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\ v *5 . aw ' St •k ' ’■?l. r. Mt. : ■ 4;ii - I THE HOLLAND SUBMARINE BOAT. 1 •V Ono of th« Most Wonderful Pieces of Naval Architect- ure in Existence. ^ ing hiiowea above the ant face except her turret and her flag. A. whistle an nounced that she was ready to dive, and the tnga backed away to .give her aea room. Before the dive Mr. Hol land sert the little whaleback along the surface for a 200-yard run. She developed a speed of eight knots. Her nose was pointed oat toward the Sand Hook light. Assured that everything was in At the present tiihe engines of war are exciting, unusual interest in the United States, and among those which seem to have great possibilities is the latest example of the Holland submar ine torpedo boats, which was lately launched and has been put through a “ifsaiyssi m i l-W' A W‘\ / >#; HOLLAND, THE INVEKTOR. annes of trials in the waters near New York. This boat is the sixth one invent ed and built by John P. Holland,of New York, since 1H77. The tirst of these vessels was only 11 feet long; the sec ond, built in lH7i), was Jl feet long and <i feet in diameter; the third was a 1 workimr model, H»J feet long by 3d inches in diameter; the fourth w as the Zalinski boat, built at Fort Lafayette, and 40 feet long by eight feet in di ameter; the fifth is now under con struction for the (Government at Bal timore, Md., and is H5 feet long by Hi feet in diameter, and lias 108 tons displacement; and the sixth is the one here illustrated. This last heat is 53 feet long, 10 feet 3 inches in diameter, aiul has a displacement of 75 tons. The hull, as will ho seen from the illustration, is cigar-shaped and is made of J-iuoh to ;!-inch steel plates riveted to steel frames. The top is flat, with two hatches and a central telescopic e.mning tower 2 feet in di ameter and three feet high. Hteering is done by two sets of rudders, one vertical for steering on the surface and the other horizontal for regulating the depth of submersion. There are three sources of power for propelling the boat above and below the water, expelling water, discharging torpedoes and dynuuyue guns, and lighting the •hip internally and externally, name- sed air. gasoline and elec coming to the surface three times at intervals of one minute each. The Holland did more than that. Hhe started from the black buoy at the eastern end of Baritan Bay, about four miles southwest of the Old Or chard light, ran westward toward the Jersey shore for a mile, showed her i conning tower on the surface for aliout thirty seconds, ran another mile under water, came np again, turned around, and weet back to the black buoy in the same w ay. Aided by her automatic steering gear, she hold her conrso perfectly be neath the surface. The average depth of water over her' conning tower dur ing her submerged trips was about fif teen feet. In her surface experiments j after the diving trials were over she obeyed her helm more quickly than she ever did before. She did not have to stop and take on more ballast as she has in all her previous trials. This difficulty was overcome by using her compensating tanks. There was no delay. Hhe went at her work promptly and behaved as though she were on dress parade. Her gun experiments were as suc cessful as her evolutions in the water. Hhe expelled a dummy torpedo from her submarine tube without difliculty and hurled n 75-pouud wooden pro jectile 400 yards through the air from her forward dynamite gun, using com pressed air in both instances. Baritan Bay was chosen by Mr. Holland for the trials because it was INTEBJOB OF THE HOLLAED BOAT. working order, Mr. Holland slowed the little boat np and pointed her nose in toward the Navesink Highland, which loomed up smoky and indistinct on the Jersey shore four miles to the southward. Then, at right angles with the course he told the naval offi cer he would take, which lay from the black buoy almost due westward to the Great Bed Lights, at the head of the dredged channel he sent the Hol land forward at full speed and forced her fin rudder down. The Holland reluctantly buried her blunt nose and tilted up her tail until the blades of her screw were visible as they churned the water. She ran along in this fashion for fifty yards, and then suddenly swinging about and pointing her nose toward the Great Beds light she slipped out of sight. There were a few ripples aft and a little. patch of foam, but that was all. Two hundred yards from where she disappeared the Holland came up like a huge porpoise and a most immediately vanished from view again. Every man on the two tugs took out his watch and counted the minutes she was under. Many