New-York tribune., 1895-12-29
MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF FORl ~ III 1I|'-"'

The result would not be uncertain The srnpie lact az
pected No enemy would think OF attempting ~
the plans carried out to their egitlmate e&isi mi
AS II is Fort Schuyler Is pleasant pace 20 Nl9itc
From the village Of Yves: Chester i is drive OF OF
ideal beauty 70 the end OF Thf0sS & bs road is as
smooth hoor making II an idea & way iSa avc dis
covered If is made manifest as the observer
reaches the entrance to the fortlncaton. ioI ILL %
a fne n,ae Will ii keep TO the right and single me-
What is now the neck was once ] an isu IN zoe Coz nd
it was considered finished in 1886. However the
works , not oGeupG ' S on
October u. 1870. and the post was not reoccup'eu
The first sign of the Governments intentions
however. regarding the site as plaSe i0 lorti cgs
amre Of sPe"Es he last m day of March S that time
the cessior Of the land on ThI9s's Neck wa was
shot has never been fired from the fort No
sound of cannon has eyer been heard there %
of greeting to the rising and goodnight TO the SET
ting DHIg the Being war me
Hospital and thousands OF United States sodlers
sens se of Climate tor and ar In iS the
which places the entrance from the mainland above
Although as has been said. the works were deemed
ready for armament in 1886 they were never com ON
chance observer may still the loose stone lying
where the workmen left them the dny tney iaid
| ments topping the classmates are grass grown. as
| selves and crop Of nrst-class hay Is annually
harvested for the use of the few horses about the
establishment.
| A QUEER IDEA OF FORMER DAY.
! The gentlemen who engineered this fort had pc
culiar notions exemp,ifed in set Of emplace-
| ments which face toward New-York City They
are fully exposed to any kind of fire from the di-
rection Of the Sound yet there they stand grass
covered monument to the engineering skill or other
| wise Of a generation that Is passed
| The masterfu pursuit Of the cvilizing arts OF
, peace never better exenplihed than among the
| troopers stationed at Fort Schuyler. During the
| summer just ended they raised something ike iWJ
bushels of potatoes and more than hundred bushels
of onions on the grounds of the reservation. About
these enigmatc emplacernents too, the visitor
doors open, and. intent upon seeing everything
one OF the artllerymens cottages and walked across
| bridge of plankS that led TO the interior OF the
semi twilight. he found not grape ana canister ano
solid shot and deadly shell. but about century oi
| sides to the other and laughing with the very
| Joy of their bursting nutriment And this was al
| example OF a Government for,ificaton. Safe from
| starvation. but not from invasion. That is the gis
Of the situation, and there is no use Of Disgusting the
| fact with mincing phrases.
There Is Government regulation which prevents
the making Of illustrations OF t2rt hcatons ioi
publicat on and this regulation apples to forthca
one Of the ofcers rrmarkei. .'Ii is ycry probab.l
true that foreign Powers know as much about n,
| interior OF our forts do We ourselves. for they
formed" And as another remarked. when Tho
loose stones were called 10 his attention: "Oh
and it is good thing that the Government d.
nothing more. for il would simply have involved
an added useless expenditure Of money
However. there is some measure Of compensation
for all that was done. with probably good inten
tons, For; schuyler. 1t is position 10 be mod
ern eel more easily than either Fort Hamilton OF
Fort Wa1swOrth. for instance. II Is an old fash
toned fort. and II that concrete might b'
thrown down between the massive double walls o
the caseInafcs, making solid wall of rock nearl!
twenty-five feet in thickness Then I'LL in the SLOPE
| leading down 10 the waters Cdge and the work Il
| done for emplacemcni openings and th'
| placing OF heavy ordnance disappear ng car
| RACES Al the present tine there are stationed
| there Batteries ii and l. OF the ID Artillery. oil
| abou; one hundred and thirty officers and men