Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-10-11
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LOCATION OF PLUM ISLAND.

guns on the ships whose attack they
will rcpcl
The thirty-two great guns for the two
Plum island batteries are to be OF the
new pattern of twelve-inch mortars
known IS howitzcrs, of which success
ful tests have been made within the last
ten days at Sandy Hook. They are
brccch-loading and constructed on the
bulrs-cye plan, steel lined. rife bored
and steel hoped 1t is much longer
than the old pattern OF fnortars and is
capable OF extreme accuracy in firing.
The projcctiles for one of these monster
cannons, which dropped on the deck of
the best armored ironclad in existence
would pierce the entire ship. is of solid
bulk o. steel. three feet long. weighing
six hundred and twenty-five pounds and
costing three hundred dollars. Eighty
pounds cf powder viii drive this large
proiectiie ei~ht miles. The gun will
also throw shells containing high ex-
picsives. By this means it can drop
enough nitroglyccrine on ships deck
20 scatter an ironclad into ten thousand
pieces.
The important work at Plum island
viii GO on coinci1ently with the COM
ple.ioa. CT the fortiacstions at Sandy
Hook. where Engineer Gillespie has
nearly eco men now at work. These
fortiacations. which are well advanced,
arc but few hundred feet from the
remnants OF the great stono fort that
was l1ersn during the war of the rebel
lion. Tho gunlcss reccsses and urfn-
shed walls of the old fort, with their
imposing elegance Of cut granite, are
interesting to-day only as a monument
II antiquatcd methods Of warfare. The
work on thc Sandy Hook fort was aban-
doued soon after the close OF hostilities
with the south. when already the inn
movement n prejcctiles foreshadowcd
the future useiessness Of stone fortifiea-
tons. 4 few hundred feet away from
these grass grown and sand strewn walls
stands great mass Of iron aud steel.
surrounded by complicated machinery,
derricks. cranl-s. cogw wheels, swivels
and recording dials. IL is one of tho
new tyvelvc-iuch howitzers whose de-
t1ssation during it's test firing the past
fortnight has shattered windows six
miles away. and with single shot de-
str0yed s.. goo worth OF srrnor plating.
Hsra Times Coming.
General Discomfort IN command
No trust but D1strust,
Nothing moving but stagnationi
Look cat for the worst
These warnings. applicable alike TO
business and sne condition Of eur own
bellies. Nnea there IL 'snothing NOV
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fapctons at the body. aud they fail 10
90 tps work designed Tor them, when
tclsis. eatafrh ur bronchitis hang on
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