Show SEVERE TEST OF blare which are Ente En terlly rily Success successfully full Stan standing dinK the most alaid tails tests washington july ll 11 the third of the series of armor plate teats tests of world wide interest and importance took place here bero today ou on tha th naval proving grounds on the Poto potomac macriver river the tests are for acceptance and for a prein niam lunt it Is stipulated if the plates resisted penetration under a certain prescribed velocity the makers should receive a premium ton in bi addition to the contract contra cV pried pric 6 of per pee ton the first test was of a nine inch plate a sample of the side armor of the monitor it is nickel steel weighed ten tons and was made by the carnegie prick co go three holtier pr M tiles weighing pounds each were fir fired against it from an eight inch rifle the tile muzzle being fifty eight feet from the face fate of the target the first projectile bad had a velocity of 1400 feet er second at the moment of impact and penetrated the plate and the oak backing to a depth of inches the second projectile with a striking velocity of 1083 feet went through guthe the plate three feet of oak back ing 1111 and d lost los t itself in the arth earth against ill which oft it was built the third projectile bad had a velocity of 1530 feet and penetrated the tile plate and backing to a depth of 14 inches tee the plate well withstood the tile strain of attack no cracks being perceptible and it fully met with every requirement for acceptance but the result of the second shot deprived the makers of an any 0 chance I 1 lance for the premium depending on t the K e test of about tons of plate involving nearly the second plate wasa was a sam sample 16 I 1 of curved plates for the barbette ba rhette on oll rh the e indiana made by the bethlehem Keth lehem company and like the first of nick 1 I steel it was subjected to an attack from front a I 1 12 inch rifle which throw brew a large carpenter shell weighing weigh pounds n da ifa its muzzle bel being aig feet from the face of the plate the tile ing voli city of the first shot wag was 1333 2 feet per er second and it penetrated to a depth of r feet of inches the second shot was fired with a velocity of oflus feet per second and went 3 inches into the oak backing tho the the third and last shot to determine whether or not a p premium em uin was to be paid had tile velocity raised ae d to 1853 feet per second and when the dust following the di discharge lifted it was found that the ai shell ell had cone clear through the plate a and n tone 4 40 in binche bes of oak backing and then deflected into the air and aud plunged into the river some hundreds of barja away or was lost in the woods on the hillside the plate secured for the makers the acceptance O 0 of the whole contract amounting to from to tons but earned no premium like the me li deock plate it showed no cracks under ats the terrific strain to which it had been subjected even more satisfactory than the tile showing made by tho the plates was that of the projectiles the eight inch shells of the holtzer conical pattern and the twelve inch odthe of the carpenter conical pattern all the tile shells recovered appeared wholly unchanged to the unpracticed eye and a gauge allowed they were disturbed to such a small degree that they might again be fired with till an attachment of a strip for rifling after the tests were concluded all the and experts expressed unbounded gratification at the results |