The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
HORACE WHITE, ROLLO OGDEN, AND THE “EVENING POST” SINCE 1900
The editorship of Horace White was a three years’ interlude (Jan. 1, 1900-Jan. 31, 1903) between the eighteen years of Godkin, and the equally long editorship of Rollo Ogden. Its outstanding feature was the campaign of 1900, during which the _Evening Post_ faced the two major parties in a plague-on-both-your-houses spirit. It was impossible for it to support either McKinley or Bryan. But it did applaud Bryan’s anti-imperialist speeches, and from them and the Democratic platform plank on the Philippines it expected the greatest good. “They will put one-half the people of the United States in a high school to learn the principles of free government,” wrote Horace White, “as a class learns a lesson by repetition and observation.” In other words, believing that the Democratic Party had possessed no definite ideas regarding the Philippines previous to the Kansas City Convention, the _Post_ hoped that the campaign would imbue it with a lasting set of principles on the subject. That hope has been justified. After Bryan defined imperialism as the paramount issue, the paper--which knew his opponent would win--more and more implied that a vote for him would be a healthy vote of protest.
The decisiveness of McKinley’s victory showed that the people were quite unconvinced of the views of Bryan and the _Evening Post_ regarding our Philippine policy. It happened that Carl Schurz had made a tour of the West shortly before the election, speaking against imperialism, and on his return had visited the _Evening Post_ confident that Bryan would carry a long list of States there. The day after election Joseph Bucklin Bishop argued in the editorial conference that the _Post_ should treat the result frankly, and abstain from any pretense that the anti-imperialist cause had not been hard hit. The editorial which he wrote harmonized with this view. About noon Schurz came in, eager to learn what the editors thought of the election, and was shocked when he read Bishop’s editorial. Towering over the younger man, and shaking his finger in Bishop’s face, he declared in his severest tones: “You admit too much--you admit too much!” “Too much what?” demanded the irritated Bishop. “Too much truth?”
But the _Evening Post_ of course no more surrendered its position upon the Philippine question than upon the tariff. It took the view that the islands should be freed as soon as a stable government could be erected, and it believed then, as it believes still, that the Republican idea of a stable government is altogether too exacting. That American troops should be sent to the other side of the world to impose American rule upon an unwilling people seemed to it horrible. Horace White warmly approved of President McKinley’s and John Hay’s liberal attitude toward China in the Boxer troubles, and their insistence upon the open door and Chinese integrity. The same liberal principles seemed to him to condemn the employment of a hundred thousand men and a hundred million dollars a year to subjugate the Filipinos; give them a definite promise of independence, he held, and the fighting might stop.
When Mr. White resigned, in accordance with his original intention of remaining editor but a short period, it was a foregone conclusion that his successor would be Mr. Ogden. A power in the _Evening Post_ office since he entered it in 1891, Mr. Ogden had come to take a leading share in the guidance of policy and the writing of the important editorials. Of his long, exceedingly able, and fruitful editorship, one comparable only with Godkin’s and Bryant’s in the history of the paper, it is too soon to write in detail. But its main outlines may be roughly indicated.
In national politics the _Evening Post_ continued independent, with the leaning towards the Democratic Party which its low-tariff and anti-imperialist tenets naturally gave it. The only occasions since 1884 when it has not supported the Democratic ticket are the three occasions on which Bryan ran. In 1904 it was with Parker against Roosevelt, and in 1912 and 1916 it was with Wilson. In international affairs it remained the champion of peace and of fair play for the weaker nations, with that special regard for friendship with England which has animated it since 1801. It was always to be found arrayed against the Platt and Barnes machines in State politics, and against Tammany in the city. Upon some large domestic questions its policy changed--it early became an advocate of woman’s suffrage, and in due time a supporter of national prohibition; while upon other domestic questions, as the negro question, it grew much more aggressive and insistent.
Much of the energy with which the _Evening Post_ opposed Roosevelt in 1904 was due to its hot indignation over the steps by which, the previous fall, he had gained a right of way for the Panama Canal by hastening to confirm the separation of Panama from Colombia. Mr. Ogden’s attacks upon that high-handed act were stinging. Whether or not American agents had intrigued to bring about Panama’s secession, the _Evening Post_ thought it shameful, in view of our protests in the Civil War against European recognition of the Confederacy, to be so precipitate in recognizing Panama. “Our policy is now the humiliating one of treating a pitifully feeble nation as we should never dream of dealing with even a second-class Power,” wrote Mr. Ogden; “of giving a friendly republic a blow in the face without waiting for either explanation or protest; of going far beyond the diplomatic requirements of the situation, and that with indecent haste--and all for what? To aid a struggling people?... No, but just for a handful of silver, just for a commercial advantage....” On one occasion he published as an editorial, without comment, the Bible passage relating to Naboth’s vineyard.
Toward the seven years of Roosevelt’s Presidency the attitude of the _Evening Post_ had to be a constant alternation of hostility and friendliness. It disliked his love of excitement and sensation, but liked his energy. It attacked his demands for a big army and navy, but admired his brilliant conclusion of peace between Russia and Japan. It believed him indifferent to constitutional and legal methods, censuring his tendency to ride rough-shod over Congress and curse the courts; but it valued his ability to get things done, and recognized the immense constructive achievement of his administration--his work for conservation and irrigation, his railway rate legislation, his pursuit of land thieves, postal thieves, and rebate-granting railways, his successful fight in the Northern Securities case. Above all, it recognized in him an awakener of the national conscience:
A great upheaval of moral sentiment took place during his administration. He was not the sole cause of it, but he utilized it and furthered it mightily. An account of stewardship of the rich was vigorously demanded. Business dishonesty was held up to abhorrence. Corporation rottenness was probed. All this, in spite of excesses of denunciation and legislation, was highly salutary. It was full time that people who had been mismanaging corporations and exploiting the public were called sharply to book.... The quickening of the national conscience, the rousing of a people long dead in trespasses and sins, with such concrete results as the reform of the insurance companies and the restrictions upon predatory public service corporations, is a service the value of which can scarcely be overlooked. (March, 1909.)
Having been outraged by the McKinley tariff and done its best to further the political revolt which that measure produced, having been equally denunciatory of the Dingley tariff, the _Evening Post_ hoped in 1909 for a genuine revision downward. Throughout the campaign of 1908 it had regretted the lukewarmness of Taft’s utterances on this subject. The day after his election Mr. Ogden gave him a grave warning, which now appears as a prophecy justified:
To Mr. Taft we look for the fulfillment of those solemn promises--particularly for reform of the tariff--to which he and his party are committed. Notwithstanding the returns from the polls, there is widespread dissatisfaction with the recklessness and extravagance which have been encouraged by twelve years of unbroken Republican ascendency.... More menacing yet has been the open alliance between the protected manufacturers and the Republican politicians for the exploitation of the farmers and the vast mass of consumers. It is not conceivable that this sinister partnership can continue as in the past. The new and radical element which is gaining control of the Republican organization in the west will fight the stolid stand-patters like Aldrich and Cannon, and it may be set down as a certainty that if Mr. Taft does not join with them in the task of setting the Republican house in order and in casting the money-changers out of the temple, some man of foresight and power will come forward to wage the battle in behalf of the people. The great cause will produce the champion, as it produced Lincoln, and later Cleveland.
The Taft administration was but a month old when the _Evening Post_ warned it again that the Payne-Aldrich bill contained provisions that would drive it from power unless the President intervened vigorously to remove them. When Dolliver led the attack of the West upon the tricks and robberies of the bill, charging that hoggish manufacturers had obtained permission from Aldrich to write their own tariff clauses, the editors rejoiced that never before had the public been so awake to greed and dishonesty of protection. When it found that its appeals to Taft to take action were in vain, it was totally disgusted with the President. His Winona speech it thought indefensible. Like the rest of the country, it soon discovered that he had marked deficiencies for his great office. In its view, Taft was wrong in the Ballinger affair, and in his initial advocacy of the remission of Panama tolls. He was not merely a poor politician, in the sense that he could not keep an effective party following, but he lacked foresight and energy. “He has shown himself devoid of the higher imagination in public affairs, too little prescient, without the touch of quick sympathy and popular quality which would have enabled him to take arms against a sea of troubles,” wrote Mr. Ogden as the administration ended.
Yet the _Evening Post_ did not believe that Taft’s administration was the black betrayal and wretched failure which many said in 1912 it was. The country had many services to thank him for, it said, and his reputation would certainly benefit by the lapse of time. As between Taft and Roosevelt in 1912, it decidedly preferred Taft. In an editorial as the year 1911 closed, “A Square Deal for Taft,” it accused the former President of hitting below the belt. “Roosevelt is deliberately allowing himself to be used against the President, and allowing it ambiguously, equivocally, and not in the honorable and manly fashion which he has been forever advocating.... Why does he not frankly state the grounds of his opposition to Taft?” When Roosevelt did throw his hat into the ring, the editors deemed his cause in many respects weak. They felt that his denunciation of Taft was malignantly overdone. Recognizing many fine qualities in the Progressive movement, they believed that no new party could come into being without some one compelling moral or economic issue; that a program of all the virtues might be attractive, but did not afford a sound political basis, at least when coupled with the fortunes of an ambitious self-seeker. Parts of the Roosevelt program, notably his proposal for the recall of judicial decisions, and his plan for regulating the trusts by commission, struck the _Post_ as thoroughly unsound.
