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N.Y. Herald
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FOR HID
Morristown Stirred Up
Deepest Mystery It
Ever Known.
STRANGERS DUG HOLES AT NIG
First Came One Who Asked Many
Questions About Historic
Bellovuo Terrace.
LOOKED CLOSELY AT A MAP.
Then the Holos Were Made and in Ona
of Tham Was an Empty Iron
Pot Embedded in Cement
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.
MORRISTOWN, N. J. Nor. 13, 15-Morris-
town has a mystery which, if solved, might
reveal the perpetration of some famous crime-
murder, bank robbery or embezzlement. 'p
to this time, however, not a step has been
taken to solve the mystery, although present
are all the conditions which detectives long
for.
A historie country seat, a mysterious stran
ger prowling about with map and chart, the
following midnight three strange men at
work in a field, and the discovery next day of
a deep hole containing an iron pot tightly labd
in walls of cement and not a trace of the
strangern
The country sent in queation is now owns
by a wealthy real estate man-William Whit-
ney who resides in Orange. It lies about one
mile south of the Morristown Green, but its
former grandeur now la gone, and it is a
altuple farm, but for two generations it was
known as the rural residence of the "gentry"
Seventy years ago the place was owned by a
Dian named St. John, who live there some
tluse, nud diaposed of it to the Rev. Mr. John
Bou Mr. St. John carried on his estate with
great magnificence, and employed many per
sons, all of whom he paid with gold coin, and
In fact as far as can be ascertalued, it was
is Invariable habit to settle accounts with
the precious metal.
HAD MANY OWNERA.
The clergyman soon sold the estate to M. C
Kittrich, one of the greatest linen weavers of
the world, whose mulls were loented in the
country and Ireland, About thirty ve years
ngo it passed into the hands of "Old Roe." a
farmer who lived thereupon, until his death,
with a nephew named Edward. After "Old
Roe died a dispute arose over the property
he left. but a settlement was accomplished,
and the next owner of the country seat was a
Roman Catholle priest, who, in turn, sold it
to a New York real estate auctioneer named
William Kennely. Those who knew the latter
say that during the panic of 1872 he grew
enormously wealthy, but that snortly after the
time of "Jim" Fisk's death he lost unch of
bin property. In turu, Mr. Keunely died, and
the oldest of his three sons got the Bellevue
Terrace, as it was called He old to
present owner, Mr Whitney So. within ser-
enty years It has had eight owners.
During Mr. Kennely's proprietorship, the ter-
race was the scene of elegant entertainments.
The mansion was large and Imposing and

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Tached Therelo
And
houses, keusela and the like, and many pramt
hent person figured as guests. The host was
an arilve worker in New York politi In the
last few years a transformation has taken
place at Bellevue Terrace, and the estate bas
been divided for the most part into huliding
lots, yet enough land remained divided to
make it worth while for Mr. Whitney to have
It cultivated by a farmer named David Porter.
A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER.
Nobody ever suspected that anything unus
ual would happen on the farm, and Porter was
the Inst person to look out for such occur
reneea He was busily engaged in clearing
away some land near the street last Thursday
when a well dressed man approached on foot.
He was shrewd looking, and ns he stood sur-
veying the place began to question. He in
quired, nrst of all, where the boundaries of the
old terrace were before it was cut into build.
Ing lots. When David Porter showed him the
line boundaries the stranger became ngitated
anal hastily asked if any one had ever dug up
the land at that point "I mean to lay drain
pipes, or for any other purpose," he said.
Porter replied in the negative, and then the
visitor recovered his self-possession. He took
several maps and charts from his pocket, ne
cording to Porter's narrative, and another pa
per which seemed to be filled with memoranda.
Then he askest questions again Had the man-
sion been moved at any time of late years?
Was the summer honse shiftest ever from its
original location? Was that big tree the one
formerly known as the old walnut?
The farmer replied civily enough, nel the
stranger walked over the place again and
again, king at the principal topgraphieni
features, measuring distances, comparing the
lay of land with his maps and charts and
seeingly endeavoring to familiarize himself
in ery possible way with the place He
would not say what he did all the things
for, however, and before dusk walked away
HEHE WAS MORE MYSTERY
It across Sonth street at that point lives
Richard Dempsey, and on the sau Thurslar
night he went to see a friend in a hospital
in Newark NJ For some reason he was de
tayed and did not reach Morristown until ve
miugtes after one o'clock Friday morning. But
arriving at the depot he set out on foot
for home, and had come nearly to his gate
web something across the rond attracted his
attention He looked beyond to the place
where David Forter had been working the
previous afternoon The night was dark, but
he distinguished the figures of three men close
to an old walnut tree, They were stooping
toward the ground, and no intent upon their
doings that they did not notice him. Mr
Dempsey thought this was very strange, buf
he did not disturb them. Instead he quie
entered his home, locked the door, saw that
all the windows were barred and went to bed.
Since that time nobody bna sen the three
strangers, but after breakfast on Friday when
David Porter came to the field fo resume
work he found three large holes in the ground
They were about four feet apart and averagel
In depth six feet. Two were empty and had
un unnauni aurroundings The third, however,
cau bi eyes to stare. It was dug about
ten feet southwest from the old summer
hour and 110 feet from the nearest corner of
the mansion Measuring from the original
grade of the surface an It was before the
street was cut through the hole was quite
seven feet deep.
IMBEDDED IN THE WALLS
Porter lou into the bule and there at
the bottom, was an iron pot of French pat
tern securely intuided in walls of ment
Over Its top was small flagstone which also
had en tightly enters, but it had been
broken recently by blows with some heavy tool
Its ragged ends showed that The pot was
empty except for bits of cement Heattered
about were arts of newspapers partly burned,
which served in eu of candles, Porter be
to aid the men in their work. Further
tha this notblog was found.
T strangers had been careful to drop no
papr, handkerchief, glove or other article by
wbh they might be traced. And there the
mery resta Probably it will never be solved.
Na travels slowly in Morristown, and
conaratively few permons had beard Inst
ulg of this story told by Porter and Demp
and Mr Thomas F Keefe, who has lived
elo by for thirty years but those who did
un of it generally hellered that the curious
pot ontained the booty of some robbery.
that it was dug up a few nights ago by
con prned, who had paalbly served at
prin for the crime and who came
the first opportunity to regain
tre ure. What the latter
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121 March 1951 page. 7, call, 2, Christian Scieme Monitor,
Parton, Mas, Carten Editor

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Boy Finds 'Kidd' Name Plate,
Spurs New Pirate-Gold Hunt
By the United Press
Ship Bottom, N.J.
The
Iname plate is the first ac-
A boy poling for turtles has tual Kidd relic found here, though
hauled up a brass plate bearing almost every foot of Long Beach
the name of Captain Kidd from Island has been dug up by search-
here, giving ers in the past 250 years.
marshlands
near
treasure hunters a new clue to
the pirate's storied millions.
of nearby
Cedar Bonnet, a collector of local
historical items, said the plate
bears the clear inscription: "Wil-
liam Kidd, Master."
Charles Fackler
There is a possibility that the
a
plate was pulled by the youth
from
chest sunken in the
marsh's muddy bottom, Mr. Fack-
ler said.
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The plate, with holes in each
corner as though once fastened to
a chest, bears three discernable
letters below Kidd's name-a "Q"
or "R" and an "O" and an "S."
Two Theories Cited
Mr. Fackler said enthusiasts
already have two theories about
these. If the first letter is an "R,"
the three letters could refer to
the financial backers who sent
Kidd to prey on other pirates-
the English earls of Romney, Or-
ford, and Shrewsbury.
If the letter is a "Q," it might
refer to the Quedah Merchant, a
cargo ship Kidd captured and used
as his flagship in the 1690's.
Chief of Police W. B. Klein took
a dim view of the prospects of
finding any treasure around the
island.
Searchers have turned up al-
most the entire shore line without
ever making a strike, he said.
Hunts Date to 1701
But thousands
of amateurs
THE CHRISTIAN SO
Low Fliers A
By the Unite
City cops of the air make flyi
265,000 flights which move in and
major commercial airports.
A United Press survey showed
pilots got what amounted to "pu
orders for low flying.
The New York Police Aviation
complaints last year about low-f
were tailed by the air cops were
citizens had reported them on th
still were in the air.
Six cases, all involving privatel
over to the Civil Aeronautics Ad
and possible penalties.
Most of the complaints came
Guardia Airport area. They did n
Drive on Infla
As Complace
By Richard L
Staff Correspondent of The Ch
Washington ad
off
The administration's antiinfla- A
tion program is in trouble-bad
trouble.
th
There are signs that manifold du
difficulties are hurrying the sai
have found coins on New Jersey whole matter to a quick crisis.
beaches, and treasure hunts were
gr
Basic problem is that much of
the
bu
wh
vi
launched as early as 1701, two the sense of urgency has dimin-
years after Kidd paid a visit to ished in Washington.
