TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE : FRIDAY , o
' "he noted newspaper correspondent is now traveling in the far eastern
island acquisitions of the United States gathering the materials for
the most interesting and all-absorbing articles that have ever emanated
from his versatile and skillful pen.
Carpenter's series of Philippine letters will
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be spread each week before readers of The Bee.
The Man
IDrank G. Carpenter is the most Philippines are an unknown The Bee has for years given its readers
widely known newspaper correspond we rid , most of them never having been the benefit of the Carpenter letters of
ent of the United States. In his remarka explored by civilized white man. The travel by special arrangement with this
ble journeys of observation he has traveled island of Luzon , on which our soldiers are great newspaper correspondent , who has
fighting , is only a small part of the group undertaken most of his journeys jointly in
over nearly the entire globe and interviewed
which contains 8,000,000 people , divided the interest of this paper. By its illustrated
its notables from kings to peasants. His
into 83 distinct tribes and speaking some 60 edition , printed on fine paper , it is able to
fairness and unbiased judgment is conceded different . The islands number
languages. reproduce in beautiful , clear half-tones the
by all. He is an Ohio man by birth , now in the neighborhood of 1,200 , sprinkled in
Mr.
photographs taken by Carpenter specially
40 years of age. In the present trip he will the Pacfic ocean from north to south for
. As in
cially for this purpose. a newspaper
cover 25,000 miles by sea and land with more than 1,200 miles , If any one can get
The Bee is
its beyond
into the unknown places Mr. Carpenter every department
camera outfit to get the best pictures of out- .
The
will be able to do so and ; will describe the comparison with would-be rivals.
of-the-way people and spots. He thinks it people , their habits < and views with a pre Carpenter letters will be only one of a score
will be the trip par excellence of all his cision and in a style that will entertain and almost equally attractive literary and picto
wonderful journeys. instruct all. rial features in each Sunday issue.
ILLUSTRATIONS REPRODUCED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY MR. CARPENTER WITH HIS OWN CAMERA.
_ to his itinerary schedule , Mr. Carpenter , who HPlne letters of Mr. Carpenter in this series will be as varfe-
sailed in November from San Francisco , was to go first to gated as the various countries he will visit. He * will de
Manila and make that the base of his Philippine excursions. scribe the Filipinos , their habits , their armies , their industries ,
After leaving the Philippines he goes to China , thence to their railroads , their religious rites , their peculiarities and curi
Java and the Dutch East Indies , to the South Sea Islands , to osities. He will interview the great native potentates of the
the Colonial Continent of Australia , to New Zealand and Tasmania different Oriental nations , He will tell how the Dutch gov
mania , to Samoa and the Fiji Islands and then to Hawaii , on ern their island colonies. He will outline the recent progress
his way home. Many of these trips will hav-2 to be made by and improvements in the Australian states. He will explain
special expeditions and outfits , with servants guides and inter the possibilities for American trade and investment in fact
preters specially hired. tell just what the reader would seek to learn if making the trip himself.
The Philippines are the least known of any of 'the ' many
lands which the Stars and Stripes floating
over .
. . . , _ .are ; .
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intelligent American is eager to learn more of the condition , resources , characteristics and prospects of the Filipinos and the
territory they inhabit and he can find no better way of satisfying this quest than through the observant eyes of Mr. Carpenter , trained for
years in work of this very kind.
Carpenter's Philippine letters will shortly appear each week in The Bee in no other paper in this section.
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