Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-05-31

EASTERN PRESS

Once again will the rather hope
less task be attempted that to Anne
ricanize Far Eastern journalism, now
so thoroughly imcft grated with Bri-
fish mannerisms and methods of col
lecting an distributing the news.
On board the big Japanese liner
Chlyo Maru, visitor at Honolulu yes
terday, was party of mainland news
paper men who possess In unlimited
quantities, the courage of their con-
victions in that they are journeying
to Shanghai China. where they will
either start publication of new daily
newspaper or take over one of the old
established publications that have
heretofore pursued a contented and
inonensive existence at the gay mo
tropolis of North China.
In the delegation passing through
Honolulu that propose to re-
form or rather rejuvinate Far East
ern journalism, is Thomas +. Willard
writer of much note on Oriental
topics, his speciality being Japan and
the Japanese question. with Willard
is said will be associated b. wifred
Fleisher. one of the proprietors of a
leading English daily published In
Japan with headquarters at Yoko-
hama. Another to Join the party at
San Francisco and who spent the day
In looking over Honolulu was Herbert
Webb who Is well known in mainland
newspaper circles.
Fleisher, made trip to the United
States for the purpose of recruiting n
stan and secure a suitable plant for
a paper that Is expected to outshine
anything that now attempts to nm
the long felt want" in North China.
Before the work of recruiting is COM
pleted the promoters hope to attract
newspaper writers from Chicago AMI
other Eastern centers.
One of the plans of the publishers
will be to present the news of the day
in both Chinese as well as English.
II Is the intention to conduct the
new paper strictly along American
lines which In that portion of the
East means that modern and M to the
minute methods will be employed in
gathering news ana serving It to the
purchasing public.
The last time that an attempt was
made to inject American methods in
TO Far Eastern Journalism was when
the late William II. (Volcano) Mar
shall some six years ago made his
spectacular descent upon Shanghai.
Marshall went to the big Chinese
city backed by years of experience on
both the Pacific coast as well as Ho-
nolulu daily newspapers. lore he
closed his brief but highly interest
Ing career ut Shanghai, he created a
| series of daily sensations that caused
the ears of every reader of the Eng
fish language to wriggle upon arising
In the morning and making frantic
efforts to secure their copy of. the
Shanghai Times, the columns of which
were dominated by An intense Mar
shallesque influence. Despite the fact
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the millions of Wall street, who at
the time were heavily interested in
the construction of the now famous
Canton-fIankow Railway, the Shang
hal Times under American managl
ment was permitted TO decline, to the
sordid ranks OF quiescent daily pa
per more suitable to an intense Bri-
fish community which nationality
dominates the foreign population of
The Paris Of the East.
Marshall and his associates had the
time of their young lives whilee they
ruled the destinies of the first Ame-
rlcan paper in the East. Their efforts
were copied In the columns of the
daily prints from Tientsin to Singa-
pore and In many instances held NJ
to ridicule by more prossaic and
conservative publishers.
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