Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-08-31

which is to sail Monday, bat the resist
ance to the order wns 80 groat that all
we're shipped at the old salaries.
shipping Intelligence.
San Francisco. Aug. 30.-Arrived-
Steamer Santa Cruz. from Nanaimo !;
schooner Challenger from Seattle !;
schooner Rebeoca Hughes, from Colam-
bia River.
TuE GATLING Gun.
something About the Man who In.
vented the Destructive Engine Of
war.
Rochester Herald.
The Calling gun is, of all modern en-
gines of war, the most terrible. | ask. d
its inventor. Richard Calling, not long
since how he came to bend his mind in
that direction. "Well," be replied.
shifting his glasses, 81 was in Incian-
apolis during the war, and almost every
day walked through the Union depot.
Sad scenes were on every hand then
families all torn up-fathers, brothers
and husbands going to the front, and,
after bit, many of their bodies coming
b tok, when the W 4ils of woe we're blend
cd with the cheers of the recruits and
and the happy greetings of return. The
terrible scenos saw, the agonlzin9 tri-
as of p.rtlDgs and meetings and the
depths of despair / shall never forget
IL seemed so terrible to me, this war
strife and slaughter. that / became al
most fascinated by its horror, and con-
ce,ved the idea of inventing gun so
powerful and effective as an engine of
gar that soldiers might in the main be
di pensed with"
luis proposition, inconsistent though
Il be, led the way, and the inventor
taxed on as we smoked together In The
twill gut.
and I did have tims over that gu
Previous to that had invented Qfa
DEP, for which had snld manufaotur-
iix ahts all over the West, realizing n
the neighbour md Ut $8J,0JO tnersrrom.
| was pretty well fixed. but when Dom
menced On the gun business my shekels
began to go. After perfectinR the model
Ut the original gun had long SO ,rcL
IN quest of Ala est ,blishmeut adequate
TO their manufaoture. Fiaally, waen
SIX guas were completed in Cincinuan
suop the works were tired, dou otiess by
) ,uthern sympatnizsrs, aud the whole
" ~ q QCb0 kO11s hhO ypC
Foundry vas my next resource, and rs
the war had thrown a damper upon
type founding aud the works were idle,
rue proprietors m ,de contract for AN
other half dozen guns. When com
pleted Chicago man on his way to
Washington undertook thsir sale. SEQ.
ret ,ry stanton wouldn't even look at
shem, however. g neral Butler was the
only military man who could be brought
20 see the merit IL the iuven ION, Aud
hi. own authority he purchased tn m
AZ fl0O0 eacn UaluckIly tor ae, IN,
selling aeeut failed before accounting
20 me and tue sale brought me nothing
g neral Butler used the guns veiy
effectively Ia one eng agement, when tue
,mm initien being exh uSted, the Set
ret .ry of War perenptorily refused 10
furnish supplies and the weapons ly
Idle.
Il made more guns, however, my
Friends advice 20 the contrary. Now
the United States Government owns
over 100 of them, and they are used by
every civilized government"
Calling has. like most inventors, had
checkered career, yet one marked
throughout by less of failare than any
of hos class. The screw as a motive
power was his first invention. At that
tune he was but boy with his father
10 Virginia. A neighbor invited the
father TO inspect a mod / OF boat 90
constructed ~ to operate paddles un-
derneath the water and obvIate the diff
fisulties OF motive power in which
sidewheels we're liable TO be shot ava,
during engagement. Young Gatlins
VAS an interested spectator of the trial,
and noting tie utter clumsiness of ac-
tioa and waste OF power in the mechan
ism, set his brain to work to devise
something better. In short time he
evolved perfect vo king modal with
the screw propeller as motive power. HE
father was called upon TO pass iudg
ment on the invention. Its worth
! pateuting, Richard" the senior con
Guided, On inspections; 'in the fall
will probably have bu siness for you AZ
Baltimore, and You can 90 on to Wash
ington and make An application your
self A few months later this pro-
or ,m Vas carried out. but much to the
ooy 3 chsRrin, IL was found that Erics
sou had presented O similar nodel two
days in advance of the formers claim,
and not fully understanding the value
OF the invention, or IN fact the mssns
of sibstantis,ing q prior claim, the in.
ventor did NOT couf-st the matter. as
there could be no doubt that 10 was
original With both.
During the early wears of his progress
az an Inventor Calling made visit Va
Niagara Fslis. The magnificent power
of the cataract suggested train Of
thought which bore fruit In the forma
ton OF q company In PittshurR with
the object OF supplying csmpress~d air
as motive p ser from soms central
point Falling to obtain = p,tent up IN
| sne dss 10 vas abanconed. though the
de sisioas OF the c.se have since hen
n sde the basis for she Patent Oiiee
rulings OF the Unlted B ates-
| CApssin Gatlla9 - uow shout 20 years
OF az :, quite Rr ". bat active aud erect
40 OF yore. His 10 familiar figure AZ
Wssh,netsn hotels, and IN f-cs as the
sapstsls Ut the world, though his nom
| iaai residen % In at Il ,rtford, Csnn.
OF late he has perfected several valued .
| isnpr svements upon tbs engine Of wsr
which bears his name. all OF which arr
applied 10 the more recent purchases OF
n a -.