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JJRM Y2d&CR<?A2r ■ J f r ■■ ■"■ '"""”■' ~ - - -. > 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- J | y-' 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 THE DANIELBVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA. VM j 1 catzozt arz> calabar iuszxl. 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 lfffr>ll§l sr &*-a* :H- i If. i ri#W4. H j i 4,Hj .■j 11 j| |j | 'AangzazAa 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 / 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 6r.i7-!?n B/i I I7IN]NS-Rft I i l4 ‘* * I rD * m I Ji?RACt I k—■ I 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.