The Washington herald., 1916-07-10

In a few weeks we will have them
coming In at New York and other Ameri-
can ports"
This boat is in excellent condition. She
had only two mishaps and these delayed
her but slightly. She had trouble with
her motors and her underwater lights.
but she carried extra supplies and the
trouble was quickly repaired.
The man who first sighted the Deutsch-
land was Capt James NJ Fesmire, who
runs the motor tug Efco. Of the Nortg
German Lloyd.
Her lights rose up one above the
other he said first very bright and then
the next minute they would be dimmed.
They are arranged to fool enemy war
chips.
She made straight for us-recognized
our lights-and in two hours she was
alongside.
There were six men, could see, two
forward, two aft, and two on the bridge.
They were dressed in the regular dark
blue OF the German merchant ships and
the officers had white caps just as on
the Eitel Friedrich and the rest.
is Capt. Hinsch there shouted her
commander. Capt. Ksirig, through
mega phone. Kairig is a small stocky
man. Hinsch-he's a giant you known
came to the rail and they talked in Ger
man. All of US hung over the rail. and
cheered and clapped our hands. Some
more Of the crew Of the submarine came
on deck. They all looked fine and the
submarine captain reported that all on
board were well and everything was in
the best Of condition"
Name Is Prominent.
One OF the most conspicuous things
about the Deutschland is her name paint
ed in big gold letters about a foot high.
in the form Of an arc around the anchor
chocks Her reriscope was drawn we'll
inside long before she sighted land. But
her mast for lights, which she carries
just behind the superstructure, sticks up
some fifteen feet above the level Of the
water.
She has a hand rail some two and
half to three feet high above the deck
for the protection Of the crew. This rail
the like os which was never seen on
war submarine, runs clear around her.
Her deckhouse is like the bridge Of an
ocean liner
From the superstructure to the bow-s
distance Of about $50 feet-the deck slopes
down sharply The bow itself is very
sharp. The slope Of the deck toward the
stern is much more gentle. She has q
speed Of twelve knots, and. heavily laden
made the trip in sixteen days, having left
her German port on June %.
The most interesting part Of the boat
is the periscope. When it is raised, from
its top down to the coming tower is a
distance of some twenty feet. That is
the distance this new and defenseless
type OF submarine can duck under water
to avoid it's enemies without going totally
blind.
The receiving end" Of the periscope is
in the coming tower which looks very
small from the outside, but once you are
inside it, seems TO be large enough to
hold FIVE men The eye pieces themselves
projecting dark and cleaning from the
spotlessly white cylinder. look like guns
trained on you to keep you out of this
holy of holies Of the submarine.
The room below the coming tower-the
navigating room-is quite as full of a
wilderness OF complicated apparatus as
that in the ordinary German U-boat, eX-
cept for one thing. The nest" the
cradle in which the torpedoes sweetly re-
pose while waiting to be rudely awaken
rand is empty.
This room is where the steering is done
when the submarine is running sub
merged. The room back of the engine
room is larger and more complicated.
Here are two rows of the famous Diesel
engines, which run the submarine on the
surface.
TT is due to these engines that there
Is SO much profit in each trip Of mer-
chant submarine" I was told. III we
had to use petre (gasoline) with the pres
ent scarcity Of that product in Germany.
each trip would come very high. But the
only fuel necessary for these motors is
the heavy oil which is a by-product Of
the works where we manufacture coal
gas, and of our oil refneries."
In this room is a clutch-which to the
inexperienced eye looks like any other
clutch. But when it is explained to you,
you realize that It is a thing Of romance
"a thing without which America could
not have been discovered by the subma-
r!ne route The so-called "accumulators"
by which the submarine Is driven when
under water, have only enough electric
energy to send the boat ahead for ten
hours or so, at top speed. But thanks to
this clutch, these accumulators can be re-
charged by being Joined UP with the oil
engines. This can be do.e when the sub
marine is on the surface In this way
Il is possible to keep energy In these cleo
trio batteries which the submarine needs
whenever It wishes to travel tncoH