[1][2] Joe Howard, Jr. soon took control of the paper and remained on as editor, publisher and subsequently chief proprietor until the spring of 1875.
A series of other editors and owners followed, each generally unsuccessful in their attempts to make the paper profitable.
[3] Finally, Frank Munsey, who would years later be known as a great consolidator of newspapers, took a six-month option from owner Collis Potter Huntington to buy the Star in 1891.
Munsey turned the paper into a tabloid and renamed it the Daily Continent as of February 1, 1891.
[6] The gossip column Bab's Babble by Isabel Mallon got its start in the Star around 1888.