The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 17, 1903, Image 6
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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
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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.
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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
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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.)
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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:
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"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.
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> 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."
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
The biggest magazine in the world
is the record claimed by Street &
Smith for their monthly publication of
fiction, The Popular Magazine. The
January number contains 194 pages?
all stories?and the authors are such
representative American writers as
General Charles King, Morgan Robertson,
Octave Thanet, W. Bert Foster
and Henry Harrison Lewis. (Street
& Smith, New York, 10 cents.)
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A rich, but ignorant lady, who was
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