The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-14

in Cuba with an eminent painter he
led his companion for hours through
the no; hills OF Nuelta Abajo in order
to satisfy himself that certain va
| riety OF pine did not grow in that re-
sion.
Danas was "A normal, healthy life.
He was a GOOD horseman and swimmer
and a great walker. when he was 70
years old he climbed to the top of
Croydon Mountain. in New Hampshire,
with a party OF younger men putting
behind him. He found pleasure in all
of life. whether it was at the office
where he worked steadily but not
[ feverishls. or with his family among
the rural delights of Dosoris. or sur
rounded by congenlal literary spirits
al the dinner table.
He knew no Illness until his last
summer. Up to June. 1897. the sturdy
figure ana the kindly face framed in a
white beard were as familiar to THE
SUS office as they were in the
'70s. With Dana there was no slow
decay OF body or mind. He died at
Dosors on October Il, 1897. in the
thirtieth year OF his reign over THE
SUN.
\ few years before. on observing an
! obituary paragraph which Mr.. Dana
had written about some noted man,
John Swinton asked his chief how
much space he CSwinton) would get
when his time came.
For you. John. two sticks" said Mr..
/ Dana. Turning 10 Mr. Mitchell, then
his chief editorial writer. he aided:
For me, two lines"
on the morning after Mr.. Dana s
death every newspaper but one in New
York printed columns about the career
! of the dean OF American journalism.
! THE SIN printed only ten words, and
these were carried at the head of the
! first editorial column, without a head
| ing:
! CHARLES ANDERSON DANA. editor OF
| THE Sun, died yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Swinton perhaps believed that
Mr. Dana was Joking when he said
two lines" but Mr.. Mitchell knew
that his chief WAS in earnest. The or
der was characteristic OF Dana. 1t was
! no; false mo-esty. Perhaps it was y
certain fine vanity that told him what
! was true--that he and his work were
known throughout the land: that THE
! SIN. in its perfection the product OF
his genius and vigor, would continue
TO rise as regularly as its celestial
namesake that all he had done would
liye on. He had made the paper SC
great that the withdrawal from II OF
one mans hand was negligible.
| ht,t hi
manned as principal owner, and his
chief writer and most intimate intel
leCtual associate for twenty years was
/ left to form THE SUNS policies as he
had moulded them in Dana's absences
! and as he shapes them to-day. His
publisher. the astute Laffan, was still
in charge of THE SUNS financial af-
, fairs. Other men whom he had found
and trained like Frank =. Church
! Mayo w. Hazeltne and Edward NJ
KinGsbury in the editorial department
and Chester s. Lord and Daniel +
Kellogg in the news department, con-
tinued their work as IL Dana still
lived.
With their grief doubt was not min
| gled. THE SUNS success resulted from
no secret formula that died with the
| discoverer. Half OF Dana's victory
came by his attraction to himself OF
men who saw life and literature as he
saw them; and so, in magnificent
way, he had made his work dispense.
BILE.
And Dana's was always the mAgnih.
cent way. To him journalism was not
a means Of making money hut OF in.
tercsting. elevating and making happy
every one who read THE Sun or wrote
for IT, He raised his profession TO new
heights. As Hazeltine wrote in the
North American Rcrictc:
| One OF MIR, Dana's special titles 10 ths
remembrance OF his fellow workers In