The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-25
MODERN MEN IN ARMOR.
Coats of Mail for American Mllionaires and British Officers

Coats of Mail for American Millionaires
 and British Officers
 -s Do ;ny people wear armor nova.
 days?" gid the London manager of a
 great Sheffield manufacturing firm. r,.
 peating a question put to him by a
 writer for an English paLer. certainly
 they do' ] wonder the point has not been ilaiset before. The reason, prob
 ably, Is that very few persons have any
 idea how common it is among certain | classes tc protect the body by fine
 coat of mail. The manufacturing of
 steel tests is almost entirely in our
 hands, and, therefore, I am in posi-
 tion to give you reliable information, and l can assure you that the wearing
 of arnor among military men, states
 men and others is not at all uncommon
 'Of course, the armor made nowadays | is nothing like what it was when it
 was generally worn in the army It is a l light chain mail, allowing of perfectly | free movements and perspiration, and weighs very little indeed, Probably when man has worn mall coat for 1 week or two he gets quite used to it, and woul3 suffer no inconvenience wha tever from it,
 II eoul1 tell you the names of he. tween twenty and thirty officers now serving in the Soudan who have had coats of mail made by us Of course, these coats would not turn a bullet. nor prevent the penetration of dagger or sword, but they are as strong as 1t is possible to make them, and would prob ably turn word or dagger that was driUnn a 1pnp L,,I let would not affect them in the slight est degree.
 "I cant give you very definite idea of how many military men wear armor for you sec one coat of mail will last many years, especially in these peace ful days, and therefore what orders we have had are spread over many years. But l can tell you that in the last five years We have received upward of nine orde:s for light armor.
 We recently received orders from four vel known American millionalres for the Americans, like the rest of the world, know that in our steel produc- tions we beat every nation Mllionaires in America have considerable reason for protecting themselves. What with anarchy and socialism, a corrupt police and many other dangers it is really quite a dangerous thing just now to be a well known millionaire in America. I should say that all the largest Yankee mlllionaires wear armor
 Then some of our statesmen protect themselves in the same manner. When Fenianism was at it's zenith there was hardly prominent man Tn politics who did not, Even in these pacific times nc less than four members of the pres ent government have had coats of mail l made for them by us, and we know for 1 an absolute fact that one of these gen | tlemen never goes out in London with l out his mail, unless accompanied by | detectives.
 "1 es, one or two of our own million aires have suits of mail, but as there is no nation in the world so Deaceable or l so free from the taint of revolutionary | I doubt much that they are eve. worn, They are on hand merely ready for an emergency, I should think The anarchy scare hardly affected us in England, although 1t was here that anarchists had their headquarters. A few nervous persons and prominent men, who would be the first game of he anarchist, took the preGdution of wearing armor for some time but the 7ases were not very many. It is quite in America and on the conti- lent. . The wearing of mail is quite com non in those parts, very much more so han one would suppose"