The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-20

pumped out and got off in that way. If
she IS hung on the rock, as if she were
on hook, we have to blast the rock
away. Here are fragments of rocks
which we have blasted away so as to re-
lease vessels"
DO you ever go down to raise one YES
sci and find another, but older wreck?"
yes, quite often. Here is a piece of
rope we found when We went down on
job at the Delaware Breakwater few
years ago. 1t was on the remains of a
British nan-of-war of 1774. We found 1t
in twenty fathoms Of water. Do you see
that photograph pointing to a picture
of a steamer lying in quiet water few
hundred yards, or even less, from the
beach.
''That was the steamer Russland, which
went ashore off Long Branch. Looks
calm and peaceful, doesn't it? Well, she
lay there stranded that day and the very
next, in a terrible storm which came up,
she went to pieces and the pieces are
still there, on top exactly of another
wreck, that of ship loaded with mar
ble
"Hrere's a candle bracket which one
of our divers brought LIP from a wreck.
A rich man had been lost on the ship,
and the company had US send down a
couple of divers to recover what bodies
We could, especially that Of this man.
One diver was stationed. as usual at the
door of the cabin to keep the connec-
lions from fouling, while the other one
went IN to investigate.
"As he entered the saloon he was as
founded to see dimly through the water
another diver near him. He signalled
him with motion of the arm just as
the mysterious diver also Signalled him.
Thinking that his companion might for
some reason have come into the saloon
he gave the rope a tug.
"The tug was answered, so he knew
that his companion was still at his post
and could not be this stranger in the sa-
loon. He was oppressed, he admitted
afterward, by a Superstitious terror, but
was plucky enough to go up to the other
diver, who also came to meet him. 1t
was not, however, until his outstretched
hand touched the great mirror of the Sa-
loon that he realized that he had been
looking at his own reflection"
ter?"
That depends good deal on the water
and also on how far off is an object. He
cannot ordinarily see it with great dis
tinctnesS until it is close at hand.
What is the bottom of the rivers and
the harbor like here at New York? Are
there many remains Of wrecks on them p
mot in the river. In the first place, if
anything of. Importance sinks there it is
raised. And as the bed of the river is of
mud, smaller objects soon sink out of
sight. 1 have been down in the North
river and one goes in up to the thighs
there in mud. In the harbor, off toward
Romer shoal, there are a lot of wrecks.
There must be hundred of them lying
in the water there.
They are boats which have dragged
their anchors and gone ashore Here's
queer specimen from New York harbor.
We went down on wrecking job and in
mains of a boat that went down twenty
years before. They brought up this old
piece of boiler One side is free of
growth, but the other is covered with
coral.'
Sure enough one side of the iron was
hidden under growth, varying from. a
quarter to half an inch in thickness.
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The strangest one perhaps was when we
had to send our divers down into a mine
at Friedenville, Pa. The engines which
kept out the water got out of order, the
lower levels of the mine rapidly filed and
there seemed to be danger even of flood
ing the town. Our divers went there.
descended the shaft $40 feet, went down
through so feet of water, packed the en-
gines under water and started them. It
was a good job. Here's a souvenir of it. -
picking up a thing looking like huge
leaden sole of a shoe.
Zone of the divers lost his shoe and. as
he didn't want to send back to New York
for another, this one was cast there at
the mine. 1t was heavy enough to keep
him down all right, lifting the great
sole, which must have weighed twenty
pounds or more.
A strange demand for diver is report
ed from Texas. One of the Beaumont
gushers broke loose and flooded the
neighborhood. The employees tried in vain
to check it, but could not succeed owing
to the fact that the Oil gave off strong
fumes of gas; SO strong that one man
after another was overcome and rescued
with difficulty.
The problem seemed hopeless and
thousands of dollars were being lost
when some one suggested diver. The
diver was sent for in hot haste, and
finally arrived. 1t looked rather queer to
send diver through the open air, with
nothing more than little oil to wade
through, but the deadly fumes were as
impossible as a few fathoms of water
The diver, with his supply of fresh air
pumped in to him, capped the well, shut
off the flow and Spindle Top literally
breathed again.