The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-24

has already visited Cuba in the interest
Of the art department of the Journal.
| William BengOugh will be another Of
the Journal artists who will be given
an opportunity to see service as an
illustrator from life and death of mod
ern battle scenes.
The Sun Right in 1t.
John R. Spears has rallied around
him at Key West corps of experience
eel newspaper men, whose reports Of
the progress of events will supply the
readers Of the New York Sun with
j the latest and most complete descrip-
lions Of the incidents Of the conflict.
Mr.. Spears will have an advantage over
most newspaper men in that he is
thoroughly conversant with naval mat
tiers, having graduated from the naval
academy score of years ago. War Is
not new thing for Mr.. Spears. He
wrote dispatches to the Sun and the
United Press that attracted much at
tentlon during the war in Chile some
years ago. His name is familiar to the
readers of Harper's Weekly as a writer
| on naval topics, and his knowledge Of
naval matters is shown by the fact
that he has just completed a four-vol-
ume History of the American Navy"
published by Scribners. 1t was John
! II. Spears who made trip to Green
land for the Sun, and also Travelled
| through Central America, sending on
the journey the most interesting &C
counts of what he saw in that COM
| paratively unexplored country Mr.,
| Spears will have all the assistance
from the Sun office that he calls for
| as the war progresses, and to him will
| be left the direction Of the Sun forces
at the hottest points.
| The Suns dispatch boat Is 1850 feet in
| length. and American from topmast to
| q 1y1iIk ~, NYor
is named the Kanapaha. Under this
name she will not be known to many
| outside OF the Sun staff. Her former
name, and the one that will Identify her
most readily to the yachting men of
! this country, was the Corsair, and her
former owner was John Pierpont Nor
! gan. There Is q new Corsair in Mr..
Morgan's possession now; but the old
one. renamed the Kanapaha, is dream
| OF beauty. and second to few in the
matter Of speed and seaworthiness.
Times and Tribune.
There Is no evidence of undue ex
element over the war outlook in the
office Of the New York Times. Here
are the views of the editor-in-chief:
! We do not cross bridges until we come
10 the1n. we get the news and we
| print all the news that is fit to print.
Ihe newspapers that claim to have
made the most elaborate preparations
FOR reporting events of war NAV find
that they are reckoning without the
peculiar features of modern fighting.
| News from Cuba will not be obtain
| able by cable from Havana to Kew
West. The wire will be cut when hos
tiltties have begun. Thereafter there
will be two centers where the news will
be most quickly received. One will be
| Washington. Official dispatches to the
| seat or government will take pre,e-
| dence over every other news sent over
| the wire.
The other center will be London.
Inc financial interests there will make
me sIeatest efforts to secure all in
formation that it is possible to get
quickly by liberal expenditure of
money. News that goes to Spain will
be transferred TO Madrid and after
| ward reach New York by that Circuit
tous route, and be here before it gets
TO ashington. No one can speak
positively as to that, however. We
have no adequate precedent for a war
under the conditions that will obtain
! IN this one, and the making of eIab
! crate preparations for news gather
ing over wires that will not exist more
than few hours after the declaration
| OF war is ridiculous. We are not ex-
plotting ourselves. We get the news.
and get 1t as soon as it can be got"
| The New York Tribune cannot afford
| to rest its reputation for getting the
news on the record it has made in past
years. 1t goes without saying that tha
Tribune will be well in the running
with it's reports Of coming events
should war break out. If the Tribune
could afford to rest satisfied with
laurels won, 1t has reason to be proud
or its record for news gathering dur
ing the Franco-Prussian war; During
the stirring scenes of 1870 the Tribune
in combination with the London Times
printed series Of war letters that are
considered a model of accurate and
complete war correspondence Tho
Tribune will doubtless sustain the rep
utation won in the war of 1870.
Harry D. Jones'