Did you ever read Twen
ty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea, the story
about a submarine, which
Jules Kerne wrote forty
odd years ago? The ves
sel he described, “Nau
tilus,” is almost a counter
part of the German
merchant submarine,
“Deutschland,” which
came to this country sev
eral weeks ago • * * A
OR weeks the German undersea „
boat Deutschland occupied the
first page of every newspaper
in the land; to the exclusion of
the Mexican problem and a
considerable part of the Euro
pean war news. Her journey
across the ocean from Bremen,
her avoidance of the English and French war
vessels and her theatrical disclosure of her ■
identity at Cape Charles constituted the sen
sation of a century.
Mr. Charles P. Tower of the New York
Tribune has written an article comparing the
Deutschland with the Nautilus, the submarine
boat- of imagination which Jules Verne, the
' great French novelist, described In “Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” published
about 45 years ago. No doubt many of you
have read the story. It Is a great boy’s book, like
"Tqm Sawyer” or Fenlmore Cooper’s “Leather
..Stacking Tales.”
j Mr. Tower assumes that the Nautilus was never
destroyed, and that the Deutschland is the old
bodt of fiction rebuilt. He says:
■' “But the sensation will be the greater when it
■ becomes generally known that the boat is not of .
German design or build; that she Is really the
,\>rlilnal submarine boat Nautilus, designed by
^4 wonderfully skillful naval architect, engineer
,ajd sclentist-at-large, Jules Verne, built and navt
gafed over and under many seas by Captain
^Neuo, and for many years supposed to have
■ beek engulfed in the whirlpool between the
- isl^nls of Faroe and Lofoten, off the coast of
’ Nofwiy, in June, 1868; the same vessel, rebuilt
In ione degree and refitted In a German ship
yafid, but the Nautilus, as truly as she was the
Nautilus when she was launched, in 1865 or 1866.
“It has been only a supposition that the boat
was lost in the whirlpool, based on the fact that
no ^survivors of her crew, excepting Mr. Aronnax,
1 who wrote the log on board the vessel on her
■ sensational and somewhat erratic voyage of
•Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,’ and
his j two personal associates, Conseil and Ned
Land, never appeared in public or ever told any
thing to the contrary. But It will be remembered
that Mr. Aronnax declared in his edition of the
log, which was published in 1873, that he did not
positively know whether the boat was lost or,
not; ‘What has become of the Nautilus?’ he asks.
•Did It resist the pressure v of the maelstrom?
Does Captain Nemo still llvef
“Don’t believe it? Why, it is so thoroughly
true as to be axiomatic. Read such a description
of the boat tliat arrived at Baltimore on a Sunday '
evening; then read Mr. Aronnax’s logbook;
make careful comparison of the description of the
Nautilus which is contained therein with that of
the so-called Deutschland— a dare to say that
they are not one and the same vessel. The power
plant is new in part, and in part renewed. Mr.
Verne designed the Nautilus to be driven by
electric power generated by primary batteries,
Something that would be out of the question to
day, but possible in the case of the Nautilus, be- <
Cause her owner was a man of enormous wealth,
and because he had discovered an Inexhaustible'-
source of supply of the materials required to
renew his batteries. •;
“The primary battery was the qnly available
means of providing power for underwater. pro
pulsion, as the Diesel motor, now in use on alt
submarine vessels as a power plant for use on
the surface and for gerierating ’electrtdty for
power to be used under water, had not been 3$
▼eloped. In fact, neither the Germans nor ahy
one else made any considerable use of the Diesel/'
principle of motor construction until the Diesel
patents had expired. Besides, Mr. V^nie had no -
dynamos with which to translate the i»d|yer pro
duced by motors Into-electricity, although he had
the essential principle in the electric motors with
which he turned id* propeller.
"And the vessel 1* now fitted with periscope*, J
\ * /
which the Nautilus in her early days did not
have. If she had been equipped with periscopes
In 1866 and 1867, It is probable that she would
not have been in collision with the Columbus, the
Shannon, the Helvetia and other ocean steam
ships during those years, much to the annoyance
of their owners and. the mystification of the
public. Also, the Nautilus In her reincarnation
has wireless ‘ telegraph equipment, something
which she did not In her early days, because
Marconi had not then been born. For the rest of
It, the Nautilus Is the Nautilus still.
“A very full description of the Nautilus Is con
tained in the log as written up by Mr. Aronnax
from the dictation of Captain Nemo. He men
tions that the captain showed him the plans,
sections and elevation of the vessel; doubtless
the original drawings made by Mr. Verne, or
perhaps tracings of the originals. If they had
been blue prints, Mr. Aronnax would doubtless
have spoken of them as such; but, of course,
they were not, as blue prints were not In use In
those days. The captain went on:
“ ‘Here, M. Aronnax, are the several dimen
sions of the boat. It Is ah elongated cylinder
with conical ends. It Is very like a cigar in
shape, a shape already adopted In London in sev
eral constructions of the same sort. The length
of this cylinder, from stem to stern. Is exactly
232 feet and its maximum breadth Is 26 feet It
Is not built quite like your long-voyage steamers,
but Its lines are sufficiently long and Its curves
prolonged enough to allow the water to slide off
easily and oppose no obstacle to its passage.
