The evening world. Newspaper, March 26, 1918, Page 16

VANS ¥ s Dew MARCH 26, Giant Sixty-Inch Rifle , With Hundred-Mile Range Project of U. S. Inventor 4 Would Guard New York From Attack by Land or Sea, Ie Inventor's Claim, for Hundred-Ton Projectiles . Would Swamp Enemy Ships and Anni- { hilate Hostile Armies. 4 The German achievement of a gun which shells Paris from the Kitherto undelievadle distance of over seventy miles renders highly in teresting this plan of an American inventor, Charles Beecher Bunnell, fo build a rifle with a hundred-mile range to protect the American coast from invasion by Germany. The inventor's description of his proposed giant rifle appeared in Popular Science Monthly, which has given The Bvening World especial permission to reprint. The most interesting paragraphs of Mr. Bunnell's article follow, The purely technical ex- planations are omitted. By Charles Beecher Bunnell. J HE English are said to be using 21-inch guns which fire 4,000-poya projectiles capable of burying themselves in the ground a depth of thirty-five feet at a distance of ten miles. But they are mere pope guns compared with the gun that I have designed. My gun will fire a shot one hundred mites, One of these weapons placed at Portland, Me., would protect her TUESDAY, 1918 The Most Striking Things [ Saw on 15 Battle Fronts | ll In the Big World War Gun Which Inventor Claims Would Shoot 100 Miles IF PLACED AT LAKEWOOD, N. J., WOULD COMMAND COAST FROM BRIDGEPORT TO CAPE MAY AND INSURE NEW YORK CITY’S SAFETY. FROM HOSTILE ATTACK— TRATED. | | D. Thomas Curtin, American War Correspondent, Who Has Seen More of the War Than Any Other Man, Telle Evening World Readers of His Most Impressive Experiences. By D. Thomas Curtin. PART I. 1V.—Kultur in Being in Aleace—Mulhouse, Alsace, Novem- ‘. ber, 1914. HE Mulhouse-Altkirch road in Alsace. The German Infantry had moved up, and again the heavy transports rumbled along with food for the guns that were barking ahead. Three small groups of French prisoners, conspicuous in their red trousers and caps, passed by to the rear. Then a stir. Curiosity along the road ahead, and another guarded group approached and passed me. But ! found myself staring f in perplexity, for the guarded men wore German field-gray. Unarmed, abject, they looked neither to right nor left. One of them, limping, showed a tendency to lag behind, but the persuasive point of a guard's | (THE EXPLOSION OF 4 SHELL 60 FT. FROM A SHIP WOULD Swame ir AND THE CONGUSSION WovukD KIiLk THE cREW.” bayonet did much to counteract the tendency, “Alsatians!” breathed my Captain companion in my ear. “But they are German soldiers, are they not?” I asked “Yes, but some of these Alsatians have been talking ina manner not } : entire coast from Mount Desert to the Massachusetts line. Another such gun at Newport, R. I., would protect the entire Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut coasts as far as Bridgeport. A third gun at Lakewood, N. J., would reach from Bridgeport, Conn., to Cape May, covering as in the interests of our army. When we detect them we arrest them and ; make an example of them.” “I am surprised,” I said. “I am sure that I read in a Zeitung in Berlin that the war has demonstrated that ‘ the Alsatians preferred German rule to French, and were proving their loyalty tO @ man.” The Captain merely shrugged his shoulders. T had seen acts of repression In Strassburg, and this © little happening was merely another incident In the systematic attempt to solve a troublesome problom, In | | the words of a Social Democrat friend tn Berlin: “Our ; Government determined at the beginning of the war that they would have no Alsace-Lorraine problem in the future.” 1} V.—In Galicia With the Austrians—Kassa, January, 1915. ALICIA and the Carpathians covered with snow, and the Russiaus, t. the world believed, ready to debouch with {ts melting on the plain toward Vienna and Budapest. The front was frozen silent, but behind it was misery. Frostbite caused agony. 1 had seen one moaning soldier's shoe pulled off and his foot remained in it, rotted with gangrene. Typhus was prevalent, smallpox was rampant, there had been cholera {n the autumn and they feared it again in the spring. The mysterious legend that I had heard whispered in Vienna I now heard among the troops, The war would be brought to an end, they sald, by the pestilence which would rage through all the armies, This belief was general and absolute there that winter. Like so many bellefs engendered before and during the war, {ft has vanished before time and fact. VI—Why Russia Failed in the Bukowina—Novo-Sietica, |’ Bessarabia, February, 1915, N American journalist and I crossed the Pruth behind Czernowitz on‘ THIS 1S THE A