Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-02
NEW YORK GUARDED
AGAINST OUTBREAK
IN CASE WAR COMES
Detachment of Marines on
Duty Constantly at Plant of
German Wireless Company
at SayviIIe
(Bx ROBERT mouNrsrER.)

NEW YORK, April 2s.-New York,
the money-heart of the world, is get
ting ready for war!
Not the kind of war that is making
ruins of cities in Belgium and France,
but warfare that would be unique in
history if the proper safeguards were
not taken-a possible guerrilla warfare
waged in the worlds largest city by a
portion of its population using machine
guns, bombs and dynamite in an at
tempt to destroy not only private prop
erty and public utilities but the lives
of citizens and soldiers.
Not since the Spanish-American war
mas New York city been so carefully
guarded.
Armed patrols and police are guard
ing day and night Croton lake and the
Catskill aqueduct, which supply $780,
900 people with water!
Extra forces of detectives are on
duty in Wall street.
Power plants, subways and railroad
terminals are being guarded!
Extra precautions to guard the Ger
man liners held in this city since the
beginning of the war have been taken
upon orders from Washington!
MARINES GUARD WIRELESS.
Two detachments of fully equipped
marines are stationed at the trans-Af-
lantic wireless stations at nearby Say
vile and Tuckerton- which. in case of
war with Germany, would be seized i'm
mediately and operated by the United
States government. Guards where tele-
graph and telephone cables are exposed
have been doubled, and the trans-At-
lantic cable companies are taking no
chances.
AL munitions plants in Greater New
York and vicinity are under a far
stricter guard than at any other time
during the war!
All persons having business on the
docks where ships of the allies and neu-
trail nations are loading or unloading
are being examined!
Brooklyn navy yard has been closed
to all visitors.
United States torpedo boats in the
waters near New York have been show
ing unusual activity. Motorboat own
ers whose craft would be available for
harbor patrol have been asked to fur
nish certain information concerning
their boats to headquarters on Cover
nors island.
National guardsmen have been re-
minded of their duties in case of war
and notified to be prepared for service
upon four or five hours notice.
The New York police have received
secret orders. Commissioner of Police
Woods, when asked about the state of
preparedness of tine police force said:
The police have long been prepared
for emergencies. The harbor patrol
boats have been equipped with rapid
fire guns, and their crews are ready to
deal with any attempt to destroy water
front property or shipping.
Detectives have charted the location
of stores of small arms and ammuni-
ton.
At the Brooklyn navy yard there has
been one arrest for taking pictures
without permission" which, in Ger
many, would be called spying.
A man taking photographs of the
battleship New York, which in in dry
dock, was seized and mis- camera and
plates confiscated.
The New York. the Wyoming, the
Texas, the Arkansas, the new Arizona
and five destroyers. the Ericsson, the
Cummings, the McDougall, the Cassin
and the Wadsworth, are in the Brook
lyn yards.
In noting preparations in this city
and in other parts of the country, Col.
w. c. Church, editor of the Army and
Naval Journal, said:
There may be riots, but they will
not last long if the administration
knows it business. No sovereign in the
world possesses such despOtic powers in
case of war as the president of the Unit
ed State. He can order wholesale ar
rests depriving the arrested of habeas
corpus proceedings"
In case of trouble, the military man
upon whose shoulders will devolve the
first and earliest task Of the acute
situation will not be one of the officers
of Uncle Sans regular army. but an
alert young Gotnamite, who by dint Of
long, earnest service, happens to be
major general, commanding the army of
New York state
He is John F. Organ, one of the
countrys greatest champions of the ma
tional guard.