Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-07-11
ST.LOUIS WORLDS FAIR
Great Guns to Be One of Its
Interesting Features.
ONE MONSTER SHOOTS EIGHT MILES

Old Death Dealers Made In First
Years of the American Nations Ex-
istence Will Be Shown-Fountain
to Initiate a Bursting Shell Will BE
q Novelty.
Among the interesting government
exhibits at st. Louis will be the big
guns used in seacoast defense. The
most powerful guns ever constructed
will be in the collection, says a Wash
ington special to the st. Louis Repub-
lie.
One Of them will be the United States
army IL inch breechloading rifle, model
of 1895, mounted upon a disappearing
carriage. Its weight, stripped of ev-
erythi1g, even the breech block, is
$4,000 pounds. Its total length is SO
feet. The maximum diameter at the
breech is 4A.5 inches. It throws an ar
NOR piercing shot weighing 1000
pounds, the length of which is 31a feet. |
It also throws a projectile, an armor
piercing shell weighing 1000 pounds, 4
feet long, carrying a bursting charge
Of 1914 pounds Of gun cotton. The
charge Of powder is 24O pounds of
smokeless or 400 pounds of brown pris-
matte powder.
The power in penetration in steel at
the muzzle is 300 inches, at 1000 yards
2S.5 inches, at $500 yards 25.5 inches
and at $500 yards 23.5 inches. The to-
tai weight of the gun and carriage is
At, 1853 pounds. The carriage is % feet
In diameter at the base, and the gun.
when in a firing position, is II feet
above the base of the carriage. When
the shot is fired, the recoil causes the
mechanism follower h gun ~ feet
behind the, parapet. The gun hasJan
accuracy of aim for about eight miles.
and the extreme range is about double
that distance.
Guns of this type nave never before
been exhibited by the United States
government, and they are designed for
use in secret Notifications, to- which no
visitors are admitted.
10 enable the observer readily to
make an intelligent comparison of the
mounts of our seacoast guns there. will
be placed blythe side of the great -
finch gun a 10 inch rifle on a harbette
carriage. In a barbette carriage the
rife is at all times exposed above the
parapet. The 10 inch breechloading
rifle is from the model of 1895 and
weighs &C, 700 pounds. It's total length
Is 3O.76 feet, and the diameter Of the
breech Is 81 inches.t
The p%rojectile is an N piercing
shot or shell. The shell carries a burst
ing charge of 22.4 pounds Of gun cotton
and weighs $50 pounds, having a
length of four feet. The solid shot Is
luo1 o-J Io1F foo@ Lowe T,o no"
der charge is 14O pounds Of smokeless
powder, and the muzzie velocity of the
projectile is $500 feet in a second.
The maximum pressure per square inch
is $1,000 pounds. The muzzle energy
with the charge Of smokeless powder
is 21,O86 foot tons The gun has a
penetrating power of 20 inches in steel
at $500 yards.
At the right of the 10 incl gun a II
inch mortar will be mounted, and it is
no small affair. Farther to the right
will be a 5 inch rapid fire gun. All
will be mounted behind sections Of a
parapet, and the four pieces represent
one gun Of each type in seacoast forti-
fcations. To the left of the great Il
inch disappearing gun will be exhibited
the old seacoast ordnance Of the United
| States, arranged in a historical series,
the II inch gun itself representing the
climax.
:. Near the building specially construct.
ed for this purpose will be displayed
the mountain, field and siege guns OF
the present day, together with types OF
old guns used in the different wars in
which the United States has been en-
gagged.
,, The ordnance exhibit will show the
, historical development of ordnance in
? the United States, a gun representing
, every type adopted by the United
+ States and showing b evolution OF
guns, mortars and howitzers. Among
r the howitzers will be one made in 1893
i There will also be 80 or 40 trophy
guns, displayed according to period OF
capture. A novel feature will be
: trophy fountain, representing n burst
: ing shell, with water spouting from it,
? crevices. This will be mounted on 6
pile of projectiles. surrounded bJ
. trophy guns.
Ine daily circulation of newspaper
{ in the United Kingdom rose from 6o.
:. 600 copies in 1901 to 100000 In lSo'
l and now reaches 8,5OO,0OO.
Hamburg's naval observatory will b
removed to the village Of Bergersdori
49, S-~~fn ~ of tho R1fU III