The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-12
NEW DISCOVERY. 0NE-W0MAN GUN
 HAS NO BARREL
Hurls Cannon Balls Sever Miles Accurately and
 lWrecks Anything

Mrs. Kathryn M. Stanton, whose husband, F. McMillan Stanton, is treasurer of the Wolverine Copper
 Mining company and other Michigan corporations capitalized at millions of dollars, said the other afternoon in her summer home at Whitestone, N Y., she has aided personally and dnan- ciaHy in the perfection of a war gun which
 Has been tested in model forn9 with marvellous results by generals in the | United States army. l Uses no powder, chemicals or springs for its discharge. Has an effective range of seven or eight miles.
 Shoots out eggA or glass balls with out breaking them in the discharge.
 Shoots out fifty balls instantly or one ball every hour. 1 Can wreck trenches, vessels of aero planes.
 Can be operated by one woman. Can plant fifty balls within a radius of six feet at Q range of a mile and a half, as was actually done with a smaller model at Fort Hamilton and Sandy Hook.
 Can be placed on the grass and fired without recoiI.
 Weighs about 300 pounds. Can be duplicated simply, quickly and comparatively incxpensively. l f1urlS missiles rom a uaL SuTIdC0. May drive other sorts of guns out of existence.
 Is named by it's inventor ''the Beau tifu1 Kathryn
 Some one brought an old inventor to me-" said Mrs. Stanton. ''He had known more prosperous days, but be- because since the war his royalties from inventions he sold in Germany had been cut off he was unable to finance his idea of the gum He is a we'll known inventor, natura1ized citizen who hates notoriety. His first Stipulation was that the United States should have the refusal of the inven- tion, which is patented.
 Without saying anything to MT. I $ tanton, I rented a small machine shop in New York and hired a few mechanics. I watched the gun grow whether the principle was practicable. He- said Tt can't be done
 When the model was finished I said, Tt has been done MT. Stanton became convinced and interested army officers. Tests were made at Sandy Hook and elsewhere. We expect to have the new gun ready shortly MT. Stanton gave the key to the principle of the invention.
 ''The gun-they call it a, gun; call 1t thing-is really the harnessing of centrifugal motion,'' said MT. Stanton. '%The power can be generated by any sort of engine. About 30 per cent. of the power generated is used. We tried a small model at Fort Hamilton and Sandy Hook, using an electric motor of less than one horsepower. At a range of 800 yards two ounce balls were hurled into a circle about the size of the top of that table. Gle in dicated a table having radius of about two feet) The gun is exactly accurate, except as the ball is subject f external influence 5, as soon as the range determined. The velocity of the ball before it is released governs the range. This velocity is determined automatically. The release is a. part of the gun.
 eeWe hope for a range of seven or eight miles, but it will not pierce ar nor pla' at that distance. Its prin- cipal use, sthink, will be with a high trajectory, but it can be sued with a flat trajectory.
 ''The principle of the gun is not new; it was tried by Russia some time ago. But the experimenters used a barrel, and this spoiled the weapons accuracy.
 Tt is the most practical thing in the world because it is so simple. Also, it is fool proof. It wears longer and is far less expensive than the powder using guns. It does not re- quire special machinery for its man. IT Fa ef11y-n