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'THE SUN, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1914. .
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PARING WAR CORRESPONDENTS WHO HAVE WON FAME
r ,A.Mut WAIl COimKSI'OND
ii I NTS' l the expressive title
j ,i Minimi- liy Lnurlstnn
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t inn.xt nnd ngnln brought the
t .i .if wnr em respondents Into
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for T"
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,. ..inccrnlnK h large nurnlior
, i,, h i ik iii(."6lvon, i'un fr..m
. Mir Napoleonic warn, when
lg.,ronsly objtetctl to them.
,1 . r m tli voted In Frederic
u i . ik now ntiiKliiK sKetcnes
m ..n the Imttlellelils of
,nl whose vivid drawings) are
,ii i lie magazine motion each
II. ha. seen more war than
t
r. ill ' ' "" . .
Vr,.,..l.- illler. Hie Pictorial Jour-
I'l.uiy mcue won in- i'1-ii
-In- author. He usually
.mi" if an one of the world's
iti.mi artist;', and upon hi pic
In. f.ime Is founileil, hut he has
my p.itfes of "KOOd SHUT. III
. ii.it a war correspondent
,n which the r.nnn Is np
. i, ..f :lie type of Forties and
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, i .. appears hp Is hound to
, .mil eotiiinnnd attention.
.rn In th. Held he will keep
- v ,ii work making sketch,
. i.server might alone tie
. i.,iiluii. for his methods are
wn .Much of the time he
- .li iwir.gs In tiny sketch books
I'm he may hold them In the
. i .ind. Thus he Hies nwny
. ,.f what the reporters call
,:..! In uses them for precisely
Anecdotes Concerning Frederic. Villiers,
Who Is Now Making Sketches on
Battlefields for "The Sun,"
and Others of Renown
women, their uniform bedabbled with
blood, Btandlng by their wounded, while
shells loosened tiles upon the roof of
their quarter.. The Servians were re
treating. Hut the nurses seonifd the
ndvlce of Villiers that they go. tine,
"with topboots of Hessian cut, short
skirt nnd Cosack Jacket, with pistol
slung across her shoulders," touched her
Of MacC.ahnn also Villiers Maw much
nnd he talks of him to this day. Typhus
was raging In Constantinople; through
out the city the funeral dirge was heard
from sunrise to sunset, nnd In the eve
ning the death boats, with their cargoes
collected from the mosques, would sail
silently ncioss the' Hellespont to the
old liurlal mourn! of Scutari, where .In
mil.. 1,1, irU- hi k Montcnrzr 111 :an nnd noge irenenes. "unwashed and un
ndvlsi'd htm as n non-combatant to seek jahrlvon, the Innocent victims of the
a place of safety.
The nurses stayed, and Forbes and
Villiers felt obliged also to .stay. The
Turkish sharpshooters were close In.
When tlnally with their contingent of
wounded they left one end of the bridge
tho Turks entered the other. For about
an hour the Servians made u stand.
Forbes, Villiers, a surgeon and a
wounded soldier got away In an am
bulance wagon. As they looked back
they nw the Hed Cross Hag still Hying,
but over the. bends of the Turks. The
Jaded column of beaten Servians passed
over the bridge into Alexlnatz. where
the horrors of the preceding night w. re
repeated. The news men found a ltus
slan correspondent dead In the town
Two other correspondents were killed
in that short campaign and one was
wounded out if twenty who followed the
, wnr. viu i-i-fl lecorus nun u..- .
