Richard
Harding
Davis
(1864
–
1916)
Born
in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania,
USA.
He
started
as a
newspaper
reporter
in
Philadelphia
and
then
New
York
(1886–91).
Later
being
a
correspondent
at
the
Spanish-American
War,
the
Second
Boer
War,
the
First
World
War he
became
one
of
the
most
popular
war
reporters. He
wrote
Gallegher
(1890),
Cinderella
and
Other
Stories
(1891),
Soldiers
of
Fortune
(1897),
With
Both
Armies
(1900),
Notes
of a
War
Correspondent
(1910),
With
the
Allies
(1914),
etc.
The Old Time Journalist will tell you that the best reporter is the one who works his way up. He holds that the only way to start is as a printer’s devil or as an office boy, to learn in time to set type, to graduate from a compositor into a stenographer, and as a stenographer take down speeches at public meetings, and so finally grow into a real reporter, with a fire badge on your left suspender, and a speaking acquaintance with all the greatest men in the city, not even excepting Police Captains.
