New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-24
By
HeyWO0d BYou12

can be heard all the way out to Boston
Light, Press through, fellows! Press
through! Mercy, is dear old Awlmuh
Maytuh to lose to those horrid Yale
boys once again!'
about the time you were the receiv-
ing end Of the paternal hair brush VOL
lops which H3d ought to be getting now,
penison-of The Sun!-was writing
news pieces-for The Sun!-about Bill
Hoar, the diver, the Blind Alley Murder
IN Brooklyn, the street chase and The
volver battle between police and thieves
in an uptown side street, the entire
front page of The Sun the day after the
Slocum disaster and dozens Of other
great newspaper stories. And great is
good word when used conservatively.
Did you read in The Sun Bob
Ritchie's Sins Last Fling At Reno the
day before johnson licked Jeffries? Or
The Sans story, written by Bob, of
Peary's trip to the Pole, which Bob got
from Peary up on the caves of the
earth at the time Bob and the rest of
Park Row established the reporters
farthest north record? Or the first story
which Bob cracked about Ferdinand
Pinney Earle-a little yarn which Bob
looped up and down columns of The Sun
in way to cause Charley Chaplin and
other great editors suddenly to grasp
for the first time that there really was
more in this Earle story than the para
graph the other papers had devoted to
lt-and run up to that town, my boy,
and get US story about this Earle and
his wife like the story on the front page
of The Sun this morning. Which
couldn't be done.
1t was Chester Lord and Selah Merrill
Clark who picked 'em young-so young
that most great cubs never had been in
newspaper city room until Mr.. Lord
told them to hang up their coats
picked 'em and then ripened 'em to the
point where the Charley Chapins be-
gan to try to knock The Sun flowers
into their own baskets by chucking gold
coins at them. Beginning with the
last glorious days Of Julian Ralph and
Jersey Chamberlin and running on
through list Of Sun reporters that
included David Graham Phillips, John
Fox jr., Richard Harding Davis, Ar
thur Brisbane, Eugene Walter, Will
Irwin, Richie, Cobb and Denison,
George Buchanen Fife, Frank and John
O'Brien, Joe Fox, Samuel Hopkins
Adams, Franklin Matthews, Sam Wood,
Charley Selden, A. E. Thomas, Willie
Willis, James Huneker, Edward w.
Chimmie Fadden Townsend and so on
up to the cub days of Edwin Chester
field Hill-still a literary and sartorial
ornament to The Sun staff and pretty
near the best reporter living, that ever
lived and ever will live-these, and
others I've doubtless forgotten for the
moment, were grabbed so young by the
old Sun that the ink wasn't yet dry on
the ''In Memorium," or whatever them
opening words in Latin are on college
diplomas, on their sheepskins. Mr..
Lord grabbed them because Of the
good work they had just completed as
The Suns college correspondents dur
ing their undergraduate days, and Mr..
Clark did the rest. BY the time Char
ley Chaplin began to flirt with them
they had reached the heights where
the barkeeps at Lipton's knew their
first names. The day Lindsey Denison
first called to see Chaplin Denny was
more than star; by that time he had
long crimson beard that caused him
often to be mistaken for q comet.
And IL had written 1o4 Wallingford
stories 1 might add, as Mr.. Chester
added to you the other day, &hat among
the great and wonderful cubs that
Charley tried to wean away from The
Sun I might also include that scintig-