The Brussels Post, 1912-3-7, Page 6111: MANIA FOR BIG GUNS
• PROGVESS IN RAKING WEA-
PONS HERE DISCUSSED.
Te Cannon Which Had a Sinister
Reputation in South
of EuroPe.
Them is some mysterious attrac-
tion to almost every one in things
of nnusual size. The primitive mind
revels in tales of monsters and
giants, the modern delights in stu-
pendous exhibitions and mammoth
ships, says Chambers' Journal. Yet
weapons (no doubt greatly to the
regret of their makers) have had
limitations necessarily imposed up-
on them regarding their size, for
no ordinary soldier would have en-
joyed a prospect of cumbrous
swords or pikes and spears big as
weavers' beams.
It was only with engines of war
—the catapults, battering. rams,
and ballistas of antiquity—that
military engineers could revel in
hugeness, These, however, could
be taken apart for transport, which
• greatly simplified matters. When
cannon superseded the older en-
gines ambitious monarchs inerea,sed
the size of their guns till they be-
come positively unwieldy and al-
most useless, se considerable were
the difficulties attending their move-
• ment from place to place. But so
great was the awe and respect in-
spired by these giant cannon that
they became the prized and coveted
possession of nearly every prince
and general of the middle ages.
A MANIA FOR GREAT GUNS.
Particularly among the poten-
tates of India and the East was the
desire for great guns, tarried to a
mania paralleled by that of the fa-
ther of Frederick the Great for
giant grenadiers, Like everything
else in mediaeval ages, the use of
the cannon came from the East,
and as eerie' as the thirteenth cen-
tury they were used in a naval en-
gagement betwe-en the Princes of
Tunis and Seville. Even Bacon
assures ns that "it is well known
that the use ef ordinance hath been
in China above two thousand
years." So cumbrous were the
guns and slow the artillerists of
the fourteenth century that in many
instances they could be fired only
twice in the same battle.
The Indian Prinees nevertheless
delighted in large trains of artil-
lery, and one of the most famous
generals of the Emperor Aurung-
zebe, Mir .7umla' the conqueror of
Assam, capturedas many as 114
pieces of cannot in a single victory
near Allahabacl. Mir jumls, took
two large guns to Dacca, in East-'
ern :F3engal, and placed them one
on each side of the steps of the
palace of Sultan Mohammed Shu-
jah, on the bank of the Buriganga.
SAVED FROM WATERY GRAVE.
In time the neglected embank-
ment crumbled and the mighty
guns fell into the river. The larger
gun disappeared altogether, but
some eighty years ago the smaller
one, with the aid of elephants, was
secured, fished up and dragged to
the center of the market square,
where it stands, one of the many
similaegiant memorials with which
Lydia is dotted. The gun, once
• elaborately adorned with designs
• in hammered metal, is now so worn
that inscriptions and ornaments
; are practically obliterated.
...eeTizo more superstitious natives
from the surrounding villages bring
it'oEferings of garlands, place piee
0 -cowries in its bore and smear
eleseauzzle with red paint. It stands
on ai massive carriage of solid mac-
e
salty; and w-eghs 64,814 pounds, or
te naively • thirty tons. The Dhool
Flaheaece, or Great Gun of Agra, al-
- .so iveighed thirty tons and had
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was cast in 1028 and broken up two
centuries later, in 1832.
Yet this hobby of Oriental mon-
archs led to the casting of still DIM
colossal cannon. One of these was
the Malik-i-Maichin, or Lord of the
Plains, east at eitmednuggur in
1548. A monster re forty tons, and
in its dee cast a ho,..1 of 1000 pounds,
it still hes on the ground amid the
ruins of decayed Bijapur,
in the
Bombay Presidency. The giant,
within whose muzzle a man nue,
easily recline, was revered by the
natives, who made it offerings of
money and garlands of flowers.
TWO DISCHARGES A DAY.
