The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 1, 1903, Page 7

5 THE SUNDAY CALL. very much like ae- ry of light S Ryive 70 LocAais (] eround s . THE Al/XILAFY ¢ » FGLT WITH THE TELLSCO U come into posi- e bank of an irrigat- /qflf s near Sarge e demonst ed ew things in fleld it was one of t nts - Bu ‘ 7 R ZAPNELL . TARGETS AFTEFR THE LNG DUsTANCE SHACTING < . t of range, ¢ . t Briee. " N Go to rear . es’ sha take his enant he k sir,” answered the 2 shake of his head; and ement consternation reign- - rpor was down his knees exar e track of the gun wheel in ¥ se prescntly and, salut- k e gun came back to exactly I tion it had at first, sir.” 5 THRYING TD Zoch TS ZARGETS N THE Foo& he track "is particularly ————— anxious officers gathered nd examined the track of carefuly for themselves, had been moved ever so quadrant fary target and W how far our aim wer. The next process the corpor: edibly shor! of the firing the order. “Call up the first batte: the ballistio figw A order was duly nearest mei ng as the range part ed into the fog just Iy be carried back, but p Bennett, watching the distant read the message for n in hot bas “Gun No 1 ‘quadrant degrees two minutes, shrapnel, time .fuse I shouted Captain Haines. Lieutenant Brige repeated .the cc And y what these new per- yeot that is exa on shrapnel really.do. In outward appearance be and sc compactl; and creates feal ter that woul fes had ‘been truly flesh firel" splitting report amd fek of the whizzin then the 1 through ad sp , was sho elevition, leutsnantl™ Halnes. signall™ called o “Get .that Captain Ben *“Minus, 30.impact wag man on top of the ha interpreted, means that ploded thirty yards in front of the “Minus 80 impact!” called out Captain Bennett, passing the word on to Captain Haines. “Deflect a little to the tain. I don’t want to hit the large target. Merely get the ra: “All right, tion 3§ degrees § nel. Ten and ordered Captain areful now, & rant eleva~ me shrap- Load!™ repeated and again # punch marked ping through the air In .deadly against a target which none of the men who were shooting at it could see by & es. afrald we've hit it” sald regretfully, while the filled the air en even before stung the enrs the wigwag signals t rift in the sc that the ¥ graze it just splendid marksmen they were, fog or no fog. And now the second ended first simply be tral bear upon & I i the two classes of targets. he range was secured in and the gt general from the other. “Don’t to hit the targets burst da have single to te shells t a deafe perfect The photograph what happened the captain’s e @ huge success av of marksmanship for 2