Cost of War Correspondents.
—Robert B. Cramer, special war correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution, says: “The newspapers did not send cheap men on the trip. I know of one in Santiago now who receives a salary of $20,000 a year, and of two others whose annual pay is $12,000. Lack of actual experience found no editorial staff equipped with a war correspondent, and the papers could not judge of the availability of their men by any past work in the field. But they took the best they had, and turned them loose with a liberality as to expense which nobody outside of the business offices will ever appreciate.” Henry Brown, of the New York Herald, paid $6,400 in gold for sending his story of the destruction of Cervera’s fleet. Col. Charles Diehl, Associated Press correspondent, kept five boats in constant employment, no one of which cost less than $200 a day.