New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-03-09
THE DEFENSE. OF NEW YORK.
Rear Admiral Jouett Tells How Our Great
est City Gould be Protected.

| Bear Admiral JOuett Tells How Our TREAT.
| est City Gould be Protected.
| Now that war talk is rife, it is inter.
esting to reaa anything relative to our
ability to defend ourselves. We have
been taught to consider our navy as in.
effective and tri6ing, and we have been
told that our coast defenses are prac-
tically worthless, but Rear Admiral
Jouett, formerly OF the North Atlantic
Sou adron, disposes of this latter as
sumption, when he says:
Gin the first place it would be most
powerful, fleet that could enter New
York harbor with the monitors, Terror
and Puritan, on guard, supplemented by
the big guns at Sandy Hook. These guns
alone are sufficient to keep out almost
any fleet that Spain could send over here.
New York is absolutely safe as far as
Spain is concerned. .-.
"a: ship like the Wzcaya would be
sunk in comparatively no time after one
of the monitors had slipped alongside
and poured in broadside her. No vessel
in the world could withstand the con-
centrated force of one of these powerful
little fighting ships, while the danger of
the latter being crippled by an enemy's
gun is very slight.
''In the event that war was declared
and the Puritan and Terror were sent to
New York to protect the city, the YES
sells would lie outside the harbor and
keep lookout for approaching battle
ships. They would take up, positions so
as to command the widest scope possible,
and they would be stationed so as to in,
tercept any ironclads that might seek to
avoid the guns at Sandy Hook.
"One of the great advantages the little
fighters possess is that they could see one
of the high freeboard battlesh1ps at
distance of fully six miles and could i'm
mediatelY cast loose and give the foe the
full contents of all their long range guns,
while the monitor could not, be seen by
the commander of the battleship until
he had approached within two miles,
and even at that distance the monitor
would be SO small target that the guns
of the battleship would have but little,
If any, effect. As the fleet of the enemy
approached, the two monitors would 60
powerful and effective execution. The
The first shot would undoubtedly dis.
able, ii not sink, some of the fleet. -
eff were in command of a monitor
and were fighting an enemy, T would
run as close as possible and would, to
possess such composite, try to bore a
hole in the enemy's biggest battleship.
The advantage of getting close is that
you would be under the guns of the big
oattleship, aud if you were close enough,
their guns could not be depressed so as
to strike YOU. The batteries of moni-
tor can all be concentrated so as to strike
a target of small diameter, and the con
tents Of all the guns of the monitors
would sink the biggest and strongest ship
in the world. Z
'sAfter two monitors like the pair
speak Of had poured a few thousand
pounds of projectiles into Spanish
fleet, before the latter could draw bead
upon the little spitires, don't think the
enemy would be in trim to do much
damage to the City of New York, and
besides, after the monitors had engaged
them outside, the monster guns of Sandy
Hook, comprising dynamite guns, NOR
tars and rapid-6re guns, would do tht
rest. If the entire number did not gt
down they would be as worthless as 81
many RATS. = 3@s
/ Il is,estimatfd that the war with Span
would lie . mere. bagatelle, as matte
Of expense about 81, OOO, 900. Let's see
Wasn't It Webster who once stood up ii
the senate, when the question Of the ma
ional debt was being discussed, an.
showing his hand down in bis poke
said ssHow much is il ~ Fargo Argus
| a war with Spain would demonstrat
# the United States could get alonl
J without the ..strategic Importance .
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