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

412 THE STORY OF "THE SUN"
laid bare the soul of alcoholic adventurers in his " Tales
of the Ex-Tanks." Ed Mott made famous the bears of
Pike County, Pennsylvania. David A. Curtis related
the gambling ways of Old Man Greenlaw and his associates. Charles Lynch conferred the title of the Duke
of Essex Street upon an obscure lawyer, and made him
the talk of the East Side. Joseph Goodwin brought to
the notice of an ignorant world the ways of Sarsaparilla
Reilly and other Park Row restaurant heroes. David
Graham Phillips, Samuel Hopkins Adams, and other
men destined to be known through their books, ground
out, for glory and eight dollars a column, the yarnssometimes fact turned into fiction, sometimes fiction
masked as fact-that kept the readers of the Sunday
Sun from getting out into the open air.