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Write for booklet on Trapshooting, Game Farming and Hercules Sporting Powders. HERCULES POWDER CO. WILMINGTON, DEL. HERCULES Pays the Following Tribute to the Effi ciency of Our Local Machine Gun Battery I7nur the Title of ' Car f Maiwlhill Rattery in II cord lmon t ration Hun" ATTACHED to the automobile machine gun company at the Platts burg camp last August was a Ford chassis mounted with a Benet Mercier machine gun belonging to the Sandhill Machine Gun Battery of North Carolina. The ear was manned by three North Carolinians and did effective work in the manouevers held there. It was found that this car was able to carry the gun, which weighs thirty pounds, 2,000 rounds of ammunition, three men To move a regular army battery in which the guns are carried on mules would necessitate several freight cars and would be a cumbersome thing to load. With the paralysis of the roads that would occur in war time it is safe to a&sume that it would require thirty-six hours to move such a battery and very probably much longer. But the Sandhill battery left Platts burg at 10.30 a. m. Sunday morning, Sep tember o and reached New York at 3.30 the next morning. The distance is rough ly 340 miles. The speedometer of the car was out of order so no record of the mile age could be kept. The elapsed time was IS hours. An hour was taken out for supper at Albany and three quarters of an hour was lost at Poughkeepsie on a detour where a mistake in the roads was made. Fifteen minutes was taken out for lunch at Schroon Lake on Sunday so that counting time lost on other minor stops the actual running time was close to six teen hours. The car was shipped to North Carolina by freight. BATTERY'S HOME NEAR riNEIIURST The Sandhill battery has its head quarters in the section of country about Pinehurst, N. C, which is noted for its MEMBERS OF THE CRACK SANDHILL On Running Board Left: George Maurice, Jackson Springs, N. C. ; Standing': At Wheel: R. W. Pa and their equipment, and travel with the fastest cars in the company, which in cluded a Simplex, a Mitchell and two eight cylinder Cadillacs. In addition, the lighter car was able to negotiate rough places, move across plowed fields and swampy spots without danger of getting bogged and on one occasion it pulled a big Delaunay-Beauville, attached to the outfit, out of the mud. RECORD RUN TO NEW YORK CITY When the encampment broke up the Sandhill battery car started on a record run to New York to demonstrate how fast a machine gun, so mounted, with men, ammunition and equipment, could be moved from one part of the country to another. For the sake of comparison, assume that this car represented a battery of eight guns, sixteen cars and forty-eight men stationed at Plattsburg, N. Y., and that the country had been invaded and the command ordered to move to New York City as rapidly as possible. MACHINE BATTERY COMPANY Eagle Springs, X. C. ; Right: Roger A. Derby, Frazer Harris, Chestnut Hill, Pa.; ;e, Pinehurst, X. C. excellent sand clay roads. The existence of these roads accounts for the large num ber of cars in this comparatively sparsely settled country and consequently for such a militia organization, the first of its kind to be organized in the United States. Next year the entire battery plans to come up over the road to the Plattsburg encampment demonstrating the great mobility of machine guns mounted in this manner and the necessity for the improve ment of the main thoroughfare roads of the country for military purposes. Machine gun batteries are essentially rural militia organizations, for their main drill requirements are easily accessible target ranges and opportunities to prac tice concealment of the guns, which is not possible in the cities. The Nation is short of machine guns and it is easy to see how batteries of the nature described, either independent or connected with existing militia organizations, on account of their great mobility could be of tremendous (Concluded on page eleven)
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