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TL1U SCKAiNTOiN TLUmiSE- SATntDAV, APRIL 23, 1808.
How the Battles of the
Fniityre Will Be FoMsrht
Physics .and Chemistry lYlay Deckle Them
and Our Big, Battleships Be Useless.
l'nurt tho riilliiilelplilu I'icss
"Tlio nuxt iirinvl cnnlllct In liicli
Undo Hum Is called uron tn imgaip will
bo a. wnt' of iihyxlrn and clipinlstiy. We
Hio on tliu wIro of a Rioat revolution
In tlio utt or lighting, ami before Ioiir
tlm Methods of war fate irrot iiipioet
today Will 1p lcRHKlc.il as whollj nUi of
dnlo.
"Twenty s tn I m nj-n ficiin now, leck
onlnw nt Hie eiy farthest, theip will
bo no lloatlnh' fortieses of the kind
whlrh we call h.itllc-Hhlp: they will be
Conl(Ieic(l as ietiL""'ntlliK an obsolete
type of mivil aii'hltictuie, and their
plrteo will be taken b estlM comp.if
ntlvely xnmll. et Inllnltely nmie fur
lilklable and d(Strtletie
"lly that time, also, electiklty will
litive made Itx appearaneo as an active
flKcnt of destinetlon and tnllitary en
film."" of all sons will have assumed
foiius as yet undreamed of."
The lemnrks above quoted were made
by a Koverninent olllclal who Is one of
the foremost eleritllle men In this
count! y. Imposing t). condition thut
his name should not be mentioned lie
plOc.eeded to develop the Idea by a
t-erles. of suhkcH'mis so striking as to
excite the utmost Interrst. He said.
i:xim.osivi:s
"Yo lllustiate the tendency of the de
velopment of warfare at pi event I will
lofer to the wlplnj,' out of the battle
ship Maine. I could have taken just
about thiee men to nceornplls-h the tie.
slrtiction of that Klttnntle lighting ma
chine If they had a laiRe iiu.urtlty of
nltro-Klyceilne or some such lilKh ex
plosive, packed In b.iRs impel vlou to
water. In each Iijk they mlRht place
just enough coik to give the contents
the speclllc gr.ivltv of water approxi
mately. Dragging 'he bags, one or
more of the men could hae swum out
to within a short distance of the ship,
t lion dived and swum tindei water to
escapes observation and came up under
the wife hhelter of the side of the Nes
ted. To attach the bags to the bottom
of the ship would have been easy, and
n chemical time fuse that would burn
under water could be Ignited leadlly
enough, pei mlttlng the assassins to
swim nwuy at their lelsur
"In some such wayns this the Maine
could have been destrojeil. 1 onl cite
tire case to illustrate the cast with
which n mighty win ship o this descrip
tion can he destrcived by two u thit
determined men at a minimum uf cust
j few dollart-' wortlr of high explosives
will wipe out $1,000,000 worth ol lighting
llinchireiy and several bundled lives
"If half a dozen hostile vessels of
war entitled Into the luilxir or New
Vcik they would be annihilated very
quickly, nut by our own waishlps, but
by small gioups of couiageous men
with so-called Infernal machines of one
kind or another. When thU soil of
thing can happen, and is alvvajs likely
to occur, it means that tin- fighting
.ship of the type elese r ilied Is out of dute.
The modem battleship is const! ucted,
h to speak, on a gunpowder basis;
in the building of them no more ac
count ii taken of high explosives than
if th'ie were no such thing. Out it Is
pel iectly ceitaln Hint the wars of the
Sinmei'late futuie aie to be prosecuted
with high explosive s.
xnvi'it tuii:d.