Another feature is that every th
Only $75,000 of Kidd's legend- special interest group seems to
ary multimillion dollar hoard
Delaware Bay.
un
ize
ever was found, more than 100 have strong vocal representation
I miles north of here on Gardiner's here except the consumers who by
Island, off the eastern end of Long are, in a sense, too numerous to the
Island:
The rest has been sought in va-
organize.
an
Eric Johnston, head of the ha
rious places, from Casco Bay, Economic Stabilization Agency, mc
Maine, to the China Sea.
has hurried back from visiting ob
Truman in Florida cu
with a whole stack of proposed the
One expert has said that the President
most
ground
likely
treasure-hunting
beach of Absecon Island, buried and provisions of the Defense
on the Jersey coast is the revisions in the implementation he
now under Atlantic City hotels
Mobilization
which

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HUNTING FOR TREASURE
JERSEYMEN SAW SCARING THINGS
Ghold, Money, Iran Fats and Other Combinats
Serve to Make Witham Fisher and is Co-
paa loos Ban for Their Live-A
Yellow Dog's Tall Used
Talloman.
Asbury Park, NJ. Sept. 20-Cap-
tain Gibbs, who in his day achieved
considerable fame as a pirate in New
Jersey watera, is at large again. this
time keeping guard over a three leg-
Ke kettle Alled with gold which Wil-
llam Fisher, a Barnegat Bay fisher-
iran, living at No. 16 Springwood Ar
enue, says Is buried beneath a clar
tree on his grandfather's farm near
Osbornville. At least Fisher dreamed
It was burled there, and on Tuesday
night he attempted to dig it up He
wan accompanied by veral friebds
and hair from the tail of a yellow dig
but if he wants to make any further
search he will have to U so alone, for
the other members of the party were
frightened out of their wits by what
they witnessed near the old cedar tree.
Captain Gibbs appeared on the scene
Just about the siz an average pl-
rate, but with an unearthly bawling he
began to grow until he was as tall as
Dky scraper. when he suddenly dis-
appeared in a kreat
of fire. He
Frappa a New
wure regulation pirate clothes, with
cowboy hair and his apearance was
preceded by an overture from the in-
visible bard The harm wing story of
Captain Gibts
Jersey was related later by George.
T. Watson of New York who was in-
velgled Into joining the searching par.
tỷ He was still unnerve! According
to his story. "Unch John Havens and
Blatch Newman Ost
men, are belleved to have unearthed
Inany years agold coin and silver-
ware alleged to Erve ben buried en
the shores of Barnegat Bay
fisher-
This WLS on a tip furnished by P
neghe. Long John who was the body
Rervant of Captain Gibbs when the
buccaneering business was in its prime
Long John used to go out nights and
dig up gold, but he died with the se-
c of where most of the plunder was
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William Fisher dreamed three weeks
ng that a three legged pot filled with
gold was buried five feast of an
ol cedar tree on his grandfather's
farm He consulted Belu, a West
Asbury Park r
who said his
dram was true but to home and
dream or more This in Jebe
In July Fisher dramel again and this
it came to him that if he cared
2011
to and the gold he sa uid take with
Jum on the search his step brother.
Derwin, a tie
Nison Fisher, Mike
and fearles fisherRan and theory
Howard of Asbury Park Watson
why was employed by Hward, u.
taken into the party. It was dead!
tokin operations until after Wil-
Jam Maher had
out some
more details. or nigh late in AU-
6360 he had his third unum and It
wh & Korgeous on A big black enake
struck him an upper cut on the neck
with his tail, and 1d him to go ahead
with the digging afers probing
for the kettle with an rd The
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pilemtion must a word;ken by
as the digere
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16-BJ Thursday, March 1, 1984 Philadelphia Inquirer
Treasure-hunters claim wreckage
Court order follows 4-year fight over ship
By Louis Toscano
United Press International
OCEAN CITY, N.J. - A team of
treasure hunters has laid claim to a
four-masted ship that sank in a storm
83 years ago with millions of dollars
of Oriental porcelain in its hold.
Dressed in skindiving suits, Ed Mi-
chaud, the president of M & K Re-
search and Recovery Inc., and pri-
vate detective Bob Kahlcke slowly
made their way through the 40-de-
gree waters last Thursday to the
wreck of the Sindia, where they at-
tached a federal court order that
effectively gives the firm the salvage
rights to the vessel.
In Camden earlier that day, U.S.
District Judge Stanley Brotman had
signed documents placing the Sindia
in the custody of the federal govern-
ment and assigning the salvage
rights to M & K Research. Any arti-
facts taken from the four-masted
ship will belong to the government,
which will then give them to the
firm for sale.
"What it all boils down to is that
we get everything that comes up out
of the boat," said Ken Dieterly, cor-
porate secretary for the seven-man
diving company.
The court action last week cli-
maxed a four-year struggle between
M & K and the state of New Jersey,
which had been attempting to lay
claim under riparian law to two-
thirds of the artifacts buried in the
wreckage of the 329-foot vessel.
Lawyers for the treasure hunters
had asked the federal court to take
custody of the Sindia under a deci-
sion by the U.S. Supreme Court,
which last July set up guidelines for
the salvage of shipwrecks lying off
the U.S. coast.
The high court's decision came in
the case of a Florida diver who dis-
covered millions of dollars worth of
gold, then battled state officials for
seven years over ownership of the
bounty. The Supreme Court said the
federal government should maintain
jurisdiction in the cases to prevent
such ownership disputes.
Michaud said the court order
means his company can move ahead
with plans to explore the Sindia and
recover whatever treasures remain
below the surface. The operation,
which will entail removing tons of
sand from the vessel, will cost about
[AD] $700,000, which is being provided by
a New Jersey-based salvage company.
M & K Research began efforts to
recover the cargo of the Sindia in
late 1980.
The vessel was en route from Kobe,
Japan, to New York City when it sank
in a storm on Dec. 15, 1901. It now lies
in about five feet of water, but most
of the three-story-high ship is buried
beneath sand, company officials ex-
plained.
Earlier attempts to recover the car-
go failed because of a lack of proper
equipment, but Michaud said new
technology would enable his compa-
ny to succeed.
Manifests and shipping records ob-
tained by the company suggest that
the ship was carrying millions of
dollars worth of Oriental porcelain
when it sank. Several items have
already been recovered and were do-
nated to local museums.

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Asbury Park Press,
Florio sinks a bill New Jersey
to protect shipwrecks
if Aug.
TRENTON: Gov. Florio has condi-
tionally vetoed a bill that would pro-
tect shipwrecks off the New Jersey
coast.
paye A5
The bill, (A-3115) sponsored by As-
sembly members John Paul Doyle and
Marlene Lynch Ford, both D-Ocean,
would declare that all shipwrecks,
along with their cargo, contents and
other remains, are state property.
Permits would be required for most
excavation and salvage operations, and
the bill requires a system for dividing
recovered shipwreck artifacts between
the state and authorized salvors.
The bill would also set up, in the
state Department of Environmental
Protection, an 11-member Shipwreck
Management Board, which would eval-
uate and classify shipwrecks, and ap-
prove permits for salvage.
Florio said that while he agrees in
principle, he opposes creation of a new
permanent board in light of his efforts
to trim state government.
Florio recommends that provision
be deleted from the bili and the DEP
commissioner be given the authority
to make shipwreck decisions.
The bill now goes back to the Legis-
lature for reconsideration.

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fage C-5, cal 1, 2, 3
Asbury Parks Press, New Jersey 25 Sept 1988
Early residents
By E. BURKE MALONEY
Press Correspondent
"God bless Mom and Pop and all
us sinners, and send a ship ashore
before morning.
SUCH WAS the bedtime prayer
children of poor parents along the
South Jersey coast were reputed to
have been taught in the early part of
the last century. The story is apocry-
phal, of course.
But it serves to illustrate the repu-
tation of indigent people of the New
Jersey coast held by those elsewhere.
At that time metropolitan newspa-
pers, magazines and contemporary
novels carried lurid stories of vessels
being lured to destruction by false
lights ashore, robbery of shipwrecked
passengers, despoilment of corpses
and even murder.
The South Jersey coast was often
referred to as the graveyard of the
sea.
According to William Nelson's
"The New Jersey Coast in Three
Centuries," (1903) Jacob Morris of
Long Branch estimated that prior to
1845, there were 15 wrecks annually
between Sandy Hook and Squan
Beach, a distance of 23 miles.
In 1878, the Rev. Mr. Brown of
Point Pleasant listed 125 ships
wrecked in the preceding 40 years
between Manasquan and Barnegat
inlets (about 25 miles.)
On Aug. 3, 1848, Rep. William N.
Newell told Congress that 158 vessels
were known to have been wrecked
from Sandy Hook to Little Egg Har-
bor (about 60 miles) between April
12, 1839 and July 31, 1849. He broke
down the total to 24 ships, 48 brigs,
73 schooners, 8 barks, 2 sloops and 2
pilot boats.
'shipwreckers'
The ocean floor off the South
Jersey coast shelves gradually at the
rate of six feet to a mile. At distances
varying between 300 to 800 feet from
shore, the depth seldom exceeds a few
feet. Hence, a vessel drawn toward
shore is stranded far from land and
can be pounded to pieces by heavy
seas.
The section from Atlantic City
north to Toms River was sparsely
settled 150 years ago, although com-
munities such as Toms River, Forked
River in Lacey Township and Tuck-
erton were busy centers of trade and
shipbuilding. But life was grim for the
poor souls who subsisted on what
they could take out of Barnegat Bay
and the pine woods. Fish, clams and
hard bread were staples.
