The “Tammany Hall real estate” was the building at the corner of Nassau and Frankfort Streets, where Tammany kept its headquarters from 1811, when it moved from Martling’s Long Room, at Nassau and Spruce Streets, to 1867, when Dana and his friends bought the building with the expectation of starting a new paper. If Moses S. Beach had attracted Dana’s attention to the _Sun_ in time, he might have sold him, as well as the paper, his own building at Nassau and Fulton Streets. But the Tammany Hall building was a better-placed home for the _Sun_ than its old quarters. It faced City Hall Park and was a part of Printing-House Square. Dana was right about the productiveness of the real estate, for no spot in New York sees more pedestrians go by than the Nassau-Frankfort corner. The _Sun_ lived there for forty-three years, and its present home, taken when the old hall became too small and ancient, is only a block away. The first number of the _Sun_ issued under Dana--Monday, January 27, 1868--contained a long sketch of Tammany Hall and its former home, concluding: Peace succeeds to strife. No new Halleck can sing: There’s a barrel of porter at Tammany Hall, And the Bucktails are enjoying it all the night long; In the time of my boyhood ’twas pleasant to call For a seat and cigar ’mid the jovial throng. So far as the corner of Nassau and Frankfort Streets is concerned, _L’Empire est paix_. The _Sun_ shines for all; and on the site of old Tammany’s troubles and tribulations we turn back the leaves of the past, dispel the clouds of discord, and shed our beams far and near over the Regenerated Land. Dana changed the appearance of the _Sun_ overnight. He kept it as a folio, for he always believed in a four-page paper, even when he was printing ten pages, but he reduced the number of columns on a page from eight to seven, widening each column a little. The principal head-lines, which had been irregular in size and two to the page, were made smaller and more uniform, and four appeared at the top of the front page. The editorial articles, which had been printed in minion, now appeared a size larger, in brevier, and the heads on them were changed to the simple, dignified full-face type of the size that is still used. Dana changed the title-head of the _Sun_ from Roman, which it had been from the beginning, to Old English, as it stands to-day. He also changed the accompanying emblem. It had been a variation of the seal of the State of New York, with the sun rising in splendour behind mountains; on the right, Liberty with her Phrygian cap held on a staff, gazing at an outbound vessel; on the left, Justice with scales and sword, so facing that if not blindfolded she would see a locomotive and a train of cars crossing a bridge. These classic figures were kept, but the eagle--the State crest--which brooded above the sunburst in Beach’s time, was removed, so that the rays went skyward without hindrance.