The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-22
THE SUBWAY SUN
LIGHTS UP Big TUBE
Theodore P. ShOnts Will Make
First Bow as Editor This
Morning.
HAS A BEAT ON WEATHER
Contemporary in a Few Scat
tcring Remarks Tells Of
Traffic Woes.

American beiles-lettres take another
gosh awful Jump this morning To-day's
the day that marks II e first appearance
in the subway cars of Vol. /, No. 1. OF
our esteemed contemporary, the Subtooy
Sun, which has Just been struck of in
the WI lite heat of thought by the snappy
and ever popular scrivener Theodore p.
Shonts. who Of late has been devoting
his life to providing pure literature for
the traphanger to lean upon and giving
his spare time to the job Of presidenting
the marlborough Rapid Transit.
Mr.. Shonts, as Is well known to every
standee among the 3.sS2. 100000 strap
hangers carried by the subway since cars
first began to zipp through the city Gel
lar almost fourteen years ago. Is blessed
with the gift of a literary mind that Is
said to be in a chronic rush hour state
Faster than Il e leaves fly from a birch
tree in the winds OF autumn have come
the white hot messages from Scrivener
Shonts's mind to the American people,
and as thought after thought filled with
pure reading matter exploded from Mr.
Shonts's intellectual innards the noted
writer found himself facing the problem
of how to get all his printed messages
pasted to the windows OF the subway
cars witt out tying up the entire Inter-
borough running system.
The Rise Of "The Subway SUM-"
Alta boy. got it, cried Editor
Shonts one day recently in effect, his
exact language being ineffably more
transcendentally literary. II say, Horse
taI We Chnpfe Tn HE
closest literary associate, Henry Proctor
Waugh pronounced Horse Power
Wool. with the accent on the Woof-"I
say, Horse Power. lean your sfell like
ear toward a little bunch OF words I'm
going to spill forth and you'll get an
earful Horse Power. gotta new idea
I'm going to bunch my hits -
II don't make you. Tay Pay" replied
Horse Power. who invented the harmless
little conceit some time ago of address,
ing T. p. in the same way the British
public speak OF their own great editor.
Tay Pay O'Connor. l don't retain. I
don't get your drift Tay Pay, so you'll
have to snow again. Shoot
Bunch my hits, I say. Gee that's plain
enough. amt it. Horse Power? Instead of
stopping the subway trains every minute
on the minute to paste a new address
to the American people on the car win
dows we'll bunch a whole mess of
messages on one sheet. with editorials
and everything. and have 1t illustrated
and everything-a regular newspaper.
what? Quick Horse Power. slip me an
appropriate name for an underground
newspaper"
Bang: She Goes to Press.
"Sun.'' answered Associate Editor
Wool without even being compelled to
stop and think The Subuav Sun is my
suggestion, Tay Pay. the 'SubIdy part
of the title being inserted to make the
name stand out boldly amid the ever
present row after row after row OF
Suns after Suns after Suns in the hands
Of passengers after passengers after
passengers in cars after cars after
cars"
You're on. Horse Power" said We
Editor Shonts. THE Subway Sun 1,
shall be. Boy. run out to the nearest
type foundry and get us a growlerful
of block type, a pail OF seven point mi
tials and a couple OF quarts OF brisba ne
italic. Quick! l feel that I am going
to press"
"One thought comes to me, Tay Pay
broke in Associate Editor Wool, step
ping toward a window and beginning
to untangle the thought in the brighter
light. ! take 1t for granted that each
number of the new newspaper will re-
main on the subway windows for a
period of days Now. Tay Pay. dom,
have to tell you that no newspaper car
be newspaper unless a weather fore.
cast Is printed on the upper margin OF
the first page. How. then. are you
going to handle the weather in a news.
paper that is issued only now and then
Come, come. come, boss! More speed
How are you going 10 handle the
weather.
Weather Onicially Standardized.
"Standardize 1t. you poor fish, cried
Tay Pay, or words to that effect. GIVE
EN- something about the weather up In
one corner that'll be good In rain OF
shine"
Wherefore on the green, white and
black first copy of the Subway Sun
Published Occasionally by the Interior.