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Show PLAN DEFENSE FOR NEW YORK i Police, National Guard and United States Army Prepare for Emergency. DANGER POINTS ARE PLOTTED At First Indication of Trouble Guards Will Be Placed at Piers, Publlo Buildings, Aqueducts and Terminals. Now York. This great motropollB has been rapidly prepared by tho po-llco, po-llco, National Quard and United States army officers, 'acting together, to meet an emorgencyl Somo of tho measures takon would bo of equal valuo In caso of a great flro, flood or riot, but Just at present thoy aro designed de-signed to moot tho needs of a suddon call to war. Not all tho preparations known by newspaper men and others to bo In effoct or contemplated hero can bo made public. Thero Is no censorship, but a word to the patriotic to para-phraso para-phraso tho proverb Is sufficient. Now York has a largo unnaturalized foreign population. In tho main thoso aliens aro peaceable, but tho authorities author-ities aro taking no chances with tho fow firebrands among them. Evory danger point has been plotted. plot-ted. At tho slightest Indication of troublo, guards will bo placod at all piers, public buildings, reservoirs, aqueducts, and Important transportation transporta-tion Junctions and terminals. Tho program has been worked out mostly by Arthur Woods, pollco commissioner. com-missioner. If troublo comes his 10,-000 10,-000 big bluecoats will bo re-onforced Immediately by an equal numb.or of National Guardsmen whoso homes are In this city. Besides thoso, Mr Woods for somo months has had 7,000 voluntoor policemen po-licemen training in tho various pollco stations. These mon havo promised to do pollco work when called upon to supplement tho regular forco. Commissioner Woods has already dispatched a special squad of detectives detec-tives to assist tho regular forco which guards tho great aqueducts bringing water from tho Catskllls and tho 0 rotor. ro-tor. Watershed. A fow pounds of dynamite Judiciously Judicious-ly placed could make Now York go thirsty for many a day. If enemies wreck telophono and tolo-graph tolo-graph wires within tho city, tho pollco will not bo at a loss. Thoy havo been trained to communlcato between signal sig-nal stations on tho top of tho skyscrapers sky-scrapers by means of flags and lanterns. lan-terns. Detailed Information has boon gathered gath-ered concornlng tho numbor, slzo and power of river craft, of automobiles and of other vehicles which might bo pressed Into sorvlce. A list has boon mado of empty buildings build-ings that might bo used either as barracks bar-racks or to supplement hospital service; serv-ice; and tho pollco have worked out a motbod for handling volunteer nurses and strotcher bearers. Tho National Guardsmen of tho city have been divided Into squads In such a way that each squad leader lives near tho men of his unit. An order to mobilize received at the roglmental armory would bo telephoned to tho squad loaders. Each leader would tjion. tolophono to thoBp members of his squad who hao tolephones and wbuld call on tho 6ther men of tho squad personally, Thoso men who could not bo reached In thlB way would receive toIegramB, which aro now lying all mado out In tho desks of tho company clerks In tho armorlOB. Within thirty minutes after tho ro-eclpt ro-eclpt of tho mobilization ordor, tho officers, of-ficers, commissioned and noncommissioned, noncommis-sioned, would have been uotlflod and (t LttsMMslBHfsHsllsfili within sixty minutes tho commanding, offlcor, tho field, staff and company of fleers and tho first sergeant and quari tormaster sergeants of each unit would bo at tho armory, whllo tho subordinates subordin-ates loaders would bo completing thq notification of tho privates. Six hours aftor tho ordor to mobll. lzo had boon received tho guardsmen, would bo assembled, uniformed, armed and equipped, each with threo days' omorgency rations and ready to movo out. Thoy consist of a signal corps bat tallon with an aoroplaho detachment which would probably fly at onco from Hempstead plain to Central park or somo othor point within tho city; two battalions of englnoors, ten troops and a machlno gun troop of cavalry, 14 batterlos of field artillery, 33 companlos of coast artillery, soven regiments otj infantry, a field hospital, an ambulanco company and tho quartormastor corps. Another 100,000 guardsmen would commence arriving tho noxt day from. Now York stato outsido tho city. |