The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-26
SEARCHING TIE SEAS FoR GOLD.
Treasures That Dayy Jones Guards In Ills
Locker.

When Davy Jones once gets treasures Of
gold safely into his locker he guards them
more jealousy than any merely human
miser says It'd Bits.
| And yet. as Edgar Allan Poe once wrote.
one might almost trace ones way to these
sunken boards by -the trail Of bones OF
those who have failed to find them Five
expeditions have failed to run the so-oalled
-Kruger's millions to their lair on the
Tenedos reef, and the last OF them cost
the lives of twenty-eight gallant men.
One might fill volumes with stories OF
these rainbow chasen, many of them
startling and dramatic No one has ever
vet found the San Pedro, the five-decked
Spanish galleon which sank in the Mar
Rarita Channel Off the Central American
coast ninety-two years ago, carrying un-
told millions in gold and jewels to the bot
tom OF the sea. There were two chests
which held over GO 10000 in doubllons ;
there were gold ina ges and precious stones
almost beyond number. placed on boa I'd
for safety, from Catholic churches; and
there we're millions Of treasure to pay If
the garrisons and Spanish warhips along
the American coast.
In all. the treasures Of the San Pedro
were valued at Gi3, 10000. Syndicate
after syndicate was formed to rescue these
riches from Davy Jones g clutch, fortunes
we're squandered on the search. many lives
we're sa crifced in the chase, but all to no
purpose Davy Is still gloating over his
doubloons and golden images as he gloated
first nearly Il century ago.
Then there il the Hussar, an English
man-of-w war. which sailed away to the west
in 1880 laden with gold to pay British SOL
diers and sailors. 1t ia said the Hussar had
nearly e. 600 600 aboard when she ran on
rock and sank in seventy feet OF water.
less than one hundred yards from the shore
of the East River. For more than hundred
years one attempt after another has been
made to snatch this treasure from the
doep. but so far not even the locker has
been found.
Not many years after the Hussar dis
appeared under the water Of an American
river the sloop OF war De Braak went 10
the bottom in gale of the Delaware Capes,
taking with her rich spoil Of two captured
Spanish galleons laden with gold and gems
| of fabulous value. Governments and
private individuals have Wed with each
! other for a century in the chase Of these
treasures but they still remain as seduc-
/ two and elusive a lure as when Davy first
| laid greedy hands on them
II any one seeks for treasure nearer home
II is TO be found not many miles from the
| lizard in Cornwall where, they say, a
! Spanish galleon with ti7.oOOO 600 in her
hold lies buried under the sands and rocks
where the richly freighted vessel was
battered TO pieces by the fierce Atlantic
waves Although many companies have
tried In vain to recover this submarine
hoard. there is no doubt of it's existence.
for coins are constantly being washed up
by the tide as tantalizlng evidence Of the
richness Of the Golfers from which they have
drifted.
In cave in the Auckland Islands may
still be recovered all the gold that the good
ship General Grant was carrying when she
started in 1890 on her voyage from Mel
bourne to London. with a passenger list
OF miners returning with their riches from
the Ballarat dggings
Occasionally, when Davy Jones IS in an
amiable mood, be will release part Of his
booty, but he takes care to clutch what
remains more tightly s,ill. When La Luz
tho. a captured French frigate sank under
the waves Of the Zuyder Zee a little over
a century ago she took 800 bars OF gold
down with her, in addition to much silver
bullion and ei27 900, the pay Of the troops
in Holland Within n year Of her founder
ing SIS 90 had been recovered; fifty years
or moro later she gave up another 10000,
but on the rest Of her hoard-she was in
sured for n round 81 900 O0o-she still keeps
a jealous hold
And again-as evidence that Davy Jones
Is not quite 30 bad Es he is pictured-of
TIE ten boxes Of gold that went down with
the Alfonso MI. Of the Canares some
years ago nine have been recovered. Dayy
Keeps the TENTH.