Arizona republican., 1898-05-14
PERHAPS THEY'LL STOP.
The Harbor Regulations Enforced by
 Visitation of Hot Shot.

i New York, May 13.-For the first time since the new regulations gov erning navigation in the harbor went into effect, one of the guns of Fort Hancock, sent a solid shot yesterday morning across the bows of a vessel entering the harbor in violation of these regulations. The vessel halted was the American schooner Sebago, 292 tons, Capt Thompson, ninsteen days from Azura, San Domingo, with a cargo of sugar. The vessel is owned by J. s. Winslow & Go. of Portland, Me, and is 123 feet long. Her New York agents are Miller, Bull & Knowl- ton of 130 Pearl street.
 It was about 3 o'clock yesterday morning when the Sebago reached the Hook. All the way from Fire island Capt. Thompson had been looking for a pilot. Nod a pilot boat answered his signals. This struck the schoon- CTS skipper as odd. He had sailed up the coast for many years, in all kinds of weather and at all times of day and night, and never before had he failed to secure a pilot when he wanted one. Just what had happned to the Sandy Hook pilots Capt. Thompson couldn't conjecture.
 As he neared the Hook he noticed that there were no lights where they should be on shore and that the cleo 1 tric buOys in the channels were not lighted. This seemed odder yet. He noticed what appeared in the darkness
 to be a lane of white buoys. He had
 never seen these before. Evrything
 appeared to be wrong, ana the captain
 began to wonder if it was New York 1 However, he had a ship and a cargo
 and he had to do something, so he
 sailed ahead cautiously, taking ire
 quent soundings. It was dark and
 raining. The schooner was just
 rounding the Hook when she was sud-
 denly lighted up from stem to stern by an electric flash. The skipper
 thought it was lightning, but.he had certainly heard no thunder The rap- i id repetition of the flashes finally led
 him to conclude that some one on the
 Hook was playing a search light on him.
 Finally the rays of the light held steady across the bow of the Sebagc ] for what seemed to be a minute o1
 two. Then they disappeared and tht
 next thing of which Capt Thompson
 was conscious was the boom of gun
 followed by the whistle of solit
 shot, following, as nearly as the skip per could reckon, the line that tht
 rays from the search light had taken Capt. Thompson is too old a sailo
 not to know the meaning of a solit
 shot across a vessels bow and h. promptly hove to. Then he heard
 call from shore which sounded to hin
 something like:
 Stay where you are till daylight. At any rate, whatever the call ma, have been, Capt. Thompson went t,
 anchor and stayed there until the SUI
 came up out of the water away out t,
 sea. When the Sebago had come t
 anchor, Capt. Thompson turned to hi mate and asked:
 Now, what the devil do you sup pose all this means, anyhow? Firs somebody shoots electricity at us an then they shoot iron I'm danged I can understand it."
 The mate was thoughtful for a me ment, and then said:
 , Well, you know the last America newspaper we saw was on March Il s There were indications in that 1ha the United States and Spain might g } to war. Perhaps the Spaniards hay
 taken New York;
 l "Dagoes take New York! Not in fou