a burning pontoon bridge between the Austrian and Russian lines, PROJECTED “i100 We were “adopted” by Sechin, the Cossack Chief, and after days Mice GUN” FROM of thrilling rearguard experiences we cut acrosa to Roumania, j ADRAWING B We wore still thrilled with the picturesqueness of the Russians’ great THE INVENTOR tast ditch stand in that campaign. But we had seen other things which |! > : gave us deep food for thought. We had crouched beside the only machine +) c.B.BUNNELU gun that the Russians had on a twelvemile front, with three distinct at- ; tocks being launched against them, We had stood beside Sechin and a staff officer of artillery on the left of the line while the enemy across the river (RF ONE OF THRSE GUNS WERE , BUILT, IP EMPLACED ar LAKBweodD nS, THE INVENTOR CLAIMS IT & . WeuLD CONTROL THE coasT FROM BRIDGE PORT TO well the entire State of New Jersey. And if we go further and plant these big guns as thick as tignthougl all the vulnerable points on the Atlantic seaboard would be placed undeg instant gunfire. That's quicker than sending out ships or troops, although this gun will not do away with either. For instance, thirty, secands aftetge Boston was attacked, the guns at Newport would be shelling the enemy fleet, who could not locate the attack or reply to it. From Lakewood, N. J., the Harbor of New York would be under absolute control; so would Philadelphia, Cape May and the Del-| ~~~ : aware River. The whole State of ton, Del. and all the intervening New Jersey would be in its protective |Country, One gun at the Panama | range. The moral effect of such a|Canal would command both en-| powerful and deadly weapon should | ‘"ances with deadly accuracy. not be underestimated. The artillery| Since harbors can be ruled off \ of few, if any, ships can match it,|!nto imaginary numbered squares, for two reasons: the cost of agship|!t 1s merely necessary to telegraph to carry such a gun would be tmpov- | the officer in charge of the gun that } erishing, and there is no way of |the hostile fleet is in square 22 orf 7 locating satisfactorily an unseen ob- | 64. The operator places a pant’ Ject one hundred miles away. graphic pointer on a metallic mf, / ‘The explosion of the shell sixty | t the position designated and th * feet from an ordinary ship would| UM does the rest. The area of eac! ewamp it and thereby prevent firing | Sauare |s coincident with the shel! { of the ship's guns. The concussion|OWN destructive area, while ¢ alone would destroy the crew and| Whole metallic map is coinetde leave the men dead without mutila-| With the gun's destructive area. | tion, One shell from this giganti The rifle is 375 feet long and| Weapon would. annihilate Essen ani + weighs 39,277 tons without mount | make the Krupp works look like #) AGIRL 5 FRET TALL COULD WALK THROUGH THE RIFLE'S 60 INCH BORE i ings. It has a bore of 60 inches, It} many heaps of emery powder. An- + throws a shell 26.6 feet long weigh- | other would make the whole dla. ing 100 tons @ distance of seventy | trict a Valley of Death for thiry¥\ miles at 20 degrees elevation, or 100|days after it fell miles at 45 degrees. | One form of shell used THE PROJECTILE , 100 TONS IN WBIGH AND 2.6.6 FT. LONG, COULD BNCLOSE A AUTOMOBILE. .Ten tons of powder in twenty-|ploded by chloride of nitrogen. ‘Thy’ {|inch prisms propel the shot, which | second shell would be almed at thy | encounters an atmospheric resist-|same place and fired as quickly aay ance at the muzzle of 10.45 tons,| possible to get the same atmos which fades off to zero at the tirst|pheric advantages, whereupon {t point of impact. Ignition is re-| Would begin after landing to vomit } versed; the powder commences to|!nnumerable small shells containing burn at the shell’s base and works|osmium and hydrocyafae acid, ey- PANES SRR |back to the breech plug so that the |anogen, kc. is ex | THE RIFLE WOULD BE 375 FRET LONG= THE LENGH OF A-LOCOMOTIVE AND THREE HES~AND WOULD WEIGH 39,277 moved infantry with perfect impunity on snow-clad hills just beyond rifle range, and we heard them sigh for artillery, The few pleces with that army were on the right of the line defending the Sadagora bridgehead op- posite Czernowitz. As for’ aeroplanes, motorcycles and motor transports, they would have seemed as anachronistic with that army of the Bukowina in the frst win- ter of the war as in a drama dealing with the wars of Napoleon, ; We Squibbers Better Dig Trenckes in Central Park in Fun Now Than Dig Them in Earnest After a While—How Is a Short Man Going to Reach an Interborough air 1s not filled with burning pow- der grains, as is usually the case, Fired point blank, the shell travels {twenty-one miles parallel with the earth's curvature, which would per- |mit