Show BATTERY OF DYNAMITE GUNS Now Ready to Deal Out Destruction Destruc-tion to Invaders THREE MILES THE RANGE LARGEST BATTERY OF IT KIND IX EXISTENCE It Defends the Chief Harbor of the Pacific Coast Au Official Test Will Be Made Early lu December When the Guns Will Be Uxeil us In Actual Warfare Xo Sheila Have Yet Been Used SAN > FRANCISCO Nov 21The bat tery of dynamite guns which stretches along the bluffs south of Fort Point for nearly a mile is now ready to deal out destruction to any invading navy that may appear within three miles of the Golden Gate The great guns stare up at the blue sky from behind steep bulwarks bul-warks They look not unlike great frogs ready to spring into the ocean Lieutenant Miley who has charge of the battery says that this battery which defends the chief harbor of the Pacific coast is the largest battery in the world There is another located at Sandy Hook near the entrance to the New York harbor but it contains only oneeighth inch and two fifteeninch guns During the past two days experiments experi-ments have been made with the guns No shells have been fired only a urn ited amount of powder in order to test the air compressing plant by which the projectiles are hurled from the guns During the first week in December an official test will be made of the guns before General Graham and all the officers stationed at the presidio and the neighboring military posts Shells will be used and the guns will i gns be tested as if in active warfare |