i.iirti..".' for which tin- news herolcnKv. lighting the enemy, de-
wrlfrs theirs. If he cetius ahso- fl.nunK tnc redoubt of which he had
lud'.v nn.l. r lire he may produce a . 1)rl.n mm(, commandant for Ills per
sonal bravery
Luck befriended him. He met a Jolly
sen captain who had commanded a ves-
jnm.'ttfin urg. r sketch hook niui mane
iMnliig ,n a bigger scale, working' In,
unit lik i iiinnv of the Ideas In the
illmlnut.vi pad Ills chief purpose Is to 1 . , Hacl ln tno Crimean
-,I a pi. t. tl.il in'iird of the stir nnd Wol. The Turks remMiibered him grate
Mdienu ir .'f battle. His work Is done uiy n,. niUi conceived the notion of
with sr. ' i.ip.dlly. His eye is quick I wrtn(; 1V i,(,oVt almut Turkey. To write
ir.d k. n and his pencil nlmost keejis (t ,)e ,mlJ)t travel. To travel he must
pure nlih it lie differs with the artists nnvr a ,w1I,,,ort or Hrmnn. The author-ithoWlii-i'
In elaburatlng their Impres-1 liri,..i.i,i him with one n foot and
a half Ion
!nn uft-r the uintllct Is over. Most of
'' ii.ituiis are made on the actual
n. II" prefers even a hasty nnd
imperfect -ketch If It conveys the Im-prrw.i-n
..f n-.illty and action.
At IT h"
That was a very precious
scroll, for the Turks would measure the
cruel wnr were placed to rest." It wns
llllers who notified Skobeleff of Mac
(lahan's death.
He settled down to p.ilnt and had n
picture on the walls of the Itoyal
Academy. Iteturnlng from Scotland,
where he had been to visit Forbes, he
found that Arabl I'asha wns stirring up
a revolt In the land of the .Vile, and
when the massacre In Alexandria took
place on June 11. 1 SS2, he started onco
more on his wandering life. Thus be
gan his I. ng series of campaigns In
Fgypt and the Sudan, a series which
ended only with the victory at Omdur
man in jsss.
The exigencies of the situation nt AI
exandrla cnilsed Villiers to ticcept the
Invitation of Lord Charles lleresford to
take quarters nboard the gunboat Con
dor. In virtue of her short draught thn
boat was ni ored in the Inner harbor
under tin shndow of the summer pnlare
of the Khedive. There were nil sorts
of stories ntloat as to the proximity
of tile ship to the palace; one was that
If hostilities begun she was to aid In
the escnpe of the ladles of the. harem.
The only danger us. piece of ordnance
possessed by Arab! was two hundred
yards away. Here.iford had hung
every piece of spare Iron and chain
lie had on board over the bulwarks,
making n sort of chain nrmor for the
vessel,
During the bombardment the Con-
lor's opportunity came nnd wns seized
. .., illt l.t ltn. n,imn,n.iiti,i fitf
Importance of a Msltor by the length or - to lllvtr. . Mr( ot
the llrman he might near n ucr . mm- Maral)mlt, th(.n nnno,.,B , Ad-
he could not get a pern It on h s n )mrnH ,n
' " mipn in . lntiiieeii inr '.iiuitiu i" , . . .
,,, ... ,n ..,!.,.( im,! , l, iiv. , . . ... ...in,,.,,, inn' i li' men c.igeriy sirippeu on tucir
fnr .irt in e irtiest. ami lie negan i h. Ml, nrm, n secretary without . .... , , ,
K.i.fltii- m Ijariwi:. 1 111 H'll ill me jiriisi luui
ilium 11 i .AnM,mliiir hid nnmn. .... ..- ... .. . ....,....
made up his mind to go In I account, induced the captain to Includ
M, ...... ...... ...... .. I mentioning his name. what the shin did almon as vlvldlv as
mm .,. Mm inihmtrv sernreil for . , .i.i.w,- u,n i"lml .-mil' um .iiiiiu-i in "'i'")
i, i i. ,i,i "".i "' ... : .tint
.iwii .mini"..... ... vw.,r. ... .... ,.i,.. inLM.-.iier. sucti aneniions .mi
Unval Ae.iilemy. He overworked nml . i,tW(.,l ni.on them! "At Adrian
tiniier it
in lu enthusiasm fnr study.
,ople." iays Villiers. "an nide-d.-enmp of
his pencil picture her service.
At sundown, with John Alexander
Cameron of th? Stnmlnril, Villiers un-
twn letters of Introduction, addressed
rfpect.vely to the Kngllsh Ambassa
dor .it Vienna and to Archibald Forbes.
