Show A HIGH explosives th with altro glyrene havo a grantly mistaken idea of the dynamite said a veteran explosive expert as lio sat in tho lobby of alio hotel 1 I have handle explosives in nearly every state of jtb union for alio llio last twenty three scars tho firm with I 1 am connected famishes n largo part of everything of th explosive nature used in tho oil fieldi and mines of pennsylvania and I 1 hav superintended super intended its transportation and am many cacs tho uso of it as I 1 all tho work done in blasting tui now but two w from the premature dyni amita one of on alio rochester pittsburgh railroad about two 3 cars ago A blaschak bla been put in and failed to go off another was put in about three f t away and touched off from j ho explosion which followed it wa thought that both blasts had been fired and alio foreman and hia men ill gathered at the hole just as the first blast went off I 1 had furnished alio n it crial but w u not superintending super intending tho nork cheso stories about lyna being exploded by tho jolting of a wagon anro mistakes pet i mixed up with nitroglycerine nitro glycerine no di is really safer than black powe r eliat 1 tho dynamite used in this it is simply tilro i with som 0 good absorbent such a sawdust somo sort of earth or m meal heat wont explode it eliat no ordinary degree of cicat scicli a gunpowder and a blow from i a ham can not generate heat enough to explode it up in taci anthracite coal mines basl summer something that illustrates this A hole had been drilled down about c anty nino feet and 1 prepared pack c of dyn amilo stood at alio top of it workman by 1 misstep miss tcp kicked it edge and it dropped to the the dynamite did not explode it that had been nitro thou li tho holo caun leavo it lias to bo exploded by a ca of higher explosives which genar enough to liro it tho reason nitro gl dynamite arc used hinslea lf gunpowder is for alio llio fact that th latter always seeks tho weakest tto find alio other two c wt equal dorco in every direction it aunis property of gunpowder that mal ca it so valuable for uso in firearms has for a couple of years tl A any thing also than gunpowder con dabo daut havo dynamite cartridge can bo fired from A big gun by compressed compress cd air and even by gunpowder should the cartridge strike tho armor of ii vessel it explodes and no vessel can lost armor plato heavy enough to withstand alio shock thoro was a trial of compressed air cannon near brooklyn by n united states navy at which dynamite cartridges were thrown upwards of two miles with good results bow is it that tho dynamite bombs used by alio russian nihilisms nihilists lists arc so dangerous they aro not made of what wo term dynamite at all but of a mixture of the most highly explosive substance known to such as fulminate of mercury chlorate of potassa and even chloride of nitrogen the most dangerous of all are chemicals which oven handle with dread and which do not como into tho province of the manufacturers of industrial explosives plo at nil pittsburgh dispatch |