The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-10

Il takes certain time to bore 1t out and
do the other lathe work. and lathe can
handle only one gun. When started on
this gun there was no machinery here for
making II. We had to get everything to-
gethcr as though we were going TO make
number of guns With more machinery,
81 course, we could turn out guns so much
faster"
Dr. Calling says he is now turning out
his machine guns for the government to be
used with smokeless powder. He says It
adds TO their effectiveness. He showed me
a dummy Of the new cartridge and said
That viii go through thirty inches of oak
at short range or half-inch of steel 1t
will go two miles and kin man. My guns
viii fire a thousand of these in a minute
Ia his capacious pockets DR.. Calling car
ries many papers-reports and other matters
relating to guns. One of these that he
prizes shows that in 1883 $40 shots were fred
with his gun in less than fourteen seconds,
and that the committee examining the gun
though wholly unskilled in its use, fired
thirty rounds in eight-tenths OF a second
Sixty-three thousand seven hundred rounds
were fired continuously and 100000 were
fired IN all at this test without injuring the
gun.
Other machine guns have been made since.
but Dr. Calling says well known senator
won a basket of champagne from an official
OF the Navy Department recently on a
wager that the Calling gun was still the
most rapid in use.
The new Calling gun-the eight-inch Joint
less, which the doctor thinks is to put the
nose OF the built-up gun completely out Of
Joint-was made at the Otis steel works in
Cleveland. The rihing will be done at the
navy yard gun factory in Washington
When it Is taken to Sandy Hook it will be
mounted on one of the carriages used for
the built-up guns; for Uncle Sam has this
to be thankful for at least, that if the
doctor proves to be true prophet, the car
riages he has been making for the built-up
guns can be used for the new weapon.
DR.. Calling looks on the war scare with
some complacency, because he believes it
viii arouse the "backwoods congressman"
from his lethargy and make him appropri-
ate the money which has long been needed
for coast defenses.
China should teach us a lesson" he said.
She was secure in her ignorance. She was
Tar removed from other maritime nations,
and she did not count little Japan OF any
Importance. If the Japanese came she
would beat gongs and drive them away.
But Japan came along with modern meth
DDS and weapons. and made old China pay
over 20 her three or four times what it
would have cost in the beginning to put the
country in perfect state of defense. 1--WE
have been in false position for years in
our relations with other nations. Moltke
spoke the truth when he said that the best
way to avoid war was to be prepared for
II. We have been inviting an attack from
some one of the great nations of the world
for long time. We were wholly unprepared
for war, for it is a remarkable fact that
nothing which we used in the civil war is
Of any use to-day. A man would better be
almost anywhere than in one of the old
forts. A man who goes around turning his
cheek for some one to slap will get it
slapped some day. 1t is fortunate for us
that it is not some greater power than
Spain that has undertaken to do it,