The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-02
a BURIED TREASURE.
Stores Of Ancient Coins Recently
Unearthed.
Buried, for Century and Accidentally
Discovered by Dredgers - May
Have Belonged to Capt.
Kidd.

IN the h1gf buckets OF mnd aug OUT
aethc Loves and Windmill islands by
6he dredgers' adless-chain scoops there
have coms &C. the surface quarts of
oliver coins lose dates indicate their
coinage long time prior to the revolu-
ton, says the Philadelphia Record. A
popularity Of the coins is that some
are very large, even of greater diameter
than trade dollar, while others are
smaller than any denomination now in
circulation, almost the size Of the
Widows mite.
Several days ago the captain in charge
OF one of the scows noticed what he
thought to be bright, shining dollars
dropping from the scoops into the
scows and called the attention Of the
engineer Of the dredging machine, de-
claring that they were bringing up
gold and silver. The engineers reply
was that either the captains eyesight
was defective or that he was de1nented
After the days work had been COM
pleted the scows master went down
Into the hold of the partially loaded
vessel and with lantern collected over
two hundred and fifty coins of all de-
nominations and sizes, and could have
recovered as many more had it not
been for the darkness and the impossi-
bility of working while the vessel was
rolling about with the tides and winds.
United States Inspector Pearson, who
has charge of the spreading Of the ma
terial from the fulsometer to the
grounds at League island, had his at
tension called to the bright objects
shining through the material as it was
discharged, and in a short time Sc"
CURED many specimens. Among those
found at the dumping grounds were a
sill ~er coin ise,7ed in 1880, q foreign sill
yer coin the size Of a dollar marked
1909 and aH ther 1742, a small dark
ooin marked I13, and numerous small
Hoins or v}s the dates cannot be dis
&tnguisl,cd LOT the gold coins, which
are abo,.. ---~ size of q ten-dollar gold
piece, have been found on the island,
and none have yet come to light from
the dumping ground, and they arc sup
posed to have been separated from the
mud and sunk, the pumps not having
sufficient capacity to reach the bottom
OF the river.
The treasure has been located at the
extreme southwesterly end, where the
sanitariu,n was formerly located, on
Windmill island, the only spot where
the dredgers have done any work worth
speaking of. 1t is believed that there
il much more hidden treasure near the
came spot which will be recovered
when the dredges resume work in re-
moving the great harbor obstruction.
No one has yet been able to tell where
the coin came from. 1t must have been
buried there a century or more ago, but a
good many OF those who have heard Of
the discoveries believe that Capt. Kidd S
treasure is found at last. Many years
ago Il veSsel arrived here from San Do
.ningo consigned to Stephen Girard with
a cargo of coin which political refugees
had stolen from the treasury of San DO
paingo city and anchored directly off
Windmill island. Girard only received
about one-half of what was marked on
the vessels nanifests, and up to the
present time nothing was known OF the
whereabouts Of the balance, and it is
supposed tn ave been stolen from the
Vessel and b. led on the island, where
a. Law until T. dredgers turned it up