Show k e X V A V 10 ap 0 R by ELMO SCOTT WATSON drawing by ray walters Walt ePs i HO said that romance la 18 a dead in these modern modem days in this year A D 1927 pieces of eight 1 doub loons treasures of the spanish main pirate gold I 1 do those words bring buck back memo mem ties to you me memories moritt of your boyhood flays days when you first read Steven sons gons treasure island that was long ago perhaps and yet here are three dispatches which have appeared in our newspapers within the last few weeks read them and see lee if they dont give you a sort V 0 thrill NEW YORK TORK Real residents dents of abburi park and nearby villages are warming up to a hunt tor for pirate treasure qs ia result of the tha discovery by percival val G ullman jr of no at lake street asbury park in that city of a f fossilized sell boot of the tae worn by swash bucklers buckless buc klers two cen centuries tures ago embedded Emberl ded in n the rock enciu abed boot ullman fo found u lid a wor nans gold ring aset with a large pearl the biot biot was found near the tha spot where a flintlock fit n voc carbine wits wag picked U up P a month ago A band of sea marauders ra Is led by bv a w women mn took tok refill nort at t the spot the borrin cut her hair hort and was a ruM ss plunderer the original bobbed hair ban bandit dit NEW ORLEANS bonds bands of treasure hunter 8 atall ill range across the marshes mar lines the they are seek hip the buried spoils of the pirate jean the buccaneer ix Is said to have cached vat stores V 1 doubloons doub loons and pieces of ight eight almonr the llie great coastal stretch southwest of new orleans reported diri covery of n burled treasure near vermillion bay a year ago caused considerable excitement one party of treasure seekers went BO 10 far as to 0 o put pull up a vo set by ament n surveyors evidently believing that the stake wm wit one of the markings makings made by it 1 Is sald that two nem berof lafitt e band 0 once n ce ifred jn the vicinity of tj the I 1 e city of lake charles 11 rl e a to doubloons Doub Doul loons pieces of eglit elt t ilif and an dother other treasures of the spanish main to the value of 50 pe hoori lie bur hurled burd d en di a south american Ameil kmer ican can birna ready for the person who Is 18 willing I 1 i ing to dig accordi according n g to george fin finlay lay simmons Slin mona cura i n r of r tholley or of the cleveland of naqui history filst tory who has haa d from frari the th island land the cache golden bolden plunder from the inca ind indians tatia hy by the who in turn urn were robbed by the two ho burled the loot a century ago on the island inland biff n the coast of braell one 0 of the hoards simmons ay ghys mounta mou ants to and WM was burled buried by the spanish pl pirate te jose santos samoa who captured cap turid a ab ship p laden with gold atal ia silver tn enrot grots ahr vestments and candelabra from the churches churche of litha veru 4 more than more was wai burled buried on an the barne s time island by an engish 1 pirate who styled t y led himself zul tilro ro records record of gain each cache were wem kept and were in the possession u f llo russian an quartermaster quarter mamer of tho the pirate chip alp until he ha died in the par far east ilent expeditions expedition were made to find the treasure between 1800 and 1892 but most of 0 them never reached the deno deso laLe laia coast of the island those that did fou foud that the landmarks landmark V marked on the e map had bad been wiped out aby b y a landall de aro stuls robert bert louan Stevn Stev naon mon used the pl la kp as the scene of treasure Trea aure P island sli sit nono nonn says aa but the alun der found in fiction really to la till still there such items item are not rt ct all Unco uncommon minoll in our newspapers and prohn probably blY will continue to kippear therein for many to come for among our most cherished traditions la Is the belief that every pirate who sailed the malo main at some time in his career burled buried a part of his loot somewhere and never recovered I 1 it and there wherever there Is in it iles to tills this day awaiting the lucky luck dasco berer whom through wind blind chance or because he has tome across acres some old document which pots lauts him on lite trail it will earich beyond ills wildest dreams As a wat n at ter of tact fact it Is much more likely that the average pirate squandered more nf hi ill gottl n gains than he exer ever I 1 burse hat not one in ten tea of all the i I 1 or arks i e s ot of buried treasure tre aRuie lne have the slig I 1 iles t in fad fact and that wore n ore ill 0 aliey liaa has beati spent in lite efforts to tind find tills hidden wealth than nil 11 tit tin treasure which all the pirates in history ever eer burled bulled Is worth rut but these IllI fht tR even if they could be lelila leli lv v established probably would I 1 full fall to dim the lure of the up sup posed burled treasure eisuke ei sure nor dampen the enthis basill of those who go out to sk cek it ithol eliat lure end and that enthuse astri asin tire based upun upon a universal human linnan ke akness the g it t ilch desire perhaps edgar allen alien poe Is as alich responsible as liny one for nourishing tile the burled treasure angle of if that desire dedire so ion long us its tile the tradition of hidden bidden treasure on our coasts persists and so lung as his gold gug bug Is read by generations of so long will we have the great american sport aport of hunting pirate gold only a year or so ago it a canadian hla his invention of the clione nn an electric al flold cold bug which could detect the presence of burled buried ill tilia even though they were concealed beneath more than 50 feet of solid rock immediately the word went out that the one was it to be used to find alj life treasure on the historic cocos island which lies iles in the pacific ocean about 00 miles southwest of co coata ta filco and abd which was it favorite lair lat of pirates in the old days in fact cocos cocoa island las has been a magnet for treasure seekers for many yeas years because there 4 44 i 1 i Is an apparently well story that the crew of th the british ship blila uary mary dew deap hid bid on the inland treasure valued at some put it at find others at more than a hundred years ears ago soon soi after wards tile the secret leaked out and scarcely a year has passed since that time that someone has not tried to uncover tills vast wealth As late inte its a a party of british scientists get out for that purpose but if they or anyone else bove been successful the world Is yet it to hear bear of it the tr ensine which the famous captain kidd Is supposed to have burled somewhere along tile the new ew england coast tc Is nearly tie as famous and As aa much sought after as the cocoa island wealth it Is true that he did bury a part of ills his loot on Gar gardinere gardiners diners island off montauk point on long island N Y when he returned from hla his trip a pirating but that was re covered soon after ills his arrest and it that hat Is nil all of captain kidds gold that tins ever been I 1 I 1 tie le dilmous blackboard blackbeard Is said to have burled buried part of his piratical wealth health in ie nw jersey wherefore gold diggers have made the dirt fly nt at places in new jersey but more particularly nt at burlington legend says that sir henry morgan hid part of his loot beneath lie soil of oak island oft off the coast of milne und more than has har been spent aiom time to time digging on oak island to recover it so far the net result lius has been nothing the gold ot 0 fean bean lafitte has kept treasure betzy tit nt various places along tile llie roast coast of louisiana anil and texas this legend Is almost a 3 perfect burled treasure yarn ra rn there Is a document bequeathed by a father about to die to ills son bearing the date 0 f 1813 which tells of the burial burfal by fina ills his doub loun loon and a bar of ill it Is signed by A number of tt the pirates pl rotea followers and tins its BS its seail the usual pirate marks the skull kull and crossbones and a dagger there occur also the worda mutiny cruelty tind and inquisition and nt other side Is a rude map which Is the key to tile loe location lopatin atin of the hoard board there Is a story of a party of men who stumbled upon the place where they were sure that the was burled then went back tn get gel spades to dig and could not find the place again so there wherever there Is lies iles La fittes burled buried treasure worth for someone but in the argot odthe day try and set get it |