_A Very Small Metropolis Which Day and His Partner, Wisner, Awoke by Printing Small Human Pieces About Small Human Beings and Having Boys Cry the Paper_ 31 CHAPTER III RICHARD ADAMS LOCKE’S MOON HOAX _A Magnificent Fake Which Deceived Two Continents, Brought to “The Sun” the Largest Circulation in the World and, in Poe’s Opinion, Established Penny Papers_ 64 CHAPTER IV DAY FINDS A RIVAL IN BENNETT _The Success of “The Sun” Leads to the Founding of The “Herald.”--Enterprises and Quarrels of a Furious Young Journalism.--The Picturesque Webb.--Maria Monk_ 103 CHAPTER V NEW YORK LIFE IN THE THIRTIES _A Sprightly City Which Daily Bought Thirty Thousand copies of “The Sun.”--The Rush to Start Penny Papers.--Day Sells “The Sun” for Forty Thousand Dollars_ 121 CHAPTER VI MOSES Y. BEACH’S ERA OF HUSTLE _“The Sun” Uses Albany Steamboats, Horse Expresses, Trotting Teams, Pigeons, and the Telegraph to Get News.--Poe’s Famous Balloon Hoax and the Case of Mary Rodgers_ 139 CHAPTER VII “THE SUN” IN THE MEXICAN WAR _Moses Y. Beach as an Emissary of President Polk.--The Associated Press Founded in the Office of “The Sun.”--Ben Day’s Brother-in-Law Retires with a Small Fortune_ 164 CHAPTER VIII “THE SUN” DURING THE CIVIL WAR _One of the Few Entirely Loyal Newspapers of New York.--Its Brief Ownership by a Religious Coterie.--It Returns to the Possession of M. S. Beach, Who Sells It to Dana_ 172 CHAPTER IX THE EARLIER CAREER OF DANA _His Life at Brook Farm and His Tribune Experience.--His Break with Greeley, His Civil War Services and His Chicago Disappointment.--His Purchase of “The Sun”_ 202 CHAPTER X DANA: HIS “SUN” AND ITS CITY _The Period of the Great Personal Journalists.--Dana’s Avoidance of Rules and Musty Newspaper Conventions.--His Choice of Men and His Broad Definition of News_ 233 CHAPTER XI DANA, AS MITCHELL SAW HIM _A Picture of the Room Where One Man Ruled for Thirty Years.--The Democratic Ways of a Newspaper Autocrat.--W. O. Bartlett, Pike, and His Other Early Associates_ 247 CHAPTER XII DANA’S FIRST BIG NEWS MEN _Amos J. Cummings, Dr. Wood, and John B. Bogart.--The Lively Days of Tweedism.--Elihu Root as a Dramatic Critic.--The Birth and Popularity of “The Sun’s” Cat_ 262 CHAPTER XIII DANA’S FAMOUS RIVALS PASS _The Deaths of Raymond, Bennett, and Greeley Leave Him the Dominant Figure of the American Newspaper Field.--Dana’s Dream of a Paper Without Advertisements_ 293 CHAPTER XIV “THE SUN” AND THE GRANT SCANDALS