People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — GUNS ARE READY. [ARTICLE]

GUNS ARE READY.

Defense of the Golden Gate Approved by the Government. San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 24.—The United States government is -now able to blow out of the water at a day’s notice a whole hostile fleet that might attempt to enter the Golden Gate. The battery of the big pneumatic dynamite guns ordered for the defense of this port a year or more ago has been advanced so far toward completion that two of the guns could be effectively fired with only twenty-four hours’ preparation. The two guns now set up will be actually fired during the contractor’s preliminary tests within ten days, and it is expected that within six weeks some old hulks will have to be blown to splinters in official tests, and the battery will have been turned over to the government.