The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-06
TO REGAIN BURIED TRE4TRES.
How the Hussar's Wealth viii be Recov
cred Gold Hauled Ninety Feet by 4

FOR nearly month two big scowS
have been lying at the dock of the
Pierce Iron Works, at Sixth Street,
Long Island City. Shortly before
noon Monday they We're towed by a
steam tug up the river, and anchored
between North Brother Island and the
Port Morris shore. They contained
the apparatus to be used III the effort
to reclaim the treasure which went
down with the old British frigate Hus-
sar, over one hundred years ago. In
1880 the Hussar made this port, hav-
In her magazine fl 100000 which
was to be used in paying the arrears
due to the British soldiers in this
country. She struck Pot Rock, off
Randall's Island, and ahole was stove
In her bottom. She managed TO reach
Port Morris and then sank The
British government tried TO recover
the treasure but the Americangoyern-
ment lnterfered.
Since that time several unsuccessful
attempts have been made to recover
the money. A man named Thomas
succeeded in getting contract to Sc
cure the millions about five years
ago. He issued bonds in order
to raise money sufficient to carry
on the work. The government
was to receive 10 per cent. of all the
moneys recovered. About a year ago
the bondholders became dissatisfied
and made complaint against Thomas
management, and the contract was
declared forfeited. They then formed
a company under the name of the
Treasure Trove Company, and Sc
cured the contract for themselves two
months ago. The company called in
Charles ID. Pierce, of the Pierce iron
works, as consulting engineer, and de
clded to give him the contract Mr.
Pierce at once went to work. and the
two scOws were secured, and the de-
signing and manufacture OF the ma
chinery to be used began. The scows
are about one hundred feet long. They
are bound together by heavy pine
tlmbers strapped to the deck beams
and to the sheathing on the outside
OF the boats. A space of eight feet is
LETT between the scows. On one of the
boats is a large derrick to be used in
lifting the machinery and clearing away
the debris,
The Hussar is under ninety feet OF
water, and is covered by a mass OF
mud and stones to the depth of sixty
feet. 1t is proposed to drill through
the mud and stone to the magazine Of
the frigate. When that is reached a
pipe eight inches in diameter will be in
serted reaching to the true bottom of
the river. About forty feet from the
surface of the water there is q side
opening to the pipe, to which
will be attached a rubber pipe
five inches in diameter. A ro-
tary suction pump is placed on one
OF the boats connecting with the pipes.
1t will be of sufficient power to suck
into the main pipe and through it into
the barge, all the debris within a
radius of several feet from its mouth
So powerful is the suction that stones
four inches thick will be drawn into the
scow. The stuff will be screened, the
water going overheard, and the debris
left on the scow, where it will be care
fully searched for treasures and relics,
and then thrown overheard. When
all the material is recovered that Is
possible by this means a large pipe
from three to five feet in diameter will
be sunk to the bottom of the river,
and men will work in it.
The magazine has been pretty we'll
placed by previous efforts, and the
location for the drilling operations
will be made more certain by means
of an electrician. The scows were
placed in position and fastened secure
ly by an anchorfrom the stern OF each,
and an inshore and outshore anchor
in addition. Mr.. Pierce expects to
show practical results within month
after he gets to work. He will person
ally supervise the work.
How Vaccination Works.
prof. Tyndall in Popular Science Monthly.D
Pasteur had little difficulty in estab-
fishing the parasitic origin of fowl
cholera; indeed the parasite had been
observed by others before him. But
by his successive civilizations he rem
dered the solution sure. His next step
will remain forever memorable in the
history of medicine. | allude to what
he calls ''virus attenuation" And
here it may be well to throw out few
remarks in advance. When a tree or
a bundle OF wheat or barley straw is
burned certain amount OF mineral
matter remains In the ashes-ex treme-
ly small in comparison with the bulk
OF the tree or OF the straw, but abso-
lltely essential to its growth. In a
soil lacking or exhausted of the neces-
sary mineral constituents, the tree
cannot live, the crop cannot grow.
Now, Contaga are living things,
which demand certain elements of
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wheat or barley; and it is not difficult
to see that crop OF a given parasite
may so far use up a constituent exist
ing IN small quantities in the body,
but essential to the growth of the
parasite, as to render the body unfit
for the production of second crop.
The soil is exhausted, and until the
lost constituent is restored the body
is protected from any further attack
ofthe same disorder. Such an explain
alton OF non-recurrent diseases natur-
ally presents itself to a thorough be-
lever in the germ theory, and such
was the solution which, in reply to a
question, | ventured to offer nearly
fifteen years ago to an eminent Lon
don physician. To exhaust a soil,
however, parasite less vigorous and
destructive than the really virulent
one may suffice; and if after having,
by means OF feebler organism, e1-
hausted the soil without fatal result,
the most highly virulent parasite be
introduced into the system, it will
prove powerless. This, in the Ian
guage OF the germ theory, is the whole
secret OF vaccination.
~ TELL you, Sarah" observed
John Grab to his better half n few
evenings ago, them college text books
is awful expensive" Why" re-
marked that lady. "Well, | Just got
a letter from John when | was down
to the store, and he says As he wants
a $50 for a geometry and So for a
'cyclometer.' | don't think n CYCLIC
meter ought to cost more than ge-
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