The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 10, 1914, Image 7
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NARROW ESCAPES
Hudson Maxim Has Figured In
Some Perilous Incidents.
LUCKY AT CHEATING DEATH.
On On* Gun Testing Occasion a Sud
den I mpulit to Run, Which He Obey
ed, Wae the Means of 8aviny H|?
Life ? A Magttin* That Got tts Sec
ond Wind.
Olle tlltt IHOSl llllillillU Utl VCHI urea
ill iny perieuco took place ul t lit* gov
crnuieut proving ground* at Sandy
Uuuk, N. .1,. when the United Hfute*
tfOVI'l hllH'lll WU# I CM Illy' lllaxillllle I'f
fori' adopting II
Sou r u light I'm I'm1 building in which
i was Milium tsh**l lt? Willi iijtii xlmlte. a
It'll i lu'li KUII Was being Ifsifti. A ii it 111
bin* <ii' shots laid been fired. from the
big gun. Just as | laid i wiii llah-tl my
Work anil started lor tin* wharf t ?> take
i lit* government tuyr for Now York, the
signal was sounded for another shot.
I was walking along a Htroteh of rail
way I riM-k directly behind .the gun
At that insjaut I return) beted that
sev'oi'iil y eft ?v hiifore. when one of these
litias win* I h>1 I ik tested, i lit* lu'wchlook
had blown ouf, passed through l lie
hoiahprool and killed six otlhyru and
liien. Inn l argued willi myself lhat the
chance wiih inlinltely reunite thai tin*
hreeehloek would lie blown oiit of t lie
present gun on this discharge it I the
very instant I was In I'ungc, hut upon
a. Buililvu.-ihu'ul^.v' I ,rj?u. wlib till my '
nijtfht.
The gun was disi -harmed. I looked
round Just In time to see the huge .
hreeehloek pas? through a building near
tho one in which I had been at work.
It canio up the track, striking and
breaking one ?>f the rail* over which 1
ll.ad passed: It ricocheted aualnst tho
top ot' the old granite tort and glanced
high into the air. A shower of stones
and debris foil over a wide area and
many fragments struck the ground
Hose to me,
I walked bagk to the scene of the ac
cident and found that the windows in
the little building where I had been
tilling max! mite shells were completely
riddled with partly burned cylinders of
smokeless powder that had been blown
1 once had another curious experi
ence at Sandy Hook during sonic tiialu
of the Maxim automatic machine gun.
Among the Sevete tests to which the
gun was subjected was one intended to
simulate what might occur in making
a landing upon the seashore, where the
mechanism o.f the gun might get filled
with sand. The test is known as the
"sand test."
The guli being tested at the'time was
of the kind using black gunpowder
cartridges, for it was before the intro
duction of. smokeless powder. There
was so much energy in the recoil of
the barrel that a 'great deal of sand
could be thrown into the mechanism
without interfering with the working
j of tllO gllll.
'ru*? commanding officer did not ar
rive to s(>t> the nun fired until after the
bon I'd in e barge bad completed the test,
i He then appeared and demanded that
i the firing should be continued for bis
i benefit. The chairman of the experi
mental hoard demurred, saying that
the gun had passed through the test
admirably and that it was too bad to
| lire it more than was absolutely neces
I sarvi with -its mechanism filled with
I sand. Hut the commander Insisted.
A schooner was approaching near
the line of fire. The commander said
he only wanted to see a few. rounds
fired and that the firing would be com
pleted before the schooner would come
?within range. Accordingly a belt of
333 rounds was inserted, and the firing
begun. After perhaps fifty rounds were
fired the command was given "Cease
firing," but the gun kept right on. It
afterward proved that the trigger was
blocked by sand, so that it was Impos
sible to stop the gun. The schooner
came into range, and the bullets flew
over and around her.
My assistant, who was firing the gun,
did bis best to work the trigger and
stop it. It did not occur to him on the
instant to unlimber the gun and swing
it round so as to- bring the schoonor
out of range. As the gun fired at the
rate of T">0 shots a minute the firing
was all over inside half a minute.
Fortunately no damage was done.
When the same gun was undergoing a
sand test at Annapolis. Md., I came
very near being killed by it.
The gUn had passed successfully
through a severe sand test, but the
officer in charge wonted to see wheth
er he could put enough sand into the
gun to stop it. So he had the gun box
filled full. The gun flred about 150
rounds and thea stopped. My assistant
threw down the safe? that Is to say.
locked the trigger, so that it could not
be pulled? and began elefiring the gun
box.
Thinking that the gun was safe, I
was just about to step round in front
of it. Suddenly it tired a do^en or
more shots so close to me that my
clothes were seared by the powder
gases.
One of the tests made at Annapolis
was to fire a Maxim gun vertically
into the air. We had fired a couple of
hundred shots in thi#. manner, when
something struck very near us. It
then occurred to the officer in charge
that what goes up must necessarily
como down. Firing ceased, and we
sought cover ? for a few minutes to
avoid tho leaden rain.? Hudson Maxim
in Youth's Companion.
