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SUNKEN SEA TREASURES. k ' Deep Sea Salvage Company Would < Raise Lost Gold. Within two days came the announcement of the formation of two J Companies?the Inter-Ocean SubmaV rine Engineering company, and the Deep Sea Salvage corporation?to raise ships sunk in the ocean in depths not too great or to get out of 1 them the riches they hold. The In ter-ucean company nas amuug its shareholders some of the wealthiest ! and most influential men in finance ] in New York. H. L. Bowden, of Ba- ( yonne, N. J., is head of the Deep Sea Salvage corporation. Sunken treasure always has had a fascination. It was inevitable that ( the German fad for lining the floor J of the ocean with wrecks would stim- 1 <r j nlate interest and thought in this subject. The New York people say that with their present equipment : they can work at a depth of 300 feet. ] They expect later to go much deep- J er. Mr. Bowden says he has appa- { ratus with which he can work at 600 5 feet depths. In addition to stating 1 that an average of 100 vessels a year 1 j are wrecked along the coast of the ( v United States annually and that the ( value of the vessels and cargoes lost 1 on the British coast each year is $45,- 1 000,000, Mr. Bowden gives this par- ^ tial list of the treasure he hopes to ( rescue: _ _ -i Merida, sunk in collision witn acl- 1 xniral Farragut, May 12, 1911, sixtyfire miles east of Cape Charles in 300 3 feet of water; has cargo, $500,000 1 In silver bars, $300,000 in gold and ^ about $200*,000 valuables in pur- 3 7 ; sgr's safe. ^Oceana, sunk off Beachy Head, 1 March 16,1912, in 210 feet of water; { bad $5,000,006 in gold and silver, < part of a loan to China. 1 |L Tiusitania, torpedoed May 7, 1915, 3 twelve miles south of Kinsale, Ire- 3 land, in 270 feet of water; about 3 |H $1,000,000 gold and jewelry and sev- ] eral millions in securities aboard. 3 I Islander, sunk in 320 feet of water 3 B near Juneau, Alaska, with $2,000,000 3 HH in Klondike gold. Pewabiac, sunk in Lake Huron, 1 160 .feet of water, with $800,000 in 3 treasure aboard. 3 General Grant, wrecked on coast 1 of Auckland Islands in 1866, in 3 eighty feet of water; carried $15,- 1 * 000,000 in gold bars and bullion. 1 Alphonse, sunk off Port Gando wit^ $400,000 in Spanish coin. 3 CTlrwiirt mi n V fn 91A foaf af wotoi* J k#a/iU| Ouua. 1U u "X \j awv VJL nu.vv* off Cape Finisterre with $500,000 in silver bars. V Hamilla Mitchell, lost on the Lenconna Rock, near Shanghai, with / specie worth $700,000, part of which fcte been recovered: Flagship Florentina, lost in Tobermory Bay, off west coast of Scotland, with $15,000,000. 7; Mr. Bowden also referred to the Spanish galleon Santa Margarita, ???..: Which in 1597 sailed from Santo Domingo with $7,000,000 on board and (fas wrecked in Mona Passage near Porto Rico. Her location was discovered in 1908 and a group of Har1 fard men sailed on a yacht they M brought to salvage her. They were wrecked % May, 1908, in almost the * fame spot, and gave up. He said his attention was also upon the famed fleet of seventeen Span f ish galleons which in 1702, conveyed toy French and Spanish warships, jgv took from South America and thti West Indies accumulated treasure -of 4*140,000,000. The Dutch and English fleets set out to capture the galleons and attacked the treasure ships in Vigo Bay^ Spain. The Spaniards sank the galleons. Six of the galleons, Mr. Bowden said, being in ' shallow water, were raised and about 120,000,000 recovered, but the other, f containing $120,000,000, being sunk r in more than 200 feet of water, still rested at the bottom of Vigo Bay. Surely that list is enough to fire the imagination of anyone possessed of an adventurous spirit and a diver's ! suit. There are persons who will doubt the ability of anyone to work in tsuu reet or water, me deeper * you go the greater pressure. In and about New York there-are many divers. They work in the sea, in the harbor, in the rivers and at times are summoned to the great lakes. They have been called at times to go down into flooded mines. On the authority of the master diver of America it can be stated that the greatest depth he or any person he knows has workp' ?d in was less than 120 feet. It is a fact that a much greater depth was reached by the divers who went down to the submarine lost in Hawaiian waters and the pearl divers are said to reach depths of more than 100 feet without the aid of diving apparatus, but the professional diver will tell you the