INDEX

Abell, Arunah S., associate of Day, 23

establishes Baltimore Sun, 136

buys Guilford estate, 136

helps S. F. B. Morse, 136

death of, in 1888, 136

Abolition of slavery, article on, 54

Wisner’s editorial on, 42

Actors of the early 30’s, 121

Adams, Cyrus C., cable editor, 394

Adamson, Robert, Evening Sun reporter, 399

Adams, Samuel Hopkins, Dana finds it hard to discharge, 378, 379

writes Sunday Sun fiction, 412

Adams, Samuel, murdered by John C. Colt, 154

“Addition, Division, and Silence,” 305, 306

Advertising, fashions of, in 1833, 26

specimens of early “liners,” 125

the Sun takes off the first page in 1862, 189

the Sun, under Morrison, refuses advertisements on Sunday, 190

Alamo massacre, 113

Alexander, Columbus, escape of, in the Safe Burglary Conspiracy, 308, 309

Alger, Horatio, Jr., writes fiction for the Sun, 195

Allen, Miss Susan, smokes a cigar on Broadway, 45

Alumni, of the Sun, 328

Anderson, Harold M., Spanish war correspondent, 355, 356

Arago, D. F., alleged deception of, by the Moon Hoax, 97–99

Armstrong, Henry M., Spanish war correspondent, 356

Associated Press, Dana’s break with, 374

formed in Sun office, 167

Astor House, 49

Astor, William B., New York’s richest man, 234

Attree, William H., 61–62

reporter on the Transcript, 133, 134

Aviation, prophetic editorial comment on, 46

“Azamet Batuk.” See Thiéblin, N. L.

Badeau, General Adam, a Sun contributor, 404

Ballard, Anna, reporter, 286

Balloon Hoax, Poe’s, referred to by De Morgan, 98

Bartlett, Willard, dramatic critic, counsel for Dana, editorial contributor, 286

invents the Sun Cat, 287

Bartlett, William O., writes “No king, no clown, to rule this town!”, 255

style of, compared with Dana’s and Mitchell’s, 256

reference of, to General Hancock’s weight, 256

counsel for Tweed, 275

Battey, Emily Verdery, first real woman reporter, 285, 286

appears in the Sun on April 13, 1844, 149–153

Beach, Alfred Ely, becomes partner in the Sun, 161, 162

invents first typewriter for the blind, 162

builds first New York subway, 162, 163

withdraws from the Sun April 6, 1852, 171

dies in 1896, 163

Beach Brothers, name of ownership, 170, 171

issue Evening Sun, 171

Beach, Erasmus D., book reviewer, 349

writes classic football story, 350

Beach, Frederick Converse, 163

Beach, Joseph, son of Moses Y. Beach, 173

Beach, Moses Sperry, becomes a partner in the Sun, 161, 162

part owner Boston Daily Times, 162

invents printing devices, 162

becomes sole owner of the Sun, 171

brings wood from the Mount of Olives for Beecher’s pulpit, 177

absence of, from the Sun in the early months of the Civil War, 189

takes the Sun back, 191

sells the Sun to Dana, 198, 199

bids readers farewell, 200

Beach, Moses Yale, enters Sun office as bookkeeper, 111

buys the Sun, 127

youth and marriage of, 139

inventions of, 140

joins Benjamin H. Day, 140

owns two buildings where the Sun had its home, 157

takes sons as partners, 161

enterprise of, in Mexican War, 164, 165

starts for Mexico as President Polk’s special agent, 166

retires from the Sun, 167

dinner in his honour, 167

issues various editions of the Sun, 169

publishes “The Wealth of New York,” 169

father of the newspaper syndicate, 169

Dana’s estimate of, 169, 170

amasses a fortune and retires, 170

writes European articles for the Sun, 173

Beach, Stanley Yale, 163

Becker, Charles, conviction of, reported by E. C. Hill, 320, 321

Beckwith, Arthur, telegraph editor, 280

Beecher, Henry Ward, John Brown speech of, in the Sun, 177

tribute to H. B. Stanton, 259

trial of, 278

“I don’t read the Sun,” 310

denounced by the Sun, 311

Belknap, William W., accused by the Sun in Post-trader scandal and impeached, 306, 307

