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

INDEX

297

Sun, The (Cont'd)
Great Vestern arrival story
sells 57,000 Suns, 91; British
Queen arrival feature gets 49,000
sale; 10th birthday circulation
of daily and weakly issues, "by
far largest in world," 107; 60,000 copies in a city of 800,000,
42; vast army of readers just
after Civil War, 144; Dana's
idea of its size, 149; table showing high tide marks, 181; department staff under J. E. Hasenack, 251; daily average under
W. T. Dewart, 252
Editorials, policies and public
service (non-included items apIear elsewhere in index under
topical heads), first editorial
news comment, 17, 18; freedom
for West Indies slaves, 19, 20;
Wisner's "damned little Abolitionist articles," 20, 20; Day on
slavery, 20; horse-drawn fire engines advocated; Park Row
gaming house assailed; toothbrush not alien to America, 23;
aieronautics-Durant'sballoon, 23,
24; prophecy on airial progress;
drive on debtors'-prison law, 24;
Sun's independence, 28, 209;
Webb's "penny trash" reference,
28; stand against anti-abolition
rioters, 29; crusade against
Bridewell's evils; City Hall pigs
must go, 29; Locke made editorial writer, 38; comment on
exploded moon story, 55, 56;
flour price abuses denounced;
the bread riots, 71, 72; on influence of Sun; on invention of
telegraph and its control, 95, 96;
Mary Rogers' murder text for
moral leson, 104; Sun sees
Dickens' visit exploited over.
much, 105, 106; halleluiah over

Sun, The (Cont'd)
telegraph's spread, 113; Sun's
self-pride when younger Beach
takes it over, 115, 116; estimate
of the "Little Giant," 123;
slavery (q.v.), the Missouri
Compromise; Douglas and
squatter sovereignty; the Dred
Scott decision, 124, 125; John
Brown's hanging; the LincolnDouglas debates, 126; Sun's 1860
policy shaped under divided
control, 127; secession, 124, 127,
128; on Lincoln, the emancipation proclamation and 1864 election, 126, 127, 128, 130, 131,
132, 133; probable reason for
Dougl:as supl)ort in 'o0, 138;
Atlantic cable opening, 142, 143;
Dana's statement on policy, 145;
the Dana survey of N. Y. journalism, 160; E. P. Mitchell on
Sun's success, 181; Grant administration exposures, 182-189;
comment on jtlry trial decision
in I)ana libel prosecution, 186;
Plymouth Church scandal and
Beecher trial, 189, 190; the
Hayes-Tilden election frauds,
190; summary of Dana's policy,
191; Pres. Cleveland; "the
stuffed plrophet"; luaine; support for Gen. Butler's candidacy; the Cleveland foreign pol.
icy; the Chicago railway strikes,
191, 192, 193; Dana's exposure
of free silver fallacy, 193, 194;
the simple death notice for
Dana, 195; the Erie Canal
spending project, 198; the Mun.
sey policy, see F. A. Munsey;
E. P. Mitchell's tribute to F.
A. Munsy's memory, 207, 208;
a view of the eiitorial page,
229 to 240; editorial writers
listed, 229, 232, 233, 234, 235,