Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-04-24
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Inventor Holland Predicts Wonderful
Progress. In Sabmarine Vessels.

Inventor Holland Predict. Wonderful
Progress. In sahmar,as Vessels. /
New York. April % John r Hol-
land. the inventor Of the submarine
torpedo boat Holland. proclaimed his
view in a lecture at the Carnegie Ly.
oeum that In the course Of few yeas
submarine vessels would supplant sur.
face craft for short journeys by water.
He also said that the submarine torpedo
boat would DE- 80 formidable au instru'
ment of war that the only solution Of
the problem Of avoiding It's destructive
effects. would be- for nations with sea-
port towns never to 90 to war at all.
He said:
As soon rs men overcome their fears
aud learn 70 20 down beneath the water |
a. they now skim is surface, the prog. |
ress OF the submarine IN commerce
will be rapid. Within the next 10 years
we shall have made more progress IN
submarine navigation than has been
made in the 800 years that have just
passed. Within that period you viii
see submarine boats engaged Ia passen.
ger traffic.
For transatlantic travel submarine
boats will never be- possible commercial.
" For short trips the submarine of.
fers commercial advantages that will
igr Il % dangerous rival Of the sur
~ sailing vessels If, indeed, IL doe,
not drive the latter entirely out Of com
petition Ia certain waters Take, for
example. the trip across the British
channel No other water Journey
causes an equal amount of suffering
The most hardened traveller become.
sea,ick there Fog, and heavy traffic
arr constantly causing collisions. Storms
toss smallest boats about like cockle.
shells The submarine boat will remove
all these objections
There will be no seasickness because
in submerged boat there is no percept-
ible motion There will be- no smells C.
create nausea, for the boat, viii Dee pro-
PEELED hy electric power taken from stor.
age batteries. There " be- no col.
lsions, because the boats will travel
coming and going at different depths
say, one at 80. the other at 90 feet. The
water overhead may DO crowded with
small craft. but the submarine viii have
/ a free. uuOb-tructgd course She VII.
be kept absolutely true to this course by
means of cables running from shore to
shore On these cables will run auto.
matte steering gear attached 90 the sub
marine. The storms aud fog4 will have
have no existence for the traveller Tor
weather has little affect upon the water
a. the depth az which it moves.
Tomorrow 70 we had a fleet Of sub
marines big enough they c0lld protect
| New York harbur against an attack los
the combined fsct. of the world But
our shipping aud our city would still b.
az the mercy of the enemy, ii they had
only one submarine, manned hy fear
less crew OF experts You could u0
mine against her for she could counter
mine You could NOT close the harbl
against her, even with net work o
torpedoe- and chains stretched across
, the uarr1ws, reaching from the surtac,
20 the bottom of the channel From
, safe distance she could send torpedo
against the net work that would blow
it 90 pieces. giving her all the passag,
why She wanted 90 20 iu and out NoI
, could not chase her with q ilect Of YOU
y own submarines, because you could NO
fad her under water
"How the menace OF the submarine
IL 20 Dee met nobody has at this tim
has been able 90 say The genius I'd
scores Of inventor is cropping with Oh
, problem ont $50 far without result Al
p arr agreed however. that IN one direD
ton at least she will ever remain ur
=. eouqucrsbe She viii make clos
Itl blockade impossible.