Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1916-09-22

| the ocean from Bremen,
her avoidance of the English and French war
vessels and her theatrical disclosure of her
! identity at Cape Charles constituted the
sation of a century.
Mr. Charles P Tower of the New York
| Tribune has written article comparing the
| Deutschland with the Nautilus, the submarine
boat of Imagination which Jules Verne, the
great French novelist, described in Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea-" published
about 45 years ago. No doubt many of you
have read the story. 1t is a great boys book like
"Tom Sawyer" Fenimore Cooper's Leather
Stocking Tales"
Mr. Tower assumes that the Nautilus was never
destroyed and that the Deutschland is the old
boat of fiction rebuilt. He says
But the sensation will be the greater when 1t
becomes generally known that the boat is not of
German design or build; that she is really the
original submarine boat Nautilus, designed py
that wonderfully skillful naval architect engineer
and scientstat-large Jules Verne, built and navi-
gated and under many seas by Captain
Memo and for many years supposed TO nave
been engufed in the whirlpool between the
islands of Farce and Lofoten, off the coast OF
Norway in June, 1868; the same vessel, rebuilt
in some degree and refitted in German ship
yard but the Nautilus truly as she was the
Nautilus when she was launched, in 1860 or lSoo.
ut has been only a superstition that the boat
was lost in the whirlpool, based on the fact tnat
who wrote the log board the vessel on her
sensational and somewhat erratic voyage OF
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea- ana
his two personal associates, Conseil and Ned
Land never appeared in public ever told any
thing to the contrary. But it will be remembered
that Mr.. Aronnax declared in his edition of the
log which was published in 1873, that he did not
positively know whether the boat was lost or
not. What has become of the Nautilus? he asks
Did it resist the pressure of the maelstrom?
Does Captain Memo still live?
Don't believe it? Why. it is so thoroughly
true as to be axiomatc. Read such description
of the boat that arrived at Baltimore on a Sunday
evening; then read Mr.. Aronnax's logbook;
make careful comparison Of the description of the
Nautilus which is contained therein with that OF
the so-called Deutschand-and dare to say that
they are not one and the same vessel The power
plant is in part, and in part renewed Mr..
Verne designed the Nautilus to be driven by
electric power generated by primary batteries,
something that would be out of the question to-
day, but possible in the of the Nautilus, be-
cause her owner was a man of enormous wealth
and because he had discovered inexhaustible
source of supply of the materials required to
renew his batteries.
1.-THE primary battery was the only available
means of providing power for underwater pro-
pulsion. the Diesel motor, now in use ali
submarine vessels power plant for use on
the surface and for generating electricity for
power to be used under water, had not been de-
veloped In fact. neither the Germans nor any
one else made any considerable of the Diesel
principle of motor construction until the Diesel
patents had expired. Besides Mr.. Verne had no
dynamos with which TO translate the power pro-
duced by motors into electricity although he had
the essential principle in the electric motors with
which he turned his propeller:
-And tbs vessel Is now fitted with periscopes,