In the Austrian capital the diplomat
prnvuloil him m turn with n letter to
the English Consul at the capital of
Arab sprang into the air nnd attacked
him. Villiers ran for It, trying to draw
his revolver ns he raced over the sand,
with the boy o close nt his heels thnt
he felt his hot breath and heard the
swish of the descending knife ns his
pursuer struck nml missed. Still clench
ing the knife, the boy 'fell from the shot
of one of the soldiers.
I Villiers was in the broken square nl
Tatnal. The night nefore tlial buttle
he slept with his revolver under hlf
head, sprawled out on the sand and
looking nt the stars.
The expedition up the Nile for the
relief of Khartum quickly followed, and
the march across the ilesert with Stew
art and the battles of Abu Klea and
tlub.it. When Cten. Sir Herbert Stew
nrt was organizing the Hying column of
2,000 to make u dish acrojs the desert
at the news of the sore straits of Gor
don at Khartum Villiers was In his
tent. For thnt whole column the fight
nt Abu Klea was what the artist called
"a narrow shave." It was there that
Fred Hurnaby, the soldier nnd corre
spondent, was killed. That night the
forcii pushed on for the Nile. Vlllien
tells how Stewart next day received Ills
fntal wound, while "he was standing on
a cominlfsarlat box, looking through
his glasses at the encircling swarm of
Dervishes stealing up through the bush
from Melemmah." The artist pmv the
(ieneral fnll nnd was Jiy his side nt
once, nlthough Frntik Ithodes, the
brother of Cecil Ithodes, was the flrst
to minister to him before the surgeons
cntne.
In ISSfi Villiers wns back In the Hal
kails witnessing the Servlan-Hulgarlan
(lasco which culmlnnted at I'lrot.
Now this world wanderer spent some
years In lecturing, nnd he "covered"
the Chlcngo exposition of 1SD3. going on
the warpath once more when China and j
Japan were at odds In 1S04. Having I
again toured the globe na a lecturer
and sketched the coronation of thn
Czar in ldOfi, lie Joined tin- fireek army;
ln the little war with Turkey In 1SS7.
using the bicycle and experimenting
with the cinematograph camera. Then,
having visited Crete, he Joined the ex
peditionary force for the Sudan and
found himself In familiar territory on
the Nile.
Through all those campaigns Villiers
made his way. hut there was not so
much of color or Incident In these later
expeditions for the rivonquest of the
Sudan. The host of war specials who
went out to see the last of Mahdlm
found little comparatively to make their
nnrrntivn picturesque In the machine
like precision with which war was or
ganized utul conducted by the sirdar,
nor were the reporters helped any at
headquarters In getting the newi. Oc
casionally In very desperation they
Tl,.. .1, v. .u ..hri.nlr. .li-utionalu nn.l -. . .llCI'tOOK to pCllCtrnle tile City. THCy
b,n.U,. mule htm a war artist 1 "Wm'nl n,Pl , , ,V, ,pas.d the llrltlsh sentries nnd found would concoct an outrageous tule. and
't ' v. ' , m ' w w.th P'tpd "".' ,lr!" ",(7r,"",.'f.'!V.. at once how perilous was their enter- go with It to the censor, gravely sknu-
.... - - - t. ..I... t,.,n nun li t,ii,'iiLi,i lu in ii. "i . . .. .. . . .
..,.. ...... - --- ., prise; mey siumiucii nmiut over neons
would come in nfter the evening " aIU, ,Ipn,, ,,,.. Tll( iKht wa!l nKhtPl,
nnd inquire after our luu t lis nnd M ,,iy ,ho BllirP f ,lurnlK lloUK(..s: ,.
a salaam assure us that his house a m i , .,,.,,.,. Io,or!, wm. t wor(
his servants nnd his animals weie '!Afl.nll, nf ...u.k. ... .... nr,.s .,.,.
longer his but ours." 1 1. readed their wav cautloiislv throng''
" ; Kor rest and t i get a ku inr me '""-.., labyrinth of narrow pnisiges nnd nt
:1T',1 .1.':1.' J! . lm:?.!Z" 1 ,mi.ln Villiers now returned to " . , "C. '0nf '.'hp c"SuS..
