The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-11

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. heAvy sea u kAfifan Day tnat IT. Frost
was not willing to have the httls OoAt 70
out.
Ar. Holland said that the boat could suc-
cessfuuy cope with any oioW that masnt
be encountered N New Iork ney' out "
explained that inasmocn q tne eApis
ments we're fof the oenent OF II. rLoss aHu
hh frisndo op hoard the TUG. ne couia my
the boat on TO better advantage ~ tne 0u'-
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was on hand with his tug IT II o'clock.
but an examination Of the Hollands gaso-
line engine showed that II was not IN gOod
WORKING order. 1t took two hours to get
things In shipshape, and Just after
o'clock the little whaleback moved out
from her moorings at one OF the Raritan
Drydock Company's piers.
There were six men In her, two more
than she carried when she made her exper-
iments on March II and last Monday. they
were Mr.. Holland. Charles Caoie, the new
electrician Henry iaeyer' MS ASSISTANT;
Nathaniel Addison. the engineer. W. W.
Scott. the draughtsman, ana w. - =.
Nindemann, man OF al work the vino
was blowing harder tnan 1t had oeen all
day ana M. Frost susgested tnat II
night be safer to nave tie little wnaie-
tug. Mr., Holland declined the offer. He
preferred. he said. to run out by his own
rower.
His electric lighting apparatus, which
failed him last Monday, and limited the
experiments on that day to an ordinary
submergine trial and also caused him to
run into a mud bank just above Perth
Amboy, was In perfect condition. and he
thought that he would be able to find
surface.
The tur accordinr,v rot out of the ~av
and the little whaieback swept swiftly
into the Sound The top OF her coming
tower was up and Mr.. Hollands head
and shoulders were visible. About e.gh-
teen inches OF the steel superstructure
ana her coming tower were above the
surface as she Law al the pier. but when
she moved out of the duiet waves OF the
slip the foam-crested waves dashed over
the ton. and. wotting Mr. Holland. caused
Inn 10 retreat INTO the boat and Clamp
down the lid Of the coming tower. As
soon as the little boat was under way;
Mr. F'rost's tug moved alongside and ar.
COMMANDED her up the stream to a point
about mile above the Totfenvi,le ferry
slip, where the water was deeper ana the
channel wider than In any other part OF
the Sound within I'VE miles or Perth Am
uuy- AS tue Uoat moteO aloH8 the Wdtcu-
ers from the tug noticed that she was not
as deep in the water as she had been on
March II, the day that she made her first
euccessful dives. When she was not cvv-
cred with water and foam the red glare
OF her electric light could be seen through
the little giass windows on her broad
sides. Her metal ballast consisted OF
about $500 pounds Of pig lead distributed
IN parts OF the boat where 1t would not
take up TOO much room. Her water tanks,
which have capacity for about eleven tons.
were about fve-sixths fun.
Mr.. Holland made his first attempt TO
dive about mile above Tottenyille. II
was not successful one. There was a
decided list aft when the little boat at
tempted to go under and after churninx
the water Into fofa nj for 100 yards her en-
gines stopped. and she fioated on the sur
face. Mr.. Holland summoned the tug md
explained that there was not quite enough
water In the ballast tank aft. This de-
feet In her trim was remeslied by Rowing
water out of her forward tank until she
foated on an even keel and supplying the
deficiency by an addition OF 800 hounds of
pig iron from tie tug
When this was done Mr.. Holland
c,amped down the top of the coming tow