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

" SUN " REPORTERS AND THEIR WORK 359
and places that every Eastern man had longed to see,
but now never could see.
Writers like Ralph and Chamberlin, Dieuaide and
Irwin, are spoken of as " star " reporters, yet the saying that the Sun has no star men is not entirely fictional. Its best reporters are, and will be, remembered
as stars, but no men were, or are, treated as stars. Big
reporters cover little stories and cubs write big onesif they can. A city editor does not send an inexperienced man on an assignment that requires all the skill
of the trained reporter, yet it is Sun history that many
new men have turned in big stories from assignments
that appeared, at first blush, to be inconsequential.
There are always two or three so-called star men in the
office, but the days when there are two or three star
assignments are comparatively few.
Let us take, arbitrarily, one day twenty-five years
ago-February 1, 1893-and see what some of the Sun
reporters did:
Jefferson Market Court................ S. H. Adams
Essex Market Court and Meeting of Irish
Federalists.......................Rudolph E. Block
With R. Croker at Lakewood...........George B. Mallon
Custom-House News...................E. G. Riggs
City Hall News.......................W. H. Olmsted
Police Headquarters...................Robert S. Yard
Ship News...........................S. A. Wood
Coroners and Post-Office.............W. A. Willis
Subway Project and Murder at East
Eighty-Eighth Street..............W. J. Chamberlin
Magic Shell Swindle...................E. W. Townsend
Condition of Police Lodging-Houses.....D. G. Phillips
Carlyle Harris Case..................F. F. Coleman
Fire at Koster & Bial's...............John Kenny
Bishop McDonnell's Trip to Rome.......Evans