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

 By Frank Michael O'Brien

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By Frank Michael O'Brien
Published 1918
George H. Doran Co.
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Original from the University of Michigan
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156 Nassau Street - Page 157
Beach owned the Sun's new home at Fulton and Nassau Streets and the building at 156 Nassau Street which he had recently vacated, and which was burned ...
more pages: 432
150 Nassau Street - Page 433
associates bought; and at 150 Nassau Street, whither the Sun moved in July, 1915. It is expected that the Sun will presently move to another and a ...
13 Wall Street - Page 32
Albert Gallatin was president of the National Bank, at 13 Wall Street. Often at the end of his day's work.
12 Chambers Street - Page 32
A rival seat of learning, the University of the City of New York, chartered two years earlier, was temporarily housed at 12 Chambers Street, ...
75 Duane Street - Page 23
Day lived, with his wife and their infant son, Henry, at 75 Duane Street, only a few blocks from the newspaper offices. ...
New York - Page 34
Morris were the largest figures of intellectual New York. In 1833 Irving returned from Europe after a visit that had lasted seventeen years.
more pages: 307
Brooklyn - Page 311
The exposure of the moral nastiness in Brooklyn is a salutary thing. If, when the exposure of the scandal took place, the people had been ...
more pages: 177
334 Pearl Street - Page 33
Gideon Lee, besides being mayor, was president of the Leather Manufacturers' Bank at 334 Pearl Street. He was the last mayor of New York to be ...
Newark, New Jersey - Page 431
A few years later he removed to Newark, New Jersey, where he became the correspondent of the New York Herald. He attracted the attention of Mr. ...
Albany - Page 137
The time had forever departed when an Albany regency could tune the press of the State as easily and simply as Queen Elizabeth used to tune the ...
more pages: 164
Irvington, New Jersey - Page 264
This staid publication was printed on the first floor of the Cummings home at Irvington, New Jersey. Entrance to the composing-room was forbidden the ...
Vicksburg - Page 220
After Vicksburg and Gettysburg, Dana returned to Washington. He was now an Assistant Secretary of War, and his success as an official reporter on the ...
more pages: 219
Buffalo - Page 35
Away off in Buffalo was a boy of fourteen who clerked in his uncle's general store by day, selling steel traps to Seneca braves, and by night read ...
more pages: 165
Staten Island - Page 29
Castleton House Academy, on Staten Island, offered to teach and board young gentlemen at twenty-five dollars a quarter. ...
more pages: 118
Menlo Park, New Jersey - Page 322
In 1878 a Sun reporter was sent to Menlo Park, New Jersey, to see how a young inventor there, who had just announced the possibility of an ...
Boston - Page 170
Beach's energy found a successful field in establishing expresses brought by messengers on horseback from Halifax to Boston and from New Orleans to ...
Philadelphia - Page 164
the line between Baltimore and Philadelphia not having been completed; but with the aid of special trains the Sun was able to present the news a few ...
Baltimore - Page 164
For a little time after the Mexican War began there was a gap in the telegraph between Washington and New York, the line between Baltimore and ...
Port Antonio - Page 339
Three or four days later he went back to Port Antonio with another important despatch. The cable clerk told him that on his previous visit their count ...
more pages: 356
New Orleans - Page 170
Beach's energy found a successful field in establishing expresses brought by messengers on horseback from Halifax to Boston and from New Orleans to ...
Hartford - Page 139
When he was fourteen he was bound out to a cabinetmaker in Hartford. His skill was so fine that he saw the needlessness of serving the customary seven ...
West Springfield, Massachusetts - Page 407
Day was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, April 10, 1810. Moses Yale Beach was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, January 7, 1800.
Hinsdale, New Hampshire - Page 202
Dana was born in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, on August 8, 1819. His father was Anderson Dana, sixth in descent from Richard Dana, the colonial settler ...
Chicago - Page 264
He was city editor of the Tribune until after the Civil War, and then he went with his friend Dana to Chicago for the short and profitless experience ...
Paterson, New Jersey - Page 122
McCullough in Ireland the next year, and Lawrence Barrett at Paterson, New Jersey, in 1838. The hotels were temples of plenty. ...
