Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-29

story oil buried treasure tn,
world ever has had has appealed
Y more strongly to the imaSlna.
tion Of man or held first place
more securely than that of the plundel
OF Capt. Kidd For more than two
centuries the search for the gold anc
me jewels the pirate sent ashore when
he felt that his career on sea was
nearly ended has been going on. Hard
ly bit of land. from the Virginia capes
To the st. I4awrence'S mouth that
kidds name has been connected with
but has been gone over How many
expeditions Gardner's island has had Is
hard to say, but for 100 years never a
year went by without at least one party
OF treasure hunters visiting there
Block Island, NarraSanSett bay points
the Delaware bay country and Chesa-
peake districts have been ripped and
torn by pick and spade at various
times by men who have believed they
were about TO solve the great secret and
In solving 1t become immensely rich.
Stald Boston and Central Park, n. Y,
have been torn up in various places
at various times by treasure seekers.
A TREASURE FIND.
Strange how this buried treasure be-
lief holds sway On an Island in Long
Island sound q few years ago some boys
from the New Haven Y. NJ. C. ~ had
q summer camp One day the lads
found an cid, weather. stained, badly
faded chart, which, with much difficult
ty. they deciphered. 1t bore the name
of William Kidd and date way back
in the seventeenth century. BY this
chart 1t was plain that the pirates
treasure was buried on the very island
upon which the boys were camped The
: lines on the chart were faint, and the
writing was queer indeed. but the BOYS
somehow made out that by measuring
so many fathoms from such a point and
SO many fathoms from another and so
many fathoms from stil another point,
they would find the spot whereon to
start TO dig.
Never did boys search for treasure
more earnestly than did those New
Haven lads. Perhaps their ideas were
centered on pirates and pirates gold
just then. for there had been much talk
of pirates ever since the summer camp
had been established. Never was there
a boy who was worth q continental but
who not only had a sneaking admlra-
ton for pirates bold but longed to
have a chance at the game himself
Just what boy found that Capt. Kidd
chart on that Y. NJ. c. A. island or
what other youngster uncovered the |
great chest I'm which a lot of treasure |
was discovered is not important to this |
story, Nearly all OF the 100 or more |
in the summer camp took part in the |
digging and the excitement was intense. |
There were pounds and pounds of |
metal Bars of gold. some one who had !
done a lot of reading pronounced them. !
There were bushels of glittering gems |
These in themselves represented |
kings ransom Some of the jewels |
were white. some red. some green, some |
blue. The boys had millions In their
grasp.
CLAIMS
That night the treasure chest was |
guarded as treasure chest never was |
guarded before or since Next day word /
reached the mainland of the great dis
coVery. The newspapers got the story |
and the details got abroad. There was |
q lot made over the great find. but
the fact was that Henry l.. Smith, the
Y NJ. c. A. man in charge OF the camp, |
bought the junk and buried the treas
ure chest. drew up the chart and put |
it where some lad was sure to find 1t |
and. then. to prepare his youthful |
charges for their work. introduced the