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

I subject of pirates and their boards In
| the evening talk. He believed in keep
Ing the boys busy while in the summer
camp. and nothing will keep them busi-
| er than treasure hunt, but he was
| rather surprised when the fathers of
some of the boys put in formal claims
| Tor the treasure. this one contending
| his son had found the chart, this one
| that his first born had handled tho
| spade that disclosed the chest this ono
| that his son directed the search and was
the leader of the party. Never again
VIII Mr.. Smith bury tn treasure OF
Capt Kidd. His explanation of tho
AFFAIR never caught up with the first
story. Some persons still suspect he
seized all the gold and precious stones
Tor himself 1t Is certain that he left
the New Haven territory soon after,
But he Is not living on his riches. He
now Is with the Y. NJ c. A. in Brook
lyn, Bedford branch
ms treasure island story Is only one
OF hundreds of the kind. Each year the
crop of stories increases People insist
in believing in Capt Kidd's treasure,
and that some day some one will find
it.
MY PARTNER, THE KING.
William Kidd probably has received
more fame from a little piracy than
any other sea robber in history. There
are some persons who persist in as
serting that the valiant captain Is a
much maligned man; that he never
was pirate at all, and that he was
sent TO the gallows simply to satisfy |
public clamor because some scapegoat |
was necessary.
1t Is sure that no pirate ever had |
more aristocratic connections than did |
Captain Kidd, for the king of England l
was his partner. So was the leading |
citizen OF New York. So was tho |
chancellor of England So was the
governor of New York and MasSachus-
etts. So were various British noble
part in branding William Kidd as a
pirate as did such plundering as he
was guilty of on the sea.
In the latter part of the seventeenth |
century there was not a more highly |
respected seafarinG man in New York
colony than this same Captain Kidd.
His brig. the Antigua, piled between
London, the West Indies. and New
York. He was well to do, he hated
pirates and he had the confidence and
esteem of all the prominent men in
New York. No one thought more high
ly of him than did Robert Livingston,
founder of the great Livingston family
that has given to America some bril-
liant men and women.
NEW 1Okh - P1HAIES.
There were many good people in New
York at that time who did not look
upon piracy with disfavor In fact. New
York did q glorious trade with the free
booters of the sea. 1t bought their
plunder, and 1t furnished them with
men and stores. Many ships fitted out
IN New York preyed upon the COM
nerce of not only Spain and France
but England. too. Long Island was
called Crooked island, because its
many bays offered refuge to the crooks
Of the ocean. But it was not alto
sether necessary for the pirates even
20 hide in the bays of Long Island to
-efit or to get rid of their plunder The
governor of New York. in one OF his | 3
reports to the home government, de-
,lared that at the time of his writing
here were nine pirate ships in New
York harbor; that they mad $50O.O0O
worth OF stolen goods aboard, and that | I
he pirate trade was so cherished by
he people of New York that not one of |
he pirates was molested
1t was a time of lax morals on land |
md on sea, but a change was under
way So great had been the depreda-
ions OF the pirates that II was thought |
necessary by William III to call halt |
rhe king probably would not have