A story of the _Sun_ would be incomplete without a sketch of its little sister. The _Evening Sun_ was established by Mr. Dana nearly twenty years after he bought the _Sun_. He saw a place for a one-cent evening newspaper, for the only journal of that description then published in New York was the _Daily News_, which was largely a class publication. The leading evening newspapers were the _Evening Post_, the _Commercial Advertiser_, and the _Mail and Express_, selling for three cents and catering to a highbrow or a partisan clientele. The first _Evening Sun_ was issued on March 17, 1887, at an hour when the St. Patrick’s Day parade was being reviewed by Mayor Hewitt. With its four pages of six columns each, its brief, lively presentation of general news, and its low price, the paper was an immediate success--though not the success that it is to-day, with its sixteen pages, its wealth of special articles, and the many features that make it one of America’s best evening newspapers. The new paper had no titular editor-in-chief. Mr. Dana was the editor of the _Sun_ and had the general guidance of the evening paper. Dana’s associate, the publisher of the _Sun_, William M. Laffan, took a deep interest in the welfare of the new venture, and the _Evening Sun_ was often referred to as his “baby.” The first managing editor of the paper was Amos J. Cummings, with Allan Kelly as city editor and John McCormick as sporting editor. When Cummings went to Congress, E. J. Edwards took his place and remained as managing editor until August, 1889, when Arthur Brisbane returned from the post of London correspondent of the _Sun_ to manage the evening paper. It was Brisbane who induced Richard Harding Davis, then a young reporter in Philadelphia, to come to New York. As Davis was walking up from the ferry one morning in October, 1889, on his way to take up his new duties, he was taken in hand, in City Hall Park, by a bunco-steerer. Davis listened to the man’s wiles, turned him over to the police of the City Hall station, and then hurried to the _Evening Sun_ office to write a story about it for the paper. Davis’s _Van Bibber_ stories, the first of his fiction to attract wide attention, were originally printed in the _Evening Sun_, in 1890. As a reporter under Brisbane, Davis picked up much of the information and experiences that coloured his fiction. When Brisbane went to the Pulitzer forces, he was succeeded as managing editor by W. C. McCloy, who had been city editor, and who remained at the head of the news department for more than twenty years.