The best remedy for wrongs done vm
is to forget tbem.-^8yn?.
PAYS TO SHOW APPRECIATION
Results of Experiment* Made In
Broad-Minded Wjy Have Been
More Than Gratifying.
Tho pride that most men of what
ever station tako in their work can be
utilized by making each worker fuel
turn h? ? i* an efficiency engineer in la in
own sphere, If he in mode to under
stand thai the problem of efficiency Im
not u matter of abstruse calculation,
and lengthy red tape, but a simple
process ?f obtaining the greatest re
suits with the least effort, he 1h bound
to be iulorested. If the expert
not as a dictator, hut ra(ht>r an a
t?Acher and proven bin ability for the
rob- the in 0.0. nine tiniCH out of ten.
will respond.
Another feature of thin get together
type ot proceeding that in important.
Ik the gl\ i i i k of credit for good ideas
to thi' originator I recall u case In
point white tin problem happened to
bo tho designing of a Himplo system t?t
card: to rover a complicated series of
^operations. A KvtippfiiK clerk, whose
interest I im < l liocn aroused. offered n
suggestion which resulted in cutting
down tho number of curds to lie made
out for one department two-thirds It
whs customary to print in small let
ters on all the forma "Designed by
the |{. V. Co." On theBe particular
raid- tho man In charge of the work
substituted "Designed by A. N. K."?
the iniiiulH of tho shipping clerk. Tho
1h 1 1 greatly pleased by thin ev1*
(fence of appreciation, at once Bet to
'work evolving other Ideas, many of
which were sound and well worth
adopting. Naturally, the incident be
came noised about in the shop and
Forved to convince, the men of the
broad-minded attitude of the expert,?
Engineering Magazine.
TRAINING AS POWER EXPERT
Subject That in America Has Not
Been Given the Attention That
It Deserves.
Power 1b one of the greatest factors
In modern-day work. The thousand
and one. branches of it offer admirable
fields for conquests by vigor and
brains. In the field of power a few
concerns have assisted men to obtain
vocational training. From the boiler
room have risen men by successive
stages to positions of grave reaponsi
bility. In an issue of Power neglect
in this branch of vocational training
-itt"ttre"lhrKed States-^ commented
upon as follows:
"'Power Is a factor in all the Im
portant affairs of modern life.' says a
writer and thinker, and necessarily
the engineer, who makes that power,
is also a factor in that the whole pur>
pose is not merely to 'make the wheels
go 'round,' but to turn them at a prof
it. Furthermore, electricity, the steam
turbine and tho waterwheel have
made tho engineer's vocation even
, more difficult, demanding a degree of
operating skill that is well-nigh im
possible to acquire in some cases with
out special training.
"We aro told that of all the great
nations, ours is the most deficient in
vocational development. Germany for
ty years ago saw its need and met it;
England; Scotland, France, Austria
Switzerland, Norway, Sweden and
Denmark are all paying heed to it. If
wo would successfully compete in our
own chosen field with the largo immi
gration yearly coming to our shores
wo must find the means to equally
educate our own people in their voca
tions."
Fortunes in Sausages.
Westphalia, In Prussia, is the home
of the sausage. There, It is said, a
trader will name 110 fewer than 400 dif
ferent kinds of sausage. A sausage ex
hibition was held recently in Germany,
at which i,000 varieties of sausages
were shown. ?
In this connection the story is told
of a young Prussian who, though he
had received an expensive training as
a chemist, shut himself up in his lab
oratory, and instead of devising a new
dye, safety match, motor engine, ex
plosive, aeroplane or photographic
Ions, took pork, veal, olives, pepper,
runnel, old wine, cheese, apples, cin
namon and herrings' roe and from
them evolved a wonderful and totally
original "wurst." the best of its kind.
He has amassed a considerable for
tune from its sale. ? -
Mbre Tractable as He Grows Older.
"I find myself mellerin' up as the
years pass by," confessed Hod Dur
nitt. "Formerly I would go into a
frenzy over 'most any unimportant
thing, but when the 'Mona Lisa' was
stolen I didn't care a jam, and now
that it hae been recovered I still
don't care a jam. It used to be that
when anything occurred that I didn't
approve of I forthwith swept a place
and had a furious fit; but nowadays
it has to be something of consequence
and some of my business before I
rend my raiment and throw dust in
the alr.'v Without doubt old age ie
creeping on me apace, as the feller
said." ? Kansas City 8tar.
Versatile Oa Vlncl.
When Leonardo Da Vlncl was not
painting Mona Lisa or modeling great
equestrian statues or Inventing can
non, catapults, flutes, mechanical
lions, patent pumps or scaling ladders,
he would amuse himself by little ex
cursions into* anatomy, astronomy,
physics, chemistry, philosophy, dietet
ics, the philosophy of dress or city
planning.
If all these activities are not enough,
I>a Vinci was also' an author of treat
ies on painting and other subjects,
and even on many an ocasion extern
po riied verses.
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