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SUNKEN SEA TREASURES.
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Deep Sea Salvage Company Would <
Raise Lost Gold.
Within two days came the announcement
of the formation of two J
Companies?the Inter-Ocean SubmaV
rine Engineering company, and the
Deep Sea Salvage corporation?to
raise ships sunk in the ocean in
depths not too great or to get out of 1
them the riches they hold. The In
ter-ucean company nas amuug its
shareholders some of the wealthiest !
and most influential men in finance ]
in New York. H. L. Bowden, of Ba- (
yonne, N. J., is head of the Deep Sea
Salvage corporation.
Sunken treasure always has had a
fascination. It was inevitable that (
the German fad for lining the floor J
of the ocean with wrecks would stim- 1
<r j
nlate interest and thought in this
subject. The New York people say
that with their present equipment :
they can work at a depth of 300 feet. ]
They expect later to go much deep- J
er. Mr. Bowden says he has appa- {
ratus with which he can work at 600 5
feet depths. In addition to stating 1
that an average of 100 vessels a year 1
j are wrecked along the coast of the (
v United States annually and that the (
value of the vessels and cargoes lost 1
on the British coast each year is $45,- 1
000,000, Mr. Bowden gives this par- ^
tial list of the treasure he hopes to (
rescue:
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Merida, sunk in collision witn acl- 1
xniral Farragut, May 12, 1911, sixtyfire
miles east of Cape Charles in 300 3
feet of water; has cargo, $500,000 1
In silver bars, $300,000 in gold and
^ about $200*,000 valuables in pur- 3
7 ; sgr's safe.
^Oceana, sunk off Beachy Head, 1
March 16,1912, in 210 feet of water; {
bad $5,000,006 in gold and silver, <
part of a loan to China. 1
|L Tiusitania, torpedoed May 7, 1915, 3
twelve miles south of Kinsale, Ire- 3
land, in 270 feet of water; about 3
|H $1,000,000 gold and jewelry and sev- ]
eral millions in securities aboard. 3
I Islander, sunk in 320 feet of water 3
B near Juneau, Alaska, with $2,000,000 3
HH in Klondike gold.
Pewabiac, sunk in Lake Huron, 1
160 .feet of water, with $800,000 in 3
treasure aboard. 3
General Grant, wrecked on coast 1
of Auckland Islands in 1866, in 3
eighty feet of water; carried $15,- 1
* 000,000 in gold bars and bullion. 1
Alphonse, sunk off Port Gando
wit^ $400,000 in Spanish coin. 3
CTlrwiirt mi n V fn 91A foaf af wotoi* J
k#a/iU| Ouua. 1U u "X \j awv VJL nu.vv*
off Cape Finisterre with $500,000 in
silver bars.
V Hamilla Mitchell, lost on the Lenconna
Rock, near Shanghai, with
/ specie worth $700,000, part of which
fcte been recovered:
Flagship Florentina, lost in Tobermory
Bay, off west coast of Scotland,
with $15,000,000.
7; Mr. Bowden also referred to the
Spanish galleon Santa Margarita,
???..: Which in 1597 sailed from Santo Domingo
with $7,000,000 on board and
(fas wrecked in Mona Passage near
Porto Rico. Her location was discovered
in 1908 and a group of Har1
fard men sailed on a yacht they M
brought to salvage her. They were
wrecked % May, 1908, in almost the *
fame spot, and gave up.
He said his attention was also upon
the famed fleet of seventeen Span
f ish galleons which in 1702, conveyed
toy French and Spanish warships,
jgv took from South America and thti
West Indies accumulated treasure -of
4*140,000,000. The Dutch and English
fleets set out to capture the galleons
and attacked the treasure ships
in Vigo Bay^ Spain. The Spaniards
sank the galleons. Six of the galleons,
Mr. Bowden said, being in
' shallow water, were raised and about
120,000,000 recovered, but the other,
f containing $120,000,000, being sunk
r in more than 200 feet of water, still
rested at the bottom of Vigo Bay.
Surely that list is enough to fire
the imagination of anyone possessed
of an adventurous spirit and a diver's
!
suit. There are persons who will
doubt the ability of anyone to work
in tsuu reet or water, me deeper
*
you go the greater pressure. In and
about New York there-are many divers.
They work in the sea, in the
harbor, in the rivers and at times are
summoned to the great lakes. They
have been called at times to go down
into flooded mines. On the authority
of the master diver of America it
can be stated that the greatest depth
he or any person he knows has workp'
?d in was less than 120 feet. It is
a fact that a much greater depth was
reached by the divers who went down
to the submarine lost in Hawaiian
waters and the pearl divers are said
to reach depths of more than 100
feet without the aid of diving apparatus,
but the professional diver will
tell you the conditions must be dif
ferent there to what they are here.
Unless the waters are very clear
and the bottom of the sea perfectly
clean the diver works as does a blind
man?by sense of feel. He sees nothing
in murky waters. He must be a
master of many trades or he can accomplish
little. He must know how
to cut through iron or steel. He
must be a carpenter. He must be a
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FEEDING GREAT ARMIES.