Fredericksburg - Page 195
To the New York youth of 1859, who dreamed not that in three years he would be clay on the slope at Fredericksburg, it was the middle of a perfect day ...
Halifax - Page 170
Beach's energy found a successful field in establishing expresses brought by messengers on horseback from Halifax to Boston and from New Orleans to ...
Mercer, Maine - Page 408
Munsey was born in Mercer, Maine, August 21, 1854. Any grouping of Sun men on the purely literary side brings the name of Hazeltine to stand with ...
London - Page 347
After two years of reportorial work he went to France to continue certain studies, and while he was there the Sun offered to him the post of London ...
Schenectady - Page 144
It ran a special train from Utica to Schenectady. There a famous driver, Otis Dimmick, waited with a fine team of horses to take the story to the ...
New Haven - Page 85
And so they went from post to pillar until the hour came for their return to New Haven. It would not do to linger in New York, for Professors Denison ...
Memphis - Page 216
Dana and Chadwick went to Memphis in January, 1863, armed with letters from Secretary Stanton to General Grant and other field commanders. ...
Dundee - Page 67
Thomas Dick, of Dundee, a pious man, but inclined to speculate on the possibilities of the universe. In this article Dr, Dick suggested the ...
Charleston, South Carolina - Page 149
We stop the press at a late hour to announce that by a private express from Charleston, South Carolina, we.
Barnstable - Page 45
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 ...
Utica, New York - Page 144
The trial took place at Utica, New York, and the Sun printed from two to five columns a day about it. It ran a special train from Utica to Schenectady ...
White Plains - Page 64
White Plains was Richard Adams Locke, a re- | porter who was destined to kick up more dust than j perhaps any other man of his profession. As he comes ...
South Amboy, New Jersey - Page 30
When the Sun was born, the most important railroad in America was thirty-four miles long, from Bordentown to South Amboy, New Jersey. ...
Paris - Page 147
Part of the flock in our possession were employed by the London Morning Chronicle in bringing intelligence from Dublin to London, and from Paris to ...
Erie - Page 235
Gould and Fisk were doing what they pleased with Erie stock. They and the leaders of Tammany Hall, like Tweed and Peter B. Sweeny and Slippery Dick ...
Montreal - Page 113
Stone went to Montreal, visited the Hôtel Dieu, and minutely compared the details set down by the Monk woman in regard to the inmates of the nunnery ...
Harrisburg - Page 165
Baltimore, and Washington 240 Philadelphia to Harrisburg 105 Boston to Lowell 26 Boston toward Portland 55 Ithaca to Auburn 40 Troy to Saratoga 31 ...
Guatemala - Page 257
in the Iowa Senate and as minister to Guatemala, that Dana was able to bring the pen of this transplanted New Englander to the office of the Sun. ...
Princeton - Page 351
Fairbanks, was assigned to report one of the great games at Princeton, and, al-though entirely unacquainted with punts and tackles, came back with a ...
Liverpool - Page 35
John William Draper, later to write his great " History of the Intellectual Development of Europe," arrived from Liverpool that year to make New York ...
Paducah, Kentucky - Page 399
Cobb got his start in the North as an Evening Sun reporter, l He came to New York from Paducah, Kentucky, rented a hall room, and sat down and wrote ...
Brimfield, Massachusetts - Page 258
for the Sun until 1876, and he died two years afterward, when he was only sixty-two years old, in Brimfield, Massachusetts, the town of his birth. ...
Dom Pedro - Page 51
It is said that Dom Pedro has dared his brother Miguel to single combat, which has been refused." A week later the Sun gloated over the fact that ...
Guildhall, Vermont - Page 205
uncle in Guildhall, Vermont. Here, at an expense of about a dollar a week, he put in eight hours a day at his books, and for diversion went shooting ...
Rutherford, NJ - Page 360
Patrick " 18—Parade and Show, Barnum & Bailey " 19—Church Quarrel, Rutherford, NJ Phillips was then one of the Sun's best reporters; not as large a ...
