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unpleasant ef. vv v. I 9 1 mat Is a Raddatz Has a well curb, got his coat and ott, nd after a good deal of trouble ascertained that he had been struck in the stomach by a spent bullet. There was a red mark about the size of eilrpr mm leets. Nearly equally important end vital to the practical success of the boat arc the devices employed for raising and sinking it, controlling its equilibrium and maintaining it constantly on a Success 2 The dollar, and he had simply bad the breath knocked out of him.

It took ten minutes to convince him of this fact, as he was bound to die the death BUILT OF ARMORPLATE AND CIGAR-SHAPED of a hero, but when life refused to rie War, throw up its job he got up and shook himself and rode back to camp on the wagon. The rank and file never for level Keel. All explanation of this machinery is as carefully preserved in secrecy as that by which the air is produced and kept pure, although Inventor Raddatz insists that no use has been made for this purpose of the old principles of taking in and pumping out water when it is desired to sinkor raise the craft. The machinery is capable of controlling it at any depth desired, limited only by the strength of the shell necessary to withstand the pressure of the water. The equilibrium is so perfectly regulated and adjusted By E.

LEWIS. gave an officer for such a slip. Before TO Descend or Rise on an Even Keel, and Has Traveled Entirely Under Water for Five Consecutive Hours. iiigufc uie company poet had written a song entitled "Nellie's Broken Heart," and a hundred men were Kinmn (Copyright. 1898.) sr.

sr'. s. Inside of 30 days we had suntr The lieu AX tenant out of service, and years later, when he was running for a political Z7 Uy mat jur. raddatz was able to maintain u.nIK me nrst year of the war the our number. There was a nerlo.1 h.

I IS Pm ft nn on Kin.t I I r.n.nn.,,l. -M office, the incident held him up to ridicule and defeat. nally. Its entire weight, with its complicated machinery, is 30 tons, of which eight tons form the weight of the shell alone. At the bow is a heavy steel spur icciiy itrvei I vuiumaimcr ui every leueral regiment keel for nearly anvlenirth of timp.

TIip felt it to be his solemn waiting, with overstrained men speak- ing I l4 1 VV1C11C1 wuisncrs find tnivmia A Methodical Danker. After the first 6ix months of war ittlo ouuncn mat at a speciued auuresses on every possibl denth munging or backing. We were hoping yiujeuuiig uve ieet irom the boat proper and braced within with i'v iuuo Aicuuii tJ 21 II I vvvMoivu. lie tiuii I K'lll rifnca confederate money was of so liftl 6n. wic uugie anu have it over with nour, the variation from nn nbsolufplv rade.

when SO value at the front that rolls of it were Heavy steel bars and truss work. At the stern are the rudder and two-bladed Ever since the experiments of the Dutch physician, Cornelius Drebbel early in the eighteenth century, repeated attempts have been made by individuals and by various governments to produce a successful submarine craft. Of all the nations the United States has been least active in this interesting department of maritime science, although the comparatively recent policy of strengthening the navy has led to increased activity among inventors, the aim being to produce a war craft capable of bringing about the destruction of the modern armored battle shin. a viien tne members of the band began climbing up on the roof of kicked out of camp. On one of the last level keel was less than one-fourth of nnd we had them while waiting in line an Int' of battle.

Our colonel chucked Runker propeller, in no way differing from sim. Automatic appliances are made use I iUI, Lexington, Gen. Washington and ilar appliances in the equipment of the ox whenever they may be applied to ad- ctucr patriotic things at us until ordinary surface craft. to our right. The shed was thatched raids "I1 the Shenandoah valley I with straw, and the elevation would one of lartJr of five who caP give spectators a splendid view of tured a 6tate bank- There was no the charge.

The "tooters" had just got about Jt. our troops had fairly seated on the thatch when tle Possssion up and down for ten miles. vantage. One of the most interesting ot VCJy tired of his talk, and there The boat is furnished with i. dependent sets of inachinerv.

on fnr ui mese is an automatic trip attached "as universal rejoicing when the end to the bottom of the boat to prevent finnlly came. My regiment was ordered surface and the other for submarine oil danger of sinking1 bevond a Drede out one day for a reconnoissance. There confederates opened on us with a single banker who was a man of CO, prob-gun. The first shot went over our ahy nntlclPnted a visit, as he stood on heads, but the second struck th steps of the buildinc and bfiwed to use. me surface machinerv cnic ..11 1 tne last six months, the at tention of the public and termined depth and to iusure the safe return of the boat to the surface in ensp Ui a "umea not air engine of 50-horse wasn a confederate within 13 miles of the brigade camp, and most of power, with, cylinder 9 inches in di Just at the eaves and went through it 1,8 ns vve m1e UP and dismounted." We with a crash.

