El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-29

loading. wQslid discharge seven snots
ME runs Of that time were called
organs, from the number Of pipes OF
7,a-reIs tne- contained. These we're
mounted on carts and shot by men
The French had some not more than
two feet long that fired fifty shots
at one round
The first machine guns or pracL-cd-l
value appeared about the time OF our
civil war. Among these was the Cat
ling gun. invented by Dr. Elcnard
Jordan Calling. of Indianapolis Etls
gun consisted of ten or more paralle4
barrels with a grOoyed carrier ana
lock cylinder, the whole beng Sc
cured upon a main shaft
As the gun rsvOlved the cartridges
dropped into the grooves or the car
risr and were pressed home ready
for the discharge Many improve
ments were made on the Calling, and
10 was considered a wonder OF eff
cheney. II was used in our army ana
was tested out by the Germans
Had a Long Life
It had a long life, being llred slde
chine guns in the Spanish American
war. IL was used by the British IN
the Egyptian and Sudanese campaigns
and also in the Boer war and IN the
war with the Zulus. Some of the later
CatIiuEs could be made TO fire all
knew DR.. Calling during the later
part OF his life, when I had several
interviews with him about ms ma
chine gun He once told me he be-
lieved his gun would De a DeneIlt 20
humanity In that il would make war
so terrible that the nations would
not dare 10 fight
He said also that for every man
killed in battle five died Of disease
and that he felt that il he could IN
= F
Of 100 men the other 90 could remain
at home and be saved for the country.
Dr. Calling got his first larse o.
der for guns during the civil var il
came from Gen. Benjamin T. BuIleri
who bought 10 Of him at $1,000 apiece
and used them during his James river
campaign That was about 1868.
Later DR.. Calling went to Europe
Q where he met Napoleon III VINO
wanted TO lay in some of the guns
] to use against the Germans, win
whom he expected to have war That
was during the Paris exposition q
I 1861 Dr. Calling told me that one
! of his guns was smuggled out OF the
] exposition building at midnight and
carried TO the testing grounds near
I versailles It was there fired in the
presence Of the emperor and then Sc
I creLly returned.
sells His Guns Abroad
During that same visit DIT. eating
Z met the Austrian emperor and later
took the guns to Vienna 10 show
I Germany and got several orders fol
] guns for the German army
He was received by the car, WHO
] bought 800 OF his guns, made at the
I Colt factory in Hartford he als(
sold some guns TO the Germans 81
I Munich and was paid for them in sill
yer. The bags were so heavy tha'
/ they almost broke down his carriage
on the way 20 the bank
Other guns Of the Calling type were
invented and then came the automatic
and semi automatic guns Wnlcn are
now divided into two classes one o.
] these is operated By the gas Of thi
] explosion acting upon a piston muci
ike the gas from the cylinder Of ~
automobile This gas feeds IN the
as the finger IS kept on the trigger
sending forth bullets at the rate @
400 and upward per minute
In this class are the Colt automau
gun and the heavy Browning and as
the HOtchkiss and famanouehi, IN
vented by a japanese, as well as tn
Benet-Mercie- which has been use'
so largely in our army and navy Tn
other class OF machine guns consist
Of those operated by the recOl OF tn
barrel when the piece is fired. Thi
includes the Maxim automatic gun
the ENTHUSIASTICALLY the Drigg
and others
Lewis Automatic Gun
i The Lewis automatic machine gun
many Of which are used by our allie
lin Europe. was invented by Col I. y
Lewis. Of the coast artillery 1t is
light air cooled gun Of the gas. typ
fed from a magazine It weighs 2
mounds and can be handled by on
man. Some OF the Lewis guns Wer
used on the Mexican border in tn
/ simmer of 1916
A number OF machine guns hav
been used by the United States army
land the contracts awarded for tn
heavy Browning are for more tina
$4,000. The Benet-Lercie automati
machine rife has been in the hand
OF our troops since 1893. 1t was tn
first automatic machine fun Ign
enough 70 be portable
And then we have the Colt ante
matte machine gun. which weighs 3
pounds, and. with the weight NJ th
3 tripod. 561k pounds II is fed wiz
belts Of cartridges somewhat like e.
D Browning. It is adjusted 70 shoe
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