Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-08
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wonderful Improvement. nave re re-
centlv been made In the oslhnE W.,
and Dr. Calling, the inventor, h''
been here for some days, lilus.t".int
them to tile Leading men on tnc Wn''i
dennitnient. He bas sboWn luet ~ a16S
,nln can now fire on an aVeIuRe ii-uI
ehots per minute conliiiuousHi ~" ~.
Ibe latest inventions eniio'e !" "
fired at any angle. Before th'S @
force OF gravity prevented lnc ''i,i.
upward OF downward ptSollu ~.
tain degree, but tins ms peeil eu.'iV',
overcome, and n hot can now W. ~
ne,,,endidulnrly into the air, aud the
I'M ,.on be so mined ~ 10 throw bul
is,s inside of n fort or any besieged
fertilization. , +, ,,,,
sixtv.six years old. He Is tau.
broad-sh6uldered, white-whiskeieu
man with n friendly face, bright-oiue
,yes. and pleassut tongue. talked
with him In the Ebbitt house yester-
day evening about his gun ana he TOD
ma how he came to Invent 1t SAID
he. az had made several Inventions
before his. one OF which was the
wheot-drill. which l. now IN use all
over the country aud think 1t was
nv study on IL that prepared me Tor
HE Calling gun. In 1861 | was living
M Indinnapols The war had broken
olt md the country was all excitement
nv honse was within few blocks OF
tho denof and WIS often present here
when The volunteers We're departing
for ihe field and also when iheir
dead bodies were 81 times shippeo |
back nd home in boxes for burial. one |
surprise to me was that the number Of |
men killed by sickness aud disease was
more tllap tho.e killed by ball or actual
battle. one dny remember nineteen
corpses were landed at the depot three
had been killed IA battle. The thought
then struck ME ia gun could be in
vented 10 do the work OF hundred |
men aud require but few men To ope-
rate IL, that the horrors OF war would
he greatly diminished, and nm end
would come much sooner OF every
struggle. More men could stay at
home, and lives would be saved. The
thought took sach hold of me that
commenced 10 work on il ut once. The
result was the Calling gun,
"My first guns were made in Cincin-
NATL and they would lire from 100 to
80 shots per minute. had six OF
them manufactured in 1862, when the
foundry WIS burned by lncendiaries--
/ suppose rebel syinpathizegs--a anu the
guns We're destroyed. Next Ihad thir-
teen guns made at what is now the
type foundry Ia Cincinnati, and these
i sent on 10y my partner, wealthy
mert liant of Cincinnati, 10 Washing
ton 20 Try To persuade the government
TO Introduce them. He took them %
Baltimore, where he LETT twelve, and
went with the other 10 Washington,
The chiefof the Ordinance department
at the time was an old foGy He re-
ceiyed him coldly, told him ne had no
faith la his gun, ana that he believed
flint-lock lnuskeis We're, on the whole,
the best weapons for warfare. In
short, he would have nothing 90 do
with him. My partner then left
and returned 10 Balti-
more. Ben Butler was there with his
troops. He had heard Of the guns,
ard he asked TO see them work. As
soon MS lie bad done so he said he
would buy them on his own RESPONSE
biiity, and did so, giving his voucher
for ST., oilo for them. My partner had |
a great fall in pork, and $4,000 hogs |
which he md packed in Chicago, with |
the expectation of u rise, had TO be
sold. In = word, the break in the
market ruined him, and |
my money went with him 1
So, for the first twenty guns
i had made. ut great cost 70 my
self, | received nothing. Ben Butler
took the guns he had brought with him
to the battle of Petersburg and fired
them himself upon the rebels. They
created great consternation and slaugh-
ter, AVID the news of them went all
over the world. Now they are used by
all the leading governments of Europe
and also in Asia aud Africa. They Ell,
abled Tie Russians TO eonqCer Austria
in 1860, though the Austriaus hal the
larger forces, and they shortened the
war by Germany and France 30 that it
practically lasted but few days.
"Ihe Calling guns are now made in
Hartford in this country and in Eu-
rope at Newcastle-nn.th e-Tyne. | sell
only to governments, aud the United
states uses many of my guns. They
now take part ia all wars, aud you
have seen the reports uf the work they
have donein Egypt
"How far will the Calling gun send
ball?p
"From twoto three miles. Thenew
improvements which enable IL to be
fired into the air are such that the hall
when II falls TO the earth acquires such
face OF gravity, such n velocity, tina,
when II reaches the ground II will pas.
through u plank two inches thick
This IL distance of three thousand
yards from the place Of iiring.n
"Will it shoot aceurately?n