To people like this, a shipwreck
was a windfall and a godsend. It often
brought food, clothing, furniture and
merchandise such as fine china, sil-
verware and hardware.
So many baymen, fishermen and
Pineys became wreckers and profited.
They usually remained within the
pale of the law and kept the goods
brought in after a ship was aban-
doned.
Some lost all sense of honor.
During the winter of 1830, the
British ship George Cannon carrying
dry goods and hardware came ashore
at Absecon Beach.
Scenting prey, the people came.
They fought over boxes of goods
which they hauled away to bury in
the pines. Spying neighbors later stole
away some of the loot, which caused
no little bitterness and some violence.
It was about the time that stories
of the "New Jersey Land Pirates"
began to appear in big-city journals.
In lurid detail they described the
despoilment of corpses to the point of
nakedness. It seems that some
"women passengers were wont to)
keep money sewn in their netherr
garments.
The tales also related to deceitfull
practices. They told of false lights;
ashore, and false hails to importune;
the luckless mariner who had wan--
dered to an unfamiliar coast.
One of the most ingenious meth--
ods, according to the stories, was to)
hang a lantern around the neck of a
tethered cow near the beach. The up--
and-down motion of the cow's head!
as it munched grass resembled a lightt
on a small vessel at anchor in a safe;
mooring.
A cow grazing at the seashore??
Not so strange in that place and
period. Cattle were taken across Bar--
negat Bay in flatboats to graze on
Long Beach Island. The salt grass;
there was considered a healthy diet.
After the schooner Henry Frank-.
lin was cast ashore on Barnegat beach
March 17, 1834, and on Oct. 12 the;
James Fisher was wrecked near Ma-.
nasquan, the authorities were;
prodded into action the following;
year.
According to "The Lore of the:
Wreckers" by Birse Shepard, a federal[
grand jury at Trenton indicted 40)
persons including two justices of the;
peace for plundering the cargoes off
the two wrecked vessels. Six of the 40)
were convicted and served prison
terms. However, no charges of decoy-.
ing were heard.
But in 1846 charges became so
specific that the governor appointed a
committee to look into the accusa-.
tions that coastal residents had re-.
fused to give relief and help to perish-.
ing survivors of the John Minturn,,
which was wrecked on Feb. 15 of that,
year. It was also charged that some:
had plundered the dead, and had |
exacted money for delivery of the:
bodies.

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18 Sept 1894 N.Y. N.Y. Heuld
Arge

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Syndicate, Spends $100,000
Plants What Professor
Ricketts Has to Say.
maluers may, for chinens in silver and gold.)
GOLD SILVER-WHICH?
"In the ordinery way I should have passed by
uch rock as batren and worthless, I asked Mr.
Mladder, however whether be considered it to be
gold or silver or He replied that he had been
working it four or five months, and that he con
Bidered it both Iver and gold ore, for some
for silver, and at other times the gold predomi-
times enormions results were obtained on tests
nated, but neither could ba extracted when it
Was worked on a large scale. It was to remedy
this defect that they wished me to expertujent.
"Some extraordinary results had been ob
tained, he said. by the workmen of the Surprise
Mining Company who, of course, were above
tion tests, but nothing was got from it on the
regular working krale in the large pais. Mr
Madedr said he opposed that there were some
strange comblunts not yet discovered which
explained this strange rebelous nature of the
Surprise Mining Company's ore and which pre-
vented extraction or reduction on a large scale.
1e said that Professor Ricketts of Columbia
here are half a dozen alleged gold mines
lng in full blast in the heart of Now
ey. At-Newark there la gold milusplefon, both by melting and by analgana-
a stock of machinery that is intended
tract gold from rock ores. The plant
about $50,000, and yesterday afternoon
m and smoko were pulling from the
neys of the mill and a forco of men
working hard, passing rock through
hers and,, it was asserted, taking out on E. More.
and silver from the pulverized stone.
e gold mill is on the Passale River at
ton and Riverside avenues, in that
of Newark known as Woodside. Thero
small plot of land on which the works
d that looks as if it might have been
sported bodily from Colorado. 1
o pile of broken rock brought from the
nen" near Pompton Plains by harges on
Morris Canal awalts reduction.
he only thing that mars the harmony of
mining plan is the charge brought for-
1 by a metallurgist and mining en-
er that nearly all the gold extracted
the ore is previously put in it by men
are accused of playing the role of
tical jokers. Therein lies a story that
ids liko n Western mining romance.
at Pompton Plains, among the foothills of
Ramapo Mountains, Ilves old John yan
a farmer of Dutch ancestry, with a bushy
n benel. His farm up to eight years ago
raised nothing but corn, polutoes hnd
the vicinity there is little else but hard
to be extracted from Nature, and skinspy
en range the undergrowth and lay eggs
when they feel so bored at their tanie
adings that there is nothing else to which
can turn their minds,
ato bugs promenade the Country Un-
rbed by parls green and tramps and Cox-
sit under the untended apple trees and
for the fruid to drop, without any fear of
disturbed by Irate proprietors of the
There is absolutely nothing else going
The hourse note of the real
that county.
agent is even unheard.
BUDDENLY FOUND GOLD.
Ness, poking about on bis farm to find
between the rocks to plant thing
rock with little bright bends dabbl
er it. A mining expert might have taken
eads for sulphurets or pyrites such as are
In coal and in lots of rock that henry no
us metal worth speaking of. But an
knew better. 1le recognizet the beats na
College could find nothing in the ore, nor could
"He deglared, Mr. Madder, that his own
Assays invariabyielded a negative result for
gold and allver. it in melting the ore without
thage and employing the usual gold workers'
flux, he somethings obtained a good button of
silver in the first operation and if not then a
second fusion of the sings always yielded a but
ton of one of the precious metals.
"Furthermore, he said, the amalgamation of
say 100 pounds of Surprise Mining Company's
ore, after grinding in the iron pans, yielded re-
sults sunil to ofer $100 to the ton of rock
treated, but when a precisely similar treatment
was operated In the ordinary Iron pans contain-
Ing 1.0 to 2000 pounds to the charge, the re-
sult was nil and the Surprise Mining Company
was all at sea.
"This was the roblem I must solve
"I inquired why it was after gentlemen of
such high standing In the metallurgical profed.
slon ns Professor Ricketts and Dr Moore had
given the thing pp as hopeless success was ex-
pected from the
To this Mr Mailden replied that those gentle-
men could not or would not devote sulllelent
time and attention to the Inquiry. They sub-
Jected their samples or let their assistants do
It to the ordinary methods of assay, nid when
A negative result was obtained that was an end
of it. It was Impossible to ask suh men to do
their work over gain, as they would consider
sich n proposition Httle short of an insult He
assured nie n salary of Son year if I could
obtain the desires results.
MORE MINER COMING
"He told me further that one gentleman and
in few Immediato friends controlled the whole
stock of the concern, and held all the Inn or
mineral rights on the land ndjoining the mine.
When the Surprise Company's mine was an as-
sured success, the subsillary prapettles
would be workey on an extensive scale, for
There were wealthy men hack of it.
"Before enterth on an engagement I asked
names of
for references, End received the
"Messrn. Untermeyer also came to the extrac
tion works and were in the mill busy with their
coats off a whole, morning. Elght of my m
ples subjected to amalgamation experiments
under the control of Mr. Madder and myself
yielded no amalgam of liver or of gold but
From the remaining two samples consigued pro-
miscuously to an employe of the company to
grind, the respective results of 149 and 122
ounces of silver per ton were obtained.
"This was surely more than coincidence: but
to verify my Fufpletons I consigned another ex-
per ment to the tender care of the same em
ploye, having previously arranged n mirror so
placed as to have him under my observation
while my back was turned to him. This en
abled me to see him dose my experiment with
material from a basin near lifru, which I after-
THE GOLD MINE
fuqulringly at me, that I wished to see Mr. Mad
der, the manager.
I was conducted into the presence of a
hearted Westera tan roughly clad, allm, with
light blue shifty eyes, who said he was the man
wanted. At my request he stopped some of
the machinery, so that we might hear, what we
sald, and then I saw that he was roasting some
thing in crucibles which eat red bot in a fiery
furnace.
When I told him the object of my misalon, he
naked suddenly: "And suppose we are 'salting'
the ores? It's our mill, Isn't it, and we can do
as we like? We aren't asking any one to buy
stock, are we?"
Then Mr. Madder fled his answer to the state
ments of Mr. Lamson-Will
"It's all stuff and nonsense," he said. "Mr.
AT POMPTON PLAINS, N. J.
ward verified to be silver filings and turnings
as from the Jewellers workshops"
This was on August 27 Informed Mr.
Madder of the whole occurrence,
AN UNWELCOME PROPOSITION
"I proposed to carry out one more conclusive
proof for his benefit by pulverizing a barren
Kreenish rock of old paving stone, which would
nated by the eye
the ordinary mi pulp.