the Danube
from every part
the father'and. When Hie walls nf Hel
. Servians were hurrying , ,.:i)K,an(, wiialn a
part of Kurope to the aid of ,n.!) .jfclarntlon of w,
mnnin came mis- .... ... ..... ... .....-.
war upon Turkey, on t,llm(irnm.i,. f iim,.. declares the nrt-
April "4. 1S77. It was his birthday, and
lt tine amusing experience befell
crude loomed out of the river mlt the ,. ml , .,. ,,,, ,rav..!l.ng lotbefn :'.t.,ol. a, ,,,,. j,,,,,,, ;,., ,hf. tol(ens
exriirnn "i .minim in .11 wa- 111- 11.. i..:..lie.l lliieuir st bale V in lime m..., ....... 1.1 .it ,1,.,
trne S v :lllf-s- l.ven as we , ir lraln for i,r,i,i. mid neM mum- , UriU!th n,.wtl ...j.ior- the f Unwind
ml-.! il.ng of war revel berated ( , ,, Hatt thH ,,m ,i m-ed acn ,,., ,n,.v .liscveted. to their r
;hr in.' ,1.1 streets. Hie ringing Mni,e ,nt iln- n.v. 11 fi.un a 'I m'K- 1 M h l, r,..I(.i.s bodies we..
:" mi'b's haminer. the roll-! ,,.,,. m tll, nv,.r villiers. more. , llllM',.h ,hemnkeis' dummies which
ng of mm timbers over Hie rough , wa m of four cm tespoud. nts , hilll ,inlied of their llnery and
st..nes tl.e tramp, tramp of the troops, 'wl, a(,rt. n ),lU terriHe strugg'.e from (rft tK. hfre.
the cli-iKing and clatter of the order- j beginning to nd ; he heard the last shots ,y , ,Sk3 villiers mirlched with
e- a ne nurneu miner ami uiiiiier, f tlie war sitltl WUIiesseil me proeiama- , .. f1 . . , rjraham from tho
tlon of Place by the Itusslaiw on the , t(.(1 Spu (,na)lt for thp r1ef ()f Tokar
were he.ird on all sides."
Villiers Hurried nwny on the trail of ,,lnlnH of Han Stefan.) within sight of the XVlllU;,K (hr'oi.gli liquid mud and snnd'
rnr ies. win. was at the headquarters mi;,rets nf Constantinople. f)VPr )nU1t.I am, w,mMmt.H ,, tn ,h,.r
i.r -v.. irnn .it I'arituti. lie was pro-
vldnl wnh riding boots, spurs nurt n
big Lull, log revolver, as he says, to
ftmnp !ii'ii-i 'f in the eyes of the veteran
m a very determined younK fellow.
Am 'I th. mi tley crowd In the market
phre ..f P.ir.iiiiti he hail no troulilo In
Iliiilng In Hdilii .Ycics man; they very
soon l' .ime list friends and agreed
'nnnki t!i- campaign together If pos
)1Me Hi- first buttle was a revelation In
mote is than one. He knew only
itinir 1 dozen words of Servian. Of the
il'i 1 .t of the troops in action he
wa i -i more ignorant than of the
largu ige. He was on font, having been
1iMlg.1l t . return his horse to Ivanitza.
A few -I.,, is like the letting off of Hre-
Those were the golden days of the ,.., ,,. , ui:isheil ,.n until tbev
war reporters. They were flee lances. ,W,n. )n ,md wltn . Pn,.my. n tn
coming and going nlmos: nt will, several .llpm ti,py fUnd the rotting remnant
scores In number, very keen in com-1 f , armv nf ituHcr I'asha, the "Val"
petition, clever In strategy for access tn,Iukor .m,m villiers had seen Inst In
the wires over which their news sped ( Constantinople. Indeed, In one of the
to London and the other news centres , h,.aps nf nH!les he found the corpse of a
of the world.
