The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-23

tne ulTectlOn OF Albany.
The officers In charge ~ tho ~.
who entered the city ask,i mo- m,a.
tons and required no dir. Is |
hesitatingly each led his force to IN,
point that he wanted. Within ,a' |
hours New York was wholly in. w..
hands Of the soldiers. ~|
Nobody had thought Dr . bas,,. |
Now. all at once, when it uIs acc,,, |
plished, 1t amazed the poi. Of yar
York to learn how easy it A.,s Ia on. |
troll the city's whole LIE ..y,c ,si
commercial. |
A battalion of infantry oc,IpiDa ~.
Grand Central Terminal. Ano,bs.
battalion took the great Perasy,yap,,
Terminal with its under river tlnbs,
to New Jersey and Long Island n. |
tachments appeared at TA,lty.th,5
street and Forty-second street farr
over the Hudson River, ami by tb,.
n seizure controlled all r,.rr,,L
connections with the Wcst from ~,
town. The occupation Of ha.s , lYzs-
other Hudson River railroad f4rr.
downtown and of the Hudson Tormir, |
tube system completed the on,.r. cu,
troll of all the city's railroad 'rlfnc |
every direction.
Equally simple was the control -
its communications. Men appeared q |
the two great telegraph buildings Az,
at the telephone building. Within ~.
hour they had every trunk Inc
wires in their hands and could s,r..
the city dumb at will.
Thus less than three thousand me.
had their fingers on the biz town
spinal nerves and could p~aralyze |
with a slight pressure.
1t was still easier TO control n.
city from a military point of view
The citizens who had expected 70 s..
their streets commanded hy canno.
on limbers did not at first comprehens
why there were hardly any -; the,-
to be seen. while machine gun de,a.s.
ments scattered and disappeared A.
soon as they got well into the tow,
Only gradually did the citizens d,.
cover that their big. sprawl.ng M.
tropolis was being held subject by
very simple utilization Of the cy.
characteristic feature.
This feature was the skysorlp,r =
the eye Of the soldier these hs
buildings were nothing So much a, ~.
vitlng and magnificent emin,uo,s q,
controlling the street valleys and the,
population below.
Four men with a machine gun AID
abundance of ammunition in pne (.
these. stone and steel submits yoIi
control more area than hall q doe.
heavy field gun batteries posted in re
streets could command.
These sentinel watchers We're a;
aloof and as sure as fate. They col4
neither he rushed by a mo, NJ
sniped from conCealment. At a wori
from the telephone in thor eyr-.
they could start death dancine anon.
the pigmy hordes far under them.
From the top Of the Wpu.vl!..
Building two of the little guns pointed
down into Broadway. Turned south.
ward they could sweep the town a;
far as the Battery. Eastwa "a they
could rain their steel jaCketrl 'I.le;
into the river front streets ana oy5'
the two lower suspension bridges that
cross the East River. Northwari they
had Broadway as far up as GAIA
street under their fire.
They were supplement- 'y d g.
on top Of the great Municipa. NU.l~.
1t had a good part of the yr.Nl'. .'.-'
ment house district Of tn" !pw'r El'
Side under its zone If tir,. npta' he
doubtful sections of cherry >'rw az!
other areas known g. m. police
on the tall towers { DO" -.,He''
sion bridges themselvcs W." 'sF
detaChments with a gun each. Iar
churches were not forgotten T. ,-
soldiers. The graceful st",ule 't Grace
Church. standing at an acute iat-
of Broadway so that i can %" 'er'
from far down town. had '.'" .'.'''
mems eyes so long thai 'tN .t'
ceased almost t. note its -y'' ."'N'f
Now they looked at i v.'H d NJ"
and acute perception, for us sleeps
held a gun hat pointed down h'''..
way. whose southern zone %. ''" "'-'
just about reach To wher, "'''
ern zone of fire from thu W Nf
Building would end.
Trinity too had a gun b" tower
pointing down Wall stree f''
Grace Church northward I".N
fourth street guns on -. '"'
Building could reach n ''"
street or any place whor"
crowds might conceiyahly :..N 'h'
eminence controlled both VI 1871
Union squares.
The tower of Madison > "'
den heal by also was arm.o .'m
men could watch and re- '"