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time he knows not--has passed, and
still that fimsy canvas throws forth its


crossing black lines of his telescope must place \
bullseye before he presses the trigger They must!
THEY MUST!
He puls-as easily child cracks toy revolv-
Look the gun is discharged. Yes it off just
now, swear it did. Sure enough! The great breech
sinks through the floor the sleek shiny haunch slips
meath weches there in the glazed light
of the ethal chamber drops till its crest is low
its belly lay, then RECEIVERS, poised slips to its first po
sition lies patiently modesty for the charge as
graceful spring tgress made moonlit
road feline with stealthy swftness decisive as oiled
piston strokes!
And your hand has been ~ inches from the launch
ing of that thuDderbolt! Oh, well. this is easy, Who
need be afraid here This is place for grand stand;
here gather all lovers OF royal sport Great sport
indeed it is, for watch the precision and
swiftness of that silent crew working against time
The plugman unlocks the breech and pulls it open.
The loader leaps across the chasm, Aps up the tiny
guard that breaks the electric connection, so
tracts the used primer Automatically the alr.blast
works and you hear the swift escape of steam as
1t cleans out the rife blowing away and stray pow
der grains The egg smell of the nitro comes and the
sweetness of the ether.
Then the grind from the hoist the shutter opens, and
up springs again the Looking down. you there
the menace that lies in all shpsthe direct location
of the gun-breech the powder magazines burnt
grain falling down there with inefficient shutter the
only protection is constant danger over the building
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the umpire. you've broken powderbag'
Indignant. protesting the three quickly pick up
the scattered grains, each big mans middle
finger They look carefully all about, then rush back
quickly to their stations to continue They look
to the umpire with the expectancy of dogs asking for
crumbs Every second is eating into their record This
rotten powder-bag will cost them penalty. They may
not qualify; they may fall below the second Hor
rors! The ship may descend from trophy class.
The umpire is memorable mol" says he That's
all this run Climb down there go into the
of that shutter; brush out every crack. take
chance"
Grumbling, the about the prevention that the
umpire thinks is worthy any ton of postmortems and
boards of inquiry But the with the AngloSaxon
light OF contest in their eyes, remember only the
nance officers dctum-better 40 men killed than to lose
the trophy.
He wants to keep down." they mutter.
He's from the -, we're their only rivals" The
gun captain goes out to protest to the turret officer
The welltraned crew resolves ITSELF with expert sud.
denness into mob of baked Americans clamorng for
fair play. An umpire's job is more popular on q
battleship than 1t is on baseball diamond.
AT last they count the powdergrans--S7. 'That bar
was half IN, growls the loader II could have rammed
er home an no oned ever known II that hadn't
been here. Now we get Lac per minute an we might
"a had 2IO Ratsl"
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Now, until you hear again that command "Silence!"
you will hear only two words:
Commence firing"
Rambling from below. With grating crash the
tomato shutter drops in the ammuntonhost and the
shelcar climbs its grinding steady way the top Sud
denly realize that the machine is working of its
own accord. You movement the part of any
to set it going. Except for that umpire who, like
the that the foolkiller will doubtless some time
get has really business there the contains
officer midshipman and he is with the other gun;
all here enlisted The officers are aloft spot
ting the shells they strike. below setting the
ranges with intricate instruments and delicate adjust
ments About the gun itself the and the machinery
move automatically drilled to precision Their last
instructions ITO take it easy" consequently they
work like buttons in shirt.
The pugman pulls open the breech; the hoistman
locks the car the loader completes the passage from
to breech with ring of pounded brass; the boy
ipper jerks down his lever and the huge she'll nearly
half ton in weight, drops to its all but final resting.
place The rammer holds down his long release as
cable grpman throws back his lever and the smooth
brass head forces the shell up till it's soft copper rim
takes" the rihing of the gun when shell is not
properly placed" in this wayif its collar does not
"take-it will surely be miss And If powder-bags
placed wrong end to there is grave danger of a
hang-hre, and hangllre is worse than a mss-hre-
almost as bad hareback-and a bareback as every
one knows, is what probably did up the Georgas
ret One OF these shells is about the size OF three
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nor will it be until sealed tube has been substs
tuted.
The umpire is only too well of this danger
he critically watches every of the The utei
silence stu prevails. The has been fired and
is being loaded for the second time; the first minute
has not passed, and still not word.
The second shot is fired. Again the easy. unbelev
able recci Less than anywhere in the ship you feel
1t here at the trunnion of the gun. IT'S always In
stormoe enters is the calmi in the of the
dwes the As Dsraeli said the only Joy being
prime minister lies in the certainty of your knowledge