Bell, Jared D., part owner, New Era, 134

Bendelari, George, book-reviewer, 411

Bennett, James Gordon, thrashed by Col. Webb, 36

work of, for the Courier and Enquirer, 37

editor Philadelphia Courier, 53

the Sun replies to charge of, that Day is an infidel, 108

early career of, 109

treats Helen Jewett’s murder sensationally, 114

second assault on, by Webb described, 114

early failures of, 131

debt of, to Day’s example, 132

announcement of coming marriage of, 132

establishes the no-credit system, 133

works harder than other proprietors, 174

dies in 1872, 293

“the first yellow journalist,” 413

Bennett, J. G., Jr., takes his father’s place, 298

death of, 132

Bigelow, John, associate of Bryant, 174

Bishop, Joseph W., night city editor, 372

night editor, 372

Black, Chauncey F., a Sun contributor, 405

Blackwood, Algernon, Evening Sun reporter, 399

Blatchford, Judge Samuel, historic decision of, in the Shepherd case, 307, 308

Blizzard of March, 1888, 362, 363

Blythe, Samuel G., describes E. G. Riggs, 346

Bogart, John B., “If a man bites a dog, that is news,” 241

“a whole school of journalism,” 281

possesses “sixth sense,” 335, 336

persistence of, 336

Bonner, Robert, pays $30,000 for “Norwood,” 235

sagacity of, commented on by Dana, 300

Book-reviewers, Sun’s, list of, 411

Borden, Lizzie, acquittal of, reported by Julian Ralph, 318, 319

Bowery Theatre Fire, ruins Hamblin, 118

first American playhouse lighted with gas, 121

Bowles, Samuel, employs B. H. Day, 22–23

Bowman, Frank, dramatic critic, 411

Bread riots, the Sun’s part in, 118, 119

Brewster, Sir David, appears in Moon Hoax, 71

Brisbane, Albert, association of, with Greeley, 161

Brisbane, Arthur, son of Albert Brisbane, 161

style of, like W. O. Bartlett’s, 256

becomes reporter at 18, 346, 347

becomes London correspondent, 347

reports Sullivan-Mitchell fight, 347

is managing editor Evening Sun, 348

becomes editor Sunday World magazine, 348

becomes editor Evening Journal, 348

becomes proprietor Washington Times, 348

takes Richard Harding Davis on Evening Sun, 398

Brook Farm, Dana enters, 206

Brooklyn Theatre fire, 362

Brooks brothers, James and Erastus, establish New York Express, 134, 135

Brown, John, the Sun’s attitude toward, 177

Bryant, William Cullen, editor and poet in 1833, 34

conflict of, with W. L. Stone, 34

Buchanan, James, supported by the Sun, 176

Burdell, Dr. Harvey, murder of, 196

Burnett, Wm., 60

Burr, Aaron, 51

Butler, Stephen B., 60

Cady, Elizabeth, marries Henry B. Stanton, 259

Caroline case, the Sun’s enterprise in reporting, 144, 145

Carroll, Dana H., Spanish war correspondent, 355

Cat, the Sun’s, his invention and reputation, 287–289

Chadwick, George W., in business with Dana, 216

Chamberlains and Chamberlins, 341–343

Chamberlain, Henry Richardson, covers Europe for the Sun, 342

visions by, of a great war, 342

Chamberlin, Wilbur J., takes charge of the Sun staff in Cuba, 356

eleven-column report by, 361

known as “Jersey,” 338;

cable hoodoo of, 339, 340

describes German soldiers’ brutality in China, 340

describes the Deacon’s broken suspenders, 341

Chamberlin, E. O., reporter, 342

Chamberlin, Henry B., reporter, 343

Childs, George W., tells of W. M. Swain’s industry, 135

buys Public Ledger, 135

Cholera, in New York, 1832, 22

Church, Francis P., a Sun editorial writer for forty years, 191

“Is There a Santa Claus?,” 409

Church, William C., publisher of the Sun, 190

war correspondent, 190, 191

owns Army and Navy Journal, 191

Circulation in November, 1833, 2,000, 50

in December, 1833, 52

April, 1834, 54

in November, 1834, 57

Day offers to bet on it, 62–63

in August, 1835, it becomes the largest in the world, 78

in August, 1836, 27,000, 116

in September, 1843, 38,000, 157

in December, 1848, 50,000, 168

in September, 1860, 59,000, 194

Dana’s estimate of 50,000 to 60,000 in 1868, 228

in 1871, 100,000, 269

in March, 1875, 120,000, 300

day after Tilden-Hayes election, 220, 390, 323, 325

after other interesting events, 323–325

high-tide marks, 325

Civil War, the Sun in the, 172 et seq.

the Sun declares “the Union cannot be dissolved,” 179

the Sun charges the Herald, the Daily News, and the Staats-Zeitung with disloyalty, 180, 181

the Sun, the Tribune, and the Times entirely loyal, 185

the Sun’s news from Bull Run, 187;

from Gettysburg, 188

the Sun protests against Sunday battles, 190

attitude of Greeley and Dana, 211

Clarke, Selah Merrill, night city editor, 1881–1912, 383

story of the Northampton disaster by, 383

remarkable memory of, 384, 385

head-lines written by, 387, 388

gifts of, as copy reader, 389

Cleveland, Grover, Dana’s opposition to, 421, 422

Clubs: Bread and Cheese, Hone, Union, 122, 123

Cobb, Irvin S., reports Portsmouth peace conference for Evening Sun, 399

Coffey, Titian J., recipient of the “addition, division, and silence” letter, 305

