Explosive Beef
Title
Explosive Beef
Description
All kinds of beef including the “ embalmed” variety, have figured in the beef discussion since the war with Cuba, but some of this beef has since developed unsuspected properties, which is referred to by the Baltimore Herald :
When General Miles first informed an interested nation that “embalmed” beef had been supplied to the Army as “an experiment,”and that the canned roast beef was devoid of nutriment, besides nauseating the men, he apparently possessed no information concerning another, entirely unsuspected quality. He evidently did not know, nor does anyone else seemed to have been aware of the fact, that the product furnished by certain Western concerns to sustain our soldiers in an arduous campaign possessed the properties of an explosive.
As set forth exclusively in the herald of Saturday, a number of the cans containing tinned roast beef which had been stored in the Lemon Building, where the Investigating Commission meets, to be used as evidence in refuting with charges preferred by General Miles and other officers, birthday loud detonation, causing consternation among the occupants of the building and spreading Otis throughout the edifice that gave rise to a regular Stampede among the Clarks. It is a matter of record that thousands of pounds of army beef with jettison from transport, and that large quantities with Barry and Cuban and Puerto Rican soil. In the light of recent developments, such methods of disposal must be regarded as deplorably wasteful. Had the expansive and propelling for canned roast beef being ascertained while the war with Spain was yet in progress, the race answer to unserviceable as food might have been used in lieu of ammunition. Perhaps they would have proved an admirable substitute for smokeless powder.
In any event they could have been employed like Chinese stinkpots, to overwhelm the enemy with paralyzing effluvia.
Is too late to Avail ourselves of this powerful Paralyzer, unless we should have some subsequent racquet and Cuba, but it isn't too late to utilize it as a paralyzer of the Filipinos who now seem to be requiring special attention. Suppose a lot of it was shipped to Admiral Dewey and let him And let him shoot it among them, that is if it can be with strange from exploding before across the Pacific. It wouldn't destroy towns as the steel projectiles do, but it would everlastingly get away with the fellows within smelling distance of where it was landed.
When General Miles first informed an interested nation that “embalmed” beef had been supplied to the Army as “an experiment,”and that the canned roast beef was devoid of nutriment, besides nauseating the men, he apparently possessed no information concerning another, entirely unsuspected quality. He evidently did not know, nor does anyone else seemed to have been aware of the fact, that the product furnished by certain Western concerns to sustain our soldiers in an arduous campaign possessed the properties of an explosive.
As set forth exclusively in the herald of Saturday, a number of the cans containing tinned roast beef which had been stored in the Lemon Building, where the Investigating Commission meets, to be used as evidence in refuting with charges preferred by General Miles and other officers, birthday loud detonation, causing consternation among the occupants of the building and spreading Otis throughout the edifice that gave rise to a regular Stampede among the Clarks. It is a matter of record that thousands of pounds of army beef with jettison from transport, and that large quantities with Barry and Cuban and Puerto Rican soil. In the light of recent developments, such methods of disposal must be regarded as deplorably wasteful. Had the expansive and propelling for canned roast beef being ascertained while the war with Spain was yet in progress, the race answer to unserviceable as food might have been used in lieu of ammunition. Perhaps they would have proved an admirable substitute for smokeless powder.
In any event they could have been employed like Chinese stinkpots, to overwhelm the enemy with paralyzing effluvia.
Is too late to Avail ourselves of this powerful Paralyzer, unless we should have some subsequent racquet and Cuba, but it isn't too late to utilize it as a paralyzer of the Filipinos who now seem to be requiring special attention. Suppose a lot of it was shipped to Admiral Dewey and let him And let him shoot it among them, that is if it can be with strange from exploding before across the Pacific. It wouldn't destroy towns as the steel projectiles do, but it would everlastingly get away with the fellows within smelling distance of where it was landed.
Creator
uncredited
Source
The Weekly Star (Wilmington N.C.)
Date
March 03, 1899
Type
Newspaper article
Identifier
http://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn84026538/1899-03-03/ed-1/seq-2/
Files
Collection
Citation
uncredited, “Explosive Beef,” The North Carolina Experience in the Spanish American War, accessed May 8, 2024, https://csilkenat.omeka.net/items/show/25.