Bellefonte, Pa., October 7, 1921.
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GOLD AND JEWELS
200 FEET IN SEA.
Vessel Goes After Wealth on Board
the Sunken Ward Liner.
Fifty-five miles off the Virginia
Capes, lying in 200 feet of water, on
a hard sandy bottom, are twenty-two
tons of silver bar, six kegs of gold
coin, $500,000 in gold bars, 4700 tons
of copper, and jewels worth $1,000,-
000— treasure with a total value of
about $4,000,000, larger than any Cap-
tain Kidd ever buried or captured with
the cutlass and the plank, says the
New York Herald.
One day last week the dingy little
steam trawler Ripple backed out from
Pier 3, Hudson River, pushed her nose
down stream, and headed for the
Capes. If the horseshoe which was
the last bit of cargo she took aboard
to be hung in the pilot house stands
up to its traditions the Ripple will
come back still a dingy trawler, but a
treasure ship as well.
Captain Kidd would have turned
away in disgust had he seen the Rip-
ple casting off. Her skipper, Captain
Carmichael, took the bridge in a dark
business suit and straw hat. His
black mustache—and right there the
piratical comparison falls flat—was
clipped like those of 200,000 men on
Broadway. The Ripple déck was
crowded with salvaging apparatus, but
there wasn’t a cutlass in sight. It was
all as much a part of the Spanish Main
as the Hudson River Day Line.
Aboard the Ripple sailed L. V. Mac-
Knight, president of the H. L. Goth-
am Corporation, of 15 Park Row, the
company which has undertaken the
Ripple’s voyage as a matter-of-fact
“business proposition. The crew and
the company don’t regard the trip as
an adventure. It’s a wrecking job—
more profitable than most of success-
ful, that’s all.
The treasure is in the sunken cargo
of the Ward line steamship Merida,
which went down off Cape Charles ten
years ago last May. She was bound
from Havana to New York, and one
pitch black night, with a thick fog roll-
ing in, she was smashed amidships by
the Admiral Farragut of the Ameri-
can Mail Steamship Line. The Merida
was found to have a hole in her side
big enough for a tugboat to enter. The
Admiral Farragut saved her crew and
passengers, but the Merida thrust up
her bow and sank with her $4,000,000
cargo in thirty-five fathoms of water.
One other attempt has been made to
salvage the Merida’s cargo, but it was
abandoned after a long spell of dirty
weather, which made wrecking a dif-
ficult matter.
The Gotham Corporation believes it
has taken every precaution to make
the voyage of the Ripple less of a
treasure hunt than a business under-
taking. It has engaged as wrecking
master a ship’s officer who was chief
mate of the Merida when she went
down, Captain George W. Nordstrom,
who knows the exact location of the
lost liner. The chief diver will be
Frank Criiley, who was chief diver in
the salvaging of the United States na-
val submarine R-4, which sank off
Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, in 300 feet
of water. Crilley is said to have
worked at greater depths than any
other diver in the world. He holds the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
The sea bottom at the point where
the Merida went down is of hard
gravel and sand. :
The trawler Ripple is a sturdy craft,
with stubby lines. She was built in
1910 at Fore River, Mass., and was
used by the navy as a mine sweeper
during the war. She is 114 feet over
all, with a beam of 22 feet 5 inches
and a draught of 11 feet 6 inches. She
carried on her deck a twenty-eight
foot motorboat to be used as an aux-
iliary. The Ripple sailed with a crew
of twenty-five men, including the div-
ers and wreckers.
NEW MACHINE MAKES
PAPER BARRELS.
present high price of paper, paper bar-
rels cost somewhat more than ordi-
nary wooden ones. However, taking
into account the advantages attending
the production of paper barrels on the
spot as needed, large users probably
will find them less expensive on the
whole than wooden containers.
Real Estate Transfers.
Harbison-Walker Refractories Co.
to G. W. Pfoutz, tract in Rush town-
ship; $1.
Carrie Mullender, et bar, to Eva R.
MeCislian: tract in Spring township;
John W. Clark, et ux, to John J.
