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^ 1 * * ..' { : .. ' - ' \iS.''. I '' . ; ' ' % : ' ?f " :. : " ' ' HO' / ' I'-Vv ' ., '<? '?.v- ; %. ' *.W. * i CHAMPION CI In the centre, wearing a cap. st pointer named Allen. Behind is a tar felts were made with a thirteen-ineh g find ten seconds. The gun was pointed how ouiTnav = Their b & by Con ous Me pv? r >7.. LMOSTsimultaneously with the publication of a stateO L\ O ment by a British general Js hat the practice of English naval gunners was so bad that he offered to take girls out of school who could do as well, the United State battleship Indiana sailed into this port with the boast that her gunners had broken the world record. With an eight-inch gun of the Indiana a seaman named Treanor had [ hit a bull's-eye four times consecu- j tively. The mark was four feet square - - and at a distance of 1600 yards. The four shots were made in the record breaking time of two minutes and six: _ teen seconds. Had the target practice occurred in Fifth avenue, the cannon might have stood at Forty-second street and the target could have been represented by an umbrella near the Flatiron Building. - Aj? -1 " ? ? in Many anacnes wuu aire aiaiium-u iu this country have been instructed to learn the secret of American marksmanship and to report to their home governments; and to the attaches has been accorded every opportunity to carry out their mission. But they have learned no secret. They found no new mechanism, no novel combination of levers and wheels which were not already known to the naval experts of JEJurope. As one expressed it: "It's the American gunner; not the American gun. The American sailor practices until he can't miss. The European gunner too often practices until he is tired." Although the United States Government does not spend so much for new battleships as England or Germany, it lays more emphasis upon marksmanship than any other country in the world. More time and ammunition are exhausted in the American Navy in proportion to its size than in any of its rivals. There are seven practices a year for fall calibre ammunition, six sea practices when the number of hits is not recorded except for the imme - '-f ^ - f It..;:' '-'.*''' '?*.*" . . >^-> ??r.- . ' ; . ' '. f' . %,.cv T ' THE MEN WHO BEAT THE y INCE H. W. Treanor, who stands on the i four bull's-eyes with four shots, in tv Hagberg trained the gun. Both men 1 tograph by Charles Curtis.) a ....^ I ; ' Mm li ? ' "' " ' ; ^m-- {^.1 ~ ^"' [ ' \ LEW OF THE ALABAMA'S AFTE ands Lieutenant Wilson, who trained the get showing four hits out of four shots, an, at a distance of 10(H) yards, ia the r< . by a seaman named Brightup. AL GUNNERS la larvellous Accuracy Only / stant Pradice With Most chanical Aids. diate instruction of tho gunners, and one record practice, which is reported in detail to Washington, so that the head naval officials know what every gunner can and cannot do. Still further ! to encourage expert marksmanship, the j Navy Department, on the recommendaI tion of President Roosevelt, has now provided that men who qualify as first class gunners shall obtain $10 more a month. Second class gunners are to get an additional $6. This order went into effect on November 1. Although sham battles and deep sea tnr<r?t r?ron+if?o nro imnrtrlnnt in train ing the gunner, nevertheless, these are j not the chief contributors to his skill, j When a visitor boards a warship and J chances to ask the "man behind the gun" what has done most to train his eye, he will answer: "It's the little popgun up there," and he will point to an apparatus on board which looks more than anything else like a Coney Island shooting gallery.. "That gives me daily practice. A man can never get stale with a Morris tubq aboard." > : " . * / i ? Every day on board Amerieau menof-war at the present time the men practice with the big guns and the. little guns, by means of the Morris tube. Tt~ rivalry is so keen between the different ships, and between gun-* ners on the same ship, that every man. in the crew is eager and anxious to. excel as a marksman. Every one has a chance, the cook as well as^the searman, the stoker the same as the An? napolis lieutenant; and if the cook and the stoker prove that they can "hit,^ they are the men who point the cannon in the big test maneuvres. A y\7s\e?+ r\t*r-> rvrc Ia hA A pu.ilJ U1 IIC91C1UCIO V.UUUVVVI aboard the. Indiana the other day at the navy yard, when one of them exclaimed: " '? "What is that popping I hear? I thought first that some one was roasting corn, but the pops donrt come often enough for that." VORLD'S RECORD WITH EIGHT[ GUNS, right, pointed the cannon which made ro minutes and sixteen seconds, H. B. )eiong to the crew of the Indiana. (Pho. gjl^ I "- .'\ ' :.Vv I % 9 " . .\V >; , ?..> ..':.v'-" ; C \\' R TURRET. > gunners. On his left is a crack gun one of which was a bull's-eye. The Bcord breaking time of three minutes REA? RECORDS attained Ingeni"That is the target practice on the after deck," replied an officer. "And what are they shooting with?" asked a St. Louis man. "That sounds like bottles popping." "The men are practicing with the tliirteen-inch guns," was the reply. "They are the largest we hare on board." . The visitors looked as if they had THE TARGET 1 bought a gold brick. They saw they must have blundered, but wondered how. ' Just come this way, and I'll show you," said the officer. On the barrel of a huge gun which, with its prim partner, projected far out of the after turret, sat a sailor astride. He was as far back from the muzzle as he could get, and was so intent on loading a small rifle that he did not notice he was being watched. The rifle was supported by two steel uprights, bound fast to the cannon. It looked like any shooting gallery rifle of .22-ealibre, except that an electric wire hung from its trigger. The wire ran into the turret. Just above the gun's muzzle hung a miniature target, on the face of which were nine black squares at regular distances one from another. At first glance they looked like a tiny checker board. Each black square was .7 inch by .9 inch in size. "You see those black spots up there," said the officer. "Well, each one of them is a target. We put up nine all at once, so we don't have to stop after each shot and put up a