"Vnrr must reniondier that an vet no
ntltxtmte test of the cfliclencv of bnt
tlesllloa has been made In piactlce; they
nre tullt on theoij. Wliat does their
Htrongth airu unt to. the thickness of
their armor and the weight of pro
jectiles the, can llnovv, if they can be
so lendlly destroyed " They represent
il putting nt matter Irr the wiong place
In u iriubeum of nntuial history you
will sec the skeletons ol marry extinct
nnltnals which have lived at ailous
epoch; of the eai th's hltoi. You can
tell at a glance the very ancient skele
tons from those which belong to crea
tines of most recent times, because
the latter me so much llghtei and moie
graceful, representing Improveil types.
In one of these gieat wainhips you see
a nmwiiiB of material teg.irdlcss of ex
pense'and without leg.trd to nrattlc.il
con.lltlons. Theiofiue, this species of
vessel is doomed to eaily extinction.
111:. the huge and unvvieldly inuininalt
of tile Pliocene.
"The groat warship and the gieat
gun are tho naval Ideals of toda. Uoth
f ' them are based on what? On gun
powder. Moder rr forts, both on land
ami on sea, are built on a gunpowder
basis, and without any consideration
or high explosives. The very brains of
jinny and navy men all over the world
are adjusted to gunpowder. uis it were.
Mllllnry experts, geneially speaking,
tela unable to think of war except in
tornis of gunpowder. Tut gunpowder
is practically out of date.
TORPEDO ROATP.
"The day of hlgh-power explosives
has arrived; they constitute the postu
late to which Ideas of w at faro must bo
adjusted. These explosives have car
lied tho nrt of war beyond the .stage
when tho battleshlpcan be useful. With
their aid it is as easy to destroy the
strongest unnoted ship us to smash up
it ivuuuun scnooner. it Is nut possible
to predict with confidence Just what the
character of the fighting vessels of the
filturo will be, but a suggestion In that
direction seems to be nffoided by the
torpedo boat. A torpedo boat costs
$73,000, and joti can build a whole fleet
of such craft for the com of one battle
ship. "Tho advantage of high explosives Is
that only a little power Is required to
convey them to tho pluco where they
are to do work. Their adoption as u
means of eiestractlon Is certain to In
troduce an cntirelv now paries of In
ventions for war. Tlio development of
the art of war from this tlmo on will
be a battle of Invention If hostilities
Fhould break out between Spain and
the United States, Invention In this line
would be marvelous!' stimulated.
INVENTIVENESS.
"Has it ever occurred to you to think
of the fact that during our own Civil
War a gi eater number of fighting run
chinos were invented thurr in all the
history of the world up to that time'
Tlio Franco-Prussian conflict gave a
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tV'm. 0. Clarke, 336 I'cnn Ave.. Scran on, I'a
m cut stlinuluH in mllltnrv Invention.
We, of course, ate 11 nation of Invent
01s A war with Spain would bilng
Into existence many contrivances for
destruction far surpassing what lrns
hltheito been devised. The Spaniards,
themselves, not at all an inventive peo
ple, would think that they hud come up
against a nation of devils.
"It Is logically piopcr to assume an
absuidlty for the sake of argument.
Let us assume, their, that we weie
driven from the seas nctually by the
Spaniards, and that our defeat was ab
solute ant ovei whelming. The wind
up of the whole affair would nevelthe
levs be the total wlplng-out of Spain:
for We would build vcsels adjusted to
uqulii'menU.
'Theie 1- no telling what we might
do with eleetilelty, which doubtless l
destined to play n part In future w in
fill e as an active agent of destruction
Teleciaphy without wire Is as yet in
its infancy, but something veiy sub
stantial In this line has been accom
plished alread.v. If we can ennvej. as
we do, to a distance and without a
wire, enough energy to communicate
Intelligence, we shall be able befote
long to convey enough energ to work
Injury. As our control of ulectrlcal err
or gy becomes more complete vvc can
extend Its reach further and furthei.
It does not seem wholly Impiobablr
thut the time will come when we shall
be able to explode the magazine of u
ship without going near It.
