Show remarkable ornament on an old trophy cann cannon on ANY persons persona stop to examine M MANY more or less lees closely closel or more or less carelessly the handsome gra green bronze trophy guns at the toot foot of the stairway at the north entrance to the state var nar and navy debirt ment building it lg Is surprising or it Is not surprising according to one a caste of thought how man lecta tors tall fall to see the remarkable and unusual feature of the gun on the east side of the entrance the gun which is 13 the aunger and the more ornate of the pair the east gun bears among various alous inscriptions the words berds le Faro farouche chich may be translated the fierce the sai age or the wild on the cascabel or the base ot of the breech of this venerable en erable smoothbore ammoth bore muzzle loading cannon bast ast by jean maretz at douy bony france in juin juh 1748 is tle fie face of an angia lion with the butt of a stake or nar ar club protruding from it its mouth R nether the name nam e of th the gun was inas given it because of the fierce image on its base or w betl er the image nas as cast there bec because ause the gun was as to be called the fierce bierce neither the writer nor the su P brinten dent of the state war and navy na build 3 ing who is 13 the custodian of this his and other trophy guns knows but ut the face Is there thousands ot of tourists gaze on tho the art handles of the gun they the are bronze dolphins the tourists puzzle over or study the coat of arms of 0 france arance the crown of 0 france the battle battie emblems sabers cannon drums flags and trumpets the circle ot of fleur fleurdelys dells de of 0 the house of bourbon and the vice fice of pallas surrounded by the ras of a blazing sun dut but few of the pilgrims ever stoop to study the remarkable face and club at the b butt t of the historic gun which by the way was though french was nas taken b aric A americans ric nr fro from one of the forts ither either the morro or at the mouth of santiago harbor in isis and mounted in washington in the spring of SOD |