. New York and the war with Spain. History of the Empire State regiments . n Rod brought to Port Antonio,Jamaica, the first story of the destruction of Cerveras squadron,which was covered at an expense of |5,500, and reached NewYork ten hours ahead of any other newspaper report. TheHeralds forces in the West Indies were in charge of Henry , who was called from his work as Albany correspondentthe day after the Maine was blown up. The other members ofthe Heralds war staff were: Walter S. Meriwether, Leo L. Red-ding, Hamilton S. Peltz, E. W. McCready, E. H, Sheehan, JohnMitchell, Richard H
. New York and the war with Spain. History of the Empire State regiments . n Rod brought to Port Antonio,Jamaica, the first story of the destruction of Cerveras squadron,which was covered at an expense of |5,500, and reached NewYork ten hours ahead of any other newspaper report. TheHeralds forces in the West Indies were in charge of Henry , who was called from his work as Albany correspondentthe day after the Maine was blown up. The other members ofthe Heralds war staff were: Walter S. Meriwether, Leo L. Red-ding, Hamilton S. Peltz, E. W. McCready, E. H, Sheehan, JohnMitchell, Richard Harding Davis, Thomas F. Millard, NicholasBiddle, E. K. Coulter, Ramon Alvarez, F. H. Nichols, RutherfordCorbin and Houlder Hudgins. J. L. Stickney was with G. Dart and W. O. Wilson were artists at the front. As show-ing the amount of travel necessary to transport dispatches, itcan be stated that the despatch \iO?, Capt. F. M. Dunn,was continuously in service for more than five months, and inall kinds of weather covered moi*e than 25,000 miles, carrying. State Historian. 317 news or searching for it. The Herald sent the first boat intoSantiago after the surrender and the first into Havana. Inall it had seven steamships chartered at one time and another,and the total expenses were nearly $250,000. The work performed by the principal newspapers throughoutthe country during the progress of the Spanish War, not only inthe Atlantic, but in the Pacific, is unparalleled in enterprise inthe history of journalism. Many newspapers, daily, weekly, illus-trated and serial, were represented at the front by its own specialcorrespondent and their own chartered vessel. Very often the navj impressed newspaper vessels as despatchboats, and commanders of American warships spoke invariablyof the cheerful willingness and alacrity with which the corre-spondents lived up to naval regulations and in their faithfulobservance of naval restrictions. In fact, the co-operation be-tween the
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