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Show I OLD CANNON CAN'T BE BROKEN. Armament of Old Craft Was Made to Last. A good story is being told at the Mare Island navy yard concerning a San Francisco contractor who bought all the old obsolete cannon which wore sold at tho local yard somo tlmo ago. The cannon wore nil of tho smooth bore kind, nnd in order thnt they might be easily handled for shipment to tho city all sorts of schemes were tried to ondenvor to break them with dynamite and blasting powder, but thoy were unsuccessful. I An electric drill machtno was oven se up at tho yards and tho cannon were drilled full of holes In ordor to weaken thorn for breaking open with wedges, but this was also unsuccessful. unsuccess-ful. Tho cannon were thon tnkon away and tho last heard of them thoy wore corralled In tho hills near Point Hlchmond, where nn effort was being mado to break thorn open with dynamite dyna-mite again. Tho cannon which proved to bo eo I strong were among tho armament of tho war craft which sailed tho Boas t in 1812. |