Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-24
SAFE RAVENS IN MIOOCEAE
An Inventor Has a Safe Ocean
Pathway Planned.
He WOuld Establish a. Line Of Sta.
lions Across The Atlantic with
Life Saving Buoys at
short Intervals.

New York. oct. 15.-An ocean high
a az perfect as any road on land. Is
nov claimed by the maa who devised
" TO be possible, and IL MAJ be estab-
ushed, :: the plan, which mas been sub
mitted to th. United States govern
ment, IL carried our. II IL a gigantic
project, which will close up the rift Of
six lays which comes into the life Of
everyone who now crosses the ocean.
This Is the plan Of which some m.n-
ton has been made: Reuben H. Plass
" Brooklyn is the inventor. 1t provides
for the establishment Of a chain Of sta
tions across tho ocean. located at dis
tances and under conditions. the inven-
tor claims. that will easily permit in
tercourse with every part Of the land.
Should a merchant wish TO communi-
cate with the captain Of n of his
steamers it would b. possible to do so
Dy intercepting the steamer In mid
ocean or elsewhere along the chain Of
stations.
Should a passenger change his MIND
BIZ the trip over, or for any reason desire
20 return without completing the voy-
age a landing could be effected at one
IF the stations. u ship on the return
voyage communicated with n the
passenger taken off. BY constant ON
munication between land and those
ocean stations a daily paper could BE-
printed on each, so giving 70 ocean pas
sengers each day n record Of the worlds
1oings.
Its Life saving Advantages.
But these are only minor matters in
the inventors category OF invaluable
results that would follow the estab-
lishment OF his chain OF sea stations.
The great .oea that prompted him to
work with enthusiasm on his scheme
was the humane one of lie saving. IL
aill be seen that IL the inventor can
AIRY out what he claims the days when
shipwrecked sailors were forced 10
spend weeks Of suffering in an opan
boa while toiling To reach land would
be but memories for novelists 70 make
capital OF.
The life saving pran provides for the
establishment OF small floating light
houses placed al intervals OF a mile,
unsuitable lighted by beaccns that
would burn by automatic means and re-
quire attention bur once in o or six
months. and provided with fog horns
that would sound their warning notes
In fierce blasts by means OF compressed
air, stored automatically by the rock
Ing motion of the buoy. These auto
matte fog horns would be- heard a dis
lance Of Ave miles, and the lost mariner
I would simply have 10 steer IN the dlrec-
tion a the sound to find safety from the
waves in an unsuitable. floating Island
of the ocean. From the surface OF the
water ladders would be placed 10 enable
] shipwrecked travellers TO reach the deck
II the buoy, and from the deck by open
ing a keyless door, admittancc would
De gained 20 the interior Of the buoy.
rhe opening Of the door would SEND
an alarm ringing down the cham Oh
buoys until the call for help would
reach a station whore willing n
you'd be ready To dispatch instant aid
To the castaways.
warmth and Food IN Buoys.
Meanwhile. they would nave OK
changed the terrors OF life in an open
noat miles from land for the warm in
terror Of the unsuitable life buoy, where
food would await them and where they
could rest in perfect contentment,
knowing that succor would come as
fast as human hands could bring ii.
So much for the humane side OF the
inventors gigantic SCENE. The useful
side is scarcely less interesting. Upon
the turreted deck Of each buoy would
be placed a series Of independent
gauges. connected with an automatic
instrument, which would record contin-
ually, day and night. the temperature
Of the ocean. the velocity Of the current.
the direction Of the current, the rain
fab in inches. the barometric pressure
and the velocity and direction Of the
wind. The nventor claims that by
means Of his instruments he could
transmit all these records automatic
ally TO instruments on land, togther
with the exact location Of the buoy on
which the record would be made, so
that 1t would be possible at any time 10
tell in New York whether ii was rain
ing in midocean or whether IL would be
Necessary to wear o~vercoats or carry
ans in any particular section OF the
Atlantic ocean
The great advantage claimed for this
by the inventor would be that a skip
per who feared hat he was about 10
-un into a hurricane could ascertain by
making for the nearest life buoy the
exact condition of the weather at any
point before or behind the ship and
shape his course accordingly.
The floating stations, the inventor
claims, would be securely anchored 10
the bottom OF the ocean.