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Show DAVIS SPELLED NAME WRONG Blunder- of Popular Author Displeasing Displeas-ing to Man Whom He Made Famous Fa-mous as Hero of Story. They say it is a wise son who knows his own father, and I say now that he is a wideawake hero who recognizes his own creator. When Richard Harding Davis was a Philadelphia reporter one of the office boys on the newspaper where he worked was Gallagher. He was a precocious lad, and some years after Davis had become famous as a novelist novel-ist and Gallagher himseif had graduated gradu-ated into a brickyard, the latter revisited re-visited the Press office. Meeting J. 0. G. Duffy, who had been a reporter with Davis, Gallagher asked him what had become of the "big guns" oh the paper in the "old days." He wanted to know about Bradford Merrill and R. E. A. Dorr and Andy Watrous. "Then there was a tall guy," said Gallagher, "who used to give me a nickel to dance on the table. ta-ble. He called himself Mr. Richard Harding Davis. What's become of him ?" "What!" exclaimed Duffy, "don't you know that 'Dick' Davis is now famous and that he made you famous in a story?" Gallagher wouldn't believe it, so Duffy went to the office library and got out a copy of "Gallegher." The original looked only at the cover and said: "Why, the derned fool spelled my name wrong." And it appears that he had. Philadelphia Phila-delphia Ledger. |
