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Abrams consults with Zinn on the progress of the hole. "Andy and I are in the same rotisserie baseball league," Zinn says. "It's so funny because he told me, 'You know what I want in return for helping you? I want some of your players." Zinn is still considering that proposal.
Abrams consults with Zinn on the progress of the hole. "Andy and I are in the same rotisserie baseball league," Zinn says. "It's so funny because he told me, 'You know what I want in return for helping you? I want some of your players." Zinn is still considering that proposal.

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io to a treasure buried in Grant Park Chicago Tribune, 8/9183, Sec. 2, pg. 3(2) om ndered just what these guys thought they were doing theboso they dent of lu leter ty Preis to ask il he were close or i, perchance, it already had been found in waiting around for a response the boys practically forgot about their search. Finally in early July they there was no treasure buried in Chicago. But the boy frozen tundra. No luck. They were sure the al the ound on their digs weye undercround gopher on public property They called Preiss again to beg for the last little clue, ched Preiss, and Which he finally sent them in the form of a snapsh taken at the burial site. The placement of the scarred earth in that picture was the last piece to the puzzle " called Preiss' office long distance. His secretary said Wrobel, Gasiorowski, his mother and sister, some eighbors, a photographer and a lookout [James, alas as visiting his grandparents in Indiana trooped down They called back the next day and asked to speak with t own one last time to claim their reward. Once a him personally. They explained their reasoning in so s riddles and told him where they were diggin they pie rced the crumbly Chicago soil with their shovel Once again they dug deep: One foot. Two feet. Three ain they found nothing n you can't find the right spot." DANNY ROSENBACH, a friend and bit player in the rama, was standing in the hole wondering what could SOMETIME DURING the winte in a modest, blue-collar disguise, had crept into protected by have gone wron en he stepped back and knocked d Grant Park and planted the cerami some dirt off the crater wall. Suddenly, on the southern v a cement retaining wall that runs next to Jackson Drive We went nuts," says Wrobel They're not quite sure what they're going to do with the money. Maybe they'l invest it unti James finishes oles that Wrobel, Gasiorowski and James his upcoming hitch in the Army. Maybe they'l just split ailroad tracks. The area now is pitted with remin They were never once stopped by the police, thou attracted frequent attention from curious passers-by who down to a four-block area. .'" chewed into the sod in Jul But maybe they'lI use it to finance another treasure Gasiorowski coolly. "It's in Colorado. We've narrowed it he once had to hide inside a. hole he hunt. "We've almost got another one fi
io to a treasure buried in Grant Park Chicago Tribune, 8/9183, Sec. 2, pg. 3(2) om ndered just what these guys thought they were doing theboso they dent of lu leter ty Preis to ask il he were close or i, perchance, it already had been found in waiting around for a response the boys practically forgot about their search. Finally in early July they there was no treasure buried in Chicago. But the boy frozen tundra. No luck. They were sure the al the ound on their digs weye undercround gopher on public property They called Preiss again to beg for the last little clue, ched Preiss, and Which he finally sent them in the form of a snapsh taken at the burial site. The placement of the scarred earth in that picture was the last piece to the puzzle " called Preiss' office long distance. His secretary said Wrobel, Gasiorowski, his mother and sister, some eighbors, a photographer and a lookout [James, alas as visiting his grandparents in Indiana trooped down They called back the next day and asked to speak with t own one last time to claim their reward. Once a him personally. They explained their reasoning in so s riddles and told him where they were diggin they pie rced the crumbly Chicago soil with their shovel Once again they dug deep: One foot. Two feet. Three ain they found nothing n you can't find the right spot." DANNY ROSENBACH, a friend and bit player in the rama, was standing in the hole wondering what could SOMETIME DURING the winte in a modest, blue-collar disguise, had crept into protected by have gone wron en he stepped back and knocked d Grant Park and planted the cerami some dirt off the crater wall. Suddenly, on the southern v a cement retaining wall that runs next to Jackson Drive We went nuts," says Wrobel They're not quite sure what they're going to do with the money. Maybe they'l invest it unti James finishes oles that Wrobel, Gasiorowski and James his upcoming hitch in the Army. Maybe they'l just split ailroad tracks. The area now is pitted with remin They were never once stopped by the police, thou attracted frequent attention from curious passers-by who down to a four-block area. .'" chewed into the sod in Jul But maybe they'lI use it to finance another treasure Gasiorowski coolly. "It's in Colorado. We've narrowed it he once had to hide inside a. hole he hunt. "We've almost got another one fi

