The Green Forest tribune., 1916-07-21

tune there was a reason
 The longest we actIollv st,vod ",
 ue' was that ten hours in the English
 chanheI' but we could stay four days
 At tile end of that time our batteries
 would be exhausted, and we wouId
 nave to rise and recharge them. Dur.
 Ing the entire trip we travelled a total
 or ninety miles under water
 AS lar as the physical effect on the
 Slips company is concerned, we could
 reihalh forever. We can submerge fifty
 iathomS-three hundred feet-but as a
 matter of fact we never went nearly
 'ia' ueep' and probably never shall"
 Liked the Submerainu.
 Those on the Deutschland besrdep
 hlmself were First Mate Krapuhl. See ond Mate Gyring, Chief Engineer Kleis ana crew of 25 men, Kleis, he said. over ana over again, was ''the most i'm portant of all" Then he told how the crew spent the time.
 "On board they busted themselves With the machinery, for practically all of them are mechanics. They played cards, and they had their singing and thelr sleeping and their sitting about. and the time passed.
 Best of all, they-all of us. in fact liked the submerging. Unpleasant7 Indeed 1t was not. It was just like sinking into a sort of blue nest. We open the portholes, and then through the glass we could see the fish and the formations of the sea, and always we listened listened, listened.
 How do we listen? There are aboard two microphones and with them we were able to hear the whis- ting of buoy six miles off when we were under water. And just before we came up about thirty miles from the Virginia capes, we were able to hear the ringing of bell buoy six miles from us.
 "The screw of a ship we could hear quite plainly while it was yet a safe distance from us. More than hearing it, we could tell whether it was a cruiser or destroyer. It was quite fascinating to listen so.
 z. Details of the Trip.
 Captain Koenig did not take the Deutschland around Scotland, as has been conjectured. He came straight through the Channel, he said.
 We left Bremerhaven at noon on June IA. We proceeded quietly to Hell un1an6 fharn C+o do There were three reasons for that: No ship proceeds all the way after start ing. It is Npo easy to calculate when she may De expected at sofle gwen place. So we lay in wait while. Then, too, we wanted to train the men. During those four days we drilled and taught them hard. and when once more we proceeded we had capable sub marine crew.
 Again, we had to trim the cargo. That must always be done after a start is made. We must shift things about and stow them away. And every thing needs to be tested. All worked nicely.
 I've carried 1S0 tons of fuel oil. Of that we have 95 tons left-mOre than enough to take us back-and we shall not ship any more here. Then we car ried many tons of oxygen and twenty tons of fresh water, of which We had ten left.
 "The last time we submerged was as we were nearing the Virginia capes and we saw an American boat ap- We thought it was fruit boat so we just dipped under for the last time. The men were always glad when we did that-it made such smooth travelling. The Deutschland scarcely rolls at all under water.
 And that about completes the story of the voyage. We travelled, we saw ships and submerged we travelled | again on the surface and at last we | arrived"
 The Deutschland, built by the Krupp | Germania works, cost S50O000. This voyage will pay for her, he said.
 Boat Mass of Machinery.
 As described by Dr. John c. Travers, assistant U. s. health officer, who was -aken through the boat by Captain Koepig. the DeutSchland's interior ap- pears to be mainly a mass of machin- ,rv. She has but one deck below and l seventeen-foot depth of hold for her ,argO pr. Travers descended through he forward hatch, where he found he crews quarters, hunks on either ;ide of narrow passageway leading O compartments occupied by the cap- ain and his two officers. The. cap aims room is scarcely six feet square md barely high enough for a man o stand.
 It is furnished all in metal, with he exception of small oak desk. Directly beneath the officers quarters S the dynamo, which stores electrical nercv to drive the vessel when sub merged.
 Next Dr. Travers was taken into he officers meSSroOm, scarcely larger han the staterooms, with a galley uilt with all the economy of space f Pullman dining-car kitchen. Aft ba messroom, about one-third the hip's length from her stern, is the machinery and two peris- opes.
 Calls 1t Amazing Sight. "I never saw such a mass Of ma binery in my life" said Dr. Travers. If was an amazing sight and l doubt if would mean much except to the nqineer who designed it. There ,emed to be 5000 different pieces. , n inexplicabIe tangle of burnished inner and glistening steel"
 Afr of the submerging machinery