Collins, E. K., an advertiser in the first Sun, 27

Colt, John C., murders Samuel Adams, 154

Conkling, Roscoe, in business with Dana, 216

Connolly, James, reporter, 284

Conventions, national, Sun men reporting, 344

history of, written by E. G. Riggs, 346

Cook, Tom, reporter, 284

Cooper, Charles P., city editor, Evening Sun, 400

Cooper, James Fenimore, 50

Corbin, John, dramatic critic, 411

Coward, Edward Fales, Evening Sun dramatic critic, 399

Crédit Mobilier scandal, 304

Crockett, David, memoirs of, in the Sun, 51

Cronyn, Thoreau, Dewey’s funeral, report by, 333

Cuba, Dana’s interest in struggle of, 353–355

Cullen, Clarence L., writes “Tales of the Ex-Tanks,” 411

Cummings, Alexander, writes for the World, 182

Cummings, Amos Jay, secretly learns typesetting, 264

goes with Filibuster Walker, 265

wins Medal of Honor at Fredericksburg, 265

holds Tribune office against rioters, 266

conflicts with John Russell Young, 266

“They say I swear too much,” 267

“To hell with my own copy,” 267

best news man of his day, 268

is first human interest reporter, 268

reports prize fights, 285

Nicara-goo Song of, 289, 290

“Ziska” letters of, 290

is managing editor of the Express, 290

returns to the Sun, 290

is elected to House of Representatives, 290

becomes editor Evening Sun, 290

returns to Congress, 290, 291

death and funeral of, 291

prints murder charts, 414

Curtin, Jeremiah, a Sun contributor, 404

Curtis, David A., Sunday Sun writer, 412

Curtis, George Ticknor, a Sun contributor, 404

Curtis, George William, writes for the Tribune, 161

Daly, Augustin, tries to have Dana dismiss Laffan, 252

Damrosch, Leopold, music critic, 314

Dana, Charles A., a boy in Buffalo when Day founded the Sun, 35

reading “Oliver Twist” weakens eyes of, 123

draws $50 a week on Tribune, 174

named by the Sun as a possible postmaster, 179

buys the Sun and announces its policy, 198, 199

absolute master of the Sun, 202

birth and ancestry, 202

brothers and sisters of, 203

boyhood and life of, in Buffalo, 203, 204

goes to Harvard, 204

teaches school at Scituate, 205

religious indecision of, 205

sight of, impaired, 206

joins Brook Farm, 206

milks cows and waits on table, 207

meets Horace Greeley, 207

writes for the Harbinger and the Dial, 207

writes poetry, 208

marries, 208

goes to Boston Daily Chronotype, 208

comes out “strong against hell,” 209

becomes city editor of the New York Tribune, 209

goes to Europe, 209

returns to be managing editor of the Tribune, 210

his pay and income, 210

literary works of, before Civil War, 213

leaves the Tribune, 214, 215

induces Grant to stop the cotton speculation, 216

convinces Lincoln of needed reforms, 216

is chosen to report on complaints against Grant, 216, 217

writes of his “new insight into slavery,” 218

is with Grant at Vicksburg, 218

brings Grant full authority, 218

sees much of war, 219

estimate of Grant by, 219

estimate of Rawlins by, 219, 220

reports on Rosecrans, 220

poetry contest of, with General Lawler, 221

describes the storming of Missionary Ridge, 221, 222

reports Grant’s Virginia campaign, 222, 223

goes to Richmond to gather Confederate archives, 224

talks with Lincoln about Jacob Thompson, 224

authorizes Miles to manacle Jefferson Davis, 224

quoted on Davis’s imprisonment, 225

becomes editor of Chicago Republican, 225

assails President Johnson, 226

quits Chicago Republican, 226

determines to have a New York newspaper, 226

his backers, 226

decides to buy the Sun, 228, 229

changes its appearance, 230

moves “It Shines for All,” 230, 231

“Dana was the Sun and the Sun Dana,” 231

makes no rules for the Sun, 238

editorial principles of, 238, 239

lectures at Cornell, 239

defines news, 241

on college education, 242

on reporting, 242

“The invariable law is to be interesting,” 243

“Do not take any model,” 243, 244

not impressed by names of writers, 246

“This is too damned wicked,” 246

refuses to expose a silly literary thief, 246

methods and surroundings of, 246–251

interest of, in everything and everybody, 251

“Take the partition down,” 251

love of, for variety of topics, 253

delight of, in other men’s work, 254

tact of, in handling men, 263

death of great rivals of, 293

quoted on “personal journalism,” 296

quoted on Greeley, Raymond, and Bennett, 297

“We pass the Tribune by”, 298

advises World reporters to read the Bible, 299

kindly feeling of, toward the younger Bennett, 299

belief of, in a newspaper without advertising, 299–301

objects to “heavy chunks of news,” 302

“our contemporaries exhaust their young men,” 302

is a witness against Secretary Robeson, 305

defeats Shepherd’s attempt to railroad him, 307

denies wishing to be collector of the port, 309, 310

loses friends because of attacks on Grantism, 310

refuses to be turned, 310

retains opinion of Grant’s military ability, 310

“First find the man,” plans of, 326

frames gold plank for New York convention of 1896, 345

asks Platt not to oppose Roosevelt, 345

affection of, for Cuba, 353–354

memorial to, in Camaguey, 354, 355

breaks with Associated Press, 374

encouraged Sun men to write fiction, 405

“The second yellow journalist,” 413

not a yellow journalist, 415

attacks yellow journalism, 413, 415, 416, 417

revolutionizes journalism, 416

“An opposition party in himself,” 420

attacks Hayes, 420

opposition of, to Cleveland, 420

supports B. F. Butler, 420

would burn his pen rather than support Blaine, 421

opinion of, on civil service reform, 421

opposes Bryan, 422

continental travels, 423

knowledge of languages, 423

porcelain collection of, 423

country home of, 424

death of, 425

the Sun’s announcement of death of, 425

elevation of journalism by, 426

Dana, Paul, succeeds his father as editor, 426

chief owner, 427

Davids, David, reporter, 283

Davies, Acton, Spanish war correspondent, 356

Evening Sun dramatic critic, 399

Davis, Oscar King, goes with Schley’s squadron, 355

describes capture of Guam, 356, 357

Davis, Richard Harding, experiences and work of, on Evening Sun, 398

writes Van Bibber stories for Evening Sun, 398

Day, Benjamin H., decides to publish the Sun, 22

birth and ancestry of, 22

issues the first Sun, 25

issues a True Sun, 60

is indicted for attacking Attree, 61

welcomes an attack by Col. Webb, 111

quarrels with Bennett, 110

attacks the service at the Astor House, 117

name of, taken from the Sun’s masthead, 125

sells the Sun to Moses Y. Beach, 127

period of ownership by, of the Sun, 127

profits from the Sun, 127, 128

influence of, upon journalism, 129

influence of, on Bennett’s success, 131, 132

success of, responsible for the founding of many one-cent papers, 133

