Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-02-20
THE DYNAMITE GUN.
ENGLAND USING TO ADVANTAGE THOSE
OF AMERICAN MAKE
Some Of the Orders Sent 10 and What The Rr-
psrss Of lhe Same Will Bs-Lehisvt-
msnis IN Firearms.

NEW YORK, February l9.-It was learn.
cd at the offices Of the Pneumatic Dyns-
mite Gun Company thst the order OF tie
British Government for so dynamite guns
will not be given to the company until
test is mode in Eogland Of gun soon to
be shipped from here
The order for the 80 pieces was recently
reported by cable ss having been formally
made, and the officials Of the company are
nov awaiting advices by mail.
TIE British government, it is said, las
fully determined to adopt the dynamite
gun as an auxiliary 20 the coast dtfenses.
providing the coming tests prove ss salts
factory as those made last year at Fort La
fsyette. IL is further learned tlst England
proposes to erect similar batteries in India,
Australia and the West Indies. The an
ticipated order for 80 guns, il is believed,
is only commencement, and IL is expect
ed that before the year is over another
order as large, if not larger, will be given
for the same weapon. No doubt is ex'
pressed as to the coming test Of the 10 inch
gan in Eoelsnd, bnt the British authori-
tiCo WISH 70 hecuIc tutul1tifCo pcicNh1ill
OF the reports mode by detailed officers.
The test gun is at prestn, at Cold Spring,
N. Y, but will be shipped to Eugland
during the early part Of March. Already
the emplacement is built for the reception
of the gun sDd several pieces Of mechanism
have been shipped over by the company.
The tsst, il is thought, will be completed
some time during the month Of April. la
sll 200 loaded shells will be fired The
projectiles aud their explosive charges
will be furnished by the Pneumatic Dyna-
mite Gan Compsny.
BRITISH OFFICERS WITNESS THE IRsT.
1t il now learned that the Inspections
made by British 6flicers daring the series
Of iesis At FL, lafayette last spring were
fully reported to the Government and that
these officers were 80 fully convinced If
the Efficiency Of the dynamite gun that
they strongly urged their War Department
to accept the weapon without undertaking
further tests.
The frat order given by the British Gov
ernment was received by the Pneumatic
Gun Company last fall. The order called
for three Is inch dynamite guns, to be
USED for the hsrbor d,fsnte OF Victoria,
Australia. This order ALEC called for the
delivery Of some 200 SHELLS and explosive
matter. Each gun furnished by the Pneu-
matte Gun Company will cost the British
Government about $50, GOO. The delivery
OF the fifty guns TO the British Govern
ment, with all the air reservoirs, car
riages, etc will roalizs to the company
eum not far short of 81 500, coo.
A prominent officer of the United Statts
Navy remarked yesterday 1t looks ss II
there is 10 be a repetition of the old story
With the dynamite gun. Our own govern
ment never appears to recOgrizs good
thing until it is snatched mp by some for
eign power AID is in foil beadway on the
continent.
1t is thought that II works are establish.
ed abroad the loss OF the dynamite gun
will be even greater to this country than
that experienced 10 the Hotchkiss revolv-
ing csnnon, the Gardner gun; the Maxim
gun, and still later in the briggs Scbroe-
der gun.