The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-04-15
MALTESE CROSS
ELUDES HUNTERS
Though the Latter Acquire
Early Rising Habit.
BRIGHTWOOD ROADS PUZZLE
One Man Declares Dorsey Foultz a
Comparative Novice at
Hiding.
BRIGHTWOOD ROADS PUZZLE

Persons living on Brightwood road
have acquired the early rising habit.
Each person living in this section strives
TO be up and out before his neighbor,
and each, too, is loath to return to his
home and leave the street still populat-
ed. An inquiry concerning the reason
for this. which began almost two weeks
ago, invariably brings the same answer
Maltese Cross, Nothing else is said.
Nothing else is necessary
Somewhere between Harvard and
Sheridan streets, square envelope,
marked with white Maltese Cross on a
black background, lies hidden. In this
envelope is a money order on The Times
In the search for it it is estimated that
over a thousand persons participate
daily. To the searchers it seems that
they have covered every square inch of
ground within the boundaries named
but. as yet, no one has been successful
in locating the hiding place. People
have walked over it, people have had
their hands within two inches of 1t. bu,
they have not known,it. and people HAYS
passed on to look in other places. OF
course, uselessly.
Regular Searcher
There is one man among the regular
colony of searchers who says he has
done nothing but look for the Maltese
Cross since the third day after it was
hidden. Il believe I've been as near to
1t as anyone else said he in speaking
to a reporter this morning. He was
correct in his superstition. At the time
ne spoke he was so near the object OF
rob hot hnI = hr1, L.
would surely have been bitten
This man. like many other searchers
is convinced that he will eventually be
the finder of the money, and so. he says
he is UP with the sun each morning
often goes without his lunch to fellow
up a sudden "hunch," as he terms ii
and at nightfall, after his eyenins
meal, returns with a lantern and con.
>tinues the search
1T is not SO much the money, though
or course, want that a whole lot, too
said he. in explaining his zeal. Il wan
TO be the one to find 1t. but / want II
found at any rate. 1t seems to me thai
have looked everywhere and | want
10 see where it is hidden The MAJ
VINO MID that money makes Dorsey
Foultz look like a cheap novice in thu
nfQ1ng game. I'd like to meet him %
Another of the searehers Is an OLE
woman who has lived almost the allotted
three score and ten years. She is still
very active, however, and may be seer
any day walking UP and down Bright
wood road, poking here. there ant
everywhere with an old umbrella stick
Not in Brick Pile.
A few days since a rurnor became cur
rent that the envelope was beneath
pile of bricks on a lot one block abov,
Harvard street.
over twenty-five men and boys mad
< 1t their special object TO shift the posi-
tion of each and every brick in the pile
Not only once were the bricks moved
but many times, and several searcher
are not yet convinced THAT this is no
the hiding place
Indeed, there are few things in tn
goid-sprfnkled district that have no
been moved Just below Sheridan stree
several over jealous searchers, in spit
OF the assurance In The Times that n
money would be buried. have with pick
and shovels dug around the base OF
Telegraph pole to a considerable depth
Needless TO say they received no re
ward for their labors. To see me-
searching with rakes, hoes, ard othe
gardening implements is common oc
Currencs.