says the Sun’s success was “more by accident than design,” 137

establishes True Sun, 137

starts the Tatler, 137, 138

founds Brother Jonathan, 138

retirement and death of, 138

remarks on Dana’s purchase of the Sun, 138

son of Benjamin H. Day, 138

contrasted with Dana, 202

was he a yellow journalist?, 414

Delane, John T., pictured by Kinglake, 247

De Morgan, Augustus, notes of, on the Moon Hoax, 96–99

Denison, Lindsay, covers Slocum disaster, 361

Dick, Dr. Thomas, 66

Dickens, Charles, “Nicholas Nickleby” criticized, 123

The Sun’s comments on American visit of, 155, 156, 157

Dieuaide, Thomas M., writes story of the Santiago sea fight, 355, 356

describes the destruction of St. Pierre, 357, 358

Dillingham, Charles B., Evening Sun dramatic critic, 399

Dix, John A., an advertiser in the first Sun, 28

Dix, John A., Governor, seizes three New York newspapers in 1864, 183

Douglas, Stephen A., the Sun’s attitude toward, 175, 177, 178

Draper, Dr. John W., 35

Dyer, Oliver, versatility of, 405

Eaton, Walter P., dramatic critic, 411

Edison, Thomas A., thanks the Sun for chewing tobacco, 322

Editorial writers, list of, 326

England, Isaac W., first managing editor of the Sun, 263, 264

Dana’s tribute to, 264

Evans, George O., “He understands addition, division, and silence,” 305

Evening Sun, first issued by Beach Brothers, 171

issued by Dana, March 17, 1887, 397

“Laffan’s baby,” 397

Cummings first managing editor of, 397

later managing editors of, 398, 400

list of editorial writers, managing editors, and city editors of, 399, 400

Express service, usefulness to the Sun, 140, 141

Fairbanks, Charles M., reporter and night editor, 351

Fernandez, the murderer, 103–104

Field, Eugene, obtains Dana’s shears, 249

Fire, New York conflagration of 1835, 105–106

Fisk, James, Jr., pays $800,000 for a theatre, 236

tells of Sun enterprise, 269, 270

Fitzgerald, Christopher J., finds the lost Umbria, 392, 393

Flaherty, Bernard. See Williams, Barney.

Flint, Dr. Austin, youthful friend of Dana, 204

Florence, William J., subscriber to the Tweed statue fund, 273

Foord, John, editor of the Times, 298

Football, Ralph’s story without a score, 334, 335

Beach’s Homeric introduction, 350, 351

Forks, the Sun’s conservative attitude toward, 55

Forrest, Edwin, 55–56

Fowler, Elting A., predicts Bryan’s appointment as Secretary of State, 377

Fuller, Andrew S., agricultural editor, 199, 200

Fyles, Franklin, reports Beecher trial, 278

reporter, dramatic critic, and playwright, 283

Garr, Andrew S., sues Day for libel, 126

Gibson, A. M., Washington correspondent, 312

Godwin, Parke, edits Daily News, 181

Goodwin, Joseph, creates Sarsaparilla Reilly, 412

Gould, Jay, is blackballed in the Blossom Club, 270

Grant, Ulysses S., the Sun’s support of, in 1868, announced, 199

imposed upon, 304

opposed by the Sun, 304

Grant scandals, 304–310

Greeley, Horace, founds Morning Post, 23

fails with Morning Post, 37

Albany correspondent Daily Whig, 134

starts the Tribune, 159

is scorned by the Sun, 159

hires Henry J. Raymond, 160

attacks the Sun, 161

tells British legislators the Sun was cheap at $250,000, 171

mentioned for the collectorship, 179

hires Dana, 209

timidity of, toward slavery, 211

writes pleas to Dana, 212

denies writing “Forward to Richmond!”, 213

hires Cummings on the state of his breeches, 266

Gregg, Frederic J., editorial writer, Evening Sun, 400

Griffis, William Elliot, a Sun contributor, 404

Gurowski, Count, writes for the Tribune, 161

Hackett, James H., 39

Hallock, Gerard, sympathy of, with slavery forces him to retire from the Journal of Commerce, 181, 182

Hamblin, Thomas S., ruined by fire of 1836, 118

beats Bennett, 118

Hamilton, Captain, aspersions of, relative to tooth brushes, 45

Harbour Association, formed by six newspapers, 167

Harnden, William F., starts express service, New York to Boston, 141

Harte, Bret, stories by, syndicated by the Sun, 403

Hawkins, Ervin, city editor, Evening Sun, 400

Hayward, Billings, part owner of the Transcript, 133, 134

Hazeltine, Mayo W., writes on Dana’s elevation of journalism, 426

“M. W. H.,” 408

literary critic for thirty-one years, 408

Head-lines, the Sun’s second, 44

examples of (1833), 52

example of, in Dana’s time, 314

Hearst, William R., “the fourth yellow journalist,” 413

Henderson, William J., musical critic and yachting writer, 391

Hendrix, Joseph C., “Cut out the damn,” 279

“Hermit,” writes Washington letters for the Sun, 176

Herschel, Sir John F. W., 66

Hill, Edwin C., reports Becker trial, 321

style of, in disaster stories, 361, 362

Hitchcock, Thomas, author of “Matthew Marshall” financial articles, 228

Hoaxes. See Moon Hoax, Balloon Hoax, Mungo Park.

Hoe, Robert, Day’s remark at dinner to, 137

Holmes, Mary J., writes novels for the Sun, 195

Hone, Philip, as a writer, 37

Horse expresses: the six-cent papers combine to use, 110

Hotels, huge noon dinners in the thirties, 122

Howard, Joseph, Jr., issues a false Presidential proclamation, 183

Hudson, Frederic, opposes managing editorships, 262

“Human interest,” 244, 245, 313, 363

Humour, 366, 367

Hurlbut, William Henry, a Sun contributor, 405

Illustrations, the Sun’s first, 43

Interviews, invented by Bennett, 316

Introductions, the Sun’s objection to, 363

Irving, Washington, 34–35

Irwin, Will, “The City That Was,” 358

“It Shines for All,” 58

Jackson, Andrew, message of, printed in full, 51

James, Henry, flashy head-lines on a novel by, 404

Jennings, Louis J., chief editorial writer of the Times, 274

becomes editor of the Times, 298

returns to England, 298

Jewett, Helen, murder of, 113, 114

trial of Robinson for murder of, 115, 116

Jones, Alexander, becomes first agent of Associated Press, 167

invents telegraph cipher, 167

Jones, George, partner of H. J. Raymond, 274

Journalism, the earliest dailies, 29

advance of, between 1830 and 1840, 136, 137

great editors of 1868, 233

managing editors, 262, 263

first women reporters, 285, 286

Watterson’s review in 1873, 293–295

“Personal journalism,” 295, 296

Dana’s dream of a paper without advertisements, 299–301

interviewing, 316

What do people read?, 323

“Sixth sense,” 335, 336

Journal of Commerce, the Sun’s only surviving morning contemporary of 1833, 25

Josephs, Joseph, reporter, 283

Kane, Lawrence S., city editor, 279

reporter, 280

Kellogg, Daniel F., city editor 1890–1902, 371

Kelly, John, marriage of, reported, 321, 322

Kemble, Fanny, 44, 59

Kemble, W. H., author of the “addition, division, and silence” letter, 305

causes Dana’s arrest, 306

is sent to prison, 306

Kendall, George W., despatches of, to the New Orleans Picayune used by the Sun, 165

