Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-22
Personal friends were the best appeal to


! make.
The successful newspaper publishers,
however, gave the second impetus to the
memorial, led in order by the Pittsburg Dis
patch and the Brooklyn Eagle wish 500
each; the same amount was paid 10y VIM.
| NJ. Singerly, Philadelphia Record; Edwin +.
Abel, Baltimore Sun; James Elverson,
| Philadelphia Inquirer; Victor Lawson, Chi
| cago News and Record; Calvin Wells. per-
sonally, owner of the Philadelphia Press,
and II. II. Kohlsaat of the Chicago Times
Herald Vigorous papers. Ike the Kansas
City Star and the New York Daily News.
gave also.
Frank Thomson of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, John G. Moore, from Monte Carlo.
banker and conservator of American rail-
road properties. and George NJ. Pullman
gave 500 apiece,
Gov. Levi p. Morton, Henry w. Cannon
| Of the Chase National Bank. John w. Book
walter Calvin Brice, John ID. Archi old and
A. A. Pope gave $50 apiece. There have been
twenty subscriptions of SO apiece.
Some disappointment has been felt at the
1nattention of men and interests thought to
be kindred in spirit to this monument, such
as the social leaders, the magnates of the
telegraph and telephone and, in some cases.
the more successful of the fraternity of cor
respondents, but the promoters of the en-
speed.
This memorial requires a good sense Of
citizenship to discern its example and util-
ity.
The press holds the destinies Of our peo-
pie and property in its motive An en-
couragement of honor, sacrifice risk and
poverty in the press will raise the standard
OF its junior men to be a soldiery against
| mercenary and trucking journalism.
The broad stone of honor in his embat-
tied portal symboliZes the knight errantry
and kEighthood of the public writer as
he was and may continue.
In other departments the newspapers
raise their luxurious towers above the
great factory of human machinery, but
these army correspondents wandered with
taeir eyes to see events beyond the manip-
risid gateway says to the pretender for
money or power who expects to capture the
intelligence of the coming age:
This rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as l."
The First War Correspondents.
Before there was newspaper pr.ss army
correspondents wrote the books such as
Xenophon. Thucydides. Josephus and
Caesar, each Of them writing follower of
the wars.
Sir John Froissart was ordered away
from the army of the Black Prince because
ne told too much truth, and Philippe de
Confines gives the basis of all the history
Of Philip of Burgundy and Louis XII. as
well as recording the French invasion of
Italy contemporary with Columbus.
Several participants chronicled the civil
wars In England. Col. John Parke of vir-
sinia bore the news Of the battle of Blen-
heim home to Queen Anne. Col John
Trumbull left the revolutionary army when
lighting ended so precipitate to paint the
actors in the American revolution that he
was arrested in Benjamin Vests studio
OH charge of high treason, fomented by
tories in London.
West himself. an American Quaker. first
put battle scenes in trousers and painted
al! the deeds of Horatio Nelson not omit
ting the black spot of Lady Hamilton.
Inc battle of Waterloo in 1915, was
lalntiy described in the London Times
Not TIL 1854 in the Crimean war did ..o,,r
own correspondent emerge, the trenchdnt
writer. William Howard Russell taking the
lead, who Is still living and editing his own
army and navy publication.
Mr. RusselFs fame caused one or two
american writer's to venture near the
Italian war. The next war following 1850
was partly reported by Townsend Smalley
Stlison and Coffin Of our army correspond-
ents.
About one hundred names are ALREADY
reported or American writers, north ard
south IN the civil war, and both Union
and confederate correspondents are 10 he
enrolled. ~ 'e
The list of army correspondents below is
| i!nperIect and the secretary now publishes
II to invite corrections and additions which
can be sent to G. A. Townsend oo9 1st
street northeast, Washington, D. c. The
tablet OF these names is to go low on the
memorial. and information should be sent
early. ~ SA'
ARMY CORRESPONDENTS
1876