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

"THE SUN" IN THE MEXICAN WAR 115
in the office of the Sun, toward the close of the Mexican
War, steps were taken to lessen the waste of money, men,
and time.
At this meeting, presided over by Gerard Hallock, the
veteran editor of the Journal of Commerce, there were
represented the Sun, the Herald, the Tribune-the three
most militant morning papers-the Courier and Enquirer,
the Express, and Mr. Hallock's own paper. The conference formed the Harbor Association, by which one fleet
of newsboats would do the work for which half a dozen
had been used, and the New York Associated Press, designed for cooperation in the gathering of news in centers
like Washington, Albany, Boston, Philadelphia, and New
Orleans. Thus in the office where some of the bitterest
invective against newspaper rivals had been penned, there
began an era of good feeling.
As an example of the change in the personal relations
of the newspaper editors and proprietors, the guests present at a dinner given by Moses Y. Beach in December,
1848, when he retired from business and turned the Sun
over to his sons Moses and Alfred, were the venerable
Major Noah, then retired from newspaper life; Gerard
Hallock, Horace Greeley, Henry J. Raymond, of the
Courier and Enquirer, and James Brooks, of the Express.
All praised Beach and his fourteen years of labor on the
Sun, but there was never a word about Benjamin H. Day.
Evidently that gentleman's reintry into the newspaper
field as the proprietor of the True Sun had put him out of
tune with his brother-in-law. Richard Adams Locke, author of the moon hoax, was there, however-the only relic
of the first regime.
What the Stun thought of itself then is indicated in an