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Show HOLLAND SUBMARINE BOAT FIFTEEN HOURS UNDER WATER TUT WAI MADE TO SATISFY GOVERNMENT OF THE MERITS OF THE tOAT. Air Tataha Wars Tapped fi4 Math Mr ntmf 'mtlil llatf M Md If trmmmrr - o Hv1 r.lTU ttrrl hf lt Craw. Tha II ol In nl knbmarlDa butt Fultoo wu iultnitTKrO In Nw York hrbfr HftturcUy Dldht, remH.D.ntf nnrtrr wftter mora thin flfUrn hours. On homrA Ui bortt wer Rr Adtntral IrOffi and Mitutcnftnt Arllmr MacAr-thar, MacAr-thar, who warethrrt In the Intcreat of tha fOTitrnmeol to thai tha tat waa fair od, an.l that no air waa aupplinl throutfh tulc. Afur havlna; bean unilnr walrr continuously for mora llmo flttrm hour, tha little craft arova to the aurfaca at 10:30 Sunday forenoon, with all on board well, and atirpriacd to find a flarea Tha taut of the KulUin'a aUylnjf qualltlaa waa Mffhly aatlafactory, not only to tha olllw rn that built her, and tha naval ufllclala prrnent, but to thoaa ; who went to tha bottom In tha boat. They report there waa not tha allghteat dlaoomfort to them during thalr aub-meralon. aub-meralon. Captain Cahla of tha Holland company, com-pany, who waa In command, aald that tha boat could have remained down for three uiontha If th-sra waa food enough on board. Menu hereof the crew aay they aipert-eneed aipert-eneed -no difficulty In breathing, and that tha air waa all that could be da, Ired.and much purer aud mora health y than In an ordinary cluavd room in which ara aeveral peraona. Kvery piece of machinery worked to perfection perfec-tion during the nljflit, Tha men ate two tneele while under tten water and enjoyed thrra. Moat of them obtained three or four hourV aleep. liear Admiral Ixjwa aald: "Whan wa went down I arwltd Captain Cable In making an Inapt-cllon of tha ahlp Then I retired, while tha crew played tarda and rrad, Kvery few hourel waa awakened and made Inapectlone of tha rondltton. Karly In tha woriilog Captain Cap-tain Cable called my attention to the preuuire gauge which Indira tea tha depth. It allowed that wa were lower In the wetttr than at hltfh tide at night, when we auhmergvd. There waa noth ing to aliow ua why It waa, but a little while later I noticed that the water, aaweaaw It through the head-llghta, waa tery dirty and 1 imagined that a torn) waa blowing. There) waa no rock or roll of the veuel to Indicate what waa going on.1 Continuing, Krar Admiral Lowe aald that the air In the bow waa aa clean and aa pure aa In a hotiae or lo the cabin of a yacht ".Not once,1 added the admiral, "did I notice, any algn of bad air, gaa or othrr Impurity, Con aide ring that we did not draw on the tank at all I consider thla la wonderful. wonder-ful. It up-veia all the theorlaa of the phynlclaua aud aclentlata, who tell ua that what we did waa Impoaalhle. I waa critical all night and nothlug ea-caprd ea-caprd mi." The longeal time that any aiihtnarlne ItoMt hnd brvn under water heretofore In tjie I' ii lied huta waa three houra. lilvuU'iiant Harry Colwell kept the Holland auhinergrd that long In the I'olomac laat year. The Fulton bad never been undfr longer than about twenty-five minute, when aha made a two-mile run auhuierged a few weak a |