Bisbee daily review., 1902-08-21
NEW YORK
 IS BEsIEcED
~MAKE BELIEVE" WAR INAUGuR.
 ATED BY WAR DEPARTMENT
The American Fleet MobiIized Just Outside the Harbor-The Land Batteries are Ready

Batteries are Ready
 New York, Aug. 20.-New Workers today pursued their usial routine of business and pleasure in utter disre- gard of the fact that a naval force is speeding westward over the blue wa ters of the Atlantic with the known in tention of attacking the city. There is a bare chance that the commander of the hostile fleet may change his plans and endeavor to effect a land ing on the New England coast, but for Gothamites to cling to this hope is like a drowning man grasping at a straw for the chances are thousand to one that the commander of the fleet. who is acknowledged to be an able and daring officer. will risk the fire of the forts guarding the Narrows and New York Bay in an attempt to capture the richest prize that could be won by a naval force anywhere in the wide world
 The continuity displayed by New Workers in the face of such impend ing calamity results not so much from reliance on the efficacy of the defend ing forts as from the knowledge that  a make believe" one. In fact, it is to be a part of the great war game" conceived by President Roosevelt and arranged by the navy department, and which may be said to begin today to continue until late in the fall. The maneuvers are the most extensive ever held in the western world. For months past high officials of the army and navy have been laying the plans and the result will be awaited with keen interest by military authorities throughout the world.
 A warship in commission is consid- cred ready for action at all times so that no work of special preparation has been necessary for the maneu- vers But with the land Notifications it is different and much work has been necessary to put them in first class fighting conditions. The forts specially involved are: In the distric- of Narragansett-Fort Adams, at Newport. R. l.: Fort Wetherill, R. l.; Fort Creole, R. l., and Fort Rodman, Mass. In the district of New London Fort H. G. Wright, N. Y; Fort Michie. N Y; Fort Trumbuii Conn; Fort Terry. N. Y., and Fort Mansfield. In the war game these are command ed by Major General Macarthur, Gen eral Hasbrouck and Colonel Davis.
 On the navy side the special prepa- rations have consisted iE the mobili- zation of the fleet to take part in the game This fleet is under command of Rear Admiral Higginson. The first class battleship Kearsarge is the flagship Then there is the armored cruiser Brooklyn, flying the flag of Rear Admiral Coghlan, second in com rand: the first class battleships Ala bama and Massachusetts. the cruis- CTS Olympia and Cincinnati, the gun boats Gloucester. Mayfower, Scor- pion. Hist. Leyden, Nina. and Peoria, the converted cruisers Prairie, Pan ther and Supply, anu seven torpedo boats.
 The problem of the first week of the war game is. Are the coast defenses of Long Island Sound and the advance guard of the United States fleet cap able of preventing the landing of an invading army? In the second week the question will be, Are the coast defenses of Long Island Sound capa- ble of preventing the approach to New York harbor of a large hostile meet when the navy of the country happens 10 be away looking after some other fleet of the enemy.
 Today. according to schedule, the converted cruisers are to be detached