The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-07-07

American Auti-Slnvcry Sortety. MI. Iappnn
was q prominent Presbyterian. nm ardent
phinnthropist and n generous contributor to
charitable and benevolent objects. IIo was n
strict Sabbatnrinn: and one OF his purposes in
supplying funds to set up tho journal was to
furnish daily commercial paper OF tho first
class. wherein no work should be done under
any pretext from IL o'clock Saturday night to
IL o'clock Sunday night David Hale. then
fresh from Boston. though n native OF Con-
necticut. was employed to manage the news and
mercantile departments " the paper. He was
tho nephew Of that young Nathan Hale who
was put TO death by the British ns n spy in the
revolutionary war for cndcavoring to obtain
information for our officers concerning the
enemy's forces on Long Island. 1t was the re-
lentlcss execution OF Hale on the gnllows that
made Washington deaf to all entreaties that
Mai. AndrG might meet different fate Mt our
hands after having been caught within the
American lines while negotiating with Arnold
for the surrender OF West Point.
The nephew OF tho revolutionary patriot was
man of great energy. Nevertheless. the news
paper was conducted on such peculiar prIncl-
pies that Mr.. Arthur Tappan's purse was rap
idly depleted OF large sums. and Mt tho close OF
the first ycnr he presented the whsle concern
10 his brother Lewis Tappan. who continued to
furnish the money. while Hale remained in
control OF the ncws and business departments.
Each supplied matter for the editorial columns.
and for considerable period thoy received aid
from the pen OF Horace Bushnell. then an un-
known young man. but In later years distin-
guished for rare powers in the press and in tho
pulpit Ms the Row. DR.. Bushnell OF Hartford. Az
tor many vicisstudcs tho paper was purchased
by Mr. Hale and Gerard Hnllock. then editor OF
the New York Observer. and soon became one
OF the leading journals OF the city. Mr.. Hale
was gentleman Of rnrc independence in poll
tics and rcligon- He bolted from the Wings
and became a free trader; he bolted from the
Presbyterians and became Congregntionalist.
In the Inter capacity he built the Nav York
Tabernacle in lower Broadway. which is now
represented by the imposing church ediilcc Mt
tho corner OF Broadway and Thirty-iourth
street. Mr.. Hale. like Gen. Webb and William
LeRRctt OF his own time. and Horace Greeley Mt
n later epoch. was fond OF controversy. and had
great success in keeping plenty OF quarrels on
hand for daily use.
II the people OF the present day would have
any correct notion OF journalism in this city
nifty years ago thoy must dismiss from their
minds all the ideas they have gathered from tho
management of tho great newspapers now pub
lished here. They belong TO two radically dif-
ferentepochs. When Bryant. Stone. Noah. Webb.
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journalism in the period we have been sketch
ing. the production Of the sheets was slow. tho
nows meagre. the circulation small. Tho mod
ern steam printing press, the railway. the tele-
graph. steamship lines on the ocean. and. ~
course. the ocean cable. all lay In the future.
and most OF them far away. There was not
much enterprise IN the city press III tle matter
OF getting ncws, either on the water or on the
laho' a single rowboat Tor each city paper was
the extent oil the service Tor gathering snip
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