The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918

by Frank Michael O'Brien

1916.—Frank A. Munsey becomes proprietor, June 30.

1916.—With the Sun is amalgamated the New York Press, July 3.

1916.—The price is reduced to one cent, July 3.

1918.—The price again becomes two cents, January 26.

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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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