Many adventures did Villiers experi
ence while waiting for the litisslans
te tnke that "place called I'levna." They
took the place nfter 142 days of tremen
dous Hght.ng. ndd little Incidents stuck
In Vllllers's memory. Years after he
recalled the castiway kettledrum stuck
In the mud, rim uppermost. A Itussian
r.irlhlan friend, eyeglass In eye, used to
begin: "Mon cher Villiers," and go tin
with his stories about I'nrls grand opera
tracker were heard at a distance. On and pretty dancers, while shells show
the e,i", ,,f ,nt Voim1 on top of tho ered him with mud. After some time
t mniiii'im he found a Servian battery VIlllerH fell 111 and became very weak.
Ihlni .in earthwork and began to There was nothing he could better do
make 1 sketch of it. He could not see than Join the ambulance corps, and off
that ),,. wen- Ilrim; nt unythlng In he went to aid the wounded,
par'. 1 ul.tr, for the morning wns heavy,
mil th. snioke lung in lifting. Soon'
he lumulf was under lire. "Presently ,
the .in w.i.s tilted with a curious rushing i
4 si'in.l hi.,, that of a low toned fog horn,
f..ll. .wed i.v ,1 terrible explosion and n
.lish of n,e. - he wrote. "Then the top
"f ne of !. til ni- trees Hew In snlinters. :
The nois,. tr .tn that mutilated tree wns
S If ,) I, u;,. tunlne; fork had been
struck T'ie vibration matle the ground 1
iremi if it ,m1S onP nf thP enemy's
h.s
-'in.- time the shells continued!
" I'1"1' 'he pines. The Servians'
'ni' 11 1 I,, .,,) retired, going slowly,!
'h'n r .1 trot, mid tlnally galloping
' 1- down llin er.i.,1 Mllr.ru ...n j
friend with whom he seven years be
fore In Ilulgarln had nearly met death
from tho fumes of n charcoal brazier.
As the quare moved on toward F.I
Teb to the weird screech of the bagpipe,
Maker, wounded, stood by Villiers and
watched, with te.irs In his eyes, the
charge of his old regiment. It was a
desperate flght; black, fuzzy heads
would pop up from pits In the sand,
there would be the gleam of a rllle and
the puff and the whir, as the gun was
Hrtil. and the head would dlsappiMr,
having been In lght barely for a sec
ond or two. The artist thnt dny had
another of hN "close shaves." He was
fketi'hlng a lad who was supposed to
Im beyond lighting, when suddenly the
Intlng faith In it and the Intention of
wiring It to London. Then sometimes
the authorities would deny mi vehe
mently that they would get on the track
of ionie real item of importance of
which they had had no Inkling what
ever. "Hut gratuitously," nays Villiers,
"not a single piece of news of any Im
portance was ever ntTorileil to the
pres." The achievement In that cam
paign In which he had most satisfac
tion w.i the taking of a bicycle tn
( Uniltii 111 111 The n.itixes uejl to think
the inai hliie w.is alive, nnd' when he
blew a loud I l.t "I with the trumpet ut-
t.i.'lie.l to the handle bars they would
llee in terror.
I .ate In 1W Villiers was In South
Africa, where he found his friend
Frank Khudes, formerly of the ttalY of
(Sen. Sir Herbert Stewart, from whom
he received u letter to Cecil Ithodes.
Thus it cntne about that Christmas evo
was passed by the artist as a guest of
Cecil Miotics at the old Dutch residence
nt flroote Schilur. He dined sitting be
tween Ithodes and Alfred licit, and they
amazed him by breaking open ordinary
envelopes and spilling from them scores
of diamonds which "capered about
among the plates of the guests." The
stones had Just arrived from Amster
dam, where they had been sent to be
cut. Ithodes took n liking to the nrt
ist nnd through his secretary almost
Insisted that he forego his intention to
sail from Cape Town the next day. The
limes were too stirring, he was nssured,
for liltn to leave South Africa Just at
that time. Vllller waited until the last
moment, but no speciaj message came,
and, marvelling a little, the nrtlst went
nboard the steamer. Then at Madeira,
when the telegrams with the news of
the world were brought n hoard, there
was one which Villiers says "sent a
thrill through every soul on the ship."