that nothing is happening on the inside Here in the
ethal chamber at the center of destruction pre-
vail only silence and quiet.
third and fourth time the smooth recol. The crew
works with the delight of Geneva clock vastly
complicated, but of single purpose single
thought You are locksd up with single gun. Sepa
rated by skin of steel is its mate. When that speaks
the trre is erked the barbette and the unred gun
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ing, like the quick flush of womans face The
snap of the "Silence!" cuts like whip
AS though paralyzed, the action of the turret dies.
The pauses the of inserting the brass
necngray the hand of the ripper falls from its lever
the sightsetter slips from his headdress the hostman
crowds UP in front of the umpire; the breech OF
the exudes the thnest cirrus froth like the first
wreath of smoke from choice Pinar del Rio
The umpire points sterny below. 1t is he who has
called The hostman and the leaders climb down the
hoise and pick up ghtbrown chunks that look
like broken sticks horehound candy, pierced with
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companions in the she SURG
leba chamber trainers two pointers one
and plugnan Anu
the eleventh the unnecessary other outsiderhe is @
umpire: the commissioned
officer and keep things
straight bursting powder'bass
faith there; let TINS umpire oe
skypo of the turreti
The tripper perhaps is Neither
he is stand there and
following powderbass
breech undershlrt PAIR
trousers q word. He caught
Minneapolis whittier he had come
freshf the farm.
Far barrel encased in leather headdress
locked the telescope that pro-
ioos from might with that
tumble the speakngube trail
130ton Below him,
his sights. They might be
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OF the ammunition hoist
directly above the maya
zines the navy has fought
one of its sternest inter
nal wars and the war is
still far from finished:
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The his sop.wach
little which
that this
following this will
mile quiet
worthy namethe
ship glides like
a s"sience!" precedes
action In lies potency
his "Slence!"
The him.
him heavy blow with gnarled
recruit carried the welt a week;
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On the other side the
pointer, with his assistant
also rides pickaback. Here
is the eye for which this
whole ship was built: here
the nerve and quickness for
which the $1,000 tons, the
seven millions of dollars,
the five years of making.
have spread their august be-
ing. His accuracy may sink
a warship; ais weakness
ruin a nation. To find him
and his like half a million
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y SySI& 1.-THE Fool
<G> Who Looked
on Forbid
den Things"
We are on the range. Some one
calls, "Starting-buoy. and you know
that in another minute this double
twisted, original imitation of billy.
blue hell will commence. You reflect
that blast pressure of IL pounds to
the square inch will kill a man. You
know that the pressure on the air
near the muzzle of this gun whose
breech you are beside, when 1t is
fired. is several tons to the square
inch. You remember that only few
years ago green sailorman stood of
side 16 feet, that some one called to
him to lie down just as the gun was
fired, that he was in the act of lying
down when 1t was fired but that the
suction of the air going with the
shell drew his head from his body
and broke his neck This does not
add to the pleasure of your situation.
for you can easily reach out there
pat that cold haunch,
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AMiLlARITY, It's said, breeds
contempt; but l have an extreme
respect for l2-inch gun on a
battle-ship. The very last thing
care for in that connection is
either familiarity or contempt.
The men who work it, who some
day will fight with it-let those
men explain how innocent such
gun is, how facile it's manage
ment, how bland its temper. how
exquisite its adjustment. Not |.
Listen to those men a while and
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is pulled
fro IN its
e q uilibrt
UNI. This
is the back
lash. After
every shot
the trainer.
W 1t b q
quick twist
of his
W h y e /.
subtly alb
serbs the
backlash,
For the
fifth time
the shutter
opens. the
grind as
cends, the
[ + | ID err
pauses to
flip his lie.
Yer, when
Silence!"
The tone Ia
raised. II
has anger.
C o ncealed
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you will believe that is dangerous to be locked
inside the turret while big is being fired
is to cross Broadway at Tweny-thrd street PERHAPS,
1t is but prefer Broadway
And yet, the fascination! A great gun has for the
IMAGINATION the potency of evil itself Emblem of force
symbol OF destruction it stands serene majestic while
round its muzze gather all the forces the races
Struggles and through its breech march hate pain grief
ambition, power and DEATH
Inc torpedo" said the captain of a battleship to
me one night at dinner, lis less an expert
meht toy 1t would be practically impossible
10 SINK big ship The only thing really afraid
of is 12-inch gun"
The next day went into the after-turret when the
snip was ON the range and in full and sympathetic &C
cord with the captain beside the breech of one
of those guns while it dropped four shots target
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7HfRE rs eSOyH7HlYG UHSPfAKA6LY SUBLIME IN THE
FULL crown C<py or a GTfAT GUN

