The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-25
SUBMERGED FIFTEEN HOURS
SUCCESSFUL TEST OF NEW sun
 MlRISE Bo1T FULTON
The Builders and Naval Officers Well with Her Declare They Did Not suffer the Slightest tDiscomfort-The Captain Says she Could Have Stayed Down Three Months With Fo Enough Aboard.
A board.

New York Nov, 24.-Tn the presence
 of a 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 1030 o'clock with all well and greatly surprised to find
 there was q storm raging. The test of
 the Fulton's staying powers was high ly satisfactory, not only to the officers
 of the company that built her and the
 naval officers present, but to those who
 went to the bot tom in the boat, They
 report there was not the slightest dis comfort 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 was 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 light rolling motion to the craft, but this was ascribed to the regular motion of the water and not to the dis turbance which was rolling the waves high on the shore.
 Immediately oh coming to the surface the Fulton. under her own power, ran alongside the dock and tied up.
 Mar,hars If tho oraw GOV thav aypar- fenced no difficulty in breathing and that the air was all that could be de- sired and much purer and better than in an ordinary closed room in which are several persons Every piece of machinery worked to perfection during the night The men ate two meals while under water and enjoyed them. Most of them obtained three or four hours sleep
 Rear Admiral Lowe. who was of the party spending the night in the Fulton, said:
 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
 
 this morning Captain Cable called my attention to the pressure gauge which indicates the depth. It showed that we were lower in the water than at high tide last night, when we submerged There was nothing to show us why 1t was, but a 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. l There was no rock or roll of the ves- sel to indicate what was going on.''
 Continuing, Rear Admiral Lowe said that the air in the boat was as clean { and pure as in a house or in the cabin | of yacht. Not once" added the ad- niral, "dld I notice anw sign of bad ! air, gas or other impurlty. Considering . hat we did not draw on the tanks, a ! all, I consider that this Is wonderful. | It upsets all the theories of the physi- clans and scientists who tell us that f what we did last night was impossible. [ was very critical all night and noth- Ing escaped me"
 The longest time that any submarine peat had been under water heretofore n the United States was three hours. Harry CoIwell kept the Hol- Potomac last year. The Fulton had lever been under water longer than lbout twenty-five minutes, when she made two-mile run submerged a few weeks ago.