The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-22
MORE SUBMARINES FOR RUSSIA
TWO TONED JNTO 4 HARMON MIST
AND VANISH THERE.
Temperate. Mixed In Identity with
Consignment OF Drying Cylinders for
the Newfoundland Fishing Industry
hut They're Here Awaiting shipment

Two brand new submarine torpedo boats,
which arrived off Staplcton, Staten Island,
late yesterday afternoon, vanished in the
low lying autumn mists last night in the
direction of Erie Basin. and were not there
after seen by folks ashore. Several per-
SONS not only wanted to get glimpse OF
the submarines, but also to find out what
steamship they were going to be put
aboard
This much is certain about the two sub
marines: They came here aboard the barge
Kennebec, in tow of the ocean tugs o. l..
Hallenbeck and Walter Luckenbach which
left the works Of the Newport News Ship
building Company on Wednesday after
noon. There was no effort on the part OF
the shipbulding company to conceal the
submarines. They were in plain sight
on the deck Of the barge, and in the hold
were many cases Of machinery forming
the motive power of the submarines.
When the tugs and the barge were of
the Hook on Thursday evening the un-
heralded eastery gale forced the shippers
To seek haven in Princes Bay, blight OF
Raritan. They remained there all night
and when the gale had subsidized yesterday
they headed for the Narrows. They passed
Quarantine at $50 y. NJ. and the alert OBJ
server there noted the four sections OF the
two submarines on the barges deck.
The Merritt Chapman company frankly
acknowledged that the submarines were
to be put aboard a stea mship by the big
derrick that soon came alongside the barge,
but they refused to reveal the name of the
steamship.
a m nf
took the dergcl and the barge in tow and
slowly steamed for Erie Basin. Passengers
on Il Staten Island ferryboat bound for the
island borough saw the barge and the der
rick crossing lane of moonlight within
two miles of Erie Basin about o'clock last
night.
A man who said he knews omething about
the transportation OF the submarines said
that they might be loaded aboard steam
ship bound for northern Europe before
daylight this morning He gave the I'M
preston that the loading would take place
outside the basin on the Erie Basin flats,
where the water * nearly always quiescent,
II was the original intention to put the sub
marines on the steamship while the barge
was Of S;..pleton, but it was too rough last
night to permit this to be done in safety.
A report got around last night that the
submarines were to be taken to Halifax
aboard the Red Cross Line steamship Silvia
scheduled to sail al : O'Clock yesterday
afternoon. The Silvia did not sail until
many hours later. 1t was learned that
she had ta,tsn aboard two big cylinders
about twenty-five feet long. Thai part of
the mystery was cleared, however, when
Charles W Bowring Of the firm of Bowring
u Co.. agents of the line, explained that
the cylinders had been shipped by the
Baltimore transportation Company and
We're dryers for Use in the Newfoundland
fisheries. The line has sent several others
to Newfoundland.
A man who knows much about the sub
marines said that il would be impossible
for the Silvia to carry them, and, anyhow,
there was no reason why they should be
transhipped at Halifax, as they would have
to be if they had been put in the Silvia.
There is no doubt that they are sub
marines and that they are bound for Europe
aboard II steamship which will probably
steal out of this port this morning. Also
there is little doubt that they are destined
for Russia. 1t Is pretty safe for specu-
lative shippers to carry contraband of war
through seas in which Japanese cruisers
have not appeared much safer than to take
them through other seas where Russian
cruisers have been reported. IL is thought
not unlikely that Il steamship which has
cleared from some other American port
dawn to-day and take the submarines away.