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Show GUARDING BIG GUNS0F A FORT NEW YORK. Nov. 16 The United States government has Issued orders that no more street cars will be allowed al-lowed on the military reservation at Fort Wadsworth, one of the coast defense de-fense batteries which guard New York harbor. A mile stretch of track which crosses th grounds of the fort on its way to tho Stateu Island beaches must be removed before January Jan-uary 1. Persons riding to the beach have a full view of the fortifications and its big guns. Tho army authorities claim to have learned that trolley passengers passen-gers have cairlcd cameras and taken pictures of guns and their locations. Copies of these pictures, the government govern-ment has learned, have gone to foreign for-eign countries and might proe of value to an enemy. It was therefore decided to put a stop to tho practice by ordering tho removal of the tracks. Within the last three years, many persons, some foreigners, have been put oft the reservation for taking snap t.hots of the 16 Inch guns. |