New Britain herald., 1930-03-08

simon Idht, IHlliouS lllNclitpi' 9lto British treasure in the harbor of
 Milford, March s,-simon Lake, who for 40 years has submerged hi5 chances for great wealth in unscl- fish service as an inventor and de- signcr of submarines, at last has d-- cidcd to seek his fortune.
 He expects to find it deep in the roily mud at the month of NeE: Yorll's East river. If it is thcr", and if Lake finds it. he will own $4.000, 0oo of old British Eold-le s$ 1G per cent for the government Of the United States, which had just won its fight for life when tho chests of specie arc believed to have been lost.
 'ft has been my dream since bo"- hood to find that old ship anl cargo" Lake said "SiHty-thrce is 2 pretty ripe age to go to work o@ 6 lifetime ambition. But drcaps that last 20 long arg worthy oncs ! Sucas.
 And if the money is thcrc hg George, I'll find it."
 You are sure. talking to this pioneer Of under"oa, engineering; tlat he regards the treasure hult not as a feat of technical skill and precision, but still as q romantic adventure.
 To Dive ill Ci.y's Shadow
 Skyscrapers will cast their sha1- ows over the waters where he Will search, and Grimy. darting tugboa;s break his revcric with their hooti"@; whistles. But modern life has n9- introdudcd 10 the depths which ar, after all, his clements. There lo can dive and delvc in solitude a@ complete aa in colonial daya, when the British ship went down.
 simon Lake first heard the story of the 4unk.n treasure from an ohl aca dog. q Capt. George Thomas. They were friends, the old man all the boy. and Lake learned cVciN detail as he watched with interest the efforts of Captain Thomas 2 find the treasure for himself.
 According to this story, a Britis'' pay ship reached New York in l1St | just as the kings forces we"t cyacuating the city, They were D ,. ing concentrated at point on tho ! Connecticut coast. and the No&@t was ordered to proceed thcrc bclort being unlcadcd.
 Scarcely had it turned about thas | it struck Pot Rock. in the Hell C1,' whirlpool, and Sanl1. There Wa9 |, time to salvaTo the %40O0,000 i gold, for it had been hidden und, q cargo of provisions, so that | rebels seized the ship it could n, scuttled before the moncy could ia. into enemy hands.
 Dyrani.c,l tho Channel
 There vas no way then of raj. ing the heavily loaded vessel, noI could it even be located after q fc" year. Pot Rock since has be'J dynamitcd 10 clear the channel ba it's former location still is chartcd.
 It wa3 nearly half q century age that Captain Thomas went to En& land and looked up the records H the lost ship. Everything tallio, perfectly with the yards that he h2t | heard. 70 he got q government coz tract to calvagc it. But he sp2n his personal fortune and the fo" | ,r l,i, fri ts+ i \, vain efforts to do 70. He died con vinccd that the shipp W&& ctill thcr' 1 -somcwherc.
 1 Meanwhile simon Lake hin1sal | lad turned to undor1caa &drentm' | At 10 he had rcad Jules Verne 1 then fantartic story: 'TWcnty Thor | rand Leagues Under the Sea" \ 1 l5 he was planning to build q sub i l: arine, but it Wa3 ten years bgfo 2 l he was able 10 construct the Ar Sonaut .lr. It wax built of til i crudcst materials. but it worked.
 Then, in ev="-ipcrcasinG size ar i practically. came a lonG line 0 i submarines which mace Lake ia nous tho world ovcr. HI&n% vessel i for the ttuitcl States and forciSI l nations have been designed ana bu'l at his Bridgeport &hipyards. Anon i his other inventions is d submaria l apparatus for locating and @2lva5 ing sunkcn yeascls and their car ! goes.
 1 Wants Government Cooperation l al he ff1I {, r only privately owned submarine il 1 the world, has been used in con ducting numerous safety and aal 1 vagr cSpcgim rts, and this will :, l '.ia base of oparattona il &e"TciiiA fer tho I9st British gold. The N" fender if ii'-G with q "g@ h"t@' which permits C,yera to leave th craft while it .s t rr3l on the bot tcla Of tAa "a9.
 "Thr3" are some now Grvtc. which vrn ara 4o.aG to tr" Gut ta: aumuc7," Lst,4 Cariave1. ''.'ut Tn net at l.oerty lo describe the;n jus yet"
 Ecp. John c. Tilson. of Conn@c tjcut. is seking 0 obtain the govern ment contract and q certain amour Of government cooperation in n tit aSlrc hunt. Lakes confidence {,