Show he 0 TI UNCLE SAMS S BIG GUNS TO BE AT BUFFALO EIk by un unthinking lIAS UI s been 1 h thinking p that lt the Oil t not United Slates tire uro of oC th the thi 61 IT well nil A dt J fl l of oC new newlight Lt G light mil Ill I F JI let Into Inlo such gloomy atur exhibit ot ottha minds by th the at nt tho UiO Pan tha th t War Sar Department American When tho tim timi thol i l I opens for or sIx months wason cason nt at on May 1 I of ot this year ear earthe visitor will wilt tho flie ii t the early tt oM OUt gu anti and nolt powerful i over exhIbited ly hy the In States SlAtes Government Iven liven in Lh the smaller ch now new guns In the thO Goy Gov COV Government COVI 4 of Cf tho two great exhibit at tho the u ute will I tj te Le larger than thun any ever before display cd ed t by b our Uncle Samuel Captain Peter C Harris who In itt chargo charge rents enU ent the War Department of ot the entire war exhibit lute has been en caged actively toy for months upon u on his great work worle of at coll tho the newest display of ot the tho kiwi kind ever mallo In ta ti countr country It ft w an nn que question Ion perhaps that I asked when I Inquired It If his hll exhibits would bo ho ready on May Mayas IT I 1 as ns though there thero were any other al alternative alen en for tor a soldier coWler The Tho Captain I looked hooked reprovingly at lit me mea a Hut But of ot the th guns gUM Indeed boiler thir ec bl around as a n locomotive t If ty t odd foot cot long With a IL more muzzle than over ever coughed destruct destruction on t upon pon any hostile fleet built with Ith tho the theu I delicate In ad adjustment accuracy of a t watch so o oa u that a little finer Anger may tray trav traverse tra r erse tho the gun eun thus moving a II weight of ot it nearly half halt u Li million pounds yet ot a n ma mil machine machine chine to spout a 11 volcanic blast and to torr II rr create creato an earthquake at the will of ot nani I The rhe big bI gun of oC which I speak Is a n 1 United States Army Arm breech i loading rifle model of ot 1833 1895 mounted up upon upon upon on iv a 1 disappearing carriage Its weight tripped stripped of ot everything Overy thing even ven the tho breech breechblock breechblock block Is pounds Its total length U Is JS 38 6 lOO feet reet The Tho maximum diame diameter diameter ter at tho the breech Is Inches It throws an nil armor piercing shot sh t weigh weighing weighIng ing lag 1000 pounds the length of ot which Is le lethree I three and one OM half halt feet teet It also throws L n ii projectile an nn armor piercing shell pt weighing 1000 pounds four our feet teet long carrying n a bursting charge hafl e of oC SIM 3 pounds of gun cotton The fhe charge of ot IH IN pounds of smokeless or pounds of ot brown powder IF Tho rho muzzle velocity of ot the under tho the above conditions Is 2300 feet teet feeter per er second with n a maximum pressure per square Inch of ot pounds The rho muzzle energy enenY Is foot toot tons The 1 power lOwer ot of penetration In steel teci at It the muzzle Is 09 Inches nt at 1000 yards 23 Inches at 2000 yards Inches IncItes and at lit ati 2600 too OO yards Inches The Tho total weight of ot the th gun und and carriage Is Iii i The fhe I Is feet tee I In lii diameter nt at the bane Imse and the gun pun when In firing position Is seventeen I feet above tho tite baso bUBe of ot the iho carriage When hen the shot Is tired fired the tho recoil causes the mechanism to lower the this gun seven and feet teet behind behl I tho the parapet The gun has hns an tin accuracy of ot aim for tor l about eight tight miles and tho the extreme range Is about double that distance As All I have hae ald guns runs of ot this type have hoe never before been Leon exhibited by the United States Government and they are designed for tor use In secret fortifications to which no visitors ore are admit admitted admitted ted tell under any circumstances The gun was wan manufactured at Ar Arsenal ArE E senal near Troy froy N Y The fhe carriage was vLis made at the this Watertown Arsenal near The fhe disappearing car carriage carI I ringe designed several years ngo 1 by L Captain now Brigadier I General and Chief of oC Ordnance and Im Iii Improved proved and adapted to modern steel rl ri ties lies by Captain WillIam Crazier Crozier Ord Ordnance nance nanco Corps United States Army It Is known as nl tho the car carriage 0 ilage The rite mounting of these maIn mam mammoth a In moth pieces of ot has hns bern been In Inthe Inthe inthe the Immediate charge of ot Lieutenant H n HII nII t tt t II C Kelton and u tt small detail of ot ar nr artillerymen S To fo enable tho the observer readily to snake an nn Intelligent comparison ot of the mounts of our seacoast guns Captain Harris hag hns caused canned to he be placed by tho the side Bide of ot the tho great grent t gun Run a n ten tenI Inch rifle on n II barbette barbetto carriage In a n I barbette the rifle rille Is at nt nil all times exposed above aboe the parapet The Tile render reader zany may remember the tite discussion on the tho subject between General Miles d and the Ordnance Or Hoard the tho general generala not favoring the disappearing device a I chiefly on account of at Its complicated mechanism and Its liability to get gH out c of ot order rach carriage appears to toI I have Its particular use lISl us On elevated tp ItC the parapet furnishes all the pro proS required but hut on a lint Hat coast till tile r disappearing carriage would seem to