King, Charles, editor of the American, 130, 131

Know-Nothing Party, uses Maria Monk’s “Disclosures” as political capital, 112

Kobbé, Gustav, dramatic and musical critic, 350

Laffan Bureau, established, 375

growth, 376

Laffan, William M., becomes proprietor of the Sun, 427

thorough newspaper training of, 427

art expert, 427, 428

dramatic critic, 428

“Anybody can get anything printed, except the owner,” 428

death of, in 1909, 430

Landon, M. D. See Eli Perkins.

Leggett, William, fights duel with Blake, 130

Levermore, Charles H., describes victory of the Sun and the Herald over old-fashioned journalism, 137

Lincoln, Abraham, “No match for the Little Giant,” 177

“A man of the people,” 178

is elected, “and yet the country is safe,” 179

Sun comments on re-election of, 182;

on death of, 182

New York newspapers’ comment on emancipation proclamation, 184

assigns Dana to Virginia campaign, 222

Literature, in the fifties, 173

serial novels contracted for by M. S. Beach, 196

“The finest side of the Sun,” 402, et seq.

Literary men, list of, in 1833, 34–35

Lloyd, Nelson, Spanish war correspondent, 355

city editor, Evening Sun, 400

Locke, Richard Adams, goes on Sun as a reporter, 64

Poe’s sketch of, 65, 66

early life of, 66

confesses the Moon Hoax, 86–87

life of the murderer, Fernandez, by, 103–104

starts the New Era, 116–117

writes “The Lost Manuscript of Mungo Park,” 117

becomes editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, 117, 118

death of, 118

attends dinner to Moses Y. Beach, 167

Lord, Chester S., Whisky Ring story by, 284, 285

long service of, 326, 327

first staff of, 327

“Ten thousand battles of,” 327

managing editor, 1880–1913, 372

studies at Hamilton College, 373

goes on the Sun as a reporter, 373

buys Syracuse Standard, 373

returns to the Sun, 373

assistant managing editor, 373

managing editor, 373

described by E. G. Riggs, 373

perfects collection of election returns, 374

sends Blaine first news of his defeat, 374

establishes a news service in a night, 375

selection of correspondents by, 376

“Use your own judgment,” 377, 378

“You’ve been fired, but come back,” 378

Lord, Kenneth, city editor, 371, 432

Lotteries, list of numbers drawn, in the Sun, 40

Lottery advertising, 37

Luby, James, chief editorial writer, Evening Sun, 400

Lyman, Ambrose W., night city editor, 371

Lynch, Charles, Sunday Sun writer, 412

Lynde, Willoughby, part owner of the Transcript, 133, 134

Magazines, New York periodicals in 1833, 34

Maguire, Mark, newsboy and sports writer, 285

invents boxing chart, 285

Mallon, George Barry, city editor, 1902–1914, 371

Mandigo, John, sporting editor, 395

Mann, Henry, reporter, exchange editor and author, 284

reports Stokes trial, 321

Mansfield, Josephine, 236, 270

Marble, Manton, joins the World, 182

controls it, 182

protests to Lincoln when the World is suppressed, 183

Maria Monk, the Sun prints “Disclosures” of, 111, 112

exposed by W. L. Stone in the Commercial Advertiser, 112, 113

Martineau, Harriet, comments of, on the Moon Hoax, 86

“Matthew Marshall.” See Hitchcock, Thomas.

Matthias the Prophet, trial of, for murder, 63

McAlpin, Robert, reporter, 284

McAlpin, Tod, reporter, 284

McClellan, George B., supported by the Sun in 1864, 185

McCloy, W. C., city editor and managing editor, Evening Sun, 398, 400

McDonnell, P. G., predicts Aguinaldo’s revolt, 376

McEntee, Joseph, Albany correspondent, 394

Mexican War, Sun’s news of, 164, 165

costly to newspapers, 166

Mitchell, Edward P., owns a copy of the first Sun, 26

is quoted on Dana’s freedom from ancient journalistic rules, 240

describes Dana’s methods and surroundings, 247–251

describes Dana’s encouragement of Cuba Libre, 354

finds “Plaza Charles A. Dana” in Camaguey, 355

writes short stories of distinction, 405

breadth of his fancy and humour, 405, 406

address on “The Newspaper Value of Non-essentials,” 406

champions the classics, 407

defines yellow journalism and white, 415

describes Dana’s revolution of journalism, 416

receives Dana’s instructions as to length of death notice, 425

becomes editor-in-chief, 430

president of the Sun Printing and Publishing Association, 1909–1911, 430

remains as editor, 432

“Monsieur X.” See Thiéblin, Napoleon L.

Moon Hoax, 64–101

reacts on the Sun’s big fire story, 106

Morris, George P., 37

Morrissey, John, pugilist, is supported for the Senate by the Sun, 323

Morrison, Archibald M., gains control of the Sun to use it for evangelical purposes, 189

Morse, Samuel F. B., assisted by W. M. Swain and A. S. Abell to finance the telegraph, 136

Motto, “It Shines for All” appears, origin of, 58

Mullin, Edward H., editorial writer, Evening Sun, 400

Munn, Orson D., buys Scientific American with Alfred E. Beach, 162

Munsey, Frank A., sells Washington Times to Brisbane, 348

remarks of, at Yale on the influence of the Sun and the World, 419

buys New York Press, 431

buys the Sun, 431

consolidates the Sun and the Press, 431

buys Stewart Building, 432

“M. W. H.” See Hazeltine, M. W.

