| Show from the cleveland herald berald july 8 raising the safe of the atlantic sunk in 1852 this morning we were favored with an interview with E P harrington arrington II of westfield N Y the successful rescuer of the safe who gave the thel lems items of the occurrence mr aff harrington has had three years experience as a diver and during 1 the past winter has been engaged on the miss mississippi 1 in his business associated wih wilh him in this undertaking were martin qui ley aey and charles 0 gardner of new york and ani william newton of detroit they proceeded on the schooner fietcher fletcher to the locality of the steamer atlantic which lies about three miles from the extreme point of long point they arrived there on the of june and that lay day was ivas used in preparation on the mr harrington ring ton encased in wells gowens submarine armor made his first descent thear the armor is made of two lavers layers of canvas and one of india rubber the rubber oc occupying c in the middle it is loose and flexible a and jbf of c course ourse rl r bisted no pressure from in fronton front of the mouth proceeds a tube composed of nine alternate layers of C canvas a arid arld t rid rubber with a copper wire coiled toiled inside to prevent collapse this is is flexible too and being as long iong as the de depth th to which the iver diver goes and the upper endille end being 1 i ng in the open air secures proper respiration the ile aperture is I 1 s ith of an inch inc h in diameter A wr wreck eckline linc had previous previously I 1 been dropped and rested against the side 0 of athe the steamer dressed as above described with leaden shoes and with lead weights attached to his body amounting to pounds with a rope around his waist by which he could be raised to the surface and a check or signal line in his hand the adventurous diver commenced his first descent ile he was governed by the wreck line and struck the promenade deck about forty feet aft the stateroom where the express companas Comp anys safe was which was in the third stateroom aft the wheel hoise on the larboard side ile lie remained on deck but one minute after descending from fifty to seventy feet depending upon the clearness of the air above all is dark to the diver and he is 00 governed verned cn en entirely by beelin feeling the romant romantic le 6 sights fitts recorded by the advertiser are therefore without foundation the greatest caution as to entangling lines must th therefore e be used d and mr harrington went each time outside of the stanchions moving as he advanced ilis wreck line so that with each dive he advanced nearer the stateroom the second dive he was three minutes upon deck the third four fohir the fourth seven on the twentieth he made four dives and the time on deek deck was respectively four fohr minutes 7 do 6 1 jo do and the next or ei eighth six at which time he reached the stateroom previous to this he had all the time been groping ng about and twice was on the hurricane ye deck and once near the main deck the awen ty first he made seven descents times respect lively v ay 4 6 5 3 5 56 6 and 8 minutes and during which he was busy in breaking down the work on the bide side and below it and succeeded at last in getting a line fast to the ring ning in the tha lid of the safe but finding the aperture he had made too small smail to allow the passage of the safe to await till the coming day on the twenty second d the sixteenth dive being the first that day he was on deck seven iiii minutes during which time he sawed through the the casing and pane panel 1 work and tried to break it oft off with his hand but could not the seventeenth entee nth he was on deck nine minutes in which he fastened a line to the wood work and by it the men above pulled it off the eighteenth and last descent he was on deck ele eie eleven ven minutes and during it he succeeded in fastening a line to the end ring of the safe and helping it out of the aperture it was raised to the deck of the schooner the perilous work was done and the adventurous meny meni men upon opening the safe or rather iron chest 28 by 18 19 by 16 inches in siz e found themselves the possessors of about bowin gold and in in bills a small portion of which were useless from the action of the water vater and insolvency of banks and six watches two of which were valuable gold ones the chest contained papers for W which the american express company paid a handsome salvage the atlantic lies careened her larboard s side sije i de being feet and the water on her starboard feet deep the safe was about feet from the surface upon her deck mr II 11 found found a slight sediment of three or four inches in depth ile he could as we ire have hare said above s see ee noth 4 ing and encountered nothing but the wood work chains glass and the chest the water was very chilly and mr nir ILs H s hands were so numb that he could not by mere feeling distinguish glass from wood it was only by the them formers breaking breaking that he knew its material ile he thinks his strength when below not more than one tenth that he has when in the open air he suffered but little from pressure except two or three times when such was the rush of blood to the head that he says he saw 1 bria brig bricht lit flashes in his helmet like electric sparks |
