Arizona republican., 1898-04-30

of the f1arbor are devious and, with the beacons darkened in the light houses or the lightships and the cnan- nel buoys removed, a Spanish "arship or any other floating stranger would have more trouble in picking ner way in from sea thar man coming nome late from the club has in finding the hole for his latch key.
 Should a hostile fleet or hostile snip be reported as coming up the coast by one of the patrol beats now on duty, CT should there be reason to be- lieve that the city was to be attacked, not a light in any lighthouse on this coast is to be lighted at night and the bucys that mark the safe paths of the bay are to be ripped up immediately.
 Ships bound in that have taken on pilots will make known their identity through their pilots to the sentry at Sandy Hook by means of signals. A second report must be made at Fort Hamilton and Fort Wadsworth. Ac- cording to the plan agreed upon, the incoming ship, regularly reported, will be ordered to lie to off Sandy Hook and in the Narrows while she is eX- amined to be sure that the report was quite correct. If anybody wants to know what will happen to a merchant man irregularly reported, let him read the story of the capture of the Buena Ventura. If he wants to know what will happen to a ship not reported at all, let him ask Col. Fully McCrea. commandant at Fort Hancock, whose shortened right leg tells where rebel shell stopped in it's flight from behind Fort Wagner
 An army officer who has had a hand in fixing up the defences of the har- Dor told a Sun reporter yesterday of some of the experiences the men who have been doing the work have had When the work of planting the mines was begun, this officer said, small boats would appear every now and then with alleged longshoremen and fishermen and other alleged watermen in them. As soon as the boat of one of these fellows was discovered he was invited to get away from the vii cinity in short order or set himself up for a target. No chances were taken with these men. They were accom- panied by some one from the engi- neers' corps to a place where their ob- servations could do them no good or the nation any harm.
 Bill" said the officer, we had something else to do besides keeping tabs on every strange row boat that come along. We knew, of course, that the boatmen were nosing around to see that we were doing As no one but Spain and the yellow journals could have any possible interest in cur work we concluded that we'd better have
 
 istic or Spanish. Accordingly some secret service men from Washington were sent for
 Our work was done almost entirely at night. The secret service men were 1 excellent bogus watermen. They were a fine assorted lot of fishermen, pilots, clam diggers and what not. Whenever the mine and torpedo plant CTS went to work the secret service men went along, too. Whenever a strange boat hove in sight they joined it. To the person or persons in the boat the secret service men were spies also. And the way they rowed those real things about the harbor was g caution. They steered them every | where except where we were at work Of course this rule was not always sue cessful, and when it was not the se- cret service men just conducted the spies to the shcre without any apology for so doing"