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5pragt. 5or bet 2lnhet peo ban, at min Iuugs og tro Siss
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ser ct Positive Feed, ht BERT Tile bebsues uooen 9drr euer Sprt9 for at iaa SRufra
til at arbebe en- aueen bebts 1urbeorn, iom mart oil bhe paaHiprnst al Gutr
tm bsnpttsr Spmnfiuen, e afeed, Der u iuokps 10 fruset at ben tan brss % ian'8
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sjennem 9sien err Spcnraaoeu Hap buuiet 9Wt, at ben aIbrs Tau breitS. RaFtr
rror fig fp, bauee pure U9 usOrs armo, os arbsbsr autornati uonS eupn til let
sur ipUt Grbrbc
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a%pparnter.

On Spfiuor ira @dibinston bar pef
@npsnbelis uf 6osfor fremiiast ct ielps
lDisnbe Rebningstaus. @eo flsre an.
ftinsbs Spries meb bisie suuge, rits bel
fig, at Ratstlinien bar ipnIig fra bel
Sieblit, ben blsp ubItuot fra &atettdno'
nen. Spis bisie Gauges lpienos @rn'
ian pGrs al lGngsre 8arisbeb, hi Sp-
finbelien ubentOiI bore at ftpr 8etpbs
Ming, ba Rsbningsfprisget ms9st pftC
maa fprstages oeo Nattstiosr.
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er bet, at be IisIoen reser. Sploutsr og
SmGuo, Tom CT pant til at rsss, % Tom
miiter Spnet, fOrtiGtter en- tort lib meo
lin gamls @ans, men ppgiDsr ben mart.
Ss tiger, at bet life TT nogsn 5orneielie
at rsse. naar man :tts ian is Rrgsn, og
mango padituar, at be life fan image Rss
1en, mspminbre be fer BEN.
Decorah-posten., 1897-09-10
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&c npc ~inntrcreoe 2ataloecr ppr,
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9or % Gents uil vi ieuoe "9ccprap 9oIeu" 5 Maane.
Der pau Irpue. @iGu Tan ienbe Goiage Staups osripm
BET ialoer lsttere. SeHb bcdus YlaI fet.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-06

of solid brick, and each of the 1000 or
SO arches is high and capacious and
deep enough to yield the space of an
average two-story house. Connecting
several of them, one obtains room and
shelter, at the expense of slight mason
and carpenter work, sufficient for sew
eral hundreds Of inmates. And of these
81" road systems Berlin has about a
dozen, generally capable of affording
shelter and warmth TO some 5000 home
less, friendless outcasts.
AS soon as the weather becomes
severe, these asylums are thronged, and
they remain that way until spring once
more shows signs of her approach
usually in this part of Germany until
about March IS. Each person applying
for shelter here is, after conforming to
certain formalities and by obeying the
strict rules and instructions, given a
clean, wholesome bed. supper in a
warm room, and next morning bath
and a cup of coffee. But the same per-
son may apply but five consecutive
nights at the same asylum-that is one
of the memorable rules. However,
practically thisrule does not mean much
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-06
WOLF Won scHIERBRAN
Cat Attacks IA sick Man.

A cat belonging TO Mrs. l. j. Foster.
of Ellwood City, Pa, went mad the
other day. 1t was lying under the
kitchen stove when it suddenly jumped
forth, its hair standing on end, its eye
balls glaring, and emitting frightful
shrieks, not unlike those of wild cat.
Members of the family fled in dis
may. The cat pursued and succeeded
in biting and scratching Mary Foster
and Florence Rodgers, a playmate. II
then made vicious attack on young
man who was sick in bed. He was
slightly bitten and only escaped more
serious injury by wrapping the bed
quilts about him. The maddgned ami
NAL was tearing the quilt to shreds
with its teeth and claws when several
men arrived and succeeded in killing it,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-06

Where Uncle Sam Makes Ammu-
milton for Large Arms.
The Manufactures OF Gun Barrels ana
Projectiles Demands the Utmost
Precision aud NIcety-The Latest
Disappearing Carriages.