As it passed out haA been ordered to raid the bank. has' centered on two new submarine of accident. With this trio in r.rucMcnl us Knew that it was simply a march to ameter and 18 inches in stroke, having far side it drew a wisp of straw after lnouSh hore was 110 upe of finding working order it 3s impossible to sink tcst our endurance, but before we left the craft below the safetv point eithpr camP the colonel sot off that snmn uoais, me Holland and Lake, named after the inventors, which have been launched at the Atlantic seaboard, final "ia.uiUum pision speed of about 1,000 feet a minute, driving the propeller at It ten feet long, gold or silver. When we had stated our oy accident or Intention. The device speech.

were e-oinrr to moot tlm hose band men didn't wait fir tpceu 01 aoout 350 revolutions. Even errand the banker calmly replied: "Gentlemen, I have taken no part in it 1 1 ulcn are 6tlJ1 pen(jnff It wiI uiiro snot. one uttere.1 consists of a heavy weight attached to cnemy. he said, and he looked for every the keel, with electrical connection run- mnn to fiffht to the last jrasn and t.hpn matter of general surprise, how and took a roll down the sb, this war, and I cannot feel that you ai mis comparatively high piston speed the engine runs without excessive jar or jerk. The primary source of power ning to the gauge la the pilct house by die with a hip-hurrah! for the glorious ucu 1V oecomes known that will aid your cause by robbincr my 10 me ground and the sisht set "ijilu tne aep-11 at all times is ree-is- uul siar-spangicd banner.

Awnv wn ucveiopea Dy wis engine depends nnrm tered in feet. At a point on the trance, marched, singing "John Brown" nrul a fi.ol 1 3,000 men to laughing. The troopers in bnnk" line waved their hats nnd yelled, and We insisted that we had been sent faces which had been as pale as death or ne Purpose and must obey orders, wiiiie work on these two boats has been slowly going on, it has remained for a young western inventor to demonstrate on the fresh water of a land-locked iuci vi. uiuinary Kerosene or coal oil. at present set at 250 feet, is an electric- to yield up our lives, and after uor suDmanne use a set of eleetHe 1 machinery and storage batteries Is mn.

and he said: ai contact which esiablishes the elec- nDout two hours reached a cross-roads, trlcal circuit. This, in return, unlatches Seoufs had reported the enemv nwrnt man after mnn eim-v jacuiisin iaKe, remote from maritime vided, the motor developing about ten- "I have a large amount of confeder pun a plump!" and got up and mad. for the rear. We were nil ve Jn.io the trip, and the boat, relieved of the unild and pave his force at 10,000. nurse power at full speed and deny uu navai activity and interest, that a practical solution of the problem of extra weight, returns rapidly to the ing for power upon the chemical en ing, and I saw broad crins on iho nfit.

ate money in the vaults, and if you must have it I hope you will do business' in the regular way. I have had a sys cers races, when we got the bujle call Buyiiifst oouot in our colonel's mind that he could lick 10,000 men with his 1,000, and we were speedily drawn up in battle array. As we got mc were over tne wnii nn.t surrace. within 5 feet of the danger point is a sliding contact which sounds alarm before the trip is set off and warns the operators of the ergy stored In the accumulators, which, in turn, depend upon the hot-air engine for their life. The latter depends upon kerosene oil for the power dpvplmWi tem for the last 30 years, and I do not like to depart from it.

Just fill out ross the meadow before the chuckles cheeks nnd I will honor them" were suppressed and men beiran to danger. If the boat is then under con by it, the charging of the a-jenmn In Jench their teeth and think nf iho We fell into the spirit of the thing at trol, the descent is easily arrested. ters being accomplished when the bruit serious work in hand. The fiirl.ti.u once. he corporal made onf.

elinet ingress and eness are obtained iui una savacre when we irnt.nt.it for $1,000,000 and slimed it "Abraham in 10 une we neam a mule braying on the cross-roads, and the colonel rode out in front of the line, waved his sword three times around his head, and began: "Soldiers and patriots! The enemy is upon us! He outnumbers us ten to one and is fighting on his own soil, but through a door in die top of the r.ilnt, is at the surface. The storage capacity of the accumulators is sufficient for a cruise of about ten hours benpulh ti, I believe it was the onlv instanee In Lincoln." When he got his money it house, the 11 1 cuumarine navigation is already within reach. Richard Raddatz is the name of the inventor of this remarkable craft which has stood all tests of practical navigation and control under the water within such limits as are imposed, principally by the strength of the shell and power of the machinery. lie is a mechanical engineer in the employ of the most extensive foundry and engine manufacturing company in the west located at Milwaukee. His experiments in submarine navigation have extended over a period of 12 years, conducted, principally, at Oshkosh, or Lake Winnebago, a sheet of water about 40 miles long.

