Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-09-10
INSIDE A submarine.
You Are Greeted by a Deafa.:ing,
Ear Splitting Racket.
WORSE THAN A eolLER SHOP.
To Make Yourself Heard q. All Ycs
Must Shout into tile Gar of Corr
Panion-The Economy ct Space axo
the Simplicity Of Arrangements.

Climbing down ten rungs of M
| iron ladder into the interior of n sub
Murine is like going into Il boiler shop
where there is one continuous, deafen-
ing. ear splitting racket like dozen
trip hammers chattering tattoo amid
grind and rumble and thump of ma
chilcry as if especially designed to
burst your eurlrums.
At first the noise in that narrowly
confined space Is painful and bewilder-
Ing. 10 make yourself at all heard
you must shout into the car of COM
panion. So intense is the strain. says
IL writer in st. Nicholas, that you mar
vel how day in and day out human
ears can withstand the ordeal.
You find yourself inside what seems
an enormous steel cigar painted a neat
pearl gray, q color which is serviceable
and does not dazzle the eye. Light
comes to you partly through portfolios
and in part from ineaAdesccnt lamns
placed fare AMI aft iii the darler liasta
Of the h,,ll.
You have expected. OF course. sn
land in a tanglc of whillil,g machinery
that fills the inside of the boat from,
stem to stern, threatening with ever
revolution to take an arm or Il leg az
Instead the first thing YOU see is n.
Hni.tcrrun,cl working space" u-
deck. measuring by - or 20 feet.
at the stern, far IL the back rrouns!.
are the machines ana engines. N fant
this section CT the vessel il nes..i :l~ lnt
machinery, a Rambling mass cs silvcry
steel and glittcriag brass ravc!,;i.,g IT
he rate of zoo times 4 minute. so con
act that you wonder how the yario:.,
p.rts can TIN without ccnai ,:"g or
low it is possible for Luman hands 10
squeeze through the maze to oil the
marhincry
But this economy OF space is as moth
Ing to what you will see. The floor
you stand on is i; cover for the coils OF
the storage batteries wherein l.; pent
Up the electricity Will! which yoar boat
Will propel herself when she raas SUP
merged. The walls amidships and the
space III the bow are gigantic ballast
ts;iks 10 be filed with water that will
these arc tool boxes and hinged hunks
10. the crew to sleep in.
The fog:r toipcdoes. measuring six
tcea feet t'lnce inches long. eighteen
lGs'.ies u; diameter and weighing 1.luo
pa;i.A.s e.:e.l. are dashed esd for cad in
pairs at either side, and directly over
these are tool boxes aud hinged hunks
Ior the crew to sleep In.
The very air which is. taken along to
keel, life Ia you in case the boat should
BE- detained beneath the surface longer
than usual Is compressed In steel cyl.
inler 1900 pounds per square inch, Il
pressure so intense that were the CYL
iader to spring leak no larger than a
pin hole and were the tiny stream Of
esc.NplMg air to strike Il human being 1t
would penetrate him tbrcugt, and
through and trill q hole through, an
inch thick board behind him.
And yet everything about the Inte-
rior arrangements Of this boat Is SO sim
pie that you can see at glance it's
purpose. Away forward, where the
tip of the cigar comes to point, are
the two torpedo tubes out of which
The gunner will send his deadly pro-
jectiles sectlling beneath the waters at
the rate of % knots an hour against
an unsllspecting hull.
Directly under The coming tower is
!, Platform. three feet square and e,c-
waited three feet from the deck, upon
which the capt.in stands. bead and
shoulders extending into Tie tower, so
that while at his post lie is visible to
HE crew only from the waist line
down. and at the feet of the captain
and ON a level with his platform is
stationed another Of the officers. Ia
charge of the wheel that controls the
diving ruddcrs and the gauges that
register the angle of ascent and de-
cline and show how deep the boat IL
down
The two officers are in personal COM
munication, SO that in case of heart
disease or other mishap either can
jump to the other mans place.
Time TO Wake.