Show OUR FIRST FIRS MANILA W an enterprise launched in the philip philippines pines by this this newspapers correspondent volunteer george smith 0 on n pluck unlimited faith and the prospect of money on payday pay day coers SET THE tyre TYPE ALL THE COPY WAS WRITTEN IN A ROUND SCHOOLBOY HAND AND AS THE typesetters understood NOT A WORD or OF ENGLISH THEY rOLL FOLLOWED OWED COPY BLINDLY AWFUL WORK READING PROOF wo proudly ro rr 0 rao arthur at ale i n 17 correspondent ide ral or 0 nn paper per anil at alio lillo imio nt at tang II 11 li vba M d does n eat honor faeo to race nico 1 d anil d filipinos doing lith n dul A nil 11 V holding the honor ot of iliin flap HOB in I 1 a lio III liaa ia nicil urno it to in p Duhl 1 lal I place igloo on ft a 1 I anut nys NOX antl i if a C at 1 n I aroln tp 1 P ihn 11 art t in t new c paper per 1 A l in in 1 ho I A ill I 1 hlll 1111 latee 1 alor rint rd shoat alio h tio anid llo cw a und nua th iho atu btu tub I 1 hirn bern pluck that carried carali d hill lilet th J a m ahl nih li even nit ail arn am elnan 1 beill r hao hano been fur for lien r baing I 1 manlia P I 1 J 11 I 1 13 15 ilow how I 1 hap 1 become the editor proprietor and publisher of the Ameri american tol sol darr the llo first amei Ameil lean can paper pub in manila Is a story that re I 1 1 fial TIO no in the telling male it interesting I 1 did not con cac the belleme until four days before the hi first publication mas on lie Sl barc Larts ts whelk wo we first got et into these quarters je had practical ly nothing to do ani and it natu at rUly di contented when idle I 1 net abt about for something to COSS iny mind it 11 occurred to ni fit that chit span 1 lith might bo be or oc r sufficient to lo follow cot copy y I 1 chit alks plainly written in tile the united states slata language anti and I 1 determined to try the experiment of getting out an all american that I 1 ey a spanish journal journ alEl ul Us ls 1 batol and found the alwo ot of pub lIcia tion iton to bo be cullo calle sall juan do de letran no 17 I 1 1 I next fit that colle calle 1 infant street and after slim ing ff tho the 0 to o a dozen or more natives m lio ito could not read I 1 at it layt last found buind ta tax IMI d attlio lie directed mo me to an office lust just I 1 iDl tle llie availed city Y picking out tho the mim horn born I 1 supposed i to bo be the proprietor I 1 made him if under aana roy my des deserea irea to get a i tor 1 athe the rest ot of I 1 the he day 1 spent in tlona arcand ar cund to the iho various companies ar 2 ranging for or copy the next morning I 1 atit the rounda round aa agala and obtained a a rolli calon of 0 manu manuscript serl pt britten on oil both sides of 0 the hie raper paper in many ln ill all and on pa paper r of every line hue anti p weight im imaginable g na I 1 at that time our P sacks As amount iero re not burdened v natlia tit it 11 I 1 rileous amount of oc writing paper 4 at the iho printing onico I 1 w m as aa conducted t brough a dingy passageway between gna on with 1 ill the work until I 1 had paid I 1 tile them at least 10 lit in gold where could I 1 pet get til lh money molloy I 1 decided that my only hope was it a partner and I 1 found him blan in the person of first 1 1 D brouchart Bru chart of oc company M thirteenth minnesota volunteers rail hul lie ho had no money at last lie ho bethought that 6 u of alrh he was a a nu niber would holl hold a arec erecting ting on tafu th following wo ive had the lh late date of tile tho n acot cot ing set BOI up tip some money had been sub for possible expends and it all atna to tile temporary treasurer tufit Bruc kail applied for relief he got tho the 10 but to rive give us time to repay it wo we changed the aho notice to read the wednesday following tile the ma one first selected I 1 dont believe that any of oc the members know to this day why the date of that meeting tit tin afis fg BO 0 suddenly change changed ij beut e tf bi 1 a ckarl and myself read proof and until 9 10 0 p an when N ben me e tame ame to tire the conr luion that it aas impossible undertaking to lo co correct spanish Sra 1 compositors english wf arc about to go et home lion it the cj caking of nf tile th old seth adamis adama improved improve greeted our ears cars and vo ile land gone to pa ess I 1 brought the first copy to lo tuai qu alterm lr