The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 12, 1899, Page 22

22 THE SUNDAY CALL. y DIVER CLIMBING ABOARD THE BOAT it A TAGALOG GO DOWN I — a» (e < : —_—GENERALJ.C DAT \ ————— AND STAFF EXAMINING By William Dinwiddle, 3 I'HE DIVER ON BOARD e Call-Herald PEARL BOAT 7 = Speclal Corrzspondent o In the Pt ena tussle to get this muffled object of breath only by the effective working of 3 fed flannel shaken down inside. At .ast the pump, twists the side valve on his E of these waters X he is in, and the hands are squeezed helmet to control the escape. : nacre {8 beauti- through constricting rubber rings at *he > short rope lad- ed condition, will wrists, which hermetically seal them ¥ almos = neter, though the s on the soft flesh, but over which trappings, and ) not average six 1, are snapped > "goes bubbling down- sight is to add more weights iration begins to pour down the le his_shoulders. face and trickle into his eves, as only fourteen a dozen of the curious ands, Tlana d_unpaid Even yet the significance of this state- nt of mor 1 $20,000, me t felt, until it is sald that these est of Gener Bates the wonderful depths of a us an sition of ired and t r ten or fifteen minutes at most The earl shells, which weigh several pounds apie ictuate between 0 d 50 T nding not so arl had a: which bis tan trus sle again with the gro- remarks ( X v i, beds, for exerting a pressurc of i, metal shoes h like a large T le i slze, Tuster ow ¢ ree, and rubbed into pounds upon every of Dutch wooden shoes. Now the metal that with a cr : U reon flesh. The craving neckyoke is slipped ovor his head, w . 24 1 v were for wealth Is amaz- encireling W _of perpendicul t 81 sa y hat § t the pres inglish cutter which are slir ved through the holes ir t fieia o b what safl Iy do these divers, in their rubber collar one by one. It could ! e el pound copper shoes, which hold be called an artistic ruffie are established them to the bottom, go down. through circling chevaux rise ins with the Moros, it is eams green depths filled with the monsters of over which the ponderous, s-eyed hel- 8¢ 1 for c: the a tiopical confronting A > fish making di met is dropped and bolted down into po- fabric boat 4 steered danger of | in the n . sition, until the soft rubber ring of the elm. but t o matter, c tack or appropriaimg thelr alr tub suit makes a water-tight joint between . ers, where the native sclf-resp white man bait, but they walk along an uneven the two metal rings. , ot ko, provided willing Sul a comr nom LS 2 s FSASETIETRETSEAIE S AT AT AT T H T kS < @ ot Fhire i crops | stipend. Y nd in Mor s back the Spa nted per- « 1 10,000 aft ff the town of J bonus that was paid e avera ( ot ) Milllions for Americans in the Great Pearl Fields 3 : z 5 * e e Doy i ULt of the Archipelago Now Controlled by ¢ uan ey stans orine oy a womplicated svstem of whereby his sma incre The f 1 sputteriy hich finally assumes the shape sma lary was 1sed the Crafty Sultan of the Sulu Islands. : ‘.‘b*@fi’}:*Qi(\*Q*Q—*Q*@*Qfi%*@*@*@*@t@*@*%*@* A TR TR A k< ey | limb even the first rung and has to be & up with his Ie vater over the low i color round The front glass is quickly unscrewe would nev nimself on a long voy- ocean floor for hundreds of yards—a floor The front bull's eve of plate glass is left bt comes off the men at ti ft overgrown with enormous coral groves, out to the last moment, as th Up goes Tagaloge and Moros. in whose shadows lurks the giant devil equipped with a corded ba: [ s, h pinched fish with his outspreading tentacles from and a heavy knife with w ows. who looked ket of distre h to figh embrace it is well nigh impossible fish or cut off the arms of some pigmy man to escape. squid. Looking out through thi The boat comes to anchor and the diver cling frame, the diver's ordinaril egins his initlal preparation for a face is colc d with hot blood, ‘and his i} by donning a thick red blanket, breath comes faster from th steam bath ole body in its soft he is taking in the hot air and padded with clothes. red g0 nowhere else for erminated, so the enter- through Captain Tiana, well known to the Moros through a generation’s trading and asso. ciation, gained the confidence of the Sul. tan, and was given the concession befc referred to. He was A yell nd the throb lenly 0es up fro 5 ; ain until the glass > pump is hear alls open or eight times a day this m the suffering that leave pallid, nerveless shi ~for the a month, 1 longer life A great bag comes e most fright- arms and legs to it. open onl W sheils with at where and undergo, at the neck, Down In the hold two Tagalogs. nude to tully exhausted that he i thariwiiore Yhenor o In excellent ful torture day by day in & watery, where the heavy brass collar plate sup: the waist, are grinding round and roung S 1o oRe e reing, : A T i standing with the Spanish garrison at close-fitting id, “which crushes the ports the helmet, and at the rubber wrist- on the handle of the pump. and the hot work on a good bank of shells, 1 1o cause. them Jolo, where he suppiied the officers with 1€ blood back upon the struggling heart through which the hands are pain- air sighs through the long hose pipe and a dozen or even more at a trip. but a men, who are th mong prir to Spanish all the necessitles and luxuries of life . Twenty-five fathoms under water, in a fully thrust. It is r asy task to get pours out at the back of the diver's head hundred shells a day Is excellent work itive people all over the and the only A b provoked a credit. So friendly w Utles o € 0N rybber Aiving suit, with only the head into a heavy, unwieldy sack of this kind, where the pipe joins the helmet. The and a mint of money. O exhibition i CRInve oo e e iilendly was his relationship protected from the grinding pressure of made of alternate thicknesses of canvas plate glass front s put in position and trip, over barren ground, he had but a S who claimed the with them tnat, when they departed for Lhe ocean's grasp by m e LR and pure red rubber, and two men work bolted on, while the diver, now drawing single fair sized shell, some six inches in Continued on Page Twenty-three . [