The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-01-19
Treasure Trove Extraordinarv-A
Couple Of Walkers in the Sewers Of
New York" Pay Dirt" Struck
Heavily.

1919 4AUNG lLAALeVIuANlaIV-A
Couple of Walkers in the Sewers Of
New York" Pay Dirt" Struck
Heavily.
New York Correspondence Of Erie Dispatohf
Several years ago a little German Jew.
named Schwartz, believing that in the sewers
OF New ork might be found many articles
ot value which had been lost, entered them,
and for three days wandered through the
labyrinth lie was very successful, picking
up some 81 900 worth Of iewelrv, spoons.
forks, etc. but haviug lost his way the first
day, lie believed that ne mi2ht have found
much more could he have carried ont the
original plan, which was to visit Fifth and
Madison avenues, Broadway AMI the wealthy
portions of the city. So great however
were the difficulties and dangers which be
encountered, that nothing could induce him
again to visit New York underground"
lis adventure for time created quite a
little sensation, but there we're none yentur-
Gus enough to attempt second, until We'd
nesday OF last week when an adventurous
party Of three entered the sewer Of Houston
street, at the ferry on East River intending
TO remain for enc week, during which time
they proposed visiting every portion of the
CITY where there seemed to be any chance Of
finding treasure trove.
The party consisted Of Miss Mary Walker.
young lady of eighteen, her brother James,
aged sixteen, and Michael Grady, an oil man
OF about fifty. i he project originated with
Miss Walker and the how" Of it is in this
wise; Some two years ago, James Walker,
Jr., was a merchant doing good business at
993 Bowery. He was getting rich fast, but
IN an evil hour he was prevailed upon by
friends ~ to use some of his money which
had been ''salted down" IN specializing in
gold The result was easy to be f0reseen.
lie lost. To recover he took money from
his business gain he lost His bust
ness became embarrassed; in despair he
committed suicide, and Miss Walker and her
brother found themselves six months ago the
inhabitants of q room on the upper floor of
double tenement 209 Sixth street Miss
Walker, some months ago, in an old paper
wrapped around a parcel which she was
taking home from " slop shop saw an &C
count Of Schwartz's undertaking, and re-
solved TO initiate 1t. Maps were obtained
and the city studied carefully. Each days
work for herself, her brother, aud Grady,
who was formerly in her fathers employ,
was carefully marked out Every prepare
ton which limited knowledge could prepare
for was made, and the adventurers started
] wish that / might have room TO tell the
story of the week they passed, but my man
uscript warns me that l must condense
Each day they rendezvoused several times
in the chambers and at the street corners
On Sunday they had filed all the bags they
had taken with them, some fifteen in num-
Der, and Miss Walker returned James
Walker and Grady continued their search
emptying six of their bags at the corner Of
Twenty-secOnd street and Fifth avenue
On Wednesday morning at very early
hour, and before people were stirring, Miss
Walker was at the place with a wagon On
removing the iron plate, which at each street
corner leads into n small chamber cOnnec-
ting with the sewer, she found her brother
but not Grady. He had started off on an
other trip although the six bags had been
filed in Madison avenue. The loose treas
ure was placed in extra bags, and the whole
driven to a Broadway jewelers. The rest
taken from the places on Thursday morning
A watch was set for Grady but up to this time
of writing nothing has been heard from him,
and tits feared that he has persisted.
The result of the weeks search is
roughly estimated at S1,5O0O00 / saw
the treasure yesterday piled in three heaps
on the floor, and the jeweler informed me
that it must have cost over $3,000,000, but
in consequence of the old fashioned style
of setting, its bruised, battered and corroded
condition, its value was reduced about one
half A little over a bushel chow queer it
sounds to talk of jewelry by the busheI, has
been sorted, and among it has been found
one diamond ring valued at $40, 900, two more
valued at So 900, and a half do zon valued
at So, 900, and upward. The most curious
is a plain gold ring, inscribed on the inside
in Dutch, Peter Stuyvesant to wife 1t
was an heir loom of the Stuyvesants, and
was stolen with other jewelry, last March,
by burglars. How it came in the sewer is a
problem for philosophers to speculate about.
Miss Walker and her brother, who find them
selves thus suddenly lifted from perjury to
great wealth, intend to proceed to England
where they have relatives. This adventure
is talked Of everywhere, and already there
are others preparing to follow into their
footsteps.