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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1911)
The Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Page Copyright, 1911, by Amerloen-Exemtner. Great Britain Rights Reserved. r TT I 1 S I i C5 Pro W r. .. f. I -j '."N . ; ; j p. )1 I W I . J 1 1 C . f .... j; ' !; i S vf '1 f ' ' 1 (Mr- r? i it i.i i: .y I I I .11 I I Vvr, jFou; Suction Dredges and a Huge Steel Caisson 4 Lowered Into the Century 'Old Wreck of the Lutine Are Pour ing Millions of Gold and Silver Into the Coffers of the Company that insured the Precious Cargo in 1799 tor a (p .... .ji ir L.:;.- 2 s Photograph of the Wire Cafe and Nets at the Salras e Ship'a Bow, Into Which Suction Dredges Pump Sand b and Coin from the Sunken Lutine. C rh Craw of tha Trtasur Salvaga . Ship Lowtrlng Dlvara to Oiract tha Work of Uncovarlng tha Lutlna'a Hulk. 1 V London, Oct 16. A SUCCESSFUL hunt tor sunken trtasura amounting to milt ' tons ta ao unuaual In tha his tory of treanura-nuntlng that tha Utaat sows from tha acana haa al most upsat tha traditional dignity of the directors of Lloyd's, the fa mous maritime Insurance corpora tion Into whose coffers those recor ded millions will flow after lylof for more than a hundred yeara at the bottom of the Zuyder Zee. Seated about their table, mode ot the recorereil rudder of the English Frigate Lutine the treasure ship which sank In 1799 with its cargo of nearly $8,000,000 In gold and sliver colna and bullion the directors of Lloyd's are hurlng the satisfaction ot handling some hundreds ot colna , recorered from the wreck, while guns, cannon balls, the Lut ne's ancuor, some aplkea and chalna and bits ot wood from the hull, recently re celred, further prove that the bot tom of the ocean otf the Island ot Terschelllnf Is not being mined In vain. The salvage belongs to the Lloyd's because that company, than newly organised, Insured the Lutine and Its treasure cargo, and duly made good the loss. It Is only recently, after a century of aporadlo efforts now and then partly successful to recover the treasure that Lloyd's englneus have devlaed adequate mechanical means to compel the ocean's bed to yield up the $3,000,000 In coin and bullion estimated to be atlll burled In the aand. Their salvage ship, carrying the most complicated wrecking and dredging, apparatus yet devised, after eeveral months of preliminary work la now tn touch with the deeply burled deck of the old Lutine, beneath which must atlll exist the bulk ot the long-lost treasure. The ship la equipped with a power ful auction pump having a diameter of twenty inches. A pipe ot this diameter la Inserted in the bed of the sea, and when the putnp la put In operation the-aocumulated aand, shells, specie and debris, with which the bed Is covered, is brought to the surface with the greatest facility. An enormoua sieve has bees erected on a lighter, and Into this the Intermingled rubbish and treas ure sre pumped In one Immense stream. The sieve Is tine iuuk' to retain everything larger than half a sovereign, which is about the slae ot one ot our nickels, and con joquently there m considerable min ing ork to te done on the residue left In the sieve. As the hull of the Lutine must. It na a so. have broken m, :t Is ex pected that divers sent down peri odically to the surrounding clay bottom which the dredges have cleared ot sand will recover many ot the missing bars of bullion. The bulk ot this, however, is eipected to bo reached by means of the caisson being lowered directly into the Lutine'a ocean grave. This device Is a great steel tube nearly one hundred feet In length and wide enough to allow a man to walk erect down Ita centre. At the bottom end Is a metal chamber pro vided with wlndowa and doors, and with grapling hooka and other ma chinery operated by power aboard the ship above where the upper end of the tube Is made fast. Ofnolal records show that the treasure-on board the Lutine was not the property ot the British Government, but of a number of London merchants connected with Lloyd's, and that Us destination was Hamburg. These merchants had aufflclent Influence to Induce tho government to asslyn to the frigate Lutine the task of trans port. ng the bullion. Tho records fall to explain, how. ever, how It happened that, sailing for the mouth ot the Elbe, the Lutine came to be driven upon the danger ous shoals of the Zuyder Zee, far out of her course, even when -)ery allowance 1 made for the strength of a northwesterly gale. From tbi witfck only one sailor escaped, and he died shortly after being picked p from a spar to which he had lashed himself. Aa England was then at war with the Netherlands, Lloyd's had to delay salvage operations. Meantime the sands near the wreck held a golden harvest tor the Dutch fishermen ot nearby Islands. At low tide the wreck ot the Lutine was partly ex posed, with a channel running close by. In a volume soon to be' published by Bturgls A Walton Company, Ne York, cUled "The Book ot Burle Treasure." the author Ralph D Payne quotes the following offlcia' Inventory of these Dutch flailngs: SS ears ot tola, welaht 40 eeunds S ou toss. 41.08T fipanlett silver pliteles. It brs of sliver, wslght 1.731 (ounds S oi'Bcea. ITS 8panlih gold pistoles. 