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Show GUN SHOT IS NOISELESS. NEW RIFLE STANOS TEST BEFORE BE-FORE SOCIETY'S OFFICERS. Click of Hammer and Thud of Bulls! Only Sounds In Firing Rifle Our Ing Demonstration by Hiram Maalm, the Invantor, New York. In absolute silence, save for the sharp, short click of the rllle hammer as It fell and tho thud of th Impact of the bullet on Ihe turuot, lllnim Percy Mnvitn repeatedly ills charged bla noiseless firearm. I'slng a stuck of old directories as a mark, Mr. Minim demonstrated to Alfred Al-fred WaKstnfT, president, and the bonrd of managers of Ihn American Hoclety for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ani-mals the possibilities of the new weapon, n :IS caliber rlllii. Hla demonstration was given In Ihe nmns of Ihn society at Twenty-slsth street and Madison avenue at the request re-quest of members of Ihe board or ninnagei's. who are seeking a slaughtering slaugh-tering wcupon that will kill without causing pain. Heretofore firearms have been ImiKisslble on account of tho load report. Mr. Maxims silencer comprises a series of aluminum cells, fitted with Ulterior equipment Hint automatically cuts off the powder gases from sudden sud-den escape after the bullet has paaaed from Ihe rifle barrel. The gases' escape es-cape slowly, and consequently without noise, through "silence cells" fitted to the rifle barrel. (Experiments are soon to bo made by officers of tho buresti of ordnance In tha army with a silent rifle the Inventor has made for military sharpshooters. sharp-shooters. This weapon Is more complicated com-plicated In construction than the slaughtering rifle, since the degree of sound lo warfare must be an absolute minimum. "In making a silent rifle for Ihe army many difficulties will have to be overcome that are not met In this laughter gun," said Mr. Mailtn. "In s this gun only the report has tn bo overcome, but In an army weapon I must start rsrther back nnd first overcome over-come Ihe sound of the fulling hammer. ham-mer. To do I his In turn requires a rhntiKo In the rap nf the cartridge so that II may be discharged wllh a shove Instead of n snap." It wna through his study of tho automobile au-tomobile and the problem nf reducing the noise of lla machinery that Mr. Mrixllll hit upon Ihe principle of constructing con-structing a gun that could be 11 red without noise. 11 |