Supporting Woodrow Wilson throughout the 1912 campaign, the _Evening Post_ also supported almost all the measures of his first administration. The Federal Reserve Act and the Underwood tariff it hailed as reforms of the first magnitude. The various acts for the better use and protection of our national domain met its approval. While several influential New York newspapers attacked Wilson’s policy of “watchful waiting” in Mexican affairs, the _Post_ held it both wise and courageous, and regretted only the temporary interruption of it by our attack upon Vera Cruz. The editors welcomed the Jones Act for a larger measure of Philippine autonomy, thought well of Bryan’s “cooling-off treaties,” and were grateful for the President’s veto of the literacy test bill. Indeed, the paper’s support would have been unhesitatingly given to President Wilson at the beginning of the campaign of 1916 had his opponent been a less able man than Hughes, and had it not been deeply offended that midsummer by the surrender of the President and Congress to the threat of a great railway strike, and their enactment of the eight-hour day law. As it was, shortly before November 1 the _Evening Post_ came out for Wilson’s reëlection.
The opening of the Great War was a stunning surprise to the _Evening Post_, as to all America. But it was less completely taken unawares than were some papers which had failed to watch minutely the drift of affairs in Europe. On July 27, in an editorial analyzing the bellicose contents of a number of German and Austrian papers--the Hamburg _Fremdenblatt_, the _Deutsches Volksblatt_, the _Neues Wiener Tageblatt_, the _Reichspost_, and the _Neue Freie Presse_ of Vienna--it gave a remarkably accurate view, under the title “War Madness,” of what was going on under the surface in Europe. When Germany entered Belgium its condemnation was instant. “By this action Germany has shown herself ready to lift an outlaw hand against the whole of Western Europe.” The paper did not know whether Germany directly caused and desired the war; but it believed that she indirectly caused it, and that she failed to prevent it when she might easily have done so. Before fighting had fairly commenced it ventured upon a prophecy which the fate of three thrones has fully justified:
The human mind cannot yet begin to grasp the consequences. One of them, however, seems plainly written in the book of the future. It is that, after this most awful and most wicked of all wars is over, the power of life and death over millions of men, the right to decree the ruin of industry and commerce and finance, with untold human misery stalking through the land like a plague, will be taken away from three men. No safe prediction of actual results of battle can be made. Dynasties may crumble before all is done, empires change their form of government. But whatever happens, Europe--humanity--will not settle back into a position enabling three Emperors to give, on their individual choice or whim, the signal for destruction and massacre.
The whole course of the war only confirmed the _Evening Post’s_ original view that the side of right and justice was the Allied side. When the _Lusitania_ was sunk, Mr. Ogden’s indictment of “The Outlaw German Government” was one of the most stirring editorials that ever appeared in the _Evening Post_ or _Nation_; an editorial which asked the American people to show themselves “too firmly planted on right to be hysterical, and too determined on obtaining justice to bluster,” but which expressed confidence that the true and righteous judgments of the Lord would yet be visited upon the German war leaders. When President Wilson asked the American people to be neutral in thought and word, the _Evening Post_ declared that our moral sentiment could not be neutral--that it must be with England and France. The Allied infringements upon our rights in the enforcement of the blockade it attacked, but it constantly emphasized the fact that Germany’s violations of international law were far graver, in that they affected life and liberty, not merely property.
Long hoping that American participation in the war could be honorably avoided, the _Evening Post_ did not want peace at any price. It regarded war as a lesser calamity than the defeat of the Allies, or than supine submission to Germany’s unrestricted submarine activity. When that activity was announced it was plain that we should soon be involved in the conflict, and the editors followed Mr. Wilson’s course with general, if not perfect, approval, in the difficult days of the crisis. The President’s address to Congress asking for a declaration of war was warmly praised by the _Evening Post_, as placing our national motives and objects upon the most elevated plane. “All told,” it said on April 3, “Americans may take satisfaction in the fact that they enter the war only after the display of the greatest patience by the government, only after grievous and repeated wrongs, and upon the highest possible grounds. There can be no doubt that the country will respond instantly to the President’s leadership.” The _Evening Post_ was not for restricted, but complete participation in the conflict. It early took issue with the administration and with dominant public sentiment in opposing the raising of the army by draft, holding that any appearance of forced military service was un-American, that a volunteer army would show a superior spirit, and that while conscription might become necessary later, it should be postponed until our traditional method of recruiting failed to bring enough men. But the _Evening Post_ accepted the draft loyally, and gave its workings the cordial praise they deserved. From the beginning of the war it looked forward eagerly to the establishment of a world organization to preserve international peace everywhere; and in 1919 and 1920 it was among the staunchest advocates of the League of Nations.
Mr. Ogden had the assistance throughout his editorship of a staff as able as that which Mr. Godkin had gathered about him. Frank Jewett Mather, jr., served as an editorial writer from 1900 to the close of 1906, and as he says, gradually specialized in writing upon European politics and art criticism. Oswald Garrison Villard, son of Henry Villard, was called into the office from the _Philadelphia Press_ in 1897, and remained one of the most active of the editorial writers until 1917. A brilliant young man from Wisconsin, Philip L. Allen, whose premature death was a loss to journalism, advanced rung by rung, and was an editorial writer from 1904 to 1908. Simeon Strunsky joined the staff in 1906. Three years later Dr. Fabian Franklin, long professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins, and from 1895 to 1906 editor of the Baltimore _Sun_, became associate editor; and Royal J. Davis entered the circle in 1910. Paul Elmer More, who was literary editor of the _Evening Post_ after 1903, and became editor of the _Nation_ in 1909, contributed to the editorial page; and there was a considerable list of men who served for short periods, especially in summers--Stuart P. Sherman, Hutchins Hapgood, Walter B. Pitkin, H. Parker Willis, and others.
As the editorial staff existed when the European War began, its members constituted a group of comprehensive tastes and abilities. Mr. Ogden decided all questions of policy, wrote almost all the leading political editorials, and in addition ranged over a wide field of social and literary comment, treating everything with an incisive, pungent style peculiarly his own. Dr. Franklin wrote upon economic subjects with unfailing sureness, treated educational and scientific topics with the authority of a scholar, and was masterly in exploding any fallacy which for the moment had assumed importance, and the detection of which required the combination of strong common sense and logical subtlety. Mr. Villard was interested in a wide range of humanitarian subjects, having made the _Post_, for example, an outstanding champion of the negro race, while he paid special attention to military and naval affairs. International politics was left very largely to Simeon Strunsky, whose pen was also indispensable in the humorous or satiric treatment of current subjects, and whose knowledge was encyclopædic. Mr. Noyes continued to write regularly upon financial topics, while Mr. Davis--who was also literary editor, 1914–1920--had given special attention to certain phases of politics.
In its news department the _Evening Post_ had suffered a heavy blow in 1897, when the city editor, H. J. Wright, became editor of the _Commercial Advertiser_, and took with him Norman Hapgood and Lincoln Steffens. But it quickly recovered, and under a series of managing editors--O. G. Villard, Hammond Lamont, H. J. Learoyd, E. G. Lowry, J. P. Gavit, and the present head, Charles McD. Puckette--has continued steadily to improve. The list of reporters since the beginning of the century contains many names known outside the newspaper world. Among them are Burton J. Hendrick, Norman Duncan, Freeman Tilden, and Lawrence Perry as authors; A. E. Thomas and Bayard Veiller as playwrights; George Henry Payne, Ralph Graves, and Arthur Warner as editors; and Rheta Childe Dorr, Walter Arndt, and Robert E. MacAlarney. The Washington correspondence has always maintained a high degree of excellence. The Washington bureau was in charge of Francis E. Leupp from 1889 to 1904, when he was appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs; he was succeeded by E. G. Lowry, J. P. Gavit, and then by David Lawrence, two of whose exploits--his “scoop” on Bryan’s resignation, and his remarkable prediction of the States which would give Wilson the Presidency in 1916--made a considerable noise in their time. The present correspondents are Mark Sullivan and Harold Phelps Stokes.
The war brought a series of rapid changes in the ownership and management of the _Evening Post_. The financial control of the paper had long been in the hands of Mr. Villard, who for more than fifteen years was president of the company, and had given unremitting attention to the maintenance of its high business standards, as well as to the improvement of its news and other features. At the end of July, 1917, Mr. Villard gave an option for the purchase of his share of the paper to his associates, and a few days later it was announced that Mr. Thomas W. Lamont had bought it; thus terminating the long and public-spirited proprietorship by the Villard family. Friends of the paper must ever be grateful to Mr. Lamont for carrying it through the next few years of excessive wartime costs. He placed Mr. Edwin F. Gay, widely known as the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration (1908–19), in charge in January, 1920, as president of the Evening Post Company; and two years later, in the first days of 1922, the ownership of the _Post_ passed into the hands of a syndicate organized by Mr. Gay. Meanwhile, early in 1920 Mr. Ogden had resigned the editorship, and Mr. Strunsky took charge of the editorial page.
With the marked broadening of the newspaper in the last two years, and the innovations in its form, its readers are as familiar as they are with the fact that its essential spirit is unaltered. The connection with the _Nation_ having ceased in 1917, its editorial page has abandoned the narrow columns and long series of uncaptioned editorial paragraphs which had marked it since 1881. The literary pages passed in 1920 into the hands of Mr. Henry S. Canby, who has made the _Evening Post Literary Review_ esteemed from the Atlantic to the Pacific as easily the foremost publication of its kind in America. The volume of news has been greatly increased, fresh departments have been added, illustrations given their proper place, and the appeal of the paper broadened without lowering its standards. In a period not favorable to increase of circulation, that of the _Evening Post_ has risen, under Mr. Gay, to the highest point in its history.
