Arizona republican., 1912-11-30
With the Dead on Seas Floor
("Atlantis' by Gerhart Hauptmann)

Frederick attempted in vain to battle against a still life picture, which the Roland, valiently struggling onward, with its siren almost stifled in the storm. showed him at the bottom of the He the majestic vessel in coffin glass. Across it's deck swans of fish swan hther and thither It's cabins were all filled with water A big poyp, jellyfsh, and red. mushroom like anemones. had penetrated into the very gangways along which the passengers were now walking. And to Fredericks horror. the Hveried bodies of Pfund- ner. the head steward, and lis assistant stewards were slowly floating about in circle
 The picture would have been almost ridiculous had it not been gruesOme and had it not certainly lain in the realm of the possible Think of all the things divers report! All the things they have in the cabins gangways sub merged steamers; inextrcably knotted of human beings, passengers sailors coming toward them with Outstretched arms upright, if alive and as if awaiting them.
 A closer examination the clothes of those guardians and administrators of lost at the bottom of the sea, those strange ship owners business men. captains, purSers, those fortune seek CT money seekers embezzlers, adventurers or what they might be- showed that they filled with poyps, crusaceans and all sorts of enjoying their stay there as long as something re- mained beneath their shredded garments except gnawed bones
 Frederick beheld himself down there, too one of those decayng phantOms. months old. wandering about in the ghastly abode of the sunken Roland in that horrible Vineta, where each passed his neighbor mutely with a frightened gesture. each seeming to carry in his breast a congealed of anguish, which he expressed with bowed head and outstretched arms head thrown back and open mouth. else he hideousy crawling his hands. wringing his hands, folding them, spreading his fingers
 The engineers the boiler room seemed still slowly, slowly be controlling the cylinder and driving wheel; differently before, the law of gravity seemed longer be in force. One of the engineers doing his work a pc cuiarly twisted way, like asleep caught between the rim of the wheel and the piston rod covered with verdigris. Frederick descended his ghastly down to the stokers, whom the trOphe had surprised in the midst of their occupa- ton. Some still holding their shovels in their hands though unable lift them. They them selves floating, while the shoves to which they chung did not stir from the bottom. All was They could kinde the fire into white glow, and could not keep the mighty steamer in it's
 In the steerage the sight horrible to behold, with men. and children of all nation alities hudded tossed in thick dark heaps, that a shark which had made its way through the chimney of the stokehOe and then through the engine sufficiently courageous or hungry minge in the gathering. "Noli turbare circuos meos, these people too, seemed to be say ing. All thinking strenuously, absorbed in the profoundest medtaton-they had plenty of time for profound meditation-upon the riddle of life. for the purpose of reflecting. Those and women Wringing their hands spreading theiI fingers or walking their hands standing the tip of a single finger, while grazing the ceiling with their feet, all thinking.