The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip / Making Good" as Young Experts"

energy, can often

ffice, Jacob Farnum, looking out of a window, and through t

deal for little Dunhaven

what's h

wner presently went out and got into his vehicle,

was a hitherto vacant piece of land located at the edge of a small deepwater cove. Mr. Melville and Don we

ve, by a roundabout way, back to his yard. Thereafter he t

of carpenters had gone to work building a fence as rapidly as laborers could set up the poles. By the night

aked out that a new boatyard was added to the industries of Dunhaven, coupled with the furt

s first brought to them by Eph Somers, who had a great knack for pic

Farnum. "Competition ought to stir us forward to the very best that is in us. So

d friends of the "Pollard" boat wer

nds in Washington. If he can carry on the most successful rivalry, he may do us a great deal of harm. For instance, if he can build so fine a boat that he can put ours in the shadow. In fact, while I don't mean to be a quitter or a skulker, I'll admit that Melville may possibly be able to di

d a finer submarine than

ck, with c

w to handle his craft,

t, up to date. But suppose Mr. Melville should be able to get a lot of experienced submarine men, and even

ll say this much: It would make me more uneasy to lose the services of you boys

r. Farnum, could interest all the capital you want, on your own fa

ting all that capital together is the problem. You see, Jac

ted Captain Benson. "

t into this enterprise? Our boat is good, but how do the investors know that, within the next few months, some other inventor won't come forward with a new type of submari

to be afraid of the chance of

some moneyed friends of his sort," replied Mr.

was, and that it was blundered upon by accident. But the people of the country at large don't know. Show the trick is done. When they hear about it, broadcast, won't they think that the 'Pollard' is the only real thing in submarines? Use the 'Pollard' type of boat, and no more men need be killed when a boat won't rise. That's the way the people will talk. So, Mr. Far

alk, surely," acknowledg

ed Captain Jack. "All the newspaper talk will be free advertising, and I imagine tha

that line, but I imagine it is t

s to which invitations should be sent. The sten

increase in prosperity, for Mr. Melville engaged his entire hotel. Before long there was a constant succession of arrivals at the hotel. Steel salesmen, motor drummers, salesmen in electrical supplies, and a whole host of mis

hat Jacob Farnum speedily became sensible of the fact that

real and bustling earnest," remarked Farnum, with a

illions of dollars, if they need that

ough I am seeking for capital that will come i

to them with a laugh, to say: "Wait and see, though, if the exhibition before

r some of the experts they're dealing with, are shrewd enou

d that out, Mr. Farnum

e of the things that are too

mering of the riveters daily. It looked as though the new

ll be able to do anything to beat our show to-morrow," remarked Captain Jack, on

arge cities. As the hotel was monopolized, by the Melville crowd, Mr. Farnum had engaged other

Pollard took the journalistic visitors in charge and finally conveyed th

nted. Of course, the mere fact of a competent, well-trained boy crew was a novelty to the newsp

us out aboard the 'Pollard'?" in

ave had a chance to show you the remarkable feat th

markable feat?" aske

l the more if we do not announce it

out it?" pleaded one of the newspaper wo

ain Jack, "but I've always had a grea

boat builder. "And now, signal for

Captain Jack turned to the

been done on any other boat than the 'Pollard.' If it looks a bit dramatic, you will

adfully inquisitive," complained one

arine. From the platform decks they waved their caps, then, one by one, dis

oat out and submerge it?" ask

odded Mr

asked the particularly i

smiled, t

under electric

a little more than a hundred feet o

re sin

e performance," s

uld quite realize it, the tip of the conni

ting to look at," half s

couldn't bring t

o up or down, at need,"

has never had

tly, keeping their gaze on the place where they had seen t

cable in the bow, hovered just where Captain Jack had directed, but wha

es get nervous over such thing

boatbuilder

minutes had passed since the disappearance of the submarine. The next time Farnum glanced at

hard to conceal the nervous

ragic has happened to the boys, at last. What on earth can