But it is the old _Evening Post_ still; a newspaper which, with a history one of the longest and richest in American journalism, has from generation to generation preserved the same sterling character. The objects of its conductors may be easily stated. They wish to keep it as public-spirited as the _Evening Post_ of Hamilton and Coleman; as ardent in defense of democracy and the oppressed as the _Evening Post_ of Leggett; as dignified, elevated, and fearless as the _Evening Post_ of Bryant, Bigelow, and Godwin; as keen, intellectual, and aggressive as the _Evening Post_ of Godkin and Schurz, Ogden and Horace White; and to add what they can to this noble record.
INDEX
Abolitionists, _E. P._ defends, 145–148
Abyssinia, 505
Adams, Charles, 112
Adams, Charles Follen, contributes, 414
Adams, Charles Francis, Sr., 243, 394, 513
Adams, Henry, 449, 554
Adams, John, 9, 10; death, 89, 90
Adams, J. Q., 82, 124, 131; and “gag” resolution, 170, 182
Adee, A. A., 414
Advertisements, see _Evening Post_
_Advertiser_, Boston, 460
Alaska, purchased, 503
_Albion_, The, 355, 407
Alden, H. M., 317, 318
Aldrich, T. B., offered literary editorship, 413, 417
Allston, Washington, 107, 125
Altgeld, J. P., 500, 502, 542
_American Citizen_, The, 9, 12, 18, 19, 25, 27
“American Flag, The,” 104
“American Notes,” Dickens’s, 223
Anderson, Henry J., 125, 127; on staff, 163
Anderson, Major Robert, 273
Anthon, Prof. Charles, 125
Antietam, Battle of, 294
Apartment houses introduced, 367ff.
Appomattox, 314, 323
_Armistad_ Affair, 172
_Army and Navy Journal_, The, 318
Arthur, Chester A., 450, 451
Arden, Francis, 23, 109
Arndt, Walter T., 578
Arrears, of subscriptions, 93
Asphalt, _E. P._ advocates, 375
Astor, John Jacob, 18, 46, 106, 131
Astor, William B., 273, 364, 385
Astor House, opened, 162
Astor Library, 364
Astor Place riot, 226
Atlanta captured, 310
_Aurora_, Philadelphia, 9, 13, 31, 80, 94
Audubon, John J., visits _E. P._, 191
Australian ballot, advocated, 537
“Ballads and Other Poems” (Longfellow’s), 219
Ballinger Affair, 572
Baltimore Convention, in 1844, 176, 177
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opened, 78
Bancroft, George, 178, 191, 215, 329, 339
Bandelier, A. F., contributes, 527, 554
Banks, N. P., 251, 321
Barker, Jacob, 100
Barnard, Frederick, 341
Barnard, Judge, 536
Barnburners, _E. P._ joins, 243
Barney, Hiram, 265, 277
Barnum, P. T., 366
Beecher, Henry Ward, 255, 312, 328, 338; praises _E. P._, 464
Bellairs, E. G., correspondent, 552, 553
Bellamy, Mrs. Frederick P., quoted, 546
Belmont, August, 304, 485
Bellows, Dr. Henry, 361
Belshazzar’s Feast, 464
Benjamin, Judah P., 327
Benjamin, Park, contributes, 325
Bennett, James Gordon, early career, 156; revolutionizes New York journalism, 157ff.; social ostracism of, 160; later mention, 244, 271ff., 286, 326, 537
Bennett, James Gordon, Jr., 511
Benson, Egbert, 54
Benton, Thomas Hart, contributes, 234, 235, 242, 247, 251
Béranger, 240, 241
Bergh, Henry, _E. P._ defends, 375
Berlin Decree, 39
Bernhardt, Sarah, 435
Biddle, Commodore James, 183
Biddle, Nicholas, 153, 356
Bigelow, John, 216; career, 228; character, 228, 229; becomes part owner and editor, 230; political activity, 231; controversy with Sparks, 231–234; obtains Benton’s book, 235; business acumen, 236–240; and Sainte-Beuve, 239, 240; Minister to France, 241, 286, 311, 313, 341–343; his “Jamaica,” 346; on Bryant’s style, 347; as Bryant’s associate, 352, 358, 359; as Tilden’s friend, 400–405; later mentions, 424, 438, 439
Binns, John 21, 53
Birney, J. G., 171
Bishop, Joseph Bucklin, joins _E. P._, 455; and Mugwump campaign, 461; and the fight against Tammany, 481; as associate editor, 526; on election of 1900, 568, 569
Bismarck, 452
Black Friday, 392, 425
Bladensburg, 55
Blaine, James G., 394, 446, 447; _E. P._ attacks, 450; campaign of 1884, 459–466; Secretary of State, 468, 471, 472
Blair, Francis P., 251, 314
Blair, Montgomery, Postmaster-General, 285
Bland Act, _E. P._ attacks, 436
Bland, Richard, silver leader, 499
Blankenburg, Rudolph, writes Schurz, 445
Bleecker, Anthony, 15, 18, 97, 114
Bleecker, Leonard, 18
Bliss & White, 125
Blockade of South, 284, 286
Blunt, Orison, runs for Mayor, 378
Board of Health organized, 371
Boggs, W. G., part owner, employee, 230, 231, 431
Book-reviews, early, 107–111; 1830–1855, 207, 216ff.; 1865–1881, 406–419; 1881–1901. 553–560
Boole, F. I. A., Tammany leader, 378
Booth, Edwin, and star system, 565
Booth, John Wilkes, death, 318
Booth, Junius Brutus, his début, 118; career ends, 564
Boutelle, Representative, Charles A., on Spanish War, 515
Boutwell, George S., as Secretary of Treasury, 392
Bowles, Samuel, 362; and Liberal Republican movement, 394–400
Boyce, S. S., reporter, 319
Boyesen, H. H., contributes, 527
Brace, Charles Loring, 485, 524
“Bracebridge Hall,” Irving’s, reviewed, 111
Bradford, Gamaliel, contributes, 559
Bradley, Gen. Stephen T., 23
“Bramble, Matthew,” contributes, 100
Brevoort, Henry, contributes, 95, 109, 110
Bridges, Robert, on staff, 439
Briggs, James A., on Lincoln at Cooper Union, 260
Bristow, Ex-Gov. Benj. H., trustee, 444
Bronson & Chauncey, 91
Brooklyn, 224, 365; union with New York, 494
Brooks, James and Erastus, found the _Express_, 156; later careers, 262, 271, 304
Brooks, Preston S., assaults Sumner, 252, 359
Brown, Charles Brockden, 15; works reviewed, 109, 110
Brown, John, at Harper’s Ferry, 256–258
Brownell, W. C., 449, 554, 558
Bryce, James, 443, 448, 523, 532, 553; as a contributor, 556, 557, 559
Bryan, Wm. J., and campaign of 1896, 500–503; and campaign of 1900, 568, 569; as Secretary of State, 574
Bryant, William Cullen, acquaintance with Coleman, 21–23, 96, 97; comes to New York, 121; associate editor _E. P._, 122; early labors on _E. P._, 125–133; becomes editor in chief, 134; in Europe, 138; returns in 1836, 163; rescues _E. P._ from failure, 166–169; free speech and free soil, 170–173; in campaign of 1840 and Mexican War, 173–179; travels, 182, 183; buys Roslyn, 190; literary friends, 191; advocates Central Park, 192–201; begins fight for international copyright, 211–216; literary judgments, 216–224; asks Bigelow to join _E. P._, 230; anti-slavery utterances, 242–266; ardent supporter of Union and emancipation in Civil War, 267–315; mild reconstruction views, 326–337; character as an editor, 338–359; becomes rich, 359–362; influence, 362, 363; and Tweed Ring, 386, 387; in elections of 1872 and 1876, 389–405; death, 420
Bryant, Mrs. W. C., on Bryant’s overwork, 179
Bryant Building, 412
Buckingham, J. T., defends free speech, 148
Budget, executive, 451
Buell, General, 313
Bull Run, battle of, 284, 285, 323; second battle of, 291
Burch, Robert, managing editor, 351, 455
Burnham, Michael, 125, 138
Burns, the slave, 250
Burnside, Gen. Ambrose, 297, 298, 322
Burr, Aaron, 9, 10, 25, 29, 51, 107
Butler, Benj. F., 459, 464
Calhoun, John C., _E. P._ characterizes, 21, 29, 35
Callender, J. T., 12, 20, 36
Cameron, Simon, in Lincoln’s Cabinet, 277, 278
Canby, Henry Seidel, 579
Carey, Matthew, on international copyright, 215, 417
Carleton, C. C., 322
Carrier-pigeons, early use of, 82; later use, 161
Carter, James C., 485, 524
Cartoons, first, 86
Cass, Lewis, _E. P._ opposes for President, 243, 247
Censorship, Civil War, 321–323
Central Park, _E. P._ champions, 193–201
Cervera defeated, 553
Chancellorsville, battle of, 298, 322
Charter, agitation for a reform, 205, 206; Tweed charter, 378–388; reform charters, 401, 494
Chase, Salmon P., contributes, 242, 243; in Lincoln’s Cabinet, 277, 278; a “radical,” 285; corresponds with Bryant, 286, 290; financial policies, 295–297, 313; on reconstruction, 327, 334; for Presidency, 390
Chatham Street chapel, riot at, 145
Chandler, William E., 450
Cheetham, James, 12, 21, 25, 29, 31, 32, 48, 50, 51, 81
Child, Lydia Maria, 294
Chinese question, 451
Choate Joseph H., 440, 527, 561, 562
Cholera epidemic of 1832, 142
“Christmas in 1875,” 414
Church, W. C., 318, 369
Civil Rights bill, _E. P._ advocates, 329
Civil service reform, _E. P._ champions, 391, 393, 405, 436, 451, 466–468, 522, 523, 547
Civil War, 267, 325
Civil War poetry in _E. P._, 323–325
Clark, E. P., associate editor, 526
Clarkin, Franklin, war correspondent, 552
