Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-09
EARCH SEAS FOR GOLD
TREASURES THAT DAVY JONES
GUARDS IN HIS LOCKER.
Millions in Coin and Bullion That
Die Under the Oceans
Waves
From the London Tit-B,ts.

From the London Tit-Bits
When Davy Jones once gets treasures of
gold safely into his locker he guards them
more jealousy than any merely human
miser
And yet, as Edgar Allan Poe once wrote,
one might almost trace ones way to these
sunken boards by 1.-The trail of bones of
those who have failed to find them" Five
expeditions have failed to run the so-called
kruger millions to their lair on the Tene-
dos reefs, and the last of them cost the
lives of twentyeight gallant men.
One might fill volumes with stories of
these rainbow chasers, many of them start
ling and dramatic. No one has ever yet
found the San Pedro, the five-decked Span
ish galleon which sank in the Margarita
channel off the Central American coast
ninety-two years ago, carrying untold mil
lions in gold and jewels to the bottom of
the sea. There were two chests which held
over t6,O00,OOO in doubloons; there were gold
images and precious stones almost beyond
number, placed on board for safety, from
Catholic churches; and their were millions
OF treasure to pay off the garrisons and
Spanish warships along the American
coast.
In all, the treasures of the San Pedro
were valued at t13,5OO,0O0. Syndicate after
syndicate was formed to rescue these
riches from Davy Jones clutch; fortunes
were squandered on the search. many lives
were sacrificed IN the chase, but all to no
purpose. Davy is still gloating over his
doubloons and golden images as he gloated
first nearly century ago.
The Hussar.
Then there is the Hussar, an English
man-of-war, which sailed away to the west
in 1880 laden with gold to pay British SOL
diers and sailors. 1t is said the Hussar
had nearly 100000 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
a hundred years one attempt after another
has been made to snatch this treasure from
the deep, but SO far not even the locker has
been found
NOT many years after the Hussar disap-
peared under the water of an American
river the sloop of war De Braak went to
the bottom in a gale off the Delaware
capes, taking with her a rich spoil of two
captured Spanish galleons laden with gold
ana gems OF fabulous value. Governments
and private individuals have We'd with each
other for century in the chase of these
treasures; but they still remain as seductive
and elusive lure as when Davy first laid
greedy hands on them.
If any one seeks for treasure nearer
home, it is to be found not many miles
from the Lizard, in Cornwall, where. they
say. Spanish galleon with s17OOOOoO in
rocks where the richly freighted vessel
was battered to pieces by the fierce Attain
tic waves" Although many companies
have tried In vain to recover this sub
marine hoard, there is no doubt of it's ex-
1Stence, for coins are constantly being
washed up by the tide as tantalfZing evil
dence of the richness of the Golfers from
which they have drifted.
Gold of the General Grant.
In a cave in the Auckland Islands NAV
still be recovered all the gold that the
good ship General Grant was carrying
when she started in 1866 on her voyage
from Melbourne to London, with pas
senger list of miners returning with their
riches from the Ballarat diggings.
Occasionally, when Davy Jones is in an
amiable mood, he will release part of his
booty, but he takes care to clutch what re-
mains more tightly still When La Luz
tino, captured French frigate, sank under
the waves of the Zuyder Zee, little over
down with her, in addition to much silver
bullion and f127 600 the pay of the troops
in Holland. Within year of her founder
ing $4,000 had been recovered; fifty years
or more later she gave up another $4,000;
but on the rest of her hoard-she was in
Sured for round 0O0,0OO-She still
keeps a jealous hold
And again-as evidence that Davy Jones
is not quite so bad as he is pictured-of
the ten boxes of gold that went dcwn with
the Alfonso XII off the Canaries some
years ago, nine have been recovered. Davy
keeps the tenth.