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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
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;
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
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
“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
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