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Show 500,000 SHELLS EXPLODED. NOVEL EXPERIMENT IN CHICAGO CHICA-GO TO PROVE CARTRIDGES ARE HARMLESS IN FIRE. Chicago, Jan. 30. Half a million cartridges car-tridges wero exploded on tho lako front this afternoon in an experiment undertaken undertak-en by dealers ln ammunition to prove to tho members of the flro department that such articles wore not a source of dangor during a fir in the building ln which they aro 3torcd. Tho cartridges oxplodcd with considerable considera-ble forco. but beyond flinging the metallic shepps about a hundred feet from tho tiro, gave no evldenco of destructivo power. Tho cartridges wero In boxes which were piled and a bonfire made of tho lot. After tho test the Are marshals who witnessed wit-nessed it admitted that there seemod to bo no danger, but all of them wero of the opinion that no fireman would cntor a placo where such threatening noises prevailed. |