Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-29
A NIGHT UNDER THESE
Remarkable Performances Of Sub
marine Boat Fulton. !
NO ALB SUPPLIED FROM OUTSIDE.

NO ALB SUPPLIED FROM OUTSIDE,
six Men, Hermetically Sealed In, Ate.
Slept, Talked, Read ana Played
Cards In Comfort While Submerged
Fifteen Hours at Bottom of Long
Island Sound o. q Storm RACED
Overhead.
Up from the depths Of Long Island
sound a boat that looked like q whale
rose the other day while the storm
was at its height. When the ship rest
ed upon the bosom Of the waters in
| which it had been buried many hours.
the coming tower was thrown open,
and a man stepped forth and looked
| around in establishment at the wildness
Of the elements. ..
"Well," said he to q little knot of
| weary faced watchers on shore who
had spent the night with their eyes
glued to the spot where the vessel had
sunk from sight the evening before, q"
hadn't expected to see anything like
| this" .
The man was Captain Frank Cable,
navigator Of the Holland submarine
torpedo boat Fulton, and he, with five
other daring souls, had just spent fif-
teen hours at the bottom Of the sound,
with so much water above them that
they did not know that q fierce storm
had ragged so many hours, says the
New York World. The six adventur-
ers had come back to the surface after
participating in a test that has no par
allel in history and one Of worldwide
Importance.
The Fulton had not been connected
with the surface or with the shore by
even so much as a wire throughout the
test. Not a foot Of air had been sent
to the six men within her, and yet
when they walked out Of her at 1920
o'clock in the morning and greeted
those who waited for them on the
wharf Of the Crescent company's ship
yard at New Suffolk, N. ", they were
as bright eyed, hearty and cheerful as
If they had just finished a good break
fast at home. 81
They had had q night Of fine, whole
SOM sleep underneath the water. Be-
fore any Of them went to bed they
whiled away the hours with cards.
with the magazines and with a sub.
~stantial luncheon. Then four Of them
lay down in white clothed beds and
slept undisturbed, while above the
calm Of their submerged home the
wind howled and shrieked and the
great waves rolled and lowered and
broke on the shore with a mighty roar.
The men in the wonderful craft
heard nothing of this. The two who
watched and who also slept when 1T
came their turn thought that the sea
above must indeed be gentle, for there
was not the slightest movement OF the
vessel, not even the roll to be expected
from the incoming tide.
The men looked out at the glass Win
dows of the cabin, but could see only a
few feet. If they had cared to, they
could have shut off all the light within
aud set going the boats electric search
lighl forward. Then they could have
seen far into the waters ahead. They
knew they could do this from former
experiments, and they were after a
more important certificate of useful
ness. .YN
at the expiration Of the fifteen hours
the Fulton shot up from the depths so
suddenly as to. startle those who Watcn-
cd. A workman swung out over the
boat on a crane, peered through the
heavy plate glass observation port
hoes into the cabin and then cried OUT
to those on shore: t'|
They're ali right!' 81
Within a few moments the cover OF
the coming tower fell over with a
clang. and Captain Gable, smiling and
rudy, stepped out. The wind was sun
sArieking, and the waves washed up
and over the back of the boat. Inc
yoyagers had fully expected to see q
dead calm, and there was much laugh-
ter when Captain Gable explained his
blank look at the storm swept sound.
Rear Admiral Lowe was the second
nan whose head showed out through
the coming tower. He was fresh faced
and smiling. 1t was a merry little
crowd that walked on to the wharf
and talked to those who had watched
to see that there could be nothing TO
c~riticise about the test. Captain Cable
gave an account of the fifteen hours
under water. }rfA
Il had no particular sensation when
going down for the test" said he. u
have been down too often for anything
like that. The Fulton went down as