New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-23

T$ HEY were all newspaper men, and
the talk at the lunch-tabe was Of
Il the ability and the alertness Of the
cores ondents Of the American press IN
Europe; also, Of their numbers, Of the en-
terprise that sends them there and keeps
them there. and of the important services
they render 10 civilization, the amity oi
nations. and the spread Of a knowledge
Of international art and letters and ma
ter!al and scientific progress. Europe IL
was concluded, was far behind America IN
this important matter OF well organized
and brilliantly manned foreign news service
81 will bet you" said the naturallZed
American. who is nothing II not Coloqulal'
81 Will bet you that there are more Euro
pean newspaper correspondents in America
than there are American correspondents IN
Europe"
"Oh, I say, draw It mild" objected the
literary critic. He had just returned from
a trip TO England. and the speech OF inc
country was still heavy on his tongue.
How many foreign correspondents are
there in America, do you think dskeu inc
citizen by adoption.
well. there are several EngAsh COZ
respondents At least one OF them repre-
cents syndicate Of his home papers Iheh
there are some representatives OF great
Paris dailies in this city, and that's ABOUT
all"
You haven't begun TO count them YET.
There are IN this country hundreds Oh
German papers, the so-called German
American press. There are many Itailai
papers, believe that about every ma
tlonality represented in this country mas
organs Of it's own. in its own lansuase'
even the Chinese and Japanese We'll the
majority Of these publications are run py
experienced newspaper men, lmpor 'eu
from abroad Many OF these Journalists
act at the same time as at least occa-
sional correspondents for journals In thelr
mother country. Germany especially 10
abundantly served in this manner-iar
better than we are served in Germany
Furthermore, the musical publications OF
the Fatherland are expertly represented
here by the music critics OF the German
American press, and this is true also OF
all our cultural life, although often not
without that certain condescension in
foreigners OF which Lowell wrote many
years ago"
"oh, but when IT comes 10 that" OBJ
served the SUNDAY eultor' you shOui
count in on our side the thousands OF
tourists who annually write letters to
their home papers while doing Europe"
SURPLUS OF CORRESPONDENTS
we will talk of them by and by" an
swered the hyphenated American. Let II
suffice just now 10 point out that these
American tourists, mostly women. do not
write newspaper correspondence. They
write books Of travel by the hundred. He
gods! Just now / am talking OF foreign
correspondents, duly appointed, and re-
peat once more that there are more oil
mem in this country than this country
has abroad"
But you spoke Of thousands" objected
hs eartoonist from the banks OF the sas-
katchewan. 1.-TWO hundred at the utmost
would include them ALL"
Even 80. they would outnumber our reg
uisr correspondents abroad. But fellow
immigrant OF mine, you are, after ell, an
American by birth, and know nothing OF
the byways and curioslties and the humora
OF European immigration. We are 90 pre-