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“Biggest Holland we ever saw”

“A Holland submarine?”

“YUP,” CHORUSED the Staten Island scowmen

“Where?”

“Kill Van Kull”

“Over on the Bayonne side”

“Hold on, boys If you’ve seen a sub to the Navy”

“It’s hid Under a car float”

“Uncle Donny found it last night when the cops was chasing him”

“Been watching that barge for days,” said Uncle Donny Darbee Isaac Bell questioned them sharply

Harbor cops hunting coal pirates had noticed Uncle Donny and his two friends following a coal barge in an oyster scow Uncle Donny had declined to let the police board it for inspection Pistol shots were exchanged The cops had boarded anyway Uncle Donny and his friends had jumped into the Kill and swam for shore

Darbee’s friends were caught, but the oldfor several days because the barge was tied up all by itself, unattended, and was carrying a pair of freight cars thatin the cold water as he hid in the shadow of the overhanging prow, the oldsolid where it was too deep to stand When the cops gave up, Ji from the Staten Island side, had rescued their Dutch uncle in another oyster boat Then they took a closer look at the barge Under it, they saw the outline of a submarine

“Bigger than the Navy Holland Same boat, but it looks like they added on a chunk at each end”

“Uncle Donny knows the Holland,” Jimmy Richards explained “He took us off Brooklyn to watch the Navy tests When was that?”

“In 1903 Sheturret out of the water And six subed”