Clay, Henry, 46, 50, 127; _E. P._ characterizes, 143, 173; “Raleigh letter,” 177; Compromise of 1850, 244–247, 454, 537
Cleveland, Grover, on Schurz, 446, 450, 451; _E. P._ supports in 1884, 462–466; as President, 466–468; re-election, 469, 470; and Venezuela affair, 470–475; and silver, 498, 499; and New York _Journal_, 511
Cobb, Howell, 254, 264
Cobbett, William, 13, 104
Cockran, Bourke, and Tammany, 480–495
Coghlan, Charles and Rose, 564
Colden, Cadwallader, 11, 108
Cole, Thomas, 338
Coleman, William, early career, 14–17; becomes editor-in-chief, 17–20; character, 21–24; relations with Hamilton, 25–34; Federalist views, 39–47; methods as editor, 46–51; in War of 1812, 52–62; comments on city affairs, 63–76; and “Croaker” poets, 101–105; dramatic tastes, 112–120; death, 133, 134
Colored Orphan Asylum, burned, 307
_Columbian_, the New York, 95
_Commercial_, New York, 128, 246, 252, 342
_Commercial_, Cincinnati, 390, 462
_Commercial Advertiser_, New York, 12, 77, 95, 108, 117, 128, 321, 404, 439, 440, 550
Committee of Seventy, in Tweed Affair, 388
Concrete sidewalks, first in New York, 365
Conkling, Roscoe, 450, 451
Connolly, Richard B., in Tweed Affair, 376–388
Conservation, 448
_Constitution_, frigate, 52, 53, 83
Cooke, George Frederick, 115
Cooper, Fenimore, visits _E. P._, 190, 191; last years, 206, 215, 216; _E. P._ on “Deerslayer,” 222; contributes to _E. P._, 223, 224, 225; mentioned, 338
Cooper, Peter, 524, 539
Copyright, international, _E. P._ contends for, 209, 212–216, 417, 418, 560–562
Corbett, Sergeant Boston, contributes, 318
_Courier and Enquirer_, New York, 137, 146; assails _E. P._, 147, 154; news enterprise, 155; attacks Cooper, 223; supports Fremont, 251; absorbed by _World_, 270
_Courrier des Etats Unis_, on Dickens, 211; on secession, 272; on emancipation, 295; a “copperhead” paper, 301
Cox, Dr. F. F., abolitionist, 145
Cox, Gen. Jacob 393, 394, 399, 559
Cox, Kenyon, contributes, 554
Cranch, Christopher Pearse, contributes, 189, 324
Crawford, W. C., supported in 1824, 124
Crime in New York in 1839, 192
Crimean War, news of, 189, 504
Crittenden Compromise, 272–274
“Croaker” poems, 100–107
Croker, Richard, 478, 480, 494, 518, 550
Croton Aqueduct, 194, 196, 197
Cruger, Henry, 106
Crystal Palace, 205
Cushing, Caleb, 341
Cushman, Charlotte, benefit for, 339; retires, 564
Cuba, war in, 506–515; _E. P._ opposes annexation of, 515ff.
Curtis, George W., 362, 524
Cutting, R. Fulton, and W. Bayard, 485
_Daily Advertiser_, New York, 12
_Daily Gazette_, New York, 12, 76, 93, 94, 95, 104
_Daily Graphic_, New York, 406
_Daily News_, New York, 252; on secession, 271–283; mob threatens, 301; “copperhead,” 302ff.; calls war a failure, 312; on reconstruction, 326
Daly, Augustin, his stock company, 564
Dana, Charles A., 326; on impeachment, 331ff., 349, 363; on Tweed Charter, 382; supports Grant, 390; supports Greeley, 399, 434; campaign of 1884, 464ff.; and Cleveland, 466, 469; a Tammany adherent, 476, 485; and free silver, 502; epigrams, 532; lack of principle, 538; character as editor, 546, 547
Dana, R. H., Sr., 121, 123, 162, 166, 216, 223
Dana, R. H., Jr., 339
Danish West Indies, annexation of, 503
Darwin, Charles, Bryce upon, 557
Davenport, Fanny, 564
Davis, Jefferson, 272, 274, 299, 306, 327
Davis, R. B., 109
Davis, Royal J., literary editor, editorial writer, 576, 577
Day, Benjamin H., founds _Sun_, 157
_Day Book_, New York, on secession, 271–283; mob threatens, 301
Decatur, Stephen, 86
“Deerslayer, The,” reviewed, 222
De Lome, Dupuy, dismissed, 507, 508
_Delta_, New Orleans, 184, 185
_Democratic Review_, 224, 229
Dennie, Joseph, 100
Dewey, Chester P., correspondent, 258
Dewey, Orville, 225
Dewey, Admiral George, at Manila, 514
Dicey, A. V., on Godkin, 531; a contributor, 558
Dicey, Edward, on J. G. Bennett, 160
Dickens, Charles, 192, 207; visit in 1842, 209ff.; _E. P._ upon, 223, 353
District of Columbia, emancipation in, 172
Dithmar, Henry, foreman, 342, 343, 354, 422
Dix, John A., 329
Dodge, William E., 374
Dolliver, Senator Jonathan P., 472
Dom Pedro, Emperor, visits _E. P._, 356
Dorr, Rheta Childe, 578
Douglas, Stephen A., _E. P._ attacks, 247ff.; debate with Lincoln, 258ff.
Downing, A. J., and Central Park, 193, 196
Draft Riots, 300, 305ff.
Drake, Joseph Rodman, 96; contributes “Croaker” poems, 100–107
Drama, in early _E. P._, 111–119; before Civil War, 226, 227; after Civil War, 421; under J. R. Towse, 562–565
Dred Scott decision, 254ff.
Drew, John, 564
Duane, William, as editor, 12, 21, 23, 31, 50, 51, 94
Du Chaillu, 320
Duncan, Norman, 577
Dunlap, William, 15, 111, 113, 114, 125
Dupont, Admiral S. F., 318
Dwight, Theodore, as Federalist editor, 17, 23, 45, 57, 124
Eacker, George L., fights Hamilton’s son, 28
Eggleston, Edward, 412; contributes, 414, 554
Eggleston, George Cary, 348; on Bryant, 354–358; as literary editor, 412–419; on Parke Godwin, 435; resigns, 449
Elevated railways, movement for, 372ff.
Elevators, first, 365
Electoral Commission of 1876, 405
Emancipation, 293–295
Embargo, 42–44, 46
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, lectures reported, 180, 225; _E. P._ upon, 221–223, 339; “Fortune of the Republic,” 415
_Enquirer_, Richmond, 235, 248
Ericsson, John, and _E. P._ press, 237; and Civil War, 286
Erie Railway, early career, 159
Evarts, William M., 229, 334, 338, 339, 428
_Evening Post_, weekly, begins in 1842, 179
_Evening Post_, The, see table of contents: _Advertisements_ in, 72, 73, 91–92, 94, 135, 153, 238, 360, 361, 430, 431, 567 _Circulation of_, 18, 20, 77, 92, 93, 189, 237, 238, 268, 326, 359, 360, 361, 474, 530 _Finances of_, 92–95, 123, 124, 135, 136, 153, 190, 236, 238, 239, 359–362, 426, 427, 433, 566, 567 _News pages_, 78–90, 125, 179, 180–189, 316–323, 421–426, 546–566
_Express_, New York, 221, 252, 256; views of secession, 267–283; mob threatens, 301; on reconstruction, 326ff.; 342; in election of 1872, 399
Farragut, David, 314
Fawcett, Edgar, contributes, 414
Federal aid to schools, 451
Fenton, R. E., 397
Fessenden, T. G., 109
Fessenden, W. P., 334
Field, Cyrus W., 464, 524
Field, D. D., 178, 243, 339
Field, Henry M., 364, 524
Fields, James T., 407
Finck, Henry T., 530; on W. P. Garrison, 555; as musical editor, 565, 566
Firemen, New York, 76; in forties and fifties, 202–204
Fisk, James, 392
Fiske, John, 309, 415, 449; contributes, 554
Five Points in New York history, 146, 370
Flagg, Azariah, as controller, 205
Foote, Ebenezer, 16, 31, 32
Ford, W. C., 527
Forrest, Edwin, début, 118; Leggett upon, 225; Parke Godwin quarrels with, 226, 227; retires, 564
Fort Dearborn massacre, 83
Fort Donelson, 309
Fourteenth Amendment, 330
Fowler, Senator G. S., 334, 335
Francis, Dr. John W., 24
Franco-Prussian War, 504
Franklin, Dr. Fabian, assistant editor, 576, 577
_Fraser’s Magazine_ on American Press, 346
Fredericksburg, battle of, 297, 322
Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, 329
_Freeman’s Journal_, 301
Free Silver, 425, 446, 469; _E. P._ campaign against, 496–503
Free Soil Party, _E. P._ supports, 243, 244
Fremont, Jessie Benton, 231
Fremont, John C., 231; _E. P._ supports in 1856, 251, 252; defeated, 252; emancipation proclamation, 293
Freneau, Philip, 97
“Friar Lubin,” 231
Fugitive Slave Law, 351
Fuller, Margaret, as critic, 215
Fulton, Robert, 73, 74, 78
Funk, Dr. I. K., and international copyright, 561, 562
Furness, H. H., contributes, 554
Furness, W. H., 341
_Galaxy_, The, 318, 369
Gallatin, Albert, 37, 46
Gannett, Henry, contributes, 554
Garfield, James A., _E. P._ supports for President, 436, 437; mentioned, 440, 450
Garrison, W. L., 145
Garrison, W. P., literary editor, 441, 447, 458, 530; character and work, 554–556
Gavit, John Palmer, 577, 578
Gay, Edwin F., President Evening Post Company, 578, 579
Gay, Sidney Howard, managing editor, 413, 424
Genung, C. H., contributes, 559
George, Henry, political career, 478, 479, 494, 533
Germany, Schurz on, 452; Franco-Prussian War, 504; war with, 574–576
Gettysburg, battle of, 298–300, 322
Ghent, treaty of, 58, 59, 87
Gibbons, John S., writes war-song, 325
Giddings, Joshua, 243
Gilbert, Mrs. C. H., 564
Gilbert, John, 564
Gilder, Richard Watson, 411
Gildersleeve, Basil, contributes, 559
Gilman, Daniel Coit, 492, 493
Gilroy, Thomas F., Tammany career of, 480–495 _passim_.
