The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-14
"SUN" ALUMNI HOLD
EXPERIENCE MEETING
Tenth Annual Gathering Since
Founding Takes Place at
the WaldOrf-A stOria.
BOSS LORD "PRIZE BABY"
About 100 Former "Sun" Men
Hear Stories Of Getting
Newspaper Religion.
BOSS LORD "PRIZE BABY''

The annual SrN alumni experience
upper room of the Waidorf-Astori by Dr..
Talcott Williams director OF the Pulitzer
School of Journalism. The upper room
was reached with difficulty by about 100
old Sun men. whose advent In Peacock
Alley was viewed with approval by lead
ing citizens of the West and middle West.
II was the tenth anniversary Of the
founding of the association and every one
was recalling how In New orleans ten
years ago Bob Yard. Sam Adams
and Chris Fitzgerald decided that there
was every reason In the world why old
Sun men should get together at least once
year. and founded the Sun Alumni AS
ISOLATION.
The chief expcrlencer. the one To whom
every one listened mos; eagerly and the
one to whose remarks there were the
loudest amens. was Boss Chester =.
Lord. Boss Lord made his first appear
ance as IA SUN alumnus ard Eddie Riggs's
suggestion that the boss was the prize
baby OF the organization met with over
whelming approval
Boss Lord WAS introduced by President
williams AS the best managing editor
that any newspaper In the history OF
Journalism ever had Mr.. Lord spoke
reverenty of Charles \. Dana and re-
called how Mr. Dana used to say that
the Ideal newspaper Is the interesting
newspaper"
When we were thinking about dropping
out OF the Associated Press said Mr..
Lord, mir. Dana asked me IL we could
make THE SUN interesting by going II
alone told him we could. and he said
Let her go them"
viii Irwin. ''the only licensed elocu-
ZIONIST in captivity" read reminiscent
obituriad entitled THE Man Who Worked
With Dana" then Collin Armstrong COM
mented. with apparent relish. on the
alarmingly rapid growth OF THE Sun
alumni, and Bob Yard. editor of the
Century. told how he wearied Boss Lord
into giving him Il job.
George Barry Mallon. sometime city
editor OF THE SCN, now arbiter or the
fate of four pages OF EverybOdy's each
month, questioned some Of Editor Yards
statements about magazine circulation and
invited him around to the Butterick Build
ing, which he described as one Of the
most completely equipped publishing plants
in Macdougal street He didn't take much
stock in Editor Hapgood's "smut-her-up"
story about THE Sun and called that
editor the soprano scream OF the feminist
movement.
got Sun religion were Fire Commissioner
Robert Adamson. who said that ne seemed
TO have been hearing cries of fire all
evening but that he wouldn't leave
Sun alumni dinner If the Aquarium were
burning up. Samuel Hopkins Adams and
President Thomas W. Churchill Of the
Board OF Education also told experiences.
There were also on the benches OF those
who had come through" Magistrate Paul
Krotel, g. l.. Sherman. managing editor
of the Hartford CoUrdnt. Second Deputy
Police Commissioner J. Robert Rubin.
Charles NJ Fairbanks. William McMur-
trie Speer. Henry w. Odion. ex-night city
editor of THE Sun: Franklin Mathews,
professor in the Pulitzer School OF Jour
nalism. and Lawrence Hills.
Secretary OF the Navy Josephus DAN
iels. who had been invited to attend. sent
a letter saying that nothing but a cabinet
dinner was preventing him from coming
Boss Clark. whom nearly all present re-
membered as their own particular night
city editor. sent word that he couldn't
come because he was afraid he'd get
drunk.
The meeting was brought TO close
with the singing. to the tune OF Aud
Lang Syne." these lines from Bartlett's
"Familiar Quotations:
For those who. being broke. ers,~hile wore
blinkers
When passing Hitchcocks famed Bazar for
Sinkers
Oscars prepared this Nutriment for Thinkers
Which 10 to 'Beef-and' what coal Is to
clinkeys