Evening star., 1912-10-06

6f authority. His hair IN his Youthful
da.s was of light color. bat care and
trouble. according to Las Casas. soon
turned il gray. and at thirty years of age
IL WAS quite white
IL was this Jewish boy turned sailor
man. in .he Eight OF the latest his'or =
belize. who dreamed H." great dream. II
accomplish that dream he must not a'on
his race to be known To prevent thf-
he must hide his place of birth. To saiu
his ends he must suppress forever the -
lieion within him All OF which diff,-
cult things he accomplished along with
the difficulty of crossing the unknown
Atlantic i'm tub and making tn" great
est discovery the world has ever known.
Even after death the discoverer seems
To have had his own way I'm the face of
the Spanish intention to prevent him from
doing His last wish was to he
buried in the land which he had d scov
cred. and that wish WAS granted for the
time and his remains were laid to rest
beneath the floor Of the old cathedral in
Santo Domingo city. in the West Indies
Here they still remain. despite the claim
of the Spanish that they We're removed
10 Cuba in l1?J and To Seville, Spain,
later
Mrs Harriet Chalmers Adams. the
Latin American explorer and wife OF
Franklin Adams likewise an explorer
and authority on Latin America and an
official of the Pan American Union. has
recently returned from the Dominican Re-
public where she has delNed deep into
this controverted question Of here the
remains of Columbus lie. She also has re-
Gently visited Spain. has seen the tomo AT
Seville and examined the claim that IL
contains the precious bones. Mrs. Adams
has concluded that the facts are evident
and that the bones of Columbus really
rest in Santo Domingo city.
Remains that were believed to be those
excavated i'm 1895. and finally found their
way to Seville. They were found to the
left of the altar near the place where the
church records showed Columbus to have
been buried. They We're spirited away
because Sir Francis Drake was active in
these waters. and it was feared he would
rob the church of its precious remains.
1t was not until 1877 that the actual
remains We're discovered. Padre Billini
was in charge of the cathedral at the
time, and his action in the circumstances
showed him to be a man of great good
sense He Immediately called in all the
foreign consuls of the port and asked
them to view the discovery. These Off
Gals noted the position OF the remains.
their proximity TO the point where the
other body had been found. the specific
labelling, and a score of other very plain
markings of the leaden casket and its
contents that showed beyond a doubt
that this and not the other remains We're
those of christopher Columbus. So had
the wish of the discoverer TO lie in the
new world been observed despite the be-
lief of the Spaniards that they had taken
his remains away.
There is in Santo Domingo an aged and
very learned historian. SeuOr Don Emili-
anO Tejera. who has devoted his life TO a
study of this question of the resting place
of Columbus, and who has piled evidence
mountain high in proving that these arc
the actual remains. He was in Santo Do
mingo when these remains We're dis
covered. personally viewed the proofs, and
knew the consuls of all the foreign ma
tons who viewed them. and who unani-
mously state that the question is indis-
putably settled
Copyright, 1872 by W. A. Du PuyD