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"

Lindsay Denison, famous for his story of the burning
of the steamer Slocum.
Will Irwin, afterward a distinguished war correspondent, who wrote a page for the Sun on "The City
That Was" when the earthquake wrecked San Francisco.
Edwin C. Hill, the Sun's topsawyer on the story of the
Titanic disaster and still a Sun star.
Frank Ward O'Malley, whose humor and pathos,
whether expressed in an account of the doings of the
Duke of Essex Street or in the story of the killing of
Policeman Sheehan, markedl the Sun indelibly.
Laurence Hills, who became the Sun's principal Washington correspondent and at this writing is editor and
general manager of the Paris Herald.
Charles Selden, whose vein of structural humor was
perhaps unsurpassed in journalism.
Joseph Fox, the man to whom the night desk turned
when some story "must be got."
Eltinge A. Fowler, one of the greatest and most modest
of the Wrashington correspondents.
There have been few changes in the staff of the Sun
during the last several years. The news executives under
the managing editor, Mr. Speel, are Edmond Bartnett,
city editor; Peter A. Dolan, news editor; Charles IE.
Still, assistant city editor; William Keats, make-up edlitor;
Herrick Brown, assistant make-up editor; James C. Grey,
cable editor; Owen Oliver, telegraph editor; Gustave Zismer, real estate editor.
Among the reporters of long service are George Van
Slyke, the foremost political correspondent of the country;
Gavin D. High, Mary Watts, W. G. Olson, John H.
Barlow, William Bolger, Harry Factor, and Robert J.