The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
HENRY FORD SEES SUBMARINE FOR
 THE FIRST TIME
Didn't Care to Go Under Water But Says He
 Learned Much.

Learned Much. 1 New York. Sept. 24-Henry Ford l saw his first submarine yesterday. The automobile builder declared he | had heard 8 good deal about tre un- 1 derwater boats, but what he saw suE- prised him. He thought the boats were entirely too large and too com | plicated.
 MT Ford went to the Brooklyn Navy Yard in a new Ford autom obile The inventor and builder looked as i happy a schoolboy on a vacation. With him were his son. Edse1 Ford, and his New York manager. Gaston | Plaintiff.
 1 At the yard they were met by Rear Admiral Usher, Commandant of the Navy Yard; Capt. George B. Burd, Lieut.. Commander R. P. Craft, aide to the Commandant; Constructor Rock and Naval Constructor Wood ruff.
 "A11 know is that I am going to see my first submarine" said MT. Ford. 'I don't want to go aboard and have it submerged.' No Danger of submerging
 MT. Ford appeared pleased when 1 told that not one of the five sub marines now at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was in a condition to take a deep sea dive just then as nearly aI. 1 are undergoing repairs. The first submarine visited was the 1 K-5, which is commanded by Lieut.. Grady. MT. Ford climbed down the steel stairway from the main deck in the after part of the boat where the engine room is located. Next he climbed through the after battery quarters, then to the operating com partment and finally to the forward battery compartment and torpedo room.
 From the Ks the party went aboard the Fulton, a submarine ten der, and from there ito the E-2, an other submarine, which also was resting quietly in the Navy Yard an chorage. On this trip MT. Ford was joined by Dr. Miller Reese Hutchin- son, Chief Engineer of the Edison laboratory, who told the automobile builder of his recent experiments with sea water.
 MT. Ford also was shown a new DisseI oil engine and g, Talbot engine, in both of which he was interested. After another~visit to the Command ants office MT. Ford was ready to talk.
 ''It was simply wonderful what I saw,'' he declared. Everything is in such fine order i'm the Navy Yard, really it could not be any better. Did get any new ideas from my visit to the submarine? I did, al- ways learn som ething new Can I make use of what did see and learn? Why. yes; but about that I won't talk just now
 MT. Ford said there was no truth in the report that he contemplated building submarines, but thought he could, however
 ''I've got a mans job on my hands now and can't look after any other. he added.
 Not Member of Daniels Board.
 MT. Ford was asked whether he had made his inspection of the subr1ar- ines in connection with his office as member Of Secretary Daniels new advisory board.
 .I've heard a good deal about that board,'' he replied, 'fbut haven't re- ceived any appointment. No; I don't belong to that board"
 He explained that he was ready to help President Wilson, Secretary Daniels and the country in general. and was prepared to answer any call from such quarters.
 He enjoyed his visit with Presi- dent Wilson in Washington on We'd mesday very much, he said. and the President told him a very interesting story.
 president Wilson told me yester- day. MT. Ford continued, that he had heard from good authority that after the Kaiser had signed his first declaration of war he had taken the pen and thrown 1t across the room, and then, turning to his military and other advisors, remarked:
 "'You have made me do it; some day you will all regret it. ''
 MT. Ford said that the present sub- marines were entirely too expensive, and that he had in mind a. gasoline submarine which would cost only one sixteenth of what the undersea boats cost today,
 Tt was suggested that the claim had been nade\that gasoline motors would not work under water. MT. Ford said he knew better, and that he had made successful experiments in that respect. Tshe inventor declined, to go further into details.
 Didn't Offer Peace Fund.-.
 Some one asked MT. Ford about the offer he was alleged to have made of SIG, ,O00, 900 peace prize
 ''I never suggested such a thing to anybody at any tine,'' replied the au- ton1obiIe builder. "I proposed to, de- vote my energies and whatever means I might be able to employ toward the preservation of peace MT. Ford told a reporter he was stoping at the Biltmore. At that hotel it was denied positively that he was a guest there. Later it was explained that MT. Ford had given orders not to let any one know he was stopping there. Last night he went to Albany from where, he said, he would pro- ceed to his home in Detroit.
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