Show DAVIS SPELLED NAME WRONG blunder of popular author displeasing to man whom he made famous as hero of story they say it Is a wl wise 1 e son who knows his own father and 1 I say now that he is a wideawake hero who recognizes his bis 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 and gallagher himself had graduated into a brickyard the latter revisited the press office domce meeting J 0 G dutty duffy who had been a reporter with davis gallagher asked him what had become of the big guns on the paper in the old days he wanted to know about bradford merrila and R E A k dorr and andy watrous then there was a tall guy said gallagher who used to give me a nickel to dance on the table he called himself mr richard bardins hardins davis become of him what exclaimed duffy dont you know that dick davis is now famous and that he made you famous in a stor story gallagher believe it so BO duffy went to the office library and got out a copy of gallegher the original looked only at the cover and said why the berned fool spelled my name wrong and it appears that he had philadelphia ledger |