Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 18, 1900, Page 18

6 To Europe in a Submarine (Copyright, 19%, by I Latzke.) P'reparation ire making for the most Leresting event in ocean travel since the camship crossed the Atlantic A from Amer under her own power. She cnoof John P Holland, whose ubmarine torpedo boat Holland, now the property of the United tates government fictured extensd Iy in the recent naval ma neuvers at Newport and is known for the present in No, 7 She 18 now fitting out Wipyard in Elizabethport, N I, for the transatlantic journey. For some it Nixo yeurs now submarine boats have puttered cbout the harbors both in this country and in Kur But they have never ventured far from the coast A boat of this type built by Nordenfeldt made a journey of 150 miles alone shore on one occasion and this has been the long distance record \ tour of great ocean noa submarine vessel, it has been generalty supposed, would always re madn o dream of Jules Verne The inventor « the Holland torpedo boat Lag now determined to make this dream a reality. His new boat will go to Bermuda thenee 1o the Fayal islands, then to Lis ben, o Portugal. This i a trip of 5,106 BOW OF SUBMARINE miles; Now York to Bermuda, 676 miles; Permuda to Fayal, 1880 miles, and Fayal to Lisbon, 940 miles. Just when the trip will be made is not de itely determined upon, but it will probably be some time in February. The boat will wait for pro piticus weather. To speak of waiting for propitious weather in February sounds like an absurdity, and in the case of ordis nary craft it would be, but what Mr. Hol- land's diver is looking for is storm, high wind and a heavy sea. A smooth sea and the absence of storm signs will be the sig- nal for the postponement of the voyage IFor this journey is to test once for all the capacity of the submarine to » for herself on a long trip under the most un favorable conditions o the lay mind such a journey will seem to smack decidedly of foolhardi ness. To the minds of the men who are to travel in the “submarine’” the pro- posed journey ranks with a irip on the Kaiter Wilhelm or the Deutschland They admit they will go slower but that is all The voyage to Lisbon is to tako sixteen days. No. 7 will travel all the way under her own power. Her specd will be approximately nine and a half knotg for the entire voyage She will not travel at the bottom of the sea as did Verne's fantastic eraft Most of the way she will go on the surface Oceasionally, however, she will go un der, and remain for thirty or forty miles, at a depth varying from thirty to sixty feet Her inventor claims for her that sho can safely go 400 feet beneath twin v el, ) the surface and maintain her f there, resisting successfully the terrific pres ure of the water No such depths will be attempted on this trip, however, and except for purposes of scientific investiga tion or explorations for sunken vessels no object would be gained by diving very deep At thirty feet beneath the surface the craft is as secure against discovery as if she were a hundred times as far down and can pass safely beneath the keel of the greatest of ocean liners. Now and then in shallow places she will touch bottom just to show that she can, and to see what sh will find, The plans for the voyage have been very carefully and thoroughly laid out and no fear of failure is entertained The trip is taken for a two-fold purpose It is to demonstrate, in the flrst place, the fallacy of the opinion still entertained in naval quarters thal submarine boats ecannot sustain them selves far away from a base of opera tion, that they are useless as offensive weapons against a country on the ocher side of the sea, and that their mission, it they have defens mers the trip is to present the boat in foreign harbors to foreign governments Mr. Holland has the utmost confidence any at all, is for coast ¥ The second object of ILLUSTRATED imparting squeamish Boat how anybody e to determine accumulated remarkahle equal frecdom fifty miles at an eight-ki water ballast arrangement this department cquipment arrangements \ 11 n Manhattan completene compactnes the approval of clectricity fresh and water navigating qualities ventilation Throughout appointed greyhound, designation, beginning. with everything buttoned down tight arrangement and renewing from the compress are always Kkept christenced who operated the first atmosphert surface ships Everything thoroughly T s Cigar SN dimension form of the new considerably seaworthy preparation satisfactory United States government, determined diameter of Her displace confidence Her engine has conditions company's yards in Bayonne, immediately concerned for her crew Her displacement Eiizabethport submarine mid-ocean represents according absolutely construction the region of wave distu according “The fellows on 1o government is over cighty launching government, controlling unfortunates according suggestions department still and placid submarine than surface boats government contented SUBMARINE THE SHIPYARD., November 18, 1900, itself with ordering six of the new boat The necessity for secrecy is therefore now done away with Navy to Have Fleet of Submarvines, The six boats building for the govern ment are patterned exactly on the lines of No. 7 Four are to be constructed at Nixon's shipyards and two at the Union Iron works in San Francisco It e to cost $175,000 each The Holland company has sub-contracted for their constr fon and it is one of the peculiaritic f th transaction that at this time no « I ) exactly what their building 1 « 0 cost The profits of Mr. Holland 1 h associates in the deal cannot be until at least two of the craft are fin It may be $50,000 that they make on cacl boat or it may be only $10.000 or even 1 The experience of building the other bho furnishes no guide in th wter I tofore there has been much experimentad work. It is only now that the exper may b tid to have been completed Mr. Holland’ ueee | v builder of submarine craft has not come withou years of apparently fruitle Twenty-five years ago he 1hn 1 to Navy department plans for a su torpedo boat to be operated | one man Sceretary of the Navy Robeson referrod the matter to the naval otficer in comm 1 at Newport in I8TH, who reported th vessel of that type was impra 1o fir because it would be imp ibl [ " man to operate it; and, sceond, ) use it could not be directed under the water plan for that one-man hoa hich seemed to the naval men of that t ¢oan impr ticable dream, wa the pre of th submarine No. 7, in which Mr. Holland will soon sail for Europe Stories About Preachers An American minister who 1 ted Ireland says he heard a | clude his sermon with these word My brethren, let not this world rob you of a peace which it can neither give you or take away.” cacher con One of the laity approached Father Mori arty of St. Agnes’ church, 1 sought gently to break the news of a pre pective divi 1 of his parish I under stand,” said the laymu ! uth Omaha, and be detached from your parish I possible exclaimed the pri that will be a dead loss I'hercupon th conversation turned to less grave | As the bishop entered the little sod church in that village 300 miles away night to conduct service ! Harper Weekly, the agent read him another tele gram, signed by the sherin brother It was terse, but to the point. It read “We lynched Creegan's murderer this afternoon,” The bishop's eyes an expression of sing over his contenance as the agent read the message, “Well!" he exclaime Joyfully A moment after he remembered himself and resuming his usual gentle and mild expression, remarked, gravely, Well, that was a very wrong thing to do, brethren.” shed, his face lighted ul tlar satisfaction s Any attempt to fathom the mind of a congregation is usually fraught with dan ger, says a writer in the Cornhill. An Irish priest who had delivered what seemed to him a striking sermon was anxious to ascertain its effect on his flock “Was the sermon today to y'r likin', Pat?” he inquired of one of them. “Throth, y'r river ence, it was a grand sermon intirely,"” said Pat, with such genuine admiration that his reverence felt moved to investigate further. ‘“‘Was there any one part of it more than another that seemed to take hold of ye?" he inquire “Well, now, as ye are axin' me, begorra, I'll tell ye. What tuk hoult of me most was y'r riverenc parseverance—the way ye wint over the same thing agin and agin and agin. Sich parseverance I niver did see in anny man before nor since.' Only:One Thing to Do Cleveland Plain Dealer Ah, my noble boy," sighed the marquis as he ran his hand through his perfumed pompadour, 1 alwiz said you sold yourselt too sheep much too sheep.” vevaire mind, mon fathaire,” said the noble boy, “eet is too late now to cr-p-y ovaire zee speelt meelk. We moost make zee best of a bad bar-r-gai I did not core ovaire zis morning to talk of my mees fortunes I came to ask of you a gr-r-reat favaire The white haired marquis frowned “You know my circumsiai he coldly sald. “I can lend you nossir I haf not come for the count I am not zat, mon fathaire It is some I owe every laundryman in Par veel tr-r-rust me now I cor see eef you vill not let zie fami do up a few collaires and 1S fortunate son," The venerable marquis shook his head “Eet ees quite ecempossible what you ask,” he said. “We owe Mathilde quite too much as eet ees, and if we added to ner wor-r-rk she would leay without a mo ment's warning There was dramati ( “Parbleu,” said the count as he tupped the edge of his collar with h forefit “I haf worn zis colla Look at zees cuffs! pristi! what am 1 ‘Turn them," s he picked up the reading |