The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-05-05
GOTHAM FORTUNES.
Some Had Their Foundations Laid in
the Proceeds Of Piracy.
New York Mail and Ex0ress


shall presently see, of another indus
try Of which history does not brag
! loudly but which did as much. if not
more, to put US on our feet That
trade was buccaneering in one form
or another, whether boldly and openly.
as some practiced it, or under the guise
of privateeripg, as others found safer
for their purses and more to the ease
/ of their consciences. Governor Fetch
er was the pirates patron saint He
early recognized that wealth would
flow to the province, to say nothing Of
its officials, BY encouraging this indus
/ try which, under his fostering care.
I was reduced TO a system OF course,
the open recognition OF piracy was in
eXpedtent- But there We're ways. Yes
sells could be commissioned to fight
I against the French in Canada or the
Z Spanish in the Antilles. After gaining
I the open seas it matteTed little upon
what flag they bore down. Might not
a friendly flag De raised as a ruse?
+ 50 il was all fish that came to these
/ nets.
/ Fletcher was a progressive man. In
order that the Kew York ships might
I have the benefit Of the best talent the
/ governor invited eminent pirates from
all over to come here and teach US
( the business. Such a one was Captain
/ John Hoare, an Irishman by birth and
Z a. bAtCEtlltEE OF ltlc SQbQ o1Q JDAJ rover
! type TO whom footing and the Sitting
! of Wizens came easy from long prac-
/ tice. This gentleman had made the
/ island OF Jamaica his headquarters, but
! Fletcher. learning OF his eminent able
/ tiles, lost no time in bidding him to
I this city, where he was well received,
and a ship fitted out for him by q.
\ syndicate of twenty of the most re-
! specta BILE merchants. After he had
[ been gone "A year. and presumably had
Ia
ship called the Fortune to meet him
and bring back his. loot. Frederick
Phlllpse, the richest man in the colony,
was the head Of this syndicate" The
profits were large.
Another Of Governor F'letcher's pro-
( teges was the famous, or Infamous,
Captain Thomas TeW. The Red sea
! trade" was Tew's speciality. In this
I Inc OF Industry the plan was, to make
I Tor NADIA gascar and hover around the
mouth Of the Red sea, and when a rich
ship of the East India. company came
along, pOunces down on her and loot
1 per as cheerfully as though she had
belonged to "AI0nseer's or Don. Of
course the East India company highly
dlsapproYed Of this sort of thing 1t
affected dividends and they protested
SO vigorously that the ACCOMPLISHED
rev and meu. Of his kidney We're paid
TO seek heavier armament against the
last Indian men, TeW and Fletcher.
L hit it. of finely together You would
nave thought they were brothers. No
Inn was good enOugh-the captain
must come to the governors house.
w hen he took She air the executive
coach and six was at his service The
governor commended him to the bust
ness men, who made up another syn
Qlcate lew gave the lady of his
eNcehency presents of rich jewels Ia
! turn the governor gave him a gold
watch and commission against Can
ada TeW's IDEAS of geography must
nave been very queer. He actually set
out to look for Canada by way of the
cape of Good Hope and Madagascar.
Many other lines Of trade were fOs-
/ Tered by buccaneering. The purchase
OF the plUnder of the pirates was re-
Sdrded by the merchants Of those days
as perfectly }egitimate-and as. for OBJ
NlouS reasons, the vendors could not
come to the market, the market went
10 them. Among Che chief persons en-
gagged in this particular line was no
less a citizen than Mr. Stephen de
Lancey, the founder of the famous
family that for nigh a century ruled
IN The business and social world of
New York.
He fitted out. among others, a ship
named the Nassau, which made a
cruise TO Madagascar, with results
which illustrate the profits Of the trade.
arrived there, she found 400 pirates.
weighted down with gold and eaeerlv
seeking passage home. Among them
" ,-AS oCh ldL OF captain KIDD s crew.
] me master OF the Nassau, who was
captain Giles Shelley. speedily sold
her cargo at klOndfke pvices. Rum
costing shinings a gallon sod
Lor % Madeira bought AZ e19 a pipe,
Z fetched GEO. After selling mis- own
er's goods. he took on a cargo of ne
groes, then a legitimate matter OF
trade; a hold full OF DiraticaI plumber
I and twenty nine pirates as PASSENGERS
Al the latter were landed safely in
] I llI W. rrr. T.arv 80. - u
OF them, being taken later, Informed
the authorities that they paid 20 coz
Spanish dollars for their passages
Pretty profitable business. that Smell
Iey's owners might wen be content to
run the ship ashore, as he did after
I landing the negroes and cargo
The venture of the Prophet Daniel
was not 50 successful. The name was
enough to sink her, anyway. This
snip, Henry Appel, master, and John
Cruger .upercargo, sailed from sNew
/ York July 10, 1888. CTuger, who after-
ward became mayor of the city. kept
diary which is Interesting When.
they arrived at Fort Dolphin in the.
PIratlcaI attitudes, they We're received
by party named Abraham Samuel
whom Cruger says was king of the
place. While busy taking on cargo q
pirate captain played them a scurvy
] trick He sent asking them to send
their boat to helm take a line ashore
[
Of the Prophet were thus employed a
band Of pirates took possession OF, the
snip and made a prize of her.
In vain Cruger appealed to King
samuel The pirates had fixed the
royal gentleman and there was no re-
dress. In fact. after loOtfng the vessel.
they presented her TO that complacent
Parsonage. SO there Mr.. Cruger was
IN far MadagascaF, after year of
cruising And there he would have
stayed had he not found passage
aboard a pink" to Barbados whence
he reached nome in May, 100, a sad
der and wiser man.
When Fletcher was succeeded by.
Lord BellOmout there was change in
the colony. AS a partner Of Captain
Kidd then away in his one venture in
strange waters, his lordship stood
against piracy and put it down with
stern hand Mp Phiiipse and Mr..
de Lancey and all the other merchants
demonstrated. They argued that a
business that brought no less than
6 100000 per annun to the city. and
which equaled about EOS per capita for
every man, woman and child in it. de-
served encourag cement. But Bellornont
and caTgOes wherever. found, so that
the merchants had to intercept the in
coming ships down on the Long shore
and beach chem RE captured Kidd
and sent him to England to be hanged.
They did not hang him for piracy-a
trial would have compromised too