Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-09-16
A MARVELLOUS MACHINE.
WITNESSED BY SOME EASTERN EXPERTS.
so Tar superior. ~ ~ Engine Of Destruc.
tion. 10 the Oatling Gun a. TO Almost
DEFY Comparison.

The long promised public test exhibit
tlou u the whitehead Electric Auto.
matte Nouoy Gun" tn Invention which
was described DO ihcio columns suma
ilmc ago. took place 40 II O'Clock tn.
morning 10 the southwestern portion Of
the city.
Among sh1se who were present were
several cxr r,s from dHlauce, and ali
were hishiy plaaa,1 wlih .he results.
Mr. iianly Altman. N Nog York cliy.
camo TO Salt Lake Tor the express pur-
pose u examining tho gun. Ito was one
VI The main supporters OF Df. Calling
whom his gun was introduced. and is
On expert on machine guns. fic gave 10
az his opinion today that the Whitehead
gun was ls much superior 90 ihe
OatllnE Kun ne that gun was 10 the
muaslc-loadlna rino.
= change has been made M The feed
of ih1 Ggu has obvlai,a .hi use VI
any coz wheels upon 90. and Zoe pro-
lt1iHts ffsd directly into the rtvoiverH
from tle hnppCs This has been ac-
tlmpllfhcd hy mans % "A double hop
ptr al upper ana a lower onCi enc
nef ~ the upper one iurns The pr0isf-
tti'a .A Wv. ulf'NuNui Inc NfNl iNaI. "
ilen ilrc1i into the revolver BY means
% au automatic piston. This SIMPLE
hta iht loading % the nring chambfru.
anu lr're1taH ihr rapl1liy % the IRE.
thH morning munsirIsr1 the fact
that she maximum number Of shots
That can be hurled from the ffii sized
twenty narraltd gun would exceed ten
thousand shots per minute.
Mr whitehead has met with many
MNNNINNNNHm o. fHUFNINaH d a.
hafrcied KUN In this city with which
10 make his tests and sent 10 Connec.
tlcut Tor one. This was used this
nofnlnE' but AZ the entire machine II
but repetition 81 tho mechanism that
operates one barrel. II proved ~ sat.
ininctlfy as n an had been In use. al
a simple question In multiplication act.
ties the point "A to the number OF
shots that can be fred.
Tho Eun II essentially vollcy gun.
though the operator has perfect com
lrol OF the gun with regards 10 the
Islelng and depressing VI the barrels.
~ Wen ah side movements The au-
ncrlorl,y N the proiectile was demon.
itfated whom fired from single shot
iine' they went aH true as de-" AT
= threg hundred yard range.
MF' whitehead and colonel Fitrrar.
~ leave Tor Connecticut In a frw d1yA /
where several " the guns WI be bu1i /
= one u the large Fun factories there. /
ilier which a thorough tfai Will L., l
inside ny officials ~ the war dcparv. i
nlni al Washington.
Ihis morning colonel Nat Ward /
flttgersld, who has charge q the busl- /
~, before the patent nifce, received l
idNlcts thai thf application which was |
MED al me department ala moi e1n-
ici IN any particular with anything
n ,he patent once, tho aun being ORIG /
nal throughout.
THIS j. regarded A. really wonderful. !
.h.n u taken INTO confederation .
nat thirteen claims have been mads .
lu' upon he proieoillo an1 sixteen up. /
in the run.
Among those present were Hon.
Henry w. Lawrence. Henry Allman.
lapltlllg ara, promoter, New Yurk |
IVY A1dlsan iiybes. 'ripitlilst. In- /
ilan1polis, Indiana Prof -. q, Han /
~, ~ ot Lond1n. England: REV. j, n. /
fhllllps, Los Angeles. Cal: 81 r
lnihs mining man. Angus, Stein anI /
We lion. Frank y. Hobbs % the n. 4
> Lahd onlcti l.. N. Gray, J. l.. nam /
,eratr, ". ~. Mcmillan. ID v. Walksr
J. ". 1h9mns, Colonel FitsEsraid ami
views representative.