poratc title, that was so rickety that
train crews were afraid to ride the
engine across. Instead, one cngincman
would walk across ahead of the train
and wait at tracksidc. Then the other
would set the throttle at a walk and
jump off. At the other end. the wait¬
ing first man swung aboard, stopped
the train and waited for the second
trainman to walk across and rejoin his
engine. WB&S. alas, died during the
War. in 1943 or 1944.
Who said the color has gone out of
railroading? Take a long hard look at
North Carolina, Land of the Little
Railroads. Here it certainly hasn't.
BEFORE FOREIGN AID
( Continued from page 7)
of the war as of the most ardent and
enthusiastically patriotic character."
Twasn’t so. the board stormed.
Actually, "this shameless traitor, per¬
jurer and swindler" once offered to buy
and command a blockade-running ves¬
sel — and, adding insult to injury,
had even suggested that a ship named
"Columbia" be renamed after General
Stonewall Jackson. "Brazen effron¬
tery!" said the commissioners. Claim
rejected, it goes without saying.
So it went. For ever)1 claim that was
finally approved, a handful were
thrown out. The loyalty yardstick
measured a strict line, even when the
commissioners noted their sympathy
for claimants whose pitifully small
claims — for the loss of some food or
clothing or a few head of livestock —
proved how thoroughly some areas of
the battered Confederacy had been
stripped by war.
MURAL THREE
( Continued from page 6)
of the era. I can only say that I do not rc-
£rd official portraits as particularly au-
>ritative.
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the portraits of these beauties
look almost identical to me. I am sure they
represent the artist’s style rather than their
actual likenesses. And the same goes for the
way I have painted the Lords Proprietors.
Also. I may add that it is one thing to copy
a portrait outright, but it is quite another
to paint that same person in an action pose.
The only way it can be done is to get a model
who resembles the portrait and use him
freely.
I was at my wit’s end to get a model for
the Queen and made many sketches of ex¬
isting portraits, but I knew I had seen her
exact living counterpart somewhere. It was
only when I showed these sketches to my
friend. Anders Jordahl, that he reminded me
I must be thinking of a neighbor of his in
New Jersey. As soon as I returned to the
States. I painted her in. — Francis V.
Kughlek
THE STATE. AUGUST 5. 1961
Cannon
Maker
By COM! All PAYSOLIl
A Newton man probably knows
more about a cannon used in the Civil
War than many of the Confederate
and Union soldiers whose lives might
have depended on it. He is John Foard,
president of Kluttz Rings of Gastonia.
Mr. Foard, an old artilleryman him¬
self, has specialized in the study of
weapons used during the Civil War.
He particularly has been fascinated
by the "12-pound Gun-Howitzer," de¬
scribed as the most popular cannon
used by both sides. So lie decided to
make a few scale models of the cannon.
He thought he might give a few of the
cannons to customers of his business
and took a few of the cannons to a
textile show in Atlantic City, N. J.
"I was surprised to learn that if we
had been selling cannons at the show,
we could have sold more of them than
our rings." Mr. Foard said. He de¬
cided to set up a subsidiary of Kluttz
Rings, “Centennial Guns," to manu¬
facture the cannons.
To get specifications for the cannon
he visited Civil War battlefields, read
books about cannon and had lengthy
correspondence with Dr. James C.
Hazlctt, an authority on Civil War
weapons. He even had his patent at¬
torney in France obtain information
from the French archives on the gun.
Oddly enough, the most popular gun
used in the Civil War was designed by
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte in IS53.
"Napoleon designed the gun to do
away with confusion," says Mr. Foard.
"They had batteries composed of three
or four different types of cannon, but
this gun eliminated the need for so
many different cannon. It could fire
solid shot, spherical shrapnel, shell and
canister shot."
Mortars could lob shells over walls
or hills. Howitzers could do the same
thing, but its arc was less than that of
a mortar. Regular cannons fired
straight.
The "Gun Howitzer" could fire
either in a straight line or in an arc.
Mr. Foard’s guns arc scaled one inch
to the foot right down to the chain,
rope, swabstick, ram rod. wheels,
spokes and every other small item.
They are such perfect replicas that
they can be fired just like the original.
However, Mr. Foard does not recom¬
mend it.
“These arc collector’s items," he
says. "Not toys."
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