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Show The Original Interviewer. By the death of James Kedpath modern mod-ern jonrnalism has lost, one of its pioneers. pio-neers. Mr. Hedpath used to claim that he was the first interviewer. "I started the practice of interviewing many years ago," he remarked to me a few weeks ago, "in the columns of The Boston Ad- ver tiser. My first interview was widely discussed, and my plan was immediately immediate-ly imitated by Editor Dana, of The Sun, who the day after my interview appeared ap-peared sent out a corps of writers to interview in-terview the leading meu of the day on various topics, lu my career since that time I have written hundreds of inter-; views, and I have learned from them a ; few lessons which have been of use to ; me. I "In the first place, my experience has taught me that it is impossible for an interviewer to report the exact words of , the person whom he is interviewing. He is obliged by the condition under which . he works to misrepresent, or rather to : fall into inaccm-ucies, verbal or othr-1 wise, with regard to what has been said j to him. Consequently, whenever a rep-1 resentative of the press comes to interview inter-view me, and I have been interviewed many times, I al way; insist upon writing writ-ing out the interview in my own hand, and I am thus sore of being reported correctly." Mr. Redpath's career is an illustration ! of the fine training which journalism i gives to one who after practising it en- j ters upon purely literary work. Much 1 of his success as a magazine editor was j doubtless due to his experience as a, newspaper writer. Mr. Red path was, Allen Thnrndyke Rice's right hand man during the period when Rice was lifting, np The North American Review from , the comparative obscurity info which it j . had fallen to renewed succors, and to ; his ability much of the present popular-I ity of the review is due. It is known : that Mr. Redpath wrote most, if not all, ! of the articles which appeared over Rice's name, for though he may haves j furnished the ideas be was not a literary I man. New York Telegram. j |