The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-13
JOHN P. HOLLAND
DEAD IN NEWARK
Inventor Of Submarine Boat
Succumbs TO Pneumonia
at Age of II.
RALLIED SEVERAL TIMES
Wife. Three Sons and Daughter
Are at the Bedside When
End Comes.
RALLIED SEVERAL TIMES

NEWARK, y. J.. Aug. le.--John Philip
Holland. inventor of the submarine boat.
died to-day in his home at 3s Newton
street, in his seventy-second year.
He was taken III with pneumonia on
July 4. and owing to his advanced age
his life had been despaired OF several
times. Several times he rallied, but on
Monday he became unconscious and re-
NAMED 80 until the end
At the bedside were his wife. three sons
and a daughter No arrangements have
yet been made for the funeral.
Like many great inventors John y.
Holland was described as u man OF very
quiet and retiring manners but one Of
grim and tenacious purpose Ia his old
age he met with financial roverses and
hardship. which, while never severe enough
10 leave him In actual want. had never
theless been the cause OF much worry
He first began to think seriously OF a
submarine boat while In Europe when tho
news came OF the battle between the Mont
tor and the Merrlmac That battle" he
frequently said, "revolutionised naval con
struction and set me to think OF how q
could be revolutioniIed again"
From that time until 1898, when a sub
marine torpedo boat constructed by him
performed In the waters Of tho XIII van
kull before committee OF Government
representatives with such success that
nothing was left wanting, Mr.. Holland
devoted his entire thought and energy TO
the task he had set himself
1t was In 1875, after nearly fifteen
years OF study and experiment, that MIR.
Holland first submitted his plans to the
/ Navy Department These plans were
I handed to navy engineers and reported
as practical In every way but ono. The
exception was the judgment that men
could not be found 10 risk their lives In
/ such a perilous experiment And 50 the
scheme was rejected by the Navy De
| partment and Mr. Holland went 10 his
J shop. where he spent eighteen years
more studying and perfecting his ideas.
| When he went 10 the Navy Department
/ again IN 1893 he was more successful
/ An appropriation calling FOR 5000 600 was
/ authorized and tho first Holland sub
! marine boat was constructed This hrs,
/ boat. a small one. was sDnt under the
water with a cat and rooster aboard
/ The vessel did All that was expected and
/ the rooster and at came up alive. After
/ this the appropriation WAS released Ia
! build q man carrying submarine.
But because ~ criticism and the IN
reference by navy engineers Mir Holland
Withdrew his plans. Then ne set abou
20 raise money 20 construct q submarine
himself This he dld. and IN is9S tn
4 Holland was launched and proved SO sue
ccssfu that the Government bought 3
directly after the war with Spain.
Tn" mans career was picturesque "
. more than ono way. ITe was assailed h'
the public press for offering tn sell sun
marines to the Japanese Government
after the Holland was launched d" turn"'
hts attention 70 aerial navigation an
spent several years building aeroplnnc
that did not ~. lie realized pcrhap
more thoroughly than any one else tho i'm
portancc of submarines IN warfare.
In 1907 he said
1t il safe 10 say that when the Nrs
submarine torpedo boat goes into actio
she Will bring US face 10 face with tn
most puzzling problem ever met IN war
fare Nobody knows how tho menace o
the submarine is TO he met"