Show ENGINEER PLAN FOR RAISING THE MAINE Washington July Jul K F Ot the thO engineer who bridged the Hudson nt sit anti dro dm the Ih railroad fc l under un rier dr the tho North river liver today laid before Acting t tlc See er of War Oliver hl hI his plan pion for raising the Malna from front tho the mud of Hn lie vane harbor Kecy Secy Oliver and Md Gen William WilliamH H if nixby chief of engineers il 11 to refer lefer the tho plan to ui IW army board of engineers this newest plan Ii is I based upon n a system of pneumatic caissons No Noam divers am arc used us Mid and the aye 8 tom lOIn Ii is put Iut completely aside Th The meth method od oil proposed oed Is II to tho tha Maine in InA int t A k t r n IL cradle of on cables bit x II mid and Ht tilt her completely out of the water where whore n a complete Inspection of or her hull willbe will willbo willbo bo be possible hilt tho the ship Is Id suspended l above water Mr declares that she shean cnn can an bo be repaired rep as all lead readily 11 as WI If she vero In III dry dock and after being 1 rn pa iii launched U o hod from the Iho cable can l leave Havana harbor under her own on steam Thin This Is la I said to bo be the first plan plant yet t proposed which would present the hI to n a naval naIl 1 board boar In precisely the same lumo condition con aa as she sunk lunk on th the night of Fob 15 1899 To raise her hr with avIth construction experts exp soy any n would mean man mean to 10 work upon h her r hull un tin under lInder tinder der water rind arid to float her with com compressed compressed pressed air would conditions bt h ht t decks Mr expressed od the tho opinion to Mr Oliver Oller that the tho Job could be he bedone bedone done In hl three months Iloth Hoth Mr Oliver Oller and Oen Gen examined the plan In minute detail and spout about two tuo hours going over Oer It II Mr was wn assured an as a ono one condition m that ho U Uan an army l board oard pass pa l favorably on tho the project his hi patents In tho the apparatus would be bo protected |