| Show III I I THE BRAVE WAR CORRESPONDENT i i His Life Is Frequently One of Hardship I I Constantly Subjected to Perils and Seldom i I 1 I Sel-dom Afforded the Opportunity to Do His Best Work 1 I THE REAL VERSUS THE IDEAL I I war correspondent Is I A modern I Till lion He Is I AS neeesesry as I gunpowder fur an up to date campaign 11 cam-paign and a war without him would Is stem like an opera without efforts Time Wool when the warrior himself I was hi own correspondent When I Xen l options who was A reporter almost clev er enough 10 610 On n Now York mom tin paper led the llreek tones against I Cyril he waa the only forvlgn corn spiendent At the theater of action and 11 bile when hla I ten thousand Ureiks fell Ig numlnlously back from Tigris lo Ihe f Disc k sea Xenophun knew just how In I i Institute n nt and prater censeershlp nn nil undesirable Poems Ills Analwela Is I after all nothing mur nor Sells I than A KWHI war copy nnd If there hail been un Athenian Meernlng Herald hut day and a cable uiruss the Meelllerranean Ii X eni > phun would hate 1 tiern Ihe Archibald 1 1 Archi-bald Furleea eef Alhons t one It waa tile aame wllh Cesar who I was somewhat age Hlete Crane when It I I runie lu recounting the Incidents and I adventures of nn extended CAmialgli among hla I barbarian Until and JIM 1 Oh Hut the primitive pen pusher who 3 I was list general as well toot somewhat I if an advantage over the modern war ceirreiicandMil He had mi Piano 1 editor Mho ut his I own a iet will might car Insly 1 assign 1 him from one end 1 of ratio earth to the oilier lie hud 1 no censor 1 ttwoXrr to datable Ho illel not have to hurry It wet and hungry lend rueilltss from one mine of urn rl lo another knowing I full well that If his enjoy WAS nut singIng I sing-Ing homeward over the wire by the I time the great hungry presses 1 Pirelli ready tu neU the last I form of that i one particular mm nlng Paper which he 11 prraentea there weculd be I sundry wleked mail unspeakable things aid In I that one particular lellteirlnl ollice and 1 the shame ut the nemped would I cling tu his name for all Him The great unthinking hurr > lng nor n-or humanity when they casualty unfold t tear morning Papers and 1 absorb their lie u and their coffee at the same time t teeMum realism tile amount of toll and 1 thought and risk and worry that ban been none Ihneugh I l fnr that tiros was mode ri > ady 1 to Ue dliluel up to them In I sei i statable suit su nenvenlent n form That Is I none of their business They hear Occasionally of un KiUarl Marshall I I being shut ut the front must dlclallng his dlapatthes nhlle > he lien u lie-n the Held with his Own bluud staining I the limited uf film Mk a1 they carelessly rcinl nI Ihe linprlsoi ment ur a HCUM for a few nallulim In A reeking old HpAiilah pn son they I ha 01 it rooluloi11s11rb reirl ii I rouncl robin frurr I I file orrosel dents In Urn Ihlllpplne Islatili call are In illned to regard eiuipe nlilwtefs I as 0110h1 or a nubasta cIL bond I r beardless youth endowed lih nIl oil 11 normal total of Interrogation n1 I enoUBh lomell and oinuance 1 u III I place nn Otis and votiruiv a War department de-partment All of which IMPS In allow that the war correspondent la by no means tin dentund and thai the part he playa In I a modern campaign la I little thought of by the nailing public lie duea not lead a life of factory and spend him time chatting over the plan of campaign with brigadier general at the officer agen calmly watching a battle through a pair ir field glaaaea with a alrhon of wits at his allow aid Ihn with a gold plied fountain pen Indite mot harrow fair details of the last engagemenl with he enemas which when written are rl I I I I 4 141 01 y 1 1 I I I I I 141 0 11 4f J 1 1 I I I si fssiog 0 KNIC 4 1 l I + v 0 J i I X 111 I I 4 N rol V r 11r I so V 1io 441 11 U I a J I w Z Vl s I Y so k a X 1 I 4 21 I i I Oar I 11 4 I I I 5 P INA Wr 1 4 1 I 2 I I N IZ sol f lis r 1 l f f 11 L Ki r 11 J O I k I is f i I J ffv rd 1 I I 1 i I ok I