| Show THE DYNAMITE GUN The distinction achieved by Americans as inventors extends to the field of warfare Breechloading guns metallic cartridges repeating rifles the Gatling gun the protection of ships by armor modern tactics tac-tics particularly the use of cavalry arm intrencbing tools the torpedo and many other of the appliances and principles of accepted modern warfare owe either their origin or their amplification to the sons of the republic Now comes Captain E L XALIXSKI of the Fifth United States artillery with the dynamite gun a murderous weapon which promises to play an important part in future wars Captain ZUIXSKI who is a native of Poland came to this country in infancy was educated in the public schools accepted a commission in his present regiment regi-ment at its organization at beginning of I the civil war and though perhaps the youngest commissioned officer in the regiment regi-ment achieved distinction as an intelligent and active soldier Since the war his restless rest-less brain has found employment nmidst the inactivity of garrison life in the invention of various mechanical deices de-ices calculated to render his arm of the fCTTicomore oMcient So slow is promotion in our small butt but-t army that it is ony within a roar and after twentytwo or twenty service as a subaltern that ho Bxrcc years ias reachoi the grade of captain Captain ZALINSKI does not claim to be the inventor of the Dynamito Gun but while the principle was suggested to him vranotho the development of the gun the crudest form to its present from is due to him taw of perfection The gun orders for which have not our own government oc17 been given by t bvlereral of the European powers Irnt by euim the recof11ized woo its existed tg 0 olives possibility of firing higa explosives from ordinary cannon Compressed air is the motive force of thq ZAIINSKI gun and it is almost incredulous that it is sufficiently powerful to project six hundred pounds of dynamite two miles It will not replace but will prove to be an effective aid to gunpowder gun-powder It may be safely said that it is list of one more success in our plethoric successes |