the shot to perforate two Ger- man fleets side by side. At a sev- enty-mile range the gun’s possible The silent death produced by os- mium would make an ordinary graveyard tame and commonplace, for the osmium that can be piled on a 10-cent silver piece will kil} 1,000 persons, I have devised a shey which would contain enough of that poisonous me ‘As I reflected on these things some of the scattered events that I had been witnessing for seven months from the Thames to the Black Sea be- gan to lose their isolation and crystallize into fundamentals. I had crossed a warring continent to Bucharest because the Western World said that the great masses of Ruselay already on the Carpathians, were throwing their trresistible left down through the hills of the Bukowina and along the Rou- manian frontier to the plains of Hungary, This, of course, would bring Ss to kill 300,000 peo- Strap If It’s a Cent Higher—-Forcing a Quart Bunion Into a Pint Shoe a Blow to the Scientist’s Claim That the Brain Is the Seat of All Pain. BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. Copyright 1019, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Estimated that 2,000,000 bushels of wheat would be eaved if young 7 y TARTING next Monday, the cold-plunge-every-morning guys will brides baked biscuits with concrete, Would help to win the war and |* Somerville, N. J. {t would com-| would be a terrible compresstou, have to move that He up an hour earlier, hubby would never know the difference, mand New York City, Philadelphia, | and the bottom of cach wave a fo. atte Koumania In. So I was on hand. sl | West Point, Mauch Chunk, Wilming- ful vacuum. : Another war belief exploded. There {s no harm in giving numbers | If a short man can't reach a b-cent Interborough strap, how ja he | The only thing that isn’t bogus about Marquis di Castellot ts that now. The “irresistible masses of the Czar” consisted in the Bukowina of} &9"M to reach it if it's @ cont higher? two-year Jail sentence he got. A f h Mod precisely 15,000 men, including some excellent Cossacks and horse artillery, | aregre ree F - ncestors of the ern Bank Some of the infantry reserves were equipped with rifles that looked like ee ne bebe those poets credit for discovering spring without any : The scientist who claims the brain is the seat of all pain never | JN the thirteoth contury dealers in| while the Imperial Bank of Germash yenirs of the American Civil War, ? tried to force a quart bunion Into a pint shoe, | foreign money of Venice, a efty! (the Reichsbank) Is compa rma, iy doing @ large business with other| youthful, dating from ists OY countries, began to accept money on| As early as 1686 a com deposit, thus becoming private bank-| 4 limited banking bus ers, From this dates the history of ganized in Massachusetts rs ‘, modern financial institutions, Colony, but Colonia! banks wl 1318 the Venetian Government pass@™| “heckered hist A laws for the protection of deposttor™ |in the United § and in 1584 established the first publie | Bank of Penns bank in Burope, the Banco di Rialto.| Philadelphia tn 1780 to supply food Other famous institutions founded be-|to the Continental Army, Two years with @ | fore this coustry was discovered wefe|!ater Congress authorized Robert the Bank of St. George of Genoa and|Morris to found the Bank of North et e the Bank of Barcelona, | America, which for years rendere of the atmosphere, under such con-| had, and my wife got me to take It to| ‘These were followed by the Bank/sreat ald to the Government. (: | A Home-Made Barometer ditions, will prevent the water from|the river if es of Amsterdam in 1609, long the great-| operated under @ charter from Penis | BAROMET which will pro-|pended at the outlet, you may look | escaping and the suspended drop will) “And you lost the cat all right?” est in Europe, and the Bank of Ham- | s#ylvania until 1863, when it becam, lA hesy weather conditions a|for a storm to-morrow; when the be forced buck into the bulb. “Lost nothing! I never would have | burg. founded ten years later, Of/a national bank SHABBY man entered @ email “Less than twopence? You're | M4 \drop disappears, falr weather ts in| This simple barometer may be) found my way home if I hadn't fol-|the state institutions the Riksbank} It wa PX general store in & Bootgh dreaming, man,” replied the other, |store. Thero is a perfectly natural jserowed into @ wall or cetling light- | lowed the eat!"-—Montreal Daily Tel- | (the Bank Paty ee the first, oF se pit , village and asked the owner, | "22. disliked Aothing #o much as|trom an. ordinary Incandascent bulb.