Bristol - Page 158
the news from London to Bristol. A Sun reporter went to report Webster's speech on the great day when the Bunker Hill Monument was finished. ...
Cambridge - Page 66
He was educated by his mother and by private tutors until he was nineteen, when he entered Cambridge. While still a student he contributed to the Bee, ...
Fort Lee, New Jersey - Page 164
Shortly before war was declared—April 24, 1846— the telegraph-line was built from Philadelphia to Fort Lee, New Jersey, opposite New York. ...
Dublin - Page 147
Part of the flock in our possession were employed by the London Morning Chronicle in bringing intelligence from Dublin to London, and from Paris to ...
Northampton, Massachusetts - Page 139
He set up a cabinet-shop of his own at Northampton, Massachusetts. When Beach was twenty, he made the acquaintance of Miss Nancy Day, of Springfield, ...
Slough - Page 43
Herschel, then dead some ten years, and the telescope was on his grounds at Slough, near Windsor, England. Another knighted Herschel with another ...
Charleston - Page 356
He had the luck to sail on the cruiser Charleston, which, on June 21, 1898, made the conquest of the island of Guam. ...
Easton, Pennsylvania - Page 28
at Easton, Pennsylvania, and at Columbus, Ohio ; a report of an earthquake at Charlottesville, Virginia, and a few lines of stray news from Mexico. ...
Louisville - Page 284
'A Sun reporter interviewed several leading wholesale liquor-dealers yesterday concerning the despatch from Louisville, saying that all the old whisky ...
Canandaigua - Page 145
When the Boston and Albany road was finished, the Sun related how a barrel of flour was growing in the field in Canandaigua on a Monday— the barrel in ...
Oxford - Page 408
Educated at Harvard and Oxford and in continental Europe, Hazeltine came to the Sun in 1878, and was its literary critic until his death in 1909. ...
Ithaca - Page 124
as we cannot afford the expense, during these hard times, of getting them washed. Mr. Thomas French, the inventor, is from Ithaca,.
Northampton - Page 139
of the Ben Day process used in Day were married in 1821, and as the business at Northampton was not prospering, they settled down in Springfield. ...
Madison - Page 277
Tweed's horses reside in East Fortieth Street, between Madison and Park Avenues. That was the Sun's characteristic way of starting a story. ...
Dunkirk - Page 172
The Erie Railroad had stretched itself from Piermont, on the Hudson River, to Dunkirk, on the shore of Lake Erie. ...
Houston - Page 237
The Olympic, on Broadway near Houston, had been built for Laura Keene; it was there that Edward A. Sothern first appeared under his own name. ...
Los Angeles - Page 284
In 1910, more than four decades after the Sun first took him on, Weston, then a man of seventy years, walked from Los Angeles to New York in ...
San Francisco - Page 427
When he was twenty he went to San Francisco, where, beginning as a reporter, he became city editor of the Chronicle and managing editor of the ...
Romulus, New York - Page 372
Chester Sanders Lord, who was managing editor of the Sun from 1880 to 1913, was born in Romulus, New York, in 1850, the son of the Rev. ...
Rennes - Page 336
Ralph reported the Dreyfus court-martial at Rennes, in France. One morning he could not sleep after five o'clock. As he was on his way to court he ...
Pontiac, Michigan - Page 64
sidering the fact that Wisner had won his share with no capital except his pen. Wisner went West and set-tled at Pontiac, Michigan. ...
Newport - Page 299
He strides up Broadway with the step of an athlete, dons his navy blue and commands his yacht, shoots pigeons, and prefers the open air of Newport to ...
Charlottesville, Virginia - Page 28
at Easton, Pennsylvania, and at Columbus, Ohio ; a report of an earthquake at Charlottesville, Virginia, and a few lines of stray news from Mexico. ...
Indianapolis - Page 31
2100 New York American 1600 Total 26500 New York was the American metropolis, but it was of about the present size of Indianapolis or Seattle. ...
Cleveland, Ohio - Page 400
Its first woman reporter, Miss Helen Watterson, of Cleveland, Ohio, was induced to come East in Brisbane's régime to write a column called " The Woman ...
