The Red Cloud chief., 1881-09-29
4. Alleged Ys.i.. f.rp.i. Raj.

Mr.. II. Hubble. of iss Broadway. wss
che engineer that Ueiama,er & Co. put
N charge of the construction Of John
p. Hollands torpedo ram when the in
ventor first applied TO them In Msy,
1879. He said yesterday:
81 have dissolved my connection with
D~elatna,er & Co. but | know Mr.. Hol-
land very well. and did all the engi-eef-
ing work for him en The torpedo ram.
Holland & wide awake. and n very
clever man. The boat il an undoubted
success. and I am very glad OF IL not
only because her construction was
carried on under my directions btt be-
cause I am glad to sec that the idea
which Holland has 80 long cha1pioned
has Al last been carried through To =
practical success. This ram - pro-
PEELED BY atwenty- horse power Brayton
motor which can be run with kerosene,
naphtha. or petroleum. One OF these
motors ha. been put into q launch
which belongs 10 q friend OF mine. and
he makes ten miles an hour all day long
on less than ten gallons OF Kerosene
The machines are very powerful There
is one point about Hollands ram that |
know nothing about-his invention for
purifying the air. The very engineer
he has on board OF her is ignorant OF
his secret, and he's too shrewd to allow
IL TO slip out, There is no secret. how
ever, about his torpedo. II Is shot
through A tube in the bow like . ball
from a rifle, after the method invented
by John Ericsso The inside OF the
boat il filled with machinery. She Is
steered by the aft rudder by means OF a
lever. but the side rudders are worked
BIZ complicated machinery. These side
or horizontal ruddcrs enable her TO
shoot up or down at any angle in the
water, and are very essential"
How long a q man stay under
water with herr"
About five hours would be the
maximum. The speel attainable is
not more than seven miles an hour be-
low the surface. It's very hot inside.
with all the machinery clicking about
ones ears and the steaming motors un.
der ones very feet but the water in
side is cold, and serves to equalize the
temperature. The jacket about the
man trap has two windows fore and
aft. and two on each side, so that q
man can put his head up there when
he steers and look right into the heart
of the river. The glass is an inch and
a half thick in this jacket to resist the
heavy pressure. The principle on
which the boat is constructed is well
known and thoroughly tested"
..Who paid for the bOat?"
1.-THE Fenian John j. Breslin was
at the ward every day. and watched
the work with the utmost care but !
am not prepared to state, in fact. ]
don't know, whether he paid for her
or not. only know that he was con.
stantly on hand. l have been out oil
town for some time, or l should have
gone down in her. will 60 as soon as
get an invitation from her inventor,
for I believe in her all the way
through"
A Paterson Land Lacquer and former
neighbor of Mr.. Holland says he has
made q submarine trip with Mr.. Hol'
land in the boat. cit was on the 10th
of july" he said to a Sun reporter
Yesterday. 1--WE started down neal
Judge Van Brunt's place. and went
fully half a mile under water. Holland
made the boat do Just what he wanted
it to do. There is a dial on one side
that denotes the water pressure and the
depth below the surface. He a KEEP
a level course at any depth he desires
and can ascend or descend at will. An
other gauge indicates the steam pres
sure. Still another shows the speed
and direction of the vessel. 1t was /.
hot day, but the air vas fresh and pure
in the boat, though we were under watel
for an hour. The light that came il
through the bulrs-eye lookout made
everything plainly visible inside. w
sailed at a depth of sixteen feet from
the surface, and could see everythin:
in the water for some distance. 1t wa
a sort of twilight. We saw the bot
toms of steamboats, and sailing YES
sells beneath which we passed. Onl.
nee was it dark, and then W,
ran into a mud bank at the bottom
That sent up a clond of sediment tina
turned the water into ink, and it WA
some minutes after we assembled a littl
that we ran out into clear water. Tn
torpedoes arc pushed out from the in
side by an ingenious arrangement $
| QUICKLY U1dt Will OLA WoouOh Nuh
mics" only three quarts of water &c
into the forward compartment. Tha
can easily be pumped out again. fo
the boat is raised and lowered by LEI
ting water into the compartments O
pumping it out again. The explOdin
torpedo does no harm to the ran
Several real torpedoes have alread
been discharged from it. 1t could blO'
up any ship that floats. Holland is a
Irishman, and that is probably tn
cause of the Fenian story; but that
all there is in it. Holland could Sc
the boat as it floats to one or two
three European Governments for $3.50
600. His offers have come from fiy
comparatively small countries"
The Custom House authorities al
considering whether the vessel is M
liable to seizure for being without
license or name, and for carrying u
lights at night--M Y. Sun.