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0ESBRBF EVENING NEWS
Frieay. Aprii-is. 1880.
TO RAISE OLD HULKs.
4 HOPE FOR Observation-Disclosures
WHO KNOW OF GoLD-LADEN
GALLONS.

GALLONS.
Al who have read Edgar Allen
Poe's famous ''Gold Bug'' viii un.
derstand why the pursuit Of hidden
gold or sunken treasures exercises a
strange witchery over mems minds.
says a writer in the New York
Tunes At the mention Of CAPTAIN
Kids long-iOst treasure. OF the
Golfers Of gold buried by Ned Low,
OF the wealth OF jewels vet reputed
10 be hidden beneath some lofty
palm on Coos Island, whittier the
buccaneers never returned To claim
their ili-gotten plumber, or OF the
silver ships sunk beneath the Jeep
blue waters Of the Spanish Main.
even the most practical OF mankind
VIII indulge in visions.
Hardly a year passes, therefore.
without some new attempt TO drag
% light trophies Of buecaneer or
pirate, or 20 recover the wealth con-
talned in sunsen ships. The waters
Of the East River have been saun-
ded for the treasure Of the Hussar.
and the sands OF Long Island.
GardneT's Island and adjacent
shares prodGed and turned up for
the cached iHg0ts of Kidd's laWless
expeditions. The Caribbean sea has
been searched over and over for
plumber stored away By the bloody
Morgan, and the shores Of British
Honduras explored hy sanguine
later-day searchens after buried
millions.
The expectations Of those who be-
ieve in the existence Of buccaneers
aud pirates' boards have hitherto
been 50 constantly Disappointed that
skeptics incline to the opinion that
the accumulated treasures Of the sea
rOvers exist only in the Imagination
Of the needy and romantic. Those
OF scant ia:th hint that the men
who sailed and fought under the
black flag were Of the class defined
by fhaekeray n the getting and
spending" a opposed 10 the ''get-
ting and keeping" scoundrel, and
that after n successful cruise they
drank and csrOused till they had
hardly enough LEFT 10 liz them out
for a fresh marauding exIe iitiun.
More practical by far than the
quest Of gold and jewels torn from
murdered and tortured captives Is
that Of sunken treasure ships. This
species Of venture has the prestige OF
occasional good fortune. The great
sunken ship in the Caribbean seq
ransacked by the inventor Of the div
ing-bell helped him to found a noble
family.
Still, even in marine treasure seek
ing the venture failed as a rule, gem
orally proving either unsuccessful
altogether or unremunerative when
the cost Of the apparatus employed
was taken into consideration. But
il there he any truth in reported
discovery which a German chemist
claims to have made, marine treas
ure hunters may expect to enter
upon wealth even beyond the dream
Of avarice- BY this new method all
modern contrlvances for raising
ships, the steam pumps, diving bells, |
submarine telescopes and other mt
chanical apparatus may be cast
aside as useless. The most ingen !
ieus engineering devices, il Is be- |
lieved, will be entirely eclipsei by |
a product OF the chemists labOrato- |
ry-caTbonic acid gas. This gas. it /
seems, is eaI able or being redubl d to |
a liquid state by siibjectiug il to an
immense pressure, which, being re-
moved, lets the gas again assume its 1
gaseous form.
Now, tbis German chemist, named |
Reithmann, was forcitly struck !
with the use that might lie made OF |
this fact in raising sunken vessels /
aud recovering treasuIes lost in the |
deep. Some dime ago he had adj /
vauced sufficiently far with his ap- |
plicaiion OF the discovery to test it, I
efficiency in deep water ON a large 4
block Of granite. Having been sunk |
in the harboT. a diver vas sent down I
to attach to the block can iron box I
containing liquefied arbOnic acid /
gas. The box, which has five pipes 1
Pre-, ided with faucets, " 2, il j. stst
81, Enclosed in canvas. folded like a
balloon. The diver then opened the
faucets, leaving the gas TO iEfiste
the canvas with the liquefied car
bon, which resumed is normal gas
eOus form a. fast u il was relieved
from the pressure OF the iron bOx.
\ few minutes after this had been
done, report says. the upper portion
Of the canvas 1.-THE gas being lighter
than the water but heavier than the
air slowly rose to the surface, carry
ing attached below the granite block,
Just n any regular balloon carries
its car.
According to the opinion Of ex-
perts, Herr Beithmaun's discovery
and its application viii mark n new
era in the history Of marine treasure
For ages people have
known the precise spots where there
have been great wrecks, where nr-
gOsies Of the rich merchants OF
Genoa and Venice, or Spanish gal
Icons laden with the precious pro-
duce OF the mines and river sands (.
of Mexico and Peru had struck on
rocks and fOundeTed. Indeed. the
unfathomed caves OF ocean and the
shore waters which may be faith
omed are full Of all the relics OF old
times that Clarence saw in his Vi
sion.
Marine treasure hunting Is sport
more romantic by far than that Of
the Dissertation Of graves on dry
land. We may not know much
about the dead who are buried with
their wealth. but we are sure that I
they meant il to remain undis-
turbed. The original ON hers OF the |
gold and silver and precious stones
that strew the bottom Of the deep /
had just the opposite intention.
They wanted TO throw their com /
mOditIes upon an open market. Is it
not pious effort that would fulfil /
this desire
Judged by legend and history. the
Spaniards seem 10 have endowed
the Nereids with the greatest num-
Der OF unwilling gifts. Their plated 4
fleets ami treasured galleons are
scattered 90 every coast from Cape
Horn to TREE, from the Hebrides 1
snd Orkneys to AigO Bay. Storms
seem To have been English in the 1
days Of Spanish supremacy in
America, just a. Providence, ac-
cording 10 Alison, was Tory at the /
beginning Of this century '.Affiayit !
Deus et D!ssipantur" was the motto |
of the English sailors st that time
The gslleonSSf the Armada are stu
the DREAM Of many on the wild
shores OF ireland and Of the Western I
Highlands. Americans and Eng I
Iishmen have not forgotten the reefs
and narrows where galieons went /
down. Local tradition has in many 4
places marked the precise spot.
IL this NM way Of raisinr vessels