There is an old Latin proverb-si Wis
Pacem pare bellum, 'if you want penc,
prepare for war"
1t has not been until very recently
that our country has come TO realize
the truth of this saying. For 20 years
after the close of the civil war, the
American people Stunned every act,
Legislative or administrative, that might
suggest bloodshed. The terrible fury
of that four-year conflict and the sad
fact realized by all that it was a fight
or brother against brother combined
to effect an almost morbid disgust for
anything suggestive of miltarism
In Europe, on the other hand, the two
decades following the close of the
Franco-Prussian war in 1871 were so
fruitful of developments in military
science and in the mechanical indus
tries connected with it as fairly to rev.
solutionize the entire art of war. Should
European conflict break out to-day, the
campaigns would be conducted in al
most as different fashion from those
Of 81 as the latter differed from the mil
ftary engagements of chivalry.
In our country the clamor for coast
defenses was needed during Cleveland's
first administration.
The building of men-of-war has since
been undertaken on a large scale and
our navy to-day is far more efficient
than most people imagine, On the Pa
cific coast, San Francisco has been pro-
vided with as thorough Notifications as
any European city could desire, and
the Columbia river at Portland, Ore,
has also been well fortified. Guns are
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-06

quires tremendous machinery. all OF
which must be both made and mnnipu.
lated with the most minute accuracy.
| The trouble is that the machines needed
ia the manufacture of guns can often
be utilized for no other purpose, while
most of the machines in other shops arc
serviceable In great variety OF work.
| Private concerns have therefore com
peted but little for the business, and it
has been left 20 the government to
build its own machinery and supply it.
self"
IL is a fact that the Watertown arsen-
al uses some of the most gigantic ma
chinery in the United States For one
1. has the largest and best equipped
testing machine in the world. 1t has a
pulling strength of 100000 pounds,
while at the same time it is so delicately
constructed that it will measure the
thickness and tensile strength Of hair.
OF the four kinds of cannon-mountain
guns, field guns, siege artillery and sea
coast defenses, the last is by far the
bulkiest. and IL is to the manufacture of
these that the Watertown arsenal Is
devoted. The carriage is building for a
cannon which will be the largest in the
world, equal in size to the one exhibited
by Krupp at the Chicago worlds fair in
90 II will be breech-loader with n
bore of 16 inches. the length of the bar
rel being 4067 feet. When completed
it will weigh 100000 pounds or lao tons.
The projectile will weigh 2,370 pounds,
while one round will consume LOGO
pounds of powder. At a distance of
2 500 yards, about q mile and half, the
projectile will penetrate steel of the
best quality to the Thickness of 1912
inches. These figures must appear
all the more surprising when one con-
siders that the largest cannon used in
the civil war, which in it's days was it
self giant, weighed one-sixth as much,
fred a projectile of 500 pounds with so
pounds of powder, and had penetrat-
ing power of inches at shooting range. |
Bulky as these instruments are, their
must nevertheless be ac-
complished with the utmost nicely. |
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-06
DISAPPEARING GUN CARRIAGE IN FIRING POSITION

