Perhaps Beach was the father of the newspaper syndicate. In December, 1841, when the _Sun_ received President Tyler’s message to Congress by special messenger, he had extra editions of one sheet printed for twenty other newspapers, using the same type for the body of the issue, and changing only the title-head. In this way such papers as the _Vermont Chronicle_, the Albany _Advertiser_, the Troy _Whig_, the Salem _Gazette_, and the Boston _Times_ were able to give the whole text of the message to their readers without the delay and expense of setting it in type. Here is Dana’s own estimate of the second proprietor of the _Sun_: Moses Y. Beach was a business man and a newspaper manager rather than what we now understand as a journalist--that is to say, one who is both a writer and a practical conductor and director of a newspaper. Mr. Beach was a man noted for enterprise in the collection of news. In the latter days when he owned and managed the _Sun_ in New York, the telegraph was only established between Washington and Boston, though toward the end of his career it was extended, if I am not mistaken, as far towards the South as Montgomery in Alabama. The news from Europe was then brought to Halifax by steamers, just as the news from Mexico was brought to New Orleans. Mr. Beach’s energy found a successful field in establishing expresses brought by messengers on horseback from Halifax to Boston and from New Orleans to Montgomery, thus bringing the news of Europe and the news of the Mexican War to New York much earlier than they could have arrived by the ordinary public conveyance. With him were associated, sooner or later, two or three of the other New York papers; but the energy with which he carried through the undertaking made him a conspicuous and distinguished figure in the journalism of the city. The final result was the organization of the New York Associated Press, which has now become a world-embracing establishment for the collection of news of every description, which it furnishes to its members in this city and to other newspapers in every part of the country. Under the stimulus of Mr. Beach’s energetic intellect, aided by the cheapness of its price, the _Sun_ became in his hands an important and profitable establishment. Yet he is scarcely to be classed among the prominent journalists of his day. Through conservatism, good business sense, and steady work, Moses Y. Beach amassed from the _Sun_ what was then a handsome fortune, and when he retired he was only forty-eight. His last years were spent at the town of his birth, Wallingford, where he died on July 19, 1868, six months after the _Sun_ had passed out of the hands of a Beach and into the hands of a Dana. [Illustration: (_From Photo in the Possession of Mrs. Jennie Beach Gasper_)