of them had never seen a submarine boat perform before and were a little skeptical as to which w;U be used in the gnu in actual service, but its weight was about 100 pounds leas. Immediately after this trial the submarine torpedo tube was successfully tested. Mr. Holland was taken aboard the tag which carried the naval experts and was questioned by Lientenant- Commuider Sperry and his associates. He explained to them that the reason the Holland could not be seen when she rose to the surface was that she poked only her nose and conning tower np, and the sea was so rough that so small a part of her was not distin guishable two miles away. ‘•If you managed to keep ont of onr sight whenwewere scanning the whole surface of the bay for yon, I don’t know what a hostile battleship that did not saspect yon were after her would do,” one of the men remarked. The water in which Mr. Holland dived had an average depth of thirty feet. The last time she was under she bumped along the bottom for half a mile, and her crew could hear the oys ter shells scraping against her iron sides. When the Holland is equipped for war it will not be necessary for her to take any metal ballast on board at all. The weight of her projectiles will make her heavy enough, and she will be operated solely by her ballast tanks. FLAG OF THE PRESIDENT. The New Deilcn Which Mr. McKinley lias Chosen. By direction of the Secretary of War, paragraphs descriptive of the flag of the President have been added to the Army regulations. The President’s TUT - i~ , 4-. which it would »ir, without which it would Je to operate the boat an compressei be impossil der the sea The most important use of the com pressed air is for the respiration of the crew, The boat is quickly sub merged by admitting sea water to a aeries of steel tanks connected with the.compressed air system. To bring the boat to the surface air is forced into the water tanks under high pres sure, aud as the water is expelled the boat rises swiftly to the surface. The air tanks have been tested to stand a pressure of 3000 pounds per square inch, and are calculated to bold out for a submergence lasting ten hours, but if the supply should fail after nine or ten hours, the tanks can he replenished by means of a tube pro j jeeted to the surface as a suction pipe. The armament of the boat consists first of an aerial torpedo ejector, at the bow, capable of throwing to a distance of one mile, a projectile weighing 180 pounds and carrying 100 pounds of a high explosive. Immedia tely under this is an expulsive tube for a W hitehead torpedo, with the usual charge of 200 pounds of gun cotton; and pointing to the rear is a dynamite gun capable of throwing 100 pounds of a high explosive 100 yards or more through the water. When equipped for service the “Holland” would carry three Whitehead tor pedoes, six shots for the forward gun and Jive for the after gun. The most important test the boat has undergone was when she made four dives of a mile each, went through a series of surface evolutions, tried her aerial dynamite gun and expelled a dummy torpedo from her submarine tube in Baritan Bay. The experiments were conducted for the benefit of the board appointed by the Secretary of the Navy to witness the Holland's trials and report upon her efficiency. Lieutenant-Commander <’. S. Sperry, Chief of the Bureau of Equipment; Lieutenant-Commander Swift, Chief of the Bureau of Ordi nance, and Lieutenant Bock, Naval Constructor, who comprise that board, witnessed them from a tug provided by the Holland Company. Elihn B. Frost, Treasurer of the Holland Com pany; ex-Assistant Secretary of the Navy McAdoo; General Murtwaygo, the special agent of the Czar in this country; Lewis Nixon, who construct ed the Holland at Elizabeth, and Cap tain C. A. Morris, Superintendent of the Holland Company, were on the same tug. General Murtwaygo came from Washington for the special pur pose of witnessing the experiments, and after they were over he told Mr. Holland that his boat was the most wonderful piece of naval architecture in existence. The programme arranged before band was that the Holland should make a two-mile run under water» m THE PRESIDENT 8 FLAG. *rr' BOW VIEW OF THE “HOLLAND.” (The mouth of the aerial torpedo gun, the superstructure deck and conning tower are shown.) comparatively free from the harbor boats that pestered him so much in his experiments in Staten Island Sound, and a depth of water sufficient to develop the full diving powers of the little whaleback could be had. 