The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-02

$500 yards the velocity Is eqal to 1928
feet second, Its muzzle energy is
equal to 1850 tons, and the projectie
Will perforate S.67 inches of steel at the
muzzle.
Machine guns form a very important
part OF a. vessels armament, These
destructive implements can be worked
so fast that they throw perfect hail
of bullets on the object against which
they are aimed. The Colt rapid-ire
gun has been mounted on several of
the boats of the mosquito fleet. This
gun is of six-millimeter calber, which,
according to the way the size of guns
is calculated here, is equal to 1856 cali
her,. or the same size as the rifle now
used by the navy. This gun can fire
TWO hundred shots minute and has
| range OF six thousand feet The metal
IN the barrel of the gun is one inch
thick, and the cartridges are fed from
belt, containing one thousand, stored
| in a steel box attached near the
| breech. At test made in the navy
yard bullet from one of these guns
was sent through a three-e ighths inch
Va oSCNi pialt, lIlOuSl lWcllly llCIlcS
of wood, through a steam coil, and
finally through another one-eighth-
| inch steel plate. The gun weighs thir-
ty-nine pounds and the tripod sixty
| nine pounds.
| Hotch}liss guns are divided into two
classes, rapid-fire and machine. The
machine guns throw projectiles one
and three pounds, respectively. The
| greatest range of a three-pounder is
mile and a half and of a one-pounder
about mile. There are one, three
and six pond rapid-fire guns, which
are largely sed on all the vessels in the
| navy.
| There are two kinds of ne-pound-
ers, light and heavy The light gun
weighs seventy-two pounds and is
thirty-three inches in length. The
projectile weighs one pound, and to
| fire it requires 2.S ounces of black pow
| der or 81 ounces of smokeless powder
The range of these guns is about a
mile, and they are little more de-
| structive when the smokeess powder
is used With black powder the initial
| velocity or speed at which the projec-
tile leaves the muzzle is equal to 1918
| feet second, and the muzzle energy
is equal to sudden impact of 1874 tons
| Immediately after leaving the muzzle
one of these shots would penetrate IL
| inch of steel, at a distance of 1000
yards it would penetrate half an inch
and at 1000 yards it would penetrate
fraction over a third of an inch.
With smokeless powder the initial
velocity is equal to 1909 feet a second
the muzzle energy is equal to 15.9 tons
and the perforation is an inch and a
half at the muzzle 0.55 inch at 1000
| yards, and 0.39 inch at 1000 yards.
The heavy one-pounder weighs 100
pounds, is fifty-five inches in length,
but only throws a proJectile weighing
one pound a little over a mile. 1t
takes charge of four ounces of black
powder, and the initial velocity is 1900
feet, the muzzle energy is 22.4 tons and
it's perforation is Las inches at the
nuzzle, two-t thirds of an inch at 1000
yards and half an inch at 1000 yards.
A three-pounder weighs 4S4 pounds,
is eighty inches in length, and throws
a projectile weighing three and third
pounds. This gun, like the one-pound-
err, can be fired with black or smoke
less powder, but is most effective when
| smokeless powder is used. With black
powder the charge is twenty eight
onces, the initial velocity at the rate
of 1000 feet a second, and the muzzle
energy equal to ninety-two tons. Its
power of perforation is Al inches at
the muzzle two inches at 1000 yards,
and IL inches at 1000 yards.
~ a1,11 ~
charge weighs only fifteen ounces, and
the muzzle velocity is eqal to 1923 feet
a second. The muz5le energy is 1923
tons, and it's perforation SIS inches at
the muzzle. 81 inches at 1000 yards,
and is inches at 1000 yards These
guns will carry about mile and a
half.
The six-pounder, as it's name de-
notes, will throw a projectile weighing
six pounds. and it will carry about
three miles. The gun itself weighs 805
pounds, and is nine feet, nine inches in
length. The charge of powder it takes
is two pounds, and the shot leaves the
muzzle at the rate Of 1870 feet Sec
ond. The energy of this shot at the
muzzle is equal to 145k tons. At the
muzzle it will penetrate five and one
third inches, at 1000 yards it will pene-
trate three and one-third inches, and
at 1000 81 inches.
The marines on the ships are armed
with very powerful rifle called the
Lee straight-pull rifle. This is a mag
azine gun of 1886 caliber and it uses
smokeless powder in it's cartridges and
a steel pocketed bullet. The initial We
locity of this bullet Is equal to 246C
feet second. 1t will penetrate sixty
two inches of dry pine wood fifteer
feet from the nluzzle of the gun, and
it will kill at more than a mile. The
pressure on the gun when fired is 0OOC
to the square inch. Forty-five shots a
minute can be fired with it,
FLORIDA MAY FURNISH THE
CIGARS.
The Cuban war has done one big
thing for this country; it has COMPEL
ed recognition, indirectly, of the value