81 double d'or. . US single Louis d'ir. 4 English guineas. In the year 1801, for lack .of ap paratus, the search grew unprofit able tor the Dutchmen, and was abandoned. Lloyd's was again obllirucl to postpone the quest o ng to general anxiety over Napoleon's wail ke activity. Other international troubles including Holland's claim to half the Lutine salvage Interfered with systematic search until 1858, when divers again located the wreck and brought up the bell of the old frigate which now rests In the com mlttee room at Lloyd's, with other relics. The Dutch flsherfolk were so ex cited over this renewed locating of the treasure hulk that they swarmed about In well-manned boats until they bad to be driven off by an English gunboat. The work of salvage went on until 1881, with an additional total of $110,000 in bullion recovered. Searching Dredged-Up Mate rial for Gold Coins. Strangely enough, records showing the amount of treasure consigned to the Lutine had disappeared, and Lloyd's was indebted to the tngenulty of the Dutch salvers for Information, virtually proving that $9,000,000 atlll remains to reward present operations off the Island ot Terschelllng. The Dutch genius based his estimate on the fact that the bars of silver and gold already recovered were stamped u ft., with, certain totters and teumbers "ow tne -ani indicating a complete series, and that the missing numbers and letters would show the proportion of the treasure still resting at the bottom of the sea. Later findings have verified this estimate showing that there were in all one thousand gold snd silver bars In the Lutlne's hold. Mr. Payne, ac cordingly, presents this Interesting tabulated statement of the Lutlne's treasure as It stands to-day: salvage in the years 1800 to 1801 $378,850 Salvaee In 18A7 and 1838 108,015 Salvage In lSSO and 1861 24.000 t Steel Tube Suiks to the Buried Hulk of the Old 1S l J Treasure IB! ST-' . . t "- - I Total salvage.......... $400,483 Total treasure estimated to have been lost. ..... .$3,878,000 Treasure remaining In the wreok 8.878,B8 Now, at last, after more than a cen tury, there are reasonable expecta tions that ere long the whole of the Lutine treasure will have been re covered, with more than $5,000,000 as the return tor present efforts. Buch a triumph will mark a new departure in historic attempts to re claim sunken treasure failure, often accompanied by death and disaster, being the usual outcome ot such enterprises- Pumped Away ship,? a. the r , S"d Is j " H( l A Vu -,38MBSrr V Now Make Your Own Paper Cups !'-JV ' - .... i . , . in I s ui ..v - -"Tt xoeA i see w" iibsv t t, i ' i - ... . -. . t uVj JIll' y.i.-,. & t y ? ; i ..... tjne ot the Lutine s luns. rumoins in I 2 -; : s . . . 3 Fixure 1. 4 Ficure 3. ... -i. iuing Treasure-Laden Sand Lighter Figure 5. 'N New York and other States laws have been passed making It a misdemeanor to use common drinking cups requiring every Individual to provide a cup for his or her own use. These laws have stimulated ingenuity In de vising cheap and easily carried drinking cupa, and the best of these appear to be made of paper. The accompanying diagrams show bow anyone may make bis own cup by fol lowing these directions. Flrst-'-Cut out or tear from your piece ot paper as large a square piece as possible. Second Form the guiding lines 1-4, 2-3 and 6-6, aa you aee on figure 1, by folding on the diagonals and along line number 5-6, half way across tho sheet, aa shown in figure 1. Third Fold the paper Into the triangular shape ot figure I or as shown lsometrically in figure S, using the guiding line shown on figure 1- Fourth Fold all fouf lower corners on both sides, shown in figure i aa A and P, up to meet the top ones at C along the lines 6-7 and 7-8, shown In figure 2. The cup will then look like figure 4. Flfth-Referrlnit to figure 4, the four cor ners on both sides marked EF are to be turned in to meet at Q, folding along the lines 9-10 and 11-12, and making the form shown in figure S. Sixth Referring to figure B, the four loose corners on both aides H and I, which meet at the top around the centre J, are first to be folded down to the centre K along the lines 13-14 and 14-lt, and the four flaps so formed are to be tucked neatly away Into the pockets under the parts marked L and M by folding along the Hoes 13 K and 15 K. Then after going over all pieces firmly to see they are secured, tear or cut off the ends with the opening In it at N along the line 16-17 Figure 2. A ') 8 0 ' .' -1 loV yll Figure 4. Figure 6.