The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918

CHAPTER I

SUNRISE AT 222 WILLIAM STREET

_Benjamin H. Day, with No Capital Except Youth and Courage, Establishes the First Permanent Penny Newspaper.--The Curious First Number Entirely His Own Work._

In the early thirties of last century the only newspapers in the city of New York were six-cent journals whose reading-matter was adapted to the politics of men, and whose on...