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Tough 'Secret' clues lead Chicago trio Continued from first Tempo page real treasure hunt and captured the international imagi Seek the sounds nation In the American version, Preiss plant Central too For finding jewel caaque 8/9/83, Sec. 2, Chicago Tribune, n 8/9183, Sec. 2, pg. 3(1) th Preiss planted hints ino intings and poems that helped comprise an elaborate, f rumble Brush and music umorous folktale about The Fair People," immigrant Hush elves and gnomes in for The book has not been such a huge success as its OKAY. ITs obvious to you in retrospect: "M and B" ca ropean counterpart. One reason is the chilly reception stand for "man and beast," and set in stone" means a the accorded "The Secret" by critics. Another may be that statue, a reference to the two 1928 Ivan Mestrovic ere are so many different treasures to loök for, no one sculptures of American Indians on horses that flank of them is as tempting as the single s50,.000 bonanza o Masquerade." A third themseives are very hard k at South Michigan Avenue hi es are not set in stone but, in fact, vi bronze. onress" refers to the drive or the hotel and Y reason may be that the puzzles even though the statu The key to the Chicago treasure, for example, was R stands for railroad. "L is for the statue of Lincoln recognizing lesser-known or disguised area landmarks in Grant Pa. en by thirteen" are rows of trees sprinkled and matching those clues with the following poem in abrush and music" mean the Art Institute and the series of poems yor h one of 12 thoroughly bizarre paintings behind him, Central is the Illinois Central railroad re bandshel. Find a "fence and fixture" in the vicinity and G start diggin Actually, Wrobel & Co. figured most of this out pretty uickly. They made a few wrong guesses at first Where and B are set in stone And to Congress, R is knou L sits and left Beyond his shoulder Is the Fair Folks Treasure hotder The end of ten by thirteen is your clue Fence and fixture a c and figuring that L stood for the ions in front of the Art ra Institute and wasting a few hours climbing around on the them. But they wasted little time narrowing the search che in a hurry to an area bounded by Jackson Drive, Columbus Drive, Congress Drive and the Illinois Central tracks Ga wa att They got out the shovels. In February they took the
Tough 'Secret' clues lead Chicago trio Continued from first Tempo page real treasure hunt and captured the international imagi Seek the sounds nation In the American version, Preiss plant Central too For finding jewel caaque 8/9/83, Sec. 2, Chicago Tribune, n 8/9183, Sec. 2, pg. 3(1) th Preiss planted hints ino intings and poems that helped comprise an elaborate, f rumble Brush and music umorous folktale about The Fair People," immigrant Hush elves and gnomes in for The book has not been such a huge success as its OKAY. ITs obvious to you in retrospect: "M and B" ca ropean counterpart. One reason is the chilly reception stand for "man and beast," and set in stone" means a the accorded "The Secret" by critics. Another may be that statue, a reference to the two 1928 Ivan Mestrovic ere are so many different treasures to loök for, no one sculptures of American Indians on horses that flank of them is as tempting as the single s50,.000 bonanza o Masquerade." A third themseives are very hard k at South Michigan Avenue hi es are not set in stone but, in fact, vi bronze. onress" refers to the drive or the hotel and Y reason may be that the puzzles even though the statu The key to the Chicago treasure, for example, was R stands for railroad. "L is for the statue of Lincoln recognizing lesser-known or disguised area landmarks in Grant Pa. en by thirteen" are rows of trees sprinkled and matching those clues with the following poem in abrush and music" mean the Art Institute and the series of poems yor h one of 12 thoroughly bizarre paintings behind him, Central is the Illinois Central railroad re bandshel. Find a "fence and fixture" in the vicinity and G start diggin Actually, Wrobel & Co. figured most of this out pretty uickly. They made a few wrong guesses at first Where and B are set in stone And to Congress, R is knou L sits and left Beyond his shoulder Is the Fair Folks Treasure hotder The end of ten by thirteen is your clue Fence and fixture a c and figuring that L stood for the ions in front of the Art ra Institute and wasting a few hours climbing around on the them. But they wasted little time narrowing the search che in a hurry to an area bounded by Jackson Drive, Columbus Drive, Congress Drive and the Illinois Central tracks Ga wa att They got out the shovels. In February they took the

