Show GAME OF WAR Admiral Higginsons Command Makes a Demonstration Against Defenses nt Narragansott Newport R I Sept B Nearly the entire fleet under RearAdmiral Hlg glnaons command made a demonstration demonstra-tion this afternoon against the army defenses on Nnrragansett Bay but did not attempt to coma Into closo quarters quar-ters with any of the forts A landing was effected however at Prices Neck where the searchlight and range station sta-tion on which the mortars at Fort Adams are sighted and fired were putout put-out of action for an hour During that time the battleships Kearsarge nnd Alabama engaged Fort Wctherlll the cruisers Olympia and Brooklyn hampered Fort Crebel In the west channel while the battleships Massachuscttn and Indiana and the monitor Puritan destroyed a signal station at the entrance of Slakonet river After two hours of fighting the fleet drew off shore here It assembled just before sunset for what at that time loolced like a night attack The main point of the attack was at Prices Neck the object being to put that station out of action before the mortar batteries could fire once or twice This would give the larger vessels a chance to come up and engage the regular bat I tories The task was a hard one In any case but today It was doubly so for the air was like crystal and the movements of the fleet could be watched at a great distance off shore But under the rules Adrrdral Hlgglneon was obliged to engage en-gage the Narragansott Bay forts Just as earnestly as he had those In Long Island sound and at New Bedford He was unfortunate however In I choosing tho clearest day of pie week still he went at It bravely and the whole affair this afternoon was well planned and carried through with determination |