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, ..V j; ... yt THE WiLMINtTON DISPATCH . FAGE FOURTEEN . v-V,-V,;AWr -vsMkYflfe '.-;vr: "SPARS';; V . .... JJ..MMMMMMBMiMMaMaaMBpwMMiMMMBfcM!BrtKWBKMBBMMMK nv m-mtmmm IWill CI -A- ose sens the ;;it::e';a 7 O K J l Jl JlrdUJi Ji mnUW Ml 'SI 0 mmmmmmmwmmmmnimm gs ill va - - mm II.; n II. I . J l II L , Many ot the city s most prudent buyers took advantage of the unheard of LOW PRIGES to buy for their future, as well as their present requirements. j Many of the best gccds remain unsold. They positively must go regardless of cost or alue. No reasonable offer for CASH will be refused. .:M Don't 1 It is not a atiestidh of PROFIT or LOSS; the only question is that of moving the goods vacating the house. 4 No, sneLirriiiri or could or would sell s:6ods at the .prices we are selling mis siock e: eircumstahces or some circumstances. ? ' i and firm Pi unaer ilar other forced sale - I 5 ? ! i 1 i the W Second and Princess Streets For set the Place ton .pMraitare C as;.. 12 -i5 ---S- -feS rT: ' J35J, '2; .:3fcs" it . H..K' 1shf -i ompaif s m ' ;W g; 1: M l...PiJ TO CRE W&MnMr (Rrrll Rnilflincr f In 1804 William Boumfir Ring land, constructed a submarine. It submerged and that is all that could be said of It. In 1777 Professor Bushnelt.v.a Connecticut man. invent ed a submarine which was termed' Shortly after this another subma the American Turtle. It wan like a jrlne was built by the Confederates, large clam shell in the center of , b intentions being to destroy the ! which a man sat., propelling the de- blockading northern ships. This was i vice lorwarn ay jeg power, ann iuhb """ "i " vjt.uw was Toclate btit;,t66!atfr to save tti'cTew if ttilft way the designer and thirty-two other men met death. - : : The rHunley" was finally fitted with a spare torpedo.-: On the night of. Feb ruary, -17, .---1864, Lieutenant Dickson succeeded in approaching tho-U- S, S. Housatonic: and: sunk her by: ex ploding a torpedo under her bottom. This probably: was the first in stance of a battleship heing fiunk by -a submarine, but the wave thrown .up by: the explosion swamped the "Hull-. ley" and again she was sunk with all her crew. : .-... when it had reached an enemy ship, i uui iiiK imu i ame wiiu ait auger piv I jecting from the front. This was be fore the day of ironclads or submer sible explosives.; - ' Next in the history of the subma- tftfiiicaiaa t Delainatsr's; - aud i ' j: ; wasi trHrtay? tht;? a repfffTeMBSff-IF 'newspaper came "seeking an interview with the-, inyenfcorl.v .'., Mr. - Holland said just before his iagewanjferisldngriheir' lives to IfirOTetotu'mrtd 'the vn 1 1 1 of my invention; -, MAt the signal from Mr. Morris. I he company's engineer, we. started our death that he never saw this man, bHti moJ;or, cast off and glided away from a story-: was - written and published in j our moorln& nlaccv ? which the yeparter christened thft boat j '.'We were riding so low in the va 'The Fenian Ram," and ..told,:l9 de-j ter that the bases of the: masts ver tatL .pf how -the Peniau Societies pf -washed by .occasional swells mount America.. -were ; huildihg this boat for ins over, tho superstructure Thin their distressed -.brothers in.Ireland. j was accounted, for by.tho fact I hut ? . When completed. the boat was to ; we h , aboard ahout four hundred be taken mivreptitiously to the -Irish' Pounds,. of 5pjg ballam. hnnst Atirl frnm thPrP was to nwv nnr.ni mBu uiMI, ,,m . and destroy, the English navy. In his reminiscences Holland states that this story probably attracted more atten tion to his experiments than any seriously scientific article ever would have done, and yet it caused him an tnarked. oyt, for the dive ;l. filled ilu trimming tanks and steered, the liont dowpr.IIe.r noso, went under all rifflit. but her stern projected out. , of iho water. . In ; a :. word, we. still larkoil enough ballast: to entirely, snhmerpn a fine performance to have the ves sel plunge: under water -a9 she, left the ways and make a short trip before coming to the surface. Accordingly, rine comes the efforts of Robert Pul-no instructed two of his most, intelli 'S-v.:,) Irgeplci'fife: .THe first successful . Can genius, is not to go on the scrap submarine, the ' HoHand No. 9, lying j heap. With a guard of honor fur 'at the pier' with superstructure re-l nished- bv tne government the Hoi moved. The ro1ection iu the top of I land No. 9 will be taken through the the bow Is. tie Ping: torpedo tube I Streets of adelphia early next which constituted tae boat's sole 1. . . cu su , seUm which i9 beine nis.nr.Pfi hv bpv. means , of offense. Above, riht: The I I1S an Drougnt to jNew x ojk, wnere j prominent ' - , (Henley