“Mystery of Marie Roget.” See Rogers, Mary.

Navy Department scandals, 304, 305

“Nemo,” a Sun correspondent in the Civil War, 188

News boats, 166

Newsboys, Day originates street sales by, 39–40

Sam Messenger, 40

Newspapers, Courrant, the first English daily, 29

London Times the first English paper to use a steam press, 29

Pennsylvania Packet, the first American daily, 29

the Globe, oldest New York paper, 29

the Evening Post, second oldest New York paper, 29

the Courier and the Enquirer amalgamated, 35

New York Tribune, founding of, 37

New York Times is started, 57

the Transcript is started, 57

the True Sun, 59–60

Courier and Enquirer, its huge size, 62

attitude of the Sun’s contemporaries toward the Moon Hoax, 75, 76, 82, 87

the Sun’s penny imitators, editorial reference to, 107

New York Herald prints the first report of Stock Exchange sales, 109

Herald’s circulation in 1836, 116

the Journal of Commerce denounces the Sun as an inciter of riots, 119

paper rolls, a new invention, described, 123, 124

Courier and Enquirer’s writers under Webb, 130

Journal of Commerce, enterprise under Gerard Hallock’s editorship, 130

the Transcript’s early success, 133, 134

list of penny papers started in New York, 1833–1838, 134

New York Express established, 134, 135

New York Daily News established, 134, 135

the Daily Transcript, the first Philadelphia penny paper, 135

Philadelphia Public Ledger, office mobbed, 135

list of great dailies founded, 1833–1843, 136

the Herald called “a very bad paper,” by Greeley, 174

New York World, appearance of, as a highly moral sheet, 182

the New York Times and the Tweed exposure, 274, 275

Orange Postman, the first penny paper, 29

Newspaper feuds, Day and Webb, 54

Sun and Journal of Commerce, 54

New York, size and life of, in 1833, 32–34

life in the thirties, 121–123

rich and powerful figures of Dana’s first Sun year, 234, 235

clubs, hotels, and theatres of the sixties, 236, 237

New York Press, sports staff of, transferred to the Sun, 393

Nicollet, Jean Nicolas, supposed connection of, with the Moon Hoax, 94–101

Noah, Mordecai M., 61

establishes Morning Star, 134

“No king, no clown, to rule this town,” 255

Norr, William, writes “The Pearl of Chinatown,” 411

North, S. N. D., describes the influence of the penny press, 137

North, Walter Savage, writes fiction for the Sun, 196

circulation of New York dailies in 1833, 31

“Nym Crinkle.” See Andrew C. Wheeler.

O’Brien, John H., Laffan’s jest with, 429, 430

Odion, Henry W., night city editor, 371

O’Hanlon, Virginia, asks the Sun if there is a Santa Claus, 409

O’Malley, Frank W., story by, on Policeman Sheehan’s death, 364

describes Passover parade, 367

Overton, Grant M., book-reviewer, 411

Palmer, Frederick, Evening Sun reporter, 399

Paragraphs, quotations from, in 1834, 52–53

Park, Mungo, Locke writes the “Lost Manuscript” of, 117

Patton, Francis T., rules for exaggeration by, 390, 391

Penny newspapers, failure of, before the Sun was established, 23

Perkins, Eli (Melville De Lancey Landon), Sun correspondent, 314

Philip Hone, the Sun suggests that he incited a riot, 119

Phillips, David Graham, last assignments of, 360

finds material for novels, 360

Pigs in City Hall Park, the Sun objects to, 55

Pigeons, the Sun uses, to carry ship news, 146, 147

editorial explaining presence of, on the Sun’s roof, 147, 148

Pike, James S., Dana advises, to get “Black Dan drunk,” 211

career of, as journalist and diplomat, 256, 257

Poe, Edgar Allan, describes R. A. Locke, 65, 66

his “Hans Pfaall” spoiled by the Moon Hoax, 90–93

belief of, that the Moon Hoax firmly established penny newspapers, 102

returns to New York, 148

writes the Balloon Hoax for the Sun, 149

inspiration of, for “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” 153, 155

Post-Trader scandal, 306

Prall, William M., 104

Press, the Sun’s first, 24

the Sun’s second, 52

the Sun’s third, 58

Presses, Day buys two Napiers, 118

Price, Joseph, partner of R. A. Locke in New Era, 116

part owner New Era, 134

Price of the Sun changed from “one penny” to “one cent,” 51

Printers, union, in 1833, 48

Prize-fighting denounced, 59

Pulitzer, Joseph, is assigned by Dana to report the electoral controversy, 240

correspondent of the Sun, 312

“The third yellow journalist,” 413

influence of, on journalism, 419

Railroads, extent of, in 1833, 30

Ralph, Julian, reports Borden trial, 321

long service of, on Sun, 331

Grant’s funeral, report by, 332

books written by, 334

a football classic by, with the score left out, 334, 335

Molly Maguires, reported by, 335

is gifted with “sixth sense,” 335

describes reporting an inauguration, 337

Ramsey, Dave, originates the idea of a penny Sun, 21

Rawlins, General John A., part of, in Dana’s assignment to report on Grant, 218

Raymond, Henry J., goes to the Tribune, 160

performs a great reporting feat, 160

leaves Greeley, 160

becomes the first editor of the New York Times, 161

calls Webb’s paper “the Austrian organ in Wall Street,” 174

Reamer, Lawrence, dramatic critic, 411

Reick, William C., becomes proprietor, 430

early career of, 430, 431

improves Evening Sun, 431

sells the Sun to Frank A. Munsey, 431

Reid, Whitelaw, succeeds Greeley, 298

Reporters, comparison of styles, 315–322

Sun staff in 1893, 330

Sun, anonymity of, almost complete, 330

“The Sun has no ‘stars,’” 359

a typical assignment list in 1893, 359

Rewey, Elijah M., night city editor, 371

exchange editor, 372

Riggs, Edward G., reports seven national conventions, 343, 344

wide acquaintance of, 344

Dana’s reliance on, 344

“Riggs is my Phil Sheridan,” 345

defines political correspondents, 345, 346

described by Samuel G. Blythe, 346

writes history of national conventions, 346

describes Lord’s discernment, 373

tells how Lord built up the Laffan bureau, 375, 376

“One story you [Chamberlin] can’t write,” 341

“Rigolo.” See Thiéblin, N. L.

