Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-10-05
WORKINGIN WATER.
DIVER YOUNG TELLS HOW IT FEELS DOWN
IN THE WET.
What he Smells. Sees and Hears-How the Ohio
River Compares With Some Others-A
Nan With a Long Submarine
Service.

II has been asserted by scientists that
water when taken iudlclouSly ana III
moderate quantities IS harmless. And YET
there are certain unscrupulous persons OF
another school who shudder at the thought
and maintain that this fluid was never IN
tended for other than bathing purposes.
/ Perhaps this latter class Will feel more IN
| keeping with a career that IS wet, IL not
/ winsome-that of the diver.
Fifteen years in water.
And not water logged, either.
But still kicking and as fresh as daisy.
This is the record of Captain II. Young.
the head diver. now at work on the Wtsl
channel pier of the new bridge ot the
Wheeling Bridge Company. Mr. Dung
came here from New London, Conn last
/ Sunday. in company with an assistant
diver Peter Mountain, ana during the past
week they have
BEEN BUSILy ENGAGED
in submarine work. There were some two
/ hundred spiles driven down TO form the
/ foundation of the pier. and the divers are
engaged in saving off the spiles Gnder
water in order 10 get proper ana UNIFORM
Desiring to know how these daring
devotees Of the deep, live, move ana nave
their being. the REGISTER reporter called
uDon head diver Young last evening ana
was presented with quite chunk oil IN
formation concerning the novel calling
"Don't il feel funny down there IN the
water" asked the scribe with sort o.
/ Helen's baby interrogauVe.
well. sorter. said Mr.. Young, but we
get used 10 IL and don't mind any of the pc
culiar sensations we experience OF course
we feel somewhat tangled up IN our Dig
suit-and Won see that suit weighs TWO nun
dred pounds-and then the alr-well' IL
oin't pure but 10 is the best we Can feed on
down under the water When down below
we have a continual rub0erish smell, oW-
ing TO the narrow rubber confines through
which the air passes The air we breathe
down there smells a good deal Ike the m
side OIL a bran new rubber boot alterIou We
tramped around i'm IL all day.
How long have YOU been IN TINS ous-
mess" Queriel the reporter.
Eve lest about rounded out seventeen
wears" said Mr.. Young. but have been
engaged liz submarine work only about nj
teen wears ] have for many years been
connected with
q WEECNING COMPANY
in New London. and have had good many
singular experiences. While much o. my
MOEh 'NtN hN't'll IAl ltNA wa AAA IL tr'f ---'
seen a GOOD deal of ocean work, and been
down some WAYS below the surface OF the
waves" Mr. Young refutes the imaginary
stories So often published in the neWspa-
pors about divers seeing Such strange ana
voudrogs sights down below. He is no airy
dreamer of tine deep rs Clarence was IN
Richard Ill Mr. Young says he has been
I'm many different w1ters; been lght
down Just after the passing OF
school OF sharks and all the horrible mon
sters of the deep, and yet In all his lie the
ONLY living thing o. much size he ever saw
when under the water was striped bass
in the Connecticut river and that was only
Is inches. These stories about seeing ma
eous Monsters and ugly, misshapeu devil
fish, and sea serpents are all Oosh. SAID
Mr.. Young. "I tell You fish don't come
near the diver very often; they are AFRAID OF
him.
The two heaviest parts Of the diving suit
are the breast and back plates, which
weigh eighty pounds The shoes ZIP the
scales az about j. or 20 pounds. While the
diver is under water il requires two men at
the air pump constantly, fast or slow As
the circumstances may require Attached
10 the waist OF tue diver is a rope handy
for the purpose for which ii is used
As A SIGNAL LINE,
a certain number of Jerks meaning more or
less air is required or whether he wants
10 be taken up. Divers don't usually care
20 stay down I'm the water more than hour
and q half az a time, as the AR becomes =
little close and Initiated When the divers
come To the surface for fresh air they
Usuully remaiu about fifteen minutes.
How do YOU manage 10 change the air
down there" asked the reporter
"Weu. that's easily done. The foul air
escapes by degrees through a valve in the
top Of the metal hamlet opening outward.
When the pressure Of the air inside Is
greater than that of the water outside the
valve opens and allows some of the air 10
escape. and after IL escapes sufficiently
TO even the pressure again between the
two elements, the valve again closes
and no water can enter. II sometimes hap
pens that the bumpers get on their muscle.
and supply us with 700 much air. and in
that case IL initiates our diving suit, ANA
renders US too buoyant TO work with advan-
tage. We are liable to move around light
ly, as though on spiral spring. Then we
have 20