At the beginning of his service as managing editor Lord found himself with a staff which included Bogart, Dr. Wood, Stillman, Odion, E. M. Rewey, Garrett P. Serviss, and Cyrus C. Adams, all trained desk men and most of them good reporters as well; and such first-class reporters and correspondents as Julian Ralph, S. S. Carvalho, Willis Holly, and E. J. Edwards. To these, by the time the _Sun_ reached its half-century mark, had been added the great night city editor Clarke and reporters like John R. Spears and Arthur Brisbane. Other great newspapermen were soon to join the army of Mr. Lord in that long campaign of which the editor of the _Sun_ said, on the occasion of Mr. Lord’s retirement: Every night of his ten thousand nights of service has been a Trafalgar or a Waterloo. He has fought ten thousand battles against the world, the flesh, and the devil; the woman applicant, the refractory citizen, the liar at the other end of the wire, and the ten thousand demons which make up the great army of nervous prostration. CHAPTER XVI “SUN” REPORTERS AND THEIR WORK _Cummings, Ralph, W. J. Chamberlin, Brisbane, Riggs, Dieuaide, Spears, O. K. Davis, Irwin, Adams, Denison, Wood, O’Malley, Hill, Cronyn.--Spanish War Work._ There is an unconventional club which has no home except on the one night each year when it holds a dinner in a New York hotel. Its members are men who have been writers on the _Sun_, and who, though they have left the paper, love it. They meet for no purpose except to toast the _Sun_ of their day and this. They call themselves the Sun Alumni. From the ranks of the novelists and magazine editors and writers come men like Will Irwin, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Robert Welles Ritchie, Albert W. Atwood, Henry James Forman, Cameron Mackenzie, Kirk Munroe, Charles Mason Fairbanks, Robert R. Whiting, James L. Ford, E. J. Edwards, Arthur F. Aldridge, George B. Mallon, Gustav Kobbé, and Frederick Kinney Noyes. From the lists of newspaper owners and editors come Arthur Brisbane, of the Washington _Times_; Edward H. Mott, of the Goshen _Republican_; Frank H. Simonds, of the New York _Tribune_; Martin J. Hutchins, of the Chicago _Journal_; C. L. Sherman, of the Hartford _Courant_. From the staffs of other New York newspapers come Charles Selden, Carr V. Van Anda, and Richard V. Oulahan, of the _Times_; William A. Willis, of the _Herald_; Rudolph E. Block, of the _American_; J. Arthur Seavey, of the _Tribune_; and Lindsay Denison, of the _Evening World_.