New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1922, Page 16

DARING DIVER T0 SEEK LOST WEALTH Plans to Visit Wreck of Liner| Lusitania BY EDWARD M Philadelphia, May THIERRY. Between June and September Benjamin Frank- |others was the recovery of $2,400,000 | (Westinghouse On that date we'll have to quit be- cause of storms.” Tells Own Story. Following 1s Leavitt's own story of 1is plans, and a list of sunken treas- ure hold the world's diving record 1 feet, more than twice as deep as any other human being ever has penetrated the sea “In salvaging the steamer Pewabic | Huron in 1817 T fhade a vage record of 176 feet, s had spent $200,000 and lives in unsuccessful at- in Lake world' after ot lost seven | ter “The deepest salvaging done by the Toucan Got His Bill" 7:45 p. m.—Crop report of V. Banders, 8:00 p Selections by | Btewart A. Lyman, violinist. | ¢, Atehinson, plano. | _ 8:30 p, m~Baritone solos, Willard $. Clark » Master Myrtle m Sunday. 8:00 p, m —Talk by Gordon Law, | M. B. E., of India, “Ghandi and the | Future of India." 8:00 p, m.—8ervices by the Spring- 1d College Gospel Deputation Team, WIZ station Jfla at Newark, at the Sequin Golf club was held Wed- | nesday afternoon and evening and was largely attended Mrs. Daniel B, Olson and daughter have returned to Bridgeport after spending the week with Mr, and Mrs, D. K. Perry, Miss Marjorie Hine has returned after a trip to Boston Mr, and Mrs. H, Barrows of Willl- mantic were week-end guests of Mr, and Mrs, Clinton Barrows last week, The senior Girl Scout troop enter- -Public Notice!- New York Sample Shop—To be closed Monday and talned friends’ Saturday evening by from the Empress of Ireland in 138 N. J) lin Leavitt expects to dig $11,000,000 out of the bed of the Atlantic ocean. | The great treasure hunt--salvaging of the gold sunk with the Lusitania and Arablc—begins when the steam- ship Blakeley sails from here May 25 stops at New fork a few days, on June 5 starts for the spot miles off Kinsale Point, Ireland, where the Lusitazia went down in 1015 The expedition is costing $250,000 Leavitt, 1% 235 ing Divers will have to go down feet to reach the Lusitania and B for the Arabic—twice as far, Leavitt says, as any diver has ever been able to go in an ordinary rubber diving suit But Leavitt has spent six years in- venting his own diving armor. In his first test in 1916 he made the world's record descent of 361 feet in Lake Michigan. Eight diving suits have been built | in Leavitt's own factory here at a cost of $2,500 each. The Leavitt suit is made of manganese bronze, a quarter inch thick, the torso and headpiece solid and the arms and legs made of ribbons of bronze en-| cased in rubber, with ball bearings at the shoulders. Hopes to Find Millions. | “Millions in treasure at the bottom | of the ocean never has been salvaged | beyond a depth of 130 feet,” says Leavitt, “because the pressure is too great. Air lines get tangled and no diver can work at that depth more | than 20 minutes, with an hour anrl{ | | a quarter to lowetr and pull up.” Leavitt says a novice can go down in his suit from 300 to 500 feet and remain four hours. Air is manufactured within the suit from a tube containing 8 cubic feet of oxygen and nitrogen drawn from a four-pound cylinder of caustic soda. A valve outlet discharges the air, keeping pure air circulating at | least four hours. The only line that connects the diver with the ship above will be a half-inch non-twisting cable that costs $1,120. Inside this will be a telephone wire connecting with a|{ transmitter and reccivers within the headpiece. The diving suit weighs 350 pounds | —but the enormous pressure of deep | water reduces the weight on the ocean | floor to 75 pounds. | Another Leavitt invention is deep sea light, a glass globe half an inch thick containing a 300-candle- power bulb. A series of these will be dropped on weights enabling the div- er to see over a radius of seven feet. The satvage ship will be held di- rectly over the sunken ship by six 5-ton anchors. Aboard will be two tons of dynamite. By electrical de- tonation dynamite will be set off un- der water to blow open the strong rooms of the Lusitania and Arabic. Each ship has §5,000,000 in gold bars in her strong room, according to insurance records. Leavitt plans to lift the gold to the surface with a 20-ton boom. He plans to lift intact the Lusitania purser’'s safe which is estimated to contain $1,000,000 in money and jewelry. Very little is believed to be in the purser’s safe