In Europe, also, guns of large
were highly prized, though
were nude approaching these
dian monsters in dimensions,
1380, during the great struggle
twoen :Venice and Genoa, Pis
the Venetian admiral, planted
caneon which for the period w
huge indeed in his redoubt on
promontory of Fossone. One
these bombards cast a stone wei
ing 150 pounds, the other th
stones of 180 pounds, and th
were fired off each morning, be
loaded again at night.
"They could be fired only one
clay," writes the historian Sloes
di, "and more often inisse,c1 th
hit; but when they struck the ra
their effect was serious." Adin
Pietro Doria, the Genoese co
mender was killed by one of
shots, and the next day many m
were killed by another.
Forty-three years later the En
lish left two great bombards
Mott St. Michel, in Normand
which still remain. The larger o
weighs about five and a half ton
and, according to Colonel Chesne
would throw a gigantic ball nin
teen inches in diameter and weig
ing about 300 pounds. •
CASTING GUNS IN ENGLAN
Large sized guns began chie
to be cast in England under Hen
VIII. Stow, in his Chronic'
says: "One Peter Baud, a Frenc
man born, and another rdien, cal
ed Peter Yan Collen, gunsmit
both the King's feedmen, confe
ring together, devised and cause
to be made certain mortar piece
being at the mouth from 11 inch
unto 19 inches wide, for the u
whereof they caused to be mad
certain hollow shot of cast iron, t
be stuffed with firework or wil
fire."
Aware of Henry VIII.'s intere
in ordinance. the Emperor Cherie
V. presented him with a gun whit
still exists and has given rise to
multitude of errors. Standing
Dover Castle, it has been common
ly known as Queen Elizabeth'
pocket pistol and reputed to hay
been presented to that celebrator
monarch by the Low Countries i
recognition of her favor and assis
ante in their struggle for liberty
It was cast at 'Utrecht in 1544, an
has a length of 2434 feet, with
caliber of 4% inches.
A chronicler of the sixteenth een
tury, visiting the come of the Cza
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f Russia—or Muscovy', as it wa
then ealled—relates that amon
"the ordnance that is in the eitie o
Memo . . . they have six great piec
es whose shot is a yard of height
which shot a man may easily dis
cerne as they flee." The great gun
of the Kremlin, 18 feet long, of 97,-
500 pounds weight and 36 inches
caliber, which bears the date of
1586, still exists as a witness to the
substantial accuracy of the old
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ANCIENT ORDINANCE.
A century later Oliver Crerawell,
writieg from Edinburgh on Decem-
ber 24, IMO, said that "all Scotland
hath not in it so =eh brass ord-
nanee as this place. I send you
here enclosed a list thereof," and
among the other guns is "the great
iron murderer ealled Muckle Meg."
This great Scottish gun, bout
which as 1VIons. Meg so many apo-
cryphal stories have been told, is
made of hooped staves and is 16
feet long and its charge is raid to
have been "a pock of powder and
a granite ball nearly as big as a
Galloway cow." It is reported to
have been made in 1458, has a 20 -
inch bore and weighs some five and
three-quarter tons,
This antique weapon was used at
the siege of Dumbarton in 1469 and
at Norman in 1497, while, accord-
ing to tradition, a ball fired hum
it went through Threave Castle.
Evelyn, in his diary for 1045, men-
tions seeing in tho Venetian arson -
al a cannon weighing 10,573 pounds,
cast while Flenry 111., King or
France, dined, and in the arsenal
ab Florence "lusty pieces of err/ -
fiance, wrereof one is for a hall of
800 pounds weight and another for
160, which weighs 72,500 pounds."
This was more than twice as heavy
as t
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he great gun of Ghent, known
Marguerite Eni'agee, or Ragirig
, which weighs thirteen tons.
yn calls this once famous wea-
pon, which dates from 1430,
(basiIisco."
In 7802 a Turkish gun, originally
twenty feet long, taken at the bat-
tle of Alexandria, was placed On s
the parade ground of the Horse f
in the world is said to bo ono guard- n
ing New York Harbor, a colossal s
piece
of artillery, eity, feet Jong, s
weighing more than lee tons and i
hurling a 2350 -pound projectile a ji
distance of sixteen miles. Yet its
caliber is only some sixteen inches
—less than half of the old bom-
bards.