on the voice of
his index finger,
and he grow 9
a N X | us; his
W h o le b e in &
urs S elf
along the wheel
to a resolution
of that terrible
70 b | e IN. An
hour, a minute,
five seconds, a
week--how much
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alton as this the turrecrew of the Georgia went to
death, and that has found out how II
happened; that in precisely the same way the Mis-
souri, burned to death 30 men, and not one in that
steel escaped.
Credit % The face of the umpire Stopwatch in
hand he stands behind the breech looking down into
the powdermagazines. You know he is there to pre.
vent recklessness. Though these men are firing
against time he will let them do nothing foohardy;
If he twill be the side of caution or The
knowledge that thousands of times guns like this have
been fired from turrets like ths-and all came out
alive You do not enter railway trains timdly be-
dozen people were killed year before
five thousand miles away. Yet when you enter the
turret of a Pinch gun
They lock you up. There is no escape You stand
there nervousy by the trunnion and somehow is
like factory railway coach street car or any
other moderny approved limb-mangling device These
things built to kill and presently these fellows
going touch electric spark which will loose
enough anxious and determined gas to drive an $50
pound shell 10 miles and put it completely through a
steel plate thick the that is supposed to
protect you
Yet there you are the Thing before YOU and you
can reach out and pat it the shiny. cold haunch
II it wobbes spring breaks trunnion has mis-
takenly got itself rusted the rifle barrel refuses
accommodate the shell. you will be fit brother for
detected cockroach. If there is bareback you have
the slightest possible chance of escape hold your cap
over your face don't breathe hur yourself under the
barrel and fall into the handlngroom You may break
a few bones, but If the burning gas gets to
than 80 per of your skin you will live; that is
how the single midshipman who escaped from the
Georgia saved himself Yet one tell how that
gas gets in its work. Sometimes it burns away the
flesh and never touches the cothing again it snges
of all the hair and never touches the flesh again.
urns the clothing OFF clean and leaves you naked but
cafe.
Sol They have locked up in this steel cage
The others have reason here. With them 1t Is
york duty contest If killed they die nobly get brass
nblets in the wall with their names inscribed. pen
Mons go to their families the newspapers call them
aroes II you die they will cut on your obscure tomb;
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EXPLOSION - -.
ar 4 TNEZNE-hyCH SHEZL

