Show AS GIBRALTAR New Never Be by Fire of a Hos 0 0 0 Nosy York Press No great in world Is more strongly protected than New York when It comes to a of seacoast To these defenses Prince Louis remarks about able to pulverize the queen of the has called attention Prince I Louis has explained that lie mount a fleet lying up in the the it is the ob nt the defenses ork to prevent a hostile getting into the North river Not years ago New York was badly defended Now it i as fable an modern fortifications and guns can make It New has two to be forced by a hostile fleet which would capture the front door and a back door The front door lies In Inthe the lower bay and the back door is at atthe the eastern entrance of the New NewYork York presents in front the formation known anti bottle haP bor the neck of the bottle being at th narrows and prolonged b the channels lead to it nut beyond Sandy Hook In the place shoals through which there run form a natural protectiOn to the From the tl ii waters of the ocean one channel iretis in over the shod toward Hook Is channel whIch divIdes just before the point of the hook is reached into the and the main ship channel An nOt the sauth is a deep cpu loadIng off from the 0 the the I ship Jt ma be taken to rented that a fleet of ss would be sent to take a come in and try to OTt Ut the now so well and buoyed that a bio liner un tem is like R Un Un the buoys an pio tea different story to tell WIth the a would have to fiol its l W led and line Coiner slowly anti n th ten to toone one that event vessel toire tb nl tl pathway for the ahir With the buoys anti hie ne St would be ioA n t Who try to a into NAV Yik Tn ee f the would 1 eo h Un 0 h ie is 1st presented to 0 inn force channel the book buoy un to the Is on in the of the army laid out in into to squares In the center of cary is a for mine In tinie of wor thee mines would be and their on On plAIn at and Fort Hancock anti Honk in the plain table houses at the fort it careful lookout unon fleet By looking an tO a the observer at Port Wads Wadsworth worth could tail just how howa a hostile ship bore from and the observer at Hamilton would se how howit it bore wIth relation to himself by looking through a similar Instrument ay th observer at Fot is to fire the mine He knows anne and gets by the anne of the at Fort lIe has two little arms affixed to his plain one starting from the point of the elvirt Hamilton and andone one from the pointS worth He shifts these to the thelven and where their intersect there is the square in which the ship Is passIng He touches a butt m mand and the submarine mine do the This in general terms is the scheme of defense aside from the ui and bat tories of groat mortars But besides the shoals provided by nature and the mines provided by man a hostile would havo the great bat batteries teries at Sandy Hook Fort and Fort Hamilton to contend wIth Soon after the hulls of a hostile fleet appeared above the horizon they would be under fire giant at Sandy Hook In fact the great six gun here could make sight sightIng Ing shots at them before they came the horizon as to their bulls taking pot shots by the ranges of their masts By the time they were I approaching the entrance to ys all the groat guns of Fort Han Hancock cock would be playing upon them nd the sixteen mortars of the mortar battery would be dropping shells upon their decks From the sa saI I all these batteries on the In Invisible visible and with powder be being ing used by them an attempt to return the fire would be shooting b guess work if the hostile fleet was hated by the time it got to the channel runs In close to the point of the hook It would then come not only the guns of Fort but the guns of Wadsworth and Hamilton It ItIs Is inconceivable that any fleet could the battering of these three great forts delivered simultaneously Es posed to the concentrated fire of bat tories of the best typO of and modern high power guns mounted on carriages and to three greet mortar batteries this fleet would have to wend its way alow ly through channels which the guiding buoys have boon removed and andover over mine holds accurately from say a distance of froni the Unie it Caine under the tire of Sandy Hook batteries I until it approached the narrows and the guns In the battery t on the bill at Fort could u In its decks I to be that any fleet would be rash enough to attempt to front of New York at attempting tempting It could survive In I it is interesting to the I question of fire controL Lu the mail behind the gun on dorn coos he is shooting It The of hostile vessels are deter I mined by scientific mechanical appliances ances very quickly but most The man in charge of the cen station of fire control uni I cates the iange and direction to the group who communicates It to the gun captains who raise their guns as to appear for a mO moot over the edge of the belch forth their projectiles with I I mathematical accuracy and sink i back to their concealed position whore they are reloaded By means of the present system of fire control the battery mortars jt Sandy Hook has in trIal placed its sixteen shells at a i si a apace than the deck of a A battleship lip lipon on decks would probably not he in subsequent events of the There is one little deep hole off the Commey Island shoron where a hostile where she sheso so lucky as to get In there without running aground might lie and reach Brooklyn having forced the batteries the harbor But I Ia a few mines operated from time would close this and a mortar bat I tery on Plum island Is planned to pro protect the place absolutely although hi hithe the Opinion of many a battery is The back door of New Is Long Island sound I 00 Here the problem is I forent and more complicated than thai of the front door which is heAt easy outer hino time bf the nut for a few miles as In thin case of far 4 to the entrance of I Ithe the and to bi FIbers island III the jaws df the is fortified and at points under the of on the Rhode Island shore are other batteries prOtecting the entrance through To the mouth is a front on Little Gull Island supplementing those on Fish and protecting with those the through the Race To the eastward of these lie time heavy forts defending bay would prevent an enemy land lug there with troops to take time Vatch Bill fort in tIme rear by a swift march overland But time ett forts are not a part of oftie tie Of the defenses of the City of New York as are tIme Fish Fishe e s Little Gull and Watch Hill forts I Supplementing the torts itt the east em entrance of the are also of course mine fields halt out In tim of war would be planted with submarine mines controlled and fired according to the latest and moSt accurate method which of themselves make the passage of time entrance to time an in interesting task for a hostile ti tiby by any miracle the line of tie tenses of New Yorks back door should be carried there still remains time In nor line of defenses which consists of forts at DavIds island Fort Tot Totten ten at Willets Point and Fort her on time tip of Throgs Neck three forts heavy ord pence mortar batteries would be able to get a converging firo upon any fleet which having survived the ordeal of should come down with hostile Intent And here again this hostile fleet would be passing over mine fields where the impulsive sub submarine marine could be accurately exploded to their discomfort and destruction get at the defenses of New NewYork York a foreign enemy would in the place have to whip a fleet But as at present con the defenses are quite able to take care of themselves and leave fleets of the country free to sail whither they will It Is safe to that no hostile fleet could reduce N York and that fleet would attempt It The city could only be betaken taken as the result of battles won by troops which had succeeded in ef footing a lauding at unprotected distant city |