Show SUBMARINE navigation successfully demonstrated REFERENCE was made in these columns a few weeks ago to a submarine torpedo boat constructed at detroit michigan by a chicago man named buker buber on the lot let inot mr bilker made a successful test of his boat and demonstrated that water can be navigated below the surface the trial was made in rouge river five miles from detroit where the water is sixteen feet deep the boat was run up and down and athwart the str eamand amaud made to sink oink ascend and turn around at the will of the pilot the boat is cigar shaped 14 feet high 9 feet wide amidships and constructed of seven inch oak it is propelled by means of side wheels and also lighted by electricity tri city it can be steered at any depth beneath the surface that the water will admit of this boat is tight like unto a dish 11 and the ends thereof are peaked and when those on board are buried tin in the deep no water can hurt them P this is rather an antiquated description of a similar vessel and there have been a great many jeering expressions concerning it because it appears in abridged form in the book of mormon but aukers modern invention ven tion like many other discoveries co veries verles of the latter times are but reproductions of ancient manufactures and illustrations of the adage that there is nothing ney under the sun outi 11 |