lk D I Vlk 7 i 1 V k IfV V sis 0 ss Is 1 A I I 4 r i I I I i i I I I I 0 0 i v I Z 11 I 11 I I i k 0 I is urd tg 11 1 W of I 1 of Fi k > i V I a i I 1 N 1 I ii tiJ p 50 J i fire of I r N I r 1 4111 g I Z9 1 6 2 P I i t N 11 L fell 17 it I 11 l IL r It 4 i I 11 I 111 a I A I I I I i ItIv 1 1 to d A go t I I Ar Woo I le 14 I 1 f t k I Vllo gz 10 j 1 U 0 fir If V I i I jf V AAJssf t l F161 1 b t 4 a N V 71 I 11 jfj Iwlle ok it i g P i I Z Zr 11V I f I as I V1 A 4 IN a 4 jgt1t2 og ss f I IV 1 f i 7 > C 1 is roN 7 j JC4 4 N I 1 v I 47A see I 11VZN ff IstAPS11osill IIAIIIIIUL coplorsloostoril I W7 0 4 To TOM END s I 4 1 I J 0r yq I I 0 isito T 0 carried oft by an aid to the nearest telegraph tel-egraph slulliin tu In 1 transmitted home The reputation of lite meidrrn war rurreepmidcnl Is I not built up In that 01 Ilia work he knows often takes film where officer or angel fe are to read and lo aicompllsh the task thai Is I cut out fur him I he must have A ion Utulleii of Iron nerves or steel 1 the Judgment ur A Molomon the digestion Ion eeatrlch and the oenbulry or a Dr Johnson Hut he ties the sallatai I lion nf knuwlng I at the same time that I he la I a hllorlen eten though u thirl II Serve historian mail 1 that he can make list unmake generals 1 and kwii secrela Jim of war up 1 night Halting mocrolas I latest opinion un Seasonal Illanks uccu Italian of HUiand so and gel rtrn wllh Igglall lieutenants Inuklng for promo lion And when It Is I all err he Iou he further sHllfnctlon of know Ing that br may Museum out Intel a full Hedged platfoitn lecturer and IrRi4 about tha country with a manager and n etereop IUII lantern showing Jut how den oral I Illank ahoulil hate dune thejiusl ness with a Il lure of hlmseilf dodging bullets nn the tiring line Th rom 01 sending newspaper roproolentuthes to Die theater of war listen Ink not iiulle CO Years ago fien the first curre speindent or the Iondon Times waa sent lo report tha Crimean uunpalgn 1 Previous lo title it nn all Inlelllgeme rrum the seen et AMIOn wa c urcd In a desultory manner man-ner from official reports often Soon I de luyeel or by niraits from prlate letters from Move nlllcers whu were finally engaged In the struggle It was naturally natu-rally nlwnya some lime before silver left I IV found their Way mass erlnl and whn the bebileU Inlelllgeno wa at lust I niadii pulellc II was often many dn > o and sometimes even weeks after the engagement had actually taken place Another objection 10 Hits method meth-od was the fact that the olllcer la usually usu-ally tie latest Incompetent and unaalle fiulory obacrtrr Inlng too busy with the cleats tit tin day 1 tu make COPIOUS notes ur their character Th London 11nmos 111 in Ito u early 1 00 11101 hall I isent it ralinvessintatioo tu Alton during she Nallohminks Ill fission in I Iruinum tit roolaift on Done poilils program In I thass Posts 1 Taste eintpcindent WAS not ul the lor mi eer course so could nut IM looked IIIHJII u u war torreip indent In the modern sons of the phraie Ma the nl fuel ill e v111 min I o nom Ionl IOU I 10 II 1 that rep Is 10111 r it I ties vo no too ra II Vrl a if oror This rrl I sit 11 it I stword II I Itiuierll vnr ntunll > knighted I far him Ji cirnnlltK neik Vilille his movement move-ment nlKiut the Knglln i at ip were not fseolf Iin the least restrlcteel low lots In hi to unofficial un-official Handing he had to endure many I inreinvenlenoea and discomforts The military authorities did first al that time recognise the position of the prraa that r prenlallve In any nay so that I nhllc he had perfect freedom of action und rould send w hat dispatches he cnue to about the Interference of A closer he found that It 1 wna Impossible la secure se-cure either ration for himself or for ME far life ho from the committed flat department of the army A ham or a turkey ha found roil him about lit and a pair of boots IM The rough service I through which he hail lo pass soon reduced his clothes lu rags and nusaell himself recounts very amusingly