Show SEA COAST DEFENSES the press figures out that harbors harbor along alone our coast are safer eater than ever and eltes dies the fad fact wet that notwithstanding WiLli standIng all the sans guns and modern chips no fortification hai ever yet boon been destroyed by it cites admiral seymours bo bombardment ot of alexandria although he burned a threat great deal of powder and made a great noise it was vas found the fort was practically uninjured ana the llie press says further that rhe new dynamite gin bun will destroy A fleet ft at a distance ol of two miles we do not bellove that ah the press ays can be da di upon because for instance the 0 dynamite ship could be 09 struck by it baell from rom an ordinary warship fired ishell at I a distance of oc three milles beyond the iu utmost most range of the dynamite cratt craft and bl blown n to pieces then a a dynamite ship would also be a tearful fearful thing mak lag an attack for instance Ins tanae what would any modern fort do under the lire fire of it it a crate craft that with elvry break down thirty feet square and fifteen feet deep ot of a solid quarry masonry cannot be built any stronger than tho the rocks oro are in place our own idea Is that mat very much too work la Is being put on modern the real Is the old ono lie it invented with chich to defend himie f against ara lust indiana ile he wont went up anover ihl him alouse on cm the br ink or of some tableland dug a hole ton ten feet in diameter in tho the earell end and about six feet deep lie stretched heavy beams over the top lop then capered it over with dirt leaving small spices about six nix inched around the top op under the roof then lie he luff dug a tunnel to connect wm him with the spring cpr lin taking hla place in ili this thi little lettla tort fort with two or three abalene m puns he bad the BUT vo vey Y of ili iho prairie pra irio all around idin and could kill ell a mile away in either direction and their return shots were absolutely ineffectual G great reat torta forts built on art the ame me plan with mac machinery chinery within them to guns to lire and then lion lower the guns cun to loil u uil ud be proof proof aboin o anra arl 1 i i 1 rip wun fun annl i it E happen to strike I 1 i one ot of the openings ehm would be it a yare rare OLUr occurrence renoe snob forts would be comparatively inexpensive ena the lonely longs lon loge at pat fart pa t waff of the rebellion blice ld erl particularly the arti efflo azy of earth works that was a plia pile of dirt with some tor for tiring through tind and it 11 never was aia thre there was it a man in this city a few yeara year s ago vlra believed the IM richt way t to 0 make forts forto was to build as abny vast last furnaces as necessary lay out the foundation of the fort land mojid then run rim the fort out of 0 cast iron lie he 61 ved it was entirely practical and he h ws wa it a thorough man finist ond end ironworker iron worker ile he thought it would lie be aay to build wo two rims ona within the other stol laral fill the space between ix lweyn with flirt dirt and make f dome ihne mallch would im bo lm pervious to the greatest sun cun that it Is j possible to carry on shipboard after RII nil the beat fort in ili the world to protect cities Is ia an invulnerable ble ironclad with one or two tremendous dous guns an and with engines powerful enough M drive rhe liia monster at ai rapid speed ped there would be no ornaments uch such as 9 are on our fine battleships there would be no arrangements suen it iti HI i have to be wilde in building nips chips that go fo out to seft apa to fight the storing it would slin imply be a floating no lulng fort arid and a of them woud not cost more man ono oni mad ern A dozen of thorn them would prated t any city in the world against any fleet |