Show M RM 0 ST DEADY OF GUNS LITTLE KNOWN I 1 machine gun and Auto automatic matio pistol the work of a mormon FOND OF BANJO AND FISHING john M browning of ogden utah honored by king albart of belgium who gave kaiser millionth weapon made in gold ogden utah that the inventor of 1 borne 1 1 of the most deadly weapons being 9 used in the war in europe should bo be an american to Is but a 4 natural expectation pec tation from the inborn inventive mae ot of the people ot of this country but that he should bo be a man of peace a member in good standing or of the mormon church and practically unknown to tho the world at large will come as a surprise to many this notable inventor Is john at drowning of ogden utah throughout his own state he be Is balled as tho the firearm wizard but the great majority ot of newspaper readers probably have never heard of 0 him drowning to ta the be arat nian man who ever harnessed the kick ot of a gun and his revolutionized practically every form of 0 firearm many thousands ol of lila his machine guns and more than a million of 0 his automatic pistols are in uso use on the battlefields of europe today they are to be found wherever there la Is an armed force throughout the civilized world plays playa simple melodies yet john at brownings chief delight in life lies in playing simple tunes on his banjo in his home borne and when lie ho takes a vacation it Is usually in the form of a quiet fishing expedition with some borne of his sons and friends ilia name has rarely been mentioned though that of tho the weapons he be in vented la Is a household word all the same this simple ut kassum ing inventor has associated with royalty and a memento of his work is one of the most curious possessions of no loss less a personage than tile the kalser kaiser a little pistol ow on which william 11 II must look with strangely mixed feelings these days it la Is a gift to him from albert king of the belgians every part of the colt machine gun tile tho deadly work of which was wa a first seen been in tile the philippines was I 1 invented by john al M drowning browning from N W RIX S john M drowning browning I 1 nix his patents ao aro made every part of ahr tho still more widely known and equally deadly colt coll automatic pistol drowning browning first invented a repeating rifle and since then has taken out more than a hundred patents on firearms tills ilia millionth vest ves pocket automatic pistol was made by tho the fabrique na tivi lale at alge belgium to cele cela bratu brato the occasion a banquet was given in alele in n honor of bf the in v ventoe ven toT and king albert bestowed up in browning the Belg belgian iati order of leopold A replica of the millionth pistol built of gold was presented by king albert to the german emperor and accepted by william us its a pretty memento of a noteworthy achievement tills happened last year lust just before the war broke out father was waa Oun gunsmith arnith little known as lie he Is drowning lina has been a gun inventor all his life a born one ills ilia father was jonathan drowning browning a native of tennessee who moved to iowa in the early thirties and conducted a gun store and tinkers shop near Kanes kanesville ville on mosquito creek in 1852 jonathan browning crossed the great plains with an ox team a three months journey and bettl settled ed in ogden in tits his fathers shop in ogden john RI at drowning made his first gun at tile the age of thirteen from iron taken from ills his fathers scrap heap in 1879 1979 when twenty five drowning obtained his first patent it was for a breech loading rifle in 1884 he perfected his famous repeating rifle and in 1895 the box magazine which was used by the united states army in tho the war with spain ills ilia name was un unheralded heralded in connection with all these inventions be ba cause in every case drowning browning sold his patents it was the name ot of tho the maker not that of the inventor wilch which became famous how he used kick brownings friends tell an all interesting story in connection with the discovery the inventor they say entered tits his shop one morning carrying a rifle ride and a block of wood through which he be had bored a hole bole the size of a 45 bullet fastening the block to the floor door he be set up the rifle ride so that the muzzle just touched the hole in the wood lie ile explained that if the idea he had was corre correct et the gases on the rifle being fired would be stopped by the block of wood and would hurl the weapon backward the rifle was tired and as expected it was flung back ward against the wall of the shop brownings principle was established very quickly the inventor had this kick harnessed in such a way that the gas pressure was waa transferred to the breech and made to operate all the movements of the gun it did so with such speed after the first pulling of the trigger that no fewer than COO bullets could be fired in a minute when applied in the automatic pistol it was found that eight shells could be discharged in the brief space of one and three fifths seconds the result was that these weapons wore were quickly adopted by half a dozen governments ern ments for uso use in their armies and navies germans germana use his hl patents since their capture of the city of liege the germans it is 1 understood have been turning out oui weapons on the br drowning patents by the thousands at the works of the belgian fabrique national whether they have kept accurate count of what they owe him in tho the way of royalties drowning browning does not know and will not hazard an opinion drowning can never be induced to say riny thing definite as to the sum he be receives in royalties to foi form m an estimate his friends find as difficult as to gain an admission from the inventor himself some of his bis hundred or more successful patents patent s ho he has sold outright from those which he has placed on royalties tits his income has been estimated at from all the way up to a year on one occasion the experts ot of a well known arms firm laborea labored for more than a year it Is said in efforts to copy in smaller caliber a drowning browning gun the concern concern had purchased from the inventor eventually the president of the company sent for drowning browning and offered him to accomplish the task drowning browning his bis friends say did it while on an the train on his hia way home from now new york mr air drowning browning la Is sixty years old and has eight children whose ages range from twelve to thirty four sorto some of the sons are following their fathers footsteps others aro are devoting themselves to music and literature the inventor to Is 6 feet 3 inches tall and straight as a young indian alien not fishing he to IB fond of a hunting bunting expedition and with hla his brother and coworker co worker matthew B S drowning browning has won many trophies as aa a trap shooter in his bis homo home at ogden his principle diversion Is his banjo mr browning says he thinks he plays tol robly well tor for an old un on ills his favorite met melodies are the blue delia belle of scotland and the beautiful blue blua danube |