Riis, Jacob A., chief police reporter, Evening Sun, 398

writings of, attract Roosevelt, 398, 399

Riots, the Bowery Theatre, 55–56

Ripley, George, lectures, 205

helps Dana to enter Brook Farm, 206

is chief of the cow-milking group, 207

editor of the Harbinger, 207

prepares, with Dana, the “New American Encyclopedia,” 213

Robeson, George M., accused by the Sun in the Navy scandal, 304, 305

Robinson, Lucius, Sun reporter and governor, 104–105

Rogers, Mary, disappearance of, announced in the Sun, 153

editorial comment on murder of, 154

Poe’s uses case of, in fiction, 153, 155

Root, Walstein, Spanish war correspondent, 355

Rosebault, Walter M., city editor and reporter, 280

Rosenfeld, Sidney, Sun reporter in 1870, 280

Ruhl, Arthur, Evening Sun reporter, 399

Rum, the Sun’s aversion to, 43

Safe Burglary Conspiracy, 308

Salary Grab, 307

Sam Patch, the Sun’s pigeon, 147, 149

Santa Claus editorial article, 409, 410

Scientific American, interest in, bought by Alfred E. Beach, 162

Secession, the Sun’s plan to emasculate, 179, 180

Serviss, Garret P., night editor, 372

Shaw, Henry Grenville, telegraph editor, 280

Shepherd, Alexander, accused by the Sun in the Washington paving scandal, 307

tries to hale Dana to Washington, 307

Short, Wm. F., 60

Shunk, James F., a Sun contributor, 405

Siamese Twins, arrest of, 51

Simonds, Frank H., editorial writer, the Sun and the Evening Sun, 400

Simonton, James W., associate of Raymond, 174

“Six-penny respectables,” 110

“Sixth sense,” examples of, 335, 336

Slavery, Missouri Compromise and Dred Scott decision rejected by the Sun, 175, 176

Smith, George M., night editor, 1904–1912, 372

managing editor Evening Sun, 400

Smith, Goldwin, a Sun contributor, 404

Space rates, 380

Spalding, James R., a World writer, 182

Spanish War, Sun’s news service in, 353–356

Sports, the Sun’s first prize-fight story, 58

Sports department, 391–393

Spears, John R., cruises around the world, 349

reports America’s Cup races, 349

covers Hatfield-McCoy feuds, 349

books written by, 349

Spears, Raymond S., reporter, 349

Speed, Keats, becomes managing editor, 432

Spencer, Edward, a writer of fiction for the Sun, 405

Stanley, William J., part owner of the Transcript, 133

Stanton, Henry Brewster, a Sun writer from 1868 to 1887, 258, 259

Beecher’s tribute to, 259

Stanton, Edwin M., asks Dana to enter War Department, 215

withdraws appointment, 216

Steamships, Great Western arrives at New York, 119

Sirius arrives at New York, 119

the Sun’s extras on arrival of, 142

loss of the President, 143

Stephens, Ann S., writes fiction for the Sun, 196

Stereotyping, adopted by the Sun, 193

Stetson, Francis Lynde, a Sun contributor, 404

Stevenson, Robert Louis, early successes of, first appear in the Sun, 403, 404

South Seas articles of, complete only in the Sun, 403, 404

Stewart, Alexander T., grave robbery of, 322

Stewart, William (“Walsingham”), first dramatic critic to adopt intimate style, 411

Stillman, Amos B., telegraph editor for forty-five years, 280

“Quite a fire in Chicago,” 281

Stokes, Edward S., conviction of, reported by Henry Mann, 317, 318

Stone, William L., conflict of, with Bryant, 34

the Sun’s quarrel with, 56

sketch of, 112

exposes Maria Monk, 113

Sullivan-Mitchell fight, Arthur Brisbane’s report of, 347, 348

Sun, the, reprints of the first issue, 25

size of the first issue, 25

extant copies of first issue, 26

second issue, contents of, 38

attacks shinplasters and phrenology, 123

sold by Day to Beach, 127

plant, expenses, and circulation of, June, 1838, 128

Day’s period of ownership of, 127

editorial comment in 1837 on popularity of, 129

issues extras on the arrival of the Great Western, the British Queen, and other steamships, 142

uses horse expresses to bring Governor Seward’s message from Albany, 143

uses train, trotting horses, and boat to get the news of the steamer Caroline case, 144, 145

uses carrier pigeons to get ship news, 146, 147

moves to Nassau and Fulton streets, 1842, 146, 147

second home of, burned after it had moved, 157

buys a new dress of type every three months, 158

is seven columns wide in 1840, 158

title of, reads “The New York Sun” for a few months, 158

is eight columns wide in 1843, 158

Weekly Sun, 169

American Sun, for Europeans, 169

Illustrated Sun, 169

syndicates President Tyler’s Message in 1841, 169

value of, $250,000 in 1852, 171

becomes a two-cent paper August 1, 1864;

a one-cent paper, July 1, 1916;

