Show WOULD DO IT WITH PLEASURE Expert Asks Only Two Hours Time to Blow Up a Ship New York Tribune While the officials of-ficials at the navy yard are Icath to II admit It even to their most intimate I friends it was discovered yesterday afternoon that they are devoting especial I pecial attention to getting torpedoes ready for emergency use in New York I harbor One of the men at the yard who has had much to do with experimenting experi-menting with torpedoes for harbor defense de-fense was busy nearly all day yesterday yester-day with his superiors His name is Gilmartin and he is said to be thpr ouKhly skilled In the handling of tort tor-t pedoes Gllninrtln was asked yesterday i by one of his superiors If he would undertake under orders should necessity I neces-sity I require it the firing of a torpedo as an actual war measure He instantly I In-stantly replied that he would do so I with pleasure and then he was asked I I Mr Gilmartin suppose you were i ordered on Saturday night to place a torpedo under the bottom of a vessel i In New York harbor how long would it take you to do it I would do It Inside of two hours on any vessel afloat in this harbor and Ill bet my life on It said Gilmartin j I I It is altogether likely that If occasion occa-sion should require the services of 31 l torpedo export Gllmartin would be the II man chosen for the perilous task You can do most anything with a I I I torpedo In the way of blowing a hole In a vessel said Gilmartin to one of his i friends and all I want Is the word and the torpedo and I will blow a hole I I in any vessel that comes Into New York harbor And I ont get hurt I either he added with a grin I From what could be learned last i night in case of sudden hostilltesthe I government will depend to a great ex I tent on torpedoes for harbor defense We can get them ready in a hurry said one of the officers yesterday and I there is no one knows It any better I than the Spanish naval officials themselves i them-selves It such a thing should be that a Spanish war vessel should commit I i any hostile act while In the harbor of I I New York she never would get away I i There are men enough and torpedoes I enough to sink her half a dozen times Hook before she gets outside of Sandy I |