| reason for this phenomenon, Stormy |! Mixture, which is out of service, | egraph. dating -.om 1656, and 1s still in exist-| Alexander Hamiit: destructive area is 16,386 square|ple and 700,000 persons, respeu miles; at the 100-mile range, 31,400 | tively, allowing the usual 10 pers square miles, cent. for failures, &e. The gas If this gun were using {ts sev-| would travel in waves from a cen- enty-mile range and it were located | tral point. The crost of each wave — Op what trip 1 had left England at New Year's, left it basking for the | Interborough promises us more straps, more stops, more standing id most part in the bellef that Germany was getting rapidly short of men and| room and more Don't signs for that extra penny. “superior man power of the Allies" would tell, that “time was | are toad, test. ne "B00 > mee Now that the Germans have a gun that shoots 100 miles, a man won't be safo in a Pittsburgh cellar looking for a gas leak with a safety match Fatheads who protest against digging trenches in Central Park ought to realize that it's better to dig ‘em in fun than in earnest. pany doling Iness was 9) with the Allies,” and woe to the enemy when thé snows would melt and the great military avalanche would sweep down from the east. I went into Germany and eaw her feverishly increasing her war machinery output— a she who was already so well prepared and far aboad of any of her ene- Von Hindy’s greatest strategy has been to keep von Hindy about mies. Then I saw the Russtans, and for me the steam roller tdea, shattered! fifty miles away from the bayonets. by what I saw in East Prussia, died forever came | A fat man eating clam chowder does more to spoll the clam‘s { reputation for quietness than anything else in the world, Congressman's idea to hang traitors ts a good one, but why give hanging a bad name? Banking history ates begins with the Ivania, organized in Darwin may be right, but we never heard of a monkey who could throw & cocoanut seventy miles. We might show our affection for the profiteera by han, rope tied with a lovers’ knot, (To Be Continued in Thursday's Evening World.) Why the Price Was Low by the First Bank ites, organized by day in advance may be mada haggling. “Where can ye get them | ge 60- i yne that has] w ; err Sea oe TS en aap Hance | The national banking syste t a 60-watt lamp. One that has| weather ts always preceded by low| em wes @ genuine Boot who was known fF tor lesst” ee out will do, directs Popular| barometric pressure, The atmoa- | ONE MORE. A SAD AWAKENING, ‘The Bank of England came into ex-| created during the Civil War to # 4 and wide for his “pawky” humor, !f| “Down at your neighbor's, Tam. | eu Monthly. Hold it under water | Pheric pressure having decreased, the R. PENN—They say the stree: foreman of @ construction! \.tence in 1694, with Sir John Houb-|in disposing of the great issues of va an empty soap box was the rejoinder, Solenge Mon> oly | weight of the water inside the bulb in Boston are frightfully gang was walking along birsec- \.,, ag Governor and a staff of fitty-|Government bonds. It was improved said the shopkeeper, "ye ‘replied the man behind the |and file off the glass tip at the end of can have one; but the price is two-|counter, apparently much rejieved tends to force water through the out- crooked, tlon of the rellway one aay our, the yearly payroll amounting to| but Was never nough to meet let. This force is small, but it is| Mr, Hubb--They are, Why, do you| When he came upon ® he bie fast | go1.750, It has always acted as bank-| great and sudden demands, Forti¢ ce." « |‘n0 doubt ye would get them for jesa| water to enter through the hole thus|suffictent to allow a drop of water to| know, when I first went there I could snleep ln COA RASS 6 be nore 3 rived er tor the Government, pays the in- ry eserve systgn} Tuppence!* ejaculated the appli-|thero, but I was never fool enough made, filling the bulb completely, The| escape and hang suspended from the | hardly find my way around, 4 ae SiS fh Sark ee eae terest on the national bonds and stiit| Was established } cant. “That's too much money alto-|to leave my boxes outside on the barometer should then be suspended|tip of the bulb, On the other hand,| ‘That must be embarrassing.” fo el hee erth rot m job, cocuPies a building the first stone of jof the present war, putting our final | xether. I can get them for leas than |pavemont all night.’—Youth's Com. | with bulb end downward. tair weather follows an aroa of high| “Its, The first week 1 was there I/pbur when ye wake Up ye're out of which was latd in 17 Napoleon | ces for the first time on a sound aa A that.” panion When a drop of water appears sus- barometric pressure, The pressure wanted to get id of an old cat we|wurrk!"—The Youth’s Companion, fuunded the Bank @f France in 1800, scientific basis, ‘ t : t the bulb, The vacuum will cause the e the ourbread