Germans Show the Greatest Ingenni
ty in Replenishing Stores.
Soldiers in war must be well fee
qo matter what happens to the population
at home. With all that we
read in the newspapers about the suffering
multitudes of Germany nobodj
intimates that the German soldiers
are hungry.
The importance of the commissarj
department has long been recognized
and the best fed army is usually the
most cheerful and courageous. The
German general staff is probably the
most systematic and abundant provider
of viands in the world, but the
British are not far behind. Only the
other day a contract was awarded tc
i Canadian packing house for 600,000,000
one-pound cans of beef stev
for the British Tommies.
Men who have been along the British
front say that not even the impossibility
of getting a drink causes
is much grumbling as does the lack
of strawberry jam. The issue of jam
is an institution in the British service.
All the armies use a vast quantity
of chocolate in one form or another?usually
highly sweetened
Coffee is the soldier's drink the worl<3
iround, but the Britisher substitutes
tea on many occasions, and the habit
is said to be spreading to his French
comrades. Russian soldiers are inveterate
tea drinkers, as is every/
body in Russia.
The Germans have shown the
neatest ingenuity in replenishing
their food stores. It is said that thej
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WCIO Cf CU UlJiVy l>U VAWUV v?w ?
Ammunition for foodstuffs, although
Purkey was short of eatables before
the road was opened from Berlin tc
Constantinople. In all the vast ares
t>f territory that the Germans have
taken they have not missed anything
in the form of food. Northern France
has contributed its quota. Being a
Bne fruit country it has helped tc
make up the equivalent of the English
jam. Even Serbia, impoverishBd
by three wars, contributed 90,00C
pigs to Germany's depleted stock.
Men leading active lives, largely ir
the open air, are usually big eaters
ind soldiers on duty must be in the
best of health, therefore, any armj
rations must be liberal in size as well
is varied in composition. The consumption
of food in war time is
therefore increased, and much is
wasted. That is one reason why the
prices of food have soared in all the
European countries, though anothei
reason may well be that on the average
people have more money to spend
aow than they did before the war.
When we consider the vast quantities
of food taken for army use?
when we remember that there is onlj
ane standard ration for all soldiers
onv noHrmnlitv AnH that, the DOOr
w * J ^ ~ ~ 7* *
sst laborer who has responded to his
country's call is just as well fed as
the duke's son who has shouldered a
rifle?if any such thing has happened?and
that this average or universal
ration is far above the average
ration pf all the population in timet
ef peace, both in quantity and quality,
we do not have to be possessed ol
rivid imagination to picture what is
?oing to happen to food prices if the
war lasts a year or two longer.
Trials of a Teacher.
Miss Hitch was having some trou?
ble with a little fellow in her spelling
class at Claysville.
"B-e-d spells bed," she explained
over and over again; "b-e-d, bed. Dc
you understand?"
"Yes'm."
"Now, then, c-a-t spells cat, d-o-?
spells dog, and b-e-d spells?whal
did I tell you b-e-d spells?"
"Dunno."
"Don't know? You don't knov
what b-e-d spells after all I've tolc
you?"
"No'm."
"Well, once more, b-e-d spell*
what you sleep in. Now, what d(
you sleep in?"
"My drawers!" triumphantly ex
claimed the urchin.?Country Gen
tleman.
One hundred dollars a ton for i
proposed vessel was recently askec
by a Japanese shipbuilding yard, anc
Consul General sciamore, or ioko
hama, reports that the surprised cus
tomer withdrew his order. The cost
before the war was $60 to $77.
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rigger. He must know ships of ever:
class and kind. He must have i
sound heart, powerful lungs and un
usual courage.
Science always is advancing. I
may make it possible for men t<
work at depths of 300 or 600 feet ii
the sea. Men who know the way thi
pressure increases the deeper you g<
are skeptics.
If the men behind these salvagi
enterprises have done nothing els<
they have reopened and revived i
great field of adventure, one tha
should provide many tales pictur
esque, romantic and delightful, fo
about the sunken treasure of Vigi
Bay alone enough has been writte]
to fill ten score large books.?Com
merce and Finance.
DUMPING AT SEA.
- New York Debris Is a Menace to the
Harbor.
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The debris of the city of New York,
which has been deposited in the
s ocean outside the harbor or in Long
- Island Sound since 1890, amounts to
r 320,274,742 cubic yards, or more
5 than all the material which ha& been
excavated for the Panama canal.
r These figures are contributed to the
I f A f on_
1 CLilllUClrl i cp/l I U1 IUC H11C1 \j L tu'
gineers to the secretary of war by
' Capt. A. S. Halstead, U. S. N., super'
visor of the port, to show how im
portant is the work of the govern'
ment in superintending the disposi5
tion of this mass of material so that
> it will not block up the navigable wa
ters of this part of the coast.
