The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-22
PHILADELPHIA MEN FIND
GOLD OF ARMADA
New York SUM

kNeW OK SUM-
There is a persistent rumor in France
and England that three enterprising
Yankees, and Philadelphia men at
that, have fOFestalled the Duke of Ar
CYL by gathering in the treasure of
that great ship of the Armada, the
Admiral of Florence, sunk in Loeb
Duan, on the Scottish coast, and from
which the duke was preparing to fill
his depleted Golfers. 1t is also said that
the same three Yankees have lifted
the gold sunk in the British ship Iutine
off the coast of Holland, thus getting
ahead of the British government,
which had made a contract with
LIoyds for the recovery of the treasure.
The three men from Philadelphia are
said to have done the little trick" and
to have become milliOnaireS by their
treasure hunting. The rumor has now
almost ceased to be a rumor merely.
for people of standing declare that
they have information which can be
relied upon to the effect that the re-
markable story is true.
The Selling Of these Sunken millions
from under the noses of the Duke of
Argyll and the British government
makes a story in which Robert Louis
Stevenson would have delighted and
illustrates the Yankee characteristic of
being wide awake" The treasure
shipped in the Lutine a hundred years
ago to aid Europe in her struggle
and precious stones with which Philip
Of Spain loaded the great Admiral of
Florence when she set sail with the
Armada for the conquest of England
over 300 years ago, are believed to be
now, in part or in whole, either in
Philadelphia or on their way there.
The port they have reached is far, far
from the ports for hich they were in
tended, and the uses to which the
treasure will be nut will be far re-
moved from the ones for which they
were designed.
The United States seems destined by
/ fate to be a Nemesis to Spain. Having
/ seized upon her colonial empire, we
now rife even the treasure chests of
: her inyincible Armada ito make a
/ Philadelphia holiday" The gold of the
/ Lutine will never set a squadron in
the field" but at Newport and Atlantic
: City its expenditure may contribute to
/ the gayety Of nations.
When the ships of the Armada which
/ British shot and British storms had
/ left afiOat went fleeing from Drake and
4 Howard around the northern end of
/ Scotland there fed with them the
! great treasure ship Admiral of Flor
ence. Cruising down along the wild
Scottish coast the mighty Admiral was
/ wrecked on the coast of AFgyllshire
! and sunk in the shallow water in Loeb
! Duan, an inlet on that storm beaten
y
Duke of Argyll began work on the
/ wreck with the intention of recovering
/ the treasure. But when he was in
/ formed that the crown would claim any
and all that he might find. he stopped
the work he had begun and said Of the
treasure. Let it lie there" A hundred
/ years passed and there came a new
Duke of Argyll and new laws regard
! ing treasure trove.
s. q. .
| The Duke of Argyll, who now reigns
in the place of his ia theirs, is the broth
er-in-iaw Of King Edward VII, and
/ his estates spread over many thousand
acres but he is poor-sO poor that he
has to let his ancestral castle of In
! verary and curtail his living expenses
generally. Then it was that he thought
/ of the treasure of the Admiral of Flor
ence and determined to recoup the for
tunes Of his ancient house by gather
| ing the gold and precious stones from
| beneath the waves of Loeb Duan- He
hogan TO make OILS ho-ate nEor'a "a tiops