Editing Will Irwin (section)

== The ''Chronicle'' and The ''Sun''==
In 1901 Irwin got a job as a reporter on the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', eventually rising to Sunday editor. For the San Francisco-based [[Bohemian Club]], he wrote the [[List of Grove Plays|Grove Play]] ''The Hamadryads, A Masque of Apollo in One Act''' in 1904.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/1685.pdf |title=Guide to the Will Irwin and Inez Haynes Gillmore Papers |author1=Danijela True |author2=Jennifer Meehan |date=2012 |access-date=February 5, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/berkeley/bancroft/mch109_cubanc.pdf |title=Guide to the Wallace Irvin papers, ca. 1917-1959| publisher=The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley |date=1997 |access-date=February 5, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/570645/echoes_from_stageland/ |title=Echoes from Stageland |work=Vancouver Daily World |location=Vancouver |date=August 10, 1912 |page=36 |access-date=February 5, 2023}}</ref> The same year, he moved to New York City to take a reporter's position at ''[[The Sun (New York)|The New York Sun]]'', then in its heyday under the editorship of Chester Lord and Selah M. Clark. Also in 1904, Irwin co-authored a book of short stories with [[Gelett Burgess]], ''The Picaroons'' ([[McClure, Phillips & Co.]])

Irwin arrived in [[New York City]] the same day as a major disaster, the sinking of the ''[[PS General Slocum|General Slocum]]''. As a new reporter on ''The Sun'', he was assigned to work the [[Bellevue Hospital]] [[morgue]], where the more than 1,000 bodies of the victims of fire and drowning were taken.<ref name="hudson"/><ref>{{cite news |title=49 More Bodies; 680 in All. |work=[[The Sun (New York City)|The Sun]] |date=June 20, 1904 |page=5}}</ref>