Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1911 — BLOWING UP IMAGINARY ALIEN FLEET [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BLOWING UP IMAGINARY ALIEN FLEET

NEW YORK. —Three towering columns of water leaped four hundred feet into the air In the Narrows between Statqn Island and Brooklyn when United States engineers fired three mines, each containing 100 pounds of guncotton and 100 pounds of dynamite, in order to test the explosive effect of a new type of mine. Floating rafts representing a hostile fleet of batleshlpe were released so that they floated over the mines, which were then exploded by means of electric wires connecting the- mines with Fort Wadsworth. The experiment shows New York is safe froip, any war fleet and that vessels could not pass the Narrows.