Show A CHAT WITH DR rho H no d for HU his ra gaea dan gan tho first gantlin guns I 1 made I X bull la in cincinnati aid said or dr gantling id la an interview with a now york almas ro reporter porton thoro there were six ot of them and they wore no sooner nicely made than they wore destroyed by a oro along with all my patterns thon thou I 1 wont to the iron foundry ud placed an order for thir teen gun guns and these ai as soon as they we ro dono done I 1 put ia in chargo charge of a man named and sent him off to washington to oil sell thorn them when ho he got at to ho loft left all fill the gum except ono one that one bo he took alon alona IS ia a sample old gen was vas at tho the bead head of tho the bureau of ordnance ord nanco and bo he was about tho the most ported perfect old fogy that 01 over or lived ile refused absolutely to look at it the gun wo we dont doret want any newfangled new fancied guns bo he eald said arho old musket Is I 1 good enough thai what goo gen scott won the battla of lundys lano lane with ind wo dont need anything better now theres liko like handling a ramrod in tho the faco face of tl tho loo onomy nom y to give men man courage and nerve no sir lr wu we dont doat want anything better thai we bovo vo got now started for homo home in disgust at baltimore ho he mot gon gen buttor butter who vas was hastening hai ha toning to tho the front iio ile showed the general tho the now gun gua and the general eald said what do you ask tor the lot A thousand dollar alloco I 1 answered mr mcqueeney 1 el I will tako take thorn them said tho the gonera gonora al the whole outfit and giro give you a a voucher for thorn them 11 ho lie did it too although ho he any authority to make tho the purchase well butter took tho the guns uns south with him and used thorn them in bis his light tho ila rebels know what to ranko make 0 of thorn them what kind of guns havo have you cot rot hero ono one of the prisoners asked that load nil all night and fire all day butler used all of his tits ammunition in this fight and mado made a requisition for more but ho he set got it stanton absolutely rotus d to allow it he ile said that tho the gun had not been adopted by tho the department of course that settled the when the wor war was over my friends told me to drop the gun business but I 1 I 1 wont went to and asked for another firing ripley there any more in his place there was a wideawake man gon gen dyer a loan man who wanted to kep keep up with the time and bo be showed a great interest in the galling gun through him ultimately I 1 oot an order dortho trial of tho the gun with cin lster leter cartridges in competition with the howitzers at for js iss Mn manros ros when I 1 got down to the place of trial I 1 found that somo of the officers had put up a job on me they want my gun to do bettor work than the howitzers howit which wore ore a regular arm of the 4 avico I 1 found that to wor work c my run gun they had assign assignor od a a lot of plantation dar darkies kles raw recruits just in from the farm who know any more about a gun than a horse does about his uncle for tho the working of the howitzers they bad had set apart a number of picked men mom apro I 1 protested I 1 eald said I 1 wanted a measurably fair deal give me an hour I 1 said to drill those darkles darales dar kles that much time but it was bolter batter tb th in they gave me the hour and I 1 immediately established a school of gunnery and boban a the work of at educating my crew just before ore the opening of th tho trial I 1 gave each darkey a dollar and I 1 said to him now do your best this dollar is just to begin on I 1 toll you those follows worked liko like heroes I 1 boat beat the howitzers four to one and the report went on to washington to that effect soon after I 1 got an order for guns and that was the first rood good order I 1 had over ever re celver blaco that time I 1 have sold tho the gun all over europe and should have mado made a great deal of money out of it if it each of the several govern governments mente cr dering had stuck to ono one call caller vir the many changes in the caliber which wo we have been compelled compel kd ltd to make havo have beet very expensive I 1 a doubt that wo we bavo thrown away patterns and machiner machinery jr which cost us at least chunges in caliber having mado the pattered patt ernd and machinery obsolete and lesu |