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Frank Michael O'Brien. The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918
The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. SUNRISE AT 222 WILLIAM STREET
CHAPTER II. THE FIELD OF THE LITTLE “SUN”
CHAPTER III. RICHARD ADAMS LOCKE’S MOON HOAX
CHAPTER IV. DAY FINDS A RIVAL IN BENNETT
CHAPTER V. NEW YORK LIFE IN THE THIRTIES
CHAPTER VI. MOSES Y. BEACH’S ERA OF HUSTLE
CHAPTER VII “THE SUN” IN THE MEXICAN WAR
CHAPTER VIII “THE SUN” DURING THE CIVIL WAR
CHAPTER IX. THE EARLIER CAREER OF DANA
CHAPTER X. DANA: HIS “SUN” AND ITS CITY
CHAPTER XI. DANA, AS MITCHELL SAW HIM
CHAPTER XII. DANA’S FIRST BIG NEWS MEN
CHAPTER XIII. DANA’S FAMOUS RIVALS PASS
CHAPTER XIV “THE SUN” AND THE GRANT SCANDALS
CHAPTER XV “THE SUN” AND “HUMAN INTEREST”
CHAPTER XVI “SUN” REPORTERS AND THEIR WORK
CHAPTER XVII. SOME GENIUS IN AN OLD ROOM
CHAPTER XVIII. THE FINEST SIDE OF “THE SUN”
CHAPTER XIX “THE SUN” AND YELLOW JOURNALISM
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHRONOLOGY
INDEX
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Frank Michael O'Brien
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Nicholas Biddle and his friends could fill other papers with arguments, but the Sun kept its space for police items, stories of authenticated ghosts, and yarns about the late Emperor Napoleon. The removal of William J. Duane as Secretary of the Treasury got two lines on a page where a big shark caught off Barnstable got three lines, and the feeding of the anaconda at the American Museum a quarter of a column. Miss Susan Allen, who bought a cigar on Broadway and was arrested when she smoked it while she danced in the street, was featured more prominently than the expected visit to New York of Mr. Henry Clay, after whom millions of cigars were to be named. For the satisfaction of universal curiosity it must be reported that Miss Allen was discharged.
On October 1 of that same year—1833—the Sun came out for better fire-fighting apparatus, urging that the engines should be drawn by horses, as in London. In the same issue it assailed the gambling-house in Park Row, and scorned the allegation of Colonel Hamilton, a British traveller, that the tooth-brush was unknown in America. Slowly the paper was getting better, printing more local news; and it could afford to, for the penny Sun idea had taken hold of New York, and the sales were larger every week.
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