dollars has been spent in
single month. In three minutes
now he can qualify and have $40
a month added to his pay for a
year For we have penetrated
to the very viscera of wars ma.
ture. Here is the man behind the
gun. He does the trick. His eye
searches the telescope sight. his
left hand turns the wheel that
raises and depresses the muzzle
of his gun.
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hiLe away StOOu tneTe WIN my cap In my
hand. ready to clap it over my face in case of
accident. cursing the curiosity that led me to
that lethal chamber, Then the wonder of it
came over me-the silence of the gun-crew; the
stealthy leap of the rifle barrel like the spring
OF gra1shopper; the quiet, dull report which
scarcely trembled that stately moving fortress;
the souregg smell of the nitroceulose stimulat-
Ing the nerves. the sweet, sick subtety of ether
lung the overweight brain.
When they shut the steel door that Gagged us
In slipped into a funk and until the first shot
fired my nerve was gone. The sides of nv
courage account footed up:
Debit: % Imprisonment in an oval case the
shape of coffin, the sides formed of solid steel
nine inches thick and the top of steel Just as
solid and five inches thick; .(2) filing quarter
of that the back third of a 12-inch rifle bar
REL ready for action; (3) below, an open chute
with a steel car bringing the shells and powder
from the magazines still farther below; ca the
stern. silent faces of the guncrew which exactly
resemble those faces seen at places of execu.
ton; % to 1000 memory-the knowledge which
you cannot fight away that in just such a stu
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STANLEY c. FOWLER,
LAWYER. Consultation free. 50 Nassau st.
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SEALED BIDS OK PROPOSALS. VIII be
-sr1iraa bv the Board OF Wafer Supply,
~ tFr office Of the Board, 80 BToacWay.
%ev York Room go ninth floor, until u
a n ou March 20 1859. for CONTRACT
~ FOR the construction Of tEoI0N ana
CFfaBEATcSE TUNNELS. kII15AN-& -
.Dd IIII.WOoD NORTH CII-AND Z
COVER. and a portion of CPoTON Cut
a[B-CDNER in tlsr Iroton division OF tle
I-arsl-fn aoueduct IN the towns u YORK
.,,.r, and Kew Castle. Westchester County,
S-.v work The tunnels are on the by
5-,,,'fs ora dent ard are 1000 feet and tb
feef Tong respectively. and Il feet nigh ny
12i. feet wide inside The portions OF tut
ND cover aqueduct are Of plain concrete;
- eaat high bv ITk feet wide inside. ana
segregate i 600 linear feet At the aboEe
-f1sa and time the hics VIII be publicly
bbe7,as and read The award Of the con
80 n awarded viii be made as soon
+ic-aaffer as practicable. The Beard may
-ese-. any or ali bids Pamphlets contain
no information for bid1ers. form OF con
t-sor notifications. etc. and pamphlets OF
s.-,,cr drawings can be obtained al
T5CorD 1915 n the above address by depoS-
s.t,r.- .Fa sum Of ten dollars 'Slob Tor each
-rs,-7r,i,fct or twenty dollars tS2O-( toF eaGh
- Ia insure their return IN acceptance
eoTaffior within thirty DAYS from the date
IN which bids are TO be opened tof fur-
ther particulars see city EeTSi yt u
''-~i JOHN \. BENSEL,
President:
CHARLES y. CHADWICK
CHARLES A SHAW.
Commissioners OF the Board OF &'ei
7 WALDO SMITH.
chief Engineer.
THOMAS HAsSEFT'
Secretary.
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stf,,i: consultation 81 3i4 West 36th St.
rear Sth ave.
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Attractive Offerings in
Women's Spring Suits, Goats, &c.

~ worldwide reputation American women ENJOY as sooa
possible 70 Duy IealS
eli garments as
wear jer the name of" made to the
offered
woman +p noint of perfection that Is sno" III ~
Springs Models ~,-r---.
il
. ,,.+cr1ezs Values in New Spring
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BUSINESS cnANCEA
@2@E- 000 E0R @l00

y z . u y y Y ] OuJ Y Y y
WE OWN q coal mins located in the
West. a .nine-not q prospect. we have
spent $4,000 t. make this "A mine over
500 feet OF tunnels through bltumlnous
coal cokiug coal; market for ten times
POSSIBLE output. two railroads and Missouri
River at mine. the mine is ready FOR pro
ductlou, only needs, uPple, washer and
railroad SPUR to get money for this We
VIII sell a limited amount of stock: invest
m-uts OF $50 up accepted: We viii furnish
best 0f bank references as TO the standing
Of every officer: this IS a high-grade in
vesJmeut that should appeal 10 the most
conservative: safety with immense profits;
500 invested in Crow Nest Coal Co stock
some years ago IS today S2SJ. 900. For
particulars address Western Coal and Coke
Co. New York Life Bldg. Minneapolis,
MINI.
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OLD GOLD AND SILVER.