TilH VESUVIUS.
"The onl attempt thus fat made by
the United States In the direction of
utilizing high explosives for purposes
of naval waifare. If toipedoes be ex
cepted, is lepresentecl by tho so-called
dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, which Is
now In the nelghlKirhood of Key West.
This vessel has on her forvvnid deck
tlnee IC-Inch guns which thiow pio-
jectile.s loaded with dvnumite a dis
tance of a mile. The ship is onlj tin
experiment, and her practical utility is
regaided by naval authoiltles as ve-ry
doubtful. The pioblein of throwing
high explosives with safetv to those
who use them has not yet been solved
sutlsfacttnll. No explosive Is good for
lighting pui poes that can be touched
off bv shock or otherwise than by ac
tual contact with Hie. The stuft called
explosive gelatine,' for example, Is the
inot poweiful of all known explosives,
being fifteen times as strong as gun
powder. It Is made by dissolving gun
cotton In nitro-glyeerlne, the prepara
tion having the consistency of honey.
Rut It Is very unsafe foi use In battle,
because a bullet striking It will set It
off by concussion.
DEADLY OASES.
"It Is extiemelv llkelv that Irr the
next gieat war shells that liberate
poisonous gaes on explosion w ill be
emplipcd It has been suggested that
bombs loaded with hveliocvanic acid
ga.s under pressure could be thus util
ized, releasing huch fumes on bursting
as would destroy all life in the neigh
borhood. The French 'melinite' has for
Us b.T-e a coal-tar product termed pic
lie acid, its consistency Is about that
or molasses, nnd It is poured Into shells
and permitted to harden. This stuff Is
entliely safes to handle, though thiee
times as powerful as gunpowder. The
fumes set flee by the bursting of a
bomb loaded with it aie most eloadl.
A single one, fired experimentally at a
vessel on the deck of which had been
placed a number of sheep and goats,
killed by suffocation all of the animals
that weie not destioyed by the 11 Ins
fragments. If a shell loaded with hy
diocvanlc acid sras this h the same
thing as prusslc acid, and the dead
liest ol all poisons should be llud into
a ship and explode Inside of the vessel,
pietty neailv eveiybody on boaid
would study peilsh.
"In the recently published novel,
'War of the Worlds,' which describes an
attack by Murtlans upon the earth,
tho absuilants from the sister planet
aie lepresented ha destroying immense
nunibuis of people by letting loose a
cloud of black vapor that sinks to the
ground nnd smotlieiB to death eveiv
llv ing thing. The author may have
had in his mind bisulphide of cat bun,
an extremely explosive substance
which readily iesolvc Itself into a
nw-t deadly gas when exposed to the
atmosphere. This gas Is heavier than
tilr, and so sinks. The newly Invented
'smoko gionades' nie filled with chem
ical mibstanceh which, on explosion,
piodiue clouds of dense black smoke;
they are int-nded to be cnrrled in ad
vance by skirmishers and tin own so
as to conceal the troops following A
novel Herman contrivance is a bomb,
which on exploding, scatters highly In
llanrmnble substances far and wide. A
single one bju sting over a town would
set a whole district on lire nt once.
This kind of Infernal machine Is ele
hlgneel also for burning ships at sea.
RAM.OONS.
"Respecting tho procspects of using
btilloons and flying machines In war,
a great deul has been said, but It is
all highly speculative. Ralloons may
bo employed to diop explosives, but
they are not very manageable, being
to a gieat extent at the mercy of air
euiienth. Novel theless. It io said that
both Oeimnny and France now have
balloons that can be steered and pio
pelled against a pretty stiong bieeze
It goes without saying that If a really
practical flying machine i.hould over
bo devised. It would wholly revolution
ize warfare. No foit could bo built
that would bo stiong enough to with
stand high explosives dropped from
above, and ships would be equally ex
posed to destruction. Under such con
ditions, wurfaro would necessarily be
tiansfencd from the land und sea to
the air, und the quarrels of nations
would be decided by battlcu between
fleets or alislilps.
