When Dana came into control of the _Sun_, the city of New York, which then included only Manhattan and the Bronx, had less than a million population, yet it supported, or was asked to support, almost as many newspapers as it has to-day. That was the day of the great personal editor. Bennett had his _Herald_, with James Gordon Bennett, Jr., as his chief helper. Horace Greeley was known throughout America as the editor of the _Tribune_. Henry J. Raymond was at the head of the _Times_. Manton Marble--who died in England in 1917--was the intellectual chief of the highly intellectual _World_. The greatest Republican politician of that day, Thurlow Weed, was the editor of the _Commercial Advertiser_. He had just changed his political throne from the Astor House to the comparatively new Fifth Avenue Hotel. Weed was seventy-one years old, but not the Nestor of New York editors, for William Cullen Bryant was three years his senior and still the active editor of the _Evening Post_. The _Evening Express_, later to be incorporated with the _Mail_, was ruled by the brothers Brooks, James as editor-in-chief and Erastus as manager. David M. Stone ran the _Journal of Commerce_. Ben Wood owned the only penny paper in town--the _Evening News_. Marcus M. Pomeroy, better known as Brick Pomeroy, had just started his sensational sheet, the _Democrat_, on the strength of the reputation he had won in the West as editor of the La Crosse _Democrat_. Later he changed the title of the _Democrat_ to _Pomeroy’s Advance Thought_. These were the men who assailed or defended the methods of the reconstruction of the South; who stood up for President Johnson, or cried for his impeachment; who supported the Presidential ambitions of Grant, then the looming figure in national politics, or decried the elevation of one whose fame had been exclusively military; who hammered at the wicked gates of Tammany Hall, or tried to excuse its methods. Tweed had not yet committed his magnificent atrocities of loot, but he was practically the boss of the city, at the same time a State Senator and the street commissioner. John Kelly, then forty-six--two years the senior of the boss--was sheriff of New York. Richard Croker, who was to succeed Kelly as Kelly succeeded Tweed at the head of the wigwam, was then a stocky youth of twenty-five, engineer of a fire-department steamer and the leader of the militant youth of Fourth Avenue. He was already actively concerned in politics, allied with the Young Democracy that was rising against Tweed. In the year when Dana took the _Sun_, Croker was elected an alderman. A slender boy of ten played in those days in Madison Square Park, hard by his home in East Twentieth Street, just east of Broadway. His name was Theodore Roosevelt.