Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-30

THE PRESIDENTS COTTAGE AT DEER PARK Senator II. C.. Davis's cottages at Deer Park for the season, and preparations are being made for his family Mrs Mckee will keep house, as it is not likely that her father can remain away all through the summer, and Mrs. Harrison will not leave him alone. Tine household will include the entire family. Mrs. Senator Saunders and Mrs. Scott Lord will spend much of their time there and provision will be made for company.
 The presidents cottage has been tho summer residence of Samuel J. Spencer's family for the past six years. It is an unpretentious little frame house, painted sage green, with a red ShinSled roof such as any one might secure for S25 a month in a country town, say of the size Indianapolis. The building is two stories and half high, has frontage of forty two feet and a most commodious wash- house, that carries one of the wings back 1OS feet. The entrance is across the broad piazza, abundantly hooked for hammocks, and three open doorways, with as many folding windows, invite the guest. The parlor is an oddly con- structed room, having the entire width of the house, the only division being made by the middle section of wall, in which treplaces are built back to back. There is no hallway or reception room, nothing but this big, open parlor, where the family will live and where an intruder could in no way find an excuse for pro- longing his stay. A simple custard col ored paper covers the walls, the floor Is stained dark brown and the ffreplaces are painted brown after the fashion of century ago.
 One of the adjoining rooms will be fitted up as a library for the presidents s private use, and this with the red finished square little dining room comprise the lower floor. The kitchen has the only luxury the house affords-a copper boiler for supplying the bath with hot water. On the second floor are the sleeping rooms. four in all, reached by flight of steps that are steep enough to have been modelled after a fire escape. In the half st ry arc the servants quarters No at tempt will be made at interior decora- ton.
 Within the last five years the United States government has expended large sums for the building of heavy guns for the navy. The crowning work in this direction was the completion of the forScd-stcel breech-steel breech-loadiug ten-nch gun which has recently been set up at the naval ordnance proving ground, in Annapolis.
 This gun is twenty-five feet long, weighs twenty-five tons, and burns charge oi 200 pounds of powder, with projectle weighing 500 pounds. When the gun is fired, the projcctle leaves the nuzzle with a velocity of ,000 feet per second, and will pierce nearly two feet of solid wrought-iron at that point; but if unimpeded, the same projectile fired with the gun at extreme elevation, will be carried eight or nine miles. The tube and jacks of this gun are made of steel purchased of Sir Joseph Whitworth in England, but in the future the material will all be of home manufacture Four of these guns are to be mounted on the double-turreted monitor Miantonomah, now building at the Brooklyn navy-yard The Monitor had eleven-inch smooth bore guns, afterward replaced in others of her class by tifteen-inch smooth bores This tifteen-inch gun was at that time a leviathan among contemporary pieces of ordnance. It weighed about twenty-two tons, nearly as much as the new steel gun, but it burned a charge of only thirty five pounds of powder, and throw a spherical projectile weighing 400 pounds with an initial velocity of 300 feetand an extreme range of 2,1O0 yards.
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