Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-17
RICHESUNDER w WATER
Vast Amount of Treasures Located
 at Ocean Bottom.
Methods Employ eA i'm Bringing Sunlz- Nn Fortunes to the Smrface-~ Where Some Lost
 H0ards XAe.

It is not generally knon that at her death Queen Victoria gave Princess Beatrice the crown rights to the gold of the Spanish armada. This gold lies in comparatively shallow depths in the English channel. It's location is known to the admiralty, and the value of the gold is said to be enormous. The right is invested in the royal family, and many offers have been made looking towards its recovery. But the bottom of the Atlantic is a vast treasure bed. If sldllful mariner had submarine boat, and if the boat had a cyclopean eye in the hull of it, it's owner might easily rival Rothschild. A large amount of this treasure is located as accurately as the principal banks in our great metropolis. Many diver can take you to a chart, lay his finger on a number of spots and say: "Go to longitude so and so, in 8 latitude defn- able within 50 feet. Dive deep enough and bring up fortune" says London Golden Penny.
 Every wrecking company has it's own private list of these ocean hoards. Some are being worked, while many will doubtless become accessible in the future. Last year the Boston wreck ing company recovered $4o,0o0 in gold bars which had lain for SO years on bank near Turks island. Twelve months previously to this find New York company fished up a couple of bags of gold from an old-time wreck off Staten island. In the United States there are companies prepared to undertake the hazardous business of recovering val uables from wrecks. They employ the best divers obtainable, and for days these men work away and endeavor to bring to the surface the lost treasures.
 When the Spanish steamer Biscaya sank off Barnegat on November 1, 1890. a well-known American wrecking com- pany received the following telegram from Havana: Spare no expense to recover the body of Don Pedro" Don Pedro, 8 wealthy Cuban merchant, was passenger by the Inflated vessel. The telegram came from the widow and certainly seemed to indicate her devo- tion for her husband. The wrecking company fitted a tug, hired the best divers and began the search. They worked for many days, bringing up ships officers and seamen-everybody except the Cuban merchant. The search was at last abandoned. Then the company heard for the first time that Don Pedro had belt about his body and in wallet gems to the value of $5o,000.
 In Hell Gate, at spot marked with star in the charts of wrecking offices, lies the British man-of-war Hussar. cash to pay the British army just be- fore the revolution. She sank in only ten fathoms of water. As late as 1894 awrecking company had divers at work upon the wreck. They brought up few scattered gold coins, brass buttons and some scrap iron. Another British ship, loaded with gold, captured from the Spaniards, lies at the bottom of Chesapeake bay in only 4S feet of wa ter. She went down in 173o. Before leaving the port at Lewes her captain
 
 enough aboard to buy kingdom" Just as she stood out from the land a cyclone struck her. She keeled over and went down. The body of the cap tain was brought to shore and buried at Lewes. Within recent years a con- siderable amount of gold has been brought up from her by divers.
 At the base of Dunderberg, in the Hudson river, lies pirate vessel, with s7 bars of gold, quantity of plate, a box of gold watches and & diamond necklace on board. In September, 1857, the Central American went down out side Havana. She carried $20O, ,0oo of the precious metal. The wreck is set down accurately in maritime records, but unless some way is found by which divers can work at depth beyond 100 feet, this treasure will never be recov- cred. Thirty years ago 100000 English pounds of gold were recovered from a Spanish galleon by diver named Phipps in the West Indies. The gold had been under water 200 years. Re- gently the Boston wrecking company secured good deal of silver from the wreck of the frigate Severn, British boat, which went down near Turks island, in the West Indies, in 1793. with $500, ,oo0 worth of silver on board. She lies in a basin. exposed to the rough swell of the Atlantic. She is only 30 feet under water. The location of the wreck is given as latitude 21, longitude 69 degrees 50 minutes.
 
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