The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-16

which the Nautilus in her early days did not
have. If she had been equipped with periscopes
In 1866 and 1867, it is probable that she would
not have been in collision with the Columbus, the
Shannon, the Helvetia and other ocean steam
ships during those years, much to the annoyance
or their owners and the mystifcation of the
public. Also, the Nautilus in her relncarnation
has wireless telegraph equipment, something
which she did not in her early days, because
Marconi had not then been born. For the rest Of
1t, the Nautilus Is the Nautilus still.
"A very full description of the Nautilus Is con-
tanned In the log as written up by Mr.. AronnaI
from the dictatiOn of Captain Memo. He men
lions that the captain showed him the plans,
sections and elevation of the vessel; doubtless
the original drawings made by Mr.. Verne, or
perhaps tracings of the originals. If they had
been blue prints, Mr.. Aronnax would doubtless
nave spoken of them as such but, of course,
they were not, as blue prints were not in use in
those days. The captain went on:
Here, M. ArOnnaX, are the several dimen-
slons Of the boat. 1t is an elongated cylinder
with conical ends. 1t is very like n cigar in
shape, a shape already adopted in London In sew
eral constructions OF the same sort. The length
of this cylinder, from stem to stern, is exactly
232 feet and its maximum breadth Is 20 feet. 1t
Is not built quite like your long-voyage steamers,
but its lines are sufficiently long and its curves
prolonged enough to allow the water to slide off
easily and oppose no obstacle to its passage.
"'When the Nautilus is afoat one-tenth is out
of the water. Now, if l have made reservoirs of
a size equal to this tenth, and If l fill them with
water, the boat, weighing then 1907 tons, will be
completely immersed. These reservoirs are in
the lower part of the Nautilus. / turn on taps
and they fill, and the vessel sinks.
"Also, when l have a mind to visit the depths
of the ocean, 1 make use of slower but not less
infallible means. To steer this boat, following a
horizontal plan, l use an ordinary rudder fixed
on the back of the sternpost, and with one wheel
and some tackle to steer by. But I can also make
the Nautilus rise and sink, and sink and rise, by
a vertical movement by means of two inclined
planes fastened to its sides, opposite the center
OF Notation, planes that move by powerful levers
from the Interior. If the planes are kept parallel
with boat II moves horizontally. If slanted, the
Nautilus, according to this inclination and under
the influence, of the screw, either sinks diagonally
or rises diagonally as 1t suits me-
"Set aside the obvious errors in the log or in
the translation, and the description of the Nau-
titus might as readily pass for that of the So
called Deutschland as any that have been printed.
Look 1t over in detail. The Nautilus was 232
feet long; the length of the undersea boat at
Baltimore was guessed" at anything from 200
and some odd feet to 300 feet. OF course. as
she has been rebuilt, the boat may have been
heightened, to suit modern ideas.
But the Nautilus had a coming tower. in
place of the present superstructure. The beam