HAINES SCHOOL GIVES ENJOYABLE SHOW (Continued):
Omar the Wonder, Steve Sheldon.
Flower Dance, Lucy Chisel.
Four Reel Comedy.
Boxing Exhibition, Ernest and Johny Mark.
Song and Dance, Ford Butler arid’Mack Gestner.
Hazoor Dal, Buchanan and Acklin#
Egyptian Dance, Lucy Chisel.
Wade Clifton from Alabam’j Steve Sheldon.
Mah Jong Kids and Company, the’entire cast.
MORE MEtf PUT IN TO STAY:
Pvts# *uaurence Snyder and Rexford* Tanner, both of Company F, and Pvt*
Bill Beitinger, Q*M#C.f have requested a year1s extension of foreign service*
Local headquarters have approved all three applications#
BOAT SCHEDULE:
The Rodgers, with a week's mail from the States, arrives Sunday night
or Monday morning. The Sstebeth will make its usual trip 'Tuesday. In case the
Skagway baseball team comes here Sunday, the H.B* Fornance will make a trip that
day to provide transportation for them.
TIMES HAS CHANGED; OLD ARCHERS TOLD BE SURPRISED:
If Robin Hood, the famous archer, or any of the crack shots with early
firearms, were to see a modem marksman didot, they’d hang their heads with
shame over the Inferiority of their weapons* The effective range of the short
bow used by the Normans at the battle of Hastings (A*D. 1066) was only 100 to
120 yards* H0w William the Conqueror’s eyes would pop if he saw a rifle deadly
at 20 times that distance and with an even greater extreme range* By Robin
Hood1 s time .the English had evolved the long bow capable in thehands of a few
skilled archers, of splitting a hazel twig at 400 yards* Even we would call
that some shooting; but to shoot 600 yards the arrow had to be shot up into the
air and was no more accurate than our rifle would be at 4,000 yards* Most ar
chers would not shoot at all over 400 yards*
Meanwhile the early fire arms were having a hard time of it* They were
shower to fire than a bow, as the powder and bullet had to be rammed forcibly
down the barrel from the muzzle* And they weren't much for hitting anything.
At a match in 1792, years after the Revolutionary War,' an archer shot 16 out of
twenty arrows into a target 100 yards away; while an expert shot with a musket
could only hit the same target 12 times out of 20* When a musket was fired hor
izontally from the height of the shoulder, the bullet would fall to the ground
only 120 yards away. Only a hundred years ago a musket was considered accurate
indeed if it would hit a figure the size of a man twenty times at 100 ya^*ds.
Accuracy ms increased when the rifle replaced the smooth bore musket;
but early rifles were inaccurate at more than 150 yards* and were seldom used at
ranges of more than 100 yards* At sixty yards, however, a good rifleman of
those days could keep all his shots in a circle 1-Jr inches in diameter. This is,
we will admit, some shooting. It seems that the riflemen of those days wore,
considering their weapons, better or at least the equals of present day marks
men, but their weapons were of course much inferior.- At the shorter nanges
for which their rifles were adapted, we would have difficulty beating them.’