I wanted to see if this yielded a like suit when
handled by the same employe. I proposed that
Mailder himself should consign this test sample
In order to convince himself
On presenting myself, as usual, In the laborn-
tory for duty next morning, Maider hardly gave
me time to get my cont of, when, approaching
I have
me with the most dejected Inok, he sald:
represented all the detalls of your discoveries to
Benfield, and he has concluded that there is no
course of action open to him other than to im
mediately close down all operations and make
I will look through the hooks
an assignment.
and see if I can settle your salary, and see you
at midday for that purpose."
I believe this was only n ruso to get me
quiefly away from the premises, for not only
did they not suspend operat'ons, but they ne
gnired in new machine, n Frue Vanner, the fol-
lowing day, and the mill has been running day
and ulght, without intermission even on Sun-
A formal report of my expert-
days, ever since
ments and discovery of the 'salting' of my sam-
ples was duly handed to Mr. Madder. This has
been suppressed and the falthful employe, who
I detected to be 'ok' and salter." is retained."
A VISIT TO THE MINE
In order to get a linals for Investigation my
first move was to make a visit to the gold mine
near Pompton Plains I found a small farm la
the foothills of the Ramapo Mountains. It was
orcupled at the time by Mr. Van Ness, unele bf
Wills didn't catch any one 'salting. The man
he nccuses Ls a workinan on wagen, and he
couldn't afford to give away any gold to this
company. If any one put him up to it I don't
know who that any one is. The trouble was
Mr Wills wasn't competent to get the gold out
Ile made one assay and found
of the ore.
nothing, and I went over the same ground and
found this," producing a silver button as big as
a pea
The trouble has been that they've got the
ores from that mine so mixisl up in shipment
that something in one lot neutralizes something
In another and we can't get the gold out. The
gold is there sure enough, and the silver, too.
The difficuity is to extract it in quantities. We're
working an amalgam process Just now. Bonie
times we get gold in good lots and sometimes we
We mean to have fifty
And nothing whatever.
tons of it stelted this week and see how it turns
This man Wills, claimed to have seen an
employe putting silver filings in the ore that he
was crushing Wills says that he used the
glass back of a scale as a mirror and in that
was detected the swindle of course I didn't
belleve Wills, but I decided that bis lack of
confidence in the good falfh of our men de
stroyed his usefulness, and so we dispensed
I understand that he is golog
with his services
I had made an agreement to pay hin
to se us.
[AD] $500 in case he found no goal. I thought when
he quit that $100 would be enough for his
wick's work, but he declined to accept it and
Mr. Benfeld says I was a fool to offer him any-
thing at all.
"If the stiff was 'salted' why shouldn't Wills
have salted Ir just as likely as any one else?"
Mr. Madder showed me a certificate from
Professor ceketts to the effect that a sample
of are submitted to him for assay, contained
a quarter of an ounce of gold to the ton ot
of allver, each ton
Choice Depending U
Result of Other Cent
It is no
[ST TELEGRAPH TO T
SARATOGA, N. Y., Sept. 11.
hostile fores emerging from
to cut off a marching aridy, t
and anti-Morton movement
into the open, bold and threa
threatening in
troubled to-night and his f
that the sitnation is not such
them to expect. Some of t
no far as to predlet that Mor
albly not get the opportunity
lila thousands, for which f
yearna, until after a second 1
taken.
There is no likelihood tha
be beaten, but thers will be
Convention a demonstration
such as Mr. Platt has not prep
For instance, General Tracy
JAMES W. WADSWO
llo is willing to be the candidato for
ernor.
that Kings will be unanimou
will not be realized, and mo
hundred votes may be cast ng
for Bliss, Fassott, Butterfield r
Morton will be nominated b
F. Tracy. The Convention e
votes and 307 votes are a
choice.
The nomination for Lieuten
is in doubt. Saxton has devel
ful strength, and to beat him t
have put up Wadsworth an
and will combine on the one
the greatest strength. Platt
George E. Greene, of Bingham
The leading candidates for

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WORL
alx or seven years the descendant of the
y Iutch settlers of New Jersey spent his
In combing out his beard and toting trip-
full of the "ores" down to New York.
sts sinlled at him and told him that there
t any gold mines in New Jersey. But ho
better.
threw In his way Thomas Benfield, a
er of Keller & Intermeyer, who have big
case factory at No. 757 to 771 Summer
e, Newark, aud offices at No. 192 Brind-
this clix. To-day the gold mill stands on
IsRale Illver, a monument to Mr. Benfield
ence in Van Neas gold mine and the
rizer's work, the amalgam apparatus re
and small bars and buttons of gold and
stand upon the shelves of the safe of
urprise Mining Company, the name of the
rallon that has been founded to mine New
gold.
Ing men and analysts smile at what they
ler the credulity of the Jerseymen. but
presidents and solld business firma lu
State have bought land around Pomptou
and have committed themselves to the
n that they have found an El Dorado
will make them richer and more famous
than the much vaunted Callforula "Forty
" and as late an yesterday a meeting of
rectors of a New Jersey gold mining com-
was held, at which it was prophaled
he gold famine that is depriving so any
Ican citizens of a full pro rata of wealth
bortly be at an end.
Van Ness, as has been said, showed his
o Mr. Bendeld. That gentleman promptly
red in them, an is evidenced by blb in-
ent of wealth in the erection of the Bur-
Mill. Experta have been called in t TP-
pon the value of the mineral. Different
nents are made as to the results of their
far, ownership of the mill is confined to
embers of the firm of Keller & Inter-
but those who have taken part 1 ex-
g the gold include several prominent
rk men. How far they have delved for
recious metal is not now quite certain but
have employel experta and analys to
aways and surveys, and generally they
a part of the band that la exploiting the
ersey gold boom.
ALL ACTED IN GOOD FAITH.
gentlemen are Alexander Milne, real-
of the Newark Watch Case Material (om-
William Arthur, of the same concern and
M. Douglas, president of the German Na-
Bank, of Newark. All these gentlemen
to have acted in perfect good faith in the
as bave also the Lutermeyers and W.,
14.
he story told by a mining expert of alt-
It is not apparent who, If any one, wa to
timized. The public have never been In
to put money Into the New Jersey gold
and if the mine has been "salted" toes
ppear who was to be the beneficiary.
Is certain, however, la that the whole
sa most Interesting one.
Benfield, like Mr. Van Nean, was no al
er satisfied with his own opinion as to the
t of gold in the ore. He called in experts
e analyses. When he spoke of the gold
partner, Mr. David Untermeyer, that ren-
sent samples to Professor 1ierre d'
ta, of the Bra of Ricketts & Banks. No,
ha street, Dr. Ricketts made a completo
antion of some plecen of rock froth n
adjoining the Van Nesa-Benfeld lne
lled to and paying gold..
the mill went up, any way. The state-
of the Burpux Mining Company in int
ere sure that gold exlated in large qan-
In the ore, but that it was combine in
way that some new procean must be 10-
hy which it could be extracted. The
ce of mislag experts, they concluded, ras
J. JAINBON WILLS.
Thomas Benfield and of Keller and Inter-
In reply to inquiries as to these gentle-
meyer.
men, who were rangers to me, I got two yery
Katisfactory bankers' reports, one being from
n New York banker, the second from a Newark
They inted that Mr. Benfield was
banker.
n man of means speculative and sharp and
shrewd in busitas, who hnd Intely Inverted
heavily in gold lnes. No one, I was tub,
need hesitate to enter into business engage-
tuents with him.
"I entered on hy duties on August 20, nnd
proceeded to Polton Plains for an inspection
of the mine, help Joined by Mr Madden. At
lompton was introduced to Mr. Alexander
Milne, president of the Newark Watch Case
Material Company. of No. 10 Ward street,
who had under his wing, another mining ex-
pert, bound for an inspection of the mines.
"We drove out to Glen View, Morris county,
where the property of the Surprise Company,
comprising thirtsve acres. Is situated. The
object of my valt was to collect my own
Kamples, and to satisfy myself if the rock
quarried was of homogeneous nature, or if it
presented Indicallous of pockety developments
which could in any way account for the ron-
leting results now submittal to my luvist!-
gation and opintph.
WHAT THE ROCKS WERE
My study an inrpection was nccordingly
contined to the quarry from which the supply
of mineral at the oil had been obtained. The
rocks yxposed by the qunrry consist of meta-
morphe chloriti schists and quartzites, which
striking northeast,
stradlication
exhibit
southwest and dipping southeast. This type of
rock forins the country rock of the Highlands
of New Jersey, na niso of the Adirondacks and
of the White Mountains, &.
a
The surface of the quarry opening extends
more than some three hundred feet in length
and from forty seventy feet in width, and
between two thousand and three thousand tons
of rock have been removed. No appearances of
dyke disturbances or vein formation were to be
found in the Imindinte proximity Ten average
samples were takin by me from as many locall
tien at regular Intervals over the extent of the
quarry.
"I was introduced on the company's premises
to a Mr. Van Ne, the happy diverer of the
Latent wealth of his prospective mine. He was
evidently the gurillan of the property, and was
fully aware of his important trust
Nothing eventful occurred during this, my
first day s service in the employ of the Hurprise
Mining Compans beyond a statement which
was gratuitously made by Alexander Milne. We
had climbed the bill lying to the westward of
the Burprise Quitry, at the suggestion of Mr.
