Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1893 — NEW ORDNANCE FOR THE FAIR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW ORDNANCE FOR THE FAIR.

Mortar and Carriage of a Unique Type for the Government Exhibit. There was recently shipped from Providence, R. 1., for the Government exhibit at the World’s Fair a mortar and carriage of a new type. The pieces aTe somewhat 'unique in principle and construction. The ac-

companying cuts represent them just as they will appear at the Exposition. The carriage beiDg fourteen feet in diameter, no railroad could take them out of New England on account of the low bridges, and it was found

necessary to ship them to New York hy water, where they were reshipped on the Pennsylvania road to Chicago.

NEW TYPE MORTAR AND CARRIAGE.

TWELVE-INCH BREECH-LOADING MORTARS.