This wii' the despatch which curtly
described Jameson's raid Into the Trans-
m 1 im 1 in w imn n
1
i '.n-.. . . '-r.i v '.".'.1 ,..'. st- t '.
S !! 'e-I. 'l'.i' e. ,
s
t
V.
vaal. And Villiers often declared after
ward: "Then I knew that I had made
one of the mistakes of my life; I ought
to have remained."
To-day Villiers belongs both to the
pld school and the new school of spe
cials. He sei clearly that the days of
merely reckless valor In the gathering
of wjr news have gone by, and that
the correspondent of the future will ,
have greater difficulty In getting his
facts and perhaps less opportunity for
stirring nnd brilliant narratlvo and
striking sketched. Hut Villiers is fond
of his exhilarating profession nnd de
lights In the perils nnd even in the
hardships that must lie enduretl 011 the
.warpath. The little war between the
Spanish and the Itlff tribesmen called
him In 1910, nnd In the ljst great strug
gle In the Ilalknm he did his stint of
press work. Everywhere he goes he
makes friends, whether he goes to
sketch,, to lecture or merely for social
purposes.
Tho volume also contains chapters) on
William Howard Russell, tho hero of
Frederic Villiers.
the Crimea; on Archibald Forbes, who
stootl up against a wnll to bo shot twice
within live minutes In I'arls in the
Franco-I'russlan war of 1870; on Mnc
Culian. the American, hero of 11 thirty
days ride alone through the deserts of
central Asia; on the Inte Bonnet Hur
lelgh, who fought mightily to save the
broken square of Tama; on I-Mmond
O'Donovnn, martyred In tho Sutlnn; of
the flvo Vlzetellys and their romantic
careers; on Ktlward F. Knight of the
London 7'Ihiivj, of Oeorgo Warrington
Stei'Vonx, James Creelman nnd many
others. Mr. Milliard nto tells of the
pioneer of the profession, (leorgc Wll
klns Kendall of New Orleans, who re
ported tho Mexican war In 1S4S nnd
IS 17.
Writing of Helmet Hurlelgli the nu
thor says that to this day there are
Confederate soldiers who remember
"Captain Hennet O. Hurley." The fa
mous correspondent of the Daily Tele
graph got his Hrst experience of war
In the conflict fifty years ago In Amer
ica. He ts known everywhere now ns
m- ii, 1 it
tint ' - , 1 1, Mh
i"? n .1,
for t'., . ,
wh ' .
l"i'iri 1
n 1 .
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stared in astonishment,
there came through the
rush of infantry, making
1 through the woods down
L.i'i.ry was going. As they
'' 1 i'i road they were packed
i.u' ei- .'losely nnd 11 shell burst ,
i" rhe vniing artist then hud
Hie stern realities of war
"en was a regular rout. "The
r W'led." wrote Villiers, "with .
i-tgage wagons, nmbulnnces.l
'' 1 artillery, nil hurrying
1 "intnin like nn nngry tor j
f'-'i l a moment here then
i' 1'ieiklng its wny cutting
es s,tl.n,iM(, itself down the
- side to the base of the
' ii least 4.000 feet below"'
ulii cntne a terrllic thutidcr- I
' 1 hundreds of cattle loosed I
m "intaln camp raced down
'fiinphng the wounded Into
' " they ran
is "breaking Into the gnm-"
i. '..line. e wore an uls'er
' hed with ruin, was weigh
' 'in He clung, dead beat tn
' el nnd plodded on. A voice
" ' the cart asked him to
'I' n olllcer. speaking a
1 was lying on the straw
idlv wounded. Vlll.er" ft 'l
' 'He morning down In 'lc
oirsint nbnndoned. be tl s
" side the kind (leaned
I " death and over himself
' M -oof cloak which the
11 bad tnken from his own
' the protection of the
r
nearby village they saw n,
(lag and within, to their
' nt, they found, three Husslun
I j j
Bennett BurlcFgh. .MmmWm
I
I'hoio coi)rlKtn hy M ' ur
A Co., Omow
t one other ie b. wns . uppi
., i.ir iiee'i s ,i.n T' 11 was w 1 n
ll.clis I'asha was .inn.liualcil ai V. 1 ibt id
!! Xini'inuT 1 ss:t. Ti.t Lmul. ni . veiling '
pipers announced the death of Villh rs.
nd the artist "read the annouiicenn nt
1, Fleet Biivot, while an acquaintance
nt the Savage Club wajt standing with i
tils hack tn thn lire holding forth upon
ihe campaigns they had been through
together."
