Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1919 — Submarines May in Time Bring Up Lost Treasure From the Ocean’s Bottom [ARTICLE]

Submarines May in Time Bring Up Lost Treasure From the Ocean’s Bottom

For the time being the dirigible has overshadowed the submarine in marvel lof performance. It is as if -the submarine had exhausted its possibilities of wonder and had become commonplace. It is suggested, now that thedestructive work of the submarine is compl! t.d. it~ be~ prepared for service in the Science and to clear up the mysteries of thescasrsays the Buffalo News. There are the treasure galleons, there is the Titanic and the Lusitania, the collier Cyclops, to call the undersea boats to adventure. If ever they could get down to the floor of the sea where these lost ships are held, there would be untold wealth for them. An Italian navigator has come forward with the suggestion that the submarine should J)e put to work to test for fable or fact the tales of the lost Atlantis, the island once grerit and populous that was overwhelmed by theses because the people of it had angered the gods. There may have been feuch an island lost in a seismic convulsion. Oh, there is work enough for the submarine in many fields of discovery. But the craft must be made much more powerful than any we know now if they are going to the uttermost depths cff the ocean. It probably will be many, many years before they can accomplish such a drop, but in the meantime they wijl not be idle.