The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-13
RICH. HARDING DAVIS
DIES AS he PHONES
Writer'S Hardships in War
Zone Believed to Have
Weakened His Heart.
LIVED AS DID HIS HEROES

heart disease last night In his home.
Cross Roads Farm. six miles from
Mount kisco. His WIFE found him dead
. little before midnight beneath a teie.
phone instrument in the library. whittier
he had gone to dictate a telegram.
After returning from Saionica on
February s Mr.. Davis maintained his
customary buoyant good health until
two weeks AGO, when pain in the chest
was feit. His physician found that the
trouble was angina pectoris. n Mr.. Davis
knew how serious his ailment was he
kept the secret from mis- friends.
In a telephone talk with his brother.
Charles Belmont Davis. yesterday after
noon Mr.. Davis said hat ne was feeling
ell right but was staying indoors by
advice Of his doctor. He expected to
90 to New York In q few days.
After dining with her husband last
night Mrs. Davis went upstairs and no
went nto the library. She came dow
again later expecting to and Mr.. Davis
reading. but he lay on the foor A
physician whom she called by telephone
said that death had been instantaneous.
N De Buried IN Philadelphia.
Funeral arrangements we're made after
Charles Belmont Davis reached Mount
short service attended by relatives at
Cross Roads Farm this afternoon. The
body will be cremated In Philadelphia
Tomorrow and burial will take place
there on Saturday or Sunday.
Mrs. Davis n Frustrated and may not
be able TO make the journey 10 Phila-
delphia.
Richard Harding Davis's hfty.two
years Of life were full Of color and manly
achievement. Novelist. short story
writer. playwright. creator OF Cal
lasher" and ivan Bibber." reporter. war
correspondent. explorer. observer OF and
participant in e~xtravagant and deadly
adventures In many parts OF the world.
from Central American revolutions to
tho gray ghost march OF the Ger
mans through Brussels and later cpl
sodes Of the great war. his career in
only one respect fell short OF matching
the progress Of his own %ictional soldiers
Of fortune. He never knew poverty.
Mr.. Davis wa born in Philadelphia
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versity. where mathematics got the bet
ter of him and caused him to finish
his course at Johns Hopkins University.
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In the Press oince Mr. Davis encoun-
tered a eophisticated once boy. Making
friends with the boy. DAVIS said In
i've years I'm going TO be MANAGING
editor ana you Will DC CITY eu'tor, me
prophecy never came true. nut the BOY
hopeiessiy ou~'dis'anceo HI, c'y eu,tors
when DAVIS maze nm the nero or '"ai-
laehef' treasured ny many H'erhoers Oh
the cra't az me pest s,ors
ever written. Just as all innfsrei ooss
were NInu'ca'eu Wy 200. n,",s,v,,
the second OF the Two snort stores when
MADE MI Davis Famous ana winch ne
never surpasSeo,
TO I~ohdon "eht Mr, Jaws aS 'orre-
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