's hold. The captain ordered hatches battened and with the fire half stifled below dteWs. continued on to Martinique. The decks grew so hot thnt ropes coiled on them were singed and blackened. He headed his craft for Guadeloupe, the nearest i'land. Intending to beach his craft on a key. But something on which he had not calculated Interfered. Tho wind dropped flat and the schooner lay without headway, while always the Are heightened under her decks. That evening It burst through the batches, burned out the oakum in the deck seams and fpouted red. wicked tongues. The four men took to the schooner's yawl, already stocked with food and water. "We were Williamson, tho eap-laln: eap-laln: Smith. Goldlng and me," Hartlger said. "All that night we Pulled on the oars. At dawn our Mhlp was gone. The sun came up. and the tropic heat heat on u. fiy tura we rowed. Smith took ob- 0 serrations at noon. 'vVe reckoned we were eighty miles from Guadeloupe. Guade-loupe. Wo rowed nil day. and at night the wind hauled sharply out of the east. By morning we were far out of our course, with a half gale ramping In across the eca. tho sky dark and with no chance for observation of our position. "The wind held for three days a hot. dry, baking, tropic gale. Then we found w0 were far to the southwest south-west of any charted land, and our water was running low. The fourteenth four-teenth day it gave out and the seventeenth sev-enteenth Uolding went mad and died In delirium. Williamson, the captain, cap-tain, followed, and Smith and I were too weak to heave him over the side. Two days later Smith went, and I knew I would follow In a short time. My tongue was black and swollen. bit I won't go Into those gruesome details. "It is enough to say that on the twenty-first day I sighted land, and the current and the wind carried me straight between two points of reef Into a funncl-hpcd harbor. t the Inland end of which flared a fcandy cve "Then I built a rougn couch of grass and slept. When I awoke my boat was gone. I hud moored her to a great lavalike rock on the beach, but somehow she had worked her painter free and the current had swept her away. "For some reason. I never knew Just why. 1 had taken Williamson s sextant and chronometer ashor with me when I rnoored the boat, 1 took observations which, for obvlou. reaevms. I cannot divulge to you now. "Then I set about to explore the Island. I had not gone it hundred yards when I came upon the bones of an old ship half burled In the beac h at the Innermost sweep of the sand cove. "I do not ask you to believe what I found. It was first the gold solid, oblong, bars of It; Ingots, If that's what you call them stacked tier on tier from the keel of the forehold to the top of the hatch above, How much of It I could not even dream at the time, though afterward In those eight months I spent on tho Island alone I figured prettJT accurately, 1 'hlnk. "Then I went Into the narrow sub-cabin, sub-cabin, just aft the fore hold, and came upon the chests, four of them They were all locked, and I could not open them. They were of some tremendously hard wood, lignum vltae, perhaps, that had resisted the years and the heat. "I searched the vessel and found crude tools, and for a week 1 worked hour after hour picking away at the wood and the Iron bands that bound It until I had worked my way through One case contained only unset diamonds Hnd was about half full. The other three were full, and contained a mixture of valuables. There wero crucifixes and head ornaments, and bracelets and rings of all sizes, values val-ues and designs. "How did I manage to live! Well. T suppose a good deal like Robinson Robin-son Crusoe. "Counting the gold was tedious work. First I estimated the weight of the bricks as 1U0 pounds. Then I counted the number In tho out-lde out-lde layer, counted tho number of layers and multiplied. That gave me the number, I was not so sure of the value of the geld, nor or tn- r - ,,,u ' th,Cnea sH that It would at lt be as heavy g as what wo now ronsider H-kjJ K0 I estimated lhat gold of thai sort was worth f0 cents a penny B&7 weight, though I have lnoe founa tjt( that it is worth more. V. e srouM make my And worth lit th, ounce, or J120 , pound. From tail JJjhe , I deduced that there was ahout jp a 1600,000 worth of gold In e for 1 the hold of the olt' hulk. K,t "Next came tie Jewel Tin. J dicult. 1 did not kno 1 the value of d R and I had no means of determining , ths weight d those I had found. In the diamond box thrre were BS Of al size,. In ' ' 'If 0tt three boas beside, the oraa-J ree.0fj.1r; j Jfor,' Ing li n I in them I" r MM ex, 341 emcraUs and -00- other Wkth l,000,000-ma be lOi.""' Vie; of |