New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1927, Page 4

Z NEW BRITAIN UAILY HEKALU, Wz, RETIRED GENERAL OLDEST ARMY CADET Received More Army Pay in Absence Than Before rKIDAY, AUGUNL Zzo, L3 AMERIGAN FINDS BURIED TREASURE Professor Explores Byzantine (Cisterns She intends to desert a Normundy villa to 100k up some of her “hud- dies” of tfe Little Gray Home which kept open house on the Savenay road to St. Lazaire in 1918. Army trucks on their way to St Lazaire drew up at the Little Gray House. | There old socks were ex- changed for new and footbaths, warm fires and cheerfulness offered. Mrs. Gibbons, with her children, received hundreds of soldiers into her home. Scores of them have since called on her at her residence in Frinceton, N. J. Each man who looks her up there is presented with 'a clay pipe. Once he has smoked it, {the pipe goes back into a rack bear- ing his name to be kept for him luntil his next ¥l with McDowell and then with Tyler. winning his first brevet promotion at the Battle of Bull Run. Subse- quent honorary promotions were given to him in rccognition of serv- ices at Yorktown, Petersburg and Richmond. After the war, he was made a major in the corps of engincers, and was appointed a member of the board designated to conduct experi- ments in the use of iron in the permanent defense of the nation. Since his retirement, he has estab lished his home at Cambridg.. Mass. fore his 19th birthday, he was lcepted as a cadet at the military academy. He went into the Civil !war as a first lieutenant and came out a colonel, although a series of ‘honorary promotions for gallant and meritorious service had lifted him to the brevet rank of a major gen- leral with the United States volun- |teers. Subsequently, his permanent rank was raised to that of brigadier general, retired. Beginning his army career with the topographical engineers, he was umns, situated bencath a modern | Turkish hospital, observed a peculiar blind fish, The professor declares that the Icisterns of Constantinople are the only unspoiled relics of Byzantine | architecture. While all that the Byzantines built above ground has been destroyed, the cisterns, the solidity of which is a wonder of | masonry, stand staunchly unde r~' ground, untouched by earthquake, | | their porphyry and marble columns | raisin sing the unsolved question” of | - = o S | why men in past ages reated such| Washington, Aug. 26 UM — The|cngaged, prior to 1857, on a survey beauty in the bowels of the earth. Story goes that Brig. Gen, Henry L.|of the railroad route between Call- The vast number of cisterns is ADbbott has received more army pay fornia and Oregon, when that part not amazing, for a city so often since he retired than he did before. jof the world was ‘wild and woolly. besleged as Constantinople was in | He is the oldest living West Point|Afterwards, until the Civil war in- need of a tremendous water re- | graduate on the army rolls, having tervened, he was assigned to the serve, but the purpose of the m r «d the retirement age of 64 hvdrographic survey of the Missis- of underground passages discovered just 22 ago. |sippi delta in Louisiana. in opening up the cisterns still re- G 1 Abbott has been in the During the early stages of the mains a conundrum. since 1850, when, shortly be. var, he served as an engineer, first people whom the explorer had call- ed for help carried him out of his living grave, into the sunlight above. Of the several hundred cisterns | which make a labyrinth of the an- | cient city’s underworld, many of the | 58 thus far located are still partial- ly filled with water from mysterious | unlocated sources. Most of these | cisterns are accessible only by rope !ladders, swung down well-heads, |and can be investigated only by | wading through slimy mud and sages bencath the clty of Constan- tine. Pits which the Turks always re- garded merely as wells he has prov- ed to be Byzantine cisterns, many of them rich in relics and art of the period of the Greek emperors. His explorations have led him through a series of amazing ad- ventures and have culminated with a grisly climax in his discovery of “the coffin clstern.” Here Professor Tilley found not only thé usual beautiful columns, | with carved capitals rising in black- | dirty, icy water. ness from heaps of rubbish scurried| The cold and foul air make im- »— | over by rats. The first object his|possible a long stay below, and no Treasures of the Byzantine empire g qhlight fell upon was an ancient |attempt has been made to un- and a tomb of living death have | ofin and beside the coffin, lying|earth the jewels and treasures of old been discovered in an ancient cls- | on 3 'heq of burlap and straw, was|Byzantium which were burled in ci: tern by Professor Edmund Tilley, an | gying an old man. | terns during riots and raids. A Tur! American attached to Robert col-| “gow muany years the old man had |ish soldier who has been assisting lege. |made the black Byzantine pit his|Professor Tilley discoveged an For two years this younz Ameri- home and how he had managed to|antique Janissary sword sticking in | ean has been exploring the maze of | provide himself with a coffin the mud of one cistern. ancient cisterns and mysterious pas- | solved mysteries, for he die In one large cistern of 30 col- Professor 'mn-y; i Constantinople, Aug. 26.—(A— Visiting Legionnaires Renew Friendships Paris, Aug. 26 (®—Amcrican Le- Diamonds can be identified Ly glonnaires will find Mrs. Herber( | means of ultra-violet rays, under Adams Gibbons among the wartime | which the stones gives off various friends who greet them in Paris |colors which can be photographed. army N truthful advertising there is no half way. 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