[Edward Waterman]. American humorist, born on the 10th of February 1855, in Cleveland, OH; began journalism at fifteen years of age; was engaged on the San Francisco Argonaut; Washington correspondent of the San Francisco Examiner; joined the staff of the New York Sun in 1892; author of Chimmie Fadden (1894); of Chimmie Fadden Explains (1895); and of A Daughter of the Tenements (1895). These books are highly amusing accounts of life in the Bowery or on the East Side of New York, in which the peculiar speech of that locality is conspicuous.
