four o'clock
On the morrow Dunhaven was to be more or less alive , for the `` Pollard '' was to be launched then . Many visitors , including a swarm of newspaper men , were expected . An officer of the United States Navy was also booked to be present , to witness the launching , and to note how the `` Pollard '' might sit on the water afterwards . Before four o'clock the last stroke of work had been done . Mr. Farnum , the anxious , inventor , the foreman and the others went all over the submarine marine craft , inside and out , locking for any detail of the work that might have been slighted . `` It 's all done -- finished , '' cried David Pollard , nervously . `` And , Mr. Andrews , you 'll have a real guard here to-night to help you keep watch , '' announced Jacob Farnum .