The San Francisco call., 1898-07-24

llP' strategic points ETSAy city in Europ W there is likely to be diplomatic news tn Al Call correspondent. The result haS p Slg that readers of the Call have been given the yIl news and not mere floating rumors g As soon the signs of hostility grew o1nl- nous, the Call prepared for the days to come. Tn addition to having it's regular correspond- ents all the world, the Call formed a 1 cooperative plan with the New York Herald, by which the splendid news service or that 4s the news comes to Call readers in the morning there is nothing to indicate the amount of work, hardship, judgment ana ana
 danger that was necessary to secure II. but many a simple paragraph has only been ob- ta1ned at the risk of some mans life. When the war began it found the Call-He aid with men at every station in Spain, Cuba
 and the United States where anything in the events that preceded the struggle might hap pen and where any news might come. It had f reporters in the field with the Cubans and A others gith the armies of Spain In the k north and the south of the United States it's correspondents felt the pulse of the people in the filibusteTing expeditions that preceded by J several years the open declaration of hostility \ Through all this time While the American | Congress was indicating in speeches and reso- ' lutions that peace could not long exist anu anu the Spanish people in Madrid and Cuba were openly expressing their rage at the prospect i of American interference, the Call-He had men close the WhrlpOolS of anger. ( The cable from Havana to Key West and sl the lines thence to the Calls office in San Al Francisco were open then and almost free. st News could be sent through with little inter s ference, save when the Spanish Censor step E ped in to prevent the publication of what SI seemed to him to be reflections the honor
 of his country and his countrymen.
 Then both nations drifted to the verge of war and Havana established strict censor
 ship. But the public demanded all the news and the Call Herald obtained and presented l it without break by putting into service at 1 once the first of a fleet of dispatch boats
 1 In Pensacola, Fla, obtained the Som ] mers N. Smith, which is owned by the pilots ! association of that port, and is craft ! stanch that in her could make a trip | around the world. Tn the few months of her
 existence before filibustering gave the United 1 States much costly trouble the Smith had l made many a night trip into out of the way 1 harbors in Cuba and had put ashore for the 1 insurgents hundreds of thousands of rounds 1 of ammunition that had helped to prolong the | struggle of Gomez and his men until the I United States could take the burden from ! them
 I The crisis was fast approaching and watch J ing it in the Cuban capital were Hamilton \ Peltz, Ernest W. McCready and Walter S. ' Meriwether Day after day, when the world
 was waiting, anxious for the news from the | center of interest-Cuba-they sent dispatches E across by dispatch boat to Key West, graph E ic, accurate. that never would have passed a9 the Spanish censor. because they told the Ej whole truth Correspondents of other papers H sat helpless in Havana. They could not use R the cable for the news they could gather; W they had no dispatch boats.
 In Havana some of the time, in the field