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Show LOCAL MEN INVENT GRENADE THROWER Fort Douglas Soldiers ' Machine la Recommended to Department by Post Officers. A grenade throwing machine or projector, pro-jector, which is said to cover the dead field of (ire between the grenade rifle and the hand throw, combining speed and accuracy, ac-curacy, the invention of two members of the Twentieth infantry, has been sent for consideration to the war department at Washington, after a demonstration before a board of officers at Fort Douglas. The inventors are Private L. Hollisler and Private Vaughn Reardon of I company. com-pany. Tlie machine weighs but twenty-six twenty-six pounds, is mounted upon a tripod and is readily carried and operated by one man. The basis of Impulse is a tension spring, and tlie standard 24-ounre grenades gre-nades can be thrown in any direction, distance or elevation. It throws frem three to live grenades in the time required re-quired to project ono by hand. The machine- is said to be operated from any position. po-sition. In trench or open. Among the officers witnessing the recent re-cent demonstration at Fort Douglas were Captain J. M. Moore and Captain John L. Robinson. The board heartily recommended recom-mended the efficiency and utility of the machine and sent this recommendation I on to Washington, |