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Chicago Tribune, 8/9/83, Sec. 2, pg. 1 Hunting by the boolk Chicago pals unearth 'Secret treasure By Eric Zorn HEN BYRON PREISS wrote his book The Sccret last year, he was count ing on there being a few more people like Bob Wrobe, Ere Gastorows and David James in this world; people who would throw themselves wholeheartedly into a wildly difficult, nationwide hunt for buried treasure Preiss buried 12 ceramic casks in the far reaches of the 48 states and planted a host of clues to their whereabouts in a Bantam paper back published last fall. He expected the first treasure to be found within 30 days. The months rolled by, and no one cracked any of the puzzles Some 700 people wrote to Preiss at his New York office claíming to have located the treasure None had Then, early in the evening of one of Chicago's hottest summer days, Wrobel, Gastorowski and James took a shovel, the book, a map and a few friends to an obscure corner of Grant Park and completed a six-month search by digging up the first of the ceramic casks. In return for their traval, the suburban teen agers get to keep the cask, valued at more than $500, and il receive an emerald worth approxi mately $1,000. The remainder of the jewels will continue to gather dust in a New York City vault until the casks that go along with them are unearthed The Chicago treasure would still be in the und had not a feature story about The ret" appeared in The Tribune late last year and inspired Wrobel, 19, to buy the book as a hirthday present for James, now 18. The two knew each other from Walther Lutheran High Schoo in Melrose Park and were part of a small circle of friends that played "Dungeons and Dragons," an elaborate fantasy game favored by those with high intelligence and a somewhat obsessive, escapist nature 디 THE HUNT BEGAN for the young men in February when Gasiorowski, 16, the third mem ber of the plucky trio, bought his own copy of the book. They were confronted with a confounding t of clues that at first seemed to make no sense whatsoever The Secet" was an attempt by the author to duplicate he success of "Masquerde a 1979 British book that combined a fairy tale with a Tntune photo by Aon Botoy Eric Gasiorowski [left] and Bob Wrobel used clues in "The Secret" to find a $1,500 treasure in Grant Park. Continued on page a
Chicago Tribune, 8/9/83, Sec. 2, pg. 1 Hunting by the boolk Chicago pals unearth 'Secret treasure By Eric Zorn HEN BYRON PREISS wrote his book The Sccret last year, he was count ing on there being a few more people like Bob Wrobe, Ere Gastorows and David James in this world; people who would throw themselves wholeheartedly into a wildly difficult, nationwide hunt for buried treasure Preiss buried 12 ceramic casks in the far reaches of the 48 states and planted a host of clues to their whereabouts in a Bantam paper back published last fall. He expected the first treasure to be found within 30 days. The months rolled by, and no one cracked any of the puzzles Some 700 people wrote to Preiss at his New York office claíming to have located the treasure None had Then, early in the evening of one of Chicago's hottest summer days, Wrobel, Gastorowski and James took a shovel, the book, a map and a few friends to an obscure corner of Grant Park and completed a six-month search by digging up the first of the ceramic casks. In return for their traval, the suburban teen agers get to keep the cask, valued at more than $500, and il receive an emerald worth approxi mately $1,000. The remainder of the jewels will continue to gather dust in a New York City vault until the casks that go along with them are unearthed The Chicago treasure would still be in the und had not a feature story about The ret" appeared in The Tribune late last year and inspired Wrobel, 19, to buy the book as a hirthday present for James, now 18. The two knew each other from Walther Lutheran High Schoo in Melrose Park and were part of a small circle of friends that played "Dungeons and Dragons," an elaborate fantasy game favored by those with high intelligence and a somewhat obsessive, escapist nature 디 THE HUNT BEGAN for the young men in February when Gasiorowski, 16, the third mem ber of the plucky trio, bought his own copy of the book. They were confronted with a confounding t of clues that at first seemed to make no sense whatsoever The Secet" was an attempt by the author to duplicate he success of "Masquerde a 1979 British book that combined a fairy tale with a Tntune photo by Aon Botoy Eric Gasiorowski [left] and Bob Wrobel used clues in "The Secret" to find a $1,500 treasure in Grant Park. Continued on page a

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Rhyming Verse 2

A dozen paintings Share the clues Yet Fairy šecrets Come in twos To sing a happy treasure song To have a casque to you belong Wed one picture With one verse For Fair Folk's peace Goodness first.
A dozen paintings Share the clues Yet Fairy šecrets Come in twos To sing a happy treasure song To have a casque to you belong Wed one picture With one verse For Fair Folk's peace Goodness first.

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The treasure now, The story's told Set for eternity In days of old But Marn His numbers quickly grew And so the Fair Folk come to you With their challenge and a pact: To match twelve verses With the sight Of paintings twelve in colorlight. A pair will lead you to a casque A little digging is the task For treasures shining, moonglow, amber Emeralds dark and ruby embers. To find the keys is your reward For Fairy, peace the real accord.
The treasure now, The story's told Set for eternity In days of old But Marn His numbers quickly grew And so the Fair Folk come to you With their challenge and a pact: To match twelve verses With the sight Of paintings twelve in colorlight. A pair will lead you to a casque A little digging is the task For treasures shining, moonglow, amber Emeralds dark and ruby embers. To find the keys is your reward For Fairy, peace the real accord.

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Map of the Fair People

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Where M and B are set in stone, And to Congress, R is known.

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Pass two friends of octave In December, Ride the man of oz To the land near the window.

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In the shadow Of the grey giant, Find the arm that Extends over the slender path.

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The first chapter, Written in water, Near men, With wind rose.

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View the three stories of Mitchell, As you walk the beating of the world.

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At stone wall's door ,The air smells sweet. Not far away, High posts are three.

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Of all the romance retold, Men of tales and tunes, Cruel and bold.

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Lane, Two twenty two, You'll see an arc of lights, Weight and roots extended.

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Beneath two countries, As the road curves, In a rectangular plot.

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