a two-cent paper January 26, 1918, 194

size of, reduced to five columns in 1863, 193

Weekly Sun, continued by Dana, 199

Semi-Weekly Sun announced, 199

Dana and his associates pay $175,000 for, 228, 229

apologizes for issuing more than four pages, 278

city editors under Cummings, 279

telegraph editors, 280

Office Cat of, 287–289

only four pages for twenty years, 301

extraordinary sales, 323–325

success of, explained by E. P. Mitchell, 325

the Sun spirit, 326, 379

home of, for forty-seven years, 369

editors-in-chief, only three in fifty years, 371

managing editors, list of, 371

city editors, list of, 371

night city editors, list of, 371

night editors, list of, 372

news system, 372

ethics, 380–383

list of editorial writers, 409

price of, 431, 432

homes of, 432

“Sunbeams” column, 315

Sun cholera cure, 173

Swain, Wm. M., predicts Day’s ruin, 24

founds Philadelphia Public Ledger, 135

industry of, 135

makes $3,000,000, 135

Swift, John T., sends the Sun a beat on Port Arthur’s fall, 376, 377

Swinton, John, double intellectual life of, 259

makes speeches attacking Dana, 260

is managing editor of the Times, 261

starts John Swinton’s Paper, 261

Tammany Hall, old home of, bought by Dana for the Sun, 229

Taylor, Bayard, European correspondent of the Tribune, 161

Telegraph, comments on Morse’s new invention, 145

a report that the Sun tried to control, 146

extended to New York in 1846, 146

is opened from New York to Philadelphia, Boston, and Albany, 164

lines completed in 1846, 165

drives reprint from first page, 171

first cable messages, 197, 198

Theatres, the Bowery riot, 55–56

attractions of the thirties, 121, 122

“Footlight Flashes,” 315, 316

list of Sun critics, 411

Thiéblin, Napoleon L., critic and essayist, 314, 315

uses pen names of “Monsieur X,” “Azamet Batuk,” and “Rigolo,” 314, 315

Tilden, Samuel J., editor of Daily News, 181

Townsend, Edward W., writes Chimmie Fadden stories, 330

fiction characters created by, 411

Trains, special news, used by Sun and Herald, 166

Trowbridge, H. Warren, writes fiction for the Sun, 195

Tweed, William M., is boss of the city, 234

as a source of news, 269

statue of, a Sun joke, 271–274

declination by, 273

retains W. O. Bartlett as counsel, 275

denounced by the Sun, 275, 276

absolute power of, 276

stable of, described by the Sun, 277

escapes from keepers, 277

Van Anda, Carr V., night editor, 1893–1904, 372

Van Buren, Martha, 51

Vance, John, writes editorials, 174

leaves the Sun, 192

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, an advertiser in the first Sun, 27

opposes Jay Gould, 235

a Sun interview with, in 1875, 316

Van Dyke, Dr. Henry, deception of, by Tweed statue joke, 274

Vila, Joseph, sports editor, Evening Sun, 400

Damon Runyon’s tribute to, 393

exposes huge betting, 393

Wall Street news, Bennett appreciates value of, 109

“Walsingham.” See William Stewart.

Wardman, Ervin, first used phrase “Yellow Journalism,” 415

becomes publisher of the Sun, 432

Warren, General Fitz-Henry, writes the phrase, “Forward to Richmond!”, 213, 214

career of, 214

Sun writer, soldier, and politician, 257, 258

article of, on Sumner’s death, 258

Watkins, James T., editorial writer, Evening Sun, 399

Watterson, Henry, “You [Dana] don’t make the Sun,” 291

“Mr. Dana is left alone,” 293–295

predicts no end to the “personality of journalism,” 295

first woman reporter of Evening Sun, 400

Webb, James Watson, journalist and a duellist, 35–36

editorial articles on, 61, 62

the Sun’s story of attack by, on Bennett, 108

charges the Sun with stealing a President’s message, 110, 111

second assault on Bennett described, 114

refuses Joseph Wood’s challenge, 115

retires from newspaper work, 183

Webster, Daniel, Bunker Hill speech of, reported by the Sun, 158

Weeks, Caleb, carries the Moon Hoax to Herschel in Africa, 86

Weston, Edward Payson, the best “leg man” in journalism, 283

feats of, in pedestrianism, 283, 284

Weyman, Charles S., editor of the “Sunbeams” column, 228

Wheeler, Andrew Carpenter, (“Nym Crinkle”), dramatic critic, 411

Whisky Ring scandal, 305

White, Frank Marshall, brings the Sun a beat on the missing steamer Umbria, 392, 393

Whitman, Stephen French, Evening Sun reporter, 399

Wild pigeons, 43

Williams, Barney (Bernard Flaherty), the Sun’s first newsboy, 40

makes first stage appearance, 121

Williams, John, city editor, 279

Willis, Nathaniel P., 37

Wilson, Alexander C., associate of Raymond, 174

Wilson, General James Harrison, quoted on Dana’s assignment to report on Grant, 217

says Grant declared Dana would be appointed collector, 309

Wisner, George W., the Sun’s first reporter, 38

becomes half owner of the Sun, 46

indicted for attack on Attree, 61

challenged to a duel, 62

retires from the Sun, 64

Wood, Benjamin, buys Daily News, 135

owns Daily News, 181

Wood, Fernando, proposes New York’s secession, 180

Wood, Dr. John B., “The Great American Condenser,” 278

condenses through a reader, 279

Wood, Joseph, feud over, and wife, challenge of, to Col. Webb, 115

Wood, Samuel A., originates rhymed news stories, 351

spring poem by, 352

“Snygless the Seas Are,” 352

Yale University, students of, investigate the Moon story, 84–85

Yellow Journalism, Col. Watterson’s statement on, 413

defined by E. P. Mitchell, 415

phrase, first used by Ervin Wardman, 415

Young, John Russell, orders of, enrage Cummings, 266

Young, Mr., charged by the Transcript with biting two of its carriers, 119

Young, William, city editor, 279

managing editor, 282

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