The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-08

whirlpoos, powerful that they would swing loose
when Tulloch first appeared the wharves crowded
ers some of whom had been holding their places in
the burning for several hours,
long slde' had been built from the surface Of the
water to the river bottom Tulloch while working on
Ing down the % entire length 'O'' 40 ''D ~ '''N
His hose and line PLAYED out with rush, and
simultaneously great shout Of excitement from
the crowded wharves; for long time the spectators
Of the diver appeared dismal cry and travelled
swiftly up the city streets: Busa Ia morte; busa Ia
An excable reporter heard the cry and hurried to
bis newspaper and shortly afterwaTd ragged little
In the meantime Tuoch was in dire trouble. In
each of the two precious rubber wristbands which bind
down the wrstlets of the salt and keep the air in at
He has clear recollection Of Just what happened
went out Of the suit and the water came in at tho
Ites There I e. were the heavy be- Wv weights fs too to con
4 Ali car remember said he, ais the sight o.
could Teach the top. Tulloch laughed ~ can see
ali in. Wnen to there great rejoicing.
You see, the laying Of the pipe was affair of
WRen the diver stopped fTe never quite decided
whether the rejoicing was over or the work. but
ssI walked up the street with the president of the
n5s on s Of af I on hs os asb 5 bis s s
hands, swinging and squeezing them and jabberng like
mad. The crowd was dancing and whooping it up in
t.When reached my hotel the proprietor 8 little
that atsrnoon Se @ oy laid or and my
rather Just celebrated They work there
sequenty there s 70 laying off there Work is always
'manana' (tomorrow).'
This instance @ involving probably bis nearest ap
the South American 8 emotional nature
spent many an interesting day on the diving
scow and got 10 know more of the muddy, tide swept
East river with its deep channel and the black holes
tn tn 5s bs 5 of its and tale a 3
be told secrets that have been swept on be
The diver p marks the rveT piers and walls by the
difficulties encountered in their foundation setting, bur
detail arises the skeleton of startling accident
near-death hazard fought out by in canvas
Depths dep aI0 ''''' ls.s' -'' Al'l' 'a' S' .I
There IS the Washington market section wall, where
glycerne and was tossed out amid a debris of wood
and rock his his helmet torn off, MS back broken o q and
bulkhead which all but, became divers tomb; he
Che had f left an but cond not edge through
it( and was pulled up unconscious after four hours
Two piers north diver fouled and sufocated in
the cabin of sunken scow. and further on is pieT
shut between two heavy niles. and they pulled him
out unconscious and all but dead.
every detail of which some diver knows by hard and
hazardous toll. Here coal barge sank and there 2
drifting tueboat with burst boiler tube: here burn
ing ferryboat went down and government scow and
big schooner there sank in fog. And up the
river to that Inflated pier at Hunt Point where the
last chapter of the Slocum horror was witnessed
are no better in muddy water than is light in fog
Telephones too supplied, but that another
line to and the water that gathers in the divers
helmet from his breathing easily short circuits them
small compact, combination transmtter and receiver
has lately been perfected which will probably meet
with favor
The diver does not take kindly to these accessories.
'tWe have enough ways of dying it is one:
'tThe simple and practical our outfit the better
follows that today the diving suit and apparatus
is much the same it twenty years ago. 1t is
stronger and safer-that is all
There is but ono generally accepted accessory--the
cidcnt happens the hose and what air thero
in the helmet aud suit Diver Tuloch, who tested 10,
found he could 1--we three and haf minutes on the
amount OF air ''They seemed terribly long minutes
said he. !.Probabiy could stand 1t longer II no
had to- perhaps fve minutes but be would be uncon-
scious then. -
In winter the exit valve often freezes shut, par
tcuarly in deep water and swift currents Unless
then, the diver Signals III time enough to hauled ur
the arladan suit TOO buoyant for the weight 90 hold
it, will shoot him up with disastrous speed, sending
water He will be taken out probably bleeding at the
nose The delicate blood vessels Of the inner
membranes easily ruptured by tho rush OF blood
caused by the swift changing pressure
And now, how deep the diver go' Claims OF
hundred and fifty feet made and several such
assertions have appeared in print Every diver have
only aughingy discredits thom but says fatty