Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-16

uments In Washington whose pedestals
cost six times its whole expenditure. It
was also the feetest enterprise Of any upon
our battlef1elds-finished within nine months
Of its conception. Ten fee Of its solid
height Is Invisible in the foundations. 1t
has been an art school to the stone masons
of the country side.
The names of one hundred and seven
Union army correspondents are recorded
alphabetically upon the tall tablet in the
southern correspondents (all of them which
we could verify, are placed in the south
rear, the latter between two divisions of
pictorial correspondents numbering In all
thirty-six.
More anxiety to have fellow craftsmen
omitted than recognized sometimes sought
to direct us, but We searched the three
pictorial newspapers of the wartime and
thus extended the list of artists which we
had been led to believe were all named in
our lower or second tabuiation.
No person is omitted, whatever his mis-
fortune in later life; the only question We
asked was, Did he serve in this function
OF relating and drawing war events and
scenes for the public Information"
We thus have one hundred and ffty-two
names upon our two tablets, and II there
be other correspondents not here placed
we shall provide for them at our oppor-
tunity.
War Philosophy.
The daily newspaper is the trial Of COM
manders; it must print the days news,
not the weeks news, and this news the
newspaper will not permit to be super
v.sed. Our civil war, SO close to the daily
newspaper cities. was unlike the distant
wars waged on foreign ground and reported
by the European press. There the outlet
was controlled by the army, the interven-
ing ground was hostile, the press depended
on the army to forward its news But
American correspondents were passed in
N hn 0f0G nf Lsvov, only
five years after our war, and were espe-
cially considered by the Russian generals
in the next war following.
Even the war Of 1866 between Prussia
and Germany, and its predecessor, the Dan
ish war, were reported by neutrals. Amer
lean correspondents were in the Carlist war
OF Spain.
To trace some of the steps Of the art of
war reporting in our country is the oppor-
tunity of this reporters and artists re-
Union.
Two hundred and six years ago appeared
Publick Occurrences, the first American
newspaper. and in Boston. Its solitary
number, for it was Immediately suppressed,
contained the account OF the .epulse of
the Americans under Sir William Phips
from Quebec.
The third American newspaper, the Phil
adelphia Mercury, published war maps or
diagrams In 1874 of the battle of Phillips
| burg.
Tomorrow, October II, is the enc hundred
| and sixty-second date Of that war map
| publication.
First Extra.
I exhibit here the first extra newspaper
| probably ever issued, as 1t was lawked
| through the streets of London with Amer
| lean news fror, the army. 1t is the London
| Gazette Extraordinary, of the late of Oc-
| tober II, 1853, giving the first news Of the
fall of Quebe and the deaths of Montcalm
| and Wolfe.
| Tomorrow is also the anniversary of that
extra.
| This copy cost three pounds in London.
| The paper Is a good specimen of a COM
| pendious dispatch by the ranking officer of