Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1930, Page 47

EAST “GIBRALTAR” Strategic City of Weihaiwei Is of Little Value to Trade World. In & preliminary agréement, Gfeat lnmn announcées her intention to re- | stare Weihaiwel o Ohifid, and the ma tef will soon be presented to Parlia mt “Weihaiwei s Britain's Gibraltar ot | North China,” says a bulletin from the | National Geographic Society. me Gibraltar, its strategic importance 18 great; its trade importance sero. “Its position on the tip end of Bhantung Pen! nfil makes Weihaiwei 3 l‘fl Box to the Gulf of CHihll, which {8 the Mediterranean of North China, Across the narfow strait ffom | is Dairen, wheré the Jap- | important Artpur. Guards North China's Sea Gate. “All the tradé of North Chh';la‘?“ a It which Qreat Britain proposes | to China. T6 most persons, no doubt, nul means l ber spun by domesticated worms fed on mulberry léaves. | B\“ the silk industry is different in the | Wethaiwei neighborhood and other parts 6f Shantung. The pon which nafme their silk is known—un- bleached and in its natural coior, 18| the product not of domestie, but of | ‘wild’ silk worms. And they do not eat | mulberry leaves, but browse, s to speak, on the leaves of the scrub oak trees of the Shantung hills. Their o~ coons are gathered in large quantities and o the otherwise waste hill lands are made to yield a relativély mh harvest. Powers Took Patches of China. “The years 1897 and 1808 saw the high water mark u‘( telrflmul ucqum- uon in_China by forel ruwerl Great Britain felt unpell take & part in the procedure, shé hés ex- pll\ned by way of self-protéction. “Germany _started the scramble i November, 1897, by seizing the ill-fated Kiaochow Bay (from which she was driven by Japan during the World War), and by forcing China to grant her & 99-year lease on the su territory. Alman fmmediately R forced from Chi 8 25-year lease on Port Arthur, at tl! southern tip 6f Manchuria. = Following this, Great Britain negotiated for control of Wel- haiwei, exactly midway between the German and Russian ports. .She made her reasons for the move plain by set- ting out in the agreement that the Jease was to run for 25 years or ‘so long as Russia occupies Port Arthur’ The leue was therefore nominally for 25 position, so d lheltered uf sphere %phy thlt lies outside naval ceonsiderations place is of small m ocrmnny- md Japan's Teing« fifi“ w Bay has a rich hifiter- lmd behind it And has become rather & prosperous port. But the low. sandy coast lands lnd rolling hills about Wei- haiwei are not known to contain min- erals, and they fall short of constituting & Garden of Eden agriculturally. The 's two bids for trade are peanuts, of which considerable quantities aré produced in the vllle'yl—lnd pongee silk, “in returning the Weiliaiwel lease- hold to China, Great Britain will turn back a better region than she received. New plants and animals have been in- troduced, considerable denuded areas have been reforested, and good roads have been built. Weihaiwei has a favor- able climate and du;m the 32 ye-r'; v: British occupancy has been used certain extent as a Summer resort by Europeans from Hongkong - #nd the southern treaty ports.” U. S. NURSE’S SCHOOL IN TURKEY IS BROKE ISTANBAL (#).—Americans in the Near East who when ill have found clean beds, American doctors and American-traified mufses in the Amer. ican How"‘l of Constantinople, are alarmed by a statement from the board of m-nuerl thet the hospital is faced with so critical a financial situation that it may be forced to close in June. Thus the tenth anniversary of institution my mark fts death. of training school for nurses which l- attached to the hos- tal would be & catastrophe for the Florence Nightingale’s or- Hospital at tari, Turkey, in the Crimean War, revolutionized nursing methods through- out the world, butlettnnmln,n this part of the world.” Of the 69 nurses who have been grad- uated from the school, 29 hold execu- tive positions in the hospitals and Eblh: health clinics in Turkey, Greece, mfll Russia and Syfll Others in private practice in the same The first step toward saving the in- stitution is to be the formation of board of trustees in the United States under the chairmanship of William B. Miller, general controller of the Stan- dard Oil Company of New York. This board will try to raise $15,000 & year for five years. This sum added to the hospital’s annual earnings of $30,000 and contribution by the local American community of another llb 000 will guar- antee the mnlnwnnn the hospital. this | apple, with a anneuficed. m MISS HELEN ALBERTA ORTON, Daughter of Hl‘ Helen D. Ofton And the I engagement Dt. John Austin Moran fig day is sét for Edster Sunday. ton MArtied Miss Jémima Atkins of weufleet They had ee children. After a long 8nd Mul life in the set- tlement opted him, Em- manuel &l:m fl on wm hé was dson, lymou abetit 90 yéars old. A 'T. Caton, now lives in . Residént Adopted Boy. Gaton, aftér being cast off by the rmu,vumundtndlflnudb rra- Bowley, afi inhabitant of Hel the now abandonéd fishing emenit located on the 'rmnu covered the new State highway. Hell Town its nime from the colorful 1a '“,:'fi ‘whet . Biekers, gfin aughter, l’ Prées 1d me that he found the Boy wander- ing along the shore, exhausted, crying and véry frightened. He took Oaton inte and raised him. Caton made him his flnt ir of pants, Untle Free: tl-nln sald. Men wore skirt-like ciothes days. “I knew Caton well. It's true about him coming off lxlnm ship, though he never went into details. I suppose hé wouldi't talk about the) nm fearing théy'd do him some harm. e's buried lq the old eemetéry here in Provincetown. Manuel Snow, another old settlef, says he knew Emmanuel Caton very wel, and he has as (ood réason as anyl lfvlfif that pieces of eight or -lnun | weaith is burled in Mofey Hil. Recalls Tale of “Heavy Box.” “Mr. Caton said that before the pi- ratés réléaséd him they hlllled up thel.r | ship to remove the barnacles,” Mf. Sno | rolates. “He said tHat once he Awoa on | deck asd watched four men stru;{le up | the beich unymtn. heavy box of some thte direction of Muney nm Many's the time I've fl out and dug around that hill. But all I found was an old kettle.” Ernest Cabral, son of John Cabral, one of Caton's friends, also has dug for the supposed treasure. His only find, Bowever, was a tiny anchor, evidently hand wrought and a clever bit of work- manship. John Cabral recalls that John Dr. William Allen Orton, whose Frederick, Md., has just been | —Harris-Ewing Photo. Special Dispatch to The Star. a boy of l:l ‘was landed on the desolate ocean shore by a pirate ship and left to work out his own salvation. Caton had run away from his home in Lisbon. The veséel on which he shipped m 18 | seuttled by the pirates, and ”cry ber of the éféw was made to pienk. But theé boy was m ma buccaneers made him their -I-vey The castaway's granddsughter, Mrs. [ Abbie Bickers, who lives in Province- town, eonfirms this account of his r6- mantie arrival as the pioheér of 4 race now composing moré than halt of Provineetown’s population. Caton’s coming, however, is only an incidental item in the suddenly revived | discussions of pirate treasure among old residents of Provincetown. 'rmy pouw to it as a res that nnmeeuux een- off, Cape Cod were mmuu with wu.hlmek!m with ready cutlasses, wifie sl in tow and Dulg- | the ing chests of m-nmn doubldons and r}(\e.cu é’:'.‘"'fi?g to bolster the belief t pirate's fra be buriéd ‘"'51 thé ocean shore ai ' the lonely tip Cape Cod. 0l Coins Recently Found, Only recently Samuel B. Tay, durs i This shore was the burial ground of 102 men of Capt. s-muel Bellamy’s ‘ho perished in the it Bel- l-my cwm of 1717, when the pirate ship Wadah and several captive ships were wrecked off Welifleet, Thtre also the word of Capt. that he discovered a almu-r which gave up a watch “shaped winding key big mn to Aulxiten‘ & house.” of which helps the loul -nmnu lfl helieve that a chest or g‘m from the Oplnllh Illln Oid ma may lie in Money Hill, 'dt.- ing for the taking with a stout shove). . Hill Near New Highway. Money Hill now looms prominently the picture, since it is only a_ few steps the recently completed State highway that extends throulh the mysterious dunes and along the shore line,” passing the location where Emmanuel Caton was abandoned by the pirates. About all that can be said for Money Hill at this time is that it 1s an unpretentious mound 50 feet high, with a beautiful covering of Au- | tumn folliage. | g has been done there and | sounding rods used, but thus far no doubloons have turned up. One citi- | stoutly contends it 18 “‘made hill”; another relates a awr! credited to Caton that he wltnelsed hll pirate companions carry rom the ship and bury it under the Mysterious Stranger hell.l". Others argue that if the brigands who landed Caton did not use the mound as a hiding place, other pirates may have cached i there, There is the dark fellow, for instance, mentioned in Alden’s “Collection of Hasgow, mflnnd. has voted to ban marnnwn al boxing matches in its mu- Springtime Bellamy's nchmen, .. "Por many years -rwr this d\ln— FINDING OF OLD COINS RECALLS PIRACY IN CAPE COD WATERS Provincetown Stories of Loot Believed | in Mound Are Revived by Dis- - covery on Beach. ! “A man of a very then w be seen traveling on the Cape, who m -sealot. ~He faithfully attended every mpm as having all the umsrn H Céirnes, one of the Provincetowners who joined the gold rush of '49, tried his luck 4t Money Hill before setting out for California. Excavation Forbidden. But in late t§ th! mystérious old hill has not turbed by picks énd shovels. 1t is ”rt of the province lands, vinceton h‘m by & pirate cap- fain, who subsequently was eéxeeuted. ® 1“ue are the revelations aired by !1- wreck,” relates the epitaph authority, | toy Thompson of Brockton in jar ant thttul ::fly published three- vo"m}- hwry used, every Spring and Autumn, ymmnh Norfolk rnstable ties. Mr. Thompson presents his tvldence as follows “Capt. Joanes or Jones, for Whom Jones River, Silver e, through Kingston been nAmed, has béén mén by several historians as a most un bl:"pemn. passengers was supposed to have been one of Bel- lamy’s crew. The presumption is that he went to lcme pllce where money mfi”fi"- mwly ubih gencise o0 éxigencies re- Gold Found After Death. “When he died, mafiy pleces of gold were Xound in a girdle, which he con- Afid le relate that tl fl ul the flight in vate it Whénéver the ble or &hy nn.ms book whs read, or any family devotions performed, he (numbly left the room. is n improbable, “It is also stated that, during the night, nwou!dlemuuhehsdin cl 4 legion from the lower world, for much convérsation was often omhunl which was fane, blasphemous and quarrelsome in extreme. This 4 the representa- “The pmblbfllty is that his sleep was of the mur- -eenu in which he had been engaged and that he, involuntarily, ventfl tuch exclamations as, with the gination awake to won- ders Ohe invisible regions, gave Eif thnn ys to the current opin- =u chafiber was the re- infernals. .. Csten Reticent on Subject. to old idents, lmmm cnhn th- m’he: ea | 5tk i.:mn:f ew mad imepired & terror that edh!lwntue urn a‘y have been due to a strong feeling Tratitude at spared. At a McDevitt’s Tate the evidence shows that the lad, When dissovered on the beach by an| Custom Made Dra?erlu eArly native, wis very much fi hmed aare expertly designed and e to I.r-, and on the verge of a neryous collapse. enize with the ;rlumuu in ve start Caton was a r!h.mul CDEV anfid his record seéms to i of that left by most of the on the Mayflower. Once Prisoner in London. “According the corsair Lion, had been a prisoner in London for misconduct, according to 0t | the English law of that d: master of the cattle ship Falcon on a voyage to Virginia, and after bringing the Pil- #.mu or u&-nmu from Leyden, in alllnd to Plymouth Colony became a “In !.hia e-pul ity he commanded: the Ittle lh very off the coast 0' m lnd and Vlrmlt He o & Spanish frigate in the West salled it into the port of Jamestown, was arrested and shared & pirate's fate. “Possibly he m tht have had intens Mnluo{ h’tllrr\l.nd: ';‘ M;y“flower lnfiowl pirate ship, under the Jolly Roger, but may have decided he would change his Passengers into pirates. “Whether Capt. 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The ‘most feared of the lob, B fa- \ome “social diversion’ to take his €rew to the hoid of the § ship, half suffocate them by burning brimstone matches, blow out all thé candlés and constantly on the lookout for signs of | blaze awy with his many pistols, 1! ht them, particularly for Blackbeard, who | and left, at random, then to relight dressed in silk and velvet, with great | candles to sée the results. silver buckled shoes, and Was wont to| Old Provincetown was the scene of irk and cutlass, a bri others who are to be rated as heroes or villains, according to preference.” Other Raiders Remefnbered. Among the more notorious buccaneers plying these waters in oldén days were Capt. Willlam Kidd, 8ir Hénry Morgan and Edward Teach, better known as “Blackbeard.” Old Cape Codders were | the shore by the captain of several pirates of Capt. motor. Bel 's band, while some of their pumnensmmm Bél- lamy with 130 men met disister on the shoals off Wellfleet. Créw Execuied in Boston. The ecaptain of a Bellamy denh he dared to s vatnee “mr-e: pi mmhzd down the cape to Boston, and there executed. What became of those | who escapéd no one seems to hnve | learned, Wellfleet, a few miles below Provlnoe- town, claims distinction as bein, the scene of the greatest pirate ulurgt | Cape Cod's memot e story of that great wreok is told in the “Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society,” | as_ follows: “No shipwrsck is more remarkable | than that nl me noted pirate Bellam: f menfloned 13‘ Hutchinson in his e year 1717 his ship, with hu whole flnt were cast oni the shore of what is now Wellfleet, being led near a_ SCOW. which was made a prize the day before, who had the promise of the scow as a esent if he would pflot the fleet in ape Ood harbor; theé captain, suspect- ing the pirate would not le:&hu prom- {se and that, instead of clearing his ship. as was his mise, his intention m}lh! be to plunder the inhabitants of Prov- incetown. 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