Gladden, Washington, and reading notices, 430
Gladstone, W. E., 523, 557
Goelet, Peter and R. H., 364
Godkin, E. L., Paris correspondent, 318; on reconstruction, 327ff.; and Liberal Republican movement, 394–400; associate editor _E. P._, 438ff.; career, 442, 443; quarrel with Schurz, 454–457; editor-in-chief, 457, 458; campaign of 1884, 459, 466; and Cleveland’s Administration, 466–470; and Venezuela affair, 470–475; war upon Tammany, 476–495; fight against free silver, 496–503; Spanish war and Philippines, 503–518; resignation, 518; character, 519–543; influence, 543–545; ideal of a newspaper, 546–550; dispute with merchants, 566, 567
Goff, John W., and city reform, 487ff.
Godwin, Parke, on Bryant, 125; on J. G. Bennett, 161; joins _E. P._, 163, 164, 167, 168; as Bryant’s associate, 179; on Bryant’s habits, 190, 191; lectures, 225, 229; buys share of _E. P._, 238, 291, 313, 339, 343; on Bryant as editor, 349, 352, 353, 354; newspaper profits, 359, 392; in Hayes-Tilden campaign, 403ff.; 413; trustee of _E. P._, 420; editor-in-chief, 420, 426–437; early career, 434, 435; sells _E. P._, 438–440, 448
Gordon, “Chinese,” 505
Gould, Jay, 392, 439, 453, 464, 465
Grace, W. R., runs for Mayor, 477
Gracie, Archibald, a founder, 17, 18, 63
_Graham’s Magazine_, 218
Granger movement, 436
Grant, Hugh J., and city politics, 477–495 _passim_.
Grant, U. S., 299, 302; _E. P._ praises military career, 309ff.; 313, 319; _E. P._ supports in 1868, 389; attacks, 389–395; for re-election, 395–400, 459
Graves, Ralph, 578
Greeley, Horace, founds _Tribune_, 160; lectures, 225, 261; on secession, 270, 271, 273; on Bull Run, 285, 322; on reconstruction, 326, 329, 334; debates with Raymond, 345, 349; influence, 362; on Tweed Charter, 382, 390; candidate for Presidency, 395–400; Watterson upon, 435; mentioned, 538
Green, Andrew H., and Tweed Ring, 388, 401
Greenback movement, 425
Grimes, James W., 334, 335
Griswold, R. W., 217
Gunsaulus, F. W., 414
Hackett, James, 106, 107, 119
Hackett, James K., 564
Hackett, Mrs. John, 355, 356
Hadley, A. T., contributes, 527
Hagerman, H. B., 48, 49
Hale, David, 155
Hall, A. Oakey, and Tweed Ring, 378–388
Hall, Capt. Basil, _E. P._ defends, 207, 208
Hallam, Henry, on Sparks, 232
Halleck, FitzGreene, 96, 97; “Croaker” poems, 100–107, 108, 216, 338
Hallock, Gerard, 271, 279, 301
Halstead, Murat, 390, 546
Hamilton, Alexander, in campaign of 1800, 9–11; interest in press, 12–15; befriends Coleman, 14–17; helps found _E. P._, 17–19; helps conduct _E. P._, 25–34; deprecates attack on Jefferson, 36; death, 30
Hamilton, Philip, killed in duel, 28
Hammond, Charles, defends free speech, 148
Hampton Roads Conference, 314
Hancock, Winfield S., for Presidency, 437
Hapgood, Isabel, contributes, 560
Hapgood, Hutchins, 577
Hapgood, Norman, reporter, 527, 528, 550, 552, 577
Harper, Mayor James, 202
Harpers, publishers, 125, 219, 417
_Harper’s Weekly_, on reconstruction, 327ff.; on Greeley, 399; on Mugwump movement, 460; on the “New Tammany,” 479, 480
Harris, Joel Chandler, 554
Harrison, W. H., _E. P._ attacks, 173, 174
Harrison, Benjamin, 468
Harte, Bret, on staff, 414
Hartford Convention, 57, 58
Harvey, W. H., 497ff.
Haswell, Chas. H., on Central Park, 193
Havemeyer, Mayor, 401
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, _E. P._ upon, 221; upon Bryant, 358
Hay, John, 407, 532, 569
Hayes, Rutherford B., 362; _E. P._ supports, 402–405; reads _E. P._, 454; _Nation_ on, 459
_Hearth and Home_, 412, 414
Headley, J. T., 217
Headlines, Civil War, 323
Heilprin, Angelo, 554
Heilprin, Michael, 555, 556
Henderson, Isaac, joins _E. P._, 237, 238, 340; Bryant’s loyalty to, 353; grows rich, 359; quarrels with Nordhoff, 385; in Hayes-Tilden campaign, 403–405, 411; builds Bryant building, 412, 420; resigns as publisher, 420; struggle with Parke Godwin, 426–437; Civil War charges against, 427, 428; character, 427; sells _E. P._, 439, 440
Henderson, Isaac, Jr., 420, 426
Henderson, Senator John B., 334–337
Hendrick, Burton J., 577
Hendricks, M. M., 364
_Herald_ (weekly edition of _E. P._), 20, 30, 93
_Herald_, New York, founded, 157; early character, 158ff.; pro-slavery, 171; news enterprise, 184, 188; supports Taylor, 244, 256; secession views, 267–283; attacks Lincoln, 286; and Stanton, 290; and Lincoln’s Cabinet, 292; on emancipation, 295ff.; mob threatens, 301; on draft, 305; on Draft Riots, 309; and censorship, 321; war maps, 323; on reconstruction, 326–337, 346, 360; advertising in 1865, 361, 458; on Spanish War, 511
Hergesheimer, Joseph, 567
Hewitt, Abram S., 478, 479
“Hiawatha” reviewed, 220
Hildreth, Richard, 346
Hill, David B., 468, 469, 544
Hoar, Gen. Ebenezer, 393
Hobson, R. P., 514
Hoffman, Ogden, 148
Hogs, in New York, 65, 66
Holmes, O. W., lectures reported, 225; quoted, 315, 339
Holt, Charles, 25, 95
Holt, Henry, on Godkin, 545
Hone, Philip, 18
Hone, Philip, Jr., diary quoted, 139, 152, 356
Hooker, Gen. Joseph, 298, 322
Horse-railways in New York, 192, 372, 373
Hosack, Dr., 95
Housing crisis of 1864–66, 365ff.
Howard, Bronson, on staff, 422
Howe, Timothy, 237
Howe, Julia Ward, tribute to Bryant, 339
Howells, W. D., applies for work, 407; novels reviewed, 417, 557, 558; on Schurz, 448; on Godkin, 476, 513, 522, 543
Hull’s surrender, 55, 82, 83
Hunt, Richard M., architect, 368
Huntington, Dr. W. R., 493
“Hyperion,” _E. P._ upon, 218
_Independent_, on reconstruction, 328ff.; and reading notices, 430
Index Expurgatorius, Bryant’s, 348
Indian question, 451
Internal improvement system, _E. P._ attacks, 351
Irving, Dr. Peter, 25, 50, 51, 97, 112
Irving, Washington, 97–99, 107; his books criticized, 110, 111, 206; at Dickens dinner, 211; mentioned, 216, 338
Irving, William, 97
Italy, and Abyssinia, 505
James, E. J. contributes, 527
James, Henry, books reviewed, 417, 518, 523, 557, 558
James, William, 545
Jay, John, 16, 54, 62
Jay, William, contributes, 245, 340
Jackson, Andrew, 101; supported for Presidency, 131; administration, 142, 143
Jackson, H. H., contributes, 325, 410
Jefferson, Thomas, election of 1800, 10, 27; _E. P._ attacks, 36–43; death, 89, 90
Jerome, Wm. Travers, 487ff.
Jewett, Helen, murder of, 180
Jingoism, Godkin attacks, 470–472, 511ff.
