The evening times., 1899-01-25
CAPTAIN BRE NERS
EXPLOSIVE MISSILE
DYNAM1TE-F1LLED CARTRIDGES
The Inventor Claims They VIII Not
BE Exploded by FirinG-Isas APP
piled for n Patent.

New York. Jan. 25.-Capt- John l. Brew
er asserts that he is nov prepared to put
these United States in a position to defy
all the nations Of the earth. singiy or IN 4
bunch. II We want to expand wc ear scise
any fair possession We happen TO fancy he
declares. and laugh In derision at those
powers which would seek TO prevent us
from working our will All we would has.
to DO would be 20 shoot Al them. ara forts
and ships and GghtinE men Wogli v3n'sa
into thin air
To accomplish taiz end. Captain Dresser
says. the Government has only 90 1toHr
his dyramite caftridEs. and thus forria 20
could dare ths sh0.e world 20 Nsr against
us. aad n souid BE- afraid 70 scc-pf the
ehallerge. 20 mCch he claims Tor his Ia
yenfion.
Cspiain Brewer famous NinE shot wto
has spent forty years Nith a gan in 1.s
has solved The problem % artnE dynamite
Ia pEoJeciiis. tie explained bis pan yes-
tertsF afifrnooa.
lie nrsf bsrame interested iu the srpIi-
cation % the high explosive "a ordnaure
fourteen years ago. h said. aud straight
way began hts experiments. His aim was
TO discover a means 0f nrinE a proiecIii-
gun. His task lay in fHding a means o.
expulsion 50 that the conclusion would not
explode the dynamite in the gun. He said
little about his project 20 anybody. but put
In his time experimenting. 30 he worked
until a year ago last May when be dis
covered the secret fOr which he had been
in search.
He found. he insists that he could fire a
/ bullet loaded with dynamite and not have
| il explode until il hit the mark
His device is a thin metallic shell filled
/ with dynamite. This projeetile Is fitted
| to an ordinary cartridge and fired from the
| gun with common powder. just as any 9TH
\ er bullet is The secret lies in the way
| the powder is loaded into the cartridge.
/ In his invention Captain Brewer holds
| that he has obtained a fiatter trajectory,
| higher velocity. less combustion. less fric-
/ ton and greater penetration than ever
I before had been attained. His cartridge.
he maintains. can be used in any gun IL
! does net require a specially constructed
I weapon. IL can be fired equally well from
! a fowling piece or 13-inch ri1e on var
ship. The projectile can be made 10 fit
any bore. The bigger the piece the great
er the quantity of dynamite used Thus
q bullet for 4I-calibre rifle would contain
| about fye-eights of an ounce OF dynamite,
| while one for a rifled cannon would hold
] proportiOnately more.
To explode the projectiIe when it reaches
/ its mark. the inventor asserts. only the
most trining resistance is needed
1t would explode in going through
piece Of blOtting paper. he declared. 4
can now fire dynamite with as much
safety as / can an ordinary bullet. ] have
fired 500 dynamite pTOjectiles from differ
ent guns, so [ am sure of what l say
'-One of the most famous ordnance eS-
p6rts in the country, man of interraiion-l
fame, has been associated closely with ME
for four months watching my invention,
I and he is unstinted in his praise n IT,
/ have applied for patent and exPee, re-
! ceiye il any day.