“ ‘When the Nautilus Is afloat one-tenth is out
of the water. Now, if I have made reservoirs of
a size equal to this tenth, and if I fill them with
water, the boat, weighing then 1,507 tons, will be
completely immersed. These reservoirs are in
the lower part of the Nautilus. I turn on taps
and they fill, and the vessel sinks.
“ ‘Also, when I have a mind to visit the depths
of the ocean, I make use of slower but not less
infallible means. To steer this boat, following a
horizontal plan, I use an ordinary rudder fixed
on the back of the sternpost, and with one wheel
and some tackle to steer by. But I can also make
the Nautilus rise and sink, and sink and rise, by
a vertical ihOvement by means, of two inclined
planes sashed, to its sides, opposite the center
i>ia»es thht move by powerful levers
interior. If the planes are kept parallel
uibves horizontally. If slanted, the
WtidHliis, accbtdlng to this iheiination and under
tbfejhfluence of the screw, either sinks diagonally
or. rlseS diagonally as it suits me.’
"Sqt aside .the obvious errors'.ln the log or In
the"translation, and the description of the Nau
f. .tilps might as readily pass for that of the so
. called Deutschland as any that have been printed.
_Look it over In detail. The Nautilus was 232
feet long;; the length of the undersea boat at
Baltimore was? “guessed” at anything from 200
and some. odd. feet to 800 feet. Os course, as
she hai been rebuilt, the boat way have been
.lengtheried;/^^ .
^•LJhj^theNdtrfiltislmd a,.conning tower, in
superstructure. The beam
THE BULLETIN. IRWINTON. GEORGIA.
of the Nautilus was 26 feet. That of the Deutsch
land is “guessed” at something less than 30 feet.
The Nautilus was cylindrical in shape; the ves
sel that has created the sensation during past
weeks is not quite cylindrical, in that her top
sides are carried up for a space nearly vertical,
and then tumble home with an easy curve; or, at
least, it Is so indicated by such photographs as
have come to light. The change was undoubtedly
made In the rebuilding, in order to increase the
carrying capacity; for It is to be remembered
that the Nautilus was not built to carry cargo,
and had no great excess of buoyancy. The motive
power of the Nautilus was electricity. That of
the vessel from Germany is electricity when
submerged, while for use above water the Diesel
engines supply the power. That is of no im
portance as bearing on the Identity of the vessel.
"It is a common thing in rebuilding a ship to
make some changes in the propelling mechanism.
“There is still more to come. Both boats —or,
rather, the same boat In the two periods of her
career —were —was —Is —fitted up In some degree
of luxury. Listen to what Mr. Aronnax says
about a room into which Captain Nemo con
ducted him:
“ ‘lt was a library. High pieces of furniture
supported upon their wide shelves a great number
of books. The electric light flooded everything.
It was shed from four unpolished globes, half
sunk in the celling.’ And again, in speaking of
the saloon, filled with treasures of art beyond
price, Mr. Aronnax mentions the organ, of which
he says later In the chronicle: ‘At that moment
I heard the distant strains of the organ, a sad
harmony to an indefinable chant, the wall of a
soul longing to break these earthly bonds.”
The Organ on the Nautilus.
“One may not approve of Captain Nemo’s taste
in music; some of us may prefer the Tun of mill’
music which one may have with a phonograph
and a selection of records made haphazard; but
he was musical, at all events, and had provided
himself with means with which to gratify his
taste. But the organ has given way to a phono
graph, with which the crew of the boat enter
tained themselves on the way across or under the
Atlantic. And when they were ‘full up’ on music
there was the library, with fewer books than that
of old, but with Shakespeare as a foundation of
literary satisfaction.
“Still skeptical? How was the food of the crew
of the Nautilus cooked? By electricity. Says Mr.
Aronnax: ‘Then a door opened Into a kitchen nine
feet long, situated between the large storerooms.
There electricity, better than gas Itself, did all
the cooking. The streams under the furnaces
gave out to the sponges of platina a heat which
was regularly kept up and distributed. They
also heated a distilling apparatus, which by evap
oration furnished excellent drinkable water.' How
was the ‘grub’ of the crew of. the so-called
Deutschland cooked? By electricity, said Captain
Koenig, although he did not give a description of
the cooking apparatus in anything like as full a
detail as does Mr. Aronnax of that of the Nau
tilus. The boat that Captain Koenig commanded
was furnished with all the comforts of home, ac
cording to the one man who was aboard of her
in any other than an official capacity, and who
does not consider himself held to secrecy.
