New Britain herald., 1916-07-10


 Has Chemicals For North. 1 Later he was persuaded to bring out his crew. The grinning youngsters l brought with them a large, green
 board taken from the stern of the ship on which was painted in big sil- yer letters Deutschland der Brem-
 en-.
 Grouped about the board with their | skipper in the center, the sailors posed until Captain Konig said it was | time to eat. A force of longshore- men was ready on the dock to begin unloading the cargo, which is to be ] shipped as soon as possible by the 1 Easten Forwarding company to the purchasers, chemical companies in l the north. Probably only a day or ] two will be required to discharge, and l then the submarine will take on the 1 crude rubber and nickel consignments already stored in the pier warehouse l for her return trip.
 When the start back across the At lantic will be made is, of course, prob1ematical. On official of the For warding company today said it might l be two weeks or it might be a month, but it was not denied that no advance notice would be given and that the l vessel would make her way out of | the capes whenever and however the l opportunity presented itself. Captain l Konig went about his preparations for | entering at the customs house with out hurry or unusual formality just | as though his boat were an ordinary | freighter. He did not seem to be | worried over reports that the Ameri- can authorities would carefully in- ] vestigate his case to determine l whether the Deutschland should be 1 rated as an ordinary commerce car l rier. A story that the Lake Torpedo Boat company was preparing to libel the submarine on the ground that her | construction infringed upon it's pat ents apparently did not interest him. Mass of Machinery. As described by Dr. John c. Trav- CTS, assistant health officer, who was taken through the boat by Captain Konig, the Deutschlands interior ap- pears to be mainly a mass of machin- cry. She has only one deck below and a seventeen foot depth of hold for her cargo. pr. ,Travers descended through the forward hatch, where he found the crews quarters, hunks on either side of a narrow passageway leading to compartments occupied by the captain and his two officers. The captains room is scarcely six feet square and barely high enough for a l man to stand. It is furnished all in l metal with the exception of small oak desk. Directly beneath the off, cers quarters is the dynamo which stores electrical energy to drive the vessel when submerged. Next Dr. Travers was taken into the officers mess room, scarcely larger than the state rooms, with a galley built with all the economy of space of a pull man dining car kitchen.
 Aft the mess room, about one-third the ships length from her stern, is the submerging machinery and two periscopes.
 1T never saw such a mass of ma chinery in my life,' said Dr. Travers. Tt was an amazing sight and I doubt if it would mean much except to the engineer who designed it. There seemed to be five thousand different pieces, an inexpliciable tangle of bur nished copper and glistening steel.' Aft of the submerging machinery were the submarines two powerful Deisel oil engines which prOpel her on the surface. Both in the crew s and officers quarters were phono- graphs and stocks of well used discs. 1 Captain Konig told the doctor that while on the surface the noise of the 1 machinery was almost deafening. When submerged said the skipper, "she moves almost silently, and then 1 we enjoy ourselves"
 Through the Periscope. l pr. Travers was permitted to look | through one of the periscopes and de- clared that he could sec surrounding scenery, greatly magnified, with l amazing clearness,
 1 "The devise was adjustable" he said "for both long and short distance l observation. It did not seem to me | as I looked into it that I was in the submarine at all. I felt as if I were in an aeroplane on a wonderfully clear day.
 Dr. Travers emerged through the ] coming tower, holding in his hand | two loaves of German war bread pre- sented by the captain as a souvenir
 Canned meats and fruits were the
 crews staple food and with the ex-
 ception of their loss of weight, due, ir
 the opinion of the health officer, tC
 the oily atmosphere, the crew to 6
 man was physically fit.
 sI never saw better set up mer
 than these" said the doctor. BotF
 health officers congratulated the sub
 marines commander on his feat anc
 remarked that it had been many
 long months since ship flying the
 German merchant flag had arrived 1T | Baltimore.
 Like a# Giant Fish.
 All of her 315 feet of greenish gray
 hull was standing well above water
 as the Deutschland was lowed to hel
 dock It was before o'clock in tht
 morning and rain was falling steadily
 but there was a big, eagerly curious
 crowd waiting. Old water iron
 salts and landsmen alike gazed Witl
 open-eyed wonder. The big craft ap
 peared like some giant fish of tht