amus-ingly the figure ha cut In a lommlsoa rlAI offlcera CAP with a broad gold band a riflemans patrol Jacket and anomalies a pair of heavy Hluchr boots with huge hraaa spurs and a riddle headed ewe necked old none Hut the man who had to put up with all those Inconveniences save the reading public of Mainland the Bret taala of adequate i rtIlhlft = reportorial trusts In the field and She result was the establishment of The toor correspondent as an almost neces to still 11 In some way will secure full and satisfactory reeorta from Ihe Held In view of the situation of affairs 1 at present pres-ent In lice Ihlllpplnes It 1 U Interesting to note Just what attitude wa observed by umclals during our civil war FArly In I the first amounts of the Thir tyseventh congress whlih met In tha winter of IHI J A resolution dealing will the subjet if war correspondents I And u censorship upon such Individual was Adopted by the house of repre I I eentalUes TIM resolution was as follows fol-lows llrailnel That lh JeKllrtrr lowitsmill > e U I r > totaled In hospital II o uleglcsale eMHMnhlp of iW pm Ku lien MMUael Is toil city jolosele 1 lagtuiD Asks ii s > br i sollsood smswiijr issoil ty voloals II I sew coslnlleeli i te fwt > If lucti r exitelp I tu sol basis Paid to Poland otwkeuev asllUc1 rtltletai i 001 l ehemmlss thus III pro = = leavel > sd UmUbto ebJeM tell tells lo wllbkolel train Ihe inettly lsfe I > IAMUn U fnlltlM let the reasonless let lho ilnjr To inable the commlttr Ihe more ef fecllviily lo prosecute 1 Its lnestla lions the house I early 1 In INS clothe I that ludy with Iluo power to send for persona and Patient 1 for the sake of making Investigations Two works later the committee reported that a censorship did eiilsl that It had Ion I-on the funtrul first of the treseuiy I department then ut Iho I war depart t i t I gains then still later of the star eU pertinent and I yet one more assume I by tile sectary of war The commit 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tell I h lint file nn loser In which Ihe dlfferrnt I eetmninn I ng o1fleers of the 111 In trealI st respondents In their camp Is I tnt resting In view 01 the circumstance will h call ed I forth this first Juurnalltlc round roMn In this connection It will alan ha recalled how General liurnflde sentenced sen-tenced Hwlnton to be shot tnt closed up the office of the Mafioso Times This general AA wall aa Hhcrman Hooker Thousands Wholly Htirlburt and mount axeroli I an arbitrary and very severe I 0 til I I f I 11 or 10 1 t 4 j I I II I I I f 11 If It 1 I I 4 is 1 1 I I J t I T F p I IM 1 4 t 1 i IR op w e q V Is if I I R vhr19 P W 11 or 14 V I 1 I a r I I IN fil s I I Ml I Rim 7 I I 71 5 Ak s w I I Sss III v lao i F1 Fl = N I sspffvai Is A JW I JiMetf r I V 17 i f r N g4 I 01 I 414 f f41 f f I 3F 11 rI soer v lr JA 111w IIII 11 L I I 0 J I 0 Ill 11 Sa e v 11119 1 13M R I l FN I I I 1 W J If1Q1f1o Z di I lamrZitim 1 f M 01 If1Q1f1oA r 1 Is I I v I A I 241sg so I A 1i W 1 1115 il 1 1144 M AW I 3 r ZLZ I tU i V ft 11 6 Iuj Me I 7 4 Ir4oval are I 11 I I I ivnlr A I I H I V 1k to y isIN IEMc I I It 11 I w It v B > rT7 P ul = 3 t 9 o I il IN tli to I Ito I 6 I B I 11i1 AN I 5 Iso 7 I I-so f f I M N IZ qA 1 t s p1l K fl is or I 211 11 4 11 ils m I I 1 V I i 3 I A 1 ro I j P I li t II so r 71 IL 1 e I rp I 11 1i 1 1 11 r 16 M J I I 111r F 11 I 19 W7 I a 1 so isivArl CORR V y 7 I I is toomfortmoolIL AIMIll 11 I W1 G 11 IN y V If 011 A I T U I As I 7 it 13 t if 1111 V11 WV = I U4fira 11 doM = 1 10 44 Ill I It N I 10 Eglif t 1 Ri 0 V 1 ot 1 r I I Y 0I ZI 1 is I tFT y7 1 1 tj 1I I 10 I 1 1 0 fi8 1 r 0 7f > a 0 P4p 11 P a I Aw r WWq I 11 ff 11 I T I Is i 11Z 1ZS 1 41K I Z if bl 1 ss 4 111 A i I J SI f Z kss a 77Lsz 4A is ZZK I I I 1 z I fir i tzc 5 1 ty t P AX lip h7W rl 4 1 X t 1 in 4AJ TF X I Pa7 11 I I I is f 5 I 10M P lir I qr M7 M Pit IF Ol A I 11 = 1o I i W 1 I Z I Ill I I I rr I rll I W I I A 11 r Al I N 16 011 1i ie j M 1 I I I x I 4 I r Mro CP I P 111 1i r f 4 i E 1 J eI 4 iii