Milne. In order tobtain a general idea of th
surrounding rock formation, and I was ron.
ducted to an outropping of chloritic rock lalil
bare by glacial agilon, and into which a blast of
two of powder tid been made. I was invited
to Inspect it and to take a sample. Here was
evidently the hope of Mr. Millie's future ad-
ditional wealth,
That, sald He, handing me a chunk of the
mountain, 'contajas $150 in allyer per ton!
"I took a sample of it in good grace, and have
since verified that it does not contain even a
trace of liver other commercial metaille
value.
"My ten samples from the mine were duly pol
yerized to para sixty mesh aleve, noting that
there was no trac of metallle material left from
the gold discoverer a
busy wheeling cow feed Into the barn,
"You'll fud the gold mine down the road,"
he said to me, stroking his heard and sticking
his straw hat on the back of his head, "John
He's
discovered it seven or eight years ago.
down to the mill. In Woodsble, now."
panning out $10 S7 This ore Mr
was taken from the Pompton mine, but Mr.
Wills says it came from a mine in Maryland.
"How much gold bave they got out of it? HE LAYS IT TO THE MAFIA.
Inquired.
Nigh on to a hundred dollars worth. he
wald Thing doesn't seem to play yet, but they
than it will if they work it a little more.
They
gave John n gold watch case weighing eleven
ounces made out of the gold that came from
the mlue. Seems to me it would have pat
better to have located the mill out here, Instead
of taking the ore down to Woodside. The p
it down to the mill lu baga on the canal. You'l
see tons of it in bags down to the mine that
they-ve blasted out. They took three ton down
last week.
"There are a lot more gold mines around thi
neighborhood. Seema to me pretty nearly every
one about here had a wark at it some time
or other, but they don't seem to get down to the
pay gold. In all probability they ain't just
struck the right probability yet, but Mr. Ben-
field and John allows we'll all be rich presently.
But I'm getting In the cow feed just as usual
and alu't retired yet or bulit any brown stone
barns.
"Here's
"Mine's just ful lof gold," he said.
handing me a small rock with
a plece,"
beads of sparkling stuff on It "You'll find lof
more down to the mine. Just help yourself."
"What did John get for the mluo?" I Inquired.
"Not a thousand dollars," he replied; "bat
he'll be rich when it pays."
the works ought to have heen up here. That's
"Seems to me," put u the hired man. "that
what all the folks seem to think. Don't see anyt
selise in taking the stuff down the canal."
The mine seemed to be an ordinary quarry In
the hillside, on which driling had been done by
hand and the rock blasted. A large depoal of
sand, sald to be auriferous, lies over the rock In
parts, and many tons of this had been bagged
rendy for shipment In all learned, two
thousand tons of rock and sand had been taken
on canal boots down to Woodside.
I visited the Corbin Building. No, 112 Brond-
way, and talked with Mr. David Intermeyer,
In wealthy sunfacturer of ornamental watch
enses, who has a very large business and
Influential standing. I Informet him of the
statements of Mr J. Laloson Wills and asked
lilu If he could throw some light upon the pro-
ceedings of the Surprise Mining Company
"It is not a matter of publie concern." he
Bald. "We are not asking any one to subscribe
for any stock. We have put up n mill and in-
vested a large amount of money, and we think
we've got a good thing. If we haven't got a
good thing. It is our look out. We don't want to
Bell stock to any of our friends. If it is risky.
and our enemies certainly wouldn't buy It.
Nev
eral naanys have been made that convince na
that we have found gold in well paying quant-
tles. Nome of the assnys 3 ield as much as 5()
to the ton. If the rock yleis na match a $10
ton there's n fortune in it for all of us"
"How about Professor Rickett's analysin?"
I inquired.
"It was of a somewhat preliminary nature,"
replied Mr. Intermeyer, but it was encour-
nalng. An a matter of fact the beat success we
have had han been with one of our own em-
ployees that came over from our watch case
factory. Ile seems to have the knack of ex-
tracting the gold from the ore."
DOESN'T BELIEVE THE CHARGER
Mr. Untermeyer berg, bamed the person who
was accused by Mr. Lainson Wills of "aniting"
the sample orea. "I have heard the accusation
against this man," said the jeweller, but I
don't belleve it. What object could he possibly
have in deceiving us? He is not interested in
the mine na an owner nor in the outcome of the
assays. At various times we have got large per-
Michael De George, a Well Known Italian
Citizen, Sayn in Arrest Is Duo
to a Conspiracy.
Michael De George, charged with attempting
to set fire to the tenement house No 16 avea
A on Saturday, declares that he is the victim
of n conspiracy hatched out by the Mafia.
Ils friends and his counsel, ex Speaker of the
Assembly William Sulzer, speak in the highest
He lins always been devoted to
terms of him.
his family. and his son, Antonio, occuples a
place of trust in a large manufacturing concern
In this elty. In speaking of his client last night
Mr. Sulzer Bild:
"I have known Mr. De George for the last
nine years and have always regarded hlin as a
man of the highest lutegrity. I think him In-
capable of committing the crime with which he
stands charged, and I feel sure of being able to
prove the truth of what I say when the matter
comes up for examination on Wednesday."
Mr. De George was arraigned twice in the
Essex Market Police Court yesterday. but,
owing to the Inability of his counsel to go on
his examination was deferred until to-morrow
afternoon
On second adjournment Lawyer Armstrong.
who appeared instead of ex-Speaker Sulzer,
asked to have ball redured from $5,000 to
83,000. This was done. Mr. De George'
hastened out to get ball for hl
the respon
father.
The case against Mr. De George Is that he
Intended to set fire to his apartnient upon the
furniture and other effects of which he carried
an Insnrance of $500 in the Aetna company.
The story of the discovery and the arrest of
De George was told in the HERALD yesterday
Mr. Du George was seen in the Essex Market
prisin yesterday. He in a fine looking man,
with a singularly frank expression.
This is a couspiracy to Injure me." be salil.
"I have lived in thla elty for twenty-seven years
and never had a word said against me. I can
not explain the contrivance they say was found
In my room. I left tuy apartment at nine
o'clock. A small oll lamp. with a floating taper,
stood on a chair, but I am positive it was not
lighted. I use this when I get up at night. I
breakfasted at a restaurant in Third avenue.
near Fourteenth street, and took the eleven
o'clock bont for Fort Wadaworth, where I spent
the day with a friend, the editor of the Itallau
Herald
"I left my insurance polley In the deak in my
room, and had there been a fire it would have
been burned up. This accusation is simply In
famous, I am a member of the Tammany all
General Committee, and have many friends in
the Tenth Assembly district who will vouch for
I never owned a pair of overshoes In my
life and never had any explosives in my room."
Antonio De George, son of the accused, ald
emphatically that the charge against his father
was a "put up Job" by the quembera of the
Mafla anclety. The thing has been done," all
he, "because my father once helped to eposa
this society."
peals are Judge Kellogg, o
Judge Haight, of Erie.
PLATT'S FOES A
They Swoop Down Upon His F
Him Serious Troub
(DY TELEGRAPH TO THE E
BARATOGA, N. Y., Sept. 17, 18
pers have been engaged in destro
C. Platt's political crops all d
poured into Saratoga from the
Bouth, the East and the Weat
alighted in great clouds on his w
vines, and have popped down on
as they have been driven from a
These political grasshoppera A
variety. They have appeared!
have come from sections where
ported there were no anti-Platt
all. But they are here in swar
Farmer Platt's hired men will)
night and all to-morrow until no
that he will have a few tblogs
market after to-morrow's coar
journed.
When Farmer Platt got up th
looked out over the grass Cover
United States Hotel be heard the
proaching grasshopper plague In
In the form of brass band muste
band was at the head of the Baff
coming in with the boom fet,
which it was supposed bad diye
loans from thefr intention-fo
elnce Colonel Orr falled to be ma
Assembly of annihilating Platt
The Buffalo band marched d
Grand Unton Hotel, where Car
has his headquarters. They tal
Bett, and be mald some things t
not entirely have to do with
weather. Ile sald it was time
whether Mr, Morton should be n
clamation by an automatic
whether they would at least ma
tion against one man rule".
convention.
ERIE DEVELOPS BAG
The Buffalo meu went of an
There were thirty-eight of the
have a vote in the convention
Was Heard from, and his positó
boy that he did not desire to bar
for Judge of the Court of App
Interfere with the Independence
ection in the Governorship. The
County delegation suddenly deve
and passed a resolution to vut
some other candidate than M
epper.
When this news got abroad 1
tlon, and the anti-Platt move
begun to fake active shape
ran that Erie county had deci
with Farsett against Platt, na
Baratoga began to hum with
how many votes could be polted
the first ballot
Teen the St. Lawrence dele
This delegation has fourteen
beaded by Judge Leslle, W.
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Madder, however, whether he considered it to ho
such rock as barren and worthless, I asked Mr.
gold or silver or He replied that he had been
working it four five months, and that he con
times enormous results were obtained on (ests
aldered It both lver and gold ore, for
for silver, and at other times the gold predom!
nated, but neither could be extracted when it
was worked on Jarge scale. It was to remedy
this defect that they wished me to experiment.
"Some extraordinary results had been ob-
the workmen of the Surprise
tained, be sold.
Mining Company who, of course, were above
suspicion, both by melting and by amalgama-
tlon tests, but nothing was got from it on the
regular working scale in the large pans. Mr.
Madedr said he supposed that there were some
strange combinations not yet discovered which
explained this strange rebellious nature of the
Surprise Mining Company's ore and winch pre
vented extraction or reduction on a large scale.
He said that Professor Ricketts of Columbla
College could find nothing in the ore, nor could
Dr. Gideon E. Moore.
"He declared, id Mr. Madder, that his own
ylelded a negative result for
assays invariab
gold and silver, but in melting the ore without
lithage and employing the usual gold workers'
flux, he sometimes obtained a good button of
Bliver in the first operation, and if not then, a
second fusion of the slags always yielded a but-
ton of one of the precious metals.
"Furthermore, he said, the amalgamation of
say 100 pounds of Surprise Minlig Company's
ore, after grinding in the iron pans, yielded re-
sults equal to over $100 to the ton of rock
treated, but when a precisely similar treatment
was operated in the ordinary iron pans contain-
Ing 1,500 to 2.000 pounds to the charge, the re-
sult was nil and the Surprise Mining Company
was all at sea.
This was the roblem I must solve.
"I inquired why it was, after gentlemen of
such high standing in the metallurgical profes
slon as Professor Ricketts and Dr. Moore had
given the thing up as hopeless success was ex-
pected from ine.
To this Mr. Malden replied that those gentle.
men could not or would not devote suillent
time and attention to the inquiry. They sub-
jected their samples, or let their assistants do
It, to the ordinary methods of assay, and when
a negative result was obtained that was an end
of it. It was impossible to ask such men to do
their work over again, as they would consider
such a proposition little short of an insult. He
assured me a salary of $5,000 a year if I could
obtain the desired results.
MORE MINES COMING.
COALB DIE WO
ples subjected to amalgamation experiments
under the control of Mr. Madder and myself
glolded no amalgam of silver or of gold, but
from the remaining two samples consigued pro
miscuously to an employe of the company to
grind, the respective results of 149 and 122
ounces of liver per ton were obtained.
"This was surely, more than coincidence; but
to verify my susplelons I consigned another ex-
periment to the tender care of the same em
ploye, having previously arranged a mirror so
placed as to have him under my observation
while my back was turned to him. This en-
abled me to see him dose my experiment with
material from a basin near him, which I after-
hearded Western man roughly clad, silm, with
light blue shifty eyes, who said he was the man
I wanted. At my request he, stopped some of
the machinery, so that we might hear what we
wald, and then I saw that he was roasting some.
thing in crucibleg which sat red hot in a fiery
furnace.
When I told him the object of my mission, he
naked suddenly: "And suppose we are 'salting
the orea?. It's our mill, isn't it, and we can do
as we like? We aren't asking any one to buy
stock, are wa?"
Then Mr. Madder filed his answer to the state.
ments of Mr. Lamson-Wille.
"It's all stuff and nonsense," he said. "Mr.
THE GOLD MINE AT POMPTON PLAINS, N. J.
ward verified to be silver filings and turnings
as from the jewellers' workshops!
"This was on August 27. I informed Mr.
Madder of the whole occurrence.
AN UNWELCOME PROPOSITION.
"I proposed to carry out one more conclusive
proof for his benefit by pulverizing a barren,
which would
Wills didn't catch any one 'salting.' The man
he accuses is a workman on wages, and he
couldn't afford to give away any gold to this
company. If any one put him up to it I don't
know who that any one is. The trouble was
Mr. Wills wasn't competent to get the gold out
He made one assay and found
of the ore.
nothing and I went over the same ground and

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"He told' me further that one gentleman and
A few immediate friends controlled the whole
stock of the concern, and held all the lani or
mineral rights on the land adjoining the mine.
When the Surprise Company's mine was an as-
success, the subsidiary properties
sured
would be worked on an extensive scale, for
there were wealthy men hack of it.
"Before entering on an engagement I asked
for references, and received the names
J. LAINGON WILLS.
of
Thomas Benfield and of Keller and Unter-
meyer. In reply to Inquirles as to these gentle-
men, who were strangers to me, I got two very
satisfactory bankers' reports, one being from
a New York banker, the second from a Newark
They stated that Mr. Benfleld was
banker.
a man of mean speculative and sharp and
shrewd in business, who had lately invested
heavily in gold mines. No one, I was told,
need hesitate to enter into business engage-
ments with him.
"I entered on any duties on August 20, and
greenish Fock of Old S
yleld a powdered product not readily liscrimi-
nated by the eye from the ordinary mill pulp.
I wanted to see if this yielded a like result when
handled by the same employe. I proposed that
Madder himself should consign this test sample
in order to convince himself.
"On presenting myself, as usual, in the labora-
tory for duty next morning, Madder hardly gave
me time to get my coat off, when, approaching
me with the most dejected look, he said:--I have
represented all the details of your discoveries to
Benfield, and he has concluded that there is no
course of action open to him other than to im-
mediately close down all operations and make
an assignment. I will look through the books
and see if I can settle your salary, and see you
at midday for that purpose.'
"I belleve this was only a ruse to get me
quietly away from the premises, for not only
did they not suspend operations, but they ac-
gnired a new machine, a Frue Vanner, the fol-
lowing day, and the mill has been running day
and night, without intermission even on Sun-
days, ever since. A formal report of my expert-
ments and discovery of the 'salting' of my sam-
ples was duly handed to Mr. Madder. This has
been suppressed, and the faithful employe, whom
I detected to be 'cook' and 'salter,' is retained."
A VISIT TO THE MINE.
In order to get a basis for investigation my
first move was to make a visit to the gold mine,
near Pompton Plains. I found a small farm in
the foothills of the Ramapo Mountains. It was
occupled at the time by Mr. Van Ness, uncle of
the gold discoverer, and a bired man, who were
busy wheeling cow feed into the barn.
"You'll find the gold mine down the road,"
he said to me, stroking his beard and sticking
his straw hat on the back of his head. "John
discovered it seven or eight years ago. He's
down to the mill, in Woodside, now."
found this producing a silver button as big
a pea.
The trouble has been that they've got the
ores from that mine so mixed up in shipment
that something in one lot neutralizes something
in another, and we can't get the gold out. The
gold is there sure enough, and the silver, too.
The difficulty is to extract it in quantities. We're
working an amalgam process just now. Sonie-
times we get gold in good lots and sometimes we
find nothing whatever. We mean to bave fifty
tons of it smelted this week and see how it turns
odt.
"This man Wills, claimed to have seen an
employe putting silver filings in the ore that he
was crushing. Wills says that he used the
glass back of a scale as a mirror and in that
way detected the swindle. Of course I didn't
belleve Wills, but I decided that bls lack of
confidence in the good faith of our men de
stroyed his usefulness, and so we dispensed
with his services. I understand that he is going
I had made an agreement to pay him
to sue us.
[AD] $500 in case he found no gold. I thought when
he quit that $100 would be enough for his
week's work, but he declined to accept it and
Mr. Benfeld says I was a fool to offer him any-
thing at all.
"If the stuff was 'salted' why shouldn't Wills
have salted it just as likely as any one else?"
Mr. Madder showed me a certificate from
Professor Ricketts to the effect that a sample
of ore submitted to him for assay, contained
a quarter of an ounce of gold to the ton of
2,000 pounds, and 9.53 ounces of silver, each ton
panning out $10 S7. This ore Mr. Madder says
was taken from the Pompton mine. but Mr.
Wills says it came from a mine in Maryland.
"How much gold have they got out of it?" I HE LAYS IT TO THE MAFIA
inquired.
"Nigh on to a hundred dollars worth," he
sald. Thing doesn't seem to play yet, but they
think it will if they work it a little more. They
gave John a gold watch case welghing eleven
ounces made out of the gold that came from
the mine. Seems to me it would have paid
better to have located the mill out here, instead
of taking the ore down to Woodside. The
It down to the mill in bags on the canal.
see tons of it in bags down to the mine that
they-ve blasted out. They took three ton down
last week.
"There are a lot more gold mines around this
neighborhood. Seems to me pretty nearly every
one about here had a wack at it some time
Michael Do George, & Well Known Italian
Citizen, Says Lio Arrest Is Duo
to a Conspiracy.
Michael De George, charged with attemptin
to set fire to the tenement house No 165 avenn
A on Saturday, declares that he is the victin
of a conspiracy hatched out by the Mafia.
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SUND
PM
DIGGING GOLD
IN JERSEY HILLS.
Vast Pilon, of the Precious Oro Lio
in the Stony Heart of Morris
County-so Thoy Bay.,
AND THERE HAVE BEEN ASSAYS.
But the Results Aso as Mysterious as
the Ways of the Smiling
Owners
WORK AT THE WAUHAU MINE,
HERD a cold over in
the Jersey billa. At
least this to what old
John Van Ness naye.
lie struck the "color"
down, at the foot of
Hog Mountain coveral
weeks ago. It was
only a dall spock
of yellow in a bit o?
blue quarts. But it's
set Morris county on
fire, and has made old
John a very important
man.