St. Louis - Page 240
Joseph Pulitzer, then fresh from St. Louis, on to Washington to report in semieditorial correspondence the critical stage of the electoral controversy ...
Monterey - Page 165
The Sun did not have a special correspondent in Mexico, and most of its big stories during the war, in-cluding the account of the storming of Monterey ...
Great Bend, Pennsylvania - Page 338
Chamberlin was born in Great Bend, Pennsylvania, March 12, 1866. While he was still a boy he went to Jersey City, where he worked in newspaper offices ...
Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Page 399
His report of the peace conference at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, following the Eusso-Japanese War, attracted wide attention. ...
Seattle - Page 31
2100 New York American 1600 Total 26500 New York was the American metropolis, but it was of about the present size of Indianapolis or Seattle. ...
Waterloo - Page 41
The yearner had to wait thirty years for another Waterloo, but he got his " real Moscow fire " in about two years, and so close that it singed his ...
Berlin - Page 391
When William I lay dead in Berlin, the Sun's principal European correspondent, Arthur Brisbane, was concerned, not with the future of the continent, ...
Richmond, Virginia - Page 91
Poe wrote the first part of " Hans Pfaall," and pub-lished it in the Southern Literary Messenger, of which he was then editor, at Richmond, Virginia. ...
Sheffield - Page 385
It reminds me of ' King Solomon's Mines,' " re-marked Irwin, " and the chain armour that the heroes had made in Sheffield to wear in Africa. ...
Columbus, Ohio - Page 28
at Easton, Pennsylvania, and at Columbus, Ohio ; a report of an earthquake at Charlottesville, Virginia, and a few lines of stray news from Mexico. ...
Annapolis - Page 333
A second of silence, then the brisk call of the lieutenant commanding the firing-squad of Annapolis cadets. "Load!" Rifles rattling. "Aim! ...
New Bedford, Massachusetts - Page 318
The following was printed in the Sun of June 21, 1893, under date of New Bedford, Massachusetts:. " Lizzie Andrew Borden," said the clerk of the court ...
Springfield, Massachusetts - Page 146
itself a part of a monopoly which was to control the telegraph, and that it had bought a telegraph-line from New York to Springfield, Massachusetts. ...
Kalamazoo - Page 154
who had a furious temper, murdered him with a hammer, packed the body in a box, and hired an inno-cent drayman to haul it down to the ship Kalamazoo,.
Hinsdale - Page 203
The father failed in business at Hinsdale when Charles was a child, and the family moved to Gaines, a village in western New York, where Anderson Dana ...
Delhi, New York - Page 104
Perhaps the Day standards were very high. Robinson was twenty-six when he worked on the Sun. He had been educated at an academy in Delhi, New York, ...
Bergerac - Page 94
But Bergerac had also been influenced by Dante and by Lucían, the latter being the supposed inspiration of the fanciful narratives of Rabelais and ...
Summit, NJ - Page 22
BENJAMIN H. DAY. A Bust in the Possession of Mrs. Florence A. Snyder, Summit, NJ.
Palo Alto - Page 164
The good news from the battle-fields of Palo Alto and Eesaca de la Palma was eighteen days in reaching ...
Santiago - Page 356
harbour of Santiago, and he wrote the Sun's first detailed account of the destruction of the Spanish fleet. The Sun men ashore in Cuba were captained ...
Peking - Page 339
As soon as he arrived in Peking he began sending important news stories by telegraph to Tientsin, where he had left a deposit of three hundred dollars ...
Moscow - Page 105
Give us one of your real Moscow fires," sighed the Sun in the first week of its existence. The prayer was answered a little more than two years later, ...
Manila - Page 357
Spanish governor, who declined to go upon Captain Glass's ship because it would be a breach of Spanish regulations, is now our prisoner at Manila. ...
Cape Town - Page 67
near Cape Town, with the intention of completing his survey of the sidereal heavens by examining the southern skies as he had swept the northern, ...
Tokyo - Page 376
All the Sun did about the matter was to notify its Tokyo correspondent, John T. Swift, that when Port Arthur really fell it would expect to hear from ...