In all seasons and at all hours the
federal authorities keep up a patrol
to watch the garbage scows and see
that they do not dump their loads too
close to the shore. It is maintained
: by five steam tugs, the Cerberus, La1
ment, Scout, Nimrod and Vigilant,
an<J one naphtha launch, the Look
out. But of these Capt. Halstead
- says only the Cerebus is fit for duty
outside and prolonged tours of sea
I duty, although the Vigilant may be
used freely for long inspection runs.
' . Four vessels, says the report, are
L employed in patrolling the harbor
mouth day and night, Sundays and
holidays, and two are always on duty.
One station at the Narrows collects
> permits from the town as they pass
' nut tn a. and atamns UDon them the
r hour at which the barges pass out.
J Then it keeps an eye on the two un1
til it comes under the surveillance of
} the outside patrol boat, which has its
> beat from three to five miles outside
1 the Scotland lightship on the regular'
ly authorized dumping ground. This
> outer patrol makes a note of the con'
dition of the barges as they reach it,
1 and if there is any discrepancy be>
tween its observations and those
* made by the patrol at the Narrows
the skippers of the tugboats are ask1
ed to explain and to show that they
did not dump any refuse too near in.
1 The Scotland lightship also makes
' a report on the movements of the
5 scows, and one of the supervisor's
r boats is continually moving along
I the water front of the city making
* notes of what dumpings is going on,
* while the naphtha launch plies along
* the Staten Island hills, Newark Bay,
* the Passaic river and other shallow
* waters to see the law obeyed.
One of the most troublesome du*
ties of the harbor patrol is the pre^
vention of the casting adrift of heavy
logs and large timbers. Floating in
the open they may, says Capt. Hal"
stead, do great damage to the pror
pellers of steamers, and it is absol
? i-t- * V1J J A- ?A *1, In AV.n
' lUieiy iuruiuueii tu act iucu m
* water. This involves the pier owners
5 in considerable difficulty. When they
5 are building an extension or renew1
ing their piers they have old crib
' work and spiles to throw away. They
' are quite useless and under the law
5 the owners are required to bring
' them ashore or raft them. As a mat
ter of fact, Capt. Halstead suggests,
many pier owners wait until it is
5 dark and then illegally send the logs
5 adrift, confident in the difficulty in
detecting them. When the patrol
boats meet a dangerous log they are
supposed to tow ;it away from the
neighborhood of the fairway.
r Capt. Halstead lays emphasis on
the fact that his men must keep the
L seas whatever the weather. It is
) when it is rough that the skippers
of the tows are most likely to dump
their loads in prohibited waters, and
, so the patrol can never relax its vigi[
lance. The tows, says Capt. Halstead,
venture to sea when they have
merely a chance of making the dump.
ing grounds, but they are willing to
f - - I
risk it rather than leave the dredges
idle for a considerable time.
In the next few years it will be
i necessary for the? patrol to be more
j active than ever. It is probable that
a large quantity of the material excavated
from the two new subway
tubes under the East River will be
towed out to sea for final disposition.
It would make admirable filli
ing for the reclamation of land, but
I to handle it is so expensive that the
[ contractors may be willing to throw
. it into the ocean.?New York Sun.
^ The Link.
When the storm clouds piled between
us
7 In the dark and chasmed hour,
1 When we struggled for a rebirth of
our souls
And of our love for one another,
One thing held me to you.
It was not the expanding struc1
tures of love
" That we had builded together;
3 It was not vows,
Nor inner promises of eternal fealty,
Nor our common purpose in life,
e Nor the clenching grasp of passion?
1 It was the battered little coffee-pot
* That we had bought together for five
cents
r From a ghetto push-cart,
0 That would not let me go.
1 ?Clement Wood, in April Poetry.
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WEEK-END EXCURSION FARES
$2.95 to Isle of Palms.
$2.95 to Sullivan's Island.
Tickets on sale for all trains on
each Saturday and for forenoon
trains on each Sunday from May 27
to September 1, inclusive, limited re
turning to reach original starting
point prior to midnight of Tuesday
next following date of sale.
SUMMER EXCURSION FARES *
$4.15 to Isle of Palme.
$4.15 to Sullivans Island.
$11.70 to Myrtle Beach.
$20.75 to Norfolk.
Tickets on sale from May 15 to
October 15, inclusive, limited returning
until October 31. Liberal stopover
privileges.
Schedules and further particulars
cheerfully furnished upon application
to M. T. JOHNSON, Ticket
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Statements That May Be Investigated.
Testimony of Bamberg
Citizens.
When a Bamberg citizen comes to
the front, telling his friends and
neighbors of his experience, you can
rely on his sincerity. The statements
of people residing in far away places
do not command your confidence.
ttattio en^nrspmpnt. is the' kind that
backs Doan's Kidney Pills. Such
testimony is convincing. Investigation
proves it true. Below is a statement
of a Bamberg resident. No
stronger proof of merit can be had.
James A. Mitchell, R. F. D. Mail
carrier, Calhoun St., Bamberg, *ays:
"The jar and jolting in driving was
no doubt responsible for the trouble
I had with my back. Two boxes of
Doan's Kidneys Pills, procured at the
People's Drug Store, brought me relief.
I never lose a chance to say a
good word for the medicine."
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't
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