Show I THE KEARSARGE TRIAL I The New York Herald gives minute particulars of thc trial of the great I guns In the superposed turrets of tho 1 battleship Kcursurgc The main I I armament of tho ship Is enclosed In these two double turrets that are placed fore and aft about equal distance from mid ships I The lower turrets carry two I thirtecnlnch guns each and the upper turrets two eightInch guns each It will be remembered that In Dewcys I squadron at Manila tho largest gun was an eightinch and the most effective ef-fective firing was done by even smaller guns But the JCearurgc can Jlro two ihlrlcenlnch shells and two eight Inch I shells nt the same moment from both her forwaid and aft turrclo and those eight shots could they be fired straight would be about sufficient to destroy the fighting force of any two ships on the sea In the Irlfll the tsi vrr Tn > rrn < ici I In u lye the guns being discharged singly and in pairs beginning with the lower calibers After the strength of all the fittings had hen demonstrated then the attempt was made to fire her four guns together but owing lo a defect in the firing current the charge in one of the thlrlccninch guns failed to Ignite Ig-nite Then instrumental tests were II made which revealed lint no damage to her equipment had been sustained and no physical inconvenience was experienced ex-perienced The Herald says that three eminent ordnance experts Rear Admiral Ad-miral Sampson and Captains Folgor and Bradford from the Navy believe that the system is the best that hast has-t been put afloat Capt Folgcr officially of-ficially reports that Tho double turret tur-ret Is an assured success both from military and structural slandpoints CapL Bradford says IIr think tho trial shows conclusively the value of the turret for military purposes and i that It marks a new advance In war engines Admiral Sampson says There is no ship in the world that can withstand the Impact of those four projectiles simultaneously fired by ono of the superposed turrets of the Rear sarge By the way the four shots on the trial all hit within the space covered cov-ered by one ship It was Lieut Strauss who first suggested sug-gested the double turret and against a majority of the Bureau of Construction Construc-tion Admiral Sampson carried the point and had the Kcarsarge and Alabama enuinned that wnv Tlir > dostinacUveness of the Kcarsarge compared with a ship like the Iowa or < Oregon is as eightvilve to forty eight Besides the turrets there are full broadside eightinch guns and multitudes of small rapidfire guns It Is a floating fort terrible in all its ap polnlmenls |