Clark, tract in Benner township; $1.
L. P. Gallagher, et bar, to Samuel
Pletcher’s heirs, tract in Howard
township; $500.
Edwin R. Wolfe, et ux, to Cyrus.
Zeigler, tract in Miles township; $800.
John A. Kelley, et ux, to Wm. T.
O'Brien, tract in Snow Shoe; $2300.
Philipsburg Coal and Land Co., to
C. C. Bauge, tract in Philipsburg;
$900.
Adam H. Krumrine, et ux, to H. P.
Griffith, tract in State College; $900.
John L. Holmes, et al, to Alvin Bre-
on, et ux, tract in Ferguson township;
$1800. |
Charles E. Snyder, et ux, to Russell
B. Nesbit, tract in State College;
$5275. i
Charles E. Snyder, et ux, to Morris |
W. White, tract in State College;
$5275. :
Charles E. Snyder, et ux, to Geo. W.
Sullivan, tract in State College; $5675. |
Charles E. Snyder, et ux, to James
P. Kelley, tract in State College;
$5250. ;
Charles E. Snyder, et ux, to Philip
M. Iloff, tract in State College; $5475.
Charles E. Snyder, et ux, to Walter |
H. Pielemeier, tract in State College;
$5475. |
Charles E. Snyder, et ux, to Jacob
Sauges, tract in State College; $5275.
Charles E. Snyder, et ux, to Edward
MN. Sullivan, tract in State College;
$6875. i
Joseph C. Haines, et al, to Catherine
Antes, tract in Philipsburg; $750. |
Margaret B, MacDonald, to A. P.
i
$9250. |
Ray Bragmeir, et ux, to S. S. Shirt
Co., tract in Philipsburg; $1500. |
Thomas M. Weaver, et ux, to Earl
Garrett, tract in Spring township;
$400. i
William Bigelow, et al, to Superior
Silica Brick Co., tract in worth town-
ship; $175. :
C. W. Keller, et ux, to L. Y. Greene,
tract in Worth township; $1.
Ray R. Kelsey, et ux, to Superior
Silica Brick Co., tract in Beileronte;
$1.
Luther L. Weaver, et ux, to Harris
Stover, tract in Haines township;
$4500.
Margaret Weaver, et al, to Lydia
M. 4: urmdortj tract in Haines town-
ship; $50.
Emma C. Corman, et bar, to James
E. Zeigler, tract in Haines township;
$2900.
Adam Weaver's Exrs., to L. D. Orn-
dori, tract in Haines township; $1. }
Adam Weaver's Exrs., to Lydia M.
E. Urndort, tract in Haines township;
$1.
Adom Weaver's Exrs., to Lydia M.
E Orndorf, tract in Haines township;
1. i
Charles C. Orndorf, et al, to Lewis
> Orndorf, tract in Haines township;
14. !
I. G. Gordon Foster, et al, to Austin
L. Patrick, tract in State College; |
$500.
C. O. Broame, et ux, to William T.
Wimmey, tract in Ferguson township;
$7800. :
E. M. Watt, et ux, to George R.
, Wren,
Weiland, tract in College township;
Dunlap, et al, tract in Ferguson town-
ship; $1200.
0. H. Nason, et ux, to Keystone Au- |
to G. and 0. S. Co., tract in Rush | Showers, tract in Milesburg; $150.
township; $2000.
Sarah A. Buck to trustees Central | H. McGarvey, et ux, tract in Belle-
Pa. Conference of U. B. church, tract | fonte; $4,500.
in State College; $5250.
Robert F. Hunter, et ux, to M. C.| Walker Refractories Co., tract in
Hansen, tract in Bellefonte; $750.
John L. Holmes, et ux, to Clyde L. |
Smeltzer, tract in State College; $500. | church to Church Trustees of United
John L. Holmes, et ux, to Pearl A.
Krebs, tract in State College; $500.
Kondrat Kusick, et ux, to Lewis |
Barsky, et ux, tract in Philipsburg;
$5,000.
William F. Ross to Bell Ross, tract
in Spring township; $1.
