The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918 by Frank Michael O'Brien - HTML preview

 

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