Archibald Forbes.
.Whitelaw Reid.
the special who would have beu
awarded the. Victoria Cross for his ex
ploits In tho Sudan had It been possl-
bio for a "camp follower" to win that , Carleton Collin from (lettysburg
coveted distinction as the reporter who ,
scored the great "scoop" after Tel-el- (
Keblr; as tho "civilian" tn whom the
llljck Watch gave much of the credit
for the saving of the broken square ut
Tamal; ns tho audacious correspondent
who flagged a .South African trnin to
get nn Intervlow, nnd tho clever stna
cl3t who "put over o, bedt" by tho use
of the I'rnyer Hook; nnd no one really
knows how mnny other feats are. to bo
placed to his account, nor, to vary the
Inventory of his exploits a little. Just
how many times he delighted himself
npd his comrades by his ability to cook
11 good meat pie In n tin wash basin
when on the firing line.
He hud some dllllculty Inducing Ills
ifnmlly to permit him to leave the hnme
In Olasgow for tho States. His father
was a master mechanic, and the devices
which the adventurous youth cnrrlcd
ncross the ocean were his father's In
ventions. Concerning Charles Carleton CoHln'a
famous ride from Gettysburg' th
author says that nenrly every epi
sode of that historic conflict was
observed by this veteran correspon
dent. Several times ho was under
lire. On the third day of tho battle
ho watched Pickett's famous charge,
and us the Southern commander retired
he rode Into the wheat Held nnd mado
notes of the carnage whoso tokens ho
found there. The battle over, It was
his duty to get tho news to lkwton with
tho utmost speed. Tho army telegraph
could not be used, and tho nenrest rail
way point was Westminster, twenty
eight miles nwny, whence n freight
trnln wus due to leavo In the
early evening. I tn in was falling heav
ily ns he started from the Held. White-
law Held was his companion. Covered
with mud nnd drenched to the skin,
they rode Into WeHtmlnster live min
utes before trnln time, 'having made
the distance under dlillcult conditions In
two nnd a half hours, "Carleton" man
aged to have his horso cared for, sprend
his blanket over tho boiler of the loco
motive to dry and stretched out on th
floor of n bumping car. From Haiti
morn next morning he could get barely
half 11 column through to the Jnurnnl,
hut he sent a despatch to Washington
which proved to be ono of the flrst authentic-
messages received by the Presi
dent nnd tho Cabinet. The special took
the Hrst train for New York and thence
hurried on to Hoston, wiring ahead that
the biggest story of tho war thus far
was on thn wny tu the olllce. As ho
reached the ,oMnml building he found
Newspaper How packed with peoplo
clamoring for news. He was smuggled
Into the building and locked Into a
room, where lu saw no one but the mea
handling his "copy," nnd wrote steadlhr
until the paper went to press. As thn
Inst sheet was delivered he threw him
self upon a pile of newspapers In t
corner nnd Instantly Tell mto the siren
of utter exhaustion. At his home In
the suburbs of Hoston during the on
day which ho allowed himself for rest
the popular correspondent was cheered
and sercnniled by thousnndf, nnd hu had
to repeat his story of (Jettysbiirs until
he started back to Maryland and the
trail of thn nrmy of Lee, In nil, he
travelled to make this ncoro for his
paper nenrly n thousand miles, ntout
one-sixth nf which was dono on horse
back. Mention has been mnde of WhlteK
Held ns the fellow rider of Charleis
The
late Ambassador to the Court of St
James's had a career as n working Jour
nalist which was of the flrst Importance
In the development of the American
newspaper, coming to the control of the
New York TrlfiMiir after nn apprentice
ship as 11 country editor, a war special,
a Washington correspondent and nn
editorial writer.
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