Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 40, 21 December 1911 — Page 16

BY JOHT r. BRADY.

INCLE SAM needs sail

ors to man the gigantic navy he Is accumulating and he has gone Into the moving picture

business to get them. That la, he baa enlisted the aid of films to exploit the workings and the wonders of the various ships which compose the fleets flying the Stars and Stripes. He rlshes to familiarize the great country back of the seaboard with what is going

n in the navy and he has picked upon the motion pictures as the best means The lever which the foreigner stole to this end. was that which regulated the rising of Uncle Sam's first lesson In "Seeing the boat The foreigner knew that the limerica First" consists of films setting submarine was taking regular practice eff the doings on board or rather In with the rest of the fleet and be was board; a submarine. This type of war- certain the next day would see the hip la the least known of any In the finish of his rival, savy. The submarine has always been In order to show the working of txt associated, In the mind of the landsman, submarine both above and below water with danger In its worst form. The It waa necessary to have two cameras, millions of Americana who never have One was placed on the tender, while the seen the sea and the great majority of other was set up inside the hull of the those who have gazed upon the salt craft itself. water believe this type of boat to be When all was ready for the work the nothing but a foolklller. lines were cast off and the boat headed It may be heroic and all that to be for the open sea. The tender followed hot to pieces In the open air or in the right alongside, and from this boat turret of a battleship which rides the views of the submarine were obtained, waves, but death In the bottom of the It was planned to get films of the ocean where the hero is scaled up In an work of the boat on top of the water Iron shell haa not appealed to Amer- and submerged. The No. X was fully .leans at large. In fact this branch of manned and when the camera was the service has been anything but pop- placed ready for work the boat got alar with those about to enlist In the under way. The crew of the subBavy. marine except those necessary for the Consequently It has been a much rkln of the engines remained on Wore difficult task to obtain men to deck and a series of pictures of the rfnan the submarines than It has been takea from tue deck of , to Ml the complements of the battle- tender "hl moved "h the submashlps, the cruisers or the torpedo boats. rlne t0 the Practice rounls- . . ... . , Inside of the iron hull of the sub-

(ttlce against sailing under the water. Be considers It unnatural and as a consequence few of him are to be found In the crews of the submarines. Indeed It Is the landsman with an aptitude for learning mechanics that usually accepts a berth on the subsaarlne. For every man In one of these boats must be something of a handy snan about machinery. He must be ready for any emergency, for at any time the lives of the whole crew may depend upon his presence of mind. In order that the moving pictures of ho submarine might be more Interesting to the public it was arranged with the "Imp" company to have a story built around the taking of the films. A foreign officer was Introduced into fne playlet and while the commander f the submarine No. X was showing

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marine the other camera was being worked and all the movements and maneuvers necessary in the conning of

steaming In from the oiling. "Just a harbor and replenish the supply of sir. bulge in the sea back aft," said the The lieutenant takes the order from old tar, "and the big gray ship would his superior and passes it to the sailor fill up and turn turtle just as that stationed at the lifting lever. This is Russian battleship did ofT PortAr- found out of order and then the lleuthur. tenant rushes to the emergency wheel. "I was In those waters when that He opens the case In which this is lock-

f war was eninsr on." onnHnnv1 tha vpf- ed and finds it eone.

eran. "I see some claim it was a mine The terrible news is broken to the dropped by the Japs that made an end anxious crew and the sailors are urged of the Russian admiral's Ironclad. But by the commander to meet their fates it weren't no such thing. It was one like men. There seems little chance of them submarines that polished off of help. The tender does not know

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blm through the boat he took one of the ship were faithfully being record- bent at an angle and the hull began could never be coaxed to Join the No. the big vessel and threw the scare into exactly where the submarine is, and the important levers and concealed it ed on the moving film, through the help gliding deeper and deeper. At length X, as he said he always had sailed the tallow eaters." unless the men inside the boat can Be wished to see a naval lieutenant of strong spot lights. nothing was visible but the swirl of the with Ms nose full of the salt breeze The interior workings of the craft think of a rescue plan all hope must be Who was his rival for the hand of the At length the open water was reached mast head a few Inches under the wa- and he was too old to change his habits, were shown true to life by the cam- given up. Apparently there Is nothcommander's daughter, sunk at the bot- and the crew of the No. X waved fare- ter. Then even this ceased and there But he had sailed on the tender for era on the inside. After the various Ing they can do. The Iron hull has torn of the sea. well and climbed into the powerful waa nothing to denote the proximity several years and kept watch over the maneuvers are shown, such as the sub- them as securely sealed up as though To accomplish this he was willing to shell, the cap on the small turret was of the most terrible engine of destruc- submarine as though it were one of his mersion of the craft, the changing of they were buried a thousand feet In sacrifice not only the father of the closed down and the boat was proof tion man has yet invented. own children. the directions and the locating of the the rock. girl but the whole crew of the sub- against wind and wave. "She's a' purty ciaft and turrlble "What she could do to that big bat- vessel to be attacked, the commander Then when all hope seems lost the urine to which the young officer had With a last signal from the short, one," said old Hank Eyebolt, one of tleshlp over there," continued Hank, orders the craft brought to the sur- lieutenant sees a chance for life. He been attached. stumpy mast the forward levers were the oars on board the tender. Bank pointing to the admiral's flagship face. It Is time to go back to the points to the torpedo tube and rug-

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under the water with the

terity as though the officers

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and the manner in which the

the sea is surveyed from the small' lens at the top of the Iron mast. "Our Idea In having a dramatlo story woven Into the picture," said tba government Inspector In charge of the work, "is to hold the interest of tba people while teaching them the workings of a modern submarine. While a straight moving picture of the boat would be educational no doubt; the plot of the story gives us an excuse for showing all the various working parts of the boafs mechanism In such a way as to make It quite thrilling. It Is easy to drive home facts into the human brain if you first catch the Interest with something human. And that la what we are attempting to do through the medium of the picture,1"

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