submarinewhkh killed 321 wing the. development of -men inside her. but sunk. the . Federal! -a .?Ma-re Iorever- 1 remarkable' human ,wttMn,flBf I ship Housatonic. Above, left : Bush- j Through the" public spirit-, of two . industry. riell's ' ubmarirte, known. , as "The New . York , men the clumsy-lOoking j 'At the exnosition the Holland will ' American Turtie.T ;Itcwas intended to -but. epoch-making little craft has' been j be the center of a collection nwt Wfl Infn thfl Rirlfl of a. wooden shin I n,irni,.nJ a . collection uiustrat- 'j " " - . r. 1 F-"iiocu 'igr .all. Alllci ititua iy nc. . be carefully joined together on arrival in New York City. For one year the public will be able to view the boat in the Bronx Inter national Exposition here and then it will be moved to a new public mu seum which is beina Dlanned Insert: The late rjohn P.. Holland, in ; venter of the first practical subma 1 rine. " ' .-' It now rests on blocks before" the Commercial Museum in Philadelphia. Those having , the matter in charge will start immediately the" delicate I task of cutting her Into three sections New .York, Sent. 2.1. The first sue t . i rooafn1 eiiVimo-pIno triimnh Or Altlfin. I for nnrnnaoa nt . aVilnma-nt Thoaa will avnnnUi , wwuw.f. umwuw - vi " - cAyvatuuu win open May 30 next ing scientific accomplishments, called the Palace of American Achieve ments. Surrounding it will be early models of the telephone, phonograph, mouon picture machine, aprnniano and other American inventions. The ton; the inventor of the steamboat Even before Fulton had sent his first ship, the Claremont, up the Hudson river, he had been in France trying to convince the ! Emperor Napoleon that he could assist him in the conquest of England, by the use of submarine&.t In 1797 Robert Fulton constructed for the French Emperor a submarine boat which succeeded in staying un der water four hours and twenty min- equal amount of , annoyance, for the ? ; " , ' '"u ' rine- When the, vessel was complete publicity brought about by this terrJ4 ' . y tul""V ' edt the designer thought it would be ble, -navy-destroying monster roused 'Z tr 7 , .1CW1,UH ,0 v,.r ,v, ir,'. . . .."V , , , . transfer tuoraplg. iron into the boat. iviUKJamt iu ui'iiuu uiuugui iiuwii upon,' his head a swarm of investigators fromJ " "Again '-we tried to dive, ami again the .State .Department in. Washing--1 failed.- A second time we whis ton ; . j tied for our convoy and took an arlili TI ' , ' J tional ballast. .This time l ioiiann rnnnnura ms series oi exr j eep(w periments. e DUiit eignt noata te-j fore the construction of "Holland) No. 0," the first submarine craft to j be bought and officially commissioned! by a national government, ShA wnl hnilt nt tho ProHPnnf vnrrl in Elizabethport. N. J. She is f eel hnndTe feet submerged I steered ht r in nAAc inn. jton.n, in o ? up again and she immediately rose to gent- slaves how to operate the. vessel when submerged, and sent there on their way About twenty years later, when the Mississippi was being dredg ed at New Orleans, this boat, with the skeletons of tho two negroes, was found r in the mud. 1 If was about this time that John P. Holland came upon the scene. Hol- we sue "As soon ; as I-steered her down she plunged beneath f he." surface and the only par visible to Ihe onlookers was our flags fluttering from the masts. After running for about one land was born in Liscannor, Ireland. ( ment of 75 tons. 10 inches long; diameter 10 faet 3; inches, and has a submerged displace; in 1844. He came to the United utes and, placing a torpedo under a J States before the Civil War and the hulk arranged for the purpose,: blew .battle between the Monitor and Merri- it to smithereens. As a reward for, mac set him to thinking on the sub- this, Fulton was considered to be a little crazy and was allowed to return to America to construct steamboats on the Hudson. The history of the submarine then ject of submarines. In 1875,, after nearly . fifteen years of study and ex periment, he submitted his plans to the United States Navy Department. The naval .engineers; who examined took a long lapse.. It was not until j them pronounced them to be practical 1850 that a Bavarian by the name of tin every way, but gave it as their, opin Bauer built a submarine in which the' ion, that men could not be found, to method of .control was by shifting a risk their lives in the experiment weight forward and aft to dive and) Soon after this he built the "Hol rise. This boat collapsed in the har-;land No. 1" on the Passaic River near bor of Kiel on one of its trial trips, and remained partly buried . in the mud until' 1887,, when it was located Paterson, N . J . . She was .14. feet 6 inches long; 3 