Other writers for the editorial page were Edward H. Mullin, an Irishman from Dublin, and Frederic J. Gregg. The chief editorial writer is now James Luby, who is assisted by an _Evening Sun_ veteran, Winfield S. Moody. The managing editors since W. C. McCloy have been Charles P. Cooper, James Luby, and the present incumbent, George M. Smith, for many years night editor of the _Sun_, and its managing editor in the absence of Mr. Lord. After Allan Kelly, the city editors were W. C. McCloy, Charles P. Cooper, Ervin Hawkins, Nelson Lloyd, and T. M. Dieuaide. Mr. Lloyd, who left the paper to write fiction, had served as city editor from 1897 to 1904. The _Evening Sun_ has always had a particular appeal to the woman reader. Its first woman reporter, Miss Helen Watterson, of Cleveland, Ohio, was induced to come East in Brisbane’s régime to write a column called “The Woman About Town,” and ever since 1890 the staff of women writers on the paper has been increasing. The _Evening Sun_ has a page or two a day of feature articles written for women, by women, about women. The financial and sports departments of the _Evening Sun_ make it a man’s paper, too. No home-going broker would dare to board the subway without a copy of the Wall Street edition of the _Evening Sun_. A large staff of sporting writers, captained by Joseph Vila, provides each day a page or two of authoritative athletic news. The _Sun_ and the _Evening Sun_ are run as separate publications, each with a complete staff, but their presses and purposes are one. CHAPTER XVIII THE FINEST SIDE OF “THE SUN” _Literary Associations of an Editorial Department That Has Encouraged and Attracted Men of Imagination and Talent.--Mitchell, Hazeltine, Church, and Their Colleagues._ The _Sun’s_ association with literature, particularly with fiction, has been more intimate than that of any other daily American newspaper. Ben Day had a taste for fiction, else the moon hoax, a bit of good writing as well as the greatest of fakes, would not have appeared. In the time of Moses Y. Beach the balloon hoax and other writings of Poe were in the _Sun_. Moses S. Beach, who owned or controlled the paper for twenty years, brought popularity and profit to it through stories written exclusively for the _Sun_ by Mary J. Holmes, Horatio Alger, Jr., and a dozen other authors whose tales compelled readers to burn the midnight gas. Under Dana the _Sun’s_ interest in literature became broader, more intense. Dana’s knowledge that the most avid appetite of the public was for the short story and the novel, led him to encourage his men to adopt, when feasible, the fiction form in news writing. In his four-page daily there was not much room for romance proper, but when the Sunday _Sun_ was under way, its eight pages afforded space for tales of fancy. In the first few years of Dana’s ownership the walks of American literature were not crowded. As late as 1875 the _Sun_ lamented: