Evening Star Newspaper, September 2, 1930, Page 6

DIVERS WORK FAST * FOR SUNKEN GOLD Blast Away 400 Feet Below Atlantic Surface to Get at $5,000,000. | BY DAVIP SCOTT. @yseial Dispatch ta The 3tar. BREST, France, Septcmber 2—Three wxplosive charges were fired 400 feet Deneath the surface of the Atlantic woday, detaching one of the hydraulic cranes on the sunken liner Egypt, which plunged beneath the waves eight vears ago with more than $5,000,000 worth of gold and silver in her hull. They were the first charges ever fired at such a depth during salvage operations, and soon afterward a great crane welghing several tons was brought to the surface within 72 hours of its first descent to the wreck. It wes & remarkable feat which promises wel | WHE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 1930. treasure, and the clearing u-{eot the | smaller buoys 80 feet below the sur- wat&! (u': laden strong rooan 'lo'; | face, safe from storms. jce the Egypt was located yesterday | divers have worked like slaves to take Beoys Hard ‘s Mundio advantage of the spell of fine weather ' Already divers have had much oc- and tides, Today they worked casion to reflect on the perverse and 10 hours, and from now on all their |impish nature of marine buoys. A efforts will be directed toward the bul- |buoy in the hold of a salvage ship is lion room of the sunken liner in front | just a tiresome half ton of iron painted of the forward funnel. Above are the |red, which bangs about when you hoist boat decks, hurricane deck, spar deck |it and will smash your hand or shin- | and main deck, counting downwards. | bore if you let it. Drop it into the d it be i 3 Ship Is Standing Upright. l"‘ e et — thing which bobs sarcastically at you All these decks are of steel, varying | while you are in sight, and with a lit- in thickmess from a quarter to three-|tle persistent spinning and tugging it quarters of an inch. The grabs of the |works itself free of your five-ton an- shovels must come at the treasure ver-|chor and six-inch cable as soon as| tcally from above. lying on her side only the hull and one |* This year & buoy found the Egypt| partition would have to be plerced. As| without waiting to be trawled. It stole | she 18 upright four decks must be cut| away in the night from its four com- | | through, but this is reaily preferable. [ panions and entangled its moorings in | | because ‘the work is easfer to follow on | the wreck a mile away. There, too, the the ship's plan & | drag caught fast in something last year | The floor and the walls and ceilings | after a fortnight's work and wrecked {of the treasure room are thicker than| the trawling gear. It is fairly certain the surrounding structure, Around it|now that our ships touched the E | agnin are four mafl rooms for EgypUian, | then, but could not locate her & | Indian, Australian and Chinete mails,| ward. | which ‘may contain unexpected prizes. | e |5 maval weather office at Brest| Find Causes Big Stir in London. | prophesies & fine September, and it| By Special Cable to The Star. | would be rash to say that the workers| LONDON, September 2.—The discov- | | who are moving about the hydraulic|ery of the treasure-laden wreck of the | cranes like minnows will not touch the | Egypt off Cape Finisterre, France, Sun~ |gold this year. Yet it seems unlikely | day, has created A first-class sensa- |that they will finish their iask soon.|tion among London marine under- and they u face the problem of | writers. Everywhere in the London mar- | marking (ht?x‘x_vpt through the Winter. | ket it was eagerly discussed. If the ehip were | your back is turned. | good ¢ | Pleasant return for the marine under- t | Canary Islands had aroused nothing but doubt in the minds of underwriters that the feat could not be accomplished. Now, how- ever, the first stage of the job has been completed, and there is confidence that second stage—the actual, recovery }7‘1‘ the bullion—will be equally success- 1 The position of the wreck agrees with that officlally recorded biy Liloyd's. The | Egypt sank in May, 1922, and the precious metal she carried consisted of $4,19,000 in gold and $1,075.000 in sil- ver, a total of $5,270,000. Since then, however, the price of silver has depre- clated heavily, but the value of the gold | has held up, and if the salvaging ef- forts are successful there ought to be a reward for Italian divers and & writers who paid the claim after the liner sank. At the time a number of re- insurances were effected. Oné of the most ramous salvage cases known to the London market | was _the recovery of gold in the| steamer Alfonso XII, wrecked off the | in February, 1885. Aboard were 10 boxes, each weigh- ing about 200 pounds and containing 10,000 Spanish gold coins, each worth | nearly $5. The gold was insured in | the London market for about $525,000. | Recovery Costs Nearly 16 Per Cent. It was stowed in the lazarette, and to reach it openings had to be made | in three decks. The metal was at &, depth of 160 feet, compared with 400 | for the Egypt, and up to that time, | 45 years ago, the greatest depth at which it was thought divers could London® underwriters _organized s | special salvage expedition and serit out & staff including three British divers in the steamer Arablan. About $450.000 of the goid was recovered, the actual cost of recovery being 15.922 per cent, as compared With an estimate of 16 per cent at the outset. Since then there have been a num- ber of notable salcage cases, includ- ing the recovery of gold in the sunken Laurentic, but it is recognized every- where that of the Egypt's horde is recovered it will be the ‘greatest achievement of 1ts kind. | (Copyright, 1030, by New York Times,) e ettt s “CHARM” INSTRUCTORS IN NEW BEAUTY PLAN| “Charm” instructors may. booths alongside those of the perma- nent-wave operators and the mani- curists in beauty shops of the luture‘; if plans now being considered at the convention of the National Hairdressers snd Cosmetologists’ Association in the Mayflower Hotel are carriea v,hrough. The idea back of the proposal is that beauty shops should be so enlarged as to_include lessons in personality. Hair styles for the coming season will be determined by the 1,000 delf’atu | during the remaining four days of the | convention. | occupy | | | DR. E. ALBERTA READ DIES AT HOME HERE Leading Woman Scientist of U, S. Service Had Held Post Since 1907. Dr. E. 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