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--COME AM) 8M MB—
PHIL ABRAHAMS
Established in 189"
Divers Get to Treasure Ship
After Years of'Vain Effort
Rich Copper Cargo Now Being A Silk Gown Is Brought Up In
Recovered From the Pewabtc, Good Condition—AD Rec
Sunk In lake Huron In 1865. ords For Deep Sea Salvage
Many Skeletons h Hold Broken bj New Device
After lying for more than half t cen
tury on the rocks and day that form
the bottom of Lake Huron off Thunder
Bay Island, south and east of Alpena,
the treasure stored In the hold of the
steamer Pewablc, sunk Aug. 8, 1565.
In waters far beyond the depth at
which the diver hitherto has been able
to work. Is now being brought to the |
surface safely and 'without trouble, J
says the Detroit Free Press.
With the raising of a "clam" load
of relics from the long sunken steamer,
came at once the breaking of a world's
record In deep sea salvage, the fruition
of the three years' efforts of a small
party of Toledoaus and Detrolters to
prove deep pea sal vug* possible and
the end of a story that was iilready
treading on the border land of Inland
seas legend.
lives Given In Seirch.
For the Pewftblc Is a treasure ship
In truth. Men hare given their lives
to reach her treasure in rain. For
tunes have been wasted in the efforts
to roach the prize cargo 190 feet under
the surface of the water. Now her
treasure—pure copper-Is coming up.
Some of it passed Detroit recently on
the way to Toledo, together with •
mass of other relics from the long lost
vessel.
In the hold of the FewaMc lie nearly
300 tons of copper, worth $200,000 or
more at the present market Besides
the copper, there are several hundred
tons of pig Iron. What else of value
lies beneath Thunder bay waters Is
conjectural. Thert was & story that
there was $30,000 or £40,000 of specie
la the l>oat's express safe, but this Is
denied by Captain George P. McKay
of Cleveland, now treasurer of the
Lake Carriers' association, who was
master of the vessel when she sank.
There is also a story of a belt owned
by a woman passenger, which was
said to contain a large diamond and a
large sum of money.
Divers Find Skeletons.
It Is a fact that one of the passen
gers. who was saved, offered a reward
of $1,000 for fiie recovery of hi* track.
His came has been long since forgot
ten. '
In tho hold of the vessel divers found
a number of skeletons.
The successful attack upon the most
powerful of nil barriers to deep s<*
work — water pressure — has been
brought about by tbe "armored diving
suit," constructed on novel lines bj- B.
F. Leavitt -of Toledo. Leavitt made
his "suit" more than a diver's snlt
It Is In reality almost a "submarine."
Constructed of phosphor bronze, It car
ries Its own air supply, condensed,
sufficient for a four hour stay under
water. What this means In divers'
work may be best understood by ex
plaining that at seventy-five feet the
limit for practical work by the pres
ent day diver, a human being can
stand tbe pressure for about fifteen
minutes.
Up on Thunder bay the men going
down to the Pewablc descend nearly
three times the hitherto practical deptH
and remain four hours. At seventy
five feet tho diver heretofore could
move about very little. In the new
armored lncasement tbe diver can
scarcely move at seventy-five feet
The pressure Is insufficient to counter
balance the great weight of bis suit
At 150 feet he begins to move freely.
Projecting from the Leavitt suit and
working In water tight sockets are two
steel lingers, manipulated by tbe band,
which is free in the big sleeve, com
posed of flexible copper luuids covered
with heavy rubber.
Leavitt Outdoes Hawaii Divers.
Whin the F-l, United States subma
rine, sank off Hawaii bartxir several
years a?o in 230 feet of water world's
records were made in diving to attach
chains and hoist her.
Three divers reached her. On© was
brought up dead. Another came back
with his lungs burst, and the third was
brvuRlit to the surface a maniac.
Leavitt In a demonstration 0:1 Grand
Traverse bay descended 300 feet, or
131 feet deeper than did the F-l div
ers, and came to the surface feeling m
well as when he descended. He re
mained at that depth forty-five min
utes.
The future Is too clouded with un
certainty to warrant predictions, but
the work on the Pewabic seems to In
dicate that untold wealth will be raised
from the bottom of ocean and Inland
sea. The great lakes alone will yield
fortunes.
Along the Jaws of sawtooth reef, off
Keeweenaw peninsula, Lake Superior,
lie scores of cargoes of Iron and cop
per. Year after year boat after boat
with Minnesota's wealth of Iron and
Michigan's wealth of copper has sunk
In Lake Superior.
Many of them lie less than 100 feet
down. Lake Huron has scores of
wrecks that. If they can be located,
will yield fortunes. There's the old
Colburn, sunk In 1872 near Port Hu
ron, with copper that is now worth
half a million dollars.
The Pewabic was sunk fifty-two'
years ago In a collision with the old
steamer Meteor, well known for a
number of years later. Tfce PewaMc
was owned by the I^*ke ' Superior
Transportation company. consisting of
Wells D. YTalbridge, J. T. Whiting and
L. McKnight, all of Detroit and all of
whom died many years ago. On her j
way from " uluth to Buffalo the Me
teor rammed ber.
She had on board 150 passengers and
a crew of thirty. One hundred and
twenty-fire persons were drowned.
Captain McKay was thrown Into the ;
water and was picked up by a boat !
after the steamer sank.
The collision occurred six and a half
miles south and east of Thunder Bay
Island, about fourteen miles from Al
pena.
Because of the depth of water the i
boat sank below all currents and storm
disturbances and has remained more
than half a century on the exact spot J
where she went down.
The Leavltt diver reported she rest
ed on clay and rock, on even keel, with
her rigging ai d deck structure Intact
He was able to make his way through
the steamer's saloon and cabins with
ease, and he sent up for souvenirs one
"clam" load of objects that lay at
hand. Among these were numerous
fine silk and broadcloth garments of
fifty years ago.
Old Time Fabrics Endure.
Despite Its submersion under 190 feet
of water for fifty-two years, a silk
gown when dried apparently was al- !
most as good as when the waters
closed over the steamer. The crimson
and blue colorings of cotton goods
were undlmmed by their long Immer
sion. They were a* bright as the day
they were purchased.
A peculiar condition marked woolen
fabrics, however. The material that
comprised the woof had disappeared,
leaving the warp as small meshed net
ting, but in good condition.
Several watches, an ancient revolver, j
coins of dates prior to the civil war, |
jet bracelets and haircombs In fashion ]
of the j>eriodL square tued shoes and j
slippers of that day. the "gentlemen's
boots" affected by the dandles—there
must have been several on the Pewa- :
bic—black silk handmade lace, checks
from the Tewabic's baggage room, j
door keys and locks with the steamer's
name stamped upon them, steamer sli
ver and other articles were sent up.
Old Daguerreotype Unharmed.
The silver Is badly oxidized. Gold
articles were scarcely tarnished. A da
guerreotype la a gold frame, probably
a picture of a passenger named F. W.
Lud'.ow, was as distinct as the day It
was made, the picture bein* unharmed.
A gold stamped card case marked with
the name F. W. Ludlow was also
broupht up, and it may be that if rio j
tims of the wreck have relatives alive ;
aome of tbem may yet recover relics of
those who went down.
'*We have been successful. That is !
all we care to say about the operations
now." said Margaret C. Goodman, for
merly of Detroit who organized the I
company. Is a director and was in Pe- ]
troit In charpe of the shipment sent i
to Toledo on the steamer City of j
Mackinac.
"While we demonstrated last yAr I
that deep sea salvage was possible by
descending 300 foot in Traverse bay,
we were not prepared to proceed with
the Fewabic salrajre until this sum- ,
mer. The work is now well under |
way."
The history of attempts to reach the ;
Pewabie's copper treasures co- ;!!tutes |
a story of tragedies. P. oca use of the j
depth in which the vessel sat.k the j
owners at once a'har.do-ici her to the !
insurance company. The company late |
in ISCi sent Billy Fi!*e. a famous diver
of those days, in <-h:.r-e of an expedi
tlon to cttempt to recover the copper
Two livers Die.
Pike went down, and w!:en he failed
to signal for a rise a"t<r so:ne time
had passed ho wes I rouch; up dead
from the terrific prrssnre The com
pany made no further effort to reach
the copper. In 1SS0 stories of the Pe
wablc's wealth caused the organiza
tion of several expeditions, and two
or three diver* lost tbeir lives between
1SS0 and 1SS4.
The next effort was nude In 1S9L
and a party from Ashland. Ws, made
repeated attempts to roach the wreck
with divers. One did. Tie died.
Next the American Wrecking and
Salt-ape company of Milwaukee tried,
bat with a specially constructed div
ing bell capable of holding several
men and permitting a considerable
movement
Five men In the bell were killed, and
the company gave up Its efforts. Since
then the lure of the Pewabic's copper
fortuhe has failed to overcome the
*ear of the depths until Leavitt's ap
paratus was demonstrated. Today
calm weather appears to be the only
requisite condition for the recovery of
the copper.
Leavitt's diver reported that the
white oak of which the vessel was
built was rotted only to a depth of
not more than one Inch.
Makes New* Print Frcm Seaweed.
A Danish inventor, it is announced,
has' discovered a process for making
news print paper from seaweed. The
new process is said to entail half the
cost of making paper from wood pulp.
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