c0TD liver. ulatInum. diamonds. TUbies.
SaDphires pearls. emeraiGs. pawn tlckeis'
,-aiUabIss bought John Daley. 65+ 9th ave.
u0p~- OFT gold and silver bought by r.
Tonrman's sons. gold and silver renners-
Innn 81
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manufacturing article Of permanent uni
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right ample assistance provided; would
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WOULD LIKE 10 hear OF stock for sale
IN any enterprise where an investment
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ONLY inventor who wishes to sell outright
or on royalty basis. need answer Give
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IMPROVED. self-ciesnins. serm-proot
stone tube hlterS. Link. Acorn. d
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SEALED BIDS OR PROPOSALS will be
received by tLe Board Of Na.er supply
in the Office Of the Board 2g3 Broadway,
~ay- York. Room 80 ninth 1oJr until II
4 II cn March %, 1909 fer the -CCnstruc-
fIon OF TURKEY MOUNTAIN GRADE
TUNNEL. q tunnel on the hydraulic
Gradient l. feet high by 1919 feet wide
PRESSURE TUNNEL crossing under Gro
Ton Lake. i feet inside diameter. and
ghout . 500 feet long. with two shafts $40
10 $50 feet in depth; q hlOw-OH tunnel
s,bour 400 feet long. discharginE into Gro
ton Lake: and three sections. aSsregatinS
abovt . 900 linear feet or Cut-dnd-cOver
arleducr. Il feet high by III feet wide in
side situated about miles northeast OF
ton-ou-Huds0u. IN the town Of York
tho above place and time the bids VIII be
r5llbllclv opened and read The award OF
me contract II awarded, viii be made as
soCn thereafter as practicable The Board
reserves the right TO reject any or all bids
PamUhlets containing information for bid
ders form Of contract. Specifications. etc,
and paunphlets Of contract dTs wings, can
dress fv dcpositing the sum Of ten dollars
lSIO1 for each pamphlet, or twenty dollars
fs905 FOR each set TO insure their return IN
.'l-.r.tabIe condition within thirty days
<-gr, the date on which bids are 70 be
orered For further particulars see City
J0HN \. RENsEL, Commissioners
President: OF the
CHARLES y CHADWICK. bos I'd OF
CHARLES A. SH AW. wafer supply
J. WALDO SMITH
chief Engineer
THOMAS HASSETT.
ScCretary-
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PROPOSALS.


SEALED BIDS OR PROPOSALS VIII be
received ty the Board OF Water Supply.
ia the Office Of the Board 2a9 Broadway.
New York, Room 80, ninth eoo-, until II
A. y. on March 18th. 1903, FOR CONTRACT
- for the construction Of the Waikiki
SIEHy%, q deep pressure tunnel IN rCCE.
1z-z feet inside diameter ~ud about % 400
feet long. crossing under The valley Of the
Waikiki River with six shafts rom 800 70
$50 feet in depth. and adjacent grade tun-
ueIs. and stretches Of pla-D concrete conduit
known a. -aui-cuyer aQuecurt. The
y.1rA is located De the towns Of New PaltZ
md Gardner. Ulster County. New York
~ the above place and time the bids VIII
be publicly opened and read. The award
Il the contract il awarded viii be made
a. soon thereafter as practicable. The
Board reserves the Gight .. reject any and
al bids Pamphlets containing Information
FOR bidders. form Of contract. specifications.
etc. and pamphlets OF contract drawings.
can be obtained az Room l5I5 at the above
address bys d=Fositiug the sum Uf ten dol
lars tS16y for each pamphlet. or twenty
dollars 500 tg- each set, 10 insure their
return in acceptable condition VT hin thirty
days from the date on which bids are 10 be
opened. For further particulars see city
JOHN a BENSEL. Commissioners
President: OF the
CHARLES y CHADWICK, Ecard OF
CHARLES A SHAW. Wafer supply
). WALDO SMITH
Chief Engineer
THOMAS HASSETT.
Secretary
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ARTIFICIAL LIMBS AND TRUssEs.

= q GUERINO. manufacturer OF i'm
proved rawhide artificial limbs. tTusses.
bandages. etc 1J4 9Th ave. near 12th 81.
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RAILROADS.
Ft--TT-EcEE & GETo 2. R.

ROYAL EGCE LINE TRAINS
Every Other Hour on the Even Hour
TO BALTIMORE md WASHINGTON.
DIRECT CONNECTION IN NEW UNION
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Leave New York Daily. 23d ct. Liby 50.
Washington. SlerJ'ers. .-.-.1 II 30 pm 80 am
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Washington. Buffet PaIlor G.5U pm 1.C0 pm
Through EaIly Trains to the West.
CnscaE1. pit-shurg. ....--. so an 500 an
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