conditions must be dif ferent there to what they are here. Unless the waters are very clear and the bottom of the sea perfectly clean the diver works as does a blind man?by sense of feel. He sees nothing in murky waters. He must be a master of many trades or he can accomplish little. He must know how to cut through iron or steel. He must be a carpenter. He must be a , \ A , P FEEDING GREAT ARMIES. Germans Show the Greatest Ingenni ty in Replenishing Stores. Soldiers in war must be well fee qo matter what happens to the population at home. With all that we read in the newspapers about the suffering multitudes of Germany nobodj intimates that the German soldiers are hungry. The importance of the commissarj department has long been recognized and the best fed army is usually the most cheerful and courageous. The German general staff is probably the most systematic and abundant provider of viands in the world, but the British are not far behind. Only the other day a contract was awarded tc i Canadian packing house for 600,000,000 one-pound cans of beef stev for the British Tommies. Men who have been along the British front say that not even the impossibility of getting a drink causes is much grumbling as does the lack of strawberry jam. The issue of jam is an institution in the British service. All the armies use a vast quantity of chocolate in one form or another?usually highly sweetened Coffee is the soldier's drink the worl<3 iround, but the Britisher substitutes tea on many occasions, and the habit is said to be spreading to his French comrades. Russian soldiers are inveterate tea drinkers, as is every/ body in Russia. The Germans have shown the neatest ingenuity in replenishing their food stores. It is said that thej """" oh!a +n fro Ha tha Tlirkf WCIO Cf CU UlJiVy l>U VAWUV v?w ? Ammunition for foodstuffs, although Purkey was short of eatables before the road was opened from Berlin tc Constantinople. In all the vast ares t>f territory that the Germans have taken they have not missed anything in the form of food. Northern France has contributed its quota. Being a Bne fruit country it has helped tc make up the equivalent of the English jam. Even Serbia, impoverishBd by three wars, contributed 90,00C pigs to Germany's depleted stock. Men leading active lives, largely ir the open air, are usually big eaters ind soldiers on duty must be in the best of health, therefore, any armj rations must be liberal in size as well is varied in composition. The consumption of food in war time is therefore increased, and much is wasted. That is one reason why the prices of food have soared in all the European countries, though anothei reason may well be that on the average people have more money to spend aow than they did before the war. When we consider the vast quantities of food taken for army use? when we remember that there is onlj ane standard ration for all soldiers onv noHrmnlitv AnH that, the DOOr w * J ^ ~ ~ 7* * sst laborer who has responded to his country's call is just as well fed as the duke's son who has shouldered a rifle?if any such thing has happened?and that this average or universal ration is far above the average ration pf all the population in timet ef peace, both in quantity and quality, we do not have to be possessed ol rivid imagination to picture what is ?oing to happen to food prices if the war lasts a year or two longer. Trials of a Teacher. Miss Hitch was having some trou? ble with a little fellow in her spelling class at Claysville. "B-e-d spells bed," she explained over and over again; "b-e-d, bed. Dc you understand?" "Yes'm." "Now, then, c-a-t spells cat, d-o-? spells dog, and b-e-d spells?whal did I tell you b-e-d spells?" "Dunno." "Don't know? You don't knov what b-e-d spells after all I've tolc you?" "No'm." "Well, once more, b-e-d spell* what you sleep in. Now, what d( you sleep in?" "My drawers!" triumphantly ex claimed the urchin.?Country Gen tleman. One hundred dollars a ton for i proposed vessel was recently askec by a Japanese shipbuilding yard, anc Consul General sciamore, or ioko hama, reports that the surprised cus tomer withdrew his order. The cost before the war was $60 to $77. : /? rigger. He must know ships of ever: class and kind. He must have i sound heart, powerful lungs and un usual courage. Science always is advancing. I may make it possible for men t< work at depths of 300 or 600 feet ii the sea. Men who know the way thi pressure increases the deeper you g< are skeptics. If the men behind these salvagi enterprises