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HISTORY OF THE FAMOUS CREUSOT.

A FRENCH ROMANCE.

It

Like most big things, Creusot began vory small. There is mention of the

Villa de Crosot" as early as 1253. was then a simple farm, Henri de Monestoy transferred it to Hugues, Duke of Burgundy. (The present town of 30,000 souls is situated in this old province. in the centre of France.) Coal was dis- covered on the site in the sixteenth century in the latter part of the eigh teonth, ander the sixteenth Louis, a company was formed to work it.

About this time, also furnaces were set up, and the place became a foundry. Fifteen hundred people were employed at the Creusot works; to-day there are mors than ten times that number. If one counts the other establishments scattered over France, there are at least twenty-five thousand,

The Revolution brought work to the Creusot enterprise, but its activity in war material was greater during the First Empire. Again, in the Franco-Prussian war, it supplied in five months twenty- five batteries of the Roffye model in bronze, two in steel, and sixteen batteries of mitrailleuses.

ADVENT OF THE BCHNEIDERS.

At this moment began the reputation of the house for cannon. From the end of the Napoleonic wars until the end of the Second Empire there was a lull, during which the Creusot furnaces were harnessed to works of peace, such bridges and locomotives.

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In the meantinie the Schneiders had come into the business. Eugene and Adolphe Schneiders bought it in 1839. Notwithstanding the Introduction of English capital it had not prospered. Self-made men of Alsatian origin, tho two brothers showed a persistence and energy which had its reward in the pro- perity of the concern. It still remains

the Schneider family, and a M. Eugene Schneider, direct descendant of the founder, is still its guiding spirit. A son of the first Eugène-Joseph Eugène Behneider-was President of Parliament under the Second Empire, up to the out- break of the war. There is piquancy in the circumstance that an Alsatian family of Teutonic name has become the great rival, if not the superior, of Krupps.

The romance of Schneider's dates from the manufacture of quick-firing artillery. The excellence of this ordinance was de- monstrated for the first time in the Boer War on the side, alas! of England's enemies, says the Paris correspondent of the Pet Mall. And vet at this moment the gun, the famous 75-mm. (or 2.85-in.), was not the perfected instrument it has since become. Creusot's did not discover the quick-fring principle, but applied it to field-guns, whereas the first of the type. probably was made by Messrs. Armstrong for the English Army. The guns that have won the Bulgarian victories have slowly evolved from these early engines.

THE GUN'S BTABILITY,

The great superiority of the French gun resides in its stability and the fact that its parts do not become disorganised by bord use. A glass of water placed on the rim of the wheel of the gun remains unspilled after the shot has been fired. This astonishing result, so different from the action of other pieces which have to be drawn back each time to their original position, has been attained by the clover application of the hydraulic recoil brake which Krupps are said to have declared (as late at 1898) to be inapplicable to feld artillery. Of course, the brake is older than the success of the quick-firer, but Creusor's have adapted it to the land piece.

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Another essential feature is the re- cuperator, which assures the return of the gun to the firing position. Here the motive force is compressed air-possess- ing great advantage over the metal spring; it never wears out or loses its efficiency. The model used by the Boers (who exhibited such superiority over the arm of that period), was not, British strictly speaking, a quick-firer, but, an accelerated firer.

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forces melt away. Only entrenched in: fantry can survive, and the attack has to be made in widely-extended formation, I unless men are to be thrown away.

pieces, with twelve ammunition waggons, The French battery consists of four instead of the old fermation of six and nine respectively. consumption of ammunition caused by With the greater the rapidity of fire, the old-style battery would entail a loss of mobility.

Such is the wonderful arm that has bailt op an empire in the East, and the effect of its prowess in the Balkans will be, I believe, to endow the French army (which has hitherto made its own guns) with some batteries of the Schneider- Canet,

But Schneiders do not limit their energies to guns. They turn out arms ment for battleships and torpedo-boats. Nor is the work concentrated at Creusot; it spreads over France and includes some nine establishments. The most promin- cat, after the parent works, is at Le Havre, where, indeed most of the 75-mm. guns are made. They are tested, close by, at Harfleur, on a vast range bordering the Seine.

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Fr. Schmidt, Care Jedsen proved the weapon since that time, both Fakmauwito in regard to the rapidity and sureness of Gergevitch, Telegraph Res its automatic action as well as in the system for range-finding and timing the Haruno

Japanese explosion. But their perfected gun,

Hotel which has excited the admiration of the Kwonghe experts in the Balkans, and is the pro- Matushiro, "Hokuto Maru duct of long study and mechanical Songsoonohan science, had already shown its virtues in Wingwochong war before the Allies threw down the 0482 3068 gage of battle to Turkey.

This was during the Spanish operations in Morocco three years ago. The officers who were using the Creusot guns declared at the end of the campaign that they were in as good a state as when the war hegan. This testimonial answers the German criticism that the gun was too complicated and delicate for field service.

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