Borden, Lizzie, acquittal of, reported by Julian Ralph, 318, 319 Bowery Theatre Fire, ruins Hamblin, 118 first American playhouse lighted with gas, 121 Bowles, Samuel, employs B. H. Day, 22–23 Bowman, Frank, dramatic critic, 411 Bread riots, the _Sun’s_ part in, 118, 119 Brewster, Sir David, appears in Moon Hoax, 71 Brisbane, Albert, association of, with Greeley, 161 Brisbane, Arthur, son of Albert Brisbane, 161 style of, like W. O. Bartlett’s, 256 becomes reporter at 18, 346, 347 becomes London correspondent, 347 reports Sullivan-Mitchell fight, 347 is managing editor _Evening Sun_, 348 becomes editor Sunday _World_ magazine, 348 becomes editor _Evening Journal_, 348 becomes proprietor Washington _Times_, 348 takes Richard Harding Davis on _Evening Sun_, 398 Brook Farm, Dana enters, 206 Brooklyn Theatre fire, 362 Brooks brothers, James and Erastus, establish New York _Express_, 134, 135 Brown, John, the _Sun’s_ attitude toward, 177 Bryant, William Cullen, editor and poet in 1833, 34 conflict of, with W. L. Stone, 34 Buchanan, James, supported by the _Sun_, 176 Burdell, Dr. Harvey, murder of, 196 Burnett, Wm., 60 Burr, Aaron, 51 Butler, Stephen B., 60 Cady, Elizabeth, marries Henry B. Stanton, 259 Caroline case, the _Sun’s_ enterprise in reporting, 144, 145 Carroll, Dana H., Spanish war correspondent, 355 Cat, the _Sun’s_, his invention and reputation, 287–289 Chadwick, George W., in business with Dana, 216 Chamberlains and Chamberlins, 341–343 Chamberlain, Henry Richardson, covers Europe for the _Sun_, 342 visions by, of a great war, 342 Chamberlin, Wilbur J., takes charge of the _Sun_ staff in Cuba, 356 eleven-column report by, 361 known as “Jersey,” 338; cable hoodoo of, 339, 340 describes German soldiers’ brutality in China, 340 describes the Deacon’s broken suspenders, 341 Chamberlin, E. O., reporter, 342 Chamberlin, Henry B., reporter, 343 Childs, George W., tells of W. M. Swain’s industry, 135 buys _Public Ledger_, 135 Cholera, in New York, 1832, 22 Church, Francis P., a _Sun_ editorial writer for forty years, 191 “Is There a Santa Claus?,” 409 Church, William C., publisher of the _Sun_, 190 war correspondent, 190, 191 owns _Army and Navy Journal_, 191 Circulation in November, 1833, 2,000, 50 in December, 1833, 52 April, 1834, 54 in November, 1834, 57 Day offers to bet on it, 62–63 in August, 1835, it becomes the largest in the world, 78 in August, 1836, 27,000, 116 in September, 1843, 38,000, 157 in December, 1848, 50,000, 168 in September, 1860, 59,000, 194 Dana’s estimate of 50,000 to 60,000 in 1868, 228 in 1871, 100,000, 269 in March, 1875, 120,000, 300 day after Tilden-Hayes election, 220, 390, 323, 325 after other interesting events, 323–325 high-tide marks, 325