The slightest flaw in the bore of the
cannon may make it absolutely worth.
less, while an error in the setting of the
carriage would destroy it's accuracy
The barrel is made of the finest quality
of forged steel, which is put into huge
lathe and bored. Around this heated
steel bands are placed. As these grow
cold they shrink upon the inner metal
and counterfeit its expanding force.
BY this process the pieces of metal are
more firmly united than by any amount
of welding or casting. The process of
banding is continued, more bands being
wrapped around the rear end of the
gun, where the shock of the explosion
is greatest. Finally the metal is planed
off so as to give the barrel it's conical
shape; it has now been "assembled and
finished" All of this work is done at
Watervliet arsenal
The manufacture of gun carriages at
Watertown is attended with much more
complicated, though not more deli
cate, problems. There is more oppor-
tunity in this direction for new inven-
tions, and new varieties of carriages
are constantly being introduced. Two
kinds of carriages are now in use in
our seacoast defenses = the barbette
and the disappearing carriage. With
both of these the great problem is to
check the terrific recoil of the gun
without dropping it abruptly. On the
barbette carriage q piston attached 70
the barrel moves in a hollow cylinder
filed with oil. The head of the piston
has a small opening, through which
rod runs that thickens to the rear. AS
the gun recoils the piston is showed
back; it presses against the oil in the
cylinder, and as the escape grows small
er Is gradually brought to a standstill.
The disappearing carriage is so con-
structed that no part of the gun is
above the parapet, and no view of the
enemy, except at the moment of firing.
At the discharge the barrel drops back
ward and downward, and is then held
below by means of pawl and ratchet.
A center weight attached raises it to
the firing position.
Several ten-inch guns of this kind
the new Notifications on the Atlantic
coast will be supplied with the model.
The first disappearing carriage 12-inch
gun in the world is about TO be built
at Watertown. 1t is named after two
of our army oflicers-the Dillingham;
Crozier.
A third model now becoming anti
quated, is the gun lift. Under the
whole machine well is dug, and this
IS made to rise and sink by means OF an
elevator.
Aiming the heaviest guns in tho
world is an easy matter. All the parts |
are constructed with such nicely and
move so smoothly that one man alone
can easily handle the machinery. The
whole structure is set upon huge iron
disc, revolving upon another iron sur
face, and is moved TO and fro by means
Of a crank attached 10 a oct Of gears.
Eat cCNDLAClI
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now building for the Boston harbor
which is already fortified, and these will
be so arranged that 1872 proiectiles filleC
with dynamite may be simultaneously
Showered upon hostile feet Quite 9
number of cities on the Atlantic coast
are in a position to rebuff the largest
fleet that John Bull and Alphonso to-
gether could send across the Atlantic.
So far as the excellence of army
equipments is concerned, the United
States is fully the equal -of European
powers. In fact, it is generally adj
mitted that we are making the best
rifles in the world, while in the manu-
facture of large pieces for army serv-
ice Germany alone can claim to be
rival, and none our superior. Nearly all
the supplies are made by the govern
ment at its manufacturing arsenals.
The navy has establishments at Wash
ington, New York, Norfolk, Va, and
Mare Island, Cal The army's manu-
featuring arsenals are five in number.
One located at Springfield, Mass,
makes the infantry rifles; another at
Rock Island, ILL.,, manufactures exclu-
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-06
ASYLUMS FOR THE IOOR.
Peculiar Features of Char table
Work in Berlin
Rcfuse for the Unemployed Fitted IN
Under the Arches OF an Elevated
Railroad structure--A Model
Permanent Asylum.
Especial Berlin Letter

A peculiar feature of Berlin charity
are the 'asylums for unemployed OF
temporarily embarrassed persons of
both sexes. There is quite number of
these asylums, and they differ in accom-
modations, size, nature of hospitality
offered. and in the character of those
seeking refuge in them. Some of these
asylums are maintained at municipal
expense, others are kept up and more
started entirely by private enterprise.
The large number of these asylums,
both municipal and private, are closed
during eight months of the year and
only kept open in winter, very wise
and practical move. since in this man
ner a regular and large body of pro-
fessional loafers is not sheltered at pub
lie expense, nor trained and nursed.
But during the winter, say from Deem
Der 1 till April 1, the army of honest,
deserving unemployed every year nor
mally rises to such height that asylums
of the kind spoken of are an actual
blessing, nay, a social necessity. Ac-
cording to the census of December /,
1895, there were almost 225,000 unem-
ployed in Berlin that day. men and
women and youths thrown out of work
by the rigors of the season named. On
June IS of the same year the number
Of said unemployed-meaning bona flde
ones-was, on the other hand, but 45,-
600, in round numbers.
Quite peculiar to Berlin are those
winter asylums called here "Stadt-
baherbogen," i. e., fitted up, in different
thickly settled districts of the city, in
arches of the elevated city railway.
This railway, a state and municipal af-
fair, rests on a magnificent foundation
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-06

to the well-posted habitues of these
places, for all he has 10 do is TO apply at
the next asylum, perhaps ten minutes
walk distant, and then to the next one,
and so on.
These asylums are under the super
vision of the police, at least to the ex-
tent of enforcing order and decency in
them. But neither there nor at the
other asylums, private or municipal, has
the police the right to use the oppor-
tunity for arresting malefactors of
any kind. AS long as they are
inmates of these asylums they
are. not subject to arrest or moles-
tation and this privilege was considered
of such Importance, not only by the
unfortunates themselves, seeking rest
and food in these shelter places, but by
the popuIace as whole, that an attempt
by the police some time ago to commit
breach Of the custom was made the
subject of an Interpolation in the reich
stag.
1t is certainly interesting TO visit one
OF those ~ road arch asylums az night
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-06

