Show JOHN ARBUCKLE 9 S NEW FAME the new way of raising ships by compressed nir air which had its latest successful demonstration recently has brought the na naino in e of the old multimillionaire multi millionaire coffee merchant john arbuckle into additional prominence tho the naval collier nero struck on a reef while g gone oj ng out of narra gaudett bay professional wreckers of long exper if df lence tried to haul the big boat off but in j I 1 vain they could coul denot not patch her hull and p pump 4 the water out which used to be the only way before f ore arbuckle Ar bucklo entered the field of raising submerged I 1 ships finally the government sought his aid and agreed to pay his price the hull was sealed and made ade air tight except where a great gash had been torn in her side by the jagged rocks of the reef big compre compressors sors pumped an fn m the air and forced the water out by careful calculation a sufficient clent pressure or of air was maintained to keep the water from entering again she floated was towed to newport and soon boon will be be repaired and be as seaworthy as ever curiously enough john arbuckle does not claim to know anything much about raising ships from the bottom of the sea he leaves that to his engineers gi he is a business man and makes the contracts they do the technical practical part of the work but bul when this new scheme for rescuing ships chips was brought tp to him for financial backing some time ago he be was keen A enough to see immediately that it was practicable cable and to put it to a thorough test without having any misgivings as to the result john arbuckle is about 75 years old now he is one af pf the greatest coffee merchants in the world also he is a power in the sugar trade his name Is familiar to as many millions of people almost as rockefellers Rocke fellers yet the public knows less about his personality than it does about that of some 10 a year man who diligently seeks to get his name into print |