In the second volume of the series, "_The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip_,"
our readers found the young men engaged in giving further and much more
startling demonstration to naval officers of the full value of the
Pollard type of boat. Incidentally, it was told how a grasping
financier attempted to get control of the Farnum shipyard and its
submarine business, with a series of startling plots that the submarine
boys were instrumental in balking. The submarine boat itself passed
some of the severest trials that could be invented, yet the trials
through which the builders and the submarine boys passed were far
greater. Yet, in the end, just as Mr. Farnum and his associates were
about to go to the wall, financially, the Navy Department purchased
and paid for the "Pollard." In this volume was also told how Jack and
his friends were the first to discover a simple, yet seemingly
mysterious, method of leaving and entering a submarine boat at will when
it lay on the bottom of the ocean.
Then, in "_The Submarine Boys and the Middies_," was related how Captain
Jack and his chums secured the prize detail of going to Annapolis with
the company's new boat, the "Farnum," there to teach the midshipmen of
the Naval Academy how to operate boats of this class.
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