New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-20
SANDY HOOK FULLY GARRISONED.
MoRD TROOPS MOVED TO FORT HANCoCK-PRE-
PAIRING FOR FURTHER DEFENCES
LIP TIE SOUND.

PAIRING FOR FURTHER DEFENCES
UP THE SOUND.
The movement Of Batteries and NJ. of the 9TH
Artillery United States Army. including about one
hundred and forty five men and officers. from Fort
Socum, the Sound. to Fort Hancock. at Sandy
Hook WIS effected yesterday. There was much
activity early In the morning In going aboard the
General Meigs. It found that some Of the
horses carts and other equipment needed for tho
camp work at Fort Hancock could not be taken
yesterday. and another trip will be made to-day.
The men were disembarked Ut Sandy Hook at
noon and under Captain Oliver F. Wood tho de-
tachment was speedily marched 10 the camp.
where two batteries from Fort Wadsworth and
Hamilton stationed early In the week The
afternoon was spent In erecting tents and putting
things in shape at the camp as far as possible for
comfortable living, until the commodious barracks.
now well under way. are completed. With about
three hundred men under mis- command at Fort
Hancock Lieutenant Colonel McCrea expects to
be able TO properly handle the new guns recentl;
mounted NJ this important fertilization, and 10
have them in readiness to repel any attempt
the part Of hostile vessels to enter the New-York
IIarbor or to get enough 70 shell the
outlying portions Of the city.
As the first fruits Of the complete inspection OF
the defences at the point where the East River and
Long Island Sound unite. by General Miles on
Wednesday. party OF engineers went yesterday
from Willets Point to Sands Point. TO the eastward
on the North Shore Of Long Island, and nearly
opposite David's Island. and began surveys FOR
the purpose OF securing the property. 1t is pro-
posed 10 erect In this headland. which juts out
into the Sound considerable distance 10 the east
ward OF Great Neck Bay n mortar battery similar
20 the one on David's Island at Fort Siocum Il
is likely also that there will be some large rlhed
cannon. mounted on disappearing carriages. placed
In the new defences. General Miles concluded that
while Fort Slocum a great addition 10 the
older defences. 1t needed to be supplemented by
additional defences on tho Long Island side OF the
Sound.
There Is also proposition TO add another NOR
tar battery 10 those defending the Sandy Hook
entrance 20 the harbor by purchasing property on
the Western extremity OF Rockaway Beach. From
this point Il wide stretch OF the not reached
by the guns Sandy Hook and at the western
end o. Long Island could he effectively covered and
vessels could be prevented from reaching water
shallow enough TO anchor In, from which the coast
could be easily shelied
There has been much activity Of late in the Gov
eminent Quartermasters Bureau In this city, and
far more than the usual quantities of provisions as
we'll as stores OF ammunition have been sent to all
the seaboard fortfcatlons. This has been partly
due ID the transfers of troops from the Interior,
partly 10 the additions to the size of the Army and
partly to the expectation that there may be a sud
den demand for the provisioning OF a large body
OF men. General Merritt left his quarters on Gov
ernors Island early yesterday afternoon and spent
the rest of the day i'm town.