“Mr. Paul Dana calls the _Sun’s_ attention to what he claims was an error in ‘The Story of the _Sun_’ as it originally appeared in the _Munsey Magazine_: the statement that ‘he [Mr. Dana] continued in control of the property until 1900.’ Mr. Dana states that he did not dispose of his controlling interest until 1902. The statement in the _Munsey Magazine_ publication of ‘The Story of the _Sun_’ was founded upon the International Encyclopædia’s biography of William M. Laffan and also upon a statement published in the _Sun_ at the time of Mr. Laffan’s death in 1909, that Mr. Laffan obtained the control of the _Sun_ in 1900. When the _Munsey Magazine_ articles were reprinted in the Sunday _Sun_ the paragraph referred to by Mr. Dana was changed to read as follows: “‘Paul Dana continued in control of the property for several years and held with credit his father’s title of editor until 1903. William Mackay Laffan, who had been associated with the elder Dana since 1877, obtained the business control. His proprietorship was announced on February 22, 1902, and it continued until his death in 1909.’ “We will let Mr. Dana’s version of this matter stand in ‘The Story of the _Sun_’ unless some further evidence appears on the disputed point.” Among the makers of the _Sun_ who best knew the paper and the intellectual demands of its readers, Laffan must be included with Dana and Mitchell. At the time when he came to be master of the paper, his career had covered the entire journalistic field, and he was, moreover, a thorough _Sun_ man, sympathetic with all the ideals of his old friend Dana. Laffan, who was born in Dublin, Ireland, and had a light and delightful brogue, was educated at Trinity College and at St. Cecilia’s School of Medicine. When he was twenty he went to San Francisco, where, beginning as a reporter, he became city editor of the _Chronicle_ and managing editor of the _Bulletin_. In 1870 he went to Baltimore, to be a reporter on the _Daily Bulletin_, and of this newspaper he became editor and part owner. Eventually he became the full owner of both the _Daily Bulletin_ and the _Sunday Bulletin_, and in this capacity he endeared himself to the citizens of Baltimore by his fight against political rings. He left newspaper work for a short time to become general passenger-agent of the Long Island Railroad; but in 1877, on Mr. Dana’s invitation, he went on the _Sun_ as a general writer. Himself an artist who modelled in clay, painted in oils and water-colours, and etched, his judgment made him valuable to the paper as an art critic.