'I he Holland behaved perfectly in the seaway. She ploughed right through the waves, which tumbled the two tugs about and dashed clouds of spray up to their pilot houses like a water- soaked log. The waves simply rolled over her, alternately submerging her completely and exposing her sides until the lights in her broadside windows could be seen. Her superstructure and about twelve inches of her body was out of water. The Stars and Stripes, on a four-foot staff, floated aft. She had about 3000 pounds of pig-lead ballast inside of her, and her tanks fore and aft, which have capacity for about nine aud a half tons of water, were full. Her trimming tank amidships was empty. Her crew con sisted of Mr. Holland, who was in the conning tower; F. T. Cable, the elec- AT HIGH ABOVE STEED WITH CONNINO TOWER SURFACE FOR OBSERVATION. trician; Henry Meyer, his assistant; Nathaniel Addison, the engineer; W. W. Scott, the draughtsman, and W. F. C. Niudemann, the gunner. Mr. Holland clamped down the lid of her conning tower and filled her trimming tank. The little whaleback settled until her decks were awash and noth- the Holland's ability to go down and come up as she pleased. The nervous ones were reassured after a wait of twelve minutes by seeing her appear again, but she disappeared instantly, and for fifty long minutes not a glimpse of her was caught by any one on either tug. The most confident of the spec tators were discouraged long before the fifty minutes was over. Exactly ono hoar and two minutes after she had made her first diva and about fifty minutes after her second appearance above the water the Hol land was discovered three-quarters of a mile away from the tugs. Her flag was gone, and all that could be seen of her was her conning tower which looked like an oyster can as it bobbed up and down in the dis tance. The crowds on the tugs gave a yell of delight, and the tugs’ whistles joined in the chorus. The boat, grow ing bigger aud bigger, ploughed through the water in the direction of the black buoy at eight knot speed. She made several quick turns to the right and to the left on the way, which indicated that her steering gear was in perfect working order. Finally she stopped and summoned the tugs along side by three shrill whistles. It was too rough to open the lid of the con ning tower, so Mr. Holland blew his whistle twice more to let the men on the tugs know that he was ready to try his dynamite gun and his torpedo tube. The aerial dynamite gun was tried first. A wooden projectile eight inches in diameter, half an inch smaller than the bore of the gun, was fitted into the breech and expelled from the gnn by a compressed air charge of 600 pounds pressure to the sqnare inch. The projectile was hurled through the air for 400 yards at an angle of about sixteen degrees. Its flight was rapid, but it could be seen. A powder charge sufficient to increase the pressure at the muzzle of the gun to 2000 pounds to the square inch would have been used if the breech of the gnn had not been defective. The projectile was of the same shape as the dynamite "fesU flag shall be of scarlet banting, measur ing thirteen feet fly and eight feet hoist. In each of the four corners shall be a five-pointed white star, with one point upward. In the center of the flag shall be a large fifth star, also of five points, which lie in the circum ference of an imaginary circle of two feet niae inches radins. Inside of the star thus outlined is a parallel star, separated from it by a band of white two inches wide. This inner star forms determined by the State Department, the device being located by placing the middle point of the line dividing the chief from the palewise of the escntcheon upon the point of intersec tion of the diagonals of the flag and tbift coinciding with the corner of the large center star. 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This may be done by straining it into receptacles kept for the purpose. The slight scum left clinging to the dish may be cut by throwing into the water poured in it half a handful of washing soda or a little potash dissolved in boiling wa ter. With a good whisk kept for the purpose and this strong alkali the dish may be quickly scrubbed clean, and the sink in which it is washed will be cleaned at the same time. The “poor” manager “pans” or fries her chops, but she seldom utilizes the brown drippings or scraps of the Ureat mnl fW left,' although this will make a good gravy. She will, in nine cases out of ten, allow it to burn in the pan, in which case it is far harder to wash the pan than it would be if the gravy had been made. It may not be desirable to serve the gravy with the chops for this is hardly rich enough, but it will be a proper basis for the making of a nice tomato sauce. 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