Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-19
UNDER AND THE SEA
THE AMUSEMENT WONDER
 THE WORLDS FAIR PIKE.
Dunnavant $ Williams Marvellous Tn. vention, the Missing Link connecting Imagination and Realism The One Unique Feature in q Mile of Shows-- Remarkable Journey awaits Worlds Fair Visitors.

Tn the history of Worlds Expeditions. perhaps in no division does the public de- mand greater progress than in it's amusement features, and that this has been the para mount and successful endeavor of Dunnavant < Williams, inventors and builders of Under and Over the Sea, one needs but take pas- sage and be convinced
 Tn this great production on the Pike. and electricians have vied with each other toward q common goal, 'soriginality. ss Neither time nor money has been spared. and the public demands have been met and exceeded, in the full realization of a sub- marine voyage to Paris, and return by air- ship, Gan you imagine the sensations OF such tripf No; then embark with mel Tho hatchway through which we have entered this monster iron fish Is dramatically sealeds our 498 fellow passengers (the capacity of ouR boat Is 600) comfortably seated; the captain, by 8 secret code of signals, issues his com- mands; the well-trained crew make ready for our novel journey; the huge hull of the submarine monster quivers gently, and then gradually but surely we feel our strange craft sinking, sinking down to the lowest beds of the ocean. From the powerful electric search lamps, suddenly, light breaks at each side of the cabin, through the two oblong crystal plates, separating us from the Sea. The obscurity of the cabin shows to advan- tage the brightness outside, and what spectacle is revealed to our bewild0red vision--fowers, fungi, polypi, plants, shells and rock, a veritable Kaleidoscope of green, yellow, orange, violet and blue. With ex- cited exclamations of wonder and admiration we gaze through the crystal plates. at the aquatic army surrounding us. The boatsa manometer indicates our depth now II ,00o fathoms below the surface-and our captain, careful, brave and experienced submarine skipperv skillfully manipulating the electric switchboard at which he stands-valways and ever alert to the dangers of the deep-stopa our downward course and points his vessel straight ahead; the pressure of m electric button Is simultaneous with convulsive thx0b as the mighty engine responds, the giant pro- peller churns the sea into a foaming fury and with leap and bound, as of frightened thing of life, we plunge forward through tho transparent watery mass to explore the un- known depths.
 The denfzens of the sea startled into an activity they have seldom known, so engrose our attention, the approach of mammoth narwhale orunicorn of the sea Is quite unn0ticed sengers are quickly treasured by the captain. There is no danger; our armament has been we'll looked to in the emergency of attack, but as the monster fish playfully circles around us, strangely familiar and pleasant sounds fall upon our ears; presently the mas- sive jaws of our friendly inclined escort open and reveal a semi i-earth1y being, contented1y seated on its monster green tongue, and in q fine basso voice is singing the lay of the deep blue sea; the torpedo-like velocity of our
 
 far in our wake, the echoes of this presum- ably Jonah's voice, have hardly died away, when fars ahead and immediately in our course Is seen the mermaid play ground, various kinds of isis, clusters of pure tuft coral, and prickly fungi form beautiful gar. den on the Ocean's bed; shoal of mermaido appear to our now thoroughly deliehted visions, the delicately tinted gold and silver be-scaled bodies gracefully bounding over, under and around the boat, as if tmbued with earthly vanity, they would rival each other'a brightness.
 With never ending and tirelcss energy, our great speed undiminished, we rush mAdly ons our goal is soon at hand; the pumps are seb in motion-the water drawn from the tanks. Our now buoyant vessel speedily finds the surface, and the thrilling subterranean pas- sage has ended. Disembarking, w0 are guided to the base of Eiffel Tower; immense elevators takeus to it's summit, where mas- sive airship restlessly tugging at It's moor- ing awaits to carry us back over land and sea. All aboardl Cast anchor; and the bird. like wings moving up and down, the flight through space has commenced. Paris soon fades from view as with the speed of lightWo rush along the painless wastes; meteors, comets, beasts of the 3air, and lightntnR the captain of this weird craft, and emerging from bank of clouds, our astonished and bewildered senses are now completely dazed at the vision that greets our eyes-the Worlds Fair is spread out immediately below us; gently the airship descends and discharges herprecious cargo of mystifed and delighted passengers at the Pike landing dock we have enjoyed marvellous experience and conn Dleted our triD. under and over the sea-