feet' wide; ahd2 feet 6 inches in depth . Holland made -ex- during the deepening of Kiel harbor,! periments with this boat, but engine and taken to Berlin,-where it Is now trouble caused him to abandon it. as in the Museum of Oceanography. a petroleum propelled craft, and steam It was not until the Civil War: was substituted. The old shell now forced the Confederates to attempt lies at the bottom of the - Passaic some way to escape the blockade River.' : ? around the southern ports that siib marines again were heard of. The first of these was "The Hun- Holland's second boat probably caused more comment than any craft ever constructed in the United States, ley," a cylindrical shaped craft about'and also led to serious international She was propelled on the surface by a gasoline engine of 50, horsepower, and when submerged, by a 50 horse power electric motor. On the surface she could .make six knots under-, gaso line engine, and about eight knots under the motor. . Submerged 6ha could make about five and a half knots under the motor. - Her armament con sisted of one bow torpedo tube, one bow pneumatic projection gun, .. and three short Whitehead" torpedoes. After she was launched, she was towed to Perth Ambpy and it-was from there she: sailed for, her first drive, and, proved to the public that she was a reality; ?.: terrible weapon of war, and not the -mere senseless concoction of. a dreamer. - , -.- ' - ;;,j' .-,; . Tbe; story of, the first . drive Jf:the 'Holland No. 9" ag told by the inven tor himself;, is r . , . v. . "-' VOn March 17.1898, we left the pier for our initial dive. It was; aboht three o'clock when wel started. . .The sky was bVercast and a' few drops;of rain, pattered upon the waters But j just-before we got under way a strong ! Wind. -U.Att ATA1 the rinnrla anl tl..l... thirty feet -long and six feet in diam- complications - between the United ! wind scattered .the- clouds and the sun came out strong.- vAlSo, a ; rainbow' This was pointed out by many : as .a good omen for the success of the test about; to be-taken . Regarding our feelings at the time, I "will say ; that I felt confident having designed the boat . My crew, while they trusted tne to see. them through, were more or less shaky . ; jt must also be home .in mind that they had never been under eter, witn bow and stern shaped to states and Great Britain. Holland, form a stem and stern post respec- J as stated in the .foregoing, was aw tively. - Water ballast compartments irishman, and the story got about that were located at each end of the ves- he was not conducting his experiments sei. bne was propelled by hand pow-i merely as a scientist, but that his Ift- er, eigni men turning cranks which tention was to Construct "vessels with operated . the propeller ; shaft. which he could destroy the British This boat was sent out of New Or-, navy. : V . . . ; '. leans in an endeavor to run the block-' ; -The second boat was being built at ade, but -lacked longitudinal stability, a ship yard located at West 13th street and during - her experimental trials,and the NprthRiver, New York City, i water before. They were brave, cour- the. surface, This was a great relivf to many of my friends, most of whom doubted we . would , .ever . be able to make the boat come to the surface when once we succeeded in settint; hereunder... ; . .."jburing this dive we -lever had more xthan four feet of water over our deck, . as I was not sure of tho hhallpw spots and did not relish run ning aground and damaging the boat. . "We now held a" consultation and decided we had better attempt, .no more :. dives bwjng to the lateness of the" hour. ; "Foiv some time after this we con tinued our. dives in the lower bay. but eventually picked out a more suitable, diving course in Pecbnic Bay, Ions Island. It was there that the Holland' went tlirougli her best' paces and the crew received a thorough training in the handling of the boat. V' After about a year of trial dives both in. Peconic Bay and later on in Chesapeake Bay, she was accepted -by the Navy .Department." It was just -about the time the Hol land, was "" launched that war against Spain .was, declared. Holland offered to take his boat and its crew to San tiago and destroy.;the entire Spanish fleet. '. s . - ' ; i When this proposition was made to the United States ; government the authorities refused the offer with the statement that it would be an in humane form .of warfare. It was not until: two years after this war was over that the government finally pur chased the-Holland. ; V : After suffering the hardships of old (Continued on Page Fifteen.) " " - :;: . 1 T, k -''ii' i -' :-
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