I e 7 r J V I r lo T Tit i n ItONT 0 I I a 4 my T 5 1141 JUAN I If I Is I J L is Is 4 pi 7X 4 1 1 I a 1 4 7 I I 1 I I 11 Evoitutis nut 1 AT iCA M SCENES IH THE IIFE OF A WAR CORRESPONDENT aary adjunct lo I nil military camps He la I now H lined member or an rinya staff taking rank aa an officer In I regard re-gard tu drawing food for himself and hla horae He finds U 1 necessary 100110 l the command of nil superior efficient while at the front he Is I under military taw and 1 eer > lhlng he iwna 1 for film hunt Poster Is I subject to the moat rigid ceMorship The loiulon Times lllutrlou corre apnndint afterward served through the Indian mutiny and when our own civil mar broke out was Pont to this country to witness the engagement here Sale de rlptloll of the ltII l of Hull nun gained for him the Kbrluuet of Hull llun lluiaell and 1 rmulled In hl < recall during Ihe following I Year to IIndo Hut the work of this 1414rdn Pen virtual who might well called the father of the war correspondent did not end here In IWW he followed law llrlun army Into Stalingrad lId Base lu Kngllh niters the story of this Irl aim i and triumph of the 1rnncolTue staff 1 war or Sofil The moat famous Kngllah war rorreaiwndent following after ItUMell wu probably Archibald Porhra who saw aertlcenea loyal dra soon mail first made 1 file rvpulutlon aa a or writer by hi vlgoroua deairlptlona of tin Turkish war In 1177 Then cornea the era of the American correspondent when J A Macdahan aa u repreaelllatlve of the New York Herald expoaed 1 the horrible alroolllea of Ihe wait Seawalls In Hulgarla during dur-ing the troublea of U T6 It tea really this energetic young Xmerhana did llclwa which Summit the tide of public opinion solutions any previously Intended Intend-ed oppoalllon to lluulan Intervention I gui4 pool ti Mll I I 11 Intln I ofIn Inals Im no I 01 11 lour on uhs t nl ul I frnrn I > stolen 10 rsol 0 h Istsf I campaign it 1 I I 1f I i Moratoria nnmrna is I f 3lttmnI I Ih < 11 1 I th mn We kllhI 101 I II I h hlod WAR117tlysillund I of0 nn other I irevremnot I llsV 110 other Cal linn i ami dbi It it lunt i iled now 1M ben citli lh cut thnt Societe grown list the Hudicn I n Plus II has been Ih Anefllo me writer who ling distinstulphell 1 hlmxlf In the HeM Ihirlng our civil war many reputation were made and h1 a r n IIv i were teal In the proIrlus ilion lion of news gathering At the lexti i nlng of hostilities the New Ynrk Her aid which has always tried iMry f ohl dh I fort i lo lead In the natlr of military States determined to also m I on the soorll I with Its report from the from felt a daimn apftml we at ono arm out and ere on duty there when the Bret gun na first al ffttmter A correaponoVnt ua attached 10 each naval squadron and to each army corps the land men lielni well Ofnlahed with wagons harvest Paris Mia tents and all neceeaarlea of life Although the general of both armlet ware not at 111 In favor of the presence of theae rorfepondenl In their cAmpa they In game war suttee ed In securing secur-ing I the newa and Indeed ao eiplkilt and full were many of their report that a number of clerk In the war onSce at Melanoma were arrested on awpielnn of Purification private and bill elal Information to the newspaper men It 1 waa aeen that when A war oceun In a republic It might be set I down AA a postulate that law People are entlllail censorship over every COMilpendonts 1110 Uhea going out from hradiuar refs Home uf them even prohibited Said circulation of newspapers contain Inc I lllclms of any inllllor opemtlon 11 1 r H Cad waiter who font long line was he only correspondent present at IIanl I headiuarters tells how leneral lIolborl anti Colonels True and Mot liven suppresseil the Chlmgo Times In their uwu particular districts still how ilmnl counlermandeil three orders when they were brought to his attention atten-tion sending a dlpati 1 least from loOk TroMdence to ileinphls for this special purpose Hooker had one ron correspondent cor-respondent Ueorge Wilkes tu whom