Show i HOLLAND SUBMARINE BOAT FIFTEEN HOURS UNDER WATER TEST WAS MADE TO SATISFY government GOVERN HENl of THE MERITS OF THE BOAT BOAL air tanks tank abere not ot topped cirii d and a mart longer lancer sty stay could lime aleto made 51 do it if Necca gary no hatt effects suffered buffered by tile crew the holland olland rt submarine boat was submerged lo in new york balbar saturday night remaining demaid mg nude noder water more than fifteen hours C ct board tho the boat were rear admira lowe loire and lieutenant arthur macar thur who were there in the la interest terest of 0 the government to see sea that tile the was a fair one and that no air was as supplied through tubes after blavin been under water continuously for mors more than fifteen hours the little craft arose to tile the surface at 1030 sunday forenoon with walli all OR on board well and surprised to find a fierce storm raging the test of tho the Ful rul tons lita qualities was highly satisfactory not only to the officers that built her anil and the naval natal officials present but to those who went to tile the bottom in the bolt boat they report there was not the sll slightest discomfort to them during their aul emersion emersion mer sion sion captain cable of the holland company am who was in command that the boat could have remained down for three months it if there was food enough on board the crew say they experienced no difficulty in breathing and that the air was all that could be de dc sirell aire dand and much purer and more healthy than in an ordinary closed room in which aro are several persons every piece of 0 machinery to perfection during tile the night the men ate two meals while under the water and enjoyed them most of them obtained three or four hours sleep rear hear admiral lowe said when we went down I 1 assisted captain cable in making an inspection of 0 the ship then I 1 retired while the crew played cards and read every few hours I 1 was awakened and made inspections of the condition early in the morning captain cable called my attention to the pressure gauge which indicates the depth I 1 10 showed that we were lower in the water than at high bih bi h tide at night when we submerged there was nothing to show us why it was but a little while later I 1 noticed that the water as we saw it through the headlights head bead lights was very dirty and I 1 imagined that a storm was blowing there was no rock or roll ot of the vessel to indicate I 1 what was going on continuing rear pear admiral lowe said that the air in the bow was as clean and as pure as in a house or in the cabin of a yacht not ot once added the admiral daiil I 1 notice any sign of bad air gas or other impurity considering si that we did not draw on the tanks at all I 1 consider this is wonderful it upsets all the theories of the physicians and who tell us ns that what we did was impo impossible sible I 1 was critical all night and nothing escaped rue me tile the longest time that tha t any submarine bout boat halt had been under water here heretofore tolore in in the united states was three hours lieutenant harry colwell kept the holland bubmer submerged ed that long in tile potomac last year the fulton had bad never been under longer than about twenty five dve minutes when she made IL a two mile run submerged a few weeks rg ago |