The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-18
VALUE OF DYNAMITE.
The Many Useful Purposes Which
1t Serves.
HARMLESS and safe to Handle rf rrecau.
tions Are Taken ioth iInat and
Percussion Needed to Explode
It-Nethods OF Manufacture.

jorlty of people. is Synonymous with
murder. ruin and anarchy. In reality
it is very safe and useful commodity
when properly handled. and VIII not
explode cXcept under peculiar condi-
tions. When Il match is applied it win
merely burn and sz2lc a4 the ordinary
red fire does. says the Providence Jour
nal, and uincty-ninc times ont of Il
hundred it may be thrown from the
top of a building without doing any
harm. TO explode the substance there
must be the heat and conclusion com
bincd, and this can bc obtained only by
the use of the dynamite cap or fulmin.
ate Of mercury, discharged either by u
lighted fuse or by the passage of an
electric current.
The explosive substance itself is u
mass of sawdust or lamp black soaked
in nitro-glyccrine. Either of these two
preparations is called dynamite. There
is another. the latest explosive vet in
vented. which is obtained by mixing
the nitro-gl yccrinc with gelatinc, or
any suitable glutnous substance
This is called forcitc. and has tho
double advantage over dynamite of be-
ing Saie 10 i'ai'''Ic ana more cilecIlVo
in its working. The dynamite is made
up IN s'lcNN or carriages, gencrallE or
half n pound weight. and held in hol-
low pape cylinders eight inches long
ana one ana quarter 'hcilcN lhalaine-
ter For shipment these sticks are put
up first in tcn-pound packages and
then five Of these packages are placed
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mon saio ~ ohiy o'ie "caler Is very
careful TO keep ms dynamite cartridges
at one end OF inc store ana inc dyna-
mite caps at the other, The latter is
the more dangerous of the two, and 1T
Is when they are brought together
that dynamite is most excellent
thing to keep away from. It's the cap
and the cartridge that are so often con
founded in the accounts of explosions,
etc. The prevailing idea about Anar-
chist Lingg's death is that he exploded
cartridge in his mouth; instead it
was the much smaller but just as dead
ly cap.
The explosive retails for anywhere
from twenty-five to sixty cents Il
pound, according to the percentum of
nitro-glycerino with the sawdust or
lanpblacl1. The uses to which the
dynamite is put in everyday work on
the farms, lodges and highways are
many, for simple rock blasting, remov-
ing bowldcrs breaking up iron, clear
ing tree stumps and SCATTERING ice and
frozen ground. 1t has been frequent