| Show GIVE BIG BIL RECEPTION First Fi st Utah Battery Host Last Las Night Might to Brilliant Gather Gathering I f 0 v ing inn at the t e Armory SHOW MODERN EQUIPMENT Ea cei Artillery l Material Exhibited and an Explained to Crowd Crowl Numbering lumbering over Ocr Five Fio I I o Hundred More than tOO people attended atten ed a big bI public reception given iven In the tho quarters of the First Utah Battery at the armory In PIerpont Monday night to see seo the th steel rifle the latest army anny Sun gun of Its kind Although It was an Informal af affair a fair society was well represented The rhe The quarters presented a pretty prett scene walls were hung hunS with the national colors and the ceilings were strung with festoons of or myriad Japanese lanterns orchestra of or 12 i pieces attracted visitors to the low lower lower lower er floor where whore the exhibit of or the bat battery battery battery tery was explained by UJo officers and men the pieces being arranged Just aa ns though they the were In lit the field except that the Intervals were smaller The following officers of the battery b Interesting little lectures to groups of visitors as they gathered C Capt William around mound the pieces Webb ebb First Fred Smith Second Max Brown and nd Alex Alo Thomas assisted by b a number of officers Including First Sergt SergI SergIJ J rank II LI Manning Quartermaster Sergt SergI P M N Knapp and Sam Samuel Samuel uel Taylor Talor M 1 A Jr C Y YOlo Olo rn 1 Smith The chiefs hi is of af se sections alternatelY alternate 1 put their crews through th ough the drill showing how the new ne gun is manipulated maniPulated und and illustrating its good features A number of or regular army arm inspected the battery batter Including Col CoK Charles H Clark of or the tha ordnance e department In command of or the gov government go government arsenal ar enal at Fort Sam Houston Tex Tax Col Walter Trailer S Scott command commandIng commandInG Ing lug the Fifteenth Infantry at Fort Douglas MaJ Ma J M Arrasmith Capt Willis UlIne adjutant Capt T R Harker quartermaster Capt W A Cavanaugh commissary Capt F W V Rowell Capt Bryan Bran Conrad and R B H SUlman Sillman A O 0 Seaman X N M Green Alva Ia Loc Lee and H II A Bell Gov Go Spry SpI and Gen E A Wedgwood of the National Guard of or Utah and his staff starr in uniform represented represented seated officialdom The governor made madea a brief speech at the close of ot the evening highly complimenting the men menor of or the battery batter on their efficient work and expressing a hope that the organ organization would soon receive enough re recruits recruits to make a full complement Gov GOY Spry was accompanied by b Col H E I Booth Col Cot H M H Lund Col E B S Wright and Rodney Badger Refreshments were ere served on the lower floor OBJECT OF RECEPTION RECEP IOK The principal object of the reception aside asido from showing the people the new guns was to create interest among amon young oung men mon In order to secure recruits as as s a full battery is wanted for the camp mp to be bo held next summer either elthor at American Lakes near Seattle or at Crow Creek Indian reservation in Wyoming when the guard will re receive receive Instruction from the tho regular army in the th annual maneuvers Tho The First Utah Battery Batter hut has good reason to be proud of its new equip equipment equipment equipment ment The new ne steel rifle 1905 1903 model takes the place of the old field piece and its advantages are numerous and important Important im Ira The recoil Is taken up by an anoil anoil oil cylinder cUnder It has a traversing de derice rice Ice with which a moving object may be followed without relaying or shift Ing the trail besides an elevating de device device device vice so that the gun may lOa be aimed at any angle or in fn any nn direction dl without moving the tho piece With the old gun the trail had to be moved moed In order to get a new sight and each time that tho the old gun was fired It had to be bo re sighted With the tho new now gun the piece never moves after the first shot Only the barrel moves 0 el and it Is operated on ona ona ona a recoil cylinder Every time the piece Is fired the barrel reco Inches and then comes back Into place without Jar The new gun shoots more rapidly from five tIe to six si aimed shots per minute being the maximum l lOne One of the interesting features of or the tho operation of the new battery batten Is that it may mo shoot in indirect Ire fire at objects which the gunner himself cannot see as the commander takes the ranges range with his telescope and communicates the tho figures to the gunners by b telephone A signal detachment works In cooper with the battery commander The new gun Is equipped