Show Submarine Nilvgation Speaking of the Plungerth new yes set now being built for the navy that III gu unlr the water as well eo on top of It Captl1u1 II Drnlltord of the navy Paid the other day It to I a mlo take to 811110 that Jules Vera was the Innntor ef uhmorlre navigation A man of the name of lJshncll a raduote of Yale college and a real dent of Connecticut built a submarine hoat that renderNI practIcal service luring the nollillonary war Ile VU also the Inventor I nr the torpedo end his achleHmonl are described In a poem written 100 yerars ego entitled The Battle or the Hess One day while the British were occupyIng oc-cupyIng New York and their 1It wr anchored In New York harbor an armY sergeant of the name of Lear got Inld ot l1uohnell submarine boat Vhleh wa built the ahn o r n h and navigated all round under theater the-ater among the rlUsh chips He propelled himself with paddle wheels that were worked by crank wheol feet BO that his arms were free When he got In sight of the fleet he sank his crnft and worked along under water with tho Intention of attaching tl clockwork torpedo to the hull of the lljghlp a tremendous big frigate but when he got alongside the bottom ho found she was copper sheathed lie did not have the proper tools to cut the copper away ro be had to work with a wooden screw He penetrated the shenthlnT but struck a rivet or nme other piece of Iron and basal to give It up When he got clear he let his boat rise to the surface of the water and paddled back to the patriot line In safety Bad luck alvays teemed to follow Bushnell While the Urlllsh fleet was In Delaware river off Philadelphia he jigged I a lot of torpedoes nnd set them afloat In the water down stream But without his knowing itl the ships had been hauled up to the docks and he missed them Some small merchant vessels that were enohor1 In the river were destroyed but the fleet escaped The event was = however because It < lmonstraterl the practlcnl alu of It torpeo There In a man out In Oshkosh WI continued Captain Bradford who hire been working for year on the problem of ubmarln navIgation nnd has built eral successful boat lIe had a rredcor some thirty years ago liho was equally successful and built n curious craft In which he nllod all round undpr Ihe watr and often took hU friends with him Another An-other man at Detroit some years ago built n submarine boat that seemed to be perfectly successful lie wa so much encouraged that he made a fffi cr or hut torot the prlnclll tire t the pressure of the Water Incre rnNdly as i the size of a boat and the depth to which It Is I ubmerged In eno and his big Wall not belnT Xual enough When he sunk her to the bottom collapsed sand be Va drowndChlengo Hecord |