With infinite uie wnoie war where a body of cavalry made what might be called "laugh- surface. Thus it will hp took him a quarter of nn hour to carry It out and strap It on his horse. I signed a check for $250,000 with the name of IT. S. Grant, nnd the three primary source of all power ug charge; within admitting four persons besides the engineer at the stern.

All the movements of the craft are controlled froia the turret. It contains ten bull's- upon the amount of oil carried. The advantage of coal oil for fupl l.v 1 others took the names of Sherman, Sheridan nnd Thomas. Every dollar eye apertures through which the cpera- me iact that it can be easily obtain. 101 is noie to see in any horizontal in aimost any part of the world.

In the bank was passed over, and the The electrical submarine motors lmvn cheeks ns carefully filed as in ordinary business, nnd when wo were ready to go the banker said: propelled the craft when entirely submerged at a speed of 2 miles an hour "This winds up the bank's affairs. and I thank you for your consideration direction and also, upward and downward. At this poin are the indicators, gauges, valves, levers, signals, and appliances used in the operation of the boat and the regulation of the air supply. They cover the walls of the turret in one confused mass, all within easy reach and in constant view of the operator. Here also are the tiller which controls the rudder at the stern and nnd bid you good day." Forty Men and Iloa-.

The enemy had an outpost at a house half a mile in our front, and were so annoying with their sharpshooters mat it was deteremmed to capture the an array of electrical connections running to every part of the boat. Interior illumination is supplied bv in place and hold it long enough to burn down he house. Tort of us were de candescent lights and a search -bVLt tailed under command of a captain, and one dark night we set out through has also been employed with some success for lighting the boat's course, although it is not included in the craft's the woods. The obiect wna in trot na jj equipment at the present time. Finally, in addition to the appliances which close as possible before we rushed, and presently we were down on hand and knees and following the captain in single file.

livery two or three minutes the line halted to peer and listen, and we were a irood hour in emwiinw pertain only to submarine navigation, are the compasses, thermometers ami i barometers commonly used at sea. THE RADDATZ SUBMARINE BOAT. lne cost of operatintr the Raddatz in lie. ire imuiiy got into a path uoat has also been closely determined for a period of five hours, during which by experiments made last autumn. nu cominunieation With the snrfnre The enr'n i was fmmrl its run at an TZ en- expense of from two to three cents boat at ZS pel'ea the Bubmarine navigation costing boat at a speed of 14 miles an hour from three to six cents per mile The I4 h0urs' "ttoagh air supply is furnished 'at I cost of mie 01 surface I 9-, f.fcT,c which we knew must lead to the house, and were crowding forward to get new orders from the captain, when we got a scare to lift us out of our boots.

There was a big hog sleeping on the path, and ns the captain got within three or four feet of him the animal woke up. As he lay head off to us, and as he was also a confederate hog, he came at us full tilt. He struck the officer and knocked him ten feet away, and before lie got to the rear of our line he had upset a down men and started a panic. Nobody knew oxnot. patience the inventor has mastered one by one, the difficult problems involved in a practical submarine vessel, and late in the summer of 1897, final experiments demonstrated that his boat was a thorough success, capable of meeting every requirement demanded for safe and controllable navigation beneath the surface.

This assertion does not rest for its authority on the word of the inventor. What the Raddatz boat is and what may be claimed for it rests upon what it has already accomplished. Careful investigation reveals it to be an accomplished fact. It is to be wondered why this inven- lm lilUCIlllliei V. 17, 1 I find tt n.ailAnl 1 to be understood in this connection that for submarine work in is the surface speed is capable of in- can bereturneil crease to any practical limit by the ex A in 17 seconds.