with the panoramic sight used ulel use l with the tho whole circumference for tor cither direct or in direct firing Another Ano her sight Is used only In direct firing DESTRUCTIVE PROJECTILES The Initial velocity of or r the projectile Is 1700 feet per second s cond It has hns an extreme range of or about yards ards for efficient work The Tho shell and shrapnel arc are both In cartridge form and are set et by b a instead of or In the theold theold theold old way by which the shrapnel were set sot by b a n The cartridge Is also more accurate The cost of or one gun and carriage alone Is Tho The whole battery cost It costs 10 per shot to fire the tho new now gun The projectile weighs about 15 16 pounds The Tho shrapnel has a combination time and percussion fuse fuso so that It may ma be bo exploded in the air all or falling failing to do doso doso doso so explodes when It hits It will vill kill about men in mass and the ex cx explosion explosion covers a wIde area ares Tho The whole surface of the tho piece Is protected with bulletproof armor tested by b firing the highest power rUle rifle at It at yards ards A section Including one ono gun and two caissons requires a complement of or 16 15 men mon C 6 horses to the carriage and 6 G horses on each 1 caisson There are arc 70 rounds of or ammunition In Inthe tho the caisson body Each piece picco Is I equip ped with a complete sot of tools and spare parts for any part of the gun gunThe gunThe gunThe The crew does docs Its own repairing The battery batter has enough equipment to last for 6 months of or field work A MODERN FIELD GUN GUl I The advantages of the tho new gun were especially marked by officers who had used tho the old gun The old rifle used to Jump about 3 I feet loet into the tho air and kicked back six feet teet every ever time It was fired and It had to be moved back Into Its Us proper place and aimed again before it could be fired again thus causing consider considerable considerable considerable able loss of ot time The old gun was fired tired by b means of a lanyard and all members of or the crew had hud to bo be at least two feet outside of the wheels But the new gun Un Is Ie fired with a firing handle and the crew can caa stay sta right behind the gun protected by the armor from the shots Instead of oC being compelled to fight in the th open The new ne ammunition is also far tar superior to the old which consisted of oC shell or shrapnel and arid a bag of powder The new W projectile is all In one piece and Is fired tired by b a cap capS like an ordinary cartridge so that It can be reloaded by b the crew The whole piece can be bo put out of commission in an Instant In case of or capture by b removing the firing pin from the breech br so that the gun can cannot cannot cannot not be afterwards used by b the tho enemy enem enemOn On each side of or the carriage carnage are two carries for emergency shells to be beoo used only when the tho ammunition Inthe 1 caisson oo Js exhausted I u i and ur the tho ol last q two shots are needed as a n last hope The Tho breech block is wonderfully simpie and can be taken ta tal en apart and put to together together gether gather again In two minutes Perhaps Perlia the main advantage of or this new gun gunIs gunIs gunIs Is the fact that It Is about as near fool tool proof as such mechanism can be beTho beThe Tho The men of the Utah battery had their equipment in fine shape shapo Monday every part of the four guns and eight was as clean and shiny as a billiard balL The new gun does not reflect the light as brilliant brilliantly ly 1 as the piece as It Is paint painted ed od a dull olivo olIve drab which makes males It merge with the landscape In warfare thus keeping it from being easily seen se en by b the enemy enem But the boys had the guns so clean that a white glove gloe could be rubbed around any an accessible part without staining It The Tho Utah battery batten now numbers about 75 men but a full complement of men mea is acceded for tor the tho sum summer summer mer mar camp and those who are interest interested ed are welcomed as recruits Preceding last ast nights reception the equipment was subjected to the fourth of ot Its semiannual inspections Inspections by bv Col Clark of the ordnance c department of or tho the regular army To Judge from the appearance of the equipment Col Clarks com comments comments comments ments can only be satisfactory though he offered no expressions reserving them for his official report With tho the ordnance Inspections and the Inspections Inspections inspections made semiannually semiannual under tho direction of or the secretary of war four inspections of ot the battery batten by regular army arm officers must mUt be passed yearly year |
