The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-15

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 Z. 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 45 years ago. No doubt many OF you
have read the story. 1t is a great boys book, like
"Tom Sawyer or 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 IL
becomes generally known that the boat is not OF
German design build that she is really the
original submarine boat Nautilus, designed by
that wonderfully skillful naval architect, engineer
and scientistatlarge, Jules Verne built and naVi-
gated over and under many seas by Captalh
Memo, and for many years supposed to nave
been engulfed 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 reftted in German snip
yard, but the Nautilus, as truly as she was the
Nautilus when she was launched In 1860 or lS0o'
ut has been only suppositon that the boat
was lost in the whirlpool based on the fact ulat
no survivors OF her crew, excepting Mr.. AronnaN,
who wrote the log board the vessel on her
sensational and somewhat errauc voyage OF
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, ana
his two personal associates, Conseil and Ned
Land never appeared in public or ever told any
thing 70 the contrary. But II 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 NautilusT he asks.
Did II resist the pressure of the maelstrom!
Does Captain Memo still live?
Don't believe it1 Why it is so thoroughly
true as 10 be automatic. Read such description
of the boat that arrived at Baltimore n 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-called Deutsehland-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 man of enormous wealth
and because he had discovered an inexhaustble
source OF supply of the materials required TO
renew his batteries
"The primary battery was the only available
means Of providing power for underwater pro-
pulsion, as the Diesel motor. now In all
submarine vessels as power plant for use on
the surface and for generating electricity for
power to he 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 nc
dynamos with which 20 translate the power pro
duced by motors into electricity. although he had
the essential principle in the electric motors Will
which he turned his propeller.
~And the vessel Is fitted with periscopes