Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1898 — A MAMMOTH GUN IN EMBRYO. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A MAMMOTH GUN IN EMBRYO.

Steel Ingot for One of the SixteenInch Cannon. This is a cannon In embryo, a mighty big one. This is the ingot of steel, six feet in diameter, which is to be converted into a ld-inch gun for the defenses of New York. This huge casting has been turned out by the Bethlehem iron works, and will be elaborated into

a perfect coast defender at the Watervliet arsenal. The weight of the ingot is ninety-nine and two-tenths gross tons the Aveight of the gun completed for use will be 126 tons. The length of the gun will be forty-nine, feet, and its range will be sixteen miles. This gun, one of six, will be six tons heavier and five feet longer than the biggest Krupp in existence. It will need a charge of powder weighing 1,000 pounds to fire a projectile weighing 2,350 pounds. This projectile will fly at the rate of 2,000 feet per second. The gun, Avhen erected for business at Romer shoals, New York harbor, will have cost $500,000.

INGOr OF STEEL FOR A BIG GUN.