new mark. Now, you notice that the collection of targets is by no means stationary. It hangs from the end of a boom, which one set of ropes makes roll up and down to imitate the roll of a ship, and which another pulley swings sideways in place of the longitudinal motion of the ship as it speeds on its course." At this moment there was a puff of smoke from the toy rifle. It was the same sort of pop they had heard before. At the same instant the sailor astride the cannon ejected an empty shell and thrust a fresh cartridge into its place. Then the Westerner, who had finished studying the target through some heavy spectacles, exclaimed: "Say. but I don't see where the bullet struck!" "It went through one of the black spots," was the officer's answer. "That toy rifle, which is made fast to the cannon, is called a Morris tube. Its barrel is exactly parallel with that of the thirteen-inch gun. Its muzzl^ is twenty-nine feet away from the target which is so small that it is no easier to hit it with this .22-callbre gun than to hit a twenty-foot target 1G00 yards away with a thirteen-inch can| non." [ "But how does the gunner aim so / \" r : : > . . ,, : .. ' t % * V exactly?** interrupted tlie" Chicago man. "Do you see those three hoods at the top of the turret?" replied the navy man. "The gun pointers of the two | guns are in the end hoods. The gun ! trainer for both guns is in the central hood. That little hole in the front of each hood is where the marksman j looks out through his sighting telescope. The gun pointer elevates and lowers his gun and tries to keep on his target all the time. The gun trainer swings the cannon horizontally by turning the turret. It is he who turns the cannon to follow a moving object. The gun pointer, however, is the mau who fires the cannon. In his hand the firing key. Just now the little rifle answers exactly the same purpose as the l)lg gun itself. Both gun pointer and gun trainer are now working the mechanism of the thirteen-incli gun and using the same sights. The only difference is that the electric spark explodes a .22-calibre cartridge instead of the target as se2x through "he gun pointer's telescope, (The gunnc-? adjusts the cannon's mechanism until the wires of his telescope cross the target) 520 pounds of powder inside the big cannon. Firing with big guns costs thousands of dollars a shot This Morris tube costs practically nothing." The party then inspected th?i interior of the turret. It was a contracted place, where a tall man would bump his head continually. All inspected the labyrinthine mechanism which opened and closed the great breech of each of the two guns. Beneath was a sort of j , I :n position. chasm, where one could look down Into the ammunition room of the hold, and out of which in time of war 01 actual gun practice the titanic charges of powder and shell come vomiting up ?New York Tribune. Gain. Chewing and Lunacy. Who would have thought that doctors would countenance the practice of gum .chewing? Yet here is the news from St. Paul that the Minnesota State board of control includes chewing gum in the list of supplies for insane asylums, as its use is often found to have an excellent effect upon patients, soothing them during violent spells, and enabling them to concentrate their minds upon various forms of work. Doubtless it is the muscular, not the secretory, activity that produces the beneficial result. The secretory activity may deplete the salivary glands, and thus prove prejudicial to digestion. Insane people are nervous, and almost every one inclined to nervousness has discovered that there are forms of fidgeting which enable him to relieve the tension upon his nerves and help nirn to concentrate his attention. Many a lawyer and many an orator would be at a loss in speaking if he could not twiddle his watch chain or twirl his eyeglasses. Many a traveling man and many a politician would lose his reputation for ease of manner in conversation if deprived of the cigar which he gratefully puffs in the intervals of his talk. And the fan! What mistresi of coquetry would be willing to surrender her fan? But while the gum chewing may relieve the fidgets in the case of those who do the chewing, the sight of it is likely to give the fidgets to other peo- J pie obliged to look on. ? Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. Strange Story of an American Family. According to a Paris journal, the modern Creeks, though not distinguished for humor, have been splitting their sides over the vagaries of "an American family" who- have been parading the streets of Athens in the sandals, cloaks and tunics of ancient Greece. The enterprising and imaginative Paris journalist who tells this amusing story forgets, however, to give the "American family" a local habitation and a name. There are nearly 270 different r?ligtons in the United Kingdom. ... aeiww. ?<- = ? The opiulonless newspnper is like the rudderless ship. It keeps moving with the current and the breeze, but It never gets anywhere. It looks at the procession of passing events without seefng anything, and never sings except to join in the chorus. It thinks it Is engaged in the performance of a mission. But it isn't.?Albany Herald. There Is more Catarrh In this section o' tin country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be Incurable. For a great many years doetors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cuzfe with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven Catarrh to bo a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney A Co.. Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional euro on the market. It Is taken Internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. Itacts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of tho system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it falls to cure. Bend for circulars and testimonials. Address F. J. Chjexey a C.n taia^h a Sold by Druggists, 73c. Hall's Family Pills ore the best. An Editor at Thirteen. Have a Smile is the name of a new weekly paper in Los Angeles, Cal., and of which Arthur L. Mackaye and Loring Mackaye are the editors and publishers. The last named, who is the assistant editor of the paper, is but thirteen years old. 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