The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-26

the great soprano is in that of mu-
Il 4 sic. She of course, retains for pro-
fessional purposes the name under
which she won her fame. He ranks high
in what is probably the biggest trust IN
the world to-day.
Herr Tauscher accompanies his. wife on
her present tour, and is now in this city.
He is assistant director Of the German
Arms and Ammunition Factory OF Ber-
lin The company is capitalized at over
500 600, 900, and controls the worlds mar
kets in military firearms. An army OF
1000 men is employed in it's various
works day and night, constantly turning
out rifles pistols and smokeless powder.
The daily output of the works controlled
by the trust is $500 rifles and 100000 car
tridges if they are run TO their full ca
pacity, besides an almost indefinite guam
tity of other munitions of war.
One of the principal articles produced
nv the company is the famous Mauser
rifle, which was used by the Spanish SOL
diers in the recent war. During the last
ten years the company has supplied va
rious governments with over 100000 rifles
of the Mauser pattern. The trust deals
mainly with governments, filling immense
orders and 1t is now negotiating with
Germany to supply that nation with an
enormous number Of Mauser rifles, which
have come to be regarded as the best
rifles made, in point of precision, pene-
tration and simplicity Of mechanism. Tho
present pattern is the result of fifteen
years experimenting with smokeless re-
peaters.
The three departments Of the trust
which manufacture the Mauser repeating
rifle and it's ammunition are the Berlin.
Karlsruhe and the Grotzingen Loading
Works In the Berlin factories over 5000
machines are operated for the production
Of small arms. Each separate piece Of
the rifle is taken as an entity. and there
are some 1910 distinct operations on each
rifle The main works in Karlsruhe are
devoted to the manufacture Of cartridge
shells, bullets and loading clips There
is also a large branch for the manufac-
ture of cartridges and the elements OF
ammunition. At the Grotzingen Loading
Works, near Karlsruhe, the shells are
primed, loaded and picked. Percussion
caps and primers of all descriptions are
made at Durlach. In the three depart
rnents over 2400 machines are in use. Each
of these works has its own shooting
range, where all the necessary tests are
made for the various elements of a car
fridge. The works in Oberndorf on the
Neckar have POO machines for the manu-
facture of tools, drop hammers and ma
chinery for the carrying out Of special
operations only The cartridge and load
ing clip undergo some eighty-three dis
tfnct operations in their production.
The arms factory at Oberndorf on the
Mauser. the inventor of the rifle, but 1t
was absorbed by the combine and he was
made director Of the rife department. The
other concerns controlled by the big trust
are the National Factory of Liege, Bel
GUM. employing $500 hands; the Hungary
Arms and Machine Works of Buda-Pesth,
the Cologne ottweiler Powder Factory,
besides all the principal powder works in
Germany.
In addition to all these the trust has
an immense electrical department and
Owns the rights for all Europe Of the
Union Electrical Company and the
Tbomson-Houston Electric Company Of
Roston. The electric cars for European
street railways will all be constructed by
the trust.
One of the most important productions
nv the German Arms Company is the
Maxim machine gun, which mas been sup
Dlied to the German and other navtes.
Another step forward in the progress Of
f-earrn technique has also been made in
tho Rorcbardt automatic rifle and pistol,
which loads automatically by the recoil-
All that Is necessary to operate this fire
arm Is the pulling of the trigger. There
- M racoil for the recoil is taken up to
- +be mechanism The rife carries
80 1ono Yards and is effective at 800 1t
r,,aigbs but three pounds in all, and can
he carried almost as easily as PAIR or
o,aro classes. 1t has been tested in the
tinted States Armory at Springfield.
1ybera the functions of the mechanism LOT
q single shot were found to occupy less
+ber one-tUenty-flfth part OF second.
This invention it is said, will revolution
izA the pistol and rifle problem. In mill
tary warfare