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

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THE STORY OF "THE SUN"

exchange editor from 1887 to 1903, and was variously
employed at other important desk posts until his death
in 1916. Since Mr. Clarke's retirement, in 1912, the
night city editors have been Joseph W. Bishop, J. W.
Phoebus, Eugene Doane, Marion G. Scheitlin, and M.
A. Rose.
The night editors of the Sun, whose function it is to
make up the paper and to " sit in " when the managing
editors are absent, have been Dr. John B. Wood, the
" great American condenser"; Garret P. Serviss, now
with the Evening Journal; Charles M. Fairbanks, Carr
V. Van Anda (1893-1904), now managing editor of the
New York Times; George M. Smith (1904-1912), the
present managing editor of the Evening Sun; and
Joseph W. Bishop.
In the eighties, the nineties, and the first decade of
the present century the front corners of the city room
were occupied, six nights a week, by two men closely
identified with the Sun's progress in getting and preparing news. These, Chester S. Lord and S. M. Clarke,
were looked up to by Sun men, and by Park Row generally, as essential parts of the Sun.
Lord, through his city editors, reporters, and correspondents, got the news. If it was metropolitan news
-and until the latter days of July, 1914, New York
was the news-centre of the world, so far as American
papers were concerned-Clarke helped to get it and
then to present it after the unapproachably artistic
manner of the Sun. In the years of Lord and Clarke
more than a billion copies of the Sun went out containing news stories written by men whom Lord had hired
and whose work had passed beneath the hand of Clarke.
Chester Sanders Lord, who was managing editor of
the Sun from 1880 to 1913, was born in Romulus, New
York, in 1850, the son of the Rev. Edward Lord, a