Jefferson Market Court S. H. Adams Essex Market Court and Meeting of Irish Federalists Rudolph E. Block With R. Croker at Lakewood George B. Mallon Custom-House News E. G. Riggs City Hall News W. H. Olmsted Police Headquarters Robert S. Yard Ship News S. A. Wood Coroners and Post-Office W. A. Willis Subway Project and Murder at East Eighty-Eighth Street W. J. Chamberlin Magic Shell Swindle E. W. Townsend Condition of Police Lodging-Houses D. G. Phillips Carlyle Harris Case F. F. Coleman Fire at Koster & Bial’s John Kenny Bishop McDonnell’s Trip to Rome Evans To gain an impression of the variety of work which comes to a _Sun_ reporter, take the assignments given to David Graham Phillips in the last days of his service with the _Sun_ in 1893: March 1--Joseph Jefferson’s Lecture on the Drama ” 2--Bear Hunt at Glen Cove ” 3--Special Stories for the Sunday _Sun_ ” 6--Obituary of W. P. Demarest ” 7--Meeting of Russian-Americans ” 8--Mystery at New Brunswick, New Jersey ” 9--Special Stories for Sunday ” 10--Accident in Seventy-First St. Tunnel ” 11--More Triplets in Cold Spring ” 12--Services in Old Scotch Church ” 13--Furniture Sale ” 14--Opening of Hotel Waldorf ” 15--Married Four Days, Then False ” 17--Dinner, Friendly Sons of St. Patrick ” 18--Parade and Show, Barnum & Bailey ” 19--Church Quarrel, Rutherford, N. J. Phillips was then one of the _Sun’s_ best reporters; not as large a figure in the office as Ralph, or Chamberlin, or Spears, but one entitled to assignments of the first class. A list of his assignments soon after he joined the staff in the summer of 1890 would be monotonous--Jefferson Market police-court day after day; the kind of work with which the _Sun_ broke in a new man. Once on space, with eight dollars a column instead of fifteen dollars a week, Phillips got what he wanted--a peep at every corner of city life. In a little more than two years as a space man he picked up much of the material that is seen in his novels. A _Sun_ man takes what comes to his lot. When W. J. Chamberlin returned from Cuba, his first assignment was a small police case. But a really good reporter finds his opportunity and his “big” stories for himself.