The story of the Sun, New York, 1833-1918 / by Frank M. O'Brien.

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THE STORY OF "THE SUN"

were Wilbur J. Chamberlin and his almost equally valued brother, Ernest 0. Chamberlin, who later became
managing editor of the Evening World; Henry Richardson Chamberlain, and Henry B. Chamberlin.
E. 0. Chamberlin went on the Sun's local staff while
Wilbur was still engaged in small work in Jersey City.
In the late eighties he was a colabourer with reporters
like Daniel F. Kellogg, Edward G. Riggs, William McMurtrie Speer, Charles W. Tyler, Robert Sterling Yard,
Samuel A. Wood, Paul Drane, and Willis Holly.
Henry Richardson Chamberlain, who was born in
Peoria, Illinois, became a Sun reporter in May, 1889.
He was then thirty years old, and had had twelve years'
experience in Boston and New York. In 1888 he had
served as managing editor of the New York Press. He
was particularly valuable to the Sun on the stories most
easily obtained by reporters of wide acquaintance, such
as business disasters. In 1891 he returned to Boston
to become managing editor of the Boston Journal, but
he was soon back on the Sun.
In 1892 he was sent to London as the Sun's correspondent there, and it was at this post that he won his
greatest distinction. He had a news eye that looked
out over political Europe and an imagination that compelled him to concern himself as much with the future
of the continent as with its past and present. The
Balkans and their feuds interested him strongly, and
he was forever writing of what might come from the
complications between the little states through their
own quarrels and through their tangled relations with
the powers. It was the habit of some newspapermen,
both in London and New York, to stick their tongues in
their cheeks over " H. R. C.'s war-cloud articles."
" H. R. is always seeing things," was a common remark, even when the logic of what he had written was