The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-25
The stage which the game is played.
Every Feature of Naval and MILITARY
Strategy Worked Out Upon a Green
Board That Shows in Typographical
Detail Some Fortified Harbor

Fort Monroe. 1t is perfectly sim.
pie. Suppose an enemy suddenly
landed 10000 troops on the New 1er.
sey coast n little south If Sinly
Hook. What could We dn' How
could we stop them from takn- For,
Hancock? And then from tahIu- and
certifying the Navesink lIs.andsa
And then from crossing over uy d. ..h,
to Staten Island and comm .l be.
hind Fort Wadsworth and taking
that? And then from takua Fort
Hamilton across the NarruWs. N.n
the guns of Fort Wadswurt.. w..r1
dominates its sister fort, hr,,c IN
high ground. and Is the more !. N,rfI
of the two? There is nothing 2, pre.
vent all this, we could not prevent H."
But our fleet? What would 1lr
fleet he doing all this time
The fleet cannot be evcrywH,r. 90,
once. on our immense coast LOO. We
have two or three dozen fortified bar.
bors. and hundreds that are u.'.r,..
fed. How is our fleet to know G. vaa,
point an enemy's fleet would convoy
transports packed with troops tur
sudden attack such as We are CONSIDER.
ing-l mean a land attack .' 'g.e.
that would take one Of our coast i,.
fences from the rear and find f help.
less?"
If such a thing happened 'o tie
coast defences of New York ttru-
then-what about New York ,.'.
1T would be bad piece uf .gs,-
ness for New York city w. re
harbor defences captured. an .a.mys
fleet could enter the upper bay. ur
even if our fleet engaged them .It-
side. a single one of their blN.'-a.ps
in the upper bay could parily1" NV
Yurk city. Even an old typ" OF 1y''..-
ship like our oregon could for. ,as
city to pay a heavy ransom
If New York city refused '.. j..
mands of such a hostile ha'-D-a.p,
she would simply steam up t." y ra
River and wreck the huildinst ""
side of Manhattan. and th'u
up the East River and VIZ '.s
buildings on the other side.
she could do n billion Il ,.'Dr. 50 .H
of damage in half an hour. a .-,e
one of her half ton pruj"rt,. "a
smash through half a dn2.. -t"-
scrapers as if they We're paper N,.
pounds of lyddite o. nitru-'...r.
guncottOn in the heart Il g.. ...
sylvania Railway station. for .,H 4"
The city gas mains woUH 20
apart, the electric wires s0r ..r-
Quilted, and within an hour M... 't'
Island would bc blazing .u 1'a
places. That is what an au'f '"i
ship like the Oregon could IL N.Y
York city"
And what is the ansN l-
quired What must hc dome On 'r'-
vent such a catastrophe?
We must have lar-r
army" was the reply.
How much larger"
Considering our vast dominic" N'
should have nj leas' l50,ooN u.. .r
regular army service. in .l'.' -
our coast artillery. And Nn nd
have a system of first am -
serves. so that in time OFF , 80
could draw upon n large .tE I'-
yiously we'll trained soldivrS
How about our militia. / .-..4,
At this, one of the otli.,, "'.' y
his library, and, opening '".'
the following passage firm r'.F
written by George WaSh.u- ~ .. ..''
gress in l1,6:
ITO place any dependen. "
tia is assurcdly resting uI .s't
staff. Men Just dragged 81 8 ''-'
der scenes of domestic .t,
toned to the din of arms t.'
acquainted with every k.r. "-'
tary skill (Which is follow. Ih'
of confidence in themsr,V'. ..