l r that and in balto 0 of KM ila marll alc I 1 was enghu ihu horo hopi mi ini the fol loning coining it occurred to me that my any enterprise was wa hardly in keeping hh uncle sams regulations cerii lotions 1 took look my paper to the captain caplain ln told him ahat hat I 1 had done all and al asked per an I islon to dispose or the result lie ho was surmised surrI aed and dubious dub u s for a while N h ile and my any heart was lit in i my n y mouth but at list ho told laid me I 1 hai better 0 of I 1 tile the impels and let 01 ol the matter drop I 1 took foot IM 1000 papers in a caioni elto and after afler delivering dellver lne to tho the alhambra garden for sale eale I 1 started out to sell tile the myself in three hours I 1 found myself without a paper and ancl fj ns I 1 entered tile the tile the excited excited news vendor demanded 1000 more copies in a hurry lie got them and tile tha firs first at edition x nad as exhausted e every ery cory copy selling at 10 cents centa each monday morning I 1 paid my indebtedness s in full and ordered another edition or of copies I 1 then took several copies of the paper and sallied rallied forth to Coll consult bault with tit the Pou powers cria that be to gen otiss adjutant I 1 gave it a copy of the raper paper suitably inscribed on oil the upper cornea with a written request that I 1 be allowed to continue the publication li of tile paper on tile tho ground of its moral worth to the soldiers I 1 was waa jj W X 11 ILI d Us 11 1 1 1 1 r U I 1 pis to it IF I F K list as 11 6 life I 1 1 efel 1 11 66 aathur smith special correspondent of thia paper trial the leslie in the philippines he has written the story of how Us edited published the met american raper in tile philippines rusty presses and type cas cases to 0 o tile tha s III editorial sanctum cam turn where I 1 found ly of ft spaniards lards among them thein to bo senor la forit l the editor of 0 el panel anol ith bhoj abom I 1 was to do buli instead of the filipino foreman I 1 aco 4 I 1 seen been the day before I 1 again went ough a performance I 1 ing ine the additional task 1 of f trying to do ko him under und miland litand ahat abot ill tho price pric a I 1 1 been agreed upon the day before bc fore is B 1 I suppose c on ac count account of tile the great creat de ad alue of 0 american gold eold was doubled 1 A the 10 editor kallor but ill there to was nothing to z but ut to or of churbe courbe lie h wanted I 1 pt w t pash down dourn an binl I 1 I 1 think the most va a cult work I 1 lac reformed on the he arneri Sold ipar wag my in y attempt to explain 11 A t lit I 1 had bad no money I 1 was pertly a of 1 I y honnet arid that as ani payday pay day was a if at hand he need not dot tear fear for hla his 1 my bly for 2000 W copies id it amount to about till and I 1 had el one cent in my and lei iliin 0 o conling tot to mo me on p pay ay day ilow IFO r I 1 vaa mae willing to take tho the chances ue 1 I got them to on the copy I 1 it bight i 0 0 V 1 11 I text next day I 1 hustled tor for ads ada and rbt money I 1 received in revenue i in 1 l tho the ai yet unpublished paper was 4 for or an ad irom from a mr uray gray an olcan rl can merchant doing doine business in ili allf ile e I 1 never torkel liow biff that I 1 lar r looked with I 1 two w 0 r n nta is ot of this ahl lar ir I 1 T ma ni 10 first r st mabll i cagar alg ir nerve w me file to my any work thon then I 1 nailed vf d I 1 got nil an interpreter rt arb write ilia 1110 f itt tot 01 ads adb in spanish and with nag aa quill but I 1 found hi 0 prices eo would mould hadt to be low and c ua 4 not bring brine nio me if fly here near tile thu it 0 c of t publication tit the c spunch I 1 ates r i blatta 11 per for a 11 dally in non ten one inch of two colu columns narim aid I 1 to CIL it go I 1 the he bunc nunc no so one w would on 11 mal it moll money in advance but it was until Sa ovo eveylne even ning lne 1 tho the day aay I 1 had bad decided on oil for pill aa rn ill that I 1 felt tile need of any the tha 1111 1 ai that tina aji decidedly urgent my x ah ji ly d to 0 told that I 1 could continue the llon float until otherwise advised so far as headquarters vero concerned aly next was waa to the colonel ot of my any rel re l in ant rit alao ulao ho looked favorably upon tho the ar herne mo and endorsed indorsed Indor sed my