Johnson, Andrew, reconstruction and impeachment, 327–337; _Nation_ upon, 459
Job-Printing Office, 236
“Jonathan Oldstyle Papers,” 97, 98
Jones’s Wood, park scheme for, 194–201
_Journal_, New York, and Bryan campaign, 502, 503; and Spanish War, 509–515; Godkin upon, 549ff.
_Journal of Commerce_, New York, 145, 155; pro-slavery, 171; opposes Central Park, 199, 200; supports Buchanan, 252, 256; secession views, 267–283; on emancipation, 295; mob threatens, 301; “copperhead” tendency, 302ff.; on Bryant, 362; on Venezuela affair, 474
Journalism, revolution in New York in thirties, 154ff.
Julian, George W., 453
Kansas, war in, 253, 255ff.
Kansas-Nebraska bill, 247–250
Kean, Charles, acting reviewed, 116–118, 562
Kelly, Boss John, 477, 478
Kemble, Charles and Fanny, their acting, 225, 226
Kendall, Amos, censors mails, 148; penalizes _E. P._, 153
Kendall, E. A., 212
Kendall, G. W., reports Mexican War, 184ff.
Kent, Judge William, 340
King, Charles, 95, 152, 156, 291
King, Edward, 415
King, Preston, 243, 247
King, Rufus, 13; contributes, 42, 43, 45, 52, 54, 60, 106, 131
Kingsland, Mayor A. C., 197
Kittredge, George L., contributes, 559
Knickerbocker School, 96, 97
“Knickerbocker History,” advertised in _E. P._, 98, 99
Kossuth, visits America, 206
Labor, 163–165, 540, 542
Labor, Knights of, Godkin attacks, 541, 542
Lamont, Hammond, 577
Lamont, Thomas W., owner of _E. P._, 578
Lang, John, 12, 104
Lanman, Charles, contributes, 410
Lansing, Chancellor, disappearance of, 162, 163
Lathrop, George Parsons, Boston correspondent, 414, 415
Laugel, Auguste, 558, 560
Lawrence, David, 578
Lea, Henry C., 554, 559
Learned, J. E., managing editor, 527, 549, 550
Learoyd, H. J., 577
Leavitt, Joshua, 145
_Ledger_, Philadelphia, 362
Lee, General Robert E., 298–300, 323
Lee, General Henry, 53
Leggett, Wm., becomes assistant editor, 134; made acting editor, 138; violent language, 140; character, 140–142; last days and death, 166, 167; dramatic criticism, 225, 346
Lenox, James, 364
Lenox Library, 364
Lenox, Robert, 64, 91
Lesugg, Catherine, 106, 107, 115
Leupp, Francis E., Washington correspondent, 578
Levermore, C. H., on J. G. Bennett, 161
Lewis, Charlton M., 385, 397, 421; character and career, 422, 423
Lewis, Morgan, 77, 106
Lexow, Clarence, and city reform, 487ff.
Libel, Godkin on, 548, 549
Liberal Republican Movement, 394–400
Lind, Jenny, 192
Lingan, Gen. James, 53
Linn, Wm. Alexander, city editor, 421, 449, 450, 527, 549, 550
_Literary Review_, the, 579
_Littell’s Living Age_, on _E. P._, 340
Loco-foco movement, _E. P._ promotes, 151ff.; vote 169
Lodge, Henry C., 447; as jingo, 471, 472, 496, 497, 502, 504
Log-cabin campaign, disgusts _E. P._, 173–174
Longfellow, H. W., Bryant’s opinion of, 217–220, 225, 408
Lord, Rufus M., 364
Lorillard, Peter, 364
Lossing, B. J., contributes, 414
Lotteries, hostility of _E. P._ to, 71, 72, 132
Louisiana Purchase, _E. P._ upon, 37, 38
Lounsbury, T. R., 559
Lovejoy, Elijah P., murder of, 171
Low, Seth, 494
Lowell, J. R., on Bryant, 217; Bryant’s opinion of, 220, 221; mentioned, 339, 389, 442, 448, 469, 521, 523
Lowry, E. G., 577, 578
“Lucius Crassus,” letters of, 27
Ludlow, Rev. Mr., 145, 146
_Lusitania_, sinking of, 575
MacAlarney, Robert E., 578
Macready, W. C., acting reviewed, 118, 119; riot, 226
MacVeagh, Wayne, congratulates Godkin, 493
Madison, James, attacked, 52–59; _E. P._ supports, 61; his messages, 82, 83
Madison Square, laid out, 192, 195
Mahon, Lord, and Sparks controversy, 233
_Mail and Express_, New York, 465
_Maine_, destruction of, 508ff.
Managing editorship, creation of, 421
Mapleson, James Henry, 425, 556
Marble, Manton, 302, 312, 382, 390, 435
Marcy, Gov. W. M., 151; assails Leggett, 152
Mario, Jessie White, 342, 559
Mark Twain, on Schurz, 447
Marryat, Capt., Frederick, _E. P._ criticizes, 208
Marshall, John, _E. P._ attacks, 152
Martineau, Harriet, Bryant’s opinion of, 208, 212
“Martin Chuzzlewit,” 223
Mason, Charles, edits _E. P._, 153, 163
Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr., 576
Matthews, Brander, contributes, 554
Maverick, Augustus, 425
Maynard, J. H., 467
Maxwell, Wm. H., heads schools, 492
McKinley, William, and free silver campaign, 499–503; and Spanish War, 505–515, 523; and Boxer rebellion, 569
Meade, Gen. George Gordon, 299, 300
Means, David M., on staff, 527
_Mercantile Advertiser_, New York, 93, 94
Mercantile Library, 364
Metropolitan Museum, _E. P._ calls for, 364; enlarged, 493
Meyer, Brantz, correspondent, 317
Mexico, war with, 179, 180; news of war with, 183, 187; intervention under Wilson, 573, 574
Milan Decree, 40
Mill, John Stuart, praises _E. P._, 341
Minshull, John, 103
Minturn & Barker, 91
Missolonghi, news of, 80, 81
Missouri Compromise, 61
Mitchell, Donald G., 408
Mitchill, Dr. Samuel Latham, 64, 95, 103
Monell, Judge John J., president _Evening Post Company_, 420; inquires into business affairs, 433, 434
Monroe, James, 39
Mooney, William, 79
Moore, Thomas, contributes, 100, 102
Moore, John Bassett, 474
More, Paul Elmer, 576
_Morning Chronicle_, New York, 25, 76, 77, 92
Morgan, E. P., 251
Morris, Clara, 564
Morris, George P., 100
Morris, Gouverneur, 10; contributes, 27, 31, 45, 54, 108
Morse, S. F. B., invents telegraph, 187–189, 304
Morton, Levi P., 490, 491
Moscow, burning of, 59, 60
Moss, Frank, and city reform, 487ff.
Motley, J. L., dismissed by Grant, 393
Mugwump movement, 459–466
Mullet, Abram B., 375
Mulligan letters, 459–466
Mulberry Court described, 372
Murray, Charles Augustus, _E. P._ defends, 208
Musical criticism, 421, 449, 565, 566
Nadal, E. S., on newspaper reviewing, 415, 416
Napoleonic Wars, 34, 39–44, 59, 60; news of, 87, 88
Napoleon III, 504
Nast, Thomas, 377, 399
_National Advocate_, New York, 95, 124
_National-Zeitung_, New York, 302
_Nation_, New York, on reconstruction, 327ff.; on Liberal Republican Movement, 390–400 _passim_; connected with _E. P._, 438ff.; political views, 458, 459; influence, 543, 545; separated from _E. P._, 578
Neilson, Adelaide, 564
Newbern, attack on, 321
Newcomb, Simon, contributes, 527, 554
_New England Magazine_, criticises Bryant, 137
New Madrid earthquake, 82
“Newspaper waifs,” 450
New Orleans, battle of, 84, 85
New York city, description in 1801, 63ff.; hogs, 65, 66; street-cleaning, 67; health, 68–70; morals, 70–72; amusements, 72, 73; transit, 73; coal and gas, 75, 76; police, 76; burials, 76; growth to 1850, 192; parks, 192–201; crime, 201; police, 202; fire department 1840–65, 202–204; street cleaning, 204, 205; corruption in fifties, 205, 206; and Draft Riots, 300ff.; growth after Civil War, 364, 365; housing difficulties, 365–371; health after Civil War, 369–372; rapid transit, 372–375; and the Tweed Ring, 376–388; municipal misgovernment and reform, 476–495; improvements under Mayor Strong, 492, 493; creation of Greater New York, 49
_New York Review_, 122, 229
Nichols, Major George, contributes, 318
Niles, Nathaniel, correspondent, 186, 187
Noah, M. M., 51, 102, 108, 114; joins _Courier and Enquirer_, 155
Nordhoff, Charles, 241, 291; Draft Riots reported by, 306–309; career, 315–317; as managing editor, 317–323; quarrels with Henderson, 385, 421, 429
Northern Securities Case, 571
Norton, Charles Eliot, 340, 449, 458, 513, 518, 522, 543; contributes, 559
Noyes, Alexander Dana, and free silver campaign, 500–503; as financial editor, 553
Nullification, 132, 133
O’Brien, James, 384, 387
O’Conor, Charles, 230, 231
Ogden, Rollo, 503, 523; as associate editor, 526, 527; as editor-in-chief, 569–578; resigns, 578
Ogden, Wm. B., 374
Olmsted, F. L., 523
Olney, Richard B., 472ff.
