The night city editors before the long reign of Selah Merrill Clarke--of whom more will be said presently--were Henry W. Odion, Elijah M. Rewey, and Ambrose W. Lyman, all of whom had previously been _Sun_ reporters, and all of whom remained with the _Sun_, in various capacities, for many years. Rewey was the exchange editor from 1887 to 1903, and was variously employed at other important desk posts until his death in 1916. Since Mr. Clarke’s retirement, in 1912, the night city editors have been Joseph W. Bishop, J. W. Phoebus, Eugene Doane, Marion G. Scheitlin, and M. A. Rose. The night editors of the _Sun_, whose function it is to make up the paper and to “sit in” when the managing editors are absent, have been Dr. John B. Wood, the “great American condenser”; Garret P. Serviss, now with the _Evening Journal_; Charles M. Fairbanks, Carr V. Van Anda (1893–1904), now managing editor of the New York _Times_; George M. Smith (1904–1912), the present managing editor of the _Evening Sun_; and Joseph W. Bishop. In the eighties, the nineties, and the first decade of the present century the front corners of the city room were occupied, six nights a week, by two men closely identified with the _Sun’s_ progress in getting and preparing news. These, Chester S. Lord and S. M. Clarke, were looked up to by _Sun_ men, and by Park Row generally, as essential parts of the _Sun_. Lord, through his city editors, reporters, and correspondents, got the news. If it was metropolitan news--and until the latter days of July, 1914, New York was the news-centre of the world, so far as American papers were concerned--Clarke helped to get it and then to present it after the unapproachably artistic manner of the _Sun_. In the years of Lord and Clarke more than a billion copies of the _Sun_ went out containing news stories written by men whom Lord had hired and whose work had passed beneath the hand of Clarke. Chester Sanders Lord, who was managing editor of the _Sun_ from 1880 to 1913, was born in Romulus, New York, in 1850, the son of the Rev. Edward Lord, a Presbyterian clergyman who was chaplain of the One Hundred and Tenth Regiment of New York Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. Chester Lord studied at Hamilton College in 1869 and 1870, and went from college to be associate editor of the Oswego _Advertiser_. In 1872 he came to the _Sun_ as a reporter, and covered part of Horace Greeley’s campaign for the Presidency in that year. After nine months as a reporter he was assigned by the managing editor, Cummings, to the suburban desk, where he remained for four years. In the fall of 1877 he bought the Syracuse _Standard_, but in six weeks he returned to the _Sun_ and became assistant night city editor under Ambrose W. Lyman, the predecessor of S. M. Clarke. Ballard Smith, who succeeded William Young as managing editor in 1878, named Lord as his assistant, and Lord succeeded Ballard Smith as managing editor on December 3, 1880.