Boonton, Pompton
Platoo. Whitehall,
Glenville, and other
small villages bavo
Brown hysterical over
from
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Bum.
Another
Tea Room
the "Everybody feels nervous about it,
and 1-m inulle In the neighborhood have
double in price. The hilly road from Boon-
fou to
terio
talk
ht
pled
that r
Pompton Plalue is haunted with mys-
men in search of new Golcondas. They
whispers and put their noses together
corners and confer over small pebbles
rom rocky brookbeds.
1 meantime old Joba Van Ness keepa
1 working at his gold mine with ar
n and two span of oxen. From m
til night they dig and scrape, and
id sweat, and cart away dirt by the
ld or no gold, the fact remains that
rapidly changing the topography of
tlon of the county. It is a queer spot,
v Jersey Ophir. All about it rise the
ay slopes of gorse, Ike bristles on a
alr brush. It is full of rocks and ra-
id buckleberry bushes,
Some years
hunters plodding through the snow on
untain found a dead man crouched
the lee of a big bowlder. It was an
gatlan who had dreamed his life away
lls in search of gold. Regularly every
ie received a remittance from across
On these occasions he would go out
mountains with a pick and provisions
id his days in breaking rocks and bla
i dreams of fabulous wealth. He died
houlder of the hill, just above the ra
ere old John Van Ness struck the
WHERE THE TREASURE LIES.
lue is six miles from Boonton, on the
Pompton Plains, at a spot called
Just what is to be called Wauhau
seems to know. It may be the buil
rook or the old stone farm house, or
of half a dozen perpendicular felds
bout. From Hog Mountain proper a
uttress slopes down to the valley, and
the foot of this buttress that the df-
en and two span of oxen are digging
Erom the wagab road you will have
ble across two or three rickaty fences,
bog and an acre of rocks to get to the
hen it is likely that old John Van
head you of with his cold, mack-
before you have had time to look
ground to any extent.
't want nobody coming afound here,"
resterday: "I wouldn't mind, but they
eir noses Into everything. They want
away pleces of ore, but I ain't going
u take away a blamed bit. There may
ng in it at all, and I don't want any-
have the laugh on me."
or ten men were clearing away the
rely soll, which covered the irregular
mink to a denth of FAHEAD Avan
he
plicable
ra
cut for
lag for
It wa
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DIAGRA

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7. N.Y. Herald.
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HG Somborn's
Music Room.
Another
Tea Room
John a
Pompton
Pls, websit
Glenville, and other
kmall villages baro
grown hysterical err
the "Bod." Every body feele nervous about It,
and farm lauds to the neighborhood have
doubled in rice. The hilly road from Boca-
ton to Poutoa Platus ta baunted with iya
terlous men in search of new Golcondas. They
talk in whispers and put their noses together
la fence corners and confer over small pebbles
picked from rocky brookbeda.
In the meantime old John Van Ness keeps
right on working at bla gold mine with r
teen men and two span of oxen. From ot
ning until alght they dig and scrape, and
blast and sweat, and cart away dirt by the
ton. Gold or no gold, the fact remains that
they are rapidly changing the topography of
that portion of the county. It is a queer spot.
thla New Jersey Ophir. All about it rise the
great gray slopes of gore, Uke bristles ca a
glant's bair brush. It la fall of rocks and ra-
vines and buckleberry bushes. Bome years
ago two hunters plodding through the snow on
Hog Mountain found a dead man crouched
close in the lee of a big bowlder. It was an
old Hungarian who had dreamed his life away
in the billa in search of gold. Regularly every.
month he received a remittance from across
the sea. On these occnalous he would go out
Into the mountains with a pick and proviales
and spend bla daya in breaking rocks and his
nights in dreams of fabulous wealth. He died
on the shoulder of the hill. just above the ra-
vine where old John Van Nesa struck the
"color."
WHERE THE TREASURE LIES
The mine is six miles from Boontop, on the
road to Pompton Plains, at a spot called
Waubau. Just what la to be called Wauhau
nobody seems to know. It may be the hul
or the brook or the old stone farm house, or
any one of balf a dozen perpendicular felds
round about. From Hog Mountain proper a
sort of buttress slopes down to the valley, and
it is at the foot of this buttress that the st
teeen men and two span of oxen are digging
for gold. Erom the wagon road you will have
to scramble across two or three tickety fences,
n allco of bog and an acre of rocks to get to the
mine. Then it a likely that old John Van
Nega will head you of with his cold, mack-
erel eye before son have had time to look
over the ground to any extent.
"I don't want nobody coming around here."
he said yesterday; "I wouldn't mind, but they
stick their noses Into everything. They want
to take away pleces of ore, but I ain't gules
to let you take away a blamed bit. There may
be nothing in it at all, and I don't want any-
body to have the laugh on me."
Elght or ten men were clearing away the
red sandy soll, which covered the Irregular
bed of rock to a depth of four or five feet.
They had taken away bundreds of tons and
had cleared a space of about a hundred feet
quare. Other men were pleking away for
dear life at the bald, stony floor, examining
each bit of lot with the utmost care. Two
heavy wagons were used to cart the dirt down
the ravine and Implements of toll lay about
everywbord High up on the hill above the
"alne" a tool house had been bullt and close
bealde It eat a man busily engaged in making
rackarock powder. It was evident that rery
man tu the crowd of laborere conaldered bl.
Then las
pable to short an
face ear fra
The Metropolitan Tration (S
radually aopatred control of the
fen railroad nyate of New York
oal for a long time with a search
Ing for wieb a power,
It was at the suggestion of Mr. W
Wait, bellore, that this p
FIG. 1-ELECTRIC RAILWA
á prize of $80,000 for the best solutic
problem. The proposition was em
the following letter addressed to t
Board of Ballror Commlastoners:
1. We will betaaldo the sam of $30.0
warded as prize to any parage tre sho
March, 104, bult to your honorable
Brookline
DIAGRAM KO. -AN UNDERGROUND
Begal working system of motive pourer
railway cara demonstrated to bo superio
to the overleed, trolley.
2 The qualities nece
meet th
that shall ba left to your Geelalem bas
prisent state of the art, system 10
award most pacedarily apprimate the
standard of economy la operation, but
without the features objectionable to the
We shall gast to Fishta la the
return for the 100,000, shall have Botb
en to do with the ing of the awar
to pay, any expense which your
Berry or wie
ment of experts, the
ther in
aduct of experien
may

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IOUS QUARTERS OF
hat I do at some fashionable woman's, but
while everytlung at every man's tea I bave
rer graced has been decorous to a degree, 1
lways have a delicious thrill of expectancy
hat something wild aud weird may happen.
Nothing ever does, but still there's the excite
ment of hope and possibility, don't you know?'
ASKED AND ANSWERED.
C.R.-Is there any law prohibiting the Preal-
ent of the United States from going to Eng and
r any lorrian countryl Would It require per
him on from Congress for him to do sol In thern
ny law prohibiting the Queen of England from
ming to the United Statest
There is no law boaring on the subject, and
law prohibiting President from learing
he country can be enacted. But no Preal-
ent has ever crossed the horder lino during
teria of ofdce, and consequently a rulo ar tra-
tion that no Prealdent should do so has grown
11 it has all the binding force of a positivo law.
here la reason for this rule in the fact that
o constitution makes no provision for a Proal
ent pro tempore during the absence of a Prest
nt. Queen Victoria's freedom of locomotion
In no way hampered by British law, and the
alted States excludos nobody except Chineso
d contract laborera, criminala, papera And
nati
M. G.-Wil jou kindly Inforin me whether
ca ono wishes to write an arrangement for
ano (as a plano solo) of a song, ur rot a poon) Lo
ade, It is urcessary or customary to nak ho
thor's permission beforehand, or whether it is
ually done as a matter of courtesyl
It would be necessary to get the author's por-
salon to publish the poem if the work was
p1ighted. Any one can prepare music sult-
lo to a copyrighted poom and can publish the
sla Alone with a statement that the tuusle la
arned for such room, but cannot print the
rds without formal permission.
y la the
the 23d of February a legal holl-
P. Falled Batcal
tla a legal holiday in most if not all of the
pective States of the Union. There is no such
ng as a federal or catlonal legal holiday.
Mrs. B. A.-Kind's inform me whether a lady
o rent rooms can bo d the bagraze of lodgars
o wish to leave without settling their blits, and
ga
Lodging house keepers" hare by statute the
e rights over the bagage and effects of lodg
as innkeepers enjoyed at common law. If.
refore, the lady who rents furnished rooms is
dging house keeper (and the chances are that
is, so far as this statute is cancerned) she can
attached to their ger-onn
fully detain all the movables of her lodgers
A F. IL PRENDERGAST. of Marshall, Texas,
omy answer to a query concerning the rlaht
ons to believe that to law always excluded
Chinaman to beestas a citizen talgt lead
binaan from bring naturalized Prior to
Lomber 1, 1873, the law extended the right of
United States tevland Blatute, which tool
pratination only to "free white persona" but
December 1, 1873 (article 210, extended
Corners GM Allen Ruum
OUR BACHELORS.
the right to Africans and did not restrict the
right to 'Tree white persons which made the
law include all allena, and this was the law until
February 14, 1875, when the amendment was
pared confining the right to "free whito persons
and Africans" (Hovland Statutes, supplement of,
1881, pare 130), and that amendment has been
held by the courts to exclude Chinamen, because
1boy are neither white persons nor Africans. The
universality of the law of 1873 has been ascribal
to the efforts of Charics Sumner, which thing
the debates in Congress will show. Whllo tho
act of 1:ecember 1, 1873. was in force and during
the year 1876 I was present in opon court in Ilob-
grison counts, Texas, and saw about forty
Chinamon naturalized. What effect the subso-
quent leria!ntion has had on their political
status is worthy of notica
A. R.-Memorial servloss in honor of the late
Hamilton Fish will bo hold andor legislative
auspices at Albany, on April 5 next.
