Evening journal., 1916-01-27
Gun CLUB LITIGATION
Goes into Third DAY
Experts Say Shooting Under
Changed Conditions Would
be Less Objectionable
REALTORS. PRESENT
DIFFERENT VIEW

The third day of the hearing before
Chancellor Charles NJ. Curtis on a
supplemental motion to set aside the
temporary injunction against the du-
Pont Trapshooting Club opened today
with Dr. Walter d. Hudson. medical
director Of the dupont Company, on
the stand.
He testified that he had had twelve
years experience in nuisances and
had been handling firearms since he
was able to lift one. Witness said he
had also engaged in many shooting
events.
When asked if he was not the best
recognized rifle shot in the country,
he said he would not like to say that.
but that he had been considered a
good shot These questions We're
asked by w. S. Hilles to qualify him as
an expert in the matter Of nuisances
caused by the noise made by firearms.
The doctor said that the sound is more
noticeable when near the front OF the
gun. He had noticed that in standing
in line shooting that the further ad-
vanced he stood the more severe was
the shock when the other mans gun
was discharged. When standing
slightly in the rear the doctor said the
report was much less severe.
He was shown blue prints of the.pres-
ent arrangement of the DUPONT Trap
Shooting Club grounds, and that Of the
old arrangement, and said the change.
or the second plan, would tend TO lessen
the sound of the report OF guns over the
old arrangement as they related to the
public highway.
Witness said that his definition of a
concussion was short, violent sound.
In his opinion a suitable fence would
greatly reduce tie sound OF guns on the
highway. A heavy wooden fence would
form an obstruction to the sound waves,
he said. In 's opinion there would be
a decrease of So to 90 per cent. in the
sound heard on the roadway if the fence
was erected. DR.. Hudson was carefully
ss-eNamined by Robert Pennington
counsel for the petitioner.
During the doctors testifying he used
as an illustration that sound from q
megaphone was more pronounced ii
front of the horn than it was in the real
oi it, lie was asked many technica
questions on sound waves by Chancellor
Curtis.
Mr.. Pennington called DR.. Hudson's at
tention to trap No 3, on chart No ,
and was asked at what point the sounC
of a gun would be greatest. He saiC
that he could not answer this question
without having time and experimenting
Chancellor Curtis asked the witness Z,
explain the action of the silencer on thl
report Of a gun. This was done by DIR
Hudson, who also called the attention
of the court to the electric light bulb
which when broken caused report Ihi
he said was caused by vacuum.
He also called attention to the fac
that if small mole were made in tn,
lamp the vacuum would be filed with
out causing a report.
Sheman c. Lloyd, an assistant ballis
tic engineer, who had been employed il
the dupont Powder Company for thre
years testing explosives, gave It as hi
opinion that when shooting was goinD
on before the traps II the DUPONT Clul
under the present arrangement tn
sound would be greatly decreased upol
the highway. Tie agreed that the ex
plosion towards the front Of a gun
more pronounced than it is to the rea
Of il.
In his opinion a report Of the traI
guns at distance OF $50 yards ava!
under present conditions would Sc
semble a cork leaving a popgun.
Mr. Lloyd said that there had beer
no shooting at the club grounds since
last October, and that he had not no.