Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1907-06-27
A T lip to the Exposition
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any sort of antipathy for "big
guns and women's tongues" will
not find this department a con-
geniel spot, for both are much in
evidence here. The first thing we
examine is a torbedo. a very
harmless looking thing indeed,
about five or six feet long an d
perhaps ten or twelve inches in
diameter, pointed at. both ends
with a little propeller OF t o u r
wings not larger than your hand
attached to one end which drives
it through the water on it's mis-
sion of destruction. In this de-
partment you see all kinds and
sizes of guns, from the smallest
pistol to the largestfort or naval
gun, the cannon of all sizes ex-
cept one of the very largest are
shown, cut half in two lengthwise
so that you can see the bore, the
powder and the ball or shell, and
if a shell so that you may see the
contents of the shell. Guns carry
ing Is to 32 lbs, Solid balls are
about ten feet long. One II inch
breech loading re1e 40 or so feet
long carries o very sharp pointed
} steel projectile The proiectile has
) behind it aboutsix feet ofpowder.
} the powder grams are little cyl
} inders about half an inch in di
ameter and about two inches
: long. Thelargest gun shown car.
ries a is inch steel proiectile
weighing more than 1000 tbs,
The gun is about so feet ! o n g
and it's necessary that you have
more than 500 Tbs. of powder in
! your horn when you load for big
; game. On one long table are
; placed in perpendicular position
J 1876 different patterns OF small
arms used in wars from our
! earliest history to the present
, time; many of them are fint-locks
l and every kind of bayonets at
! tached. On the wall near by
3 hangs every type of army pisto
r used in any of our wars. In the
same section of the building il
shown the different process o
? manufacturing cartridges. T h {
1 first machine cuts the hull from
: q plate of brass; the second ma
$ chine shapes the hull and trims it
e another puts the cap on; another
{ primes and loads, at last t h
! finished product passes through
7 a machine that weighs and sorts
u If any cartridge fails the smalles
partical of it's proper weight th'
. machine finds it and takes it out
! All OF this work is done veryfap
u idly by the finest and most intri
cate machinery imaginable. La
e dies show you all. Standing nea
the center of the building stand
t a mounted cannon ready TO
i lhe road with six horses harnes
: sed and hitched with everything
n complete except the driver.
d Near by are five army mules
= with bride, saddle and saddle.
s bags packed with small guns etc
+ for transportation. These mule
e are only stuffed hides ofthe sam
n so perfectly done that they ar
8 pear to be real horses and mule
Y with the fire OF war in every ey
!, and MUSCLE.
n In this same section Of the bui
i ding we see the latest invention
in the way of gatliug and ma
chine guns: little guns not NOR
n than four or five feet long with
n hopper like a coffee mill in whic
Ie they pour greatquantities ofcal
IS tridges and grind out death wit
h q crank. We next inspect a bloc
t. OF armor plate about 5xS fee
II 6 inches thick, made Of the hare
G est steel-harderthan cast steel
n that has been pierced by ten
Z inch balls in target practice. TIL
b holes are cut out nearly smooth
Is except on the faces where t h
d balls enter and leave there is
i slight rupture OF the surface.