have done nothing els< they have reopened and revived i great field of adventure, one tha should provide many tales pictur esque, romantic and delightful, fo about the sunken treasure of Vigi Bay alone enough has been writte] to fill ten score large books.?Com merce and Finance. DUMPING AT SEA. - New York Debris Is a Menace to the Harbor. I The debris of the city of New York, which has been deposited in the s ocean outside the harbor or in Long - Island Sound since 1890, amounts to r 320,274,742 cubic yards, or more 5 than all the material which ha& been excavated for the Panama canal. r These figures are contributed to the I f A f on_ 1 CLilllUClrl i cp/l I U1 IUC H11C1 \j L tu' gineers to the secretary of war by ' Capt. A. S. Halstead, U. S. N., super' visor of the port, to show how im portant is the work of the govern' ment in superintending the disposi5 tion of this mass of material so that > it will not block up the navigable wa ters of this part of the coast. In all seasons and at all hours the federal authorities keep up a patrol to watch the garbage scows and see that they do not dump their loads too close to the shore. It is maintained : by five steam tugs, the Cerberus, La1 ment, Scout, Nimrod and Vigilant, an<J one naphtha launch, the Look out. But of these Capt. Halstead - says only the Cerebus is fit for duty outside and prolonged tours of sea I duty, although the Vigilant may be used freely for long inspection runs. ' . Four vessels, says the report, are L employed in patrolling the harbor mouth day and night, Sundays and holidays, and two are always on duty. One station at the Narrows collects > permits from the town as they pass ' nut tn a. and atamns UDon them the r hour at which the barges pass out. J Then it keeps an eye on the two un1 til it comes under the surveillance of } the outside patrol boat, which has its > beat from three to five miles outside 1 the Scotland lightship on the regular' ly authorized dumping ground. This > outer patrol makes a note of the con' dition of the barges as they reach it, 1 and if there is any discrepancy be> tween its observations and those * made by the patrol at the Narrows the skippers of the tugboats are ask1 ed to explain and to show that they did not dump any refuse too near in. 1 The Scotland lightship also makes ' a report on the movements of the 5 scows, and one of the supervisor's r boats is continually moving along I the water front of the city making * notes of what dumpings is going on, * while the naphtha launch plies along * the Staten Island hills, Newark Bay, * the Passaic river and other shallow * waters to see the law obeyed. One of the most troublesome du* ties of the harbor patrol is the pre^ vention of the casting adrift of heavy logs and large timbers. Floating in the open they may, says Capt. Hal" stead, do great damage to the pror pellers of steamers, and it is absol ? i-t- * V1J J A- ?A *1, In AV.n ' lUieiy iuruiuueii tu act iucu m * water. This involves the pier owners 5 in considerable difficulty. When they 5 are building an extension or renew1 ing their piers they have old crib ' work and spiles to throw away. They ' are quite useless and under the law 5 the owners are required to bring ' them ashore or raft them. As a mat ter of fact, Capt. Halstead suggests, many pier owners wait until it is 5 dark and then illegally send the logs 5 adrift, confident in the difficulty in detecting them. When the patrol boats meet a dangerous log they are supposed to tow ;it away from the neighborhood of the fairway. r Capt. Halstead lays emphasis on the fact that his men must keep the L seas whatever the weather. It is ) when it is rough that the skippers of the tows are most likely to dump their loads in prohibited waters, and , so the patrol can never relax its vigi[ lance. The tows, says Capt. Halstead, venture to sea when they have merely a chance of making the dump. ing grounds, but they are willing to f - - I risk it rather than leave the dredges idle for a considerable time. In the next few years it will be i necessary for the? patrol to be more j active than ever. It is probable that a large quantity of the material excavated from the two new subway tubes under the East River will be towed out to sea for final disposition. It would make admirable filli ing for the reclamation of land, but I to handle it is so expensive that the [ contractors may be willing to throw . it into the ocean.?New York Sun. ^ The Link. 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