Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1893 — THE GREAT KRUPP GUN. [ARTICLE]

THE GREAT KRUPP GUN.

Herr Krnpp Will Present It to Chicago—A Fort to be BoUt. At the conclusion of the World’s Fair, the monster Krupp gun, the biggest piece of ordnance in the world, will be presented to Chicago by Herr Krupp and mounted in a fort off Hyao Park, permission to build which was given, Thursday, to Col. R. L. Rae, of Chicago, by the Secretary of War. The fort will be located on five acres of made ground and will be bnilt according to the very latest plans of fortifications. Work will begin very soon and will be pushed with all possible rapidity. Thefort will bo finished in a comparatively short tlm«, and until the end of the Fair it will be used as a practice ground for an artillery company, the practice being carried on with the most improved artillery in the Government’s possession. When the Fair is over the fort will be occupied by United States artillery. The Krupp gun, with its immense -power, can protect (Itycago from its northern to its southern coast line, for by its perfect sights expert gunners can obtain an accuracy of marksmanship that will enable them to throw a shot weighing pretty nearly a ton clean through a man-of-war.