The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08

be made to act as mason and pile driver
both.
Finally, there is an adventurous side
to the case" added the signor. lighting
fresh cigar. 1.-THE ocean floor, as / take 1t,
is the greatest treasure chest in the
world. Milliards are deposited there, year
after year. and. mind you, that sort of
thing has been going on for as many years
perhaps as Morgan, Rockefeller, the Astors
and Vanderbilts have pennies in their pos
session. The riches of whole continents are
lying on the ocean floor, the riches of
worlds we know of and OF others we do
not know Of
I'm August. 1898, happened to be in Lon
don when news reached there that bushel
wall strand after one of the great storms to
which this southwestern peninsula is sub
ject. The coin was adorned with portraits
of various Spanish kings who reigned in
the eighteenth century. The latest found
was dated 1850. Where did they come from,
do you suppose? From Spanish galleon
that foundered off the coast of Cornwall in
1884. The ship laden with gold in coin
and bullion, intended for the Bank of Eng
land.
"a Spanish King sent it to London owing
TO riots in his capital, and every few years
Neptune gives up some of the treasuses he
swallowed on that occasion prior to the
French revolution.
TO HUNT FOR TREASURE
II violate no confidence when / tell you
that it is our intention to hunt for just such
treasure by microscopes and lift same by
| the submarine worker. The ocean, as / said
before, is full of them. You will remem-
Der that divers, plain, ordinary divers, sue
| ceeded in 1885, in rescuing the cargo of the
East India brig Harlem, sunk in the neigh
borhood of Table bay about the tire when
| the thirty-year war was brought to a
| conclusion, in 1913.
| This continued the signor, pointing to
| an illustration in a book he took Tom a
| shelf. lis the facsimile of a medal, struck
off by Jacob III of England in commemora-
| ton of the fact that his divers brought up
100000 pounds of sterling, sunk with a
| Spanish ship off the South American coast.
! The medal bears the date of 1857; the ship
was sunk forty-four years earlier.
Readers of American history know all
| about the British frigate De Brook foun-
dered in American waters in 1898. The De
Brook had 100000 pounds in gold and sill
| yer coin, captured from the Spaniards
| aboard. These are still at the bottom of
| the sea, together with the bodies of 200
prisoners of war in irons which the De
| Brook likewise carried. God willing, 1
J will find them with my MICROSCOPE and
| submarine worker combined-the millions.
| Do You happen to remember the value of
| the Bourgogne's cargo? 1t amounted to q,
| 100000 francs. At the bottom of Magellan
| straits there lies ship, the name of which
| / have forgotten, worth S625, 000, 900. The
| straits very difficult to navigate. but
| the MICROSCOPE will illuminate the treas
ures that lie below and, lest they have
| dropped to the bottom of the earth, we
| will find them by and by.
But we are not after gold alone. There
| are many things at the bottom Of the sea
that will benefit humanity far more than
yellow metal. Food stuffs and fuel. as al
| ready mentioned, and things liable to solve
| great economic, historic and scientific rid
| dies
| The inventor consulted his watch and your
| correspondent reluctantly prepared to go.
What would you say to the discovery of
| Sodom and Gomorrah?' he said at the
door IF find these biblical cities. you
| shall have the first photographs. And by
the way. will tell you all about the Dead
| Sea. too" CARLO IBERTI. d. PHI.