"Chemlstiy and physics, ns I have
said, will bo the basis of the waifare
of tho future. Under the former of
theso two heads comes photography,
which will be largely employed. The
latent Invention In aerial photogianhy
is Intended for military use. It is a
bomb containing a camera und a para
chute, and Is fired vertically Into the
ulr from a 11101 tar. When 1.000 feet or
so above the earth it explodes, liberat
ing the camera, which Is upheld in
tho ulr by tho parachute. Then the
cumera tokes ono or more snai shot
pictures of tlio landscape below. It is
weighted ulllclently to make it sink
pretty rapidly, so thut It lands not far
from where It staitod, and Is prompt
ly picked up Obviously, photographs
thus taken will be of the utmost value
to a commanding genernl In war time,
giving him u survey of the Held, of the
distribution of the enemy s troops nnd
of hostile eiitrcrrchnientfl and fottlflea
tlons. Such bombs might be titlllreil
to advantage by warships ut sea, for
obtaining uotlllcatlon of the uppto.ioh
of n hostllr fleet lung bi'foio the Ves
sels hove Irr sight. Owing to the curv
ature of the earth, a ship Is Invisible
at 11 distance of only a few miles on
the ocean, In this case the parachute
and camera could be jirovldeel with a
conspicuous float, so as to be found nnd
recovered readily after reaching the
water "
IIIMTIMI I",l,r,(il SPEAKER.
The Rrittsh watktugmnn ma not 1
a particularly clever gentleman, but he
falrl bristles with peculiarities. Ediiru- j
tlon has not wiped away his ehtiiaeter-
Istles. He still hns opinions uf bis own
and can still find something original to
say for himself. Nor does he forget to ,
sav It. It gives him especial pluasure
to state his views at a meeting of his '
political opponents. He will organise an
opposition meeting In the middle of the
halt and procied to addiess it himself.
Or he may confine his nttentlon to the
speech of the evening and cast humor
ous doubts upon Its author's political
Information.
I have kiown n meeting till own Into
utter confusion because a speaker hap
pened to mention the ear 1784 and a
woiklngmnn Insisted on knowing, be
foie they werrt any fuither, who wns
King or EnclJiuI at that time The
speaker, a tilfle unoeituln hlmseir as to
whether It was Oeorge HI. or Oeorge
IV.. refused to answer, and the work
lngman's thirst foi knowledge had to
lemnln unquenched unless the police
man who cast him forth was able to
satisfy it.
In Enginnd these Interruptions nre
taken ns matters or course A speaker
expects to find u fair spi Inkling of op
ponents among his audience, and the
consciousness of their piesence makes
him more careful In what he s.is, more
precise and argumentative than IT he
were addiesing a puiely partisan
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rsHtw HiNcrin?wXi'tiaNew yoH7
gather Irrg The man who tnces n meet
ing carr nlwavs be eerraln of the meas
ure of his success 01 failure. No Eng
lish audience will stand a spcukcr who
boies them If he falls to piove atliac
tlve he Is Informed of the fact with a
singular absence of bashfulness. It Is
not a good ndvertlement for our 11a
tlorrnl manners, but It keeps a meeting
lively and puts nn effective check oir
pompous dullards Some kind of sport
we must have, even In our politics In
the good old days dead cats und rotten
eggs used to come (lying like bewilder
ing meteors lound a candidate's head.
Now he Is "heckled" and pelted with
questions instead A man In the aud
ience Is allowed to catechise him on
evety in tide of his political faith to
Inquire Into his votes In the House of
Commons, and to nsk him how he
stands with regard to particular meas
ures. And bv the custom of the coun
ti.V the candidate Is bound to answer
all leasonuble questions, fullv and de
finitely. S due lirooks In The Chau-tauquuu.
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