New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-03-02
ANCIENT TROY.
TIE RESEARCHES OF DR. sCIlLIEMANN In
49, ls72 AND 1873.


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nprcrDISG oNE--THR sCEAN GATE-PAlACE VT
.-,v xu~ca-rREAsuRY OF GOLD AND SILVER OH
NAMENTs AND UTENSILS.
,vDor A RKauIAR CORRESPONDENT or THk Ih'bo''
COrHA Germany, Feb. 10.-Another on"pVo, ~ 49,.
bean added TO the " Tale of Troy divine vi a"
discoveries Of the last twenty years
- oollactive contribution to our kno"leofe
-, D.. -. ore is 40 remarkable and uneNpecVou
y ~ -aoant ending of stored Iium, after sepu,-
- % mora than two thousand years during "uio"
thovery site OF it had been forgotten HS even
vnrprisiug than the re-discovery OF Uneven ny 10y
,rd since the mounds of Nimroud ana huSou"''A
.ufeiently indicated the site OF the oiu ASSS '"
,tal while Iium itself, and the whole history Vi ''0
,roian Wal. have narrowly escaped Of late years
being relocated TO the region of pure myths py nou
arm scholarship. All this is suddenly changed many
a enev-spun archaeological theory is rent like COD
yah. Homer is gloriously rehabilitated, and the
very arms and ornaments Of the Dardan heroes anu
heroines are deliyered into hands. Fragmen'aiy
,enorts of DIR Sehlemanns excavations IN the lioau
have from time to time appeared IN the newspapers
md his great success last year, IN hndlhR "hat 10
conveniently called 1.-The Treasury OF fnain HAS
been daily ohronicled througout the world ou' nov
,or the 6rst tisa we have the entire history OF ee
undertaking and its results The narrative, accom-
apied nv 9fs Photographic sheets Of illustrations is
nnblished by the firm of F. A. Brockhaus, IN LelpIig'
10 whom am indebted for one of the very earnest
copies lose no time IN preparing ior lhk lhln-
UNE resume Of the work as complete ana lhteil-
nble as the space will allow Even II felt myself
competent (which do not to examine the CONNECT
ING views of German scholars by the light of the an
Gent authorities should prefer to let Dr' oenle-
mann have his full say. He has nobly earned II;
and shall therefore contne myself to the pam
statement of his own arguments and CONCLUSIONS
SKETCH or DIR. sCHLEMANN.
Before beginning the history of his discoveries IT
NAV interest the readers of THE TRIBUNE to learn
sometbng about the man who has made them. III
will do rs Americans no harm TO find that " self
made mem are not peculiar to our race and SOIL
Ours when they are successful are noted ana
grandly So for giving of their substance hardly ior
theirown intellectual achievements. Wehave bad iEs
vet no such specimens Roscoe. the Liverpool mer-
chant or Grote the London banker DR.. Sehiie-
mann ranks with these latter as an encouraging
illustration Of the fact that business /" need not
prevent, or even materially retard, the develop
ment Of high intellectual qualities Starting in life
with absolutely nothing be achieved wealth by the
time he vas forty-One years old. and now not yet
ffty-two he has won a permanent fame.
Heinrich Schliemann was born in the Grand
Duchy Of MccLenburg in 1922. His father was very
POOR but had received an indifferent classical edu
cation and very fond Of repeating episodes from
the Had 10 his young The latter learned some
Latin during his carly school years. but all his
chances ceased at the age Of fourteen. when he was
Pat into grccery-store in the little town of Fir
stenburg. There, for nearly six years he weighed,
packed swept and did all other coarse duties sixteen
hours day, saw only the lowest and most ignorant
class of the people, and seemed to have forgotten
drunken mIller's apprentice came into the grocery
and acclaimed a hundred verses of Homer in the
original Greek He was the son Of a clergyman, had
failed at the University, and the fathers desperate
attempt 10 make a decent miller of him about
T. fail also. Young Schliemaun was so enchanted
by the sound Of the Greek, not one word Of winch
be understood, that he used all bis pOcket-ncnev tQ
buy three glasses Of brandy for the student-miler
pg condition that he would three times repeat the
Homefic lines. From that moment" he says. II |
never ceased to pra, 70 God that lie would enable
ne 20 learn Creek
Having injured his breast by lifting heavy cask
that he Wa no longer able to work III the grocery
be went Ia liam urg and in q state OF desperation
lj,oped as cabiu-boy on board vessel bound for
facuayra He left port on the 18th of November,
ISL and Just two weeks afterward the vessel was
wrecked on the Texel With great danger and hard
ship the crew was saved. Schhemann made his way
70 Amsterdam intending to enlist rs soldier; but
finding himself on the point OF starving to DEATH ne
pretended to be sick and was sent to the hospital
Finally, German merchant discovered and assisted
hun. and the Consul procured him a situation as
erraud-boy IN mercantile house.
His salary was 500 francs year and the half Of 1t
he instantly devoted to hls education. He inhabited
miserable garret-room, without fire, for which he
paid eight francs month; his breakfasts were rye
mush and cold water and his dinners never cost more
than three cents apiece. After learning to write a
good legible hand he began the study 81 languages
but his memory was 50 deficient through lack of
use ttat be was compelled TO carry his books with
hun on his errands, and study by spatches as he
walked or waited. At the end of year he knew
English aud French and his memory had improved
~ wonderfully that be acquired good commercial
knowledge Of Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, by
giving only six weeks 10 each language. But these
studies and the running Of errands from morning till
night did not work well together; they damaged
each other. Schliemanns principal refused to give
him better position, but by great good fortune he
obtained place as clerk and correspondent in the
house of Schroeder & Co., Amsterdam, with a salary
oi2OO francs year He soon perceived the bust
hess necessity of knowledge of Russian and set to
work 10 learn it, There no teacher to be had;
The only books he could procure were an OH
grammar, a dictionary, and q Russian transla-
ton Of Feuelon's TelemGkue. His habit of
Studying aloud. in order to accustom his ear to the
sound of foreign languages was so annoying to the
tenants of the neighboring rooms that be was sew
era times obliged TO change his quarters, but IN
spite of these disadvantages he was soon able to
write RussanIletters and to converse with Russian
merchants who visited Amsterdam. In 1916 the hrm
sent him to st. Petersburg as its BUSINESS agent.
year afterward he established . commercial house