THE TITANIC

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 20 November 1912, Page 7

THE TITANIC

PROBLEM OF THE 1-T'i U RE. That which is .sunk far down in the depths of the sea, beyond the power of human ingenuity to recover, may yet return in Nature's own time to tho light of day. The slow operation of tho gigantic terrestrial forces brings about tho conversion of valleys into mountains, and tho mussels and other sea-animals, which aeons ago were on the spq-floo:*, ,ar? faund today embedded in the summit:-; of mountain ranges. Thus it may be that tho Titan'j*, thought by most people "to have gone for ever from human sight, will perhaps* in one distant day to come bo discovered by some archaeologist, "sealed within t}ie iron hills," just a-s fossils of giant ic.hthysayri are found t-o-da.v. The problem of the future fate of the Titanic is discussed at length in a German scientific weekly, and conjecturo-; are indulged in as to whether tho sunken vessel will ultimately reappear on th?- -urface of tho earth or be on-tr-mbrd in the heart of a mountain. To bring about the- first result, it is explained.'tho mountain must first be . paten away by streams-until the huge skeleton is exposed to view. The st-ong, heavy masts of steel will probably be prevented from rusting away, bv beins completely surrounded by slime, '.and or chalk, and will thus be preserved as intact as the trees in tho marvellous forests of the carboniferous epoch. Tho remains of the r.bip will very likely contain fragments of skeleton- and impressions in stone of human bodies, In any case the collosf ril ship will provide tho people of the future with a museum rich in the remains of a by-gone civilisation, provided that the rr.cn of tho day take the same interest in such relics of' the past as we c!o in tho fossils which survive to tell us tales of long- j