Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-04

greatly increased. SO urgent IS the demand
for the ammunition that the cz-;ridges
made during the day are packed and start
Ell On their journey to San Francisco each
evening.
Not little ingenuity IS reeu..rG for the
manufacture % ne If ths rev types OF
cartridges which are to use the smokeless
powder. and another novel idea now be ng
carried out IS that Of encasing m, bullet
IN "A tiny copper jacket which enables the
bullet To speed along az the rate Of almost
hai mile per second. a velocity that would
create - much friction that the lead would
he melted If not protected in the manner
described.
Kill Mile Away.
These bullets. which the defenders Of the
stars ANA stripes are going to present as
visiting cards to the unruly and inhuman
Boxers, have terrible Gestructiyeness.
Ihey Will Kill man instantly AT a distance
OF over mile, and they will crash through
boards three feet in thickness or steel half
an men thick.and sin have left sufficient
lorce to play considerable havoc
me process o: producing cartridges is
even more interesting than the rnanufac-
lure OF The rifles. 1t is done a!tuos solely
py machinery, operated in most cases by
deli-lngered women. some of whom are
81 adept thai tEeE can turn on. Cos. Ia
w completed cartridges per minute Tho
copper which is to form the shells of the
cartridges makes its ap9earn nee in tba fac
III l'rst as STRIPS about yard in length.
mouth OF machine. which masses fb.pI
on TO another ana another until they finaI-
~ emerge at the rate of one a second in
the form of small CUPS which aonaar 90
the base of the finished shell al
AIter the shells have L. zen anDeaIed ana
trimmed there IS the trimming n-,cesS
r, r1iIH .hgE go through vi pr prrt.anate
rapiGlt!, and then the little .tpil.l,.s are
ready Tor loading. The first stcD i'm tho ar.
!1Hseine!t - the cup-annil which contains
"a 40 t.,ris ana me high explosive which
a pdStS-lpoking maSS-is handled with ~.
nios' extreme care For loading the shells
are placed in holes on a great cirrnl1r
plate' and as each of these holes passes am,
cont5 'hT powder hopper the shell which it
ttphldlhs Is charg a automatically uuick ~
nan you coulu say Jack Robinson
~ dliWhle IN an tier part OF the works
IN mn stripped 10 the waist have been work
iiS over huge craters of molten metal "a
leedlng the leaden bar; INFO rolls g.
WI mon MI, IN turn 1t is showed quickly along Ia
.he pullet machines A single one OF tbesa
lets F ls, cah urn out daily a dozen bull
ivts tor every soldier which the United now
mas IN emma The bullets when Ibe,, sra
oohlpieted ana incased in their conner lack
80, go, are taken to the bullet feed. by which
,hey are dropped into the waiting sbails
AFTER 1t has been subjected ia ~ I,,i
'es's 'he cartridge is declared complete
SOLID Shot and Explosives.
Inc Ihlhese war is going to cxe,npIir,-
ioi one thlng, that the most proertssf,.
haiohs OF the earth are working toward "a
.-s,,
sihplihcatlon Of projectiles Th. cba,ac-
Ter OF the enemy VIII make il adyisah,a :,
use some canister and shrapnel. but solid
shoI VIII to a great extent displace an
olhefS. II Is safe to predict that NOT a
PG 5t OF bal shot. chain shot or CRANE s,.T
VIII De hred by the allies in IN, fnrfbcan,N
Hs operations on Asiatic soil
Inc modern shrapuel, cor which tho ..,,.-
eminent mas within the past week ar Nv.
paced heavy orders for III. ly,z,..,i 49,,
pose OF supplying the troops in china 60
sl91s primarily OF case of steel brsrf Nth
Stiicieht Strength to withstand the. shock
OF pelnS hred from gun and ,-rf NJ n
S1fohS but what the explosion ,f 10 sr,5II
SldtBe OF powder which il contain. will -
puFsl me case and scatter IN every dr.
tiol the small iron or lead balls with which
~ Is nIled Time fuses are used ana I'M
me shrapnel is exploded AT any dasi,ld
range. may "eslitu
Nhat are known as explosive shells ~,
hlaue from cast iron, cast or forged st..I
ana hlied with high explosives Tbera ~
N%tIous types OF these ''peacemakers. y" Tho
opJect IN each case being to provide as co,,,-
tnLyu'ouS receptacle as possible a., no
theory lhat the greatest destruction of rnan
can De produced by the shell CARRYING The
srtateSt bursting charge. Finally. there Is
lie hiSh-eNrlosive shell. a newcomer In m,
heIu' ana winch Will be- tried in some al IN.
IlaiNeious dynamite guns which tha
Ihiteu States is 10 send to China
WALDON FAVI'EsT'r