of the Arabic, which lies 40 miles from the Lusitania wreck. Leavitt is a small stock man, with scant hair and blue eyes. He is 51 and has been a diver 25 years. In that time he never had an accident under water—but a few years ago broke an ankle in an automobile ac- cident. “I will make the first trip down to: the Lusitania,” he said. After that four divers, C. E. Wilson, Madison Marcus, Raymond Moore and Harold Ericson, will go down two at & time in two-hour shifts. Commanding the Blakeley will be Captain Charles §. Richards. The ship's crew will comprise 34 men and the salvage crew 20. “Three weeks' pleasant weather will do both jobs’ said Leavitt. “We ought to get through before Sept. 15. - > = R Fhe Lincoln Realty (o. FROPERTY | HE GOT POOR 4. BUYING Wno- b J 1 HE lessons of life are walk- ing the streets of this town. One man bought every get-rich-quick chance he ever saw and got poorer every day. The happy man bought reéal CROWLEY BROS. INC. PAINTERS AND DECORATORS 267 Chapman Street TEL. 755-12 { Estimates cheerfully given on all jobs | feet of water in the St. Lawrence, Last | summer $4,000,000 was taken out of | the Raturday. 7:00 p. m-—"Uncle Wiggily's Bed- Laurentic in 70 feet of water off | {ime Stories.' givihg a dance at the Gertrude Fieber. home of Miss J. Sweeney, Merchandise Adjuster, the coast of Ireland. eight | tania and | trea | of ships and cargo were sunk during the war. and some 600 stockholders are back- | Worth have been sunk Ships such as the Titanic | insu cour! | the Ma T g estimated at $70,000,000, H [L— —— | Mrs. 4| Methodis* Episcopal church, “With my diving armour I can- and | and will, if I succeed with the Lusi- | Arabic—go after other asure. Seven billien dollars worth In 400 years $17,000,000,000 Nine-tenths ire in depths less than 500 feet “*All this treasure can be recovered down 3800 feet—never will be salvaged will either make a contract with nee companies or trust to the er. In salvage cases like this 85 to 90 per cent of the treasure belongs to the salvager.” Sunken Treasure Vessels, Here are some of the sunken treas- ure ships: Lusitania, 000,000 worth of sunk in 1915 with 8$6,- gold and jewelry; ship and cargo worth §15,00,000, Arabic, sunk in 1915 with $5,000,- 000 in gold. Yasaka Maru, sunk in Mediterran- ean last December with $12,500,000 in gold Oceana 000 in k in 1912 with $5,000,- d silver. Meri off Cape Charles in 1911 with .1,300,000 in silver bars and $100,000 in cash and jewelry. Geelong, sunk in Mediterranean with $4,000,000 in jewels belonging to jah of Kaparthala. unk with 2,000,000 cargo. General Grant, sunk off Auckland slands in 1866 with $15,000,000 in old bars and bullion Lizard, sunk off Cromwell with gold sun Ancon VOICES IN THE AIR Ji KDKA | 30 p. m.—Children's stories, E. Lester Pearson 7:45 p. m.—"Fashion Talks 8:00 p. m.—"Broadcasting Broad- way," by Bertha Brainard | 8:15 p. m.—Popular dance music, by the Wells Harmony orchestra of Newark. 9:00 p. m-—Literary evening, con- ducted by the editorial staffs of the “Outlook” and "Scientific American.” by ! Sunday. | 300 p. m.—Radio chapel tervices 4:00 p. m.—"My Garden,” by Louis Wilder. | 5:00 p. m—TLiterary Vespers by Prof. Edgar W. Burrill, Columbia | University. | 6:30 p. m.—Readings and records | from the “Bubble Books That Sing," by Ralph Mayhew. WGI | (American Radio and Research Corps. | Medford Millside, Mass.) | Saturday. | 8:00—"The Story of | Harvey A. Wooster, Ph. D, Professor of Political Science, | head of Department of Economics. | 8:15 — “Baby"" Josephine Leonard, lof the Wyman School for Stage Chil- dren, in Scotch and Jazz Songs. Miss | Leonard is only seven years old, prob- lably the youngest artist who has ever entertained by radio. §:45—Dorchester Boys' | B Money, orchestra. Maple Hill | Sheldon Hare of Manchester, N, H., {is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. iHaro of Golf street. The first of a series of bridge par- ties, dinners and dances to be given ews (Westinghouse station at East Pitts- burgh, Pa.,) Saturday. May 20. 2:00 p. m.—Popular concert by the “niversity club of Pittsburgh. 7:00 p. m.—"The Social Worker," M. C. Burnett. “Cremistry—of Bread,” Dr. H. A. Kohman. 8:00 p. m.—Mixed Quartet. Sunday, May 21. | m.—Services of the Kmory Pitts- | 10 a. yurgh, Pa. 1:45 p. m.—Children’s Bible Story. 2:00 p. m.—Radio Chapel at Station KDKA 6:30 p. m.—S8ervices of the Calvary | Episcopal church, Pittsburgh, Pa. WBZ (Westinghouse Mass.) 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