possess very ery great advantage It Is thought that on low sites the rifle must be mounted either elthor on a 11 disappearing tn carriage or In a n turret The expense a of ot n a 1 turret Is estimated at nt about four tour I end and a half times the cost of ot the disappearing l carriage The rite Hoard Boull Hoardon Boullon I on Ordnance and I a anum mini num number miniS S her ber Jer of oC years ago decided In favor of ot till the disappearing carriage and the depart department it ment has hIlS been laboring to obtain a ai i satisfactory one ant The otto oho shown at the Exposition Is hi considered id the moat perfect In the world The rUle rifle Is from tr Il the model of ot 1895 1805 arid weighs pounds Its total length Is feet and the diameter of nt the breech Is thir F ty een Inches The Tito projectile Is ts nn an ana a armor piercing shot or shell The shell elicit carries a 11 bursting charge of ot 22 pounds pou lIs lIsot S ot of gun cotton and weighs Gili 5 pounds having baying a n length of ot four tour feet teet The solid solidS S shot eliot Is three and feet ret long The rite powder Jowder charge Is HO to rounds pounds of oC t smokeless leu powder and the ve ye velocity velocity ot of the tho projectile Is 2300 feet teet In Ins int Ina t S s a The maximum pressure pre suro per II Inch Is pounds The Tho she lIe 1 energy ener with the charge of at smokeless t powder lowder IH III i foot toot tons The gun has hns hast hasa t a penetrating power of ot twenty Inches In steel at 2500 2600 yards At the right of ot f the gun a n aa a mortar has hu been mounted I and It Is I no small affair Farther to toI I the right U It n a rapid fire firo gun All are mounted behind sections of ot a n aI I parapet and the tour four our pieces represent a one lne gun of ot each type used In seacoast I fortifications To the left of oC the great grent disappearing gun Iun will bo he exhibited the tho theold theS S old seacoast ordnance of tim tho United arranged In n a historical series the gun Itself representing the climax Near tin the small email building specially constructed for tor or this purpose 1 will 1111 bo Le displayed Cl the mountain field fiell fielland and ind nd siege icons puna of ot the present Ire nt day to tot V C t f With Uh types of o old guns cuns used usell in I ty pounds In lu 1861 1161 tIle the first Hodman flodman gun was cast cam These guns were vere smoothbore of ot cast Iron The fhe process of manufacture was evolved by General who to prevent In Injurious Injurious injurious jurious strains produced by L cooling castings from the lie exterior cast these guns on a n hollow core and cooled by n a stream of water or air passing through the core gun cun fired n a shot weighing pounds with n a charge ot or forty pounds of ot b nek powder and was Willi the tho first great gun run Introduced In modern times In any service Just before tho the Civil War muskets and guns began to displace smooth smoothbores smoothbores smoothbores bores Captain rifles were the first ones of oC large caliber call her used In the United mates Hates service The rho largest of ot those these had an eight and ten Inch bore and were ivero cast hollow and nud cooled from the Interior on the tho Hodman HallInan plan pIon They were by shrinking a coiled colled band of at Iron over that portion of at the gun gUll which surrounds the powder charge The Tho Parrott tide fired llred nn art elongated projectile weighing ICO Io pounds pound with ith a II charge of ot sixteen pounds of ot black powder The rifle fired a 1 pound elongated projectile tile with twenty five pounds of ot powder Inside ins lIe of ot the main Government build buildIng lag Ing will be exhibited 1 the machine guns of ot all kinds Including the automatic gun pun now flow being used by tho the United States Army Arm In the Philippines anti and China also aIM several hundred small entaIl arms art showing the development of ot these arms from the tue match lock wheel lock hint flint lock hock and percussion cap lock to tho the magazine small arms of at today In the Engineering section of at the this War Department ment will be exhibited models of at engineering work both military and II nIl those constructed by 11 our Corps In the river and harbor work Among the latter will be ie models model of ot the breakwater being constructed In nut Dut Buffalo falo tab harbor A very ery Interesting collection lion tion of ot models of ot engineering work on the Mississippi ncr will also bo Le dis displayed displayed played Two of at the Mississippi models the Dredging Plant llant anti and Hy Hydraulic 11 Irader given Ilven the grand grandI j prize I In the recent Paris exposition u I In tha B nal section of ot the War WarIe DC I e I recently sent bent Captain Harris a n plan ot of this feature In the Quartermasters Quart will be Le shown paintings photograph and drawings illustrating the Army Trans Transport Transport Transport port service Uniforms of ot the army at different periods from the Revolution to the present day will be bo exhibited on about forty lay III figures The fhe entire exhibit of at the tho War Depart Department Department I ment under Captain Harris wilt will be of ot a I most entertaining character as ns the Captain hUll has visited all nil thin the arsenals of ot the tho country countr gathering such Bitch things as ns asto asto to him seemed scorned of oC public Interest and value In order to make an entirely entire new and attractive exhibit MARK IAm DENNITT |