However, just a year earlier (12/31/1898), the "Army and Navy Journal" had this to say in a 180 degree difference in point of view.

"Mr Parkhurst's invention has no movable part, is attached at the end of the cartridge box, does not cut away the gun and does not interfere with any of the present motions of the mechanism. Its cost has been estimated at twenty cents or less.
If the arguments which decided the small arms board to select the Krag were sound it must be still the best gun in mechanism and Mr. Parkhurst's invention will make it at least the equal of any other in the world in rapidity of fire. He has removed whatever doubt hung over the American arm. Inventors are never regarded with favor in ordnance offices, but the interests advanced by this invention are too important to permit its neglect. It is too simple to be replaced easily by another invention as good.
We hope it will be approved in Washington for it will make our present stock of 150,000 Krags as available in any situation as any arm in the world. It is as applicable to cannelured as to rim cartridges without other change than a slight one of dimension."

Here is a link to the entire article, but it is hard to read. I used a translator to get the few paragraphs above.

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