Opera, first in New York, 119, 120
Opdyke, George, 263, 291, 303, 366
Orange Riot of 1871, 385–387
“Oregon Trail, The” (Parkman’s), _E. P._ reviews, 222
O’Reilly, Miles, contributes, 325, 410
Orders in Council, 39, 40; repealed, 54
Osborne, W. H., 265, 310
Osgood, J. R. & Co., 417
Osgood, Samuel, contributes, 410
“Outre-Mer,” _E. P._ on, 218
Paine, Robert Treat, 21
Paine, Robert Treat, Jr., 107, 108
Paine, Thomas, 12, 43, 97
Panama, seizure of, 447, 570
Parkhurst Rev. Charles H., 486ff.
Parkman, Francis, 222, 449, 523, 554
Parks, growth of in New York, 192–201
Park Theater, 113, 114
Parsons, Rev. Willard, 372
Parton, James, on J. G. Bennett, 159, 160
Paulding, J. K., 96, 97, 110, 156; contributes, 180; on _E. P._, 340
Payne-Aldrich Tariff, 572
Payne, George Henry, 578
Peck, Harry Thurston, quoted, 538
Pensions legislation, _E. P._ opposes, 436, 468
Percival, J. G., 111
Perry, Lawrence, 577
Phelps, Wm. Walter, 451, 460–466
Philippines, _E. P._ opposes annexation, 515–518
_Picayune_, New Orleans, 184, 280
Pierce, Franklin, _E. P._ supports in 1852, 247; attacks, 248, 249
Pierpont, John, 100, 107
Pinckney, Charles, 30
“Pindar, Peter,” 99, 102
Pitkin, Walter B., 577
Pittsburgh Landing, battle of, 318
Platt, T. C., 490, 491, 494, 502, 509, 516, 518
Poe, E. A., visits _E. P._, 190, 216; _E. P._ upon, 221, 407, 418
Police, New York, 76; in forties, 201, 203; under Tammany, 1885–1895, 487–490
Polk, James K., _E. P._ supports, 172, 173, 177, 178; _E. P._ attacks, 244
Pope, Gen. John, 290, 291, 302
_Popular Science Monthly_, 369
Populists, 469
Port Royal, capture of, 318
_Post_, Detroit, 445
Postage, cheaper, _E. P._ advocates, 351
Potter, Bishop H. C., 485, 494, 516, 524
Powderly, T. V., and Knights of Labor, 536
_President_ and _Little Belt_, 41
_Press_, Philadelphia, 462
Prize-fights, 449
Prime, Nathaniel, 106
Prospect Park, 365, 366
_Public Advertiser_, New York, 50, 76, 77
Public Library, _E. P._ asks for consolidated, 364, 365
Puckette, Charles McD., 577
Putnam, George Haven, 560
Putnam, G. P., 368
Putnam’s, 417
_Putnam’s Magazine_, 434
Quay, Matthew S., 502, 516, 537
Queenstown, battle of, 83, 84
“Quince, Peter,” reviewed, 109
Randall, S. J., _E. P._ on, 547
Randolph, John, 61, 135
Rapid Transit, 372ff.
Raymond, Henry J., editor of the _Times_, 252, 255, 261, 281, 311, 326, 345, 362, 425
“Reading-Notices,” 430, 431
Reclus, Elie, 415, 416
Reconstruction, see Chapter Fourteen
Reed, T. B., 496
Rehan, Ada, 564
Reid, Whitelaw, 326, 411, 532
Repplier, Agnes, contributes, 414
“Representative Men” reviewed, 222
_Republican_, Springfield, in campaign of 1872, 390–400; in Mugwump movement, 460ff.; and Philippines, 515
Rhett, R. B. 317
Rhinelander, Wm. C., 364
Rhodes, James Ford, quoted, 247, 298, 306, 443
Riardon, W. L., reporter, 550ff.
Riggs, Caleb S., 17
Riis, Jacob, 551
Ripley, George, literary editor the _Tribune_, 216, 347, 406, 407
Ripley, Philip, war correspondent, 318
Robinson, A. G., war correspondent, 552
Roe, E. P., contributes, 414
Rogers, Samuel, contributes, 99
Ropes, John C., contributes, 554, 559
Rose, John C., on staff, 527
Roosevelt, C. V. S., 364
Roosevelt, James, 91
Roosevelt, Theodore, 447; in city politics, 478, 479, 486; Police Commissioner, 492, 551; opinion of _Journal_, 511; runs for Governor, 516; on Quay, 537; _E. P._ opposes in 1904, 570; and Panama, 570; his Presidency, 571; and Taft, 573
Ross, Senator James, 334, 335
Roslyn, Bryant purchases home at, 190; life at, 342, 411
“Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion,” 465
Russell, Wm. H., war correspondent, 184, 276, 301
Russian literature introduced, 559, 560
Salvini, Tommaso, 564
Soley, J. R., contributes, 554
Society Library, 364
South African War, 505
_Southern Literary Messenger_, criticizes Bryant, 137; J. R. Thompson edits, 407
Sparks, Jared, Bigelow’s controversy with, 231–234
Spain, war with, 506–515
Specie resumption, _E. P._ advocates, 391, 392, 436
Speculation, _E. P._ attacks era of, 130ff.
Sperry, Watson R., managing editor, 368, 408, 409, 413, 414, 426, 431
_Staats-Zeitung_, New York, opposes Pierce, 249; on secession, 272–283; a copperhead sheet, 302
Stanton, Secretary, 322, 331–334
Stedman, E. C., 318, 407; contributes, 410, 411, 414
Steffens, Lincoln, reporter, 529, 530, 550ff., 577
Stephen, Leslie, contributes, 558
Stephens, Alexander H., 314
Stephens, John L., 191, 214
Stewart, Alexander, 64
Stockton, Frank R., 408
Stoddard, R. H., contributes, 324, 339, 408, 411, 418
Stoddard, Mrs. R. H., contributes, 325
Stoddard, W. O., contributes, 414
Stone, Col. Wm. L., 108, 126, 128, 404
Straus, Nathan, 490
Street-cleaning, in fifties, 204, 205
Strong, Wm. M., and city reform, 491–493
Strunsky, Simeon, 576–578
Subways, movement for, 372ff.
Sub-treasury system, 351
Sumner, Charles, friend of _E. P._, 231, 242, 285, 286, 340, 393
Sumner, Wm. Graham, contributes, 559
_Sun_, Baltimore, in Mexican War, 184, 185
_Sun_, New York, founded, 157; circulation in 1860, 268; in 1865, 326; on reconstruction, 326–337; advertising in 1865, 61; on Tweed Charter, 382; on Greeley, 399; in Mugwump campaign, 464ff.; and Cleveland, 466; and free silver, 502, 503, 535; character as newspaper under Dana, 546–548, 551
Sweeney, Peter B., and Tweed affair, 376–388
Swords, T. and J., 64, 91
Sykes, McCready, quoted, 542
Sagasta, Premier, and Cuban War, 512ff.
Safe-deposit vaults, first in New York, 365
Sainte-Beuve contributes to _E. P._, 239, 240
Salisbury, Lord, and Venezuela affair, 472ff.
