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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THE STORY OF "THE SUN"

I wish I could be at table with the other Sun men
to-night to say via my own larynx what is in my
heart.
No newspaper event within memory has won the
attention of the world of journalism and the
observers of journalism to the same extent as this.
No newspaper man has ever received a finer tribute
of confidence and good will.
I think we may express ourselves to-night without much reserve. Surely, at this safe distance that
privilege is mine.
Your guest of honor has done more than capture
well-nigh universal admiration for an achievement
notable beyond record; he has also succeeded in
fastening genuine affection among the most unsentimental, offish and even cynical species of human
beings existing on earth-the case-hardened working newspaper men around him; and that love is his
honestly acquired capital and treasure-perhaps the
best of all his treasures.
That is the main thought in this brief message
of greeting from a person most of whose life has
been of happiness with the Sun. It adds but a
single voice to the impressive volume of appreciation and congratulation now coming to you, Mhr.
Dewart, by good right as a man who has (lone a
great and loyal and noble thing.
E. P. MITCIELL
NEW LONDON, CONN.
October 14, 1926
In a letter to Mr. Dewart, written on December 21,
1926, Mr. Mitchell said:

I am rmoved to say how proud I am of every step