II. C.-The value of a copy of the HERALD
dated July 1. 18, can only be determined by
offering it for sale.
A. 8.-Roary Irving and his company arrived
October 21, 193, an opened his son on Octo
ber
H. K.-It was an extraordinary Grand Jury
which found the indict nents for fraud com-
mitted at the late oloction in this county.
P. R-Silver bulllon is not bolag purchased by
the Unitol States at the present time.
H. K.-There are several Spanish clubs and so-
cletics in the city. Consult the appendix of the
City Directory.
A. -The New Orleans, Mobile and Texn
Rillroad has become part of the Taxas Pacifo
system.
W. B-There is no compulsory vaccination
law in the Btate.
H. M. &-Fishing on Sunday is forbidden by
statute, and is consequently a misdemeanor. A
misdemeanor is punishable by Imprisonment for
ono year and a fine of $300 This is the extremo
penalty. Any lesser torn of imprisonment or
smaller fine may be impose 1.
ONLY ONCE LUCKY.
A Millonnaire Tells How He Lost $37 When
a Boy and Found It Agala.
"What is the lacklest thing that ever hap
pened to you?" somebody asked of the million-
naire.
"Do you mean sheer, unadulterated luck--
something that just happens without any beek-
ing on your party replied the mallllonnatre,
throwing away a balf amoked Perfecto and
taking another out of bla case.
"Well, yea; let it goat that."
"I am generally accounted a very lucky man
by the thousand and one people who know
more about me than I do myself. Bet. on my
honor, what I call a genuine plece of good
luck happened to me only once in my life
it didn't amount to much, though it meant
much to me at the time. It was when I was
Bulag my Brst job-that of an errand boy at
three dollars a week and I tell yog I have
never cinco felt so rich as when I carried
home my drat three dollars.
"I bad been given a check to cash and a
bill to pay. After paying the bill I had $37
of my employer's inoney left. I bad juat
crossed Broadway when, bappening to look
back, I saw two men lighting in the street. I
was enough of a boy then to take a keen In-
terest in anything like a scrap. 1 retraced
my steps to see what it was all about. To my
amazement and enrprise I discovered that the
two men were aghflag about the 337 and the
receipted bill, walch in some mysterious fash-
lon had dropped out of my pocket. A pollo
man happenlng aloug at that moment was
able to prove that I had a better right to the
property to dispute than either of the two
combatants, and recovered it forthwith. They
had each grabbed for It at the name time, and
each was bound to get all or none-luckily for
me. have often speculated upon what might
have happened if they hadn't quarrelled. I
should, never have recovered the money, and
In consequence 1 Abould certainly have lost
my situation. That might have changed the
whole current of my career, and Instead of
beluga rich man I might to-day have been a
poor devil or I might have been twice an
rich as I am. Who knows? Anyway, I re-
gard it as the only plece of downright, simon
pure, unmistakable plece of good luck that
ever befell me. Hut any Tom, Dick or. Harry
that you chance to meet will be able to tell
you lots of luckier things that have happened
Some of them things that had
worked at for years."
to me.
STRANGE NAMES OF TOWNS.
A Few That Have Been Heard Of and Others
Yet Unknown to Fame.
common berd of visitors with lofty superior
I have knowed there was gold here for the
past ten years. ald Mr. Van Ness, but
couldn't exactly locate f I got a small bit of
ore some time ago and got an amay onto it:
but I aingolo to say what it was. I alu't
ready for it yet
AND THESE WAS A BLAST.
Just then a volco tar up the helgbts cried-
"Look out. down there! Stand from under!"
Everbody scrambled for a tree. Then there
came a timed roar a hundred yards on the
hill, and high above the gray thicketed slope
soared a storm of Aylag stone and a lofty
plume of amoke.
That's a new place we are working on."
cald Mr. Van Neer. "Uomis up and see It."
Then on the way up the hill Mr. Van Ness
expatiated on his And. "An assayer pamed
Backrock in Newark came out here and took
a look at tblage and turned. up bis none. He
Bald It was no good. That made no differeuce
with us, because we knew better. We sedt
some ore to another assayer and got a satis
factory result. but we won't give away tho
Agures. You bet we won't. Just look at the
run of this rock. You won't find it anywhere
Afty yards to the right or left, and It dips
Into the hill two hundred yards ahead. We
aro golag ahead as long as our money lasts.
and we've got plenty of it. If we make u bare
prout of $1 a ton we will keep it up as long
as there is any ore to work an
"We started three weeks ago with one mas
and have increased the force from day to day
until we now have nearly twenty men at work
l'eople aroland here are going crazy. Bluce
discovered gold they are asking four or re
prices for their farms. We had so many visit
ors last Sunday that I had to keep four or five
men on duty to drive them away. It is get-
ting worse, too."
ACRES OF IT.
Then Mr. Van Neua took up a stone and fell
to speculating, from the rup of it I think
that most of the cro la on my farm up there
Bald be. Just look at this blue streak. It
pyrites of Iron. That doesn't amount to any.
thing. This is what I like."
Mr. Van Ness pointed to a dull yellow
blotch that looked as though it might have
been caused by rust. If it was gold there
was certainly ple: ty of it lying about.
Mr. Van Nes ya that he and his amoci
atea may eventually decide to run a tunnel
into the mountan. There are overal old
abandoned Iron saines in the neighborhood,
but so far the have not been examined
There is undoak dly a trace of gold in the
Iron ore, but so many can be found who be
The maps of the United States show that
the rat settlers of many of the towns and
eltles must have been at a loss for names.
Everybody has heard of led Dog and You
Det lu Callfornia, aud Yuba Dam has been
accorded a lino in history. but when it comes
to Dog Tooth. of Illinois; Flea Hill, of North
Carollua, and Fly Mountain, of Ulster county,
N. Y., their existence would never be Imag
fned unless noticed on a map or in a gazetteer.
But there are many other places with na
Just as striking; Bobtown, Pa.; Bug Hill, N.
dletown, Cal. for instance
C: Chewtown, Pa.: Cat Bhin, Ky., and Fid-shop.
Or if these aro not suficient there are Fres
ville. Wis.; Daddy's Creek, Tenn.; Calfaliler,
In the same State, and Big Foot, In Indiaan.
Ohlo ban a Bolle Centre, Iowa a Calops,
Indiana a filly Dale. West Virginia a 1tle
Wild Cat. Maryland a Malden's Cholce, Bouth
Dakota a Minnehaha, Wyoming a Miser, Pean
sylvania a Nasareth, and Illinois a Pretty
man.
Young Womanstown, Pa.: Whiskey Town,
There are others such as Young Blood, Ill.:
(al: Ty Ty, Ga.; Bls Neck, Ill., and Black
anada and Tennessee.
Jack Bourishes in Missisal ppl, Kansas, Ark
To reach Bliss one has to go to Wyoming.
county, N. Y., and the only state that bas
a, Bird In Hand is Pennsylvania.
HE OBSERVES IT.
The golden rule may seldom stle-
For man's perveras, yon ko
But still the Georgia male a quie
To feel another's heal
Atlanta Constitution
leve that it eile in paying quantities
For years the ange Mountains and Turkey
Mountains have ves gone over thoroughly b
gold prospectors some of whom were old
California mea. All of them lacked the falt
that Mr. Van a possesses, and cone of
them ever went rther than a mineralogist's
Their dre a generally ended with a
assay.
Associated with Mr Van Ness in the specu
lation la Thomas, Jendela, a well to do manu
facturer of watch cases and Jewelry, and
Chris Hines, both Newark men. All three are
very confident the outcome of their ve
ture. They have ordered from Nowarka 100
borne power Cora engine and reducing
chinery. This will be placed at the foot of
the blil, where the mine la located, and it is
espected that everything will be in active
operation withis month. Mr. James M.
Seymour, of ark. who visited the min
last week, sakat he had beard eu ged
anthority that essay which was made no
lima showed from $200 to $400 tri
Que of Mr Van Ness men in speaking of
this said the Beymour probably Beaut
from $2 to BRL
Whatever the
Cold fud tay
fact remains the
and child in
morbing Interest
pet of old John Van Ne
the conatry at large. the
almost every man, woman-
a county la faking an a
stone-ology." and there t
Bunch yr In the going end coming of
the fariner profitore as there was in the
bere had power
4ws Introduced tato
Mel, with this recos
productive of grab
arity in reportfalty re
bos, papa
bath hos
awaits the Governor's signature
A SAFE OR BOLUTION
In the meantime the fame of the
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risper et la country and Ear