The age-herald., 1901-11-25
BOAT STAYS UNDER
 WATER 15 HOURS Officers Say They Could Have Stayed Three Months FULTON BREAKS RECORD While the Storm Ragged FuriousIy Overhead the Men in the Full
 ton Felt No Trace of 1t.
 Upset Theories.

New York, November 24.--In. the pres ence of big crowd, which, despite the storm, assembled to witness the emerg- ing of the submarine boat Fulton, that craft rose from the bottom of Peconic Bay this morning at 1O:3O o'clock with all well and greatly surprised to find there was a storm raging.
 The test of the Fulton's staying powers was highly satisfactory, not only to the officers of the company that built it here, and the naval officers present, but to those who went to the bottom in the boat. They report there was not the slightest discomfort to them during their more than fifteen hours of submersion beneath the surface.
 Captain Cable of the Holland Com pany, who was in command, said that the boat could have remained down for three months if there were food enough on board Although there was but six feet of water over the top of the turret, those on board felt nothing of the storm Through the night there was a light roll ing motion to the craft, but this is as- cribed to the regular motion of the wa ter and not to the disturbance which was rolling the waves high on the shore.
 Fulton Reaches the Dock.
 Immediately on coming to the surface. the Fulton, under her own power, ran alongside the dock and tied up. Rear-Ad- miral Lowe and Lieut.. Arthur MacArthur refused to go into any discussion of the performance of the boat except to say thy would be satisfied to stay down long CT. They are, however, known to be en- thusiastic over the work of the Fulton thus far.
 Members of the crew say they exper- fenced no difficulty in breathing and that the air was all that could be desired and much purer and better than in an ordi- nary closed room in which are several persons Every piece of machinery work ed to perfection during the night The men ate two meals while under water and enjoyed them. Most of them ob- tained three or four hours sleep.
 Rear Admiral Lowe said later:
 Admiral Lowe's Experience.
 When we went down I assisted Cap tain Cable in making an inspection of the ship Then I retired while the crew played cards and read. Every few hours I was awakened, and made inspections of the conditions Early this morning Cap tain Cable called my attention to the pressure guage which indicates the depth. It showed that we were lower in the water than at high tide last night when we were submerged. There was nothing to show us why it was, but 8 little while later I noticed that the water. as we saw it through the headlights, was very dirty and I imagined that a storm was blowing. There was no roll or rock of the vessel to indicate what was going on."
 Continuing Rear Admiral Lowe said that the air in the boat was as clean and as pure as in a house or in the cabin of a yacht.
 Not once did I notice" said the ad- miral, "and sign of bad air, gas or othcr impurity. Considering that we did not draw on the tanks at all l consider this is wonderful. It upsets all the theories of the physicians and scientists who tell us that what we did last night. was im- possible. The occasion was critical all night and mother escaped me-"