Forts on Rails to Travel Along Our Defenseless Coasts 



A New York inventor, Lawrence Luellen, proposes the mounting of heavy guns on rails 

 to be run between concrete emplacementi at suitable points. General Crozier, the toremost 

 ordnance expert of the United States Army, has thought well enough of the proposal to 

 sketch mountings for the guns. The guns can be quickly mobilized and used wherever an 

 attack is threatened or actually begun. Any desired number of guns can be concentratea 

 at a single spot— something which is not possible with permanent fortihcations 



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