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imagination. He conceived the idea of bringing the scattered tribes of Israel to an American settlement; he also believed that the Indians were descendants of the lost tribes and proposed that a certain part of the land should be set aside for them. He had other idiosyncracies of which it is no editorial fib to say that they were too numerous to mention. One of them, however, de- serves special notice : he seemed to want to edit as many papers as possible. He began his newspaper career hi 1810 by editing The City Gazette in Charleston, South Carolina. When Tam- many Hall, quite a different organization from the present one of that name, repudiated its organ and established another, The National Advocate secured Noah as the second editor of that paper. In 1826, after a quarrel with the publishers, Noah started another paper with the same name. Prevented by legal steps in this attempt to have two papers of the same name, he called his paper Noah's New York National Advocate. Again getting into legal difficulties, he made another change and called the sheet The New York Enquirer. When this paper was merged in 1829 with The Morning Courier, Noah still kept up an edi- torial connection with the union as its associate editor. In 1834 he established The New York Evening Star, a Whig organ to support William Henry Harrison. When The Star united with The Commercial Advertiser, Noah became editor of The Morn- ing Star. In 1842 Noah edited a Tyler organ in New York called The Union. It lasted about a year, and then he commenced in 1843 Noah's Weekly Messenger which after a short time united with The Sunday Times. He remained editor of this paper until his death in 1851.

FIKST STAR REPORTER

Henry Ingraham Blake, the Father of American Reporting, belonged to this period. Connected with The New England Pal- ladium, a Boston paper started on January 1, 1793, as The Massachusetts Mercury, but later, in January, 1801, changed to The Mercury and New England Palladium, he was the first to go after news without waiting for items to come to the news- paper office. Though he occasionally reported local matters in and around the city, he made his reputation as a gatherer of ship