Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-21

Much interest has been aroused of
late through the announcement in the
press that Wheeling is to have a gun
factory. This fact is not only true, but
It will be in operation within less than
two months. The type of gun will be
. three ibarreled piece, combination
shotgun and rifle. The idea does not
sound well, but the model has only to
be seen to be appreciated. 1t is a COM
plete rife barrel attached to a very
high grade double barreled shotgun, so
ingeniously constructed that the rifle
barrel is scarcely p%erceptible.
This same idea has been worked on
by many gun manufacturers all over
the world for years. The trouble has
always been that the inventor has not
been able to produce a modern weight
gun in a combination piece. So much
metal has been put in their construc-
lion that they have been too heavy and
unwieldy. A sportsman who has been
In the habit of using a well balanced
gun could not handle them with skill.
Mr.. Hollenbeck, the inventor of this
gum, however, has produced a high
grade hammerless gun, with rifle at
tached at the standard weight of seven
pounds six unces This weight gun is
1 IL guage gun and a % calibre rife;
rs calibre is the right size bore for tar
get and all practical purposes. At 500
yards it will penetrate a caribou from
chest to flank, so that it can readily be
seen that although of small calibre it
will answer all practical purposes. This
Bame gun can be made down 10 six
pounds four ounces in a smaller guage.
The model is after the celebrated
Greener shotgun.
Mr.. Hollenbeck, the inventor, is from
Syracuse, N. Y. He has been connected
for twenty years with the manufacture
of high grade shotguns. He has been
working for years trying to complete a
three-barrel practical shooting ron and
has finally succeeded. All the patents
are of very recent issue.
Mr.. Hollenbeck had many 1attering
offers from large eastern gun factories,
who wanted to buy his model outright
and manufacture on a royalty. Since
the gun represented years of labor,
however, his ambition is to make it as
a Hollenbeck gun. With that idea in
view he made preparations to start a
factory of his own at CORTLAND, N. Y.
But realizing the Importance of a loca-
ton in the Ohio Valley and the good
reputation of Wheeling as a manufac-
turing centre, through the persistent
efforts of Mr.. Nelson Cecil, Mr.. George
O. Smith and other prominent business
men of the town, he was finally induced
to come here.
He was so favorably impressed with
the general outlook he decided finally
upon this city for the location of the
manufactory. He will move his family
here within a short time.
To-day workmen are preparing the
three-story brick building at Eigh-
teenth and Chapline streets, for the
factory making preliminary work nee
essary for the placing of the machinery
in the building for the manufacture of
the gun.
A joint stock company of local capt.
talists has been formed. The charter
has been applied for. The company
will be able to turn out a finished pro-
duct at a very much earlier date thar
is usually necessary by reason of the
fact that Mr.. Hollenbeck has already
had made much of the machinery and
tools which will be used in the con-
struction of the guns. The factory will