request to tile captain of my own on company under this aran arrangement gement I 1 edited the paper for se bean on we weeks 1 lay by tile tho end of 0 gullich it mas vaa on a fairly smooth basis of operation at al the end of 0 this time I 1 was waa ordered back to regular duty dutia partly on account of official changes change and partly through tile the actual need the company had for every available member because of ua its vencial poor health and tho lie na nnie c alty nalty for a dully daily callol of the th streets of this district it was not until the very end of my any manago management ment and ot of tile the raper that I 1 was able to procure from any one outside of the ali fill plate Mitra and a few regimental notes that generally Ken orally had to be rewritten lan in n it bold schoolboy hand before tho the would tackle the tion work one monday I 1 was to quarters qu artera through it is rida unde stand ing and when I 1 gorl eoj to tit lh office tuesday I 1 found the fiant ln ht edition or n awo 2000 e haueter raid tha type thrown out cast by Thura lav ilav I 1 had wita arre more lit anted at a c rout 0 tat or of it was an all r lesson n on 1 the of spaniards Siai ilard and P I 1 I 1 land hud one man inin for abile wiio who ant arnit I 1 wally forced upon no or on the if I 1 let there opy copy for alth 1 ii I claimed literal merit it II kept me hustling to ac that aliat lie ile did nit take c of my any al ab faanee tt to full out an extra with a fole fo le telegram from the lh parts conference as it t foil fr for his production at lost last I 1 pot got him to under understand that lip hr was vai tile hie ralo imona pr anti and ill t I 1 want a on the sheet I 1 printed 1 ni ted cobo each week after tire f farat aril 1 it evern I 1 num bumbera era are now entirely and will mill never IQ b bp duplicated I 1 in MUO of tho tart fact that the they are milli 81 in donno 3 mand tod I 1 prefer to havo have thorn thom remlin a rare relic than make them a cheap sou verilar when I 1 vaa mas back to luly duty I 1 sold tin tile paper outright to isaac rusA russell ell a private 17 in tho the utah uinta battery anini vho Is tit nt present owner and manager mani fior together with 11 larry irry prank non mont a private in the th tennessee i api cpi men t the paper today la Is on tin till excellent cocelli nt footing and la Is pay ins decidedly well weil financially I 1 predict for it always the place it now holds ng as the most MOA paper lit in maralla manila if anyone wants to know I 1 sold th iho raper paper my answer is id that I 1 am no not t in love fth fill abarilla alarilla to causo me to take pait in future enterprises here I 1 am at present editing ond find putting into intelligible L fig libb book on oak the iho philippine islands lands Js written by an old doctor lately connected with the sort ity of manila a n 1 IE L 1 intend to publish it ft in III file united ilia 1 t e d states S t ates when I 1 return I 1 have also alao obtained it a few ideas idea i for stormiest st oriest which will b be published in nil ilia baart ri a magalde mag alue ono or of tile hie of my visit to manlia that 1 I prize mot la Is an open face gun stoel datoli of on tho the IACO favo 13 15 photo ached lh tile hiitt of a 9 very v ry pretty junr aull lady 14 a and a d on the back la is cn can to ceorge arthur art hur health by the spanish Span lali men p of manila in ila tile the american soldier september 10 it was subscribed for fly by tile the representative spanish merchante mer chanto and presented by cart capt arturo oneill ii IM af norte and Viz condo ile de oneill of 0 tho the army of 0 latter gentleman II 11 all it Is said lie he was tile the last man alian in tile tho lit lie ile la Is of irish try but a patriotic spaniard lie he bai been it a great traveler land and while in new mew york city ity was introduced to and became quite intimately inU acquainted walh fill gen arthur bla macarthur cArthur nho ho commanded tho the second division of the iho first brigade during the advance on INI man anlin in gen Bla cArthur found the captain lit in tile the trenches and after SnIt shaking King hands remarked lie ii eland landi afons n aro are everywhere and here I 1 find the last spaniard in the trenches Is on an irishman G GEORGE SMITH company C thirteenth Ilin minnesota volunteers un |