“It’s a clear case. In every essential the
Deutschland is the Nautilus. In size and form,
excepting as any vessel may be modified in proc
ess of overhauling and refitting, in power plant,
excepting as the Diesel engines take the place
of electric motors for surface propulsion, for
economy’s sake; in the intricate electrical equip
ment for lighting, cooking and in the control and
movement of all parts of the ship; In the means
provided for going below the surface of the
water at will, and in returning to the surface at
pleasure; even in the provision for the comfort
and entertainment of the crew, the Deutschland
and the Nautilus are one and the same. Only
in the use made of the craft is there a difference.
The Nautilus was built and operated to satisfy
the whim —let’s call it a whim and forget the
tragedy of it all—of a man wealthy enough to
afford it; while as to the Deutschland, she crossed
the ocean to bring a few pounds of dyestuffs oi
which we are in need. It is the case of a thor
oughbred hurneaspdto an express wqgon in hb
old age.” J/,
7 V
Will APPORTION
FELONY CONVICTS
Law Provides That Reapportiooment
Shall Ba Mada Oh Basis Os Public
Road Mileage
LARGE CITIEFARE HARD HIT
Work Is Not To Be Accomplished
Without Protest From
The Cities
Atlanta—
The question of apportionment of
the state’s felony convicts under the
new law is a matter which is not
going to be worked out without trou
ble. The .law provides that one ba
sis on which the reapportionment
shall be made is public road mileage
in each of the counties. On that the
city counties, led by Fulton, have been
preparing to take steps to hold up the
operation of the new law until the
next session of the legislature, when
an effort will be made to have certain
changes, made in it that will nearer
equalize the reapjortionment than will
be the case under the present bill.
It is now held that to get the accu
rate road mileage of each of the coun
ties will require from two to three
months, and that the state now has
no accurate measurement of road
mileage in any county in the state.
Estimated figures show that ninety
counties will suffer a considerable loss
of convicts under the reapportionment,
and that the heaviest losers will be
those counties in which are located
the cities. To offset that as far as pos
sible it remains to be determined, if,
under the new law, the improved city
streets may be included as mileage of
roadways. If that can be done the al
leged purpose of the act, said to be
that on the part of the small country
counties of taking the convicts away
from the cities, will have been more
than fully obviated.
It is because of this growing conten
tion between the larger qenters and
the country counties that the work
of compiling the reapportionment ta
ble is going to be even more than or
dinarily difficult.
In preparing to contest the loss of
their convicts, at least one of the
larger counties is going to bring the
claim that the road mileage as filed
as a basis for the distribution of the
state automobile tax fund cannot be
used because it Is not the road mile
age of the state, and that the mile
age is not official or accurate.
Prisoners Quartered Near Camp
Camp Harris—
" What a pity! It will be so lone
some for them!”
"Them” refers to the prisoners held
in durance vile by the armed guards
of the Fifth regiment. The guard
tents, when the camp opened for busi
ness, were quiet and unassuming
shelters for the siestas of the reliefs
who waited for their turns at post
walking.
Later, when the war-sickened sol
diers began the little game of going
home without leave and coming back
without consent, the group of white
conical tents breathed another atmos
phere. Cynosure of thousands of pairs
of eyes, the prisoners themselves
watched the daily parade of visitors.
Now they are quartered on the edge
of the Dismal Swamp over against the
lowlands of Creosote Creek. It is “so
lonesome” for them; but that is one
of the greatest priveleges of being a
prisoner.
Women Allowed To Keep On Hats
Atlanta —
Incident to the hearing of an appli
cation for freedom on a wirt of ha
beas corpus by Mrs. Lucy Waldron,
charged with lunacy. Judge John T.
Pendleton handed down a ruling that
the applicant’s counsel, Mrs. Clara L.
Bovard, need not doff her headgear in
the courtroom, as the court rules gov
erning male practitioners prescribe.
This was the initial appearance of a
woman lawyer in a Fulton county
court since the law permitting women
to practice in the courts of Georgia
became effective, and Judge Pendle
ton’s ruling in the matter of the pro
priety bf hat-wearing in court prob
ably will be taken as a precedent by
the judges generally of the state.
Atlanta Schools Badly Congested
1 Atlanta—
Thousands of Atlanta’s children be
gan an active school year September
11. Superintendent of Schools L. M.
Landrum says the registration this
year is fifteen hundred greater than
that of the preceding year, and the
problem of caring for this throng of
young people with the present inade
quate space and facilities is proving a
difficult one.
An appeal was made to council by
the school authorities for additional
rooms and for new equipment, but
these have not been provided.
