Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19

across 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 SEN
satiOn of a century.
Mr. Charles p. Tower of the New York
Tribune has written an 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 40 years ago. No doubt many OF you
have read the story. It is a great boys book like
TON Sawyer" or FenmOre COOper's Leather
Stocking Tales"
Mr.. Tower assumes that che Nautilus was never
destroyed, and that the 1utschand is the old
boat of fiction rebuilt. He says
"But the sensation will be the greater when it
becomes generally known that the boat is not or
German design build; that she is really the
original submarine boat Nautilus designed by
that wonderfully skillful naval architect, engineer
and Scienstat-large, Jules Verne, built and navl-
gated over and under many seas by Captain
Memo and for many years supposed to have
been engufed in the whirlpool between the
islands of Farce and LOfOten, off the coast OF
Norway, in June 1868; the same vessel rebuff
in some degree and reftted in a German snip
yard, but the Nautilus, truly as she was the
Nautilus when she was launched, in 1868 or 1866
at has been only a superstition that the boat
was lost in the Whirlpool based on the fact that
no survivors of her crew, excepting Mr.. ArOnnaX
who wrote the log on board the vessel on her
sensational and somewhat cratic voyage of
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea- and
his two personal associates, COnseil and Ned
Land never appeared in public or 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
hoe Of th0 no
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 automatic Read such description
of the boat that arrived at Baltimore on a Sunday
evening" then read Mr. AronnaXs logbook;
make careful comparison of the description of the
Nautilus which is contained therein with that OF
the sO-caed Deutschland-and dare to say that
they are not one and the same vessel. The power
plant is new 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 case of the Nautilus, be-
cause her owner a man of enormous wealth
and because he had discovered inexhaustible
source of supply of the materials required to
renew his batteries.
The primary battery the only available
means of providing power for underwater pro-
pulsion as the Diesel motor. in use on all
submarine vessels as a power plant for 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 use 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 the vessel is fitted with periscopes.