New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-21
1000 Expected to Watch
Piers and Arms Plants
Here
Survey of Military
Points Completed
Department of East May
Call on Civilians to
Aid Army

Every dock, pier, factory and ware
house in greater New York utilized in
the transportation, storage or manu-
facture Of war munitions was listed and
described in reports sent yesterday to
Thomas Watt Gregory, United States
Attorney General, by Thomas d. Nc
Carthy, United States marshal for this
district. and Thomas NJ. Power, United
States marshal for Brooklyn and Long
Island.
When these reports have been passed
upon by the Attorney General they will
he turned over to the War Department
with the request that military protec-
ton be given the plants and piers des-
ignated in order TO prevent further
alien enemy depredations. The war
DEPARTMENT thereupon will instruct the
local military authorities to afford such
protection, it is understood.
In anticipation of such an order
Major General Eli d. Hoyle, command
ing the Department of the East, has, in
cooperation with the local United States
civil authorities, made a survey OF the
places in which munitions are made or
handled. and plans for the distribution
Of troops along the waterfronts Of Man
lattan, Brooklyn, New Jersey and
Staten Island are in process of forma-
ton.
Big Job for Troops
The problem of protecting adeqr -tely
the vast stores of munitions S" -6tered
throughout the territory comprised in
the Eastern Department is described
nv military men as a colossal one. While
New York is conceded to be the centre
Of opportunity for the ill-disposed
enemy alien, it is pointed out at Gov
ernor's Island that the jurisdiction OF
the Eastern Department extends from
New York to New Jersey, Pennsyi-
yania. Delaware. the District of &C.
lumbia. Maryland and Virginia, and
contains such inhammable spots as
Wilmington. Norfolk and Newport
News. The minimum number Of troops
required TO police this territory proper
" has not been estimated, but 1t is
declared TO be far more than the de-
partment has at it's disposal.
The smallest number OF soldiers re-
ouired TO guard munitions in New York
and surroundings was estimated yes
terday by an army officer who has stud
led the problem to be four thousand.
This is the number which, it is ex-
pected. woill be detailed TO the WORK.
Such a force, it is thought, will be suf-
feient 10 form a nucleus and give a
military tone to a vastly larger army Of
civilian guards which will be recruited
from the ranks of watchmen who ere
now employed privately from the po-
lice force and from various state guard
organizations.
BiIleted in Lofts
The soldiers will be billeted in loft
buildings, vacant stores or other avail
able quarters Of suffrient size near tho
waterfronts. The plan of quartering
the men in tents erected on the docks
or piers was abandoned because Of tho
difficulty Of providing the mess under
these conditions. The government al
lowance Of 70 cents a day per man,
officers said, would prove insufficient II
the men we're required to eat IN res
taurants.
Instructions relative TO the manner
in which enemy aliens are to be regis
tered under the terms Of the recent
Presidential proclamation had not been
received yesterday by Marshal Nc
Csrthy. He said he understood they
would reach him to-day.