Extensions To a Georgia Port
- Atlanta —
Georgia will not get further compli
cated in the matter of interstate
freight and passenger traffic through
the Western and Atlantic railroad ex
tending over the border of this into
another state.
Entering into any negotiations for
the proposed extension of the road
froth Atlanta to the sea, the Western
and Atlantic commission distinctly
will stlplate in its call for proposals
that the additional railroad, if con-
I structed, must be to a Gebrgia port.
GEORGIA TO GET SHARE
OF FEDERAL ROAD FUND
Official Recognition Os New State
Highway Commission Insures
Appropriation _
Atlanta—
The Georgia state highway commis
sion composed of the members of the
state prison commission, the state ge
ologist and the professors of civil engi
neering at the Georgia School of Tech
nology and the University of Georgia,
by virtue of a recent act of the gen
eraJ assembly, has been officially rec
ognized by the federal department of
agriculture and the state, accordingly,
will receive Its share of the mammoth
federal road fund, amounting to over
two million dollars during the next
five years.
This information reached the office
of the state high way commission in
the shape of a letter from Secretary
of Agriculture D. F. Houston, trans
mitting the rules and regulations gov
erning the application of the federal
money.
The letter, which formally recogniz
es the commission as properly organiz
ed to meet the federal requirements,
dispels all doubts regarding Georgia's
chance of sharing in the road fund
that might have existed in the past,
and bears out the contention of the
commission that the act creating it
was in conformity with the require
ments of the federal act.
Justice Lumpin Passes Away
Atlanta—
Surrounded by a number of rela
tives and friends who had been sum
moned to his bedside at his request,
Joseph Henry Lumpkin, associate jus
tice of the supreme court of Georgia,
died of paralysis here.
He had been ill for only two days
and it was not known that his illness
was of a serious nature until a few
hours before his death. His end, there
fore, came as a great shock and sur
prise to his many friends throughout
the state.
The body of Justice Lumpkin was
taken from the capitol, where it had
lain in state the greater part of the
day, and placed on a train for Athens.
There it was taken to the home of the
deceased’s brother, E. K. Lumpkin.
The funeral was held at the First Pres
byterian church in Athens. Interment
was in Oconee cemetery. Justices
Beverjy D. Evans and H. Warner Hill
were selected by the supreme court
as an honoray escort from that body
to attend the funeral.
Tributes of love and respect from
those who knew him best were paid
to Justice Joseph Henry Lumpkin as
man, scholar, jurist, citizen and
friend, in the simple exercises held in
the supreme court chamber, while the
body of the departed judge lay in
state before the bar of the court, as a
distinguished member of which he had
for eleven years served the people of
the state he loved faithfully and well
Motor Cars For Machine Guns
Camp Harris—
It took the machine gun company
and all of its friends to handle and
applaud the ceremony of unloading
the five olive-volored motor cars—
made in America, and bearing the
name of an advocate of peace—which
are designed for the mounting of the
Fifth regiment’s four Lewis automatic
machine guns and for the carrying of
their ammunition. They are very
spruce looking little cars —these five;
and they are extremely businesslike in
their appearance, too.
The brigade will soon glory In the
possession of.a stockade—a real log
built stockade, suggesting the long
ago days of Indian warfare.. This will
be down by the Salvation Army tent,
and will be used as an enclosure for
the prison tents —which now are
guarded by the bayonets of sentinels.
The log cutters are clearing the
swamp woods of heavy timber; and
the picturesque structure will be com
pleted and ready for the use of its
guests.
The Fifth regiment gained 56 men
by enlistment during the month of Au
gust. Col. Orville H. Hall states that
26 of these men came to Camp Har
ris for enlistment.
Most Expensive Primary
Atlanta—
With a total cost of $2,250, the re
cent primary proved the most expen
sive election ever held in Atlanta, ac
cording to a report made by James
E. Belcher, secretary of the city pri
mary committee. The recall election
cost only S9OO.
The report was accepted by the sub
committee, which met, according to
Mr. Belcher, and he was asked for
an itemized account of the expenses.
The managers and clerks were paid
$6 each for their work, he says, while
the city only paid $5 each. There
were three extra voting places, and
Mr. Belcher says that he spent $450
for voting booths for precincts.
' On a basis of 35 per cent of the as
sessments levied against them, the
candidates who were assessed for the
expenses of the primary were paid in
return about $1,300. The total amount
collected by Mr. Belcher was $3,550.
To Wage Fight For Bank
Atlanta—
Business men of Macon are making
arrangements for a desperate drive
for the location in Macon of the fed
eral farm loan bank for that districL
They hold that Atlanta has no busi
ness to make application for this bank
in view of the fact that it has the
federal reserve bank
They are organizing to make a
strong fight against Atlanta or any
other city for this bank and are en
deavoring to get back of the move
ment every busings* house in Manon.
