Bennett was a good business man and an energetic editor. He used all the ideas that Day had proved profitable, and many of his own. Perhaps the most valuable thing he learned from Day was that it was unwise to be a slave to a political party. But his own experience with the luckless _Pennsylvanian_, a Jackson organ, may have convinced him of the futility of the strictly partisan papers, which neglected the news for the sake of the office-holders. Day’s success with the _Sun_ was responsible for the birth, not only of the _Herald_, but of a host of American penny papers, which were established at the rate of a dozen a year. Of the New York imitators the _Jeffersonian_, published by Childs & Devoe, and the _Man_, owned by George H. Evans, an Englishman who was the Henry George of his day, were not long for this world. The _Transcript_, started in 1834, flashed up for a time as a dangerous rival of the _Sun_. Three compositors, William J. Stanley, Willoughby Lynde, and Billings Hayward, owned it. Its editor was Asa Greene, erstwhile physician and bookseller and always humorist. He wrote “The Adventures of Dr. Dodimus Duckworth,” “The Perils of Pearl Street,” and “The Travels of Ex-Barber Fribbleton in America”--this last a travesty on the books of travel turned out by Englishmen who visited the States. William H. Attree, a former compositor, wrote the _Transcript’s_ lively police-court stories, the _Sun’s_ rival having learned how popular was crime. The _Transcript_ lasted five years, the earlier of them so prosperous that the proprietors thought they were going to be millionaires. But Reporter Attree went to Texas with the land-boomers, and Lynde, who wrote the paragraphs, died. When the paper failed, in 1839, Hayward went to the _Herald_, where he worked as a compositor all the rest of his life. The other penny papers that sprang up in New York to give battle--while the money lasted--to the _Sun_, the _Transcript_, and the _Herald_, were the _True Sun_, started by some of Day’s discharged employees; the _Morning Star_, run by Major Noah, of the _Evening Star_; the _New Era_, already mentioned, which Richard Adams Locke started in 1836 in company with Jared D. Bell and Joseph Price; the _Daily Whig_, of which Horace Greeley was Albany correspondent in 1838; the _Bee_, the _Serpent_, the _Light_, the _Express_, the _Union_, the _Rough Hewer_, the _News Times_, the _Examiner_, the _Morning Chronicle_, the _Evening Chronicle_, the _Daily Conservative_, the _Censor_, and the _Daily News_. All these bobbed up, in one city alone, in the five years during which Ben Day owned the _Sun_. Most of them were mushrooms in origin and morning-glories by nature. They could not stand the _Sun’s_ rays.