There is preserved at Woolwich
arsenal ono of the famous "Mal-
let meters," -which weighs forty
tons, the seemed of a pair made for
use against the Russian fortifies, -
tions in the Crimean War. It was
never fired, for its companion burst
at the nineteenth trial round; be-
sides the war was over before they
were finished. Sine of its huge
round shells are near it, each thir-
ty-six inches in diameter, with a
weight of more than a ton and
quarter and able to hold a bursting
charge of 487 pounds of gunpowder.
I. is doubtful if cannon will in-
crease beyond these dimensions,
for more and more attention is be-
ing el/meted to the speed of its pro-
jectile rather than to its immense
size. Moreover, as a hobby of
kings, the forging of giant cannot
has had to give place to the crea-
tion of great navies and the build-
ing of stupendous battleships.
A. SHIPPING KING. .
All the British business world is
talking of the amazing enterprise
of Sir Owen Philipps, familiarly
styled the colossus of shipping.
Still on the right side of fifty, his
exploits as a business builder have
placed him in the very front line
of the magnates of commerce.
'All this has been achieved in sev-
en strenuous years. Sir Owen
Philipps first began to make good
when he took charge of the affairs
of the Royal Mail Steam Packet
Company, which he reorganized
and raised to a position of financial
security. This done, he co-operat-
ed with Lord Pirrie in the forma-
tion- of the large shipping trade
managed by the late Sir Alfred
Jones, and amalgamated the two
interests into one concern, with a
capital of ten million dollars.
Realizing the importance of the
future opportunities in the Far East
that will follow the opening of the
Panama Canal, he secured control
Sir Owen Philipps, It.C.M.G.
of the Pacific Steam Navigation
Company, and at one bound be-
came a magnate in the South Am- b
erican shipping trade. By the sub-
sequent purchase of the Forwoocl
Line he secured a considerable o
share of the Mediterranean and
North African trade, and he has b
now entered the South African field
by the absorption of the Union m
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Castle Line. By this final deal Sir,
Owen Philipps becomes boss of the„ ee
gecatest zuereaptile fleet any one'
man has ever controlled, totallingl
300 ships, with a tonnage of 1,270,- I f
000. Merchants are now asking one' w
another if the Philipps combine
out after a corner in shipping, and' w
persistent, rumor has almerlyie
:marked out the Orient Line as the
next prize.
Before Sir Owen Philipps hustled
to such startling effect in British d
shipping circles, he sampled life as I
a politician, and enteree Neldain
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ment in 19013 as a Liberal member ee
for a We/ah constituency. He did
not offer himself for re-election at th
the last general election, anti thus ex
cut shorb a promising politieal
career.
In spite, however, of his aboerp-
tem in his shipping combine, Sir
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Owen is not n, man of one idea. He so
is one of the active presidents cif the ,t
London and South -W t Hall ve
road and of the St. Thomas' Dock ap
Engineering Company, vice chair-
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A ROYAL MILLINER.
The Useful Talent Which Queen
Mary Possesses.
It is not generally known, outside
the Royal eirele, that Queen Mary
is an excellent milliner, and has
often been seen to take to pieces a
hat that has not entirely pleased
her and re -trim it before visiting
same social function, says London
Answers, She was taught bilis art
many years ago by her mother, the
late Duchess ef Teck, and as a child
was always made to trim her own -
hats for everyday wear.
It was the custom of the Duchess
of Teck to give her only daughter
only a certain sum of money—not a
large one—to spend upon purchas-
ing a pla'n, untrimmed •hat, and any
adernment she might desire fee it,
and leave it to her to make the most
of the money at her disposal.
The little shop still stands
Kingston -on -Thames where the, pre-
sent Queen made most of these pur-
chases, and it must be confessed
that at times the owner of it
stretched a point over prices in or-
der to make them fit with the money
the fair-haired princess heel at her
disposal.