Under normal conditions peuuuure or additional power: ia-p. 11 sinus to its determined depth be- wise the speed below the neain tne waves at a rate of about ten nmueu oniy by similar conditions, al 4l A 1 feet a second. ROUTED BT A HOG. ly what sort of nn enemy he had to deal with, and ns the confederates began blazing away in their alarm the 40 of luougu tne very fact of the medium in The early trials of the present Rad U1 Jiicuara itaddatz, which has datz boat were accompanied with fre wmcn the boat operates imposes a probable limit of ten miles an hour on in our veins runs the blood of the men who died to create this republic, and gone so far toward solving one of th most important problems of naviW us turned tail and did some tall running Into the federal lines. The can- suDmanne navigation for successful In tion, has not been brought more quick- tain was a Jong way behind us.

nml we win win a great victory or die." We cheered and flung up our caps quent repetition of all the perils and discouraging accidents which characterized the experiments made with the first craft. Its initial season afloat was Biiure worK. in other words, when there is danger of running aground or mm uie coionel was radiant as he con the first thing he did was to prefer charges against every man. If he could Hit by a Spent Ball. ome lb or 20 cf us, under command of a M-cond lieuter.ant, had been sent out with a wagon after forage.

We had loaded the wagon with corn and hay and were ready to drive off, when a bushwhacker who was hidden behind a haystack fired upon the officer. It was a long Fhot, and probably fired in bravado, but the lieutenant tinued; til encountering other obstacles the speed of the craft depends upon the means afforded and the ability of the operator nave had Ins way every man would have been before a court-martial, hut one long succession of mishaps. When all its complicated machinery seemed theoretically and mcchanical.lv correet. ii we nve to see the sun go down 1VP klinll V. fi 11 we Ian, men our ns his papers reached the colonel the iu ee mrougu tne water ahpnrl nf 1 ho I ivm 1 1 names will be inscribed on the tablets oimicu jiimseu inside the latter nullified them with the ana avoid any dangerous obstacles uuu iorciDiy to the attention of the engineering world.

Various reasons are involved in the answer. Mr. Raddatz has always felt assured of the ultimate realization of his object and to this end he has progressed slowly and deliberately, performing almost all the w-ork of construction alone. The principles which he has applied to the operation of the craft are his own and diflerent from those followed by other inventors. Up to the present time he liao niiH.l 1 ot time forevermore! Remember Lex ington! Remember Bunker Hill! Ite wmcn may lie In his path i i.ive jog.

jH we ran to him and lifter! armored turret and made ready for his first descent. The air appliances were started and the propelling mechanism began to move. But scarcely had thp member those patriots who starved nnd The three most important principles involved in the construction and onprr. up his head he feebly moaned: sunered iJoys, don give up the shin! Rallv fc mat moment a scout who had "Not approved. If the captain hadn't been upset by a hog his men would have been all right.

The head being upset, the tail naturally ran away. Try again, but put a man at the head' who can smell a hog ten feet off!" uuu 01 me Doat are kept secret and are known only to Inventor Raddnta propeller blades begun to revolve when the heavy steel hull dived erratically around me and die fighting!" We rallied, but as we couldn't oeen sent up the cross-road to take another look at the enemy camu down the few men who have been interested end foremost into the muddy bottom otvuicu patents on his devices, nrything to fight we thought we had better see what could be done for nr the road nnd along our front, leading in his experiments. These have to do with the manufacture and tniHfi.mfA aiming to shield them from the atten. ui j. ox river, burying ita prow deeply ten feet below the surface, its stern stricken leader.

1 ui ine a tion of other investigators along the same lines. Finally, the remoteness of 'It' too late tOO late!" lie mnnticl uju une-eyeu, uoo-tailed mule which had been turned out to die. Stopping in front of the colonel the man saluted and reported: "I have been up the road for a mile J.ane Winnebago from the seaboard ditions it is kept unon nn nv," rescued, ihen began ana irom the centers of maritime ex periments is so great that until the re "I have only a few minutes to live, and I want you to remember my last words. Tell our colonel that I died with my face to the foe, and that my last words were for you to perish In vmm ous, disheartening wnrlr n. It has already Wn wvv.v ports of the most satisfactory tests adjustment.

Sometimes the boat rolled almost completely over in the American Engine for Africa. Egypt follows in the lead of China, Japan, India, Russia, Finland, and, indeed, most other countries in ordering 15 American locomotives, which will be speedily turned out, and which in no long time will fly screaming along the Egyptian state railway, waking Mem-nonian echoes along the slumberous Nile loud enough to rouse its mummied Pharaohs and awaken anew the bellow-ings of Osiris, suspended without date mat, as yet, no recourse has been made to patents for protection, hence the i.isi uciooer, comparatively little inter Write to my mother-" and a half, and the only enemy I could discover was this here mule. I have cut on his tail to carry back to camp, and (waving it around his head) leal! for three cheers for the star-spangled banner and Ueorge Washington!" We gave them with a will, ami Here he seemed about to trtro t. jeaious care with which all information regarding these important nrincinlpa 1 est nas oeen manifested in his work. The measure af the success of the Raddatz submarine boat lies in the fact guarded.

