The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-09

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two steamships, the Advance and
the Ram, had failed was just as
thrflfnging. Finally the intrepid Lit
tie party, their boat gone, their
supplies, their dynamite, their div
ling apparatus, their fifty rifles and
their cannon at the bottom of the
sea, reached New York with moth
ling but the clothes on their backs.
A quiet little laugh ran around
the Harvard club, and the matter
WAS forgotten Why should twentieth
century Harvard men essay tho
southern seas after treasure ythi
cal, perhaps, lost more Shan two
1centuries ago?
so they kept their mouths shut
and went at It again. But how TO
finance the expedition? None OF
these young men is any too rich
lin this worlds goods They laid
1.-THE matter before their friends.
Here was $7,000,OO0. 1t lay bur-
lied in a spot right where 1t could
be reached. 1t only needed dyna-
Unite, diver, some apparatus and
La few weapons Of offense and de-
Ifense, as well as the proper stores,
10 make everybody independently
rich The incredulous who were ap-
Iproached wanted to know more.
And then the secret was let out
Here IL Is;
Last year a Jamaican diver named
Layman, while exploring the oceans
FLOOR came across the wreck of a
galleon There was the PROV of a
ship, ii had been an English corvette
land on bit OF wreckage he read
lTGood Faith" Records were gone
lover, and 1t was found out that
such ship had really sailed, afte-
llevyi1ig tribute on Spanish colonies
of gold and plate, only to go down
Ioff Jamaica on a coral reef with
lher 37OO0.O0O Of treasure.
The Jamaicans had known OF II
before, but they had jealousy
Iguarded the secret But the diver
had found out the secret at the bot
Itom of the sea and had told of what
he knew. An Bnglishman named
lSouther, without money or appara'
tus, had gone there and had taken
$4,000 in gold pieces from the side
of the reef. Another boatload OF
ltreasure-seekers had taken out $4,000
more. Jamaican divers, without
Iproper tools or any dynamite. had
recovered 10000 pieces of eight and
douboons, all imbedded in coral.
The main idea OF this expedition
was to go at 1t scientifically, To
blow up the coral reef which Inn
bedded the gold and take It out al
lielsure. And so the Harvard men In.
duced several New Workers to re
spond when the whole truth was
told to them.
4 "You see" explained Aymai
IJohnson, a ,stockbroker at No. 3t
Waal street, who took what he call
ed a "flier" in the enterprise, 1--WE
Iput in enough TO finance the ex
Ipedition on shares. A share cosi
800, and eventually the boys hat
enough to start out. II was only 6
chance, OF course, but there NIGH
be something in IT, We bough
shares and called 1t the Southern
Research Company"
Many Harvard and Yale men II
New York subscribed Among then
were AN those who Jared forth e
, seek for the treasure and Others
were r. n. Leaycraft of No. 12l
Pearl street; Gordon Brown, Yale
1900 and captain Of one of tn,
best football teams Yale ever had
IW T. Harrison, better known a
, 'Buck" Harrison; M L. Corbett
Harvard, 'OS and Gardner PER-.
Harvard, '03.
~ Again the little expedition, flnanc
3 led once more, started from New
E York. But not in a chartered schoon
v Ter This time they went by regula
e lsteamer to Kingston, Jamaica, wei
o Equipped with money and expert
Ience. There they chartered tn
. Ischooner Sea Gull and set sail 70
n Silver Cay second time.
r OF the venturesome aHgonauts VIII
. were wrecked In October the onl
/. lone who did not go along wa
n Roger Derby. who stayed in Me-
/. York trying to rid himself of ma
aria He succeeded In that and 70
lowed afterward, chartering a sec
a lond schooner to meet his comrade
). land he is there now.
News came that they had bee
on the reef for three weeks, an
. hoped for the best No storms bes'
them; things were going well. An
- day word was expected from thes
y letter-day adventurers who have fo
= saken the ease and pleasure OF Ne
q York as did the men OF three eel
: Ituries ago to tempt fortune in VI
ie known seas.
But they sailed back 80 JamaiC
!, empty-handed. their supplies el
q hansted, but eager TO try one
. Imore.
% Wili they wrest the $1,000. 900