It wae not until shortly atter their
marriage that King George diseov-
erect .his wife's &kill as a milliner.
He entered her 'sitting -room at York
Cottage—where they spent their
honeymoon, and which has always
een their favorite residence—un-
announced one morning, and found
j
ler busily at work with needle and
atoll, while the table was•lietered
with a mass of feathers, flowers, rib -
one. and what not.
He ventured to ask what it all
ighe portend, and was met with
he reply that his bride "was trim-
ing a hat for manning wear .about
he grounds." His Majesty sat and
'Moiled her busy fingers at work
,sosne mements, and then said
ith that quiet smile that is so char
eteristie of him, "Well, if the
oust opines to the worst, May we
en always open a shop in Bond
treet."
Queen Mary laughed.
"Arid what would you do 1" she
.e'llid.`Caamiti.reythe customers.' parcels
•erne," was the firm response d the
en Duke of York.
Her Majesty is very exacting over
e trimming of her hats. She knows
actly what slate her, and will not
ve anything else.
Often when She, Wm% to assume
hat for the first time that Elle has
It previously men the will find
me minor faith in it, and will in-
antly sit down and alter it ; so that
ry frecmently, when her Majesty
pears in publie, the. toque she is
earing—ancl it is very rarely in -
1 thab Queesi Mary wears any
her Shape of headgear—owes much
its effect to her own skill,
At a private garden -party at Yeek
eta,ge, a few years ago, at the
teen's suggestion a hat -trimming
repetition took place among the
n present, the Queen herself pee-
ling the necessary hats and trim-
ngs from her ample etore. Queen
Alt
was invited to act as
ge, and she was, s)f course, kept
ito in the dark as to the names of
se responsible for the various
pets until after she bad made her
erd. To Queen Mary's great
usemenb King George carried off
first prize which hei • t el
n wearing for at least a quarter
ith hour afterward/3; while Prince
hur of Connaught won the ice -
prize. The attempt .tif the late
g Edward wan, it may 'be adcle.d,
eeci on one :skin with contempt.
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MING SAFE INVESTMENTS
WHY SHARES RISE OR PALL SHARPL
WHEN EARNINGS ARE GOOD OR
BAD, WHILE BONDS MOVE
• NARROWLY.
respective of whether there aro any as-
sets behind it to make its intrinsic yahoo
greater or not. As a rule, the market
price of shares (not the intarluaie value,
y renleMber, which alone depends on um
value of the assets) depends primarily on
(Inc company's ability or not to pay divi-
dends.
Take a concrete case. A few years ago
a company was formed to manufacture a
certain well-known breakfast food. At
that time the product was not well
known, and its market problematical. The
company was organized and floated in
the States, and bonds Were sold equalling
in amount the total value of the visible
assets. The stock that was given away
with the bonds at the time liad—in the
usual nature of bonus stook—no intrinsic
value.
In time the company nrospored. The
stock sold at 40, and the General Man-
ager of the company advised a friend to
purchase. "Witact assets are behind the
stook," asked the friend, who was of a
nature not given to taking such "tips" on
trust. "Not a dollar," said the Q. 10.
"but the oompany is earning enough to
lay aside a substantial sinking fund to
Pay off the bonds before maturity, and
to provide a very fair dividend QT1 the
at.°Tchk:neat year 'two dividends of 1 per
cent. each were paid; the next year. the
return totalled 3 per cent., last year 4
per cent, was paid in regular dividends,
and, in addition, a bonus of 1 per cent.
additional was handed out. This year the
company should pay 6 per cent:
Now, if this company were to go out
of business its bonds would be retired ab
par and its stock would be represented
by assets chief of which are included
under the head of "good-willi" Good -will
may be properly reckoned its RIO asset only
so long as the company is doing business.
In the case of liquidation its value van-
ishes—and so from a aridly investment
point of view the company's shares aro
intrinsically worth very little; their quo-
-Wtan of between 00 and 00 representing
their value merely as sources of dividends.
