Mr. Beach owned the _Sun’s_ new home at Fulton and Nassau Streets and the building at 156 Nassau Street which he had recently vacated, and which was burned down in the fire of February 6, 1845. He had a London correspondent who ran a special horse express to carry the news from London to Bristol. A _Sun_ reporter went to report Webster’s speech on the great day when the Bunker Hill Monument was finished. He got down correctly at least the last sentence: “Thank God, I--I also--am an American!” With a circulation by far the largest in the world, the _Sun_ was obliged to buy a new dress of type every three months, for the day of the curved stereotype plate was still far off. Early in 1846 two new presses, each capable of six thousand _Suns_ an hour, were put in at a cost of twelve thousand dollars. The size of the paper grew constantly, although Beach stuck to a four-page sheet because of the limitations of the presses. Instead of adding pages, he added columns. From Day’s little three-column _Sun_ the paper had grown, by April of 1840, to a width of seven columns. Of the total of twenty-eight columns in an issue twenty-one and a half were devoted to advertising, three to mixed news and editorials, two and a half to the court reports, and one column to reprint. With the page seven columns wide, Beach thought that the two words--“_The Sun_”--looked lonely, and to fill out the heading he changed it to read “_The New York Sun_.” This continued from April 13 to September 29, 1840, when the proprietor saw how much more economical it would be to cut out “New York” and push the first and seventh columns of the first page up to the top of the paper. Then it was “_The Sun_” once more in head-line as well as body. The paper is never the _New York Sun_, Eugene Field’s poem to the contrary notwithstanding. It is the _Sun_, universal in its spirit, and published in New York by the accident of birth. Three years after that the _Sun_ became an eight-column paper, and there were no more sneers at the blanket sheets, for the _Sun_ itself was getting pretty wide. It was in the reign of Moses Y. Beach as owner of the _Sun_, that Horace Greeley came to stay in New York journalism. He had been fairly successful as editor of the _New Yorker_, and his management of the campaign paper called the _Log Cabin_, issued in 1840 in the interest of General Harrison, was masterly. With the prestige thus obtained, he was able, on April 10, 1841, to start the _Tribune_. In the first number he announced his intention of excluding the police reports which had been so valuable to “our leading penny papers”--meaning the _Sun_ and the _Herald_--and of making the _Tribune_ “worthy of the hearty approval of the virtuous and refined.” It was a week before the _Sun_ mentioned its former friend, and then it was only to say: