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Again the Lure of
Surfed Pirate <WmM
Treasure Caffs
By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
LL ABOARD fur the Cocos!
Here we go for the treasure
I of the Alary Itear! Captain
I Thompson is dead—and in
K- rj h —l, if there is any such
place lull the story of his
j buried millions goes travel
ing on wherever men go
down to the sea in s!ii[)s.
■ 'it at which is ocTasioned by the fol
lowing cablegram from London of re
cent date:
’I hreo English women—Miss L. E.
( ;.icsiiiiui, who is curator of the iusict
liouso ut the London zoo; Miss Cyn
thia lam,-Held, a fellow of the Zoo
r;i iphicul society, and Miss Cropp, a
Cawiirdcss will lake part in a hunt
for £7,000,000 worth of hurled treasure
' ' i h will be a aide line of the exp< dl
<:op leaving England this month In the
; uiing yacht St. George under tlie dl
l otimi of tlie S ientillo Expeditionary
I-' a arch ■association.
"I he treasure was burled in Cocos
i hind by the inuttnnus crow of the
British ship Mary Head, which was
lull ed with it for safe keeping during
the war between Chile and Peru a lnm
t roil years ago. The absconding crew
\ s overtaken and shot by a Peruvian
punitive expedition, hut the cabin boy
i. rvived, and the organizer of the ex
p' ditlon now lias been approached by a
i. in—whose Identity is undisclosed
who claims that he got from the cabin
boy, as an old man, the exact bearings
nf tla spot where tlie treasure lies
buried This mail, equipped with bor
ing machinery, will meet the expedi
tion on Cocos island to endeavor to
locate tin' treasure, all earlier search
for which has failed.
To be 1 sure, the nnmo of the ship was
- Mary Hear ami not the Mary Item!,
l' , :< the cabin boy may have transposed
tJ o letters as a mutter of precaution.
And the Mary 1 mar's treasure was
S!:*,(><HI,OPO Instead of $33,000,(HH> —un-
less the Englishwomen are figuring on
tut amumilation of interest. And the
cabin boy is not strictly in accord
with the accepted version of the tale.
Rut wluit of small details like th:tt!
Nobody ha> ever found and carried off
Hit* treasure. Therefore it unis! still
lie there.
S > all aboard for Cocos, m the Pa
c'd . of!' the coast of t'esta ltlea, the
uios popular resort of treasure-seek
ers !n all the world. Hurrah for pieces
of eight and don 1 .nuns in a chest. Hur
rah for sr'ii'i gold candles!icks and
k'rlr.es, 1 ■ tit*rah for diamonds and
rubies am*, emeralds by the handful.
If they tire not to be had on Cocos.
* hey ought to be. For in the days of
old the pirates swarmed along the
Spanish west coast and throve -most
amazingly. And every pirate worth
He name buried his treasure as a
matter of course.
Sir llenry Morgan— knighted by
Charles 11, one time governor of
Jamaoia, and ablest, most successful
ami most despicable of all the buc
rHPwrs• -has not hitherto been cred-
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ibly suspected of having buried
treasure on Cocos. But now, just in
the nick of time, Bernard Joachim
Keegan of Panama, world champion
deep diver, announces that he has
found Morgan’s treasure vault in
“Morgan’s Sunken Cave” on Old Provi
dence island. And if Morgan hurled
treasure there, why not also on
Cocos’? This bloodthirsty Welshman
certainly took enough loot to keep him
busy biding it, for his individual
share from the sacking of Old Panama
was $2,006,000, to say nothing of what
he took from the associates he double
crossed ttnd deserted.
Captain Kidd appears to have
buried treasure pretty much every- !
where, so why not on Cocos? Captain
Kidd, by the way, started out under
commission from William 111 as a
pirate-catcher. lie had several silent
partners who later found it wise to
silence him. So they worked a frame
up on him and hanged him ns a pirate,
lie never was very bloodthirsty and
apparently about tlie worst thing lie
did was this, as the immortal ballad
has it :
1 made a solemn vow, when I sailed,
when 1 sailed,
I made a solemn vow, when I sailed.
I made a solemn vow, to God I would
not bow.
Nor myself a prayer allow, as I
sailed.
I'd a Bible In my hand, when I sailed,
when I sailed.
I'd a Bilile in my hand, when I sailed,
I'd a Bible in my hand, by my father's
great command.
And I sunk it in the sand, when 1
sailed.
The story of tlie Mary Dear goes
back just about a century. She was
an English trading brig in commr.nd
of Captain Thompson and site lay in
the harbor of Lima in 1820. This
was the time when the Spanish coun
tries of South America were throw
ing off the yoke of Spain. The
I wealthiest city left of till that vast
| domain wen by the Couquistadores
and held by the viceroys was Lima,
the capital of Peru, which had been
the seat of the- government of South
America since the Sixteenth century.
The Viceregal court was maintained
there in magnificence and the arch
bishop of Lima was all-powerful. The
great cathedral still stands to pro
claim the grandeur that was Lima's
in IS2O.
But when Bolivar the Liberator
drove the Spaniards out of Venezuela
and set ut) the free republic of Col
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umbia and turned his eye toward
Lima —why, there was panic in the
capital of Peru. Those who had n
“pull" rushed valuables into the
fortress to the amount of $30,000,000.
The treasure of tlie cathedral of Lima
was sent to sea. Many of tire rich
took whatever shipping was at hand
and sailed with their treasures.
Now, one story of those days of
panic that has been believed by one
treasure-seeking expedition after an
other is that Captain Thompson of the
Mary Dear took on board gold and
silver to the amount of $12,000,000;
that after leaving port he did away
with the owners; tiiat he buried the
twelve millions on Cocos. Another
version adds that Thompson joined
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with Benito Bonito, a famous pirate
of that time; that they accumulated
much booty, and that they buried ttiat
also on-Cocos. It is history that Bon- i
ito was run down by the British j
frigate Espiegle and rather than lie
captured he blew his brains out on j
it is own deck.
There is a third version of the story
which asserts that Capt. Edward
Davis at an earlier date had also
buried vast treasure on Cocos. This
Davis was a successful pirate, who
took advantage of tlie king’s proclama- ,
tion of pardon in IGBB, retired from
piracy and went back to England to
end his days In affluence and respect
ability. lie certainly took great
spoils along the Spanish coast of
South America and the isthmus. And
its certainly he used Cocos as a place j
for careening ship.
But it is the treasure of tlie Alary !
Dear that has been tlie lure of Cocos, i
Captain Thompson escaped the fate j
that overtook Bonito, so the story
goes, and got safely to England. In
1844 he confided in one Keating, a j
Newfoundlander, and then died. Keat
ing and a Captain Bogue found the
treasure on Cocos. The crew mutinied
and demanded a share. Keating and
Bogue, in attempting to escape with
a boatload of the treasure, were up
set' In the surf. Bogue drowned..
Keating was carried out to sea and
was rescued. Twenty years later Keat
ing told Ids tale to another Newfound
lander, Nicholas Fitzgerald. Keat
ing then up and died. But he left a
young widow who struck up a part
nership with a Captain Hackett. They
made an unsuccessful voyage to Cocos
in the brig Aurora.
Meanwhile the Mary Dear secret
had leaked out and treasure-seekers
galore got busy. Here are some of
them:
A German, Von Bremer, spent thou
sands in excavating and tunneling.
A man named Gissler, more tlmn
thirty years ago. took up a solitary
1 residence on Cocos and got a conimis
sion as governor from Costa Rica. He
was alive and still looking for the
treasure in 11)11.
In 1800 Captain Shrapnel of 11. A1
S. Haughty put a party of 300 blue-,
jackets a work.
In 1004 two English expeditions
’ worked simultaneously.
Since then and until tlie World war
hardly a year has passed without a
Cocos expedition either on tlie island
. *>r under preparation.
Well Proportioned Bungalow
Has Strong Individuality
By WILLIAM A. RADFORD
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Mr. William A. Kadford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building, for the readers of
this paper. On account of his wide
experience as Editor, Author and
Manufacturer, he is, without doubt,
the highest authority on all these sub
jects. Address all inquiries to William
A. Radford, No. 1827 Prairie avenue,
Chicago, 111., and only inclose two-cent
stamp for reply.
“There are so many novel designs
and styles that it is very hard for me
to pick out one that is to be our fu
ture home,” said Annabelle. “Tonight
we ought to make a selection, for 1 am
anxious to plan the interior. Let’s
take six of the nicest and of these
make a selection.”
“I know just which one you will
eventually choose-,” replied Harry. “It
is the one you have always looked at
just before \ye put them away every
evening. When this one is compared
with the others, it stands out by itself.
And I like it.” ' ■
And so it came to pass that Harry
and Anabelle decided on the cute little
bungalow shown here. They had spent
many a happy evening looking over
the latest standard and novel designs,
and each had secretly fallen in love
with this one.
This bungalow is of standard design,
and yet has enough points of individ
uality to create a more or less novel
exterior. The low gable roof and the
shingle walls when combined with the
chimney of the fireplace tend to place
it in tiie class of French homes.
Over all, the house measures 42 feet
by 26 feet, not allowing for the 8-foot
porch and terrace. Exposed rafters
add to the beauty of the terrace. The
front door opens to the living room,
which is 14 feet long and 13 feet wide.
A real fireplace about 6 feet wide with
bookcases on each side, creates a very
homey atmosphere, and the large win
dow facing the street gives the room
lots of light. The dining room con
nects the kitchen and a liall joins both
bedrooms.
Strength of Wood Is
Determined by Tests
Lumber used by builders has come
in for a series of exhaustive tests to
determine the relative strength of va
rious sorts of woods under a compres
sions! strain. By applying pressure to
the end of a timber and increasing the
force till the wood bursts, the compres
sional strength, or “column capacity,”
of the wood can be accurately meas
ured.
For tliis purpose the United States
forest service at Madison, A\ is., used
a tremendous machine capable of ex
erting a pressure of 1,000,000 pounds.
This gigantic squeezer is large enough
to take timbers 30 feet in length and a
foot square.
In making the tests tlie remarkable
fact was discovered that .knotty wood
was practically as strong for columns
as clear wood, the knots apparently'
having very little effect on the break
ing point of t lie timbers.
Knowledge of this fact should ef
fect a large saving in building con
struction, according to the officials of
the laboratory, as builders waste thou
'sands of dollars in discarding knotted
opinions.
Knotted wood, of course, is less
dense and elastic than clear timber,
as it comes from nearer the top of the
tree, and it is not implied that wood
containing knots should be deliberately
chosen for column work.
Certain kinds of wood, of course,
have higher column capacities than
others. In one test southern yellow
pine was shown to have a resistance as
high as 432.G00 pounds.
Colonial Bricks Like
Mayflower Furniture
llow often you hear it said of an old
house that the bricks of which it was
made were imported from England or
Holland, states the editorial writer in
the building number of House and Gar
den magazine. People actually believe
this to be a fact, just as they believe
that tlie Mayflower brought over vas*
’quantities of furniture. Had this been
tmo jt would have required more than
Leviathan to have brought either
furniture or the bricks,
i'he 1 torian, George Cary Egglc
Both bedrooms are 10 feet 0 inches B
wide by 12 feet long, with large closets B
Tiie bathroom is centrally located andß
has a linen closet. H
A bungalow sucli as described
create a very nice effect if placed on afl
50- foot lot, although it may he comfort- B
ably placed on one 35 feet wide. heß
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Floor Plan. I
large pillars supporting the porch and I
tiie exposed rafters are covered with I
stucco to balance with the chimney and I
to contrast with the rougli shingles o‘ I
the exterior wall. I
The kitchen deserves special atten- I
tiqn. Doors leading to tiie basement I
and to the attic open to the kitchen. I
Two large kitchen cabinets are located I
in and a large pantry is built oft die I
kitchen directly across from the vest!- I
liule. Tills may be glassed in and ar- I
ranged to hold the ice box. I
ston, remarked on this in one of his
books: “Nearly all these bricks,
whether English or Dutch, were made
111 America, as later scholarly research
lias conclusively proved. The only dif
ference between English and Dutch
bricks was one of dimensions. The
small bricks molded upon a Dutch
model were known as Holland bricks.
The much larger ones, molded upon an
English model, were called English
bricks.
“The very learned and scholarly his
torian of South Carolina, Ah'-
Crndy, has conclusively proved that the
so-called English bricks used in tne
construction of Carolina houses i’"
not have been imported from Eng an ■
By simple arithmetical calculation e
has shown that all the ships lamin
in tlie Carolinas during the Bewn
teentli century —even if all of ih. in
been loaded exclusively with
could not have brought enough : '
to build one-half or one-fourth of ru
‘English brick’ houses of that pah
the country.”
Judge Rules Bathroom
Not Considered Room
A bathroom is not considered
room, In so far as deed n .
are concerned, according to a
legal ruling handed down • ■
George H. Gessner of
Ohio. Asa result a permanent ■
junction was granted to P“_' „ nd
owner from erecting a n\
bath house on a lot restricted n
six-room house or one hug* r -
According to the A*rifjl
of Architects, sun P° rch si(Jer e<l
and dining alcove are not c ■
primary rooms in architect
ing of homes.
Electric Locomotives Speedy-
A speed of 105 miles an h a
been attained by an c ecu <■
tive In tests before -00 -■
electrical railroad men eleC .
of the country at Erie I ■ - y . k;ldo
trie locomotive and a of
steam locomotive engaged > ln
war. The electric
puffing after giving the steam
!, s tart at five miles an twur.