It is easy to see front this extreme
case why stocks fluctuate violently in re.
fleetion of good or bad business being
done. while bonds aro not subject to such
moveznents, except to a very moderate
degree.
Shares Depend for Their Market Prior)
on the Amount of Dividends They Can
Produee—Bonds Cannot Pay More Than
Fixed Hate of Interest, so Good Earn-
ings' Cannot Help Bond Holder Beyond
Adding to His Security.
The articles contributed by "Investor"
are for tine sole purpose of guiding pros.
Pective investors, and, if possible, of say.
Ing them from losing money. through
Placing it in "wildoat" enterprises. The
impartial and reliable character of the
informationherIrtli:lerlaig upon. Tha
of 'thus paper have no interests to serve
in connection with this matter other than
those of the reader.
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Even if, as was pointed out last week,
shares involve no promise of repayment,
they usually command a readier market
than bonds. Shares listed on any of the
111 large stock exchanges are always in de-
mand at some price, but unlike bonds of
proportionate merit, the price is subject
at times to wide fluctuations.
This constitutes 0110 of the chief weak -
nonce of shares as investments, The
share depends for its intrinsic value first
on the amount of the assets of the com-
pany tem after the amount of bonds and
other liabilities are deducted, and see.
ondly, on the amount 91 profits which
are resulting from the business being
carried on. If profits are poor es ft re.
sult of an off year, the shares deolino io
theontarket; if, on the contrarY, profits
are large the price of shares tends to
rise In the case of bonds however, even
those of a company whose shares are
subject to sharp fluctuations, the pride is
usually unchanged, except, perhaps,, a
matter of a point or two in extreme oases
—unless the bonds are of an unusually
speculative nature.
The reason for this is often overlooked,
although the fact itself is a matter of
everyday knowledge to anyone interested
in investment matters.
, A bond, as readers of these arthdes
know, is a mortgage bearing on its face
a promise to pay a eortain rate of in-'
tees( certain times. Whether the COM.
PanY does well or ill, so long es it makes
ample to provide for bond interest, the
bondholder is secure. Of eourse, most
good bonds are backed by earnings, run-
ning from double to many times the bond
interest. Therefore, an off year cannot
affect the bonds' value materially, nor
can a good year offer any hopes of a
greater return on the investment,
In the COSO of (Inc share, however, con.
ditions are reversed (we do not apeak of
"preferred" shares, which will bo
ered soOn at some length). 7The share
does not involve a Promirle to pay ital
Face value back at any time, nOr does it
Promise any income to the aitareholder.
If the company makes substantial.' pro-
fits the directors may consider it Wise
to "declare a diviciond"—Le., divide the
profits pro rata among the shareholders,
usuallly on a basis of so much per cent,
on the par value of each share, In thin
case the share tends to rise in price, Ir.
ity and chairman of the West Af- ot
rican section of the London Chain- of
ber of Commerce, And as he is
also actively interested in various co
philanthropic institutions, one won. Q1
dors what leisure he has at his dis- co,
poral to use any of his four Lon- me
don elides, or to visit Amroth vi
Castle, his magnificent residence in
P b k
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He is one of three brothers, all in.('
well over six feet in height, and' qu
all self-made millionaires, These tho
ens of a Welsh parson lost their .Off
ether early, and their mother, a aw
ister the fifth Baron Wynford, am
evotcd herself to securing the best' the
ducation for her boys, for she had upo
o fortene, to give them. She has of
=Ceded beyond her hopes. Tie-: Art
ides the colossus of shipping, there and
s Lord St, Davids, a name to eon- Kin
ire with in big financial ender- pie
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ROBBERIES ON THE TRAIN
STARTLING OUTRAGES ON THE
IRON nom).
Holdsups Flourish irc Europe al
Well as in the Wild
West,
One used :to think that the trade
of train robbery belonged to the
Wild West, and that even there it
was becoming extinct. But crime
is an infectious disease, and Jesse
James has of late Mel his. imitators
in Europe, ae shown by !the recent
robbery of the Lyons mail and the
looting of a sum of $600,000.
