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

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THE STORY OF "THE SUN"

There is hardly a man who has lived five years as a
Sun reporter but could write his own story of the Sun
just as he has written stories of life. Here but a few
of these men and their work have been touched. It has
been a long parade from Wisner of 1833 to Hill of 1918.
Many of the great reporters are dead, and of some of
these it may be said that their lives were shortened by
the very fever in which they won their glory. Some
passed on to other fields of endeavour. Others are
waiting to write " the best story ever printed in the
Sun.'
What was the best story ever printed in the Sun?
It may be that that story has been quoted from in these
articles; and yet, if a thousand years hence some superscientist should invent a literary measure that would
answer the question, the crown of that high and now
unbestowable honour of authorship might fall to some
man here unmentioned and elsewhere unsung. Perhaps
it was an article only two hundred words long.