ghost, but one of the men gave him a dnnk of water and he rallied and The most important of these inat up to the present time 330 trips beneath the surface have been made, Lnca is mat nireetiner the a simr.lv three more and a "tiger," and that ended the patriotic address business ueiween 60 and 80 persons have "Tell my mother that her son James died the death of a hero, and she must 6ome thousands of years ajro. The Eujjiieu wnn reservoirs At other times it refused with peculiar and vexatious obstinacy to respond to its operator's touch. Kach mishap revealed a new defect which furnished a new problem to be overcome. One by one they were mastered, gradually the boat became more stable and manageable, and at last It reached a point of perfection which induced others to venture a trip in the muddy waters of the river and the lake. Last season Iiiventor Raddatz never lacked company when he sailed forth in the steel 7" iaKen aown to observe the com American can now travel all over the wnn us lorever.

A Joke on the liana. There were times, as atT revilirm Kin and appliances which produce a mechanically and chemically prepared atmosphere sufficient to permit its sub "TirR Jor him. It will break Nellie heart to hear of my death, but write her-write her that we shall meet tion, when Custer ordered his band into mersion with two men on board for a J- or tne craft- After the first 50 descents all were practically successful and without accident. The Raddatz boat as it lies housed present in winter quarters on the bore of Lake Winnebago, waiting for world with the patriotic consciousness that he is being drawn by the iron horses of his own native land and that there nre none to outpace or outstay them, and no likelihood of any in the future. in neaven.

is that the enemy cheering peroid of 28 or 30 hours. The afr la me thick of it and kept them tootinir. ur jiuvunces It wasn't. It was one of the farm- kept pure and wholesome and is manufactured in sufficient quantity and w.c iui us a good one. AtJiet-tysburg, however, the band didn't com in.

Custer was after Lee's trains and nonse children squalling at the back vyemng or navjgation in Lake case, anu at the-end of the season more than 50 persons had th quality to supply a crew of four ner- sons during 8 hours at a time without ix-es cavalry realized his plans and XVpra r.n lian1 a. A workings of the craft from the as the scenes ooor. hen the dying officer lind been so informed and his lips moistened again he groaned nnd replied: "I want some of you to write to the papers at home that I refused to surrender, and that I was irhtino. communication with the surface. His presumed that the oxygen is renewed by chemical action and the carbonie.

Miuicu we round the confederate cav- Abont Telegraph Pole. The number of poles used for telegraph wires per mile varies from 20 to 22 on miner lines, to 26 to SO on main lines. These poles are of regulation height, In order that the lowest vir quarters within the pilot house. With the opening of spring, the Raddatz craft will receive its nmeti! airy massing to have a try at us, in-f toad of keeping the defensive. A bat acid gas absorbed by caustic potash.

lion when struck down. m.vu.Kun, ween will be taken to Milwaukee, is fusiform or cigar-shaped, CS feet in length. Its cylinder is four feet in diameter, beginning to taper at points 16 feet from each cud. The ex-treme bright is 7 feet to the top of the piloV house, which rises from the otherwise regularly-shaped shell at a point about one-third tfre distance to the bow. The material used in construction Is five-sixteenths inch armor plate, steel riveted upon heavy angle-; iron frame work strongly braced inter-1 test In the deep waters of Lake Michigan.

If the same results are attained which have been unquestionably demonstrated on Lake Winnebatro in Wis. boys; I should like to live on to Wl caustic soda, and lime. Persons who have experienced a submarine trip in the boat say the only di (Terence they detected between the manufactured at shall not be less than 12 feet from the ground, and ns the pole are set in the ground from four feet to six feet, ther measure from 20 feet to 22 feet In you to other victories, but dentT, claimed me nnd I must eo. If anv of eonuin. then a man to whom the bracing salt breezes of the ocean are almntt tery came dashing up and opened on them at long range, and following this four regiments were lined up for a fdiarge.

It was to be down across a field, over a Rtone wall partly thrown down, "and then across a meadow for 10 rods. We were not above 2,000 men altogether, and it looked as If we were going down against three times you escape olive-" mosphere and that ordinariy breathed is that the former seemed freKW we could find no bleed inc wound length. The sag, or dip, varies, of course, with the number of poles per mile, and the average condition of tn cooler. At the PTld of CPtrernl Knnii. ,1., we insisted on unknown will have rendered an Invaluable service to the maritime nations of ti world.

LOUIS V. DEFOE. ng which they were hermetically sealed tA.iiniiiiii jon. He fought us off for nwhile atmosphere, but the average is abou finally propped him up orainst 'tl..