Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-23
SOME BURIED
TREASURES
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seven hundred and twelve thousand dollars
of the treasure.
According to many authorities, there is
treasure in a cave near Bromfeld, which is
near Ludlow, of such ancient origin that there
was dragon mixed up in its history. How
ever the indications are that the gold
found by Saracen physician who learned of
the treasure by occult powers, but that men
from the castle fell upon him and killed him,
taking the gold before he could recover the
great store of gems.
On the islet of Sequia, near Neuilly, chest
of Spanish doubloons was hidden. All ac-
counts agree on the place, but efforts to locate
the treasure have been unsuccessful
The jewels of Madam du Barry, estimated
at more than a million dollars in value, were
buried in tool house at Luciennes, and are
yet to be dug up.
The Due de Raguse when he found that
he must deliver Paris to the Allies, buried Sc
cretly at Belleville score or more of chests of
treasure the men who dug and filled the
graves believing that certain generals, whose
deaths had been concealed, were in the chests.
None of these chests has ever been found.
King Stanislaus had khanlike penchant
for collecting and boarding wealth; and he
would have Jared better if he had expended
instead of saved. At last he buried it just
outside the principal gate of Nancy in hill
side directly in line with the approach to the
gate. Monsieur Fay spent three million francs
in vain effort to find the spot
The treasure in the Chateau of Pantin has
been SO often celebrated in song and story
that its real history is obscured; but in the
latest search, made few years ago, the floor
of rustic ball room in the park was disturbed
and under it were found vases stamped with
the arms of Orleans and the cipher of the
Duke. Instead of attempting to translate the
engravngs, the searchers concluded that the
treasure had been found and taken Now
wiser men are hunting for the vases.
1t is certain that Napoleon buried
great treasure hastily when leaving the Tul-
cries on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo.
The boes of the elm trees down the middle
alley of the gardens are all marked with mys-
ferrous hieroglyphic signs which after chasing
at certain points began again on the lime trees
on the Terrace of the Feuillants. The elm
trees on which the signs began and the lime
on which they ended have been uprooted by
searchers and pits of great depth sunk with
out disclosing anything.
During the laying out of the Bots de Bou-
logne, the engineers made some discovery
which caused them to stop, consult the Gov
eminent, and then fence in carefully certain
part of the wood. 1t was given out that it
had been discovered that Fouche, the Due
d'Otranto, had buried a treasure there; but
the search was in vain. ust as IN the case OF
the Treasure of Gordon, when all hope of recov
cry of the Napoleonic treasure was abandoned
and a law passed forbidding even prospecting
at the Tuieries, a gardener in uprooting some
plants carried away quantity OF earth which
fell off in the dollhouse and disclosed handful
of Napoleonc gold fastened in the roots He
did not remember from what part of the garden
this particular plant had come. The next day
while some workmen were laying some pipes
they labored beyond dusk, and one of them
heard his spade clinking against metal bits.
He paid no attention to the sound. The next
day the trench was filled in, and several days
later when the gardeners were dumping the
surplus earth they had wheeled away from
the trench a corner of a metal casket which
had been broken off, and more gold and silver
appeared. The excited officials failed to dis
cover the spot whence the earth had come.
1t is impossible here to go into the details of
the treasure lost in the destruction of the Ar
mazda. There were over twenty treasure ships
that belonged to that great fleet which were
wrecked on the Scottish coast. The Dukes of
Argyll have for more than two hundred years
held the royal charter to recover these treas
ures and have made some sensational, even if
i'll advised, efforts. One thousand dollars
worth of coins were secured, but no more had
ever rewarded the searchers.
At various places on Long Island there
is said to be buried treasures many of which
were cached by the notorious Captain Kidd.
The forks of the Canadian River, known as
the rifle of the Restigouche," mark the loca-
ton of another pirate horde.
Behind St Augustine there is buried a large
treasure which belonged to the fugitive colo
nists when Admiral Drake raided the coast,
and the Atlantic littoral is dotted with smaller
stores of sunken and buried wealth.
Cavalier Pine, an Italian inventor, is now