THE RAIL WRECKERS.
In this case the thieves, who had
a motor -car in waiting, got off safe-
ly with their booty. In a previous
attempt they were nee -ea auccessful.
On the night of Sunday, Decem-
ber 8th, 1907, the Paris -Marseilles
express had a large consignment of
bullion au board. Crowded with
passengers, and carrying the mails
for the East, the big train was near-
ing a suburban station, fifteen miles
out of Paris, when there wee a tre-
mendous
It 'seemed a miracle time the en-
gine kept the dine, liut it did so, and
the driver :stopped the train as soon
as possibl. It was found that a
heavy steel rail had be= placed
across the metals, and it was only
the epeed of the train --over sixty
miles an hour—which had caved it.
The high -road to Paris runs close
to the line at the epee where the rail
was placed, and there seems no
doubt that a gang of robbens had
attempted to wreck the train in
order to loot the bullio.
"HANDS UP("
The seashore .expres from Berlin
to Norderney, the Brighton of Ger-
. many, was the scene of a daring
robbery m July, 1000. • The wife of
a Privy CouncilIer, who wits on her
way to the Ii.cmgiclo with ber gover-
ness and three children, was start-
led by the door of the compartment
being pulled open from outsid. A
anesked man, pistol in hand, climb -
eel in, and levelled his weapon at
tthhee ftoeirlin•ifildecia, ihrtc:11;y tote: eytoinugr
life!" She gave him all she had—
bout seven hundred marks—and he
turned his ,attentiou to the goyim-
ness, and forced her to give ttp her
slender purse.
Be• then left the eempartment,
slammed the door, and the ladies
saw him jump from the train. Al-
though it was running at forty
Miles an hour, he must have landed
afely, for no trace wee found of
him, and the got lear away witb his
booty.
Of American train robberies, one
of• the biggest, and certainly the
best planned, was the looting of the
Union Pacific express at a station
in Nebraska. In the safes in the ex-
press agent's car were 360,000 in
gold, 300,000 'ounces of eilver,
quantity of paper money, and other
valubles.
THIRTEEN or, THE WORST.
There • were thirteen men in the
gang who effected this robbery, and
they wont to work osi a big scal,
by seizing the station and disabling
he telegraph instritments.
As the train -slowed up to pick up
he mail -bags, four men sprang into
he engrine-cab, overcoming th.%e
river, whole others of the gang
uniised intosmell wadi, and held
there ..with levelled revolvers. : It
/le midnight, and most of the ;pas-
ongers Were in their berths asleep.
our of ,the principal robbers looted
he treasue. They beat the agent
ith pistol -butts till he opened the
des; then they turned all the eon-
ents into larg.e, grain sacks.
This done, some kept guard while
1f00 went through the. than. One
an carrying a collecting seek, the
tiler two loaded. revolvers, they
onspelled men and women to eur
ender money, watches and jewel-
ry. They were just finisihing
hen a whistle sounded. A freight
nin came in sight. Instantly the
bbers bolted for their lioros,
hieli had been tied °Weid.
The conduefor of tho exprees strp-
ed the other train 3(55(1 1011 tiime to
event a collision. imoir its coon°,
d went off for hlp, A sheritre
ese was gob out, and the chase
artesl. The puma \i'Or.b on for
els, bub of the whole thirteen
ly two were caught. Tlit rest,
th the hooty, vanished.
"I have noticd" said the man.
ting opposite, "that the prtti-
girls always marry the biggest
18." "Sey 130 more, Mr. Slow -
y," rejoined the fair .rettert. "I
preelate your frienclhip, but I
/sever be your wife'
"So that's the baby, oh 1 Wll,
hone you will brip it up to be
lentions, goo( yonng 111311L
ate afraid that is rather dif
"Palmy 1 this tros is
1, 00 f211.'rtll
,
w, bid; eine twig bon
a Aid", mut sv.o aro inclined to
it go ithst,
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