“Salmagundi Papers,” 97
Sands, Joshua, 11, 17
Sands, Robert, 128, 134
Santiago campaign, 514
Santo Domingo, annexation attempted, 392, 393, 395, 447, 504
Sargent, Winthrop, 109
Sawyer, Charles Pike, sporting editor, 566
Schurz, Carl, 285, 286; and Liberal Republican movement, 394–400; becomes editor-in-chief, 438ff.; career, 441–445; character, 445–448; as editor, 448–457, 463, 485; on Spanish War, 513; on Philippines, 515, 568, 569
Schieffelin, Wm. J., and city reform, 485
Scott, Francis M., 484
Scott, Winfield, in Mexican War, 184–186; _E. P._ opposes for President, 247
Sedgwick, A. G., as managing editor, 423, 424, 431–433; as associate editor, 461, 506, 525, 526
Sedgwick, Catharine, contributes, 233
Sedgwick, Henry D., 121, 123, 129; helps edit _E. P._, 153, 164; contributes, 172, 176, 178, 210
“Seaside and Fireside,” Longfellow’s, reviewed, 219
“Seventh of March Speech,” Webster’s, 245, 246
Seward, Wm. H., 155, 261–263; in Lincoln’s Cabinet, 277, 278; a “conservative,” 285, 290, 294
Seymour, Horatio, 304, 306, 334, 390
“Shakespeare Gallery,” 112
Sherman Silver Act, 468, 496, 499
Sherman, Stuart P., on staff, 577
Sherman, W. T., 302, 310, 313, 318, 319, 321
Shipping news, 90, 91
Sickles, Gen. Daniel, 392
Sigourney, Mrs., 107
Simms, Wm. Gillmore, 191, 407
Simpson, Manager, 102, 104
“Sketch Book,” reviewed, 110
Slocum, Henry W., 374
Smith, Gerrit, 339
Slavery, rise of the question, 145ff., 170ff.; in 1850–1860, 242–283
Taft, William Howard, _E. P._ supports in 1908, 571; his Presidency, 571–573
Tallmadge, Senator Nathaniel P., on free speech, 170
Tappan, Lewis and Arthur, abolitionists, 145, 146, 155
Tammany, 79, 205, 206; and Tweed Affair, 364–388; Godkin’s war upon, 476–495
Taney, Chief Justice Roger B., attacked, 254
Tanner, Corporal, 536
Tariff policy of _E. P._, 34, 129–131, 175, 228, 229, 361, 362, 391, 436, 468–470, 571, 572
Taylor, Gen. Zachary, in Mexican War, 184–186; E. P. opposes for President, 243; funeral, 192
Taylor, Bayard, 407, 417
Telegraph introduced, 187–189
Telegraphers’ strike of 1883, 455, 456
Tenure of Office Act, _E. P._ opposes, 331–334
Texas, annexation opposed, 175–179
Thayer, William Roscoe, contributes, 414
Thayer, W. S., Washington correspondent, 242, 256, 315, 342
“Thirty Years’ View,” published in _E. P._, 235, 250
Thomas, Gen. George H., 314
Thomas, A. E., 577
Thomas, Theodore, 365
Thompson, Captain, in duel with Coleman, 48
Thompson, Jacob, 254
Thompson, John R., literary editor, 353, 354, 407–411
Tilden, Samuel J., friendship with Bigelow, 228–231, 251; opposes Lincoln, 265, 266; a “copperhead,” 304; and Tweed Affair, 383–388, 401; as Governor, 401, 402; candidate for Presidency, 402–405, 440
Tillman, Ben, 499, 500
Tilton, Theodore, 328, 334, 412
_Times_, Brooklyn, on Bryant, 362
_Times_, New York, supports Fremont, 251, 252; slavery attitude, 255; Seward organ, 260ff., 264; view of secession, 267–283 _passim_; criticises Lincoln’s Cabinet, 292; “niggerhead,” 305; and peace, 311; war censorship, 321; circulation in 1865, 326; on reconstruction, 326–337, 360; exposes Tweed, 384–388; supports Grant, 390ff.; attacks Tilden, 401ff., 422, 431, 436, 454, 458; in Mugwump movement, 460ff.; and Tammany, 486, 535
“Tom Sawyer” reviewed, 417
Tompkins, Daniel D., 61
Towse, J. Ranken, on Bryant, 355, 356, 357; on Bryant’s imperfect control of _E. P._, 403; on John R. Thompson, 410; becomes dramatic editor, 421, 426; on Charlton Lewis, 423; on W. G. Boggs, 431; exposes Van Nort, 432, 433; as dramatic editor, 562–565
Tracy, Gen. B. F., 494
_Tribune_, New York, founded, 160; supports Zachary Taylor, 173; supports Fremont, 251, 252, 260; for Bates in 1860, 261, 264; views of secession, 267–283; on emancipation, 294; criticises Lincoln, 297; a “niggerhead” sheet, 305; and censorship, 321, 322; on reconstruction, 326–337 _passim_, 342; business history in Civil War, 359, 360; advertising in 1865, 361; takes over Fresh Air Fund, 372; on Tweed Charter, 382; in campaign of 1872, 390ff., 436, 445; in campaign of 1884, 462–466; and Bryan campaign, 502, 503
_Tribune_, Chicago, 280, 290, 390, 393, 394, 462
Trollope, Anthony, Bryce upon, 556, 557
Trollope, Mrs., 181; _E. P._ defends, 208, 209
Troup, Robert, 11, 14, 17, 62
Trumbull, Lyman, 285, 334
Trusts, 539
Tupper, Martin F., 223, 355
Tweed, W. M., emerges, 206; his career, 376–388
Typhus in New York, 370ff.
Tyler, President, _E. P._ attacks, 175, 176
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” 249
Union, Brooklyn, 412
Union League Club, 382
Union, Washington, 248
Unions, Trade, defended by _E. P._, 164, 165
United States Bank, hostility of _E. P._ to, 131, 142, 143, 168
_United States Review_, 123
Van Buren, John, 247, 250, 339, 362
Van Buren, Martin, on _E. P._ tariff policy, 130; befriends Leggett, 167; _E. P._ supports, 169, 170; on slavery, 172, 174; renomination asked, 175, 176, 182; supported in 1848, 243, 247
Vanderbilt, Commodore, 94
Vanderbilt, W. H., 336
Van Wyck, Augustus, 516
Van Wyck, Robert, 494, 510
Varick, Richard, 11, 17, 45, 51, 54
Vauxhall, 112
Veiller, Bayard, 577
Venezuela affair, 470–475
Verplanck, Gulian C., 110, 121, 130; disagrees with _E. P._, 148, 216, 338
Vicksburg, capture of, 300, 309
Victoria, Queen, 181, 182
Villard, Henry, Civil War correspondent, 332; purchases _E. P._, 438; his career, 440, 441; relations with Schurz, 453, 454, 522; and _E. P._ finances, 566; his unselfishness, 567
Villard, Mrs. Henry, her ownership, 567
Villard, O. G., interviews Bigelow, 237; joins staff, 576; as one of the editors, 577; president of _Evening Post_ Company, 578; sells _E. P._, 578
“Voices of the Night,” _E. P._ on, 218
Wade, Benjamin, and reconstruction, 328; and impeachment, 333ff.
Wadsworth, Gen. James, 286, 289, 304
Wagner, Richard, H. T. Finck upon, 565, 566
Walker’s Filibusterers, 503
Wallace, Alfred Russell, contributes, 558
Wallack’s Theater, 564
Wallack, James W., 106, 115, 564
Wallack, Lester, 564
Ware, Mrs. William, 179
Waring, Col. George E., 492
War of 1812, _E. P._ opposes, 44ff.; views of, 82–87
Warner, Arthur, 578
Warner, Charles Dudley, on _E. P._, 340; on _Nation_, 543
Washburne, Elihu, 392
Waterloo, news of, 89
Watterson, Henry, 35, 434, 435
“We Are Coming, Father Abraham,” published by _E. P._, 325
Webb, James Watson, character as editor, 154, 224
Webster, Daniel, 52, 89; _E. P._ characterizes, 144; tariff stand condemned, 168; on Compromise of 1850, 244–247
Webster, Noah, 13, 14, 20; Dictionary reviewed, 110
Weed, Thurlow, 95, 149, 168, 261, 356, 378, 428
Weeks, Capt. Seaman, 106
Welles, Gideon, contributes, 242; in Lincoln’s Cabinet, 277, 278; a “radical,” 285, 290; on Henderson, 427, 428
Wellington, Lord, 88, 89
Wells, David A., 391, 394, 399; trustee of _E. P._, 444; mentioned, 524
Wells, John, friend to Coleman, 15–17, 23, 29, 32, 52, 97, 112, 114
Weyler, in Cuba, 506, 507
Westervelt, Mayor Jacob, opposes Central Park, 199, 200
_Westliche Post_, St. Louis, 445
Wharton, Edith, 567
Wheaton, Henry, 95
Whiting, James R., 374
Whiting, Newton F., financial editor, 424, 425
Whitman, Walt, on Bryant, 217; contributes, 224
White, Horace, 337; and Liberal Republican movement, 390–400; becomes associate editor, 438ff.; career, 443, 444; trustee of _E. P._, 444, 461; and war upon Tammany, 481; and fight against free silver, 496–503, 524; editor-in-chief, 368, 569
Whittier, John Greenleaf, Bryant upon, 221, 239; contributes, 414
Wilder, Dr. A. P., Albany correspondent, 346
Wilmot Proviso, _E. P._ supports, 247, 351
Williams, Walter, 318
Williams, William F., 421, 425, 426
Willis, H. Parker, 577
Willis, N. P., 182, 227
Wilson, Gen. James Grant, 358
Wilson, Woodrow, contributes, 454; _E. P._ supports in 1912 and 1916, 570; his Presidency, 573, 574
Wines, E. C., contributes, 423
Winona Speech, Taft’s, 572
Wise, Gov. Henry A., 253, 327
Wolcot, Dr. John, contributes, 99
Wolcott, Oliver, 13, 14; contributes, 27, 31
Wolfe, John D., 364
Wood, Fernando, 275, 301–306
Woodberry, George E., contributes, 554, 559
Woodford, Gen. Stewart L., 515, 524
Woodworth, Samuel, 100, 105, 107
Woolsey, W. W., 11, 17; contributes, 31
_World_, New York, views of secession, 267–283; attacks Lincoln, 287; and Lincoln’s Cabinet, 292; on Emancipation, 295; “copperhead,” 301ff.; on draft riots, 308; wants war stopped, 312; on reconstruction, 326–337; attacks Bigelow and Thayer, 346, 356; advertising in 1865, 361; on Bryant, 362; on Tweed Charter, 382; supports Seymour, 390; on Greeley’s candidacy, 398–400; on Henry Villard, 453, 454, 465; on Venezuela, 474; and Tammany, 485, 486; and free silver, 502, 503; and Spanish war, 509–515; E. L. Godkin upon, 549ff.
World War, the, 574–576
Wright, Fanny, 126
Wright, H. J., on Godkin, 525–529 _passim_; as city editor, 550ff.; becomes editor of _Commercial Advertiser_, 577
Wright, Silas, 229, 258
Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Hyphenation in some quoted passages was done differently than in the rest of the book.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. Irregular punctuation in page lists was remedied and the spelling of some names was changed to match the spelling on the referenced pages.
Text uses both “jr.” and “Jr.”
Page 45: “preéminent” was printed with the acute accent. As it was in a quotation, it has not been changed here.
In the caption of the illustration facing page 570, the names originally were more-or-less below the individuals. In this eBook, the names are grouped by row (Back, Middle, Front; left-to-right), and those row identifiers were added by the Transcriber.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Evening Post, by (Joseph) Allan Nevins