The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-03
NEW YORK SUN, 79 YEARS
 OLD HAS NEW PUBLISHER

Hundreds Of the most t1istinRuished writers and journalists of the world are graduates of the city room of the New York Sun, and their thoughts will turn lovingly toward their alma. niversary of it's birth. It was on Sep tember 3, 1883, that the Sun began to shine, with Moses Y. Beach as the first director of the 1uminary. It was and under the editorial management of Charles A. Dana it came to occupy a position similar to that of the Lon don Times in England
 This birthday of the Sun is the first to be celebrated under the new man agement, which has William c. Reick as it's head and directing force. Upon the death of William M. Laffan, MT. Reick. secured the Laffan controlling interest in the Sun Printing and Pub fishing Association and became it's is a native of Philadelphia and will be 4S years old on the twenty ninth of this month He matriculated at liar yard, but did not graduate, and for a States Naval Academy He speedily decided that he was not cut out for a career on the bounding pillows, and at the age of nineteen took up news paper work in Philadelphia. Then he went to the Newark Daily News, where he added to his income by act ing as Newark correspondent to the New York Herald. His enterprise in getting the news and his original and breezy way Of handling it caught the eye of James Gordon Bennett-Mr. James Gordon Bennett, beg pardon who offered him a position on the Her aid staff. There was nothing slow in the methods of MT. Reick, despite his Philadelphia origin, and soon he had was only twenty-four when he was sent across the pond to fill the respon- sible position of editor of the London and Paris editions of the Herald. Af- ter a year or so abroad he returned to New York and became city editor of MT. Bennett's paper-perhaps the youngest city editor of a great metro politan paper in captivity. He con tinued to hold down the city desk un- til 1903, when he became president Of the New York Herald Company, and New York A considerable part of his time was spent in crossing the Atlantic to consult the Herald's owner who, as is generally known, seldom visits the land of his birth. MT. Reick's administration of the Herald was the most successful in the his tory of that always prosperous pub
 Five years ago MT Reick left the Herald to become president of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and sec ond vice-president and general mana ger of the New York Times. He se- cured a considerable financial interest in both papers, and was active in their mana cement until he bought the Laffan interest in the Sun and. as stunned it's control about the first of the present year. The price paid was said to have been between $2,o 10000 and g. 800, ,000-
 In his connection with the New York Times and the Philadelphia Public Ledger MT. Reick devoted his talents largely to building up the Sun day editions and developing their for eign news cable field. The beats" scored by the Times during the Reick administration were numerous and important Uuder the Reick regime the Sun has greatly improved it's Sum day edition.
 MT Reick has many influential friends among the Wall street fnan- ciers, but he has denied that any of them were connected with his pur- chase of the Sun The late H. H. Rogers and MT. Reick were close per sonaI friends, and James M. Stillman, head of the National City Bank, and Clarence M Mackay are also number ed among the friends of the new own of the Sun.