The story of the Sun, New York: 1833-1928 / by Frank M. O'Brien ; with an introduction by Edward Page Mitchell ...

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tions which engrossed him, either as Mr. Dana's aid or as
editor-in-chief, for more than forty-five years.
Mr. Reick, who was born in Philadelphia in 1864,
entered newspaper work in that city when he was nineteen years old. 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.
Bennett, the owner of the Herald, and in 1888 he was
made editor of the Herald's London and Paris editions.
A year later he returned to America to become city editor
of the Herald, the highest title then given on that newspaper. In 1903 he was elected president of the New York
Herald Company, and he remained in that position until
1906, when he left the Herald to become associated with
Adolph Ochs in the publication of the New York Times
and with George W. Ochs in the publication of the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
When Mr. Reick assumed the control of the Sun properties, he devoted much care to the improvement of the
Ewvcing Sun, putting it under the managing editorship of
George M. Smith, who had served for many years as news
editor of the Sun under Chester S. Lord.
Among the events of the Reick regime were the retirement of Chester S. Lord from the managing editorship
and of George B. Mallon from the city editorship, and the
removal of the newspaper from its old home at Nassau
and Frankfort Streets to the American Tract Society
Building, one block farther south, at Nassau and Spruce
Streets.
It was during Mr. Reick's control of the Sun that
Frank A. Munsey, in the summer of 1912, bought the
New York Press, a one-cent Republican morning daily