he was willing enough to grant all privileges priv-ileges but every other newspaper man ln his tamp found life made miserable miser-able by this stern olncer who had n rooted hatred for all pencil puhers Mistral Grant throughout the war took high ground regarding the forwarding for-warding of news call all correspondents were permitted to say what they attend I ed regarding operations under way but t were denied the luxury of Indulging In predictions affecting the future lit allowed I al-lowed all newiapers to circulate In I hilt camp and never descended to the details de-tails of u results nor allowed any member uf his start tu dg the same It has been estimated that the oar cost Ihe New lurk llvruM HOD COO for Its news sertlce Thee llguna will I tony < ton-y some Idea of the extent to which lion loading American Journal followed the campaign During Ihe HUvanoAmerltan war the gathering of flows was attended by unusual dlllloolll and dangers no Iloll at the beginning of huIIIIII hl1 0 1ln Jost n to 110 I first le stlllgll I irsodd take leland 1 lel-and II was aim hat dirtVult ill 111111 up the hold feottcps of Kchley and I mn Ml he leading newspapers UT IfienlM 1 1 i h IK it which went abc ut t ubn Irt thi siarch for n u ml I 11 I Juy I uy d 111 ntrnled that i Ih popI wh ue n r ndw I ting A great oar nil to lie left in ignorance is rIng It prove n Thi > e dispatch I 11 It not liekeel Olson oith par IIcul isrIft r fly the aval nnandr olloo the are always 1 Iklnll on In IIollh here into Ih Amrh nn lIu nil causing nIII ga to just w hut they were II might Alael be Added that ih < mi ndent as the public critic t an etn i s actions and Judgment h I is nnturcii > ntver been looked upon Mill fn r by lite powers that he When ihe Press censorship wu sudden D I f ciliplifl i at Key West early In the > i I r ihe innovation seemed very harsh t thi nspapr men Theft vattrans of th < pen more dyed In ft Inters Ink than blood had been accustomed to tiVrrsphtrit their peculation retardIng retard-Ing the future Actions of Army And navy iiultr untrammeled by any official Hut when they found their martial rn lloclnaiiuns all summarily cut from their copy they were naturally nonw whAt crestfallen No more JeturiMllatto theorlea about the coming Han of cam palgn were permitted to paos ever the wirv and ripporterso who had loan I at oustomed 10 directing In I 110 colunia of their home par many august novel I and military rations for Uncle l nm Act hold lo statement of bald facts After tho gnllant He hley had met unit defeated ships of Central hotvex Ihe lire of the reporter beueme a Same I desultory cm He found nil lite work cut out for him and befoie he knew II he wna In I the thick ut the battles 01 Hantlago m1 liloody Ford and linn Juan Hill Those were buy days for thi American pentll rushers and though not without their trial unit hornrs they were really more or Stood I sutlsfatory and hoW dais for him Ile saw his hartest and 1 reaped It for all he vosto worth one New York pair spending no less I than ISO 000 a work for news Foreign critics have said that there was too much of the circus clement 1 cle-ment In I his language that he looked upon the whole campaign miitly 1 as n guild chance for copy and that he wrote It all up very much us he would have written up a Cation City prize nht Hut If at time his I language was n little lit-tle iilratagsnt and the conaelouneu that he lei recording history writhed u little opprensli upon him he gave the news nil the news and I gave It ndwiualtly promptly and picturesquely picturesque-ly In the case of the Ihlllpplna cam p4d9nfor l obvious ooour American corres > ondint has not been uble to sup lily I 1 Itself a satisfactory array of reading matter Hut lake him for all In I all this same war correspondent Is without hla equal In the world I and for dub and i daring dexterity and doggedness ho may well be called the Mower of modern Journallm exemplifying as ho does both Its Saturn and Its weaknesses ARTHUR J HTJIIMllMt |
