The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-11-01
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 BY THE SEA
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 soundngs are among It's investigations and. confess, were of greater Interest [ to me than any others In which we were engaged The apparatus Is a dredger let down to the bottom ot thc ocean at the end of a piano wire. This wire is used on account of its strength and because it presents the feast sur face to currents. We were sounding and dredging ln that deep ocean terri. tory or the Canary islands and after O number of depth measurements turned our attention Co dredging. We had lowered the dredge for the third time and started to llft 1t when, after winding it up Q matter of fifty feet, a pressure on the wire was felt The machinery was at once stopped lest the wire should be broken. We low- cred, then raised lt. but it caught again. We repeated the process several times, and at Inst the drcdge must have swung clear of the obstruction for there was no more trouble the msuu- ment coming safely to tho surface.
 The dredge used on thls occasion consisted of a pair of scoops which as soon as the lowest point of the dredge struck were released from an open DO sltion and closed. sCraplng up a small portion of the bottom. | was In charge of the work when the instrument was raised and opened the scoops with the usual interest as Co the nature of the specimen of the bottom l should nnd. What was my astonlshment to see not a particle of the mud I expected, but Instead a hairpln and a gold loc6et the latter only slightly furnished ! opened the case with my pcnknifc, for lt fitted tightly, and out dropped a bit of thin paper. On one side of the lock ct was a daguerreotype Of a man. on the other a woman.
 The only explanation | have ever been able to make for the bringing up of these articles is that the drcdge was lowered through some opening iu a wreck Into a place where the scoops were closed by striking a surface on which the article rested.
 Now, l am aware that fate or Provi- dence or whatever we choose Co call the supernatural directing power is continually working out an sorts Of problems in the most uuheard of ways What the drawing up of these like nesses from one of the deepest parts of the ocean meant ! was very curious to know looked the loc6ct over care. fully i'm the hope of finding a name, but was disappointed Then took Che blt of paper below and untoIdcd it Though the case hnd been t'shtly closed. the paper was saturated. but some parts were comparatively dry. There was writing ou it some Of the words being as clear os thc day thcy were written, others hopclCssly blurred; but enough were clear to en- able me Co construct the following.
 New York. June % lS-o have this day married Edrur Guy Hunt and Elizabeth Carncs Mansfield. ANTHONY pOrWIN. D. D.
 I was disappointed that tho writing did not tell of some conspiracy, murder or false Imprisonment that ! might be- come, by its possession. an instrument of justice However, l put the u.nkct and the paper In my trunk ull | re- turned to New York Then ] hunted for Edgar Guy Hunt and Elizabeth Carnes Mansfield. | found neither for they were both dead. What ! did fnd was granddaughter, Elizabeth Mansfield Hunt. who was making a scant living by teaching music Her story of the family was that her grand | father. Hunt, the only son of his par ents. had run away with Elizabeth | Mansfield. After his death a cousin claimed a farm in Harlem of which Hunt was the owner, on tlc ground that Hunt had never been married. Elizabeth Mansfield Hunt had gone abroad to study music, but was return ing to claim her husbands property when she was wrecked on the Azores.
 After an. there was on important feature to my find. The farm iu liar. lem had grown to be worth more than l S5.OOO.OOO. and Elizabeth Mansfield Hunt was the legal heir The only evi. dencc of the marriage of her grand. mother had gone down oT the Azores, drlfted to the Canories and had been fished up by me after it had been im- mersed nearly half a century.
 It was the most natural thing in Che | world that I, a young scientist whose attachments had produced thc legal cvi- dencc which Miss Hunt SD much need ed. should Interest myself .n the .cs- toration Of her fortune. | furnished the means necessary to begin suit against the owners of the now divided property, and compromises were made which footed up a total of Sl,2i5,O0O, or about a fourth of the value of the property. Miss Hunt insisted on diyid. Ing what she received with me, but ! declined to accept any portion of it telling her that if she wouldAccept me | instead she would make me very h0p. py. She agreed Co the compromise, aud after We were married, impressed as she was with the benefits uccruing from deep sea soundings, she wanted Co ft out an expedition, not for tLc pur. pose of studying the bottom of the sea, but for fishing up evidence that would right some of the worlds wrongs. explained to her that what l had done would not occur one time in several millions, whcreupOn she reluctantly consented to forego her project ] com