bath halls. The clothes have to bC
handed to an attendant, and while thu
bath lasts these garments are carefully
disinfected, and later on they are, il
necessary, repaired as we'll Linen is
washed by steam, if called for, during
the night and ready for the owner in
the morning.
A substantial and well-cooked meal
is then served in the dining-room, which
has length of 145 feet. Those whose
bodily condition requires some extra
care receive it, and they, too, get spe-
cial fare. The bedrooms are on a par
with the rest-wholesome and comfort
able, and the bedding is of the best.
The temperature is evenly maintained
at hygienic level, and throughout the
whole house the ventilation, by new
system, is perfect, so that no unpleas-
ant odor is anywhere apparent. The
whole building is fireproof. The light
ing everywhere is electric-either in
candescent or arc light. The officers
and attendants deal humanely, even
considerably with the inmates, al
though a strict supervision is main
tanned. Advice is furnished gratis by
an officer specially appointed for the
purpose, and a sort of labor bureau is
run in connection with the establish
ment, which, l understand, is already
accomplishing much good.
Berlin, of course, attracts during the
winter many undesirable elements of
the population from all over Germany,
the tramps and Migrants being especial
ly pest which even the all-powerfu
and officious Prussia police finds it diff
ficult to adequately contend with. And
it is quite certain that among those who
find nightly shelter and good food at
these asylums, especially at the NUM-
capal ones in the 81" road arches, there
are many of this category. On the other
hand, of the merely unfortunate class
of willing and able toilers, thrown out
of work for a time and having no other
home to go to for the time, there is
probably a great majority, and for
them these asylums are distinct bless
ing.
WOLF Won SCHIERRRAND
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-06

AZ q visit 1 made them recently | ha.
pointed out by one Of the attendants.
few Of the more notable quests" OF th
establishments. Among them was
former uniyei sity professor. whose ma
| jestic head and hair Of snowy Whit
| in accorded with his brick-red complex
ion and alcoholic breath--he was hope
less inebriate. And there we're othei
cases nearly as pathetic. young men Of
high education. but blasted prospects,
middle-aged men, once state officials oil
merchants, but now were wrecks ano
ruins Among them, too, there were
faces of the well-known criminal type
such as Lombroso Muge has loved &c
describe, But the bulk of the inmates
were, quite evidently, simply unfortu.
mates, out of work and elbows.
There are, of course, asylums here
maintained the year through. But OF
special interest are, 1 think, series OF
shelter houses for decent unemployed.
built and kept up by private charity
alone. These have all been built during
the past five years, and they are very
much alike in their general character,
all of them being decidedly superior to
the municipal asylums above described,
The most recent one of them, just fin
iished in November and now put into
actual operation, looked into the other
day. 1t is situated in Wiesenstrasse,
five minutes walk from the 81" road
station Wedding. l have no hesitation
in saying that in its way it is model
institution.
This asylum is built to accommodate
700 adult male persons. There are IA
bedrooms, and containing so beds. The
frontage of the whole structure is 227
feet, and throughout it is constructed,
quite tastefully, of masonry and brick
The interior arrangements are as fol-
lows: Through the broad portal one
steps into a vast hall, well aired and
lighted, and heated with steam. In this
hall new arrivals must wait. then IN
and take their case until attended to.
Registry formalities gone through
with, each of the new arrivals has to
take warm bath, so persons being ac-
commodated in each of the two large
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-06


sively the horse equipments for cavalry
and artillery; the barrels of artillery
guns are manufactured at Watervliet
arsenal, West Troy, N. Y; Frankford
arsenal, near Philadelphia, supplies the
ammunition for small arms, and the
gun carriages, as well as the ammuni-
ton for large arms, are turned out at
Watertown, near Boston.
/ visited the last-named place this
morning 1t is in charge of Mai.
James William Reilly, who was sent
there on February /, 1892, when the
Npacity of the arsenal was first in
.dased from that of a small shop 70
that Of gigantic manufacturing es-
-tnblishhent. The arsenal at Water
J., let. which made the barrels, had beer
. into operation some year earlier
II Asupply of gun barrels is therefore
considerably larger than that OF
carriages, and consequently some OF
the latter are now being made by pri
yate parties. Thus a contract for 100
guns was let some four years ago to the
Bethlehem iron works
ut will take them just again as
long" remarked Maj. Reilly, "to finish
the Job. The making Of a big gun car
riage Is no mean undertaking v re-