In this period Raymond and his former employer, Greeley, fought their celebrated editorial duel--with pens, not mahogany-handled pistols--on the subject of Fourierism, that theory of social reorganization which Greeley seemed anxious to spread, and which was zealously preached by another of his young men, Albert Brisbane, now perhaps better remembered as the father of Arthur Brisbane. But Colonel Webb’s paper would not wake wide enough to suit the ambitious Raymond, who seized the opportunity of becoming the first editor of the New York _Times_. Other men who worked for Greeley’s _Tribune_ in its young days were Bayard Taylor, who wrote articles from Europe; George William Curtis, the essayist; Count Gurowski, an authority on foreign affairs; and Charles A. Dana. Beach soon recognized Greeley as a considerable rival in the morning field, and there was a long tussle between the _Sun_ and the _Tribune_. It did not content itself with words, and there were street battles between the boys who sold the two papers. Stung by one of Beach’s articles, Greeley called the _Sun_ “the slimy and venomous instrument of Locofocoism, Jesuitical and deadly in politics and grovelling in morals.” The term Locofoco had then lost its original application to the Equal Rights section of the Democratic party and was applied--particularly by the Whigs--to any sort of Democrat. Moses Y. Beach had no such young journalists about him as Dana or Raymond, but he had two sons who seemed well adapted to take up the ownership of the _Sun_. He took them in as partners on October 22, 1845, under the title of “M. Y. Beach & Sons.” The elder son, Moses Sperry Beach, was then twenty-three years old, and had already been well acquainted with the newspaper business, particularly with the mechanical side of it. Before his father took him as a partner, young Moses had joined with George Roberts in the publication of the Boston _Daily Times_, but he was glad to drop this and devote himself to the valuable property at Fulton and Nassau Streets. If a genius for invention is inheritable, both the Beach boys were richly endowed by their father. Moses S. invented devices for the feeding of rolls of paper, instead of sheets, to flat presses; for wetting news-print paper prior to printing; for cutting the sheets after printing; and for adapting newspaper presses to print both sides of the sheet at the same time. Alfred Ely Beach was only nineteen when he became partner in the _Sun_. After leaving the academy at Monson, Massachusetts, where he had been schooled, he worked with his father in the _Sun_ office, and learned every detail of the business. The inventive vein was even deeper in him than in his brother. When he was twenty he formed a partnership with his old schoolmate, Orson D. Munn, of Monson, and they bought the _Scientific American_ from Rufus Porter and combined its publishing business with that of soliciting patents.