The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-06
HE MAKES DEATH DEALERS.
DR.. eATLINe AND HIS TERRIBLE GUN.
Now at Work on One which VIII Throw q
Projectile Weighing n Ton Fourteen
miIes-His Views ProJeotsles
and Methods OF Man Killing.

close cropped white beard and snowy
locks just stepping from the sidewalk to
the crossing. What a springy walk he
has, Looks like banker who is deacon
in my church and carries around the con-
tribution basket on Sunday mornings"
remarked a gentleman on Washington
st. yesterday afternoon.
The subject OF the inquiry was DIR.
Richard ]. Calling, now of Hartford,
Conn, but formerly OF indianapolis, the
inventor OF the most murderous death
dealing engine of modern times, the
Calling gun, that fires 12,003 shots a min
ute and destroys multitudes by machinery.
About forty years ago he invented drill
for sowing wheat, but laterly has been
directing his attention TO the most sc.en-
tifc manner OF drilling human beings.
Later on DR.. Calling was asked about
the reduction in calibre of ammunition.
"The board of ordnance OF the U. s. army
of which Gen Flagier is chief, vice Gen.
Bench, retired" said DIR. Calling. ''has
adopted the 30-l00 calibre ammunition.
The bullet consists of q copper jacket
shorter than the bullet, the channelures
and the filling OF the jacket are lead. Tn
board has, however, not fully decided
upon the style of the magazine-gun to be
adopted, although bolt action with a
spreading fange that fits into the firing
chamber and takes the strain off the bolt
| is looked upon favorably. Smokeless
powder will be used and the point blank
| range is about three hundred yards. The
| initial velocity of the bullet will be about
| twenty one hundred feet a second, as
against ,275 with the 45-100 ca ibre in use
now The penetration is about forty
inches OF pine, as compared TO fifteen
| inches by the present bullet. The gun
will throw a bullet through two men
standing in front and rear rank at 1000
| yards. The fattened trajectory in
creases the dangerous SPACE enOr-
| mously, as the ricochet of the bullet
will be correspondingly far;ened.
My new gun will OF course shoot this am
munition and it can now be trained in any
direction. Bullets can be fired up in the
air and dropped down behind fortiica-
| tons and into rifle pits. In late expert
ment, at an ang.e of sixty-six degrees
elevation, it was fifty-eight seconds before
the first bullet came down. The bullets
| had a penetration of over two inches in
pine, SO you can see they would kill
man." Here the doctors face fairly
beamed with smiles.
OF rapid-firing guns DR.. Calling said:
''There are two first class single barrel
guns made in Hartford. One is the
! Griggs-Schroeder and the other is the
| Hotchkiss. OF course my gun is a ma
chine gun, but it and the H0chkiss
| worked beautifully during the late Indian
war. These guns are well adapted for tor
! pedo boat defense l am working on a
| gun of that kind and think it will be the
| best of the kind, when finished, in the
market If you could fire 1000 shots a
minute out of six-pound riiied cannon
and could increase the size indefinitely
you would have an ideal gun for topedo
! boat defense"
"In this gun do you apply your machine
! principle or not?"
''That is my secret. There has been no
| appropriation made Tor guns of that kind.
| think l shall sell it to some foreign gov
eminent as they are willing to pay tor a
| good thing when they see 1t.
Lieut. Graydon has at length arrived at
| the proper medium for the propulsion of
| dynamite. For a long time he used pow
! der, but this is not safe, because it operates
! so suddenly as to cause danger of the pre-
mature explosion of the shell. You know
| Graydon is native OF Indiana, graduated
at the naval academy, entered the navy,
invented his gun, resigned from the navy
! and went to England where he was offered
! q commission in the army, but refused il
! because he could not take the oath of
allegiance | always liked him for that.
Both his gun and the Zalinski are very
effective at a distance of one mile, but
| beyond that they cannot be depended
upon. The Zalinski gun cannot be traiied
| or elevated sufficiently.
"What result has followed the expert
ments with the Brown spiral wire wound
| cannon?" was asked.
"Ihe only result that could be expected,
| after a few discharges it burst aud every
time it is tried it bursts. They used TO
build guns on that principle 800 years
ago and when they were loaded heavily
! they always burst. The core heats and
expands thereby stretching the wire and
| the next discharge of the gun ruptures it.
1t is not the proper way to build a gun.
what we need in this country is high
power. long-range guns that will throw
| prolectile twelve or fourteen miles. The
people need them for coast defense. There
| is not a gun now in any of the batteries on
the coast that would be effective against
a modern iron-clad. The people in our
| broad land do not want to be at the mercy
of any little principally or kingdom. At
| the present time there is nothing to prevent
any of them from laying along our shores
and levying tribute on our coast cities.
Won Moltke never said truer thing than,
the way to prevent a war is to beprepared
| for it. Human nature Is just like 1t al
WAYS was know two neighbors who
had lived in peace for thirty years along
eide of each other; belonged to the same
church. Yet one day when pig got
through the fence, they quarreled, and one
got his gun and shot the other. Civiliza-
ton is only skin deep, and nobody knows
when fight will be thrust upon them.
1t is usually when you least expect it, and
they don't give you any notice"
"You have invented a new high power
gun, have YOU not?" asked the reporter.
"Who told you about that?" quickly re-
sponded the doctor Then after considera-
| be sparung, the doctor slowly said:
"Well there is very dear friend OF mine
in Hartford that has invented gun of
that kind. The late experiments aboard
| the English ironclad Victoria demon
strated conclusively that the built-up sys-
TEN of making large ordnance was emf
nently wrong. The core of the gun is
cast and then steel bands are shrunk on.
| No mechanic in the world can shrink
them on the core so that the tension will
be equal. Some are bound to be tighter
| than others. When the gun is discharged
several times the core heats and expands,