Wm. B. Pletcher, et al, to Walter A.
Daughenbaugh, et al, tract in Howard |
township; $4,000.
Andrew C. Thompson, et ux, to Al-
bert Nordberg, et al, tract in Philips-
burg; $1.
W. E. Albert, et al, to Anna M.
Bair, tract in Philipsburg; $1.
Vinton Beckwith to Sarah J. Merri-
man, tract in Taylor township; $400.
James A. Barrett, et ux, to Ziela
tract in Spring township;
$1,200.
Harry Dukeman, sheriff, to Gardner
Long, tract in Potter township; $3,500.
William Wenzel to Mary C. Wen-
zel, tract in Curtin township; $1,600.
Laomia C. Harris, executor, to El-
len D. Meese, tract in Bellefonte;
$3,400.
Jacob Stover, et ux, to William H.
Stover, tract in Haines township;
$975.
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A. R. Alexander, et ux, to John | Sh oes
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| Braucht, tract in Penn township; $225. | = : Sh .
Hannah G UEUEUSUSLEUELELELUE = = = ERSTE oo
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Thomas R. Pierpoint, et al, to Paul ie be
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J. W. Pfoutz, et ux, to Harbison- SH Th
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| Worth township; $1. Fi IE
Church Extension of Evangelical sr Sd
Te Sr
Evangelical church, tract in State = i=
| College; $2,000. = 1Eé6 Y =
Albert B. Curtin, et ux, to Philips- | && e c ° ik
burg Hotel Corp., tract in Philipsburg; | {Ic SI]
| $5,000. ar oe
Samuel E. Martz to Thomas G. | gl a
Sipser, tract in Ferguson town- | B& A Hard Rubber Self Filling Fountain Pen i
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. John F. Sweitzer, ob ux, to Foster Hit FREE with each pair of School Shoes. Oc
. E. Housel, tract in Spring township; Ic
sii00. Pe PE on
Simon Rote’s Exr’s to C. S. Musser, ie on
tract in Haines township; $1,400. 0 Li
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THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
2 Bush Arcade Building 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA. ri
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Thirty Years
THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY.
Manufacturers whose products are
packed in barrels find the container |
problem an increasingly difficult one.
Owing to soaring prices of materials |
and increased labor costs prices are !
much higher than they were a few
years ago and it is not always easy to
obtain what is wanted at any price.
If the
cooperage shop to keep him supplied
from day to day he can’t be certain
that he will always have all the bar-
rels he wants when he wants them. If
he tries to overcome this difficulty by
buying large quantities in advance he
finds that a large storage space must
be provided because barrels are bulky.
A machine calculated to solve the
barrel problem has lately been invent-
ed. It is designed to be installed as
part of any plant’s equipment and to
be operated by any intelligent person.
The raw materials can be stored in
much smaller space than is required
for barrels, staves or hoops and bar-
rels can be turned out just as needed.
Chip paper, made from waste paper,
rope and other waste fibrous material,
is used for making the barrels. A
roll of paper is placed in the machine
and its end is attached to a two-part
mandrel. The machine is then thrown
inte gear and as the mandrel rotates
the paper is wound on it. As the pa-
per strip passes from roll to mandrel
it is coated on one side with silicate
of soda (water glass) which cements
the layers together. The advantage
of this adhesive is that it sets quickly,
permitting the use of the barrels
shortly after they have come from the
machine. After paper has been wound
on the mandrel to the requisite thick-
ness for the barrel the two parts of
thé mandrel are drawn apart and the
cylindrical shell is removed. After
this step which consumes less than a
minute of time, heads either of wood
or pressed steel are attached and the
container is ready for use.
The paper barrel produced by the
machine is lighter and tighter than a
wooden barrel. It is clean and neat
but not so strong as a well-made
wooden barrel and therefore cannot
be used as a container for heavy,
bulky commodities. Because of the
manufacturer depends on a’
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The cool nights make Comfortables and Blankets a ne-
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Coats Suits Dresses
We have again received new styles in Laides’ and
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