The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-15

her avoidance of the English and French war
vessels and her theatrical disclosure of her
Identity at Cape Charles constituted the sem
sation Of century.
Mr.. Charles =. 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 40 years ago. No doubt many of you
have read the story. 1t is great boys book like
Tom Sawyer" or Fenimore Cooper's Leather
Stocking Tales"
Mr. Tower assumes that the Nautilus 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 by
that wonderfully skful naval architect, engineer
and scientist at-large Jules Verne, built and navi-
gated over and under many seas by Captain
Memo. and for many years supposed to have
been sngufed in the whirlpool between the
Islands OF Farce and Lofoten off the coast of
Norway, in June, 1865; 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 1865 or 1866.
at has been only supposition that the boat
lost in the whirlpool, based on the fact that
survivors of her crew, excepting Mr.. Aronnax,
who the log board the vessel on her
sensational and somewhat erruuc voyage OF
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea- and
his two personal associates Conse and Ned
Land, 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 published in 1873 that he did not
positively know whether the boat lost
not. What has become of the Nautius? he asks.
Did it resist the pressure Of the maelstrom7
Does Captain Memo still live?
Inv Is Thoroughly
true MS to be automatic. Read such Il description
Of the boat that arrived at Baltimore 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-caled Deutschand-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 a man of enormous wealth
and because he had discovered an 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. the Diesel motor. In all
submarine vessels n 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 IL now fitted with periscopes,