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516 ILLUSTRATED WORLD
BEFORE THE CURTAIN WAS DRAWN
It is not likely that a photographer could secure this picture now, for it shows the "big
section of the Naval Gun Works at Washington, D. C. In this picture several of the twelve-
and fourteen-inch rifles are set in the metal lathes, and are in the process of completion
day this plant is busy turning out the sixteen-inch guns that are to occupy the turrets o
superdreadnaughts of year after next, besides doubling the normal output of the twelve-and
fourteen-inchers. A guard is stationed at each entrance, and pickets keep all nocturnal wa
derers from approaching too near, no matter what their missions.