First News From Under Sea.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 11, 1913:
Times Gets Dispatch from Operator on Submerged Submarine.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BOTTOM OF HARBOR, Long Beach, Cal., June 10.— I am in the cage of a submarine submerged 100 feet off the municipal dock. Long Beach Harbor, Cal. Our submarine has gasoline engines exclusively, and there is no other type of its character in the world.
    "We are after the world's record for submarine endurance and will down the record of the Octopus for twenty-four hours at 5:01 A.M. We will stay thirty-six hours with six men in the submarine under 30 feet of water.
    We have been down fifteen hours as this message is sent. We have a cable attached.

Hoopengarner, Operator On Board Submarine.
    The submarine now on the harbor bottom off Long Beach is the Benton, a new type invented by John M. Gage. He went aboard tor the test yesterday with his brother, W. C. Gage; a crew of three men, and Hoopengarner, the operator. The boat has aboard plenty of provisions and chewing gum and playing cards for the men.
    The previous record for submarine submergence was made jointly by the Octopus and the Lake at Newport in May, 1907, when the two under-sea craft stayed down for exactly twenty-four hours, and came up with their crews elated. There had been twenty-three of them in the submarines, and they stood the experience with no signs of wear.
    It was a new record for sustained life under the sea. Before that the record had been that established by the Fulton at New Suffolk, L.I., in 1902, when the persons on board were down for seventeen hours. Later in the same year a party on the Fulton lived under sea for twelve hours at the torpedo station.
    When the Lake and Octopus established the twenty-four-hour record they remained in touch with land by telephone, the wire sheathed by a hose and connected with a receiver floating on a buoy. After that experience, Capt. Lake said that the party could easily have stayed under twenty-four hours more.