The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21
Scant Facilities, Long Distances
and Rigid CensorshipS Make
Correspondents Lot Hard.
in the field, who are collaborating with
the men of the Herald staff.

in the field, who are collaborating with
the men of the Herald staff.
PULITZER'S MEN.
The World relies to a large extent on its
own stats of correspondents for news. Ii
has sent into the field men who have al
ready proven their ability. Thomas +.
Willard, who is in Tien-Tsin for the
World and who expects to join the Russian
army, was In Porto Rico during the Span
ish-AInerican war. William Dinwiddie has
left his position as Governor or the
Lepanto-Bontoc province, in the Philip
pines, to join the japanese army OF lnva-
sion a representative of the World
He is now in Toxic, and though, like MI
Willard. competent in every respect, he has
been unable to render the service that ne
expected. II is not the fault OF the CORE
spendent that things are as they are, but
the result of conditions that are almost
beyond remedy.
Edwin Emerson, who is now in Korea
for the World is regarded by his acquaint-
ances as a veritable soldier of fortune and
as a man who by his very daring may
succeed where others fail. He has taken
a part sometimes as correspondent and
sometimes as a soldier, in every war OF any
Importance in the last ten years. He has
fought on every continent. and more than
once he has placed his life in jeopardy.
Besides its own special war correspond
ents who cable TO the World exclusively
waNnews from the far East. the World
Daily Mail by which ii receives all the
war dispatches from the Daily Mail cor
respondents in the far East. The Daily
Mail also receives from the World copies
of all cables from the latter papers CORE
spondents.
The World has also entered into an ar
rangement with the London Morning Post
by which it has the exclusive right for the
United States to all the dispatches from
its correspondents, including Mr.. Whig-
ham, in Manchuria; Mr.. Hardy, in ST.
Petersburg, and five other special CORE
spondents at different points in the far
East.
For his syndicate of newspapers, reach
ing from New York to San Francisco. Will
liam Randolph Hearst has sent into the
East several well-known writers. Jack
London: well known as the author of
whose writings on outdoor life have given
a vogue to him, are now in Korea for the
New York American and the other papers
belonging to the Hearst syndicate. With
them are w. Wilmer and j. Deane, artists
OUTSIDE OF NEW YORK.
The correspondents who are in the field
for the Hearst papers were sent out from
the London office, which is under the
charge of Edward Flynn. These men have
instructions to spare no expense in obtain
ing news of the war. but, like the corre-
spondents of other newspapers, they have
had to curb their impatience.
Outside of New York the Chicago News
is the only paper In the United States to
establish an independent news service to
cover the war between Russia and Japan
For the News John Bass Richard s. Lit
tie and Edward Washhurn, all men of ex-
perience and ability. are in Japan and
Korea The News has regular correspond
ents in Toxic, Seoul, Che-Foo, Nagasaki.
Port Arthur and st. Petersburg. From its
men the News has received little informa-
ton of Importance concerning the war.
1t is no new thing for the daily news
papers of New York and other great Amer
lean cities to send corps of correspondents
away from home to report events of gen.
eral interest, but for the first time in the
history of weekly journalism a staff of
correspondents is being maintained in the
far East at great expense by Golfers
present to its readers the various phases
of the war in a descriptive and pictorial
manner. Many of the members of its war
staff were on the scene OF the great con-
| fiict before the first shot was fired at Port
Arthur.
First of Golfers correspondents TO reach
Korea was Frederick Palmer, who became
well known a war correspondent during
| the short war between Greece and Turkey,
who did excellent descriptive work in the
| Philippines after 1896 and who in 1900 went
| with the allied armies into Picking. Mr.
| Palmer left New York for japan the first
| week In January and reached Chemulpo be-
| fore the fighting began.
H. j. Whigham, formerly the English
| golf champion, who achieved considerable
| fame during the Spanish-American war,
has been in the vicinity of Port Arthur for
| more tn3n three Weeks. he Will accom-
pany the Russian troops to the interior.
Perhaps the best known of the CORE
spondents maintained in the field by Col
! lier's is Richard Harding Davis, novelist.
| playwright and war correspondent. Mr..
| Davis hopes to spend the next summer
| near Seoul, Korea, from which point of
vantage he desires to depict the military
| movements of the various armies. Other
| correspondents in the field for Collier s
Weekly are A: NJ Knapp. who sends his
reports from Toxic and Yokohama: vladi-
| mer Grabyedoff. in Vladivostok and j. r
| ]. Archibald, at Dalny.
| While the correspondents are doing de-
| scriptive work. staff of artists and pho
| tographers will also be maintained In the
| field by Golfers Horace Ashton has for
| a month been in Naeasaki. |. IL. Hare is
| at Seoul, r. l.. Dunn has been assigned TO
| the japanese fleets. while II. ID. Pointing is
| at Mukden. Frederic II. Remington, whose
pictures of Western life became famous
| nearly two decades ago. has been retained
| to draw military pictures from cable de-
| scriptions. Henry Reuterdah who did ma
| rine sketching for Golfers during the
| Spanisn-American war, is now doing the
1 same class of work.