Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-31
INSIDE A SUBMARINE
You Are Greeted by a Deafenine,
Ear Splitting Racket.
WORSE THAN A BOILER SHOP.
To Make Yourself Heard at All You
i...ust Shout Into The Ear Of Com
psnion-The Economy of Space ard
the Simplicity of Arrangements.

the Simplicity of Arrange
Climbing down ten rungs of m
iroa Ladder into the interior of Il sub
marine is like going into q boiler shop
where Ihcre is one continuous, deafcn-
ing. c@r Spl:ttiag racket like Il dozen
"trip l..:anicrs clElttcring Il tattoo amid
!. :si:.d and rumble AND thump OF ma.
chiEciy us if especially designed to
bust your cait!ruals.
At first the l.0isc in that narrowly
confined space 10 painful and bcwilder-
ing. 10 make yourself at all heard
"p:, MIST shout into The car of com
paniom SO intense is the strain, saws
Il writer ii ST. Nicholas. that You mar
vel how day IN and day out human
ears can withstand the ordeal.
You tin.l Yourself inside what seems
an cnoT:s:aIs steel cigar painted Il neat
pearl graz, & color which. is scrviccable
and doe; not t..:!.:.lc t'.a cvc. I.i~.,t
comes to yen n.ri.s ,l..s:';ss...'l IH,s;hele.;
and in part t.'u@i iasa...tescent lamps
placed fore and aft in the darker parts
of the hull.
You have expected. of course to
land in q tangle OF wlirling machinery
that fills the inside of the boat from
stem to stern, threatening with every
revolution to take an arm or a leg of.
Instead the first thing you see is an
uninterrupted "v-or'.;'i= space" or
deck. l:.eas,,lng by 81 or 50 feet.
At tho stern. far il the background.
are he machines ans! engines In fact.
this section of the vessel is nothing but
machinery. Il rumbling mass of silvery
steel aad glittering brass revolving at
he ratio of 100 times Il minute so COM
act that you wonder how the various
D rts can turn without conflicting or
how 1t is possible for human hands to
squeeze through the maze to oil the
machinery
But this economy Of space is as moth
Ing to what you will sec The floor
you stand ON is Il cover for the cells Of
the storage ')atteYies wherein is pent
Up the electricity with which your boat
will propel herself when she runs sup
! merged. The walls aniidshps and the
space in the box are 81 ale ballast
| tanks to be filled wiih "-;.trr that will
these arc tool loses sd E:a.ss,l hunks
loH the crew to ieep III.
The four to:ise...:e.'. r.casuring six
teen feet t.l.e;. i.trli's lnng, eighteen
inches in tliametc. All weighing 1.5OO
| pounds each, are dashed end for end in
\ l.iss at either side. and directly over
1,;,
for the crew to sleep in.
| The very air which is taken along to
Keep life in you in case tle-Loat Should
be detained beneath the surface longer
than Usual is compressed in q steel cyl
| Under 1000 poants per square inch, Il
| pressure 50 intense that We're the CYL
iaGer 10 spring Il leak no larger than a
pin hole and We're the tiny stream of
escaping mir to sllii:c Il human being it
woald penetrate him through and
through and drill Il hole through an
inch t.lick board behind him.
And yet everything about the inte-
rior arrangements of this boat is so sim
pic that You can see Mt a glance its
purpose. Away forward, where the
tip Of the cigar comes to Il point, are
the two torpedo tubes out OF which
the gunner will send his deadly pro-
jectiles sectliing beneath the waters at
| the rate OF ID Knots an hour against
an unsuspecting hull
| Directly under the coming tower is
Il platform. three feet square and c!c.
waited three feet from the deck, upon
which the captain stands, head and
shoulders extending into the tower, SO
that while at his post he is visible to
the crew only from the waist line
down. and ut the feet of the captain
and on level with his platform is
stationed another OF the officers, II
| charge of the wheel that controls the
i diving rudders and the gauges that
register the angle OF ascent and de
cline and show how deep the boat is
down.
4 The two officers are in personal com
munication, so that in case of heart
disease OF other mishap either can
| Jump to the other mans place.