Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-15

Stony Point is under the jurisdiction of the
United States lighthouse board, which has
just granted the society permission to erect
the sign on the United States property,
from which 1t can be seen a longer distance
down the river. This is the first historic
Signboard to be erected along the Hudson,
and 1t has been represented to the society
that the similar marking of other notable
spots would greatly assist interested trav-
elers to recognize other places identified
with the history of the state.
Through the courtesy of the War De-
partment and with the sympathetic CO.
operation of Col A. L. Mills, superntend-
a typographical survey of the battlefield
of Stony Point has just been made for the
society by First Lieutenant James p. Jer-
vey, Corps of Engineers.
Lieutenant Jeryey is now engaged in map
ping the work, and when completed it will
form the basis for plans for the improve
ment of the state reservation The society
hopes to relocate the old Notifications with
the aid of British maps still in existence,
and intends to indicate the various historic
features of the famous battlefield with
small markers. The improvements will
probably be completed in time to throw the
reservation open to the public on the next
anniversary of the surprise of Stony Point
1901
Revised Foot Ball Rules.
Walter Camp and other members of the
collegiate foot ball rules committee have
been busy for some time revising the foot
bail rules in anticipation of the coming sea-
son. The committee has completed its work
and the revised rules are now in the hands
of the printer. Radical changes have been
made in several of the rules. The tendency
has been TO make the game more scientific
stop unsportsInanlke conduct and to take
away the opportunities inferior teams have
had 20 gain time over their superiors The
committee has changed the rule by which
team lost the ball for off-side play. Here
after the offenders will be penalized ten
yards and the ball will remain in possession
Of the side having it before the foul was
made. An important change is due to the
outcome of last years Harvard-Yale game
when Yale resurrected the old twenty-yard
rule in order to hold the ball when near
Harvards goal.
Rather than give up the ball Yale drop
ped back twenty yards and kept the bail
The rule has been changed to read: "A
team cannot take advantage of this rule a
second time unless the ball has exchanged
possession after the team using the twenty
yard rule had first taken advantage of the
rule Princetons breach last year in the
fale-Princeton game of the side line coach
Ing rules led to the imposing of ten-yard
penalty for coaching from the side lines
Any unfair act committed by a player or
any sympathizer may also be punished by
a ten-yard penalty. With the exception of
these four changes the rules of 1899 will
prevail during the coming season
Search for Buried Treasure
county. N. J.. and stones throw from the
ruins Of the old Walker homestead, at
Hanover Neck, which was destroyed by
fire a few weeks ago, there is said to be
buried $4,000 in gold and silver. which
had been intended for the colonial troops
during the revolutionary war. Every day
searching parties endeavor to unearth the
treasure, which is said to have been buried
by the wife of Aaron Kitchell, the first
representative in Congress from Norris
county, who. it is asserted, rode on horse
back from Hanover Neck to Washington.
Ihe congressman was also an officer in the
continental army and had the money with
which to pay the soldiers. One day he
received word that the British were about
to march through Hanover Neck and be-
fore leaving for MorriStown where Wash
ington had his headquarters, he gave his
wife the money, and. after telling her to
hide 1t and say nothing about it to any
one, he galloped off. Shortly afterward
Mrs. Kitchen taken suddenly i'll and
died. Just before she breathed her last
she tried to tell her daughter where she
had hidden the money. All she could say
however, was that the money was under
big oak tree in the great meadow. Inn
mediately after Mrs. Kitchelrs death the
neighbors and friends to whom the secret
had been confided searched for the money
days were very numerous, and since then
many have been cut down. From time to
time others have searched, but so far as
Is known to no purpose. Since the story of
the burying of the money has been revived
the place is visited daily by number of
treasure seekers armed with picks, shovels
and other mining implements.