The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02
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on the doughty American. Now
he emerges from the obscurity of his
recent years in troubled Turkey and
is revealed as the head strategist Of
the Ottoman fleet in the sea battles
with the Greeks.
Rover and adventurer all his life,
boy captain of a whaleback ON the
great lakes, later commander of YES
sells plying between New York, Bos-
ton and Baltimore, chief navigator of
big steamships on the Pacific ocean,
Bucknam became a firm favorite of
the cruel and tickle Abdul Hamid who
made him admiral of the Turkish
navy But being Yankee from Buck
sport, and when Abdul was over
thrown, refused to accept the ultima
tum from the new Sultan, Mohammed
v, that he swear allegiance to the
Ottoman flag and become a subject OF
Adults successor
Buchanan Pasha was ace-high with
the young Turks and also strong with
the old Abdul Hamid supporters, but
he quit the Turkish service rather
than become a Turkish subject But
his restless, constructive mind was
not to be curbed, and it has just be-
come known that he is now sort of
John D. Rockefeller and William G.
Whitney in Constantinople. I!e OBJ
tanned concessions in OH lands as we'll
as in street railway routes, and his
in Vnpl> hO,
that he has begun t6 pile up a big
fortune.
1t was to Buchnam. now an oil mag
nate and q traffic expert, that the
Turks turned when the Greeks began
10 threaten the Dardanelles with their
squadron. When the Ottomans made
desperate and dashing sortie and in
attacking and driving off the Greeks
followed a tactical plan OF unusual
skill, the Greeks were astonished.
Only when their spies inside Constan-
tinople reported, did the besiegnrs un-
derstand what had happened 1t was
Buchanan Pasha, the down east Van.
kee, who drew up the elaborate plan!
During the battle he watched and adj
vised by wireless from the heights be-
hind Fort Kun Kaleh.
American Brain Won Out.
Bucknam couldn't keep out of it,
He owed much to his Turkish friends,
even though under new regime
And although not in active command,
1t was an American brain that fur
nished the strategy Of what Turks
hailed us a brilliant naval achieve
ment.
But Buchanan doesn't need any
three-sheet advertising on the bill
boards Of the world. He is forty-nipc
years old, hard as steel and shrewd
as O. storekeeper at the four corners
in his native state. He is short. broad
as he is long. undcrshot java regu-
lar human bulldog. 1t was lucky fate
for him that Mohammed Y. tried to
force him to give up his American
citizenship. Otherwise he might not
have had the opportunity to develop
as the chief explorer Of some of the
most valuable petroleum resources of
ne Ottomans.
l}ucknam has the rights in three
important oil centers in European and
Asiatic Turkey. His opportunity is
4 wonderful one, because Turkey has
III the past imported 100000, 900 gal
IONS Of oil from Russia, Roumania and
America every year. Bucknam's An
gll-American syndicate owns enough
oil land to supply not only the wants
of Turkey but to export large quanti-
lies to foreign countries. An impor-
ant source of his supply is the region
If Meriofito, a port near Rodosto on
he European shore of the Sea of Mar
mora. He has negotiated the exploit
alton of $4,000 acres Of this oil land
~ a British company capitalized at
100000. Bucknam Pasha also con-
:rols 100000 acres OF oil-Droducing ter
"itCry near the northeast shore OF
Lake Van in Eastern Asia Minor, and
mother 1900 acres about 50 miles
outh Of Trebizond, the chief Turk
sh port of the Black Sea. The oil
,und on the buchanan possessions en-
gels the Russian product as fine
Aratfine oil, and also is three TO tive
days nearer the European markets.
This is the new phase Of all amazing
career that buchanan has now entered.
His life has been replete with bold
adventure that finally took him into
strange service in strange country.
His exploits began young.
Early Tcndness for the Ocean.
When Bucknam's father died at sea
The lad was fourteen and his old grand.
father gave him the choice between
farming and the seafaring life. Young
buchanan had an instructive love for
the Old ocean, love that helped him
to pick up the knowledge Of a ship
with little effort. His first venture
was made on the great lakes as cabin
boy aboard a schooner. Of which the
captain was also the owner. The cap.
tain's wife took fancy to the young.
ster, and ultimately they adopted him
When he was sixteen Rucknam sail.
ed from New York as Quartermastel
Of schooner bound for the Pacific
At Manila the captain and mates died
ST cholera and Bucknam went before
special board to be examined for
masters certificate, as he was the
only remaining member of sthe crew
who had studied navigation. lie pass.
Not Customary.
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